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311aU c t because the rule does not apply. to equitable estates. Wheri it "does come into operation, it takes parties by-surprise and is felt as a hardship ; we think that it should be abrogated ; the neces sity, too, of clothing the property with any seisin, in order to let in the curtesy, is, we think, unreasonable ; and we are of opinion that the same right of possession should suffice to entitle the husband to curtesy as may suffice to entitle the wife to dower. Again, the rule which makes the issue neces sary to entitle the husband to an estate by curtesy seems to have been founded. on technical prin ciples of feudal tenure now wholly obsolete. The husband, after birth of heritable issue by him, was admitted to perform services to the Lord and to take his place among the tenants to the seignory, as representing the land in a way not permitted before the birth of such issue. It appears to be alien from modern habits, by the circumstance which we think established by the evidence of practitioners, that in modern settlements of the real property of an intented wife, the life estate very commonly given to the husband is never made to depend on the birth of heritable issue. It seems expedient to abolish the rule. (TO BE CONTINUED.) BENEFITS AT THE KING'S THEATRE. Under the denomination of " A dramatic Con cert," a strange medley of detached scenes, uncon nected pieces, imperfect representations, and so!o instrumental performances, was on Monday night displayed on the boards of this theatre. The idea of such a confused jumble of uninteresting matter fully answered the purpose for which it was sug gested. It gave birth to a bill of at least three yards' length, full of big names and large letters, and that was deemed a bait most likely to prove a temporary one on the occasion. The person on whose account these arrangements were - conceived and executed was Mr. Bochsa. The British public are already aware that they owe the honour of Mr. Bochsa's residence among them to causes which did not originate in his own free will. Although many years a cabdidate for public favour, it is for the first time that he has ventured to lay aside all reserve, and openly offer himself to their notice. As to his claims on the special thanks of the frequenters of the theatre, it is really difficult to discover on what they are founded. We have neither time nor room to waste on the subject of Mr. Bochsa's benefit; but as the whole gallery and a part of the pit and tipper boxes were filled with persons who appeared to be sent there by Mr. Bochsa for the express pur pose of forcing down the throats of the independent portion of the audience the mass of crude and indi gestible stuff he had prepared for them, we think it necessary to raise our voice against one particular art of profanation resorted to on this occasion. Until now, the Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven was looked upon by all musical men as a compo sition so complete,_that nothing beyond perfect in strumental execution could possibly add to the effect of its performance, Mr. Bochsa has, however, as signed on this occasion the whole of the magnifi cent symphony to some of the figurants of the ballet ! We find, by some. advertisements, that the as signees of Messrs. Chambers and Son's bankruptcy propose having a performance next Thursday for the benefit of Messrs. Chambers' creditors. Some inquiry into the grounds on which this announce -- mutt is made is necessarily called for. Those grounds evidently met on no other foundation than . the cir cumstance of Messrs. Chambers having become mortgagees of the property commonly called the " .Theatre," in security for the capital and. inteAvst,of:_a sum of,. about 60,000 . /. advanced to the rest owners, .It, applars. that . an average rent of 10,0001. has been regularly received by the mort gagees, MI .- circling not only a bundsome_ interest' on the sum advanced, but likewise a' snrplus sinn, by the accumulation of which the debt ought in a very few years to have been liquidated. 'We have cal culated the average rent of 10,0004, became, though 141 r. Ebers has.beld the theatre from Messrs.. Chem bars a t. 16,000/., there is. reason to believe that he has net every year been regular in paying the whole of that sum. Last year the theatre was let to Messrs. Laurent and Laporte for 8100/., and this year Mr. LaPorte hie yielded to the increased terms of the assignees by taking a three yearS' lease of the theatre at the exorbitant rent of 13,00 Q guineas per annum. 'As the assignees have taken every possible precaution to insure the regula lar payment of this rent, the interests of the cre ditors are of course considerably benefitted by the arrangement. A claim on the public under any circumstances whatever, and under those especially to which we have adverted, on the part of persons who are already so much the gainers by their con nexion with this property, and with whom neither the Opera frequenters, nor any other portion of the public, have any thing whatever to do, ought not to be passed over without public censure, as it is a fact which has by this time become sufficiently obvious, that all the complaints and discussions which have sprung from the system of sordid economy adopted this season in certain departments of the Italian Opera, and other matters of which the public have had reason to complain, owe their origin to the enormous increase of rent which the assignees of Messrs. Chambers' bankruptcy have made the sine queh non of their terms for letting the theatre. It now remains with the public either to encourage this career of extravagant pretension by giving their money for the benefit of people of whom nothing more is known than that they have no claims what- ever to public sympathy, or to discountenance at once an attempt, the success of aich would lead to greater encroachments. Being on the subject of undue benefits, we may take the opportunity of mentioning that Mr. Lau rent is just come from Paris for the purpose of claiming one for himself, in consideration of his liberality in allowing some of the singers of his theatre at Paris to come to this theatre for a while. When, last year, Mr. Laurent offered himself as a candidate for a similar favour, he was a joint part ner in the undertaking here, and his claims to pub lic patropage on that .especial occasion were advo cated in this jouivil on other fair grounds besides. The public then (lid to: -Mr. Laurent all that he had any right to expect of them, and a very profitable benefit became his reward. Irv. Laurent presents himself this year to notice with clams of a very dif ferent kind, and by no means equally well sustained. 'fl;ss British public are not so vastly indebted to Mr. L a orent for his condescension in allowing his singers to tome and fill their pockets at John Bull's expellee, as to be considered bound to remunerate him personally. If Mr. Laurent has conferred any favour at all, (supposing him to have the right of monopoly to the vocal faculties of the persons in question), it is on the singers alone, who have hail all the advantage of it. Let him, therefore, go arid settle his claims with them. They have doubtless reaped by this time a sufficient harvest from their theatrical benefits, and the modest price of twenty five guineas charged for every worn-out Italian song with which they have treated us at private and public concerts, arid a thousand places besides; they ean, therefore, afford to remunerate Mr. Lau rent for his " liberality." In certain classes of so ciety the folly of terms so outrageously exorbitant lias been but too inconsiderately indulged in this country. John Bull would show wisdom in with holding his sanction from all inducements to such extravagance. There are means enough of employ ing his money for gratifying purposes, without the necessity of tilling the pockets of Messr3. Cham bers and Son's creditors, and Monsieur Laurent, of Peri s.—Times. ~ . .. , . ~";. Efjoge., LIEVEN, the Russian Ambassador, -•-. • , '. ..pfluev.„...sTE [An', the Austrian Ambassador, and Mon - .ritivur,RoterV the French Efuhavy, had interviews with the:Eariq RPE EN yotcrday at the Foreign Office. r ) THFATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-lIOUSE, STRAND, WILL. OPEN FOR THE SUMMER SEASON On SATURDAY NEXT, JUNE 21,_1829,_ - - When will be presented a Comic Opera, the Music from the masterly Compositions of Mozart, called TIT FOR TAT; OR, THE TABLES TURNED! Altered and adapted from the " Cosi fan Tutte." Ferrando, Mr. Wood; Guglielmo, Mr. Thorne ; Alfonso, Mr. H. Phillips.—Fiordiligi. Miss Betts; Dorabella, Miss Cawse ; Despina, Madame Cellini (from the Italian Opera of Paris—her first appearance). After which, a New Comic Operetta, called THE MIDDLE TEMPLE; OR, WHICH IS MY SON?" PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. Mr. Wrench, Mr. W. Bennett, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Minton, Mr. Salter, Mrs. C. Jones (from the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, her first appearance on this Stage), Miss H. Cawse, and Miss Goward. To conclude with the last new Operetta, called THE QUARTETTE; OR, INTERRUP LED HARMONY. Ernest, Mr. Wrench ; Major Belcour, Mr. G. Penson ; Pippin, Mr. Sloman; and Madame de Luceval, Miss Betts. • it Many Novelties are in active preparation. Boxes, Places, Private and Family Boxes, to be taken at the Box-Office, Strand Entrance, from Ten till Four. inbr LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1829. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat at one o'clock, and gave judgment in the case of Ross, v. Lockhart, and Ritchie v. M'Cann. The judgment of the Court below, in both cases, was affirmred. The House then adjourned during pleasure. At two o'clock, the Commissioners, consisting of the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Ellenborough and the Marquis of Winchester, took their seats, when the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod summoned the House of Commons to hear the Royal assent given to se veral Bills, and the Commission for proroguing Parliament read. Shprtly afterwards the SPEAKER, attended by about a hundred Members, made his appearance at the Bar. The Royal Assent was then given to the East India Officers' Bill, the 13,438,0001. Exchequer Bills' Bill, the Charing-cross Improvement Bill, the London Bridge Approaches' Bill, the Regulation of Cotton Mills and Factories Bill, and 11 private Bills, after which the Speech for proroguing Parlia- inent was read by the Lord Chancellor. The LORD CHANCELLOR then "By virtue of the Royal Commission, to us and other Lords directed, we do in his Majesty's name, and be his command, declare this present Parliament prorogued to Thursday, the 20th August• " MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, " We are commanded by His MAJESTY, in releasing you from your attendance in Parlia ment, to express to you His MAJESTY'S ac- knowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the dis patch of the public business—and especially to the consideration of those important mat ters which His MAJESTY recommended to your attention at the opening of the Session. " His MAJESTY directs us to inform you, :hat he continues to receive,from his Allies, and from all Foreign Powers, assurances of their earnest desire:to cultivate the relations of peace, and maintain the most friendly understanding pith his MAJESTY. " His MAJESTY laments that he has not to announce to you the termination of the War in the East of Europe. But his MAJESTY com mands us to assure you that he will continue. to use his utmost endeavours to prevent the ex tension of Hostilities, and to promote the restora tion of Peace. " It is with satisfaction his MAJESTY informs you that he has been enabled to renew his Di plomatic relations with the Ottoman Porte. The Ambassadors of his MAJESTY and of the King of FRANCE are on their return to Con stantinople ; and the Emperor of RUSSIA hay ingbeen pleased to authorize the Plenipotentiaries of his Allies to act on behalf of his IMPERIAL MAJESTY, the negotiation for the final pacifi cation of Greece will be carried on in the name of the three contracting parties to the Treaty' of London. " The army of his Most Christian MAJESTY has been withdrawn from the Morea, with the exception of a small force destined, for a time, to assist in the establishment of order in a coun try which has so long been the scene of confu sion and anarchy. " It is with increased regret, that his MA JESTY again adverts to the condition of the Por tuguese Monarchy. But his MAJESTY com mands us to repeat his determination to use every effort to reconcile conflicting interests, and to remove the evils which press so heavily upon a country, the prosperity of which must ever be an object of his MAJESTY'S solicitude. " GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COM.. MONS. His IVIAJEsTY commands us to thank you for the Supplies which you have granted for the Service of the year, and to assure you of his MAJESTY'S determination to apply them with every attention to economy. " My LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, u flis MAJESTY has commanded us, in con clusion, to express the sincere hope of his MA JESTY that the important measures which have been adopted by Parliament in the course of the pr,e4ent Session, may tend, under the bleviing of Divine paAidence, to establish the trap• quillity and improve the condition of Ireland ; and that by strengthening the bonds of union be tween the several parts of this great Empire, they may consolidate and augment its power, and promote the happiness of his people." HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House met at Half-past One o'clock. A message was brought from the House of Lords, stating that their Lordships had passed the Cottcu Factories Regulation Amendment Bill, without any alteration. Mr. BOYLE. presented a petition from tl►e Ca- _ - • . tor the FERDIVD aid the " irne. tiated :" r.,. . . " The Cm - nut-General of Spain in France, Don Pedro Ortiz de Zugarti, seeing the sudden fall of the Royal loan, and of the Rentes pet petuelles, on the Stock-Exchange of Paris, in consequence of the late exposure of those frauds in:the Chamber of Deputies, and ih the columns of the Journals, has published as announcement declaring the statements in question to be falie. This agent of Fer dinand knows right well that all further advances are stopped the moment that a suspicion is excited respecting the security of advances already made; that the game is at an end as soon as the loaded dice are discovered ; that the juggler can only succeed while bit trick remains a secret. tholics of Youghal against the Sub-letting Act. — Also similar petitions from Aghada ~ and other pa- rishes in the county of Cork. • Mr. THWAITES brought up a letter addressed by Si: Robert Farquhar to the Government, rela tive to the Slave Trade in the Mauritius, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. ()TWAY CAVE, on presenting a petition from Leicester, said he took that opportunity of en tering his humble protest against, and utterly dis claimed all participation in, the proceedings adopted by the influential persons of what was called the opposition side of the House, who seemed resolved that all important business should be postponed —every inquiry into abuses stifled—all affairs, foreign and domestic, of whatever importance, suffered to drop through in a way little creditable Had Ferdinand obtained the full amount of his contem plated fraud, he might have shut his Great Book,' as lie calls it, and laughed at his dupes, like other more dex terous conjurors. The holders of the new bonds would have been treated like the holders of the old, and an in scription on the " Great Book" of the public debt would have cost him just the value of the parchment on which it was written. But his object was not yet accomplished. He had only got 6,000,0001. or 7,000,00 W. sterling, and he expected 8,000,0001. or 10,000,0001. He had not paid out of the produce of the juggle the debt due to Eng land, or that' due to France, and he is therefore enraged that the spell is broken before it had operated its full effect in enabling him to exchange Spanish castles for French gold." in the present state of the country. For two years public attention bad been fixed on the affairs of the East. It w•as understood that Turkey was to be pacified—that the theatre of war was to be circumscribed—but though it was clear that Russia had not waived her belligerent rights in the Mediteranean, and that not one of the promises and predictions held out by Ministers had been fulfilled, no satisfactory explanation had as yet been given to the country on these points. Still less had it been given in our conduct towards Portugal, and our breach of neutrality in favour of Don Miguel. Our interference with Btitish troops to keep In our Paper of to-day will be found some sensible observations extracted from the Times, on the subject of Benefits at the King's Theatre. Our cotemporary, after directing attention in a proper spirit to the extraordinary public claims of Mr. BOCHSA ; and commenting with an equally happy effect on the obligations entailed on the musical part of the world, by the services of the Messrs. CHAMBERS' creditors ; comes lastly to the consideration of Monsieur LAU RENT'S right to a benefit. This gentleman, who has, it seems, been amusing himself during the season in Paris, has just dis covered that a benefit in London would be no unpleasant addition to his income. He him on the throne—our breathless haste to recognise his blockades—above all, our vio lation of the law of nations, in the sending from our shores the loyal Portuguese, whose Queen at that moment we ourselves acknowledged as legitimatg— and our afterwards cannonading them at Terceira, for attempting to land in her dominions—he (Mr. 0. Cave) feared that this was a stain on the honour, and a prejudice to the interests of this country, that all the victories of our armies never could wash away, or the life of the oldest Statesman be able to atone for. He, of course imputed no blame what ever to the officer commanding on that deplorable oc casion, who only acted by the orders of his Govern ment; but he feared that the effect would be such as to make Europe suppose that we wished well to the cruel and usurping government of Don Miguel. He asserted that the interests as well as the honour of this country were connected with the independ ence and improvement of Continental nations; and even if our political Institutions should not be ulti mately injured by the countenance we afforded to Continental despotism, our commercial relations at all events would suffer by it, as every thing would be done by Absolute Governments to stifle every prin ciple of commercial improvement and free trade.— Looking to our domestic policy it might safely beassert has therefore hurried across the water with a view to impress a sense of his services on the managers of the King's Theatre. Now, in what do our readers suppose these services consist ? Simply in the fact of his having permitted (permitted !) with singular liberality, " some of the singers of his theatre in Paris to come to this theatre for a while !" Assuredly, cool impudence can go no further than this. If Mr. LAURENT really thinks himself liberal, let him hasten to prove ed that ;ince the carrying of the Catholic Question, the merit for which he would be the last person to the fact by resigning all claim to an unwarrant able remuneration. If he conceives himself en dowed with common sense, let him enlighten the public on that point also, by giving them the usual credit for justice and penetration. On the plea that Mr. LAURENT urges, there is not a grandfather and grandmother of any one of the actors or actresses now engaged at the Opera, who has not ten thousand times stronger claims than himself. Claim a benefit, indeed! because in his gracious condescension he permitted certain performers to come and fill their pockets at the expence of the generous English ! The thing is as monstrous in its conception as it is super human in its impudence. derogate from, as due to his Majesty's Ministers ; every question had been avoided this Session, and every thing left undone that might ame liorate the condition of the country. He could not agree with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the present was merely a passing cloud over the prosperity of the country. Recollecting the deplorable scenes at Manchester, Rochdale, and Spitalfields, where military force had been neces sary to keep down those deluded but unfortunate persons, who attempted to obtain by force a higher rate of wages from their masteis— and recollecting that this misery and bloodshed had been in a great degree caused by the Corn Laws, which had prevented other nations from producing food for our markets—and seeing the Session pass away without any united effort made in that House to alter those cruel and unjust laws, he could see no ground for self-congratula tion in those who wished well to the best interests of the country ; and he could not therefore but repeat, that every question of ithiSortance, local or general, whether relating to Colonial affairs or Corporate abuses, (he alluded particularly to the Cor porate Funds Bill), should have been allowed to drop through, or stand over till next Ses sion, without any plausible excuse for this delay, in a way greatly tending to increase 'the pre sent prevailing opinion, that a sort of tacit under standing, arrangement, or coalition existed, be tween the leading persons of both sides of the House—in short, on the part of some oppo sition Members, what was vulgarly called a species of intrigue for office, which was little likely to raise the character of public men in the opinion of the independent and disinterested portion of the country. Colonel SIBTHORE begged to ask the Chan cellor of the Exchequer if there was any intention of doing away, in the next Session of Parliament, with the duty on inhabited houses. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was impossible for a person in his situa tion to give an answer to such a question, or to say what might be done hereafter as to any particular tax, but it would be unfair to the Hon. Member if he did not say that at present it was not in con templation to reduce any of the taxes on inhabited houses. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JUNE 23.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Annola,: Ravander, from Norway; Helvetius, Pat terson, from Philadelphia. Sailed the Layton, for New South Wales. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 23.—Wind S.W. to S.S.E. —Arrived the Daniel, Johnson, from Terceira. Passed the Alexander Ad.tm, Peter, from Corunna. Sailed the Bolivar, Martin, for St. Petersburgh. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Concord, Smith, from Gijon, and Thetis, Gray, from Memel. FALMOUTH, JUNE 22.—Wind S.S.W. to S.— Arrived the Stanmer packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 14th inst. ; Clifto<Carmichael, from the Mauritius; George, Said, from Bahia; Jean, Brown, from Seville ; Lapwing packet, from Brazil, sailed from Rio Janeiro the 26th of April, Bahia the 7th of May, and Pernambuco the 15th. Sailed the Rinaldo packet, for Rio Janeiro, &c., and the Emulous packet, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, &c. FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind S.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Wills, from Pernambuco; a•td Prince Eugene, from Galipoli. Sailed the Phoenix, Weeks, for Cadiz. _ _ _ DOVER, JUNE 23.—Arrived the Louisa, Mackie, from Colurnbo, sailed the 4th of February ; and the Cape the 9th of April. DARTMOUTH, JUNE 22.--Arrived the Rhoda, George, from Rio Janeiro; and Middlebury, from Batavia. COWES, JUNE 22.—Arrived the Garnet, Ferry, From Georgetown. At ten minutes past Two o'clock the SPEAKER was summoned t• the House of Lords by the De puty Usher of the Black Rod, for the purpose of hearing the Royal Assent given by Commission to some Bills, and also to hear the present Parliament prorogued.—The House then adjourned. The Traveller, Burrows, from Jamaica to Ber muda, struck on the Silver Keys the 19th of April, and filled with water ; she was afterwards towed into Cairos, and part of her cargo saved. The John and Mary, of Jersey, Tyoret, sprung a leuk off Comma the 14th inst. and foundered; crew saved. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) The French Papers of Sunday contain n news whatever from the Theatre of War, contents being chiefly occupied with the repor of the debates in the .Chambers. CITY, TIVELVB 0' CLOCK. A Brazil Mail has arrived by the Lapwing, which sailed from Rio Janeiro 26th Apiil ; also a Lisbon Mail, by the Summer, sailed l4th June. The priVate letters by'the former bring the Exchange 261 27, which is a considerable improvement since the last accounts.. A private letter received by the ' Lisbon Mail states, that a telegraphic account bad been received in the above capital of some more executions at Oporto, but gives no particulars. This account cannot be correct, as letters were received yesterday from Oporto of the 14th, which do not state that any executions had taken place. Both the Lisbon mid Brazil Papers are void of interest. This being Midsummer Day it is a close holiday at the Bank, Stock Exchan g e, and Foreign markets. At present the Royal Exchange is thinly attended by the Brokers and Jobbers, and no business up to this hour has been done. Consols may be quoted nominally at 88 — The Foreign prices are the same as yesterday. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 88i i. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). The Moniteur contradicts the report, founded on the authority of letters from Havre, that the c , Brazilian Government, yielding to the threats of England, had engaged to pay to it an indem nity of eleven millions of francs for the prizes taken from the English merchants during the blockade of Buenos Ayres. This news (adds the Moniteur) is at least premature. Letters from Rio de Janeiro, the authenticity of which cannot be doubted, announce that on the 2d of April nothing was yet determined respecting the English claims." The Moniteur may be right, or it may not. We think it however likely that intelligence of an event of such importance to our commercial CORN EXCHANGE. interests would at lea st find its way to England I T he arrivals of Grain this week are small, and o , in an official ma nner as soon as it would to English dour trifling; but th e r e i s an oth e r good quantity ( France. One thing is clear, if our Government from America. The Wheat trade remains so very heavy, that sca rc e l y a sa t e ca n be effected this morning. Ba rl ey , has seriously insiste d u p on a s e ttlement of the.., Bearo, and peise, are unaltered from Monday's quotations. matter in question, that it will be finally and sa- The'ait trade is dull, but good sweet parcels are not any tisfactorily adjusted. lower. The Flour trade remains very heavy. The pre sent Warm weather. after the late rains, is considered as On the subject of t he delusive s y stem carried very favourab l e for th e Crops of Grain. on in Paris respecting the Renles perpetuelles, ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. It contemporary of this morning (the. Times) .. . 1,3 09 yr s . 150 qrs. 500 qt Irish,2.'. 1;700 sacks. -- Foreign has the following ju st remarks, which we quote emo :VW AIS. their 4 / 6 4 PAR; NTARY PAPER. FIFTH REPORT OF. THE. ..COMMISSIONERS FOR BUILDING CHURCHES IN THE HIGH LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. TO THE HONOURABLE' THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BUR• GESSES, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. Fifth Report of the Commissioners appointed by virtue of an Act of Parliament, passed in the fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for building additional Places of Worship in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland." In carrying into execution the Highland Church Act, the Commissioners have not been inattentive to the due distribution of Churches among the Islands as well as the Highlands of Scotland; insomuch, that eighteen Ministers will be established in various islands, from Shetland to Islay,—twenty-four Mini sters (one of them officiating at two new Churches) will be established in various parts of the Highlands of Scotland. The Commissioners trust that herein they have administered with frugality and discrimi nation the sum of fifty thousand pounds, granted by the Highland Church Act; which will thus produce forty-three additional places of worship, each capable of accommodating a congregation which may be deemed to average at 400 persons, or about 17,000 persons in all. The manses, which are commodious, and sufficient for the residence of the Minister, have cost nearly as much as the Churches to which respectively they appertain; and the Commissioners have succeeded in obtaining from the applicant heritor, in almost every instance, a larger portion of glebe than is re quired by the Act,—and very generally they have secured for the Minister a right of digging peat for fuel, and of pasture for his cattle,—privileges of no mean importance in secluded situation , , where the suitable conveniencies of life cannot be obtained, un less at home. The Commissioners have so nearly performed the task allotted to theM, as to be enabled to anticipate with sufficient certainty that a small surplus will re main in their hands, after all the expences incident to forty. two churches and forty-one manses are paid in full; and they are well pleased to be thus authorized to fulfil a former engagement to build a church and manse in Strath-Conan, a change in the proprietor ship having rendered progress therein hitherto un certain; but a distinct offer and undertaking was received in December last. No place in the High lands appears to be in a state of greater destitution of religious ordinances than Strath-Conan; eleven or twelve hundred persons (who inhabit the extreme limits of the large parishes of Contin, Urray, and Fodderty) residing at distances varying from twelve to eighteen miles from any place of religious worship. Carnoch, in Strath-Conan (in the parish of Con tin) is therefore included in the following list of Churches and of Manses, which may be deemed final and complete, the Lords Commissioners of his Ma jesty's Treasury not having thought it advisable to recommend to Parliament to make any additional grant for the building of seven churches, included in the former list, as being applications unsuccessful for want of funds. LIST OF ADDITIONAL PLACES OF WORSHIP, IN THE HIGH LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. Parish or Island. . Place. 1 6.1 `;-° Remarks. ? I ARGYLL. Appin Duror 6OO *Aug. 21, 1827 Ardnamurchan Strontian Ditto Aucharacte 7OO *March 9. 1828 Glassry lona Island lona 460 *Nov. 7, 1928 Islay Island ...... Kilmenny 2000 *Nov. '7, 1828 Ditto Oe or Oth 2000 *Nov. 7, 1828 Ditto Kilmallie Ardgour No Manse Muckaim Mucicairn 2500 *Nov. 7, 1828 Mull Island Ditto Ditto Ulva Island Ulva 9OO *March 14, 1828 BANFF. Kirkmichael ITomantoul 3OO *June 13, 1827 CAITHNESS. Latheron lBerriedale 1750 * Aug. 21, 1 827 Wick iKeiss 1414 *Ang. 21, 1827 ELGIN. Kingussie ..... ....I inch ..... ................. INVERNESS. Harris Parish ... Berrieray Isle 5OO *March 9, 1829 Kilrnallie I Completed and Rothiemurchus Rothiemurchus spection Skye Island Ditto N. Uist Isle Trumisgarry ORKNEY AND SHETLAND. Completed and St. Andrew &1 Deerness 7OO / ready for Deerness .... in spection f Read Cross & Burness N. Ronaldsay Completed and Quarff Quart!' 220 / ready for in spection Completed and Dunrossness...... Sandwick 649 / ready for in spection PERTH. Dull Fortingall lnterwick in Glenlyon ... 1000 *Nev. 7, 1828, Completed and Ditt o Rannoch 1269 i ready for in spection ROSS-SHIRE AND CROMARTY. Applecross ....... Shieldag Carnoch, Strath-Conan 1200 c Not yet cum -1200 *June 13, 1827 t'ontin .... 1 rnenced Ditto Gairloch Poolewe 3OO *Nov. 7, 1828 Kincardine Croisk 9OO *June 13, 1827 Lewis Island .... Cross or Ness Ditto Eye ll5O *March 9, 1829 Lochalsh Plockton B5O *June 13, 1827 Loch-Broom ..... Ullapool . BOO *April 14, 1829 SUTHERLAND. - ~.,.,. SUTHE Assynt Edrachilles 1 Far Rhuistore Ki oloch-Bery ie Strath y *Mar.h 9. 1829 *March 9, 1829 *March 14, 1928 Date of completion being certified to the Secretary of Stagy e. The result of a careful examination of the fore going list is as follows :—Thirty-five places of wor ship have been certified to his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, as being com plete, with thirty-four manses, and ministers have been appointed by the Crown accordingly. At six places, Rothiemurchus, in the county of Inverness; Rannoch, in Perthshire; Deerness and North Ronald say, in Orkney,—at Quarff, and Sandwick, in Shetland,—the buildings are complete, the several Contractors having applied for inspection, which will be final, unless unexpected defects are discovered; at Kirktown of Foss, in Perthshire, the buildings are not yet in much forwardness, and at Carnoch (Strath-Conan) in Ross. shire, they are not com menced ; but we confidently expect, that by em ploying contractors of experienced activity, these last will be certified to his Majesty's Secretary of State before Whitsunday next, when our final re port to Parliament will contain such remarks on each church and manse, with particulars of the glebe and acquired rights, as may be useful for re ference in all time coming; and we shall then pro ceed to cluse our account of expenditure on churches and manses, including the extra expense which may be incurred to Strath-Conan. Our annual application to the Treasury for cur rent charges and expenses distinct from those in curred in building churches and manses (as allowed by the Act) amounts to one thousand four hundred and fifty-five pounds five shillings and threepence, the particulars of which are hereunto annexed. C. M. SUTTON, BEXLEY, HENRY GOULBURN, W. GRANT, MONTROSE, C. GRANT, W. DUNDAS, W. SMITH.' MELVILLE, Jpne 12, 1829. ACCOUNT OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES Incurred by the Commissioners appointed under the Act of the 4th Geo. IV. c. 79, " for building additional Places of Worship in the Highlands and Islands o 1 Scotland," for one year ending July 1829. _ X s. d. 200 0 0 75 0 0 Secretary Clerk Surveyor, resident at Inverness : Salary...... Travelling expenses incurred by himself, and by the In spectors of the progress of Contracts ; Assistance in Writing, &c........ ,. 183 10 4 333 16 James Hope, W. S• Law Agent at Edinburgh, —Balance due to him for his own Charges, and for Expenses incurred, to April 1829, '796 8 11 Mr. Telford, for general Superintendence 5O 0 0 £1,455 5 3 JOHN RICKNIAN, Sec. LITERATURE. A IS EDINBURGH REVIEW.—No. XCVII. Notwithstanding the very prevalent report has now been some months rife about town, that Mr. Jeffrey has resigned the conduct of this Review, we see few or. no symptoms in the Tulin ber before us, of such resignation. It is a s.full as ever of variety and information, but if-it really be the case that he has quitted the field, then we have only to congratulate the public 0 11 the very effective hands into which his Journal has fallen. Few men have ever accomplished for any length of time that difficult task, the editor ship of a leading periodical, with more enviable and triumphant success than Mr. Jeffrey. He possessed every qualification requisite for such a duty. To great vivacity he joined a severe and cautious judgment : his wit was tempered by discretion, and though full, never overflowed the landmarks of good sense; and his tact - in rightly appreciating what would best, hit the taste of the town, has been confessedly tin' rivalled. The loss of such a man to such $ periodical as the Edinburgh Review cannot but be great ; we can only hope, therefore, though . scarcely venture to expect, that it will not be felt by the public. We have hinted that the present number is a good one—it is so in every respect. The first article, entitled " Census of the Popu lation," is of an elaborate and practical nature) full of detail, and glancing briefly and pertifienq at the " Mortuary Registers of the Romans.‘ Speaking of the preponderance of male over female births, the Reviewer puts forth the follow' ing interesting observations : " In attempting to trace the circumstances which de termine the condition of man in society, the proportion which the sexes bear to each.other, becomes an object of research not less curious than instructive. If the num bers of the sexes varied considerably,- or if the proportion a ri was a t o n o o , not that constant 'circumstanceor nearly a w o h , ic b h o tt they susceptible o e o a f ch g r o e t a l t ie v r would exert a material influence on the habits of societys which would certainly change with the - changes in the numerical relations of the sexes. Here, however, there in no fluctuation ; nothing is left to chance. The.propor tion between the sexes seems to be determined by a gene • ral law of nature ; • and the balance to be preserved at th!it precise point which is most favourable for human happi ness. It has been established by observations made 111 countries placed under the most different circumstance; in Russia, for example, and Naples, France, and the Unimd States, England and Sweden, and in every country, 1 % deed, in which there are registers which can be depended upon, that the number of males born invariably even; the number of females. This excess is, however, c onfine within very narrow limits; the male births being moat cot s " monly found to be to the female births somewhere bet Wes the ratio of 15 to 14, and of 25 to 24. Aecordingto censuses taken in thirty department/ of France in Ilr" 1800, 1801, and 1802, the average nunther•Of male WO amounted to 110,312, and of females to 105,287, o ,l ' , gives the proportion of males to- females as 2e :to 2 1 ' But, according to later observations Made with- grate ( care, the present proportion of male to [etude birth/ IS France is as 16 to 15. In England and. Walei, during the ten years ending with 1820, there were r e gister. - 1,664,557 male, and 1,590,510 female births, being - . W. each other very nearly in the ratio of 16 to 15 , • or in'tm same proportion as in France. At Tin/ vela 1824, the, male births were to the female births to the , i-atio‘of 2l to 20. In the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1827) th e proportion of male to female births was *sit* ttr 94. 1, or as 20 to 19 very nearly. In Prussia in 1817, the ral e births were to the female births as 28.3.t0 :`in Swe den, at an average of.the.twenty years ending with 170 , the male births were to the female births in the proPijr tion of 21 to 20. And in the city of Neptes 'in .180 6 i the births- of boys were to those of girls as 7514) 74." ".The Recent, State of France" is pleasant analysis of a work publiehr.4,,time.sitice 0 ° that subject, at Brussels, by Paul Louis Courier. The article plays rather than grapples with its subject—which, if seriously dealt with, would afford scope rather for a volume than a pamphlet- - ' and lightly skims the surface with a Carnilla-like elasticity of touch. In speaking incidentally of the priesthood, the Reviewer remarks, that though crimes—and crimes of the grossest,, thu blackest, the most unnatural character—are no t uncommon even now among them, yet that they have, generally speaking, materially improved since the Revolution. Government too 10 0 k/ with a more severe and censorious eye into their conduct, than it used to do under the 01d regime. " The Game Laws," to which we some time since had occasion to revert, is a remarkably spirited article, pointing out with amazing e nergy' and force of colouring, the evils attending th e present system of these odious laws; tracing their origin, their progress, their effects on society and showing where, when, and how, they might be judiciously amended. Considering the nu" ture of the subject, which is far from affording general entertainment, we have met with fev i articles more pleasantly intelligent in their read' ing than this. It has, moreover, the additional recommendation of stripping the Game Laws ° I their intricacies, and placing them. before. th e reader in all their naked absurditt.'''''" Steuartls Planter's Guide" is an animated essay, en 39 entertaining subject, which is discussed, not i t ' the cold formal manner of a mere connoisseurf but gracefully and easily, as befits a man knowledge and of genius. " Interior ° Africa" gives a close and comprehensive d i ' gest of Captain Clapperton's late discoveries in that strange quarter of the globe. It remarkable for the very condensed character 0 its materials, which though abundant, litive bee p ' squeezed, like a modern lady's waist, into th e smallest possible compass. "Utilitarian and Politics," is a smart and somewhat trucule diatribe against the principles of the We st ', tninster Review and its satellites. It turn s the most triumphant scorn their callous al l ' vulgar derision of all that constitutes fancy' ° imagination, or that contributes to the elege e and grace of life ; and rates at its fitting 0 1° their favourite dogma of utility—that C 3l) , phrase by which a few shrewd but half-educareb men of science, would fasten themselves on 1 , intellect of the age, and reduce it to their o° , homely level. " The Last of the Catholic (P e : tion" is really a splendid paper. In fertili t y 1t illustration, ready and apposite imagerywe of language, information always within CA, always accessible, we know not amon g 1 0 0' ? , 1 3 periodical essays, where to look for its. ctl It gives a lucid and enlarged, view ° growth of the Question which has beel' , length so happily settled, and in doing s; glance 3 at the Ultras who opposed it, iri i . 3 ll that must make " the galled jades wince• following allusions to the Duke of Well i°g i t and Mr. Peel, for their conduct in settling