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LITERATURE. ITAIINSTER REVIEW, No. 22.—LoNoow, 1829. With much manly and vigorous thinking, finch rough eloquence, caustic humour, and -freedom of opinion, there is no inconsiderable quantity of assumption, and even impudence, in the present number of this Review. We regret this the more, as it is a work that cannot fail to do,good. Whenever, however, it happens to treat on the subjects of the Fine Arts, of theßellcs Let ter generally, or of Mr. Bentham and his new tangled system, entitled " The Greatest Happi ness Principle," it is sure to involve itself in untenable theories, and, what is worse, to lash Without mercy all those who may be opposed to its fantastic crudities. Its pets just at present are Messrs. Bentham and Mill, but as variety is the breath of its nostrils," it is not unlikely that in the next publication, some new idol may start up and supply the place of these much-be lauded politicians. Our business however is with the present .number. The first article, " Slavery in the West . lndies," is penned in an eminently bold and liberal spirit, enlivened by an ingeni our, and in parts faithful portrait, of that non deScript John Bull. The likeness is far from flattering, still it is a likeness, and though for th e sake of effect not a little caricatured, be trays the hand of a master. We need not add, that the article advocates the abolition of Slavery omits prompt annihilation rather ; an expe dient, which to be just to all parties, cannot, we i c onceive, be had recourse to so instanta ileOtlsly as the Reviewer would wish. " Gas Light," is an animated history of the rise and progress of this inestimable discovery—a discovery which has converted night into day and, as the writer, not less justly than forcibly observes, " has suppressed more vice than the Suppression Society, and been a greater police- officer into the bargain than old Colquhoun and 1 . Sir ,Richard Birnie united." A Mr. Murdoch, it Seems, is the author of this invention, to whom accordingly the article tenders its grateful meed of praise. We do not altogether approve the in which it is written, there is a caustic acerbity:about it that might as well have been avoided. We subjoin a specimen of its more' amusing manner :- 1 14: We have now been se long accustomed to this new t m the streets, that, like all other terrene goods, we C re al most become i nsens ibl e t o it s bl ess i ngs . Yet let sn who d es i res to know what he owes to chemistry and Old Murdoch,' turn into any of the streets still lighted with oil, and then come back to the nocturnal day of the h rand or Pall- mall• Th e p ar i s h oil-lamps were like light on ses on the ocea n ; guides, not 14hts ; the gas has be cull* a Perpetual full moon ; and it may assuredly be pro nounced one of the most splendid and valuable applications of ch em i stry. Why has not old Murdoch his statue also? He deserves it even b etter than h i s master; f or t h e master Vi al paid P in solid pudding . In other days, that sta tue wo have equalled the Colossus of Rhodes, itrel the demi- Philosopher would have breathed flame like h ave a , in the fabulous ages before that, he would pro Lonie down to us a god. or a demigod, the rival of A' T eth el", Hercules, and Atlas. Why not cast him in chillean brass the rival of the great hero of gunpowder ofd Waterloo, and d make him breathe gas lik e th e d ragon Wantlley to illuminate the triu m ph a l arc h. I ngra t e Petri e The new light ! yes, much has been heard of its wer and influ en c e ; b ut w h at h as t h e new li ght of all t ne Preachers done fur t h e mora li ty and order of London, e4 MPleed to what has been effected by this new light. ( ed Mu r d oc h a l one has eupptess.ed more vice than the qi)Preltikin 815dety ; and has been a greater poli ce officer the bargain than old Colquhoun and Sir Richard wai,.dunited• It is not only that in, n are afraid to he ash ara „P h i en light is looking at them, but they . are place. --Ma'riere formation is applied to the right dark doe e s r v e ice resort? Where it can hide ; in A n e's says the preacher, because its deeds are deeds of ua r h e „„ the a C p s s - es Seek it in Pudding-lane, and Dyott-street, and of Westiniuster Why was not this new light r elte lied to them long aeo . ? twenty bushels of it would ei , 4 0 16 b een of more value than as many chald rons of ser theutba' an inspector d takin g even t h e ex pl os i ons of the into Cl em r ,gamn. I3ut it is well that this is . at length to he r , since it is never 100 late. Thieves and roguts th en ,'" moths in blankets : • bring the sun to shine on ••., and they can neither livaor breed. Let the Duke elli f en , ngtou place a gas lamp"at every door of these in their 1 1 4° lea ; and since they cannot be sinoieilout, snake old I t , llk's as much like glass, on the principle of the least ! 1114 n, as we c a n compass. This is the remedy ; at till common sense will condescend to the better ex of of pulling down and laying open all these retreats da n -ite rY and vice ; the disgrace and the nuisance of iLon -01.4 and not less a standing inhumanity to the poor t em y n ge „ iv ". Yes Ree-ent.street is fine and showy, and, if 44 ' - " t Pleases, i;sefuT, and so are the new churches, or f !' tt iftlit be : but the whole would have been well exchanged or a hundred eleau, open, spacious, and well lgated streets, of houses fitted for the habitations of the ilaWest Orders of L on d on , an d w hil e th e c h ar i ty wou ld 4 ve be en great as penitentiaries, soups, and subscript, could th e mor a l result have been more valuable than of the whole of the churches united." Iv . To the di atr ib e against Gaining Houses " e Can give unqualified praise. It is severe and decid e d as it should be ; and full of an indig liant) generous eloquence, that cannot fail to :,...e a deep impn on the head and heart I ' the reader. " NiNiebulir's History of Rome" 1 , 8 a well-digested, well-argued article, without, wever, putting forth anything in the shape of pqorrnation with which the reader of this event ltd history has not previously been well ac- Z e h illt ed• " The Book of the B o ud o i r " 1 1i 1es Lady Morgan without mercy. It c h arges 4s tn wth self-conceit, assurance, flippancy, ego , i t 'gnorance, and a variety of other blemishes e h - • ° , Bo nle of which, notwithstanding h er t a l e nt, Z ll diness and intelligence, her Ladyship must, We fe ar, lead guilty. " Bentham, Brougham, ti f e l ' a lv Reform," is a comparison be thiite!l, the two systems o f l ega l re f orma t ion • nave latelybeen projected by these eminent dual 4 11 • The comparison, however, is a n .lust 8. and an untenable one, being neither more nor l eas than an e l a b orate panegyric, pronounced T hi s .. Bentham at the expense of Mr.Brougliam. t() say the least of it, is uujudicious. As 8 0 ,,_ 4n , .." h e reformer, who has himself seen Ahieh tilt the necesity of those legal iinprovements he has so l e loquently, and in so earnest Rod prehensive a spirit recommended, Mr. t h a Pam is incomparably superior to Mr. Ben /NZ' oflhe latt er , w i t h muc h o f s h rew d ness , s nore keen sagac i ous persp i cac i ty, h as st i ll sort or fan c if u l and inefficient theory in his iambi e siti °n• He is full o f pl ans an d d ogmas , es °vet the w id e fi e ld o f specu l at i on w h en °aeilliould be stationary at onei particular spot, ates when he should decide, and philosophizes h ' er,ll he should_ be practical and f re e from abstrac , s od iv ere Mr. Be n th am l ess o f t h e metap h ys i c i an a l ,' It ° re of the man of the world, were he to tio.. W here he now myst ifi es , his specula w°4l be i n fi n i te l y more serv i cea bl e to the Co ln " , !tunny than they are at present ; but till thi WES' desirable epoch arrives, he must be content to take a grade in the ranks of legal reformers be low that of his illustrious rival. Of the few re maining articles in the number—with the excep tion of the " Loves of the Poets," which is a dull pedantic affair, totally devoid of that light quicksilver spirit which such an analysis should possess—we must content ourselves with saying, that each in its particular line supports the charac ter of the Review. WATERFORD ELECTION. (From the Waterford Chronicle.) A perusal of the two following addresses, the one from Lord George Beresford, and the other in reply, from Mr. H. 'Winston Barron, will show the cause of the hostile meeting between these gentlemen, on en Saturday mornin g , Nov. 7, the particulars of which appeared in Th Sun of yesterday : " TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF THE COUNTY OF WATERF6RD. " Gentlemen,—When the retirement of Mr• Henry Villiers Stuart from the representation of the county Waterford enabled me to renew my claims to the flattering distinction which it is my pride to have enjoyed for so many years, I solicited, in per son, at your hands the highest honour an indepen dent county can bestow. My reception on that oc casion led me to hope that you would be spared the agitation of another contest. I find, however, that during my absence from Ireland an active canvass has been commenced against me, and that calum nies the most illiberal and malicious have been cir culated to the prejudice of my interest and the dis honour of my name. Gentlemen, my opponent, Mr. H. Winston Barron, has announced himself as the champion of your independence, and has stig matised my family and myself as an ambitious and corrupt oligarchy, anxious to convert the county of Waterford into a• close borough. Had this gentle man confined himself to those general assertions it might possibly be thought that he only used the per mitted license of electioneering declamation. But when, instead of relying on his own merits, and con fining himself within the limits of fair and manly competition, he permits a specific charge of the most dishonourable traffic, and the foulest corruption to be circulated against me, arsd scruples not to derive advantage in his canvass from the stain which has thus been cast upon my name, though he is conscious that it'should have been attached to his own, I feel that such a return for any long forbearance has absolved me from all scruples of delicacy towards Mr. Winston Barron; and I will now follow the only course which is left, to clear my character from an imputation which, if well founded, would for ever disqualify me for representing the county of Water ford in Parliament. Before Mr. Henry Villiers Stuart retired from the representation of your county Mr. Henry Winston Barren proposed to some of my family and friends to give me the support of his own influence, and that of his connexions in the county, on condition of our assisting him in the claims he then set up to the representation of the city of Wa terford. His overtures were respectfully but firmly declined. When Mr. Stuart's retirement had ren dered such support an object of vast importance to any candidate for the representation of the county of Waterford, Mr. Henry Winston Barron renewed his proposal, representing himself as holding the keys of the county, and able to ensure my return without a contest. This proposal was again firmly declined in a written communication to Mr. Henry Winston Barron, which he, no doubt, retains. And now, gentlemen, permit me to ask whether Mr. Henry Winston Barron or myself is best entitled to assume the proud title of the supporter of the inde pendence of the county of Waterford? and which of us has formed the most correct estimate of your cha racter, and of the means best calculated to gain your suffrages ? He, who thus audaciously attempted to convert your county into a close borough—or I, who declined all participation in this project of cor ruption, preferring to rest my claims upon a fair and open appeal to the electors, although they had so lately rejected me. If, gentlemen, 1 now advert to the question which separated us at the last election, it is only to express my anxious hope that, as than question no longer exists, the divisions it created, and the feelings it excited, nay be buried in obli vion—and to assure you that it will be my constant endeavour, as I am confident it will be that of every member of my family, to restore among us the har mony and kindly feeling which its discussion inter rupted. Amongst other imputations calculated to excite prejudice against me it has been industriously circulated that 1 come before you with changed principles. This I deny. My principles are what they have ever been, those of firm attachment to the British constitution and to the Protestant reli gion. I always considered the lute question as purely political; as such, while that question was under dis cussion, I openly and conscientiously opposed it. The legislature has judged differently, and has paused the relief bill; the law of the land is thus essentially altered —to it I bow—and I hold it the bounden duty of every good subject to co-operate in bringing about Oust happy result which the legislature con templated, and to obliterate every trace of the di visions which have too long kept Irishmen asunder. 1 I trust, gentlemen, that much prosperity is yet in store for Ireland; nor is any thing more likely to promote it than the continued residence of our landed proprietors ; and it is with more than ordinary gra tification that I am enabled to assure you that the present head of my family is at heart an Irishman— that he has already expressed his determination to reside at the seat cf his ancestors—and, by cherish ing his tenantry and studying the interests of your county, to deserve the good 'opinion of all those whom I have now the honour to address. My family is identified with this great county by that community of interest and feeling which property and residence must always produce, and I trust there is sufficient energy and independence in the county of Waterford to repel the noisy interference of those meddling strangers who trade in agitation. I have already trespassed too long on your patience, and will only add, that if I should be the fortunate object of your choice you may always command my services to promote the interests of Ireland in general, and of the county of Waterford in particular. And I feel confident that I shall he able to satisfy you all that my great object is to be the independent represen tative of an independent county, with a firm deter mination to avail myself of every opportunity to for ward the interests of all ranks and classes in the county of Waterford without distinction. I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, with every sen timent of respect and esteem, your faithful and de voted servant, " GEORGE THOMAS BERESFORD. " Curraghmore, Nor. 3, 1829." " TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS OF TILE COUNTY OF WATERFORD. " Gentlemen,—l have this moment read the ad dress of Lord George Beresford to you. His Lord ship's address, as you have perceived, is not so much an avowal of any political principles on his own part as a violent personal tirade against me. Ilis Lordship accuses me of having tendered to him my support in the county. Now, 1 do candidly avow that, acted upon by the feeling of conciliation which so generally prevailed in the first nments of exultation, I deceived myself into the opinion that an honest man might, without compromising his public virtue, entertain the idea of supporting a Beresford ; and I will not be so uncandid as to deny that I might not have been also impelled by an oL ject of legitimate ambition. Actuated by these feelings I did canvass his friend,i. On these points, I have only to say that I confess my error. I ac knowledge my guilt. I was wrong in ever, for a moment, entertaining the thought of supporting any of the Berefford family'. This was a political crime of the deepest hue, and one, to the expiation of which ray whole life, whether in a public or private capacity, skull be devoted. I feel that the coml.. deration of his Lordship's address d'• Ides itself into two distinct parts. The fi st, as 'bet, een Myself and the county ; the second, as between myself and Lord G. Beresford. As fir as regards the County my feeling is, that i can sot sidliriently excuse my . self for the fault I have committed. It is the only act of my life I have to regret, and I shall certainly never cease to regret io The same fault, it is tine, may, in past times, have been committed by others; but I shall not seek to shelter myself under this con sideration—l shall not endeavour to acquit myself by any retrospective allusion to others. lam not inclined to justify my guilt, nor even to extenuate it—l confess it in the most aggravated degree, and I sincerely regret. it. In the step which I took I acted in my own private capacity as an individual, without the knowledge of many of my nearest con nexions and friends, and contrary to strongly ex• pressed opinions of those of them with whom I did consult. To these friends I feel I can scarcely atone. :lly conduct was rash, imprudent, and I fully admit unpardonable. And now, as regards the second consideration of the address, namely, the conduct of Lord George Beresford towards myself. The simple fact of my having held any conferences with the Beresford family is not to be justified —and 1 do not seek to justify it; but this forms no excuse for his Lordship's dishonourable violation of a private and confidential communication ; and I therefore most uneqUivocally stigmatise his conduct as a base and prof 'gate. abandonment of every prin ciple which has heretofore been held sacred amongst gentlemen. He has, for his own purposes, endea voured to pull me down; but in the attempt to do so, he has sunk himself even lower than he before stood. His late despicable dissimulation of his po litical principles has earned for him, as a public man, the contempt of all parties. His present vio lation of honour has reduced his private character to the same level as his public. With respect to his public character, he opposes the great measure of concession to Ireland with the most desperate and persevering virulence up to the very last moment; but that measure being carried, he instantly deserts his party, anti flies over to the liberal interest, lie. lieving that interest to be the stronger in the county. He crouches to the Catholic Bishop of Water ford—he crouches to - Mr. O'Connell—he crouches even to Mr. Shiel. By these acts of dissimulation, and by professions of a corresponding character, he hoped (but vainly hoped) to impose upon the party at whose feet he prostrated himself. Finding him self, however, rejected with contempt by that party, he again flies back to his old friends, and he now sounds the tocsin of Protestant principles,' by which he means nothing else than Protestant as cendancy. On commencing his canvass he profess ed a total alteration of principles. Acting under these false pretences, he applied to the late Catholic Bishop of Waterford—employed Mr. Sheil--rind sought to seduce Mr. O'Connell. Deceived by - these acts, he procured the conditional promises of a few liberal gentlemen, who, no doubt, will now feel t liemselves abc,olved when they find his Lordship. in his present address, declaring that his principles are what they have ever been.' The trtoh is now out. He has never changed ; but his love of places and pensions induced him, in the hope of retain ing them, to feign a change. 1 ask you, gentlemen, if this is a man to be trusted ? He tells you that much prosperity is in store for Ireland. I ash you, is it by sending men of his stamp to Parliament that this prosperity is to be attained ? He says we should not countenanee agitators. Why did he hire one agitator, and offer a bribe to another? Many of the particulars connected with my offer of support, as stated by his Lordship, are perverted and exagge rated. The paragraph relative to my holding the keys of the county,' &e. so far from being truly attributed to me, was, on the contrary, the identical language held to me by one of his Lordship's friends, when soliciting my neutrality. I might expose many other points in his Lordship's address, but I shall not, for the present, descend to any more minute analysis. And, now, gentlemen, I have expressed my opinion of his Lordship, I address myself again to the question as resting more immediately between you and myself. it is true that you have culled upon roe to stand for the county, and that my coming for ward has been in obedience to that call. Since the sense of the county was dtclatred,l never for a mo ment hesitated, but I freely avow that, under exist ing circumstances, it is just and fair that the county should have an opportunity of re-considering its decision. Whatever the result of that reconsidera tion may be, I shall most willingly submit to. My first and main anxiety is, that the independence of the county should not not suffer in my person, or from any imprudent error of mine. Should your decision be that I am to continue your candidate, I am ready and prepared to go on with the contest. Should you decide on putting forward any other gentleman, I can only say that the independent in terest shall have my most strenuous support in every possible way. This is but a small portion of the atone ment which I feel that I owe the electors. After having canvassed the comity, I have the satis faction to announce, which I do most unequi vocally, that the independence of the county beyond all question, secure, and that a member of • the Beresford family cannot by possibility be re• turned. The feeling against that funnily in every part of the county, and amongst every class of the elector's, is so overwhelming that any independent candidate, from the simple fact of being opposed to them, would be certain of success—to this success 1 shall, in whatever capacity I um placed, most strenu ously contribute. But during any interval that may occur before the sense of the county be taken, I would respectfully, but most earnestly, warn the electors to be on their guard against attempts to de lude or ensnare them—l can tell them they have the county in their hands ; let them hold it. To those friends from whom I have met with the kindest and most warm-hearted support, I beg thus publicly and sincerely to offer my most lasting gratitude. The recollection of their kindness shall never be ob ite rated from my heart. Should I not be the retuned representative for the county of Waterford, I shall bear in mind that the fault is not theirs but my own. I have committed an error, and I tun willing to sub mit to any sentence with which the electors may please to visit it. My first hasty and inconsiderate step in public life was rather an unhappy one. I have one act to regret, but I urn far from thinking my self, by that Gee act, lowered to the level of the Noble Lord, my opponent, every act of whose public life has been a continued series of bartering in one way or another, and for the most mercenary of mo tives. But, laying aside for a moment every other act of his, I would ask, Call public honesty be ex pected from a man who is now found, in the most abandoned manner, violating the most sacred prin ciples of honour in private life ? '' I have the honour to be, gentlemen, " With the most sincere respect, " Your faithful amd devoted servant, " Belmont-house, Nov. 4. " H. WINSTON BARRON.' Mr. Pierse George Barron hasaddressed a letter to the editor of the Watetford Chronicle, in which he says—" As oae of the connections and near relatives of Mr. Henry Winston Barron, I most positively and distinctly deny that I ever authorised him to tender my support to Lord George Beres rot d, or to any body else. This he will readily ad• mit, and I am sure that in any co:nmunicatiolis he may have had, he never meant to convey that im pression, so far as regards me." And Mr. Pierre Barron, in another letter to the editor of the Water ford Mail, says—" I have read the address of Lord George Beicaford to the electors of the county of Waterford. In this address the Noble Lord states or insinuates (for I have not now time to quote his Lordship's words) that he had been offered the support of the Barron family in the county of, Waterford, through Mr. Winston Barron. The late hour at which I arrived in town this evening, and some matters with which I have since been engaged, and which admitted not of delay, pre vented my endeavouring to remove from his Lord 7 ship's mind this impression. I trust I shall-be able to do so in your next publication." THE KING. We regret to leans - girt 413 MAJESTY Was so much in disposed. on Moreisy aft, rnooir as to render the postpone ment o f th e Cabinet C ,umtil, appointed to be hell at Windsor Castle yesterday, alrsobitely nceessaty. A Mes senger was consequently sent off late on Monday night with despatches fur Mr. Secretary Psst., announcing his MAJESTY's commands that the Ceutted should he post poned. The Messenger arrived at Air. PEEL'S residence at one o'clock yesterday morning. Circulars were shortly afterwards despatched to all the Members of the Cabinet, announcing the circumstance. There were +ery. exaggerated reports citculated at the West end of the town last night, relative to his MAJESTY'S indisposition. We have the satisfaction to state that the latest official accounts received last night from Windsor represent his ATAJESTY'S health to be but slightly affected; it was, however, such that his Physicians deemed it unad visable for his MAJESTY to undergo the fatigues of pre siding at the Council. For the last four or five days his MAJESTY has felt slightly indisposed; and it is now as certained that it was on this account that orders fur de laying the removal to Brighton were given. A Messenger was despatched on Monday by the Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the attendance in town of the Bight Hon. STRATFORD CANNING, who was on a visit at Tonbridge Wells. The Bight Hon. Gentleman arrived in town at night, and was to have been introduced to his MAJESTY at the Council in Wind sor, but fur the postponement which so unexpectedly took place. We learn from an authentic source that Mr. STRAT FORD CANNING will leave town on a Special Embassy to a Foreign Court in the course of a few days. Yesterday morning S. BERMUDEZ, the Spanish Am bassador, and Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, had an inter view with the Eail of ABERDEEN, at Argyll Home.— Morning Paper. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 9.—The Responsions for this Term ended on Saturday last. The number of unsuccessful candidates on this occasion has been unusually small. The Masters were the Rev. J. B. Ottley, M. A., Oriel College, the Rev. Robert Eden. M.A., Corpus Christi College, and the Rev. Geo. Moberly, M.A., Balliol College. The public examinations commence on Tuesday, the 10th inst. with a very long list of candidates. The Exa miners are the Rev. R. D. Hampden, M.A., Oriel Col lege ; the Rev. D. Veysie, M.A., Christ Church ; the Rev. John Carr, M.A., Balliol College; the Rev. Joseph L. Richards, M.A., Exeter College; the Rev. James Gar bett, M.A., Brazenose College; and John Mitchell, M.A., Wadham College. CLEMENTS VERSUS HOMAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—ln your Paper of the 2d inst. you copied a re port from the Times of a trial, Clements v. Ilotnan. The said Report having contained various false and libel lous statements, pr , judicial to the plaintiff, au action has been brought against the person who furnished it to the Times. 'Steik p,rson having since acknowledged in writing the 'untruth, &r. of his report, the Times has published such written acknowledgment in their Journal of yesterday. You are therefore requested to copy the same, by Messrs. Railten and Miller, 15, Clifford's Inn, solici tors for the plaintiff November 10, 1829. (The following is the paragraph from tl e Times :) . . . We have been induced to publish tie above letter, in cons,quence of having received nformation that the re port to which it alludes was not a just and inpartial re port of the trial. Application king made to us to name the author of such report (it was not furnished to us by own reporter), we immediately did so; and in justice to the plaintiff, it is right to state that the person who sent it has admitted " that it is not a true and faithful re port ; that the defendant adduced no evidence of the boys having been improperly corrected for the faults of which they had been guilty; and that the report contains many mis-statements and omissions, which, had they been cor rected anti supplied, would have given a very different com plexion to the plaintiff's case." With these admissions, and the instantaneous verdict of a jury in his favour, we do not conceive the shadow of an imputation can attach to the plaintiff. The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to his residence at Kew on Monday, fi orn a visit to his MAJESTY, at the Royal Lodge, in Windsor Park. T •- he Austrian Ambassador had an interview with the Earl of ALERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign Office. Sir GEORGE MURRAY visited Mr. Secretary PEEL yesterday morning, at his residence in Privy-gartii.. Sir GEORGE left town on a visit to Colonel CmcuEsTER, in the afternoon, at his country seat. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, by special license, at nine o'clock p.sterday evening, at the Earl of Ross Lyres house in St. James's-square, BETHELL WaratoNn, Esq. M.P., of Montrath, Devonshire, to the Right Hon. Lady JANET ST. CLAIR, only daughter of the Earl of ROSSLYN. Major-General TuoriNTON left his residence in St. James's Palace on Satuhlay, on a visit to his MA.- J EETY. Sir E. NAGLE is also of die Royal patty. The brilliant star which excited so much ad miraton at the late Civic banquet in Guildhall is said to valued at 2,C00/. On Friday last. the Lord Bishop of WIN CHESTER instituted to the Vieiraze of WarEngbam cum Chehhatt (v:want by the cession of the Rev. JAMES hJA arILToN), the Rev. JOHN DALTON, B.A. ; patron his nephew, ATWOOD DALTON WEYVILL, Eiq., a minor. It is generally reported among the best in faned naval circles, that Admiral Sir WILLIAM SYDNEY SMITH, K. C. 13., will str.Teed Admiral Earl NoaTHEsK in the command at Plymouth. —Exeter Alfred. R EPIIESENTA TION OF 'MEATIL—We are authorised to state, that Lord KILLEEN starts fur this great county, and, we have reason to believe, will he re turned without opposition. Few individuals, indeed, in Ireland possess so many claims, hereditary and personal, upon the constituency of a county, as does Lord KILLEEN upon Meath, and we learn with great satisfac:ion that men of all parties admit the validity of those claims, an I :wow their vletermination to give him their seppert. The ad dress of his Lordship to the electors of Meali, sppears in another part of our journal.—Dublin 21krnierg Register. STEAM CONVEYANCE BETWEEN DUBLIN AND TIOWTH.-We have bten informed that Sir JAmes ANDERSON'S patent steam coach is to commence plying between this city and Routh neat week.—DublinffLrie ing Register. Under the Superintendence of tl►e Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, The British Almanac for 1630, price 2s. fid , will be published by CHARLES KNIGHT, Pall-Mall Kist, on Saturday, November the 14th. The Companion to the Almanac is unavoidably delayed for a few days. Da. EDMUND CALAMY.---Tim Life of this great Divine, now ready fur publication, ineltulei a period of sixty years, distinguished by some of the most remark able events that figure in our annals—those namely, that occurred during the re.gns of CHARLES 11., JAMES H., WILLIAM, Queen ANNE, and GEORGE I. and 11. The work embraces, among other subjects, the Court and Ministry of CHARLES 11., the flight of JAMES 11., the Revolution and establishment of the House of Hanover, and comprises notices of most of the great public charac ters of the day, the following among many others :—Lord CLAKENnoN, Lord SHAFTESBURY, Duke of BUCKING HAM, Bishop BURNET, STILLINGELEET, Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, BAXTER, Arch bishop TILLOTSON, &c. It is expected to form a va'uable addition to the history of our own country, and comn►en surate in importance with the Diaries of PErvs, EVELYN, and CL.CRENDON. A bridge, of a size suitable for the passage of cchic'es of and• de , eription, is imrriciliat,ly to he rected by subscription, over the lake seprating the road from Ap pledore to the Burt ows. Several gentlerne'n of the parish have sul)scril;efl, —Ea eter Alfred Mr. JEssoP, engineer, is now at Bridgewater, surveying the groan , ' h:,,tween Combiteb axd that town, for the purpose of cntrint - ,r a ship canal Iy2tween those places, and to make a floating harbour at Bridgewater.— Exeter Alfred. All difficulties in the way of completing the line of road from Stoke Canon to Cowley-bridge, through the Parton estate, have been amicably adju.ted---th e re mainder of the cuttine will rapid:y proceeded on, and the roads northward from Ilinistable, Ete., as well as from Tiverton, will soon be without any material impediment of hill.. Exeter Alfred, SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNAL S. It appears that Lord George Beresfotal and Mr. Barron have fought, in consequence of the publication oran address by his Lordship to the electors of the county of Waterford. In this address ihe noble Lord accuse.? Mr. Barron of having offered to support him in the county, pro vided the Beresford interest should be given to Mr. Barron for the city of Waterford,—now, and long, and kiithfully represented by Sir Join! Newport. This fact adds a new and interesting though not more favourable, character to the whole proceeding. If Sir John Newport has not publicly made known his determination to retire from Parliament, which at his age might not be at all unnatural, we can imagine few things more likely to provoke and disgust the freemen of Waterford, than an attempt to su persede the Right Hon. Baronet, come from what quarter it might. If Sir John Newport be not a man of the very first-rate ability, his ta lents, and still more, his industry and informa tion, are such as to command respect. He un derstands the interests of his country well, and has struggled to promote them manfully and skilfully from the period of the union to the present hour. There never was an Irish ques tio», during the last twenty-eight years, on which the member for Waterford did not distinguish himself by a fearless and uncompromising devotion to his country's welfare. There was no sacrifice of personal or official advan tage, which this honest representative did not make, to what he deemed his political con sistency and duty ; the last instance of which, we are , told, was his refusal to accept office with the Grenvilles when they joined Lord Liverpool, assigning as a reason for thus rejectins , the re-. commendation of his earliest friend, Lord - ' Gren ville, that the principle of the Government was adverse to any measure of Catholic relief. That so indefatigable and efficient a representative of the liberal interest throughout Ireland as Sir John Newport, should at this time of day be exposed to any serious opposition on the part of Mr. Barron,—a gentleman who has no political merits that we are aware of to refer to, except that of being a Catholic, and of having Mr. O'Connell's support,—would seem to argue the grossest ingratitude in those of the electors of Waterford who might vote for him, and without meaning to disparage Mr. Barron's pretensions, a very singular defect in the powers of compari son with which that Honourable Gentleman's adviserswere gilled when they urged him to such a contest. If, however, Sir John Newport, as may have been the case for aught we know, has announced or intimated an intention to re sign his seat fox, the city of Waterford, Mr. Barron must be acquitted on the preceding ground, and has only to stand his trial on the other,—of having bartered (as Lord George Beresford affirms) the Barron interest in the county for that of the Beresfords (which is not very formidable) in the city, and thus endeavoured to make a job of both. It is stated in the accounts from Ireland, that Mr. Barron did not deny the charge, but chose rather to call out Lord George Beresford. We are at a loss to see how this duel, even had he, unfortunately, shot the Noble Lord, or been shot by him, would have mended Mr. Barron's case in the eyes of the people generally, who require some better vindication of such an accusation than that which the muzzle of a loaded pistol would supply. We regretted, when it was first announced, the retirement of Mr. Villiers Stuart, from the county of 'Waterford ; and our concern is not diminished by this prospect of the scenes which are likely to follow his resianatior. For Lord George Beresford's politics, if he has any, they are, we take for granted, those prescribed to him by his family, and therefore not much to our taste. His Lordship has reached the rank of a General Officer in the Army, and bar, we believe, a regiment, which must be taken as prima facie proof of services of some sort or other ; but it is said that his first service in the field has been his campaign with Mr. Barron. If the latter gentleman should, in consequence of these disclosures, which it was rather an Irish expedient to prevent from circulating by making them the subject of a duel—if, we say, he should, in consequence, be compelled to forego his hopes of a successful canvass, we trust that the independence of the county will not suffer, but that the constitutional interest will still show fight, aed bring to their good behaviour the members of an oligarchy who have never once, during the last century or the present, betrayed the least. sympathy with the people of Ireland, or given a vote but as some Tory Minister di rected ; or employed one pennywmth of an over grown patronage but for the ends of selfish wicgrandizement.— Times. Dr. Doyle has published an 'address to the inhabitants of a part of his diocese, on the sub ject of Secret Societies, and the Administration of Unlawful Oaths. The feeling which per vades it is excellent ; and as Dr. Doyle possesses great influence among the Catholics, this mani festation of a hearty zeal to forward the views of the Administration will, we should hope, be productive of benefit. We are willing to believe that Dr. Doyle has not narrowed his ambition to the mere furtherance of the views of his own order—the besetting sin, not merely of priests, but of all separate castes—and that he is fired by the noble ambition of availing himself of the great influence his talents, learning, and know , i ledge of the world give him, to labour in the sacred cause of the regeneration of his country men. A few master-minds, untainted by die sordid aims of vulgar politicians, may work won ders at a moment like the present. The Irish have now, for the first time, Representatives in the Councils of the nation. The Anglo-Irish who have hitherto alone represented Ireland, must become Irish or nothing. Men like Dr. Doyle in the closet, and Mr. O'Connell in the Legislature, dedicating their whole energies to the improvement of their countrymen, may work wonders, notwithstanding the strength of the inte rests opposed to them. Let us never despair. Dr. Doyle does not, like the Reverend Edward Irving, deem a state of torture on earth a de sirable advantage for those committed to his spiritual care, with a view to their being, "nearer to Christ hereafter;" but seems to think Christi anity does not imply a renunciation on the part of any men of their right to as much temporal happiness as they can obtain:without injuring others. Ile recommends obedience to the law, because he perceives an honest intention on the ' .. part of those in power to promote the general welfare ; but he at the same time fearlessly de clares that he would not have taken up the arms of the Gospel against any combination created by " the oppression of guilt in power." What he says on this subject is deserving of remark : " The Penal Code has been repealed, the road to improvement in Ireland is now open, nay, the work itself of improvement is already:commenced ; the minds of all men are engaged in devis ing means whereby the condition ofthe people may be bettered ; and the King's Government, which has made - all his subjects equal • before the law, is now anxiously intent on providing us with. Else means ofliving as becomes the members (f a free State. In other times, beloved brethren,• if I saw you distressed sand in want, or driven by oppression to combine, I might hesitate befure I ~vould take up the arms of the Gospel, lest in the employment yfthem I should seem to range myself on the side of guilt in power against guilt in digress. But now no s uc h 'feeling damps my zeal, or makes my heart faulter, whilst my tongue would speak. No ; this is the pe liod of the resurrection of our country. We may now, as heretofore, feel pressure and distress; but our pressure and distress are no longer the forerunners of despair."—Morning Chronicle. Our Contemporary (the Standard) in an article on the subject of the Memoirs and Let ters of Mr. Jefferson, has some excellent remarks on an advice given by that great and good Statesman : " We would say that Jay, as described by Mr. Jefferson, was the American prototype of Neck:lr. Ls Fayette, with his ' canine appetite for popularity,' will suggest at once predecessors and imitators with out end, for there have been fools and Revolution makers, and ever will be, in all ages and countries. A third, but a very different class, however, remajns, without whom indeed Revolutions might be made, but made only to perpetuate anarchy—the Wash ingtons and Franklins in America, who were never known to speak more than ten minutes at a time ; the Napoleons and Talleyrartds of the Freech Reve bition. Here, it will be said, the analogy ends ; but the reason of the separation is not overlooked by our author, who, perhaps, by the very advice which we are about to quote, averted from his country the calamity of a military despotism : this is advice which we would wish to engrave deeply upon the heart of every Englishman : "' Cherish the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention ; do not be too severe upon their er rors, but reclaim by enlightening them. If once they become innattentive to the public affair,t, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, and Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the general law of our nature.' " This is true—eternally and universally true. It is the close attention of the people, and that only, which can controul the wolfish propensities of these who administer any form of Government—however free it may be in theory, makes not the least differ. ence on this point. Mr. Jefferson's authority is the very highest; he, the Minister of a Democracy, fairly in the road to the office of Chief Ma is rate, at which Lc afterwards arrived, acknowledgts, as a general law of nature, the wolfish instinct of int n in power, whether as executive officers or legislators ; and prescribes as the sole preventive of its f dal as cendancy, a -jealous attention to their affairs by the people. " How does this doctrine agree with the advice of those who, even with the apparatus of close bo• roughs, civil list, standing army, gendarmerie, &c., already in the hands of Ministers, tell us that we are to dismiss public affairs from our minds altoge ther, and rely implicitly upon the wisdom of Par liament,' and, we suppose, upon the honesty of the Ministers who have ordered that Parliament to the right about face' at their pleasure ? How does the doctrine of Mr. Jefferson agree with the prac tice of the Ministers, who claim the confidence of the country at the very moment in which they use their utmost efforts to stifle every organ by which public attention ? tt , lntion can be drawn fairly to the public interests We will here lay before our readers the whole of the passage from which our Contemporary has made the above short quotation. It is a re markable proof of sagacity in Jefferson, that at a time when the English Newspapers were day after day filled with accounts of the anarchy m the United States, when the law could not be enforced from a general insolvency, and when insurrections in I'vlassachusets, the most influen tial State of the Union, had afforded a handle to alarmists, he should have estimated all these circumstances at their proper value, and even chosen the moment for recommending to States men to allow more and more scope to the ex pression of popular feeling; nay, even for laying down the maxim, that a little rebellion now and then was a positive good. Writing to Colonel Edward Carrington, 16th January, 1787, he says," The tumults in America, I expected, would have produced in Europe an unfavourable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tu mults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our Governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of Coven t , ment has had a great effect on the opinion here. I am persuaded myself, that the good sense of the people will always be found to be thrl best army. They may be led astray for a moment, brit will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censers of their governors, and even their errors will tend to keep them to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppres the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people, is to give them full information e4l' their affairs through the channel of the public papers, and to contrive that those papers should pene trate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our Governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right ; and were it left to me to decide whe ther we should have a Government without news papers, or newspapers without a Government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the lat. ter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers, and be capable of reeding them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without Government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European Governments. Among the far mer public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains morals as powerfully as laws a,Vet did any where. Among the latter, un'',er pre tence of governing, they have klivided their nations into classes, wolves, an sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Eu rope. Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our peo ple, and keep alive theit attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim theta by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Go vernors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of' our general nature, in spite of in dividual exceptions ; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind ; for I can apply no milder term to the Governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the' poor." In a letter to Mr. Maddison, his successor in the President ship, dated 30th January, 1787, he says, " So. eieties exist under three forms, sufficiently di a , tinguishable-1. Without Government, as aluonp cur Indians. 2. Under Governments, wherein the will of every one has a just influence ; as is the case in England, in a sli ht degree, and iii our States in a great one. 3. Under Govern ments of force ; as is th e e ase i n a ll other Mo narchies, and in most of the otter To have an idea of the curse ef existeeee under these last, they must b seen. It is a Govern