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, . • TILE SLT N, LONDON, MONDAYI EVENING, 3CI 'l 7 l 20 1846 A • • ..... SPirits ••• •..ankin.:gl:: 24 LITERATURE. cry, the science of gastronomy, a science which teaches ' • J. •••• I t 0 EDINBURGH 11 E VIE W. .No. CLXIX. the art of extracting from food, animal and vegetable, T 11E REVENUE, ET C, dis •• , s 6 / • 44/e ...b u. 5 8 1 : 1 6 . (1 11 9 7 n 1 .0 a v re et w , o more rejoiced in the perusal of the the nutritious portions . in steals a manner as to please the ...---.80.--__. the Balances Expenditure; in theth e Amount Exchequer of at Taxes the e Closerepealed ef each h reduced Year,, f e a r n d the o f Period Taxes •••••• 0 ••••• 1”4 Review than when its contributors contrive eye and the taste, while at the same time the . material ..4‘u incorporate their abstract disquisitions and analytical is economised to the utmost. The following passage a e r n i d tal th e e f E th x e pe n nd e li h t t u , re Fu t d e e re d o , u a t e ; d the un S f u u r e p d l e u d s, ; ortheDeAficeineunacly Charge alrngcoomoef, the Debt; l a , vi n t d h t t h h •••••• 04 Iv -t h t e i _ ei sra . s with the moving circumstances of biography; shows that M. So) er has had considerable experience on of ", in sort, they embellish the expositions the subject of which he treats. had 0 din- " •"" 2% 9 " During the last ten months I t from 1836 to 1845; both Years inclusive. • a reat truth by personal reminiscences ofAn Account showing the Amount of Revenue receivecle --• Its originatorners for the gentlemen of tand 38 he Reform Club, dinner •-- 50 tiens, and associate with their descrip- furnish 25,000 di imposed, distinguishing the principal Items; the •• •• •• II a ~. of a, great mind the vicissitudes of parties of importance, comprising above 70,000 dishes, and to _ Net Receipt TAXES REPEALED OR REDUCED. TAXES IMPOSED. -••- at gre a t Expenditure, Balances •• •• •• 13% t , ,,,., Man. In the present number this feature is in- provide daily for 60 servants of the establishment, indepen of Capital of the ...... se,"'nead with very considerable adroitness, and occupies dent of about 15,000 visitors which have seen the kitchen department in that lapse of time." ,t 3 Revenue, including Surplus. Deficiency. 11 : 1 14 . ; most prominent position in the collection of articles. Funded and Charge of the Exchequer )ailing himself of the recently published memoir of The result of that experience we have in this volume, aa after deducting Charge of He gives us bills of fare for parties of all sizes, from a ae Drawbacks Estimated PRINCIPAL ITEMS. Estimated Debt. at the PRINCIPAL ITEMS. Unfunded. heelonitz, by Dr. G. E. Gubratier, the Reviewer has coronation banquet to a bachelor's snug party in chain- and Collection. Amount. Amount. Close of the -•• • • ;4 , a n . produced a most fascinating melange of memo- hers. He also gives us plans of kitchens of all sizes, Repayments. -----.......--- -_____ Year. ••• • • • t 74 Wm? , respecting that wonderiul philosopher, ap- --. ••• •• 1 from the magnificent gastronomical laboratory of the Re- _--- ---- -- x. .C. .E. £. .£, .Z. ee. T i lately and engagingly inscribing his paper the form Club to my " kitchen at home," which is suited to £. Pepper ••• ••• ••• 59,010 X. X. X. .• :: :: 1 2 2: 04i 1j ': , rznel : u teul fe bcr a e n d el th G at enius of Leibnitz." When it is 39,470 the means and requirements of the solitary bachelor. Sugar, East India ... - this extraordinary character was, Let all those who are tired of the eternal roast and 1,003,786 Paper and Paper Hangings ... 394,500 3,991 •• •• - 5 50,819,305 2,130,092 •••• ••• ••• ••• ..• ••• ••• ••• 142,000 788,398,570 29,243,599 6,049,302 c2aPs, the most fully entitled to the designation of an ►builed, alternating with chop and steak-who think that 1836 52,949,397 I Spirit Licenses •.• ••• • ..... 3}; ,olversal genius, that his writings are marvellously' (Newspaper Stamps ... ... 309,000 •• •••• h a I nnnioue, that there is scarcely a single branch of mutton broth is not the only potage in the world-that there are methods of dressing fish other than plain boil- 655,760 234 ••• ••• ••• ••• • • ••• 630 rCustoms, five pe tt r e c o e f n E t . .. : 33i rman knowledge which has not derived from his intel- ing and frying, and other sauces than melted butter- 1837 50,663053 51,319,113 ••• ••• 345,228 289 ••• ••• ••• ••• •••• •••• 8,423 786,319,738 24,489,571 4,127,973 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •• • •• 51,720,748 •... ••• 785,373,740 29,260,238 4,594,884 56,308 „, ~„ 1, 41 0 31 6 88 0 ,, , 50 2 60 2 0 6 7 hi Soros same elucidation or some adornment, that purchase M. Sovers's book. They will find that it is 1838 51,375,520 63,418 Stage Coaches ... ... S DA Y .fla .) lif name is enrolled among the members of the indeed that which it professes itself to be-a gastronomic 1839 51,927,495 786,512,734 29,454,062 3,707,425 and - lu ass Society, that his body was almost as ~ ... ... 1,240,000 2,274,240 -{ Ditto, I Excise 344,000 Tee, regenerator. 53,440,287 ... ... 1,512,792 787,448,075 29,381,718 3,858,465 W as in motion over the earth as his sentience 53,444,353 ... ... 1,593,970 1,258,959 Postage ze, and s , 9o ,, e ll i f t; "as active in the renlins of knowledge, and that the A TREATISE ON RAIL WAY SURVEYING 1840 51,850,083 6beth,1 1 ";".,11 tteient.l Assessed Taxes, ten per cent... LPostage, Abolitiondi 311,477 el, Tread h ,,,, !fie and literary history of the generation in which AND LE VE LLING. By John Quested, Surveyor. alifax• At io, t he re nourished may be said to have radiated about him, This should be the vade 711CCUM of the un railwa 54,465,318 ... ... 2,101,30 ' 27,170 Rice • in the Husk ... ••• 21,832 ". _, d. Atari , mi , ' e re issurelycontainin g g 841 52 363,949 th at no one individual but will acknowledge surveyor. It is strictly a practical work,. b 1 , Coffee ••• ••• .•. 201,113 ... ... ... ... „, ... 790,874,608 29,450,145 3,653,810 utta; De r is'is Property Tax S ubject would prove a noble end not an unprofitable nothing superfluous, while nothing essential has been I Timber and Wood ... .... 608,414 a • ... 5,100,000 Ilaward, sA',,,, Export Duty on Coals Lisman, on' i j e ; for investigation. Rsmarltable, however, as forgotten. Matterstreated in which have been hitherto ... ... 109,778 5,629,989 ... 141,930 " abstruse and 1842 51,244,335 55,223,873 .., „, 3,979,538 1,596,366 { Export Duties Spirits, Ireland ;issues, 31° „1 b .; We philosophic exertions were, profuse as they text-books in such a manner as to appear b I Other Customs Duties ... 579,639 ••• ••• 240,000 791,250,440 29,428,120 1,380,059 rhiladelee as to ecome Stamps, Ireland se :" suggestive as they were, his books are difficult, are so simplified by Mr. Quested LStage Coaches ,„ . . 77,779 ••• ... 121,745 Candid'profusely illus th'reely ever perused, except by the bibliographer or plain and comprehensible. The work is ... 126,453 es; dTimber and Wood ... !wieunaise ,1 0, Ste e teentrie scholiast ;his intense, and in several in- trated with maps and diagrams. 1843 56,945,043 55,501,739 1,443,304 ..• ... 411,821 pints, /S • • Ireland ,„ ... 240,000 "• ." 790,576,392 29,269,160 4,716,019 Diary so; r a nces his profound labours in the field of knowledge, a iled '') are • • ("Coffee ... ... ... ••• 86,174 and s ll_ epitomised into his mere name-a name which can, THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION. I Currants ... „, ... 95,816 io ,„, . 'Weyer ieeas, io t a: 4 ; ll e a le , never be forgotten. Leibnitz, by his astonish- Cone Jour 14.-Cove never presented so exhilirating 3,336,106 ... ,„ 458,810 { Wool ... •... •••• •..• 97,140 ... ... i 55,103,645 787,598,145 1 30,495,459 6,254,113 e, st Andr e f a lsly,Frsatility as well as by his pertinacious industry, and stirring ' an appearance as it did on yesterday (Monday), 1844 58,459,751 Marine Insurances ... ..• 101,959 frol o wlitar' s ,„_, ised himself with nearly every sectienal de- in consequence of its being understood that the fleet would ( Glass ... ... ••• ... 45,000 Lancelot , _, lit , 'sae last wg Watanent of science and literature. As a metaphysician he commence the evolutions and landing of guns, &c., for the Sugar . . ... ••• ... 2,309,857 Which his the less eminence, because of the phantasms attack of the forts on that day. At about eight o'cloc in the Molasses ... ••• ... 129,183 • • • truth s imagination unhappily amalgamated with morning, when the sailorsandmarinesfrom thevariousvessels Cotton Wool ••• ... 682,042 DA Y ' ) by his ; and this circumstance is sufficiently evidenced began to embark in the boats for the purpose of landing for 4,535,561 Coals, Export Duty ... ... 115,438 23,720 Auctioneers' and Appraisers' l i ff t ,la preposterous theory of " Monads," and that of the attack on Carlile Fort, our beautiful harbour presented 1845 57,690,704 53,873062 3,817,642 ••• ••• Other Customs Duties •... 380,386 • Z Licenses 23 , 721 785,053,022 ! 28,253,872 8,452,090 'DAY* i g Iz t • or ' Pre•established Hermon -than which perhaps no an appearance which it would be difficult for poets to de- Auctions ..• ... ... 305,000 rain, incl ua lt (1,, A e . visionary- speculations were ever conceived. His scribe or artists to paint. Boats put off in countless numbers ndeed we :,,,, • - " el ney in likewise be attributed physics may to a from the vessels cf war in port, and made their way towards Glass ... ••• ... ... 624,000 Oats Were _„& all nilar Corkbe s where they landed over 2,500 marines and about 3of Wheat aid , x tendency, an 1 one which our reviewer happily 500 &, me of Oats .. lf th e as " his love of F.ypothesis, his fondness for withthe tactics attendant on the at seamen, to proceed Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, July 3, 1846. EDW. CARDWELL. an unoliet, ' Purely abstract t0 n ., n,, , and his impatience to arrive at a tack of a fort by sea forces. hand; In 0 The marines and seamen having been landed close to re sio t rat „! - _': ° • In jurisprudence Leibnitz was, on the con- . , An Accountof the Value of the Imports into, and of the Exports An Estimate of the Population for each of the Years 1836 any P 110 Corkbe house marched through the domain towards the g- , . year. 00 Y more than ea o p . a proficient, he was an originator; his fort, the boats moving otr, according as they landed, from, the United Kingdom, during each of . the Ten Years to 1845, both inclusive, so far as the same can be given; t only or . e tence • • " h i ,_ . in this division of learning being testified by and anchoring some distance from the shore, for the purpose ending January,. 1846, . calculated at the Official Rates of also, the Number of Persons Committed for Trial in and the A ve it ~ 3e t_retttiSCS Nova Methodus and Ratio Corporis; besides of keeping afloat, it being ebb tide. Having arrived is the t fth P duce Valuation and distinguishing the Amoun o e ro A Statement of the Number and Tonnage of Vessels entered Inwards and cleared Outwards in each Year, England and Wales •in each of the said Years ; together as cxcessl,.4 the guns into position; and Main:factures of the United Kingdom exported from the 0 1 _fa c et of Peter the Great having nominated him as one fort, the seamen commenced hauling with a Statement, showing the Ratio of Increase or lay last oV,," ei t, ern- they consisted of 6 heavy 24-pound carrona es dand fanged Value of Foreign and Colonial Merchandise exported; also, from 1836 to 1845, both inclusive, distinguishing Foreign Vessels from British, and distinguishing also the Decrease in the Triennial Periods ending with 1836, acted. ' e r alet.l_l. of to compile his code of laws for the govern- ar onade field-pieces, which had been stating the Amount of the Produce and Manufactures of the 1839, 1842, and 1845 respectively; also the sareels Br° ~,,eo' t,,2 1 a % the Russias- an intention which was unfor- teen-pound c r from the ships of war on the previous Saturday. On the x orted therefrom accordin to the Real United Kingdom, e p , g Foreign from the Coasting Trade. Propor tion of Commitments to the Estimated Amount of the is again e '„er : r u e tely frustrated. Asa theologian Leibnitz rather Population in each of the said Years. have beep ;: te t,arrival of the spectators from Cove at the scene of action, or Declared Value thereof. r mined much than much • and of the strik per (1° 1 .0.4. In,. _ . . achieved , nothing could exceed the magnificence of the view which a ,t , „ the C ~,,,, • ti_g o riginality of his religious views we may ❑judge from was presented to their sight. In the rear of the fort were ° "'F's Value of Exports from the United 2 ! I 4 . , t...i . FOREIGN TRADE. COASTING TRADE. , .4 3 -• ~.1 , m n .3,110t 150 'la circumstance that he flattered himself he had over 2,500 marines and 400 sailors in position ready to make a. 3'3 - E Kingdom, calculated at the Official d Al ''' . ' ,-,,,, E a :?, , •-• '- . • ° •• • co .4- , ~, . `s' '- c•-•a•. 9 . all other 0 1. o s ac s e brnplished a metaphysical solution of the doctrine . the attack, while the country in all directions exhibited a tO 0 Rates of Valuation. t 5.' o o -5 ° 0 '' e ' n . ,S 3 ...a 0 , 0. , 0 . 4 , - 4 Increase or De ear, wit h tooK 0, Transubstantiation. - - 1 land tiquities scene rarely to be witnessed in that • lovely locality. ° '''' - ' , w s ales oe h In phi 0 ogy an quiet and ,; G... • ••-• .i., ..0 o 5 7 . ', Oi C.', P. , •74.2 S' ) se a • 2 .= 'u. „, a INWARDS ; OUTWARDS: INWARDS: OUTWARDS: s ati ) aas E 2.1 a !,-a crease of the Com o . fa, E ss g go mitments in I abroad, , 02 , liar Was an innovator ;in autobiography he has given a Thousands of fashionably-dressed ladies and the elite of the l el Ez -a '4.5. t; S. 574 . ,T... .2 2 - .., . p., a 0 EP" each Three Years. I value of , i lip§ ` 4 ,,arnaing though somewhat egotistical account of him- gentry of all the surrounding country from dozens of miles t..; 7_ ,5 , - 1 .•?, *> ' 'Si • e • ! , E -sa q 7 45-, .8 s -... , 87 -6-. P . el ,0 tO . .-1 'D AS f?; 0 2 1 m g at Po vib icl , elf; in history he commenced an absolutely colossal round were momentarily pouring in on the ground, until it '''Zrel B'o -3 Fe.:§2 OP. _0 ,,,C0G., .71 C.) C.) ' W re 314 13 '' i description of Brunswick, dating the narrative resembled more an ordinary fashionable promenade than a ea al e 7= ° fai e) 2 see e=se al 'tag ,--a" t 4 Cmg.- ,--, BRITISH. FOREIGN. BRITISH. FOREIGN. BRITISH. BRITISH. ti: ''' Flour • •, , 4gt:sis: ,74`c") . P 4 Tra'P 2.8 , `51 _ - back before the creation of man, interpolating field of warfare, while to add to the picturesque effect which :- , carious e I 1836 14,906,000 20,984 lin 710 f Increase, 5.9 'E 6 54 collateral disquisitions upon heraldy, genea- was produced, numbers of suttlers were seen squatting them- - -- -- to logy, .C. Years Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. Tons. Ships. . Tons. Ships. Tons. k per cent. .. to , a and chronology, ' so that, as the reviewer selves is various parts of the field, but in such a manner as X. X. X. X. and T: httively ' • 4 12 391 71 9 97 611 856 53,293,979 to be without the line of o e ion• At twelve o'clock the • 4 85 2 9 0 14 „ - , , ne p rat . . 1836 57,296,0 5 ~- , a , _ 1836 14,347 2,505,473 7,131 , 988,899 14,207 2,531,577 7,048 1,035,120 123,785 10,337,545 ' 13,3,341 10,762,690 1837 15,105,000 23,612 lin 639 Foal. 2 " 31' s ~ insinuates, " the work would doubtless, have 1838 5 . 7 0 4 i 662 1837 15,155 2,617,166 7,343 1,005,940 14,567 2,547,227 7,451 1,036,738 128,011 10,409,37(Y 138,790 10,901,187 aes been published in successive vol signal was given to commence operations, when six heavy 3 1837 54,762,285 72,544,0i1 13,2 a,497 85,7 ,79 568 42,069,245 Increase, 10.9. ... •• umes to this dav, if 1838 16,119 2,715,387 8,679 , 1,211,666 15,907 2,876,236 8,520 1,222,803 128 171 10 491 752 ' 137 803 10 825 523 1839 15,511,000 21,443 lin 634 Cork, 7 4 ° Leibnitzand his guns were drawn into position on the east side of the fort 1838 61,296,513 92,453,967 12,711,512 105,165,479 50,061,737 n 23 9 Si. ___ . . . ' patron had lived as long, and subscribers, which were manned by sailors of the fleet ; and a similar 1839 62,048,121 97,394,666112,795,990 110,190,656 53,233,58 6"3 1 1 650 10 326 1 331 3r5 17 066 3 096 611 10 '8 1 398 96 ," ' ' ' ' ' ' sl 18.,9 1i,33 , 0 , s,, , s , „ ,b.) ~0 130,204 10,610,404 142.895 11 266 073 { per cent. ••• • • ▪ ass 99$ u r their heirs, wouldstill 65 116 481 015 51 406,430 1840 , 17 883 3 19 - 501 10 198 1 460 294 17 633 3 292 984 10 440 1 488 888 133 99 ' 0 6 - , ~ , , „ , „ , „ ,2 1 ,76 ,oa7 , 146,127 11,41r,991 ' s' 1840 15,718,000 27,187 lin 578 while 1840 67,492,710 102,706,850, 13,774,1 „ ~ _ 2 6 ' SO th e a have been able only to predict number were destined to attack it on the opposite side ' Id f fit ppearance of the la s t volume 1" His acquaintance the marines lay in reserve in a sheltered angle of the fie o 1841 64,444,268 102,179,514, 1 , , , , 51 634 6 9 3 1 4 723 373 116 902,887 „ - 1841 18,52 a 3„2 361 11 9,527 ' 1,291,165 18,464 3,429,279 9,786 1,336,892 131,321 ' - 10,869,071 143,87i 11,650,202 1841 15,927,867 27,760 lin 573 • 300 484 1842 18 987 3 294 725 8,054 1,205 363 18,785 3,375,270 8 375 1 25 9 176 127 840 10 785 450 141 010 11 30 9 657 1842 {lncrease, 21.2 7 1 0 9 3 65,253,286 100,255,380' 13,586,422 113,841,802 4 ,38 , _ ~.. „ , „ , „-, 16,141,000 31,309 lin 515 4 2 ' 3 4 " 0 . the classics and with polite literature was operation. All the attacking force were under the command 1842 nt h , 17 876 659 13,956,288 131,832,947 52,279.709 1843 , 19 ' 500 3:545,346 8,541 1,301,9'0 19 3 63 a ,3 43, 5,833 B,‘ 09 1,341,433 131,461 , 10,822,1761141,697 11,321,138 per cent. ais 56' gut „ gather Catholic, and he appreciated the various of Captain Willes, of the Vanguard, who was . seen onhorse- 1843 70,214,912 1 1 31 1844 19,687 3,647,464 9,608 1,402,138 19,788 3,852,822 9,816 1,444,346 133,898 10,964,7071145,242 11,594,861 1843 16,356,000 29,591 lin 552 •• • 330 5E4 uOrs with back in all quarters of the . line; and the principal field bat- 1844 75,441,555 . , ' 558 ' 477 14,398,177 145,956,654 58,584,292 th an absolutely Catholic taste, maintain in glB4s 21,001 4,310,639 11,651 1,735,079 20,231 4,225,451 12,296 1,796,136, 144,908 12,485,8541158,454 11,114,104 1844 1 16,574,000 26,542 lin 624 .... . 37 9 41° hors n o • an officer of the 1845 85 9 81 9aB 134,599,116 16,28 , tery was under the immediate command of . ~ , _ 0 8701150,879,986 60,111,082 :::. 390 4 . 6° a single book that was ever written was entirely ' av oid of • Excellent, who came purposely from Sheerness to direct the -- - - --- - W. IRVING. 1845 16,796,000 24,303 lin 691 Decrease, 6.7 per tea• 44° 4 " di e merit. Besides revelling in the abstruse stu- operations Custom House, London, July 1, 1846. JNO. COVEY, Registrar. cent. 42 1 4 0 si Leibnitz still ofthat branchof the service. [A detailed and • • •• hos_ several found sufficient opportunities to coin- animated description of the evolutions of the day, for which Office of the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports, 11. MANNERS SUTTON. rfolk 40 0 Custom Clouse, London, July 2, 1846. 0 0 mare pieces of verse, though as a poet he scarcely we cannot find room,follows.] Home-office, July 3, 1846. )Nli:l. to. • . 30 0 3 1° 433. 4 r .4 above mediocrity. A creator, an originator, and ARRIVAL OF THE H IBERNIA 120, AND TRAFALGAR 120.-'• .•, 300 0 l ed innovator himself in all departments of know- Scarcely wer e the forces embarked when a large vessel was 0° 5 9° tn 3' 110 nevnrth.l... r.tn1.,,,a .. ~...;,,,, Pm• r.arlino• not nh.,,,,..rl ti, rho aniithward mak ino. sail for the harbour. which _ I LITERATURE. EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXIX. Seldom are wo more rejoiced in the perusal of the -td* +„ "Lurgh R ev i ew t h an w h en i ts contr ib utors con trive "u incorporate their abstract disquisitions and analytical criticisms with the moving circumstances of biography; of e n, in short, they embellish the expositions i ts a great tr u th by p ersona l reminiscences of v originator, and associate with their descrip -4418 of a great mind the vicissitudes of tt ,,gleat man. In the present number this feature is in se''''ltced with very considerable adroitness, and occupies :I.'vealtilionsgt prominent position in the collection of articles. himself of the recently published memoir of ihnitz, by D r . G. E. Guhratier, the Reviewer has te produc e d a m o s t f asc i na ti ng me l ange of memo ,,autha respecting that wonderful philosopher, ap rpPriately an d engagingly inscribing his paper the Life and Genius of Leibnitz." When it is m embered that this extraordinary character was, asps, the most fully entitled to the designation of an ,usieersal genius, that his writings are marvellously e h l uelnioue, that there is scarcely a single branch of I„,,,mblan knowledge which has not derived from his intel t7t some elucidation or some adornment, that name is enrolled among the members of the ; °Yal Society, that his body was almost as 'neessantly in motion over the earth as his sentience W as active in the melees of knowledge, and that the rentific and literary history of the generation in which nourished may be said to have radiated about him, t here is surely no one individual but will acknowledge t ha t he would prove a noble and not an unprofitable e l kiect for investigation. Remarkable, however, as w s Philosophic exertions were, profuse as they e re, suggestive as they were, his books are t i e l a reely ever perused, except by the bibliographer or e eceentrie scholiast ; his intense, and in several in knees his pr o f oun d l a b ours i n t h e fi e ld o f k now l e d ge, are epitomi se d i nto hi s mere name — a name w hi c h can, t • uwever never be forgotten. Leibnitz, by his astonish ing as well as by his pertinacious industry, fam iliarised himself with nearly every sectional de littnent of scie nce an d lit era t ure . A 3 a metaphysician he attained the less eminence, because . of the phantasms t ,,u'en his imagination unhappily amalgamated with t;,, ut a l is ; and this circumstance is sufficiently evidenced L.! big preposterous theory of " Monads," and that of " Pre -established 11.1rmony"—than which perhaps no i i i i iett u fi r i i. a e r is te io n n d a e r n y e • I s ,, peculations were ever conceived. His • miler in physics may likewise be attributed to a sal one which our reviewer happily ttP r essos as " his love of hypothesis, his fondness for ran Purely abstract, and his impatience to arrive at a, N titio n." In jurisprudence Leibnitz was, on the con y,l more than a proficient, he was an originator; his rtcellence i n t hi s d i vis i on of learning being testified by tns treatises Nova Methodus and Ratio Corporis; besides of e fact of Peter the Great having nominated him as one the council t• of laws for the govern ( to o compile his cod e m of the Russias— an intention which was unfor- M ately frust ra t e d. A s a th eo l og ian Leibnitz rather r r°r °ised much than achieved much ; and of the strike in k g originality of his religious views we may judge from `le circumstance that be flattered himself he had ee ke°l :nplished a metaphysical solution of the doctrine `c Transub s t an ti a ti on . I n philology and antiquities was an innovator ; in autobiography he has given a `harming though somewhat egotistical account of him !elf; in history he commenced an absolutely colossal back of Brunswick, dating the narrative "sick before the creation of man, interpolating l'arious " collateral disquisitions upon heraldy, genea logy, and chronology," so that, as the reviewer Ilatvely insinuates, " the work would, doubtless, have een published in su ccess i ve vo l umes to this day, if Leibnitz and his patron had lived as long, and subscribers, ej their h e i rs , wou ld st i ll have been able only to predict _ ll .° appearanc e o f th e l ast volume I " llis acquaintance art the classics and with polite literature was ..14together Catholic, and he appreciated the various d 4 ',. (l thors with an absolutely Catholic taste, maintaining ent no single book that was ever written was entirely rioid of merit. Besides revelling in the abstruse stu ,Loess Leibnitz still found sufficient opportunities to corn h43., several pieces of verse, though as a poet he scarcely ared above mediocrity. A creator, an originator, and led inn ovator himself in all departments of know t, e he neverth e l ess reta i ne d a pass i on f or reading he exceeded by the most indolent student. And in tra y ge a Ps and pauses of his gigantic exertions, he con kmetiat t.hroughout his protracted and eventful career to tv er a .lb a voluminous correspondency with almost lee h Y in amongst his contemporary philosophers. eet r a tt t appears to have been the drawback to this seb,,, °r clinary mind was its inexhaustible fecundity and veC h s tiveness. No sooner was any of its many mar 1-4C' schemes undertaken than a thousand others grew, ~hi we re, out of the original : insomuch so, that the t etf, ere tnents of Leibnitz are little better than a multi- N cti i 3f stupendous fragments—" his never completed p o h Machine—his fragment of an Universal ee tt t tu . et—shi s improved watces, which were never !ilatLtleted—his Hydraulic and Pneumatic engines, which !nee, only in theory—his Swift Carriages, which ex •°iS h i :2IY in imagination," —to which we may subjoin ksB g '"cey of Brunswick, already mentioned, with a lad , 01 other uncompleted project and unful ta, I ntentions. Nevertheless, it is most certain b op s ( h h iring his erratic and multifarious exer by ' e achieved much that was advantageous 11i 5 e nlargi ng the scope of h uman k now l e d ge . ti o ,,'.„,fttegeea contains, accordi n g t o th e p resen t illus oSl,o's Lean of Westminster, Dr. Buckland, " the germ ge o l o 4l ° of the most enlightened speculations of mo dern di ve g3'i" his philolo g i ca l w r iti ngs are f raug h t w i t h to per r i mportant discoveries ; and he i n cit e d alter ages bfect the medical, anatomical, and surgical sciences a fund of sagacious hints. "It is in these v 4 I°Pheti c glimpses of great truths," says the re "TWer in almost every department of science—truths w hich it was left for after ages fully to evolve and esta ""Bll—that this great man entitled himself to a place With almost all the very greatest minds—with Aristotle, With Bacon, and with Newton—in all of whore the same quality was remarkably exemplified. It is given to such minds alone to predict and foreshadow the coming dis pensations of philosophy ;—to catch from the mountain beigbts of their contemplations (if we may modify a thought which has occurred to more than one writer) the first radiance of the rising sun, when to the rest of this world's inhabitants he is still below the horizon." We could willingly, were not such irrelevant, dilate upon the whole career of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, :In rem his birth at Leipsic, on June 21, 1646, till his death, his seventieth year, on November 14, 1716. The eletunastances, however, which w e h ave a l rea d y enume rated, will a m ply attest the vastness of his e r e ri lliant but uncon cen t ra t e d gen i us. U pon th i s particu r the article in the Edinburgh Review speaks learn edly and eloquently ; it is at once a dispassionate and erontlausiastic piece of critico-biography, and its most re markable sections are those devoted to the only cora l/111%e literary work of Leibnitz, his Theodicde, to the te e r cio . gical opinions broached in that strange and en tcloalllng volume, to his pre-established harmony, and to , eel ( unhappy controversy which occurred between him et 9Pon his Differential Calculus, and Newton uon his t . bxions. From the passages relating to the conpstitu , of the Universe, we- are tempted to extract one of ti; ee ,e a dilig beauty and thoughtfulness : it does honour to heart and mind of the reviewer. ta: l :gh we certainly cannot demonstrate that this is ti best of all pos s ible worlds,' and that it was necessary Qt. some evil should be admitted, we are far enough from e„,,Tline that that faith to which, as we have said, the ap ;'' Is sure to be ultimately relegated, is a faith entirely with breason ; or that it is destitute of those grounds of proba w,itY upon which alone an intelligent reliance on the truths, lusilier of natural or revealed theology, can be maintained. e ndhere the immensely prevailing character of benevolent tt , s Pl which pervades the universe, contrasted with the fact o ohed ( mil always appears either simply concomitant, or in- as a consequence, never as an ultimate end, and that good, is evil is oft en f oun d to b e connec t e d w i t h rea l nea ! is of incalculable benefit as suggesting an approximate relation. And this confidence is yet further increased, when see that in proportion as our knowledge advances, many :11 e the ancient objections against the wisdom, and some against goodness of the constitution of the universe disappear;— t hat they were i n f act nothing more than the offspring of !gnorance. We thus learn to believe that all would vanish 11 1 like manner if we were but omniscient. The course of reasoning is much the same as that by which we experi- Mentally establish the first law of motion ; it is but an ap • Proximate solution, yet conclusive : or we are led to suppose that the anomalies which we behold, are like those regres sions of the planets which so much perplexed the early astro nomers, and which arise from our seeing them from a false centre of observation. Place as in the true centre of the system, and, as science has now shown, all these irregularities disappear." Those are beautiful and elevating considerations, ex pressed in beautiful and elevateflanguage. Without being, invidious upon any other contributor to this Quarterly, we must in candour acknowledge that for a Very considerable period past we have not encountered a paper so peculiarly to our own liking, so sagacious in atalysis, so mellow in diction, or to s y mme t r i ca l i n con ruction. It embelli,hes the pages that have been adorned by the lucubrations of Brougham, Jeffrey, Syd- Y Smith, end i'dacauley. A notice of " Glassford's aZ e rl r fal Translations" appears to us to be (lic it 1,, in too lenient and eulogistic a strain, sae et l e a sthes of the pensiveness of a friendship critij' e tl,,,,hy death, rather than of the rigour of a frigid is a v uabl 'he " Language and Structure of the Statutes " l oftier e ' possibly, more for its novelty than for any to ch aracteristic; and two papers, devoted individually vae the abnn y eonsideretion of Spain and Borneo, w ill b e generally attractive. We congratulate literary aspirants upon the kindliness of tone which is observe White_ 'a a critical notice upon the dramas of Mr Earl of Gowzie and King of the Commons. If t T i ght be t a k en as an augury, no more Keatses are be k illed by• Quarterlies, no more Byrons are to be )s a l34 ded to the pu . blication of satires by the acerbity of those ii ? g li(l t die r a • o more Tennyson's will have to wait the 41, h- 0, many before even their existence will be nowled e•el. yeiatrsis generous effort in the right di eeeti°b• jne of the s a tra e nest and oddest compilations e tij r Contained in the blue-and-buff covering is one en and d the " L ong Parl i ament an d Si r Simon D'Ewes, I,:siehvvonreneeof the most ingeniou3 "The Sahara and its e,s." elsorwhere. We shall endeavour, if possible, to comment upon a very excellent article on " Colonial ber:,,stection;" it i s a ki n d o f l as t an d crus hing blow to the ter P ar monopoly. The talent of the Edinburgh 45 th ew has l ong b een prover bi a l t h a t t a l en t is a' more brilliant and solid than ever. 7'//8 - Net Re of Expenditure, ceipt TAXES REPEALED OR REDUCED. TAXES IMPOSED . ,t 3 R eve nue, including Surplus. Deficiency. , after deducting Charge Debt, Annual in the Funded and Charge of the Exchequer PRINCIPAL ITEMS . P P-4 Drawbacks of Estimated Estimated PRINCIPAL ITEMS. Unfunded. Debt. at the and Collection. Amount. Amount. Close of the Year. Repayments. -.......___ -- ....---- --- --- .Z. 6 C. X. .E. .C. .Z. .t. .Z. Pepper ••• ••• ••• X, 59,010 --- -- -- X. X. Sugar, East India ... ••• 39,470 1,003,786 Paper and Paper Hangings ... 3 14 9 2 4, 0 50 00 0 3,991 ••• ••• ••• ••• - ••• 50,819,305 2,130,092 ..• ••• 788,398,570 29,243,599 6,049,302 1836 52,949,397 I Spirit Licenses •.• ••• LNewspaper Stamps ... ... 309,000 655,760 234 ••• ••• ••• ••• • • - 630 ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 786,319,738 24,489,571 4,127,973 51,319,113 ... ... 8,423 1837 50,663053 345,228 289 • ••• ••• ••• ••• - ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• •.. 785,373,740 29,260,238 4,594,884 51,720,748 ... •.. 56,308 ... ~„ 1838 51,375,520 1,512,792 63,418 Stage Coaches ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 53,440,287 ... ••• 786,512,734 29,454,0 U 3,707,425 1839 51,927,495 rCustoms, five per cent. • ... 1,060,226 I Excise ditto .. ... 438,000 53,444,353 ... ... 1,593,970 1,258,959 Postage .... ... ... 1,240,000 2,274,240 { Ditto, Spirits ... :.• ... 344,000 78 - 448 075 9 9,381,718 3,858,465 1840 51,850,083 I Assessed Taxes, ten per cent... 311,477 ‘, ' - LPostage, Abolition of Franking 118,567 1841 52,363,949 54,465,318 .... ••• 2,101,36 J 27,170 Rice in the Husk ... ••• rCoffee ••• ••• .•. 21,832 ... „. 201,113 ••• ••• ... ... ... ... Property Tax ..• ... 5,100,000 790,874,608 29,450,145 3,653,810 Export Duty on Coals ... 141,930 1842 51,244,335 55,223,873 ... ~, 3,979,538 1,596,366 ‘i Export t r D an u d ties Wood ::: .::: 610089:47g 5,629,989 Other Customs Duties ... 579,639 Spirits, Ireland Stamps, Ireland ••• ... 240,000 791,250,440 29,428,120 1380,059 ••• ... 121,745 `Sta g e Coaches ... • • 77 ,779 Timber and Wood ... -. 126,453 1843 56,945,043 55,501,739 1,443,304 ... ... 411,821 / Spirits, Ireland ... ... 240,000 "• - ••• ••• ••• ~. ... ... 790,576,392 29,269,160 4,716,019 ("Coffee ... ... ... ••• 86,174 I Currants ... ... ... 95,816 1844 58,459,751 55,103,645 3,336,106 ... ... 458,810 { Wool ... ... ... ••• 97,140 ... ... Marine Insurances ... ..• 101,959 787,598,145 30,495,459 6,254,113 Glass ... ... ••• - 45,000 Sugar . . ... ... ... 2,309,857 Molasses ... ... ... 129,183 Cotton Wool ••• ... 682,042 5 Auctioneers' and Appraisers' ~, ~,, 4,535,561 &xl t o o r al t s D p ut u y tie; .• ...: 115,438 6 23,720 - 3 , i- 1 785,053,022 ' 28,253,872 8,452,090 1845 57,690,704 53,873,062 3,817,642 ..• ... Coals, / Licenses ••• ..• Auctions ... ... ... 305,000 L Glass ... ••• ... ... 624,000 The marines and seamen having been landed close to Corkbeg-house, marched through the domain towards the fort, the boats moving off, according as they landed, and anchoring some distance from the shore, for the purpose of keeping afloat, it being ebb tide. Having arrived at the fort, the seamen commenced hauling the guns into position; they consisted of 6 heavy 24-pound carronades and 6 eigh teen-pound carronade field-pieces, which had been landed from the ships of war on the previous Saturday. On the arrival of the spectators from Cove at the scene of action, nothing could exceed the magnificence of the view which was presented to their sight. In the rear of the fort were over 2,500 marines and 400 sailors in position ready to make the attack, while the country in all directions exhibited a scene rarely to be witnessed in that quiet and lovely locality. Thousands of fashionably-dressed ladies and the elite of the gentry of all the surrounding country from dozens of miles round were momentarily pouring in on the ground, until it resembled more an ordinary fashionable promenade than a field of warfare, while to add to the picturesque effect which was produced, numbers of suttlers were seen squatting them selves in various parts of the field, but in such a manner as to be without the line of operation. At twelve o'clock the signal was given to commence operations, when six heavy guns were drawn into position on the east side of the fort which were manned by sailors of the fleet ; and a similar number were destined to attack it on the opposite side, while the marines lay in reserve in a sheltered angle of the field of operation. All the attacking force were under the command of Captain Willes, of the Vanguard, who was seen on horse back in all quarters of the line; and the principal field bat tery was under the immediate command of an officer of the Excellent, who came purposely from Sheerness to direct the operations of that branch of the service. [A detailed and animated description of the evolutions of the day, for which we cannot find room, follows.] ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA 120, AND TRAFALGAR 120. Scarcely were the forces embarked when a large vessel was observed to the southward making sail for the harbour, which proved to be the Hibernia, of 120 guns, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker at the foremast. As she neared the port it was observed that she had a consort, which shortly after made her appearance, and was found to be the Trafalgar, 120 guns. Signals having been made between the Queen guardship, the St. Vincent, bearing the broad pen dant of Sir F. Collier, and the Hibernia, the St. Vincent im mediately proceeded to fire the salute, which was promptly acknowledged by the Hibernia. She then came into har bour and anchored to the south of the line, and was speedily followed by the Trafalgar, who anchored close astern of her. On this day a grand exhibition was to have taken place, as it is the intention of the force to seale the fort by means of ladders, and to take possession of it, while another party defended it from within. We undersood also that the ves sels are running out springs on their cables to enable them to form in line of battle and engage each other to-morrow, so that Cove is likely to rejoice in a very extensive borrowed population for the next week—numbers of persons having already arrived from Waterford, Clonmel, and Limerick, and thousands more being daily pouring in.—Cork Reporter of Tuesday. have c° ll A lo' and 2° goil' Torn Ci e 1 41 ' $t $ll n. „r sneePf lo o o TllO ° ale • fa 0 ' tI ts fresh o ' TOO 0 q ualm} at was flou r 810' d 2d P e 6;; 0 4 t whicll:l, recei ve 'sl3 ll° bridgeoJ' . 1 f an d god' land ° 3fOV , e t tile ,0 s. 1: 0 Pe rot . fr o ieclin e :Parc if D ing, )tatiOns* THE NEW and the OLD MINISTRY. When a complete change in the Government takes place, the number of great public functionaries who re ceive new appointments is between fifty and sixty. The larger portion, if not the whole, of the recent changes have already been made known to oar readers; but they were necessarily announced as they occurred, from day to day, and sometimes at intervals of two or three days. Now, the particulars of a great event are very liable to be forgotten when communicated by instalments; and, as all these matters have at length been finally completed, it may perhaps be as well to take a detailed review of all the new arrangements, which are as follows: First Lord of the reasury—Lord John Russell, vice Sir Robert Peel. Lord Chancellor—Lord Cottenham, vice Lord Lynd hurst. President of the Council—The:Marquis of Lansdowne, vice the Duke of Buccleuch. Secretary of State for the Colonies—The Earl Grey, vice Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs—Viscount Palmerston, vice the Earl of Aberdeen. Secretary of State for the Home Department—Sir George Grey, Bart., vice Sir James Robert Graham, Bart. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Right Hon. Charles Wood, vice Right Hon. Henry Goulburn. First Lord of the Admiralty—The Earl of Auckland, vice the Earl of Ellenborough. President of the Board of Control—Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., vice the Earl of Ripon. President of the Board of Trade—The Earl of Cla rendon, vice the Earl of Dalhousie. Lord Privy Seal—The Earl of Minto, vice the Earl of Haddington. Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests—Lord Morpeth, vice Viscount Canning. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—Lord Crmp bell, vice Lord Granville Somerset . Postmaster-General—The Marquis of Clanricarde, vice the Earl St. Germans. Master-General of the Ordnance—The Marquis of Anglesey, vice Sir George Murray, G.C.B. Secretary at War—Right Hon. Fox Maule, vice the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. Paymaster-General of the Forces and Treasurer of the Navy—Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay, vice Right Hon. William Bingham Baring. Vice-President of the Board of Trade—Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, vice Sir George Clerk, Bart. Master of the Mint—Right Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, vice Sir George Clerk, Bart., who, in the last Ministry, held this office jointly with the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade. Attorney-General—John Jervis, Esq., vice Sir Thomas Wilde, who had temporarily succeeded Sir Frederick Thesiger, the Attorney-General of the last Ministry. Solicitor-General—David Dundas. Esq., vice John Jervis, Esq., who had temporarily succeeded Sir 'Fitzroy Kelly, the Solicitor-General of the last Minstry. Judge Advocate-General—Charles Buller, Esq., (who, it is understood, will also perform the duties of an Un der-Secretary of the Colonies), vice the Right Hon. Jame Archibald Stuart Wortley. Surveyor General of the Ordnance—Colonel Charles Richard Fox, vice Colonel Jonathan Peel. Clerk of the Ordnance—Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. G. Anson, vice Lord Arthur Lennex. Secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance— Lord Clarence Paget, vice Sir Frederick Trench. Under Secretary for the Colonies—Benjamin Hawes, Esq., vice Lord Lyttelton. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs—Right Hon. Edward John Stanley, vice Hon. George Augustus Fre derick Percy Sidney Smythe. Under Secretary for the Home Department—Sir Wrn. Somerville, Bart., vice Hon. John Henry Thos. Manners Sutton. Joint Secretaries to the Board of Control—Right Hon. Geo. Stevens Byng and Thos. Wyse, Esq., vice Lord Jocelyn and Lord Mahon. Joint Secretaries to the Treasury—John Parker, Esq., and Henry Tufnell, Esq., vice Edward Cardwell, Esq., and John Young, Esq. Secretary to the Admiralty—Henry Geo. Ward, Esq., vice Right Hon. Henry Thos. Lowry Corry. Junior Lords of the Treasury—Lord Ebrington, the O'Conor Don, Henry Rich, Esq., and Win. Gibson Craig, Esq., vice Henry Bingham Baring, Esq., Wm. Cripps, Esq., the Hon. Swynfen Thos. Carnegie, and Ralph Neville, Esq. Junior Lords of the Admiralty—Admiral James Whitley Deans Dundas, Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, the Hon. William Francis Cow per, Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., and Captain Lord John Hay, vice Sir George Cockburn, Sir William Hall Gage, Admiral William Bowles, the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, and the Hon. Henry John Rous. Lord Chamberlain of the Household—The Earl Spencer, vice the Earl Delawarr. Lord Steward of the Household—The Earl Fortescue, vice the Earl of Liverpool. Master of the Horse—The Duke of Norfolk, vice the Earl of Jersey. Master of the Buckhounds—The Earl Granville, vice the Earl of Rosslyn. Controller of the Household—Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil Hill, vice Colonel the Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner. Vice-Chamberlain of the llousehold—Lord Edward George Fitzalan Howard, vice Lord Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell Bruce. Clerk Marshal and Chief Equerry—Lord Alfred Paget, vice Lord Charles Wellesley. Mistress of the Robes—The Duchess of Sutherland, vice the Duchess of Buccleuch. Lord Advocate of Scotland—The Right Hon. An drew Rutherford, vice the Right Hon. Duncan M'Neill. Solicitor-General for Scotland—Thomas Maitland, Esq., vice Adam Anderson, Esq. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland—The Earl of Bes borough, vice Lord Heytesbury. Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland— Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, vice the Earl of Lincoln. Lord Chancellor of Ireland—Right Hon. Maziere Brady, vice Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden. Attorney-General 'fof Ireland—Right Hon. Richard Moore, vice Right Hon. Richard Wilson Greene. Solicitor-General for Ireland—James Henry Mona ghan, Esq , vice Abraham Brewster, Esq. Under Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant—Thomas Nicholas Redington, Esq., vice Richard Pennefather, Esq. offices of Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint have ceased to be held by one Minister, and are divided between Messrs. Sheil and Milner Gibson. to satiate, if it were possible, the spirit of Mammon. It should be recolleeted also, that the murderous system of sla very prevalent in Cuba and Brazil is preceded by one still more terrible in Africa, and during the middle passage. It may be asserted that for every African slave landed in these countries two perish in the original capture and during the subsequent stages of the internal traffic. And, further, it should be borne in mind that the greater portion of the slaves in Cuba and Brazil are entitled to freedom by virtue of the treaties of those countries with Great Britain, and are only debarred from the enjoyment of liberty by the disgraceful violation of a solemn compact. But instead of demanding their liberty, a splendid bribe is about to be offered in order that commercial intercourse may be facilitated with people whose crimes against humanity merit the execration of all men and cry aloud for the vengeance of Heaven. But besides the increased sacrifice of human life, and the augmentation of crime and suffering whichwill, undoubtedly, be the fruits of this measure, the undersigned contemplate, with the deepest sorrow, its destructive effects upon all that is done, and is doing, for the civilisation of Africa. The noble efforts which have been made, and are making, for the introduction of Christianity into that continent will be paralysed by the increased impetus given to the slave-trade. The enlightenment of men, and the spread of the Gospel, cannot co-exist where the crimes of the slave-trade are per petrated and fostered. THE SUGAR QUESTION. (From the Times.) Without making any pretension to the perilous function assigned to us by the Honourable Member for Finsbury, we believe we may confidently acquaint our readers with the outlines of the plan in which the Cabinet delibrations on the sugar duties have finally resulted. It is not such as was remotely contemplated at the very commencement of the msnth by the chiefs of the still unformed Cabinet, though, on the other hand, a somewhat more modi fied measure than that which a contemporary has been at considerable pains to force upon the Govern ment. The distinction between slave andfree grown sugar is, of course, immediately to cease; on That point there has been no alteration. Instead, however, of a three years' maintenance of the existing protection against foreign sugar of free growth, it will be proposed that the gradual diminution shall imme diately commence. According to a scale which has been shown to us, the absolute duty on foreign sugar will for the ensuing t welvemonths be about 215., and the protective ditty will finally expire at the end of five years, when all the sugars of all the world will be admitted on the 14s. duty, to which our own colonial sugar is now subject. It is unnecessary to point out that there is a considerable difference between this and the scheme which was under discussion three weeks since, and which would have maintained the present rate of protection to colonial sugar for two or three years longer, and then by a more rapid descent have removed it altogether by the same period at which it is still intended to cease. The question will be asked, why this change? The chiefs of the new Cabinet were fully alive to the difficulties of their situation, and were fully aware that the defeat, or rather the natural disso lution of one Ministry by no means involved the secure esta blishment of another. They felt a wish, therefore—a wish in which we most entirely sympathised—to meet the pacific tendencies of the Protectionist party, and the prudent mode ration of those who had gathered round the person of the late Minister. Accordingly, they proposed to protract what may be styled " the decline and fall" of colonial protection to a term which they thought might possibly propitiate a con. siderable number of those who are either personally or po litically interested in the question. What effect the an nouncement of their moderate plan had with the 112, and whether it was even necessary in their case, we cannot say. It was, however, lost on the Protectionists. These very unreasonable gentlemen, whom for their own sakes we are heartily sorry to see bent upon doing themselves all the mishief in their power, have now hoisted over the hogshead of colonial sugar that standard of " No SURRENDER" which they have so recently been compelled to lower from a far more sacred and impregnable fortress, the sack of British corn. Since, therefore, they will not be treated with or mollified on any terms, Ministers have had no alternative but to leave them out of the question, and adopt a scale they consider more suitable to the actual exigencies of the case. It was hoped by the proposition of the longer term to obtain the acquiescence of the Protectionists in by far the most im portant part of the plan—the equalization of slave and free grown sugar. To this point, however, it appears, as was, in deed, to be expected, they have directed the chief weigh t of their opposition. The question will turn on the religious bearings of the case. The no-slavery cry will be resuscitated by a new and rather uncongenial band of philanthropists, who, we apprehend, will not be able to allege either consistency or prescription in support of their calling. Rumour points out Mr. Gladstone as the leader whom they have had what they consider the good fortune to secure, and whom they think no very ridiculous ambition to design for that splendid but difficult post which a Peel, and after him a Russell, had just before abdicated. Perhaps it will be thought a work of supererogation to develops the policy of those gentle men. They meditate, of course, a reconstruction of the Con servative party, on some basis, and under some leadership, which victory may possibly give them the opportunities or the leisure to choose. 'We should be the very last to oppose so natural a design, if it could be satisfactory explained for what public purpose, or for what pur pose beside private advantage, the party is to be re constructed. This, however, is now attempted; and these political novices consider that fortune has thrown in their way a capital topic in the slavery sugar question. It is " a good point." Undoubtedly it is. The British people have given a pretty strong proof of their objection to slavery; and, on the other hand, are by no means so mad for cheap sugar as for cheap corn. As we said the other day, there is not one man in ten who cares to a penny or two what will be the price of a pound of sugar ten years hence. The people do not sea the economical—that is, the commercial—view of the question, till- it is explained to them, whic h it has' not been hitherto. The Protect i on i sts there f ore un a gine that just now they will get the haft end of the argument—viz., the slayery end—and be able to give the free traders the benefit of the lash. They will also have the opportunity of purging themselves of that selfishness and in humanity with which they have been so freely charged . They will assume no little credit to the "impoverished" agriculturist for not wishing to cheapen his sugar at the expense of morality, and for maintaining the principle of protection when it actually conflicted with his private inte rests. This, however, is not a tenth of the case. It certainly is a very " good point." It is very true that the people are not at present generally informed or interested in the ' subject. Nothing can be easier than to state the facts of the case in a simple and telling form—for example, in Sweden, the very poorest country of Europe, the peasantry get their sugar at half the price that we do in England, and use twice as s much. The British labourer, the greatest drudgeln the is worl c who works early and late, cannot get sugar weweeteenhatableoffee the and tea, or make any other beverage, or to render sour fruits of his country. How is this? ' Owing to the very insignificant quantity of free sugar besides world, the enormous 200 per ce nt. duty on our own in the slave sugar does in effect create something very near a monopoly for our own plantatations. Iti s a virtual monopoly slightly shared with one or two other producers. The severity of the present system is chiefly directed against some of our very best customers in the world, who, if we took their sugar, would quickly take twice as much of our own manufactures, and so give twice as much employment for our poor people. The religious argument, however, is the great gun of the cause, and very hard worked it will be. Of course it stands on its own ground, and can not be met by any economical argumentation. Will you care for two or three millions a year, and coarse sugar at 6d. a pound, when you are putting down slavery? We will answer. There is a story of a Frenchman who was asked to go out hunting. Ills reply was, " I have hunted." In like manner we may reply, that we have paid 20,000,000/., and by this time as much again, to put down slavery, and have no inclination to go on, for ever throwing millions after millions into that bot tomless abyss. Every man, woman, and child in these islands wears, — at least we hope so,—some ar ticle or other of shave-grown cotton. We take to bacco, spirits, indigo, spices, and we know not what besides, the produce of slavery, without for a moment think iikg there is any crime in it. Nay, we import immense quan tities of slave sugar for exportation; and even the free su i Tar we import is only so much taken from the market of slave sugar. Again, we have all kinds of dealings th these said slaves and their owners. We send them clot - hes. Why not take their sugar? Will the Protec tion lets just look forward a little! Suppose a division in their favo ar. We have then, as a matter of course, that immense evil, a general election ; and of course, also, the sugar quest ion made easy to the meanest capacities. But that' will not be all. The present Ministry wish to start with as little offence as possible to the antagonist power - s of the country. Their advent is conciliatory, A ge t s, eral election, however, is inevitably fatal to so delicate 44 149114X1 be AtrentarY t 9 get PP tin Oxen Ttle In the present Ministry, as well as in the last, the Chancellorship of the Exchequer is not united with the office of First Lord of the Treasury. This course, how ever, is at variance with the established practice. The rule until within the last five years was that the Pre mier, being in the Lower House, must not only be the First Lord of the Treasury, but also Chancellor of the Exchequer. The instances in the present century, to go no further back, are Sir Robert Peel himself in 1834-5, Mr. Perceval, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Addington. The other Premiers within the same period were Members of the Upper House, and therefore could not discharge the duties of Chancellor of the Exchequer. The new prac tice not only diminishes the labour of the Premier, but increases his patronage, by enabling him to bestow the Chancellorship of the Exchequer upon one of his ad herents. i p4 d, tO 3 it a. 6 0 to 3 4 i 4 is 4 l 2 "*.6 D 1 4 0 3 -- 8 4 1 4 8 o ° . .16 0 l' I 5 . 4 8 ALARMING FIRES LAST NlGHT.—Shortly before ten o'clock last night an alarming fire was discovered burning upon the premises belonging to Mr. B. L. Bouchier, a hop corn, and malt dealer, carrying on business at No. 19, Crescent, Hackney-road, adjoining the Rising Sun wine vaults, and immediately facing the Refuge for the Female Destitute. The flames originated, from some cause which could not be ascertained, in the basement floor, at the rear of the premises. Owing to the inflammable nature of the stock the flames travelled with amazing swiftness, and in the course of a few minutes the whole of the back portion of the building was blazing away with such fury as to threaten with destruction the adjoining buildings. 'the engines of the London brigade from Jeffrey-square, Watling-street, and Whitecross-street stations promptly attended, as did also that of the West of England Insurance Company. An abundance of water being obtained, the engines were set to work, but although the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost they were unable to get the flames subdued before half-past eleven o'clock, and not until a very considerable deal of damage had been done. Unfortunately Mr. Bouchier was uninsured. Whilst the firemen were busily engaged at the above fire in formation was received that another outbreak had taken place in the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill. The engines of the brigade and an escape of the Royal Society for the Pro tection of Life from Fire quickly attended. It was then found that from some accident a bed, the bedding, and furniture of Mr. P. Conrey, of 10, Saffron-street, were on fire, but the flames were soon extinguished. The following Members of the former Whig Govern ment have not taken office under Lord John Russell:— Viscount Melbourne, the Right Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Kinnaird, Richard More D'Ferrall, Esq. the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith, Lord Seymour, Sir William Clay, Bart., &e.—Times. It is the chief glory of this country, that in the exercise of a high and noble policy, it has, through its Legislature, de clared the slave-trade to be piracy and felony; and the sys tem of slavery to be inherently and essentially unjust. It has, moreover, sanctioned a vast outlay of the national trea sure in the attempt to suppress the former and the aboli tion of the latter. To promote, then, their extension in foreign countries either directly or indirectly, or to counte nance such enormous crimes, or to seek to increase the revenue from sources so polluted, will be flagrantly incon sistent with its solemn decisions embodied in Acts of Par- 1.1.113 D. Sa pp ' f-Year,,' to aring L" )lis Aa L O l A 11 , ta te rrenc;',iy • 0 at ba r D, on, L3rl' SUGAR DUTIES. The following protest against the proposed introduction Of slave-grown sugars into the British markets is to be presented to Lord John Russell to-day. A crisis has arisen in the history of the anti-slavery cause of so grave a nature as to require the instant attention and the prompt and vigorous action of every friend of liberty and humanity throughout the United Kingdom. It is understood that the first great measure which the new Government intend to submit to the consideration of Parliament will have for its object the introduction of slave grown sugars into the British markets. The grounds on which this step is attempted to be justified are those of poli tical expediency and commercial advantage. It is intended thereby to augment th e quan ti ty o f sugar f or h ome consump tion, toincrease the revenue from the duties leviable thereon, and to complete the series of free-trade measures which have already received the sanction of the Legislature and of the Crown. :IZ. 06. ,Ivce , 10 0 90 liament. In 1840, a measure similar in principle to that under review was proposed to Parliament. Then the Government gave it a decided negative. The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Labouchere), said, " No ono could entertain a doubt (in the event of the motion being carried) that the great mass of foreign sugar imported into this country would be from the Brazil. In Brazil no sugar was produced except by slave labour. He felt it to be a painful duty to oppose the motion, but the question he had to ask himself was this, whether he would consent to give such a stimulus to slave labour in Brazil as would be produced by throwing open the market of this country to the reception of their sugar. He was not able to make up his mind that this was a course which he ought to recommend to the House. He did not believe that it would be agreeable to their constituents, when they under stood the facts of the case." He would not be a party to a measure which, he added, " would inundate the British market with sugar the produce of slave labour." The intro duction of slave grown sugar, opposed by such reasons, was at that time successfully resisted by those who now propose to introduce it. 40 40 50 .60 40 ' PO 60 490 )0 37 0 50 -- 190 to . 4 10 e . ¢n die e , b o,lfr ) 101), A. fa s ' °6 o o ' tt little FATAL. AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE CITY. — Yesterday morning, shortly after three o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Fenn, chop and coffee house keeper, 26, Newgate-street, City. As might be ex- These grounds would be - perfectly legitimate did not tbe plan contemplated by Government injuriously affect the rights of millions of mankind, and involve the violation of those high moral considerations which should always influ ence the conduct of Governments and Legislatures as well as that of individuals. pected, from the instant alarm which was given, there was no want of assistance, and in a few minutes after its outbreak at least a dozen engines of the A and B sections of the bri gade, as also that of the West of England Company, were on the spot. Water was abundantly supplied, and the engines were worked without intermission, throwing vast torrents on the burning mass, but not the least stay of destruction could be made until the premises of Mr. Fenn were completely de stroyed, and great damage done also to the property of Mr. Mackenzie, a Berlin-wool dealer adjoining. Mr. Fenn escaped by clinging to some timber at the back of his house, used for supporting those opposite while the sewer was under repair, from whence he was dragged by a City policeman into his window. One of the lodgers, however, was not so fortu nate, for, imagining -, no other hope of escape, he jumped out of the window, and on being picked up, was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where every attention was paid to the case, but he died in the course of a few hours. Two of the Royal Society's fire-escapes were taken to the fire, but unfortunately not time enough to prevent the above accident. No one knew how the fire originated, but the loss is estimated at nearly 8001., part of hich, belonging to Mr. Fenn, is in sured in the Union, and that of Mr. Mackenzie in the Sun Fire Office. j 3oo' increflo That the measure proposed by Government will have the effect of strengthening the system of slavery, of stimulating the slave trade, and of adding to the horrors of both, admits of no doubt with most, if notall, who have maturely studied the question. And it is because, in the deliberate judgment of the undersigned, that the proposed measure would lead to these dreadful results that they enter their solemn protest against it, and call most urgently on the friends of the anti slavery cause, in every part of the country, to follow their example. In seeking the exclusion of slave •grown sugars from the British market, the friends of the anti-slavery cause design to uphold no monopoly, to strengthen no class interests, to promote no sordid or selfish views, much less any party pur pose; but their aim is to lessen the sum of human misery and degradation, and to advance the sacred cause of free dom throughout the world. _ „,e0 %fa di t to °e d 3113, • „ oet' Litiv%„ o C . „,0 tr", o , 68 d”, Teti, L 40 0 .0 11 w,h,ear, t e tt io r y ly t Thomas Clarkson, Playford ball. Stephen Lushington, Edward N. Buxton, 1. With respect to slavery. —It is assumed by those who advocate the proposed measure for the equalization of the duties on foreign sugars, without regard to origin or country, that from 70,000 to 80,000 tons of slave-grown sugars will be annually required to meet the increased demand in the Bri tish markets. These sugars will come principally from the Spanish West India colonies and Brazil, where, it is no torious, slavery assumes its most degrading and terrific forms. Of the slaves employed in the cultivation of the sugars in Cuba, one-tenth perish annually, and the whole are killed off in ten years, In Brazil the mortality on the sugar estates is admitted to be five per cent. per annum, in some cases more, which would destroy the population in twenty years. Now this takes place under the present demand for sugar; but with the increased demand contemplated by the new arrangement of the sugar duties, that murderous mortality will be fearfully increased, or new slaves must be imported to meet the exigency. At present neither the Brazilian nor the Cuban planters possess more labourers than they require. They have no unemployed slaves, no hands in want of work, no superabundance of population. On the contrary, all hands are now worked to excess. It follows, therefore, that the very same people who are thus mur dered by wholesale to make the quantity of sugar now ex ported from Cuba and Brazil, will have to make more—that is to say, they must be forced by the lash to a new excess of labour. at which they will be more wretched while they live, and under which they will more rapidly. die. Where the labourer is free, every augmentatation in the demand for the produce of his toil increases his means of subsistence and comfort ; where the labour a r is a slave, it as certainly dimi nishes them, and destmyr, him. That slavery will be strengthened must he obvious from the fact that addition al capital will be directly employed in sustaining it, and ther , by rendering it more profitable that it is at present. A f;teat mercantile house at the Havannah whose authority is quoted in the last slave trade papers, states, that whil'A "they had no expectation of the price of sugar being ir j proved, except by having the English mar ket open to 0. 8 produce of the island," they were convinced that if this Could be effected even at a rate of 50 per cent. above the duty on English colonial sugar, still they could obtain ft.& their produce double the amount they can obtain at pre`,ent." If such be the fact, who can reflect on the con sequatnces without a shudder? 2. With respect to the slave trade.—No one can believe for a moment that the Brazilian and Cuban planters will let their stock of slaves diminish. To fill up the gaps created by the vast mortality which is incessantly going on among them, they have recourse to the African slave trade. By this horrid means they recruit and increase their gangs ; and, beyond all doubt, this traffic will be pursued with greater desperation and atrocity in proportion to the growing urgency of the demand and eagerness of planters to pur chase. At present the enormous profits derived from the contraband slave trade present an irresistible stimulus to the traffickers in men; but it will receive an additional and enor mous stimulus should the proposed measure take effect. Under existing circumstances, the slave trade cannot be put down ; under the addition al in centive, it m us t b e not on l y perpetuated, but increased. If more sugar is made in Cuba and Brazil, there must be more hands to make it; and those hands must ha fetched by slavers from desolated and bleeding Africa. On the supposition that these countries will supply 50,000 tons of the assume d quantity of sug ar , 50,000 new slaves at least must be obtained to prepare it for exporta tion ; and to meet the wastes of mortality that will be occa sioned by the severity of the system under which they are placed, a large additional number of Africans must be im ported, to join that host of human beings who are every year torn from their native homes by the slave traders, and compelled to surrender up their liberty to the ty ran t t as k- I masters of Brazil and Cuba. The proposed measure will, in the opinion of the under signed, as certainly, and almost as directly increase the slave trade as if this country had given a premium for every kid napped negro forced on board the slavers, and carried from Africa through the unutterable horrors of the middle pas sage, to interminable bondage. It is unnecessary to dwell on the accumulated horrors of slavery and the slave trade. They are too well known and too sorely lamented by the friends of humanity to need spe cification. Yet it should be remembered that the slave popu lations of the Spanish colonies and Brazil are innocent men, women, and children, who have been d espo il ed o f t h e i r most swims rights, and subjected to the most atzwieus Richard T. Cadbury, Bir mingham, John Dunlop, Edinburgh, Edward Cruickshank, ditto, London,l ditto, ° 10-11‘‘ George Stephen, ditto, Robert Jowitt, Leeds, Samuel Gurney, ditto, Thomas Scales, ditto, George Stacey, ditto, Joseph J. Gurney, Norwich, George W. Alexander, ditto, William Forster, ditto, Joseph Cooper, ditto, William B. Crewsdon, Kendal, John H. Hinton, ditto, Isaac Braithwaite, ditto, John Scoble, ditto, Joseph Fergusson, Carlisle, Josiah Forster, Tottenham, Joseph T. Price, Neath Abbey, Robert Forster, ditto, Samuel Bowly, Gloucester, Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, &c. NOTE.—Lord Brougham having been requested to put his name at the head of these signatures, refused to place it be fore that of his honoured fellow-labourer in the anti-slavery cause for forty. four years, Thomas Clarkson, and, although approving of the protest, declined signing it after him, be cause of his intention to protest against the proposed measure in the House of Lords. , 010 I I IV 3n, 13 c lor in th' e g oel l ; afte r ' In r M üb til st e' d r wo- I .l o ty woe DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LITERPOOL.—About one o'clock yesterday morning, whilst constables Campbell and Haggerty were on duty in the vicinity of the Custom-house, they perceived large volumes of smoke issuing from a splen did pile o fbuilding situate in Cooper's-row, occupied by Mr. M'Eachen (late Appleton), as a cork-cutting manufactory. They immediately gave information to Superintendents Boyd and Abraham, who caused the alarm to be communi cated to the fire police-station. Before, however, time was afforded for the arrival of the engines, the flames had burst t di h b e ly en sh ort tire f th e forth from the w i n d ows on th e secon d fl oor , an d i n an periodincre buaildminigg. h t y mass Mr. H Hewitt i tfiret andseemed Chief t o pervade Commis sioner Brown were quickly at the conflagration, and scene of ,z they directed th e e ff or t s o f t h e b r i gade to t the adjoining premises, in th e occupat i on of l i pres r e .. rvi:Ttetii Newton, of toa Lyon, and Co., copper and zinc merchants. Mr.Dowlind, the chief commissioner of the police, and. Mr. Maxwell, in spector of salvage, now arrived at the scene of conflagration, and were unremitting in their exertions to suppress the flames. There being but a moderate breeze from the south. west, the powerful engines brought into exercise checked the progress of the flames, which at one time threatened to enve lope the adjoining premises at the corner of South John street, occupied by Messrs. Dempster, the extensive shipping bakers, situate on the west side of the burning building. Un fortunately no water could be obtained from the mains for three-quarters of an hour, the flames meanwhile making rapid progress, and at two o'clock the roof fell in with a report resembling a peal of thunder. The scene at this period was truly grand; the heavens were completely illu• minated, and the shower of sparks which succeeded the falling in of the roof eclipsed any pyrotechnic display of modern times. The premises and contents were totally destroyed, ana the fire, though still raging, it was hoped would be con fined to the building in which it originated. We have not been able to ascertain the amount of damage sustained. Liverpool Courier. SALE or AN ADvowsox.—Thursday the impropriate rectory of Alne, otherwise Alne Tollerton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, with the perpetual advowson of the vicarage of Alne, was put up to auction by order of the High Court of Chancery, with the approbation of the Hon. Sir G. Rose, one of the Masters of the Court, at the public auction room of the Court, Gray's Inn Coffee-house, the sale arising out of the cause of Joseph Vernon and others, and the Hon. Arthur Thellusson and others. The whole was subject to the life of the present incumbent, and comprised about 164 acres. The rental of it was about 226/. per annum, and the tithes were at about 2201. per annum. The highest offer for the lot was 7001. The actioneer said that the reserved price was much beyond that, and the sale closed. An extensive fall of earth took place lately near Pedrazzi, in the Tyrol, by which a great number of trees were uprooted, and the farm of a man named Loss was covered over with mud and gravel to the depth of three or four feet. The authorities, on hearing of the disaster, pro ceeded to the spot, and ordered excavations to be made. After two hours work the body of a child was discovered, and shortly after those of the father and mother. All the cattle of the farmer were found dead. It is supposed that this lamentable accident was caused by the quantity of rain which I had fallen. CusToats.—Captain Saurin, lately connected with the Board of Stamp; and Taxes, and who has recently been ap pointed to a Commissioner s hip of Customs, in the ro om o f the Right Hon. G. R. Dawson, has taken his seat at that Board and assumed the duties of his office. Baron and Baroness Lionel Rothschild had a distin guished circle to dinner, yesterday, at their residence in Pic cadilly. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Harry Vane, &c., were among the fillOSt6'. i the vrio' S. 110 5 ? lo 1 e re c, Dr' ibe r [co AVcle 4 t, it tr i , tY Lop °- princew ids 00 THE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND CO's.— Notwithstanding the efforts that have been made to prevent the circulation of the larger amount of notes stolen from the banking-house of Messrs. Rogers and Co., it has lately been discovered that some of them have been paid in to the Bank of England. It has also been discovered that the numbers of these notes have been altered in so ingenious a manner as even to deceive the Bank clerks themselves, and it was only by the fact of there being other genuine notes of the same number that the stolen notes were discovered. The corre spondence received by the members of the firm on the sub ject of the robbery is of a very curious description, and would form a whole volume. Repeated offers have been made to restore the property stolen for 5,0001., b u t th ese h ave b een indignantly refused. Mr. Cobden is sojourning at Maehynlleth, in Wales, the residence of his father-in-law, and we are glad to find that he is much improved in health. He has, on several . occasions, expressed himself highly g ra tifi e d by th e manner in which he was received here on his arrival, and by the re spect and kindness shown towards him by the inhabitants. He feels a strong inclination to prolong his stay beyond the time he once intended, feeling his strength so fast returning. He was surprised to find that so muck interest should be taken by the inhabitants of so remote a place in the success of the great measures which have agitated the country . for the last few years, and was quite unprepared for the reception given to him on the day of his arrival. FREE -TRADE REJOICINGS. The Mayor of Man chester, in compliance with the urgent request of a numerousbody of the inhabitants of that manufacturing capital, has issued a public recommendation that Monday, the 3d of August next, be celebrated as a general holiday, in com memoration of the triumph of free trade. LI Aebton-under- Line a public dinner is to take place. In Bury, a procession, dinner, and ball will grace the 25th and 27th instant ;and the ex-Premier is said to have been invited to the festivities. „,,,,i 0 0 [es, 1 • " e 0 %-liee, 0' i , a n a 0” oj i 068 me es° 00 10. strei o t 17L 1 . 1 , 1 : , 13 h 0e 5 , 5 . WA„tiOP rat Ll rl P. ll% e ` i t o ~L „ l . , 00 a st v• 0, ce ce „ so x y . eet , cr .°. rice i° of ueb ess i v i e el d ff i Ed °3 re' ood heir ,fter p 0 r d Ter ° 0 1 r t i ti'S wens the we t he e ll° 0 18 Sig [ADVERTISEMENT.] —A CASE OF A ►SHATTERED CONSTITUTION CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—MISS Glover, age twenty-four, daughter of Colonel Glover, 15, Broadway, New York, had an enlargement of the liver, a constant palpitation of the heart, besides being dropsical, was never free from cough, aceompanied with much expectoration. She was so bad as not to be able to leave her chamber. The first advice in the country had been obtained for her, but to no purpose, as she daily got worse, and kept her bed altogether. In this hopeless state the Colonel sent to Toronto for twenty dollars worth of Holloway's Pills, which had the effect of completely restoring the young lady to health In about nine weeks. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. ta w- d o:I t " ch , 1 an 1 It o, a d P r " Di , 5 00, Lobe' ( I" bO 3• wise of roto p, ine Lola ith ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.--An experienced shipowner states that specie of the value of ten millions of dollars will be received in this country by the end of August. This in cludes the two millions received from Mexico by the last packet, the three millions expected by the Daphne, the last instalment of the Chinese ransom, and the gold recently re ceived from Russia.—Leeds Mercury. ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, as Robert Holland, in the employ of the company, was engaged in clearing one of the engines at the Stratford station, he loosened one of the screws, which caused one of the gauge taps to he turned, and a shower of boiling water was instantly dis charged on the middle and lower part of his body, which scalded him in a dreadful mariner. Wai instantly removed to the hospital, whe re h e Leo. . GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR. A Stutplined and entirely New System of Cookery. By M. A. Soy er o f the Reform Club. ,7 ho has not h eard of the cuis i ne o f t h e Re f orm Cl u b ? o has not heard of its chef, Alexis Soyer and his monster a la Clontaif, and his creme de l'Egypt g atascit r a i ;int otni P e a rngl. e magi cian a 9 We ll, here we have th . e . mighty Clan coming forward, in proprza persona, those r e sults "lrraing• us of the metds he empys produce c' which astonish ho and delight lo the to world. If 1 7 ro drni:take not this book of M. Soyers is destined to intbsutitneft revolution in the kitchens of England, and to w" vv or the at greasy unationtifiv oeho9l of cook- fr °lll l. ag sty e IT° Amongst the novel features which the new arrange ments present it may be mentioned that the Colonial Department is to be represented in the Lower House by two Under Secretaries, Messrs, ut t wes and /3411er. VAQ , 1 '~. P" Whigs will be obliged, in self• defence, to bring out popular measures without any loss of time. They will, per force, have to commit themselves. On the whole, we are inclined to suspect that is their best policy under any circumstances. The Protectionists, however, it appears, will not leave them a choice. They will have to abide the result. (From the Chronicle.) All further speculation as to what the Government will do with respect to the sugar duties will be set at rest to-night. Our own opinion was from the first made up, not from any knowledge of the views of the Cabinet, or rather of those who were expected to form the Cabinet, but from our know ledge of the general principles and declared opinions of the First Minister, and our confidence that he had neither the will nor the power to depart from them. Lord John Rus sell is too thorough a Reformer to throw away the oppor tunity of giving effect to the matured and settled opinions of the country upon the sugar monopoly. The Noble Lord is too good a tacticiannot to comprehend throughwhat influence he has obtained his present position—and by which policy alone he can retain and strengthen it—to think of hesitating for one moment as to the course lie should pursue. It is truethat Lord George Bentinck, Mr. Disraeli, and Mr. Borthwick, swelled the majority which was the immediate cause of throwing the Government into his Lordship's hands, but the great necessity which led to that anomalous division in which the late Government was defeated, was the fixed opinion of the country against monopoly, and in favour of free trade. It was a knowledge of the principles and position of Lord John Russell which gave us confidence in forming the opi nion which we did, even against such positive announcements to the contrary. Our confidence from the first has been un moved, and it remains so still. We have no anxiety as to the announcement to be made this evening. The settlement must be substantially the same as corn. If, however, as we suggested on Monday last, revenue considerations should make it desirable that the protection, instead of continuing the whole three years entire, should be cut down year by year, then it may not be unfair to extend the time from three to four or five years. Such a plan will not only be more ad vantageous for the revenue, but also for the consumer ; the additional quantity of sugar produced in each year will find increasing facilities for admission in each year. A perfect parallel between sugar and corn would ran thus:— Corn duty. Sugar duty. • 1846 ...... 4s. to 10s. per qr. 14s. and 20s. per cwt. 1847 1848 1849 ~ But if in place of retaining the full protection (205.) for three years, it is gradually cut down year by year, it would be no greater concession to the West Indians, and would be a benefit to the revenue. Thus, if one or two years more were taken, in that case the scale would stand:— Parallel of To be reduced Or be reduced Corn duties. in four years. in five years. 846 ... 145.. and 20s. 14s. and 20s. ...14s. and 20s. 847 ... 14s. „ 205.... 14s. „ 18s. 6d....145. ~ 18s. 9d. 848 ... 14s. „ 20s. ... 14s. „ 17s. ...14s. 175.6 d. 849 ... 14s. „ 14s. ... 14s. „ 15s. Gd.... 145. „ 16s. 3d. 850 l4s. „ 14s. ...14s. „ 15s. 851 14s. „ 14s. It is clear that by this plan the consumer will gain as much by the reductions in the first, second, and third year, as he will lose in the fourth or fifth ; such a settlement, therefore, may be regarded as substantially the same as that of corn. There is one branch of the sugar duties question to which no reference has been made throughout these discussions, though it is one involving questions of most serious inconvenience to the trade. We allude to the foolish scale of classification of duties according to quality, introduced by Mr. Gladstone. This distinction we have the greatest confidence will be en tirely given up, and the old and simple plan of uniform rates of duty on all qualities restored. The failure of this classi fication as a mode of increasing the revenue, and the frauds and inconvenience to which all parties have been exposed, have been so palpable, that we feel assured we shall hear no more of the distinction between " white clayed, or equal thereto," and " brown clayed, or Muscavado sugar." (From Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.) The principle of colonial protection, while it secured to the produce of the mother country the exclusive markets of her tranamarine possessions, guaranteed a similar privilege to the colonists in the markets of Britain. This system, based on the jealousy of trade, established a commercial monopoly, and it was pushed to the unjust extreme of imposing heavier duties on the sugars and coffees of Bengal than on those of the West Indies. The preference formerly given to the western over the eastern colonies is traceable to the fact of Parliamentary influence, the proprietors of the West Indian soil being members of both Houses of the Legislature, and the extra profits they realised on their estates through pro tective duties, formed the valuable consideration for which they gave their votes to the Minister of the day. When the various states and kingdoms of South America, ancient colonies of Spain and Portugal, had asserted their independence, and Mr. Canning had, as he said, called the new world into political existence, to rectify the balance of the old, these countries sought a market for their produce in Europe, but they were excluded from Britain by what have been called the " differential duties." Thus when the duty on West India sugar was 245. per cwt., the duty on lb• reign sugar was 635. per cwt., and it is obvious that this difference of 395. per cwt. between the two rates, operated as a prohibition, and secured a monopoly to the colonial grower. A short extract from " Porter's Progress of the Nation," will suffice to demonstrate the extent of the injustice inflicted by this system on the consumer in the mother country:--' "The cost, exclusive of duty, of 3,764,710 cwt. retained for consumption in 1840, was 9,156,872/, if calculated at the Gazette average prices. The cost of a like quantity of Brazil or Havannah sugar of equal quality would have been 4,141,1811., and consequently we have paid 'in one year, 5,015,691/. more than the price which the inhabitants of other countries in Europe would have paid for an equal quan tity of sugar." Though Mr. Porter considers this an extreme case, yet he unqualifiedly asserts that " we are made to pay for the sugar consumed in the United Kingdom, more than we need pay, by an amount exceeding the value of all the goods which we manufacture for the West India colonies." Such a state ment, from so highly competent an authority, having every official document at his command, clearly proves that we are annually sacrificing native industry, through an absurd and ruinous tariff. It is calculated that in the rich and middle ranks the an nual consumption of sugar by each individual for all purposes is 401 b., while among the labouring classes it does not exceed 91b. for each individual. Every person serving on board one of her Majesty's ships is allowed lioz. of sugar a day, which amounts to 341 b. 3oz. yearly; and the allowance given to aged paupers in the Union Houses is 1 oz. a day, or 2241 b. in the year. If we take the labouring dames at four-fifths of the population, we perceive the gross injustice inflicted on the great body of the people by depriving them of wholesome food through excessive taxation, and the extent of the injury suf fered by our export trade by limiting the consumption of sugar. Why should not the honest working man have as plentiful a supply of sugar as the pauper or the sailor? Why should the poorer classes be deprived of the means of prS serving fruit in abundant seasons? Are they not as descry ing of protection as the West India landlords, who divided among them twenty millions sterling as the price of the re demption of their slaves? In order to resist the abolition of differential duties, colonial ' avarice has formed an alliance with their former opponents_ It appears that the introduction of the sugars of Brazil and Cuba would encourage slavery. The very men who would not manumit their negroes till their bodies were ransomed with gold, now affect to sympathise with the African, and under the mask of Christian philanthropy seek to sustain their rents by levying an annual tribute upon the very people whom they taxed for the emancipation of their former slaves. We ask these hypocrites if they will consent to pay the dif ference between the colonial and foreign duty into the public treasury, instead of putting it into their own pockets? That would test the purity of their motives. We ask them further, why do they not prohibit the admission of slave-grown cot ton, for the principle is the same in cotton as in sugar, and what is just in the southern States of America cannot be un just in Cuba or Brazil ? " Silver and gold," said Milner Gibson—and we hail his appointment to office as one of the most promising acts of the new Ministry—" are slave pro duce;" yet who refuses to pocket them? Will These mono polists strain at gnats and swallow camels ! And ?bat will those of our readers think who may now hear for the first time that slave-grown sugar is regularly imported into London, refined, and then exported, the drawback being allowed, to be consumed in those very West India colonies whose landowners insist that such sugar is sinful food for the people of Britain, but a most holy diet for anefe negroes who cultivate their own estates? By this con trivance they sell their own sugar to us for 7d. per lb., and purchase slave-grown sugar for their own consumptio.n at 4d. per lb. Are we not then justified in having remarked that colonial avarice has formed an alliance with hypocrisy? This subject is invested with peculiar interest at the , pre sent moment, and will decide the strength of Lord John .Itu,s sell's Administration. Whatever the Ministerial measure may be, it is probable that it will not be submitted to Par liament for complete decision, before the following section. But the people must be vigilant, and the same f utile: and energy which wrung from the reluctant grasp abolition of tectionists a free trade in corn, w ill compe l the di ff erential duties on sugar. The l an d ow ners of the the West Indies must prepare ' for the same competition_ r.n. in. %he mar kets of the world as th e landowners of "WOOL WIC4.-SATURDAY. Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., R.N., visited Wool tvich yesterday, and was introduced to the authorities of her ilia.. jesty's Dockyard on his appointment to be Captain Super in tendent, in the room of Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., pointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Captain Sup er intendent Houston Stewart visited Woolwich Dockyard &pain to-day, and transacted business for several hours. Experiments were carried on on Saturday on board. the Ariel steam-vessel, in the basin at Woolwich, to test the efficiency of Ilaig's smoke-consuming apparatus.. The Amphion, 36-gun frigate, with screw propeller , bad her steam up to-day in the basin, but it will be some time before she will be ready to proceed on an experintental as she will have to take on board about 800 tons of ballast to bring her to a proper depth in the water. CARRIAGE FOR CONVEYING THE WELLINGTON STATUE. —The powerful carriage constructed at the Woolwicai Dock-- yard, and supported on wheels, furnished by the directors the Great Western Railway, is now completed, and the pairs of shafts of sufficient length to hold two horses between etich pair have been fixed to it, with strong iron rings and bolts. for the purpose of attaching the traces of any number c t horses that may be required. The carriage and wheels weigh between sixteen and seventeen tons, and is about; twenty four feet long by thirteen feet broad. These dimensions will prevent its being taken to the metropolis by land, except it be decided upon to remove the sides of several toll bare. Its extreme length, and the number of horses required to draw it, will render it difficult to turn, except at a very great angle, and its weight might even be dangerous to tho bridge over which it would have to be taken before it could reach the place where the statue has been cast. A propositit 'n has been made to take it to pieces and convey them by water to some eligible landing place in the metropolis, but tlae ulti mate plan to be adopted is not yet decided upon. Et will, however, be moved from Woolwich Dockyard in the- course of the week. THE SWINDLER, J. 11. WYNDUA3I.—The fifty pounds cheque which " J. 11. Wyndham," alias " James B. Welles ley,' attempted to pass - away upon the proprietor of the lioyal Sussex Hotel, Tonbridgo Wells, was purported to be drawn by " Thomas Turner, for Gurney and Co., of Yar mouth," upon their London bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., of Lombard-street. As this document, upon being compared with other cheques negotiated by the siwindlier at Windsor, Eton, and Inverness, is clearly in his own hand writing, the crime of forgery will, without the least diffi culty, be brought home to him. The cheque which he at tempted to negotiate at Tonbridge Wells is still in the hands of the landlord of the hotel. PARISH OF ST. PANcRAS.—It is in contemplation to divide this large parish into ecclesiastical districts, so that the present Chapels of Ease at Camden-town, Somers-town, Old St. Pancras-road, Woburn-place, Regent-square, &c.. may be district churches, to the incumbents of which a por tion of the parish will be assigned. The Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., the new vicar, has expressed his entire concurrence with this arrangement. Sir William Parker has declined tho offer of apset at the Admiralty Board, and Sir Charles Adaih bag IT" • • 1 pciated la law place.