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CONTRACT FOR SUPPLYING PROVISIONS, &c. FOR CONVICTS ON BOARD HULKS. KJ UCH PERSONS as are d es i rous o f TENDER ING for the supply of Bread, Meat, Beer, Oatmeal, Cheese, Salt, Coals, Candles, Oil, Soap, and Clothing, for the use of CON VICTS on board the HULKS at Portsmouth, Chatham, and Iyoolwich may obtain forms of Tender by application en board either of the Hulks, or to the Superintendent of Convicts, at No. II 15 , Lambeth Terrace, Surrey, where samples may be inspected. Tenders (on printed forms only), duly signed by the Parties and the persons offering to become their Securities, to be delivered sealed up and addressed to the Superintendent, marked " Tender to supply P rov i s i ons for Convicts on or before 12 o'clock on THURSDAY, the 16th day of March, 1837. ..„....._,....,..,,,,„..::., ,_;,,„..,,A,._. ~. . c t.,, ....„ ~..,....._. a.,..„, ~.., ~v...,, .........,„ }4 , 47 . ~...„ ~.0 , , ' - 111111101. ,4101 L(- 1 7: 1 • ./ Z './ • ..r." — s ._... MI, ••• , . r ... ..- .. itTify Zit i) ~ 7 ,-43\v , --. ~—,_ 4 ,, % ....::-/e - V -"F° ' 44 : " , i,, ...,_ - k7441..,_>; , • ip r, •IP Stla 4 .. . SW -1 Nppast ' - 4, _ '' ‘ ll 6 , -T''' ,-- ,4 6 , ~, i to /r , N ., , ~z,...,,,,,,.:, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1837. No. 13,877. PRICE M. TWO-PENNY POST RIDING WORK. SEALED TENDERS will be r ece i ve d by t h e Post-Master General to perform this Service on or before he 31st of MAReir Next, to be superscribed " Tenders for Two- Penny Post Rides." The Drivers and Riders to be of good Character and liable to Discharge on the requisition of the Post-Master General. The Horses to be kept in good,Condition, to the good liking of the Post- Master General, and subject to removal if not approved of by him. The present Distances and the Services performed by the Riders and Drivers, which will be strictly enforced, are stated at foot. The Post-Master General to have the right to direct alteration or exten sion of the Rides within the Two-Penny Post Delivery, and from time to time to fix and alter the Hours and Routes of the Services to be respectively performed. The Contractor to be subject to all Orders and Regulations which from time to time made by the Post- Master General. The Terms to be stated in Words at Length (the Tender per Mile for the Carts to be stated separately from the Horse Rides) and to include the expence of providing and maintaining the Carts, Horses, Equipments, Riders, payment of Duties, Accidents, Da mage, and every other Charge of every sort and description, save and except the 'Uniform Hats and Coats of the Riders and Drivers, and the Saddle Bags and Pouches. The Carts to be built and con structed to the entire satisfaction of the Post-Master General. The Payment to be made at the expiration of each Quarter. The Contractor to provide Two responsible Sureties (to be ap proved of by the Post-blaster General) who shall be bound with him, jointly and severally, in a Bond to the Crown in a Sum of 1,0001. for the due perrormance of his Contract, to be recoverable as liquidated damages in case of any Breach or Default. The Contract to be for Three Years, terminable on either side, within that period, on six months' notice. The Post-Master General to have the power to determine the Contract immediately in Case of Breach or Default. TOWN RIDES FROM TIIE GENERAL POST OFFICE. Charing-cross l2 Despatches per Day 18 Miles. Portland-street Stepney Southwark COUNTRY RIDES FROM THE GENERAL POST OFFICE. Barnet ... 2 Despaches per Day 23 Miles Bromley Edgeware 2 Ditto Enfield Hampton Harrow 2 Ditto ... ......... ... 26 Hounslow 2 Ditto Croydon 2 Ditto Woodford ...... 2 Ditto Woolwich Camberwell ... 3 Ditto Camden Town 3 Ditto Hackney. 4 Ditto Kensington .... 1 Ditto Paddington 1 Ditto South Lambeth 3 Ditto BRANCH COUNTRY RIOES. From Blackheath to Bexley 2 Despatches per Day 16 Miles. From Mitcham to Carshalton Prom Wandsworth to Kingston 2 Ditto ... From Stratford to Romford 2 Ditto .. From Brompton to Fulham 2 Ditto The above Rides are employed every Day, Sundays excepted. From Hounslow to Brompton 9 Miles and Return. From Barnet to Highgate 6& Miles and Return. Prom Waltham Cross to Stoke Newington 9 Miles and Return. Fro m Croydon to Brixton 61 Miles and Return. These Rides are employed every Day throughout the year. For further particulars inquire of the Superintending President, Two-Penny Post Office, where the form of Contract, which the Contractor will be required to execute, may be seen. By Command, W. L. MABERLY, Secretary. General Post-Office, February 1837. ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY. SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the ST. JOHN DEL REY MIN ING COMPANY will be held at the Company's Office, No. 8, Tokenhouse-yard, on WEoNEsn.ty, the 15th inst., at One o'clock precisely. JOHN LUCKOMBE, Secretary. Proprietors will be pleased to bring the Certificates of their Shares. _ London, March 3, 1837. ADVOWSON OF BUDBROOK, In the County of Warwick. TO Bg SOLD, By Order of the Ecclesia s ti c al C omm i ss i oners f or E ng l an d , ALL that THE ADVOWSON o f th e Vi carage of BUDBROOK, in the County of Warwick, with the Tithes, Stipend, Fees, and Emoluments thereto belonging. The Vicarage House, which adjoins the Church-yard, is plea santly situated, commanding a view of the town of Warwick, from which it is distant about one mile and a half, from Kenilworth about four miles, and from Leamington Spa about three miles. At tached to the House is a spacious garden, coach-house, and stable. The Glebe Land consists of little snore than 2 acres. The tithes produce a yearly income of 2561., in addition to which sum the Incumbent receives, from the Corporation of Warwick, a fixed stipend of 1001. per annum, and a fat buck and doe, yearly, from the Earl of Warwick, in lieu of the tithes of an estate in the parish, called the Old Park. Tke present incumbent is in his 74th year, and in declining health. The said advowson is, by the like order of the said Commis sioners, to be SOLD by TENDER, in the form which has been approved of by the said Commissioners. Such persons as are desirous of making a Tender for the said Ad vowson, may receive a form of Tender at the Office of the said Commissioners, No. 5, Whitehall-place, London, between the hours of Eleven and Three, or at the Office of Mr. Heath, Town. Clerk, Warwick, between the hours of Ten and Six, and deliver their Tenders, in duplicate, sealed up, and directed to" The Eccle siastical Commissioners for England," marking them, " Tender for the Advowson of Budbrook," on or before the 15th day of March next ; but none will be received after Twelve o'clock on that day, nor will any proposal be noticed unless made in the said form, and delivered at the Office of the said Commissioners. PRIVATE PUPIL. AgENEFICED CLERGYMAN, MARRIED and of long experience in the EDUCATION of a FEW PRIVATE PUPILS, SIX, preparing for the University or their Professions in Life, has at present a VACANCY. His Residence is twelve miles from London and his references to Noblemen and Gentlemen unexceptionable. Letters to be directed for the Rev. T. G., Mr. Barclay, Hatter, 42, St. James's-street, London. RETIRING FROM THE RETAIL TRADE. KENDALL and SON, at the CIVET CAT, 447, West Strand, London, offer the whole of their Splendid Stock in Trade of SCENTED SOAPS, PERFUMES, JEWELS, BRONZES, CABINET WARES, PORCELAINE, PAPIER 311ACHEE ARTICLES, PARISIAN CLOCKS, TOYS, &c., at prices infinitely below the actual cost, and so exceedingly low, as anust astonish every purchaser. The whole will be disposed of without the least reserve, it being the wish of the proprietors en tirely to relinquish the Retail Trade, in consequence of their Whole sale Engagements requiring their undivided attention. ELIGIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF CAPITAL. TO BE DISPOSED OF, IN SWANSEA, N Extensive and Well-Established IRONMON . GERI( and MANUFACTURING BUSINESS, where above twenty men aad boys are constantly employed in the follow • ing Branches : Braziery, I Copper Smiths, Plumbing, 13ellhangings, Tin Work, Lock and I Smitheries, Gun Work, &c. The Stock consists of a modern assortment of Furnishing Iron /nongery, Working Materials, and Tools of the most approve u d and 'complet e description. The Premises, which a re held on an nex- Pired Lease of Twelve Years, at a Low Rent, are situated in the Centr e of the town, with Work-shops attached, built expressly for *he combined trades. The connexion is extensive and of the most 1 1 ,!leze ep edtionable character, form an successfully carried on by 4 1 1 present proprietor for the last twelve yea rs . The whole is well worthy the attention of any respectable party 'Plainted with the above trades, and is now offered under an advan 'age seldom occurring. A Capital of from two to three thousand pounds w ill b e requ i re d take to the business. A personal application would be preferred, when every relative Information would be afforded. , v -A.PPIy (if by letter, post-paid) to Mr. R. Evans, 8, Castle-street, ansea. COPAIBA ENTIRELY SUPERSEDED. BALSAMIC PILLS, a certain cure for gonorrhoea, gleets, st,rictures, pains In the loins, affections of the kidneys, gravel, irritation Tiose the bladder or urethra, and other diseases of the urinary passages. pills having been employed in upwards of 1,900 cases in private :,,rasctice within three years, prior to being advertised, in many thousand sin,e, and in no one instance known to fail, are stronglyrecommend. a far more e ffi cacious remedy than balsam copaiba, cubebs, or any `her medicines in present use. frepared only by M. 0. Wray, at 118, Holborn-hill Royal sold whole .4 -by Sanger, 150, Oxford.street ; Stradling, gate of y Exchange ; z e rrt Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside 2... 4Y all respectable patent medicine venders in town and country, e.t 13 alsa •, 4s. 6d, and its each box. Be ',articular to ask for Wray' s h nli c Pills." Advice given gratuitiously to persons calling between ours of II and I in the morning, and 7 and 9 in the evening, _ TAPPINESS, "the g ayto-morrow of the mind," tos --- 111 - is insured by marr i age . P rev ious, however, to entering o the hallowed obligation of marriage, it becomes an impressive duty t rt only to regul a t e th e pass i ons, b ut to c l eanse th e grosser nature f rom '°' , i mPurities which .the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may have cute 'led upon it. Luxuriou s h a bit s w ill e ff em i n ize the body— a re s id ence 'n the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the P!'en.lature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the natural 1 1 , 4 1nity into a s t a t e o f i nan it ion, from whence the agonized sufferer more "lan doubts the chance of relief.' To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering 116 13 e—energ y—muscular strength—felicity. The easy cares of Married lite are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often con stitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im proved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as yell as in every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our abi. lit yto cure s p eedily, and with effect. Confident in our own honourable ir.te .grui iti a; me mbers of th e C o ll ege o f S urgeons, we refer the suffering corn it of either sex especially those entering into matrimonial life) at ice to Our house, where daily tion • ind letters attendance is given for personal consults , . from the country are immediately answered ; these must Contain a remitt ance for Advice and Medicine, dekribing minutely the t Atte, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. Nl' difficulty can occur, as the M edic i w ill be securely packed, and care tan:, protected from o b servation, ue GOSS and CO. (M. It. C. Surgeons), LLancaster-place, Strand, London. Ju.st published (twenty.first edition)—lst. The /EGIS of LEFF, a fami liar commentary on the above Diseases.—lst. HYGEI ANA, aodre n ed exclusively to the female Sex.-341. The SYPHILIST, a Treatise on Lap s venerea, Gonorrhoea, &c.—Ma be had at 23, Paternoster-row, I2ondon ; 72, Grafton -street Dublin y ; 12, Calton-street, Edmburgh ; 86, Trongate, Glasgow ; m l of all booksellers. Price ss. each. HEALTH AND BEAUTY.—An eminent Medical Writer has remarked, and experience has proved he fact beyond dispute, th at those who are attentive to keeping the 4tonuich and bowels in proper order, preserve health, prevent disease, " ( I generally attain robust, ch eer f ul, and healthy old age; for that truly etiesirable purpose Ire STIRLING'S STOMACH PILL S particularly adapted, being prepared with the Sulphate of Quinine, t.'atract. or Chamomile Flowers, and the most choice Stomachic and Ape lei It Drues of the Materia Medica. '1.% ley have in all cases proved superior to every 4 Other medicine in the cure of Stomach and Liver Complaints, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Xensa, 'ion of Fullness Sick Headach, Pai n ant Oppression after Me.ds, Il abitt.Ml Costiveness, Fullness, Shortness of B rea th, St omac h C oug h s, S pasms, Worm s , and Fits in Children and Grown Persons, and all Diseases incident to the Stom ac h an d B owe l s. They are also truly efficacious in thr Cure of Colds, Agues, Asthmas, Rheumatism, Gout, Jaundice, propsy, and Pravel, and an excellent Res' orative atter strengthexuss, or too lee indulgence at table, as they gently cleanse the bowels,en the 'Lorritich, sweeten the breath, c h eer the spirits, brace the nerves, induce 4 healt hy a ction of the liver, improve digestion, and invigorate the whole 'Y.lmn. Females who value good health and personal appearance, should rhither be without them, as they purity the b ood, remove obstructions, i nnples cutaneous eruptions, sallowness, &c., and g;ve the sk n a beau .oll, clear, healthy, and blooming appearance. Persons of a plethoric beau j'`° who are subject to headache, tits, giddiness, dimness of sight, or ~owsiness, singing noise in the ears, which indicate too great a flow of :wed to the head, should he particular to take them frequently. Th-y • so mild and gentle in their action, that children and persons of all s„ may take them at any time, as they do not conta i n mercury or any Itr`klient that requires confinement or restriction of diet. Many healthy 4 ,a , t1 i*.slivid u als, some of one hundre years and upwards, make it a rule tll Lake them two or three times a week, by wh'ch t h ey remove the causes of laaktkice disease, preserve their health, and keep oil the infirmities no, retaining, in a surprising degree, all the energy, vigour, viva. ' 4 4, and cnesirfulness of their youthful days. They shml be k. pt in eve, iamily as a remedy in case of ,uelclen illness i for, by their prompt Ministration, Cholera Morbus t Cramps, Spasms, kevers, Apoplexy, and other alarming complaints, w h ic h tun often move fatal, may be speedily cured or preve l ited. Numerous patients, whose cases had been considered °Peters, have been restored to sound health by them. This can be Ptov ed by the testimony of thousands, and shown by letters from nume. r gus patieuts who have benetitte.l by their unrivalled ethcacy. To de.. Isveorily all their excellent properties, and the cures they have . performed, divaidefita vnlu s, and exceed ;in fact, there is scarcely any o which th e h uman frame is subj. et that they will not e i ther pre • tr , cure, and none m which they can possibly d r harm. I , , A , v uo l'lcred only by Stirlity, Chemist, Sd, High-street, Whitveliai t ie , l, loki„ : (es 13, 1., 2s. del., 4s. 6c1., and I Is, each . and may be had of all l Ventlyrs ;hp Kin . dons, . THE GARDENER'S GAZETTE AND WEEKLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, LITERA TURE, AND POLITICS. No. 1., Published JANUARY 7th and Bth, Price FIVEPENCE. _ . It is not a little extraordinary that the Horticulturists of this king dom have had as yet no Journal to advocate their interests, or sup port their claims, for no class was ever better calculated to support a Journal, or occasionally more required its advocacy. We speak of Gardeners as scientific men—men who not only take an interest in the cultivation of the earth, but in genoral are reading men, calcu lating men, and, from the very nature of their profession, thinking men ; nor does it alter our position if we take all the grades of Gar deners. The Duke of Devonshire is a Gardener; for though ho does not necessarily dig the ground, nor plant his own cabbages, he pays others for doing the labour and attending to his garden, from his head-man downwards, and takes an extraordinary interest in the results. Again, the poor man that cultivates a rod of ground is a Gardener, and takes as much pride, or as much interest i n hi s avo cation as the most wealthy ; in fact, every body who takes an inte rest in a flower, or a vegetable, and studies its progress, is a Gar dener. Gardeners exist in all stations, from the labourer to the prince, just as the poorest soldier in the ranks is a soldier, as well as all above him, up to the Duke of Wellington ; in fact, as Mr. Hud son says or sings, " We're all Gardeners. ' The sort of Journal re quired, is one containing news of every thing that passes; notices of all the new plants, constant reports of proceedings of all meet ings; systematic exposure of all evils ; censure of all abuses ; and above all things, when other interests are advancing at the expense of Gardening, a bold and uncompromising defence until the tide is turned, and, if necessary, an attack on its enemies afterwards. All these are essential. Turnpike Bills, the Tithe Question, Taxes, regulations for importing Foreign produce, and many other ques tions, have, may, and will again arise for the exercise of the whole strength and influence of a Journal ; and the superiority of a weekly over a monthly publication requires no comment. Had there been such a Journal in the days of alarm, when the malicious re port that vegetables were injurious to health and promoted Cholera was spread abroad, the gross delusion could have been dispelled in a few days, instead of operating in the ruinous abstinence of the pub lic for months, destroying thousands of pounds worth of business, and reaching all the classes, from the grower to the consumer. The announcement of two such Journals threatened to split the science into two parties, and, what is worse, to double the expense of making any thing public ; for as, in all probability, one or the ether would find its way into the hands of every one interested in any branch of Horticultnre, and neither of the Journals much more than half, whatever it might be desirable to advertise, must have appeared in both ; and it is impossible not to foresee many other disadvantages. Happily, by an arrangement between the parties, the united strength of both will now be devoted to one Newspaper only, and this can be transmitted by the ordinary Post freo of ex pense. Advertisements inserted will reach every Town and Vil lage in the Kingdom, and if we do not greatly underrate the classes who delight in Horticulture, from the highest to the lowest, tkere will scarcely be found one who does not, in the course of the week, peruse the Gardener's . Gazette _ . _ • The Newspaper will give a faithful record of all great political events abroad and at home, but it will not venture to give a political opinion of its own. Where a question is sufficiently important to deserve it, the most talented article that shall have appeared during the week on each side shall be inserted, that the readers may be well acquainted with the subject, and the name of the papers in which they have appeared shall be quoted. But when a question which affects the interests of any branch of Horticulture or Agricul ture may be agitated, the Gardeners' Gazette shall be foremost in the field, and not the least effective. It remains only for the Gardeners—we repeat again—from the Duke downwards, to do their duty by their Gazette, as faithfully as the Gazette will do its duty by them, and soma of these duties the Proprietors will, in all modesty, vouture to point out :- 1. The Nobility and Gentry throughout the kingdom should pro vide their Gardeners with it, free of expense. 2. The Gardeners who may not be so supplied, should order it nevertheless, and being praetical men, should, whenever they have an opportunity, supply original papers on the cultivation, manage ment, and propagation, tee., of plants, descriptions of new ones, &c. &e. 3. The Secretaries of Horticultural Societies should exhort all their members to order it, advertise all their shows in it, and supply immediate returns .f the prizes awarded at such shows (which re turns will be gratuitously inserted as News), and communicate whatever may be deemed useful information. 4. The members of such Societies who take in a weekly paper, should immediately order their Newsmen to change it for the Gar dener's Gazette ; such as do not take a Sunday paper, and .annot well afford it, should induce three or four others to join them. 5. Nurserymen should not only order it for their own guidance, for which it will be as necessary as their own stock-books, but they should also inform every customer of the advantages of possessing in a Newspaper a record of every thing that is passing in the Horti cultural and Agricultural world. 6. Nurserymen and dealers in every thing appertaining to horti culture, floriculture, arboriculture, farming and gardening, should adopt the Journal as the means of publishieg their Advertisements, which, whether lists of plants, trees, shrubs, flowers, seeds, or de scriptions of tools, implements, machines, or of land, farming stock, or crops,—Auctioneer's catalogues, farms, houses or gardens to let, or any other subject, can thus be placed in a single week in the hands of every body at all interested in them. We will jest apprise Gardners of all ranks that the expense of conducting the Gardener's Gazette will exeeed two thousand pounds per annum : and that as the surplus on each Newspaper, beyond the cost of the stamp and paper, is ono pe nn y on ly, it re quires ten thousand copies per week to be sold to meet this ex pense, and of which number at present little more than five thou sand are ordered ; much, therefore, remains to be done before the next year. Orders for the regular delivery of the Gardener's Gazette may be given to any Newsman or Clerk of the Road in the country, any Newsman in London, and in the want of either of these being in the neighbourhood, of a person who may require it, a letter (post paid) to the Editor, care of Westley and Clayton, 162, Piccadilly, and 7, Windsor-court, Strand, will insure tie delivery by post on Sunday mornings. Books, prints, plants, flowers, implements. seeds, &.. for notice, newspapers containing reports, orders for advertisements, original articles, and every other communication for the Editor, may be forwarded as above. Where the articles are worth the carriage and postage, of course it is not expected that it should be paid by the sender ; but in all matters of inquiry or orders the communicatio must be postage and carriage free. Scale of Advertisements, in both Town and Country Editions. Soya Lines, 61., above that number ? 6d. per line. FORTH AND CLYDE NAVIGATION. AGENERAL MEETING of PROPRIE TORS will be held at the Secretary's House, No. 29, Golden-square, on WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of March instant, at One o'clock precisely, pursuant to Act of Parliament. DAVID CALDWELL, Secretary. STEAM TO LISBON, CADIZ, an d GIBRAL -1.0 TAR, by the PENINSULAR STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S VESSELS : DON JUAN, of 933 tons and 326 horse power; TAGUS, of 800 tons and 300 horse power; I3RAGANZA, of 650 tons and 220 horse power; IBERIA, of 600 tons and 200 horse power ; MANCHESTER, of 600 tons and 220 horse power; LIVERPOOL, of 500 tons and 160 horse power; The PENINSULA Branch Voesel plies between Cadiz and Seville. The IBERIA, R. D. MIDDLETOPI, Commander, will start from off East-lane Stairr, London, on TUENDAY, March 7, at Twelve o'clock, Noon, and from FALMOUTH, on FRIDAY, March 10, for the above Ports, returning by the same route. N.B. In consequence of the new regulations regarding the Consu lar Clearance, no Goods can be received for Lisbon after SATUR DAY, March 4 ; and all Bills of Lading for that Port must be sent to this Office on the same day. Apply at the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary Axe, London. WILLCOX and ANDERSON, Managers, A lino of Steam Vessels has been established to run from Gibral tar to Marseilles, and vice versa, Galling at Nina intermediate Ports en the South Coast of Spain. From Marseilles Steam Vessels now run to Genoa, Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Naples, and Malta ; also to Messina and Palermo. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW WORK. In 3 vols. post Bvo., CR IC H T O N. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH. Esq. Author of " Rookwood, &e." IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " HAJJI BABA." In 3 vols. post avo., ABEL AL LNUT T. I3y JAMES MORIER, Esq. Author of " Hajji Baba." " Zohrab," " Ayesha," &e. IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. PRINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU'S NEW WORK. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., S EMILASSO IN AFRICA ADVENTURES IN ALGIERS, AND OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA. By PRINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU, Author of the " Tour of a German Prince." Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. This day was published, in 2 vols. post Bvo., LAPIC C I O. L OR, CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE. " For this beautiful little novel we may venture to predict a de gree of popularity in the English world of letters, equal to that enjoyed by "Paul and Virginia," "Elizabeth," and one or two other favourites. It is a production for every class, and for every shade of caste."—Court Journal. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. " B 0 Z.' A THIRD EDITION OF THE SKETCHES -- BY - First Series, in Two Volumes, post 8.`v0., With Sixteen Illustrations by George Cruikshank. *** A Second Edition of THE SECOND SERIES will im mediately follow. IS NOW READY. John Macrone, St. James's-square. FOURTH EDITION, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. It o 0 K W 0 0 By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., With a Portrait by Daniel Maclise, A.R. A., and Twelve Illustra tions by George Cruikshank. "We expect much from this writer. He evidently possesses, in no common degree, the materials of success—a fresh and stirring fancy. His story is one that never flags."—Quarterly Review, June, 1834. . John Macrone, St. James's-square. THE POPISH GOD, UNKNOWN TO THE PROPHETS AND APOSTLES-C kLvm. " Come to be suckled, and adored."—Dß. WAX;s. A word or two of friendly expostulation on the use of the term " Trinity " in Protestant Formularies, Is. G. Fawdon, (late with J. S. Hunter) May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane. NOW READY, in 1 large Volume Bvo., E VILS OF THE FACTORY SYSTEM, Demonstrated by Parliamentary Evidence. Dedicated to Lord ASHLEY, M.P. By CHARLES WING, Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Hospital for Children, &c. Containing the Medical and other Evidence delivered before the Committees of the Lords and Commons, the Parliamentary Re ports, Debates, the Last Acts of Parliament, Correspondence be tween Mr. Stuart and Mr. Wilson, Secretary to the Board of Fac tory Commissioners, Statistical Tabs, &c., with Remarks and Illustrations. " From a vast mass of valuable information Mr. Wing has pro duced a Treatise, deserving of the deepest public attention."--Lite rary Gazette. •' Mr. Wing's Volume contains a very complete digest of facts and opinions on the Factory System, together with a brief historical precis on the subject."—Spectator. " We would wish every one to read this excellent book—most earnestly do we recommend it to general perusal."—BAl's Messenger. "Asa lucid summary of the whole case, we anticipate a thankful reception for this work."—Quarterly Review, Dec. 1836. " This valuable work deserves the attention of every English man."—Metropolitan.—See also Monthly Review. Saunders and Otley, Conduit-street, Hanover-square. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. i Oats. Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. s 5. to s. Carl iSi 63 37 25 45 29 Ilex ham 143 60 25 ,16 22 Morpeth 46 56 24 .33; 18 24 34 58 32 35 Penrith „I 69 40 25 33 Sheffield « 59 3n 46 4.3 Winchester 56 64 32 35 25 30 32 40 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d., s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s 4. s.d. Carmarthen 56 66 49 43' 2:t 2 6 00 00 00 0 0 Cowbridge---... 76 80 56 00; 30 39 56 00 00 00 Newcastle (Stall.) 6 0 6 9 3 6 4 0 5 0 3 9 5 0 5 3 I 0 0 0 Northallerton.—. 6 0 7 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 5 • 6 0 0 0 0 0 Stone BO 8 6 4 0 4 9 3 0 3 4 6 0 6 7 0 0 00 Swansea 76 8 0 5 0 5 6 2 6 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 Warwick 90 10 6 i 30 46 20 33 56 60 00 00 Per 8011. Barnardeastle...— IS 0 17 0 86 9 - - 0; 6 0 86 86 106 76 80 Durham 11 0 159 96 106 56 8-0 80 109 90 10 6 Richmond ,II 0 16 6 8 0 8 6 5 0 84 90 9 6 9 0 90 Stockton 136 150 83 86 50 60 76 86 00 0 • W-AKEFIELD CORN MARKET—March 3 - - - Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sullblk ...... 46s. 4Ps;.7c; - Ls: line 60.. Lin. and Cam. -- Yorkshire 4ls. 4fis. to —s. fine 575. Vt bite Foreign, fted . —s. —a. to —a. fine —a. White —s. —a. to —a. sine —a. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Lineoltishire ----- Yorkshire Wold Foreign . —a. to —a. fine —s Beans, Old 4ls to 495. fine —I. New 365. to 40s. fine —s Oats, Potato 2.Ss. to Ws. fine 345. Poland —a. 2Ss. to 30e. fine 34.. Friesland and Sinai! .--. Alealing Shelling Malt —s 35 , . fine 40e. per Load. Rapeseed ..... sco Wheat. 'CH M RKETS. Oats. NOTICE OF SALE. BANKRUPTS' GENUINE STOCKS OF WOOLLEN DRAPERY. MR. SAMUEL LOVE has received instructions from the Assignees of Messrs. S., P., and P. RICE, of Addle-street, woollen warehousemen, and the Pavement, Moor fields, woollen-drapers, to SELL -1)2,/PUBLIC AUCTION, on WEDNESDAY, the sth April, 1837, the REMAINDER of the RETAIL STOCK belonging to that Estate ; and the WHOLE SALE STOCK on the WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY following, being the 12th and 13th days of April, 18.37. Full particulars of each Sale will be given in a future Advertise ment. 19, Basinghall-street, March 4, 1837. NOW ON VIEW. GIOVANNI D'ATHANASI'S EXTRAORDINARY COL LECTION OF EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. MR. LEIGH SOTHEBY has the honour of announcing that on MoxnAT, March 13, and Six follow ing Days, he will SELL by AUCTION, at his House, Wellington street, Strand, GIOVANNI D'ATHANASI'S very magnificent and extraordinary COLLECTION of EGYPTIAN ANTIQUI TIES, which for several months past have created such universal interest and astonishment to all whe have had the gratification of seeing them during their exhibition at Exeter-hall. The Collection is so well known, and has been so justly appreciated by all antiqua rians, that it is quite unnecessary here to enter into a detail of its contents. The Collection will remain open for public inspection during the whole of this week. Admission, with Catalogues only, price 25., each admitting a party. GLAMORGANSHIRE: Highly Important and Very Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATES FOR SALE. MR. ADAM MURRAY has the honour of announcing to the Public that he is instructed ty SELL by AUCTION, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, in the seaport, market and borough Town of Swansea, on THURSDAY, the 4th May next, and following day, in Lots, the first portion of the very valu able and highly improveable Estates, exonerated from Land Tax, and rates and taxes moderate, containing 4,000 acres of arable, meadow, pasture, and woodland, together with house; and premises in the Borough, situate in the several parishes of Lansamlet Swan sea, Langefelach, Oy s t ermou th, Bishopstone, Pennard, Ilstone, Penmain, Lanrhidian, Longhor, and Landilo Tallybont; in a fine, picturesque, and healthy country, surrounded with excellent roads and good markets, doso to lime and coal, and every capability at hand for the better improvement of the property ; affording the finest marine situations for building upon, and plenty of good stone quarries, where stone may be cut to any size ; the sea abounding with fish of all kinds, and land well stocked with game. Particulars of sale will be ready to deliver on the 20th March next, on application to Messrs. Watkins and Hooper, Solicitors, Sackville-street, London; Thomas Thomas, Esq., Solicitor, Swan sea; and to Mr. Adam Murray, 47, Parliament-street, London. Letters to be post-paid. Beans. Atterdeen Remick Coldstream Cupar (I ife Dundee Elgin Inverness .. , . K irkaldy Perth t.:,' , Tha size We had a very rather quick. First Second... Third Avei 46 to 52 30 42 32 36 45 56 1 48 58 40 50 44 52 36 45 37 42 50 56 ;t: of the m )INBURGI large supply Beef, per lb. Os. M u 0 Veal 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 0 fallow, Quartero Loaf 0 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 !Barley. 23 to 311 19 26 21 24 26 31 30 33 24 26 30 311 21 '26 23 31 23 26 mAure vari, I CORN T of all kind: 4d. to Os . 5 0 8 '7 010 6 O 0 00 U 40 0 Si 0 9 6 0 0 EDINBURGH MEA. There was a middling ;supply of O; islet were rather heavy. Per Sack of 2801 b. First Oatmeal Second ditto Barleymeat . ... 1 13 0 Peasetaeal 1 13 0 , Nut Barley—No. I, per cwt. 12,-2.1 GLASGOW CORN Al A moderate business doing in C. Wheat, fer 241.111.1. s. d. 1. d. British, old 32 0 to 350 - new lst) 300 Canada, Free :i2 0 34 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 3O 0 34 0 Scottish 25 0 29 0 Irish 'Truro Helstone St. Austell.... Bodinin I.iskeant Launceslon Camelford l'enzance 19 to 25 18 22 Id 18 13 22 20 25 lts 20 22 27 19 23- 20 21 20 2'2 'les through, MA lIKEf. is of Grain t, to 25 30 27 28 22 26 30 31 23 30 32 33 29 31 45 48 22 25 out the Com I • -. ntry. -Mach I. .day, and th Wheat. Earley. Oats. Pease. 71s. Otl. 36s Oil. 40s. 0,1. 52g. Oil. 58 0 32 0 28 0 46 0 44 0 27 0 22 0 40 0 !rage price of Wheat PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beans 52d Oil 46 0 4.1 Freshlutter,lli.......3 101. to L 1 Id. Salt llitto. 0 11 1 o Ditto, per els 0 100 0 Eggs, per doe...—. 0 0 1 2 OatStraw(kpl.)„...l.l 0 16 u Wheat Ditt0.....—..13 0 15 6 Harley Ditto 0 12 6 Hay, 1 5 I Per Stone of 14:b. Imp. First Oatmeal XU 2 6 Second ditto 8ar1eyinca1......... Peasemeal 0 1 10 1,14 , -3,1,14:s —4th, IN. —Peal I, 20s A RKET.—March 1. :rain ; little alteration in prices. Oats, per 264113. s. a. a. if. Irish 2001«256 British '22o I% 0 ' Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish 20 0 25 0 Oatineal,perl4olb 2O 0 25 0 Flour, per 22011 h 46 0 50 sl RNWALL MARKETS. elated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Oatmeal. 35 to 3S 40 44 -3: 43 - le sales were L MARKET.—Feb. 28. latmeal at this day's market, and the I. d. to e. d. 6. d. to s. d. a. d. to 9. d. 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 10 0 0 20 0— 0 9 2 0 8 6 0 20 6 0 9 6 0 8 6 0 19 G— 0 9 6 0 8 0 17 0— 0 9 0— 0 7 6 0 19 6 0 9 0 0 0 0 16 0 19 0— 0 10 (1 7 0 8 0 19 0 21 0— 0 11 0— q 9 0 SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS Our anticipations of the success of th,s Government plan for abolishing Church-rates have been amply realised. The language of Reformers out of' the House is in complete ac cordance with that held by Liberal Members on Friday night. We may, therefore, now congratulate the friends of reform and improvement, and the true friends of the Church, on the introduction of a measure which promises to diffuse satisfaction both among Dissenters and the mem bers of the Established Church, while it holds out advan tages to those whose properties are affected which will af ford compensation for the demands upon them. It is, in deed, no slight 'evidence in favour of the measure that so large a proportion of the complaints of the Tory objectors is directed against the manner in which it is introduced by Mr. Rice. This is pueril-. The measure is the Reform Government's, and for its merits or demerits that Govern ment is responsible. The most coutemptible faction could dream of mixing up the principles and objects of so large a question with the defects of tile individual who was acci dentally entrusted with proposing it to the House of Commons. Nothing, gave a' conscientious] Churchman more pain than the reflection that the celebration of his own religious worship imposed a painful burden on the Dissenter. He has now the consolation of finding that a fund has been provided for the support of the fabric of the Establishment, which will neither impair the resources of the Church, nor impose any additional burden on its mem bers. The fund is derived from what may well be termed a new creation of property. When by some new process a district has been drained of the superabundant moisture which prevented the productive powers of the soil from being called into action, there may be said to be a new creation of property. Immense tracts in Lincolnshire have been rendered productive in this manner. The fund from which 'the burden of supporting the fabrics of the Establishment is to be defrayed is as much a new creation as the recovery of a fen in Lincolnshire. The fetters which manacled the occupiers of church lands will be re moved. At present they can only derive from the occupa tion the benefits compatible with the restricted nature of it. By the simple process of converting a precarious and fettered right of possession into a fee-simple, subject to a certain quit-rent, the owner will have a motive for making expensive but profitable improvements, which it would have been madness to have attempted without such a security as will be afforded by the Govern ment. An addition to the productive powers of the coun try will be made by the measure. The plan, therefore, merely devotes a part of the now property which it creates to an. object equally desirable to all parties. The Stan dard toll us that " there was not a civil word for the Dis senters throughout the whole of Mr. Rice's two hours' speech. Their positions were disputed, their data denied, and their favourite voluntary principle scoffed at. But, to make the whole affair complete, everything that they asked was conceded." But what does this say ? Nothing was conceded which does not benefit the Establishment as much as it benefits the Dissenters. Is it nothing that the mem bers of the Establishment are freed from the unseemly broils which constantly desecrated the churches and chapels of the country ? Is it nothing that they are freed from a reproach that many of them acutely felt, that the celebra tion of their own religion entailed an odious burden on the Dissenters ? Is it nothing that all cause of collision is re moved ?—that Dissenters will no longer be appointed to offices connected with.the administration of the Church? Is it nothing that those who will hereafter be charged with watching over the ecclesiastical arrangements of the Establishment will be imbued with zeal for its welfare and prosperity, and peace and harmony among its members ? And the means for freeing the Dis senters froth a burden which necessarily animated them with a spirit of hostility to the Establishment, and for enabling Churchmen to disp ense w ith th a t b ur d en, are not taken from :any party, but called into ex istence by the removal of obstacles to bdneficial improve ment. But (says the Standard) the Dissenters hope and expect, through this concession, "to overturn the Esta blishment." What the Dissenters hope and expect the Standard cannot know. But how a measure which frees the Church from the invidious relation in which . ; it was placed towards the Dissenters, which extinguishes in the latter the chief ground for their hostility to the Establish ment, the oppression which they suffered from it, can aid them in their projects for overturning the Establishment, if they have any such projects, it would puzzle even a con juror to say. But this stale argument against the conces sion of just claims, that they will lead to further demands, has been too often exposed to require further notice from us at this time. But it is the approvod practice of the Tories to raise a clamour against every measure of a liberal Government. The Church,in danger is their adopted stalk ing-horse for the Session ; and no Turnpike Bill will be introduced without some of their scouts discovering that it opens a road to the spoliation of the Church or the destruction of religion. The settlement of the disturb ing question of Church-rates offers a bait that no Tory angler can be expected to resist employing, and we shall therefore find the whole tribe active and loud in their endeavours to persuade both lessors and lessees of Church property that the Government is bent upon robbing them. They will tell Paul that.lie is robbed to cheat Peter, and Peter that he is robbed in order to ruin Paul. But neither Paul nor Peter will believe them without first taking a quiet debtor and creditor view of the question, when they will discover that] this enfranchisement of Church lands tends to benefit both parties. It will render the lessees secure, and allow them to ameliorate their holdings, and give a certainty to the revenues of lessors, and take from them the power of jobbing. We leave the appreciation of this measure to the sound practical sense and - experience of the country ; but in the meanwhile we would just warn the Tories and the clergy, before they set up their howl and their cry of Church in danger, with the usual varia tions and accompaniments of plunder and Popery, that there are other sources from whence funds for the pay ment of Church-rates may be derived, which it may not be quite so agreeable for flourishing rectors and bishops to pay, but which are not the less open to Parliamen tary and legal control. Have they never heard of first fruits and tenths ? These are the unquestionable property of the State, which even Sir Robert Inglis will not deny ; and if the Nullion Tempus Act be good and available on one side of the question, it is to be a shred of mere waste parchment on the other ? Is it to give the clergy an interminable power of litigation, and recovery of what they deem their never lapsing_ rights, and to refuse the State all p ower o f assert i ng i ts claim to those dues and fines to which it is by law and ancient usage fully entitled ? How would the clergy, and their dangerous friends the Tories, like to see an inquiry instituted into the present value of livings, deaneries, and bishoprics, with a view to apportioning their real and bona fide amount of tenths and first fruits for the payment of church-rates ? We fancy they would rather see these rates made payable out of the spoliation funds accruing from the Ministerial measure than from this recoverable fund, which in days now called sound old Protestant days was made payable by the Church to the State. We throw out this hint to the Clergy ; and we would also remind those lessees of Church property for whom the 'Polies will no doubt affect the deepest sympathy, that it is not a year since a proposition was made by the Church Commission, and therefore sanctioned by the Arch bishop of Canterbury and his Right Reverend Colleagues, to allow all the leases in the diocese of Ely to run out, in order that the Church might obtain full or absolute pos session of its property. What respect did this propo sition show for the acquired claims of the lessees for a fuvourable consideration ? And what consideration would these and other Church lessees find if it were proposed to let all their leases throughout the country fall in, in order that an increased rent might be obtained, whose surplus should be applied to building additional churches or increasing the revenues of the smaller livings? We fancy none. The question of the administration of Church property has now been raised by Government in Parliament, and it will never be set at rest, be it sooner or be it later, until an improved administration has been obtained. It is for the lessees and lessors to decide whether the terms now proposed to them are not more advantageous than any they are likely to receive or obtain should these be rejected. These hints are thrown out for the consi deration of the parties whose pecuniary interests are more immediately concerned ; but while wo do this we in no degree forget the higher and more important inte rests of national peace and religious concord which are deeply involved in this question.—Morning Chronicle. There are two motions of great importance on, the order book of the House of Commons—both embracing the same object—the one by Mr. Ewart, the able and indefatigable Member for Liverpool—the other by Mr. Roebuck, which stood on the order book for last week, but which was of course superseded by the paramount subject of . Church rates, brought forward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Both notices have, as we have before said, the same object, namely, the establishment of a' system of National Educa tion. The argument which we have applied lately, while treating on the various projects for the purification and ef fectuation of the electoral system, will strictly apply, or rather will more forcibly imply on the present occasion, A broad and philosophical system of legislative Reform would sweep away any necessity for occupying public attention with the consideration of subordinate and piecemeal Re forms. As in every logical process of inference, the minor proposition of improvement would be included in the ma jor. A statesman-like and philosophical grasp of the whole system of our legislation would at once, by coupling vote by ballot with an equitable extension - of the suffrage, absorb all the minor measures into its own intensity, and advantageously get rid of the intermediate dis• traction of public attention from the considerations of other objects of equally urgent and paramount import ance. A system of National Education such as that proposed by the Hon. Members whose notices of motions we have made the text of these improvised remarks, is in fact linked by a family affinity with the preceding ques tion, and would get rid of those Hydra vices of electioneer• ing curruption against the multifarious and poisonous heads of which the heavy and never ineffectual club of the Hon. Member for Middlesex is pertinaciously directed. Is it not most disgraceful that after the Reform Bill, the bitter sar casms on the character of Englishmen, conveyed by Ho garth's well-known election pri n t s , s h ou ld poss e ss alm os t the same po int - of point of scorn and ridicule as they did in 177.5. A national system of education constructed du ring this long interval out of those educational funds, which a State Church has fraudulently misappropriated, would have torn up the whole of these unclean, degenerate, dis graceful, and infectious vices by the roots. Education would have taught an English freeman and an elector to spurn the offer of any bribe, the object of which was to make him less than a man—a beast caught by the most humiliating bait of gluttony or drunkenness—or to make him worse--a political prostitute; for wo hold that there is no difference in point of disgrace between the man who sells his manly opinions for money, or the woman who for the same money prostitutes her honour. He is equally unmanned and equally despicable, nor ought he to dare to look in the face any honest upright elector who spurns the dirty temp tation—who feels that the suffrage he exercises belongs to his countrymen and to his family—and who is therefore justly prompted to resent the proffer of a bribe for his pros titution with the same promptitude and effect as he would a personal blow. A corrupted freeman would in the midst of a highly educated people be regarded with loathing as something less than man, as an hermaphrodite, or a monster. An offer to corrupt would be received as an ancient Spartan gentleman—trained to despise money, would have received the calumnious imputation of possessing money,—with a knockdown blow. Such is the omnipotence of education. That loathing of dishonour, in fact, will be the feeling pro duced by establishing such a system of education as we, in common with the Ifon. Members for Bath and Liverpool, recommend—that feeling once engendered, there will be an end of all future offers of btlbery. Corruption, like the robber Cacus, will be dragged from the foul and dark hiding places of his polluted den, to perish in the light—amidst the full blaze of the intellectual day. What injury has the State Church not done by its disgraceful misappr o priation to this mome n t o f th e educational funds intended to effect this' benificent object ? The weight of this social crime alone is enough to sink that " scarlet mother of abomina tions" fathoms deep in the sea, beneath the mill-stone of public indignation, and the choral execrations of mankind. Nor is it only to legislative practice that the broad and philosophical principle which we advocate applies. It applies more directly to the whole system of criminal jurisprudence. We should require none of the silver tooth-pick reforms of Sir R. Peel in the Criminal Code if a sound system of national education were permitted to diffuse a clear and just appre ciation of man's individual, social, and national rights. There would be no occasion for such a painful exhibition as that now preparing for to-morrow before the debtors' 'door. Seals are, while we write, in (;fie act of beidg purchased, as for a theatrical spectacle ; and the tenants of the adjacent houses are renting their windows like stalls and private • boxes in a theatre. The Draconian criminal code might be purged of its sanguinary and self-defeating absurdities at once. The punishment of death might be safely reduced to the single instance of premeditated murder—and ulti mately, as we have urged before, be superseded by the soli tary confinement for life of the criminal, as a ma d man no longer to be trusted with the possibility of injuring his fellow men, and which, philosophically speaking, there cannot be a question that both morally and physically he is. So ciety, by omitting timely education,:revenges its own wrongs - upon its own victims. Having the power to train others, it trains murderous propensities, and punishes them. We take an extrenfe case, in referring to Pegszvorth—in order to enforce and complete our argument, as to the paramount necessity of a universal system of national education. In vested from that armoury, Christian legislation might safely obey the great mandate of the scriptures in the instance of the first example of murder—which denounces sevenfold vengeance on him who dares to take vengeance on the person of the murderer, and by doing so, to take away that life which man can neither give nor restore.—Morning Ad vertiser. `We cannot mince the matter relative to the ministerial scheme for the settlement of the question of Church-rates. To use the plainest, and at the same time the mildest terms that we can use in describing that scheme, we must call it downright robbery—a robbery in which the injury to the party plundered is attended with an inst r ilting putence of restitution—a restitution out of their own property or else a robbery of the property of others Either the Chu, ch or its tenantry arc to be plundered to make resti tution for the abolition cf Church-rates, or rather to the extent of less than half the value of the Church-rates abo lished. There is no species of property in this country that stands upon a higher title, than that of the National Church to Church-rates. That title is traceable through all the political vicissitudes of our history to the establish ment of Christianity, in connection with the State, under the Anglo-Aaxon Governments. Of`clourse, this property belonged to the Church, and was a legal charge upon other property, long before any of those dissenting sects were in existence, whose " tender consciences" are to be relieved by the confiscation of this propety. It used to be the strongest term of reproach that could be applied to a crimi nal in the dock in this country, that he would " rob a church." We have now a Chancellor of the Exchequer who sets about robbing all the Churches in England with a cool ness of effrontery which the hardiest of those financiers who are accustomed to raise " forced loans" upon his Majesty's subjects by other than Exchequer process might envy. Mr. Spring Rice tells the Church that the Ministerial scheme of robbery is for its good. We should think the last word must have been meant in the sense it bears when used in the plural number. "We be come here for all your goods," said the Prince, who understood English imper fectly. " Ay," said the John Bull bystander, " we have no doubt of that, and for all our chattels too. Now, Mr. Spring Rice—the " West Briton," whose own authority we have for stating that words are often used in a different sense in West Britain, alias Ireland, from what they are in Britain proper, when he says he comes to Parliament for the good of the Church, must mean for its " goods and chattels !" and, in truth, we do not think that Ireland, with all its " rogues and rapparees," could have sup plied any freebooter who could with more professional coolness set about this sort of sacrilegious asportation. The property which the West India planters had in their slaves, though of a far more recent and doubtful origin than that of the Church as to its rates, was acknowledged by the Whig Ministers. Upon that prin ciple they legislated, and at first proposed 15 millions of loan, and next 20 millions sterling, of rso, as a compen sation for the loss of that property. 'What would have have been said if ministers bad proposed that the compen sation to the planters should come out of their own pi o pcity What would haVe been said if ministers had pro posed that there should be a government Commission to manage the estates of the planters, and letting them at an improved value, to squeeze out of the occupiers the amount of compensation to the owners ? This is what the minis ters propose to do in regard to the Church. They propose to make restitution for robbing it of one species of property by robbing it of another. If it be right, and no grievance, in the legal sense of th e wor d, b e infli c t e d u p on th e l essees of Churc property, by raising the value of the property in the market, then the " improved value" as unquestian ably belongs to the Church, as the rates do. Ministers have no more right to give the one than to take away the other. When Mr. Spring Rice talks of the " tender con sciences" of the political dissenters, for whose sake the rates applied to keep up places of worship for the poor of the whole kingdom are to be abolished, wlrat are we to say of the " tenderness" of his own conse . ience, when he has the face to propose such a scheme o f sacri legious spoliation, and gravely assert that it '.s all for the good of the Church and the security of the, establishment ? We all know—all England knows, 'what Mr. Joseph Hume's wishes are for the good of `the Church and the security of the establishment. T o do him justice, he has taken no pains to disge'..se them. His approbation of the scheme of the Church-robbing ministers pretty clearly shows that he thinks tile aforesaid scheme is an admirable beginning of that system of destructive policy which is to make an end of the Church. in applaud ing the Whig scheme he could not conceal his feelings of cootomptuous triumph Q`•l the abandonment of Whig principles which it betrayed. He said, he "had oS jected to Lord Spencer's plan of _commuting the Church rates, and charging them on the consolidated fund, and he was pleased to find that four years of reflection had convinced the Right Hon. Gentleman and his colleagues in the -Government that the plan was untenable, the reasons assigned to that effect on the present oeeasion by the Right Hon. Gentleman being precisely those which he (Mr. Hume) had urged on the former occasion." He added, " a few years had effected a great change, and they had now, he was pleased to think, come round to him." This Whig scheme, then, is the very one which Mr. Hume, had he been Chancellor of the Exchequer, would have himself proposed. It ;is the one to whose principle Mr. Spring Rice gage the most decided opposition four years ago, and precisely upon the ground that it would leave a National Church without national support. Indeed, Mr. Spring Rice does not now with more apparent sincerity decry the voluntary system than four years ago lie decried the principle of the scheme which he has the assurance to-day to su b m i t to Parl i ament. In another four years he is not less likely to become as zealous an advocate for the voluntary system, - as he is to-day for the Church-robbing plan, which excited his horror, and called forth his indignant reprobation four years ago. We recollect when Mr. Spring Rice was as sensitive as Lord Plunket, on the sub ject of profane invasion of the sacredness of Church pro perty. Both have come round, however, as Mr. Hume expresses it, to the principles of one, who is not only the avowed enemy of the national Establishment, but who at tempted in his place in Parliament, some years ago, to de pose even" Divine Providence," and to relieve the Supreme Governor of the world from the controul and direction of hu m in sffairs. The legislation relative to the Church and its in teiests, which is accommodated to the wishes and the views of such a man, must be just such legislation as, when applied to the shepherd's fold, would meet with the approbation of the wolf. Two distinguishing characteristics of the pro posed measure, apart from all other considerations, must have tended strongly to recommend it to the adoption of our Whig Ministers. It holds out the inducements of plun der and patronage. The favourite machinery of a com mission is to be established. A Central Board, with three well-paid Commissioners, and several unpaid ones, is to work the spoliation project, and Church property is to be regulated after the same centralized fashion as the affairs of the poor. Indeed the poor have an interest in the Church rates, of which, to a certain extent, the Church is a quasi trustee for their Aenefit. Lord Sandon put that part of the question better than any one else when he said that " the Church Commissioners represented the destitution existing in the Church of England to be very great, and also declared that the Establishment was totally inadequate to supply the acknowledged deficiency of spiritual instruc tion. The Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rice) said that this measure would not diminish the patrimony of the poor. He (Lord Sandon) maintained that it would deprive the poor,of the only patrimony they possessed—that it would: withdraw not only from the existing poor, but from millions:. who were to Come after them, their only hope of possess ing the inestimable blessing of an efficient and well-en dowed ecclesiastical establishment." But is it to be ex pected that the Ministers, who by their Malthusian poor law have resolved that poverty shall be treated as crime —is it to be expected, we ask, that the Mimisters who. labour to expel the vital mercies of Christianity from the law of England, will feel their " tender consciences " much disturbed by robbing the poor of their national means of religious instruction, which our pious and patriotic ances tors had ordained that they should derive through the Church of England, "without money and without price ?" Tho amount of Church -rates, we believe, is between. 600,000(. and 700,000/. The sum to be handed over to the Church out of its own property, to compensate for: their confiscation, is to be 250,0001. The original sum ' i s so light an impost, diffused over all the parishes of Englate and Wales, that it can hardly be called a burden ; but the 230,000/. to be raised out of the Church property, by the screwing system of rack-renting, will be a very serious burden to the limited portion of the community upon whom the sum is to be raised. This is the gross injustice of the measure, as applied to individuals, but the grand objection s upon which the principal Conservative Members in the House of Commons ought at once to have denounced it in no mitigated terms of reprobation is, that it plunders the Church of its immemorial property and destroys its nation a l character, under pretence of relieving the tender consci ences of Dissenters. As we said on a former occasion, the same reasoning, as Mr. Rice employs to convince the House of the propriety of the measure would be equally valid to relieve all persons of republican opinioos from paying taxes to the support of the national Government. Why shook( not the consciences of the members of " So ciety of Friends," and others who are, on principle, op posed to war, be relieved against paying taxes to the support of a standing army and a navy, more especially when our military means are employed in such useless, unnecessary, and dishonourable slaughter as that which re sults from Lord Palmerston's non-intervention war in Spain. But that this measure of confiscatiors will satisfy the political Dissenters, and the Romanists and infidels, who are leagued with them fer tho destruction of Ow na tional Church, there is not the slightest ground for IssAi ev i ng . The Dissenters, when soliciting the repeal of the 'Test and Corporation Acts, as vehemently protested their respect for the Church Establishment, and the utter absenc e of any in tention to injure it on their part, as the Roman Catholic agitatorS did when looking for " emancipation." We see how bath these parties have kept their faith, and rewarded the generous credulity of the Churchmen in both Houses of Parliament who relieved them from all the civil disa bilities which had been formerly imposed in consequence of tick efforts to overturn the constitution and governasent of the country. Mr. Joseph Hume mentions very Signi ficantly that the Dissenters had resolved not to crab arrass Ministers by asking for any thing more at present. So a besieging army establishes its first parallel be fore it establishes the second ; but it is not because it proceeds by degrees in making :ti approaches, that it is therefore the less determined upon reducing the place besieged, which in the present instance is the citadel of our holy religion, whose ancient battlements its enemies, with the aid of the present Ministers, expect to raze to the ground. We must confess we do not like the tone and manner in which some of our leading Conservatives spoke of the Ministerial scheme. Somewhat more energy, sion, and judicious boldness in the defence of great_ prin ciples would surely not produce detriment, but tlr reverfte, to the Conservative cause. The conapliments, sy e ff us i ons of Sir R. Inglis to Mr. Spring Rice, in rrjference to his, vague and insincere expressions of respe'et, for the Protes tant Establishment, while he was aimirag a deadly blow at its existence, seemed to us to be sadly out of place. But the Protestant community, we have no doubt, will speak out, and they who would lead in so great a cause must show that they feel its inspiration. Our argument is confined to the principle-of the Bill, which is so bad, that we trust it may never be necessary for us to enter into a considera tion of its details. Holding that principle in abhorrence as we do, why should we enter into the minor topic of making profits by the sale of Church pews and other mat ters of that sort, while we hope that the principle on which all the rest depends will never be sanctioned by the Legis lature of England, of which the House of Lords yet forms a component part.—Morning Herald. Are the present revenues of the Chtrech sufficient or insufficient to provide amply for all drat a national Eccle siastical Establishment requires fe'e the decent splendour' of its hierarchy, the comfortable. independence of its Clergy, the repair from time to time of its venerable edifices, the performance throughout the entire kingdom of its sacred offices? We know that, for the due accomplishment, these purposes, the revenues of the Church are certainty and lamentably insufficient. Whence else the pe , _ petual applications to private benevolence for the effectinr, of that which the Church has no t f un d s to effect ? W'nence the Church accomuiodation societies, and the pastoral aid so cieties ? Whence the necessity for the ; exertion of tho pious munificence of our Relies and Netwcastles ? Whence., the letter of his most gracious Majesty orderin an appeal to be made to the religious spirit of his; people, from every o'arish pulpit, for the contribue'ion of the funds, wi',.'eOut which thousands in a Chris.' tian land must visit no church, learn no religion,. know no Gott, ':" This state of facts is notorious. Setting' aside the ore tors who inveigh against bloated Bishops, and pampered, pluralists, and corpulent canons, and similarly faceti.ons alliterations—the Humes, and the Bull crs , and the Molesworths—we have found no political ty.an of any eminence asserting that the revenues of the Church of England are more than adequate for the objects to which they are devoted. Now the revenues of the Church of England consist party of the property 'eco L ar,:athed by the piety of our ancestors for religious tmes, the lands in the possession of bishoprics, chapters, &e. ; and partly of contre-. butions levied under different. 'regulations upon every indi vidual in the commienitv oeming certain descriptions of pro perty, what ever his par . t*eular creed, for the maintenance of an institution -which is, in the most extdanded. sense; of the word—national. Such contribution s arc Tithes and Church-rates. They are of date from. time immemorial. They are no new taxes t against fhe bur thenscime imposition of which an unprepared vie tim may have a right to complain. The . Anabapti st; took. h i s f arm knowing as we ll the amount of his tith e as o f his rent. The S.ocinian entered his house contemplating the. payment of Sewer-rate and Church-rate with eqr.ial certainty. It is now proposed to deprive the C l aurel', of the Church-rates, a part of her long undispute",' income ; and to leave her, in. so far as the direct contributions of the people are concerned,. 250,000/. per annum poorer than she has hitherto been , . Upon what pretence it is that Mr. Spring Rice threatens to take 250,0001, per annum from a. Church whose . present income is so flu. inadequate to her wants, that anotell!Y weekly, daily, •Re - fie4-the yphiot . ory ripciplc called 'in aid