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_, O .RY• ZING S ' AY. 31$; at _,m o yal me at t° al. ling hie 3fr fat of 04 n 01, of all t° blie f rU— • er ' an d 0 ';eunis , n of i g the '7 O l o hea lth ty C° lls" . 0 in Iti alti* Staff (#l. lo the Ti° the ipliseee to o r" prisooed s e etir_ 4 . nd DO"' AY' thr ee' A tm at a ris 30 11. ' rtes Stir so 3 3 Of tlie the 0 14 le S ere roinP igi° 0 the p o° desti tute fr i n Rod", 0, 0 00 betlfet tr e to . - tr por I s Go' t le tte :t F d *sterti is 00 s )f th e I"- lUD 50 ° tbe e pt: lore el l e , ' , 10 144 • r." , r • or kei" par. if bo ,„00 , t 3ber rot° lo ng t he will toper "tir• d or; ill e- co°` the 00 5 ' )f Irel i'°(l 110 0"I r 5 : 5 ptl r t° t ber h i ' ee iio t : A for ' ° tr' r re. e . 10 11 COIC P n to b oe (3°' cls Bbe`v tad oo b , er cic 4 ' nt s nsitle re Ninoi c lo the a bill t ba r , bufl the d un . f a • ;o a r 0 b i r th ;41r bec° POOLE ELECTION. :gooentatit.g, MAT 19.--A vacancy having occurred in the re en of this orou the oth Riht Bareetu•abte Sir John Byng, gh to by the Peerage elevation by f the e title g of on Strafford, the electors assembled at the Town-hall this i 77 ( T uesday) fo r t h e purpose o f nom i nat i ng a can did ate i n is morn. 11 ,After the usual preliminaries the Sheriff proceeded to hold \Court for the election of a representative, when -148140E, Esq. (Mayor) begged leave to propose to the p i — wrs of Poole a gentleman of liberal Conservative princi es. Li eut.-General Grant. 3,4ll.goBAtzE:D, Esq., ,Esq.,seconded the motion. 11 sen., proposed the Honourable George 11, L 8 ", Esq., seconded the motion. ~ 4.., -311 t-Col. J. GRANT addressed the electors in behalf of t eral Gr an t. i l s`" "kn. G. BM) adverted to the support which he would _e Lord Melbourne's Ministry, in carrying out the principles te," °r d J. Russell's motion for the application of the surplus he of the Irish Church ; and also alluded to the sup de;_,ue was prepared to give a well-digested measure of Mu thlt'l)l", Reform. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by stating ti t ut' Administration of Lord Melbourne should have his ti g l:Port in the carrying of all good measures of Reform, and en ", and no longer, than they agreed with the wishes of his e show of hands being taken, the Sheriffs declared that A —a neers were equal, and that it was impossible to decide. poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Byng ; and the be poll declared the Court adjourned till to-morrow morning, o'clock. '"e election of Mr. Byng is considered certain. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CLOSE OF THE POLL, FIRST DAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. 11 °n• George Byng S ir C. Grant l6O Sheriff Majority for Mr. Byng 27 The oheriff having determined to take the votes alternately, ,retted the possibility of Mr. Byng being more ahead. p t , he number of voters registered is 412, and though the gst exertions are used by his opponents, there is no doubt r c , Byng's ultimate success. q iie • Since writing the above, Mr. Byng gained, in conse terZe of Sir C. Grant not being able to bring up votes al tely. S °IITIT STAFFORD ELECTION. (From the Morning Advertiser.) tv e Lichfield, Wednesday Morning, May 20. A tuo rY hour brings confirmation of the certainty of Colonel hti,u's triumph, and of the utter hopelessness of the Conser ts ti e l c ause in S ou th St a ff or d ; th e T or i es h av i n g, in addition tli to e unpopular odour in which they are generally held Ntrout the county, created for themselves a feeling of dis- Y,the circulation of a number of grossly offensive per ap ~tacards within these two days, the tendency of which— Se ct .f; as they have been to individuals at uncon poTh+ with politics—would heap odium even upon a good and R e l n i cr cause. The amended returns of the agents of the heyj el candidate, which were made last night, have placed t tu ?Itt the possibility of doubt the decisive result of the con -114414 his favour. The gross majority will be much greater ski King hav e b een ant i c i pa t e d, and the polling at Lichfield Oo od ", : in g Swinford, upon which the expectations of Sir F. Si l k ii cke sol e ly reste d, w ill t e ll a t a l e , f rom the burthen of kte T oryism shall learn such a lesson of humility as they to lo ut littl e prepared to rece i ve. Colone l A nson i s expecte d tppoudres 4 his constituents at Wolverhampton to-day. His SkC el lt has not, h o w ever , hazarded an exposition of his opi- N I for som e days, nor is he likely to do so, until he is corn served, to do it on the hustings. It is still asserted by the Con diit ; t ires that Sir Robert Peel will propose their candidate ; Ul u 1 1 °111 What I can learn from authentic sources, I consider cop se is merely p u t f orwar d as a decoy-duck, to give an air eowciquence to Sir F. Goodricke's pretensions which they not otherwise have assumed. THE SILENT CANDIDATE. SCENE FROM SHERIDAN'S CRITIC. lURTMOUTH HOTSL—WEST BROMWICH. Sir HOLTO.ArI Goonnrcrs ; gees slowly to the window of the- Dartmouth Rotel, and looks. ill:4PP"ter—Hush 1 vastly well, Sir I vastly well—a most Dtsting gravity. tor--What, isn't be to speak at all? • Sun '--Eg i ad I thought you'd ask me that. Yes, it is a ttfrl etY .likely thing that a Tory in his situation, with the whole Aug? of the nat i on on his head, sho'ild have time to talk. p7_ l or you'll ut him out ! lie t 7 c .t.—Put him out 1 How the plague can that be, if he's , 5 5 .° 1 ng to say any thing 1 th e l 4 - gu There's a reason I Why, his part is to think, and how e do you imagine he can think if you keep talking ? 'et--That's very true, upon my word ! Sir Holyoake comes forward, shakes his head and exit. h_-81ect.—He's very perfect, indeed. Now, pray, what did e mean by that? .3, P.—You don't take it ? Elect. —No, I don't, 'pon my soul. Sup.—Why, by that shake of the head he gave you to tndertand, that, even though they had more justice in their %Ise, and wisdom in their measures—yet, if there was not a greater spirit shown on the part of the people, the country r lr :kuld fall a sacr ifi ce to the Weigs and to the hostile ambition the O'C onne ll monarch 't on th e p o ll. monarch y, and that, above all, he would be h e ad? *EleCt. —Th e d ev il I D i d be mean all that by shaking his him V.--Every word of it—if he shook his head as I directed h stings b 9h 1 certainly there i s a v ast deal to be don© on the It y dumb-show. Nathless, I'll vote for Anson Anson, for ever ! GENERAL POST RECEIVING HOUSES.—The ft:) . ti i ;"'lg notice, announcing that the general letter-box offices in oa - e me tropolis are, commencing with this day, to be kept open o hour l ater every even i ng , has just been issued from th e litteral Post-office :—" To the General Post Receivers.— t h e Post master h as b een p l ease d t o di rec t, that on and f rom D tl f rs t dt tY, the 21st inst., the boxes for the receipt of general oa ts; ; Letters only shall be kept open till 6 o'clock ; but this ex thlielcan of time is not to interfere with the regular despatch of w e rags fro m your h ouse , as a t p r esent, at half-past 4 and 5 ti a ,: k k, which w ill b e ca lled for as heretofore, with the excep k; of th e i n l an d an d f ore i gn post - pa id b ags , w hi c h mus t b e e back to be sent at 6 o'clock with the last despatch. The ts te . i nust be most punctually kept. Newspapers can only be Wed till 5 o ' c l oc k, as at presen t. —D ANlE L STOW." GENERAL POST-OFFICE, MAY 18, 1835.—The thrtnaster-General has the honour to inform the Members of t ra , t w t e Hous e s of Parliament, that the receiving-boxes at the street, Post-offices, Charing-cross, Vere-street, and Lom for .;street, will in future be opened on Sunday until 7 p.m., b e lbe reception of letters franked by them on that day, to tei:or Warded by Monday's post. The Members can now re the e a o letters (double number) on Monday mornings: before I ,„_Y could only receive fifteen, and all extra were charged 'he first direct communication between China and t uok place last week in the arrival of a ship with teas to i sr3 • Murphy, of Morrison's Island. tr y, "e number of General-post letters from the coun -4141 Monday last, was 78,157; newspapers, 10,333. *fiber of Twopenny-post letters that passed on the same day i>726. 'tith N EW SERGEANT.--The public - fa learn, much gratification, that the vacant coif lir A s been bestowed 4 Mr. Woulfe.—Dublin Pilot. ( re - 0 RNIES COSTS.—In reference to an action p oo lprted in The Sun on Tuesdal: f brouht. against the Liver dm Journal, the Standard . o f the same town says—" We la w Y b eee cases of oppressir,,n practised under the sanction of h od ut singularly er:.ugh we are never favoured with the role $ s of the honest, att orne y s w h o are the authors of and the 'Ne n e" by t'nese oppressions. If the press would only ke f r , o ut aliti do justice to itself and the public, we should ar e fe wer of these vexatious and disgraceful eases."—[There ,Ive a : : reatt-ers of detail in that large measure of reform which Itaki:`,,Lcil:Ate in the administration of law that demands more e ttr - , A , a . .i n v m e e ly ra th oef c a o tt s e ts n . t l ion of all classes of the community than '1?„„ f ew days ago, the family of Mr. F—, at W—d, itt l ,„ - m , near Cla—ra, were alarmed by the sudden disappear- Yon' a nd unaccountable absence of Master F—, a dashing C.0 4 ;44 rellow of 1-6 fet 3in height. Rumour, however, married," the intelligence that the young gentleman " went to rsuit in consequence of which his father set off of the runaway ; and he reached the church of Kul -11(14,411 just as the officiating clergyman was concluding the forba l ge cere mony , an d, rushing up the aisle, vociferated, " I let n - c , the banns !" " Those whom God bath joined together, dQ i t - ; ,rnan put asunder," continued the parson. "By —, I'll Yo k T l „ - % Can," responded the irritated parent, and, seizing the Goliah, he trundled him into the carriage, which was li r k i n 'g out s id e , an d d rove rap idly o ff, l e aving the disconsolate %le e t 0 " weave the willow o'er her nuptial bed." The fair 4 1 ,'s daughter of a postmaster in the neighbourhood.— 'one Sentinel, CG RONER'S INQUEST—Yesterday afternoon, at w ei - Past two o ' c l oc k, an inquiry (which lasted till near eight h e f °e k in the even i ng ) t oo k place at Charing-cross Hospital, W: e Mr. G e ll, assisted by Mr. Higgs, the Coroners for es tminst er for the purpose of investigating the circumstan twe:ttending the death of Daniel Carroll, an Irishman, aged ttad - n t i, -s even, which was occasioned by several sabre wounds of t h - ,tier injuries received in a desperate fracas with several t ai .` Police of the F division on the 6th of April last, in n ' 3 t, Charles -street, Drury-lane. After the riot took to t he Davis,lJ a policeman, was apprehended and committed et r e New prison, Clerkenwell, by the magistrates of Bow rezZe.,t, in def au l t o f fi n di ng b a il, f or the assault, and he has J ar "ed there from that time. After hearing evidence, the `viii the following verdict :—" Manslaughter against th e lu lu Davi s an d Ri c b ar d Y a t e s, both police constables of th e ,divisio n of the Metropolitan Police." Mr. Robinson io " th aPplied to the Coroner, for Davis to be allowed to remain Cor o : N ew Prison until his trial, as he was very ill. The and i ß 's er said he h a d no t th e power to make such an order, to N e -su ed. his warrant for the committal of Davis and Ya te s w ere Nate, to take their trial for the offence. The witnesses 'lltewis e bound over to prosecute. LITERATURE. THE LIFE AND WORKS OF COWPER. Vol. 111. London: Saunders and Otley. Two well executed engravings by Finden, from drawings by Harding, form the pictorial embellish ments of the third volume of the Rev. J. S. Grim shawe's correct and elegant edition of the Life and Works of Cowper. The first presents a view of the market-place of Huntingdon, with its rude tents, its basket-wives, its heavy drays, its half Gothic church, and an inn which Shakspeare might have regarded as the domicile of ease and social comfort. The vig nette is equally striking. It represents the village church and parsonage-house at Hertford, and the Old Bell Inn, with a group of peasants, and a couple of contented looking cows in the foreground. In this volume the correspondence of the Poet is carried down to 1788—many of the letters now appearing for the first time. A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LA ND: COMPRISING RECOLLECTIONS, SKETCHES, AND REFLECTIONS, MADE DURING A TOUR IN TILE EAST, IN 1832-33. By ALPHONSE DE LAMAR TINE, Member of the French Academy. In 3 Vols. London : Richard Bentley. 1835. There is not such another book in the English language as this. It is, from the beginning to the end, replete with beauties and absurdities—with pathos and bathos—with noble sentiments and maudlin senti- mentality—with pure religion and ridiculous spiritua lizing theories—with ennobling thoughts and shallow sophisms—with fine poetical conceptions and grotesque fooleries, below the regard of a rational being. La- martine is egotism personified. He is evidently, in his own opinion, one of the most important personages in the world. He presumes that •no indi vidual, however humble, can be ignorant of his fame as a great poet ; and, consequently, that he can neither speak, think,- nor even breathe, without exciting the curiosity of all Europ•---a curiosity which he is laud ably eager to gratify. An Englishman who would talk so much of himself, would be pronounced unen durable ; and did his pen trace the sublimest concep tions ever given to the world, in characters of light, the public would no more think of soiling his pages than it would of exploring every jungle in the interior of Africa. But what would be insufferable in the Journal of an English traveller, is frequently the most delightful part of a Frenchman's Narrative. Certainly in the volumes before us the egotism is not the least amusing portion ; and we feel confident that entirely divested of it, they would be less acceptable to that class of fashionable readers to whom they are more especially addressed. The aerial castle-builder and the waking dreamer will find a delicious banquet in almost every page of these volumes ; but let no person open them in ex pectation of finding the usual complement of guide- book information. M. Lamartine travelled with all the splendour of a Sovereign Prince ; and as he informs us, was received with all the honours usually paid to the representative of one, in most of the countries through which he passed. His descriptions, with a very few exceptions, are too poetical—too much wrapped up in sentiment, and too closely interwoven with feelings with which an ordinary reader cannot sympathise, to be of the least value to persons about to make a tour of the East. Some of the most delightful passages in the work are episodes introduced with ap parent artlessness, and which have the happiest effect. For the verses, of which there is a great profusion, we cannot say much. They are pretty of the kind—no thing more. At the same time we must do the fair translator—Miss Landon—the justice to say that she has performed her part with great fidelity and much elegance. In giving an extract from this work we shall be guided by what we take to be the prevailing taste of English readers ; which, generally speaking, is less easily sated with facts than with fancies. Some of Lamartine's theories are highly valuable—particularly one which regards the legislative neglect of the ties of kindred in the preservation of social order ; and most of his rhapsodies contain conceptions worthy of a true poet; but the following description of the ceremonies of the bath is more after the manner of an English tra veller, and has, besides, the merit of being the most accurate that we remember to have read. The work is modelled after Chauteaubriand's Tour in Palestine : 19th September, 1832. " My wife and Julia have been invited, to-day, by the wife and daughter of an Arab chief of the vicinity, to pass the day at their baths; this is the diversion in which oriental women chiefly indulge. A bath is announced a fortnight beforehand, as a ball would be in Europe. I subjoin the description of this fete, such as my wife gave it to us this night on her ,return. " The bathing apartments are a public place, the approach of which is interdicted to men: on every day until a certain hour, in order that women alone may have the free range of them ; but when it is intended to be a bride's bath, such as the one in question, men are excluded throughout the day. A faint light is admitted into the apartments by means of small domes with painted windows. They are paved with marble, shaped into compartments, of varied colours, and inlaid with considerable skill. The walls are also lined with marble in the form of mosaics, or sculptured with Moorish mouldings or small columns. A graduated heat pervades these apartments ; the first one has the temperature of the external air; the se cond is tepid, the others are warmer in succession,—until the last—when the vapour of the almost boiling water rises from the bason, and oppresses the air with its overpowering heat. In general there are no basons scooped in the centre of the apartments, but merely spouts through which water to the depth of an inch is con stantly flowing upon the marble floor, running off through stone gutters, and incessantly renewed. What is called a bath, in the East, is not a complete immersion, but successive aspersions of a greater or less warmth, and the impression of vapour upon the skin. " Two hundred females of the town of Baireut, and of the neighbourhood, were on that day invited to the bath, and amongst them many young Europeans ; each one arrived wrapped up in an immense sheet of white linen, which com pletely conceals the superb costume of the women when they issue forth. They were all accompanied by their black slaves or free servants ; according as they arrived, they formed into groups, or sat down upon mats and cushions prepared in the outer ball; their suite removed the sheets which enveloped them, and they then appeared in all the rich and picturesque brilliancy of their dress and jewels. These costumes are highly varied in the colour of the stuffs and the splendour of the jewels ; but they are altogether shapeless. " The dress consists in broad folded pantaloons of striped satin, secured at the waist by a tissue of red silk, and drawn in above the ancle by a gold or silver bracelet; a robe worked in gold, open in front and fastened under the bosom, which is left bare ; the sleeves are drawn close under the armpit, and afterwards hang loose from the elbow to the wrist ; a silk gauze tunic runs underneath and covers the chest. Over the robe they wear a velvet vest of scarlet colour lined with sable or ermine, with gold embroidery over the seams ; the sleeves are also open. " The hair is parted across the head, a portion falling over the neck, the rest twisted in plaits falling to the ancles, and made longer by black silk tresses imitating natural hair. Small wreaths of gold or silver hang at the extremity of these tresses, which by their weight they cause to float along the shape ; the head is moreover strewed with small pearl chains, strung gold sequins, and natural flowers, all mixed up together and scattered with incredible profusion just as if the contents of a casket had been thrown pell-mell over those gaudy heads of hair, covered with the perfume of jewels and flowers. This barbarian gorgeousness has the most picturesque effect on young females of fifteen or twenty ; some women, moreover, wear a cap of cut gold, of the shape of an inverted cup • on the centre of which cap is seen a gold tassel bearing a tuft of pearls, and dangling on the shoulders. Their legs are bare, and the only covering of the feet are yellow morocco slippers, which they drag along at every step. " Their arms are covered with bracelets of gold, silver, or pearls ; their necks, with several necklaces, forming a twist of gold or pearl on the uncovered bosom. " As soon as all the women had assembled, a wild music was heard ; some females, whose breasts were only covered with a slight red gauze, uttered sharp and plaintive cries, and played on the fife and tambourine; this music continued throughout the day, and imparted to a scene of pleasure and festivity a character of savage tumult and frenzy. " When the bride appeared, accompanied by her mother and her young friends, and dressed in so splendid costume that her hair, 'her neck, her arms, and her breast, were com pletely concealed under a veil strewed with garlands of gold and pearls, the bathing women seized upon her, and stripped her, by degrees, of all her ornaments ; in the meanwhile the rest of the company were undressed by their slaves, and the various ceremonies of the bath now commenced. They moved, to tho unceasing sound of tha same music, coupled POPULAR STATISTICS. J. Thomas, Finch-lane, London. 1838. THE BELGIC REVOLUTION of 1830. By CILIIRLES WHITE, ESQ• THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1835. with more and more extravagant forms and words, from one apartment to another; they began with vapour baths; after wards came ablution baths ; perfumed and soapy water was next poured over them ; then commenced the several amuse ments ; and all the women indulged, with various cries and gesticulations, in the sports familiar to School-boys who are taken out to bathe—splashing one another, dipping their heads under water, throwing water in each other's faces ; the music withal growing louder and more yelling, as often as any of those childish amusements excited the boisterous laughter of the young Arab girls. At last they left the bath ; the slaves and other attendants again plaited the damp hair of their mistresses, fastened the necklaces and bracelets, dressed them in their silk gowns and velvet vests, spread cushions upon mats in the apart ments, the flooring of which had been wiped dry, and brought forth from baskets and silk wrappers the provisions prepared for the repast ; these consisted of pastry and all kinds of con fectionary, for which the Turks and Arabs are unrivalled ; sherbets, orange flower water, and all the icy beverages in which eastern people indulge at every moment. Pipes and narguils were also brought in for the elder part of the company ; a cloud of odoriferous smoke filled the atmosphere ; coffee, of excellent flavour, was freely served up in small cups en closed in little transparent vases of gold and silver wire ; the conversation now became animated ; dancing women came next, who executed, to the sound of the same music, Egyptian dances and the monotonous Arab evolutions. Such were the occupations of this day, and it was not until nightfall that the whole train of women led the young bride back to her mother's house. This ceremony of the bath usually takes place a few days before the wedding." There is an abundant variety of useful information, packed up in the smallest possible compass, in this lean little duodecimo. 'We have, first, a Universal Geography ; secondly, a Perpetual Companion to the Almanacs, containing, inter alia, accounts of the reve nues, chief cities, military strength, and population of every State in the world ; thirdly, a Distance Table of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales ; and, lastly, Chronological Tables of Ancient and Modern His tory ; to say nothing of an Engraved Chart of the World, after Mercator's projection, with which the volume is embellished. Thus recommended, it can scarcely fail to meet the views of the enterprising pub lisher by a speedy and extensive circulation. In Two Vols. London : Whittaker and Co. 1835. Out of materials which men of narrow minds, and common-place intellect, would no more think of dwell ing upon than they would of reviving a forgotten ru mour to their own prejudice, Mr. White has produced a manual which ought to find a place in the closets of kings and the bureaux of statesmen. The history of the Revolution of Belgium presents human nature under no new phase—it offers no striking incident of the effects of creed or clime, or time, or leadership, or example, on the movements of a whole nation. It merely illustrates an eternal truth—a truth which is yet but partially known to the Sovereigns of the earth —namely, that loyalty to kings, fealty to nobles, and reverence to priests, only exist among a whole people, so long as these functionaries regard themselves as the agents and executors of the will of the majority. There is a certain point at which resistance, in the sub ject, becomes a duty ; and so intuitive is this feeling— so correctly fixed is this standard in the human mind, that all revolutions brought about by a popular, univer sal movement in the masses which constitute the base of society, might be mistaken for the repetitions of the effect of one immutable cause. It is true that revolu- tions have been successfully effected, and dynasties completely overthrown by the conspiracies of nobles, or in expiation of the wrongs of individuals ; but the people took no part in them—they were passive spec tators of acts which they either could not, or knew not how to prevent. Besides, it is of the utmost impor tance to remember, that although the rebellion of feu dal chiefs may be followed by the same consequences, with respect to kings, as the rising of the people, yet the acts of regal deposition are in themselves essen tially different. The people cannot be guilty of rebel lion, because their universal will constitutes political justice. They may, it is true, depose a virtuous and a liberal Sovereign ; they may rise en masse in support of the most degrading superstitions, when the object of the Prince is to diffuse among them the light of truth, and rear up for their benefit the most liberal institu tions ; but even in these cases they are justified in re sisting the violence offered to their consciences, and the restraint imposed upon the exercise of their judg ment and their will. The mind is beyond the province of regal government, and whoever attempts to bridle it by penal laws and enactments is a tyrant. The history of Belgium offers a useful and a salu- tary lesson to the Government of this country, as far as concerns its conduct to Ireland. For upwards of eighteen centuries Belgium might be termed the com monage of European kingdoms, to the right of which all and each were entitled to lay claim. Austria, Spain, France, and Holland, respectively held it in a state of vassalage. It had been sunk so low in the opinion of its several possessors, that it was deemed an act of grace in the Government to consult the feelings and habits of its people previous to the imposition of new laws. Charles V. granted it a constitution, which was remodelled by Philip of Anjou and Charles VI. ; Joseph 11. attempted to improve the institutions of Belgium, and to deliver the people from the thraldoM of the priesthood, which led to an insurrection under the celebrated Vandernoot, and eventually caused its annexation to the French Republic. The history of its ill assorted union with Holland under the Orange dynasty, after the deposition of Napoleon by the Allied Sovereigns, is well known. Now, during this long period it never appears to have entered into the heads of her conquerors, that Belgium ever would or could raise herself to the dignity of a Sovereign State. Had such an idea been entertained, the mad projects of the King of Holland would not have received the sanction of the States-General. These projects were:— imposing the Dutch language upon the public func tionaries in Belgium—parcelling out all dignities among Hollanders—closing the avenues of justice to the Belgians, by insisting upon all legal pro ceedings being conducted in a foreign idiom—and at tempting to proselytize the people from the faith of their fathers, by interfering with the exercise of the Catholic religion—the religion of the majority. It was the previous abject condition of Belgium that encou raged King William to despise the remonstrances of her people. They were the majority, but William was a Tory of the good old Church and King school, and laughed at the idea of subjecting the acts of his Government to the will of the majority. He was a bigot too—an infirmity of mind which has always appeared conspicuous in every branch of the House of Orange. Like the Tories of Great Britain, with re gard to the Irish Church, he was less solicitous to court the affections of the populace, than to root out popery. The consequence of all this was that he reached the point which justified resistance in the people, without being aware of his approach to it ; and so lost a crown in a foolish struggle to impose a foreign language, foreign institutions, and an orthodox creed upon the despised, but resolute, adherents to the faith and usages of their fathers. Heaven grant that the bigotted and proselytizing spirit of the English Tories may not be attended with con - sequences equally fatal to the Sovereignty of the British Empire ! Mr. White's History of the Belgic Revolution is written in a spirit of great earnestness, fairness, and impartiality. Being himself a resident in the country, and on the spot during the greater part of the eventful struggle, his descriptions are vivid and animated, with here and there a touch of colouring which gives an impressive reality to his more striking scenes. He I evidently lent himself to the interests- of .. no party or faction. In exposing the mistakes of Holland, he has not failed to chronicle the private virtues of her King, the chivalry of her princes, and the patriotie loyalty and devotion of her nobles ; and, in approving of the seces sion of Belgium from a connexion degrading to her honour and her interests, he has not passed over her folly in placing a temporary dependence in the faith of her political mountebanks and intriguing demagogues. We had proposed to make some extracts from this very valuable work, but, on consideration, we have thought it as well to omit them, as they are, from their great length, unsuited to our columns. The book is valuable for the correctness of its facts, but, in our and conclusions which the opinion, an hundred times more so for th e excellent, hor draws from them. and in some instani:Ps invaluable, political inferences D UFFIN, ON CURVATURE op' THE SPINE. London, 1835. The second edition of this little work is, We and, more condensed than the former one, and illustrated by several good lithographs. We sincerely trust that the subjects will be carefully studied by those whose interests it principally concerns, viz., parents and in structors of female youth, and that it will thus prove in many instances the means of retaining that beautiful and graceful form which nature has given to the more interesting part of the human race, but which, we are sorry to say, is frequently, though unintentionally, di verted into deformity by the mistaken plan of physical education so often adopted. The subject is set forth in a plain, forcible, and concise manner, and the ana tomical and physiological details are disencumbered of professional and technical terms, so as to render them fully understood by the general reader. THE KING'S LEVEE. The Queen, attended by Lady Clinton, arrived in town at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, from Windsor Castle. His Majesty, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, arrived in town soon after one o'clock, from Windsor Castle. The King held a Levee at two o'clock. The Marquis of Conyngham had an audience of his Majesty, and kissed hands on being appointed Lord Chamberlain. His Lordship received his wand and gold key of office from the King. Lord Morpeth was presented, on being appointed Chief Se cretary for Ireland. Lord Eliot was presented by Viscount Palmerston, on his return from Spain. Sir Edward Sugden, on his return from Ireland. The Levee was attended by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Viscount Fincastle, Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Davison, Captain Stephens, and Lieut. Baron Knesebeck, Aide-de-Camp to his Royal Highness; his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, accompanied by Sir J. Conroy; the Austrian and Russian Ambassadors ; the Neapolitan, Prus sian, Wurtemberg, Hanoverian, Netherlands, Danish, Por tuguese, Spanish, and Saxon Ministers ; Noorri Effendi, and his Interpreter and Secretary, Prince Voghoridi, jun., of Samas, accompanied by Mr. Salame, his Majesty's Oriental Interpreter; the Bavarian Special Minister, the United States and Swedish Charge d'Affaires ; M. de Hummelauer, First Secretary to the Austrian Embassy ; Baron C. de Selby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Earl Marshal, the Bishop of Worcester, Clerk of the Closet, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting • the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, the Trea surer of the Household, the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, Deputy Clerk of the Closet; the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, Sir C. Thornton, Colonels Sir R. H. Dick, Sir A. Dickson, R. A., Sir A. Dalrymple, and Pakenham, Aides de- Camp to the King ; Lord Saltoun, Field Officer of Brigade in Waitin g , Lieutenant-Colonel Bouverie, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Colonel Horace Seymour, Equerry ; and Master Stephenson, Page of Honour ; and the following : The Marquis of Conyngham. EARLS—Brownlow, Sefton, Craven, Kinnoull, Harewood, Dartmouth. VISCOUNTS—Morpeth, Combermere, Fincastle, Temple town, Sydney. Loans—Lyndhurst, Cowley, Eliot, Fitz alan, IT, C. Beau clerk; W. Powlett, Carberry, Rolle, Granville. RIGHT HONOURABLES—Frederick Shaw, Sir E. H. East. The Hon. Mr. Vesey. SlRS—Alexander Johnston, Michael Shaw Stewart, E. Sugden, J. Mordaunt, G. Noel, Bart., J. Gibbons, H. Par nell, E. S. Stanhope, T. H. Curteis, G. Staunton, H. Pal liser, T. Ommaney, T. Troubridge. Mr. Sergeant Adams ; Dr. Whitelaw Ainslie. Rsv. MESSIEURS—A. M. Bennett, R. Gorton, T. Mill. M E ssas.—William Angerstein, Montague Parker, Young, M.P., Elsley, Henry 11. Holies, N. Wigney, Dehany, Den ham, Richard Bourke, Maxwell, Pole, Lucas, A. Drummond, East, M.P., M. Ure, Halkett, Carwick, J. G. Briggs, Fyler, Halswell, M. Dyer, jun., Gibbons, Tudor, G. H. Cavendish. GENERALS—Sir Thomas Hammond, Peachy, Sir H. Hal kett. Carey, Sir W. Eustace,W. Wilson, Crosbic, G. Mitchell. COLONELS—Fox, Sir Robert Gell, Hodder, Sir W. Davison, the Earl of Wiltshire, Gurwood, Sir R. Shaw, Bart., Tom line, Evans, Muir, Burgoyne, Sir J. Reynett, O'Donnell, P. Phipps, Long, Hon. G. Trevor, Money, Tremanghere, Duffy, Clitheroe. MAJOR E. Priestley. CAPTAlNS—Stephens, D. Brown, G. F. Upton, Wood, Wyndham, Bonnor, J. Lewis, Wright. Liturs.—Baron Knesebeck, Hon. H. Browne, Jones. CORNETS—Booth, G. Brown, Grant, Ibbctson. ADMIRALS—Lawford, J. A. Ommaney. CAPTAINS—T. Carew, Mangin, D. Mackay, R. Patton, Festing, Thornton. CAPTAINS (H. C. H. )—Toiler, Isaacson. The following presented Addresses to the King:-- Sir Michael Shaw Stuart, from the Paisley Youths' Church Society, in support of the British Constitution, so happily established in Church and State. The Earl of Kinnoull from the Heritors, Minister, Elders, and Residents of the united parishes of Monievaird and Strowan, in the county of Perth, thanking his Majesty for the gracious expression in the Speech from the Throne, at the opening of Parliament, of his Majesty's desire that the opportunities of religious worship for the poorer classes of society should be increased in Scotland. The Archbishop of Canterbury from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Diocese of Canterbury, expressing a deep ap prehension of the dangers which menace the United Church of England and Ireland, and the religious liberties of all Pro testants, protesting against the appropriation of Church pro perty to any but ecclesiastical purposes, and praying that his Majesty may be enabled to preserve, unimpaired, the pure Apostolical Church established in this realm. Also from the Dean, Chancellor, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, and Clergy of the Diocese of Norwich, expressive of their alarm at the at tempt to establish a principle that a part of the property of the Church may be alienated from the uses of the Protestant Es tablishment, at the same time declaring their confidence in his Majesty's protection, and their satisfaction . at the appointment of Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Sir John Mordaunt, from Southam and seven other parishes in the county of Warwick, expressing regret at the resigna tion of his Majesty's late Ministers, and praying his Majesty not to consent to the revenues of the Protestant Church being appropriated to other than Protestant purposes. Mr. Lucas, from the High Sheriff, Magistrates, Clergy, and other inhabitants of the town and county of Monaghan, regretting the resignations of his Majesty's late Ministers ; and praying his Majesty to maintain inviolate our present institu tions in Church and State. Also six addresses to the same effect from the parishes of Monaghan, Clontitrel, Kilmore, Tyhallan, Tedavuet, and Erigle, in the same county. Mr. Maxwell, M.P., county Cavan, from the Noblemen, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the county Cavan, and from the minister and parishioners of the parish of Castleterra, praying his Majesty to uphold and protect the Established Church in Ireland, and expressing the fullest confidence in his Majesty's late Ministers. Hon. Mr. Vesey from the parish of Ahavor, and also from the parish of Rathdowney, expressive of confidence in the late Government, and attachment to the Established Church. Sir John Troubridge from the inhabitants of Deal and Walmer. Colonel Clitherow, accompanied by Sir John Gibbons, Cap tain Thomas Wood, Mr. D. K. Taylor, Mr. John Gibbons, Mr. Edward Halswell, and Mr. J. M. Dyer, from the Magis trates, Freeholders, and Electors of Middlesex, praying his Majesty will not consent to the appropriation of any portion of the revenues of the Church of the United Kingdom to other than Protestant ecclesiastical purposes. Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, from Charlestown, in the county of Louth, in supoirt of the Established Church ; and one from Dorchester. Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. J. Mee Trevor, from Tenby. The following were presented to the King Mr. W. Angerstein, by Mr. Angerstein. Mr. Y oung , M. P., on his marriage, by Lord Farnham. Sir Henry Parnell, by Lord Melbourne. Mr. Sergeant Adams, on his appointment. Lord Fitzalan, by his father. Captain John ' Lewis, on his return from India. Colonel Hodder, North Cork Militia, by Lord Carbery. Mr. Elsley, Deputy Lieutenant, by the Earl of Harewood. Mr. M. Parker, M.P. for South Devon, by Lord Rolle. Captain G. F. Upton, on his return from India. Mr. Lucas M.P. for the county of Monaghan. Lieut.-Colonel Evans, C. 8., by his brother, Colonel Tomline, on his appointment, by Earl Brownlow. Mr. Henry H. Holley, by Capt.. Windham. Mr. R. Bourke, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Wev. R. Gorton, by the Right' Hon. H. Goulburn. Sir E. Sugden, on his return from Ireland. Capt. Donald Mackay, R.N., on his return from abroad. Capt. Bonnor, by Sir Herbert Taylor. Lieut.-Colonel Sir W. Davison, on his return from Hanover. Lieut. the Hon. H. Browne, by Lieut.-Colonel Molyneux. Colonel Sir R. Shaw, Bart., by the Right Hon. F. Shaw. Rev. A. M. Bennett, on his visit to St. Petetsburgh. Capt. Isaacson, of the late Hon. Company's Service. Capt. Toler, of the late Hon. Company's Service. Lieut.-Colonel Gurwood, on his return from Spain. Major E. Priestley, by Lieut.-General Sir H. Taylor. Lieut.-Colonel iNiair;by Lord Hill. Capt. D. Browne, by the Marquis of Winchester. Cornet Grant, by Colonel Molyneux. Rear-Admiral J. A. Ommanney, C. 8., by Lord Auckland. Capt. Stephens, on his return from Hanover. Lieut.-General Sir H. Halkett, by Baron Ompteda. Cornet Ibbetson, by Colonel Sir A. Dickson. Lieut. Baron Knesebeck, by Baron Ompteda. Viscount Fincastle, by Baron Ompteda. Cornet G. Brown, by Colonel G. Molyneux. After the Levee his Majesty held a Privy Council. The Marquis of Conyngham and Lord Morpeth were, by command of the King, sworn of his Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, and took their seats at the Board. A petition was submitted to his Majesty in Council, from King's College, praying that the College may not be placed in a situation inferior to any other institutions, particularly so far as relates to conferring degrees. The petition was or '^red to be referred to the Committee for considering the Chart, to the London University. A sea l to: St. Helena was approved of. The Honourable William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council. luced to an audience of the King, Lord Cowley was intro:. Viscount Palmerston. upon his return from Paris, by at an audience, by Vis- Lord Granville was also presentt : ' count Palmerston. t Melbourne, the His Majesty gave an audience to VisceaiLl Marquis of Winchester, the Marqu i s of Lan:downe, Lord Hill, Lord Glenelg, and the Earl of Albemarle. Lord James O'Brien and the Honou rable Captain george Campbell, R.N., were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and attended by Lady Clinton, visited the new Palace in James's Park yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, with Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, will be present this day at the fete champetre in aid of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear. The Duke of Cumberland, the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, visited their Majesties yesterday, at St. James's Palace. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The causes for hear ing were Poneakhoty v. the King, Bombay second appeal (to be spoken to); Hart v. Chandler (Lower Canada); and Lela Choonelab Magendas v. Saraeckund Namdeas, from Bombay ; Messrs. Miller, and James Wigram, and Mr. Lloyd addressed their Lordships. The Court adjourned at four o'clock. 71, / / FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Earl of Lichfield, in St. James's-square, from Newmarket ; B. Hall, Esq., M. P., in Hertford-street, May-fair, from Herts; Sir George Armytage, Bart., from Notts • Sir George Brown, Bart., from Ireland; Sir John Sebright, Bart., in Harley-street, from Herts; Lady F. Burdett, from Brighton; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins, in Nottingham-place, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jer. myn-street, from Cambridge ; Mr. and Mrs. Pierce, and family, at ditto, from the Continent ; Mrs. Steers, at ditto, from a tour ; Rev. H. Wagner, at ditto, from Brighton ; Godfrey Higgins, Esq., at ditto, from Berks ; Mrs. Preston and family, at ditto, from Brighton ; William Close, Esq., and ' Brownlow; Esq., at ditto, from a tour • Colonel and Mrs. Hunter Blair, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Leamington ; Mr. and Miss Page, at ditto, from Pointers, near Cobham, Surrey ; Dr. Mackinnon, at ditto, from Lea mington ; William Young, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Rev. H. Waldo Sibthorpe, Mrs. Sibthorpe, and family, at the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie and family, at ditto, from India; Mr. and Mrs. Ro binson and family, at ditto, from Ireland ' • Rev. Douglas, at ditto ; Rev. A. Morgan, at ditto ; Lord and Lady Dun sany, in Lower Brook-street, from a continental tour ; Lord and Lady Brudenell, in Carlton-gardens, from ditto ; Colonel and Mrs. Power and Captain Collyer, from ditto ; Viscount Brabazon, from ditto ; Messrs. Croker, Berkeley, Halkett, Coppinger, and Spencer, from Paris ; Colonel Verner, M. P., from ditto ; C. A. Walker, Esq., M. P., from Leamington Priors ; Lord Charles Russell, from ditto ; Lords John and George Manners, from a tour ; Viscount Lake, at Crawley's Hotel, from Acton Clinton, Herts; Hedworth Lambton, Esq., in Dover-street, from a tour. DEPARTURES. Lady Clinton, for Windsor; Hudson Gurney, Esq., M.P., from St. James's-square, for his seat, Keswick Hall, near Norwich ; Sir Lawrence and Lady Palk, from Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat in Devonshire ; James Taylor, Esq., from ditto, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. George Ward, from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for their seat, Northwood Park, Isle of Wight. THE ANCIENT CONCERTS. SIXTH CONCERT. The sixth ft,:eting of this Association was held yesterday evening at the Kth - t ;'s Concert Rooms, Hanover-square, under the superintendence of his Grace the Archbishop of York, who, in the absence of the Earl of Fortescue, undertook its direction. To this dignified sOagenarian, who appears as vicar-general for all his absent ai;A slothful brethren, the audience was indebted for a selection of music from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, and other composers too nume rous, and some of them too contemptible to I •;.articularize. We could not but feel charmed by the devotiona► feeling which appears to have been the leading characteristic of the programme, although our faint and obscure notions of eccle siastical orthodoxy will not allow us to bestow that full meed of approbation which such a laudable circumstance in justice demands ; inasmuch as we found some of the transitions from the varieties of this sublunary scene, to the mysterious solem nities of the unseen world, rather too sudden and violent for our terrene and less imaginative tastes and feelings. We could not perceive the most distant connection between the " The Bright Ey'd Flora" and " Breathing Zephyr" of Mr. Hobbs, and the " Emmanuel, God with us" of Miss Pos tans, to which succeeded the voluptuous and tender strains of " Il mio tesoro" from Don Juan, followed immediately by the chorus, " For unto us a child is born"—" The Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace." Nor could our crude and unformed ideas of propriety fully sympathise with the spirit that led the Director to introduce Miss Kemble's beautiful solo, " 0, magnify the Lord," by an old opera over ture of Handel, and follow it by the lay, Heigh ho ! sing heigh ho ! unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then heigh ho the holly, This life is most jolly." This misanthropical ditty was succeeded by the " Ombra Ado rata" of Malibran, and then came a beautiful and scientific com position of Mozart—a Hymn of praise to— " Earth and Heaven's great Creator, Sinful man's sole Mediator." All this appears to us to have been dictated by very bad taste, and we fear our religious notions are as widely different from those of the Most Rev. Director, as we know our musical ones to be. The selections from the " Seasons" of Haydn was a novelty at these concerts, and would have met with more attention if it could have had the benefit of a rehearsal—the public re hearsal, so called, is a mere farce. Mozart's lovely ottetto was compelled to give way for a stupid March of Haydn (which of the Haydns, we wonder ?) because there was no opportu nity to put one or two of the gentlemen right. A similar misfortune attended the highly descriptive introduction to the Trio and Chorus from the " Seasons," which was to have been performed at the second of these Concerts. In that instance the whole of the rising dawn with the curious crow of the cock, given to the oboe, was omitted—it having been murdered at the rehearsal. Madame Malibran made her appearance in the " Non pin di fiori " of Mozart; but, unfortunately, her exertions in the previous part of the evening at another place had destroyed the purity of her intonation. She nevertheless executed this most extraordinary and difficult scena in a way which defies description. Her con ceptions are so grand and daring, that she will leave rivalry hopeless long after the purity of intonation may fail her. We have had previous occasion to mention, in terms of high com mendation, the chaste and pathetic execution of Tamino's scena by Rubini, who repeated his performance this evening to the manifest delight of the audience. He was less success ful in the cavatina from Don Juan. How the Directors can persist in overlooking the writings of Mozart we cannot ima gine, who, of all musicians, is the most voluptuous and ten der, the most varied and sublime. If nothing but puerile exag gerations and feeble ornaments can supply the deficiency of interest to be found in the imbecilities of Millico, we should recommend the future absence of his name from the schemes of these concerts. Dr. Crotch some time since com posed a motett upon some words of Thompson in the nature of a solo for a bass voice accompanied by a choruss. The chorus singers repeat the words " Hallelujah, Amen," whilst the solo performer imagines he hears " the full celestial choir" chaunting their " awful anthems" through " heaven's high dome." The music is in that barren and bastard style which • distinguishes all our modern composers for the church ( Wesley alone excepted), and displays but little novelty and no genius. As the worthy Doctor is, we arc happy to say, in the land of 1 the living, we hail the introduction of his compositions as an indication that the Directors are about to get rid of a most absurd regulation—that of debarring themselves from the compositions of living writers. We may now expect to hear. Spohr and Cherubini ; and possibly the " Confitebor," " In exitu Israel," and " the Ode to St. Cecilia," of Samuel Wesley, may now be introduced to the public no tice. Since the days of Harry Purcel, we know of no com poser to equal Samuel Wesley in the strict ecclesiastical school, but of whom Lord Burghersh and his Grace the Arch bishop, we suspect, are most profoundly ignorant. The motett was most execrably performed ; Mrs. Kynvett and a batch of archiepiscopal cherubims were secreted behind the royal box, whilst Mr. Phillips retained his position at the extreme of the other end of the room. The efforts of the " full celestial choir" were anything but cherubinical, and the grumbling noise,they produced more like the unearthly sounds of the spirits from the vasty deep. In one respect they became ethe rial, for they lost all notion of the lime they started with, and Mr. Knyvett, by going to the organ, with the forlorn hope of setting them right, enabled the audience to calculate also how much they were out of tune. We trust this absurdity will never he repeated. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.. The election of Lord John Russell by the constituency of Stroud is a remarkable event in the life of that politi cian, marking, as it does, the precise period at which more numerous, respectable, intelligent, and independent electors of South Devon determined not to have any thing' more to do with, his Lordship. Upon such an occasion it was natural and proper that the Noble Lord should make . a speech, and a speech he accordingly made. His speech very naturally and properly, also, upon this occasion, would be the very best of which he is capable ; first , to show the electors of South Devon what a treasure they had thrown away in their old Representative ; and, secondly, to prove to the .men of Stroud how rich and rare a prize they had gained in their new one. The Stroud speech of the Noble Lord has every possible right to be regarded as his crack oration. His actual position, every circumstance that surrounded him, required that in this instance he should put forth his whole strength, and draw with unsparing prodigality upon his choicest and most valued re sources. The ostensible leader, in the House of Commons, of the Melbourne O'Connell Ministry, addressing the new constituents who had just elected him, in their mercy, after his rejection by the county he had long represented, and recollecting, as he must, that the leader of the Conservative party in that assembly had recently made a speech which every man, woman, and child in the three kingdoms, who. has been taught to read, had been reading with eager ad miration, was bound, as every body must see at a glance, to make a good speech, if he could. We cannot, in justice to Lord John Russell, withhold the expression of our belief that in the position he filled upon this important occasion, and with the strong incentives which urged him, on every side, to his utmost effort, he would have made a good speech had it been in his power. His speech, Lowever, as every one who reads it will admit, so far C."om being a good one, is one of the most miserable pieces of twaddle that ever fell from the lips of a public man in Great Britain. It is a speech which, low as the general ckAracter of Parliamentary oratory is, at the present day, wouLd positively have disgraced any third-rate man of any of the numerous parties in the present House of Commons. There is not one of O'Connell's tail, not one of the Metropolitan Members, not one even of the ad mirers and followers of Mr. Hume, who upon such an oc casion, or upon any or no occasion, could not have made a better speech. We read it when it first came to our hands on Tuesday night, in the expectation . that we should at least have found in it some gleams of thought. We read it again and again, last night, in the idea that there might be something in it, which had before escaped us—until its perfect inanity gave us the head ache. It was all in vain. We could not find a thought, which has not been among the most common of the common-places of the Whig-Radical press ever since the moment when Lord Melbourne and his col leagues were dismissed from office. Never before has it been our fate to see so perfect a specimen of impotence and sterility. We must positively entreat our friends of the City of London Conservative Association to append this speech of Lord John Russell to their corrected edition of the late speech of Sir R. Peel, that all the world may have in their possession a new and lasting proof, a clearer proof than has yet perhaps been given, of the immense difference between the two Parliamentary leaders. The contrast which wouid thus be presented must surely be enough to sink the party - which acknowleges Lord John Russell for its leader. The hackneyed topics of the gratitude due t o th e au th ors of the Reform Bill, of the just and necessary consequet2ces of that measure, and of the inability of any other Statesmen than its authors to work out those consequences, constituted the whole oration of the Ministerial leader. Surely Lord John Rus sell does not expect the peopie of England to forget that there has been no equal period to that which elapsed since the passing of the Reform Bill, from the conclusion of the war with France to the present day, in which more was not done to improve, in the liberal sense of the word, the insti tutions of the country, and to economise its resources, than the Reform Ministers, with the advantage of an obedient House of Commons have accomplished or even attempted. Was it Lord John Russell, or his party, or his Reformed Parliament that effected the most valuable reforms made, in modern times, in the laws of England ? Is it any of these that hail the chief merit of reducing the national burdens, as they have been reduced since the year 1815 ? Is it by any of these that the Test and Corporation Act was repealed, or that his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland were relieved from the civil disabilities of which they complained And what reason can Lord John Russell advance why the statesmen who accomplished such important changes as the above cannot accomplish every other change that the times require, or the deliberate and confirmed opinion of the country really demands ? He offers no other reason than the cuckoo cry that he and his col leagues are the authors of the Reform Bill, and that the Statesmen who are his rivals were its opponents.' This reasoning, if the fact upon which it rests were admitted, is inconclusive ; but the assumption upon which it is founded is not admitted, and is not true. Lord John Russell cannot reckon among his colleagues or supporters all the 'statesmen who co-operated with him in carrying- the Reform -Bill ; many of the best and most able of whom are, on the con trary, the most determined opponents of his present policy, and that of the colleagues or confederates with whom he is now surrounded. Are Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Earl Grey, the Duke of Richmond, and . the Earl of Ripon, men so inconsiderable in the estimation of the magnificent Member for Stroud, that their secession from a political party—their secession upon principle, is not to be regarded as the symptoms of any important change in the character or objects of that party ? Were Lord John Russell and Mr. O'Connell everything to the Reform Bill, and Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham, and the other seceders from the O'Connell Ministry, absolutely nothing ? The new Member for Stroud must have been dreaming when be spoke, or he would not have repeated, even to the people of that borough, the absurdities by which the journals in the interest of the Administration have endea voured to separate from the cause of Reform the name of every supporter of the Bill who has too wuch patriotism; in telligence, and spirit to follow the example. of Lord John Russell, and enlist under the banners of Mr. O'Connell, for the destruction of the Irish branch of the Church of England, and the establishment of Popery in its place. The speech of Lord John Russell contains no distinct allusion to any measure which the present Administration has in its contemplation. All that we can gather from it is that. something or other, nobody can tell what, will be, attempted upon the subject of Corporation Reform. With an attempt, probably a foolish and abortive one, to change the character of the corporations of the kin g dom ~- the zealous and sinr3 Reformers, now in office, intend, it seems, to satisfy them selves for the present session of Parliament. Will this satisfy those who preferred them to Sir R. Peel and his colleagues, on the ground of their being more resolute and efficient Reformers ? Will this be thought sufficient in re demption of the pledges implied in the Parliamentary harangues and votes by which they displaced their prede cessors ? If they expect to be so easily let off they reckon, we imagine, without their host.—Morning Post. The Tories are determined to fall by self-destruction. We have foreseen, for several weeks, the consequences of their last movement. " Conservative Societies," for the propagation of Tory principles, impose on their poliCeal adversaries the necessity of adopting counter-associations in. self-defence. The Orange So;;icties in Ireland called into existence the Catholic Association. A " No Popery" howl was the prelude to the national demand for a full restitution of the rights of conscience. Persecution of the humble advocates of Parliamentary Reform recruited the ranks of its adherents ; and we have recorded, within the last few years, the successive triumphs of popular questions. The Tories, having been signally defeated by the Peo ple in the great national contest for the amend ment of the Representation, have lately concentrated all their forces with a view to destroy its efficacy. We predict that they will have in their second project no better success than in their first. If they failed in their attempt to withhold from the nation the instrument of legislation, they may rest assured that they will not prevent its use. Agitation has been a losing game to the Tories. Designs of Tory " re-action" have aways failed. The Tories in vain put forth their utmost strength during the discussions on the Reform Bills. They fruitleSsly poured forth their lamentations and fulminated the most awful predictions ; in vain they circulated their county protests with an indus try worthy of a better cause ; in vain they deluged the Court with addresses—all these old party devices were treated with contempt by the people. We give them credit for " dying hard," but the faction must and will expire, notwithstanding its protracted vitality. Their last desperate resort—the formation of Poli tical Unions and Conservative Clubs—is an act of sui cide. " Two can play at that." Experience is on the side 'of the Reformers. We are at a loss to conceive what the Tories can gain by this destructive system. It must necessarily compel the Liberals, of all grades of opinion, to unite cordially against the common enemy. The sanction of these offensive associations by the clergy espe cially is fraught with danger to the National Church. Po litical priests have always ruined their establishments, and it requires not the gift of prophecy to foretel that if the State Clergy of England continue to pursue their recent course of electioneering partisanship, they will undermine the foundations of the Hierarchy, and utterly alienate from themselves the great majority of the laity. A. temporary success would only accelerate their ruin, and we warn them of the destructive rlrecipice towards which they are rushing blind fold. Every real friend of the Monarchy and Aristocracy of this country must view the party conspiracies A gainst the liberties of the people ‘sith apprehension and dismay. Un less the influential members of the Liberal party come forward to resist and counteract these Tory Clubs, we see