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A 14:14VENING ED ITION. NOVfiNGEIAM ELECTION. E : ;bib: i' h L• 1• L II ' l • P ,l ' y , Jo conah:o %i:i ~.ed tts • 111aj lait of )L:c`)c• , 9 tf lei. Bare D Lady ll dA D 5 r) 1f0". ; 0 rd 3 11 01 ' honc , bt di v )ok a 1 4 h of Mr lit; al „Jyr )a Pat:lo' as Po to' newt -to' a nd ICI; of. P' : „ • z , d " C M i tem , 'OY ' terci 11 -off Cc' 1. I. 3rii6 tine') ***** 3 ***** ad .d. ) tie ices) .11 4 1 j 3 1 dr 3 2 d r n , , ntot ; a {o°l'l= )11,,nT %too )wigs IdaY Th►' Frid day, at Sat FRIDAY EVENING. The meeting of tlie Chartists on Thursday evening, to pre an,address to:Mr. WaltPr, was held in - the open Market -13310a,?, thoi speake:F. standing in a waggon. Between 20,000 and ' ° ' >o pttrsons , vere present. Th e address adverted to only one hatred to the Poor-law. If the candidate t i l ) t_ any otheri they were a ll f orgotten. A t t h e conc l us i on L"e cheers w4rre given for Mr. Walter, Pitkeithley, and others, addPt n hree grea ns f or th e P oor -l aw Bill , t h e Wh ig =, an d M r . Pt. r ' h arge }ins been brought again s t Mr. Walter for prose cilting Some :lien on the Times a few years ago for cornbina- Tl °ei and one man, named Malcolm Craig, he allowed to die in W s .", rathe r than let him out on the score of ill-health. tan Torte s attempted to refute, by stating that Mr. Walter zeer prod uc ed _ with the greatest kindoess towards the men, and letters re from the lost remaining survivor of those who med, and from others of Mr. Walter's workmen, A ,. ( 'gare n the highest character.' b .seve,n .4clock this evening, as the post closed, Mr. Lar t"t addressed the electors from the wiudtms of the Exchange and Created a great sensation. The contest, it is l't, will be one of the severest on record. . V) THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I4, —A aragraph, extracted from your invaluable aer of cednesday, appears in the Nottinfihant Review of th p is p day, f nt aining th e following s t a t ement , t h a t " som e o f t h e l ea d ers the violent section of the Chartists. are Irishmen—will they rp.et the lan, !uage,and conduct of the Times, and support Mr. mereLy to spite the Whigs ?" Now, Sir, injustice to my .;116Nrountrmmen resident in Nottingham, and lest it might be jPPosed th ey ' are i nsensible to the injuries that may be inflicted qn their native land by the return of Mr. Walter, I am proud to *t ale, that every man possesing the franchise (with one ..1":14rel exceiti on ) will give their decided support to Mr. Lar ,-` t• ed b ' Nor do any of them forger th e epith e t s th a t h ave b een Z tP,lty the Times to theirresected pastors, or the ground "dumnieA and'unmeasured abuse, that emanates daily, • •.eu the ri,ediurn of that " base weathercock," against their n tr.Y and rem-,in, Sir, your obedient servant, ott JAMES CALLAHAN, Ninghas n,, April. 23, 1841. 26, Carlton-street. s [We thoug,ht the Irish had too much spirit to kiss the foot trarnplod upon tl.em.] /:;RIGHTON, APRIL 23. s TO THE E DI7'OR OF THE SUN. - "'„'" - W;tth respect to the ra t es o f i ncrease o f l e tt ers i n ttr r 'a -Per festerday, it see ms t o me t h a t you wou ld d o muc h ':ice by t bowleg your leaders what are the increased excise e's pr• T er coriequent oa the great increase of letters, and tlaqvby er - Apitvouring to ascertain what the averace of revenue h & c, be from the money-order system. It would be ht2,hly . 4,4n.rit before the budget comes out, when a reduction nt tq tray reasonably be anticipated, to lead the public mind Jerstand what is the operation of reduced charges. I ' ta k gdently anticipate that in a little frac., and with increased ii,;Aties for the public, there will eno loss even in postage 4 lue. This is well worth putting before the public. YOUR CONSTANT READER. AND A STEADY FRIEND TO PENNY POSTAGE. •• . EATON HALL.—APRIL 23. 11 _ Lord W estminster thinks it right to say he has no con t7ei in vehti:cs , er with a' Society called the !' London and stminster M u t ua l Lif e A ssurance Society," name front li ng been put forth as Patron, without any authority him. TAE WEATHER.—Noo, APRIL 24. ArAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADEL A TDE-STREET. Barometer 17 notneter... 56 I Highest 57 I Lowest ... 35 Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. bORESS TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. (From the Anti-slavery Reporter.) e Committee of the British and Foreign Anti ery Society have requested Mr. Sturge to present to -e President of the United States an address, of which - iullowin g is a copy : ' Th .°ir,--A a the head of a great confederacy of States, aiotlY valuing their free constitution and political t Lsnialition, and tenacious of their rights and their saracter the Committee of the British and Foreign Are ' . ' halavery Society, through their esteemed coadjutor 41 representative, - Joseph Sturge, would respectfully ' 11 1), roach you in behalf of millions of their fellow-men, , tr e 'd in bondage in the United States. Those millions ti , ° not only denied the political immunities enjoyed by „"e citizens of your great republic generally', and the tUal privileges and the impartial protection of the civil 1 1:'' but are deprived of th e i r p erso n a l r i g ht s : so that w 'Y cease to b e regar d e d an d treate d , un d er your other tfiße noble institutions, as men, except in the commission crime, when the utmost rigour of your penal statutes t o ~°voked and enforced against them ; and are reduced the degraded condition of " chattels personal" in t it h hands of the;;• owners possessors, to all in construction,., and p p i purposes whatsoever." ti This is the languan,l the law of slavery ; and IN k rl this iaw guared with jealousy by tiluir plitical clamitutions', e slav d holders of the South rest o their Iperty in man. But, Sir, there are claims I human laws, and superior to all political hich are immutable in their nature— are the birthright of every human being and of every colour—claims which God , and which man cannot destroy without infringe without sin. Personal liberty is ,he greatest and the best, for it is the root 'ights, the ceeservative- principle of human "he spring of public virtues, anclesseetiar 'env th and greutnels. :roue and wicked assumption of power by :dinar-race, which slavery implies, is alike kb hort i _he moral sense of manaind, to the im t4,ltable principles of justice, to the righteous laws of r 4 (l, and to the benevolent principles of the Gospel. „t is, therefOre, indignantly repudiated by the funda "Ltal laws of all truly eaghtened and civilised commue le3 ; and by none more emphatically than by that whieb,Sir, it is your honour to preside. Abe great doctri ne th a t " G o d h at h crea t e d a ll men and endowed them with certain inalienable rights, I , f `Lthist amongst the se arc lif e , lib erty , an d t h e pursu i t o e " v iipiness," is affirm e d i n y our D ec l arat i on o f lode itts.denee, and justifi e d i n t h e t h eory o f ynur consti ti,:nnal laws. But there is a stain upon your glory. hjerY, in its most abj ec t an d revo l t i ng f orm , po ll utes Bl o4 ' soil ; th e wa ili ngs o f s l aves m i ng l e w i th your egs of liberty, and the clank of their chains is heard h orrid di scor d with the choru s o f y our t r i ump h s . i bi l. hs rec or d s o f your S tates are not less distin %Pied by their wise provisions for securing the order maintaining the institutions of your country, than h r heir ingenious devices for riveting the chains and Ittteting the degradation of y our co l oure d b ret h ren . ; e . l r education is branded as a crime against the State ; I , e freedom is dreaded as a blasting pestilence ; the It o t suggestion of their emancipati,,n is proscribed as 4 4 5 t a ia to th e cau se of A mer i can i n d ependence. ki t use things are uttered in sorrow : for the Com deeply deplore the flagrant inconsistency so gla- VigY displayed between the lef t y p r i nc i p l es em b o di e d tZu great charter of your liberties, and th e ev il prac c,Which have been permitted to grow up under it, to 1; 4 8 beauty and impair its stre ng th. Vttt it is not on these grounds alone, or chiefly, that BZ, depl ore the ;e x i s t ence ' o f s l avery i n t h e U n i te d t% Manifold as are the ev il s w hi c h fl ow fr om i t , Atataixing as are its tendencies, fearful as its re confessedly is on its supporters, the reproach of brke', 4 stence does not termin a t e i n t h e i ns tit u ti ons gave it birth. The su bli me pr i nc i p l es an d be tlit",sPirit of Chri s ti an i t y are di s h onoure d b y i t. I n 14 0. 614 of Divine truth it stands revealed in all its formity, a crime against God, a daring usur le prerogative and authority of the Most is a violatiou of his righteous laws, an out glorious attributes, a renunciation of the is blessed Gospel, that they especially de continuance and support it receives among in the spirit of Christian love and fraternal they would counsel its immediate and com ;row, as a solemn and imperative duty, the ki t of which no sordid reasons should b e per )l,,ttd to retard, and no p o liti ca l cons id era ti ons to pre tt:f• Slavery is a sin against God, and ought, there c, to be abolished. ‘, o The utter extinction of slavery, and its sister aborni -04, the internal-slave-ttade—second only in horror ilt:`, 1 1 1 extent in the United States to the. African, and in of its features even more revolting —tan be 41;1 1 by the philanthropists of this country oily on to th " , -tract principles of moral and religious duty; and ll'c c i c 'se principles the people of your great republic are th e ,g"I on the side of freedom beyond every nation of Th world • ; 'n th e negro, by nature our equal, made like ourselves ituage of his Creator, gifted with the same intelli tlC°~'nmpetled by the same passions, and redeemed by lioxis;line Saviour, is re d uce d by cupidity and oppres kt °olosr th e level of t h e brute ;soiled of his hums - Le t Y) Plundered of his rights, and often hurried to a hems'sture grave, the miserable victim of avarice and li m ess tyranny ! Men h ave presumptuous ly dered iiZ r est fro m t h e i r fellows th e most prec i ous o f th e ir tr,, t tl i to intercept, as far as they may, the bounty and te te : the Al m i g h t y—to close the d oor to their intel ktiftd progress —to shut every avenue to their moral ki e re Ligious improvement-'to stand between them and Ori )t °ieker ! It is.agains 4 , this crime the committee as - men and as Christians ; and th ey earnest l y ttie es Peetfully call upon you, Sir, to use t h e h i gh Pt le r p i with w hi c h you are i nves t e d t o b r i ng it to a i t 'll and s p ee dy c l ose . is o 4 Y You, in closing your public career, and i n t h e 41 9 t hours o f y o ur ex i stence on eart h, b e conso l ed with s k f t i t l e fieetion th a t y ou h ave no t d es pised the afflicti ons r 4i tla t 4 fßieted ; b u t th at , f a i t hf u l to the trust s o f your ; 't+a, 4tewardiihip, you have been "just, ruling in th e „_ () Pfi G 0 (1" —that you h a v e execu t e d judgment for th e ' 1 11: t , 414 ( 1 , and have aided in the 'detiverance of yo ur ' I '3' from its groesvcrirne and its chief reproach ! 4 "stid" Signed on behalf of the Committee, . March 8, 1841. THOMAS CL ARKSON. y • ) bre6l' s riese%* s •obe. tines idHc i a Ot" ar• 7xs are fr , !sh oe int let 1. nth to Gun etti ng T b e do wn• PeA icul* met's, The el O c ' roi 35t. ` ' e re oit to and •ora 1, 'w WAY TO GET 110111 E.—A young 1 , 1 °,44 :;, 41 distant department, in the employment oohf a h2sci,„, busir.e3s Al Rouen, went a few d9ys ago is Clbc" with his thumb compittely cut off, saying that it ::1 0 , t ' e 4 don e is dt f.tnding himself against a man who . - : l Jit., rn ined V) rob him. Ce.rtion discrepancies in the • (*Zeited doubts es truth, and induced such that the . last cooess-Al that he 4 4 8 , himself, to discr.ti,tv him for his p:ese-nt place, t v o , " 0 felt his anxiety to rt:turn borne r:o great that sul'e he should die if he remained away any longer. IC LITERATURE. draw more frequently from fancy than from life. As for Webster, powerful as he confessedly is at times, and magnificent as are one or two of the scenes in his " White Devil," there is scarcely . a page in any of his dramas that dos not contain some absurd, overcharged idea, or some gross solecism in point of taste. The " Rtpublic of Tenni - and its Recognition," is a reply to The charge made against the AmeriCan Government, of 'having invaded this province, with a view to introduce their own atrocious slave system there. The Reviewer asserts that Jonathan has been guilty of no such crime; but that the Texans themselves voluntarily besought his assistance in freeing them from the despotism of the Mexican rulers. The details of the proceedings of the first American settlers in Texas; of their rapidly increasing prosperity; of the injuries ' they sustained at the hands of the Mexican General, Santa Anna of their resort to arms, and ultimate triumphs, are highly curious, and the facts, we suspect, . will be as new to many of our readers, as they were to us. Of the character of the province, the Re viewer speaks in .the warmest terms of admira tion. We bad always till- now, thought that it was a country where snakes beset you by land and alligators by .water; where muskitos plant themselves on your nose, or drop into the nape of your neck, and sting you till you roar ; and big black ants creep up your breeches, and make -more free than welcome, with the calf of your leg. But it seems we were mistaken. TeXas is, in reality, pretty free from annoyances, of this sort; and as fiir its scenery, here is a description flattering enough to set a lover of the . pic turesque wild with ecstasy : Sometimes closely pressed in by the surrounding forest, the prairie lies like a verdant lake of meadow—forming its bays and creeks amid the darker woodland. More frequently the eye of the traveller ranges over a wide extent of meadow, level or undulating according to the region in which he may be ; some times the horizon is the only limit to the apparently boundless verdure, amid which the noble forest trees are scattered, singly or in clumps, that recal the appearance of an English park; some times the dark outline of the forest is seen in the di lance, and sometimes it crown:i the acclivities which rise from the plain. The whole of these vast fields are covered with the rich prairie grass, or a soft and elastic sward. Amid the the most exquisite flowers are profusely scattered—ever changing with the changing sea son, but ever charming the eye with their ribrilliant colours. In some parts, the traveller passes over miles of dazzling sUn-flowerS . ; in others,-he is surrounded by roses. The prairie is covered with the geranium, the dahlia, the trumpet-flower; the heart's-ease, the lily, the jessamine, .the lobelia,' and the passion-flower ! The trunks of the trees are festooned with the wild vine and the sober grey of the Spanish moss, over which are often seen, hanging at a vast height, the superb white flower of the magnolia. The fragrance of these flowers is borne to the nostrils by the cool gale that tempers the heat of Texas, and braces the muscles of the traveller of the prairie. The solemn and soothing silence is at intervals broken by the scream of the brilliant rarroquet, the song of the mocking.. bird or the thrush, and the melodious compla nts of the whip poor-will. The deer and antelope rush startled from the groveS, and, bounding across the plain, invite the pursuit of the hunter. Jr. is amid such lands as these that the Texan emigrant fixes his staff, and enters on the enjoyment of a fer tile soil and a lovely home, which the wealthy of the Old World might envy, but which wealth has not yet appropriated to its exclusive enjoyment. "Tracts for the Times, Number Nine ty" is inte resting, as representing the opinions—for the article has a . semi-official air about it—of the great Whig party, on the subject of the Puseyite heresy. "At no period since the Reformation," says the Reviewer, " was settled, have the main principles, , as well as so large an amount of th e specific opinions and practices maintained by the Roman Catholics,' been so fornially, fully, and systematically professed .within the Church of England, as by these men." This is strong, de cided language, but it does not, w e thi n k , go Much beyond the strict facts of the case.. In deed, the complacency, and even delight with which Doctor Wiseman regards the recent pro ceedings of the Puseyites, proves that he con siders them excellent allies to his Church. Of the remaining articles, the best are those en titled "On the Rights and Conditions of Wo- • men," the " Silurian SySiem," and the " Pro- gress of Historical Inquiry in France." EDINBURGH .REVIEW.—No. CXLVI. Lu'ngman, London, 1841. The life of the celebrated German dramatist. Schiller, whom the Reviewer asserts to be " emi . neatly the favourite poet of his countrywomen," forms the subject of a delightful article in the pre sent Edinburgh Re , iew. The early disappoint ments of this highly-gifted man ; the struggle he long maintained against poverty, and the slig,hts.to.which it gives rise ; the calm self-con fidence he showed under circumstances calculated to check the glowing aspirations of genius; and the full and perfect triumph. over prejudice and neglect to which this well-regulated self-con fidence led;—all these marked features in. Schil ler's literary_ career are 'exhibited with great spirit and minuteness, and offer a'useful moral to conscious worth and talent when, languishing , under the heavy pressure of contempt and pe nury. Frederick Schiller was, it seems, the child of poor 'but deserving parents, and early in life evinced a decided predilection for the Church. From his mother he appears, says his Reviewer, " to have inherited his pious, earnest, enthusiastic, • temperament, his mild and loving disposition, and his early taste for poetry. Even in face and form the likeness was conspicuous ; in the tall and slender figure, the light hair, weak eyes, broad forehead, and melancholy expresSion which was habitual to him." His predilection for the Church, however, soon gave way to his passion for the drama, which was elicited by his first visit to the theatre at Ludwigsburg,. when a boy. Thenceforth, he would " frequently shut himself up in his room, and rehearse long scenes, in which paper-puppets were the perfortnerS, while plans of tragedies, sanguinary and terrific, began to float across his-mind." The extraordinary play of the " Robbers" was the consequence —a play which once read, is - never forgotten. We our selves have not met with it since our school-days, but the chief incidents are still as fresh in our memory, as though we had perused them but yesterday. This striking drama, which excited the enthusiasm of all Germany, and whose fame soon spread throughout Europe, was written when Schiller was barely twenty-one years old : .. It grew into shape under obstaeles of Rverykind; being composed secretly, a t suc h h ours as Schiller could steal from sleep or the studies of the academy. Sometimes he would feign illness, in order to ohtilin a light in his bedroom ; but this device was soon detected by the teachers, who forthwith set him long tasks• to be performed, unt,jl he should again be able to attend the usual courses. Once he had a narrow escape from one of the domiciliary visits of the Duke, who, in mak ing his rounds at night, e n t ere d th e room so h ast il y, t h at Schiller had scarcely time to throw the manuscript under the table, and to replace it by some medical work. To en able ,him to bear these nightly labours, he had recourse to wine ; sometimes, it is insinuated, not without detriment to the steadi ness of his step next morning. But pdpular to an unprecedented degree as the " Robbers" was, it did little towards improv ing its author's worldly circumstances. Poverty, in its worst shape, still dogged his footsteps 3 and he was even denounced to the Duke of Wurtem burg, in whose dominions he resided, as a " fac tious and dangerous spirit" in consequence of the supposed revolutionary principles developed in his play. He was compelled, therefore, to fly se cretly from the Duke's territories, " with some twenty florins, raised by the sale of his whole earthly goods, in his pocket," and presented himself at Mannheim, before the stage-director of the theatre there, with a new play which he had written, .entitled " Fiesco." Strange to say, he read this play so villainously, that the ma nager told hint point blank that it was a mi serable failure ; but on perusing the MSS. him self, discovered all its excellences, and promised to forward its representation on the 'stage. But before this could be accomplished, the Duke of Wurtemberg's displeasure—for he had sent emis- , saries after him to Mannheim—forced the poet to seek shelter at Frankfort. The following pic ture is deeply affecting : The journey must be performed on foot, for the trifle which Schiller had brought to Mannheim could not last above ten ten days longer, and to his ; father he could not apply, since any communication with the fugitive might involve him in his fate. The faithful Streicher would not forsake his companion, he procured about thirty florins from his mother, an d, with this scanty exchequer, the -friends started. The journey was .long, and to Schiller, unused .to such excursions, exhausting. Reaching Darmstadt after a t we l ve h ours ' walk, his sleep hal been unpleasantly broken by the reveille of the drumx—a sound which, after his recollections of his own position in a military capacity in the Wirtemberg service, he could not help asso ciating with danger. The following picture given by Hoff meister is intereSting :—. 4 ` It was a bright, cheerful morning, when the travellers, wearied with their yesterday's walk, re sumed their journey. They moved forward slowly, stopping, after a league, to refresh themselves with a little kirsehen wa.wr in a draught of water. At noon they entered a small inn, less for the sake of food than t o a ll ow Schiller, who had been ill before starting, and was very tired, the refreshment of a little repose ; but the i nn was so no i sy , an d t h e people so rude, that they left it in a quarter of an hour. Again they started fur Frankfort, Schiller walking more feebly, and the paleness of his countenance visibly increas ing. When they reached a little wood_ by the road-side, he declared he was unable to proceed further, would try if; 'by 'rneabs'of a few hours' rest, he' could still reach Frankfort that night. He lay down to sleep on the grass under a shadowy thicket, Streicher sitting near him on the trunk of a felled tree, and watching with anxiety his unfor tunate friend. There lay one of the noblest of poets, who was soon to be the glory of his country, poor, helpless, ex hausted, without home, without prospects. Sleep took pity on him—his strength was partially recruited;and, with nightfall, the wanderers reached' Frankfort." A NEW CHECK JOURNAL UPON THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE ENTRY. Br GEORGE JACKSON, Accountant.. Effingham Wilson, London. A Sixth Edition of this work has just been published, and contains, among other useful trea tises, a new and more simple method of book keeping, which the author calls " Double Entry by Single." This new system contains none of the cumbrous and inconvenient accompaniments of the old Italian system of double entry; it is characterised by simplicity, and by the rejec tion of useless repetitions and unnecessary tech nicalities. Such a simplification was much wanted, in order to get rid of the tiresome drudgery to which young men are subjected in a regular course of book-keeping according to the old fashion. The Appendix contains also what is now more than ever wanted—a plan for the -more effeetuallypreventingund,detecting forp.,ery i - fraud, error, and embezzlement. This we can not abridge, and must refer those who are in terested to the work itself. The following ex tract from it we recommend to the attention of all those placed in authority If you have just grounds for suspicion, —watch ; and if you discover a thief, punish or discharge him ; but let there be no general sweep of character; let it be confined to the offender solely. Take a solitary view, some half hour, of your own past conduct, and see what remains to be corrected in that. Perhaps you were once a servant yourself. Liberal wages, and a kind and conciliatory demeanour, will do wonders in preventing fraud. Convince your servants yea have their welfare at heart, and you shall seldom find them un grateful ; but a dogged, snappish, and contumelious behaviour, —a constant expression of dissatisfaction at the quantity of la bour performed, which from your own knowledge and experi ence is as much as can be performed by one person, or the goading on of servants to absolute slavish employment, will never gain their love ; they will serve you from fear, but des- pise and hate you in their hearts. Let us afford our servants proper intervals for relaxation from the round of constant toil which encircles 'them, and for pro per exercise, so that health be preserved and cheerfulness kept alive: it is unfair to abridge them of old•established privi leges, as Good Friday, Christmas Day, Easter, - Sze. Recol lect, that in your travelling excursions, pleasure and business are combined. Most servants will do their duty if kindly treated and desirous of retaining their situations ; but it is not in the nature of things they can interest themselves so in tensely in your affairs as you yourselves do. When they can be made to feel that you have their interest at heart, depend upon it they will not forget yours. . Arrived at Frankfort, Schiller's active mind, undamped by his adverse circumstances, was in stantly at work with new creations. "He walked," observes the Reviewer, " during the mornings, passing through the crowded streets, as in a dream; in the evening he shut himself up in his apartment, walking up and down, as was his custom, while engaged in composition ; now and then pausing to commit some lines to paper, apparently even unconscious of the pre sence of his humble friend, who, during these moments of inspiration, was careful to preserve a religious silence." After some hesitation, Schiller, having ascertained that the Duke had forgiven his flight, d e cided on returning to Mann heim, where he was fortunate enough to get an engagement for a year as dramatic poet. Here he produced his play of " Court Intrigue and Love," which awakened " a tumult of enthu siasm :" Schiller was himself present during the first night of its performance. He sat with his eves rivetted on the stage ; the compression of his bps and the Initting of his eye-brows indi cating when anything in the acting went amiss, while the sparkling of his eye denoted his delight when some favourite passage produced its effect. Not a word escaped him during the whole of the first act ; and only at its close he seemed to relieve himself by the words, " That goes well !" The second act was played with such captivating warmth and truth, that when the curtain fell, the whole audience rose, and broke forth into a: general shout of applause. Schiller was so over powered that he rose in return and bowed to the public, his face and bearing expressive at once of just self-estimation, gra titude, and satisfaction. Such a glorious moment repaid him for the annoyances of many a weary year. From this period Schiller's prospects gradually brightened. The German Society conferred upon him admission to their body; and the Duke of Weimar bestowed on him the honour- POPULAR ENCYCLOP2EDIA. Tanner, London, 1841. This is the first Number of a series of original elementary treatises, forming a Cyclopedia of Natural Science, which it is proposed to publish in quarterly Parts, and wWcit is under the super intendence of the Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction. The present Number is devoted to the subject of" Vegetable Physiology," which is treated with simplicity and perspicuity ; while the systematic arrangement of the treatise, and the scientific value of the principles laid down in it, render it an excellent introduction to more comprehensive works on the same subject. As the Society justly observes, in an advertise ment prefixed to the work—" the general reader, who seeks no more than entertainment or recreation, will find it in this-volume, in the copious illustrative facts and interesting collateral information in which it abounds; while to the agriculturist, the gardener, and the domestic eco nomist, it supplies principles and practical appli cations of great importance." able title of Councillor. He soon afterwards ;;- moved to Dresden, where #t wrote his " Don Carlos," and the singular romance of the " Ghost Seer." Thence he went to Wei- mar, and ultimately fixed his a b o d e v at Jena, having been appointed, through the in fluence of Goethe, to the Professorship of His tory in that University. About this time he married, and, unlike most poet's marriages, his was a fortunate one, for his wife appreciated his talents and encouraged him in their exercise. He now studied and composed with more painstaking assiduity than ever, and, among other able works, produced his "History of the Thirty Years' War" and his magnificent play of "Wallenstein," which Coleridge has so finely translated. But his end was now drawing nigh. Early sorrow and privations, together with the exhaustion pro duced by the incessant strain on his mental fa culties, had enfeebled his constitution, never very vigorous, and he was seized, at Berlin, while witnessing the representation of his " Wil liam Toll," with an illness which in a few months proved fatal :-- He had been delirious in the morning of the day on which he died (the 9th of May, 189.5), but about four o'clock he fell into a soft sleep, from which he awoke in the full possession of his tenses. He knew that his end was at hand, took farewell of his family and friends, and gave directions for his funeral. Some inquiring hoW he felt, the answer was—" calmer and calmer!" Once he looked up with a gleam of animation, and said, 'Many things are growing plain and clear to me.' Soon after he sank again into slumber, which gradually deep ened into the sleep of death. He died at the age of forty-five, while his faculties were in their full vigour, and a long and brilliant course of intellectual activity apparently lay before him." COLIN CLINK 3 VoLs. Bentley, London, 1341. As this tale has already appeared in successive numbers of "Bentley's Miscellany," and was noticed in The Sun from time to time as the dif ferent portions of it were published, we need say nothing more on the present occasion than that it is a tale which bears republication, being tersely and vigorously written ; devoid of exaggeration, whether as regards humour or incident, and con structed with no little adroitness: The embellish ments with which the volumes arc illustrated, are from the pencil of Leech, who. has the art to ad here to nature in his delineations, without deg - e.. aerating into caricature. T. HE ANTI-BREAD-TAX CIRCULAR.—OUI present number, appears under a different form and at an increased price. Hitkerto the Circular has been sup ported at the expense of the League ; but it ha s been thought that our rea d ers may not b e di s i nc li ne d to allow us to spread the burden of the publication equally upon them, especially when they are told that, by contributing as extra penny a fortnight, they will place at the disposal of the League several handrads of pounds a year to be devoted to additional exertions in lectures, tracts, &c. This arrangement will also enable us to secure for our editorial department the services of a gentleman emi nent for his talents and literary accomplishments. A slight alteration in the name has been alopted, in order that the title may exactly express the character and ob jects of the Circular. Our principle is more clearly ex plained in the words Anti-Bread-tax than Anti-Corn-law. Ours is not so much a question of political economy as of justice and humanity. We wish to speak directly borne, not merely to the judgments of politicians, but to the un derstanding and feelings of every man and woman in the kingdom as well as to.tfie sympathies of all Christians and philanthropists. The contents of the Circular will be found to be in strict unison with its title ; we shall con tinue unceasingly to oppose any and every scheme for tax ing the bread of the people. —The late Anti-Corn-law Circular. " Beaumont and Fetcher, and their Contem poraries" is—as may be surmised from the title— a critical notice of some of the principal drama tists of the Elizabethan age. The Reviewer commences with some remarks on th e G reek tragedians, wherein he speaks of Euripides as having-" been seduced by false taste and unsound philosophy." Of this great writer's philosophy or otherwise, we say nothing, but we demur to the charge that his plays are distinguished by "false taste." His Alcestis, and still more his •-• Medea, are perfectly free from any blemish of this sort. Indeed, the taste, as well as the pa thos, displayed throughout them, are exquisite. As regards the Reviewer's opinions of Beaumont and Fletcher, and Webster, we think he rates them rather too highly. There is certainly a ster ling Poetical spirit displayed in the dramas of the two former; but they are constantly guilty of exaggeratio n of character; their pathos is apt to degenerate into a sort of flowery, maudlin pret tiness of sentiment; and their humour, though f renuine. is still o f tener coa rse, strained, and • say nothing of their gross ness, for it was the vi ce o f the ; but we main tain, in opposition to their numerous admirers, that in the delineation of their characters they SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A MAGISTRATE. —lt is stated that the prisoner whose liberaion the Msgis. trate of Middlesex (alluded t 3. at the Sessions-house on Thursday) offered to procure in consideration of being paid a sum of 3,0001., is . Francis Medhurst, who, it, will be re membered, was found guilty at tho Central Criminal Court of stabbing, and thereby causing the death of, a fellow pupil at Hayes. Medhurst was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and it is said that the escape was proposed about a month ago, and the prisoner ass( rt that big curiscitmee would not suft.r him to accede to it. The utmost sccrvsy is ohicived as to the name of the Magistrate so accused. The taint of lied burst's sentence will expire in about a year aid two or three days from tbis time. Mil, SUN, LONDON. SATURD Y. APRIL 24, 1811. DINNER TO COMMODORE NAPIER IN MANCHESTER. It had been announced that Commodore Napier would leave , Liver pool by the two o'clock tiain on Wednesday, and might be 'expected to arrive here about half-past three. A number of our townsmen who took an interest in the matter accordingly ' began to assemble at. the Liverpool road station soon after three o'clock, and about twenty minutes afterwarels.the mayor arrived there in his carriage, accompanied by a second carriage, in which was Mr. Reade, of the Branch Bank of England, Colonel Wemyss, and Sir Charles Shaw. Sir Thomas Potter, Knight, followed in a carriage, accompanied by David Ains caorth, the boroughreeve, and C. J. S. Walker, Esq. Another, carriage contained Alderman. Murray, and his father, Gesrge Murray, Esq. The train arrived almost exactly at the time' expected, and a 'considerable number of ladies and gentlemen having assembled at the station by that time, the event was communicated. to the crowd.assembled in Liverpool-road, and who had not been.allowed to enter the station, by three hearty cheers. The Commodore was .assisted from the train by the Mayor, who immediately escorted him to his own carriage.' He was aceininpanied from Liverpool by Sir Thomas Ussher, to whom a seat was given in Sir Thomas Potter's carriage, and by Captain Bradley and Lieutenant Johnstone, who were ac cominodated with seats in the other carriages, and in this manner the company left the station on their way to the Town-hall. The carriages arrived at the town-hall about a quarter before four o'clock, where a large concourse of people, amounting to some thousands, had assembled. On the Commodore alighting three hearty rounds of cheers were given. The gallant officer was immediately conducted, followed by his suite, to the lio roughreeve's room, where he was introduced to the town counc:l and others who had been admitted to the room. Hav ing bowed politely to the company Sir Charles took his seat on the right hand of the Mayor, William Neild, Esq., amidst the cheers of the company. The Ma on then addressed him as follows :—Sir Charles, on behalf of •the Town Council I hare the honour of presenting to you an address agreed to by them yesterday; and I perhaps cannot do justice to them better than to allow them to :peak in their own language. I will therefore do myself the honour of reading the address that was voted to you yesterday. The Mayon then read the address, which was folloWed by loud cheers. • • Commodore NAPIER immediately rose, and was greeted with renewed cheering—Air. Mayor and Gentlemen, he said, I beg to return you niy very sincere thanks for the honour yoU have done me on my arrival in Manchester.—(Applause.) I can assure you, it I have been able to perform any services for this country, I have been very well rewarded in the way I have been treated, not only in Liverpool, but in Manchester. I be lieve' Gentlemen, it is hardly n ecessa ry.for me t o sa y th a t if it h a d not been for our rapid successes in Syria, a war with France was inevitable.—( Applause.) I believe the success we met with there, both by sea and land, was the means of ousting the French ministry, and bringing in Marshal Soult—your old aequaintance—(cheers)—who was also received in rifle most . kind manner when at Manchester, as well as when he was at Birmingham: and I feel perfectly certain that•we owe a. great deal to the manner in which Marshal Se* was re ceived in the different towns through which he passed .for the peace we at present enjoy.—( Applause.) There is only. ..ixte thing which I regret in the whole business that has gone en in Syria, and that was the manner in which Mehemet ,Ali was treated after he had signed the treaty.. I happened to be in Egypt at the time, and I think he acted in the most straightforward manner. He sent in his submission to the Sultan. He gave up his fleet. He evacuated Syria. He provisioned the fleet, and paid the "fleet. But lam _sorry to say, there was no good faith on the part of the Porte, for orders were given to attack Mehemet Ali if they found him weak, and if strong to let hini alone.--( Cheers. ) And then the Porte has proposed terms which it is perfectly impossible for him to accept.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore 'the eastern question is still open, and unless a change. has taken place in Tue:ey, when the new Ministry came in, God knows to what it will lead.—( Applause.) Gentlemen, I again thank you for the honour you have done me. lam quite unprentred,,as you may ,suppose, coming here in the way I h ave d one, • to ma k e a long speech. —( Applause). I beg, Mr. Mayor, to return you my best thanks for the honour you have done me.—(Cheers). The Commodore then resumed his seat, and another round of cheering was given. The MAYOR informed the company that Sir Charles was about to retire to the York Hotel, from whence he wohld ad dress the persons assembled outside. The company then quitted the room. Sir Charles took the arm of the Mayor and walked to the York Hotel, where a num ber of officers belonging to the regiments stationed in and near Manchester were introduced to him by Colonel Wemyss. There being a great number of persons in waiting before the hotel, the gallant officer, before taking any refreshment, ad vanced to the wind ow , w h ere h e was rece i ved w i th a most enthusiastic burst of chesring, and briefly addressed the mul titudes, and thanked them for their kindneas.' • ' THE DINNER. The dinner took place in the central compartment of thelarge room of the Town-hall, which had been handsomely fi'ted up for the occasion. The partitien at the we , t-end of the room 'was sur mounted by the model of a sloop in the centre, with an anchor and cable suspended below, and on either side the words " St. Jean d'Acre," in gold letters; that on the east end by a beautiful model of a loan of war, intended to represent " The Powerful," with the words on either side, " Saide" and" Sidon." On the wall immediately behind the chair over the windows fronting to King-street, were the crest and motto teethe Commodore, admirably designed and executed in gas, by Messrs. W. Bran ford and Son. The crest consists simply of a hand bearing a crescent, and: the motto, " Ready, aye Ready." The company comprised about 120 gentlemen. W. Neild, Esq., the Mayor, preseted, and on his right were Commoder Sir Charles Napier, K. C. B. , Sir C. Shaw, K. T. S., Sic Thomas Ussher, Major WJ ac k son , estenra, sth Dragoons ; J os . Esq., Captain Napier, elajor Pow er , H. N ew b ery , E sq , and J. M , Laren, Esq. On the left were Colonel Wemyss, Sir Thomas Potter, Knt., Col. Cus•ane, 10th Regiment; Adam Roxburgh, Esq.; one of the constables; Major Bell, R. A., Captain Bradley, R.N., James Watts, Esq., N. Slater, Esq., H. Wadkin, E sq ., T. B ateman, Esq., and. Captain Sleigh. Edward Brooks, Esq., the borough - reeve, occupied the vice-chair. On the guest of the evening entering the room, the floe band of the 10th Infantry, stationed in an ante-room at the west-end,struckup" e See the conquering hero comes," the whole of the co npany rising at the same the and cheering loudly. On the cloth being withdrawn, ; ",Non nohis Domino " was performed by teAkiparry of singers engaged 'for the'eneasion: After the mat tdrEtillaSts; -- ' - ' 2 " -- - ------ The CHAIRMAN. said the subject of the next toast was, in fact, the subject of the evening.—(Loud choirs, the whole company rising.) It must be gratifying to every gentleman in the room that such a distinguished honour had been con ferred upon Manchester, in having it in their power to wel come to his native shore, and to welcome to their festive board, the distinguished individual who had now done them the honour of gracing that board on an occasion which had placed his name in indelible characters in the annals of his country. —( Cheers. ) After briefly adverting to the operations of the British forces on the coast of Syria, he proposed the health of their il:ustrious guest, Commodore Sir Charles - Napier.— ( Loud cheers.) Commodore Sir CHARLES NAPIER then rose amidst very loud cheering, and said—When he had the honour of visiting Mae.chester some three or four years ago, with that brave and distinguished warrior, Marshal Soult—(Loud cheers)—whom they, as well as the people of Liverpool and Birmingham, received, though once their enemy, with the utmost kind ness and distinction, he little thought that in the course of a few years afterwards he himself should be here again, after fighting his country's battles, to be received in the same kind and handsome manner, He begged most heartily to thank them for the kindness and honour they had, he must say, fur any services he had rendered his country, almost undeservedly—(No, no)—paid him. He had been placed, when in Egypt, in a very peculiar position. He was in the Mediterranean when the war begun : the general officer who came out to take command of the fleet arrived there in extremely bad health, and the consequence was that the com mand of the operations, both of the army and navy, devolved upon himself.—(Applause,) At that time we were threatened with a war with France ; in fact, they hardly knew that at any moment the French might not appear off Alexandria accom panied by an Egyptian fleet of twenty sail of the line. Under these circumstances, when they arrived on the coast of Syria, there was very little time to lose, for though, when they landed at D'Jouni, they were but ill-prepared in numbers to oppose the enemy, who were posted on almost all sides—east, west, and south—still it was necessary that something should be done. The Admiral left him to follow out his own plan of operations, and in that plan 'he followed the example of an il lustrious warrior in the Peninsular war, he meant the Duke of Wellington—( Tremendous cheering)—under whoin he (Com modore Sir Charles Napier) had the honour to serve in that war.—('Great cheering.) The Noble Duke, es they knew, when he landed in Portugal, was opposed by 'very superior forces ; but he fortified himself on the heights of Torres \retires. and it was from behind the lines of that formidable fortification he went forth to meet the enemy.—( Applause,) In like manner he (Sir Charles Napier), though in a more humble way, fortified himself a t D efouni.—( App l ause. ) They were there in a country with which they were perfectly unac quainted, full of dangerous and unknown paeses, and the first part of their time was necessarily taken up in acquainting them selves, as far as possible, with these particulars. The men op posed to them, at this time, under Solyman Pasha, could not have been less than from 50,000 to 60,000 in number, but as he did not seem inclined to make an attack on them, they be gan to get impatient, and they determined, as he would not come to them, they would go to him.—(Laughter and cheers. ) Their first efforts were necessarily limited by the small force at command, consisting of only about 500 marines, and about as many Turks ; but, nevertheless they were successful, for the sight of the red coats was nearly enough of itself to alarm them. --( Hear, hear. )' It was something new for the Turks to fight in a regular army, and on the first occasion of being engaged but little dependence could be placed upon them ; but the second time they were brought into action on the heights of Syria, he must do them the justice to say he never saw men behave better. The Commodore proceeded to eescribe the measures taken for the capture of Beyrout, with the brilliant affair en the heights of Ornschojouen, where he found himself suddenly opposed to the enemy in an aeparently unassailable position, the movement by which he was enabled to attack him in front and rear at the same mo ment, and in the course of half an hoar entirely rout his forces, a measure which led to the entire evacuation of the whole of Lebanon, amidst loud cheers. He next described the attack on Acre, by which that till then supposed impregnable for tress, was subjugated in less than three hour s , w i t h h ar dl y any loss. He now came (he said) to the subject of his nego tiations, which they, the men. of Manchester, had thought proper to do him the honour of complimenting him upon.— ( Applause.) He was sent off to Alexandria with six sail of the line. It was then the end of the season : winter was coming on—they had a very small force—there were about 10,000 Turkish men for the defence of the whole of Sy ria, with Jerusalem, Joppa, end the important fortress of Acre, Mehemet Ali mustered between 50,000 and 60,000 troops. Delays were always dangerous—(Laughter) —and so he took on himself what was truly a great responsibility, for he was des titute of instructions or advice from the government at home, or from his superior, officer, and proposed to M e h emet Ali peace.—(Ch eers . ) After three or four days' discussion -,not like the usual discussions in such cases--(Laughter)—terrns were settled, and in four days peace was made and an agree ment signed.--( Cheers.) He was quite aware that it was dangerous ground he had taken ; it was poaching upon the grounds, in fact, of the diplomatist — (Laughter) —but, never theless, he attempted it, and the attempt succeeded. When his despatches arrived at Constantinople, communicatihg, these frets, the four ambassadors became alarmed ; they 'began to think their trade was at an end ; they protested against the terms of the convention he had obtained ; it was pro tested against by the English minister, and Upset by the autho rities in Syria—denounced as hasty and unauthorised by the commander-in-chief, and abandoned without reflection. These were fearful odds apainst him truly; but soli he felt co n fid en t that he (C ommo d ore Napier) had taken a clear view of the subject, and he felt that, when the news arrived in England, and the circumstances tinder which it was agreed to were de- Government.— tailed, the conv en ti on wo uld be approved o f by ( Hear. ) Such, he was proud to say, was the fact ; and he received a highly complimentary despatch from Lord Palmerston and Lord Minto, for the manner in which he had acted. — He had the satisfaction of being sent to Alexandria, to see the treaty carried into effect, and he must say Mehemet Ali ap peared to have acted with the best faith in . the matter; s it Was his duty to say that he believed the Paoha was honest and straightfor ward in his conduct—that from the beginning heacted with the most perfect since r ity. Besurrentlered th t s S u lt an ' s ships, hev'ee tualled 111 e fleet, he paid it. (4 . a. far as h e cou ld , f or b e h a d iir :t money eno ug h t o d o it en ti re ly'; he ordered his army to evacuate Syria, and put the country in a position to obey the Sultan. But the Porte. was ill-advised_ in the matter, and he was tOrry Barul-- - -" Rule Britannia." to say did not meet him with the like good faith. Their coca. mander had secret instructions to examine into the strength of the army of the Paella, and if it were found weak to attack him, and if strong to let him alone. A brother officer of his (Commodore Napier's) named Stuart, and Colonel Mitchell protested against the act of the Porte, and. fortunately it was not carried into effect. Syria was evacuated, Mehe met Ali retired into his country, and certainly had a right to expect justice at the hands of the Sultan and of the foreign Powers leagued' against him —( Cheers). He was sorry that after all, however, the Eastern queStion was not - settled. After Mehemet Ali had behaved in the most honourable manner, terms had been sent him which it was impossible he could accept. One of those terms was that the Porte should have the power of determining which of his sons should succeed him, after his death, to rule the Egyptians, and the mext was, to have: the power of taking away the officers commanding his troops and ap pointing their own. Mehemet Ali did him (Commodore Napier) the honour of consulting him on this point, and it was certainly a delicate question for him to' advise in, but he certainly must say that he could not advise him or any man to accept such terms.—(Loud cheers, and cries of " Certainly not"). In conclusion, he observed, that the order sent out to him •by the British Government was to carry on the war with as little loss of blood as possible—( Loud cheers)—and seeing that by means of that convention' he should most effectually obey that order, he could not but think that he had acted right.—(Renewed eheering4 The accept ance of that convention, in the first place, in part might s have saved the lives of 10,000 human beings.—( Hear, hear..) He again thanked the company for the honour done him, and re sumed his seat amidst loud cheers. Majesty's dertiin!dil§l Put, in' that case, the Earl of Cardigan would make good his title 10 this sole property in the Com mander-in-Chief's mysterious communication ! • POST.—Ina Very well-written article, as opposite as pos sible in tone and temper to that " explosion" upon which we animadverted in our paper of Thursday morning, the Times endeavours to explain away the natural deductions which we made front the violence of which it was guilty on the day before. In its publication of, yeiterday our Contemporary Says—" We observe that an article which we published on Thursday (this should be Wednesday); has been inhtaken by a reSpect.. able morning Contemporary for an explosion - of an,ger against the Conservative p a rty i n general, i on account of some supposed lukewarmness of the Nottingham Conservatives in support. of . - Mr. Walter. N o w, as we never had the smallest reason to believe that any .. such lukewarmness existed, it is. scarcely .necessary for, ns to disclaim . the imputation ' of - having written under the, influence of. the feeling which our, Contemporary imagines." We are glad to find that the ; Times was not influenced as we supposed it was, and did not mean to level any volley of abuse. against the leaders of 'the Conservative party. We are very'well • pleased indeed to hear this, but our pleasure we must confess is dashed with' regret that writers so experienced and so influential as those of the Times should express themselVes in a manner so liable and likely-to be misunderstood: We hope it is scarcely necessary to say that we should not presume to make this remark if we alone had been " mistaken" in the manner pointed out- . by our Contemporary. In that case we should have apologised for. our error of perception, and,t.here have let the matter drop. But as . we find that the Chronicle, The Sun, and the Globe, that is to say, all the London Papers which took auy notice at all of the article in the" Times upon which we animadverted, fell precisely into the same error as we did in,,its interpretation, we hope we may lie permitted to say that it were well if the very important leaders' of the 7'w/es were written more perspicuously. CfJROI ICLE.— Tne honest-ratan and staunch Caiiserva tire of the. Times who refused any longer to subscribe to' the, Conservative association, as, by turning outthe present Mi nistry, thecountry would only gain the substitute of "one set of scoundrels for another," has been so far disavowed by that journal, that it says it had not .the, remotest idea . of, ap plying the phrase in its literal sense to Lord, Lansdowne or Lord J o h n - R usse ll, - much less to such men as Lorl Stanley, Lord Lyndhurst, and Sir Robert Peel. But though the Times did not - conceive the above personages to be literally scoundrels, it " thought it well to let the Conservative leaders see what bit terness of feeling their Whig propensities have a tendency to excite in the minds of what we verily believe to he a large class of their most valuable supporters." The Conserva tive leaders are, it scans, . at issue on " subjects of the gravvst imiortance to both Cburch : and State." However, Sir Robert Peel is still allowed a locus penitentie. He has given grave offence on many occasions to the great body of the &met., vatives, but he may still corninand the support of the intmensema forityOf Conservatives if he will adopt the views of thcise who re . gArd the"piesentPoor-letv as a measure imPolitic,uiyust,unchari table, and unchristian. Bht if he reckons upon their support without aioptitig their views, he must wily:ate/I" split .ppon. the rock of the Poor-law. " If," concludes the Times; "we must either acquiesce in the new Poor-law, or abandon him (Sir R. Peel), we cannot long hesitate which alternative to choose." It wouldle difficult to understand how Sir Robert Peel could, :at the twelfth ,hour ;; abandon the opinions respec ting the new Poor-law which he, 'has recorded a hundred times, without proclaiming himself the scoundrel which he is merely called in the bitterness of disappointment by honest and staunch Conservatives. The Cita lam N next proposed " The Army and the Navy,' coupling with the toast, " Major-General Sir Charles Napier, the commandant of the district, and Sir Thomas Ussher. (Cheers. ) . . . . Other toasts, of .a complimentary nature, were given, and the affair passed off with great eclat. SABBATH FLOGGING. " GENERAL ORDER. " Horse Guards, 22d April, 1641. " The attention of the General Commanding-in-Chief has been called to the punishment of a soldier of the Hill Hus sars, in the Riding House, at Hounslow, on Sunday, the 11th of April. " It is well known that it is not the practice of this country to carry the penal sentences of th e law into execution o n th e Lord's Day; neither is, it . the practice of the army, whether employed abroad or at home. The General Commanding-in-Chief is, therefore, sur prised that an officer, in the situation of Lieutenant-Colonel ecuzimandinp; a regiment, should have carried such a sentence into execution on Sundiy. " The General Commanding•in-Chief desires that it may 1.); clearly understood that the sentences of Military Courts are not to be carried into execution on the Lord's Day,. excepting in cases of evident necessity, the nature of 'which it cannot be requisite for him to define. "Ii y ccmame.nd. of the Right Hon. the Gene ra l • ''T • • . Q9mrnanding..-in-Ctlief, (Sigoed).. "..rouF • . mAcpoiNiv.p, Adjutant-General." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—We take blame to ourselves for _having, suffered any of our Contemporaries to anticipate us in the expression of their just indignat'on at the atrocity perpetrated by Lord Cardigan in' the Hounslow Riding-school on Easter 'day. The public is, unhappily, too well acquainted with that noble man's character, to feel much surprise at hearing that he dis regards the solemn on inances of religion; nor is his reputa tion for mildness as -a disciplinarian so well established as to make the infliction of Eorporal punishment upon a soldier under his command appear an extraordinary thing. But we did not think Her Majesty's army contained a person who could deliberately choose Sunday of all days in the week, and Easter-day of all Sundays in the year, for the execution of a sentence, always barbarous and disgusting, upon one of his men,—who, not content with this, could summon his soldiers to witness the savage spectacle within half an hour after the conclusion of divine service, in the very place where they had just before assembled for the worship of God. All this Lord Cardigan did. On the most sacred and solemn fes tival of the Christian Church, the anniversary of the Resurec tion of our Blessed Lord,—on that day, surrounded as it is with-irresistible associations of mercy, pardon, and peace, pro claiming the terms of amnesty and free forgiveness to every sinful soul,—this wretched lasing, whom men call noble, who thinks himself honourable, who is an officer bearing the com mission of a Christian Queen, and the acting Lieutenant of that Queen's husband, did not scruple to exact from a fellow creature, in the building just used as a house of prayer, the most inhuman of all the penalties tolerated by law. We doubt if in the whole series of 1800 years which have elapsed since the great Event which the Church commemorates at Easter, any thing parallel to this act has before occurred' . ; and, under all the circumstances, we can hardly speak of it as less than dia bolical. Precedents there have been for the infliction of cor poral punishments in the British army en Sundays, under cir cumstances of peculiar emergency. But for their infliction on Easter Sunday, we trust—we believe-Lwe feel sure, that no precedent has ever been known ; and we can imagine no exi gency, short of mutiny itself, by which it could possibly be jus tified. Having thus expressed the feelings which this oc currence is calculated to excite in every Christian mind, we have next to inquire what Ministers and the authorities at the Horse Guards intend to do? No one - pretends to defend Lord Cardigan's conduct. It has been the subject of two conversa tions in the House of Commons, and the Secretary at War has pronounced it to be " most improper and culpable;"—unpre cedented, because officers of the greatest standing and expe rience in the service agree that " such punishments can never be justifiably inflicted except in cases of military exigency, and on march, when there is no choice ;" wanton and gratuitous, because in the case of the soldier punished by Lord Cardigan, " the punishment might, without the -smallest inconvenience, have been post poned till the next day." What, then, is to be done with this inveterate offender, this plague-spot of the British army, who seems to exist for the single purpose of setting public opinion at defiance, and bringing discredit upon :the unwise clemency which restored hien, after one well-merited disgrace, to em ployMents for which he is by temper and character thoroughly disqualified ? On Tursdayialr. Macaulay assured the House of Commons that "such notice had been taken, arid would be taken, of the case, a, would effectually-prevent the recurrence of anysim fi lar one in future ; anticipating, we suppose, Lord Hill's general order upon the occasion, which we publish to-day. That do cument does, indeed, characterize Lord Cardigan's conduct in terms of very pointed censure. "It is well known," says Lord Hill, "that it is not the practice of this country to carry the penal sentences of the law into execution on the Lord's-day ; neither is it the practice of the army, whether employed abroad or at home. The Ge nera l Commanding-in -Chief is, there fore, surprised that an officer in the situation of Lieutenant- Colonel commanding a regiment, should have carried such a sentence into execution on Sunday." This is very well as far as it goes ; but it is not with a bare expression of Lord Hill's " surprise" and disapprobation that the public will remain satisfied. It will be their turn to be " surprised," if the officer who, in addition to his many other notorious delinquencies, has committed this revolting outrage upon humanity, decency, and religion, is suffered to remain " in the situation of a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a re giment." Should their reasonable expectations on this point be any longer disappointed, we trust some independent Mem ber of the House of Commons will take an early opportunity of cutting the Gordian knot, and move an address to the Crown for the removal of the Earl of Cardigan from the Lieutenant- Colonelcy of the 11th Hussars. ADVERTISER.—A " General Order" from the Horse Guards appears in our columns to-day, in reference to the re cent revolting desecration of the Sabbath by Lord Cardi g an, in having a m an fl ogge d at H ouns l ow immediately after divine service. There appears in this " Order" a great discrepancy from the statement made by Mr. Macaulay in the House of Commons, w hen he intimated that it was not unusual for con poral punishment in the army to be inflicted on the Lord's Day. The Adjutant-General distinctly states that " it is well known that it is not the practice of this country to carry penal sen tences of the law into execution on the Lord's Day ; neither is it the practice of the army, whether employed abroad or at home ;" and that " the General Commanding in-Chief is therefore surprised that an officer in the situation , of Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a regiment, should have carried such a sentence into execution on Sunday." We are gratified thus to learn that even the Sabbath in the army is not generally outraged by such a sanguinary abomination as that perpetrated at Hounslow ; but we are astonished that the General Commander-in-Chief, after having endeavoured to screen Lord Cardigan's infamous aggressions on the feelings of the officers under his command, after the thorough contempt that his Lordship has evinced on an innumerable variety of occasions for public opinion and public decency, and after the Commander-in-Chief having thrown the shield of his most culpable protection over the ignoble offender, whereby he virtually acknowledged that Lord's prescriptive right to exemption from military penalty, however enormous his transgression—under such authorised immunity of offence, we are astonished that the " General " Commander-in-Chief " should "feel surprise" at any out rage which Lord Cardigan could offer to military discipline or public decency. For our own part, we are - not at all sur prised at Lord Cardigan's conduct. It was a thing to be ex pected. When superior authority connive at dereliction of public duty, it cannot be expected that parties tempted to its violation will be scrupulous in its observance. In retaining Lord Cardigan in the service, after the inexcusable offences proved against him, Lord Hill identified himself with these offences, and therefore ought not to feel surprise at their repe tition. For all subsequent delinquencies, it is not Lord Car digan who is to blame, so much as the system which tolerated his endurance in an appointment wherein he had exhibited such glaring proofs of incompetency and unjust and tyrannical ministration. HERALD.—A general order, dated 22d April, 1841, has been issuel from the Horse Guards, on the subject of the punishment of a soldier of the 11th Hussars in the Riding house, at Hounslow, on Sunday, the 11th of April. In so far as the terms of this order expressly corroborate the views we took, and the opinions we expressed in the Herald of the day before yesterday, it is impossible that we should find any fault with them. We had said of Mr. Macaulay's speech on the 21st instant on the subject, that it did not vindicate Lord Cardi gan from the charge of having " needlessly and offensively desecrated the Sabbath." The general public order (which we publish in anoSher column) declares it to be " well known that it is not the practice of the country to carry the penal sentences of the law into execution on the Lord's Day ; neither is it the practice of the army whether employed abroad or at home." In the Herald of the 15th in stant, we treated the infliction, of this punishment on the Sab bath, as "an unseemly affront on the solemn ceremonies which had just before been concluded;" and we contended that " nothing but a sudden act of mutiny on the part of the offender, or the circumstance of his regiment being in actual service, or in the field, or doing duty in a garrison town where it might be of incalculable moment to visit instantaneously every flagrant breach of discipline," would be a ground of jus tification for such a course. Now the " general order" seems to confirm this opinion distinctly. It might be surmised by anybody, who had had no experience of the immu table justice and stern impartiality of th e H orse Guards, that after the recital of the offence in the first para graph of the " order," it would have gone on to denounce the offender ; and by name. Oh, no ! It should seem that the Lieutenant-Colonel of " Prince Albert's Own" has the privilege of exemption from all personal desig-• nation in a public document that is expressed in the language of censure. " The General Commanding in-Chief is there fore surprised that an officer in the situation of Lieutenant- Colonel commanding a regiment, should have carried: such a sentence into execution on Sunday." The uninformed public, or that portion of it at l east wh i ch a year hence rosy be rude enough to have forgotten Lord Cardigan 'and all his graceful levities, may thus he left to its own memory, or to consult the authority of an old Army List, in order to detcrthine who was this " great un-named," whom even the rude censure of a General Order forbore to indicate by any other identification than that of " a Lieutenant. Colonel commanding a regiment." A lucky man the " Lieu tenant-Colonel " certainly is! But, since the authorities at the Horse Guards seem at a loss to decide how their " general or der" should be made to apply, since it is evident that James Earl of Cardigan, is not to be even assumed to be intended by its terms, we would strongly recommend to the Noble and Gallant Lord. the Commander-in-Chief, to put tho old-fa shioned superscription at the head of this remarkable docu ment—namely, "To all whom it may concern." The " all," we verily believe, would comprehend but one Officer in her EVIONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The fluids have not been quite so buoyant to-day. A 'purchase of tob,ooo Consols for the Account was effected in the early part of the day at 90%; subsequently, however, sales to some extent were made, which caused a slight depression, the quotation having declined to 90 1 / 2 sellers, which was the closing price. Bank Stock was 172% to .3%. Exchequer Bilis 14s. to 16s. prem. The rates of Exchange on Hamburgh and Amsterdam were a shade lower, but on Paris there was no alteration. In the Foreign Marker, Spanish Stock experiekiced a further slight improvement, owing to the 'prevailing opinion that the affair of the Regency will terminate in the election of the Duke of Victoria alone to the office. SUN.—The markets and trade generally continue very dull in the City. The Funds were depressed to-day in a slight degree, but not, perhaps, worth alluding to particularly. Consols for immediate transfer realised 94. to 90k, and for the Ac count 90 f l i to 90k, which is k per cent. below yesterday's quotations. Exchequer Bills were steady at 14s. to 16s. premium, and India Bonds were firm at 3s. premium ; Bank Stock was well maintained in the morning at 173 to but closed at 1721. India Stock was at 255 k to 256. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were firm at 99 to • The Three per Cent. Annuities brought 89k t o g. 4 In the Foreign Securities there was very little doing, nor were the Railways so buoyant. Spanish Bonds were dull at 23a to for the Accoun , , being a trifle higher; the Passive were marked 5/, the Portuguese Old Stock 62, the New Five per Cents. 3:3/, Mexican 30k, Belgian 103, Austrian 110/, Danish 773 to 78, and Dutch Two ' and-a- Half per Cents. 521,-. French Four per Cents. were quoted 99r. 52c. ; Exchange 25f. 400. The value of the Great Western Railway Share; was about 283, of the New 14, of the Fifths 71 to 7a ; of the London and Birmingham 70 to 71, of the South Western 191, and of the Croydon Trunk a premium. Brightog Shares were at 2, Blackwell at 51, Greenwich at 113., Midland Counties 103, and Bristol sod Exeter at 24 discount. Australasia Bank New Shares were 18g. premium. The Foreign Exchanges were again rather heavy to day. The more current rates for three months' bills were these:—Paris, 25F. 62. 1 2 -e. to 671 e. ; Hamborgh, 13 9 to 1-; Amsterdam, 12 31; Antiverp, 12 3-1 ; Frankfort, 1491 to 150; and Trieste, 10 to 10 1. CHU ;IC R-RATES. . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—We have statute lat,v authorising the Poor ' rate being made on a pound-rate, and the same for a highway rate ; but there is no law comptiling a pound rate for the repairs of the Church. Now, Sir, as the Church party base taken such cruel and unwarrantable measures in enforcing the payment of Church-rates, I think any legal mode by which the Church party may be forced to join in the cry for the abolition of such oh- ' noxious charge perfectly fair. I contend that when a vestry is determined on the amount of what the rate shall be in the pound (say, for instance, 6d.) that the vestry has only determined on the expediency of making such a rate, that such resolution will not justify the churchwardens in snaking the assessment on which to found a rate ; that the parishioners have themselves the right to make the rate itself. I propose, then, that. the vestry resolves, " That a rate be now made," upon which some party should produce a list of the inhabitant house holders, beginning (say with A. B.) if he be a Church man let him be rated at one pound—let no reference be made to the value of property occupied ; then pro ceed to C. D., (a Dissenter) let him be rated at one penny, and so oa throughout the list ; let it be then signed by the majority of the inhabitants present, end handed to the Chairman ; let all the Divanters pay the rate when callei upon, leaving an appeal to the Eccle siastical Court to that Court's supporters, and if the rate be quashed and another vestry called, as the doctors say, " repeat the dose." I am Sir, yours, &c. &c. ~~pril 21, x 1841. GORDIUS. N.B.—Perhaps it would be as well first to demand a poll upon the Churchwardens' propositions, and act according to circumstances (at a future vestry if de feated) to ad those who should vote for the Church wardens propositions. Sonic part es will say this is a double-edged weapon ; never mind, the war will be the sooner over. CHARTER-HOUSE SQUARE. NFIRMARY FOR THE CURE OF FISTULOUS DISEASES. On Thursday the Fifth Anniversary of this most Bene volent Institution was celebiated at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. One hundred and fifty gentleman of great respectability, wealth, and influence in the metropo lis sat down to dinner, which was served up in the best style. Alderman COPELAND, M. P., in the Cha'r. After the cloth was removed, " Non Nobis Dominc" was sung by Meis7s. Broadhurst, Taylor, and other professional gentlemen. The health of her Majesty was then given, and drank with three times three. The healths of the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and other branches of the Royal Family, met with similar enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN then said, in proposing the next toast, ho would have to trespass largely on the indulgence of the com pany ; his situation as Chairman compelled him to do so. He had to lament that the health of the Chief Magistrate prevented him from appearing among them, as he was sure he would much more efficiently discharge the duties which were imposed on him than he could.—( Hear, hear.) Though he was his senior in the Court of Aldermen, yet when he called upon him to preside on the present occa sion, he willingly responded to that call.—( Hear.) His anxiety was to do justice to the merits of an Institution not so well known as it ought to be to have its merits appreciated.—( Cheers. ) No one knew better its merits than he did. He would yield to no man in zeal for its success ; and it was a matter of pride and gratification to him to sea it in such a fllutishing condition..—( Cneere. ) They had met to celebrate its anniversary, and though this great metropolis abounded with charities, yet there was not one more deserving of public support. His own experience had proved that, as he had been Governor of many of the institutions of the country, and amongst their number there was not on e to which suffering humanity was so much in debted.--(Cheers.) It was rather remarkable that in stitutions were established in the reign of Henry VI., and originally they were founded for the curing of the sick, the protection of the young, and the punishment of the guilty ; and there never was an institution of a similar description until it was raised by their bounty.— ( Cheers.) He trusted that they would not re lax those exertions, as their poor suffering brethren were looking with anxious confidence to their results. The existence of the Latitution was (mine. to his excellent ' friend, Mr. Salmon, who fearlessly undertook a labour which others shrunk from ; but no opponents could stand before his attire benevolence.—( Cheers.) He undertook the care of a malady which the innate modesty of English-• men (and modesty was their peculiar characteristic) I shrunk from disclosing. It wes a disease which from their kindest and dearest relatives they were anxious to conceal. But he thanked God that owing to the bountiful contribu tions of the company that concealment was unnecessary, as the most perfect cure followed its disclosure in the In stitution, and the benefits it conferred were manifest by its progressive success.—( Ctreem ) How the philan. thropic contributor's heart most be animated when he re flected that he was an auxiliary in affording r e li e f to 1,400 of his fellow-creatures !—(CheLrs.) Six hundred successful operations had been performed by hi s sp i rited surgical friend (Mr. Salmon), and he would conf i dently appeal to their benevolence whether they would not support an Institution which conferred such lasting benefits, and ho partakers in the n gratitude which their lib era li ty procured. To show how the benefits of t ii•J charity op erated on the • heart, he would reee tem one fie'. In tl e latter pert of 1839, when tic it to t tioliour to fill the civic chair, three labourers from Bethlehem "Green ( who had peen relieved by the Institution), waited on him, and solicited him to become the patron of an auxiliary institution. He con- EV_ENING EDITION. dented ; and he now had the pleasing duty of being the lietn!tin instrument to convey their bounty of fifteen ii guineas to Abe parent establishment.—(Loud elieere%) After such a eirennietence would they not come forward liberally ? He app ee lJef Sasebo . young as well as to the cid• It might b e the first time the former had stretch. eti their hand to the support of an Institution conferring sue. benefits, and the recollection of it would be coeval With their exist ence . —( L oud cheers. ) Th e S oc i e ty had to regret the loss of Sir Francis. Ommanney, but he trusted that his benevolent support of, the Institution left a bril liant example for imitation. In conclusion, be declared that the institution had as strong a claim upon morality L.. 51 it had upon philanthropy,—(,cheers,) The Secretary then read the Report, from which it appeared that the sub scriptions in the room amounted; to'(our hundred pounds. • The Cnernman proposed the health' of the Lord Mayor, who, owing to his advanced time of life, 'etottld not be pre sent. He could assure the company thS'ehie Lordship felt the deepest interest in the success of the', Institution, and nothing could• prove it better than the libeieality Of his donation. His Lordship's health was drink mast enthu siastically. The CHAIRMAN. -after paying a high eulogie Hr on tho .public conouct of Mr. Sheriff Gibbs, proposed hie 14V3Aft, which met with a flattering reception. Mr. Sheriff Giees,heeiag briefly returned thanks, Mr- POWNALL yose and said that though he, bad not " asked the Chairman's permission, yet he would propose a toast, which he was sure would be received in the way to which it was entitled.—( Heir, hear.) Every person pre eet knew what a rtauncie anxious, and zealous friend to the Institution their Chairman was.—(Cneers.) He bad already given seven donations, and he net only always sup ported it with his purse but by his presence.—( Cheers.) Lie now filled their chair, and no one filled a ;chair with more credit, and they owed him their most cordial and sin cere thanks. , fie cherished the institution by his fostering mind end kind sympathy.—(Cheers.) Its support was a. work of naercy,and benevolence, and they could not feet too deeply the incuortance of its existence.—( Hear, hear.)) Their thoughts would weep with joy when they contem plated the afffieted l e arnt restored as he might say t hie; orphan child.—(Cheers.) Its benefits_ welt a boon to suffering mankind. Ti.e soease it alleviated was a pecu liar mealy. It was not ahtepic for conversation over their domestic altars as ()thee . lastitatioes were. It was not necessary then to dilate upon its remedies and effects; theee we:c apparent. It Wee true there were no Corinthiau Pillars within its; walls, but: it dontained jewels far more precious, " grrteful kearie."— (Loud cheers.) The poor man restored to health andl strength had nothing to give but his gratitude ; sciatic wealth: could purchase that?—(Cheers.) • Though it coild not be purchased it could be generated by their liberality. lie would return to his daily tOII ,. a husband and .a fatter feet teasing and correnaetideAis family. -a( Ch - dirs.) Let theme but contemplate thi labourer's wife on seeing her husband' restored to health, returning to industry, and supporting his family. It was like drawing two heerts together with a silken thread, or he should rathersay it was like the electric spark which while it illumed one heart lighted both.—(Loud cheers.) Wheothey considered the bless ings which it conferred on destitute families, English be nevolence and Btitish liheeality would be at their post. Its support was as beneficial to tnem as it was at. blessing to others, and when they were called to the jots above he could not say•whether they would be more missedhthan re gretted.(Loud cheers. )• He. concluded by proposing the health of the Chairnian. The CHAIRMAN having returned thanks, Mr. Sheriff GIBBS proposed the health of Mr. Hoa se and the Vicc-Presidents. Mr. HOARE rose to return thanks, and said that be re gretted the absence of his colleague, Sir John Lntledale, and he could assure the meeting no man felt a deeper in terest in its success than he did. There was an impression abroad that the profession had not the opportunity to judge of the merits of the Institution ; but (hot was not the tact, as he could assure them that Mr. Salmon had offered. every professional gentleman an opportunity of witnesting his practice even so early as seven o'clock in the morning.. Therefore, Mr. Salmon was most anxious to extend the benefit of his exile: knee to other branches of the profes sin, in order to inceettee the usefulness of the institution. He had made large seerificcs in its behalf, and no doubt he would enjoy that moral satisfaction which such benevo lent exertions more cale,tiated to produce: The Crientimen then proposed t t i h n e st ii it e u a t l i t , l , i n. of_ ( M c r iicers.) Fre derick Salmon, the Surgeon ;of he ;oti a a • Mr. SALMON rose to returat .thanks. H e sa id, t h at it was not is his nature to express' what he felt, He it u a simple-minded man, and not a pu'lih speaker, b u t his heart spoke. In the establishinenths: 4 the lest he had had great difficulties to contend vein', but a Chris stian public enabled him to overcome theta. There were there 200 subscribers to the Institution, and n'hat retaght to be the feelings of these gentlemen when, eh) , their bounty, they were enabled to relieve their fellow-creetii rca who were pining in sorrow, suffering intense bodily d. is ease, and oppressed by mental despair ? With regord to his own merit, he would not be worthy of the name of mat , if he did not exert its valuable prerogative, and I feie r t was relieving suffering humanity. He had exerted there prerogative. He was the humble instrument of relieviug: 1,300 of his fellow-creatures. If ever there .was a.s necessity for support to the present Institution, was at the present time—the increaeinge population • so imperatively demanded it. He could assure- tlp.igence roes subscribers that their beneficent liberality sentald bz cell repre:exed by the gratitude of those whom they re, lieved front bodily suffering and mental misery.—( Cheers. ) The health of the other officers of the lestiteVon havintig been drank the Chairman left the Chair, and the Cornier ny separnted, after having spent a most delightful , eveniriete e e with the et; ingest reliance upon the iacreasi rg innt'Pon'Y ?If the lustitutior. TO THE COUNCILLORS OF T,tiE NATIONAL. CHARTER ASSOCIATION ~/F TROWBRIDGE'. GENTLENIRN,—As a portion of your Addresa, which ap peared is The Sun of yesterday, is directed immediately to myself, I deem it neceszary to offer you a brief explaaa lion why I am not a member of your Association, and why the National Assiiciation for Promoting the Political and Social Improvement of the People is formed. I:. :Le first plaice the plan of the Naaional Association wow written during the first few Months of our incarceration in. Warwick Gaol, long before your Association was formed - , and would have been published had tee been allowe.l free: communication with our fricnde. On our liberation from prison cur plan was published ir k the pamphlet entitled .‘ Chartism," and at different public meetings Mr. Collins and myself avowed our intention of emlaavearing to form au Association upon that plan as soon as our heolth and circumstances permitted. Differeat plans and projects were promulgated at that period, for carrying forward the cause of Cuartion, ono was for evablishing, a morning paper, another it national press, others toe exclusive dealing, others tor joint-stock stores, and others had projected and taken sonic steps tc wards forming the National Charter Association to which you la.long. Our plan for obtaining the People's Charter by peaceful arid moral 'roans, by tne erecting of halls, the establishing of schools, the fo7mation of libraries, and by every means. Sethi og to raise the intellectual and moral character of oua brethren ; while approved of by the press in general, as weal as by the thinking and reflecting par ion of Charti,an instead of being made a legitimate subject for discus-.ion, was only made the subject of contempt and ridi cule by the peoplea organ, the Aorthern Star, tha editor of which designated National Education as a •‘ Na tioral Jackass," and without condescending to review or rebut the arguments we had adduced, hint, d that our plant was altegeth,r worthless, as The Sun, the Chronicle, arid, other portions of the press had spoken favourably of i t . On my return from Cornwall I received a letter in viting ale to join your Association, which I refused to do on the grounds cf illegality, at the same time referri ng them to Acts of Parlament by whi c h th ey were shown that all who telengcd to them were subject to transporta tion ; a risk I did not choose to run. About the same time Mr. Collins called the attention of the Editor of the Star to the subject of ihe illegality of the Charter Association, and tine necessity of cautioni ng the working-classes the subject. The persons enga ge d on that iaper O subse quently wrote to Mr. Place of London to ascertain the state of the law on the subject, which that gentleman readily furnid weeks ed the m w i t h , but reveral at .( , re suf fered to elapse b e f ore any notice was t a ken o r warning given. when M r. P lace'a article An alter a ti )n was subsequently least acknowledgm ent of the anthor. appeared without the Association, to m a k e i t more confi rm able to law. How made in the plan of your far that has been effected I shall not hazard an opinion ; suffice it to say i have not seen sufficient inducements in your objects, nor that line of conduct pursued by those who rule its destinies to warrant me in joining them. Believing that the principles cf Chartism arc purely detuocratical, c alculated to benefit l a o l c l a e g la re ss e e l s ;j a t n l d t_e no g t er th e e .. working-classes e xclusively, I cant . . 1 ral denunciations against all kinds of union with the rniddle-caasees, nor do I approve of the abuse, calumny, and despotic conduct which have recently been put forth against all those who think a union of ail classes desirable. It has been stated by the editor of the Star, (doubtleas with the view of exciting the prejudice of the working.. classes,) that the plan of our Association was concocted by Messrs. Hume, Roebuck, and O'Connell, when he kno ws to the contrary, that it is word jin.. .word such a s ap _ peared in our pamphlet, which was written under eircurn stane,s of deprivations and sufferings in the cause of the people. But even if it was the production of the greatest enemy of the people, its origin is of little moment, - the great question for consideration is, would it benefit the people politically and socially if the people themselves re solved to carry it into practice ? Our plan has been said to be put forth " as a secret move. ' In answer to which, I embrace this opportunity of stating that similar means were taken to ascertain the opinion of all the known end active Chartists of the king dom respecting it, as were taken to obtain the signatures • to the Irish Address which was put forth previous to the mectir b oa of the Conv ent i on. Copics of it were sent to all the Radical, Workipg at —en'a, and Charter Associations throughout the kingdom —the addresses of which we could obtain —as also to the Members of the late Conven tthilnt,ncomtloirnalc only was th e or i g i nators o f yo ur Association. So was the widest publicity g opportunitie s a ff orded for laying beforei igiver, o your tibut Associationample or any other body of Reformers. Those whohave appended their names to the Address:and Plan of the National Association are desirous of a union embracing forsons of all creeds, classes, and opinions, who are desirous of promoting the political and social improve ment of the people ; and if the Members or Council of your Aoi e ciatiun approve of our objects, and the means we have put forth for the attainment of the People'" Charter, w e s hall be glad to enrol them as Members; as also Sir R, Peel, Lord J. Russell, or the Duke of Wellington, if they choose to joint us. At all events, we claim the same right to put forth our views, and to form a union upon our plans as you have on yours, the Scotch on theirs, or any other body of Reformers ; tend little can loesaidof of th e th d o e s m e "r o a- • a;c feelings, the intallect or moral principle denounce as thieves, traitors, an d li ars " who differ from s'o ' them in opinion or mode of action. :1 I remain, your obedient servant, Ib3, Tottenham-court-road, W. LOVETT. 1114it Utions, tit e ; f ki' Ilit rist to prop Ilt erior t o a ll irmv*l I,ttit utions, it take cl. i I to , ' , 144, which . ; ffere I' ,evei - s - clime CI, r " .4 conferred, r i, ( ?'" ,- N ' , l ois !iege, nd 2 ,,,;" " .41:rig these tl - - ~:: 1 I .I a; fri 14 %4 otheir rig ight of . het..4ioni ti t ' lii It • 1 ai i , ..„ . 417.4,4r5tri 23 to ) is istr s. ;' 1 , —a n over his fi iegoi :ohorreut tout nr.bin ....;, 3cau - • , tle4. 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