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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY xtructs from the Aloeithek Ptgiera, April 14. DI OR NIN a 'POST.] Nhe business of Parliament, last night, was not 410iinueti importance. In the Lords, Earl Bathurst )jsoved the second reading of the Newfoundland Judicature Bill,•and explained the Objects of the iettISUIY. They are 'these': it is proposed to ioW-tabliSli a Supreme Court, consisting of a 'Chief' Justice and two Assista►►t Judges, who must all be Barristers. This• Court i-s to try 'civil and cri minal 'eases, and to discharge the ditties of the did Vice Admiralty - Court, which is to be abolished, as well as the Surrogate Courts. The Island is to be divided into three Dist, lets, having Circuit Courts, each 'of which is to be attended 111'one of -the Judges. Trial by Jury is to be motored, and Courts of Sessions are to be estab }ished in different parts of the island. The other provisions of the meascire -relate to Insolvents and tO €he Solemnization 'of Marriages, and the whole gave complete satisfaction to the House. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed till after the Holidays.—ln the Commons, the Bill for allowing tl►e erection of a bridge over the Thames at Hammersmith was read second tirre,after meeting with considerable op position. Dr. Phillimore then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to place Roman Catholics in. En gland upon the same footing as Quakers, Jens, wild Romeo Catholics in Ireland, with respect to marriages. The House afterwards went into a Committee on the Warehousing Act, when Mr. iHuskission explained the outlines of his plan for allowing bonded corn to be turned into flour for e*portation. Any person who possesses foreign *heat in bond is to be at liberty, upon giving proper security, to take out any quantity of wheat n d convert it into flour. The American barrel, 46i - ruining 196 pounds of flour, is obtained from five bushels of gond wheat. But as this corn is now deteriorated by long keeping, and as the holders have suffered great loss by having their Capital so locked up, they are not to be compelled to produce more than one barrel of flour for every six bushels of wheat taken out. This proposal Occasioned some conversation, but leave to bring La the Bill was ultimately given. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We perceive from the Dublin Papers received yesterday, that Mr. Pluukett's Burial Bill has not produced the effect which its patrons antici pated from it. It appears to be obnoxious to loth Catholics and Presbyterians. The Dublin Evening Part says— " We have received several letters from the country, all Wreathing the same sentiment—all decisively opposed to the rfleasure. We are in' truth very much afraid, and we feel sin cieie pain in expressing that apprehension drat this Bill Will ptoduce more irritation than even the old state of the law." At a Meeting of the Catholic Association, on Sit turday, the Secretary was ordered to write to Mr. Brougham, stating that strong dissatisfaction existed with - regard to the 13111, and that a peti tion should he dis Patched as early as posSible. Tile Belfast Northern Whig, a Journal in the Dissenting interest, condemns the "Bill in the most unqualified terms:— : 4 ; The power to permit (says this Journal) to Men of plain understandings, evidently implies a power to refuSe. . . . . "What most he done when the Minister of the Established amirch (not an uncommon occurrence) happens to be non resident ? What most happen when the permission may be withheld ? Death has taken place—the relations have assent liled—the funeral procession is about to proceed—the Minister, seder the provision of the Act, refuses: may the Dissenting serial Service be performed ? If it may, there was no -necessity fur the Act—if not, hoW must the feelings of friends and rela tives be tortured ?" At the Meeting of the Catholic Association, there was read a letter from the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, Catholic Bishop of Kildare, vindicating the Catholic Prie:athOod from the charge lately brought against them by Mr. North in the house of Commons. It is one of those compo sitions which will survive the Occasion which gave birth to it. It will be no easy matter, we suspect, to find the equal of this Dignitary in the Establishment. We enter not into the ques tion at issue between him and Mr. North ; but this we may stiy, that he has stated enough to thew that others were at all events far more cul liable than the Catholic Clergy. Dr. Doyle, in the beatitiful apology for the introduction of im piroper books into the hedge.sehools of Ireland, ke those event fat times, " when Courts of Eq - Uity were dens Of thieves, and the laws of the coun try armed the father righinst the ton, anti the son against the 'father; when there was a church without a-religion, and some remnant of a reli gion, bUt without 'a church," hr.s severely reta lfate'd on Dr. Magee for his famous antithesis.— lts truth, 'the less Dr. Magee provokes contro veil wittt Bishop Doyle, the better will it he for Ns' reputation. Yet this powerful writer lately wrote in support of the llohenloe Miracles. [TRU -We spoke yesterday on the multitude of pro jeets- afoot ; and the day itself on which our re. /*arks appeared, only gave birth to two. We would •wish the public to observe, that we are far from 'recommending that capital should lie dormant, Or that the - possessors of it should sleepily exist upon its mere legal returns. Ntihat We wish f:lr is, the employment of it in useful speculations , --in schemes of manly enterprize.— Sante impropriety in the conduct of the promoters of - new projects ought, at the present moment, to attract attention. The public will find, by in specting' the lists, that There are the same Di - sectors to various projects of so similar a nature, that no single scheme can thrive but by the de-. dine, and • in proportion to • the decline, ' of the ether. Surely, on the commencement of a new . pEojeet, the Directors should advertise, as is often the ease with 11 vaishopte epers,that they have "'no . concern with the people in the next hifiuse ;" o(herwite the dealers with them may be betrayed and deceived, to a degree of Which they have no idea. Wit' the tOv6Ygd of this is the' case at pre- Out; it 'Seeming to - be 'a retommetidation to the manager irf a 'tieiv concerti-, that he is already deeply imptiat(4l. in half a dozen others. Con= . poaed With the ,above is another practice, most dishonest and distronourabie. A proj•ect is fret bu f oo t, with an air of secrecy ; it is whispered about, talked about ; people apply for shares,' but in vain ; at last the scheme is made public,— then, however, the shares are at a premium of 'five, fifteen, or even eighteen per cent. Pur 'chases are made with avidity, the original specu lators sell out, and realize property—shares fall to a discount, and the dupes suffer. We denounce -these practices as most disgracernl to the parties concerned. They are more wicked than those of the wicked Lottery, of which we rejoiced to anticipate the suppression. We advis'e the public to beware of the many-headed Directors. They can be true to no party. [BRITISii PRTSI.3 The French Papers 'of Sunday and Monday reached our office laSt night. They contain no thing of any importance. The extracts made by the Etoile from the Madrid Gazette, exaggerat ing the temporary successes• of the Royalists in Peru, display the feelings of that Journal and its employers on the independence of South Ame rica. The Etoile, however, need not exult : any passing advantages Olaneta or Canterac may have gained for the moment in that province will soon close, if they are . not already at an end.— As to the defeat of the illustrious Bolivar by Canterac, stated by the Madrid Gazette, on the mock authority of letters from Buenos Ayres, we do not attach the smallest credit to it. We shall probably soon have a very different history. Bolivar has taken his measures too well 'to fear any results of this sort. Peru, like all America beside, will soon be utterly lost to Spain ; the passing- efforts of a few desperate partisans can not redeem her authority in that province. The Etoile, under the head of Trieste to the 29th of March, states that letters from Corfu of the 18th give the important intelligence, but adds that it wants confirmation, of the surrender of Arta by a particular convention to the Greek General Boz zaris, and that the Albanians had joined the Greeks, who immediately advanced on Joannina, which was expected to fall into their hands. The possession of this city and Arta would make them masters of Epirus. [NEW TIMM) A Petition frot7l the London Missionary So ciety relative to the case of Mr. Smith of De merara, was last night presented to the House of Commons by Sir James Mackintosh. The Peti tioners proceed on two grounds: they desire, that as Mr. Smith died in confinement at Demerara, without having had means to appeal from the sen tence passed on him by the Court Martial, they may he permitted to vindicate his character, by proof of his entire moral and legal innocence. Their second ground is still more important. They de mand inquiry into the transactions at Demerara, in order to insure protection and safety to other Christian Missionaries there and elsewhere.— , The question thus agitated is not a political one in any sense of the word ; for the London Mis sionary Society is totally utconnected with any Society for improving the temporal condition of men in any respect : neither is it a sectarian question : for the Members Of the Society be long partly to the Established Churches of England and Scotland, and partly to different bodies of Protestant Dissenters. Their sole view is, in their own words, " to spread the Iknowledge of Christ among Heathen and other unenlightened nations." The Church Mission ?try Society and various others pursue the same pious task, and are ne doubt animated by one and the same spirit of Charity. We, for our part, hold the Spreading of civilization and relkian unnong our foreign dependencies to be a National Duty. What was the original title under which any of the West Indian or American Set tlements were acquired by Europeans ? A pro fessed intention, in the words of the Pensylvania Charter of 1681, " to reduce the savage natives' by gentle and just manners to the love of civil society and Christian Religion." This, which was the very condition of our dominion over those territories has hitherto been lamentably neglected ; for it is confessed that, out of a po pulation of between 7 and 800,000 slaves in our Colonies, there are not 100,000 who have any distinct knowledge of the Christian Reli gion ; and there never has been a sufficient num ber of the Established Clergy to instruct half or a third part of the slaves. Those pious indivi duals therefore who labour to supply so fatal a defect, are entitled to peculiar encouragerneut from Parliament and from the Public; and more especially ought they to be protected against all injustice on the part of the Colonists, to whose neglect of a solemn duty the nec ess ity f or th e intervention of :Missionaries is plainly owing.— On the particular hardship of Mr. Smith's case we have already remarked ; we regard him as a victim to most unjustifiable prejudices, and to the exercise of a power clearly Illegal. Ills case has hitherto come before his Majesty's Government only ex-parte : we anticipate, when it is fully /Ind fairly discussed, that entire justice will be done to his memory. [MORNING HERALD.] We have read with attention the Resolutions entered into at a recent Meeting of Pawnbrokers, in opposition to Sir Wm. Congreve's Prospectus of his new Loan Society, as well as a somewhat humorous placard with which they have thought proper to illustrate the walls of the metropolis.— We think that they, in common with all bodies or individuals whose interests are endangered, are well justified hi coming forward in their own defence; but they should remember that the same • principle of self-interest, which they so . ingeniously, and, • we dare say, truly expose, as .actuating the proprietors of the new institution, is one and the same with that which prompts their own opposition to it. Macao nomine, de to fabula narratur. —We cannot, however, allow these persons to walk so quietly over the course,. and to assume, with overweening confidence, a degree of merit,. which, if we mistake not, they are, of all persons in the 'community, the leaSt 'entitled to. They tell , us, for instance, in one of their Resolutions, "'tht the law under which they are now'regu= laved has been frond perfeCtly effectual to. every desired purpose." Now, so • far . Ls this from being the fact, that the very reverse 'much more resemble! It. And such must ever be the case, when persons representing 'particular interests are allowed to legislate for themselves. It is notorious that the last Act for regulating Pawnbrokers was framed by themselves. Of course good care was taken of their own interests, while those of the people whose wants or whose misfortunes bring them within their grasp, were comparatively but little attended to. The consequence has naturally been, that they are proverbially the most unpo pular of any class of the community ; so much so, that we will venture to predict that were the present measure to succeed and ruin the whole trade, the circumstanc e would scarcely excite any sympathy. We are far from saying that such a feeling would be just, or that Pawn brokers are not a highly useful and important class of the community ; we only assert the fact, that such is the public feeling towards them, and which is n o t confined to th e persons w h ose deal ings are p r i nc ipally with them, but is widely diffused through all classes of society. The facility with which stolen property of every description is disposed of to them is a great and crying evil; and we will take upon our selves to say, that were they put upon their trial, they would not, either individually or collectively, chuse the twelve Judges for their Jury. Not a Session passes at the Old Bailey when the opinion of those sages of the law is not unequivocally expressed upon the subject; and on a trial only the other day for an extensive robbery of plate and jewels by servants, two of the most respectable of the whole body were distinctly told by the Judge that they had had a narrow escape in not having been prosecuted as receivers. So much for " the law having been found effectual for every de sired purpose." Still we do not exactly see the practicability or the policy of this new associa tion. We agree with the Pawnbrokers in opinion that these joint stock companies are suspicious ; that no individuals in any trade can be expected td compete with them ; and that unless con trolled by a positive law, they are just as likely to fall into abuse and disrepute as the present trade has done. They set out, for instance, with a plausible show of lessening the rate of interest ; but what security is there that they may not hereafter raise it to any amount they please, when they have secured their mono poly and crushed all competition ? Whatever the motives of the projectors may be, we do not give the great body of shareholders any more credit for humanity than any others of the many spe culators the present abundance of capital has generated ; and if the project, therefore, goes on , we trust that it will he found essential that it should be governed by strict rules and regulations established by law ; and that con sidering that it will principally affect the inte rests of those who are least able to protect them selves—we mean the poor and the unfortunate, Government will think it its duty to throw over them its shield, to protect them from the cupidity for mismanagement of which they may Otherwise become unwarily the victims. OXALIC ACID TAKEN FOIt SALTS. On Monday an Inquisition was taken before C. J. .IE3I3II:TT, Esq.„ at the Crown and Cushion public house, Bermondsey, on the body of Mr. John Bell, late a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Barber, wharfingers, of Tooley. street, who died on Thursday last, in consequence of taking oxalic acid, in mistake for Epsom salts. Mr. Thomas, of Page's-walk, Bermondsey, in whose house the decased lodged for the last fourteen years, deposed that on the night of the Bth instant the deceased came home about half-past ten o'clock ; he asked witness's wife for some hot water, which he said he 'wanted for the purpose of dissolv ing a dose of salts h e wiihed t o ta k e, an d w hi c h h e h a d pur chased that day. The water was given to him, and he re tired to his bed-roots , adjoining witness's. Soon after wit_ ness's wife heard the deceased groaning, and on entering his room he appeared to be in dreadful agony, writhing about the bed. Witness said, -NY God, Bell, what hale you been taking ?" Deceased replied, " Oh ! I shall diet what have they given me ?" 'Witness inirnediately went for a s'ittgeon, but the deceased was quite dead on his return. Robert (raker, a hairdresser in that neighbourhood., deposed that he had been acquainted with the deceased for the last 14 years. On the evening of the fith inst. the deceased came to his shop, sat down, and got shaved. He then complained of bay ing a very violent stitch or cramp in his hide, and said that he had taken rhubarb, but deriied no benefit, or alleviation of his pain, from it ; that he was then going home early, for the pur pose of taking a dose of salts, which he said he had got in his pocket. The deceased then went away. One of the Jurymen asked witness, if he perceived any alter ation in the deceased's manner or behaviour on that night.— Witness replied, that he did not, although the deceased ap peared to be labouring under very severe bodily pain ; yet his mental faculties were not in the slightest degree affected. Mr. Castle, the surgeon, deposed to his having examined the body of the deceased, which presented the usual appearance of persons who died in consequence of taking any active mineral poison. In the room he (witness) observed a tumbler, that de posited a sediment, Which, on examination, he found was oxalic acid. A small portion of that active poison also adhered to a piece of paper which was on the drawers. Witness added, that the deceased must have taken nearly an ounce of the poison. The Jury here 'inquired, if the constable, or any of the wit nesses,, had ascertained-at what shop the unfortunate deceased had received poison instead of salts. W. Pairiter, the constable, said that every inquiry had been set on foot by them.to ascertain that fact, but they were unsuc cessful. _ vv The Jury reprobated the conduct of apothecaries, through whose negligence, in not properly distinguishing between salts and poiaon, so many fatal accidents had happened. A verdict of " Deceased, in consequence of taking oxalic acid in mistake for Epsom salts," was then recorded. INSURRECTION ACT—COUNTY OF KILKENNY. —At the Extraordinary Sessions of the Peace, held at our County Court-house, on Saturday, pursitalit to requisition, the assembled Magis trates resolved on applying to his'Excelleney the LORD Licutt:VANT, for the extension of the Insutreetion Act to the entire county.--(Kil kenny Moderator.) CHARGE OF CRUELTY.—A man and woman of the name of Gaper, charged with cruel treat ment of three of the children of the latter by a former husband, whilst on their way, yesterday, to surrender themselves at Clerkenwell, were so violently assailed by the populace, that they were forced to take temporary refuge at the Mary-le bone Office, from whence the 'Magistrate ordered, them to he conveyed in a hackney coach, under , protection of the police officers, to Clerkenwell, Prison. The number of prisoners confined in the house of Correction at Cold Bath-Adds, and in the New Prison nt Clerkenwell, since the last Sessions, exceed 1,000, ,viz. 602 in the New Prison, and between 400 and 300 in the House of Correction. greater number than t!ie present was never re cbllcctcd on any ptevious occasion. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the-STlP orrics, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIR.S. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCEItY, APRIL 13. CONTEMPT OF COURT. PEEIBtRTON applied to the LORD CHANCELLOR for an order for an attachment against a gentleman ' who had eloped with a young lady who was a ward of Co ur t. The parties, he said, were then in London ; and it was most important that the order should be served within a few hours. The Learned Counsel, without stating any of the particulars, or who were the parties, handed the affidavits up to' his Lordship. The LORD CHANCELLOR, having read the documents, pro mised Mr. l'emberton that the gentleman should attend per sonally on Thursday morning. BEER v. WARD. The argument of Mr. CLARKE in this case, which was an application for a third trial to decide the question of legiti macy, occupied the Court for the greater part of the day.— The case is to he resumed on Thursday. The facts are al. ready before the public. The principal grounds on which the present application was made were—misdirection of the Judge who tried the case last upon the law of marriage ; because the verdict was partly against the evidence ; because the Learned Judge had not made proper observations upon part of the evi dence ; and because he let part of it go to the Jury without any observations at all. _ Court will take Bankrupt Petitions on Monday the 3d of May. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 13. RINKS v. CAREY AND WIFY. Mr. ARCIIBoLD stated the case to the J ury. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mrs. Binks, who kept a. boarding school for young Ladies near Clapham, for the balance of an account for board and education to Mrs. Carey, then Miss Fer guson. The young Lady chose to be instrusted in dancing, music, and the mathematics. " Her favourite study was the mathematical." She had also given an entertainment on her birth-day, when Mr. Carey was one particularly entertained. Miss Ferguson's father refused to pay, on the ground that he had not ordered for the charges. Mrs. Binks took 60/. from the father, and trusted the daughter for the balance. Mrs. Legan, examined by Mr. SCARLETT, proved dancing being taught, and a dinner provided on Miss Ferguson's birth day. Gross-examined by Mr. GURNEY.— She was twenty on that birth-day. Mr. Wimpole proved the father's refusal to pay a sum charged in the bill. It was 201. Bs. sd. Miss Louisa Demont proved payment of apart of the sum, leaving a balance of 10/. Is. Bd. [This young Lady cried in great distress, and, as soon as she left the box, appeared to have fallen into fits.] A letter of Mrs. Carey's, promising to pay after she had be come of age, was put in evidence. Verdict for the plaintiff:—Damages JO/. Is. Bd. SHAW V. PICTON, CLERK. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that the plaintiff's were Assignees of Messrs. Howard and Gibbs, and represented a great number of creditors, many of whom were in the lowest ranks of life. [Here the Learned Gentleman gave a detailed explanation of the often-told mode in which Messrs. Howard and Gibbs kept their accounts as annuity of brokers.] There was a long account of annuity transactions between Messrs. Howard and Gibbs and the Defendant, the Reverend Mr. l'icton. There were two items of 1501. and 225/. for an an nuity upon an Honourable Gentleman. There was another item of 10001. and upwards, for an annuity upon a young Lord. There was a third transaction, with the late General Picton, brother of the defendant, from which a claim of 3001. arose. There was also a fourth transaction, involving 1300/. The LOIID CHIEF JUSTICE remarked that there were four causes.—After some consultation the cause was referred to Mr. Gazelee. NEGLIGENCE IN DELIVERING LETTERS, HORDON v. Da.l/r or% The plaintiff was a Banker, and the defendant Deputy Post master in Dudley, Worcestershire. In consideration of a cer tain extra allowance, the defendant had constructed a box in his office for the purpose of putting into it the letters of the plaintiff; in order to prevent delay in deliverin g them. The present action was brought in consequence of delay in deliver ing letters containing bills of exchange, which were disho noured, and respecting which the plaintiffs could obtain no redress, in consequence of the delay. Mr. TaII TON stated the case to the Jury. The prticular letter in question had been addressed plainly to Alessrs. Hor don and Co., but had been put into the box of Mr. Haydon, who was in no business, and had never had a partner, and there it lay for three days. For this gross negligence this action was brought. If it had been a deputy post-master that the negligence had been charged against the defendant, the action could not be maintained ; but it-being in another capacity, into which he had been quite competent to enter, lie was clearly an. swerable for his neglect. J. Leadbeater gave evidence of the agreement to pay " half. a-guinea a year annually," for the accommodation of a sepa rate box. When the letter in question was delivered, regret was expressed by the defendant that it had not been delivered earlier, it having been overlooked. There was two bills of2ool. and 340/. The one was refused because too late in being pre. sented ; the other, because the party liable had, in the interval, become insolvent. After a long investigation, it was found, that by sending special messengers to the parties, all the inconveniene charged upon this delay could have been avoided. Lordship thought that where there was only a mistake charged, the want of due diligence was a good defence. Besides it was not yet clear that the half guinea was only a Christmas.:boz for a pi geon-hole. It could not be considered a premium for such re. sponsibility as this.—Nonsuit. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, BETTING-ROOM, APRIL RIDDLES 3.—STATE OF THE ODDS. ;WORTH. 7 to 2 agst Rebecca. 7 to 4 Agit Katherine 11 to 5 agst Don Carlos.. 7 to 1 ept Osmond lb to 2 arit Grenadier 8 to 1 apt Jess 8 to 1 apt RefOr y tner 12 to 1 apt Don Carlos 13 to 1 apt Hurly Burly II Y. 4 to 1 agst Rebecca 13 to 2 agst Viscountess 10 to 1 agst Sister to Sailor. DONCA STE 20 to 1 agst Reticule 20 to 1 agst Skim c. 25 to 1 agst Cydnus 25 to 1 agst Silkworm 26 to 1 age Bess. 7 to 1 agst Swiss 11 to 1 agst Altisidora filly 25 to 1 agSt Osmond 25 to 1 agst Miss Cranfield KS. 11 to 1 agst Fillagree 12 to 1 agst Derby. ST. LEGER. 26 to 1 agst Lisette 80 to 1 agst Diadem (0 to 1 agst Ina. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, April 13 A mite' dam Ditto, at, Sight Rotterdam Antwerp d4 A _ _ tiankbui•gh 47 7 ii Us Alt ona Paris,3 Day's sight Dii to Moot draux , ditto (Sedan 7 10 . Fiankinti on I lie Maio Pete' sbn rgli Vicnii; Trie3te Madrid Cadiz Barcelona Gibrallm Leghorn Gel., a i3i-l'enier, Ital. Lit 97 Malta 45 -Naple; 384 Pale' ono 10 5 10 5 :o;4 Effeci . v, 3 1 Effective :5 35/ iiifustive. 15j ........ 305 60i 1,10,011 Oporto Ilio Janeiro Ihib 91 Cori: 91 pci Cent. AULLION. ttortutal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 ptt Oz Foreign Gold, in Bars , 3 17 6 New lkonliluons New Dollars Silvtr to liar., Standard rOR THE SUY. ON SACRED MUSIC. Ma. EDITOR—The vast influence which MUIP S ' . exercises over the mind and the passions of men, has been acknowledged in all ages, and prevalli , more or less, in every clime, and among even ilia rudest and most barbarous nations. If a ny thing were wanting to prove the high estimatio - n which this delightful art was ever held, we have it in the dignified purposes to which it was ap plied in the early ages of society, when it WO made the medium for publishing laws, for facia cating the doctrines of morality, for transmittiug the record of the noblest deeds, for awakenit* the soul to the charms, and inciting it to the practice, of virtue, and for rendering a due tri bute of adoration to the Deity. The systerni Of political and of moral laws are those written in , verses, and chaunted in full chorus, in the al semblies or the people. It was through the me dium of music that the poet there disseminated the effusions of his muse ; and this mode of pub' lication existed no less amidst the civilized Greeks than amongst the bards of the northern nations. Even at the present day, the Impro" visatori of Italy have recourse to the aid of music,' to render their extensive productions more ila" . ceptable to their auditors. Poetry may be, indeed, justly considered sq one of the branches into which music can be d!..' vided, since measured sounds are assuredly species of harmony. When duly combined sad united, powerful and truly delightful is the effect which these sister arts produce upon' the feeling soul. By them, the notice of the most ragitig passions are allayed, pain is rendered less acute, grief becomes less oppressive, the soul is awakened to new pleasures, and sorrow may be soothed into soft melancholy. By their united efforts all the energies of the mind are called forth into action ; . and whilst their powerful influence is capable a subduing vice itself, they can also exalt the noblest virtues by the enthusiasm which they seldom fail to create. There are subjects, however, of which neither Poetry nor Painting can convey any adequate representation to the mind, and it is in these that Music proves pre-eminently triumphant. In vain have the two above-mentioned arts endeavoured to personify to the imagination the attributes of the Deity, or to pourtray the mysteries of immor tal existence ; in either case, the utmost efforts of the poet or of the painter have fallen far short of the end they wished to attain. Indeed it happens not unfrequently, that instead of reaching the sublime, they have too frequently fallen into the ridiculous. The reason of this is obvious. The utmost efforts of genius can only create new combinations of ideas, which have been originally transmitted to the mind through the medium of the senses. When fittll received, they are distinguished, compared, ar ranged, or mingled, or increased, by refire tioo. But all the materials of which they ere composed are supplied only from sensations ; and the discovery of new modes of represent ing them alone constitutes invention. Hence it would follow, that if objects of terror and of distress are more truly represented by poets and artists, than those of a more pure and serene nature, it is because the former are more conso want to the imperfections of man than the latter can possibly b e . Th e most su bli me o f English poets affords a remarkable instance of this, in his delineations of Hell and of Heaven. Never have the sublime horrors of the former been more powerfully pourtral ed ; whilst in his attempt to describe the constant enjoyments of the latter, he falls far short of the same perfection. In short, Heaven and its glories are placed too much beyond the reach of human comprehensi on, and as an emi nent critic justly observes, " Omnipotence can' not be exalted ; infinity cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be improved." If neither the most lofty charms of poetry, nor the most sublime representations of paintiag, can at all approach perfection on this head, they must acknowledge the superiority of sacred [no sic. Not that this art can, any more than ita,sigter arts, magnify that which has no other liiiiits than infinity, nor improve that which is infinitely' perfect; but because it alone possesses, in a troll eminent degree, the power of more highly e•X' siting the soul, of inspiring more of the 'fervour which the sacredness of the subject reqnires, and of disposing the mind to bow down with sepia ments of love and of adoration before thethrone 4 the Mostiligh. To all who have heard the sublit/le music of Handel, whose ears have been delight ed, either with the sweet and expressive melodies tor with the fulness and majestic dignity of hie• *choruses, the truth of what has been stated above is sufficiently obvious. If there be any minds } insensible to the e ff ects of such music, they are certainly not to be envied, for they are most as suredly deprived of some of the most delightftil emotions that a rational and sensible being caw possibly enjoy. A. P. BIRTHS. On Monday, At Tongs Hawkhurst, Kent, the lady of l!ir— bert B. Curteis, Esq., of a still-born child. On the 13th inst., in Charlotte -street, Bedford-squire, the lady of Archibald Leslie, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th of December last, the wife of Captain John Lomb, of the Palmira, of a daughter. MA lIRIED. At Camberwell. this morning, by the Rev. John .thoolge Stork, A.M. Alexander Nairne, Esq. Commander of the Hon. East India Company's ship General Kl,d, to Ann spencer , eldest daughter of Nathaniel Domett, Esq. at Camberwell Grove. On the 7th inst.., Thomas Robinson, Esq., eldest son of A. Ramsay Robinson, of Kensington, to Frederica, wall daughter of the lat. Sir George Brathwaite Boughton, *Bart , of Poston-court, Herefordshire. On Tuesday, the 13th inst., at St. Alphage, London-mat Isaac Pidduck, Esq. ' M.D., of Great Fussell-street, Blooms bury, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Mr. Stevens, attorney a t law, Sion College -gardens. DIED. Lately, at Carlsruhe, Lieutenant-General Baron Von Getz, a distinguished military officer. On the 9th inst., aged nearly 12 years, Anne, only tilughter of the late James Grace, Esq., of Aylesbury. On the 12th inst., Mr. J. Varden, of Hiih-street; South wark, in the 61st year of his age. On the 13th inst, Mary, the wife of Henry Storks, Esq„ of Gower street: _ On Saturday last, in Lambeth, William Messing,.Esq., of the Stock Exchange, in his 75th year, having► survived his wife six days.