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r THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY faii•actsponi the Morning Papers,March23,lB2s. [BRITISJI. PRESS.I • Me. Huskisson's speech on Monday evening way ; ,deservedly rank him among the first politi cal economists of the age. There is no Member - more clear-sighted as to all that concerns the true interests of the commercial world. lie stands on ground sufficiently firm to justify him in discard ing, as he has done with unprecedented courage, eke.. selfish and sorry •doctrines of the Old School. it IS - gratifying thus to remark the practical re soft;of the enlightened . labours of Ricardo,,Mills, iKulloch, and others,. in rooting out the mis taken.notions which had so long an 3, so fatally misled the politicians and legislators of the " ()Men time." The Parliament of England will hereafter spew to, the great commercial States of Europe what. are the only true means by which nations can enrich themselves in their deal ings with each other. Commerce, sitisp;y consi tiered, is nothing more than the exchange of one want for another want, and ozone article of luxury fqr another. In all commerce between nations, as in all commerce between man and man, the more each possesses the means of supplying the uecessities, or ministering to the - comforts of the other, the greater will be the advantage derived to all from their mutual intercourse. The instant that intercourse is conducted upon the principles of monopoly and exclusion, from that moment their respective interests are broken in upon, and the whole becomes by degrees a system of per fidious avd unprofitable rivalry. So long as this system presail it is utterly hopeless to consoli date their reciprocal interests ; trade, so con. ducted, never can be any other than a struggle which country shall take the most profitable ad advantage of the other ; and, as always happens in such a conflict, both sides in the end are losers. The sovereignty ofa INI other Country over her Col onies has been exercised,time out of mind ,in the most selfish and oppressive spirit of despotism. The colonists were looked upon as little better than hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Parent State. Great Britain can claim no ex- emption from this bitter reproach upon her pa rental character. Mr. Iluskisson drew an ani mated and admirable picture of the mode in which she exercised her supremacy over Ireland, when up to the year 1780 she treated her as a Colonial dependency. The rigorous commercial restraints which she, in those days, imposed upon the Sister Kingdom, were such that the very mention of them called forth a murmuring chorus of " hear, hear'." from every part of the House. It is difficult to conceive, under the enlighten- ed Government of our time, how restrictions so galling and sa glaringly unjust were ever patiently borne. But the progress of increasing wisdom in all that concerns the affairs of trade and commerce, is conspicuous in the enlarged views which govern the policy of Ministers, and in the manliness with which all those narrow totions are exploded which formerly were the regular and received rules of legislation. The enlightened colonial system, so ably advocated by Mr. 11ushisson, cannot fail to be succeeded by results the most important to the mercantile interests of Great Eritain, both at home and abroad. Without compromising those interests in the slightest degree, all the profit to be derived from our foreign possessions will be incalculably increased, at the same time that they are placed on the sound and secure basis of mutual justice. It has been a question of frequent discussion, NI: healer colonial possessions add any thing to the real power and effective strength of a nation. For any practical purpose, this discussion must al ways be useless. It involves points which never Call be settled by argument, and over which abstract reasoning can have little or no influence. Of this, however, we may be certain, that what ever wealth we may waste, or whatever blood we may shed to preserve our colonies, their gratitude will never go a step beyond their in terest. We may watch over their weakness— we may nurse them into strength—but if, when reared to maturity, and in a condition to stand up in their own defence, we treat them on the footing of dependants upon whose labour acrd industry we are to be fed and fatten, we may rest assured that their struggle for independ ence will never he far distant. If, taking any eolony, we overstock tier markets with our goods, ,leave her 0%%n upon her kinds, by prohloit- i►►g her trade, with other countries, what pledge cap we have for her fidelity, or how can we hope ,te keep her.iwsulijection, when she shall be able to break off her alliance, and become a free State ? The liberal views taken by the Member for Liverpool are those which every British mer chant must ,rejoice to hear maintained in a British Parliament ;. carried into effect they will open fresh charnels : of consumption in all quarters of the globe, by extending to all our colonies those equitable rights, which, in their re-action, will be .the soul of our commercial prosperity and the source of our permanent greatness. ,LTUE, PUBLIC LEDGER.] ;it ; reaily appears that the French.nation is be •-gitmin,:g. to a wake from itsonaccountable lethargy, 'atid,rsitould -the feeling. which has been created take root; the Ultras would have .to thank them selves; for it. Such has been their indiscretion of Jate, that .they have compellod- ,the rest of Public to look to desperate expedients, in order to , meet .a danger which is assuminrr. -every day amore alarming character.. Had they been contented with the inroads they ha%e made ?OA the contract entered into, at the itestora hot WPPII the King and the People, it is pribable. that the latter, exhausted . as ithey were by .their extraordinary efforts.-during the , preceding '.quarter, of a century, would have submitted :to them without as mocii. as: a loud .traurmur. But, when they began to invade the by which three4fths of the landed pro 'iperty of the kingdom have been held for the thirty years, they: undermined the considera ,:tion which made the maintenance of public tran :;,quillity,the-first,want of the nation. To se-cute their property, which is more subdivided than in any other country k Europe, the great body of proprietors opposed themselves to every move ment that had a tendency to create disorder, however favourable it might be in its results to their interests. We have no doubt it was this vast sub-division of property that was the chief cause of the peaceable settlement which succeeded the return of the Bourbons, a number less cla,. of persons being thus immediately in terested in preventing any dangerous explosion ; and private advantage, as usual, triumphed over every inducement connected with the public good. The Ultras, however, either too ignorant' to ascertain the feeling by which the nation, that at once hated and despised them, was induced to bear with their domination, or too arrogant to re spect that feeling, have absolutely entered into open war with it, by laying claims to that very property which has hitherto rendered the French quiet subjects, and lukewarm citiaens. As the Emigrants are proceeding, this distinction -is likely to be inverted ; and the two-thirds of the nation, who have hitherto seen in the preservation of national repose the guarantee of their own se curity, may be now tempted to seek, in the over turn of the existing order of things, their remedy against the spoliation with which they are menaced. [THE TIMES.] The private letters from Lisbon state that the Coma de Subserra (Pamplona), who was to have had the embassy to this country, has committed to writing a long and elaborate review of the consequences which have resulted to Portugal from the connexion with England, dating from its earliest period. The object of the work is to show, that Portugal has uniformly been a sufferer by the alliance, and the conduct of England is consequently attacked with much severity. tis not printed, hut several copies have, we understand, been made of it, which are now circulating in Lis bon. We have of course no further evidence than that of the letters,that the statement in question has been written by the Count de Subserra. We must first express our joy, that a Portuguese Noble man educated under the old system, supposing Count Subserra to be such a person and so edu cated, can write a book. We are glad he can reason, though he reasons wrong. A short resi dence in England, and converse with its inha bitants, with a few glasses of Port wine, may in form his judgment better. But it is curious and augurs ill of the disposition of the Portuguese Cabinet towards us, that it should have chosen to send us an Ambassador who is in the first in stance an enemy to our policy. ENEW TIMESI In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. Grattan brought in a 13111 for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland ; and from what we can gather from the speech of the Hon. Gentleman, we see with some apprehension that he has in view at least a partial introduction of the English Poor Laws into the Sister Island. We would strongly deprecate every such attempt, and rejoice to observe that Mr. Gonlburn at once took his stand, and expressed his determi nation to resist so pernicious a measure. In t h e Committee on the Wine Duties' Bill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in reply to a question from Mr. Alderman Wood, that the drawback would be allowed on half a tun, or 126 gallons, whic!i was considerably lower than the increase upon the rise of duties, as nothing less than a tun was formerly charged. Some regulation of the excise duty on glass bottles was stated to be under consideration. • The late lamentable accident, which has occur red on the Cam, will, we trust,operate as a warning to the Members of both Universities against the use of those dangerous boats called canoes. Some per sons have suggested that the Heads of the Uni versities should prohibit the use of boats of any description ; but it is not reasonable to suppose that such a restriction could be carried into effect ; and the issuing an order, which would be sure to be set at defiance, could only prejudice the discipline of those seats of learning. The case is different, however, in prohibiting only a parti cular kind of boat, and that of a construction evi dently hazardous in the extreme. In the Uni versity of Cambrige especially, where so deep an impression has been produced by the awful fate of two fine and amiable young men, it may will be expected that the Students themselves will join ie deprecating the use of canoes ; and he example would probably be followed by the Sister University.— (Ibid.) [MORNING- CHRONICLE.] The commission for Lord Combermere, as Ccnimander-in-Chief in India, is actually in pre paration, and his Lordship is expected in town 'from Ireland in a fortnight, to take the ne cessary steps preparatory to his departure.— Of course, when the Civil and Military Autho rities are in collision, a removal of one or the other becomes necessary. Without pre suming to sit in judgment on the merits of these parties (our information is too imperfect to authorize us to speak decidedly on the subject), we may say, that the public feeling here is de cidedly against Lord Amherst. In fact, Sir Ed ward Vaget's only crime is confidently said to be an indisposition to act under a man who has proved himself, in every respect, unfit for his situation. Under these circumstances, it may easily be conceived that the recal of Lord Am herst would have been more acceptable than that of the Military Commander. The forces under the command of Sir Edward were; in the month of October, moving on the Sylhet position. [NI 0 It'N G POST.] Several subjects'of vast importance to Ireland have bee►i mentioned last week in the House of Commons. Among them, the Banking System, the Putter Trade, and the restrictions on the Commerce of that country with Great Britain, are most entitled to attention. With respect to the first, to which we shall limit ourselves at present, it divides itself into two hr;u►ches—that confined. to the Bank of Ireland, and that wl►ich re gards private bankers. That the Bank of Ireland may have acted of late years w itlfexcessive caution may be quite correct; but,perbaps,the fact is refer able to the severe losses of the establishment pre viously, in consequence of its extreme, its impru dent liberality. In saying this, we are perfectly aware, that the Bank has not generally dis counted bills accepted by persons residing out of Dublin ; but before a rule be judged of by com parison with the practice of this country, it ought to be inquired whether the situation of Ireland in all that relates to Mercantile concerns has been similar to that of England—and such as to warrant the adoption of the same line of conduct in both Nations. For our part, we think as applies to the past, the Bank might be able to justify its circumscribed local accommodation on tolerably valid grounds, at the same time we hope it no longer feels any necessity for conti nuing these restrictions. But as regards the con duct of that Institution towards the people of Dublin, we very confidently affirm that so far from having been illiberal in discounting Paper, it has been the reverse—and has suffered accord ingly. The Bank of Ireland has uniformly cashed bills having the single endorsement of the persons with whom it keeps accounts, and perhaps its greatest fault (except during periods of panic), has been too little regard to the solvency or character of the acceptors of paper so endorsed. We therefore think the charge of illiberality within these conditions not deserved. That the Bank too was tardy in lowering its rate of discount below five per cent. may be ascribed to two causes-Ist, That the legal rate of in terest in Ireland is six per cent., and that al though the great increase of capital here might reduce the value of money at a particular time, it by no means follows that a corresponding in crease of capital and reduction of its annual rate of interest, should, at the same moment, have oc curred in the Sister Country. It is also but fair to remark, that notwithstanding the difference of one per cent. in the legal interest of money between England and Ireland, the legal rate of dis count in the latter is only five per cent. and of course more never was obtained by the Bank at periods of the greatest scarcity of the cir culating medium. But while we state these facts in justice to that Establishment, do we think it has otherwise acted so as to avoid cen sure ? Certainly not. The very facilities already mentioned, which it has too often afforded for raising money and keeping up false credit by means of a ruinous trade, in accommodation bills, has frequently done the greatest mischief to individuals and to the community. Not a single circumstance, however, can be alleged against that Institution of which every private Bank in Ireland has not been guilty to a most aggravated extent, and to the most fatal results. We hope a new era has now arrived [MORNING HERALD. A conversation took place last night in th e House of Commons on the subject of the Catholic Bill. Mr. Estcourt said it was rumoured that the Bill about to be brought in by Sir F. Burdett was to be read a second time on the 14th April, it having been previously arranged that the Com mons' debate on the Bill should be on the second reading ; but as such period would be in the middle of the Sessions week, when many Mem bers who were Magistrates would be obliged to be in the country, he wished the second reading to be postponed till the 21st. Sir F. Burdett replied, that he would state in a day or two whether he could agree to the postpone ment. Mr. Secretary Peel expressed astonish ment that there should be any hesitation about the short delay of a Bill, which, after three weeks' preparation, was not even yet before the House. He added, that it was rumoured that there were either to be provisions in this Bill not to be con templated by the Resolutions of the House, or that there were to he other measures besides such Bill ; and it was therefore requisite that there should be time amply to consider the proposi tions after they might have been embodied into a Bill, as the pre-arrangement of them had occu pied so much time and attention. Mr. Peel at the same time gave distinct notice, that when ever the second reading of such Bill might be moved, he should take the sense of the House on that question. Mr. Tierney requested his Hon. ' Friend Sir F. Burdett not to acquiesce in the required postponement, .or in such case there would be no getting the Bill to the House of Lords till May, and that would be to send it to their Lordships towards the latter end of the Session. Sir Francis Burdett repeated, that as so many of his friends were interested in the Bill, he would give an answer in a day or two, whether he could agree to the postponement. Mr. Tierney assigned as a reason for the Rill not be ing yet brought in, that the delay was considered of no importance, as nothing was to be done with the Bill till after the Easter recess ; and that his Honourable. Friend had nothing to do with other rumoured measures. Sir F. Burdett made no remark upon either of those points. We hope that in the Bill to be brought forward there will be no provision for the Catholic Clergy, for, as we before said, if Protestants pay them, why ' should they not pay the Clergy belonging to the Methodist, or any dissentient body. We further hope that the independent Members in both Lords and Commons will oppose any such scheme, as it is very probable a certain portion of the Mini sters, and those friendly to what is called the Ca tholic Cause, have agreed upon paying the Clergy in question. The doctrines of the • latter go to the _effect that the Protestants are Heretics. And we, on the contrary, assert that the doc trines of the Catholic Clergy are idolatrous. It would be curious were we to take into our pay Clergy whose opinions we deem . of the most dangerous nature. Gentlemeu who have accepted office, and the emoluments of office, may Clunk lightly 'of these things; but the case is very different with those who be taxed to pay the clergy in question. NVe onder It the Civic body do e s n o t stir in. this matter . makes noise enou g h re l a ti ve to the tithe of 2_5.5,11. w in the pound levied in the reign of He nr y' V I I. to be paid t o our own Clergy• And two or three years since it -attributed the g reater part of the suff er i ngs en d ure d f ro m taxation by the people to th e enormous sum s paid to pensioners, Now the pe n si on li s t, we believe, does no t ex ceed 250,0001. tier annum, and we are given to understand by some of the newspapers that Messrs. Croker, Plunkett, and Canning have it seriously in contemplation to recommend the Protestant people of Great Britain to pay 230,000/. annually to the Catholic Clergy. Now, here was the Civic Body attributing all our cala mities to the taxation in regard of one sum, but saying not one word in respect of the contem plated taxation for the other. STOCK EXCHANGE ASSAULT. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, before the public business of the Justice-room commenced, Mr. Harrild, of Friday-street, entered the room in great agitation, with the neckcloth and breast-pin of another gentlemen in his hand. He had, he said, been most violently assaulted by a groat number of persons who had the appearance of gentlemen on the Stock Exchange, and held in his hand (exhibiting the neckcloth and pin) what he found it necessary to drag from the neck of the most furious of his assailants in his own defence. As the charge was so seriouly brought, and such a number of I gentlemen of respectability were involved in the imputation of a barbarous and unprovoked attack upon a single man, the Marshal was immediately sent to the Stock Exchange, to re quest the presence of some of the members who might be ab le to describe the occurrence, and to bring the owner of the trophies which had been torn away before the Lord Mayor. Several of the most eminent Stock-brokers immediately at tended, and the case was gone into. Mr. Harrilel stated that he walked in, or rather was hurried in, with a current of people to the Exchange. He met no opposition at the door ; but he was not long in the room when a gentleman walked up to him and asked him whether he was a member ? He made some reply which he did not ' recollect, and immediately a cry of " seventy," or some other number, was raised, and off went his hat. In astonishment he looked round for the aggressor, but the moment he did so he received a shove from one, a push from another, a blow from a third, and a kick from a fourth. He was then by a vast crowd of persons (between 200 and 300 he conjectured) shoved into the middle of the room, where he was beaten and kicked without the least ceremony by the multitude. He however was not idle all this while. As soon as he received the first insult he resisted ; he called out " murder" frequently, and seized a young man named Langhorn by the neckcloth, which he held tight, and would have continued to hold along with tile owner, had not somebody cut away the neckcloth behind, and left it in the complainant's sole possession. Some gentlemen cried out " shame ;" but without the least effect. The officer in attend ance witnessed the outrage, but refused to interfere in appre hending Mr. Langhorn, whose arm was raised to strike a blow at the moment the witness got him by the throat. Finally, Mr. Harrild was thrust out of the door, where he challenged the person whom he had the principal conflict with to stand forth and claim his property. He was then hooted with cries of " thief, pickpocket," &c. and was obliged to seek protection at the Mansion-house. Mr. Capel, of the Stock Exchange, said, the treatment with which Mr. Harrild had met was;he was very sorry to say, of frequent occurrence in the Stock Exchange, but he begged to be understood to confine the imputation of such conduct to the very young members. All who were present in the Justice room were most (lecidedly opposed to every thing of the kind, and it was well known that Mr. Hammond would readily give a thousand pounds out of his own pocket to check so disgrace ful a practice as that of insulting a stranger for entering into their room. It would, he believed, be found that in this case there had been both mistake and exaggeration, as Mr. Lang horn was a gentleman of great respectability, and of course in capable of the violence attributed to him, and Mr. Harrild might hare been led to think that he sustained more injury than really had happened to him. Mr. Clarke, who was then introducedto the Lord Mayor as one of the most respectable men on the Stock Exchange, stated that he saw Mr. Harrild three or four minutes before the cry of mur der ! was uttered, and asked him whether he was a member; to which he replied that he undoubtedly was. Witness went then about his business, and soon after he saw Mr. Harrild seize Mr. L4ngliern by the neckcloth. He saw no blow given upon either side. He regretted to say, that the younger mem bers and clerks were in the habit of knocking the hats off the heads of strangers who went into the room. Mr. Cannon, also a respectable member of the Stock Ex change, stated, that lie went up to Mr. Harrild, and said to him, " Sir, as you appear to be a stranger it would be better for you to go out ; to which that Gentleman replied as if he slighted the advice. A tostle took place soon afterwards, and witness saw Mr. Longhorn's throat in the grasp of Mr. Harrild, who nearly committed strangulation. Mr. Longhorn, of No. 13, Bloomsbury-square, stated that he was standing near the door of the Exchange when Mr. Har rild seized him by the throat. He declared that he neither struck, nor kicked, nor shoved, nor raised his hand to the com plainant, and that he might have been choaked if somebody had not cut his neck-cloth behind. Other evidence to the same effect was heard. It was admitted that Mr. Marrild's hat was knocked off, and that he was shoved about very unceremoniously, but not one saw a blow given. Mr. Harrild repeated, that he had been struck, kicked, &c., and he intimated that he should appeal to another authority if the Lord Mayor refused to interfere. The LORD MAYOR said he was convinced, from his know ledge of the respectability of the parties who were ready to make affidavit of the correctness of what they had stated, that they had made a most impartial representation of the facts.— He strongly reprobated the ungentlemanlike, the barbarous practice which lie had known long to exist in the Stock Ex change, of disturbing persons who might walk in accidentally ; but he was sure that the very you - g members alone were chargeable. He hoped that the exposure of what had taken place, and the strong reprobation with which the unmanly vio lence had met from the most respectable members of the Stock Exchange, would for ever put an end to the disgraceful sys tem. His Lordship then said he should discharge the party accused, as the testimony in his favour was of so powerful a nature. Mr. Harrild gave notice that he should indict Mr. Lang horn at the Quarter Sessions : he felt, he said, the effects of blows and pushes in his arm and side. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, March 22 Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight It ottettlant - 12 3 Antwerp l2 3 flawborgh lq 10 Si 171. Altona Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto Boitrdeaux, ditto Berlin ~ e545 0 1 a 7: 5 ;51i Ex. I\lonty Frankfort nil the Main Pete' sburgh Vienna . 9 0 9 56 Trieste 9 59 Nladrid .„„ - .361 F,ffrc!iry Cadiz 84 Effective jilho:t Barcelona .. 36 .............................. Leghorn (;e1,, , a ..... /45:i --Venice, Ital. Lir. 9.7 Nlalla rale' Intl Lisbon Oporto Rio Jane . ' ro ....... . 30 .. • . Cork 9i pet Cent. BULLION Portugal 0 01,1,1 n Coin 1 .0 0 0 pc; ()z i Foreign Gold, n Bars •3 17 9 `em,' boubloorts Nvw Dollar' `iilver Standard in 81E5.....• •.. EMIGRATION TO THE 13RITISII COLONY ON THE RIO DE LA Pr..ATA.—The second body t oo k th e i r depar ture from Liverpool in the ship Martha, yesterday se'nnight They quitted the harbour with a fair wind, which, as it has con tinued ever since, has by this time, most likely, conducted them into a warm climate. This party is composed of the same de scription of men and their families, as that whi;.'.h sailed from Greenock in the Norval, a few weeks before, namely, farming men and artificers, and like their Scotch friends, they are well supplied with implements for their use. • Mr. BARBER. BEA . U MONT has a thi r d p arty, w hi c h w i ll procee d f rom th e river Thames this wee k. Thi s vessel is now clear i ng out f rom the London Doe, :s , an d b es id es passengers, is well freighted with flour-mills and other machinery.fo r the use of the settlers.— This is a spi r it e d b eg i nn i ng to a gran d undertaking. An Org a nist %%as .on 111onby elected for Lam:. beth Old Church. The votes were a, y t now :—LoNo, 951 ; T. LrNo, 850 ; Wrirrn .9 .93 ; - ArLt,74, 184. The successful candidate is Wind, and has been fu: s!.;nie time , dependent on the parish. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—To those who are the least dis posed to feel superstitious, it will appear that the last Northern Expedition sailed under the most unfavourable auspices. Suicide visited it before its departure ; and, if report be true, Cap tain PARRY sprained his ankle when he entered his ship previously to its sailing. The most un daunted among the Generals of ancient Rome would scarcely have ventured on in the teeth of so many bad omens. Thank heaven, we live in a more enlightened and a more adventurous arc. The statesmen and the commanders of the pre sent day seek the hope of saccess, not in the flight of birds, in the quivering of entrails of slaughtered victims, nor in the appetite of chickens ; but in the depth of their political views, in the wisdom of their plans, and in the penetrating and comprehensive glance, which embraces at once the present and the future, and is fully prepared to meet whatever obstacles may arise, because such obstacles have been anticie pated, and the means of overcoming them have been duly combined. We are now too well ac quainted with the immeasurable distance that separates the spiritual from the mere material world, to believe that, in the common occurrences of \life, the one can have any very great influence over the other. I wish, however, to be under stood as meaning here, not that influence w hich is a necessary consequence of the intimate and incomprehensible union that exist between body and soul, but merely the occult influence which was attributed to either of them in the eyes of darkness and of ignorance. Deep as may be the gloom of superstition and of ignorance, it must be gradually, but effectually, dispelled by the light of knowledge and of philosophy. Yet so deeply rooted in the human breast is the love for the marvellous, and so much is man naturally in clined towards superstition, that even in our own. enlightened age many there are who feel more inclined than they would willingly admit to put some faith in omens of various description. Yet this, as indeed every other species of superstition, certainly betrays no inconsiderable weakness of intellect,and .constitutes one of the most singular anomalies in the constitution of the human mind• How powerful, yet how weak, is the reason of man? At one time, soaring to an elevation appa -1 rently beyond its utmost range; at others, sinking into a state of degradatio n , di sgrace f u l even i n a 1 brute. The more deeply we reflect upon this matter. the more we must be struck by such an apparent contradiction existing in the very same being- Man, considered in a general point of view, is at once the model of all that is great and good, and of all that is disgraceful and detestable. The ex ternal perfect symmetry of his form, the amazing powers of his mind, deservedly place him high above all sublunary animals. Gifted With a soul, endowed with the capacity of producing every virtue, he may be considered as forming the co" - nectiag link between heaven and earth—between the Creator and his creatures. Viewed as I have just described him, he is indeed a noble animal = nay, the noblest human imagination can conceive, as fitted to inhabit our earth. But, alas ! too fre quently does his fair form - conceal a soul of the blackest die; too often are the powers of his mind employed to minister to his unbridled pas sions, or in the perpetration of the most disgusting, the most reprehensible crimes. He done is po sessed of reason, and he alone is criminal W ith reflection. It is not, as in the brute, the instinc tive impulse of necessity—it is the cool, the re flected intention to do harm, that urges him on to injure, to torture, to destroy his fellow men. And was it ever so ? Most assuredly not ; for man is the creature of infinite wisdom and of i►►' finite goodness. He now displays some signs 01 perfection, because he was created perfect ; he is too often the slave of violent passions, because he has fallen from that original state of perfec tion. Ile is a mere wreck of what he formerly was ; a ruin still retaining marks of original beauty ; but nevertheless disfigured, degraded, and " fallen, fallen, from its high estate." This is a melancholy picture, but it is correct. It is not calculated to flatter our vanity ; but it may tend to awaken in our hearts the earnest desire of regaining what we have lost ; what vie must have lost for ever had not Divine goodness stepped in to our assistance. Mr. Editor, the two first sentences of this' letter were written as an introduction to a slighc view of Captain LYON'S last work. I was incen sibly led away by the train of thought those &EL sentences naturally awakened, till I have ties' passed as much as is proper upon the attention of those, among your readers, who may chance 'peruse these lines, and must therefore postpone ta a future period, the brief notice I intended t 0 take of the work in question. A. P. BIRTHS. On Monday, the 21st inst., at Jheshunt, Herts, Mrs. Cbarl° Enid fit, of a son. On Monday ; the 21st inst., the lady of James Moody, .E 5 4" Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, of a son. MARRIED. On Tuesday, at Lewisham Church, the Rev. H. C. Kno%•° f Laughton, Sussex, to Sophia Martha,. daughter of the W e George Darby, Esq. Yesterday, at ,Alarylebone Church,. by •the. Rev C. Rector of Melton-Constable, Warden Sergison; Esq., eldeSt of the Rev. .Williana .Sergison, of CuOcfield-park, Sussex , t " t • Editha, second daughter of the late Sir Jacob Henry A stley , ,Q ' Alehon-Constable, .Norfolk, an d o f Seatort-Deleval, Nor 0 umberland, Bart., and sister to the Present Baronet. DIED. On Sunday, the 20th inst., at Wandsworth, Surrey, charle‘' the son of 31r. Edmund Read, aged, 24. st ()n the 20th inst., in Earl-street,'Lisscon,grove, Sarahi, daughter of Mr. John Folder, late of tire Old Jewry. On the 7th inst., of the small-pox, aged. 22, Mr. John HO " of Godley Green, n e a r Hyde, Cheshire. Ile was to have b eei ; married on the 6th i ns t., and his funeral was attended by h e who should have been his bride. On the 13th inst., Henry Walford, Esq., Attorney at I" of Bicester. Ile had s a t d own to di nner i n hi s usua l state health, and had scarcely begun to dine ere he ,was seized with fit and expired. , He was between 60 and 70 years of age. -' • I • Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, t die SO OFFICE,' No: 112 i Strand, i 3 3, '4. B. UARSTAIRS.