The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

;sty" - lase* „40. Jut* Is rof .1 • • ;,„ n non 111 Eirties 4,11 at . ,*.t uctk i fOrni• jJ to the infant ice. .-)l3c° lberta ,thor r pridge' na nsors. m sorS 11a 31 ; i o wea at- , asor- 4, plare '4 side 4 : y fa* rg• • • pr oS Y :ha. „II C. 411 1: IA )barg'' r a b e rt,' P 1 ' )" LOU tho b. ilie, i ea,:b. 'aitif 41x. i} oll' SUN troirpeen stariding oa the platform at the head of the t ! th e ' , h i tt .ving been removed to make room for "Joe r ,db . "..ted font into which an attendant pond Water from a frosted glass jug ; the Bishop of t; .on shortly after entered from the north door, and 't4 .on soon after by the Bishop of Norwich, who his place_ at the north end of the communion table. e e `' t half-ast twelve the books were placed on the rilnunion-table, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the p r e : i b ish,np of York, the Bishop . of London, who had oh . °au) , retired and the Bishop of Winchester in the I t e i: 4 of the Chancellor of the order of the Gar entered and took their places at the altar ; the iyArchbishops together with the Bishops of London orevich being outside the railing. atAL twe nty minutes to one o ' c l oc k h er M ajes ty arr i ve d of tile Chapter House from the Castle, and in the course ll°Yal a few minut es th e mus i c b egan , an d th e Auks entered, his Royal Highness the klieg of Cambrid ge l ea di ng t h e way. H er M a j esty was • 'alpanied b y her Royal Highness the Duchess pc th e : I ' his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attired in Robes of the Garter, his Royal HiF } 'Aness Duke of S ussex, his Royal Highness Prince of .e°r P of Cambridge and his Grace '„tie Duke . l Wellin g t on. His Majesty the King 'of t h rlis silL who took his station opposite the queen, wore Order of the Black Eagle. W e body of the Ch afe rd crowded with well dressi,d persons who had w ere gentadmitted by tickets to witnes4 the ceremonial. Our t hanks are due to the Lori Chamberlain and the dait n ,,, 6l connected with his ',Ace, for the accommo "' t hey afforded us for witnessing the ceremony. APTEIt OF THE - BARTER—ELECTION AND INro 6,-ESTITURE. OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING 4 11 - 04 1 / 80 8 . 4 1- 4 , 1) 1 _ , t A KNIGHT OF THE MOST itt her the „, e i ..nnpletion of the ceremony of the christen- Parp o ; - 'kki:'.!sty held a Chapter of the Garter, for the th at 0 electing. his Majesty the King of Prussia into trial ost Nobl e O rder. The following was the ceremo h served on t h e occas i on. Itedproo4sParatory to the Chapter of the. Garter, the Knights s ed efts of the order robed in the Guard-chamber, the, 7- 11 'n the Queen was about to enter the Throne-room thethe , vnlghts passed from the Guard-chamber, through Araterloo Gallery, into the Grand Reception-room,. Nd we there arranged; and waited until the Sovereign 1 4 14 Royal Highnese the Prince Albert were in the her At " the Sovere* was seated, the Knights were, by with th-"iY's col:amend called over by Garter, and w ith °liieers of the Order proceeded into the pre .4:f. the Sovereign. knigh t 4 ,, u eetl, being seated on a chair of state, and the t th e -,`,rnllanions having taken their respective places asty , , ' 4 ° l e, the Chancellor of the order, by her -Ma teige,,il4lllmand, signified to • the Chapter the Soil. Ac al will and pleasure that a lineal descendant th e st tit ty King George L should, in pursuance of noble ,0 Le in that behalf made, be elected into the most Th Icet; tights Companions then proceeded to the th e I ,„tin, and the suffrages, havipg been collected by Sovereign, who were by his Lordship presenttd to ii - j vc ' ve reign, who commanded him to declare that his OL".,tY Frederick William the Fourth, 'King of order a, had been elected a Knight of the most noble h of the Garter. the/ z e liing of Prussia was thereupon conducted from tw e llu ens' Dra w i ng - room i nto t h e Chapter-room, be- Garrhe t wo senior Knights Companions, preceded by vel vet (bearin g t h e ensigns of the order upon a crimson Chap e ' ? cus hion) and by Black Rod. On entering the r 'ee' te--1.° " 1 his Majesty the King of Prussia was at an i ied by the Sovereign and the Knights Companions 4 41 ,09, and placed in a chair of state, on the right si of the Sovereign. j l r I , l ajesty then announced to the King of Pros tho nis Majesty had been duly elected a Knight of outo4 noble order of the Garter. to a r t upon his knee, then presented the gP;eter Seni or ' Majesty. The Sovereign assisted by two offight Companions, buckled it on tt ie l e ft l eg _ 3 Majesty the Chancellor pronouncir ag the usual • and r next presented, in like ir:dayier, the riband th e "tge, and her Majesty, a'Aisted as before, put cell or over the left shoulder. 0f... his Majesty, the Chan- Pr Pronouncing the a,drnor A tm. I,o'lr collation was provii l .,ed for the Ambassadors and .agn ministers, th.'d Knights of the Garter, the Cabi -Til?isters, and, others invited, in the Vandyke-gallery, -rooms'. ' • k i r , THE BANQUET', following is the ceremonial to . be observed at the 4C•lttat, which will be served up in St. George's Hall, half after seven o'clock : ke At half -past seven o'clock a grand . banquet . w ill be 4 . ed up in St. George's yen ; previous to Albert,wbic her } asesty and his Royal Highness Prince with th e Icing of Prussia and other Royal personages, and „'eir suite, will assemble in the Grand Reception-room stbining St. George's Hall. The Ambassadors and Foreign . Ministers, the K n i g ht s '''t the Garter, the Cabinet Ministers, the ladies, an d ers invited, having assembled in the Waterloo Gal aLY, the do ors will be thrown open and immediately srwards, the banquet being announced, - the Queen, th e idea by his Majesty the King of Prussia, will . enter , lip Lial, the band playing. The . Sovereign will , theie ais°,4gi'v the accolade to the Ring a Prussia, who will U s 'ttwe the .eongratulat;Ons of each of the Knighta 't... 4 ' ll°l ls Present. . "eland, chaPttrb6 ng evaded, Garter will, by her Majelesy's wi ss t h a tl id ' ‘ , 4 i Pthl ea l st ever the Knights Companions, who, -34cCore,s"eer4 of the orders, will retire from the pre -11 use R„ Qu s - u v eteign with the usual reverences. I%l ' ll t'eti ', e ll and his Royal Highness Prince Albert Ak , o their apartments. '11 ) ai l l'g °f Prussia will retire to his apartments. I vith )1 1 : ) .,7, n and his Royal highness Prince Albert, %ill s e :' ] flog of Prussia and other Royal personages, Isi ths 's erv eri with luncheon in the White Breakfast-room. 1-1 0us - C e s cil for the Ladies visitors, and Ladies of the 13 4 ,1 -. .‘;s, in the Oak-room. .iesty.w4 IP.,44Ying " God save the Queen," , and her Ma p osii e l : 4 lalse her seat on the north aide of the table, 'he t he centre buffet. qe ss risoors leading from the Waterloo Gallery to e S n t : t erillF l ' 8 441 will also be thrown open ; the gues t s TS through them will pass to their seats on the right. he qtp . .. 0 1 guests entering. St. George's 'Hall through left.t z_ )3„".iteception-room. will pass to their seats on the '"‘ th - s rl , s n g' the banquet Yeomen of the Guard will be posted 024, 1441 1 at the following stations :—Two behind her t eq-srs chair • two - corresponding opposite ; one . a 4 th: 3 1 1 , 4 ' 1 ,k of the buffets at the east and west extremities 1 Ivi,Vul. 'Pty ,-,' the Queen leaves Rt. George's Hall, her Ma- Z,es 'l,;.eenspanied by the Trincesses and the other La '''lss' r s ' s 'erlt, will retur n to the Grand Reception-r i oy .n m, ° ' l 'r lis - Le will shortly afterwards be joined by the u S e i stf. Th,,, -- s 'a, the Princes, the Ambassadors, and other g ° Pk% r ' l :Mrs of the Waterloo Gallery will then be throw ss °l ‘ the reception of the company, and a grans'. mA . rKtf,-, A ~,,, srmance will terminate the evemng_. _ ' l s l iotir s a rd of honour of the Royal horse g uards, and , tiie s s! of the Grenadier Guards, are to mount in t i s t °ls f s tlil e• A guard of honour of the 72d Regiment - me t - adst opposite to the chap's). The remainder of t4 e o r „, B are to be ' distributed in detached bodies, and h ' lli nicatior are , e road s f ' and the Castle-hill, between them kept up. e h „7° r .nd from Frogmore will he to - Pt r ite - ar by parties of the Royal Horse Guards. law_ ch s „r , assembled at Windsor upon this occasion ker et t h e s osed of, according to her Majesty's intention, q e ' q s ,'-ninerintendence of General . Viscount Comber ke• t l'' ',„ - ' ll ., Gold-Stick in Waiting. _ tfti,f-- . - P - 'lien at arms will be stationed at the entrance eh . s Ci e Lang of Prussia's apartments, at the door 5.)1. „ a pter-room, at the north and south doors of the t r,' ftl in the G ran d R ece ption-room. th ° 'en of the Guard will be stationed at the entrance tlas?dst. iv.r° °T io vestibule of the and entrancein the outer (0 th e 0 1 1 u, in th e W a t e rloo Gallery, at the entrances t'ttet, ° seY Hall, and to the Chapel. tal k Porters w ill b e stat i one d at t h e t o p o f th e grand der,ss; 'le siV7 ll . l raen will be placed outside at the entrance to . °43 eY Hall. ,/s Hs ST. GEORGE'S HALL. . , .Icasssts I nagnifice'ot apartment, which is 2 00 feet in 1/14 ee 1- 1111 ( 1 34 in width, the grand banqr e l•eapr, evsnirs g . The gallery at th t 4 ea 2 by tb .e ban .et will take ds and G en u d ar will be d s of the e l n lo t a r l ei : f ; no d re e s -s w : of vel vet ti jlir . .hlanders. An carpet, the ' • P ' e has been rnanuffsetured expressly for s. °l ' ts eri il ' il s which will he laid down to-day. The .tnia J's of the seats • are of crimson • plush and ' 4 '' '- ' s T he new ceiling is in the Gothic style, dids i,l % flat Gothic arch, the ribs, or mouldings, which if!t'-rs,conspartments, springing from corbels on the fach s ' r 'lle entire ceiling is divided into thirteen bays, er n e s . %which is subdivided into twenty-four smaller *ith the.'aeh OP. these contain two shields, emblazoned .Garte ax :norial bearings of all the Knights o u f ... t . _ - e . ti lss s r ,i," - oln the constitution of the Order. Ilea te r :, eltingyhtoPeolle::fi io f li teen feet in height, thirty-six feet long, ofd the s re.ll f eet wide have been constructed at each Kid .. te.,,,j'ail, upon which will be exhibited the most magmfi of plate ever perhaps witnessed in this or hund r t „ li s e r country at cese time. It is dinerepected that on .s cr' • '-'' Rad twentsrgaests will in the hall this enin g. TH E ~, . z t.., CI . Sr AL CHRISTENING DA Y rn iN THE METROPOLIS. ' --.° rlling was ushered in by joyous peals from the osq,! , ‘etit church bells of the metropolis, the West-end of „. ' nis q 9, ll had been for hours previously in a state of cora_ si sl (41 , eraing to the anxiety of a great number of loyal ) ''s'Lt'aeekers, who had determined at all hazards to get ‘, 4 ear th e ws scene of action. At midnight even hundreds • park --a culig their way along the road from Hyde glee wercehr intoelyvards Windsor, with the spirit and have often been observed on the „isrt,day. It was a strange medley , s _ s ' children of larger growth," of boys, girls, grade. '.7,eoiitcles the pedestrians numerous pasotfie. s every in carriages v. `, 55 the same route at an early hour, whilst the railway „ literally beseiged by persons anxious to avail ttrucaiselves of that mode of transmit ; but the first ~o ra lla was that engaged by those whose duties , e 0 Pleasure called them to the Castle, but .11 „uld not be accommodated in Windsor. In tows: . ' 1 the public offices, and most of the wholessl,e ware ere Iv ' 0 in the City, were closed. for Pen. At the West-end Sta rs lsers Is f ' lie . il lumination s , The - s . nops generally whi'..ti, although- confined in num' I)"..eparations are making T e e,r 2 will be verx bri%ant. All the devices embrace the P. W. (?r inse f Wales), of the Garter, rc. with Prince's coronets, eir colours, and 001i On the river the vessels hoisted 411 . th • r' to u ness of the s d e a n y ed w the scene as much as the txtreme d 11 mifes :oatilleddatlLoeams eatnrdopsovhiiis'c,h4idt 7 .,,° 'eared, will extend for 'ar the veneral pleasure. . ... - --- . 41.8. tiai:sri_, JuAss24.--s.krrd. a johnj wc ondon for Shi e ld s , - . leaky, having . ~ bee 'l '4l the Guufleet SW: • The PAINTER of the CHRISTENING. TO -r-- HATTER. Flowing colours! flashing colours !—ye that upon high Ever beauteous make the clouds and rainbows of the sky—. Ye that stream your rose and gold from rays and sun- light-gushes— Ye whose rich carnation tulles tint the Summer's blushes— Jacinth Opal ! Chrysapraze ! Would I could combine All your shades and splendours in ote gathering divine— Bind them in one glzwing heap, with roscid lustres wet, And fling them all triumphantly on HATTER'S proud palette. Painter! 4 . - nine a noble task—quit thee nobly then! So thy work hereafter stand a worship among men: Gra,",ner thou the images of all transcend ant dings -efaish thy work with pomp of lights and rosy glitterings: Sure the dazzling Royalties that wait upon thine art„ Shall make its living miracles to full perfection ,start — Make its shades and radiances, and harmonizing tints.. Strain their finest spendour-tones to picture England's Prince Paint him-0 how splendidly I—enmantled in his bright Apparellings imperial of purple and of white : Lay him in embroideries with gold and gem e'erllowered— Paint a rain of starry eyes thrice-sweetly o'er him showered Paint upon his infant lips, by Kings and Princes kisspd, Drops more sweet than honeycombs, with dews of amethyst : Types of his own innocence, let lily-flowers spring, Then strew him all with silver-drops ofsainted christening. Round about him gird a throng of Princes and of Kings, With purples, aria with pageantries, and gorgeous bla- zonings : Crowd the calques and coronets ; with plumes, and swords, and spurs, His nobles, and his Barons bring, and knightly horn agers: Gonfalons, and herald-arms, and trumpetings, and throngs Of people and gay minstrellers with loyal-sounding songs : But proudest show, and chiefest, 'mid the grandeurs of the scene, The mother bright that bore him—England's diamond crowned Queen Now, Harpers ! peal your honours—to the princely infant ring ! Your honours to the courtly Sire from whom his graces spring 1 And honour—mighty honour—to his mother bright and bold ; Who truly through her infant's veins her own rich blood bath rolled 1 And honour to the Painter—full honours, loud and long, Who lastingly hath fixed the scene in draughtings grand and strong : And blazoned, on this famous day, in Colour's living spring The young and primal glory of a newly. christened King. SCRAPS UPON CHRISTENINGS. Parvoque 41cmena superbit Hercule, tergemina crinem circuradata Luna. Proud of her son, behold Alcmena wear Three moons, an ornament to grace her hair. The present august occasion, on which the Heir to the Throne is supposed to, be admitted ilitQ the Church, and sanctified to a virtuous life, ":4ot unappropriately allows of some remarks on the nature and antiquity of the ceremony, as well as some account of the mode of performing .• it in different countries, and also of the more remarkable christenings of British Princes. Christening, according to its verbal significa tion, is disguised under different names in eccle siastical phraseology. Palingenesia is one of the most ordinary, which signifies a new birth—the true signification of christening. It is otherwise called the " Signaculum Domini," or Seal of the Lord, which the water-cross marked upon the forehead by the officiating christener imprints. ANTIQUITY OF CHRISTEINING.—AIthough ac cording to the obvious derivation of the word, christening would have been supposed to have originated with Christ, yet many among the learned attach to it a far greafer ancientness. Grotius was of opinion, that the rite of christe d _ ing had its origin from the time of the D',-,tig." immediately after which he thinks it - .vas insti tuted in memory of the world 'be i :ag purged by water. ORIGIN OF WniTE-SuN , ,Ay on CHRISTENING DAY.—St. Cyril in .exTtainin g the symbols and ceremonies of chri:,tening, says that after being printed on the ‘forehead with the cross, the child christened nras put into a white garment, to de note his • !ming washed from the defilements of sin, Jr, in allusion to that of the Apostle, "as JP:any as are baptized in Christ have put on Christ." From this custom the feast of Pentecost, whiCh was formerly one of the annual seasons of christening, came to be called Whitsunday i. e, White-Sunday. CHRISTENINGS AT ROME.—Among the cere monies used in the Papal dominions, is that of blessing the salt, a little of which is put into the child's mouth, with the words " Receive the salt of wisdom." This is performed at the church door. Being come to the font, the spirit of origi nal sin which is supposed to dwell in the child is exorcised, and taking a little of his own spittle, with the thumb of his right hand, the priest christening, rubs it on the child's ears and nos trils, repeating, as he touches the right ear, the word Ephatha, be thou opened; oils are then poured over it, and the child is anointed. CHRISTENING AT THE GA NGES.—The Brahmin believe that christening has a virtue in it of 're mitting and washing away all sine. At the season that the waters of that immense river are clear, and the brilliant weather sets in, the. cleansing or sanctifying qualities attached to its streams, cause the people to flock from the remotest parts even of Tart=lry. CHRISTENINGS BY FIRE.-.--St. Johns expres sion o 4: "baptism by fire" has occasioned much et - '7..necture. The fathers, 'held on this point that all children before fney enter Paradise are to pass through a e'ertain fire, which is to purify from all pollutions of flesh. • The ancient Selen cians and Ilermians, understanding the passage literally, maintained that material fire was ac tually necessary at baptisms. Valentinus re baptised all who had received only water-bap tism, and conferred on them the baptism of fire. CHRISTENING PRESENTS.—In Germany these are in extensive use, and are made by the sponsors to the infant, consisting of money, plate, and sometimes fiefs of lands, which by the law of the country are to be kept for the child till of age, the parents holding them in trust. CHRISTENING OF A POPE.—PerbP" .es one of the prettiest christenings on rece•rd rendered so by the very apt and beaus' P ail triplets that com memorated it, is that ". - • .eiateu by the quaint old Fuller on the oce: a. - „ sioning o f christening Sir William Pope - •_ , little daughter, in the presence - of Kin g " r iles who was then on his progresses. While t . tie waterdrops were sprinkled upon it the i- ." Jabe was presented to King James, who a ..:ted as sponsor, with a copy of the follOWing verses in its hand : See this little inisttefi3 Ifte, Did never sit iti Pet - Ws chair, Or a triple UtOwn did wear, And yet she is a Pope. No benefice she ever sold, Nor did dispense with sins for gold, She hardly i 3 a sencnnight old. And yet she is a Pope. No King her feet did ever kiss, Or had from her worse loeirAhtft this- Nor did she ever 1.R40 To stint one Wtth a rope; = - - And y•tit she is a Pope. -1 4 -:fernltkt Pope, you'll say-= it second Joan ; . 4 ..03, sure, she is Pope Innocent, or none. 'PRINCES CHRISTENED AT WESTMINSTER.—III the noble pile of Westminster, just after its aisles and transepts had been rebuilt by his father, Henry 111., Edward the First was christened. The mild virtues of the Coi-dessol• were thus hoped to be conveyed with the name which Saxons loved and revered. Young Edward V. was chrietzned in the Jerusalem Chamber of the Abbey, not by in tention, but by the pressure of afflicting circum stances. The distressed Queen of Edward IV. had fled thither, - when the victorious Lancas trians were bent upon her capture, and as a sanctuary-woman she confided in Thomas Mil ling, the Abbot. No pomp attended this deso. late christening; the font of stone was arrayed in no draperies of gold or tissue; a small knot of friends, rather in fear than in pleasure, assisted at the conferring of the ceremony upon one, whose after-fate was yet a mystery. The kind Abbot stood godfather ; his godmothers werq the old Duchess of Bedford, his own grand mother, and the attached attendant of ISIS W^ - ther, Lady Scrope. _- Another Westminstss ' the only son of *- ... Christening was that of formed ” 4 " zsenry VI., which was par r ..,Lit unusual pomp by the pious Wayn itete, Bishop of Winchester. The sponsors on the occasion were the Duke of Somerset, the g Archbishop of Canterbury, and t c h a e si D on uc i li va e ls ss a o r- f Buckinham. Th e font on this rayed in russet c l ot h of gold, and circled by , a blaze of tapers. The ch Royal rysome, or christening mantle, in which the after immersion, cost 554116 s babe Bd was received : , h and the issue rolls-state that it was very ricl and precious stones. Within th l i v . l t embroidery l fine white linen wrapper, to prevesnnt-itahnt brocade was a cud g,cms from coming in the contact with the deli cate skin of the young heir. Ten 10 Countesses, one: Vi scountess, d, ' 0 0 THE SUN, _LONDOV, PUESDAY, JANUARN 25, 1842 Baronesses received writs of tttithlons to be pre sent at the churching—testival of the Queen his mother. ALTERATIONS IN CHRISTENING SINCE PhirE EDWARD'S TIME.—The first liturgy of Ring Ed ward was materially different in Ito tom from that now used, and antherised by the book of Common Prayer, the ibrm of consecrating the water anew aid hot then form part of the office, as the cal in the font was changed and MP sectatea, but once a month. What was called the thane immersion was then In use ; it is now dis continued. By the first common prayer of King Edward, after the child was baptised, the god fathers and the Vodmothers were to lay their hands on 4t ) had the minister was to puton him the white vestment commonly called the Chr ,y -mien% and to say, " Take this white vesture as a token of the innocen which by God's grace, in this holy sacrament of christening, is given unto thee, and for a sign s Whetchy thou art admo nished, so long its thou livest, to give thyself to innocence of living, that after this transitory life thoti mayest be partaker of the life everlast ing:' This was done in imitation of the primitive Church, but it is now discontinued, CHRISTENING Arnold MOUNTAINS.—On the birth of Edwittii. H., by Eleanora, consort of King EdWttedi.., and who bore him in the 'Eagle TovretWeCarnarvon Castle, he was shortly after thristened,not among the damasks and draperies of gorgeous chambers, but amid the rude and . rocky fastnesses of Wales. Sheathed in armour, the supporters of his sire stood around him at the ceremony, and the chiefs of the _ land imprinted their reluctant kiss of homage on the cheek of the young Plantagenet, who could speak no word either of French or English. CHRISTENINdS AT WINDSOR, 'WOODSTOCK, KENSINGTON, &c.—Edward the Third was chris tened with great splendour four clays after his birth, in November, in the chapel of St. Edward, Windsor. The ceremony was performed by the Cardinal Arnold, and though the Prince had se ven godfathers, the name of not one godmother is recorded. Queen Isabella and her French nobles urged that he should be called Louis, but the English nobles, always averse to a foreign name, insisted on its being Edward. Subse quently Henry VI. was christened at 'Windsor : his godfathers were his uncle, John Duke of Bed ford, and Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester. Jac queline, Countess of Hainault, presented him at the font, who was known by the familiar nick name given her by Henry V. of Dame Jake. Edward VI. was christened in the chapel of Hampton Court;, Charles 11. in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace; Richard 11. in a foreign land; Edward the Black Prince in the Bowers of Woodstock, where Edward 111., his father,, resided in almost domestic retirement with his Queen Philippa, who was not only his Royal Mother, but also herself his nurse. Her present. Majesty, Queen Victoria was christened at Kensington Palace. who was OF GEORGE IV.---Pepys_, was present. at the christening of the last Prince of Wales, gos Sips of the occasion in one of his letters thus :—" Our next Monarch was christened last night, George Augustus Fre derick ; the Princess, the Duke of Cumberland, and Duke of Meeklenburgh, sponsors; the cere mony was performed by the Bishop of London. The Queen's bed, magnificent, and they say in taste, was placed in the great drawing-room ; though she was not to see company in form, yet this looked as if she intended people should haVe been there." The attendants on his loyal Highness on this occasion were Goverr.Css i may . Charlotte Finch; deputy governess, Mrs. Hen rietta Coultsworth ; wet nurse, Bite. Scott; dry nurse, Mrs. Chapman. CITY-CHRISTENINGS.—The importanev Which was of old attached by English nary cbristeni gal•le'! g., may be F;rotilt t o ordi: ed from two in stances related b Stowe, daughter of a Knight s . : the year 1561, a id Alderman of the City on being christegp ' is thus described 1—" Ii fair maid carried ''the child' to the tlitirch, in a white satin g o . - Nn. theinantle of crimson satin, fringed it' gold or . inches broad. The Master of the Rolls and :Tiny Lady White stood sponsors, and afterwards there was a splendid banquet at home." The ,secciid : christening was concluded with " a great, banquet, consisting of wafers and hippocras ; Freiieh, Gascoigne, and Rhenish wines, in gref4t - plenty, and all their servants had a banquet in the halt, with divers dishes." THE ABSOLUTE CH aistENtris OR ANABAPTISTS. —Queen Elizabeth had so violent an antipathy to the people of this sect, that, upon their first arrival in this ,kingdomi in the year 1560, she commanded them instantly to quit it. The Ab solute Christeners have in 411- ttea stood so staunchly by their principles, and 'boast from this cause so many martyrs, that their Mar tyrology " forms a large volume in folio. Bayle wittily nicknamed then! " Waterlandians." LITER AT Uliti - - - EDINBURG H REVIEW; No; CL, I oVntah; twidon, 164 it. th'en - inst among the great prose writers of the seventeenth century, - stands Thomas Fuller—a man whose works, after having achieved as ex tensive a popularity as was compatible with the turbulent character of the age in which they were written, have of late years fallen into a state of comparative oblivion. Few now care to read the " Holy War ;" and the few who do,- read it, we suspect, rather as a task than as a matter of in clination. The " English Worthies" is scarcely treated with more respect, yet where shall we find a work fuller of fancy, wit, information — though not of a very comprehensive order--or quaint and various imagery ? The .truth is, the genius of Fuller is anything b u t the genius of the present day. It has hardly i n d ee d on e point in common with it. It is as far removed as possible from decorous common-place, and taxes thought even in its wildest wit, wherein- is often couched the subtlest wisdom. The majority of •us now read almost exclusively for ,amusement; and books to be popular with us, must be devoid of distinctive character, just as men who aspire to be attractive in Society, must have nothing marked or out of the way about them, whether as regards manners or modes of expression. Ori ginality has lost its charm in our eyes; else wherefore is it that Mr. Carlyle, one of the most original of modern thinkers, has been struggling upwards' of twenty years against unmerited neg lect; and is even new—whatever his admirers may say to the contrary—read and appreciated only by the select Few? The great drawback to Fuller's popularity in the present day is, we ap prehend, not so much the themes he discusses, as the manner in which he discusses them. We resent his exuberant wit and fancy, as quaintness, conceit, impertinence, and what not; though this wit and this fancy formed the delight of our ancestors. And well may such have been the case, for Fuller's vivacity is a fountain that never dries up. Even where, to a superficial reader, it may seem forced and far-fetched, it is as cordial and natural as the. man himself. Indeed irs..all his works, the head takes its cue from the heart —the understanding is delighted to borrow its best hints from the sensibilities. *Of few contem porary writers can this be said, with the excep tion, perhaps, of Sir Thomas Browne, whose works correctly mirror his shy, dreamy, sensitive, arid moody—not to say hypochondriacal—nature. The works of Fuller seem to have been penned under the cheering influence' f a sunny southern atmosphere ; his thoughtS are buoyant, mercu rial, though by no means deficient in strength. and robustness; and his animal spirits never de-. sert him, even in ,the remotest regions of phans . tasm and speculation. In Sir Thomas Browne, on the contrary, we everywhere trace the influ ence of a chilling, northern climate. His ideas struggle through cloud-and gloom into imperfect sunshine; he is fond of reminding us of death and the grave; takes prodigious pains to assure us that life is but a span; and even goes out of his way to find fault with the great mystery of procreation, and to vent such idle sneers, as that woman is but " the rib and crooked piece of man 1" We can imagine him writing his curious and erudite " Religio Medici" with a pen dipped in a November fog. In their personal habits not less than in the strUttire of their minds, a marked dif ference exists between these two celebrated contemporary 'Writers. Browne was a recluse stitdeit4 of shy and nervous temperament, tiVerse to social intercourse, and living in a fan tastic world of his own, wholly apart from the bustling, everyday world about him. The strife of parties, the {lace religious differences which convulsed all England, even the great Civil War itself, made no impression on him. He swore neither by King nor People—by High-Chtirch man nor Puritan—but pursued the even tenor of his way, unfettered and unbiassed by aught of political prejudice or religious schism. He seems to have regarded life as a sort of dream, from which he should only wake in death. For Fuller this dreamy, secluded mode of existence had no charm. Though he read and wrote much, and thought more, yet he loved the stir and bustle of society. He was of the world, worldly; but his - practical shrewdness never blunted his fine sense of humanity. In times of great temp tation to aspiring spirits—and Fuller was by no means without ambition—he preserved his cha racter unsullied. Too moderate for the Royalists, too little of a fanatic for the Patriots, he yet con trived to extort the respect of both parties; and the chaplain to the Royal army found, after the King's death, one of his most efficient friends in the chaplain tri the Lord Protector. Lilco Sir Thomas Browne, whom in this point only he re sembled, he was a firm believer in witchcraft. This, however, is scarcely an impeachment of his sagacity, for witches were the bugbears of his day; and it falls to the lot of few great men to be, like Milton, wholly beyond their age. In the Number before us, there is a clever biographical sketch of Fuller, whose sole fault is, that it is too enthusiastic in its panegyric. The author of the "English Worthies" was certainly not a prodigy of wit, as the Reviewer intimates; for quaintness and conceit are not wit, though with many readers they are apt to be mistaken for it. We mean not, however, to deny that Ful ler possessed this quality in a high degree, for his eccentric pages are often Hefted up with flashes of the brightest wit; but the grotesque ness of his ideas and the fertility of his imagina tion are still more remarkable. Of all the prose writers of the seventeenth century he is the one who most startles by the unexpectedness of his thoughts, and the language in which he developes them. The perusal of his works acts as a sort of shower-bath Ott the reader's mind. Though not acquainted with the whole, yet We have read the majority of them with attention, and—with the the solitary exception of Sir Thomas Browne's g is u t a i g le ell e n s o t , p , i n t coecOofifeoz.oryeroattiposition in the lan sublime `c ttrnsliurial," the fifth chapter of which writings that can be eoMpared to them, We are aware that We may be here reminded of Milton 1 but we must plead guilty to the bad taste of neVef being hays ing been able thoroughly to relish his prose Tread tiseg, init*liht!ttinding the splendid passages in which they abound. i To tetiii`n to our theme. From the . RevieWer s biographical sketch, we legit that thernas X' tiller was born in Northamp tonshire in the year I&,s. At twelve years of age he was sent to Cambridge, and after taking the usual degrees, was appointed minister of St. Bennet a, Where he soon became a popular preacher. In 1631 he was made Prebendary of Salisbury, about which time he perpetrated a volume of small poesy, of which the less said the , tthileit'talttleegramths better. All literary young men write verse , it it is the Weakness of their age; but in none, save the gifted Few—alas,. how fewl—does the poeti cal teMperarnent ever rise superior to the force •otberWiki ho tiontititted through life .a_ poet, Of adverse circumstances. With Fuller it was though his ablest words itOre all written iti prose. btit his Wife. died. 'ln 1638 he became a Benedidc, a year or two after marriage, and t:;2.4 to London; Where he . Obtained the Lecture ship of 'the Savoy: In 1640 he he repaired_ published his - lebrathti I: :poly Witri" - Wh'ith imillediately pro- cured him both L':aiiiiy rind thine:. In the fol., lowing year he preached. in NireWt.l?rtOer Abbey , on the anniversary of the King's inaugilfdtiOn;:. and soot' tiftef refusing 'to take an oath to the Parliament; he repdife4 to Charles at Oxford, by whom he Was Well received' At 'the siege of Exeter; it bete he `vas present, he Wit§ of great a ci s t s i i t s e ta n i s ki . of l - v i t t ti h e th King,the d o a 1 i n i d i the the courage of the loyal entire overthrow of the Royalists, Fuller ma naged ''. l A tl f s te ti r th to Charles the Second. to keep o storation was appOinted chaplain extraordmar3.. tment for in 1 • 601 just This was his last apPoln L, party ; and on fici . ti , ?, ,, e ., Mount-Pisgah view of a as he had Obtained a Bishoprie; he died —greatly, no doubt, to his mortifiCatiliti; fbr Bever did man enter with keener relish intil till the social enj o y ments o f life. In person Fuller wad stout- - -" inclined to has told ' ' • himself MI. HIS phy corpUlenee," as he .:: , i re ' siognotily iffig cheee,ding y . p possessing.. Ile • had light, flaxen haft .. L a ir ! bright, blue, la , urhing ex i til ''' - eyes, and, a frank open P,, 6l-1 f . d mute _ t i a tio, tiv Uojerct I . ,htlim:PtiOttes to One tit the ' t I amts tillfist intellect •:_.,:. most prominent e of Fuller was firOstl . eh ful, As the temperament innocence of his wit, fie t ; e 6 l :4,ed and 4 Ole* for the necessity of his nature—on s- all by what illiF., l/4e oiled a,..... circumstances. Wit . in subjectai at all tinidi iititr i ,r,_..„_. es one or other of its' maltitaankvtra. e _r s ap__,.. was sure to be the attire of his thoughts and: is? not even e With the kindest. heart in' the Wert)ds lit / Wa it „ith vea t' recite a l cala mitous story without invegtl a jest waeriengehof thenatural tara u- 1 didrotni Ii WOW seem . as II and that he is no t M e or n e to be expression orb dli otin t4O ---- i l ii ri s . Is t , condolence and his lamen wondered at for mingo es ate Other me for accom- Wiens with merriment, t ha n, ~ n .. sighs. An eintaph in his tears and panying them with a sort of epigram not, free hand would have been a nd and his ordinary pulpit dis from grotesque humour convinced, have often contained courses must, we are ctried the gravity of his audience. passages which severely we may remark, In confirmation of al l we have said, that he actually finds it jpossible to s his viva cioussuppress the most tragical parts of his pleasantry even in most rueful tidings in so droll " histories," and. tells the defiance. at a manner as sets all gravity , r efrain from laying before the odd specimens w© canno a "lamentable accident" which reader. He thus recounts of Catholics at Blackfriars : befel a congregation .. cline to the middle, the day to " The sermon began to to ; the Sudden the floor fell down the end thereof .; when.on .lt charitable whereon 'they were assembled. . _gave no f __ d, but cracked, broke, and ell warning groan beforehand, ere all Oil ill 01 instant. .210 Y w killed, morebrui se d, frighted. Sad- .sight„ to behokl...the- flesh and blood of ' different peisons mingled together, and the brains of one On the head of an o the r ! One lacked a leg ; another an arm ; tt third, whole and entire, wanting nothing but breath, stifled in the ruins." Was ever such a calamity so mirthfully related ? But one of the most singular instances of the peculiarity in question, is contained in his account of the capture and execution of the principal conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot. Whewell's Philosophy of the Indtv ,, tive Sciences" is au able, analytical notice of one . the profoundest scientific works of the day. The Reviewer is often severe on tlitt subject of his criticism, but on the whole he does it justice. He particularly condemns Mr. Whewell's paasion for coining new words," and, alluding to his of the strange term. " Idiopt," slily observes, ( et is a term not wanted, and is one which, when submitted to the eye of a compositor, will in fallibly part with one of its most essential let ters." In " Ruppell's Travels in Abyssinitii the Reviewer speaks with becoming respect of a very entertaining, not to say instructive, work. We have been diverted by the following tame- . dote :—" Constancy and fidelity are not to be found among the Abyssians. Ruppell saw at Ategrat a female only seventeen years of age, who had been seven times divorced, and was on her way to Gondar to be married for the eighth time! " What an inordinate appetite for matri mony this young lady must have had! " Phre nological Ethics" exposes in a right spirit the absurdities of the Phrenologists, one of whom, Mr. Combe, has; it seems, actually adduced a I, case of a man's self-sufficiency. having been J, sensibly abated by a blow on the organ of self. esteem ! That organ having been knocked in, the fellow. as a matter of course, became gra dually modest! What an invaluable discovery for parents is here ! No need after this of a moral education ! A child, the instant he ex hibits a vicious bump, has only to have that bump flattened by his affectionate father with a poker, to be made as virtuous as needs be. We suppose this is the reason why Irishmen are so proverbially bashful. Before their organ of Ittf pudence can hate had time fully to develope itself, it is knocked in by a shillelagh in a faction fight! The " Pictorial History of England" is a lengthy and elaborate notice of one of Mr. C. KnWit's most recent publications. In this notice the Re• viewer assures us that our peasantry were happy and thriving under the Anglo-Saxon dynasty— an assertion which we must take leave to doubt, • for how could they be happy—no matter how rude or ignorant—who dared not call even their thoughts their own ? We are always sceptical as respects the happiness of uncivilised tribes, especially where the distinctions of %rade are so broadly marked, as was the case in England during the reign of the SaitOn Kings. The pea sant was then but a mere serf; and slavery is in compatible with happiness, unless indeed the slave can find music in the clank of his chains. In remarkinc , on " Lord Alvanley's Pamphlet on the State of Ireland,'.' the Reviewer.leans with great favour to his Lordship's plan of pay ing the Irish priests, and remarks that the wis dom of such a scheme might be illustrated by the successful result of similar measures in Canada, Belgium, and Prussia. lie adds, with reference to Lord De Grey's system ;if policy, " with higher pretensions of impartialii7 than ever were put forward by his predecessors, !te has acted more slavishly than any of Iris prede cessors ever did, in the spirit of that exclusive and anti-national party by whonri be is sur rounded. The object of the article eitthled " Financial Measures of the Late, andlntentiolva of the Present, Ministry," is to show that by the change of Government the country has gained, in the first place, an addition of five millions to the national debt; secondly, the probable impo sition of additional taxes to the amount .of three millions a year-, and thirdly, the continuance of monopolies and protections, by which commerce will remain crippled, and manufacturers will be exposed to new obstructions from hostile tariffs!' We close our remarks by an extract from an agreeable review of Mr. Catlinto recent work on the North American Indians:— On the banks of' the Missouri, two hundred tam be low the fort, Mr. Catlin ltreded among the tribe of the . Mandans, with whom he lived come time ; hero; ; by the grace of his mysterious art, hi high veneration . among them, admitted to all their eeremonit4, treated as a brother by the highest medicine men'—hrt fact taking the degree of Doctor among them, or, in their own phrase, ' Big double medicine,' The.le Mandans are, or rather, as we must say were, the most polished and advanced native nation to be found in North America ; they were milder in their manners ; received strangers with less suspicion ; and had always been known as the hospitable and polished Mandans.' Mr. Catlin'it account of this people is exceedingly picturesque—ex hibiting a mode of life which could by no possibility be come what an European would call civilized—but yet dignified and agreeable • rich, with all necessary and many luxurious articles of existence ; and well adapted to call into existence, and rear to perfection, those powers of mind and body which their position de manded. - Witness their careful system of instruction for their children, who are every morning trained in all the discipline of Indian warfare ; all armed with a small bow and grass arrow, and distributed into two armies, who go through the manmuvres of a battle. When any one is struck by an arrow lie is obliged to fall, and the con queror rushing up snatches away his mimic scalp-lock, which he exhibits afterwards in 'proof of his victory. Witness, too, the appalling ceremonies requisite for the youths who wish to be nuMbered among the " braves ;" —in which the aspirants, after four days' fasting and watching, arc subjected to a course of voluntary torture, the half of which no European could survive ; but whose extremity only tests the young Mandan's powers of enduring, and assigns the station, he is to hold among the warriors. Every year this ceremony is performed, at the period when the willow leaf first buds—for no other record of the seasons is kept than such tokens of nature—and forms part of a grand solemnity, supposed by Mr. Catlin to bear some allusion to their traditions of the fall of man and the deluge ; in which a representa tion of the evil spirit rushes into their village, and after trying all his powers of , destruction, is paralysed and expelled by the powerful rod of the chief medicine man ;' the whole exhibition being accompanied by dances. CORN-LAWS AND EMIGRATION COLONEL TOICRENS. We had prepared, some days ago, f a ;,`"rief and sligh notice of Colonel Torrens' pamphlet, called th,, "Budget No, IV." which other matter has prevented us using , Sine then, the work has attracted so much atten:. ol ' from our Liberal Contemporaries, who latterly have gone with us for repeal of the Corn-laws—the commendatory twaddle of the Herald had no weight with us—that we have been induced to reconsider the pamphlet, and must now eXprOgs our satisfaction that, by the non-pub lication of our brief n otice, we are enabled to place a more extended analysis of Colonel Torrens' principles before our readers. Colonel Torrens, it must be remembered, has latterly been a leading migration Commissioner, which has probably given a bias to Ids mind. At any rate, he now prefers schemes of onilgratioi2; that are at least . profitable to Commissioners, to the simple clan of doing justice to the petyple, which can be profitable only to the commu nity at large, The present productilan is "A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley on ColoniziZtion, considered as a Means of Removing the Causes of National Dis tress ;"---it controverts some of the doctfilies of the Anti-Gorti , law party, and has for its ded.'Wed ob ject to 'rove that the repeal of the Corti-laws would not rettto*e the national distress, and ti:at " the application of the title prrinciples of coloniza tion affords the appropriate remedy," We should have done OPT best to refute the assumptions and conclusions of this pamphlet before, had we not considered them— till taught another lesson by the kindred writing of the Chroatc/a and the Globe—to be so- transparently f a llacious as to be unworthy of a lengthened notice. The Gallant Colonel begins by bestowing on the advo cates of Corn-law repeal some concessions they do not alit, He concedes that in the present state of foreign agri ctilture, England could obtain large supplies of foreign corn at lower prices than those at which it can, in ordi nary years, be produced at home; and that, were Eng lend tai abolish restrictions on importation, other States would relax their hostile tariffs. But the case of the Anti-Corn-law party and of the opponents of systematic emigration directed by the Government, does not rest on these or similar assumptions. They say, in deed, fat if the Corn-laws were abolished, foreign agriculturists would grow corn for our markets, and that in the then state of foreign agriculture, corn, or rather food,: would be iiiimal.lant and cheap in all parts of the world, and more abundant and cheaper in England than it now is; but they do no!. saY were agriculture not to be extended abroad titi we op, in ordinary years, get a an at » much greater or a much ebkiap . s.' r supplyS. t es th present relaxed their , f,'„7 say, too ; that whether other of them grew from tile tariffs or not—though as some : . he abolition of our Corn-laws, it is likely they would •., own re strictions, though the tariffs remai..... us they now a re ; wolikl cause a gre at ex p ortation of manufac.ll".:lo.. pay fof the food which would be impdrted. With the tomary ostentation of princely pretended alms-givers, i who prefer generosity toyustice, the Gallant Colonel, in fact, misrepresents our demands, while he graciously pre tends to concede them, and deliberately withholds, on an assumption of his own that he knows our wants better than ourselves, those rights which we in fact claim, and mean, we can tell Colonel Torrens, to have. The first of these assumptions is, that in " ordinary years the agricultur e of the United Kingdom yields a supply of corn all but sufficient for home consumption." " import a large The conclusion from that assumption is, quantity of foreign corn, and the immediate consequence will be, that a large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced." The assumption is false in fact, and if true in fact, would not warrant the Gallant Colonel's conclusion. The importation of wheat alone into this country dur ing the four years ending with 1840 was 6,326,5 53 quarters. If we add 2,000,000 quarters for 1841, we shall have 1,665,310 quarters as the average import for the last five years, or about one-tenth of the whole quantity of wheat consumed. A deficiency of one-tenth the Colonel calls " an all but sufficient supply for home consumption." But the public is painfully aware that during those five years a great portion of the working classes in !his country have been very insufficiently fed. The lower classes are still more painfully aware, that during those years they have suffered very great priva tions, as to clothing and fuel, and various enjoyments, in consequence of the dearness and scarcity of food, and that many of their relatives and friends have actually been starved out of existence; yet, for the sake of build ing up an argument in favour of transporting the peo ple by the action of the Government, and ag ainst the repeal of the Corn-laws, the Gallant Colonel assumes that the people had, even without the corn imported, an all but sufficient supply of food, the produce of our own agri- culture, 'llse Gallant Colonel, drawing his inference from 1835 and it3`ei6,..may say that the last five are not ordinary years; but througir the long period of fifty years' Eng land has contintattly imported considerable quantities of . food, and the people,. particularly in Ireland, have at the 6xitte time been um - ter-fed. The very cheap years 1 835 suet tau are ,extraordinary years, and the last five years, as any person may satisfy him self by casting a glance over the quantity of corn Imported every year for the lat,'!: fifty years, much more deserve the character of ordinary Wars than the cheap and abundant years, which are very few and far be tween. In fact, in those fifty years tl;ere were only three in which wheat was not imported. Moreover, we are justified in taking the latter years, because, since 1536, the population has increased, and the produce, whith might have been all bat sufficient in 1835, is not all but sufficient in 1841, which is the essential point. The assufiaptiorf, therefore, that " the agriculture of the United Kingdom yields a supply of corn all but suffi cient for home consumption" is false in fact.- If it were true in fact, it would not warrant the Co lonel's assumption that "import a large quantity of fo reign corn, and the immediate consequence would be that a large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced." That implies that the dema - nd for corn would remain stationary, and is not susceptible of increase ; for if the demand increase, it may take up a 0 the corn now grown in the empire, and the largest possible ,auantity that can be imported. The cultivation of corn ill lingland is part of a system of agriculture which extends over a period of four or five years, and it would require at lest that time before the most extensive importation could Ouch de crease the quantity grown at home. But we have already seen that the people are under-fed, the certain conse quence, therefore, of abundance and cheapness would be, that more food would be consumed though not a soul was added to the population. At the same time, nothing is more certain than that with abundance and cheapness population increases very fast—so fast, it is said, that no increase of food can keep up with it—consequently a great additional demand for food would arise. The Co lonel's conclusion is not, therefore, just. The supposi tion that a large quantity of British corn must cease to be produced were a large quantity of foreign corn im ported does not represent a probable future hypothetical fact. Colonel Torrens may possibly say something . about an efficient demand, meaning that there must be besides stomachs craving for food the means to pay for it. It is, however, certain that foreign. corn will not be given to us. None, therefore, will be imported unless it can be paid for. Will there be means to pay for it, and also for that which is grown at home ? Now Col. Torrens tells us, at p. 86, that all commerce is barter, and, of course, the commerce between town and country, as well as the commerce between different political States, is bar ter. The means, therefore, of paying for agricultural produce is the *produce of manufactures which is bar tered for it. At this moment the complaint of our ma nufacturers is, that they cannot find a market for their goods. They produce more than they can barter for food. The people at home do not consume their goods, and they cannot export them with a profit. They want to barter their goods for foOd, and the law will not allow them. In that fact lies the proof, that there will be means to pay for an increased quantity of food as well As stomachs to crave for it. To make up the proof, indeed, Colonel Torrens is an ex "silent auxiliary. A great part of his pamphlet is t s ,k e n up in proving that the supply of manufactured goods, and power of supplying them, has increased much faster than the demand, or the supply of agricultural frotlace ; and all the arguments on which he delights to dwell in favour of our unliiritecl power to manufacture, are all p*bors on the principle ti at all commerce is bar ter, that with the increase of craving stomachs, which is certain, there will be an increase d the means of rea sonable and just payment for any quantity of food, how ever great, which can be imported from Abroad and grown at home. Is Colonel Torrens, howeVer, so very blind as not to see thiit both assumption and conclusion involve a petitio prittetipt 7 Both are drawn from circumstances which exist under the present Corn-law, and which would not exist were that law abolished. In ordinary years, that law keeps down the population, by disease and death, to a, number somewhat above the number which the. agri cateral produce of the country can sustain. Population is, in fact, annually cut down to the law - limited supply of food, hlstead of the supply of food being made co extensive with the possible increase of population. Col. Torrens may well, therefore, assume that in ordinary years population will not get much ahead of our own supply. The impious law will not allow it. A modern theory says, be as industrious as men may; let themim prove never so much in skill and ingenuity, let there au ; ;- merit their productive power to any conceivable limit, they never 'can supply food enough for the rapid and ever more rapidly increasing children of men. In spite of this theory an impious law cuts off our supplies of food, annually' starves the people down to the short quantity it will allow them to get, and Colonel Torrens is the man to kindly defer to this law and its consequences, and assumes them as the basis of a great system of future policy. lie lays it down as a first or natural principle, that our own agriculture yields an all but sufficient supply, and that were a larger supply made accessible to our people they could not consume and pay for it. When men professing to be profound thinkers, and devoting their ripened years to discussion and me ditation, can embrace such a transparent fallacy, we need neither wonder at the " conceit" of Scotch parsons, nor blame the rash Chartists for false assumptions and er roneous conclusions. The object of Colonel Torrens' pamphletis to reason against the expected advantages of a free trade in corn, by showing that the power of producing manufactures in England exceeds the demand for them abroad, and con sequently that the repeal of the Corn-laws would not re lieve the distress of the people. To .prove this very large and very important proposition, which would show that England was destined to suffer for all time from a plethora of productive poWer, Colonel Torrens does not go beyond our own country and our own times; and, what is more singular, does not go beyond a period dur ing which the Corn law has been in existence : " The data," he says, "from which I have argued, are furnished unfortunately by the history of the cotton ma nufacture of the country. After the first great improve ments in the cotton trade were effected, a considerable period elapsed before the reduction in the cost of pro ducing goods was followed by a c orresponding increase in their supply and diminution in . their price." " This prosperous state of trade might have continued to the present day, provided the capital and labourers employed in foreign countries in raising, for the British market, the cotton wool, and the other raw produce, which are at once the equivalent and the component parts of the fi nished goods, had increased in an equal ratio with the i ne 7ease which took place in the capital and labourers employ•,qtl in the cotton manufacture. This unfortunately q case. There was a rapid increase in the fo reignml. but there was an increase still more rapid was not aein tli a . in the supply?! This discrepanc," between the increased supply in Eng land and the lesser increased demand, is the main pillar of all Colonel Torrens 's building. But this dis crepancy took place under the Corn-law and other re strictive laws, which, by prohibiting all the free inpor tation into England of the flour of North America, and the sugar and coffee of South America , prohibited all the commerce which would have taken place by the barter of those commodities, and lessened, pro tanto, the demands of America. Air. Cripps justly said, in his communication to Sir R. Peal — " The United States of America take as large a quantity of our manufactured goods as they can pay for : if wo could increase their means of payment, we could safely increase our exports to that country. At present, their shipments of cotton, tobacco ; ashes, &c., do not furnish a sufficient supply of bills W meet the payments for our manufaciNres. The consequence is, that merchants are now remitting from thence in gold:" Can Colonel Torrens , or an y other person, say that the lessened demand America, in comparison w our power of frroduction, Is not caused by those restrictive laws ~ anti can he say that the demand would not have been fully equal to, and even greater than, the suppl. 7 had the demand not been extinguished by our own . law - s ? Colonel Torrettes supposition " that the markets OS Amerita for English goods should remain stationary," while the supply of them should be increased, is as wild a dream as ever entered the head of a visionary. The Gallant Officer, in fact, tell us, when his objt:ct is to prove that emigration will not lessen the resources of England, that the capital which has been trans planted from England to America " occasioned a vastly augmented demand for. labour in the mother country." In no country do capital and labour increase so fast as in the United States, and that they have not been directed to raising raw produce for our manufacturers is clearly the consequence of our Corn and other restrictive laws, which have prohibited the sale of their articles in our markets. The wants of the Americans, constituting a market for our goods, have increased with the rapid multiplication of the people. It would seem, indeed, that the wonder fully productive power of England, consisting of ma chinery, and the rapid developement of population and capital in the United States, arising from their abun dance of soil and raw materials, were as exactly adapted to each other as the wing of the bird to the air, and the fin of the fish to the sea ; but Corn-laws, and such like enactments, have marred this beautiful harmony, and tu cled all nature into discord. The true market' of A men ja is the /rant of her ever-increasing population, to which nd bounds can be set. And while their de mands would increase under a free trade, fully equip to our productive power, the employment given to our population would enable them to consume more ; and our productive power, which Col. Torrens, with Mr. Owen's eyes, looks on as excessive, would be doubly taxed, and would rather fail, we believe, than otherwise, to answer dve-tlertiands, did not new inventions come to its help. The observed discrepancy then between our productive power and the demands of foreign countries, which has become manifest under the Corn-laws, is the consequence of those laws, and the elaborate pamphlet of the Gallant Officer rests on a complete petitio principi. It begs the whole question, and assumes the effects of the Corn-laws as the data of its arguments, as if they were natural, necessary, and unavoidable circumstances. To us it ap pears no better than silliness to infer, because the de mand from America has not kept pace with our power to produce, under the system which has prohibited the growth of that demand, that the same discrepancy would exist with free WA °, and that the Government , would THE DUkE OF CLEVELAND. This morning, after the departure of Sir Henry Raiford and Dr. Chambers, a bulletbi was exhi bited, of which the following is a copy : " His Grace Litt Duke of Cleveland has bad another bad night, and remains very ill." " Bt. Jamees•square, Jan. 25,184'2." LLOYII'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAY.) LoNDON, JAr', O.—Wind this day at noon N.W. RAMBMA, JAN. 24.—Arrd. Venus, Gothenburg, for Rip lVE:te. Sid. Gustav Frike, Cuba. DEAL, JAN. 25.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Caroline, ilughes, Mauritius, A rid. from the River, and sld., Anna Eliza, China; Ernst ; Rio; Duke Bronti, Jamaica; Ann Carr, Trieste, with the rest of the outward-bound. OFF Do ER ; JAN.. 24.—Heroine, Barrett, Rio ; Leo pard, New brleans ; Teneriffe, and Wanderer, Tene rife Amalia, Odessa, for Antwerp ; Harvest Home, Boyce, Calcutta. The Test, Brown, from Odessa to Antwerp, was abandoned at sea 13th inst., in lat. 45., having nine feet water in her hold, and foundered on the following day ; crew saved by the Amalia, arrived off this port. PORTSMO`UTH, JAN. 24.--Wind N.E. to S.S.W.—Arrei. Ontario, London for New. York. TOMMY, JAN. 23.—Arrd. Isabella, Portsmouth for Van Diemen's Land. FALMOUTH, JAN: 23,—Wind W.N.W. NV.; fresh gales and squally.--Arrd. Exmouth ; Norman, Alexan. dria, with cargo shifted, loss of fore topmast; sails; boat; &c ; Neptune, st., Southampton for Vigo ; Trefusia, Ancona: PENZANCE, JAN. 2 3.—Arrd. ctdarine, Cuba ; Joseph; Palms. Tiv, Sllt , o to j t a , m a tt A iv N tt, . , ' lli -boa j nd to ex pected off ppm tiag t with damage.l 1) u The Fergus, leaY Frgu ' but bounds, to Aya '''Ncula i has put buk dismasted, having been 'n Am u into by an ;yrican ship, 22d inst., whilst Jong 10 in a thick fog Aleut 30 miles W, of HtiVlitati. Arid. Rosen dale, Friend, Bahia, s ail e d tti 3 / 4 111., from Pernambuco 16th; Agnes, NaBsithl Vernon, Robinson, Charleston; Thos. P. Cope, Philadelphia; Avalanche, NeW York; Eliza beth Radcliff, Huddlestont ; Lima ; sailed Oct: G. Sailed Jane Prowso, Valparaiso;- Australia, Bahia; Tit, Per nambuco; Charlotte and Barbadian; liamiticai Solway; Barbadoes; Wanderer; Stt Lutia; Pat; Minim Haitinnah; Racer, Vera Crui; Grace, Brown, Baltimore; Admit tan& sued dreenock, Mobile ; Torolinta, New York; Ent - au, Ditto; Matamora, Al exan d r i a . Arrd. off•--B in dostan, Bombay. • • OFF FoLKSToNE s JAN: MhtifitifiS. POOLE, JAN: 24..—Arrd. George ; Newfoundland, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having bceilon her b ea m en d s . YAnkotAti, JAh. 21.—The Aldefsbha Utisiatd ; from London to Sunderland, got Oh Pallihg teach yesterday, and has become a total wreck: CROOKHAVEN; JAN: 21 , .--Arril. TrhstY, Waterford for Newfoundland; leaky ; cargb shiftbd; nhd pumps ehbked,' having Rose, been A thrown l,p on ono ug her h, T beam r a e i a ep ends w th l l 2 o t s h s &c., during a heavy gale 13 th inst. ionfsbt.l'd‘iln ion. arks, '---It ,now definitively arranged, contrary to the inten tion originally promulgated, that the splendid pack of fox4iounds of the late Earl of Harewood will not be transferred to the kennels at Bramham or Wother some, under the care of Mr. 'George Lane Fox, jun., but that they will remain at the kennels at ilarewood as heretofore, and be limited tinder the direction of the present Marl liarewoncl) On the day the late Lord died the pack number d 54 couples, or WO dogs. Of these 9 were six years old, 14 five years old, 17 four years old, 21 three years old, 21 two years old, and 27 were young ones.- - -Leeds Intelligenixt% Notwithstanding the recent tionVibilbli o! Ed ward* Squire lirbeddline., and Westceate, for horse stealing, hi the parish of Romford i . and IA the two last Sessions at'Chelnisfurd i of Rolf p and coasiiis; fbr high way robbery the ise.lft taiiali ) upon which they have all been transported, crime still MiltiPll4 9.14 the increase in the Liberty 'of tiarerin&tkeAower. A few nights since the lien4iiitnie bf MP) PAU tourer', miller, Romforti, Was broken into; and 10 fowls were stolen therefrom.. On Thursdir eveging last; daring the and twooTaluable zunl a4d bthqi Richard Newman, Esq), Of 1 - lOrtichitreb; were entered, temporary absence a the Li 4 11FOintses of stgen • , And night 7:1 sheep belonging to 110..TIs e nry on Friday Gi 14 . -- of Romford, farmer, was stolen from a field situate near Lvuse,—Emexellerald. CORN•LAWs.—In his Anti-Corn-law lecture delivered at the White 1-tart Tavern, Bishopsgate• street, yesterday, Mr. Sidney Smith stated that he had received seve ral communications recommending that the inhabitants of the metropolis should avail themselves of the opportunity offeredby the opening of Parliament by her Majesty, who it is supposed will be accompanied on the occasion by his Majesty the King of Prussia, to manifest to their Majesties the hostility of the people of this country to our pre sent system of Corn-laws. Al r . Smith approved highly of the suggestion, and he should be glad to find that arrangements were made fcw carrying it into effect. It would, no doubt, be deairable that her Majesty and the King of Prussia, the head of title Prussian Loaque, should be ac quainted with the feelings e. 4 the people of Lngland on so im portant a question. We understand the L .ord Bishop has received an invitation, by command of her Majesty, to be present at the christening of the . l'ir . c u 9flVales and at the Royal dleuner.--Noruich lifero ury• • 1 ___,.. EVENING SUN - - then be required to create, by a system of emigration. , . ex panding fields of employment. We have now pointed out some of . the falso assm tions and th e erroneous data on which Colone I Torn ens has built his arguments, which all fall with tli e founda tion into the general Limbo of vanity, and are % quite worthy of further notice. It argues little, we di ink, for the critical acumen of our Liberdl Contemporarit s, that they have troubled themselves to discuss arguments which. have nothing . to rest on. Colonel Torrens, in truth, is one of a large cla ss of w riters, who reason correctly enough from the prep rises they assume, but who assume premises which have no• foundation in actual existence. Ricardo, Mill, avd others, belonged to this school; and all readen, before *3.- lowing themselves to be entrained by their deductions, should subject their principles to a rigid licru tin v. Con cede to Mr. Mill or Mr. Ricardo the accuracy of liis•.defini tions the propriety of his first principles, and you are. puzzled to find a broken link in the long chain tast,.mecl on to the worthless bolt. Of all books, perhaps, such long trains of deduction from false assumptions make ti'ko most worthless. They are neither warmed by imagina-- , tion, enlivened by fancy, • nor made instructiv e b y me mory, and when the worthless bolt is drawn, they fall to• pieces a shapeless mass of jumbled ruins. Such writers, however, and their disciples, are as mis chlevous as they are erroneous. They all demand, it; the spirit of their masters, some positive results, and Loa: ut every ('eduction as incomplete, unless it end in some enactment. Natural laws arc for them no laws at all, till s the t y s - i h n their aver ketli.iv,ired the Royal assent. Their c raft con isdge of the deductions of these teachers, from false premises, Imd their application of thee. Hence they invariably require other•writers to incorporate every political truth into an Act of Parliathent, and they re gard all mere doctrine which dote not end in a law as of no value. This is one source of the jlislike expressed by some quasi Liberal writers to the confet - ences of ministers, to such animated orators as Mr.G. Th o mpson, and to the " thorough paced declamatory" writers and speakers against the Corn-laws. When public soniiment is rec tified. and the public mind informed, without any refe rence to some new enactment, their craft is endangered, and they become even bitterer enemies of tte Liberal cause than the most bigoted Tories. THE CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, --My attention has been called to a palm. eraph in 3Tur Paper of Thursday . last, datod Nottingham, the 19th instant, containing stato meuts which I wish you to correct. My application, on the subjects to which your Correspondent refers, vas not connected with the statements made at the Derby meeting, nor did Sir Robert Peel send for a deputation from Leicester and Nottingham to inquire into the truth of those statements. I n3ay state also (hat the Duke of Rutland took no part in the business beyond facilitating my access to Sir Robert Peel. The simple object of my waiting upon him was. to . bring under his notice the particu;ar situation_ of the American trade, and to suggest that, if it, were possible, it would be beneficial to the coun try that the corn which we might be covipeilcxl. to import, should come from the United States rather than from the Continent of Europe. With these views I asked the favour of his Grace's ad vice as to the best manner of bringing the subject before Sir Robert Peel, and to his kindness 1 am no doubt indebted for the interview which Sir I Robert so courteously granted. I am quite aware of the difficulties that stand in the way of partial legislation on the question, but so far from being an advocate for the repeal of the Corn-laws, my opinion is, that such a mea sure would much aggravate the present (Bares& of the manufacturing districts, which no one la ments more than I do.—l am, Sir, your obedieat servant, . RICD. MITCHELL. Enderby-hall, Jan. 24, 1842. [A report similar to that furnished by our Correspondent appeared in several other papers, both in town and country. We know nothing personally on the subject, but the letter of Mr. Mitchell sufficiently infbrms us why the Deputa tion at their interview with Sir Robert Peel were , so lukewarm on the subject. Mr. Christopher Moore has jest had the honour of placing his marble bust of the Countess of Charlemont, in the corridor of Windsor Castle, by command of the Queen. lier Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert were most graciously pleased toe.vress their unqualified approbation of the performance. SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND'" —A, special general Court of the Corporation of the . above institution was held yesterday at the L ondon Tavern, T. W. Atelier, Esq., was in the chair. From the last Report of the Committee it appeared that the a5y,4 . 1111 was established in the year 1799, for the purpose ofin structing the indigent blind in a trade by which they might be enabled to provide for their futurz subsistence.. Religious instruction was given by means of books in raised or embossed letters, and the whole of the New Testament had been printed in that manner for their use. During a period of forty years 278 persons had been re turned to their families able to earn, according to their several abilities, from Gs. to 1/. Bs. per week. The nana.- ber of pupils .had increased to 70 males and 72 females. A manufactory had been established, where the articles made last year entirely by the hands of the blind persons were sold for 1,74:3/ lls. Bd. The Society's receipts in: subscriptions, money received for the goods sold, were 8,3881. 18s. 5d., and the balance at the banker's. from the last year made a sum of 10,3051. Os. Gd. The disbursements left a balance of 2,241/. 12s. 2d. in favour of the Society. The election of eight males and five females as pupils in the asylum was then proceeded with , and terminated at three o'clock in the afternoev. Thanks were then given to the Chairman, and the ,meeting eAi N i; iliddOemrgmeattP,atin:F of N AsYLuM. —Yesterday the Thompson f the London members tic of thin Tavern, aißr.i 8 Dio I s e Dr. gl annual olr p nel r tao n ;l tNx wasig.e L ON DO N i eid, one of the Honorary Secretaries, read the Report: it. stated the number of orphans in the asylum at Chtptora to have been, at the period of the last anniversary, 350;; 60 had been since admitted by election, and 53 had left,. making the preknt number 357, which would be in creased by the election that day to 382. The total number of orphans relieved since the establishment of the institution, was 1,304. The legacies during the past. year had been unusually large and numerous, amounting . in all to about 700/. 'The income amounted to 9,9561. 17s. Gd., which was exceeded by the expenditure in the sum of 449/. 14s. sd. The children under the protection of the Society were in good health, and very favourable accounts had been received from those who , had obtained situations. The Report having been adopted, and the officers elected, the election of 25 orphans as in mates of the asaium, from a list of 143 candidates, com menced. The nieciting separated at three o'clock. S unhEN DEATII.—Mr: Payne held an inquest last evening, at the Glacli and Horses, 13artkolomew close, on the body of Jaems Stafford, aged 45. It ap peared from the evidence of Elizabeth Cople, of 68, Bartholomew-close, that the deciaseci had been employed by her to attend to the horses in hir stables for the last two months. She did not actually requii , his services, but kept him out of charity, as he was destitute, and as his strength was impaired by disease he could not obtain employment elsewhere. On Friday night last he went to rest in the loft as usual, and it was remarked that he appeared to be intoxicated. The following morning a. man, who slept in the same loft, thought,deceased was ill, and communicated his suspicions to witne..v. They re t u rned to him almost immediately, and fottOd him dead. Verdict, " Natural' death." SERIOUS OCCURRENCE AT THE GRE..EN PARK LODGE, PICCADILLY.—Yesterday an occurrence of a very frightful, and, no doubt, fatal character, took place at the late residence of Lady Gordon, known 11 5 Green Park Lodge, situate in the Green Park, and facing Piccadilly. Two men, named Jeremiah Broderick, aged and a young man, named Daniel Howard, aged ta, had engaged with other workmen in demolishing the above-mentioned building , n o w in course of removal by order of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. These two men were, about twelve o'clock, sitting under neath one of the walls, engaged in cleaning the old bricks from mortar, the wooden supporters of which had a short time previously been removed. Suddenly the entire mass of brickwork gave way, and fell upon them, partly burying them beneath the rubbish. They were with. ewisiderable difficulty extricated by the other workmen, ant i when so, were both found in a state of insensibility. Bros crick was deemed to be dead, having both his tem pies completely laid open, his shoulder dislocated, and his face i'vjghtfully lacerated. Howard had also severe contusions bout the head and face. They were con veyed to St. C.qorge's Ho s p ital, and the former lies in a. state which i . en ,:ars recovery next to impossible. ()REIGN HORSE.—In a foreign journal we find a ns S ING ULAR :kI C otice by Dr. Bloch, of• Berlin, of a. horse he had seen them absolutely destitute of hair, and which he considers as a pxticular species in the caballing genus, as the naked dog o f" Egypt constitutes one, ac cording to him, in the canine s;ceous. The native soil of this species. is the marshy distne:s of Persia. It appears that three of them were brought int:: Europe at the con elusion of the late war between theißcesians and Turks. The gentlemen who served on special Juries last Assizes for Northumberland, generally agreed to give their fees, amounting to about thirty oineas, to wards relieving persons confined for small debts- in Mor peth gaol. Five persons were accordingly dischtti:ged by this act of huManity. HOLLAND.-11olland, the land of cheese god butter, is to my eye no unpicturesque, uninteresting country. Flat it is ; but it is so geometrically only, and in so other sense. Spires, church towers, bright farm houses, their windows glancing in the sun, long rows of willow trees, their blueish foilage ruffling up white in the breeze ; grassy embankments of a tender vivid green, partly hiding the meadows behind. and crowded with glittering gaudily painted gigs and stool-waggons, loaded with rosy-cheeked, laughing country girls, decke . out in ribands of many more colou rs than the rainbow, all streaming in the wind; these are ob j ects which strikerotlint eye of the traveller from seaward, and forn:i s a g co a ast and view of Holland, as he sails or steams along behind lines tif country in the backgroundsea ch up its rivers. On shore, the long main n horizon, gives the the other to a distant, level, unbroeklit, Laing's Notes Of impressions of vastness and of n ov y continuity rioltfsihii7izontal a Traveller. d goldthe - hope to fin upon surface and labour. Can we di almost to the centre of • It to of the earth, when we, . Wisdom cannot be obtained without industr7 and lead, and Sin, and the b aser metals ? ~_ rich r It, a ere tic - h days Park' 1 his cow- Wits. and and- , ;lids , 'hers, r" i ) e 's 11 1 „olio 150,/ °6 cot' oet 11 1 , 0 r '•