The Sun. — London, England, 1830-04-24 00:00:00

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There was a very general illumination last night of the Theatres, Club-houses, Hotels, and the houses of his Majesty's tradesmen throughout the metropolis. The day, tl.ougie Wet and gloomy, was succeeded by a very clear, but rather cold evening, and thousands traversed the principal streets at the west end of the town till long after Midnight. St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Pall-mall, Regent-street, the Haymarket, Bond-street, &e. were com pletely, thronged by those who were anxious to witness the very brilliant display that presented itself to the eye in al most every direction. The strongest manifestation of af fection and loyalty to his Majesty were expressed every where, ,and general sympathy was excited in consequence of the eontinuanee of Lis Majesty's lamented indisposition ; though, perhaps, the ringing of the bells of the metro politan churches was not carried to the extent as on former Q'euiotte: his :Majesty's illness_ may probably be the cause of this, Numerous flags and streamers were displayed in var ious parts o f t h e town . O n th e H orse G uar d s , th e palace, the Tower, and Somerset-house the Royal standard was also mounted. On the Shot factory, Waterloo-bridge, • an , many other pl aces b e l o w b r idge, the s ight wa s very pleasing ; the shipping, almost without exception, being decorated with flags, the _Union jack, &c., which, owing to th e high wind, were kept in constant agitation. At one o'clock the customary salutes were given at the Tower and in the Park. THE THEATRES. The King's Theatre-3n the centre of the Haymarket front of the Opera House, were a large and very brilliant G. R., Crown, and a Star, and festoons on each side. Drury-lane Theatre—A snag - nilicent Crown, and G. IV. R. Covent-garden Theatre—G. IV. R. Adelphi Theatre—G. R. Surrey Theatre—G. 11. and a Crown. Coburg Theatre--G. R. and a Crown. Tottenham -street Theatre--G. R. and a Crown "Royal Gardens, Vauxhall—A brilliant Crown, with 0.,R. IV., supported by highly embellished laurel leases, and a variety of appropriate devices, all exceedingly grand. St. James's•street, as usual, was the ei-ntre of attraction. • The street from the north to south presented a g daxy of I- light that appeared like enchantment. The brilliancy of • She scene attracted great numbers to witness it. CLUE-NO[IOEB. Crockford's--The whole front of this establishment was most superbly illuminated. The device was diaphiyed upon a scaffold erected . for the purpose. In the centre wan a Star of Glory, and on either side were the King's Initials, in a circular Wreath of Laurel ; parallel with this was an Anchor, also enclosed with laurel on one side, and tt . shield, composed of amber-coloured lamps, similarl en twined, on the other; two beautiful Stars, of dazzling radiancy, were placed between the Anchor and the R., and between the G. and the shield, the whole surmounted with a magnificent bolging Crown. The beauty of this exhibition excited very general admiration. United Service Club—This establishment displayed a G. R., with a IV. between, a very large bulging Regal Ccronet at the top, with a resplendent S'ar on either side; the whole lighted with gas studs, which had a very beauti ful appearance. This device was performed by Mr. Edge, of Great Peter-street, Westminster. United Service Club, jun.—Along the balcony, dis played is yellow lamps, was " God save the King," and beautifully painted on a black frame were the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, decorated with appropriate coloured hunps- On each side of the device were two large Stars. Altogether the'coup d'ceil wras grand. The Navy Club House—This establishment diplayed a very handsome Anchor, above which were the letters and the Crown of England at top. This exhi bition had a very pretty effect. The Guards' Club House displayed his Majesty's initials, and on either bide was the Order of the Second and Cold stream Guards; underneath was a hand grenade in a state of explosion, the whole surmounted with a bulging, Crown of considerable beauty. University Club House—Over the portico of thi+ es tablishment, upon a broad black frame, was a most bril liant diamond, composed of uld-coloured lamps, between the initials of the King ; above this was a star of dazzling radiancy, surmounted with an immensely large projecting Imperial Coronet ; the whole entwined with a wreath of laurel. Boodle's—Along the balcony were slispl .yed a G. R., with a IV. between, and on each side was a dianioud of gold-coloured lamps festooned, surinetinted with a leaf of laurel, above which was a very beautiful Imperial Coronet. Bronkes's displayed a very magnificent G. R. with a Crown at top, and various festoons along the balcony, Which gave to the whole a very neat cff et. Arthneas---This e••tahlishment presented a very novel appearance. Over the balcony was displayed a very large a Its with a Coronet of similar dimensions at top, and the Whole encircled with laurel leaves and several stars. This device was illuminated . with gas. Cocoa Tree—This establishment displayed, in party coloured lamp.; along the balustrades, Lis Illsjesty's ini tials, with a IV. between, and festoons; at either end bouquets of green lamps, the while surnicunted with the Crown of England. White's—file Whole front of the balcony was illumi tate& An Imperial Coronet, in gold coloured lamps, shone resplendently over a magnificent Star, between a G. R., the whole entwined with laurel leaves; and the re mainder of the balcony was ornamented with amber co loured lamps. The Union Club made a very handsome display ; it had a' very large bulging Crown inclosed with laurel le tves, and his Majesty's initials on each side. The Travellers—.A very large handsome bulging Crown, and under the G. R. IV., with very rich laurels along the T. JAMES ' S EET. The Albion and Thatched House Taverns displayed a G. R., a Crown at top, and a IV. at bottom. The Royal Hotel had a G. R. and a Star in the middle. W. and T. Nicholls, the linen-drapers, exhibited a similar device. Palmer, sword- Cutler ; and Willis, Royal Music Re pository, mounted a G. R. and a Crown. Sams's Royal I.ibrary—A brilliant Star. Willis's, the tailors, exhibited his Majesty's initials, with a magnificent Crown at top, entwined with green lamps, in imitation of laurel leaves. NEW AND OLD FOND-STREET. Chamberlains' Worcester Royal porcelain manufacturers, displayed a magnificent Crow -t, and his Majesty's initials, Which hatla very neat appearance. Peacock and Osmond, and Gilbert, the butcher, mounted a G. R. only. Steward, dairyman to the King, displayed his loyalty on the occasion by decorating the front of his house with the initials of his Majesty, very prettily festooned with the Crown.of England at top. Weston—A G. R. with aCt own at top, and a festoon of lamps on each side. bixey, optician, mounted his Majesty's initials, with a star between, and surmounted by an Imperial Coronet. Brown, oilman, as usual, mounted the initials of his Sovereign, with the Imperial Cot onet. •, J. C. Groves, fismonger ; Perry's glass walehouse; Henderson, paper-hanger; Morant, paper-hanger; Waud, confectioner ; Walker, Goter, and Co., fishmongers ; se verally mounted the initials of his Majesty, and a Regal Coronet above them. Pratt and Son, trunk makers—Over the Royal Arms was a splendid triumphal arch, composed of three rows of gold coloured lamps, under which was a ♦ery large bulging Croivn of England. PALL-XIALL. Freihourg and Pontet, snuff : -manufacturers; Grindle, cltytnist ; Aloon, Boys, and Graves, printsel:eri , France and Ranting, upholders ; King, silk-mercer, exhibited a G. R. and a Crown between. Gale, Caterer, and Co. had ooly a crown, as also had Nicholls, the linen-draper. Hullan, purveyor to the King—G. R. Star. Portman, bookseller —G. Crown and It., beautifully variegakvl. Cater, hatter to the King, bad, on a black painted board, his Majesty's initials in a cypher, a Crown at top, and a IV. at bottom. Calkiu and Budd, booksellers, had a Star, lighted with gas studs. TALL-MALL EAST. displayed a truly Hanoorc and Rixon, the ornarnental glass warehouse, magnificent G. R. CA " bla g isi ' Son, arid Co., printsellers, had a very large bulging Crown, with a G. 11. on either side, and a Star at the bottom. G Cross's Menagerie, King's Mews, exhibit e d a large . It a Crown at top, a Star at bottom, and wry taste fully festooned. W ATERLOO - PLACE. RiViugIOLIII, the bouksell ero , ha. , l a Crown. Gilbert, silversmith, mounted a G. IL and a Crown at top. PICCADILLY. Smith, fruiterer, a St ar . M oore, army accoutrement ham, grocer, a G. R. ands snairef, anoth er Webb, sword-cutler, ditto. Whitting spur-anufacturer, a c rown. H ar d y and P age , ditto. card marls, G mCrown between. Latchford, Hunt snd,Son, car d - rauker s , a G. R . H al! and Balla*, . It -- atd a Crown at top. Hawlss and 1111Aely, ar m y accoutrement -makers, G. R. aa d St ar' Rob- son and Hale, paper-hangers, displayed aG. R. Howes, oilman, displayed his Majesty's initials. EEG ENT-STREET. Artol, boot-maker to the King, G. R., Crewn and laurel, and very pretty in the general effect. Howell and Jaincs, silk-mercers, made a very brilliant display ; the whole front of the balcony was crowded with frame-work, painted in the form of balustrades, which were ornamented with amber-coloured lamps ; and above the Royal Arms were his Majesty's initials, with a IV. between. Macdonald, boot-maker, G. R., &c. Fogg, Chinaman, mounted a brilliant Star over a very large G. R.—Vincent, spur-maker, had a G. R. only. Schnieder, furrier, displayed a G. R. with IV. between, and an Imperial Crown at top. COVEN FRY. STREET. Hamlet, Sword-cutler—Over the Royal Arms was a Star of great brilliancy, in the centre of which was painted the Order of the Garter; on each side were his Majesty's initials, and underneath was a handsome diamond ; the whole surmounted with an Imperial Crown, entwined with laurel leaves and festoons. Flight and Burr, and Davis, the music-sellers, had the initials of their Sove reign and a Crown at top. HAYMARKET. The Blue Poste Chop House, and Travellers' Hotel : This was one of the most magnificent and resplendent ex hibitions we witnessed during the night, and the devise was the most tasty and imposing. It was illuminated en tirely with coal-gas. In the centre of the house was a large radiance, above twenty feet in diameter, in which there were about 600 jets de feu, and this surmounted G. R. the Fourth, in letters corresponding in size with the radiance. Mr. John Palmer, of the Ch rtered Gas- Light and Coke Company, Horseferry-road, had the whole of the work under his immediate superintendence. —Coleman, cutler to the King; Frirbourg and Tryer, tobacconists; Buckuall and Turner, wax-chandlers; Gar rand, silver3mith ; and Hastings and White's. TITCHBORNE-STaFFT. Weeksts Museum, G. It., a revolving Star, -surrOunded by a Garter. STRAND. Si!rester, engraver, had a very large Star, lighted with gas.—Weiss, the cutler, exhibited a splendid Crown.— Ackermann, printseller, displayed over the Royal Arms an Arch, with circular pieces of stained _glass, on which were painted the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock; and above this was a Star.—Fermin, button-maker, exhibited a G. R. and a Crown between ; as also did Greensill, the glass-warehouse.--Ustonson, the fishing-tackle-maker, presented his Majesty's Initialy, a Crown at top, and a Diamond under each letter,—Webb, robe maker, had a G. R. and a Crows at top. LUDGATE-HILL. Rundell and Bridges— G. R., &v. Proctor's, 13lshopsgate-street, Purveyor of Foreign Snuffs (by appointment) to his Majesty, the letters G. R. in very small ,go:d-coloured lamps on each side of the Royal Arms over which a large radiated Star, in variegated lampe, particularly brilliant ; the whole having a very pleasing effect. J. Klos, 55, Great Marlborotnth-street, Purveyor of Bread to his Majesty, most brilliantly illuminated with G. R. and the IY., and a bulging Crown. Barfield, of Wardour-.treet,Solo, Printer to his Ma jesty, a twat device—the initials G. 11., with on each side a wreath of laurel ; the whole surmounted with a magni cent Crown of variegated lamps. HATTON- CIA ADEN. Mr. Rowland, a brilliant display of variegated lamps, G. R., and the words " God save the King." T. Dsy, Newington, Surrey, G. R. SPORTING.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BATH SPRING RACES, A pan. 22. The following races were run after the post k•ft on Thursday:— The Hack Stakes were won in heats by Mr. Hawke's Maria beating Mr. Fisher's Little John. A Pim!. of Plate, for ponies, was won in three I eats by Mr. Percival's The Gif, besting Mr. Joyce's Beckington Lass. The sport was excellent both days The Stewards for 831 are 11. Peyton and W. I'. Knatchbuli, &Avg. CURRAGH APRIL MEETING. This interesting and truly national meeting has com menced auspiciously with good weather. The Curragh is in beautiful order. Many of our resident nobility and gentry have attended the Turf Club. Amongst those who sat down to dinner yesterday. we noticed the Earls of Howth. Miltown, Meath, and Portarlington ; Lords Ross more, Brabazon, and Clan►norris; Messrs. :Mcdonnell, Kirwan, Blake, Battersby, Digby, Disney, Gamble, \Ves tenra, De Montmorency, Doolan, Maher, Alontgarnery, Mayne, Holmes, &c. &c. The attendance on the course was numerous. MONDAY, APRIL 19.—Sweepstakes of 20 soya. 10 ft. for all ages, with 20 added ; second horse saved his stake. Three-years'-old course. Eighteeri subscribers. Captain Gamble's it. c. Sagittarius Captain Westenra's b. f. Tidings Mr. Kirwan's b. c. Merry Andrew Mr. Flood's brother to Milo 4 Won easy. Match, 100 soya. 20 ft. Sir Ralph's Post. —Lord Portarling,ton's b. h. Cur de Lion walked over, and Capt. Westenra's ch. h. Conrad paid. TUESDAY.—His Majesty's Plate of 100 gs. Four miles. Captain Westenra's b. f. Tidings Mr. Flood's gr. f. Flora Mac Ivor 2 Three others started, but were not placed. Madrid Stakes of 25 soya. each, for two-year-olds ; second horse saved his stake. Old Two-years'. old course. Mr. Kirwau's Genoa 1 Mr. Blake's Pleiad Mr. Maher's b. c. Elk 3 Two others started, but were not placed. A beautiful race-won by near a length. The interest excited by the sale of the late Mr. Call well's stud has been very great. The horses in training looked remarkably well, and fetched high prices. Genoa, a two-yr-old, sold for 2691. ; Gazebo, 1051. ; Qu ee nsberry, 150/. ; Milo, 170/. ; Navarino, 145 /. ; Capt. Di c kenson, 85/. ; Ballysax, 150/. ; Legacy, 100/. ; and the others in proportion. ASYLUM LIFE OFFICE. The following letter appeared in the Times of this day TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sta,—As the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the above4atmed Office, I feel called on to notice the attack made on that Company, by an anonymous letter in your columns of this day. 1 will not stay to discuss the ex pediency of the law which renders a pecuniary interest in the life of another a necessary foundation for an insurance on such a life, but will at once prcceed to state the facts of the case alluded to in the letter in question, and which would have been proved in evidence, if the plaintiff's case had not broken down even on his own showing. The plaintiff in the action sought to borrow money on security of certain property, which he could acquire contin gently on his son's attaining 21 years of age. On investi gating the nature of the property the advance was de clined. The plaintiff then, with the alleged view of per fecting the security, proposed to 'this Company to insure 5,0001., payable if his son should die before he came of age, specifically detailing at the time the particular inte rest to be covered. The situation of the father was pe culiar, the property being in settlement, and the precise period at which be would become entitled to it not known, and therefore two years were stated to cover the event. Now, mark the result. The sou did live to attain the period at which the property devolved to him. Th e father did obtain every shilling against the loss of which he sought to insure, but because the son died within a few drys of tl e expiration of the nominal term of two years, the plaintiff sought to recover 5,0001. from the Asylum Company. Your correspondent, instead of stating facts, has sup posed a case. I will suppose a case also. A vessel is in sured for a voyage to India, and back to the port of Lon don, such a voyage being limited to a period of 18 months. The vessel returns safely at the end of 15 months, but after lying several weeks in port tumbles to pieces, is otherwise destroyed ; would the assured, either legally or Morally, recover front the underwriters? One line in conclusion. There are always persons to he found who have an interest in decrying any prosperous establishment, but if the Directors of Life Insurance Offices were to condescend to publish one half of the attempts at fraud practised against them, your valuable paper would not be sufficiently large to contain the details. I am, your obedient servant, April 23. WILLIAM FEASER. SHAKSPEAR lAN FESTIVAL.—The second commemorative festival in honour of the natal day of SHAKSPEARE, commtnced on Friday morning, at Strat ford-upon-Avon, upon a scale of splendour and extent we did not anticipate, and Which reflects very great credit vu the Committee of the Royal Shakspearian Club. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON. Yesterday being St. George's Day, the S'ociety' of Anti quaries met at their apartments in Somerset-place, in pur suance of their Statutes and Charter of Incorporation, to elect a President, Council, and Officers of the Society fogy the year ensuing:—Whereupon George Earl of Aberdeen, Hudson Gurney, Esq. Thomas Amyot, Esq. Henry Hallam, Esq. John Britton, Esq. W. R. Hamilton, Esq. Niche. Carlisle, Esq. J. H. Markland, Esq. Henry Ellis, Esq. Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, John Gage, Esq. Eleven of the Council, were re , chose of the New Council, and C. F. Barnwell, Esq. T. C. Croker, Esq. A. Henderson, M.D. F. Madden, Esq. J. a Merivale,_Esq. W. V. Ottley, Esq. Ten of the other Meuibers of the Society, were chosen of the New Council, and they were severally declared to be the Council for the year ensuing. And, on a Report made of the Officers of the Society, it appeared, that - George Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. was elected President, Thomas Amyot, Esq., Treasurer, John Gage, Esq , Director, Nicholas Carlisle, Esq., Secretary ; and Henry Ellis, Esq., 8.C.L., Secretary for the ensuing year, The Society afterwards dined together at the Free masons ' Tavern, according to annual custom. Thomas Lord Bishop of Sails- bury, Sir U. Staunton, Bart, Col. B. C. Stephenson, Percy Viscount Strangford, SATAN-A POEM. BY R. lIONTGOME:tY, Author of " The Omnipresence of the Deity," &e. Second Editic n. S. Moonier, London. The nature of Superior Intelligences must for ever remain a secret which the limited faculties of man cannot discover; but this very uncertainty more forcibly recommends them to the poet, since he is supplied with creatures possessing ceitain feelings with which men can sympathize, and yet so far raised above human nature as to render credible the speciosa miracula reruns with which imagination invests their character and actions. That an Im mortal Being, possessed of powers beyond concep tion, dared to rebel against the Omnipotent, that he hurled defiance at the " Most Highest," that he was punished by an eternity of anguish, but that sufferings have left unchanged his pride of soul— these are matters which, detailed in plain prose, fill the mind with that indistinct awe which is the very essence of sublimity. To embody these thoughts, to arrest the flittin g dreams of power, grandeur, and feeling, which hurry through the soul, is the office of the poet—he giveth to these airy nothings " a local habitation and a name." But few are those who dare to venture on, the delineation of superhuman energies,—there is danger in every step of their progress; genius shrinks from the en counter until it has mustered up all its energies, and concentrated all its vigour. The embodied principle of evil has been already made the subject of immortal verse by Milton and Byron ; the Satan of the one and the Lucifer of the other are at bottom the same character ; but, being described in different relations, assume a different aspect. The Satan of Milton is described in all the energies of rebellious ambition—a proud intelligence combatting with the Almighty for the dominion of universe. The Lucifer of Byron has given up the contest, and has substituted fraudful cunning fqr the "pride, pomp, and eircemstance of glorious war." The former desci i lies the relation of the Evil Being to Deity,—the latter, his relation to man. Another yet remained ;—neither of these poets had described the relation of such a being to himself,and endeavoured to unfold the thought, the specuh.tions, the intellectual workings of a fallen spirit. There was in another respect also a gap in the poetical character of Satan—Me tinse chosen by Milton was when the world had first started into life and beauty ; the time selected by Byron was when sin and sorrow were just beginning to blight its moral loveliness; the period when ages had lolled over the history of the human race—wlien guilty passions and ferocious desires had written the annals of crime with indelible characters on the face of nature —when nations, and not individuals, were subjects of the demon's observation, had been left untouched. This hitherto untouched field has now been cecu pied by Mr. Montgomery, in his poem of " Satan:" he has chosen the present hour as the time in which the proud competitor for the dominion of the uni verse should revisit the earth, and survey all its exe tremeS of ennobling virtue and debasing crime; he has pourtrayed the thoughts of mingled scorn, sor row, envy, and the maddening sense of degradation ‘vhieh such a spirit may be supposed to hav e f e l t from the view of such a spectacle. The world is to us us it may have appeared in his reflec tions, and the inmost workings of his soul are deli,. created with an intensity—with almost a profusion of power, rare at all times, and never snore rare than in the present day. Now that we have fallen on the age of "supetficial poetry," such as " he th a t runs may read;" —the age et hourdi lit °rehire, where no abstract thought, no complication of feeling, checks for a single moment the reader's happy pro gress; but where be is permitted to read to the end of the volume without having made a single pause, and can lay it down without a passage remaining to burden his memory, it is at all events a decided change to meet with a poem which will not allow of such rapid driving over as its macadamized eDt e n i _ poraries. The subject chosen by Mr. M. requ i re d much abstrxtion, much condensation of thou g h t ; i t must, consequently, he read slowly and with care— where every line is replete with deep energy an d vi gorous conception, the reader is forced to pause and reflect : he finds new worlds of thought opened to his view, and the old world presented to him in a new and original form. To sum up the character. in one word, the reader will find this a purely intellec tual poem, in which the universe of mutter is made beautifully subservi , ,mt to the development of the universe of mind. A very foolish notion seems to prevail i❑ the world that Satan must possess a mind in which evil is constantly looked upon as good—this arises from the mistake of supposing that the object at which he aims in his fallen state is that which lie believe s would in any state have been the best ; but it is perfectly absurd to imagine that the innate excellence and beauty of virtue could be hidden from any Su perior Intelligence. The curse pronounced ori the disappointed demons more probably included the bitter punishment which Persius prays may be in dicted on tyrants— Virtutem videant intabeseantgdo Accordingly, we raid Satan a very equitable judge of human nature indeed, it would be hard to as sign a reason why he should be a liar to himtelf— and yet there have been people who deem it incon sistent with demoniac nature that Satan should even whisper to himself his perceptions of moral love liness, his contempt for the sensual slaves who are dragged bound to his chariot'-wheels. They forget that " the devils believe and tremble," and that the greatest triumph of Milton's genius is when he de scribes Satan in full consciousness of all he had lost, subduing by innate energies the intense agonies of hopeless despair. It is the fidelity with which Mr. M. has preserved in Satan the wisdom of his former high estate amid all the degradation of present misery, that gives the prin cipal charm to his rem. Utteily depraved a, a moral agent, Satan still maintains the dignity of superhuman intellect; though a devil, he is still an archangel. The execution of this poem is every way worthy of the sublime conception which is has embodied. We were particularly strait with the descriptions of exteinal nature, Which, in addition to their graphic loveliness, have the still greater merit of being all combined with internal feeling. It would seem as if the poet's soul had poured itself abroad on the scenes that he depicts, and made them an actual part of his existence. But there is one praise to which Mr. M. is entitled far bey(nd any o e have mentioned ; there is a spirit of unaffected piety and pure morality in every line of' his poem, which has, unfortunately, been long a stranger to our literature. lie has successfully shown that the spirit of true Christianity, far from being inimical to poetical power, adds to genius new vigour and vitality, an rvis to the soul visions of glory and vistas of happilieg, which none can describe but those who have drunk from the fountains. of Zion as well as from the streains of Castslia. CONVERSION OF THE JEWS. - Yesterday a Meeting took place at the Freemasons' Hall, fia the purpose of holding tl:e first Anniversary o' " Society of the Friends of the Hebrew Nation." The Meeting was numerously attended, and a great many ladle. (as usual at all religious meetings) attended to listen to the proceedings of the day. H. DaumstoND, Esq. was in the Chair. - . After prayers, the lion. CHAIRMAN opened the business of the day. There was nothing fanatical or unscriptural in the object of the Society. They had read their Bible, and did not expect to convert the Hebrews as a nation till God's own time had arrived ; their only desire was to show that they were ready to open the right path to ali who were willing to enter it. He then alluded to the fact of twelve Jews having been baptized lately by the Bishop of London, and announced that his Lordship had forwarded a subscription of 201. and accepted the office of Patron of the Society. The Report was 'read; the following ere its practical passages : The first object of the Committee was to find premises suit able for the reception of Hebrew applicants; and after numerous inquiries they decided on engaging three contiguous houses in Randolph-street, Camden-town, at the yearly rent of !W., to commence from June 24, IS - 29. " Their next object was to appoint over the Institution a Super intendant properly qualified for conducting it; sensible that on his qualifications the prosperity of the whole undertaking would mainly rest. And herein they esteem themselves highly fa voured of God, who, by a wonderful train of circumstances, had brought to London a man who had for many years set the desires of his heart upon an Institution like this, and who, in fact, suggested this undertaking, at a time when God had pre pared the hearts of many to second him by engaging in the pre sent work—a man singularly qualified for such a trust, and willing to enter upon it with his whole soul. In all their inter course and communications with this gentleman he has shown a principle of disinterested devotedness, so singular in these days that they forbear to mention it, lest the generous spirit which prompted it might be pained by the specification, or lest any enemy might suppose that ostentation of liberality funned any ingredient in a character so little understood, because scarcely ever exemplified in modern times. Mr. Simon, a well educated Jew, who has given eighteen years' proof of sincerity in the consisteutprofession of Christianity, and who formerly superintended an establishment of the same kind ; and Mrs. Simon, a lady of Edinburgh, carefully educated in Christian principles, and devoted to the cause of Israel with a zeal as great as her husband's, have undertaken the management of the Institution. Under these circumstances, the Committee have thought it their duty to leave the whole instruction and superintendence to Mr. and Mrs. Simon; and they have hitherto found every reason to feel perfectly satisfied-with the manner in which their confidence has been repaid. Much power has been delegated to Mr. Simon by the Committee; and they have, therefore, thought it proper to state to the subscribers the mo tives which have led to, and justified, their so doing. " The next great object of the Committee was, from amongst those who were candidates for admission, to select such as were most likely to answer the end of the Institution. In making this selection they have endeavoured to use all practicable circumspection ; desiring rattier to be over-cautious than over hasty ; but neither expecting to find all the qualifications they could desire in the applicants, not being disheartened if every thing should not succeed to the full extent of their wishes. The applicants are first examined by Mr. Simon; and such as are approved of by him appear before the Committee, who endea vour to ascertain, by close questioning, their motives for apply ing, and admit such only . as appear to be sincere inquirers after truth. When thus admitted, they are kept diligently, employed during five days of the week ; and their food and clothing are of the plainest kind. Each day is begun and concluded with prayer and exposition of the Scriptures ; and as they are un baptized, Saturday, the Hebrew Sabbath, is devoted wholly to religious instruction; but on the Lord's-day they attend Divine Service at the neighbouring church. There are now fourteen Jews in the Institution, who seem to regard earls other with more than fraternal affection : and as us the . Apostolic ages the Heathens who persecuted the Christians were often melted into tenderness by their affectionate conduct, and exclaimed, See how these Christians love one another!' so, to any one who doubts of the warm artbctions of a Jew, we would point out to our inmates, and say, See how those Jews love ore another !"Ten of them are employed as shoemakers, four as farriers; and other trades will be introduced as SOOll as it is practicable. The Committee would request subscribers to examine the articles manufactured, and recommend them to their fries: 's, as they will hereby render a double service—first, by employing the men ; then, by benetitting the Institution, and allowing us to receive a greater number of inmates. " For the religious instruction of the inmates, books were re quired; and the Committee gratefully acknowledge their obli gations to the Bishop of London, who supplied them with prayer books and spelling books ; and to the British and Foreign Bible Society fora grant of twelve Hebrew, twelve English, and six German Bibles, and twelve Hebrew Testaments, for the use of the Institution. " in every new undertaking some disappointment is to be ex pected; but the Committee are determi ne d to act an op e n honest part, by not concealing from the Society any thing un favourable which may occur. For this reason they state, that the first person taken into the Institution proved unworthy of it, and was dismissed from the establishment. But they might be doing an injustice to that individual, if they did not also state that his dismissal was not occasioned by any immoral act, but arose from misconduct involving a very great instance of insubordination, which the Committee could tint overlook. " Another of their inmates, who had been an object of per secution to his bigotted relations in consequence of his inquiry into Christianity, was followed by them to the Institution, and thrown into prison, under a pretended claim of debt arising out of circumstances which had taken place nearly a year previous to his connection with the Institution, This has been so far from lowering the individual in the opinion of the Committee, that they consider all the circumstances connected with his case as providential, and highly encouraging to their labours. He conducted himself most becomingly under his difficulties, bore testimony to the truth in quarters which it had never reached before, and has returned to the Institution more endeared to all who knew him than before this time of trial, . . " Since the above was written, twelve of the inmates of the Institution have been baptized by the Bishop of London : they were admitted by this holy ordinance into the Christian Church on Easter \Vedneedav, April 14th, which by an unexpected coincidence, was the last day of the Jewi s h Pa ss o v er, when every Jew throughout the world would be conanzemoraling their baptism in the Red Sea by singing the song of Moses in Exod. xv. ; Cor. v." The Reverend Mr. ITAwmuy expressed his satisfaction at the fot mean and progress of the Institution, because a Society formerly established, and which had for its object both the spiritual and temporal welfare of the Jews, had not been found to work well. The want of an asylum for those converted Jews - who had embraced Christianity, and for that reason had been cast out by their brethren, had long weighed like a burthen on his heart; and "he therefore wished the Society good lurk in the name of the Lord." The 60th chapter of the Prophet Isaiah was sufficient to show what were the future prospects of the Jews, aad that they would be raised to the highest pin nacle among the nations of the earth. This, however, was not to be the object of any society ; such matters as these were to be left to the ruling arm of the Almighty. As individuals, however, they might be looked upon ; and it was a Christian duty to stretch out the hand of salvation to a few. Mr. CIIEVA Lixn said, that as in the old time the Lord broke up the channels of the deep, and, destroying what formerly was earth, made dry laud out of the sea, so in the intellectual world he would, no doubt, make the Turk and the Infidel the true Land of Promise. Christians could not expect of themselves to bring forth the sub merged people of Israel, but they had beets commanded to hasten and forward the name of the Lord ; and they were, therefore, bound to exert themselves, not as mis sionaries or agents, but as interteders with the Lord that he would come and rescue the Jews from their mental grave. Sir T. BARING suggested the propriety of incorporating the present Society with the Philo.Judwan Society. There were now three Societies in London for promoting the propagation of Christianity among the Jews. Toe Lou don Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews was solely spuriimil, and might, therefore, stand alone; but he thought that the other two Sleieties would be more snecessfd in the subject they had in view if they were to unite in their endeavours. The Rev. Mr. SCOTT said that they ought all to love the Jews. As a Scotelnuan, he could not look on a de scendant of Wallace or of Knox without a thrill ; then how could any one look on the meanest old clothesman in Monmouth-street, without that affection which they should entertain for the flesh and kin of Christ; for it was in Jewish flesh and kin that the Lord lad redeemed man 'kind? Delusions were the things that prevented nations of the earth arriving at a spiritual sense of their condition. Seine in delusion supposed that genius, and science, and art, elevated a nation ; others—the political economists— that man's mismanagement in population, and finance, and government, lowered a nation, These were delusions that must be got over by acts ; and the Lord, when the time was conic, would make it manifest to heaven, to earth, and to bell, that it was he alone who could raise or depress a ❑ation. The Rev. Mr. REES said, the only question they wished the Jews to consider was—whether they had gone far enough or not with their religion ; for all that was now Te gitired of theta was to inquire. The commentary of the Lord Jesus Christ was to be found in the New Testament; and all that the Society wished was that the Jew shi,uld , ; turfy that book deeply und thoroughly. His heart and s oul prayed for the restoration of God's ancient people. The Rev. GERARD NOEL leaving said that lie could not e xpress in words the emotions of his mind, event on to o bserve that th'e motto of God was "Welt doue, good and Bucq.s.sful servant," kui done, good uud faithful servant.'' Faith way the duty imposed on the creature, but success was reset veil for the arm of the Creator alone. The Purpose that was emblazoned in Jehovah's bosom would not waver, and thyy had only to wait for God's arts to do the mighty work. What though they Inal en . courtgement or discouragement—what ti ottgh their vessel, a wreck, went down into the abyss of the deep—stilt, under the guidance of the same imallible pilot, they would certainly he wafted into a blessed haven at last. The world's happiness was bound up with the theme of Jew and no d e ep-t one d harmony' would be heard o n i til l mercy,eearthill, in the presence of Emmanuel, the chaunt in praise went forth from Jewish lips and from Jewish i R! sh'file . his v ats : : The: rY wARD laveNu entered into a lengthy tlis course, which lasted an hour, for the purpose of showing that Christiami, as the seed of Abraham by faith, were 'sound to eommunicate the blessings they enjoyed to the :iferal Israel, to which pertain the adoption, and the •lory, and the cevenants, and tie , giving of the law, LA the s,rviee, and the promises ; whose are the ethers, and of whom, as coneernlty; the flesh, Christ -tune, which is over ail, God Idessed for ever. The Reverend Orator took ova:avian to observe that the Christian world was under great obligations to the Jews. for maintaining the religion against the world and the Devil. The Jew, whether his worldly disabilities were re.: moved or retained, could not have honour, or peace, 'or en joyment, or blessedness in this world, because God himseli had imposed disabilities on him ; and till they acknow ledged Jesus to be Christ, it could never 1 e well with them. If this was not understood, it was because the prophecies were not rightly understood. The door, however, had heen opened by the baptism of the twelve Jews already alluded to, which was a practical de, monstration given by God of his purpose. It might be said that he was at his old work again—(A laugh)—bat he hoped that he should be at it till he died. We have not room for the whole of the Rev. Gentleman's long religious argument ; but the following is the moat remarkable pas sage, pretty nearly as he delivered it: —1 contribute no money to this Society, because I have none to give; yes I do not feel that I am not giving ; and you that have no money to give, ran contribute in a far higher and better ewits. Faith is that by which you pledge yourself; and reputes knowledge; therefore we must know the W,xd of God concerning the Jews, and believe it; and then we cm mske it the subject of prayer. To pray with out knowledge is to pray without faith ; it is to pray at a venture; it is not a prayer which the. Lord loves. Our prayer is not to be—" Do thy will with the Jews." We are rather to find out what is his will ;:to you he has given the honour of being the prophets of his will. For this we must have eyes before, behind, and within, to see what we are to do ; behind, that we mey see what God's provi 4cnee has been ; and before, that by seeing the things that are to come, we may make them the subject of prayer, and, if need be, of controversy too—of stern, hot of hiving controversy. If they talk against controversy, they know not what they say; and the man that will not stand up fur the truth to the death, does not possess it, kna cannot have it. This is what is called error. I deny it. It is faith. I believe these things, and therefore I speak of them. The Rev. Ikon 111'NEIL said that the Jews hid no alternative between believing in or untlergok.g eternal damnation. One or two other _speakers addressed the Meeting; the officers for the year having been appointed, arid a series of religious resolutions agreed to, the Meeting separated. MOLASSES. `,ll Account, in so far as the same can be made up, khowiug the total quantity of Molasses imported from the Britisn Colonies in the West Indies into Great Britain, from sth January, 1820, to sth January, 1830, inclusive, with the total quantities thereof re-exported during the same period, and distinguishing each year ; also, showing the hates of Duty per cwt. payable thereon when retained for home consumptin. Quantities of Quantities of Molasse3 Im- British Planta- Hates of Duty ported into (?.eat lion Molasses re- when entered for Britain from the exported from Home Consump- Years ended British West Great Britain to Lion. sth January. Indies. Foreign Parts. ---- - Cwts. qrs. lbs. Cwts qrs lbs. Per cwt. 1821 26,500 2 17 3,799 0 26 £0 10 • 1822 56,237 0 11 886 3 20 1823 73,616 0 7 736 3 16 1824 193,395 8 11 824 1 4 1823 233,169 1 10 1,739 1 25 1826 347,524 1 2 740 2 15 1827 238,31.0 3 22 5,488 1 83 1828 391,157 3 6 028 1 3 18.29 302X6 2 12 439 3 27 1930 394,259 010 2,311 216 ~YILLIA3I IRVING, Inspector-General or imports and Exports. I ns!.ector- General's Office, Custom-House, London, Bth April, 1830. NEWSPAPER TAXES. We shall say nothing for the present about the amount of these taxe.,as stated in the new schedule, because we hope they are put in only Provisionally, till the Chancellor of the Exchequer has a few days more time to consider the subject. The most im portant novelty in the schedule as it stands, is the following clause, exempting Supplements from the stamp duty of 4d. EXEMPTIONS.-Any sheet or piece of paper printed and published as a Supplement to any such News paper as aforesaid ; provided one-half at the least of the contents of such Newspaper and Supplement together shall consist of Advertisements, and pro vided such Newspaper and Supplement shall be pub lished together at a price not exceeding Sevenpence, incholing the Stamp Duty payable on such News paper. This clause extends the Irish practice to the whole empire, but under some modification. At present a detached supplement, filled with adver tisetnents, pays twopence of duty, but as the law allows Journalists to give any extension they please to the size of their sheet, the Times and some other Papers have got their apparatus so arranged, as to print a double sheet all in one piece; and by this contrivance the Supplement, forming as it were part of the Paper, passes duty free. Such is the effect of crude and ill drawn up Acts. An attached Sup planent of a sheet pays no duty; a detached Sup plement, though it have but one-fourth part of the size, pays twopence. So much virtue is there in the continuity of a bit of paper ! Now twopence upon eecli copy of an impression of 5,000 comes to • 40/. It was soon discovered that such a sum might be saved by mechanical means, and for a consider able time past the tax en Supplements has been evaded, and fairly evaded, by the plan of the double sheet. The alteration now introduced will put de tached and attached Supplements on the same foot ing, as they should have been from the first; but it will not replace the money expended in apparatus, perhaps amounting to 1,0001., by those papers which resorted to the double sheet. It is in this way that our revenue laws are continually causing pecuniary loss to individuals. We have said that Supplements published separately will now be ex empt from duty. This is our understanding of the clause; but much depends on the sense of the word " together," which we have put in Italics; and it is possible that it may cost some unlucky Journalist 500/. to make out this in the Court of Exchequer. Fled the object been to tax detached Supplements, we think the words " on one sheet or piece of paper" would have been employed. But the ex ' emption is granted only in those cases, where no additional charge is made for the Supplement; and where half the surface of the paper and supplement together are filled with advertisements. Supple ments have long been allowed in Ireland without this last restriction.—Scotsman. STAMP ACT. Now, that this statute is to he 'renewed, is the proper time for correcting vexatious enactmen s. One of the worst of these is that which imposes the necessity of put chasing a stamp corresponding to the nominal estate of a deceased party, although the whole Bends may be truly exhausted by debt. The outlay which is thus occasioned is oppressive, and the forms that trust be gone through, to obtain repayment of the duty, are toast vexatious. The stamp•duty should t;e rosttioed front the first to the amount of t. 4 r, a,; st.:coession—the balance remain ing after debts due are deduered—a stlitement being exhibited, as at present, upon oath, awl the addi tional duty, toith penally, might be made exigible, if proofs of the debrs stated and of the 1)1;11 - tent of them, were not pie-etited to the pr4per cave within a fixed reasonable period. 'lbis tax is a had one in PrinciPie; btt ii it must be levied, it should be done without, whet may almost be called, w..; . ,t0n oppresion and vexation. The r.c,iv . t duty on the payment of sumF, 101. a great evil. It produces I•ttle T , / the re venue, and, besides occa sioning immense trouble, leads many to tattip,T with moral feeling. All fiscal regula•ions arc WI w hi ch tempt a people beyond what human we can b tar . It is tintvise to produvo it saute of p u bl ic f ee li ng ( . 010 5i(brs clieatbig the It (a i i t is vulgarly. expressed) a sort of vlatie. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are not of the number of those who have what may be called a Credit°-phobia, aonceiving that credit is the natural offspring of industry and he confidence which always follows in the train of industry. In a country like England, iu which a hundred accidents are continually causing revolu iuns in business, in which, fur inqance, the expected •lea:h of a King in the period of the year when e:,untry dealers usually make their spring parchases, causes a sacrifice of property and happiness, eval pared with which the immolations of human beings nu the tombs of Eastern Monarchs is a bagatelle, who shall say that credit may not often be neces :ary and beneficial ? But credit, like every thing may be abused ; and there can be no doubt that there are peculiarities in oar Law of Debtor and Creditor which very much tend to an abuse of it. That credit may be useful it should be exercist.,l with prudence. By the porter of arrest, before Insolvent Acts were passed, the • security against Anse of credit was materially different from what it now is. The creditor then knew that he had the power of punishing a debtor, with a severity equal to the punishment for the heaviest crimes; and the debtor who took credit without a probability of being able to pay, delivered himself over, bound neck and heel, to his creditor. But at present this diced no longer exists. The frequency of the appheat ions for relief to the Insolvent Debtors' Court proves but too clearly that imprisonment is ROW little dreaded, and effords a hold to the creditor which fails him rebut he puts it to the test. Perhaps, therefore, it would be better for all parties that a seestrity, which turns out to be none but Which operates to diminish the elution of creditors, should be withdrawn from them. On this subject. there are souse sensible re marks in the new and improved edition of Hr. M'Culloch's Principles of. Political Estostotay. - " It is said (lie observes) that the fear of imprisonment operates as a cheek to prevent perains from getting into debt ; and so, no doubt, it does. But then it mu►t, o■ the other band, be borne in mind, that the power to imprison tempts individuals to trust to its influence to enforce pay ment of their claims, and makes them less cautious in their inquiries as to the condition and circumstanues of those to whom they give credit. The carelessness of tradesuirn, and their extreme earnestness to obtain custom, are taste than anything else the great causes of inaolveney ; and the power of imprisoning merely tends to foster an d en _ courage those habits. If a tradesman trust an individual with a loan of money or goods which he is unable to re pay, he has made a bed speculation. Bat why ought he, because be has done so, to be allowed to arrest the debtor's prison ? If he wished to have perfect security, he either should not have dealt with him at all, or dealt with him only for ready money ; such transaetions are, on the paw•t of tradesmen, perfectly voluntary ; and if they place! undue confidence in a debtor who has not misled thetra by erroneous representations of his affairs; they tave theat selves only to blame. It would realty - , therefore, a• it ap pears to me, be for the advantage tif creditors, 'wekia sit penal proceedings against the persons of honest debtor; abolished. The dependence placed on their efficacy is ee ceitful. A tradesman ought rather to trust to his oars prudence and sagseity to keep him out of serapes, thou to the law for redress ; he may deal upon credit with thins• whom he knows, but he should deal for ready money Grliv with those of whose circumstances and charawers he is either ignorant or auspicious. By bringing penal St,ittite4 to his aid, he is rendered remiss and negligent. lie Las the only effectual means of security in his own hand; and it seems highly inexpedient that he should be taught to neglect them, and to put his trust in pt isous." The " extreme earnestness to obtain custom," of which Mr. M'Culloch speaks, leans unquestionably to a great abuse of credit. Of this we have a writ:- ing instance, in a case tried in the King's Bench, on Thursday last. Gargrave,an attorney, was surd by Rowlands, a jeweller, for 1681. Ss., the balance ref 2291. is., for various articles of plate, jewels, and trinkets, all, with the exception of one item, sup plied to the defendant's wife without his knowledge. One of the items was " Emerald and diamond ear rings, 36/." The plaintiff's son, on his eross-exami nation, admitted that his father bad first applied for payment to Mrs. Gargrave; that " he had applied to see her perhaps as many as a dozen times, and on being informed. that she was out of tone, the plain tiff wrote to her, and the letter was delivered to the defendant's set rant, who promised to havie, it for warded to ,her. No application for payment was made to the defendant until all attempts at proeur ing► payment from Mrs. Gargrave .hod failed. The account was made out iu her name." Miss Adams, a witness for the defendant, stated, " Ira Mart'h, 1828, I accompanied Mrs. Gargrave to Mr, Row lands' shop. Mrs. Gargrave looked at a clock and a ring. Mr. Rowlands mentioned the price of the ring (12 guineas), arid she said she could not afford it. He pressed it upon her, hut she objected to take it, saying her husband would never pay for it. He said You take it; I wou't look to your hue band for the money; She would not take it." It appeared that the defendant allowed his wife ten pounds a quarter for dress, besides occasional pre sents, a sum quite sufficient fora person in his station of life (the wife of an attorney.) Now nothing can be more clear than that credit was here most im properly given. It was observed by the Attorney- General " that if the practice of giriug credit to wives for articles of extravagant price without the knowledge of their husbands were allowed, the wife might go to forty jewellers, and order similar ankles, to a great or greater amount for their oval persona, and the husbands would be liable." Lord Chief Justice Tenterden, in his charge to the Jury, observed that " he was one of those who had for many years thought that the facility with which pet sons in this great metropolis could obtain credit wets an evil of vast magnitude, and that it would be useful to teach tradesmen to be more cautious whom they trusted." The Learned Judge, in recapitulatlog the evidence, observed that— " There was no evidence to show that any the plate sold by the plaintiff to the wife was ever used at the de fendant's house, or ever seen there ; 'nor did it app: sr that the defendant ever saw any of the trinkets purchased by the wife, or that she ever wore one of them. Then respect to the applications for payment they had been all made to the wife; and it was not until the plaintiff hart failed in kite expectations of revolving payment from her, that Ike applied to the husband. If he had supposed that thy defendant was chargeable with the articles, one would have thought that he would have made application to Lim in the first instance ; and hia met doing se was, perhaps, only to be accounted fox by the fast swim! by Wits Adams —that he did not inteud, at the time the goods were furnished, to look to the defendant for paysmint.7 This particular abuse of credit does not arise oat of the power to imprison, bat of a,persitasion among tradesmen that, as they chiefly odustitute the Ju ries, they WI bend the law to Ahcir own purposes ; and provided a husband has property, they may always clandestinely lttrnish the wife with goods to an extent whic. l l that property rail cover. Thou sands upon thousands of individuals with the fair, at prospects in this metropolis have been ruined LF tradesmen giving extensive credit to their Witeo without their kno,. ledge. It is one of the eels of Trial by Jury, that the tradanneu who aottipc,se the Juries are in an undv:itanding to protect each other, and uniformly fiiid verdicts contrary in t h e 1 . 4c0n ,_ mendations of the Judge. The only ehatice for justice wii . ch one who is not a tradesman bas in an %c:iati with a tradesman, is to move for new trials, until he, obtain a Jury in which there may be some intli'ifet•- ,-.1,t person:. In this ett.e, in which Lord Chief Jtot;ce • Tenterden char4ed so strongly against th© pla'ntiff, the Jury 'Ltd made up their minds to &rid verdict for the plaintiff without troubling .k4 O Judge with his charge. This spoke volumes, Lordship having a pretty good guess of wig theit• verdict %would be, told them is would he aaore aa ii,factory that he should sum up, After tae had -unlined tip , perceiving that :La Jury would find for the plaintiff, he again interposed, and said, " Gm:- ilea:en, there is no proof that the tot-hand ever had possesiiicat of any oldie plate, 0:r ever saw it; (ouch