The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-08 00:00:00

pp- 1 gr• 011 - I ny I I nti ha ip- Ise ion in y ti y tO TiVe SIC° 3ing ted , r 00 1 10 ving sal love anse ,tion to pee n jus t He EVENING E IFTTS IVn'jesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, AL having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES), offer many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY. Perscns desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any order, the PROS PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. P. S. The next Distribution contains portions of 3,5001., 7,0001., and 24,000/. The distributing day being VERY NEAR, NO TIME IS TO BE LOST for those desirous to become shareholders for THIS NEXT DISTRIBUTION. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. 'The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON. ON MONDAY EVENING, hunt 10, Will be produced the Historical Play of KING HENRY V., From the Text of Shakspeare. After which, KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The New Grand Opera of " The Love Spell," has been tri umphant in the extreme. The rich, flowing Melodies— beautiful Scenery—and the acting and singing of Miss Ro. mer, Mr. Templeton, and Mr. Balls, meet with undivided approbation of elegant and crowded audiences. THIS EVENING, JUNE 8, Will be performed a New One Act Drama, tailed THE MAIDS OF HONOUR. After which the Grand Opera entitled THE LOVE SPELL. With all Denizetti's Original Music of " L'Elisir d'Amore," Adine, Miss Romer ; Nemorina, Mr. Templeton ; Dulcamara Mr. Balfe To conclude with the successful Drama, called ALICE GRAY, THE SUSPECTED ONE. Brilliant success. and increasing popularity 1 ! ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Under her MAJESTY'S IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE. GRAND " PROMENADES MUSICALES ET CHAM. PETRES ! !! On MONDAY, TUESDAY, and THURSDAY NEXT. By a splendid Band, composed of the most distinguished Instru mental Performers in the Metropolis Selected and conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Commencing at Six o'clock, and terminating at Nine. The magnificent Day-light View of MOUNT HECLA, and the unequalled Menagerie, are exhibited daily. Admission One Shilling. ~".' ..,... i '•4 . . 4--4 7 " . 9 ''''., f 6 ' • ' If ' ' ' -' V.= ile '4, . sfr- clikk kif j - c 5 i.. ...-.4- , ..- c . .• ~. _ . c , -...:,4; - -,,,, e- ...... • . -- - ' '-',"-%- zuzi...f.,r 4. z• ',.... tilirht 513n+ LONDON : SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1839. In the House of Lords last night, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY inquired into the steps taken to liqui date the claims of the British Legion, but obtained no satisfactory answer. The Earl of STANHOPE presented a petition praying their Lordships not to place any reliance on anything emanating from the Poor-law Commissioners, and the Noble Earl, as usual, was a source of mirth to the House. The only business of importance that occupied their Lordships was the disgraceful state of one of their own Courts—a subject we have adverted to in another article. The Commons threw out the Cheltenham Improve ment Bill by a majority of nine. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER signified, in answer to questions, that measures are to be taken to Put an end to foreign lotteries, being a subject of gam bling in this country ; and that a Bill is in progress to carry into effect some improvements in the Metropolis. Poor Colonel PERCETAL, who has grown so unpopu lar, that when he goes out to dine in Sligo he is obliged to sleep abroad, as he dare not go home, drew Lord MORPETH'S attention to a resolution of the Sligo Ma gistrates against the peasantry having loaded sticks, The Aristocracy may therefore have great guns or blunderbusses to keep the labourers in check, who must not have a stick, and even Lord MORPETH hopes that be may be able to embody the recommendation of the Sligo Magistrates into a Bill. The Report on the Prisons' Bill was further con sidered. _ . After a temporary adjournment for want of something to do, Mr. BURGE, the Barrister, who seems to be em ployed by Mr. BURGE, the Agent for Jamaica, was heard at considerable length against the Jamaica Bill, Which, after he had done, was ordered to be committed on Monday. After a division, a Select Committee was appointed oflth e motion of Mr. HODGES, to consider the duties oi , fruit. This is an attempt on the part the the landowners to tax plums and pears ; for Y will not allow either youth or age to , es cape their harpy claws.. Twenty - six Mem b ers , in a House of forty-four, including tellers, were for the Committe e , which was appointed accordin g l y . The House sat till Twelve o'Clock. Mr. GROTE has taken the earliest opportunity of putting to the test the reported resolution of the Cabinet, to make the Ballot an open question. Last night he gave notice, that on Tuesday the 19th inst., he would move for leave to br;ng in a Bill to take the votes of electors by Ballot. He will on that occasion have the support both of the vote, and the eloquence of the new Member for Edinburgh, whose few observations on that subject, as reported in our Paper on Saturday, were at once pertinent and forcible. The result of that motion will teach us the exact force of the Radical party, and what it has gained by making the Ballot an open question. We continue, as we ever have been, strenuous supporters of th e Ballot ; but we are afraid lest granting it now should illustrate more than anything else the general tardiness of politicians, and give an additional reason to class them with those sagacious bumpkins who lock the door when the steed is stolen. As far as the constituency are concerned, un doubtedly the Ballot is that one thing which they most desire as a means of protection ; but the evils iluffered by the constituency are no longer those which most need redress. They lie beyond the limits of the Reform Act. The danger to which the country is now exposed springs from the unen franchised. It is the want of the franchise more than the need of its free exercise, of which the discon tented masses complain. Now it is possible, had the Ballot been given to the constituencies when they were flushed with gratitude to their unenfran chised allies in obtaining Reform, that they would have elected a House of Commons on the principle of doing practical justice to the bulk of the people. Then the Corn-laws might have been abolished, great reductions made in the public expendi ture, the extravagant claims of the Church kept in check, an d a cons id era bl e p or tion of its misapplied wealth devoted to public instruction ; then we might have bad such administrative improvements as would have made the unenfran chised not think it a grievance to want a vote. The Ballot, however, not having been given in time, the landlords and the clergy have been able to pack the House of Commons with a great number of their creatures, and so to impede and deny necessary reforms, that the unenfranchised have been driven to despair, and are not now to be appeased or ruled, without being admitted into the pale of the Constitution. What might have been very beneficial in 1833, will be less so now ; and it is even probable, in the present state of feeling towards the Chartists, that the Ballot, were it conceded, would give us a still more Tory House of Commons than at present, and precipi tate those disasters which will surely spring from excluding five-sixths of the people from all direct influence over the Legislature. As Mr. MAC- AuL Ay once said, government is a science founded on experiment ; but experiment s are now so rapidly multiplied in every part of the world,the discoveries are so numerous, that the furthest advanced philosopher is 1832 is distanced by the tyro of 1839. Govern ment differs, indeed, from chemistry, in which the philosopher institutes guides, and conducts his experiments, but in Government the experiments are really made by society at large, and the politi cal philosopher has only to watch the course of the people. An interesting discussion took place in the House of Lords last night on the present state of the Court of Chancery. Ever since we can re ' member, that Court has been considered the oppro brium of justice and the ruin of suitors. Lord LYNDHURST stated last night that it had deserved the same character from the time of HENRY the EIGHTH. When Cardinal WOLSEY was Chancel lor, causes were twenty years pending. Similar has continued to be the practice of the Court of Chancery from that time to this. At present there are no less than 850 causes standing for hearing, and, on an average, each cause stands on the paper two years before it is heard. During the time they are in the book waiting for a hearing, each cause pays fees every term. Supposing there are 150 causes, each occupying on an average two years, the term ftes alone paid on them would be 7,0001., all out cf the suitors' pockets, or more than would pay the salary of an additional Judge. All the Noble and Learned Lords who spoke admitted that the present state of the Court was a serious grievance to the suitors. Such an admission is, we take leave to say, a great disgrace to the Noble Lords who made it. The Court of Chancery is a creature of the Legislature. Of it, as of the wages of labour, and the condition of the working-classes, the Lords cannot say that it is a social evil beyond their power The Courc is a creature of their own, o cure. and if they cannot make it answer its professed purposes, they must admit either that legis lation cannot a ttain its proposed ends, or they are downright bunglers. In the House of Lords there are two ex-Chancellors with not much to do, and an ex-Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas with nothing to do ; there are, moreover, the Lord Chancellors, both for England and Ireland, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice, and perhaps some other Law Lords, and yet, though they all must have known of this grievance, for it has long been complained of, they do not, or cannot, remedy it. A &phi overrun with weeds, a creaking hinge, or a rattlir,lg sash, are considered at once as decisive proofs that they have a lazy, careless owner ; but what is a neglected field or house to the neglected Court of Chancery, while the Peers—the fathers of their country--the very models of wise legislators, sit with their hands folded, and do nothing. The remedy for this accumulation of business re commended byLord LYNDH URST,iS the appointment of another permanent Judge. To this the only objection made was, that with another Judge business would so rapidly increase that there would be a greater accumulation of arrears than ever. Before the Vice-Chancellor's Court was created the average number of causes in Chancery was 504, and after it was created the average number was 760. It is clear, therefore, that to create Judges is to create causes, and to multiply the barristers' and the term clerks' fees. Such an increase of causes gives rise to a suspicion that the solicitors or bar risters have the art to make business for themselves. When there is no chance or hope of getting a case heard—when they foresee that the client's patience or purse will be exhausted, they no doubt find some means of settling the business without allow ing it to go into Court. When they see a probability of carrying a cause through, they advise accordingly. Thus it is that increasing the number of Judges increases the number of causes. As it appears to us, the check should be put on the bar risters and the solicitors. Instead of making large fortunes by increasing the number of causes, they should be liable to losses. A great reform, therefore, would be effected in the Court of Chancery, by empowering the Judge to fine every solicitor and every barrister, and fine them heavily, who were parties to bringing an improper cause into Court— as the Judge would be saved trouble by inflicting heavy fines, while the suitors would never be denied justice, though they might not be gratified by having either . law or equity. We think the reform of which we have suggested the principle, would be the only efficacious one. Both the country and the suitors would save large sums by making it the interest of solicitors and barristers to be careful and honest. The Bishop of EXETER, not contented with speaking against the Church Discipline Bill, has written against it, and piiblished his writing in the shape of a protest. Being first printed in the Lords' votes and then in the Newspapers, the mode of publication lays him under no obligation to Mr. MURRAY. We must place parts of it before our readers, that they may form an approximative opinion of,the claims of the Clergy. That they can ever duly sound the art ogance of this body far be it from us to determine. The Bishop begins thus— 1. Because, though the Ecclesiastical Judges derive their power in fora exteriors, even in spiritual matters, from the State, their authority is independent of, and pre-existent to, the sanction of the temporal law, which merely adds tem poral consequences to the ecclesiastical censures, the inflic tion of which is part of the power of the keys, vested in the Church by its /divine Founder, and exercised by it in the earliest ages. It follows, that the State, though it may re fuse to add a civil sanction to the exercise of the spiritual authority, cannot either grant that authority which does not spring from any human source, or take it away from any oriel in whom the Divine constitution of the Church has vested it. Consequently, this Bill, prohibiting in every diocese the exercise of all spiritual jurisdiction, so far as any spiritual censure on a criminous clergyman is concerned, except that of the Court of Arches, doth ex. ceed the power of human law, inasmuch as it affects to de prive Bishops of that essential authority and inherent right which appertain to their sacred office by the Word of God. So the Church of England has the power of the Keys, which will be a great edification to the Presbyterians. The Divine founder, too (HENRY VIII., we presume), gave it that power from the earliest ages. If this be not mockery it is blas phemy. The Keys is a Popish invention, and has nothing to do with Christianity, as the Dissenters' discipline, who are very good Christians, distinctly proves. But it is not enough that the Bishop claims this power, and with it the " power of binding and loosing ;" he insists that— " He by whom Kings reign, and Princes decree justice," bath inseparably annexed to Christian magistracy, the duty of upholding and enforcing the essential discipline of his Church—a duty which this State, so long as it acknow ledges our own apostolic branch of that Church, can only discharge by sustaining and strengthening, in all things necessary, the government by Bishops. The Parliament and the Sovereign, therefore, are ordered by the AL m IGHTY, according to the Bishop, to uphold and enforce the government of Bishops. We cannot conceive any bye-way in these matters• If it be the duty of the Christian Magistracy to sustain the government of Bishops, and if that be ordained by Him by whom Kings reign, it must be a paramount duty, and the State is bound at this day—as King CHARLES thought it was bound in his time, and endeavoured to fulfil the obligation—to sustain the government of Bishops in every part of the empire, and not to rest till the authority of the successors of the Apostles, who occupy our Bishops' sees, is established in Scotland. The same principle on which the Church Discipline Bill is protested against, is suffi cient to warrant the complete proscription of Presby terianism and of every denyer of episcopal authority. The Bishops' pretensions are admirably supported by the Ultra-Tory Evening Journal. It claims for the Church " a Divine mission," and must regard it as a sacred duty to carry the Divine will into effect. There can be no alternative ; if it be Divine it must be supreme, and all other Churches and sects must be compelled to acknowledge the divinity of the Bishops' authority. We are making rapid progress towards ecclesiastical dominion, and if the people of England do not put away the Church blinkers, the Papal power, under the name of the Anglican Church, will soon be restored here in all its splendour, without the aid of O'CONNELL and the Irish Romanists. The New Zealand Laid Company have for some time been publishing details of their intended plans for establishing a British colony in that remote quarter of the world, and on Monday next there is to be a meeting of those persons who intend to be- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1839 come purchasers with a view to emigration., As far as can be judged from the advertisements, the object of the Company is to colonise with British settlers a tract of country in the North Island, which they have acquired at a legitimate price from the natives, and lotments are to be made, of which sections are to be sold to emigrants, the Company at the same time reserving a certain number of sec tions for the native Chiefs. We infer from this that an attempt is to be made to bring the natives within the pale of civilized society, to teach them, at all events by example, agriculture, and some of the useful arts of civilized life, and put an end to the horrid practices which are very generally imputed to the inhabitants of that country. Attempts of this sort have hitherto been unsuccessful in the New World, chiefly owing, we believe, to the vast extent of un occupied territory on which the aborigines could fall back, but this objection does not apply to New Zealand. Perhaps no country could be better adapted for making the experiment, and if the scheme be properly followed out, and the Legisla ture and the Government provide that justice shall be observed, and the natives protected against un lawful encroachments, the aborigines would have no reason to complain. It is certainly better that colonization should take place according to legalised forms than, as it is at present, by hands of adventurers and pirates, who plunder and op press the natives, and cause the greatest obstruction to civilization, by rendering the name of Europeans odious to the whole race. Mr. O ' CONNELL has placed on the book of the House of Commons a notice that he will on the 11th instant move for leave to " bring in a Bill to enable Roman Catholics to hold the office of Lord Chancellor, and certain offices in the Eccle siastical Courts in Ireland." Mr. O'CONNELL means probably to rebuke the extravagant and do mineering spirit of the Anglican Priesthood, which is at present so conspicuous. Of course, he has no hope of carrying such a motion, but he will take the opportunity to expose the political arrogance of those who hate the Catholics. To wish success to his motion would, we know, be vain ; but if he only undertake to expose the arrogance of the Anglican Churchmen, his eloquence will undoubt edly not be thrown away. The Report of the Committee of Council appointed to superintend the application of the money voted by Parliament for promoting public education, dated the 3d inst., has been laid be fore the House of Commons. It will be found in another part of The Sun. It appears from this document that although the Government have so far yielded to the senseless clamour which the well-meaning dupes of the ill meaning Clergy of the Endowment and the Metho dist Ministers of the metropolis have been instigated, by the grossest misrepresentation, to raise against the lately proposed plan of education, as to relin quish the establishment of the normal school—the best part, no doubt, of the plan—the other parts of the original design will be carried into effect. The ten thousand pounds, voted by Parliament in 1835 for the erection of normal and model schools, is to be divided in equal proportions between the so called National Society and the British and Foreign School Society. What remains unappropriated of the grants of 1837 and 1838, and the grant, whatever it may be, of the present year, will be distributed in aid of subscriptions for building schoolhouses, and, in certain cases, for the main tenance of schools in connection with the above mentioned Societies. The rule which has hitherto been observed in the application of the Parliamentary grants will, we are glad to perceive, be no longer adhered to. Hitherto it has been the custom to favour the locality in which the largest subscription was raised, the consequence of which is that the more populous, which are generally the poorer districts—those dis tricts, in fact, where education is most wanted—not being able to subscribe the amount deemed requisite to entitle them to a share of the public money, have been neglected. In future, applications for assist ance from places so situated will not be rejected. It is also of importance to observe that the assist ance to be given will not, as heretofore, be confined exclusively to schools connected with the two Socie ties already alluded to, but extended to such other schools as may appear to the Committee to require it. The liberal exercise of 'this discre tionary power, together with the exclusion from any participation in the Parliamentary grant of every school in which the right of Government inspection is not admitted, with the view of improving and rendering uniform the regulations, discipline, and modes of teaching in the various schools, will go far to disappoint the dishonest selfishness of the Bishop of LONDON and the rest of the parsons, who, under the mask of a regard for religion, but really for the purpose of promoting their own sordid interests, have contrived to enlist the prejudices of their blind, unreasoning followers against popular education. WONDERFUL POWERS OF MEMORY. Locomotion is undergoing important and rapid changes both on land and water. Time itself seems to be in these modern days made doubly valuable to society,—and distance is curtailed of more than half, and in many instances, more than two-thirds of its proportions. The powers of memory appear also to be in a fair way of being tutored into order and discipline. A system is about to be developed, by which an art may be acquired, that will render this faculty doubly valuable to society. We yesterday were favoured with an exhibition of the extraordinary powers of memory possessed by a talented young foreigner, Master GUSTAVE ADOLPIIE BA SSLE, born at the Hague in 1826, whose knowledge of facts is perfectly incredible. We heard him repeat answers to extremely difficult questions, in history, geography, mythology, natu ral history, and various other branches of scien tific acquirement. He then repeated 155 figures, and having done so, he answered correctly, and without hesitation, to every inquiry—what was the 46th of those figures ? the 28th ? the 115th ? and so on. A table of 40 figures was then drawn up on the instant, and presented to him ; in less than five mi nutes he repeated the whole table from first to last without a single mistake or hesitation ; but more surprising still, he then repeated the same table of figures backwards without a single error. In short, it was the most interesting and wonderful display of memory that we ever witnessed. We are given to understand that the system by which this extraordinary power of memory is ac quired is so simple, that a few lessons, of an hour each, is sufficient to enable any one with moderate abilities and application to be a proficient in the art ; and the same rules, we are assured, are appli cable to languages—the French, in particular, being nearly complete. We have received a file of the Canton Register to the 23d of January, in which we find a copy of the new regulations under which the Hong mer chants are permitted by the Celestial Government to re-open the trade with the " Barbarians inha biting the outer seas." It was addressed by the Hong merchants to the Chamber of Commerce on the 16th of January, with a gracious intimation from the Hoppo that chops were granted to the vessels detained at Whatnpoa and Lintin, to dis charge their cargoes. We subjoin a copy of these regulations : We have most respectfully to offer up for your lightning glance a list of terms for securing ships to be agreed to and the bond to be given as proof. " Should any vessels at Whampoa bring up opium or smuggle out sycee, the trade of such vessels will, on a dis covery and seizure being made, be instantly stopped, and she be driven out of the port without a moment's delay. Her owner will be mulcted in 20,000 dollars to be appro priated to the liquidation of the foreign claims. " Should any vessel at Whampoa engage in smuggling any other kind of goods her trade will, on a discovery and seizure being made, be instantly stopped; the smuggled goods will be sold, the proceeds confiscated, and the owner mulcted in half their value, to be appropriated to the liqui dation of the foreign claims. " No vessel at Whampoa must employ decked boats, on penalty of her trade being stopped immediately the fact is discovered. On the boat being giver, up to our Chamber for destruction, we will petition that her trade may again be opened. " The master and consignee of any vessel condemned to leave the port for her misbehaviour, must nevertheless pay up her port charges ; they must not, on the pica of the ship being driven out, endeavour to evade the payment, on penalty of the most rigorous prosecution. " Should the captain and consignee of any vessel de mur paying any just mulct, their security merchants must inform the other merchants thereof, whp will deduct the amount from the prices of any goods belonging to the parties. " The bond to be worded as follows :—' A bond Lieven as proof. We (A) master, and (B) consignee of the (flag) ship (name) which has come from her port with a cargo of (C), to trade at Canton, do hereby guarantee that she has no opium or other prohibited goods on board. Should she have decked boats she shall not employ them in smug gling out sycee or other goods; but should any such doings be discovered, we will cheerfully submit to be dealt with according to the regulations, which we dare not endea vour to evade. In witness whereof we have signed our names to this bond to be held by you as proof.' THE HONG MERCHANTS." The Charivari—the Figaro of the Parisian Press— ironically contended in a late number, that all French men were born members of the Legion of Honour, but that it was one of the grand prerogatives of the reigning Sovereign that he could dispense, in the case of sweeps, porters, and grooms in livery, with the wearing of the insignia of the Order. This seems not to be very far from the opinion of M. MOUNIER and a majority of the French Peers, who on Wednesday last carried a resolution for limiting the power of the KING to distri bute more than a certain number of ribands and grand crosses annually. The resolution was opposed by Mar shal SOUL T an d a ll t h e M em b ers o f t h e G overnment in the Upper Chamber, but was fin a lly carr i e d b y a majo rity of 66 against 54. This spirit of independence on part of the Peers, is lauded in the French Papers, but we take leave to observe, that had the question been purely political, the result of the division would have been very different. Tire Civil Tribunal of the Seine was occupied on Wednesday with an action brought by the Princess DE LA MOSLWA, daughter of M. LAFITTE, the rich banker, against her husband the Prince, for taking away their infant child, and placing it at a school to which the PRINCESS was not allowed access. A certificate proving that the PRINCESS starved the child, was put in. The Court decided that the PRINCE had done no more than the law allowed him to do as a father, and the PRINCESS was nonsuited. On Thursday the Chamber of Deputies was engaged with various propositions, but they were all of local in terest. A motion for the Abolition of Slavery in the French colonies is fixed for Wednesday next. The Madrid papers received are of the 30th ult. They merely confirm the appalling account of the in human massacre at Ripoll. BO UR S E.—PARIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6. HALF-PAST THREE.—The market on the whole has been brisk, and a good deal of business done in the French Stocks for time as well as for money. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at 81 f. 20c., rose to 81 f . 25e., and closed at 81f. 20c., a rise of 5 cents. The Five per Cents. opened at 111 f. 20c., and closed at 111 f. 35c., an improvement of 20c. For Mo ney t h e Three per Cents. are 15c., and the Five per Cents. 30c. better. The Bank of France Shares are 2f. 50e. higher. The Laffitte Bank 5,000 f. Shares, are sf. lower, and those of I,ooof. unaltered. The Belgian Five per Cents. are per cent. better. The Bank Shares 2f. 50c. lower. The Spanish Active, after having fluctuated from 19 to 20, closed at 191, being 4 per cent. better than yesterday. The Versailles Right Bank Railway Shares are 7f. 50c. higher. The Versailles Left Bank have improved to the same extent. The proposed loan to the latter Company has stirred up the opposition of that of the Ri g h t B an k , which is not fair, because the Parliamentary authorisati o n for the one was coeval with th a t for the ot h er. The Go vernment will carry the proposit ion through the Chamber if it can. Pirst Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price, Price French 5 per Cents lll ... 111 20 ... 11l ... lil 20 4 per cents lOl 60 ... 101 t:0 ... 101 60 ... 101 09 3 per Cents Bl 10 ... 811 5 ... 81 5 ... 81 10 Bank of Prance Lai - IWe Bank I,ooof. SO— 107'2 50 ...1075 ...1072 50 ...1075 5,000 f. bh 5245 ...5215 _5245 ...5245 Belgian 5 per Cents lOl% ... 10114 ... 101% ... 101 N Bank 793 ... 797 : - .0 ...790 ... 797 50 Coupons Spanish Ac,ivc 1930 ... 20 ... 19% ••• 19 , /4 Passive 4% ... 4% ... 4 % ••• Neapolitan Roman -- - ...ylll4_ ..... 101h', .. ... lol% ••• NI% RAILWAY SIIARii Versailles, /I. B 687 50 687 50 L.B. '265 ... 273 ... 265 272 50 Havr.?. Orleans .. ASPEIALTES AND BITUMENS. Galvanized Iron ... 360 According to the `correspondence of the Semaphore of Marseilles from Persia, dated the 21st of April, Russian policy was making rapid progress in the East, and the SHAH was doing all in his power to open a road to India for the Army of the CZAR. On the 1 6th M. BOUTENIEF, the Russian Ambassador at the Porte, received important despatches from Teheran, which led to an interview with the SULTAN and the Persian Am bassador MEZIN DZIFIR. Subjoined is the latest news of the state of affairs in. Syria and Egypt:— Letters from Beyruth represent that Mehemet Ali con tinues to prepare for war. Soliman Pacha ( Selves) is in Syria, accompanied by all his staff. Aleppo, the city the most threatened, has been fortified. All the trees in the environs have been cut to make palisades and chevaux de (rise for the ditches. The choice Egyptian troops are marching for the Euphrates, and soon there will be im posing forces on that side to oppose the Porte. Canto, MAY 11.—M. Tippel, the French Consul, leaves us. He has leave of absence for six months, on the grounds of ill health, but leaves quite disgusted with the country and with the persons with whom he is obliged to do business. M. de Bourville, his successor, is expected by the next packet.—Semaphore. BEYRUTII, MAY 13.—Hostilities have not commenced. Soliman Pacha has just written that an amicable arrange menttbat peace may yet may b b e e m p t a e d s e e , r v a e n d d . th e I b r e f t o b r e e m w e e a h n a v t i e m s e t : A l l h e hopes that Antab, and the sure ounding places have all the appearance of being besieged ; the country is covered with masses of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, and all are kept on the alert. All communication with the interior is suspended. The Ottoman artillery has passed the Euphrates, as well as the other forces. We cannot conceive how these pre. parations, which must have taken time, escaped the notice of Ibrahim Pacha ; the Turkish Generals are incompetent to make such well -concerted movements without other a d v ice. The inhabitants of Damascus showed a disposi tion to a movement on learning the passage of the Otto man army, and Ibrahim Pacha has therefore sent the son of Emir Beachir into the town, with 1,200 mountaineers. Mr. Wyld, of Charing Cross has just published a comprehensive little book on the London and Southampon Railway, with a map of the whole line, and maps of the Isle of Wight, and the Towns of Southampton and Portsmouth. Much useful informa tion is given respecting objects on the line of route, and to accommodate those who wish:to know the country through which they fly, full particulars are given of all the neighbouring towns, and the more remarkable objects that can be seen from the line. It contain s , a l so , a Guide to the Isle of Wi gh t, the Channel Islands, and the opposite coast of France. At the end is an itinerary, after the mode of those once useful books, but now little better than old almanacs—Road books, g iving the distance of each station from London, and the names of all the towns and villages on each side, with the distances from the main line. A description of most of these places is given in the " Guide." We may add, that the line will be opened from London to Basingstoke, and from Southampton to Winchester on Monday next. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.--A benefit was public and the exertions of friends. The taken last evening in favour of the widow and children of o w f aa th a e good one, but not in the public sense full. the late Haynes Bayly, whose long illness and premature death had left them in a condition to call forth the sym hpoatuhsye The private boxes were well taken, and the dress circle was crowded. The performances were various and good, several of the most eminent vccal and instrument per. formers having lent their assistance. HAYNIARKET THEATRE.---Ths following, among many other distinguished fashionables attended this theatre during the week :—The Earl of Lichfield, Sir G. Wombwell , th e Marchioness of Ely, Prin ce L ou i s Napo leon, the Duches s of Cleveland, the Ea rl of Miltown, Lord Jocelyn, the Du ke of Brunswick, th e M arquis of Water. ford, the Countess of Charleville, Miss Coutts Burdett, Lord Boyle, Sir G. Ouseley, the Earl of Belfast, Sir C. Kent, Lord Kinnaird, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lady Albert Conugham, Sir J. Catheart, , &e. L ADY BLESSINGTON S " IDLER IN ITALY." was c onstantly and variously employed—en -A new and cheaper edition of this charming work has h her fine mind received; with a just been published in 2 vole. post Bvo., containing Land seer's portrait of the accomplished author. The volumes hiu record the occupations of nearly every day, and prove that the more striking . and setting down employed —en joying, Ladyshipog, observing, exploring, sthpeirivtivliibdeirna'lParsesjsiuT:,s a w love of blended vivacity and senti ment erudition, as , wli contrastedib rarely possessed by a lovely and fashionable woman. Our fair Jourealiser's versatile pen gracefully flies from politics l h e y n ds a charm evidences o t fo. herciclassic s pages , sio and to cookery, from religion to scenery, from fashion to the fine arts, music and the drama, from illustration s of national charact e r in humble l ife to the hi ghest society through which she passed. H i g h titles and no ble names abound in her agreeable work. Not ; the least exciting among them, liL L I n F nl E • Crbery, w ill s h ort l y lead LIFE.- C apta i n F re k e, nephew the reader will find those of our Br itish literati, Byron, m l altar the Lady L ou i sa B utler, the hNolouoittares.,, iview ,Slelley,G.Thnelli, Hamilton, and a h ost of celebrated my. Ai t A o t R andli I t . heirAh yGE presumptive l i t o hymeneal il G l ovely sister of the Marqu is o f Ormonde. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the roles and Proceedings of the Muse qj Commons.) FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1839. FRESH FRUIT TRADE. Motion made, and Question put,—" That a Select Commit tee be appointed to inquire into the state of the Fruit Trade :" —The House divided : Brotherton, J. Darby, George Godson, R. Grimsditch, T. Berries, J C. Hurt, F. Ingham, Robert Knatchbuil, Sir E. Mahon, Lord Morris, David iJORITY-AYES, 26. O'l'errall, Mere Thomson, C. P. Palmer, C. Fyshe Turner, William Philips, Mark NVilile, Thomas Pigot, D. It. Williams, W. A. Plumptre, J. P. I Wood, G. W. Pryme, G. Yates, J. A. nice, T. S. Sheppard, T. Steuart, It. :Talfourd, T. N TEILLERS. Filnaer, Sir E. Ilociges, T. L. Aglionby, H. A. Bewes, T. Blake, M. J. Clements, Lord G.bson, Thomas Hastia, A. :NORITY-NOES, Hawes, B. Lushington, Charles Lushington, Hun. S Marsland, H. lteddington, T. N. Roche, Sir 1). 14. Rundle, John l'hornely, Thomas TELLERS. Wallace, H.bhou►e, 'l'. Y. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) MUNCH v. (OCKERLLL. The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Lord-Chancellor the whole day. VICE- CHANCERY.-(TIIIS DAY.) MORTIMER V. rawsza. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed this morning, and had not concluded when our reporter left. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY. CRIMINAL INFORMATION.-THE. QUEEN V. FROST AND ANOTHER. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied to the Court for a crimi nal information against the above defendants, one of whom is Mr. Frost of Newport, in Monmouthshire, the Member of the National Convention, who was recently removed from the Com mission of the Peace, and whose correspondence with Lord John Russell and the Lord Chancellor will be in the recollec tion of most of our readers, and the other an individual named Partridge, for the publication of a placard reflecting on the cha racter of Mr. Phillips, a Magistrate of Newport, for what he had done in his magisterial capacity. The Court granted a rule to show cause. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. FLOWER ANT) OTHERS. Mr. WHITE applied for a rule, calling on John Nelson to show case why he should not within a week give to the defen dants an account of the several acts of nuisance which he in tends to prove, and the days to which his evidence would be applied, and that in the mean time proceedings be stayed. The proceedings in this case arose out of the works now in progress for erecting the new 'louses of Parliament, and the indictment charged the defendants with having committed a nuisance, by causing an obstruction in the river, near Battersea, by deposit in, there large quantities of earth, &c. ' Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, if this application was granted literally he could hardly conceive a case of nuisance where a similar application would not lie. He did not like to open a flood-gate of that sort. If a great number of specific acts were laid, a rule might be taken calling on them to specify the acts of which they complained.—Rule accordingly. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY DOE DEM. IIISCOCKS V. mscocics. This was an ejectment brought against John Hiscocks under these circumstances : Samuel Hiscocks, the testator, left his property to his son Simeon for life, with remainder to his eldest son, John Hiscocks ; Simeon Hiscocks had been twice married, and though he had a son named John Hiscocks, he was not his eldest son—the eldest son's name being Simeon. The question was, what was the intention of the grandfather. Did he mean the property to go to the eldest son, or did he mean to give it to the son named John. The case was tried before Mr. Justico Bosanquet, when the Jury found for the Oefendant. A rule for a new trial was obtained several terms ago. It was very fully argued two terms ago, when the Court took time to consider their judgment. At the sitting of the Court this morning, Lord ABINGEII gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff. They considered that there ought to be a new trial in the case. In order to see what the intention of the testator was, whether he had intended to give the property to the eldest son, but had made a mistake as to the name, or to give it to John, but had at the time forgot the existence of Simeon, was to be gathered from evidence as to the manner in which in his life time the testator treated the two parties, and the instructions which he gave for the waking his will. That evidence having been rejected, the Court were of opinion that thereought to be a new trial. Rule made absolute accordingly. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. Supply very large, trade generally was good, and prices rather lower. Asparagus, 3s. 6d. to 6s. p er bdl e. ; Brocoli, 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. per doz. ; Rhubarb, Bd. per bdle. ; Strawberries, 9d. to Is. 3d. per oz. ; Cauliflowers, 9s. per dozen bunches; Cu cumbers, Is. and 2s. 6d. per brace ; Gooseberries, 6s. to 7s. per sieve; New Potatoes, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; Yeas, 10s. per bushel ; Spinach, Is. per sieve. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. Supplies moderate, demand not brisk, and prices unaltered. Beef, 3s. to 4s. Bd. ; 11Iutto: , , 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bsl. ; Lamb, ss. 2d. to 6s. 2d. ; Pork, as. 10d. to 4s. 10d. ; Irish, 3s. to Bs. Bd. HUN GERFORD MARKET. There was a good business done, and a fair supply of most descriptions. Turbot, 4s. to 18s. ; Soles, Is. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 10d. to 4s. ; Salmon, Is. 3d. to 2s. Gd. per lb. ; Mackerel, 6d. to Is. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies good but not much trade, prices much the same as at Ilungerford Market. WIIITECHAPEL MEAT MARKET. Trade dull, except for Lamb. Beef, 3s. tid. to 4s. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 2d; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. &1. ; Veal, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 3s. id. to 4s. Bd. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE d'CL OCR'. Our arrivals this morning are the French Mail, with numerous ship letters from the East, South, and West, but they are all of old dates. LIVERPOOL COTTON-.MARKET, JrNIL 6.—Since our last we have had a regular trade demand, and a fair of extent of business doing daily, though with rather more spirit in the early part of the week than at the close; id., and in some instances yd, advance has been obtained upost the ave rage qualities of American, but the former point of im provement only is now current; id. advance has also been obtained on Maranham, and id. in Pernams. Bahia without change ; Egyptian rather easier, and some low sales have been made in Surat for export, for which amount 800 bales have been taken ; also 650 bales good American, 100 Pernam, and 100 Carthagena. The speculative opera. tions have been confined to 500 bales of American, or more properly speaking, a re-sale here to that extent of some purchases made for dealers' account last week. The sales tc-day are 4,000 bales of all kinds. Two New York packet ships, the Europe and Roscoe, have arrived at Liverpool, both of old dates. The first of the Ist ult. and second of the 7th ult. TIIE FUNDS. In the British Market money could be obtained at from 4. 1 ; to 5 per Cent., but in the Foreign Market it continued to demand a very high rate of interest. Both the British and Foreign Markets are in a very dull state at present, and no speculation of the least consequence is going forward. Consols may be quoted at the closing prices of yesterday, 93i 94 for the opening ; Reduced Three per Cents., 92 Exchequer Bills 28 30 ; India Bonds 30 32; Bank Stock 1924. 1931. Indian Stock for opening, 256 257. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 191 1, at present 191 ; Portuguese 341 ; Three p er C ents., 201 21; Belgian, 1011 102; Brazilian, 791 1; Colom bian, 301 311 ; Mexican 251 26 : f ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 551- 56i ; Five per Cents., 1021 103. PRICES OE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 193% 3 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 92% mi Ditto Bonds 30 pin. 3 per Cent. Co ns . ._, per Cent Ditto Ned. lO Old Annuities 9 os _ New 3% ,4 New Ditto per Cent New 5 per Cent. - 3 per Cent. A nnu i t i es, 1751 sank Long Annuiti e toex vire Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 30 32 pen. s Ditto ............ ... 500 .. 32 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 14 5-15% 5-16 Ditto Small 13 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditto Commercial —— pm Jan. 5, 1860 --- Bank Stock for Account ... ...."... Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880. - India Stock for Account ... Jan . 5. 1870 Consos for Account 94 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT °NZ. O'CLOCK A list fiats Bonds — i Peruvian Bonds ............... Belgian Bonds ....... Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account —? Ditto Account 34% Ruenus Ayres Bonds ......... —1 Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .............. —1 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds ... ............... . — 1 Prussian Bonds 1) tt9 Account ............... `.:8 1 ,4U Russian Bonds, IS.' Colunnsian Bonds ............... Ditto Account... — Ditto Account ............... Ditto Metallic Columbian 80nd5,1824,..... 31% C Spanish Bonds lO% Ditto Account Danish Bonds Passive Ditto Bonds, 1825 ... .1 ---- 4 per cent. -f. —c. Ditto Account - 31>er cent. --C. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —' -- Exchange. —f. —c. Ditto Account — ' Dutch, 2% per cent, Ditto, i per Cent.— ...... ... Ditto Account _ Ditto Account Neapolitan —, Ditto Account...." ...... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY p f t l ONE O'Clie)rCit.,are. 65 74C' 22 12%%4 MU. 17s. W. 45% ••• ••••• , ay 15 Great Western Railway Company B , lghton Railway London and Southampto❑ ~Lucheitor and Birmingham Itaill Do. 1)o. Extensh York and North Midland HailwaN Nation. I Provincial Ilai.k of Engl, Mexican and South American rn Company 30 ind 284 g COUITSE OF EXCFI. Istcrdvm C.F. .12 5 Ditto, at sight R0ttardw0...............2 U l2 6 Antwerp... rg . M.B l3 13 Alton?. ....... ...... l'ari,„ 3 days' siel , t. 25 45 Mac ....... ........ ...3 Ms. 55 75 Marseille. -l5 BOW de:111 X Frankfort un Maine, Ex. 31. 152 L.':.-terstangh,rutile... 3 Us. 10. Berlin Vienna, effective 11...3 31 lO 7 Trieste ditto lO 8 tladrid 37 37% ft •reelon 4 Seville .NGE YESTERDAY. ~ihra1tar.......... eghorn .. .................. 45 ................ 30 Genoa.. .. 45 ...................... " ) 5 75 Venice........................ 31 .................. ...... 47 Naples ..... ................. 40 Fa er,no ....... ..... per 120 Li; ban ..•.. .......................... 541, Os•ryo ............................... 51 j 4 Rio Janeiro... ..... . ............. Bahia. 27 ................................ 27 Buenos Ayres ..................... New York, 21 days' sight ... 4(N Philadelphia ..................... PRICE OF BULLION, per ()Z. Portuzal Gold, cum....Xl) 0 0 ForeiEn Gold, in bars.,, 3 18 0 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 0 New Dellais .... .. ..... ... 0 (1 Silver in Bars .......... .. 0 lIALF-PA S7' OA E. We continue to the present hour without any news or report to communicate, and the Funds in both the markets are in the same dull state as in the early part of the morning. Nut the least spirit in speculation has been ma nifested to the present time. Consols may be quoted at 94 for the opening; Reduced, ; Exchequer Bills, 32 ; India Bonds, nothing done; Bank Stuck, 193. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 19i ; Portu guese, 341 ; Three per Cents., 20,i ; Brazilian, 79: Clailian, 281; Colombian, 30:, 1 - ; Dut c h Two aud-a- Ilalf per Cents. 5 6i; Five per Cents., 1024. It was said at the Clubs yesterday that Sir John Conroy had resigned his situation in the household of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. No reason was assigned.—Morning Post. COMBINED EDUCATION IN HOLLAND. (FIIOII A CORRESPONDENT.) Tha " drum ceciesiaritic" is beating throughout the country to raise the people to the cry of the Church in danger, because the Government are seriously determined to take up the long-neglected subject of education,—education,—religious educa tion, for the whole people, apart from every species of sectarianism. We bid them GOD speed in an undertaking, which exposes them to hostility from the combined forces of ignorance, bigotry, and fanaticism. They mill deserve the gratitude of posterity for having ven tured to brave the phalanx in the attempt to give an education commensurate to the wants of the great body of the labouring classes of England. Education, to be effectual, must commence with the earliest infant training ; it must be based upon the principle inculcated in the Gospels, Thou shalt love the LORD thy Goo and " THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF." The Government of England, now knowing no distinction in the population on account of religious profession, announces its determination to com mence a system of education which can be accepted by all the population, providing the means of secu lar instruction, and leaving as a necessary condition the religious instruction to the parent, or the pastor to whom the parent is willing to confide the im portant trust, by means of which the whole po pulation may be trained in the knowledge and fear of their CREATOR, and in harmony with their fellow -creatures. Let us look around us and see the lamentable exhibition of degraded human nature which meets us at every step. Let us visit the prisons of this country, and see the mass of ignorance within their walls. Let us walk over our lunatic asylums, and we cannot fail to ascertain that by far the larger portion of the inmates have been reduced to insanity by habits of intemperance. Then again let us consider for one moment the millions of pounds which have been expended, and still are expending, in rearing palaces for gaols, and princely habitations for pauper lunatics, and let us if we can, hug the delusion to our souls that England is pre-eminent for know ledge and virtue. The causes which fill our gaols and asylums are quite forgotten in the self-compla cency with which we view the magnificent exterior. But the Government has now set themselves in real earnest to destroy the causes which fill the in terior of these gaols and lunatic asylums, and the model upon which the Government plan is founded is the religious country of Holland. Those useful booksellers, the Messrs. CHAMBERS, of Edinburgh, have just put forth a volume of " The People's Edition" of Chambers's Journal, which contains the Tour of Mr. WM. CHAMBERS, in Holland, the countries on the Rhine and Belgium, in the autumn of 1838. From that most instruc tive publication, we select a few facts as bearing with overwhelming force on the subject of National Education, and we are sure will tend to clear it from many of those misconceptions which self interest or ignorance may endeavour to throw around the Government proposal. In 1806, M. VAN STRALEN, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, issued a circu lar letter to the the heads of the various religious denominations, to take upon themselves the doc trinal instruction of the young, belonging to their respective flocks ; the fundamental principle of the plan being, that " measures shall be taken that the scholars be not left without instruction in the doc trinal creed of the religious community to which they belong : but that part of the instruction shall not be exacted from the schoolmaster." The whole letter of M.VAN STRALEN is replete with the soundest views of an enlightened philan throphy, and every way worthy of an individual holding the high and distinguished situation he had the honour of filling ; but it is too long for us to give at this time, especially as we purpose to devote the space we can afford to the answers given by the respectable Clergy of Holland, to whom M. VAN STRALEN had submitted his proposition. The Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Holland state, " That they give a most cordial assent to the proposition, flattering them selves that the intention of the Government so clearly manifested, and of which the Synod have never entertained a doubt, will wholly eradicate the prejudice against the new schools, that they would have a tendency to suppress instruction in the doc trines 9 f religion." The answer from M. DE HAAS, Chief Priest in the Roman Catholic Church in Friesland, states— " I confess that I read the contents of your letter with joy ; and I flatter myself that the rest of the Clergy in this Province, as well as myself, will heartily respond to the beneficial views of the Ba tavian Government, and that we shall show our selves worthy of its confidence. It is in my opi Mon, very necessary that schoolmasters should abstain from teaching the doctrinal points of diffe rent sects, in order that harmony, friendship, and cha rity may reign among them ; I would only ex cept the case of a master of well known probity and ability, whose pupils all belong to one persuasion. Unless this course be adopted, the children will find out but too soon that they are not all of one religious faith ; mutual reproaches will take place, and many teachers will be at no pains to repress that spirit. It will be at first only a childish dis pute, but as the children grow up alienation will more and more increase ; rancour will take root in their hearts, and the whole sum of their religion w]l be a false zeal, which a truly religious mind and Christian charity condemn and abhor." In short the Clergy at large in Holland warmly responded to the enlightened views of M. VAN STRALEN, and promised their co operation. This system has been adopted and perfected under the present reign of WILLIAM 1., and for a portion of the glorious results of early training a population to love GOD and to love their neigh hour as themselves, we will conduct our readers for one moment to the Central Prison of Holland in Rotterdam. And there it will be found, in August last, where the whole male juvenile criminals of the country were confined, the number was 95—of which, for the town of Rotterdam, with a population of 80,000, the juvenile male criminals were four ; there being 62 Protestants, 32 Catholics, and one Jew, the proportion of Protestant and Catholic prisoners bearing an exact ratio to their respective numbers. Such a comparison makes one feel ashamed of the boasted superiority of England, while we have thousands upon thousands of juvenile criminals in our prisons. We began this article with the " drum ecclesias tic," and we terminate it with Dr. JOHNSON'S de finition of the word " Tocsin ;" he says it is an alarm bell; the Priests went up into the steeple and rang the bells backward, which they called tock sAine, whereupon the people of the suburbs flocked together." We trust that if the Priests of the Establishment continue to 44 ring the bells backward," the peopl c will be sure that it is not to promote Christian charity—that it is not to promote the education of the people that they do so, but to bind them faster in the chains of ignorance. which a wise and bene volent Government are desirous of breaking. PRESENTATION OF PLATE. —On Friday last the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry were inspected at Bridgewater-by Col. Chatterton, K. H., of the 4ib Dragoon Guards, who expressed his entire and unqualified approbation of the discipline and effective state of the corps; and, on the Wednesday previous, it being the birthday of Colonel Tynte, a splendid piece of plate, made by Payne and Sons, of Bath, was presented to him by the non-commissioned officors and privates of the regi ment, " as a testimony of their ityachment, respect, and esteem for him, as their commanding officer"—a similar tribute of regard having been presented to the Gallant Colonel on a former occasion by the officers of the corps. EVIIN N TM! TION LITERATURE. DUBL I Y REVIEW, No. XII. Dolman, London, 1839. The besetting defect of this periodical—a defect which has characterized it ever since the publication of its first number—is the very narrow and circumscribed sphere of its range. It devates far too much space and atten tion to matters purely theological—that, is to soy, to points of Catholic discipline, arid wire-drawn details of the disagreements of its Church with that established in England by the Reformation. All this may bt-into resting enough to theologists, whether Catholic or Pro testant, but to the general reader it has few or no at tractions. It is, however, but ju,tice to she Editor to state that his present number is of a more comprehensive character than any of its predecessors, and we care not how soon the Review is subjected to a process of still ftirther improvement, so as to appeal to the sympithies of the Many, instead of the Few. The opening article is entitled " Sylvester the Second and Gregory the Seventh," and pourtrays the character of Pere Gregory, LI e strsngest-minded and most ambitious Pontiff that ever launched the thunders of the Vatican, in a spirited, but rather too panegyrical style. This celebrated man was shrewd, resolute, inflexible, and endowed with sin gular foresight , but he was cursed with an insatiable ambition, which made him too often utterly unscrupulous as to the means by which be gained his ends. It is much to his credit that in many matters, where elsnrch di ciphne was not concerned, he was far in advance of his age ; and it is curious to find him, in the eleventh century, ridiculing the notion of witchcraft, in which, nearly six hundred years after, the great philosopher Bacon expressed his firm belief ! Equally averse was he !: to the "sale of man," and yet that " sale" still continues to be:the disgrace ofthe enlightened nineteenth century. The Stavonians" is a sketchy and amusing account of the earlier history of Poland, in the course of which the writer justly and tersely observes, " the existence of a middle class is the finest monument a nation can pre serve." " Trade with France" is a seasonable treatise, wholly of a practical nature, and is suggested by the publication of the first and second Report on the com mercial relations between France and Great Britain. The remarks incidentally thrown out in the course of this essay, on the expediency of England exerting herself to the utmost to k ee p on t erms o f am i ty with France, are worthy of attentive consideration. "-With her,"! says the Reviewer, "we may dictate our own terms to Russia—without her, Russia will become the most dreadful enemy that has ever yet assailed the fortunes of Great Britain." The notice ef " Dodd's Church History of England" is heavy and wearisome, though it evinces marks of extensive reading ; and still less to our taste is " Froude's Remains," in which too much is made of the subject. With the Reviewer's comments on " Cooper's Novels" we heartily coincide. They ale caustic, and pregnant with good sense. From the arti cle on the " Slavonians" we quote a sketch of the cha racter of the Polish peasant : " The Polish peasant is not without superstition. The belief in hidden treasures amuses his fancy, excites his hopes, and but too often ruins his little fortune. But the most obnoxious and fatal consequences of his supetstition are perceptible in his aversion to have recourse to medical aid, in case of serious illness. lie considers the noble art of Eseulapius as a wicked invention of the Germans—for such is the term which he undistinguishingly applies so all foreigners. The Polish peasant will more readily travel a hundred miles in quest of supernatural aid, than take ad vice of an experienced physician. With him, Cuvier would find his eloquence at fault; Cooper, with his art and in struments, might find himself in the dangerous position of being taken for a sorcerer ; Hahnemann would not stand a better chance ; —but no, we beg pardon of the learned visionary, his system of infinitely small doses, and horsces. pathic drugs, would find more docile adepts amidst Polish peasantry, than the astonishing cures of his soberer brethren ; for be it said, to his astonishment or confusion, his precepts have been there long known and practised, as it may be conjectured from the two following modes of treating a patient :—The peasant labouring under fever, inflammatory disease, or nervous complaint, will neverthe less have recourse to his customary medicine, a large cup o f whisky, in which he mixes up a handful of ground char coal ; so, in the same manner, he uses for all maladies a mixture of whisky with honey, which he takes in infinitely ' small doses. Yet the peasant is not deaf to the voice of reason, and enlightened proprietors have latterly done much for the diffusion of better information. The blissful influence of religion will be traced in his morals and habits. his hospitality, charity to the poor, good faith in contracts and obligations, reverence to the aged, religious scruple in paying tith es , cou ld no t h ave a no bl er origin, or a stronger stimulus, than in his attachment to the religion of his fathers. Theft, robbery, murder, are almost unknown among the communities of labourers." A SKETCH of NATIVE EDUCATION in _INDIA under the SUPERINTENDENCE of the CHURCH of SCOTLAD. By .I . A.3tEs B A Ercr, D.D. London, Allen and Co., 1839. The title of this volume is sufficiently explanatory of the subject of it, which is treated with considerable ability. It adds but little, however, to the stock of current information relative to the progress of education among the native population of India, being rather a record of the minutes of the General A3sembly of the Church of Scotland for the propagation of Christian knowledge in Hindustan than a careful examination of the triumphs of the schoolmaster among the worshippers of Brahma and Vishnu. Still it is a work which possesses far the religious reader a very high degree of interest. Dr. Boyce's long residence as the Chaplain of a regiment in India attaches a de, gree of weight to his observations upon the choraettr of the natives which will be felt and appreciated. But the fact is that in India, as in Great Britain, the pro gross of education is retarded by the struggle.; of So cieties to substitute sectarianism for Christianity. It would be easy to make a Hindoo a Christian, but it is vary hard to make him a Presbyterian or a Papist. PICTORIAL EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. This elaborate publication has already reached its eighth Part, which comprises the entire play of King Henry the Fifth. The explanatory notes attached to this drama exhibit no falling off in point of research or ingenuity ; and the engravings, which arc numerous, are, if possible, better executed than they have yet been. The views, in particular, of Southampton and Rouen, leave nothing to be desired, in point of skill and taste. The only objection to this edition is, that it must be so very long a time before it is brought to a corn pletion This, however, is the necesary result of the extraordi nary care that is lavished upon it, arid therefore ought not to be urged as an objection. THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT 01 SC@TLAND. Edinburgh, Blackwood and Sons. This is the twelfth part of a work destined to remain an imperishable memorial of the learning and pattiogsm of the clergy of the Church of Scotland. It contains the usual historical, topographical, statistical, and general account of the County of Kinross, with parts of the Counties of Haddington and Ayr, and is embellished with an excellent map of Buteshire. As this work is published under the superintendence of a Committee of the Society for the benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy, who devote the proceeds to the use of that benevolent institution, the well-disposed will readily dis cover in this circumstance an additional motive for en couraging the extension of its circulation. ECLECTIC REVIEW. The ablest article in the number before us, which is exclusively devoted to critical notices of Wm publica tions, is the review of Lord Brougham's work on " Natural Theology," in which the character of his Lordship's intellect is ably handled, and i❑ an impartial spirit. .ALDINE MAGAZINE. There is a great variety of condensed matter in this number, in the shape of criticism, poetry, and, what is still more attractive, anecdotal biography. Stme eof the gossiping details respecting the eminent booksellers of the last century, the Cadells, the Vernors, Hoods, &c., furnish very agreeable reading. Of the late Messrs. Cadell and Davis, we are told that, " they commenced business under the most favourable auspices, and with a capital and stock unrivalled in this, or perhaps in any other country." The Memoirs of the late James Bird, author of several cleverly versified poems, is penned in a friendly, but perhaps rather too panegyrical, spirit. THE CURE OF DEAFNESS, REPORT OF THE INSTITUTION 32, SACKVILLA. STREET, LONDON, 1839. We rejoice at every probability of alleviating or curing any of the deseases to which the human frame is liable, and consider it our duty to make every probable im provement in the art of surgery as widely known as possible. There are, as is well known to anatomists, two half bony cartilaginous tubes cover ed with a continuation of the membrane Which covers the internal surface of the nose, throat, Etc., and liable to the same inflamation which lead from, and con nect the upper part of the throat with the interior Net of the car. These canals, or tubes, serve to convey air to the cavity o f ty m p anum , an d the vibrations of that air are one essenti a l con dition to hearing. If they are obstructed, deaf ness ensues as certainly as sight is destroyed if no picture to be formed on the retina. This fa c t seems to have been known for many years, and as early as 1724, a method was invented o f curing deafness by injecting the eustachian tubes through the mouth. The invention was , however , lost sight o f foi:iv man}' iy various years ,parts but has ofthe Continent, a has ol latebeeneen n e ( Te i ( B l, ism prin ciple, uccess_ fully practised in England. The moderns indeed doubt the p os sibility of injecting these tubes thro ug h t h e mouth, or to pass small flexible silver catheters through the nose without causing pain, and to succeed, when these tubes are stopped up by mucus, in clearing them out. Mr. licarsley's report, which has just been pub iish,4l, gives the particulars of this valuable discovery, and illustrates it by numerous cases. We presume not to give an opinion upon such a subject, but the pamphlet bears the stamp of modest genius, and written in a sincere and truth-loving spirit. We 1313 .7., add that within the circle of our acquaintance we km) w one elderly gentleman who has derived great relief ir the system of treatment recommended by Mr. Kear aley. on, of the cil, re uld ich the Dne ight ouse first la. for y d the .the Ch la- Drs • •