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us - to 1 1 Go of the AY iceeded 3reben , River pr°- hag e d the h, ro hael'i; itinah; s, „maid, from tannin, I. *last 1, frOo Glas' , en 0 this rlein g, Hod. a ntes; e neral Pierre, to labia Dist lo ' pails ; ,kirk Maria Drd ;11 W° rgo of 0 Oil n kirk, !ck. , rpo°" of die Berat e 443 483. 35- ▪ 42 4 3t• ,411,. Oh. 29 4 , , As l( P COURT CIE CULAR. HP" Maj-sty and her aust Mother attended Divine. r r yice yest er d ay morning, in the Chapel St. D dita eles. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. nverie, wh o too k hi s text from t h e s i xt h c h apter o f uteronomy and the eleventh and twelfth verses. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Povah ; the lessons Were read by the Rev. Mr. Dakins ; the altar service ~!Is read by th e S u b-D ean, t h e R ev. Mr. Povah, and the Rev, Mr. Dakins. The chaunt was Attwood's ; the the beim and Jubilat e , i n C, N ares; th e S a n c tus, Savage ; G od, Responses Kin. ' and the Anthem, " Thou, oh k.od, art praised ' in Sion," was sung by Messrs. Wilde and Hobbit. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. Cl see The Rev. D r . Sh ort was t h e D eputy Cl er k o f th e in waiting The Royal Suite included Lady Port tpn, Honourabl e Miss Murray, Honourable Miss Spring __!, Lady Carolin e B arr i ng t on , L a dy Fl ora H a stings, Viscount Torrington, Honourable Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemy ss. The Marquis of Lothian, the Earls of Devon, Wilton, and Cawdo r , an d L ord Hawar d en were amongst t h e " nb ilitY present; .lAfter the Service her Majesty and suite returned, in lur,,Qa carriages, to the New Palace. zi:ila s e ter Quee n gave audience on Saturday, at the New ... 41 ace, to Count Mandelsloh, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenijaotetiary from the King of Wurteberg, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign. His Excellency ;4 : int roduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her cn emoni . e sirs Prin c i pa l S ecretary o f S tate f or F ore i gn Aff a i rs , C er conducteceSir dby Robert Chester, Master of the !I.The C ount was attended by the Earl of Fingall, Lord 4 , Waiting; Honourable Major Keppel, Groom in Wait and Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting. cei tl er Majesty had a dinner party on Saturday evening. :foetire were present their Royal Highnesses the Duchess o.ent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the troriecess Augusta of Cambridge ; the Dukes of Welling en, Rutland, and Argyll ; Marquises of Breadalbane and r! it Ynghani ; Marchioness of Breadalbane ; Earls of rehfield, Courtown and Ilchester ; Countess of Lich `id; Viscount Tort"ineloa ; Lord and Lady Ashley ; ti l° , : n el Armstrong; Lady Portman ; Lady Flora et 1 , 111 P; Miss Kerr (in `,Vaiting on the Duchess of illi s -- " rld ge); Honourable Miss Murray ; Honourable h l spring Rice ; Lady Caroline Barrington ; Baroness c e . " l ,en ; Miss Davys ; Earl of Fingall ; Honourable b.., 4 " Murray ; Baron Knesebeek (in Waiting on the p u Ke of Cambridge) • Honourable Major Keppel ; and Wemyss. T he band of the Coldstream Guards attended at the iti,ce during th e even i ng . eve "Fr Maje sty too k equestr i an exerc i se on S atur d ay gantlg,eas attended by the Honourable Miss Murray, Wron Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Earl of Fingal], Colonel S. Visc ount T orr i ngton , Ri g h t H onoura bl e G eorge ng, Hono ura bl e M a j or K ep p e l, L or d Alf re d P age t, an d Sir Georg e Quentin. auliiseount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had T 'lees of her Majesty on Saturday. A, buke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess day-gli„ssta of Cambridge, attended Divine Service yester- I'u n rnincr, in o f Grosvenr Chapel. Miss Kerr and Highnesses.-"nassAldefeldt were n Waiting on their Royal th e Aveabinet Council w as held on Saturd a y a fternoon at Ti i re ign Office. Lord Morpeth attended the Council. rite Minis ters p resent were Viscount Melbourne, the Lord rnkncellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, of t rd J ohn Russell, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor L he Exch equer, E arl of Minto, S i r John Ho b house, h o r d Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount A The Cou nc il sat three hours and a-half. I)e putation from the Anti-Corn-law Delegates, con- G r in g of Mr. J. B. Smith, Manchester ; Mr. R. H. fiele,g. B lanchester- Mr. Johnstone, Glasgow; Mr. Stans t.'u, Leeds ; Mr. Walmsley, Liverpoo ; Mr. Sturge, Liriningham; Mr. Ashworth, Bolton and Dr. Bowring, el i t il d°n; had an interview with Viscount Melbourne, on a ' n —ur daY, in Dow n i ng . street . Th e D eputat i on rema i ne d ) l our and a -h a lf w i th h i s Lordship. o ,„%Ount S en ff t, Minister from Austria, transacted business "Saturday, at the Foreign-office. t 4 Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good .. ° PO and the Bahamas were received on. Saturday, at the v•olo nial-office. m_ T ,he Rev. Dr. Russell had an interview with Viscount " ‘ ..thourn e on Saturday, in Downing-street. d major Denny, 71st Regiment, arrived in town on Satur t ay ev ening, from C ana d a , w i t h D espatc h es f or t h e Secre te of State for the Colonies. ri espatches from Sir E. C. Disbrowe, Minister Pleni- Ppotentiary at the Hagu e , were rece i ve d yester d ay a t h e regn-office. FINE ARTS. LANDRINO, &c., IN SEARCH OF THE HELIOTROPE. Ackermann, London, 1839. The subject o f thi s pi c t ure , w hi c h i s engraved b y Whitfield, from an oiiginal painting by Briggs, is from Loccacio's " Decameron." It is treated in a very spirited manner, but is chiefly remarkable for the characteristic "Pression that the artist has thrown into the counte nances of his three prominent figures. SCOTLAND. THE EDINBURGH ANTI-CORN-LAW PETITION.—The Anti-Corn-law Committee have received a letter from Sir John Campbell, stating he is " very much gratified by being entrusted with the petition of the inhabitants of Edinburg against the Corn-laws ; that he should take the earliest opportunity of presenting it to the House ; and should cordially support the prayer of it, entirely concurring in the sentiments it expresses." A similar letter has also been received from Mr. Horsman, M.P., stating that he " shall have great pleasure in giving the petition every support in his power."—Scotsman. EXTRAORDINARY SHEET OF PAPER.—There was sent from the paper manufactory belonging to Messrs. A. Cowan and Sons at Colinton, last week, a single sheet of paper weighing 553 lbs., and upwards of a mile and a half in length ; the breadth was only fifty inches. Were a ream of paper composed of similar sheets made, it would weigh 266,5001b5., or upwards of 123 tons ! Ibid. Ma. M‘LAREN.—On Wednesday a meeting of the friends of Councillor M'Laren took place in the Mer chants' Hall, Edinburgh, Hunter-square, for the pur pose of presenting to him a service of silver plate, sub scribed by his fellow. citizens as a tribute of their respect for his services in the Town Council, especially in the settlement of the City's affairs. STORM.—Thursd Ay night, betwee❑ 11 and 12 o'clock, Glasgow was visited by a severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by a hurricane of wind, and heavy rain and hail. The wind and rain continued for some hours ; but by the break of day all was calm, though gloomy. Through the day the atmosphere has continued exceedingly dark, and there have been occa sionally smart showers.—Scots Times. ELGIN, FEB. I.—Wedoesday was one of the most stormy days that has been experienced in this quarter for a number of years. Yesterday the gale had sub sided ; but there were partial showers of snow and hail. The Aberdeen Mail, which should have arrived at half past four o'clock on Wednesday, did not reach this place till about four o'clock yesterday afternoon—being . nearly 24 hours past her usual time. The guard tra velled on horseback the most of the way, the roads being so completely blocked up with drifted snow that it was utterly impossible to proceed with the coach. The greatest obstruction met with was between Huntley and Keith, where a much greater quantity of snow seems to have fallen than in this neighbourhood. The mails from Inverness have also been detained in consequence of the storm. COACH ACCIDENT.—Loan STORMONT--011 Sa turday night, an accident, which, but for fortunate cir cumstances, might have been attended with very serious consequences, occurred to Lord Stormont, M.P. for Perthshire. It appears that his Lordship, while post ing in a chaise and pair from Scone Palace to the South, left Kinross with a pair of fresh horses On arriving at Crossgates, half way to Queensferry, the postboy, think ing that his horses were tired, replaced them by a pair of mail horses stabled in that place. These horses were very fiery, and being restive, the pole of the coach broke going down a hill near Inverkeithing, when the boy lost all management of the chaise. Perceiv ing his danger, the posthoy leaped among the snow, and escaped unhurt. Lord Stormont was left inside the coach, which was dragged forward at a tremendous rate by the horses. His situation was in the highest degree perilous, but with great presence of mind he opened the chaise door, and jumped out on the road. Most fortunately he fell where the snow was pretty deep, and escaped unhurt. This was within three quarters of a mile of Queensferry. Afterwards the coach was carried along with great rapidity towards Queensferry. It came up to the door of Mitchell's Inn, the moment before the horses were brought out to be put to the mail-coach, then waiting the arrival of the passage-boat from tho south. So dreadful was the collision, that both coaches were smashed to pieces— one of the horses was killed on the spot, and the other was severely injured in consequence of a portion of the pole having run into its flank. Lord Stormont and the postboy arrived at Queensferry before the mail started for the north by the Defiance coach, which the guard took for the journey. AYRSHIRE v. DUMFRIES-SHIRE FOR A HEN Amongst " the created" that suffered from the devasta tions of the late storm, was a hen, whose sphere of cackling was the barn-yard of Mr. Robert Brown, farmer, Dundonald. Poor " chucky" was roosting on the " banks" of an outhouse, the roof of which was blown down by the hurricane, when she found herself buried "in a living tomb" amongst the ruins. This was on the morning of the 7th of January ; and, till the night of the 2Gth of that month, twenty days, the hen was closely wedged in amongst the thatch and rafters, with not as much room as to allow her to imitate the Starling, by crying, " I can't get out." How long she might have remained in life thus immured it is impos sible to say ; but true it is and of verity, that on the 20th day, a dog that was passing gave evident symptoms of having " scented" something among the thatch ; which, on being turned up, showed the hen, with her head downwards. She is now as brisk as any in the barnyard.—Ayr Advertiser. ANNIVERSARY OF BURNS.—This festival was cele brated in the village of Broughton with the usual hon ours. "It is now," said the Chairman, " two and forty years since the remains of Robert Burns were consigned to the church-yard of Dumfries. It would be presumptu ous in me to attempt to offer any thing new on a subject which has employed the pens, and exhausted the elo quence, of Philosophers, Poets, and Divines. The fame of the Ayrshire Ploughman will spread abroad with the increasing population of the Globe—so long as there shall be men who can appreciate English verse or Scot tish song." " The Memory of Burns." " The Army and the Navy, &c.,"were given. The Rev. H. Paul gave "The admirers of Burns, who are at this moment doing hon our to the memory of the Bard, especially the Alloway Club, whose President is the lineal descendant of Wal lace, and the grandson of the amiable friend and corres pondent of Burns—Sir John Dunlop of Dunlop, Bart. M.P., for the county of Ayr." The evening was spent with innocence and harmony. LITERATURE. ROMANCE OF THE HAREM. 3 Vo ss. Colburn, London, 1839. Th e " Romance of the Harem" is modelled on the tafirabian Nights," and consists of a variety of Oriental Tld le gen d s suppose d to b e told b y a fema l e Gree k wife, order orde r t o amuse t h e l e i sure o f a P ac h a ' s f avour i te • These stories, in addition to the dramatic cha- Zeter of many of them, possess this great recomrpenda d"nanlelv, that they show an acquaintance with the Ornestic habits and manners of the several coun 'tea in which the scenes of them are laid, which rlnaintan ce could on l y h ave b een d er i v ed from (I ° 4 personal obs erva ti on . The authoress is Miss Par t e w h°se lately p u bli s h e d volumes of travels, entitled City of the Sultan," deservedly attracted much . Theso -noon, notwithstanding the vicious style in which 1 , 1 1 / a ie of her most elaborate descriptions were penned. nosh of the Harem is wholly free from any ern . ish of this sort, and forms a body of as pleasant s n ea r di t n g as any one wou ld d es i re t o lounge over, on a i s ' 0 Y a w arm f i re-side. The best ta l e i s t h e fi rst . It the "Di amon d M erc hant," and turns upon :sh iletrilaotnitn:le id an n tic adv en t ures o f a di scar d e d Minister of the his se arc h th roug h C o nstantinople, after a un g fr iend nam e d H assan . The denouement of this evrY is trul y striking, and would tell with most impres be e ffect on th e stage. We recommend Messrs. "'lke or Planche to turn their attention to it. ` I RONER'S CYCLOPJEDIA, No. 163. Longman, London, 1839. The ix t r . ,author of the present volume, which consists of ile' e - n ctti se no Geology, is Mr. Phillips, Professor of that di l if ee in King's College, who has accomplished a eult with k • . sar, , in which much abstruse research is neces lish'', skill and judgment. The volume . is e.mbel ha_n with an engraving by Finden, representing, in the %ground, a volcano in full action. T HE SPORTING ALMANACK. Churton, Holles-street. e a _ anacks are of inexhaustible variety. There are denTesercial Almanacks, Law Almanacks, and Gar tnanng Almanacks ; Railwa Almanacks, Comic Al , and Parliamentary Almanacks. And here is inan e 4 to the list, a " Sporting Almanack." Al diffeaeks, in fact, as the moon varies her phases in the r ePt seasons of the year, assume different aspects 1 1 .3 „ rui i ng to the classes for whom they are intended. W r i t s t ee " Sporting Almanack" instead of telling when b e Pl S i a t d ought to be returned—when cabbages should Who r e —when the Birmingham Railway trains start, "'"° is Member for Berkshire—record that " Hum phreys bet Mendoza" on the 9 th of January 1788, grid t hat in 1792 a gentleman leaped his horse over d'e Park wa ll s seven feet high. It is a correct se ason as to th e various species of sporting which are in in any particular month, mentioning that in Febru pthe Scotch salmon fishery comme nces, and that in sPterober, p ar t r id ge shooting is--orthodox : noting en trout are in perfection, and when woodcocks de- Part • when " the snipe comes," and when " pheasants 1 , i ,1 1 °." It is an unerring monitor of all the races, W heth er at Newmarket or Ascot ; and it enumerates Ove ti le "meetings," from Bedford to Bath. It more eal r contains, over and above a copious " sporting tr eat some very valuable information as to the p at Tent of horses, dogs, &c. &c. ; an excellent Peeks vade 711,C1011, " and lists of all the . of hounds throughout England, Wales, and cetla n tai , s (I, and of all the cattle fairs ; in short, it con- It i s e very information which a sportsman can desire.. i l tlat moreover , embellished with some capital plates, 1- Pz t t : i t d i %" . e ., of varioas kinds of sports—Fox-hunting ,-- : , Shooting,—Otter-hunting,—and Racing, and 'Nethe r got up in very superior style. 4 gr a ` 44 l6 Excellency Count Pozzo di B or g ° will g ive er itvrtainment at Ashburnham House on Wednesday uridg. % . to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam- Part y i Grace the Duke of Wellington and a distinguished 11• "e heen invited to meet their Royal Highnesses. doll highness Prince Ferdinand Trauttsman to pri zili g i vea grand dinner at the Clarendon Hotel, on Friday, ke ° Sl.il ec e , x L eichten stein, Baron Lowenberg (of the suite of the Duke prim es "h and several foreigners of distinction. Yesterday the two Lent arid suite left town for Melton Mowbray, where they will p ' 4 '4 thew eek with Lord Suffield's hounds. "1141,37: sSidZNABLE PARTIES.—TIIC Countess of 'et t . e .rlll ° had a select party after dinner on Saturday evening at in Grosvenor-square. The Countess of Durham, count e . l-arn bton, Countess of Minto, Ladies Elliot, Count and d Coe hte ' s S ebastiani, Countess Zavadowsky, Count Charles n Co utit " l'otzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador, his Excellency L adle Senfrt Pilsaeh Count 'O Lo Earl of Cawdor, and the Leve:_ CaM Pbell. & c. Lord and Lady Holland entertained Lord posedand a select party at dinner last evening at . Holland . House. e a Marquis Wellesley has been seriously indis reeou . t 4 initston House, Knightsbridge, but his Lordship is now slin Sir Robert Peel, Bart., gave his Parliamentary ba,, n'eerr .. :nhgi s . season on Saturday evening, when the following Mem le.. !f) . l the House of Commons were among the guests :—Lord Stan si:3,"tai Sir __ Ja rocs Graham, Bart. , Viscount Sandon, Lord Granville b ut . Zet, the Right Hon. Charles W. Wynne, Hon. Sydney Her i,"• Ir * WM. Gladstone, Sir Stratford Canning, Sir George Clerk, Fr emantle, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, &c. °„ Ba ron de Hand e l, a tt ac h e to the embassy, and ~,;"t de Reichb urg, Austrian Minster at Brussels, arrived at Mi tftl', Hotel on Saturday, with despatches for his Excellency Cc:mut s e ' n T he de Pilsach, the A ustr i an Special M i n i ster. puke and Duchess of Leeds, accompanied ot);_the Dowager-Duchess arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond_ en Friday evening: from Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, for the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY,-EVENING EDITION, -FEBRUARY 11, 1839. NATIONAL EDUCATION AND CHURCH EXTENSION. A meeting of the friends and members of the Church of England was held on Saturday in the large room of the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, for the purpose of adoptiug resolutions and petitions to the two Houses of Parliament, towards promoting National Education and Church Extension. The meeting being exclusive was rather thinly attended, the room being about half filled at half-past twelve o'clock. There were some few ladies in the galleries. Lord ASHLEY, on having taken the chair, said he hoped that the meeting would join the Rev. Mr. Harte in prayer, in order that they might commence their proceedings in that spirit of devotion that would bring down the Divine blessing upon ther undertaking. The prayer having been ended, _ - His LORDSHIP said that when last he had the honour of addressing them from that chair, they were met to oppose those persons whe sought to overthrow the temporal possessions of the Church, but now it was his painful duty to say that the exertions of those persons were directed against her spiritual influence, and to seek by every means to uproot her in the exercise of her holy functions ; and, said his Lordship, it is now for you to say whether you will meet the present attack with the same energy as you manifested against the forii er proceedings of her enemies. It is said that a plan is formed by Ministers, which is intended shortly to be put in execution, that will embrace for us the same hateful system that is dealt out to Ireland Inquiries, Commissions, and all time methods usually now adopted by the pretended friends of the Church—plenty of persons employed without any re gard to what is their Creed. A combination of discordant men—as discordant in their way of thinking, as they are meagre and cold in their morality. The seed will be indifference, the har. vest will be apostacy. We therefore have great need to use our very best exertions to stop this torrent. This should call for a declaration from all churches—a declaration that we will not con sent to any suppression of the Holy Scriptures, but that they shall be explained to all Christians as they ought—the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth—that we will feed the millions of this land, not with the crumbs that fall from the table, but with the bread of eternal life. Her ministers are as they were, ever zealous and diligent. There were unfortunately too few of them. Let the State supply that defect. It only required that pastors should be supplied where required, and he had no doubt that a flock would soon be had. Let the youth of the land be trained up in the faith of their fathers, and there can be no doubt of our success. But if we neglect to do this, we must be prepared for the heavy judgments of God in our own days. It is to avert these woes, to advance this kingdom in the path of peace and prosperity, our best endeavours should be di rected, which can only he done in tke best manner by upholding the Church Establisl.ment. The difficulties which oppose us are many; but to overcome we must not spare our exertions—we must not fear contempt. His Lordship then begged to apologise for taking up so much of their time; but he thought that the explanation he had given was necessai y, and before he sat down he begged to call on Lard Teigninouth to propose the first resolution. Lord TEIGNMOUTH rose to propose the . first resolution. The Noble Lord begged to state that he came forward totally unprepared on the subject. After the number of schemes of education which had of late been so frequently brought forward professedly excluding all religion whatsoever, and the fate which, In this enlightened age, those schemes had invariably met with, it was great matter of astonishment to him that any fresh plan of that nature should be propounded. But with regard to the schemes which profess reli gion they came before them in a much more plausible manner. With respect to the British and Foreign School Society, he would not say but that it had done considerable good in this country, but it was,in a great measure, inefficient from the inadequacy of its funds, and also from the want of proper superintendence. The instruction was left completely in the hands of the schoolmaster, who was fre quently subjected to some sectarian body. With regard to the Irish system, he would ask what had been the result ? It was indeed true that considerable concessions had been made by the Roman Catholics, but he was quite sure that nothing would have been conceded had it not been for a political purpose. The Noble Lord in the Chair had told them that some scheme of a nature si milar to those lately propounded was shortly to be proposed in Par liament. He would, if it had not religion for its basis, in the words of the great Earl Chatham on another occasion, exclaim, "Should this unprincipled scheme be not already introduced--if the marriage be not already solemnized in the name of his God and his country, he forbad the banns." The Noble Lord pro ceeded to remark that vast machineryin their own hands was for this purpose it was their duty to apply it ; and he called upon the Government to make good all deficiency that might exist after the voluntary contributions were expended. Let the Church but do its duty, and it would shiver into a thousand fragments the thousand schemes that had been proposed to the nation. The resolution he had to propose was to the following effect :—" That the various schemes of national education which have lately been pressed on the attention of Government, and which propose, by the exclusion of peculiar doctrines of Christianity, to introduce a system universally unobjectionable, are vain, delusive, and fraught with divers evils, in asmuch as such schemes would either wholly fail in accomplishing this great object, or if successful, would only be so by effecting the establishment of a system fundamentally irreligious, and past experience has shown that they tend to withdraw the edu cation of the people from the hands of the clergy, and to entrust the public funds almost entirely to those whose object it is to destroy the religious establishments of these realms." The Rev. Wm. Buitorlss, Rector of Upper Chelsea, seconded the resolution. He would reduce the various schemes which had lately been promulgated, to three. The first was that in which the Bible was excluded altogether ; the second was that in which it was not to interfere with the opinions of either Jew, Turk, or Infidel. The third was that in which the Bible was taught in a corner. The Rev. Gentleman thcn proceeded to analyze the different systems--the first from the evidence of Mr. Simpson—the second from that of the Rev. Samuel Wood ; the third he characterized as the scheme of Lord Brougham. A stational system of education was required whirls should be under the superintendence of clergymen of the Established Church, and Government should afford them means for this purpose. The Rev. Gentleman then stated that there were about two millions and a quarter of children between seven and fourteen years of age in Great Britain, of which one million and a half were the off spring of persons professing to be members of the Established Church, so that the majority was considerably on their side. Ile called upon the meeting to adopt the Resolution he had the honour of seconding. A GeNTLEMAN whose name we understood:to be AcKuiti.v, and who stated that he was a member of the Established Church, rose to propose an amendment, but was amidst much confusion peremp. tority ordered down by the Noble Chairman, who conceived that the amendment was not in the spirit of the purpose of the meeting. Ehe resolution having been supported by the Rev. Francis Close of Cheltenham, was carried. The second resolution was proposedby Lord Sandon. It was to the effect that national education, if Intended to be successful, must be cart led on in connection with th• National Church, and under the superintendance of the clergy; and that this meeting is deeply con vinced that one leading cause of this deficiency in the means of edu cation, is to he found in the neglect of the Legislature of making the Church Establishment coextensive with the growing numbers of the people, and of adjusting the Parochial System thereto. The meeting therefore calls upon the Legislature to assume the dis charge of that great duty by annual grants of money for the im. provement of small Livings, and by voting sums for the erection of new Churches. In moving that this resolution be adoptedby the meeting his Lordship said, that, from the very able argu ments which had been produced in favour of their object by the Reverend Gentleman who had just sat down arguments which went to anticipate anything more that could be said to produce conviction on the minds of those most opposed to them —he did not think it necessary to trouble them but with a very few observations, for if he was inclined to lengthen his remarks, lie felt that he must go over the same ground as that which had been taken possession of by the Rev. Gentleman. He could not, however, re frain from impressing on their attention that the system which was advocated by them was free from priestcraft, as it enlisted in its ranks the laity as well :as the clergy, in order that all might use their endeavours to support the same holy cause. He must also , say that in his opinion, an opinion in which he was strongly forti. fied by experience, thatnone but the clergy should :be entrusted with the care of the people's education. He had no doubt on his mind that if it was not for the rapacity of the courtiers of Edward the Sixth, the early fathers of the Reformation (those saints who at. tested their faith at the stake and by the halter) would have esta blished a system of Protestant education that would prevent the necessity of our exertions being now required. He would only allude to Prussia, that country which is the text-book for all—even the wise—on matters relating to education,as a proof that the super intendance of the Church is necessarily an ingredient in its success, for there the schoolmaster is the prime -minister of the clergyman. An. other important argument that can be adduced in favour of this con nection of national education with the Church, was a plan that was brought forward in the year 1817 for the consideration of Parliament. This plan among many of its wise enactments enjoined, that the schoolmaster should have a certificate of his being a member of the Church of England, and that he regularly partook of the Sacra. ment. And who may it be supposed was the person who introduced this plan. Indeed they would not be a little astonished when they leard that it was Lord Brougham ! The best advocates of our sys. tem, lam certain, cannot add more to the strength of our argu. ments. To be sure this plan never passed into a law—it was with_ drawn for some reason, but that it had been the work of his Lord ship, no person could doubt. Nothing tended so much to promote education as the building of churches and creating new parishes. In this metropolis, in York, in Lancaster, this increase of churches has done a great deal towards promoting ;the ;religious education of the people ; for wherever a new church is created you are sure the schoolhouse will follow. Although the philanthropy of indivi duals goes far to remedy the defects of the legislature in this par ticular, yet the sums collected in this way are not anything like sufficient for the necessities of the people. It was, therefore, indis pensable that a call should be made on the Legislature for a suf ficiency of funds to promote this desirable object. He then quoted from some author the testimony of an American gentleman, to prove that all Governments should take charge of their Church and Edu cational Establishments. He also quoted from the works of Dr. Smith, a Dissenting clergyman—that it was only in the Established Church the vitality of religion was to be found. He said that if the pious and learned Dr. Mathew Henry was now 'alive how much lie would feel ashamed, that the religion of this country was trampled under the feet of Popery. After a great many other arguments his Lordship concluded by saying that he hoped this meeting would crush any attempt to give any plan of education except it was con nected with the National Church. Mr. COLQUIIOUX, M.P., seconded the resolution, when, on being put by the Chairman, it was 'tarried. The Rev. Hugh M`Neill and the Right Rev, the Protestant Bishop of Vermont, United States, delivered each an address of con siderable length in favour of the objects of the meeting. Mr. HARDY moved, and Mr. CLITIIERO seconded, the adoption of the petition, and that it be prese nted by Lord Ashley and supported' by Lord Sandon. A vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman was pro Dosed by Mr. rlumptre, M.P., after which the meeting broke up. THE Nmw NOVEL, JANET ; OR A GLANCE AT HUMAN NATURE. —The same merits which we noticed in " Mis representation" are conspicuous in this pleasant tale of " Janet," together with an evident improvement in style and arrangement. A safer book of amusement can hardly be found, or one fitter to be in troduced into a family. It does not contain a single sentiment but what is worthy of an English gentlewoman, nor a line that the most scrupulous guardian of youthful purity need wish to blot. Every one that has read " M isre p resentation " will ha s t en to read " Janet. " To those unacquai nted with either we can warmly and conscienti. ously recommend both." —Metropolitan. BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, FEB. B.—Very iittle business has been transacted in our s ugar-market. A few lots have been drawn and disposed of at steady prices. Refined goods continue declining, which increases the difficulties of the refiners, whilst the uncertain and contradictory sta tements from the West Indies keep the marke ts in an unsettled, agitated s t ate. The trade in this article will n ot be resumed with confidence, till something more is positively kn own relative to fut ure prospects—till th e pro bable import from the west and east is as certained, and th e e ff ec t o f the reduced bounty on ex p ortation can be snore cot racily calculated on.—Bristol Mercury. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Columbine, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom. !wise yesterday, and also the Britannia, from Hamburg. BLACKERIARS BRIDGE.—The repairs on the west side of this bridge will s p eedil y be completed. Nearly all the piers have been repaired from the foundation with granite, new pillars have been erected , and the balustrade parapet has been replaced by a law one built of free stone, and resembling that:on the New London Bridge ; but the greatest improvement will be effected by lowering the car riage and footways at the centre, and raising them at the approaches, so as to dimi nish as much as possibl e th e r apid ascent at each end. The footpath on the west side has been raised at the south end about three feet,and lowered fully one foot at the middle. The c arriage wa y of course will be altered in the same propo rtion, an d , when completed, the ascent will be comparatively easy, and the general appear ance of tl.e bridge greatly improved. But little is done yet on the east side, and in all probability, the works will not be completed in less than eighteen months or two years. IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN FEB. 9. THE CORN-LAWS.--Several Pro-Corn-law meetings have taken place here as might have been anticipated, prompted by Tory landowners. However the feeling of the nation, notwithstanding the immense proportion engaged in agri cultural labour, is for cheap bread. The entire of the Liberal Press, with only the exception of the Pilot, advo cate repeal of the accursed laws upon food, and the Pilot rather appeals to the fears of the people than ventures to argue the question. The principal Anti-Repeal demon strations toook place in Fermoy and Nenagh, the former of the county Cork, the latter of Tipperary, the chief agri cultural counties in the kingdom. The speakers and leaders at both were Tories, and several of them parsons, which affords a strong presumption that the body of the people will have nothing to do with them, for when did they agree in anything with their tyrants. An effective Anti-Corn-law agitation would easily be got up in this country if Mr. O'Connell be really alive to the importance of abolishing this abominable code. CARLOW ELECTION. —Mr. Maule's successor will posi tively be Mr. Gisborne. A meeting of the electors of Carlow was held on Thursday to select a candidate, on which occasion the following letter from Mr. O'Connell was read : " My Dear Fitzgerald,--The candidate for Carlow is Mr. Gisborne. He is in every respect qualified to repre sent you efficiently and usefully. His principles are of the right and popular sort, and his talents and activity render him in every respect most suitable. I hope there will be no idle jealousies to prevent the unanimity of the good people of Carlow. I earnestly implore of them, under present circumstances, to give their undivided support to Mr. Gisborne, who has in the worst times supported the rights and liberties of Ireland. " Your obedient servant, " DANIEL O'CONFELL. " To E. M. Fitzgerald, Esq." It was immediately determined to put Mr. Gisborne in nomination ; and Mr. Welch, having withdrawn his claims, a vote of thanks was passed to him for not creating a divi sion amongst the Liberal voters. MURDER OF LORD NORBURY.—It appears from the Lein !ter Express, a well-informed local Tory paper, that there is no truth in the rumour so generally prevalent, that two perms against whom there was strong evidence, have been taken for this murder. Two persons were arrested , but no evidence could be procured against them, or to throw any light upon the mysterious crime. TILE CORPORATION.—It is a sign of the times, and one strongly indicative of the coming fate of tte Dublin Cor poration, that their ancient organ, the Evening Mail, ac cuses them of illegally carrying " money jobs," and acting in other respects at variance with the clause of the Non alienation Act. Even their own friends have deserted them. TIIE TIPPEIURY Commissiosr.—Walsh and Hickey, who were found guilty of the murder of Messrs. Wayland and Cooper, were executed in Clonmel on Wednesday last. Hickey acknowledged his guilt, and it is said that both Of them died penitent. Kelly and Hourigan, who were convicted of killing a man with a blow of a stone, have been respited, and the sentence commuted to transportation for life. Or ders were given for their immediate removal to Kingstown, from thence to be sent out of the country without delay. Tile REGISTRY.—The Liberals have been a good deal annoyed and surprised by the Assistant-B arr i s t er for Dub lin having made decisions on the same point, which appear to be right in the teeth of one another. In the present case he decided th at evidence of identity, and of th e exist ence of the appl icant, along with the production of th e certificate, was sufficie nt to entitle a party to be re-regis tered, if no rebutting case were made ; but in the second case he decided that it was necessary to go into the title of the applicant, and to prov e that the intert still existed under which he originally re g istered. This last decision, if generally acted upon, will delay the re-registry of the kingdom to an indefinite period , probably till after another general election. Mr. Pigot , th e new Solicitor-General, has addressed the electors of Clonmel (who forwarded an invitation to him), expressing his willing n ess to represent them, and his devotion to the cause of Ireland, of which they are such warm and zealous friends. The address was published this day. The election for Cavan will take place on Monday, the 18th. Mr. Maxwell, brother to the late Member, and a determined Tory, is a candidate, and will probably be returned without opposition. The Gateshead Observer states that Lord Lon domderry has addressed the Journal on the subject of certain omis sions in the report of his Lordship's speech at his late Sunderland symposium of Tories. THE MINISTERS and the CORN- LAWS. The Tories, as we foresaw, have not been backward in taking advantage of the negative see-saw system which it is apprehended Ministers have some inclination to pursue regarding the repeal or continuance of the Corn-laws. The Carlisle Patriot taunts the Cabinet with want of courage, and talks away triumphantly after the following fashion :—" The farmers have already obtained an advantage over their enemies—the Ministers have not dared to introduce any suggestion for a change of the Corn-laws into the Queen's Speech. Their deter mination on this point must have been a very sudden one, for it is evident, as Sir R. Peel observed, that the speeches of the movers and seconders of the address had been prepared upon the supposition that the subject would form a prominent point in the Royal Speech: The farmers will view with disgust the treacherous plot which the Ministers have prepared for their destruction. Having originated the agitation out of doors, they now meanly shrink from originating any measure on the subject themselves—the question, forsooth, is to be an open' one, but the result as regards them may be gathered from Lord Melbourne's declaration that the majority of his Cabinet are opposed to the Corn laws. In order to keep up the game of delusion by by which, alone, these men exist, his Lordship declares that he differs from his colleagues, and yet he consents to remain at the head of the Administration, the ma jority of which are resolved to attack a system which a few months since, he declared bad worked better than could have been anticipated for the interests of all par ties,' and the alteration' of which, he believed, would be productive of evils of the greatest magnitude' un accompanied by " a single advantage.' "After the sinister rumours which have been circulated in some quarters, our readers will be glad to bear the the Conservative party are to a man, united in a firm determination to resist ANY attack which may be made upon the agricultural interest. There will be no surrender." TO THE ANTI-CORN-LAW DELE- GATES. By this time you will have discovered that at the hands of the present Representatives there is not the slightest chance of obtaining that which you are sent to demand—" a total and immediate repeal of all laws af fecting the free importation of food ;" nay, that the probability is against any alteration whatever. A few clays will decide this. What will then be your course? Will you patiently wait until conviction works a change in your opponents ? Will you submit to a delay which must inevitably further un dermine your welfare ? Will you go home defeated and without a ray of hope—to act on the only alternative which is left you—to screw down the wages of your workmen ? It will to yourselves and the country be a fearful expedient. But if your position is such as you publicly state—their comforts or your capital might be sacrificed. Are you prepared for this? If so, I am much mistaken in the materials of which your body is composed. You will, rather than do this, frankly and energetically avow your despair of having justice done from a body of men who have no sympathy with your selves and the people ; before you will submit to these alternatives you will seek a coalition with the working-classes—a coalition which shall be based on principles of justice to us all. Already you are haunted with the indifference of the masses, and your opponents conclude they have nothing to fear from you WITHOUT the people. But they com mit a blunder, if they think it is indifference. It is not insensibility to the evils which they, yourselves, and their country are suffering from these cursed laws, which keeps them aloof. ' They think—and to a great extent, rightly—that to spend their energies in petitioning for the removal of what they conceive is one qf the efects of an unjust system of re presentation is futile,and therefore direct their sole atten tion to the cause. They may, to a certain extent, be wrong ; as far as present circumstances show they arc substantially right. That they are, is not the rejection of Mr. Duncombe's motion by such an overwhelming majority a proof ? If you are in earnest, seek to unite the people with you ; give them evidence that you sympathise with them, and acknowledge the justice of their demands. The middle orders did all they could to enlist the ener gies of the working-classes to carry the Reform Bill ; but for their assistance—bad they stood aloof as nosy— Sarum and Gatton would have had their representation. They zealously and enthusiastically co-operated to carry that measure—expecting to their country a cheap and good government. They since have seen those whom they supported in paths of honour and emolument break ing the links which then knit them together—the acts and professions of their leaders have not been in accord ance. Thus disappointed, we ought not to be surprised that they now tenaciously cling to principles emanating from themselves, and that they venerate them the more from the scorn (it is not too strong a term), with which their principles are treated by those to whom they, with the most generous and ardent feeling, before gave their assistance. You taught them to agitate, and after the lesson gave them nothing for their labour. They have now declared their will, and unless both parties show a desire to co-operate, you will each be laughed at in your present attempts. You have reason and justice on your side in seeking the removal of these cursed laws. They are deeply convinced of the necessity of adopting the principles they have placed before the people ; but, so long as you are disunited, you will both be treated wth derision by the majority of representatives. Seeek, then, an early coalition. There are minor pointh which the working cla sses will readily give up. Only respond to the deman d that representatives ought at more limited periods to be chosen by and made re sponsible to the great body (f the people. Coalesce and struggle for this great principle. Throw yourselves fearlessly into their ranks. Once more, try to gain their confidence and assistance—you will be cheerfully re sponded to ; and then, I ask, dare the present Ministry, or any that might be called into its place, neglect the demands which would emanate from a resolute and re united people? Unless you make an attempt at re union before you return to your homes you will not have done your duty. Lincoln, Feb. 9, 1838. N. A. T. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, FEB. 9.—Her Majesty's ship Hercules, 74, Captain Edward Barnard, was paid wages on Saturday last, and will sail for Barbadoes the moment the wind shifts. Her Majesty's ship Implacable, 74, will be taken into dock the latter part of theensuing week, to have bar copper cleaned and re. paired. Ships in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, 104, Captain T. White ; San Josef, 110, Captain Tayler ; Implacable, 74, Captain E. Har vey ; Acorn, 16, Commander Adams ; Meteor, steam-vessel, , Lieut.. Com. D. Pritchard; Spitfire, steam-vessel, Lieut. Shambler ; Rochester and Lively, lighters. In the Sound—Hercules, 74, Captain E. Barnard. PROMOTION.—Purser—W. Dyer, now Secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir F. Maitland, C.B. APPOlNTMENTS.—Captain—Edward Harvey, from the Malabar to the I mplacable. Commanders—F. Wood, from the Malabar, to the Implacable; E. R. Mainwaring, to the Stag; Smith, to the President. Lieutenants—G. 11. P. White, G. Harper, T. 1,. Gootch, W. C. Metcalf, and G. W. Winlo, from the Malabar to the Implacable; A. Robilliard, to the Seaflower; J. 0. Freeland, to the President; J. Russell, from the President, to the Basilisk ; J. A. M`Donald, to the Coast Guard; J. Wilson, to the Etna ; E. T. B. Hawkey to the Acorn. Masteg—John Thomas, from the Malabar to the Implacable. Second Masters—W. J. B. Hilliard, from the Malabar to the Implacable; J. Davis, to the Seaflower; Bowler, to the Etna; T. Whither, Master's Assistant of the Victory, to be Second Master of the President. Mate—E. M. llogge, to the Seaflower. Midshipman—R. Coote, to the Daphne. Master's Assistant —J. Hughes, to tine Seaflower. Surgeon—William Bell, from the Malabar to the Implacable. Assistant -Surgeon—J. M. Minter, from the Malabar to the Im placable ; Dr. J. Mitchell, to the Hercules. Pursers—J. Walter, from the Malabar,:to the Implacable; James Hulse, to the Cleopatra; J. C. Little, to the Hydra. Chaplain—Rev. J. Cooper, from the Ma'abar to the Implicable. Naval Insttucor—C. M. Galant, from Malabar to the Implacable. Clerks—C. I)ealy, Clerk-in-Charge to the Seaflower; J. Barrett, additional, to the Donegal; T. W. W. Spear, to the Acorn ; J. Lean, Clerk.in.charge to the Basilisk. Warrant Officers —Richard Beazley, Boatswain, and John Lane, Acting Carpenter, to the Acorn; John Mackey, Boatswain's Mate of the Victory, to be Supernumet ary Acting Boatswain of that ship; J. Richards, Mate of the Excellent, to be borne as Supernu merary Acting Boatswain of the Victory; J. Bear, late Boatswain of the Inconstant, to be borne as Supernumerary of the Victory; T. Brown, Supernumerary Boatswain of the Second Class, to the First Class ; J. Robinson, Supernumerary Boats wain of the Second Class, to the First Class ; J. Brown, Supernumerary Boatswain of the Third Class, to the Second Class; T. Archer, Supernumerary Boats. wain of the . Third Class, to the Second Class. STEAM-PACKETS.—In consequence of the many accidents occurring to steam-packets, from defective boilers, machinery, and otherwise, Government have appointed Captain Pringle and Josias Parkes, Esq , Inspectors of Steam-packets. HAND-WRITINGS OF EMINENT MEN.— It is generally believed that men of genius write a very obscure, in firm, and eccentric character, such as Byron, Chalmers, Jeffrey, and Bonaparte. Washington wrote a fair, even manly straightforward line, every letter legible and distinct ; Jefferson's hand-writing was bold and masculine; Bonaparte wrote a most unreasonable scrawl; Burke's was uneven and hurried; Hamilton wrote a light running_ hand, sparing of ink; Canning's penmanship has a chaste and clas sical appearance ; Brougham writes a hasty hand, but with a good pen and full of ink ; Peel writes with a stiff pen, but with considerable taste and firmness ; Dr. Chalmers writes as if he used the feather end dipped in ink—a real scrawl :W. Irving writes a perfect law yer's hand, as though he wished no one to read it but himself ; Jef frey wrote as if he wrote against time, with a stick dipped in ink— nothing so unintelligible; Crabbe's hand-writing is neat and elegant; Jeremy Bentham's hand was described as very bad also ; and Sir Harcourt Lee's so much so that it has been compared to the legs of a spider, dipped in ink, dancing on a wall. CURIOUS" WATER IN ConsicA• -- A little Corsican river, named the Restonica, is remarkable for whitening every thing thrown into it, but particularly iron, which, after being immersed for a brief period, bears the appearance of being plated with silver.—Gardener's Gazette. WHIG AND TORY.—The Stockton and Dar lington Railway Company have lately placed on their line two new engines, one called Whig and the other Tory. A few days ago, as they were plying in opposite directions, the Tory got off the line; on which the Liberal engine made haste. and speedily getting up, reinstated the Tory in oftice.—Durharn Advertiser. MANCHESTER.—As far as can be ascertained, there are about twenty.five cotton mills now working short time, in consequence of the unprecedented dulness in the yarn trade, and the high price of cotton caused by large speculations in that article in the Liverpool market. CORN-LAWS. REAT PUBLIC MEETING AT PLYMOUTH FOR THE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS. This day (Friday). one of the most crowded meetings which ever assembled in the Guildhall, met for the pur pose of petitioning Parliament for a repeal of the Corn laws. The Mayor ( GEORGE SOLTALI, Esq.) took the chair a little after twelve o'clock, and hazing read the requisition which was most numerously and respectably signed, ex ' pressed his conviction of the deep importance of the sub ject, as affecting the welfare of so large and deserving a portion of the community—the manufacturing classes. lie called upon the meeting to enter into the consideration of the subject, calmly and dispassionately, and strongly urged the importance of merging all party or political feeling in the discussion of the subject before them. Captain PHILLIPS, R.N., opened the meeting by stating that they were met for the purpose of adopting a petition to Parliament for the repeal of the present obnoxious and cruel Corn-laws. The resolution he should propose to them would be to substitute a very moderate fixed duty ; but it would be open for the meeting to receive an amend ment either for a total repeal of the duty—or a moderate duty, decreasing every year—he should not say to which of these alterations his sentiments inclined, but confine him sell to an exposure of the ruinous consequences of the present system to the manufacturing interests, upon which the welfare of the country mainly depended; they were told that wages rose in proportion to the price of corn. He would ask, was it so ?—( Loud cries of " No, no.") In 1806 the price of wheat was 365. a quarter, and wages were 10s. a week--in 1838 wheat was 78s. a quarter, and had wages doubled ? It was a mockery to make such a propo sition. This was a question between the landowners and the public. Now, the number of the former might be es timated at about 100,000, the latter at about twenty-five millions. Were the interests of such a majority to be sa crificed to such a minority ? He would tell the meeting that, if the manufacturers were to be sacrificed to the landed pro prietors, England would dwindle down into the insignifi cance of a petty Italian state. The capital and machinery would be very soon removed to the banks of the Elbe ar:d elsewhere ; and then a foreigner, coming into England, and inquiring for Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Shef field, and Liverpool, would find them little better than de serted villages. He begged to propose that a petition be presented to both [louses of Parliament. Dr. HAMILTON rose, and having ably defended himself and fellow-requisionists from the charge of having im properly taken the lead in this cause, and denounced the apathy of those who, whilst they accused him and his friends of unbecoming zeal, had exhibited the most inglo rious indifference up to the eleventh hour—nay, the very twelfth hour—entered upon a brief history of the Corn law, which he divided into seven well marked epochs, tracing it from its introduction, in the reign of Ed ward the Third, in 1360, down to 1828, when, through the active exertion of the present Noble Secretary for the Colonial Department, the graduated scale of duties now in operation was introduced by the 9th of George IV., chap. 60., which, although meant in kind ness, had been as injurious in its results to all classes, as the worst of its predecessors—a fact fully established by an examination of the annual prices and fluctuations under it, the range of which appeared to have reached 113,i per cent. Upon examining the official returns of our exports for the three consecutive years, 1836, 1837, and 1838, he found a decrease in the value of the exports of six of the staple products of our industry to no less an extent than 13,714,6341. These six branches of industry we. eas follow : Cotton manufactured goods ... £8,736,802 Linen ditto ditto ...... 1,256,191 Wool and Woollens 2,910,382 Cutlery and Hardware 419,349 Silk manufactured goods. 364,964 Hats 26,946 £13,714,634 While, to counterbalance this decrease, we have an increase and of m a e 2 h ,6 i n 2 0 51: y 8 , 54 w 1. h o i nh go t he is e f x u p o o i i r t t a o t f e a th we competition materi manufacturers ; cotton wool to produce tivals to the Glas alsmwillistli gow and Manchester looms ; linen yari to be converted into Holland to undersell the manufacturers of Belfast; mills and machinery, with coals and culm to set them going ; our workmen are also become an article of ex port; the master manufacturers soon must follow : and in the end landlords will find their produce unsaleable from the want of custo ners, those who remain behind being ton poor to buy, and Britain—proud and haughty Brita'n— fallen from her high estate, no longer holding the balance between contending nations, will sink, as a mere agricul tural nation, into insignificance, and end her glory by be coming the dependent vassal of ome Continental Power. The Doctor concluded a powerful and convincing speech by seconding the motion. The meeting was then addressed by Thomas Fox, Esq., Thomas Gill, Esq., Joseph Treffey, Esq., and several others, and a petition adopted, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and the substitution of a very low perma nent duty. An attempt was made to support the present system;but the speaker was unable to obtain a hearing, and a member of the Working Man's Association likewise failed in endeavouring to turn the attention of the meeting from the abolition of the Corn laws to that of the present state of the Suffrage. One unanimous sentiment pre vailed, that of inextinguishable opposition to the present and ruinous system of corn taxation. “ BITTER” SECRETS. This was an action brought in the Sheriff's Court on Friday by the plaintiff, Jolly Joseph Manning, " a dealer in compounds and manufacturer of bitters," residing in Grove-end-lane, against the defendant, Henry King, land lord of the Norfolk Arms, in the Strand, for 31., the al leged value of 61 gallons of bitters, at the rate of Bs. per gallon, and 6s. the price of the cask. The defendant pleaded, first, that he was not indebted, and secondly, that the article supplied was of a noxious, pernicious, and un wholesome nature. W. C. Rouse, clerk and collector to the plaintiff, stated that the defendant was supplied with the goods in question on the 4th of September last. When witness subsequently called for payment, the defendant said that plaintiff had not served him with the article he wanted, and urged wit ness to take it back, but he declined, as a - considerable quantity had been used. Witness took samples of the bitters, and handed them to Messrs. Porter and Davis, chemists. Cross-examined--The defendant offered to pay for the quantity that had been consumed. The Learned Counsel then cross-examined the witness at some length with a view of showing that the article supplied to the defendant was not what is known in the trade as " bitters," but which is sold to them for the purposes of adulterating beer and spirits, &c: Mr. JAMES referred to a lithographic circular, which set forth, " The only place to obtain the genuine imperial bitters is at Manning and Co.'s, 9, Mincing-lane, Tower street, City," (the former residence of the plaintiff). The circular was headed " Spiller's celebrated Recipes,"— and proceeded, " To make up 100 gallons of strong gin for middle price :—To 100 gallons of strong gin put 26 gallons of liquor (the trade term for water), two gallons of imperial bitters, 20 lbs. of lump sugar, two ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, half a gallon of noyeau, half a gallon of cin namon, two ounces of grain of paradise, two ounces of bruised coriander seeds, one ounce of juniper berries, one ounce of angelica-root, cut small one cake of salt prunella. The ingredients within this brace (referring to the five last items) must be bruised in a mortar, then put over:a slow fire in three pints of water simmered down to two, and strained. Then fine with three ounces of roach alum and three ounces of salt of tartar. Bead with five pounds of pure honey." " For lowest prices, or threepenny gin : To ten gallons of the above add one gallon of liquor." Mr. William Porter, apothecary, Bedford -street, Bed ford-square, stated that the two samples produced con tained what was termed purl bitters. He understood they were usually put into gin and beer. Witness received them from Rouse, and had tasted them, and found nothing noxious, pernicious, or unwholesome. He believed the bitters would make gin, ale, or beer agree better with the stomach—(holding out the samples to Mr. James). Another apothecary, named Davis, said there was nothing noxious in the stuff. George Fox, landlord of till Carpenters' Arms, South Pimlico, examined—Had used the plaintiff's bitters for the last thirteen years. It was not an article that came under the jurisdiction of the excise. There was another kind of bitters known as cordial bitters, which was excise able. He had sold thousands of gallons of this kind of bitters mixed with sherry, gin, and other spirits. He sold fifty gallons a year. Mr. JAMES—What I mixed with wine and spirits, for the benefit of her Majesty's subjects? Witness--Yes. The witness added that his wife was generally very unhealthy, and she drank it.—( A laugh.) It did her more good than all the doctors in the world.—( Laughter.) Mr. JAMES contended that his client was not liable, inas much as the plaintiff had not sent him what he (defendant) had ordered, and which was generally understood among the trade by the the name of bitters—( Shewing a bottle o the Jury, containing a liquid the colour of brandy). UNDER- SHERIFF— All, that certainly looks better than he other. The Learned Counsel contended that bitters was in citified in the Excise Act, and came within the Excise laws, yet the plaintiff sent no permit with the article sup plied to the defendant. It was clearly more fitted for a doctor's shop than a public-house. Bitters was a cordial generally consumed by persons after a night's debauch, in order to restore their stomachs to a proper tone. This, on the contrary, there was little doubt, was sold for the pur pose of adulterating beer and spirits. Several witnesses were called for the defence, and some merriment was excited by the Jury's grimaces, when they applied their noses or lips to the sample bottles. The UNDER- SHERIFF remarked that the liquid smelt like bad cheese, and The Jury requested to taste the cordial bitters dis played by Mr. James, in order to judge of the difference. The UNDER- SHERIFF—I would advise you not to taste too much, before you deliver your verdict.—( Laughter. ) Mr. James Jackson, formerly a publican, said that be purchased two gallons of Mr. Manning's " imperial bit ters," and upon tasting it when delivered, he threw it down. Mr. James Weaver, victualler, of Buckingham -street, Strand, proved that similar bitters had been sold to him, to adulterate and Messrs. Iph ginEwiick with, Edward Ford stated that they did not consider that the compound sent in by plaintiff was what would be known as bitters, which the defendant ordered. The UNDEU- SHERIFF summed up, and the Jury found for the defendant. Mr. Bucke, in his " Harmonies of Nature," says that an indigenous species of wheat has been discovered in New South Wales. This is curious, as hitherto no researches have proved successful in ascertaining the native habitation of the staff of man. It is probable that the plant so early cultivated and preserved by man, might have entirely perished in its wild state, like some ani mals, the camel, the lama, &c.—Gardener's Gazette. The answer to inquiries at Lord Essex's, in Belgrave.square yesterday, was that his Lordship was better. IE6 Lorcship has disposed of his fine estate in Herefordshire, called Hampton Court, to Mr. Arkwright. SPIRIT of the PIJI3LIC JOURNALS. (From the Morning Edition of The Sun.) We published, in a Second Edition of The Evening Sun of Saturday, the interesting account which was given to the assembled Corn-law Dele gates of the reception given to their Deputation by Lord MELBOURNE. The country will learn with regret, and the Ministers, with we hope a stronger sentiment, that our exports to Europe are now gradually limiting themselves to the raw materials, and that where our exports have increased it has been with countries from which we are suffered to take goods in return. These facts are of such paramount importance that often as they have been stated, we think it our duty again to repeat them, on the high authority of the Chairman of the meeting. Mr. SMITH said— They endeavoured to show his Lordship that their ex ports to Europe were now confined chiefly to raw mate rials, that their exports of manufactured articles to Europe had been constantly diminishing since the peace, while their exports of raw materials had been increasing, and that, notwithstanding the population of Europe since the peace had probably increased 50 per cent., our exports to Europe were less by 20 per cent. for the last five years than they were the first five years after the peace. These exports were now principally confined to cotton twist (a raw material in the first process), iron, steel, coals, wood, and different other a.ticles which furnished foreign ma nufacturers with the means of manufacturing for them selves, and of competing with British manufacturers in neutral markets. They also stated to his Lord ship that in many cotton articles, woollens, hosiery, and in hardware and cutlery, the Germans add Russians were not only supplying the demand of their own mar kets, but were also supplying foreign neutral markets. Then, as r. spected hardware and cutlery, it was stated to his Lordship, and offered to be proved, that in Wolverhamp ton, where the people had the raw material under their feet, the Germans had successfully competed with them in almost every article ; that list could be shown, comprising about 1,200 articles, almost every one of which the Ger mans could supply in the general markets at from 10 per cent to 15 per cent. less than the people of Wolverhampton could furnish them.—( Hear)—and the inferiority of price in the foreign articles was most to be observed where manual labour formed a considerable portion of the manufacture. The history given of the woollen trade by Mr. Stansfeld is also very instructive, and we can con firm some of the statements by those which ap peared in our own Journal in October. We were then enabled to state, on the authority of a recent traveller in Germany, that at present no English cloth is to he met with in Hanover, while twenty years ago hardly any other was to be found. We must also reproduce a part of Mr Stansfeld's state ment : Ist. Until a few years ago, the English wool-buyers at the great German wool-fairs predominated so much in num ber, and in the extent of their purchases, over the buyers of other countries, as to rule the prices; but within the last few years the German and Belgian buyers have exceeded them in their purchases, and the English buyers arc now regarded as of4rnall comparative importance. 2d. The exceedingly rapid growth of the woollen manu facture in Prussia, and the other countries of the German Continental League, is shown by the fact, that five or six years since the quantity of German woollen cloths exhi bited for sale at the Leipsic Easter Fair was only 50,000 ends (an end being half a piece), whereas last year the quantity exhibit • d was 350,000 ends,—being an increase of 600 per cent. 3d. That, independent of the duty laid on English cloths in Germany Prussian cloths are sold much cheaper than English. A large wholesale buyer from London states that a Prussian cloth at 16s. per yard is equal, in quality, to an English cloth at 225. per yard. This differ ence in favour of Prussia has now been discovered by the Americans. English fine woollens are all already excluded from Germany, and from several neutral markets: and as soon as the Prussians can sufficiently extend their manufacture, which they are doing with astonishing rapidity. they will beat the English in all neutral markets, and probably even in the home market of England itself, notwithstanding the im port duty on foreign woollens in this country. The diminished export of our woollens, and in creased export of our wool, to which we adverted on Thursday, confirms Mr. STANSFELD'S state ment. An important consideration for our wool growers arises, we think, from this circumstance. At present the price of wool, owing to the compe tition which our manufacturers are yet able to maintain, as Mr. STANSFELD said, is still high, but it will not keep high when our woollen manu facturers go to decay ; and by keeping up the Corn-laws, therefore, and injuring our woollen manufacturers, the growers of wool are preparing their own certain destruction. The meeting, after hearing the statements of the Chairman and Mr. STANSFELD, at the suggestion of Mr. STURGE re-alfirmed i their former resolution, that they rgeuired " the total and immediate repeal of all laws imposing duties on, or restricting, the importation of corn." It will be remembered that Earl FITZ WILLIAM indicated in the House of Peers that the manufacturers would be content with less than the total repeal of all the laws affecting the supply of food, and the Delegates passed this resolution to convince the Noble Lord that he had mistake❑ their intention, and to remove the impression which his speech might have made on the public. This was wisely done. At the same time the advantages of the total repeal for the agriculturists, and the injurious ness of a fixed duty, even for the purposes of revenue, were ably set forth by Mr. EDWARD BAINES. We earnestly adjure the Delegates to keep to their noble purpose of resisting all taxes or regulations on food, and they will be supported by all reflecting men, if they declare that society will no longer bear a parcel of " notoriously inefficient and slovenly Legislators," even when they have only hackney coaches and highways to regulate, interfering between the Providence of GOD and the wants of his creatures. For all parties, it will be hest now to place this great subject on its natural basis of perfect freedom, as the only one on which it can rest unshaken, and where all parties may count securely on its being liable to no other va riations and changes than those brought about by varying seasons. An amusing episode was supplied by the crammed Mr. WOOD making his appearance before the Delegates, to defend himself from the accusation that he had done their cause considerable injury by his speech on the Address. The Hon. Member could not compre hend how he had injured the cause by statements which be affirmed were strictly accurate ; but the Chairman explained to him that it was by his omissions. The Hon. Member had taken positive numbers, when he should have taken comparative, and should have shown, if he meant to do justice to his own friends, that the increase in our various exports was going on at as great a ratio as at former periods, and that we kept pace with other countries, neither of which Mr. WooD attempted to prove, or could prove. For example—the population of Europe has increased since the peace, 50 per cent. ; and our exports to Europe were less during the last five years, than during the first five years after the peace ; though, if we had not cut off our commerce with Europe, by means of our Corn-laws, there can be no doubt that our exports would have increased nearly in pro portion to its increase of population. Mr. Woos should have stated, too, that while our ex ports of raw materials have increased only 3 per cent., the exports of countries with which our mer• chants and manufacturers are daily brought_ into competition have increased in a much greater ratio. It was by omiting or concealing these facts, and merely stating that our exports of cotton twist, &c.. had increased, that Mr. WOOD did a great in jury to the cause of his friends. We were present in the House when he made the statement which we castigated the next day; and every item of in crease he mentioned was loudly cheered by the country gentlemen. Every body who had an atom of brains felt, as the Hon. Member went on enume rating the increase of our exported articles in 1838, that Mr. WOOD, the Manchester manufacturer, was giving blow after blow to the case which the Corn-law Abolitionists were enxious to establish. The thick headedness which will not enable the Honourable Member now to see that he acted wrongly, must convince the public that his error arose from his want of capacity. He did not designedly do mis chief—he is merely dull of comprehension. Ihe report of the meeting of the Delegates, which our friends in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, &c : , must have received yesterday, would be very grati fying to them, as a decisive proof of the discretion and vigilance with which their delegated townsmen are acting. A letter from Mr. BAINES, of Leicester, the gentleman who has had the honour of being pro nounced contumacious by the Spiritual Court for demurring to the payment of Church -rates, will be found in another column. Our readers will per ceive that Mr. BA INEs reiterates the complaints made by Mr. CHILDS and others against the Lon don Church-rate Ab o li t i on Society. Whether the Society have neglected or betrayed their trust, whe ther they have done all that it was in their power to do, or have yielded to " seductive influences," and left their country constituents in the lurch, are questions upon which we do not mean to enterlu present. They will doubtless deem it expedient to answer for themselves. They may perhaps be to show that more was expected from them they had power to perform, and that they did all that under the circumstances they could do. How this may be we cannot tell until we see their defence. And now let us give the opponents of Church rates a word or two of advice. If they really w i s h to get rid of the evil, they must trust neither to Governments nor to Societies. They must do the business themselves, fighting their own battles in their own parishes. Let them everywhere offer an uncompromising resistance to the claims of - the Church. Where they are overborne by numbers and cannot prevent the laying of a rate, they c an still give a passive resistance by refusing to pay, letting the law take its course, and suffering th e spoiling of their goods rather than acquiesce in that which they feel to be a violation of conscience. They will thus show that they are in earnest, and the Church itself will soon see the necessity of a speedy settlement of the question. Until this plan is generally acted upon it will be in vain to hope for any decisive measure from the Government —which, however willing to relieve the Dissenters, is utterly powerless on this question. The Dissen ters are charged by their enemies with hypocrisy, i n resting their opposition to Church -rates, on scruples of conscience. Can any thing give a greater colour to stich an accusation than the simple fact, that though they have it in their power to put an end to this conscience-oppressing grievance by a trifling sacrifice, they will not submit to it ? (From the Morning Chtonicle.) Ail the friends of the present Government will rejoice to learn that Lord Morpeth has joined' the Cabinet. The advocates of reform and improvement will be the more gratified, as they will remember that Lord Mor peth, in his communications with his constituents, avowed very decided opinions in favour of the Ballot. Thoie who know his high character for integrity and firmness, will be sure that he would claim to be con sistent, and therefore feel confident that the Ballot will in future be considered by the present Government to be an open question. The Marquis of Normanby succeeds Lord Glenelg as the Colonial Secretary. This appointment cannot fail to afford great satisfaction to the country. We do not vouch for the truth of the statement that the cause of Lord Glenelg's retirement was the proposal of his colleagues that he should take the office of Privy Seal, though this is currently re ported and believed in well-informed circles. We this day lay before our readers the conclusion of Lord Durham's Report. They will now be able to form a more correct judgment of the value of the various changes proposed by him for the future government of the North American colonies, than they were enabled to do by the outline given by us on Saturday. Tile late insurrections in Canada have been so far beneficial that they have led to the conviction that we cannot hope to retain the colonies, without a complete change of system ; so that the bold suggestions of Lord Durham, that at another time might have been disregarded, may now receive the consideration to which they are so justly entitled. Every year's delay would have added to the difficulties of the crisis ; and without some such crisis as that which has taken place, the ground wo u ld not have been prepared for the sweeping canges which must be made. We ought either to govern our North American colonies on sound principles, or to abandon them at once ; for to retain them by a military force is not to be thought of for a moment. Let us hope, then, that the principal suggestion of Lord Durham will be carried into effect. Let us abandon the mi serable idea of preventing the improvernement of the colonists, by withholding from them the advantages of municipal and other institutions by which they manage their local concerns ; and in particular, let us apply the principles of the English consti tution to the Colonial Assemblies. The change pro posed by Lord Durham, that the Assemblies should be deprived of the means of jobbing in the revenues, and that all money grants should originate with the Gover nor, would add materially to the influence of the Gover nor with the assembly ; while on the other hand, a ma jority in the Assembly being necessary to the conducting the Government, a powerful motive would exist for avoiding all wanton collision with the representative body. With respect to the legislative union of the two provinces, we have always said that it presented the only means by which collision between the two provinces could ho prevented. All the substitutes for this measure of which we have heard have been insufficient. To allow the French to have again an Assembly of their own is not to be thought of. The provinces ought never to have been divided, and the re-union presents an easy way of making the colony thoroughly British, by means to which the stoutest stickler for constitutional right cannot object. We have heard it said the British Government is essentially a Government of corruption and patronage, and the Aris- tocracy never will consent to an improved administra tion of the colonies—that if a Governor were to act with honesty and singleness of purpose, he would incur the hostility of the Home Government—the fate of all Go vernors who have hitherto endeavoured to act fairly to wards those committed to their care. But we have no longer a choice. We cannot, without a ruinous sacri fice of money, maintain military possession of the colo nies ; and there being an overwhelming necessity in the case, we must either govern them on principles ap proved of by the colonists themselves, or spare ourselves the moitilication of parting in a di scre di ta bl e manner by voluntarily renouncing our sovereignty. When we look, however, to the sums already e x p en d e d on these colonies, to their extent of fertile territory, t o th e number of destitute men in these islands whose industry might make the lands productive, we cling to the hope that the connection may be enduring. And now that com munications are so easy and rapid, we do not see why much difference should be made between colonies and parts of the parent state. The country at all events owes much to Lord Durham for the light he has thrown on this important subject. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The resignation of Lord Gienelg has led during the last two days, to the circulation of various rumours re specting the appointment of his successor, and of the consequent changes to be made in the Cabinet, not one of which we believe to be correct. Lord Morpeth took his seat in the Cabinet on Saturday last as a Ca binet Minister, but not as Secretary for the Colonies . _ in the room of Lord Glenelg, but as Secretary fO; Ireland. Some of our Contemporaries have been kindly pleased to adjudge various places to various po litical persons of the present day—such as that Lord Howick was to occupy the place of Lotrll,dfatGttliieli-oe Gle nelg—that Lord Normanby was thesame place—that Mr. Stanley, the Secretary have ae Treasury was to go to Ireland, and lastly, Duke of Sussex was to have filled the apparently vaca nt place of Lord Normanby in the metropolis of Ireland. Now we do not pretend to any greate r poli tical information than those of our Contemporaries who have made such guesses at coming appo'nt ments ; only but this we will venture to assert, that three of the rumours have ever been canvassed i n the C ah first, the appointment of Lord H ow i c k to the Colonial x department, against which every one ei alms .---F e condly, that of Lord Normanby to the against which every one also exclaims, unless be: fol lowed by a Nobleman of equal ability and libel aTi c ; and, thirdly, the appointment of his Royal g Highness y the Duke of Sussex to supply the place of that liberal and excellent Nobleman, Lord Normaoby a , s ia w e e as r e eg tl r a t e let he should be ca ll e d upon b y h er M a j e sty to disch arge the duties of Colonial Secretary. Much the retirement of Lord Glenelg from an office t o th du ties of which he has been devoted, we are frank t o ow n that such an arrangement as that which we have nolvne wn tioned would be eminently satisfactory. Lord Normanby, even if not so well acquainted with the duties of Colonial Secretary as the late possessor of office, is nevertheless gifted with all the qualities which in the course of a very short time would render him thorougly master of them ; while his well-known liberality and justice, as exempli fied in his. Governorship of Jamaica, and his Viceroy ship of Ireland, could not fail to instil into the bosom s of our Canadian fellow-subjects the greatest confiden ce of their being fairly dealt with. With respect to the appointment of the Duke of Sussex to the Viceroyshi p of Ireland, only one op inion can be entertained. H is Royal Highness is emi nentl y fitted for it, not only b y the liberal views which he has always most consisten tly expressed, but by his eminent and respected station in society. His principles, now followed out almost to the verge of his e xistence, have been the source to him o f at great personal d iscomfort in many ways ; and we fra nkly o wn that not only for his sufferings, but also for th e per _ s o nal respect whic h, in common with all the frie nds of freedom, we o we him, we should re j oice to se e him finish a career so ho nourable to himself ; and s o user,' to t h e country, by his filling a situation which woul d o nce afford him the opportunity of gratifying hi s 0n benevolent feeling, and of healing the wounds which st il l separate Ireland from the only country with which it ought to be permanently connate I. The petition of the Newcastle Chartists h as beer, taken to town by a delegate, with 35,000 signatures attached, 1. _. about 0 0,000 signatures over and a bove the whole adult m a t e 1 , 31 ,L lation of the town !: : " The 1 15 maids of St. Andrew,,,, and other fair and unfair allies, mu st have Leen pressed into the servic e. PRESTON ANTI - COR N-LAW ASSOC IATION. —This Association, we are happy to say, goes on prosperi ng. ' Ile_ tween one and two hun dred pounds have beets subscribed, thcurth until now the matter h as not been laid wholly open. It' th e : , ,ita.. tion be carried on with half the spirit with which it has commenced, the Ministers will depend upon the,pcople, and not the People upon the Ministers.—Preaton Observer. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH TT "-NION ItsiLwAY —On Thursday afternoon, as the train which leaves M as proGeed''v on its journey, an accident took place which was attended with fataTl consequences. On the train striving at C -oppni station, the g ineer found that he had gone some yards past the pl ace of st - l en" °l ' upon which he put the train backwards, when a m an of the "anie I'ng. of Hugh Calderbank, residing at Chas neck Richard , who w a ing in the direction of the train, was knocked do wn, and rus t m stand by several carriages. He was killed on the spot. Another person was al, o knocked down, bust not hurt. INe understand t i ll I r tn l o i t i blame whatever attached to any of the parties conducting the train. fr 'N r‘, - iSi ;..: •i - . - iet'..), 0) 7t ) :i -. ..- , .." ~ 5 i N.. V. 7 ' d , :*.:- t 7:: -e? d ..-?..., • --. :--:.• I''AN. . le t 4 Ir ~j 1 IS..ti :4 1/47