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"'~ EVENING 14,DITION. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC, AND INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL POSTMASTERS. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, DEC. 20, 1839. IN consequence of the great increase of Letters iontaining Coin, it has become necessary, in order to pre vent et total interruption of the Service, to discontinue the systny which has hitherto prevailed of entering the Addresses of itch Letters, and taking receipts for them on delivery to the owners. The practice, therefore, of entering such Letters as Money Letters will cease on and after the lst of January, 1840 ; after which time, parties having occasion to transmit small sums in cash, are recommended to makeuse of the MONEY ORDER OFFICE, where they will incur no risk, while those who may desire to remit Bank Notes, or Drafts payable to Bearer, are requested to cut them in half, sending each half, if possible, by two different Posts. In the case of Bank Notes, or Bank Port Bills being sent, the Numbers, Dates, and Amounts should be carefully taken. Money Orders for Sums under W. are granted by every Post Town upon every other Post Town in the United King dom on application at the various Offices. By command, W. L. lIIABERLY, Secretary. TO THE ELECTORS AND NON ELECTORS OF THE DUMFRIES DISTRICT OF BURGHS. SECOND MANIFESTO. In offering myself as your Representative, I will plead no other merit than that of being a Citizen, and that, in so far as the prosperity of my country is concerned, I will admit myself second to none, and in so far as the improvement of the Indi vidual Burghs may be desired by the inhabitants of each, my exertions shall be anxious, unwearied, and persevering. In stating my view of the Suffrage, I cannot conceive that because I possess a Ten-pound house that that should give me a right to the sole exercise of the Franchise, to the exclusion of Others every way qualified to possess that right. I maintain that every male inhabitant of the district in which he resides has the right to exercise the Suffrage, under the qualification, that he be twenty-one years of age, have had his residence for three months, and be registered. This right is pled for by the Duke of Richmond, in his letter, dated August 6, 1783, ad dressed to Lieut.-Col. Sharman, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence at Belfast, in which he states—" The subject of a Parliamentary Reform is that which of all others, in my opinion, most deserves the attention of the public, as I con ceive it would include every other advantage which a nation can wish, and I have no hesitation in saying that, from every consideration which I have been able to give to this great ques tion, that many years has occupied my mind, and from every day's experience to the present hour, I am more and more con vinced that the restoring the right of voting universally to every man not incapacited by nature for want of reason, or by law for the commission of crimes; together with annual elections, is the only reform that can be effectual and permanent. lam farther convinced that it is the only reform that is practicable." leis beyond the possibility pi' doabt a return to the ancient law. In considering the duration of Parliament, I am of opinion that the country can suffer no injury by an Annual Election; I consider that, under the present law, your representative should be pledged to return on the 25th of December of each year. There are only two parties in this country, the oppressors and the oppressed ; it is necessary to protect the weak, and there is no other mode pointed out at present than the Ballot. It is unjust and injurious to require a Property Qualification. Godwin, in his inquiry concerning political justice, says, " It is anuncommon strain of tyranny to call upon men to appoint for themselves a delegate, and at the same time forbid them to appoint exactly the man whom they may judge fittest for the office. Qualification in both kinds is the most flagrant injustice ; it asserts the man to be of less value than his property." Payment of Members is a just award on the one hand, and a preventative of corruption on the other. It is judicious and proper to take the sense of the country • by an equal division of Electoral Districts. In considering the Entail Laws, I am of opinion that these laws are adverse to the interests of this country ; it is impossi ble to calculate the extent of loss and gross injustice which has been effected under the sanction of these laws. Ruin to many merchants and mechanics, an increased pension list, and an unjust appropriation of the nation's means by pro viding places for the younger branches of the family, are clearly demonstrated. After an anxious examination of the Currency Question, I see no alternative but a declaration, that there shall be no pri vileges ; all must stand alike, the confidence of the people being their safeguard. If this were not acceded to I would main tain the justice of a return to a Metallic Currency. I think it proper to bring under your notice the mode of procedure adopted in enforcing a claim on demand, or a pos sessory right under the Civil Law. _ln all cases where the sum or de - mand is above the Small Debt Act, or where the possession of property is asked, the expense and delay is unjust and ruinous, and contrary to the Barons of England's Declara tion, that justice shall not be denied, delayed, or sold. The only mode of obtaining cheap and speedy justice is a return to the ancient practice of oral pleading. The extension of the Small Debt Act in the Inferior Courts to twenty pounds, and three Judges of the Supreme Court set apart for the determi nation of claims or demands, and possessory rights, where the subject matter in dispute exceeded twenty pounds, and did not exceed one hundred, upon the principle of the Small Debt Act, would be a boon. I consider the Small Debt Act has given much satisfaction, and it only requires to be extended to prove farther its intrinsic worth. In viewing the question of conveyancing and transfer of heritable property, I beg to state that I can find none who justify the multiplied expense in completing a title to, or otherwise transferring, heritable property. What will prove a beneficial remedy is an enactment, that all titles shall be laid be fore the Sheriff, who will grant a:charter, which will be recorded and handed to the proprietor at an expense of a few shillings, and in any transfer the contracting parties producing the char ter may have the transfer completed. There is another mode by which cheapness may be attained, the present practice of taking infeftment might be adopted, the form considerably abridged, the Sheriff-clerk for counties, and the Town-clerk for burghs, taking infeftment, the instrument to be signed by the transferrer, there being a table of fees according to the value of the subject. This would allow a transfer of property value 2001. to be completed for twenty shillings, instead of ten pounds, as at present ; and it would prove lucrative to the clerks, the Legislature would be entitled to abolish the Court fees. The question of a Main Line of Railway for Scotland is pro perly agitated by the people. England has benefited enormously by the absenteeism of our aristocracy, and the establishment of a permanent Court in London, we are therefore fairly entitled to demand aid in the accomplishment of this laudable object from the nation's funds. It appears to me that ream, common sense, and the feeling of the country, demand the abolition of the Law of Patronage. I hold that there is no vested right in the patron. I am of op,nion that were the people awarded their just rights, they would find that in our mixed Constitution and fbrm of Government, there is wisdom to discern the real interests of the community, goodness to endeavour always to pursue that real interest, and rower to carry this knowledge and inten tion into action. The question of Education has been much discussed. The fee charged, ss. and 7s. 6d. per quarter, in the Dumfries Academy, is shamefully exorbitant; it is a denial of instruction to the industrious classes. The principle adopted in Dublin of charging Is. 6d. per quarter, would be of the greatest advan tage, and the evidence of the increase of pupils, end a dissemina tion of knowledge, would be highly creditable to the Magistracy who carried the adoption of so just a measure. The degree of knowledge, necessary to be communicated to every member of society, is the principles of the national language, writing, the elementary rules of arithmetic, principles of drawing, and measurement of lands, the elements of religion, the principles of morality, the principles of the Constitution ; the physical, intellectual, and moral faculties to be expanded as far as is consistent with the age of the pupils. In treating of our Taxation and Expenditure, after consulting almost every author who has written upon the subject, I con sider that a House of Commons truly representing the feelings of the people, and possessing that which is the essental cha racter of the democratic part of the Constitution—virtue, may come to a vote, that the taxation and expenditure of Great Britain and Ireland do not exceed ten millions. In considering the situation of Ireland, I would demand equal laws and equal rights. If a better attention is not paid to Scotland's demands for an amelioration of onr condition, I shall, in my Third Manifesto, plead for the people calling for a Repeal of the Legislative Union. I am your devoted servant, JOHN CHARLES CHARTERIS DAWSON. Dumfries, December 23, 1839. LONDON HOTEL, GLASGOW. BRIDGES begs to inform Commercial • Gentlemen that the ENLARGEMENT of the above Hotel is now completed, with every attention to do mestic comfort, and respectfully solicits a share of their pa tronage ; at the same time G. Bridges returns his best thanks to those Gentlemen who have already favoured him with their support, and will feel obliged by their recommendation. N.B. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. Glasgow, 29, Maxwell-street, Dec. 16, 1839. lIOUSES, &c., to be LET, by JACKSON and CO., in various situations, in the following Trades, and many others :—Tea, Coffee, Chop, and Eating Houses ; Public Houses ; Beer Houses ; Brewery • Baket s ; Tobacco nists ; Grocers ; General Dealers ; G ree n Grocers ; Coal and Potato Dealers; Oil, Colour, and Italian Business; Cow keepers, Dairy, and Milkwalks; Private Houses; Lodging Houses, &e Particulars may be had at the Offices of Messrs. Jackson and Ce., Auctioneers, 26, Brydges-street, Covent-garden. N.B. Letters to be paid. DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Wax Candles, Is. 2d. ; ',Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; extra fine Moulds, Wax Wicks, 7id. ; transparent Wax, ls.'9d. ; ge nuine Sperm, is 9d. ; ge nuine Wax, 25 . Id. ; Yellow Soa p , 465., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 62.5. and 665. ; Windsor, ls. 4d. per pack e t ; Palm, Is. 4d. ; Old Brown Windsor, is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. ; Camphor, 2s. ; Almond Soap, ; 2s. 6d. superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d per lb. ; genuine Sperm Oil, 9 s . Od. per gallon. For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House. 96, CHEAPSIDE, AND 39, ALBELUARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. TESTIMONIAL Lis]: No. 2.—SPEC TACLE LENSES upon a new construction, and I NVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTORS for DEAF PERSONS. The Paeans. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Namily, wish tocall attention to the testimonies in favour of their newly invented SPECTACLE LENSES, from some of the mos eminent members of the medical profession : " We, the undersigned, have been for some time making u se of Messrs. Solomons' newly invented Spectacle Lenses; the astonishing relief they afford to imperfect vision gives them the decided prefer. ence to every other kind of Lens—the clearness of the transparency brings every object very.distinct, and enables individuals to view the most minute particle with perfect accuracy. They are particularly pleasant by candle light, as they appear cooling to the sight, and saften bright and brilliant lights:— J. Taylor Gordon, Esq. M.D. Wm. Bowie, Esq., M_ , Bennett-street, Bath. C. Heywood, Esq., M.D,.Blandford. Henry Lawrence, Esq., M.D., Tenby. Krauss , Maddox -street. pr. Cox, Nap Gilliam les. Jeafreson, Esq., Surgeon oculist, 21, South Audley-street. rt._ Noble Elwyn, Esq., Surgeon, 36, Albemarle-street. i t- Russ e ll, Esq., Surgeon, 28, Broad street, Golden-square. Bonner, H. s, Esq., Surgeon, 26, Berkley-square. ; ss. W a lk er ~ Surgeon, 23, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. W. Ste e l, Surgeon, 5, Wilmot.street, Brunswick-square. Ora. Jackson, E.sq., Surgeon, Poland street, Walworth. WUttlerick L. It ailing, Esq., Surgeon, 39, Upper Thames-street. eon 1, Parsonage-row, Newinton. o Bamberg, Esq., S Ur g Amphlett, Esq., Surgeon', Paradise-street, Birmingham. 4 °M " fifths, E:q., Surgeon, Wrexham. Q Do a nnelly_, Esq., Surgeon Fahnonth. • Barton, q ., s urgeon , own, Lincolnshire. &c. &c. &c. • ruicing the above List of Testimonials before the Public, the risers. Solomon ,s Opticians and Awl sts, state that their INVISIBLE p P IQtATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, by which thousands of Deaf er Boo s have bee n great l y benefited, is not larger than a seven-shilling e, and when fixed Into the cavity of the car is sort and easy, and More uncomfbrtabte nor perceptible than atria a piece of wool h' 4 place. By its use the faintest whisper heard with distinctness. th lrb...ese important new inventions are patronised by their Majesties p..`klrig and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the ecesses Augusta and Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess ;ILrhasy,the Princesses Mary and Rosa, and their Graces the Dukes •ucyonsbire and Manchester, &c. &c. 96 , Cheapside. and 39, Albemarle -street In conseq ence of the gross imposition in the Country it is neces ii.Lry to stati u that no Travellers are employed by the above Estab. amiMent, , FRI CONTRACT FOP, WHEAT, PEAS, OATS, BISCUIT BAGS, AND CANVAS. DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR VICTUAL. LING AN D TRANSPORT SERVICES, SOMERSET. PLACE, D Ec 26, 1539. riNHE COMMISSIONERS for EXE CUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH AD MIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on Tisunsni v, the gih January next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con tract, for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victual ling Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz.:— When tobe delivered. Half of each in three r Red WHEAT /White 5Ol Quarters mainder in three weeks afterwards. Half in a fortnight, PEAS in a fortnight after. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS suRANCE D AN DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. EASTERN BRANCH. —.5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe. Capital, 500,000/. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Col. Sir Burges Camas, K. C. S. Robert Hollond, Esq., M.P. JohnliElliotson, M.D. F.R. S. George Lungley, Esq. H. Gordon, Esq. John Rawson, Esq. /Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F.R. A. S. Professor Wheatstone, F. R, S. ACTUARY-.—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S. By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An nuities, founded by this Society, the moral obligation of all classes of making a provision for a family or for old age is largely enhanced, by the immediate advantages secured to the Assured themselves. The details of the principles of the Society, its improvement in the system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in lavour of the Assured, its extensive Tables, &c., will be found in its Prospectus, which may be obtained at the Offices of the Society, 26, Cornhili, London, or at any of its Braeches throughout the Country. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. wards. 3 ATS (Scotch Potato.e) 3OO Quarters—Within ten days. (One-third by 30th April, one-third by BISCUIT-BAGS (large) 90,000 No. .1 311th June, and the remainder by 31st 1_ August next. CANVAS (for Buckling Bags) '2,000 Ens—within two months- Samples of the Wheat, Peas, and Oats (not less than two quarts each), must be produced by the parties tendering; and Samples of the Biscuit-Bags and Canvas, together with the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at the said Office. No 'render will be received after one o'clock, on the day of Treaty, nor amv noticed, unless the Party attends, or an Agent for him du'y authorized in writing. Every Tender mast be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for , 9 and must also be delivered at So merset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by two respon sible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person ten dering in the sum of 25/. per cent. en the value, for the due performance of the Contract for Biscuit Bags. IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE RATES Reduced 30 per Cent: per Annum Lower than any other Office. T . IFE ANNUITY RATES, _ILA CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! ! ! FOR EXAMPLE. For every 100/. deposited, this Association will grant the An. nuity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing. From bOL and upwards, in proportion. PRIVATE PUPIL. AVACANCY fora PUPIL is now open in the FAMILY of a CLERGYMAN of long experience, residing twelve miles from London. He can offer the most sa tisfactory References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose sons have been under his care ; the number of his Pupils does not exceed five or six. Age3Ote4Oto 45 to 50 to 55 to 66 to 65 to 70 to 75 to SO £8 10 r 9 0 r 9. 7 ,0,0 1 . 1 ..5 li r , 0.. 1 .25 0 Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. LIFE ASSURANCE RATES. Letters to be directed for the Rev. R. H., Post-office, Pe. tersham, Surrey. Age Mto2sto 30 to 35 to 38 to 40 to 45 to 50 Promium. Z s. d.IZ s. I d.Z s. d.j£ s. d.IZ s. d.IX s. d. 111 0 1 15 0 2 0 02 6 012 II 012 15 013 5 0 TO PERSONS FURNISHING. THE largest STOCK of CABINET and UPHOLSTERY FURNITURE in the kingdom is always to be found ON SALE at the PANTECHNICON, BELGRA VE-SQUARE, LONDON, at the Manufacturer's lowest prices. Materials and workmanship warranted of the best description. This Company make no charges for intermediate ages under 50 years. FIRE INSURANCE RATES. Common Insurance. s. d. Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous) 1 0 per Cent. Hazardous .. Double Hazardous Farming Stock COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROYIDENT — LIFE OFFICE, Established 1806. Capitals, A MILLION STERLING and UPWARDS. PRESIDENT-The Right Hon. EARL GREY. TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS. His Grace the Duke of Rutland Sir Frederick A. Roe, Bart. The Most Noble the Marquis of Sir Richard King, Bart. Northampton Glynne Earle Welby, Esq. M.P. The Right Hon. Lord King George Pryme, Esq., M.P. The Right Hon. Lord Northwiek J. E.Tonant, Esq. Sir W. E. Welby, Bar*. Barber Beaumont, Esq., F.A.S. Sir John Osborn, Bart. _ _ F.G.S. INDEPENDENT WE ST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, Opposite the Bazaar, Baker -street, Portman-square, London South St. David's-street, Edinburgh ; Ingram-street, Glasgow ; And Sackville-street, Dublin. Empowered under the several Acts of Parliament of 14thIGeo, 111. c. 48 ; 22d Geo. 111. ' • 53d Geo. 111. c. 141 ; 3d G eo , IV. c. 92 ; and I s t Vi c . o . 10. G. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. _lke. Fic. &c: VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND LOAN COMPANY. No. 18, King William-street, City. Sir JAMES DUKE, M.P., Chairman. BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq.. Deputy Chairman. William Allen, Esq. John Knill, Esq. Benjamin Barnard, Esq. Benjamin Lancaster, Esq. Charles Baldwin, Esq. '1 homa s Nesbitt, Esq. James Cockburn, Esq. Major-General Robertson Bryan Donkin, Esq. Daniel Sutton, jun., Esq. Aaron Goldsmid, Esq O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey, James Law Jones, Esq. Esq. E•LICITORS.... Messrs. Lake and Curtis, Basinghall-s';reet. As Low Rates of Premium as are consistent with security, which may be paid annually, half yearly, or quarterly. The whole of the Profit s equa ll y divided between the Assured and the Shareholders. Claims payable in two months after death. Loans may be effected by parties Assured with this Company. WILLIAM RA TRAY, Actuary and Secretary. ___. _...... _... The County is the only Firs Office which has constantly made Returns to its Members, and for a long series of years. These Returns have varied from 10 to 25 per cent. and have amounted to upwards of 100,000/. In the Life Office, nearly the whole of the profits are divided among the parties insured. Their effect may be judged of from a Policy taken out by his late Majesty en his own life for 3,0001., which additions increased to 3,9631. Upwards of thirty Insurance Offices having been broken up within a few years, and about fifty new ones ha v i ng b een pro jected within the ast two or three years, it may be necessary to observe, that all the substantial advantages promised by such new Offices have been long realised under the plans and ma nagement of the Provident Life Office. J. A. BEAUMONT, Secretary. BENEVOLENT FIRE and LIFE IN SURANCE, and NATIONAL BENEFIT SO CIETY, 351, Strand. Capital, 250,0004 Under the Management of a Board of Directors. This Society, in addition to the general business of Insur ance Companies, has been formed for the purpose of enabling persons of very moderate means to attain those objects hitherto confined to the more wealthy, viz. :—. Ist. Insuring their lives in sums from 5/. and upwards, se curing Deferred Annuities as a provision for Old Age; Weekly Allowances during Sickness ; and Endowments for Children, the Premiums being divided into Monthly Instalments for the convenience of the Insured. Also for the protection of such as possess only a small personal property, Insurances are effected against loss by Fire, in sums from 10/, to 1001., by Quarterly Payments ; thus Household Goods, Wearing kpparel, Stock in Trade, Workmen's Tools, &c., to the value of 20/. can be Insured, on payment of Sixpence every Three Months, duty included. The attention of the Public is particularly directed to this very novel feature, for the man to whom this fact is known, will henceforth deserve little sympathy should he become the victim of a calamity, against the evils of which he could se readily have guarded. Prospectuses, detailing at length the various modes and rates of Insurance, can be obtained on application at the offict, 351, Strand, or to any of the Society's Agents. HENRY WILSON, Actuary and Secretary. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY, No. 1. PRINCES-STREET, 'BANK, LONDON. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. A most economical set of Tables—computed express.y f or the use of this Institution, f; om authentic and complete data, and presenting the lowest Rates of Assurance that can be of. fered without compromising the safety of the Institution. Increasing rates of premium on a new and remarkable plan, for securing loans or debts, a less immediate payment being required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any other office. A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock. Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy. All claims payable within one month after proof of death. A liberal commission allowed to solicitors and agents. r ~'~ rpp. ( 1°11.111111111) - , 14:r 1 . 44 .It 7 I fit., I c' / Arr' - '''e•a ll I 711t --- . : : :-' T i c \ _ A • Cf. c"' = • . . • "'"" 1. 4 • ,-- - • ' ' .1 4%,749fict,5 , , / d/Z:t 4 7 4 -- n • • an , . •-•—• ; 4 , ,rfa PUBLICATIONS This day is published, price One Shtlling, handsomely priced in medium Bvo., the First Number of - p o 0 R J A C K. By CAPTAIN MARRYAT, Author of " Peter Simple," &c. With Illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield, R. A. " You hav'nt got never a copper for Foor Jack, your honour?" London : Longman, Orme, and Co. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXXIX.,- Will be Published To-Monnow. CONTENTS. I. THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. 11. NAPOLEON and HIS MARSHALS. 111. TYTLER'S COLLECTION of ANCIENT ENGLISH LETTERS. IV. TOURS in the FRENCH PROVINCES. V. GLADSTONEon CHURCH and STATE. VI. ERNEST, the CHARTIST EPIC. 'VII. VOYAGES of the ADVENTURE and BEAGLE. VIII. TURNBULL'S •AUSTRIA, and PAGET'S HUNGARY. IX. STATE of the EQUITY COURTS. X. SOCIALISTS, CHARTISTS , and MINISTERS. John Murray, Albemarle-street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S “MICHAEL ARMSTRONG," COMPLETE. The complete Edition, in 3 vols., p os t sr., price 255. bound, of " The Life and Adventures Of Michael Armstrong," The Factory Boy," .By MRS. TROLLOPE. - With all the Illustrations, by Hervieu, Buss, &c., IS NOW READY, AND MAY BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. " We must frankly confess that this is not only a most de lightful work, but that in the present-day it is likely to be pre eminently successful. The Authoress is sounding the toscin in behalf of the poor factory children—a task infinitely more creditablo than anything that was done by Wilberforce for the negroes. But, setting aside these higher considerations, and looking at the ' Factory Boy' simply as a novel, it will bear a comparison with any of the most popular novels that have appeared in the periodical form."—Parthenon. Henry Celburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlboreugh-street. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OF HOUSES AND GOODS FROM FIRE, No. 21, LOMBARD-STREET, (Established by Royal Charter in the Reign of King George the First), For Assuring Houses, Buildings, Goods, Farming Stock, &c., from Loss or Damage by Fire ; and also for the Assurance of and Granting Annuities on Lives. Sir JOHN WM. LUBBOCK, Bart., Governor. THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Sub-Governor. BARTHOLOMEW JEFFERY, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Charles John Manning, Fsq. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq.: The Hon J. 1. L. Melville. Wm. Brown, Esq. Henry Nelson, tsq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. John Deacon, Esq. Thomas Poynder, Esq. John Ede, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq. James Gibson, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. William Sampson, Esq. William 'fetlow Hibbert, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. Lancelot Holland, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. G. G. de Hochepied Larpent Esq. Robert Thorley, Esq. John Christopher Lochner, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq. Persons whose Annual Premiums fall due on the '2sth inst. are hereby informed that Receipts are now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, 21, Lombard-street, and in Pall- Mall, as well as by their respective Agents in the several coun ties ; and the parties assured are requested to apply for the re newal of their policies on or before the 9th of January next, as the usual fifteen days allowed for payment, beyond the date of each policy, will then expire. SAMUEL FENNING, Secretary. December, 1839. In consequence of the destruction of the ROYAL EX CHANGE by Fire, the business of the Company in all its branches, is carried on at their Premises, No. 21, LOMBARD STREET, until the Company's Offices on the Royal Exchange are rebuilt. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE AS SURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, at the Entrance of the Old Post Office, London. DIRECTORS. ROWLAND MITCHELL, Esq., Chairman. JOHN W. BUCKLE, Esq., Deputy Chairman John Dixon, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. William D. Dowson, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. !John Martin, Esq., M.P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Robert Mitford, Esq. Ralph Fenwiek, :Esq. James Morris, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. John G. Ravenshaw, Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Shore, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John Loch, Esq. i James Tulloch, Esq. • AUDITORS. A. W. Roberts, Esq. J Henry Sikes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June, 1829, exceeding One per Cent. per Annum on the Sums in sured, on an average of the different Ars; and a second Bonus of nearly similar amount was declared in June, 1836. At each period the Bonuses allotted to the different Policies averaged rather more than 28 per Cent. on the amounts of Premiums paid thereon during the preceding seven years. FIRE D EPARTMENT.---NOtiCe IS hereby given, that Assu rances which expire at Christmas Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this office, or with sir. Sams 1, St. James's-street, corn er o f P a ll -mall, or w i t h the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void. GEORGE KEYS, Secretary. METROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY FOR MUTUAL ASSURANCE. DIRECTORS. John Allcard, Esq. Thomas H. Hall, Esq. Richard Low Beck, Esq. Charles Hensley ; Esq. Edmund C. Buxton, Esq. Joseph Hoare, Esq. t li-din Burgess, Esq. J. Francis Maubert, Esq. William Clay, Esq., M.P. Joseph Pe'lse, Dq., M.P. James Dawson, Esq, John Taylor, Esq. Thomas Fowler, Esq. J. Scholefield, Esq., M.P Francis Fox, Esq, John Travers, Esq. W. Storrs Fry, Esq. George Vaughan, Esq. The Directors her e by g i ve notice to members whose Pre miums fall due on the sth of January next, that the same must be paid within thirty days from that date. This Society APPROPRIATES the WHOLE of the PRO FITS to the reduction of the Premiums of Members, and this is UNDIMINISHED by AGENCY or COMMISSION, the business of the Society being conducted without that expense. The effect of the principle of Mutual Assurance, so CARRIED OUT, is shown by the abatement of FORTY per Cent. declared for the ensuing year, upon the Premiums of Members of Five Years' standing, and which abatement has been computed on data justifying the expectation of its continuance, at an equal rate, year by year, throughout the remaining terns of The Premiums of MEMBERS (who are the only proprietary) are payable Yearly, Half -yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to Mrsrates. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the Society, AS MEMBERS, on the sth of January next, should appear at the Office on or before that day. 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Full particulars, with a Select List, including all the valuable new Publications, can be had gratis, or sent by post (now only 4d.) •n application to Mr. Bull, Librarian, 19, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, London. Just ready. A NEW ROMANCE OF HISTORY. 3 Vols., 1/. 1 ls. 6d. H C Z A IL T By the Author of :" Manuella, the Executioner's Daughter," &c. Just published cGratisl a Prospectus of THE 'NEW SYSTEM Adopted at the Library of The Alexandrian Institution, and its Advantages to Families and Book Societies. Early in January, THE CICERONE FOR 1840. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. E. Smallwood, Bookseller, Publisher, and Librarian, 17, Old Bond-street, London. ADDRESSofthe COMMITTEE of the LEICESTER VOLUNTARY CHURCH SOCIETY to the DIS SENTERS and FRIENDS of RELIGIOUS LI BERTY in GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AND FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, OUR object in addressing you is to direct your special attention to the subject of Church-rates; to the violation of conscience and of civil liberty involved in the enforcement of them; and to the best means of se cnring their immediate and entire abolition. In thus calling upon you we deem it due alike to you and to ourselves distinctly and solemnly to record the principles on which we are resolved to act, and in the maintenance of which we invite your cordial co-operation. We declare unequivocally our conviction that the Holy Scriptures alone are the guide of mankind in all matters of religion. We reverently do homage to their divine au thority, and _profess a simple belief in the doctrines they reveal. We hold no less from the testimony and tenor of Scrip ture than from the dictates of reason, that it is the natural and inalienable right of every man to interpret Divine Re velation for himself, and to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience ; and that the decision as to his integrity in these high concerns lies without the pro vince of any earthly tribunal. We deem it incontrovertible that the human mind from its nature and constitution cannot possibly be Coerced in its opinions by any extraneous power, and wa therefore con sider that all legislative enactments designed to secure uniformity of faith and practice must have one of two ten dencies—either the violation of conscience, or the introduc tion of the most degrading hypocrisy. Whilst we revere civil law and Government as one of the most wise and merciful ordinations of Providence, we maintain that its functions are bounded by, the purely secu lar interests of society ; and so soon as it shall be wielded discordantly with the higher relations and responsibilities of the human mind—so seen as it shall encroach upon our spiritual concerns, we deem it our sacred duty to withhold obedience, and to transfer our allegiance from all interme diate power to the authority of our only Lord and Master. We solemnly repudiate all human interference with his jurisdiction as the Great Head of his Church, and regard such interference as alike irrational and impious. Sincerely respecting the talents, learning, and piety of many members of Established Churches, we are still deeply convinced that the establishment of religion, that is, the extension of political patronage and power to any re ligious sect, has ever been an evil of enormous magnitude, that it imposes civil degradation and most commonly pains and penalties oe the best of men and the most loyal of ci tizens who differ in religious opinion from the dominant sect ; that it has ever been the source of persecution and martyrdom, and of the bitterest feuds and animosities; and that by secularizing the offices of religion, by pampering the ambition and cupidity of its Ministers, by interfering with the independence and Christian privileges of Churches, by the introduction of irreligious men to sacred functions, and above all by innovating upon the rites and doctrines of the Christian religion as settled by its divine Founder, it has disgusted thinking men and repelled them from the reception of Christianity ; it has degraded the dignity, sullied the purity, and in some instances almost destroyed the vitality of true religion amongst men ; it has turned the temple of God into a house of merchandise, and has in all ages formed the most fearful institutional obstacle that ever was opposed to the progress of the kingdom of Christ in the world. Whilst we conscientiously object to all compulsory sup. port of the religious establishments which have been set up in these realms, we equally turn aside from every modification of the principle which they involve, and re pudiate any scheme for the extension of similar aid to other sects ; we recoil from the interference of the State, as such, under any disguise whatever, with religious ob jects, and hold that, to acknowledge its patronage, under any pretext, is to surrender the great principle at issue, and to do dishonour to the Son of God ; and that so far from advancing, such a course must finally prove deroga tory to, the great purposes of the Christian religion. Though unwilling to depreciate the exertions, past or present, of associations in conformity with these great principles, and though our thoughts turn with reverence to the illustrious dead who were once their eloquent advo cates and defenders, yet we do chiefly honour the princi ples themselves. We cannot but call to mind that they existed in all their moment prior to all human advocacy; that they maintain their value irrespectively of associated bodies—of their successes, their compromises, or their failures; and that their demand on individual effort will ever maintain its weight, apart from all temporary and con. e s e. W e di sown igts the r e li g i ou s liberty ventional arrangements. n, In declaring, on these grounds, our uncomp rom i s i ng op position to all ecclesiastical authority and to all ecclesiasti lcialitiny all sympathy with those clamours raised in t h e spirit, whether of a hypocritical or of a timid bigotry, a imposts, Queryt s, w e classof f comprehend our f e i in o ourw-s fellow-subjects. against the extending influence of any body of religious professors. We contemplate the right of all citizens—be their creed what ever it may—of Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians, Presby terians, and the various sects of the Nonconforming body, as well as of those who subscribe to no creed at all. We desire on behalf of parties that they be left unaided by State patronage and unmolested by State control ; and we ask on behalf of truth, still as in all past times cruelly fettered and despoiled, that she be admitted to the temple of universal charity as to her long-sought home. As the province of One religion is altogether spiritual' as its obligations cannot be transferred, and as its respon sibilities are personal and not national, we believe that the support of it should be purely voluntary, that all compul sory Payments for its promotion are incensistent with its nature and pretensions, and that their enactment does dis honour to its great Founder and Administrator, i nterferes with the sacred and inviolable rights of Christians, and en croaches on the most valuable liberties of the subject. On these premises, then, with whose truth and mo ment we arc deeply impressed, we enter our deliberate protest against the imposition of Church-rates, and we call upon our Christian friends and fellow -countrymen, ts, second our efforts for their abolition, with all the z sal and energy which the serious nature of the cause de mands. Let us not be considered as engaging in an in • discriminate crusade against the Episcopal Church. We believe in many of its doctrines, we honour many of its ministers, we are thankful for all its usefulness; but we denounce the civil power with which it has been invested, which, while it corrupts the Church, insults Per Cent. __7' and degrades the Dissenter. We are happy to know , that many of the b es t M em bers of the Ch urc h o f Eng _ land are with us in this cause—to observe the Ministers of the Crown holding out a faint omen for good —to per ceive that the times are ripening for a change which shall purge away for ever one of the foulest stains upon the profession of the Christian religion; —and we firmly trust, that by the blessing of God upon our milted efforts, the promulgation of his religion will at no distant period, be entrusted to the hands of his willing servants, be con ducted in his own way, and that it will be hastened in his own time. With these views we solemnly resolve, in reliance upon Divine Providence, to seek the recognition of the foregoing principles by the Legislature, and never to rest until they are practically embodied in the laws of our country. We propose to invite, and to avail ourselves of the co-operation of all parties who arc friendly to the cause of religious liberty, without regard to their opinions on other subjects. We discourage every kind of controversial warfare by which unity and earnestness of effort may be endangered, and resolve to pursue our object steadily without acco modating our purpose to the temporary convenience of any Administration, or of any political party whatever. We propose to organize in every town throughout Eng land and Wales, an association, with branches, if possible, in the neighbouring villages, whose sole present object shall be the extinction of Church-rates; and to invite the hearty co-operation in this matter, of Ireland and Scot land. We earttestly recommend the constitution of such asso ciations upon such a basis as will secure their independ ence—that each shall have full power to choose its own officers, to manage its own affairs, to raise and apply its own funds, and to communicate in its own name, and on its own responsibility, with Members of Parliament or with her Majesty's Government. We resolve most scrupulously to avoid the centralisation of influence which must always more or less result from placiug a general fund under the control of any one Com mittee, or from delegating to one association authority to represent the opinions of the rest. We propose to have no such fund—ns such delegation of power; and we earnestly deprecate any arrangement by which parties may be tempted to desire the perpetuity of the present evils— such as the payment of officers, &c.—recommending, in every case were it is possible, that the work of each asso ciation be performed by the gratuitous labours of gentlemen devoted to this cause. We propose to secure unity of effort, and when neces. sary simultaneous movement, by making one association the centre of correspondence—but to consider it in no other light than simply as an organ of communication, invested with no other authority than that which is possessed by all kindred associations. We strenuously recommend, and will labour to obtain the formation, in every considerable town, of a small Com mittee with a Secretary and Treasurer, who will under. take to circulate information, to oppose the laying of rates in vestry, to call public meetings, to draw up pe titions to the Legislature, and, when necessary, to commu nicate with her Majesty's Government, and with Members of Parliament. We further suggest the propriety, in the event of an election, of requiring from the candidate an explicit declaration of his concurrence in the great principles of Religious Liberty, and his decided opposition to Church rates. (Signed, on behalf of the Committee.) J. P. MURSELL, E. MIALL, W. BAINES, J. H. DAVIS. All Correspondence with the Leicester Voluntary Church Society should be addressed to the Secretary, at Mr. Davis's, Printer, Market-place, Leicester. BIRMINGHAM ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM My name has been so publicly proposed, as that of a suitable person to represent you in Parliament, that it is due to you, and especially to those who are desirous of promoting my return, to explain, first, the position in which I have found myself placed, and, secondly, my views on several of the leading political questions of the day. I was not aware of the precise circumstancs of the Borough until my return, on the evening of the 21st instant, from a journey in the north of England. The whole of the proceedings whieh have brought my name so prominently before you took place during my absence, and without my concurrence. In nominating me, my friends could, therefore, only have acted on my known opinion, that, under a Representative System, every man is bound, when called upon by his fellow-citizens, to take his due share in its administration, unless pre vented by paramount obligations ; and that he who re fuses to do so, has no right to claim the protection of Government. As to my political principles, I belong to no party ; inasmuch as I consider that the Christian rule, of doing to others as we would that they should do unto us, is of universal application. Keeping this principle in view, in the relations of our domestic and foreign policy, I hold the following opinions:— That, as religion is a matter between man and his Maker, no human authority has any right to interfere with it, so long as the peace a n d we lf are of society are not endan gere ; that not only should all Ecclesiastical demands, in the nature of Church -rates or otherwise, be abolished, but there should be no connection between Church and State ; and that all support of religion should be voluntary. Whilst I consider the institution of one day in seven for rest and religious instruction a high privilege, and a great moral as well as physical advantage to the commu nity-, and that it is the duty of all persons, whether as in dividuals or as directors of public companies or other wise, to do all in their power to afford their own ser vants and others an opportunity of enjoying it, I am op posed to any legislative enactments to enforce its obser vance. I consider that commerce should be perfectly free, in all commodities and with all the world ; and that the necessaries of life should be exempt from taxation. This, of course would involve a total abolition of the Corn and Provision Laws, which have already inflicted irreparable injury upon the country, and unless speedily repealed, will produce most fearful inroads upon our manufacturing interests, and upon the means of support to the working classes. I am in favour of a Great Extension o f th e El ect i ve Franchis e , an d opposed to any Property Qualification. I conceive that the present legal duration of Parlia ment is much too long, and that it should be reduced to a period sufficiently short to give the Constituents all reasonable control over their Representatives. I wish to see the Ballot subjected to the test of ex periment, upon as complete a system as can be devised. In according with th e great pr i nc i p l e already stated, and upon whi c my political creed is based, I hold that the punishment of death in all cases ought to be abo lished. I believe that war will necessarily cease when ever the principles of free trade are fully carried out ; and I consider that it is as inconsistent with true na tional safety as it is in direct violation of the spirit and precepts of the New Testament. Without forgetting that, on all suitable occasions, it is my duty to assert the political and social rights of my fellow-countrymen, I deem it still incumbent upon me especially to advocate the cause of those who are held in personal slavery in any part of the world ; and this I would do in accordance with the dictates of our religion, which teaches us that every country is our country and every man our brother. The position in which my friends have placed me has compelled me to make the present declaration of my sentiments. It only remains for me to state, that I be lieve, both amongst my fellow -townsmen and the country at large, there is an increasing number who hold opinions similar to my own. At the same time, they probably do not so far accord with yours that it would be the decided wish of a majority of your body that I should represent you in the British House of Commons ; if so, I hope this can be ascertained long before the day of election, and my name withdrawn with satisfaction to all parties. lam not insensible to the kindness and fa vourable opinion of those who are anxious to promote my election ; but I most strongly deprecate a single word or expression that can justly excite any angry feeling towards those who may differ from them. I hope I shall be excused for giving this caution, because, on these occasions, the best of men sometimes forget that charity which they usually exec cise towards each other. I am, very respectfully, JOSEPH STURGE. Birmingham, 12th month, 24th, 1839. A merry Christmas and a happy New Year are generally the congratulations at this festive season, and every auxiliary is eagerly sought after for the embellish ment of the person. The decorative beauty and cul ture of the tresses of female loveliness especially, en hancing as they so greatly do the charms of personal ap pearance, occupy by no means a small share of atten tion at the toilet. It is more particularly at such periods that the enlivening and wonderfully revivifying properties of that most delightful article, Rowland's Macassar Oil are displayed, and which place it as an invigorator and beautifier of the hair, beyond all precedent. Indeed, among the chief virtues incident to the use of Rowland's Macassar Oil (in reference to ladies' hair) may be reckoned its enduring properties in preserving the ring lets in pristine decorative beauty through the heat of the ball-room, or locomotion of the promenade. THE BOASTFUL ToitlES.—Spechnens of as sumed full-blown importance similar to the following exquisite piece of fierce swagger, in the Brighton Gazette, are to be seen now in most of the Con servative organs :—" We are happy to learn from a source on which reliance may be placed, that the chiefs of the Conservative party have at last determined to adopt, what the country has long called for, a vigorous course of action on the meeting of Par liament. In a short time, therefore, we doubt not that we shall be able to congratulate our readers on the overthrow of the traitorous' Ministry?' A few days ago some labourers, in opening a fresh stone pit at Chilton, turned up the skeleton c,f a tull•grown person, about 18 inches below tne surface ; and it is conjectured that it is the body of a man who is supposed to have been murdered. The village gos sips say that some 20 or 30 years since a Scotchman, w►th a pack of linen, &c., lodged at the house of a per son who occasionally took in travellers (near to which premises the skeleton was found), and was never seen afterwards. He had previously exhibited some money, and part of the family were afterwards seen dressed in goods which the neighbours identified as having been part of his stock ; rumour did not hesitate to say that he had been unfairly dealt with. About six or seven years ago this person died, and the story was again revived, from the singular request he made on his death bed, that the 51st Psalm, eld version, might be sung over his grave. The words of the second verse are cer tainly very singular : " Wash me, 0 Lord, and make me clean, " From this unjust and sinful act ; " And purify me once again " From this foul crime and bloody fact." We give this as told by the gossips (with a sad shake of the head and rueful countenance), without vouching for the truth of it. We understand the parish officers did not think it necessary to hold an inquest, though pcg haps the coroner may .—Bucks Herald. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The Liberal interest here is completely divided by the Proposition of Mr. Muntz as a candidate for the repre sentation of the borough,and unless the electors prove true to themselves and the cause of political freedom, Birming ham:—Radical Birmingham —will present - th e anomaly of a Liberal constituency represented by a Tory Member. Mr. Muntz has not yet officially intimated his intention to contest the election, and it is said that he will not oppose Mr. Sturge. Should this prove to be true, it will tend to elevat e that gentleman in the estimation of every sound Reformer, and show to the world that he holds the cause o f c i v il and religious liberty dearer than any object of mere p ersona l ambition. In the published letters received from Mr. Muntz, he declares his inability to give his attendance in Parliament in the coming session, unless in cases of " abs o l ute necessity ;" but surely the prese n t are not times in which the represen tatives of the people should qualify their sense of duty or the discharge of the sacred trust reposed in them. Mr. Sturge, on the other hand, is sound to the core on the great political questions which may be shortly ex pected to engage the attention of the L eg i s l ature, and if returned t o Parliament, will devote his undivided energies to the cause of the people. It remain s w i t h i Mr. Mu n t z w h et h er h e w ill persevere n . a course w hi c h must reflect di sgrace upon t h e town of Birmingham, and strike a blow at the great principles for which he has contended— most success f u ll y and powerfully I admit— during the whole of his political life. A Mr. Allen is named as a third candidate, whether inAlibig Tory interest is"tinknciwni but it is very shrewdly sus pected that he is put forward by the latter. Colonel Thompson has retreated for the present from the field, and the Tories are " biding their time." That they will start their man, should a favourable opportunity present itself, no one for a moment doubts ; but this depends altogether upon the course which the Reformers may pursue. The following is a copy of an address put forth by Mr. Sturge SPAIN-BASQUE PRIVILEGES GUERNICA, DEC. 12. According to the fueros of Biscay, the inhabitants claim the following exclusive privileges :- 1. The Queen of Spain is not recognised by the title of Queen, but Senora, or Lady of the Lordship of Biscay; nor are her orders obeyed, except approved of by the Deputado or Syndico then in office. The only officer of the Crown whose appointment is vested in the Clown of Castile is the Corregidor, who presides at the Junta General, although without power to con trol their proceedings. 2. The Lordship of Biscay is excluded from the quinto, or conscription of recruits for the royal army of Spain ; but in time of war must furnish an army to protect their own province from invasion, except in ex traordinary cases. The generals of the royal army cannot order the Biscayans out of their own province for a longer period than three months. These troops are paid and clothed by the province, not by the Queen's Government. .3. Total exemption from taxation or contributions of any description. No custom-house or revenue officers of the Spanish Government recognised in the province. This fuero gives the Biscayan his salt, tobacco, cloth, and foreign manufactured goods, at one-half the price paid by the Castilians for the same articles. It must be observed, however, that more than ten times the quan tity required for the consumption of the province is yearly imported into Bilbao and other ports, which sur plus is smuggled across the Ebro into other parts of Spain. The Biscayans, in virtue of this fuero, claim exemption from the payment of stamp duties. 4. Self-government ; the election of their officers by the Junta General, to which assembly alone the exe cutive of the province is responsible. 5. The Biscayans do not recognise any right of the King of Castile to demand contributions. "We receive nothing, not even protection ; therefore, if we do now and then pay, it is to be looked upon as a donative or gift, not as a right." These may be said to be the more important of the exemptions claimed by the Biscayans, in virtue of their ancient fueros. It is not, therefore to be wondered at that the Biscayans, whether Carlists or Christines, are so enthusiastic and unanimous about the conservation of the fueros which secure to them so many privileges, and separate their interests from those of the rest of Spain. —Morning Chronicle. LYNN ADDRESS To HER MAJESTY , The following Answer was returned to the Address from Lynn, which we noticed in our Journal some time ago : " WHITEHALL, DECEMBER 21, 1839. Sir.—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of a numerous body of the inhabitants of King's Lynn, which accompanied your letter of the 18th instant. " And I have to inform you the same was very gra. ciously received by Her Majesty. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient Servant, " NORMANBY. " John Tweedale, Esq., M.D., &c., Lynn." The so-called Loyal and Constitutional Address, got up by the Tories, we understand, is shelved, and will. most likely, from the small number of signatures at. tached to it, remain in deserved obscurity. MR. STURGE AND THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—This gentleman returned to Birmingham on Saturday evening. He has been engaged during the past fortnight in visiting the active friends of the Anti-Slavery cause in the north. We are happy to learn, that at Kendal, Carlisle, New castle-upon-Tyne, Shields, Darlington, Stockton, York, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Barnsley, and Sheffield, Mr. Sturge was received by numerous parties, convened for the most part by circular, and comprising many of the most influential persons of various denomina tions. The principal object of these meetings was to give information on the present system of slavery and the slave trade, as carried on by other nations ; and in every instance resolutions were adopted expressive of readiness to co-operate with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society recently formed in London. It appears that there arc not less than 6,000,000 of slaves (Africans and their de scendants) in the United States of America, in Cuba, the Brazils, &c., and that to supply the waste of human life which the system produces, there are con tinually being imported from Africa, notwithstanding the efforts of British cruizers, an annual average of slaves from 120,000 to 150,000 in number. In procuring these victims, it is estimated that not less than 250,000 more are sacrificed, either in the internal wars in Africa, the march to the coast, or the horrors of the middle pas. sage. The British Government now seeks to destroy this system by maintaining cruizers on the coast of Africa at a great expense, but this plan is wholly ineffectual. Mr. Sturge and his coadjutors seek to subvert the slave trade of Africa by destroying the slavery of America ; and this they propose to effect by purely moral and peaceable means. Already there are upwards of 1,600 Anti-slavery Societies in the United States of America, ready to co operate with those in Britain ; and a number have been formed in the West Indies, where the abolition of slavery has greatly increased the consumption of British manu factures. To discuss the momentous questions arising from this subject, a general conference of the frie n d s of freedom will be held in London, in June, and in all the places which Mr. Sturge has visited, resolutions were adopted to secure the attendance o f D e l egates at this Convention. Many Anti-Slavery Societies in other parts of the kingdom have already come to the same de termination, so that the Delegates who may attend on this important occasion from France, America, the West Indies, and elsewhere, may confidently rely upon a warm anc cordial reception from a nu merous company o f British Abolitionists. This great movement must be considered by all as fraught with the most important con sequence no less to the cause of humanity than the in terests of commerce. The Earl and Countess of Wilton arrived on Tuesday, at their house in Grosvenor-square, frotn Marseilles. 5 1 1 ,- - 7' ~~G /72- EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. Laity and th e M orn i ng Ch ron i c l e. ) Laity and clergy now unite to reprobating the con duct of the Bishop of Exeter. In the Times of Thurs day appeared a letter on Church Discipline, under the its imputed force ou accou nt of is confidently signature o f N estor i des, which we have copied into this b d u ay t 's al C so hr o o f n Chronicle, , not merely c i o ts nfin m de eri t t l s ; assigned to no less a personage than the Bishop of London. The nature of several of the Bishop of Exeter's opinions is roundly characterized as Popish by his Lordship of London, more particularly his notion respecting the power of the keys ; and he condemns his carriage towards the head of the Church and his brethren of the Bench as unseemly, and of most perni cious example. " For ages, I had almost said," observes Nestorides, "has that fearful, but absurd and Popish expression. 'the power of the keys,' been lost sight of." The Bishop of Exeter has revived it ; and the riter proceeds to show that the absolute power over the eternal destiny of men, claimed by Dr. Phillpotts, is without justification in scripture, and at variance with the opinions of the best Reformers. We have always understood that it was the peculiar feature of Protes tantism that a man's acceptance or reprobation should not depend on the fiat of any priest ; and that the mi nistration of the clergy was only to be considered as a means to enable their flocks to fight the good fight with the advantage which their. care and instruc tion can give. To commit the fate of the laity to the determination of the priests is considered by Protestants to strike at the very root of religion, by destroying the motives for ince ssan t vigilance, wich necessarily follows from self-responsibilityl Nestorides, in passing some severe strictures on the censure of the opinion of fhe Bishop of Hereford on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill, frankly tells Dr. Phillpotts, " I see what you mea n ; you want to be at' your clergy' with suspension, deposition, excommunication ; you would beggar and ruin, and that in the midst of simpers and smiles, whilst others are c ontent with the' more dilatory pro cess of = admaaishing„ reproving, perhaps 'velortning." But-the most remarkable part of this letter, supposing it the production of a Bishop, is the severe censure passed upon the Bench of Bishops, and the admission that, at a trying conjuncture, they were preserved in their places, not by their own merits, but by the good character of the parochial clergy : What are the offences and crimes," he exclaims, "of Dr. Fry, a half crazy creature, in their moral effect, compared to those which have been committed by the Bishops themselves? I should wish these personages on the Bench to feel as they ought, that they have recently (when they were almost treated as in the days just pre ceding the Protectorate)—that they have recently, I say, been preserved in their places, and that with much difficulty, by the general character and efforts of the parochial clergy, over whom they accidentally preside. Is not the Church at this moment stuffed with the sons and other undeserving connections of three different shops, whose letters can hardly follow them with sufficient rapidity from preferment to preferment, to be answered within the time that courtesy requires? Yet I do not see in any of the schedules of Bills for enforcing Church discipline, not even in that of the ever-respected Primate, any clause against nepotism on the Bench. It was also asserted in this Journal, and never, that I could obser e se, contradicted, that there is another Bishop still living, whose son, positively a boy at Eton, has been b y his father appointed Registrar of the Diocese! Surely Church discipline should begin here." These are home thrusts. For the three dead Bishops. and their worthless connections, pass as, the French say, but who is the living bishop who has so scanda lously abused his trust as to make his school-boy son a registrar? If this language continue to be held, the observation of Dr. Law, Bishop of Elphin, to Dr. Por ter, that he had heard he was worth a hundred thousand pounds, but it must be a calumny, for no Christian Bishop could be rich, would be realized in the Church, which will become as pure as the army. Every one has heard the anecdote of Major Honeyman, the son of Lord Armadale, a Judge of the Court of Session. A noise in the nursery having been heard, the maid was asked the cause of it, when she answered, " Naething— it's only the Major who winna sup his parritch." We suspect equally disgraceful misapplications of Episcopal patronage are by no means unfrequent. Nestorides plainly tells the Bishop of Exeter that his studies and acquirements by no means fit him to sit in judgment on the Oxford Tracts ; and that the opinion expressed by him, that, till the Church herself pronounces an opinion to be heresy, no private man can without presumption do so, would condemn Barrow and Hooker, " who often pronounced many opinions of the Church of Rome to be heretical, which the Church to which they belonged had never solemnly pronounced to be such." From the language of the Bishop of London addressed to the Bishop of Exeter in his place in the House of Lords, we were quite aware that he held that doughty polemic in very low esteem ; but we confess we were hardly prepared for the furious onslaught on which we have been commenting. But the Bishop of London is in the right. The Church of England will best make head against Popery by casting aside its trappings. If the Church of Rome be making pro gress in the country; at the present time, which we do not believe, it cannot be from the goodness of the cause, but the superior zeal of the instruments. To at tribute to the appointment of three Popish Privy Councillors any advantage to the Catholic Church, is paying a poor compliment to the Protestant cause, and the Protestant Clergy. Secularity has always been the bane of the Church ; and we must look to a man like Baptist Noel, who despises worldly wealth, and looks to the Gospel as a rule of life, and not as a repertory for theological controversy, or for texts to twist into arguments for persecution, if we wish to point out an example of signal success in bringing sinners within the fold, and leading aright thou, who have gone astray. We rejoice to see the Bishop of London also fighting the good fight against Popery. The cause which cannot be maintained without persecu tion—the cause which must be supported by penal statutes and exclusion from political equality of one third of the subjects of the United Kingdom —cannot be the cause of Christ. (From the Morning Advertiser.) After the occurrences of last May, Sir Robert Peel's lotlalty is, we must confess, a subject of which we should as little have expected to hear as his consistency. Not so, however, thinks our intrepid Contemporary, the Standard. When a statesman wants a day's defence, or Tory envy holds a whole week's war with the nation's common sense, it is ever ready to undertake the task, and spin tie self-pleasing thread anew, unsho o k, th oug h peals of laughter break around. In its attempts to re concile its readers to the cheerless prospect of a farther indefinite exercise of the virtue of patience, it has the incredible boldness to put forward as a reason why, after all their loud professions, the Conservatives are still to continue in the ranks of the Opposition, Sir Robert Peel's gentlemanlike and loyal consideration for the feel ings of the Queen ! What ! Does our Contemporary imagine that Stoiltdale's verdict extends to protect Peel from the publication of his own words in the Parliamen tary debates, or that the people of England have lost all memory of events which occurred less than eight months ago ? Where was the Conservative statesman's loyal and gentlemanly consideration for the feelings of the Sovereign, when, on the resignation of the Melbourne Ministry, he took advantage of this situation to press upon the Queen arrangements unsanctioned by consti tutional usage, destructive of the happiness of her do mestic circle, and in the highest degree repugnant to her known sentiments and feelings ? What sort of loyalty shall the man pretend to who dared to ask his Sovereign to act a lie for his benefit in the eyes of the people of England —a lie we say—for stripped of the pompous phraseology in which that accomplished actor of what Wordsworth calls— " The smooth and solemnized complacencies With which in Christian lands, from age to age, Professions mocks performance"— knows SO well bow to disguise his real meaning —what else was the demand made by Sir Robert Peel to his Sovereign in May last but this—that she should cheat the people of England into a belief that she regarded him, Sir Robert Peel, with a degree of confidence which he, better than any one, knew she did not really feel The moral, religious, and right-thinking portion of the community, will not soon forget the unparalleled ob tuseness of moral feeling displayed by his conduct o n that memorable occasion. The open and rampant dis loyalty of the Robys and Bradshaws is almost a relief after the sickening lip loyalty and hypocritical preten sions of a man who could thus act without the slightest particle of regard for his Sovereign's rights and feelings. (From the Morning Post.) It is a curious and pleasing illustration of the force of calm, scholar-like, earnest argumentation, accom panied with great personal respectability on the part of the arguers, that the Oxford defenders of the Catho lic Anglican Church are manifestly looked upon with great fear by the abettors of political misrule—the advocates of liberalism and of Romanist wiles. The High Churchmen of Oxford go very calmly upon their way, never interfering in political dis putation, nor taking the slightest notice of the gross nonsense and ignorant misrepresentations with which they are assailed by the violent, the un thinking, and the undutiful on all sides. They go on minding their own business and maintaining the principles of the Catholic Church against the en croaching corruptions of Romanism and the loosen ing latitudinarianism of vain Dissenters, whose own judgment is the object of their idolatry. Still we find, every now and then, the most violent attacks made upon them from quarters where political Popery or Protestant fanaticism are in the ascendant, showing abundantly that the dignified truth and lofty sobriety of their cause are making that steady way which is much better than hasty and violent progress. 1 bus does experience • exemplify that which Mr. Newman, one of the most earnest of the Oxford High.Churchreen, has said, that " Truth has the gift of overcoming the human heart, whether by persuasion or compulsion, whether by inward acceptance or by external constraint." " It'," says lie, " what we preach be truth, it must be natural, it must be seasonable. "It — Will End its own. As Line goes on, and its sway extends, those who teought its voice strange and harsh at first will won- vENIN G ~~ Age.