The Sun. — London, England, 1821-01-08 00:00:00

.0 ', &Ir. 8110 LTGHAM's EDUCATION BILLS :4v:ill; a short time since, at the request of se r'al of our most valued Correspondents, insert d the letter of the Rev. Dr. Butler, Head Mas ttr of ShreWgbury School, on the - Bills brought irate Parliament in the last session by. Mr. LrtA-e,rn, for an alteration of' the PRESENT sys vf the ENDOWED Schools, and to regulate all i.' - tter Schools for the Education of the . Poor, we ~tee ;_educed to submit to our readers the letter of t - le Rev. A. Lloyd, on the same subject. If tttl_=se 'two Bills should pass into a law, without and extensive alteration, they will be a I'QP3' vio!ation of all the principles of law, which have hitherto protected and enceorag - ed esta blishments of this nature, and cannot fail to deter in future the benevolent and affluent froth giving any part of their f,:ctunes, for the maintenance of schools and other public institutions: ; The adop tion Of these bills by the Legislature, will be the forerunner of great evils to the country, and will facilitate the result so anxiously desired, by the advocates of the modern doctrines in religion and politics. by e, however, trust that they will be watched, with the same degree of vigilance, .as other bills originating withMr.Broughain, and that they will be revised iu such a manner, as to ren der them not only innoxious, but beneficial in their detail, so that the irregularities, which may found to prevail in any of the establish ments to which we have alluded, may be reforth ed, and the I:4TENTIONS of the pious founders carried strictly into effect. A LETTER to a 'MEMBER of PARLIAMENT, on the SE RIOUS and DANUEROUS DEFECTS of the -BRITISLI and FOREIGN SCHOOL, and of Mr. BROUGHAM'S BILL for the : general EDUCATION of the POOR .--;3y the R e c. RICHARD LLOYD, A. M. 'Dean Sits—l have duly considered Mr. Brougham's two Bills, the " I ill for better providing the means of - Education for his Majesty's subjects," and the Bill for improving the administration of Endowments connected. with Education, atist - for the better fulfilling the intentions of the Founders ih.•reof;" anti which stand over for the further consideration of Parliament in the ensuing spring. The first - Bill, which proposes to give Parliamentary sanction and aid to a System ufEducation,.co-extensive with the wants of our augmented population, will be, in conjunction with the British and Fo l.:km School, the subject of the present discussion.* The drsign of the Honourable Member is laudable, and I II 1.11 bound ,in charity to believe that his motive is a genuine and p I: regard to the welfare of the rising generation. Having it:lde this concession, which courtesy, no less than qur holy te:?„. ,, son, prescribes, I shall proceed to examine• the SviTent anal-to asce r tain whether it be such as a Chtistiii4 Le gi'slature can 'cuantenance consistently with its own avowed principles, and a due regard to the welfare or safety of our Establishment. . . 'l,'be System in contemplation, professes to teach reading, writing, ain/ arithmetic, npon that excellent plan, [appre hend, of instriiction, which gives, by a multiplication of power, and a division of labour, such admirable facilities to acquititiOn of knowledge. • It is not, however, it mrchanistn, or its powerful tendency to awaken the dormant energies of tbe mind, which commands soy at tmititin upon the present,occasion. It is directed to no such minor, though important considerations. It has a pre ertitient and .almuSt exclusive regard to the spiritual and eternal welfare of the .children, and for the pronsotion of this great •and ultimate cud of all education, nut only the Beitish and Foreign School, but Mr. Brou”liaio's System, (which is of a kindred character) arc, I contend, perfectly in. adequate. It is as essential and characteristic part of the constitution of • the fernier, to exclude religious Creeds anti Catechisms, in direct opposition to the practice of the pri o.itive Church, and of all enlightened nations. Whilst it admits some select portions of the Scriptuies to be read, it prohibits all notes and comments, all rxplications whatever, illisitrative of their sense, under the influence of a morbid symbolizing - liberality, which renounces what is pecu i;n.r, and adtapta only what It ennimod to ail sects and ~a ties. The nature a Mr. Brougham's plan of instructi9v, does not, a, far hS I car perc,ice.. e.sb'entially diSet from this account of tl,e Larieastriar. or British Schuri. He his, indeed, made some cont.-x:9.60%, in favour of our Ecelrsmslical Estah!ish • " ment,..rtt ordrt, it arum, to render his 13i11 more palatable to its Metnhers ; bat these concessions, which atte6t to relieve it of its obnoxious qualities, produce nu such effect. It re qniests that the tu.a.iter shall teach re:Witte, WI itin;, and ac too tits r and the U sly Sot ipl ores of the authorized version, to sit-ti scholars as lie of age to learn the same ; and shall use se!, ct passages thereof for lessons, whereby to teach reeding aolt! writing, and shaft teach nu other book of religion ; and s heti use tio•form of prayer or worship, excopt the Lord's Prayer, or other - select pas`sages of Holy Scripture; pia tiled tints it may he lawfitt fur the officiating Minister to di rect. frorn. time to-time what portions of Scripture 'than be . ty:ed; either for lessons or for worship; which direction the sa?f Master' is hereby iequired to follow: Provided, never fheless,l hat ih earth School the Church Catechism, together *Oh such rortions of the Liturgy as the officiating Nlintster rtay appoint, shall be taught during halt of the School hours of 6ne day in the week, to he fixed by the officiating Minister;. and he is _forthet empowered - to order the to to teach the 'Catechism, and portions of the Li Orgy aforesaid, fir not more than three boort on Sunday evenings-; provided tliat if any parent or person having the crier of a scholar, shall notify to the roasters 'a desire that the chihl may not attend on the days and at the hours when stir!) Catechism, &c. ate taught; such child shill not, in any fig:Ml . l:n' or way,. be Obliged to attend, our Los punished, I , . 1 , or molested, for not attending. • f ; , ,moreovvr, proposed that the election of the master of tii.: school Should iica popular election, but that the officiat- Minister of the parish should possess the power of reject fog the tierzrin elected, it he thought him incor.ipetent, or dis aptifored' cif *errs character. Titus Mr. Brougham aims to give Ii t Bill a clerical sort of aspect, an apparent ailiA.vice tie the l7i,nrdi of Etthland, and to distinguish it from the British and Purengrt Sehtml; hit this distinction involves no essen lafdiffereote. It fra*,indeed, a plausible appearance, androhy iineasr trpon persons of warm and impassioned benevoletofe,. witose promptitude of zeal impels to action, without a cor • 'irltponding degree of sound discrimination of principles., 'the F.dinburglr Revie . a, which is So friendly to the Dissen ters, and to the- latittidir.arian principles of the times, justly anpreciateq its charricte,r and practical operations. Itcontends. t'Lat Mr. B's Bili' confers 'upon' the Church no considerable fo*er whatever. "-Nothing can ,he more fallacious," it ob• serves, than to supliiise that the Zeta given to the, parson will give him the Choice of the master. Ail the tiouseiniltiers are to elect ; and" put :be c.kse relied, on as possible, at least Pn some parts of tilt:Wry, that the niajority of the inhabi tants are Dissenters, (tow can the parson ever compel theth to elect the man of his choice? It is true, that they cannot canine! hint- to rpluure the• that:. of their chine ; but does not every one at all acquainted with such r.r.tters know, tile, in practice, such differences al ways end' in a cortiproMise ? The electors may not succeed in carryinx th'eir man, and the parson will assur ,:e.,y not carry his; net some :iird person will he !alien tiroba tetter adapted" fnr the plae'c, at least tree freni the - chief ob ~t`ctiotrs which one +6 rtyi)adio eicli of the other two. But such tom, oversies will be rat t i ; ptactically the inane, will be tsccommodated."—it proceeds to remark, that " it is most just that the sernples of the part nth should be consulted, and that the schools, for which • all pay, should he opi.tr to the • chi:-(ten of all, tail hoot the po.sibiiity of the most tender conscierice being hurt by taLing adiantagc of - Site in stitution. The pier: appears to remove every ground of ot.tvil On this head. The Little aurae, of all books of religion, Ic sutured to be trrignt : nu form of prayer, except that ,which all Christians use is to be adopted ; the: Cate _chism of the Clitifelt is only to be. taught at tin hour when the hildrett of stiSsentittg parents roey absent themselves ; and `ottenda:ice at Church is to be perfectly voluntary also." This just account of Mr. Brougham's 'public scheme of instruction tnarks its anions" , not to the Church of England, but to tire ritishaticf.Foreign School', which is the Oasis of it, and of • For the character of the ether am, relative to "the Ad ' ,eilnistration of Endowments," I refer the Reader to a LattCr lately ruhlishrd by Dr. Butler, head Master of Shrews tury Schont. He xhly stiews, that this Bill has a direct fen , tf. , my to defeat the intentions of the Pounders of Endow iits, - to degrade Graaf-mar and to injure the j il t, sees of the Yutelic, i. c.. of the Parents of Boys entitled to Use benefits of the Foundation, and their Childien,' which it is almost a perfect refliction ; for the concessions are such, as are, in t he judgment of the Edinburgh Review, also practical moment. It may be advanced, in vindication of. these Sy4tems of action, (which are radically the same) that the children, under tuition, are required to -eaten.' once on the Sabbath at the parish Church, or some other place of public worship; and in cans: qnence of this requisition, it is deemed sufficient that. their education, during the six days of the week, should have relereuce only to the connu a lltainutents already ad vested to, i. e. of yeadi : ne, Writit7g, and account!,, wills the eiceatian of three it • four hours, during which portion of time the children are to instrueted in the Church Cate chi m, or such par tsaif the as the etioister pis scribe-; provided it be - With - tire caticurretwe arid approbation of their parents or guardians. I ask then, is this system, in its pry visions, sufficiently comprehensive? Ought intelligent and immortal creatures, iui the morning of life, to be con signed to a public Plan of Edpication so essentially defective? - In a political tight, a national System of Educatiou might to be conduct rd upon tire principles of the nstional. •Chureti. To act otherwise, the Legislature would be guilty, if net of a political suicide, of an anainalYt which would tend, ' in Its ultimate consecinences,. to swell the tide of popu• tar glamour and faction, whilst it argued a strange and reprehensible ignorance of the transcendent inspertanee of Divine Truth on the one haade and of the fallen state and rxigeacies of masa en toe attain It would he to _leave him, at a seas o n when spe mind is must- tender and nisceptiale, destitute of that lames iedge of Christ which is life eterrial. "f o withhold entirely, or nearly so,. spun a delitierate scheme of national educate'', a plain exposition and application of: sound Christian priucietes, by which alone humti a nature, - in its present lapsed state, calebe radicailyaeforined, cannot but be regarded, by the pions and reflecting Christian, as an insult to the sacred Majesty of truth, and an awful de reliction of duty, highly detrimental tualie welfare of the ris ing generation. This is aut." to train up a child in the way ire' saeuld go," to sow the seed of eternal life bets oics,but to neglect the proper season of moral culture, arid toe:oust our best pros pects of a,good hardest. Fur if the mind tie nut preniccu- : pied by troth, it-will not lie dormant, or be found in a state id vibration betweeti goad and evil. Error and vice will soon invade and coataniimite it, es-the predominant tendency of a' nature "far gone from original Tighteuusnets" is.to Hence it is no satisfactory vindication of so detective a system to say, that the children are obliged to attend once, on the Sabliat In sir someplace s.f ppbtic worship, In nistiasat schools, sanctioned:and aide(' by the Legislature, uothing should be. left to charier, or in .a state of gloomy' uncertainty. Sound Chrisliair principles should be constantly and daily instilled, which may operate as a security against that infidelity and fanaticism so prevaleat In tire pr resent day. - 'Upon the as-' sumption, that the parents neither neglected to take their' children to some place et warship, or that they frequented only such places %%here saute' and orthodox priaciples were enforced, I stilt umbilici's, that such a degree Of luttniction is lamentably 4i:fit:bent; for unless the elements end rudirneuts of thelruth he well laid iti the minds of children, during tice•courie Of their scholastic evocation, they will be• pable of comprehendiag it in the more abstract and dig nified form of sermons. It will j eltale, like a plaintom, their weak applehensioas, for '.west of a more tangible fasts,' and definite shape. But what an am e nuentatitni of weight and influence does this objection acriaire-frout the painfui'cuutis aeration that these children; is a vast: Majority of instantes, will be taken hi those piiblic couventiclis where religion stay be either obscured and defiled by the fumes of a wild fanati cisni, or its sacred authority impugned,. in a greater or less degree, by a frigid scepticism. Can, then, a Christian Le gislature, strider the dictates of religion, Or of scaled policy, comitemsone an i ast if to ion wino, virtually implies that gloomy doubts still haag over the way to tile eternal, not withstanding the greater light of Revelation which hasjdis= persed the palpable darlaiess tit Paganism, and so es e enited the twilight of. the Jewish Dispeusatian, that the truth ap pears no longer veiled in types anti fiatiret, but shines with an effsleenee which constitutes that overt:lily day in which We have the privilege to live ? Would not such a priblie s•incs . tion argue nanost lementatile,ntorat blindness in the midst of noon-day . ; a monstrous indifference in the terrier: - id . Gad; a neutrality amounting to treason against the Majesty of Heaven ? Ought children who belting to'the Established Church to he altogether deprived, (as in the British anti Fa , reign ;s e a m y!) or anenist deprived, (as tinnier tire provisains of Mr. Broughain's Bit!) during the long course or their s a w s lastic education, of all that Christian instructioir which maketh " %virtu' to the saivatien of the soul, " and affords the best and, indeed, the (Jai). secu rity tuna faithfal discharg e of their relative and civil dutici ?. nave not they and their psis rents not only ostensible, but evil cause to infer, front this defective moats of pubtic ethic - a:ion, that the essential •chtn racteristic doctrines eif our floly Religion are no better than harresi speculations; or, atleast, sublinie mysteries which have nu connectiou with pr stile ? Are they net buyers ceptibly - impressed with the idea that what is exclialrtl from the System is comparatively of no inipattatice, and wbst it adopted is amply suilielt tit ? hoes not tire very requirement to attend, once on the Sabbath, some place of public wor ship, (.and which is•clesigned to christianize, _as it were, 'this Pagan sort of education) operate in producing a contrary sell tioneot ? Does it not virtually announce that an maple foals datian has been already fur religion anti morals, and a' .superstructirre raised upon it of the " must ens tuous" character, and to which no ad dition is requisite ? That the children should, indeed, attend the Service of the Church, or of some curiventidle, on the Stitin!ay, is thought expedient and decerutts ; but whether they attend Arian, Sociiiian, or Christi:ire teachers, lain' no consequence. It ar peals, that sincerity, under the guidance of season, shriuld be regarded, nos only as ft-siae qua nuns of religion, but as le a_ slim itself, retideriag nugatory all differences of creedi and opinions. It is no wonderthanthe Infidels and' Uniyerialists of the day hail a system of education which thus secretly undermines - the Christian religion, divests it of its divinity and transcendent : excellence , and liberall y o pe ns t he door of everlasting life mall principles, boss-ever wide and discordant. They are snare that they surrendeenothing; they stand upon their own latitudinarian growls', while the, children-of the • Established Cburcb are placed under an obligation to Marin don, or to neglect, in a mo st criminal de g ree, darin g th e time of their public education, all those, sublime arid evangelical doctrines of their holy religion, into whiCh they hare'lieen baptited, and •frerri width elvers as the instrumental cause, ' they can derive moral strength fur the performance of their various ditties. In short, they are kept, upon the broad sad magnificert basis of these lestitutiiinsS idtOgether,. or nearly,. i g n o rant of the living and true God, and of the - varmas l en s - /ions in which be is :eta alert to ps in the Scriptures,. and, consequently:etthose primrary obligatiOns which arise out of thrice. Stich a suspeaiion, or such a Scanty measure, of in-' structiots, upon subjects, not of a minor or secondary riantee,- btit of vital anci etc real importance , man ifest either a' pro found ignorance of the nature of Christianity, es a sinful desire to honour men more than Gail,' to court popular ta yours, to Conciliate and corn ilitiletit sects and parties at the expence of " the truth," of that " great mastery cif gddli [Jess, Cad mainfest in the trish," and 411 the inestimatile: blessiegs compselieneled in it. The question is, Shall we• Withdraw those heavenly beams emitted by the Sun of Righ teousness, or canse theist to shine - wan only a dim and par tial tight upon a public System of Education., F01104(41 to - estatiiisbed under the auspices of a Christian govern- Ment ? Ought such.a.government-to cOuntenance a general Plan of instructiten which connects the wide: and exterisiVe range of the morality of the Gospel, whilst it debases its pure and fictively nature, by yeithlolding, in so alarming a men slue, alt those transforming ;tad evangelicitt niiitives Which are the nrivga of Christ lass obedience, alai wit bout which degenerates into a .jejetre, Mundane annt s ef •enln gicia, a religion Which derifes its 'Motives liana thie earth, ter minates wile in itself,' acid it' consequeully unfit for fallen errata, who is horn to live for ever in happiness or in misery. Such to religion, so rbevoid e 'rit celestial fire, of all spiritual lire and anidatiod, merits riot so high and sacred a ItaineS 7 his indeed, (to usealie words; of the British and \Ent sigH SCbtail Society) a "concise knowledge" of the Chrislian re ligion, It is no matter of surprise that its :26.°c:del talk largely, like the Theuphilanthophisti . of the days of lore to Gial, of love to your neighbour, and obedieace to parents, as . the final resit' of this System, and have the effrontery- to assert, in the same public report, that this System grausids children !letter in all the principles of en terms action than any caher.nielliod ; calming the' bury of their passion*, In"' big them mild, submissive, Lc. &c. Is not this an impious attempt to wound the Christian Iteligien and our Ectlesiasti 'cal Establishments-the grand depository and sacred guardian of its faith ? Is it tea retrograde towards Paganism ? To pre fer natural to rex n'aled itiihiun ? Tins repent attenipts, it seems, to ito something nave than to defend itseliand all its a'arming defects. Wlalat it treats with a frigid sirdifference and contemptnetts neglect the great Saviour of the world, in Isis essential divinity, in his atoning samitice and righteous ness, and our consequent joinfieletion by faith in his exclu sive merits, and insidiously euthanasia - 6 through the meditita of detach, d parts of Scripture,. so to generalize and dilute his holy religion, that it messy triabrace all sects and parties, whs. tilt r orthodox or here-r; tll„ it-professes, at the same trine, to triumph in its setenditi strceess, stud proudly: rirrootes to itself a sublimity of virtue far pre-eminent to what other systems of educiiCsort ever produced. Suck bald preten sions the pions . Itissenter, no less than the . Cburchinati, is equally bound to repel with a holy zeal and indig nation. The fernicr;lficingh lie shay at-Doer perceive bow such a plan of education fareurs dissent and scbistu, should not allow, for a moment, such a minor cnnsiderstion to con trout his judgment, or to allure him to the adoption cf it, as it tends to dishonour his heavenly Master, to betray him, like another Judas, under the semblance of Christian charity, and to conduct us hack front the reahns of day to the obscure regions.of human wisdom awl philosophy. (To be continued.) THE LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY. EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.] [The Times.] The news from Naples contradit.ts a prerions statement impinting.t hat the King, before he sailed, bad sanctioned the modifications mode by Parliament in the Spanish Constitution. His Majesty left the decision on that point to his sort, on whom, however, in his characte'r of Regent, he conferred a Tower as ample and effectual as the royal prerogative itself. The King had also completed the nomination of twenty four Councillors of State. His voyage did not commence auspiciously. In a gale of wind, on the night of the royal embarkatioo, the Vengenr and Revolutionnaire rats foul of each other, and were forced to put into Baia, - where they remained until the Wth, when they started itgai II with a favourable wind for Leghorn ; at which port, the French papers inform us, the ging' landed on the Mb following. During his Majesty's detention at Baia a deputation front the Parliament waited ott him to renew their vows of loy alty and attachment to his person. In the meantime the oc currences at Naples' were not without considerable interest. The Prince Regent on the 15th issned,a proclamation, in which be speaks with touch .confidence of the part which the King; his father, had determined to take on behalf of Neapo litan liberty, when he should reach the presence of the Allied ,Sovereigns The Prince recommends it to the people to be prudent and moderate, and thus to " give force to the argu ments which the • King will offer to the Cong,ress at Lay bach in support of the national, independence," &c. If it comes, however, to be a topic of argumentation whether the independence of Naples shall or shall nut he respected, it is easy enough to anticipate the result, In fact, for a .Neapolitan, whether King or subject, to admit that such a question will bear to he argued at all, is. to admit that a right exists in the tribunal (viz., the Holy Alliance) before whom it is argued, to decide it in a manner destructive of the liberties of Naples. Such a concession is a.fatal sacri fice of the rights and ,bonour of a free people, as we have already remarked that the royal mission itself is to the.dig- . nits of an independent crown. We lament still farther to find that this degradation of both is indirectly recognized in a subsequent address of the Prince to the Parliament, wherein he talks of " his King and father's venerable plea in _behalf of the country before. the august session of the Allied Mo.; 'webs." This is indeed a sorry sight, and a !norm of cruel discouragement to the friends of Neapolitan tiherty. If the Allied Monarchs, instead of inviting'explanatioils from King' Ferdinand as an equal, have, as would appear from the above . official documents, only called hint as a - defendant to th eir bar, there is no deMand, however arbitrary and unjust, on their patt—no surrender; hoWevt.ir impolitic and abject, on his—which may not be - enforced agaiost King Ferdinand, us the condition of exempting from fire and sword his beautiful conntry and insulted people. It is, -nevertheless, some satis faction to learn that the Dolce de Gallo, Minister of Foreigu Affairs for Naples, had arrived at Rome, and was prosecuting his journey for fsyhach, there to assist his Royal Master, and confirm his zeal tor the interests of the cause to which he has so repeatedly and sol,cmnly sworn. The impeachment of the King's former Ministers ott the 15th was the subject of warm debate in the Parliament: 57 votes were far impeach ing Campo Chiaro and the Minister of the Interior. So far at wr can understand the account, the other Ministers had a majority in their favour. A private letter, which we quote, makes the King's journey a mere cocct to afford the'Austrians a decent excuse for withdrawing from the difficulty into which they had plunged, by proving that he was not a ptisoncr at Naples, anti that he had been a free agent in his approbation apd.support of the new Constitution. We should be • happy to lend faith to an hypothelis so flat tet [Morning Chronicle.] The acconnts from Naples in the French Papers are not of later (late than those in tho Neapolitan Journals, which ar; rived on Saturday, and from which we give extracts. They are c 4 a highly interesting character, proving, as they:do, very'decisively,the determination of the Prince, the Parlia• ment, and the People to maintain inviolate the independence ofthe country. The King of Naples is stated to hare landed at Leghorn on the 20th ult. General St,innoclii, the Com mandantorthe Marine'and of Cie Laud ForUes, having pre viously gone on board the Vengenr to compliment his Ma jesty in the name of the Grand Duke of . Tuscany. A salute of lot guns was also fired in honour of the Neapolitan Atoi narch. flit Majesty was expected On the 23d or 94th at Florence. An article from Naples in the Jcdyrnal des D6= bets of Thursday, states, that the .typhus fever prevailed amongst the Austrian army in Lombardy, and that no lesi than 15,000 of the troops bad been attacked by it, There are various reports in these Journals respecting.the Congress at Laybach ; .some supposing that it would he transferred to Flo re nee, for the purpose of regulating altogether the affairs of ftrily, and others alleging that war was finally determined upon, without reference to any further discussion in Congress. The litter rnmOtir,, hosi.eter, is contradit'red by accounts more worthy of credit, and which anticipate a pacific serum roodation ; and the former story appears to have no foundii lion; the intelligence direct from Layhach, mentiOnirig and repenting,' in positive terms, that preparations Were' making for the reception of the Sovereigns and the Miniiters...froth Troppau. [N.ew Times.]. , The intelligence from Cadiz; of the Ilth of lad um", no tires an Address from some of the Judges of that city, in an swer to the representations of thenaunicipality of Cadiz, re specting the administration of criminal justice. If we may draw a secure inference from the observations of the Judges ; it would seem that:the patriotic municipality of Cadiz mach resemble the patriotic corporate bodies of other cities ithat we could name, which meddle with matters they do not un derstand. It is stated that his Most Faithful Majesty has been informed of the progress of the new pohcv at lishiM, and also th at li e d es i res th e transmission of the'Cortes Con stitution to him, that he may aothenticate the dame; lint, in thelnean time, he is.undecided.as to whether be himself shall return to Lisbon or send one of his family there. Motril has been thrOwn• into some constei nation in consequence of the capture of seven ships laden with cotton hfan Insurgent pri vateer in the Aivditerrancau. Those wtio have penned the repOrts of the proceedings at some lene•Radienl MeetiagS;where Addresies and Resolutions have heen moved and seconded by persons styling.themselees " Reverend," may have formed ideas of the feelings and prin ciples of the noteStant Dissenters highly injurious to that respectable body,—We are credibly. informed, that at • a late ,general and num er o us M eet i ng of Ministers of the " Thri.ve Denominations;" it Was actually proposed to offer •an Ad dress of Congratulation to her Majesty: but the factious movers of the question had miscalculated the reception which it was likely to expelience from an assenibly of sensible and educated - Men. Instantly', ON the announcement of the mo tion, the far greater part of the Ministers present left the room, contoTiptutiOy abando&rig the measure to the indi. viduals who• a• ' ititted it: but %Olio, front their:weakness' and ins4mificance, found themselves unable to effect their ob ject.—(lbid.) [Morning Poll . RECOON11r107 , :: OF THE PuRTUGuEgE AEVOLITTIONT TUN 'KIN() or PORTUGAL.—gy . the Spanish Papers we tire inform ed, that atlVices - had reached Madrid on the 93d, annotincbig as certain that the news of the Revolution in POrtugal and (If the Wislies - of the tusitanian people' reached RiO de Janeiro no the 19th October; and that. his Most Faithful Maji.sty. h ,siefled to retinfnize.the legitimacy of their wishes, to ati proq.the convocation of the Coites; and to authorize the foriftaiitin' of a Constitution,• which, as soon as it is finished, be decrees may be transmitted to him that he may incest it with his Royal sanction. His Majesty adds, that when this step is taken, he will determine whether he will return in per son to Lisbon, sir send one of the Princes of hiv family, l'he affairs of Spain continue in a. very unsettled state. ft is hoped that among the earliest measures of the ensuing Session of Parliament, a Summary remedy will he prirvidcd by the Legislature for the puniShment, by fine and imprison ment,.of those depraved and infamous characters who have for so long a period lived upon the Public, by exposing in their Chop witulov s, and offering for sale-'„ the most indecent. and.rerolting caricatures upon' the Sovereign of this. Kitg dont, with the most obvious mischievous intent. At ,noperiod of our history has this disguating nuisance extilrited' such syrnotorns Of daring licentiouines&; and the tile rihaldrYr profnenessornd shameless , indecency, which, . through this polluted channel, are suffered to offend the eye„and insult the dirhil Peelings of every d'ecent int-reripetta isfelyiniber of society, as well as to undermine the principlr.s, and corrupt the Ileitis of young persons of both sexes, cannot be too I strongly reprobated. Among the various engines employed by a vile and infainons faction, for spreading among 'the lower orders of society the most degrading profligacy and irreligion, and for gradually blunting a nd {impairing the'moral lity and sterling virtues of the nation, there are none whose operations have beet► spread. over so wide a surface; or have been pursued with such a restless and wicked activity.. Un lesi a timely check • be given to the circulation and exposure of caricatures and prints of so abominable a description, it will be impossible to measure the irreparable injuries that mast inevitably be inflicted upon the best and most valuable interests of society. The law for the suppression of Offensire, obseene,and immoral..pictures, prints and caricatures, has long been viewed as materially ineffectual for the purpose, from, the' expense and delay that necessarily attend tire proceedino by information or indictment. The crime+, froth its very nature and publicity; is of so misChievous and baneful a cfmraciet; and addressed so immediately to the basest passions of the 11104; ignorant and ainbilious'of mankind,that it is impossible to visls with • sufficient severity those abandoned wretches, who are ever ready, from motives of self-interest, to become execrable' panders to the most degrading - vices of the very outcasts of society.—(l6id.) [The Public Ledger.] , . The Madrid Papers bring advices from Cadiz to the teth ult. The Judges of the Tribunal of the First Instance its that city, had'publlshed an Address to the people on the sub; ject of • the representation made by the Municipality to tfie, King, as to the delay whieh had occurred in the proceedings respecting the massacre of the 10th of Match. They assert that there had been 'no delay but what arose from the didt;• culty of the case, and from a regard to the fundamental prin ciples of justice, which forbid the condemnation of any, indi vidual without legal proof of guilt. It appears, However, from the Cadiz letters th!"lt the preliminary process wav expected to be speedily brought to a conclusion, and the principal actors in that bloody tragedy to be put out their trial., An examination had been made of the four towers, and the arsenal of the Carraecas, under the orders of the Governor, with the supposed intention of tran , ferring, the prisoners to those places for greater seem icy. Loud coat- plaints are made of numerous captures of Spanish coastiog vessels by three corsairs in the Mediterranean, one of them a privateer from Margarita, of only five guns and'.fifty men., which is said to have carried on its depredations with impu nity for the last three or four 'months. Among the captures were six or seven vessels containing 500 bags of cotton, the produce of Motril in Granada, a loss which is the mule se verely felt, es the population of the place is small, stud tl.rix resources [Morning Herald.] • There is the utmost ardour, what is not less important, t 4 utmost unanimity in the ParliaMent,Governuient, and Proplc. of Naples. The expressions and the proceedings upon thp King's departure inured the liveliest .E kindness on the part 4. the people for th e aged an d infirm Soveteign. and the lan guage of the Prince Vicar in pledging himself and his Royat Fattier for the defence of the Constitution, established arat sworn to," are so full of heart and energy, that it is impos 7 , sible, we think, to doubt them. . . Madrid Papers to the 9.5 th ult. arrived yesterday. The; ,state that the King of Portugal having learned the political changes in that kingdom, had given his sanction to the-call— ing of the Cortes, and that the . King, or one of the• Princes, might be expected to arrive shortly in Europe. We Liopes this statement may prove nue, l?nt, doubt its currectrtess. • - (.hitt.) [British PreSs.] The accounts of the Revenue for the quarter whiels closed: on the sth of this month have been made up at the Treaeury. and exhibit, as we understand, a deficiency to the. amount of. 820,0001. as compared with the produce of the correspooding quarter during the last year: This is the more lamentahle,n, in the accounts of the quarter just closed was embraced the produce of the new taxes upon exciseable articles, which were estimated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to afford sitAtte least 800,00,01. a quarter. Asa set-off against this very disheart ening view of the state of the public finances, or Lather - as au antidote to the effects- which snob a statement of the quarter's account was calculated to produce upon the minds of all tbiiiking men, a Treasury Journal has assured its readers " that the produce of the Revenue for the year iBl has exceeded that of - the year HO by a sum of ebony. 2,000,0001." We sincerely hope that the official accounts of the whole Revenue fur the year will justify this early an nouncement front the Treasury, but it must be manifest that: so far as our 'prospects of financiat improvement are involved in the consideration of the actual produce of the Reventie,tim comparative view of the last quarter must be of far greater iMportance than that of the 3 precethugqitartersovitb referenee to*the corresponding quarters in the . former year respectively.. The remarkable deficiency in the produce of the quarter end ed the sth inst. as compared with the corresponding quarter of the last year, clearly sheets that tire improvement aisctrni ble in the total amount of the whole year must have-been accumulated Oil the three preeedir quartets. This cir cumstance, by chewing a• very rapid ' and sudden dtcline in the Revenue during the last quarter, is calculated to give rise to the most serious alarms for the future state of our finances. Parliament must now feel that the country has been burdened to the utmost exertion of its strength; that our resources ate at this moment drawn. to their extreme tension; and that not only are further VI.. crificts impoSsible to be obtained, but that the must dan gerous consequences must . -be apprehended if a speedy relief be not afforded to the community. The Government of France is not afraid or ashamed to pursue a principle of eco nomy in its internal arrangements, when the interests of the French people require the sacrifice, and the effect,has turn -a proposition by the King of France himself to his Parliament to reduce the burdens of the Subject. Delightful would it' bee - if our Government were to futiow so wise an example, and learn front the Cabinet of the Tuitcries the most effect ail meaus of securing to a Monarch his p eo pl e 's beat aft:, tions; • but should our Ministers resolve to maintain their present wild•expes,diture, without regard either to .the pre sent comforts of the people or to the future prosperity of the empire, we trust that Parliantent will not he wanting' in its duty in an emergency of such great and fearful magni tude. In the course of the -,tact week we took , the liberty of -calling- the . publi c ' a tt en ti on to the financial condition o'f the Empire, and then laid before our readers an'estimate ut: the probeible receipt of the Revenue for the present year, and also a view of the scale of expeutlitur~ which the present. NI:- nisters, should they, unfottunately for the Empire, continua in power, will probably require_ •We then endeaVoured tsr spew that the Chancellor of ttie'Excheyier would find it ne cessary to hare recourse to the market for a loan of about twelve 'millions to meet the - a ipplies for the year. We tiaras since learned that our view of the subject has been- adopted by those Gentlemen in the City who are most conversant itt topics' of finaitee. The. state c f the last quarter's Revenue is nut calculated to alter the impression. COUNTRY MARKETS. I.e.lasreit, Dec. :in. - - eiverage Prices of Corn dud ri:omr, per Quarter; yri nc h,;t e ,.. ilkas•ure. • Wheat, COs Od; Rye, Os Od,; Barley, ‘.2os Od s o Alsto,; , 2Ts 0.; Beans, 41)s Od; Hog Pease, —s nd ; Pale Malt, 'Os od ; Oa:- meal, 25s 6d par butyl of 1401hs; Fine Flour, per secii, 50s'Od; Seconds, 494 Od ; Thirds, 45s Od. ' MAss,..k.r HastnottouGH.' -4 1 an• • Re,--"WhOr.. —s a — I 'i Rye, —s as; I;arley, 24s a 26 ; Oats, ;tis a 24, ; Beans, Old, —s; Pease—s a—s ; Malt —s a —s; Fine Flour per each, 514 a Seconds, 4:s; Thirds, 445. .lirmotia24, • Jan. 3.—Wheat, 55s a 665; Barley, 9.30 a 26s •, Oats, 2.2 s a 2::+; ; Beans, 341 a 365. LOUGUEOMOUGH, Jan. 4.—Wheat, C3l: Barley, C' , . pz -; Oats, Os; Beans, —s ; Malt, 685 : ; Fine Flour, pe: :al. ~ 51s ; Seconds, 475; C 'l ;. lir :s i t ti d a s t ' n . C. :s : d. Dec,, 130. Wheat • 583 ad per qr 1 Oats Rye P t.a as 925.. od i Barley. HuNriNnooN, Dec. e.O. . Wheat .... 4as nd a 553 . 0/1 Oats Barley .... sUs Od a 25s Od I Brans .;itis 03 WlNDsoit, Jan. 6. • Wheat, per Id.. 131 Qs a 181 Cid 13eani, per qr .... :3 , 3s a 31,;s Barley, per ld .... 26s a 29s Pease . , —l a .—{ Oats READING, ./ an . 6; Wheat 49s a 7.3 s Od .1 Oats . it';s a Vs Barley 2i s a 27s 6d 1 Pease ilcurn - White ---s a —s Old Wheat ~.. —s a —s. SraisEs, -lan. 5. . Wheat .... 11105 a 171 Os I Pease, per qr Rye • • s a --s 1 7- A , rley Oats .--,s a —s . . I;` )N1)4),N.: Printed by J. B. cAitsTAlas, of‘N c t. $9, Grett. Ormond -street, Queen-squac.., • and publitted by W. SCRIPPS, Of No. 7, South ~•.I+.,n-street, at 'l"Ete SON Office, No. 112, Strand ; strliept Atirettisettents, Qrder,, Letters, See. (cost-Paid) must be addremci.