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The sermon was preached b y the Bishop of London; who took his text from the Gospel o f S t. John, chap. 20, verse 19. The prayers were read by th e Rev. D. Wesley, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, and the altar service was read by the Bishop of London and the Sub Dean. The Chant was Dr. Cooke's, the Te Deum and Jubilate Nares, in C, the Sanctus and Responses Ebden's, and the Anthem, " 0 Lord, thou hast searched me out" (Croft), was sung by Messrs. W. Knyvett, J. B. Sale, and Hobbs. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Bishop o f N orwich, Clerk cf the Closet, was in waiting. H er M ajesty was attended by the Marchioness of Theresack, Hon. Mi ss M urray, Hon. Miss Lister, Lady Digby, Viscount Torringt o n, H on . Major Kep pel, and Colonel Buckley-. Her Majesty and suite re turned in three of the Royal carriages to Buckingham Palace. Sir James Clerk attended the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Friday. Her Majesty his not suffered from the inclemency cf the weather during the last week. Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Harvey was presented to the Queen to take leave, at an audience on Saturday at Buck ingham Palace, by the Earl of Minto, First Lord of the Admiralty. Her Majesty rode on S a t ur d ay i n t h e Ri ding School, near Buckinam Palace. The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had audiences of the Queen on Saturday. tohe R oyal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Sa rday evening, incl u d e d t h e Marquis and Marchioness of Lord Lansdowne, Viscount D uncannon, Viscount Melbourne, Holland, Lord Russell, and Mr. Digby. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance during the evening. The Duke of Cambridge came to town on Saturday, a nd visited the Princess Augusta, at Clarence H o u se . His Royal Highness returned to his residence at K ew i n the evening. The Duke of Sussex honoured Mr. Hayter with a s itting for his grand historical pi on Frid ay. cture of the Coronation The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Au gusta yesterday. Mr. Williams had an interview with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday, in The Downing -street. o n Sat Earl and Countesss of Li c hfi e ld arr i ve d i n town Saturday from Newmarket. SPORTING INT ELLIGENCE. ---- ••••111. NF.I73IARKET CRAVEN MEETING. (Further particulars of Friday's Races. ) Plate, made the running, followed by Rory O'More, with Chemist and others well laid up, with the exception of the Marches& filly,which never showed in front. At the new ground Vaeuna attempted to take up the running, but could not manage it, and the young ones were left to carry it on. About 200 aynadrdms.ofrnomeastyhehystta:od Rory O'More took the lead fr)m Lyster, for second place. 1,3 le ngths. st defeatedust ßa er was place third. rhican a h L d y N s 7 t a e .. r tuna were also well up. Sweepstakes of 50 sov Montreal made play to the hill, where Euclid passed him, and won in a cante by two lengths. Match. passed betting ' varied from 5 to 6 to 4 on the Tragedy colt, to 6t05 on Flambeau, which was the closing price. The half a Tragedy colt cut out the work at a moderate pace for neatly mile ; the speed then improved, but the positions con tinued the same ; at the cords Flambeau challenged, but was beaten by a head after a splendid race. The Port Stakes. —It would be a waste of time to attempt a description of this race, for the " Gallant Grey" has beaten the winne r of the St. Leger, and won, hard held, by two lengths. There can be no doubt that he might have won by 20 lengths had it been necessary, for all that John Day had to do was to restrain him. It was impossible, looking at last year's running, to receive this as Don John's proper form. He was amiss some time since, and is obvionsly far below " high-water mark." Alemdar had nothing to do with the race. The w eat h er was exceedingly unfavourable, the rain having fallen without intermiision during the whole of the racing. The only bets made on the Derby in the m orn i ng were 650 to '2OO agst Csar, 25 to I agst Euclid, and 35 t o 1 agst f lambeau. T r he last two bets w ere repeated just before the horses started fo thi respectiv e races. CATTERICK BRIDGE m uns. The Champagne Stakes of 20 soy,, each, p.p., with 15 added from the Fund, for two-yrs-old colts, Bst. 31b., and fillies, Bst. ; three quarters of a mile. (7 subs.) Mr. Jaques's b. f. Interlude, by Physician, out of Comedy 1 Duke of Cleveland's b. f. sis. to Eliza, by Physician ...... ... 2 Mr. Attwood's b. c. Avicuma, by Leonardo or Physician... 3 The Fills Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft., for three-yr olds, Bst. Mile and half. Six subs. Mr. Hell's b. f. La Sage Femme, by Physician ... ......... ... 1 Mr. Walker's b. f. No. 3, by Jerry, out of Gin ............... 2 Mr. Arrowsmith's b. f. Anna Maria, by Huntingdon ... 3 A good race. The Gold Cup (or St eeie), by subs. of 10 sovs. each; three yrs old Est . 61b. ; four yrs Bst. ; iveyrs Bst. 101b.'; six 3re and aged 9st. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles. Seven subs. Mr. Orde's b. tn. Bees -Wing, by Dr. Syntax, 6 yrs ......... 1 Mr. Fryer's b. g. The Potentate, by Langar, aged ......... Mr. Milbank's b. c. by Cetus, out of Pucelle, 3 yrs ......... 3 Won easy. The Brough Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., and only five if declared, &c. Mile and a half. Nine subs, of whom four declared. Mr. Wrather's gr. c. Hackfall, by Actaeon, 4 yrs, est, 111 b. I Mr. Walker's b. f. No. 3, by Jerry, 3 yrs, 6st. 41b...•••••„ Mr. S tep h enson ' s b. c. Hart, by Actaeon '4 yrs 2, Bst. 21b... 3 - -- - BETTING AT MANCHESTER —FRIDAY. THE DWI' 4i to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Caesar 10 to 1 agst Celeael Peel's De] of Algiers 25 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Tros 25 to 1 agst Mr. Wreforsi's Westonian 30 to 1 agst Accelerator 30 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid 3 5 to 1 agst Mo n t rea l 4 0 to 1 agst Mr. C. Clark's Dragsman CHESTER CUP, 7 to 1 ag s t Ki ng Cole 7 to 1 agst Caravan 7 to 1 agst Harkaway 10 to 1 agst Cardinal Puff 12 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van 13 to 1 agst Cowboy 18 to 1 agst Slashing Harry Buren 18 to 1 agst Modesty CHELTENHAM STEEPLE CHASES.— THURSDAY. The grand Sweepstakes of 20 soy:. each, 5 ft,wi Es added by Lord Seagrave, 10 by P. Thomps on, and 23 by the town, for horses of all denominations,. d l2 g st . :. e ach ; the second to save his stakes. Gent. rt ers Mr. Twenty-three subs. J. Elmore's b. Lottery Mr, vevc rst'a b. g C ho ty Mr, Ji,. liiitNerneap•senonm. bl's b..g . Cannon-ball 3 (Mr. Mason) by Ha rry The lot went away b a . t rn a . moder ate of f pace, the 4 taking the lead but refused the into the lane ou t . took up th wall on the opposite side, when Cannonba ll but _e ror in i ball, however, goofing resumed dd theby Clehaadr,it Cannon short at the fence at the end of the long field, and pitched the Powell over the side of his neck, who re ys but aurt starting stopped mounted as quick as thought, and went away again at a brisk pace, the rest having got over without difficulty, 4,11(1 Lottery showed the way down the dell, and jumped the gate, followed by Cannon tall and Charity, the mare still keeping to the right and taking the fence at the further corner. Cannon -ball again made play over some pretty stiff hedges, and over a little gate in tho orchard, but refused the laid hedge in the middle of it, and turned round. Lottery took it immediately, and went straight ahead over a style, followed by Charity in an equally un hesitating manner, the former maintaining his lead to the brook, a fair jump, with about ten or twelve feet of water, which Cannon -ball cleared a little in advaikce of him, and made strong running to the next fence, from ti,hich he turned, but Wait made to take it, and contest the re mainder of the distance pretty stiffly with Lottery to the last fence, which Mason, who was evidently only " waiting his time," cleared beautifully, and went in a winner by some distance ; Charity defeating Cannon -ball in a fine struggle for second place by several lengths, and the b. rn. some distance in the rear. The second race was for a Sweepstakes of five sous. each, with ten added, and for horses of all denominations, 17st. 71b. each ; winners of any steeple chase 71bs. extra ; horses that never started allowed 7lbs. ; over the last two Miles of the same line of country as the first chase ; the winner to be sold for 80 guineas, if demanded, &c. (Ten subs,) and for which the following started :—Mr. J. Eel thoger nd. ch. g. Goshawk (Mr. Oliver), Mr. Griffith's u• Gil g'• Giraff e , M r. H. Guy nd. ch. . Inez, Mr. G. es' m. b. g. M oonraker, Mr. H. Thom son's b. g. by the Earl , Mr. W. Lait's T ramp , and Mr. C. Mill's Exchange. c's awk as did jump e d o ff with the lead, but refused his fence, M oonraker. Exchange went ahead, the latter first over the next leap, the others well up. The brook was first cleared b Goshawk, Giraffe taking it nearly at the 4 I. ti roe, Mo y onraker and Inez also taking it well. The last fence was likewise taken by Giraffe and Goshawk in P re tty close com any the former being about half a n l s eng w th l':411 advance. A P splendid race home ensued, G os ha w k fourth.hak , inn ing by half a neck, Inez third, and Moonra ker ,Breceiving "a °bjection was afterwards made to Goshawk ground the orchard" th e the "ea, that be went through the gate at t jitti ltY LANE THEATRE.—Madame Alberd azzi appears this evening in the Maid of Paliseau, an ‘v?,,,iullbed:as all the world of fashion there. One of t h e 4lessrs. Griev e has started for Paris to see the Fairy Lak e , new opera, which is forthcoming at Drury . La me e : dPierrot and Carlotta Grisi appear at Drury Lane tm at l elY in a new ballet. ~ NARWICK CASTLE. The Earl and Countess o' Warwick entertained Lord Denman and Sir J. Bosan 'Net at dinner on Saturday last, and on the following day 1 large circle w as enterta i ned by the Noble Earl and e ouritess at this s pl en did castle. The grand festivities in we,lcbration of Lord Brooke take place on Wedn..sday, inen the fimily tenantry will be sumptuously feasted. It i.ndersood he poor will also participate in the libe l.' 'LY of the Noble Earl. t Rooke's new opera, which is to be brought out ',..eCnovent Garden Theatre on the 30th inst., is entitled zi . r.ique ; or The Love Pilgrim. , We find an announcement in the Covent Garden 1,5147 -bill for this week, that, " the present management ',tit terminate with this season," and that the standard I) ,.aYs of -King Lear, Hamlet, The Two Foscari. Macbeth, uoriolanus, Werner, Othello, lon, and Virginius, will each be performed once more. GREAT WESTERN 11.AILWAY.--We under- Stant hiestdroeticht e. a t the number of passengers in the week ending the ,pta,nd including Good- Friday, was 10.215, and nearly 1,7001. The total receipts in the month of March amouted to very nearly 8,000/.—Bristo 1 Mercury. CAUTION TO TEA DEALERS AND GROCERS. 7:-aTradestrien in thi s li ne o f b us i ntss should bear in mind th t it is illegal to weigh the paper in e.hich tea and sugar are sold. sataa.—_ SIMPLICITY OF LIVING, OBSERVA TIONS ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTII IN INFANCY. YOUTH, MAN. HOOD, AND AGE. By JOHN HARRISON Cuitrls, ESQ. London : Renshaw. Third Edition. The man who denies the value of rules as a means of preserving health ought, to be consistent, to discard rules in every other matter of human in terest. If he asserts that instinct alone is a sufficient guide to correct practice, in what affects his bodily welfare, he ought equally to grant the competency of the moral sense or instinct to direct us aright in our conduct towards others, and, as a consequence, to regard as utterly useless all the laborious inquiries of philosophers into the princi ples of morals The opinion above alluded to is now becoming obsolete, and the growth of an opposite, and, in our view, more accurate opinion is indicated by the in creasing demand for works of the class to'which the book whose title we have quoted, belongs, on which we purpose to make to make a few remarks by way of introducing it to our readers. The object of Mr. Curtis's work is to furnish a compendium of rules for practical guidance in all that relates to health at every period of life, founded on the laws of the animal economy. This is done in a distinct anal intelligible mariner, without any parade of scientific or professional learning, white a sufficient, though brief, account is given of those branches of physiology which serve to show the reasonableness of the precepts afterwards enun ciated. The work is divided into four chapters, one being devoted to the consideration of each of the four principal stages:of human existence. This third edition contains many important addi tions on subjects of general interest, such as the causes of disease, the adulteration of food, the improvements of the metropolis, the choice of watering places and mineral waters, &c. &c., on all of which much va luable information is given. The following extracts will convey to our readers a more distinct perception of the distinguishing qualities of the work than any thing further from our pen could do. The beneficial effects of useful exertion on the health : Persons whose circumstances enable them to dispense with labour, and who, having no activity of mind, pas their days in listless idleness, are, of all men, least to be en vied. Not only are they too frequently led into vices in jurious to health, but the nervous system becomes the vic tim of sloth ; ennui, hypochondriaism, indigestion, affect these unhappy mortals, who not seldom put au end to their miserable existence by suicide. Let the man who depends for subsistence upon the toil of his muscles or of his brain console himself by pondering on these facts; and let those who are independent of labour recollect that man is a social being, and that the Creator has ordained that useful exer tion shall be essential to individual happiness." A word of advice to political enthusiasts : " As politics are one of the leading causes of excite ment at the present day in this country, I may be excused for referring somewhat more at large to them. It is strange that this subject should excite immoderately many men who display comparatively little anxiety about those private affairs which one would think (without attempting to undervalue the importance of politics) bear a far mere direct relation to their well-being. How many hot-headed persons are there who are in a state of constant excitement upon matters of the most trifling moment, who throw them selves into a fever in discussing a subject which concerns no one. The media via of politics, neither indifference nor partizanship, is the best, both for the health of indi viduals and for the general good. It is to be regretted that men while striving, as they imagine, to promote the prosperity of their country, should so much injure their own happiness." The advantages of country excursions : " A short trip into the country, even for a single day, is exceedingly beneficial, by diverting the mind from the or dinary objects of contemplation, and removing from it for a time that load of anxious cares, which if suffered too long to remain, destroys its elasticity. For a few pounds a per son may visit the lakes of Cumberland or Westmoreland, the mountains and lochs of Scotland, or the picturesque scenes which abound in the Emerald Isle, and inhale strength and vigour from the ocean's breeze ; he may store his mind with the recollection of the beauties of nature, and of the various pleasing occurrences that befel him while absent from home; and in the midst of the crowded city, and of pressing occupations, he may often relieve and amuse his harassed mind by the contemplation of these in tellectual images." An agreeable suggestion " Great satisfaction has been given to the lovers of out door exercise by the occasional playing, in Kensington Gardens, of the band of the Horse Guards stationed at Knightsbridge barracks ; and it is to be regretted that this amusement is so scantily furnished to the inhabitants of the metropolis. It would add much to the charms of Regent's Park, and induce many more personeto take exercise in it, than at present, were the band of the regiment at the Park barracks directed to play in it, at stated times, during fine weather. The band of the regiment stationed at the Wel lington barracks might, in like manner, be directed to play in the inclosure of St. James's Park. If each of these three excellent bands were to play twice a-week, from three till five in the afternoon, a most agreeabl e recreat i on wou ld be furnished to the inhabitants of the metropolis." A curious fact : " The Parisian bakers are said to adulterate their bread with gypsum ; and the Germans make use'of an article called mountain or bread meal, which consists of the silicified re mains of the Campy podiscus Clypens for the same purpose as was conclusively shown by Mr. Ross, by means of his achromatic microscope, a few evenings since at the Royal Institution. These animalculm were discovered by Pro fessor Ehrenberg. and have been extensively used in Ger many to adulterate bread. They are not wholly destitute of nutritive matter, the gelatinous substance of the animal in some few specimens not being greatly changed ; but a very large proportion of the material thus introduced into this essential article of food is pure silica, a mineral which is something worse than so much finely powdered glass." Many useful hints are scattered throughout the volume, among which we would notice that for the adoption of stench traps to the gratings in the streets leading to the sewers ; and the suggestion for compelling the consumption on the premise s , of the smoke generated in factories, gas-works, breweries, &c. &c. The work, we have no doubt, will be found a old d fr a o n m d t w h l e ii y c o h un tl g ie , comprehensive a n m o a f n b u ti a s l i business, s h , e t a h l e t h e) , may alike i diminution of d capable i seoafs eandsuffer ing, being turned to account n the and in the increase of enjoyment and the pro longation of life. THE CANADIAN, l‘o. 1. Mitchell, London, 1839. This monthly journal is brought out at a very seasonable time, when the subjects of Canada, and the American Boundary Line, are engrossing public attention. It contains several ably written articles ; and among them, some chapters of a History of Canada; which, we presume, will be continued, and the tone of which is temperate and impartial; an amusing account of fashionable life in Upper Canada, which is an agreeable relief to the same ness of the discussions respecting this notorious province ; and a specimen of, w hat the editor calls, the " Colonial Muse," in the shape of a pleasing poem from the pen of a lady named Moodie. As the magazine is cheap and wed got up, we think it stands a very fair chance of copularity. THEORY, PRACTICE, AND .ARCHITEC TURE OF BRIDGES. Weale, London. 1839. A useful, practical publication, embellished with numer•us illustrative plates, and proposed to be completed in twelve monthly parts. The chief contributors are Messrs. Hann and Hosking. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SMITH v. STANLEY. SIB,—In order to correct any erroneous opinion which may be formed, we beg leave to state that the defendant in this cause, against whom a verdict was given at the last Shrewsbury Assizes, is not Mr. John Stanley, of Newport (of the firm of i" Stanley and Heane"), nor were we in any way concerned in the transaction out of which the ac• tion arose.---We arc, Sir, Your very obedient servants, STANLEY AND BEANE. Newport, Salop, sth April, 1839. THE LEVELLING PROCESS.—BOOKS HELP Ram-Roans —ln the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books I They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers. They give to ail who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am ; no matter though the pros perous of my own time will not enter my obscure dwelling; if the sacred writers will enter and take up their abode under my roof—if Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me of Paradise ; and Shakspeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart ; and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom—l shall not pine for want of in tellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best so ciety in the place where I live I know how hard it is to some men, especially to those who spend much time in manual labour to fix attention on books. Let then, strive to overcome the difficulty, by choos ing subjects of deep interest, or by reading in corn. pany with those whom they love. Nothing can sup ply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both Continents would not compen'ate for the good they impart. Let every man, if possible, gather some good bsaocorkisficuenddetor t h h is is roof c , iiaan;do.to.ibu on tairiaccess for himself and fa mily to some social library. Almost any luxury should be Sey Culture. THE SUN, LONDON, MON‘DAY, APRIL 5, 1839 LORD BROUGHAM'S SKETCHES OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS. ord Brougham's "Hisorical Sketches of ( Statesmen." WIT OF LORD NORTH. " But if it would be endless to recount the triumphs of his temper, it would be equally so, and far more diffi cult to record those of his wit. It app(a.s to have been of a kind peculiarly characteristic and eminently na tural ; playing easily, and without the least effort ; per fectly suited to his placid nature, by being what Claren don says of Charles 11., a pleasant, affable, recom mending sort of wit ;' wholly unpretending ; so exquisitely suited to the occasion that it never failed of effect, yet so readily produced, and so entirely unambiti ous, that although it had occurred to nobody before, every one wondered it had not suggested itself to all. A few only of his sayings have reached us, and these, as might be expected, are rather things which he had chanced to coat over with some sarcasm or epigram that tended to preserve them ; they consequently are far from giving an idea of his habitual plea sentry a-id the gaiety of thought which generally pervaded his speeches. Thus, when a vehement de claimer, call . ng aloud for his (Lord North's) head, turned round and perceived his victim unconsciously indulging in a soft slumber, and, becoming still more exasperated, denounced the Minister as capable of sleeping while he ruined his country—th© latter only complained how cruel it was to be denied a solace which other criminals so often enjoyed, that of bavisg a ' night's rest before their fate. When surprised in a like indulgende during the performance of a very in ferior artist, who, however, showed equal indignation at so ill-timed a recreation, he contented himself with observing how hard it was that he should be grudged so very natural a release from considerable suffering ; but, as if recollecting himself, added, that it was some what unjust in the gentleman to complain of him for taking the remedy which he had himself been conside rate enough to administer. The same good-humour and drollery quitted him not when in opposition. Every one has heard of the speech which, if it had failed toinjure the object of its attack, was very effectual in affixing a name upon its honest and much respected author. On Mr. Martin's proposal to have a starlin g placed near the chair, and taught to re p ea t th e cry of Infamous coali tion !' Lord North coolly suggested that, as long as the worthy Member was preserved to them, it would be a needless waste of the public money, since the starling might well perform his office. by deputy. That in so ciety such a man must have been the most delightful of companions may be well supposed. In his family, and in all his private intercouse, as in his personal character, he was known to be in every respect amiable ; of scru pulous integrity and unsullied honour." LORD CHATHAM AS A PRIVATE MAN. " It remains to speak of Lord Chatham as a private man, and he appears to have been in all respects ex emplary and amiable. His disposition was exceedingly affectionate. The pride, bordering upon insolence, in which he showed himself encased to the world, fell naturally from him, and without any effort to put it off, as he crossed the threshold of his own door. To all his family he was simple, kindly, and gentle. His pursuits were of a nature that showed how much he loved to unbend himself. He delighted in poety and other light read ing ; was fond of music ; loved the country ; took pe culiar pleasure in gardening ; and had even an extremely happy taste in laying out grounds. His early education appears to have been further prosecuted afterwards ; and he was familiar with the Latin classics, although there is no reason to believe that he had much acquaintance with the Greek. In all our own classical writers he was well versed ; and his time was much given to reading them. A correspondence with his nephew, which Lord Grenville published about five and thirty years ago, showed how simple and classical his tastes were, how affectionate his feelings, and how strong his sense of both moral and religious duty. These letters are re printed in a work now in the course of publication by the family of Lord Chatham, because the answers have EXTENT OF « OUR" COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. In North America.—Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland ; containing an area of 435,000 square miles, or 279,400,000 acres, with a population of 1,500,000 of white colonists. In South America.—Demerara, Essequibo, Berbice, Honduras, and the Falkland Islands ; containing an area of 165,000 square miles, or 105,600,000 acres, with a population of 120,000. In the West Indies.—Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, St. Vir cent, Barbadoes, Montserrat, Nevis, St, Kitts, Arguilla, Tortola, and the Virgin Isles, New Providence, 'and the Bahama Islands, and St. George's and the Bermuda Islands ; containing an area of 13,000 square miles, or 7,720,000 acres, with a popula tion of 1,000,000. In Africa.—The Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Mahe, and the Seychelle Islands, St. Helena, Ascen sion, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Accra, Cape Coast, &c. ; containing an area of 250,000 square miles, or 160,000,000 acres, with a population of 350,000. In Australia.—New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Swan River, King George's Sound, South Aus tralia, Norfolk Island, &c. ; containing an area of 500,000 square miles, or 320,000 acres, with a popula tion of 120,000. In Asia.—C,tylon ; containing an area of 24,644 square miles, or 11,771,136 acres, with a population of 1,000,000. In Europe.—Gibraltar, Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cepha lonia, Zante Maria, Ithaca, Paxo, Cerigo, &c., and Heligoland ; containing an area of 1,500 square miles, or 1,000,000 acres, with a population of 400,000. Total.-1,750,000 square miles, or 1,120,000,000 acres, with a population of 4,490,000 of " British subjects." Independently of the foregoing, we have to add the following territories, which are " under the management and influenced by the Government of the East India Company and the Board of Control in Cannon-row : British Territories in Hindostan—Containing an area of 432,423 square miles, with a population of 80,636,371. Tributary Territories in Hindostan—Containing an area of 563,610 square miles, with a population of 54,271,092. since been recovered ; and it contains a great body of other letters, both to and from him. Amongst the latter are to be found constant tokens of his amiable disposition. " The most severe judge of human actions, the critic whose searching eye looks for defects in every portrait, and regards it as a fiction, not a likeness, when he fails to find any, will naturally ask if such a character as Lord Chatham's could be without reproach ; if feel ings so strong never boiled over in those passions which are dangerous to virtue ; if fervour of soul such as his could be at all times kept within the bounds which sepa rate the adjoining provinces of vehemence and intem perance? Nor will he find reason to doubt the reality of the picture which lie is scrutinising when we have added the traits that undeniably disfigured it. Somo we have already thrown in ; but they rather are shades that give effect and relief to the rest, than deformities or defects. It must now be further recorded, that not only was he impracticable, difficult beyond all men to act with, overbearing-, impetuously insisting upon his own views being adopted by all as infallible, utterly re gardless of other men's opinions when he had formed his own, as little disposed to profit by the lights of their wis dom as to avail himself of their co-operative efforts in action, all this is merely the excess of his great qualities run ning loose uncontrouled—but he appears to have been very far from sustaining the exalted pitch of magnani mous independence and utter disregard of sublunary in terests which we should expect him to have reached and , kept as a matter of courie, from a mere cursory glance at the mould in which his lofty character' 'was cast. Without allowing considerable admixture of the clay which forms earthly mortals to have entered into his British Territories beyond Hindostan—Containing an area of 50,117 square miles, with a population of 297,054. _ _ Tributary Territories beyond Hindoatan—Containing an area of -50,000 ■quare mites, with a population of 408,000. Total--1,096,210 square miles, with a population of 45,612,517. composition, how can we account for the violence of his feelings, when George 111. showed him some small signs of kindness in the closet, upon his giving up the seals of office. I confess, sir, I had but too much reason to expect your Majesty's displeasure. I had not come THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS (BLURS). Not long since we had occasion to_ call public atten- prepared for this exceeding goodness. Pardon me, Sir,' he passionately exclaimed, it overpowers—it oppresses me ! ' and he burst into tears in the presence of one who, as a moment's reflection must have con tion to the conduct of the officers of the lloyal Horse Guards (Blues), and we feel sincere regret in being again obliged to revert to the subject. Our readers will recollect that a police report has mentioned the fact of the Honourable Captain Pitt having been taken into custody on Wimbledon Common, he having at the time two pistols in a bag. Beyond these circumstances, nothing has yet appeared in any of the Newspapers, al though the whole affair has been the subject of discus sion in every circle at the west end of the town. The story is this—and we shall be most happy to learn that it is exaggerated, and most ready will we be to afford to the parties implicated the opportunity of explanation— the story is, that Captain Maynard and the Honourable Mr. M--, both officers in the Blues, were walk ing along Harley -street at night, and, seeing a person with a cigar in his mouth, talking to a female, Captain Maynard turning towards him, said, " You sentimental —," The person thus addressed in stantly turned round and said, " Here is my card, give me yours." The officers of the Blues are said, we hope untruly, to have run away on the instant. The insulted man pursued ; lie overtook them, and was knocked down by the lion. F. M. Again the Blues are said to have made a start, but were ultimately seized upon and taken to the station-house, where the outraged in dividual, insulted and assaulted, declared that he wanted only their names, and that he sought not to press any police charge against them. He obtained their names. First he sent a message to Mr. M— : they met, and in the first fire the ball went through Mr. M.'s hat. Mr. M. fired in the air, and then, in the most frank manner, apologised for the outrage that had beeen offered to his antagonist, assuring him " that if he bad known he was a gentleman he would not have acted so towards him ;" which, being interpreted, means this, that we, the Blues, will insult every man whom w e can no respectable tradesman '- will we allow to walk the streets at night w ith his wife, sister, or daughter, without insulting him ; but we should be very sorry indeed to insult a gentle man—that is to say, a person whom we dare not refuse to fight. What will their Colonel, Lord Hill, say to this ? After tho fight with the Hon. F. M—, the injured party sent a message to Captain Maynard, and they were to have met at Wimbledon Common on the morn ing that the Hon. Captain Pitt, the second of Captain Maynard, was arrested by the policeman. Now, one word as to the individual whom these Guardsmen imagixed they could in sult with im p unit y. His name is Jennings ; not a long time hack he was a private soldier in the 10th Hussars ; there he acquired the respect and esteem of all who knew him, and his friends, desirous of giving wider scope to his action, obtained for him a a Cornetcy in Kinloch's Regiment o f L ancers, in General Evan's army in Spain. His conduct advanced him to a troop, and such was the gallantry of this soldier, and the accumulated testimony in his favour, that Lord Hill had, w ithin a few days before thi s occurrence, given him a Cornetcy in (we think) the 15th Light Dra goons.—Observer. winced him, was playing a part to undermine his character, destroy his influence, and counter act all his great designs for his country's good. But some misplaced sentiments of loyalty may have pro duced this strange paroxysm of devotion. The colour assumed by his gratitude for favoars conferred upon his family and himself was of a more vulgar hue, and still less harmonised with the Great Commoner's exalted nature. On learning the King's intention to grant him a pension (in order effectually to undo him), he writes to Lord Bute a letter full of the most humiliating effu sions of extravagant thankfulness—speaks of ' being confounded with the King's condescension in deigning to bestow one thought on the mode of extending to him his Royal beneficence'—considers any mark of approba tion flowing from such a spontaneous source of clemency as his comfort and his glory'—and prostrates himself in the very dust for daring to refuse the kind of provision tendered by the King in a manner so infinitely gra cious'—and proposing, instead of it, a pension for his family. When this prayer was granted, the effusions of gratitude for these unbounded effects of beneficence and grace which the most benign of Sove reigns has condescended to bestow' are still more extrava gant ; and' he dares to hope that the same Royal benevo lence which showers on the unmeritorious such unlimited benefits may deign to accept the genuine tribute of the truly feeling heart with equal condescension and good ness.' It is painful to add what truth extorts, that this is really not the sentiment and the language with which a patriot leaves his Sovereign's councils upon a broad difference of honest opinion, and after being personally ill used by that Monarch's favourites, but the tone of feeling, and even the style of diction in which a con demned felon, having sued for mercy, returns thanks when his life h.s been spared. The pain of defacing any portion of so noble a portrait as Lord Chatham's ___ust not prevent us from making the traits of a some what vulgar, if not sordid, kind, which are to be found on a closer inspection of the original. " Such was the man whom George 111. most feared, most hated, and most exerted his kingcraft to disarm ; and such, unhappily, was his momentary success in this long-headed enterprise against the liberties of his people and their champions ; for Lord Chatham's popularity, struck down by his pension, was afterwards annihilated by his Peerage." -------7-7 THE E AR ._Yesterday a L ecture on the Di ,eases o f t h e Ear was delivered by m r. Sutherland, of Caroline-street, Bedford-square. The peculiar diseases to which this delicate organ is liabl e , together with the danger arising from the treatment of empiri es , an d even d of those professo rs who do not make aural surgery their particular study, were descanted on with great force. The lecturer illustrate d his subject by the introduction of two patients, the extremes of each other in point of age; one was nearly SO years old, and has been blind for upwards of .. a ddition to which privati on h e was a f half a century—in fliuted with total deafness, buttas been compl e t e l y restored. by the r eme di al measures of Mr. Sutherland hi s hearing The other case was that of a youth about 10 y ears o f age , who had long suffer ed considerable venience from polypus in the ”r, which he had entirely re moved without the slightest pain to the p at i ent, who is now in the enjoyment of perfect health. The lecturer observed that by a method peculiarly his own, he had frequently ap plied magnetism, and in many cases with the happiest re sults; but he reserved what he had further to say on this subject until his seco nd lecture, in which h e i nten d e d to treat more fully u pon the structure of th e i nternal ear, the diseases incident thereto, and the mode of treatment most likely to be attended with results beneficial to the patient. USE OF A HAT.—The wh o l e use of a hat i s probably not generally known—it is of more use than covering the head. If, when a person fell overboard, he had the presence of mind to instantly take off his hat, and hold the brim of it to his chin, so that the hollow would be upwards, it would keep him above the water as long as ever he could hold it. This has been tried, and actually proved correct. posely not expressed, and abundant protestations of con science and duty, in which they who keep the con- , sciences of King s are somewhat apt to indulge. I , FROM A CORRESPONDENT . ) "It is obvi ous t h at to give any examples that could The name and case of Mr. Clotworthy Dobbin at all convey an idea of this kind of vamped up, outside, Devitt may still be fresh in the recollection of our delusive, nay, almost fraudulent oratory would be im- readers ; but as they are shortly to be again brought possible. But one or two p es may ' be rehearsed. before the public, we shall now briefly ad ver t to them. When he h a d, i n 1788 first a intrigued actively with the I For upwards of seventeen years Mr. Devitt filled a Whigs and the Prince upon the Regency question, be- highly confidential situation in the General Post-office ing apparently inclined to prevent his former colleague, i in Ireland, the duties of which he might now be ful and now competitor, f rom c l utc hi ng that prize—sud- filling, had he not been so unfortunate as to di scover a denly discoveri ng from one of the physicians the ap- i system of fraud in existence in that department, proaching convalesence of the Royal patient, he at one I and of so extensive a character as probably moment's warning quitted the Carlton House party, and i to form one of the reasons for the late con came down, with an assurance unknown to all besides, solidation of the Post-office department. These perhaps even to himself not known before, and frauds he, however, disclosed so soon as he dis in his place undertook the defence of the King's covered them, and they formed the subject of a long and rights against laborious investigation by the Earl of Rosse, then one concluding sentencebs son and his partisans. The of this unheard of performance of the Postmasters-General, which terminated in the was calcul a t e d to set all belief at defiance coming from dismissal of some, and the prosecution of others con the man a n d i n the circumstances. It assumed, , for the corned. In all these proceedings it appears that Mr. sake of greater impressiveness, the form of a prayer, Devitt took an active and prominent part, and was though certainly it was not poured out in the notes of mainly instrumental in bringing to merited punishment supplication, but rather rung forth in the sounds that the parties implicated. But what was his reward? weekly call men to the service : And when I forget de my Sovereign, may Why, dismissal. He who had detected the Whereupon linquents was punished along with them. This Wilkes, seated my God forget me !' may, however, have been a mistake, as that known him upon the foot of the throne, and who had long and well, is re o rted to have said, order was, on an explanation being given, immediately p somewhat coarsely but not unhappily, it must be al- rescinded ; yet subsequent proceedings negative this lowed, Forget you ? He'll see y o u first.' supposition, as will presently appear. Another speech in a different vein is preserved, and Whether the overzeal of Mr. _Devitt may have car shows a noble character who was remarkable vied him too far in these matters we cannot say, but s ome powers of droller certainly. In the same debates,it does appe a r that a hostile feeling in a certain quarter for his delicacy and formal adherence to etiquette, was excited against him, and that many and various an having indeed filled diplomatic stations during noyances were adopted towards him ; and that he was great p irt of his lif e , had cited certain resolu- forced, in order to procure an inquiry into the reasons for it, to add re ss a letter to Earl Grey, then at th e tions pa sse d at the Thatched House T avern b y some great part y meeting. In adverting to these, Lord head of the Government, praying it. Earl Grey Thurlow said, As to what the Noble Lord told you that appears to have acted with much decision in this he had heard a t th e a l e -house. ' The effects o f t hi s h umour , matter. He instantly acceded to Mr. Devitt's wishes, and a most searching inquiry followed, which nearly approachin g , it must b e a ll owe d , t o a p rac ti ca l joke, may be eas il y conce i ved by those w h o are aware ended in a manner satisfactory to Mr. Divett, how much more certain in both Houses of Parliament though not so to some others, and which convinced the success of s uc h t hi ngs a l ways i s t h an o f t h e mos t re - the Government, that a reform in the Irish branch of fined and exalted wit. Upon another occasion, his the department was absolutely necessary. Steps were soon after taken with this view. The Score misanthropy, or rat h er hi s great contempt o f a il man , kind, brok e out c h aracter i st i ca ll y enoug h. Thi s pre - tary and others were removed, and the whole establish vailing feeling of his mind made all respect testified to- ment placed under the control of the English Postmaster wards any person, all praise bestowed upon men, nay, General. Although Mr. Devitt was the chief cause of all defence of them under attack, extremely distasteful these changes, all of which appear to have' worked well, to him ; indeed, almost matter of personal offence. So yet it appears that he, who may be supposed to have once, having occasion to mention some public func- entitled himself to a higher and a b e tt er p os i t i on t h an he tionary, whose conduct he intimated that he disap- had hitherto enjoyed, was positively included in the proved, he thought fit to add, ' But far be it from me number of those who were on that occasion discharged to express any blame of :my official person, whatever —and was discharged, too, without the usu a l retir may be my opinion ; for that, I well know, would lay ing allowance. He very naturally remon s t ra t e d-- me open to hear his panegyric.'" pleaded his long service his tried zeal hi s ac knowledged talents—and his admitted fidelity, and produced the written testimonials of the Earl of Rosse and of the Hon. Judges Jebb and Johnson, who had full official and judicial knowledge of all the facts and circumstances connected with the case, yet without avail. He even solicited to be told for what reason lie was dismissed—what offence was alleged against him ; yet that, too, was refused. But even there the cruelty did not cease : he had a wife—the mother of a large family and a most excellent woman, who, by the kind ness of the Postmaster-General, had been appointed a postmistress in Ireland, who was destined also to feel it. She,too, was deprived of her appointment ; and thus were both, at an instant's warning, thrown, with a family of ten children, without employment, provision, or means, upon the world. He has made many attempts to obtain a re-hearing and revision of the case, yet in vain. He even brought it under the notice of Parliament ; but Ministers, for reasons best known to themselves, re fused the reasonable request of a full and fair investi gation. Since then Mr. Devitt's prospects have brightened, and instead of being an humble dependant on, or an humble supplicant to the Government, he is an independent English citizen, and is about to avail himself of his improved position, to bring again and powerfully his case before a British Parliament. That he is entitled to a fair trial every one will admit ; but even more than this, that he is entitled to such a review—a rehearing of the case as he seeks, we contend. His first dismissal was in January, 1830, after the close of the investigation of the frauds discovered by him, and when all the circum stances connected with him and it were fully known to the Government. Yet with this full knowledge he was, upon the prompt remonstrances of the Earl of Rosse, restored on the 29th April following. If he were im plicated in any of the transactions which he exposed, which is not alleged, and which was not believed by Lord Rosse, or the Judges who tried the offenders, this restoration operated as a pardon, and must be supposed to have obliterated all previous blame, if any ex isted ; and we cannot therefore look farther back in our retrospect of the case than April, 1830. His next dismissal took place in February 1831, upon the consolidation of the various branches of the Post-office, and not upon complaint. If, under this consolidated management, his services were not re quired, he ought to have been placed on the same footing as others similarly situated, and have received the retiring allowance. If he had offended previous to April 1830 he should not have been restored to office ; and- if he had offended between that date and Feb. 1831, he ought at the time of such offence to hate been punished ; but as he was so restored- r -and as he was not in such interim, so punished, ste,mnst infer that his conduct was approved . and unexceptinnaNe.lsnd attri bute his dismissal to the circumstance' of the consoli dation alone. Indeed this must have been' the . cause ; for why, if he had previously deserved dismissal, not dismiss him at the time of his of fence, instead of waiting until the reason was doubtful, and until he had acquired by custom and statute cer tain claims which cannot be objected to, without a charge, and an apparently well-grounded charge, of harshness and injustice ? A striking feature in the case is that the Government have 'not alleged or stated any grounds or cause for the dismissal. Now we are of opinion they should have done so—that if he was dismissed for offence, the cause of his dis missal should have been expressly stated to him ; but as they have not done so, and as Mr. Devitt continued in office uncharged with any offence and unaware of any complaint up till the very period when the reduction of the establishment, conse quent upon the consolidation of it, took place, it cannot for an instant be supposed, and ought not to be alleged, that any complaint existed against Mr. Devitt at the period of his dismissal, or that he was dismissed on any acccount but that of such reduction. Upon the whole we consider Mr. Devitt effectually in office at the time of such reduction, and fully entitled to be placed on the same footing as his brother officers, as to the retiring allowances. His case will shortly occupy the attention of Parlia ment. The Marquis Camden has purchased one of the newly finished mansions in Belgrave-square, vis-a vis the Duke of Bedford's. When Prince Edward (the late Duke of Kent) was ordered to storm Morns Tartisson, Fort Royal, on the 17th of March, 1794, he placed himself at the head of his brigade of grenadiers, and addressed them as follows : " Grenadiers ! this is Sr. Patrick's Day. The English will do their duty in compliment to the Irish, and the Irish in compliment to the Saint. Forward, Grenadiers !" THE LATE MR. JUSTICE PARKE.—On the evening previous to the dissolution of this most excellent man he called his family together to commune with them on the important duties of a religious life and the conso lation it afforded to the dyi ng Ch r i st i an. " It was my con stant practice . (said the pio us J u d ge ) to read a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and particularly the Psalms, in my youthful days, and almost daily since I arrived at mature age. In my d es k w ill b e found the Prayer book I used, and in the margin of the 37th psalm my notes of the di vine impression it excited in my mind." At his Lordship's urgent desire the book was brought by his son to the bed side, who, at the request of his venerable parent, read it with due solemnity, the family at the same time responding to the psalm ; at the conclusion of which his Lordship fell into a calm sleep, and expired on the following morning. The diamonds about to be presented to Lady Elizabeth Hay by the Duke of Wellington were taken from tke order of the badge of Saint Esprit, given to his Grace by the King of France ( Louis the Eighteenth) at the period of the restoration of the Bourbon family. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—The 2d Dra goon !Guards have received orders to ;march early this month from Manchester to Glasgow, to relieve the 15th Hussars. The fith Dragoon Guards are also under orders to remove from York to Nottingham. The Bth Hussars from Dundalk, replace, this week, the Scotch Greys at Athlone and Longford. The Scotch Greys are to be quartered at Cork; they will halt at Fermoy until the Ist Royal Dragoons embark for Bristol. Captain O'Brien, of the 70th Foot, has been appointed Deputy Quarter master-General at Barbadoes, vice O'Halloran, of the 69th, who sailed with the regiment for Halifax. Col. Mein, of the 74th Foot, on being relieved by Lieut.-Col. Everard, 14th, at St. Lucia, proceeds, with the head-quarters of his regiment, in the Elizabeth to Barbadoes, taking under his command the two companies now stationed there, with the draft lately arrived from Europe, and proceeds to Trinidad. Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., assumed the command of the troops in the Nottingham district, on Monday last. On Saturday last the Lieutenant-Colonel and Officers of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, quartered at Weedon, gave a sumptuous entertainment to their late respected adjutant, Lord Jocelyn, previous to his proceed ing to the seat of war in the East, on the banks of the Indus. His Lordship at the same time presented the battalion with an elegant chased piece of plate as a me mento of his regard. The 12th Lancers occupy the quar ters of the Inniskillen Dragoons at Cahir, the latter having left for Newbridge and Dublin. The 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers) move this month from Dor chester to Manchester. Major Grubbs, of the 76th Foot, has joined the depot at Drogheda, and assumed the com mand of the depot companies in succession to Major Clarke, who is underorders to proceed to join the service companies in the West Indies. The 90th Foot, at Ceyl on , w ill re move to Trincomalee, on the arrival of the 94th Foot at the former place. The garrison of Barbadoes consists of the b2d Foot and two companies of the Ist West India Regi ment. The head quarters of the 69th Foot, on b oar d t h e Elizabeth transport, were nea r being lost on the 29th of Feb. On that day the tran s p ort was fell in with by another vessel in distress and very leaky, having struck on a reef, bound from Halifax to St. John's. The soldiers, about 150 in number, were all taken out of the Elizabeth and landed at Shelburne. LORD THURLOW AS A DEBATER. " Of his powers as a debater there are now no means to form an estimate, except what tradition, daily becom ing more scanty and precarious, may supply. He pos sessed great depth of voice, rolled out his sentences with unbroken fluency, and displayed a confidence both of tone and of assertion which, accompanied by some what of Dr. Johnson's balanced sententiousness, often silenced when it did not convince ; for of reasoning he was proverbially sparing : there are those indeed who will have it that he never was known to do anything which, when attended to, even looked like using an argument, although, to view the speaker and carelessly to hear him, you would say lie way laying waste the whole field of argumentation, and dispersing and destroy ing all his antagonists. His aspect was more solemn and imposing than almost any other person's in public life ; so much so that Mr. Fox used to say it proved him dis honest, since no man could be so wise as he looked. Nor did he neglect any of the external circumstances, how trifling soever, by which attention and deference could be secured on the part of his audience. Not only were his periods well rounded, and the connecting mat ter or continuing phrases well flung in, but the tongue was so hung as to make the sonorous voice peal through the Hall, and appear to convey things which it would be awful to examine too near, and perilous to question. Nay, to the more trivial circumstance of his place, when addressing the House of Lords, he scrupulously at tended. He rose slowly from his seat ;he lett the Woolsack with deliberation ; but he went not to the near est place, like ordinary Chancellors, the sons of mortal men ; he drew back by a pace or two, and standing as it were askance, and partly behind the huge bale he had quitted for a season, he began to pour out, first in a growl„ - and then in a clear and louder roll, the matter he had to deliver, and which for the most part consisted in some positive assertions, some personal vituperation, some sarcasms at classes, some sentences pronounced upon inviduals as if they were standing before him for judgment, some vague mysterious threats of things pur- CASE OF MR. DEVITT COPYRIGHT. We have the privilege, says the Examiner, of laying before the public a petition from the author of the " History of the French Revolution." It stands pre eminent among all that have been written or presented on the subject for the integral strength of truth with which the case is stated, and the justice of the great claim enforced. It reduces the question to its simple elements, and elicits conviction in its most powerful forms. " To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, the Petition of Thomas Carlyle, a Writer of Books. " Humbly shewoth, " That your petitioner has written • certain books, being, incited thereto by various innocent or laudable considerations, chiefly by the thought that said books might in the end be found to be worth something. " That your petitioner had not the happiness to receive from Mr. Thomas Tegg, or any publisher, republisher, printer, bookseller, book-buyer, or other the like man or body of man, any encouragement or countenance in writing of said books, or to discern any chance of re ceiving- such ; but wrote them by effort of his own and the favour of heaven. " That all useful labour is worthy of recompense ; that all honest labour is worthy of the chance of recom pense ; that the giving and assuring to each man what recompense his labour has actually merited may be said to be the business of all Legislation, Polity, Govern ment, and Social Arrangement whatsoever among men ; a business indispensable to attempt, impossible to ac complish accurately, difficult to accomplish without in accuracies that become enormous, unsupportable, and the parent of social confusions which never altogether end. That your petitioner does not undertake to say what recompense in money this labour of his may de serve ; whether it deserves any recompense in money, or whether money in any quantity could hire him to do the like. " That this his labour has found hitherto, in money or monies' worth, small recompense or none ; that he is by no means sure of its ever finding recompense, but thinks that, if so, it will be at a distant time, when he. the labourer, will probably no longer be in need of money, and those dear to him will still be in need of it. " That the law does at least protect all persons in selling the production of their labour at what they can get fer it, in all market-placer, to all lengths of time. Much more than this the law does to many, but so much it does to all, and less than this to none. " That your petitioner cannot discover himself to have done unlawfully- in this his said labour of writing books, or to have become criminal, or have forfeited the law's protection [thereby. Contrarywise your peti tioner believes firmly that he is innocent in said la. hour ; that if he be found in the long run to have written a genuine enduring book, his merit therein, and deert towards England and English and other men, will be considerable, not easily estimable in money ; that, on the other hand, if his book prove false and ephemeral, he and it will be abolished and forgotten, and no harm done. " That, in this manner, your petitioner plays no un fair game against the world ; his stake being life itself, so to speak (for the penalty is death by starvation), and the world's stake nothing till once it see the dice thrown ; so that in any case the world cannot lose. " That in the happy and long-doubtful event of the game going in his favour, your petitioner submits that the small winnings thereof do belong to him or his, and that no other mortal has justly either part or lot in them at all, now, henceforth, or fore c r . _ _ " May it therefore please your Honourable House to protect him in said happy and long-doubtful event ; and (by passing your Copyright Bill) forbid all Thomas Teggs and other extraneous persons, entirely uncon cerned in this adventure of his, to steal from his small winnings, for a space of sixty years at the shortest. After sixty years, unless your Honourable House pro vide otherwise, they may begin to steal. " And your petitioner will ever pray. " THOMAS CARLYLE." THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE. Physical force is a thing most frightful and atrocious in its aspect, when referred to as the derider resort of ' the people ; but it is most proper and commendable—a most " natural means and appliance" to be employed against them, whenever they may chance, by their com plaints or their remonstrances, to make " the ruling few u neasy." The history of the present great movement, in which the working men are the principal agents, is suggestive of some valuable instruction, touching the character and objects of the " base Press ;" and it is important that , this should be known, so that the public may be upon their guard against being misled to their own irretrieva ' ble injury, by either its silence or its simulation. What can those persons whose reading is confined to the Daily Press, or to any one or more of the majority of the Weekly Press—what can they know of the real state of feeling—of the discontent, disaffection, disasso ciation from the rest of society, and hostility towards it, new so generally prevalent amongst the workingmen of this kingdom ? What can they know of the extent of their sufferings—of the patience with which they have long borne it—of the severity of their toil, and the scantiness of their wages ;—what can they know of the change that has been passing over their minds , during th e few montbs l as t p as t— o f t h e restlessness and activity of purpose that have succeeded to the sullen silence that had hitherto prevailed amongst them—of the well-arranged and extensively ramified organization. that has been effected—of the holy league they have formed, and by which they have sworn to obtain freedom from their present state, or perish in the attempt—of the proofs they are giving of the strength of their purpose and the confidence of their anticipations, by contributing even out of their very poverty, to procure the means for con summating their plans ;—what can the man or woman, dependent for information on the "base Press" of the metropolis, know of all or any of these most important, and, to them and the rest of society, most serious mat ters? Nothing ! absolutely nothing ! They may have been told something about a few " violent and fool-hardy" persons meeting together, here and there, alarming the old women—male and female—of the neighbourhood— they may have seen something about " a Chartist meet ing" here, and a Chartist meeting there, when anything could be found or invented, in connection with it, tending to render it contemptible for its numbers or its folly ; but of the discontent and of the number of discontented— of the cause of the discontent and of the formidable pre parations made by the discontented to annihilate those causes—of the rapidity with which the movement, ori ginated by a few, is spreading itself through the kingdom, and of the immense numbers who arc daily coming in to push it onward—of the collision that must come, ancrof the extent of mischief that must follow it, should no proper measures be taken to avert it, by doing justice to the claims upon whicn the whole movement 7sts;—these are things of which the readers of the majority of the Newspapers arc profoundly ignorant—and they will re main so, it is to be feared, until the threatened evil c omes upon them like a thief in the night, and they are awakened to a sense of their danger when it will be too late to fly from it.—Chartcr. ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. The Messrs. S. and B. Soloreons, Opticians and Au rists to the Rop.l Family, arc happy to inform the public, that after thirty sears' practice they have succeded in effecting a most important improvement for Deafne=s and Defective Vision. Their Invisible Voice Conductor is con structed upon such a principle, that when fixed in the ears it is not perceived, and in company most severe cases of deaf. ness are not in the least perceptible. The Messrs Solo. mons arc highly gratified to find that numerous individuals of the highest respectability are daily calling to express their feelings o f grat i tu d e f or t h e great benefit they have derived. Their newly-invented Spectacle Lenses give immediate relief to weak, aim, and imperfect vision. It is particularly necessary to observe that the Messrs. S. have no connection with persons of the same name, nor with any •ne who have, and who are daily endeavouring to imitate them ; their invaluable improvements in the material are secret to themselves, and are solely confined to their esta blishment, 39, Albemarle street. THE SUCCESS OF THE CONVENTION.—Why did Dr. Wade resign ? Because he had reason to know that his constituents doubted whether he was " up to the mark 1" Why did Messrs. Hadley, Salt, and Douglas resign? 13ccauso their constituents have been finding fault with them, that they were not " up to the mark !" Is this cause for exultation to the opponents of the Chartists? Why was the adhesion to the Chartist move ment of Messrs. Wade, Hadley, Salt, and Douglas deemed to be of importance to it ? Only because they were looked upon as the representatives of the hard-working, and, as the Mornin, Chronicle of 1832, termed them, the " hard hitting" men of Birmingham and elsewhere. They were of importance in no other light. They may be—and we believe they are—honest, able, generous-minded men ; but it was only as the representatives of the thousands of Birmingham and other places, that their presence in the General Convention was of any value or importance. The moment they ceased to represent the feelings of their con stituents, they were but intruders there ; and their seces rion, in consequence of being unwilling to go so fast as their constituents, instead of affording a subject for rejoicing to the opponents of the popular movement, should become with them a matter for lamentation and woe. The Bir mingham Delegates wore elected to represent nearly 100,000 men in that town and its vicinity; the hundred thousand are still with the Convention, approving of its conduct, and passing votes of confidence in its integrity and intelligence ; but the three have seceded. Herein is most cogent proof of the failure of the Chartist cause, and of the wisdom of our public censors ! The force of folly could no further go !—Cliarter. DEATH OF SIR JOHN DUNLOP BART., M.P. _We regret to record the demise of the above lion. Member for the county of Avr, at his re s id ence at Hast ings, on Wednesday l ast, after a short illness. The late Hon. Member (then Captain Dunlop) was returned in June, 1835, for Ayrshire, in opposition to Sir John Cath cart, Bart. He married, the 29th December, 1835, Lady Harriet Primrose, eldest daughter of the Earl and Coun tess of Rosebery, and sister of Lord Dalmeny, M. P., by whom he has left an infant family. On the coronation of her Maj esty, i n June last, the late lion. Gentleman was created a Baronet. By the Hon. Baronet's death a vacancy is caused in the representation of the above county. BOULOGNE STEAM-B S T 1 N • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SlR,—ln your Paper I notice a lette. e' lo , ne, and signed Watch, in whi c h comp laittet tr a wl that the Commercial Steam-Packet Company have ad vertised their packets from London every Sunday morn ing during the month at ten o'clock, which, as he truly states, will cause their arrival off the port from five to six hours after high water, and consequently expose the passengers to the wind and weather of that wild road stead until the following morning. Watch is, no doubt, a very good sort of personage "to warn the public o f the inconvenience and delay they will experience ;" but he must be a simple being, indeed, if he imagines that "aft appeal to the better judgment of the Directors of the Com mercial Steam Company will induce them to abandon this absurd plan." Nothing will these gentlemen do for the public. They will notunderstand the give and take prin ciple adopted generally in the trade. The General Steam Navigation Company, and the Commercial, have a mono poly which their weight of capital will support againsf all competition, or they imagine so ; and therefore they treat the public with contempt. But before I make use of strong language, let me prove the monopoly they pos sess, and the utter want of feeling exhibited to their best customers, the passengers. First—as to the Monopoly t--By the statistical ac count rendered from the Police-office, I find the num ber of passengers to and from Boulogne, for the year -1830 to be 11,55 P 1831 ... 10,937 1832 ... 10,257 1833 ... 16,091 1834 ... 1 8,384 1835 ... 25.461 1836 ... 55,034 1837 ... 66,809 Yet with all these persons, independent of carriages. horses, cargo, (of which more by-and-bye) these inon., pc:dist s,have by special agreement but two vessels ruizning, namely, the Harlequin and City of Boulogne. Secondly, the want of feeling exhibited by these mo nopolists. And here, let it be understood that no charge is made against the captains, they are sober, obliging men, ever upon the watch, and I believe tho rough good seamen ; but it is to the want of feeliag in the Directors I wish to allude. The above-named ves sels have about thirty-six bed places for passengers, an will it be believed that in the City of Boulogne there were shipped on last Wednesday night upwards of two hundred persons, all paying fifteen shillings and t e n shillings each. The scene on board was honably dis gusting, ladies of rank, Princes, Ambassadors, messen gers, many of whom had been travelling four days and four nights, all huddled together upon the deck, or below, as they could find a spot, for the eab!n would not hold one half of the passengers who paid for its comparative comforts. And such has been the case all this winter, for want of steamers sufficient to accom modate the trade. Beside the passengers the vessel's hold was chock of cargo, a large tier of egg boxes, about eight feet filled up the space forward, usually allotted to passcrigt-, on the deck. Abaft that, every particle of baggage be longing to this throng of people was stowed away nom , the fore hatchway and parts adjacent, whilst upon the only space remaining upon deck, next the funnel, stool two horses. Were this an isolated case I should not have taken the trouble to have penned these remarks ; for al hotlgh never sick myself, and therefore not complaining nt inconvenience, as a father of a family, I mu. say, I should not like to see one of my daughter stretched out upon the floor of the cabin, or the deck of a ship, stepped and trodden upon by others equally sick with herself, but who, havi power and strength enough remaining to reel towards the side of the vessel could do so. One poor woman sat forward upon the hits all night, having paid her fifteen shillings, but she could not find room in either of the cabins. A pretty place this, you will think, for the spray. I trust when Mr. Hume returns from Paris he will join in the general condemna tion of the monopolists. He, together with Mrs. Hume and daughters, accompanied by Dr. Bowring, went over in the Harlequin the Thursday before Easter; there were only about 140 passengers, a small number, you will say, in comparison with those spoken of before : . _ yet with this limited number, Mr. Hume, his wife and daughters, were obliged to remain on deck for want of room below. The Doctor managed better ; he being an old traveller, fixed himself on a sofa immediately after dinner, and there he remained shored up, as you see houses sometimes, or prsans at public dinners, by a strapping fellow wedged in on either side of him, until our tumbling passage was ended. Now, Mr. Editor, 1 think exposure will do sornethinc to abate the evil, but I would not so readily trust to that (for some men are callous) as I would to the ope ration of fear, when the monopolists see that the public.. can make calculations as well as themselves. The uumbcr of Passengers in 1837, as. stated, were Of these the Commercial Company took 20,964 The General Steam Company 18,105 The Dover Boats !Hail-post Ramapo e Boats 1,506 Other Beats Total 56"9 Let the owners of steam-boats who want profitable employment, look to Boulogne, calculate what 20,96-I passengers will come to at 1.55. and 10s., put to that carriages, horses, dogs, and bullion, and let them aid t o this that all the silks, ribbons, tnerinoes, gloves, etc., from Paris, Lyons, and elsewhere, which used to be shipped at Calais arc now shipped at Boulogne, and I doubt not they will make a good round sum to anticipate a profit from. Let these owners recollect that opposition increases the trade to Boulogne ; or how is it that the trade has increased since 1830 from 11,589 to 56,809 passengers? In 1837 the opposition alone between the two compa nies now coalesced produced an increase of 10,000 pas sengers in one year. You will see by the following report that the Court at Paris has condemned the two grand companies tor ;t conspiracy to lower prices of claching. Surely ti v public ought, vice versa, to be protected from a conspi racy of steam-boat directors, who enhance the f+res yond what is reasonable, and give bad accommodatio n in the bargain. Yours, R. 11. EVENING EDIT :1$ \.-. R I -ii > I MA COACH OPPOSITION. Our readers will no doubt recollect the intern: created by the proceedings adopted by the proprietors of the Eagle against those of the Messageries Royalos and Generales, for a combination and a breach of tht• law, in coalescing to prevent their opposition to the mo nopoly, which they had previously engrossed, and in which proceedings the proprietors of the Eagle their attempt. But it seems that this question is still open, for a proceeding has lately taken phee at Paris, in which a different result has been obtained. The matter in question, which was a proceeding by the Messageries Francaises against the two Grand Com panies, has occupied the Court in Parii five days, itrui has terminated in a judgment against the Grand Com panies, of a penalty of 500 francs each, besides damage:, to he settled hereafter. The article upon which the proccedinrr is founded is 419 of the Code Penal, and is as follow:: " Every one, who by false and calumnious acts, de signedly disseminated More the public, by proposing lower prices than the buyers themselves seek to pay ; by combination between the principal holders of the same merchandize or commodity, not to sell, or to sell only at a certain price ; or who by any fraudulent ac t s or arrangements, shall have caused the prices of C3lll- modities, or merchandizes, or th© public securities, to he higher or lower than fair opposition and free dom of commerce shall point out, shall be punish d with au imprisoment of not less than nor more than a year, and with a fine between 500 and 1,000 francs. The parties convicted may besides b:‘ placed by an order or the judgment of the Court, under the surveillance of the police for a period between two or five years.—Boulogne Journal. An outcry has been made in the Tory papers because Lord John Russell, relying . on the s tat.,ments in in the parrs, that Sir Herbert Taylor (lied at Rome on the 13th of March, sent a letter to the clerasym.su of St. Katharine's, demanding the charter. .‘ Lord John Rus sell," says the writer of a paragraph in the Times, •' sends for the charter before the governor is dead 1" And this i s deemed a dreadful outrage against all decency and pro . priety. Sir Herbert Taylor was not dead on the 13th, though all the accounts received for same time before fr om Rome pronounced his recove r y ho p eless, and led to lh, implicit belief of the stateme nt of his death. He died • how., ever on the 20th. But why did not Lord John Rusoll w , iit till he had received an offic ial account of his deat h ? In ordinary cases we have no dou bt that his Lordship would not have demanded the charter on merel y seeing a state ment in a newspaper, however implicitly he might credit it ; but have waited till the death was officially eon „,, uni _ cated to him. But there were peculiar circumstances con fleeted with the mastership of S aint Katharine ' s, th at de manded on the part of his Lord shi p a p rom p t interf erence. The office is in the gift of the Q ueen Con3ort, end Queen Adelaide conceiving that the ti tle a pp ertains to h er , is un_ derstood to have named the Earl of Denbigh, th e master of her horse, as Sir Herbert Taylor's successor, before she left England. Now, though we have no doubt that the Queen Dowager conscientiously believed sho..wa, only ~I.lels ri'oh' exercising a right appertaining to her, w h ets she made of Lord J lute' a grant of this lucrative office to Lord ry,-, i • ....tiOlni i • yet it is not the less true that she possesses Lo :‘N r clailS, , iit t e h r er o e f fo t r i e ie , t c h r e wa d . u n t , y to voloys:.p. rdeeepe , a.e , rildta._ having ceased to be Queen Consort on the d, at: of hit. t Sovereign, 12.Ittajsseestd; ment the subject belonged, to guard against an d• and - as d the it ings that might have been attended w ith pense to Lord Denbigh, and have opp ose d i . ex mpediment, to the exercise of the rights of th e statement will serve to show that Lord John This simple no more than his bounden duty, when h R hussel ll :l4 tion of which such a handle has b, e tna , x t.a , app..ea _Paper. been made, —ifornisty WATCH RATES.—A. Rate payer of St. An drew's, Holborn, wish es t o know what rate to be at the eno rmous sum of Is.6cdau. I.',:es i tl L .ie P tthicon the whole rental? H e states that itllasb,l(. t i nilt chat SUM for years past, while out of the City the rate has Feid , been more than 61 or Bri.