The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-22 00:00:00

FIIE SUN, LONDON, WRDNESDAY MORNIN(4, MAY 22, 1844. day, J. D. Bishop, Esq., formerly of the Leander Club, in the chair, this great regatta was formally announced for the 20th, 21st, and 22d of June, wh e n th e 'following races will take place : The gold challenge cup, for eight-oared boats ; gentlemen tmateurs ; entrance, five guineas each boat. The silver challenge cup, for four-oared boats; gentlemen amateurs; entrance, three guineas. A pair of silver cups, for pair-oared boats ; gentlemen amateurs ; en trance, two guineas. The silver challenge cup, fur sculls; gentlemen amateurs; entrance, one guinea. A prize of 100 soya. for watermen in four-oared boats; open to all the world; with minor prizes (should the funds allow) for the second and third boats ; entrance, 2/. A purse of 50 soya. (cup or specie) for four-oared boats; open to any crew not being Thames watermen or landsmen ; estry, 2/. A purse of 80 sovs. for pair -oared boats (watermen) ; entry, I/. ._ • A purse of 50 sovs.:for scullers (watermen) ; entry 10s. A prize wherry for double sculls for watermen plying above Battersea-bridge ; entry I/. A coat and badge for apprentices (the gift of E. Morris, Esq.) between London-bridge and Teddington-10ck... A sweepstakes of two sovereigns each boat, with twenty added, for landsmen, in four-oared boats. Entrances to close at Messrs. Searle's, Stangate, at eight on the evening of the 12th of June. Mr. Bishop took occasion to congratulate the gentlemen upon the opportunity which would be afforded them by the arrangement come to with the Henley-on-Thames stewards, of contending in both regattas, and was happy to add that the time chosen by the committee for this great aquatic treat was such as would be most convenient to the gentle men of the Cambridge and Oxford Universities, and to the other aquatic clubs. After some further observations, thanks were voted to the chairman for his valuable services, and to the committee, whose labours for the last few weeks have been very considerable, and who have yet much to do in collecting subscriptions. GAMBLING BOOTHS, &c (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) EPSOM, MONDAY EVENING, NINE O'CLOCK. The following notice has at this late hour been posted throughout the town, and the excitement produced by its appearance baffles description : . "All persons playing or betting in any booth or public place, at any table or instrument of gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance, will be taken into custody by the police, and may be committed to the House of Correction, and there kept to hard labour for three months. "By Order of the Commissioners of the Police of the Metropolis, "THOMAS BICKNELL, Superintendent of Police. " Metropolitan Police-oflice, Scotland -yard, May 20,1844." It is calculated that from fifteen to twenty thousand per sons, directly or indirectly connected with gaming, visit Epsom annually, and if the Commissioners of Police are de termined to put i❑ force the threats contained in this bill, it is impossible to form any conception of the uproar and other evil consequences that will ensue.; five hundred police would avail but little against such a formidable array as would certainly appear on the Downs, a majority of them men of desperate character, and on all sides we hear throats "loud and deep" that they will muster in such force that no Derby shall be run for on Wednesday, if this interference with their privileges, as they call them, is persisted in. How far the authorities may deem it advisable to act up to their threat ened surveillance remains to be proved. The town is in a most excited state, and business almost stagnant in conse quence. PRINCESS'S CONCERT ROOM. MISS CLARA SEYTON'S LECTURE ON COMEDY. Miss Clara Seyton, last evening gave, at this room, a lecture on comedy, showing . its rise and progress, and its influence on the human mind, interspersed with songs and recitations. The attempt was a bold one, but it was completely successful. We some time since had occasion to speak of the great versatility of talent exhibited by this young lady, on her appearance at one of the theatres. To this we have to add that not only did she in bring great ver satility of talent to bearillustrating her lecture, but that the lecture itself bore proofs of great research, refined taste, and correct appreciation of comic character. After rapidly tracing the Vi s e and progress of comedy, from the earliest ages to the days of Shakspeare, she alluded to the sensibility of the im mortal bard to the charms of music, and ill us t ra t e d thi s portion of the lectuz e by singing the bea u tif u l song, " Bid Me discourse." After briefly alluding to the comedies of Ben Jonson and Chapman, she proceeded to one of Shakspeare's earliest, but, at the same time, one of his most perfect comedies, Much Ado about. Nothing. From this admirable comedyshe rec i te d var i ous passages—in which she exhibited histrio n i c p ower of a very high order. Her conception of the character of Beatrice is admirable, and we hope the day is not far distant when we shall have the pleasure of seeing her embody this delightful Shaksperia n creat i on on the boards of one of our national theatres. The delightful play of the Tempest was illustrated by th e two songs, "Ohl bid your faithful Ariel fly," and " Where the Bee sucks," the latter of which wa s d eserve d ly encored. 'rho second part opened with a critical notice of the Taming of the Shrew, and a most inte res ti ng com parison, illustrated by the recitation of parallel passages, was instituted between this play and Tobin's exquisite comedy of the Honey Moon. The Merry Wives of Windsor, and A Midsummei . Night's Dream were then briefly touched upon ; the latter beautiful fairy creation being illustrated by the song, "Love in Idleness," and " Over Hill, over Dale," after which, followed an analysis of Twel/lh Night and The Merchant of Venice. The comic writers, successors of Shakspeare, down to the time of Sheridan, were then briefly passed in review, and returning to Shakspeare, as the basis of comparison, the fair lecturer concluded by an analysis of that most delightful of comedies As You Like It, illustrating it by extracts from the beautiful poetry which the bard has put into the mouth - of Rosalind, which was delivered with effect, and at the same time so much beauty. and which exhibited such a thorough appreciation of all the lights and shadows and delicate tints with which Shakspeare has worked out that truly beautiful creation of feminine character, that NV ' e -long to . see Miss Clara Seyton delineating it as a whole, " with all appliances and means to boot, " that can be furnished forth by stagneffect, scenery, &c. Her Rosalind we are convinced must succeed. She was much applauded throughout, and announced another lecture for this day week. Between the parts of the lecture Miss Emily Hudson, a young lady only seven years of age, performed upon the piano -forte a series of variations on the air " Alexis Send Ich Dich," in the most brilliant manner. She exhibited a firmness of touch, and a bril liancyy wonderful, and The e e r d o o o e m s great was credit too f execution her talentedutrl instructress. crowded. FRENCH and ENGLISH COOKERY. The metropolis of England exceeds that of France in extent and population ; it commands a greater supply of all articles of consumption, and contains a greater number and variety of markets, which - are better supplied. There are also some articles of meal, and some articles of cookery in which Eng land exceeds France. Th ough we are undou b te dl y inferior to the Gauls in the articles of veal and fowl, yet we greatly surpass them in mutton, produce better beef, lamb, and pork, and are immeasurably superior both in the quantity and quality of our fish, our venison and our game. It is in fish, however, that we have been always most pre-emiuent. The turbot brought to Billingsgate in the last month (March) in large quantities from the sand-banks, on the coast of Holland and St. George's Channel, sufficiently attest our energy and enterprise. The coasts of Holland and the sea beyond our western coast are as open to the French as to the British, vet when has any Paris market disclosed s uc h a supply of fish as may be seen daily at Billingsgate, even after the hundreds of thou sands of retail fishmongers have been supplied ? In a few soups, such as turtle, which we possess in the greatest perfection, owing to our colonial trade, and ox tail, mock turtle, giblet, hare, pea, and mutton broth, we also surpass the French —but in the making of the latter admirable broth for invalids, there is still much to desire at coffee-houses and clubs. We scarcely know a public establishment where it may be eaten in perfection, excepting at Brookes's, in St. Janus's% street. It were most desirable that we should learn how to make a French bouillon or a hit de poule, for here indeed we are ignorant and at fault. In the boiling of all plain fish we surpass our neighbours. There is nothing in Paris equal to a first-rate English turbot, codfish, haddock, John Dorey, or Southampton water, or Severn salmon; but we think the sauces used for these fishes in France infinitely preferable. The French certainly beat us in sturgeon cutlets, &lets de sole, and Bechamels of fish. The oysters of Canoale, of Etretat, of Ostend, and Marenne, are, we freely admit, superior to the generality of English oysters, because they are less artificially fed, and have not their flavour washed away. But if the London tradesmen would spare their oatmeal and fresh water, we have no doubt the Milton native oyster would be found fully equal to its Gallic brother. The Carlingford and Burren oysters are fully as good. In other shell fish also we have a decided superiority. The corpulent, respectable, full-fed crab is almost unknown to the Gauls, and they have but a small quantity of lobsters and prawns, but they cultivate the smaller cray fish in great quantities, which is not common in England. Nor is there anything in French cookery equal to our barons of beef, our noble sirloins, our exquisite haunches, and saddles, legs, and loins of Southdown mutton ; our noble rounds of boiled beef, and those prime five-guinea haunches of venison which one sees from June till September, at the establishment of Messrs. Groves, at Charing-cross and in Bond-street. In cutlets of all kinds, in frieasees, ragouts, salmis, quenelles, purees filets, and more especially in the dressing of vegetables, our neighbours surpass us; but we roast our game more perfectly, and can hash mutton and venison better than any one of the myriads of French cooks. In bread, cream, butter, eggs, whether with reference to size or freshness, England is not to compare wit Ii France; and a French pou larde of La Bresse or du Mans . is worth all the Dorking fowl hatched since the time of the deluge. Though, there fore, we admit:that the French cuisine be more luxurious, more varied, more palateable, more fair and dainty to look on rather, than our ruder, more simple, more frugal, and less luxurious kitchen, yet we apprehend our ali ments (with the single exception of our vegetables) aro infinitely more nutritious, and, to English stomachs at least, just as easy of' digestion—perbap s , indeed, easier, than the more refined and recherche fare of our livelier neighbours.—Forcign Quarterly Review. IVICK, MAY 15.—During the last fourteen days about 100 boats and their crews left here and the La theron coast, for the early fishing in the Lewis. There have not been much accoudts from them since as to suc cess, but several small cargoes of herrings have come to Wick from the Lewis, and have all been immediately shipped again for Ifaniburgh. The Wie't fish-curers are making the usual preparations for the fishing. The h6ibuilders have this year built more than double the number of boats which were built last year, and more thadhave been built in any one year for a number of years. ::_ l e n ge . s ! and . to the general condition as regards educa "o , isarnin and reliio r . )f the Universities of Ox- CUSTOM HOUSE FRAUDS, foford and Catu t 'bridge , , arid their colleges, espeially with It is a growing fashion, we believe, of late years Mission all r d to all maters herein brought brfore your among our medical practitioners, to discourage the Mission efficientul;e;owpi e ih rfo f r u i l n l power to etighle such Coral- practice of bleeding. This once popular treatment is ti7lopi;_ea•rtsa,nezt Vic. And your I": now, so to speak, abandoned, except in extreme cases I of topical inflammation, whether produced by external violence, or inward disorganization, or an habitual tendency of the blood to congestion. But the two Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, with the Hall of Apothecaries, to boot, may settle what canons of doctrine they please, in full " senatus " assembled, with all the revived solemnities of Mr. PETER 13ORTHWICK'S threatened convocation of another learned profession ; there is, we tell them, one patient in the world, the most important on their books, too, who WILL be blooded ! This is no other than the portly JOHN BULL himself. lie will always insist on his customary indulgence of a little phlebotomy, as hi; more southern friends of Italy or Spain demand, after noontide, the luxury of their habitual siesta. Only, in Mr. BuLes case, the practitioner must take care that he " breathe a vein," not in the patient's arm, but in the breeches pocket. It has long been imagined, and that burly patient is brought at last to be of the opinion himself, that he is in incessant danger from plethoric repletion in that region. In 1825-6, one of his political doctors (then Rommosi, now RIPON), announced to the world that this interesting personage was so excessively full of political health (i. e. money), that the only reasonable cause for apprehension about him arose from this redundancy ; that it was the pecu liarity of his (civil) constitution to " form " fresh capital, as fast as he got rid of that which was in him. All Europe was astounded at this phenomenon of an uninzpoverishable capitalist ; and France sent over some of her distinguished savans (the Baron CHARLES Durtst among the number) to contemplate and report upon whatever might be most notable in the physio logy and aspect of a gentleman subject to so capri cious and diffusive a malady. To be sure there was no end of " visiting" physicians then ! From all parts of the Old World and of the New, he was pre scribed for—bled, depleted, ransacked, rummaged, blistered—almost done for. It was very near prov ing one of those cases in which people are " killed with kindness." They would not leave him ;—they would not let him look, even, into his own case, or worry himself with over-scrupulous inquiries into theirs. By the application of a foreign electuary, called indifferently " Loans" and "Mining Ven tures," they soon expelled from him two-thirds, as it was thought, of his whole bulk in superabundant capital. Then, home-reared leeches, in the shape of Joint-Stock and Bubble Company shares, were plentifully applied ; and at last the patient, fearful of sinking under so many and such violent remedies, from Mexico, and Guatemala, and Madrid—Lisbon and Berlin St. Petersburgh and Rio Janeiro Bogota da Fe and Amsterdam —to say no thing of the nausea occasioned by endless nostrums of asphaltum, caoutchouc, corrosive sub limate, and all the modern ingredients of our street pavements, and roadways, and anti-rot me dicated woodwork ; the patient, we say, became fear fully exasperated. Some of his advisers he kicked down stairs ; others he crushed to death, by once touching them; and, it is difficult to say where the mischief of this re-action, on his part, would have . ended, had it not occurred to Dr. PEEL and his friends to dose him with their new currency drug, and gold pill. These immediately paralysed his faculties and prostrated his strength to a degree which brought on a " crisis," still remembered as " THE" panic. Yet the strength of JOHN BULL'S constitution (or pockets) has triumphed over all these trials and disasters ; and, with ordinary fair play—a little more vigilance in his superior, and a little more honesty in his subordinate servants—it might yet do so. But he is, unhappily, still persuaded, in the first place, to endure the con stant exhibition of Dr. PEEL'S Digitalis, or " Gold touch ;" which, given on the pretext of keeping him free from over excitement, and keeping down the buoyancy of his action, is slowly, but certainly, like the narcotic poison of " BELLADONNA," sapping his vital powers, and predisposing them to decay. In the second place he is still practised upon by those who profusely •" bleed" him—while he sleeps. These " practitioners," the most clandestine of their order, are they who concoct " Custom-house frauds." The secret of these processes has been, hiaterto, but par tially discovered; and no system of watching, so efficient as to ensure the detection of such intruders, and prevent them from further exhausting their victim during his slumbers, has yet been devised. The first of these mischiefs we have already, on former occasions, minutely described. The second, we are reminded of, by a paragraph in a newspaper of Sunday last which, without probably intending to do so, demonstrates very clearly how little of beneficial , result can be looked for from the means now in course of adoption for the prevention of future malpractices of the de scription alluded to. It appears that the Commissioners of Customs suppose themselves to be now wide awake ! They are not going to slumber over frauds, and collusions, and peculations, by which, if we may judge from the jump which the Customs duties have taken, within the year since the cry of " thieves " has been hotly kept up at the great house in Thames-street,—the pockets of poor Mr. Bum. have been drained of from 1,000,000/. to 2,000,000/. per annum, instead of the 480,0001., or other modest sum, which, a little while since, the Commissioners Congratulated the public on being at any rate the " be-all and the " of the nefarious robberies that had then been " blown upon." No. The Commis sioners, " with the approval of the Treasury," have created two new officers with " a new style and title !" (Prodigious invention, and rare guarantee!) These are " Inspectors-General of the waterside and warehousing departments." To the number of landing surveyors who have been so negligent heretofore, are to be added three colleagues (on the principle that JOHN, having confessed to " doing nothing ;" ToM, in answer to his master's inquiry what he was about, reported himself to be " helping Joust"). The six classes of landing waiters to remain as before. Why ? Because of the culpable dereliction of duty traced to their depart ment, in the so-called investigations already insti tuted. But now comes the flower of what our Sun day Contemporary quaintly calls this "scheme." Sixty new officers, " subordinate to, and under orders of the landing waiters, but superior to the lockers and weighers," are to be chosen by the Commissioners. There may be something very touching and magni ficent in this nicely-balanced gradation of ranks from the oligarchy of the Board itself—(Magnates as they are), through the successive gradations of an aristo cracy'of surveyors, receivers for western ports, and in spectors-general to a gentry of landing waiters, a com monalty of " superintendents of locks and ware houses," and working classes of lockers, weighers, and porters. But it is more to our purpose to be told, from what body these " superintendents of locks" —whose loftier state than the " lockers" them selves is thus carefully noted—are to be selected. And we find they are to be taken " from the most expe rienced " of the old hands in this class. This is rather ambiguous. The only "experience" of which the public have had any remarkable evidence is con nected with those who must have knowingly lent their important, though subordinate, aid to the fraudulent entries, weighings, exchanges, and re movals of packages, and to the falsification of books, whereby the revenue has been plundered to an ex . tentistill utterly unfathomed ; and certain houses, of more than equivocal reputation and enormous wealth, have realised those sudden and colossal fortunes, which enable them almost to brave and challenge ex posure on the one hand, with as little hesitation as they pay down the pecuniary penalty accruing on such occasional detection on the other. The truth is, the whole "scheme," which we published recently in The Sun, is an absurdly inadequate and pueril e con trivance to avert such delinquencies, as the already ascertained frauds, in future. The great evil must be either in the defective organization of the whole ma chinery of this important fiscal department, or in the positive incompetency of the Board at its head for their most responsible duties. The cutting down 183 lockers to 120, and 220 weighers to 180 ; the new appointment of two inspectors-general, and the addition of three landing surveyors, and the creation of sixty superintendents of "locks"—were these last even all of the family of Mr. Cucua himself—will do no more to guarantee the Customs' revenue from future spoliation, in the absence of a more intelligent, vigorous, and prompt controlling authority, than the addition of twenty-four new Directors to the staff of the Bank of England would operate to put the cur rency,- under the present system, on a proper footing. The Premier himself could not have devised a feebler or a more delusive scheme of improved management than these Commissioners have produced 1 THE CURRENCY AND FREE TRADE. 'TIIE BANK CHAR'I'ER RESOLUTIONS. rneeting was held last evening, at the Na tkeil Association Hall, Holborn, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present plan of Sir It. Peel ,with' respect to the Bank Charter, and the Currency f3ilibf. 1819, in connexion with free trade. The meet -43g. WAS not very numerously attended. The chair was taken soon after eight o'clock. The CHAI RMAN opened the business of the evening, by statmg that he had been called on quite unexpectedly to take the chair, in the absence of another gentleman, and was not Prepared to go fully into the subject, the ex .,whPlanation of which he should leave to the gentlemen o would move t h e resolutions. He was fully alive to 'lle great importance of the question, which was inter esting to a ll of them, and he might be permitted to say, that unless they had a proper monetary system, free ptrade would be as visionary a system as could be ima ned. Unless accompanied by a proper monetary sys 'eel; free trade would only produce fur the country low prices, low wages, and low profits. . 2" Mr. JONATIIAN DUNCAN p ropose d t h e fi rst resolu °n:—" That under juq governreents and free institu eti°ne, all nations would find it their mutual interest to xtrY out th e principles of fre e t ra d e t o th e i r u t mos t e xtent. Prohibitive laws would be unknown, tariff's and custom -ho uses would b e as unnecessary for purposes of tevenue be raised di rect) as of protection (so called). All taxes would y from realised property; and, all inte rests ent.,;-• J‘'.7 l ng the legitimate protection of equal laws, tione w°4 ' d x need partial one s t o b o l s t er th em u p a t th e e of pens e of others. It is the natural, the undoubted right wi Z°nS, AS of i ndividuals, to administer to each other's t o h r e f i e r tte r: r s ti t d his ti P e. r e °s P eri ty by the free interchange of p r oductions. Whatever tends to cramp t. „. be rem oved interehange is a positive evil, which ought use its bestr;emaioalyathi,isbymeeting hereby pledges itself to consistent so owurtadeavours, collectively and individually, to promote such in terests f every available means, not in ehoeuuurtrr;s,pect for the laws, and for the in 'this ruesolution contained the general prin c ipl e of f ree trad e , itio e remarked on the necessity of a proper defi- and phe terms used i n t reat i ng o f po li t i ca l economy , r trad e _ oceeded to d e fi ne what was the real nature of free Sir R. Peel was a free trader in the e abstract" :4'4r. Cobden and his friends were free traders in the ~ussellconcrete,. while between them stood Lord John trad ers h a i nd te Whgs, who ere somemes free Parti es ni the concrete and in the w abstract. Two of these ust be wrong, and, perhaps, all three of them. rconsid ere d t h at t h ey were all wrong, The doctrines the - .vagtie the most nearly approa c h e d t o t ru th. A s its the League denounced the tax upon bread, he e ntirely with it. But with respect to th e d u ti es o tl l Sti gar, he differed from them. The repeal of 0 e differential duties on sugar would be a compromise I, n • a bad principle, He totally denied, as a fundamental I ,',P ne iPle, the right to levy indirect taxes for the purpose starn g e tting a revenue. He could not understand how a t „,,, "'TY could be said to have a free trade when it kept ea Custoin-house, an Excise-office, or a Stamp-office. r r the purpo ses o f revenue, all taxation ought to be th e e :t , s ;lnd on p roperty. He illustrated the injustice of ti9_ end of indirect t axa ti on, b y explaining the opera , !' of the ii(!npreed h duty on tea, by which the low-priced tea -y the poor was taxed 185 per cent., and the cen t, tea tea used by the rich was taxed only 75 per tip n e did not understand a free trade joined with eyerdirect taxation. If t h ey once a d m i tte d t h e present ta a d e e m .t° he a good one, they might bid farewell to free e expl a i ne d at some length this view of the ettrr -Ple . of free trade, Sot touching the question of the reser e • Y at all, whi c h he left to speakers on the other utio ns • t z „„ • nuous O sly seconded the r e sol u ti o n, w hi c h was carr i e d ""l c •• • tie f AP PS moved th e secon d reso l ut i on , w hi c h was t o fu effect ; giro T he meeting, nevertheless, acknowledges that g o 201 Unwise and unjust legislation, a country may be atose""naturally circumstanced as to render free trade a l ten inste ad of a blessingovhile the unnatural circum nawee.:i l'eMain. It acknowledges Great Britain to be !tee te..a 4-4 ' e . d. in such circumstances. It acknowledges publice to b e i ncompatible with our present enormous tlia, at , a nd priv ate i ndebtedness, our enormous indirecth Ltihiutig a nd other fi x ed ch a rges, a gg r a vated as those cash s N 4." and cha rges h ave b een b y a re t urn_ to 'nts at the en d of the war, consummated by the p r i an whi c h Act of 1819, commonly called Peel's Bill ; the - 4 . 6 . n otOriously augmented our burdens on . 0 1 1 th stand, and diminished our resources 'ellr; ou ter, to the extent of at least 50 per Votur'salOst the productive and debtor-interests of the rite It acknowledges that, before the blessings of e 1 81 - I' 4l : _ eau be realised in this country, the Act of eat u lust b e repealed, and our monetary system placed the e - o e : a feoting as shall at once lighten the burdens of Qu i —li ttY, relieve trade and industry from the shackles (4 4 it t o ld stand ar d, ren d er money an d cre di t as a b un - Iktits4theY need to be, and by making both more Atilt f o r ,for productive uses, ensure constant emplt?ny lrk toe people, with ample wages and reinuneralfi tog ttee.tr,;While this meeting, therefore, pledg!s l itse With, 'ne, it considers it would .be only to the _end Plea_nt willing the means, if it did not, at the same time, l 'eer its elf to use every means to procure the repeal of . koem"lirrency Act, and the establishmen ie t e o s f ta a b n li i s m h: ellt,,elonetary system conjointly with tl t f ree -trad e " !us' r t °l 't of the r ' esolution he contended that free trade 4 .. 1 44 2 ,:,,,,L and rational in theory, but stated that was th•„;'ur any country to barter away its productions ?tom; produce of other nations till the wants of their own tr a d- Were fully satisfied. It' they confined th • W ere the sur 1 of their productions, after the people p Us Yoti„ i ' l Y supplied with food and clothing, instead of de ' Drop: i t . to providing luxuries for the rich, it would be • %eV; but at Present large numbers of ships left this pie st",,,r):_,loaded with the very produce of' which the pet)- , t ,,xpl a c„"`2,in the greatest need. He then at some length Price y the action of the Bill of 1819 in reducing Pa? tit°„nd Profits, while the people were compelled to hotpt~same fixed amount of taxation and revenue, and o ut the necessity of such an arrangement of the Sip ' 7e Y! ) -s should enable the producers of goods to ob . e r , (4 6l , l'ice for them from the consumers that would ‘ , Ol , 'amount previously levied from them by the eota a , e- ",n l ,ent, in the shape of indirect taxation, on the nittei;rity itself, or the raw material out of which it was I,o, r etured. ' 4l ""ti seconded the resolution, stating that, with free teed talk o f free trade, he never heard anything of a !Pit.t rend! Ineney. Money was the great thing that 41 tosp ep 4 ",„ed, and till it was made cheap they could not ' t „ kt netie - t . „,.-tie object of Peel's Bill was to limit the olit a ;'" money, and this restriction made the struggle 14, In it, a general scramble. V 41 10, 1 _ R oDOERs spoke on the resolution, for pu n r- . d'l c 'ving an amendment to it. He severe) con co tu e i ti tfe Bill of 1819, but was . equally , against return ,,Leved sYstern which that Bill superseded. He li , e t `nnsti t " a t, as the House of Commons was at pres,..n h ttie to d, it would be useless to propose any such L eal, and concluded by moving an amendment, ttepro ilded into 'three parts, which designated all schemes of tak v e e r ;.ct of the currency, emigration, &c., , as mere . and pledging the meeting to take no part in 'put ase ! Irren cY and other squabbles, till the people were Dteceutr'nssession of their old constitutional right of re• Dir..gt_lwl according to the charter. eeivee''',NE seconded the amendment, which was re . Ti le : w ith great applause. eotisteeta, wilder of the proceedings, was marked by •e„assion-tele confusion, being half controversy half dm -"11 Which the Curren - Cy and the people's charter, tei pal ze(irluestion d l rights, were all blended and sa n p o ICEt O .:Pok e .4 together. Mr. Webb and Mr. B. O'Brien 41 er 14 favour of the resolutions, on the ground that • i n tis a t W : re bou nd to support those who were endeavour ' ta4 oci a r i n object that involved the improvement of c ondition of the masses. The bulk of the . i to r , adm en , Weyer, were decidedly in favour of a t n he . • 4 ;LI which'was carried by a great majorit a " i- PinN e V ( l7 ' Of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting Co A IskqtrP - M l —, --NCE S OF FRIGHTENING p ut 'a 71.inistress, for some trifling offence, The child Iva, frentld into a dark cellar for an hour. Upon return 11e foolishly ßEN tag InrettlY terrified, and cried bitterly. ~,alld );1; hp= Parents in the evening she bu r rs p t o i h n e to ee t l e l a a r r s . klie gged that she might not be put into the he r „Parents thought this extremely odd, and as .. sure o d . . ao R i pe u et there was no danger of their being guilty . 1 At. On ' her, kti a a t all act of cruelty ~ but it was difficult to pacify the i: w ,lten put to bed she passed a restles h s ie n h i she fre • Tleuti -w ' l lg .day she had fever, during li n , exclaimed, "Do not put me A tie • e to fourth daytaken to Sir s y oope r , i . she was . in w the . cellar 1" ( Plentl ' -11 . pe.4lll:lllo4lstlleeay the cellar." whe,...Y...iti uttering, " Pray don't put a high state of fever, with . delirium, fre intqtred the Zeta subjected. Irileortdeereillwfolhnuinedh she eat had e Il w r a h r t e m w a rn s n t 321 1 01 ee likely Allot ( lied in a week after this unfeeling conduct. torelieveher ' .4..... er case from the same authority may here be o ~,r , .. _ It is .the case of a child, ten years of age, who anted to • her slate p e ncil write her exercise, and to scrape _ her knife, ii went into the school in the dark to fetch w , e from behind t i, _, hen one of her schoolfellows burst arid he ; ?nor M frighten her ; she was much terrified, ; ikod " e ad ached. On the following da she became deaf . ran the next, much tto hear the loudest llci r , . ,so so as no had h a g. Sir Astley saw her three months after this h be:f en c ed, and she continued in the same deplorable state 'au ,„• de d, A boy fifteen years of age was admitted f r o7_ 4ll late of Dundee Lunatic Asylum, having become ~.wile from fright. When twelve years of ago he w'tlt .ilventeed to a light business ; and some trifling : ,10 e 4 u eing one day missing, he was, along with others, ala d up in a dark cellar. The children were much ri bed ; and all were let out, with the exception of this r' b oy, who was detained until past midnight. He from this time nervous and melancholy, and . 1 ;7, into a state of insensibility, from which he will hi lu er ,rceoler. The missing article was found on the withwmg morning, exculpating the boy from the guilt _x which he had been charged. Parents should be tremety cautious not to allow their children to be Metre uor terrified at all by unfeeling teachers. It has re__ e found out that there is not the slightest occasion si l' r ou i) d e cum even in the asylums for the insane, and why teate people suffer their children to be cowed and Voide_ . n merely jo ,_gratify the passion . of some little ,falld do-mine, who kiioivs nO more about human nature lie does about the valleys and mountains in the %mon ?--Glassow Constitutiona SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM RACES.—YESTERDAY. Epsom Races commenced yesterday, and a duller commencement we never witnessed. The meeting was an extremely thin one, confined solely to those peculiarly interested in horse racing. The stakes run for were of small value, and void of excitement, and the betting on them scarcely worth recording. A favourable change in the weather was perceptible in the morning. The north wind, that blew so keenly for the last three or four days, was superseded by a mild south-eastern breeze. A few early showers fell, and towards noon the clouds cleared away, and then succeeded a sunny and genial afternoon; the rain was barely sufficient to lay the dust, and the course remained as hard as wood pavement. The great feature of the day was the notice from the Police Commissioners that the gamblng booths were to be put down, and the persons connected with them, or playing in them, taken into custody. Li consequence of this notice, so suddenly issued, and which, certainly, ought to have been promulgated before parties had taken and paid fir the ground on which they were erected, the utmost dissatisfaction was manifested by the members of the gambling fraternity. This deter. urination to put down gambling on race-courses will, according to some, considerably diminish racing funds, and, in consequence, plates and prizes to be run fur must decrees* in number and value. There are others who think that its suppression will not eventually prove injurious to the true interests of the Turf, inasmuch as the parties who manage these funds never can have wished to see them augmented from such impure sources ; and there is a prevalent feeling among the right-minded that the cleaner the course is swept of all impurities, the more liberally will its sports be supported by the honour able patrons of horse-racing. The booths were closed yesterday, and no play carried on in them, but it is re ported, we are pretty confident erroneously, that they will be opened this day (Wednesday), and that resist ance on the part of those connected with them will be offered to the police. To prevent any foolish attempt of I the sort, in addition to the police already on the ground, there will be sent to-day a reinforcement of 500 con stables. The arrangements on the course were the same as usual, with the exception of a new mode adopted for denominating the first and second horses. The telegraph declares the winning horse by exhibiting the figure placed before his name in the printed list, and the second horse by showing the letter similarly placed in the list. The method is simple, but the letters Yes terday were too small to be visible at any reasonahle'dis tance. We hope this slight drawback to the immediate satisfying of the anxiety of the crowd will be remedied in the exciting contests for the Derby and Oaks. The attendance of fashionables was so meagre, that a list of the names of the few present is not worth giving. They are, no doubt, reserving themselves for the Derby drama and the interesting afterpiece that will be played on Friday. The Craven Stakes of 10 . sovs. each, for three yrs old, 6st 81b ; four years, Bst 101 b ; five years, 9st 41b ; six years and aged, 9st 101 b. Craven Course. Mr. Ford's The Odd Mixture, 3 yrs (Abdale) 1 Mr. S. Herbert's ch cby Elis, out of Odessa, 3 yrs... 2 Baron Rothschild's cby Defence, out of Negress, 3 yrs 0 Mr. Dawson's br c Dalesman, 3 yrs Sir G. Heathcote's bl f by Velocipede, 3 yrs 0 Mr. J. Osborne's b c Boniface, 3 yrs 0 Even on The Odd Mixture. The running was made at a moderate speed by the Odessa colt, Dalesman second, and the rest in close attendance. They ran in company to the road, where the favourite took the second place, whch he retained to the stand ; here he challenged, was ahead in a few strides, and won a smart race by a neck; Dalesman a bad third, and the others tailed off. The Woodcote Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 added, for two year old colts, Bst 61b ; fillies, Bst 31b. New T.Y.C. 3ir. Edwards' f Full-sail, by Liverpool (Whitehouse) 1 Mr. S. Scott'l b c by Wintouian, out of Flight Lord G. Bentmck's b c Nereus, by Glaucus 3 Sir G. Heathcote's br c Chapow, by Muley Moloch Mr. T. Ilussey's b f Loadstar, by Liverpool Mr. Smith's c by Jerry, d by Wiseacre 0 7 to 4 agst Chapow, 5 to 2 agst Full-sail, and 3 to 1 agst Flight colt. . . - The Flight colt sprang off with the lead, followed by Nereus and Chapow, and Full-sail waiting. Without any material change they ran to the distance, where Chapow tried for the front, but swerved and was beaten. Nereus at the same time having had enough of it. Full sail then challenged, defeated the Flight colt at the end of the Stand, and won rather cleverly by half a length; Nereus half a length from the second, and nothing else up. Sir S. Spry's filly was weighed for and mounted by Crouch, but contrived to dislodge him immediately, and, after rolling over a complete summerset, broke away up the course ; she cleared hedges and ditches in tolerable style, but ultimately fell into one, and was se cured. Crouch did not sustain any injury. The Manor Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added; for three yrs old, Gst 101 b; four yrs, Bst 71b; five yrs, Bst 121 b; six yrs and aged, 9st llb; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 300 sovs., and the second to save his stake. Heats, two miles. Mr. Wilson's ch h Hampton, 5 yrs (Bemetzreider) 1 1 Mr. C. Arundale's br g Jamie Falshaw, 4 yrs 5 2 Mr. Withy's bm Ellen, 5 yrs Mr. A. Prescott's b g Bosphorus, aged 2 4 Mr. King's ch f Nubia, 3 yrs... Hampton the favourite. The first heat was won by a length, and the second by a head. THE DERBY. In our paper of Monday last we announced that a protest had been entered against Running Rein, on the ground that he is not the horse described in the nomi nation ; the objectors were Lord Glasgow, Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. Bowes, Mr. Ford, Mr. Cookes, Mr. Crock ford, and John Scott. On Monday Lord Maidstone en tered a protest against him and Leander, and it was fully expected that both cases would begone into on their merits yesterday morning. Such, however, was not the fact; only the parties connected with the two horses were called upon, and sufficient evi dence adduced by them to warrant the Stewards to permit them to start. Should either of them win, the stakes will be withheld, and the stewards will be prepared to hear evidence on both sides. The objectors are anxious that Running Rein should be examined by a respectable and competent veterinary surgeon, to be selected by the Stewards, and they are willing that every horse they may start for either Derby or Oaks should be submitted to a similar test. Of betting, we never heard so little on the eve of a great race ; we can only state, that Ratan retained a slight call of the Ugly Buck, and that Running Reie, on its being made public that he would be allowed to start, sprung to 12 to 1. The general market prices at the close of the racing, were as under :- 9 to 4 agst Ratan—taken. 20 to 1 agst lonian. sto 2 agst Ugly Buck—t. 25 to 1 agst Qui Tam. 12 to 1 agst Orlando—t. 20 to 1 agst Akbar—taken. 16 to 1 agst Bay Momus— 40 to 1 agst Loadstone—t. (nominal) 66 to 1 agst Delightful colt, 16 to 1 agst Leander (noml) —ditto. 3,000 to 1,000 was laid agst Ugly Buck at White's on nonday night, by a Noble Lord who had :previously offered 90,000 to 30,000, and meant it ST. LEGER. n ri . ved about T lo l , l o e o ß o u t e o k , 2 a ,o c o c 0 0 m a p g a s t n ehde by Ugly ß en ß i n e G k o t k a e r an hour before the races. Lord Albemarle's Robinia (Oaks), Lord Exeter's Merope (Oaks), and Wee Pet, arrived about the same time. HORSES EXPECTED TO START. Mr. J. Day's The Ugly Buck J. Day, jun. Mr. J. Day's Voltri Mr. Crockford's Ratan Nat Colonel Peel's Orlando Colonel Peel's lonian Col. Anson's Bay Momus Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar Chapple .Sir G. Heathcote's Campanero Mr. Ford's Qui Tam Mr. Ford's Phalaris Whitehouse Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein Mr. G. Osborne's Mount Charles Mr. Gregory's Loadstone Lord Westminster's Lancet Mr. Collins's Nlainsi.ay Mr. St.,Paul's Telemachus lll arson Mr. Hampson's Lightning Mr. F. Ongley's King of the Gipsies Mr. M. Jones's British Tar Mr. S. Herbert's Delightful colt Mr. Death's Radnor Lord G. Bentinck's Croton Oil W. Howlett Mr. Lichtwald's Leander Mr. Gratwieke's Needful Bell and Francis Mr. Forth's The Ashtead Pet Mr. A. Hill's Beaumont Lord Glasgow's Amulet colt . Mr. Cuthbert's Beaufront Sir Diggory I)iggle and one or two others are men tioned, but are doubtful. Six or seven and twenty are likely to go to the post. Betting at the West End up to Twelve o'clock last night:— Calloway Unknown Unknown DERBY. 9 to 4 agst Ratan 17 to 1 agst Bay Momus 9 to 4 agst Ugly Buck 18 to 1 agst Leander 12 to 1 agst Running Rein 25 to I agst lonian 13 to 1 agst Orlando 25 to 1 agst Qui 'ram OAKS.—No betting. EPsom Itscrs.—Cattonite and Delapre are declared not to start for the Surrey Cup. ASCOT HEATH RACES, 1844. Acceptances for the Ascot Stakes. Knight of the Mistle, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Orion, 4 yrs, Bst Parthian, 4 yrs, 7st 111b—Blackdrop, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—Mania, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Johnny, aged, ist 21b—Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs, 7st—Arcanus, 5 yrs, 7st—Rowland, 4 yrs, Est 101b 1 -- Franchise, 5 yrs, Est 101b--Delapre, 3 yrs, Est 71b—Maria Diaz, 4 yrs, Gst 61b—Ameer, 4 yrs, Gst 51b—Fox, 4 yrs, Gst 31b—illustration, 4 yrs, Gst 31b-E1 Maherry, 4 yrs, Est —Doctor, 4 yrs, 6st—Elemi, 3 yrs, Gst—Robinia, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Donnybrook, 4 yrs, sst 111b—The Ashstead Pet, 3 yrs, sst 101 b—colt by Elis, out of Odessa, 3 yrs, sst 81b— Gaiety, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Phalaris, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Deuce Ace, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. The rest declared. HAMPTON, 1844. Handicap for the Surrey and Middlesex Stakes. St. Lawrence, aged, 9st 71b—Mosque, 6yrs, Bst 91b—Orion, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Bramble, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Ballinkeele, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Priscilla Tomboy, 5 yrs, Bst 31b—Johnny, aged, Bst 21b—Hampton, 5 yrs, Bst—Arcanus, 5 yrs, Bst—Fake away, 5 yrs, Bst—Captain Flathooker, 5 yrs, Bst—Blackdrop, 4 yrs, Bst—Palladium, 5 yrs, 7st 121b—Auld Lang Syne, 4 y-rs, ist 111b—Rowland, 4 yrs 7st 91b—Ellen, 5 yrs, 7st 81b— Pocket Viper, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Bosphorus, aged, 7st 71b—The Devil-among-the-Tailors, 5 yrs, 7st 7113,---What, 4 yrs, 7st 71b —Young Lochinvar. 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Queen Mab, 5 yrs, 7st 41b —Venatrix,4 yrs, ist 2 lb—Fox,4 yrs, 7st—Hartshorn, 4 yrs, Gst 121b—Tarantella, 4 yrs, 64t 121b—Nizza, 4 yrs, 6st 91b— Subduer, 4 yrs, Gst 91b—A British Farmer, 3 yrs, Est 71b— Gaiety, 3 yrs, Est 31b—Idleness, 3 yrs, Gst 31b—Lucy Long, 3 yrs, 6st—c. by Eli s , ou t o f Od essa , 3 y rs , 6st—Midas, 3 yrs, sst 1 21b—Best Bower; 3 yrs, sst 111b—Deuce Ace, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Lufra, 3 yrs, sst 41b—The Mitlnight.Star, 3 yrs, sst, To be declared, on Tuesday next. . THAMES GRAND REGATTA. - • At a numerous meeting of the Committee and other lead ing aquatic gentlemen, at the Coffee-house, yeder- LITERAT URE. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL QUARTERLY REVIEW. iM,. VI. Smith and Eller, Lyndon, 1844. The article in this Number which will be most ac ceptable to the generality of readers, is the one on "Modern German Poetry," chiefly, however, by reason _of the translations which are executed with censiderable elegance and spirit, and are well selected in point of subject. The Reviewer, after enumera ting some of the most eminent names that have figured in German literature for the last half century and upwards, proceeds to observe that the majority of them have now passed away from tho stage of exist ence, and that the successors of these giants are for the most part a mere race of dwarf's, with few or no pretensins to superior intellect, but making up by tact what they want in talent. The German poets of the print day, he adds, with the exception of some two or three, have but one string to their lyres—it is that of Byronic despair and infidel despondency, and consequently they are, as a matter of course, dull, common-place, and wearisome in the extreme. " Greatly is it to he regretted that that mi serable doubting and despairing spirit which prompted Byron's poetry, should be still the be-all and the end-all of German lyric writers. Nothing is more wearisome than the languid satiety which this tone of thought and feeling produces. It is a frost which nips all true greatness in the bud, and creates an atmosphere that stifles all the nobler feel ings of our nature." The tone of these remarks is a very healthy one, and nothing can be more true and just. The " Highlands of !Ethiopia" is a careful digest of Major Harris's late work on this subject. Theßeviewer is very laudatory in his comments—but not too much so, for the volume is full of exciting in cident—and successfully defends the author from the recent attacks made on him in the Westminster Re view. " Galileo"—the " starry Galileo," as Milton calls him—is an account of some of the chief disco veries of this great astronomer, and the reception they met with at the bigoted Court of Rome. " Hayti, its Past and Present State" is an historical sketch of this fruitful but distracted island from the period of the reign of Christopher down to the present time. The Reviewer is sanguine of its future prospects, provided France will act generously towards the Hay tian Government, and remit a :portion of the large pecuniary claim which she professes to have on it, and which at present it is wholly unable to liquidate. The " Laws of the Currency" is an essay penned in a rational, temperate spirit, and contains several serviceable practical sug gestions, more especially as regards the Bank of Eng land system. In the article on the " History of France" occur some critical remarks on the great works of Gibbon, Hume, and Robertson. In general, they are correct, with the exception that the Re viewer speaks in warm terms of praise of the " poet's fire" possessed by Gibbon, and states that " Huine's reputation is undiminished." Now he is wrong in both these remarks. Gibbon possesses eloquence, but certainly not poetry ; in fact, he newer approaches nearer to it than stately, rhetorical declamation ; while, as respects Hume, his fame of late years has sustained considerable diminution—though the charms of his style are still as warmly admired as ever—and he is now generally acknowledged to be a partial and somewhat careless historian, who was by no means remarkable for pains -taking research. We quote the Reviewer's critical opinions of Hume, Gibbon, and Robertson : " Gibbon united the philosophy and general views of one age to the brilliant pictures and impassioned story of another. He warmed with the narratives of the cru saders or the Saracens—he wandered with the Scy thians—he wept with the Greeks—he delineated with a painter's hand, and a poet's fire, the manners of the na tions, the features of the countries, the most striking events of the periods which were passed under review ; but at the same time he preserved inviolate the unity and breadth of his picture,—his lights and shadows maintained their just proportions, and were respectively cast on the proper objects. Philosophy threw a radiance over the mighty maze ; and the mind of the reader, after concluding his prodigibus series of details, dwelt with complacency on its most striking periods, skilfully brought out by the consummate skill of the artist, as the recollection of a spectator does on any of the magic scenes in Switzerland, in which, amidst an infinity of beautiful objects, the eye is fascinated by the calm tran quillity, of the lake, or the rosy hues of the evening glow on the glacier. 'We speak of Gibbon as a delineator of events ; none can feel more strongly or deplore more deeply the fatal blindness—the curse of his age—which rendered him so perverted on the subject of religion, and left so wide a chasm in his immortal work, which the profounder thought and wider experience of Guizot has done so much to fill. "Considered as calm and philosophic narratives, the histories of Hume and Robertson will remain as standard models for every future age. The just and profound re flections of the former, the inimitable clearness and im • partiality with which he has summed up the arguments on both sides, on the most momentous questions which have agitated England, as well as the general simplicity and occasional pathos of his story, must for ever com mand the admiration of mankind. In vain we are told that he is often inaccurate, sometimes partial ; in vain are successive attacks published on detached parts of his narrative, by party zeal or antiquarian research ; his reputation is undiminished ; successive editions issuing from the press attest the continued sale of his work ; and it continues its majestic course through the sea of time, like a mighty three decker, which never even con descends to notice the javelins darted at its sides from the hostile canoes which from time to time seek to im pede its progress. Robertson's merits are of a different, and, upon the whole, of an inferior kind. Gifted with a philosophic spirit, a just and equal mind, an eloquent and impressive expression, he had not the profou n d sa gacity, the penetrating intellect, which, have rendered the observations of Bacon, Hume, and Johnson as en during as the English language.. Ho had not e n j o y e d the practical acquaintance with man, which Hume ac quired by mingling in diplomacy ; and without a prac tical acquaintance with man, no writer, whatever his abilities may be, can rightly appreciate the motiv es , or probable result of human actions." SELECTION, FROM THE SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE LORD KING. Longman London 1844. _ The late Lord King, though not possessed of any brilliant or commanding qualities of mind, was, never theless, one of the most useful, and—on all questions connected with finance, statistics, &c.—one of the most influential public men of his day. There were few practical subjects with which he was not ac quainted, and on all which he discussed in Parliament he brought to bear a strong, unclouded judgment, a quick, intuitive perception of the truth, and a variety of pertinent arguments, drawn from the copious store house of a richly cultivated intellect. Hence his speeches were always listened to with respectful at tention, even though they might fail to convince the Tory-ridden House to which they were addressed; and they were read by all the more thinking and liberal portion of the community with that deep interest which their sterling merits were so well cal culated to excite. In politics, his Lordship was a Whig—perhaiis we might say, "a Whig and some thing more"—and on all questions of moment he was invariably found voting with the advanced guard of the Liberal party. Of Church reform, in particular, he was, from the first to the last year of his public career, the zealous, consistent, and determined advo cate ; and he was, in consequence, held in great awe by the bench of Bishops, who shrank from his apt and cutting sarcasms, and seldom had the boldness to venture on a direct reply to them. Though he possessed wit and humour in no ordinary degree, yet these quali ties were always under the control of his judgment, and he never allowed them to lead him astray from the main track of his reasoning. Strong, homely well-wearing sense was the chief staple of his mind; he had no fancy—no earnest, impassioned powers of eloquence such as carry away an audience in spite of themselves, but won his gradual way to public notice by the practical strength of his logic, the humorous ness and simplicity of his diction, and the manly courage and straightforwardness of his views. Had he possessed more active ambition and fiery energy of temperament, he might, with his natural and acquired abilities, have raised himself to a commanding rank among the statesmen of his age—for it was an age which he thorougly understood and which was well able to appreciate him—but he was fond of cul tivating lettered ease in the retirement of the country, and cared little for political celebrity—that brilliant ignis fatuus which leads so many me n a s tr a y—th a t fatal rock on which so many characters are ship wrecked. In the volume before us, which is edited by the Earl of Fortescue, we have a selection from some of the most successful of Lord King's Parlia mentary speeches, together with a few unimportant extracts from a meagre private diary which he kept for three weeks, and then suddenly laid aside, and a brief memoir, from which we quote the following passage, relating to the earlier portion of his Lord ship's life : " Lord King was born in 1775, and at the age of six was sent to Eton, where he remained nearly twelve years. Being early impressed with the defects in the system of education then in use at our public schools, he never sought to acquire more of classicalttal learning than was necessary to carry him creditably y through his school exercises, but applied himself drawing, and to various branches of more practical know ledge, particularly mechanics, geometry , and _ t and among his early amusements at Eton, was hemak ing a detailed survey and map of the countrymme diately round it. lie was distinguished amon g i his school-fellows for the cheerful ease of his temper and the kindness . of his disposition, of which the writer of this memoir (himself sent to Eton at the age of ten years) received many proofs during the short period that they were there together in 1793. He still recol lects with grateful pleasure the happy hours which he spent at that time in the society of his older friend, to whose protection he had been recommended, and in whose room he always found a refuge from the little annoyances, which in those days, more than at present, younger boys at public schools occasionally encoun tered from their seniors. Then were laid the founda tions of an intimacy, which was cemented afterwards by family ties into brotherly affection, and continued with- out an hour's interruption or abatement up to the period of Lord King's lamented death. " From Eton he was sent to Trinity College, Cam-. bridge, and shortly after succeeded to his title on the death of his father in 1793. After spending the usual time at the University, he made a tour through such parts of the Continent as were then open to British tra vellers, including Switzerland, Germany, and the north of Italy, and returned home as soon as he was of age. On taking his scat in the House of Lords, he joined the small band of Mr. Fox's Friends, of which the chief leaders in that House were Lord Holland and the Duke of Bedford ; the former of whom, in a letter written to Lady King shortly after her husband's death, thus re fers to the friendship which subsisted between them : In addition to the pleasure of his intercourse, and of an early, long, and uninterrupted friendship, I have to look back on repeated obligations, as well as uniform kindness, experienced from him. And if concurrence of sentiment in politics confirms and strengthens affec tion, I believe I can say, that from the period of our en tering public life (and, it I mislake not, we attended for the first time on the same day), we never differed twice in our votes for more than thirty-six years.' By Lord Holland he was probably introduced to the acqaintance of Mr. Fox, who, justly appreciating his character and talents, showed him many marks of friendly regard; and as the neighbourhood of their respective homes at Ock ham and St. Anne's Hill afforded frequent opportuni ties of intercourse, some of the most delightful hours of Lord King's life were spent in the society of Mr. Fox." LIFE : a Romance. .Newby, London, 1844. The chief defects of this tale, which is in the form of an autobiography, are, first, a want of bold, vigor ouQ, dramatic incident, and secondly, a uniform senti mental tone that at times approaches to the maudlin, and is certainly not in keeping with nature, though it may possibly suit the tastes of circulating li brary readers. One or two of the scenes in the first volume are graphically enough pourtrayed ; we allude more especially to those which occur in the course of the episode, entitled "My Uncle's Tale," where Squire Thornley relates to his nephew, the hero of the narrative before us, some par ticulars connected with his earlier days, when he was driven from his family possessions by the intrigues of a cunning unprincipled housekeeper and her conge nial confederate, a knavish attorney, by name Smart. The whole of this incident, with the attempt at murder made by the woman on the rightful heir at law, in conjunction with some of the servants whom she has won over to her interests, contrasts strikingly with the tame, and, we may add, lackadai sical, tone that pervades the rest of the work, and is no where more conspicuous than in the conception and development of the character of Perkins—a deli cate, interesting, studious youth, who wears his shirt collar turned down, a la Byron, and his hair hanging over his shoulders after the most approved fashion of romantic sentimentalists, and dies in the flower of his youth of consumption, in the two hundred and eleventh page of the third volume, while his lady-love, Ellen Fanshavve, dies of a broken heart upon his grave, in the two hundred and thirteenth page of ditto. The language of the tale is generally chaste, and sometimes even eloquent, but, as we have already observed, it is much too effeminate in its tone. THE BOOK OF SYMBOLS. Chapman and Hall, London, 1844. In this volume we have a collection of prose essays on a variety of subjects, written with earnestness and simplicity, but without much depth or originality of thought. The author treats his various themes in a light, attractive manner, and as all his essays have brevity to recommend them, we see no reason why, despite their obvious super ficialness, they should not be received with favour by the reading portion of the community. The first topic which he discusses is " The Love of Know ledge—its Pleasures and Advantages," wherein he writes quite in a con-amore spirit, justly remarking : " The love of knowledge is a Peirian spring of tran quillity and happiness that is hardly surpassed by anything on earth ; and he who drinks of it has a taste created in him not to be imagined by the igno rant. The fabled talismanic power of old is not to be compared with it, for it exercises an influence that terminates. not but in death ; it subjects all things to its sway, brings the passions, the tastes, the pursuits, and occupations of life, and the pleasures of the world, to yield it willing and pleasing homage." In the essay entitled " On an Active Life," the author takes the opportunity of doing justice to the old philoscpher Epicurus, whose character and principles have been more misunderstood, and consequently more maligned, than those perhaps of any great thinker who ever existed. Even Horace, who should have k nown better, talks of him as being a mere gross sensualist, whereas he was a philosopher who inculcated quite an opposite system, recommended temperance and moderation in all things, and taught that the happi ness of man consisted in the healthy cultivation of the intellectual faculties, in tranquillity of mind, and ease of body. In his own private habits Epicurus was temperate and frugal to a degree; he preached nothing that he did not practice ; instilled into the minds of his disciples lessons of the soundest wisdom ; and has left a reputation for soundness of thought and blamelessness of conduct which will always be appre ciated by the discerning few, however it may be ma ligned by the ignorant many. HAND-BOOK TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Mitchell, London, 1844. _ It is enough to say of this work, that it is minute and circumstantial in its local details, and may be re ferred to with advantage by those who may be de sirous of familiarising themselves with the attractive scenery of the Isle of Wight, whose romantic range of rocks at the back of the island forming, what is called the Undercliff, is certainly unique in its way among the landscape scenery of Great Britain. The PRACTICE in the OFFICES of the MASTERS on the PLEA SIDE of the SUPERIOR COMMON LAW COURTS at WESTMINSTER, 6-c. 6-c. By Thomas Dux, Esq., one of the Masters of the Court of Exchequer. Owen Richards, 194, Fleet-street. Very extensive powers are conferred by the statute 1 Viet., c. 30, and confided by the Courts of Common Law to their Taxing Masters, yet the principles by which these officers were guided, and the rules and regulations they observed in the discharge of their important duties were very imperfectly known even to members of the legal profession. Such a work, therefore, as the present, was wanted, and cannot fail to prove of advantage alike to attorney and suitor. The author is Senior Master of the Court of Exchequer, and, as well from his great experience in office, as from his former publications, he was well known to be emi nently qualified to supply the profession and the public with a work of such authority on the subject-matter of the treatise now before us, as should make it a standard work of reference. The anticipations that might thus have been reasonably entertained, we find have been fully realised by the execution of his task. The whole practice, in all its branches, is fully and lucidly explained, and the volume has the rare ad vantage in a law-book of being written in language so plain, and so perspicuous, and so little embarrassed by technical terms, that it may be understood, and read with profit by all classes of the community. - - - JUSTICES JUSTICE.—On Sunday last a portion of this town was thrown i n t o rat h er a feverish state of ex citement, in consequence of three men being marched through the streets, like so many felons, and taken to gaol. " What is their offence," was the eager inquiry of the spectators, " surely it is not another Sutton-Boning ton burglary?" " No;" replied a grave-looking person, " not so had as that, but they say its a highway robbery." These questions and answers induced us to make some inquiries, and we were told the men had been caught " committing the very serious offence of stepping off the foot-path into a field," and oh, horrible! they had actually thrown a stone at Mr. Edge's keeper. We shall not trouble our readers with any observations upon the profanation of the Sabbath, by sending men through the town on that day in custody, and thus creating a public excitement at a time which ought to be held sacred, although it was done by the direction of a magistrate who has for years been accustomed to hear read, at the quarter sessions and assizes the proclama tion " for the suppression of vice, profaneness, and immorality." We shall not stop to inquire into the legality of committing these men to gaol from Sunday until Wednesday, without any information having been laid against them, but proceed to make a few observa tions upon the case, as reported in this day's Mercury. Mr. T. W. Edge is a magistrate of the county, h an i‘ an d ha s the shooting over the lordship of Bilboroug hich comprises Woodborough. Ills keepers apprehend these men, as they say, for trespassing and throwing a stone at them when by the side of a wood ; and by his direc tion they were sent to gaol. On Wednesday the case was heard, and the gamekeeper was completely contra dicted by the witnesses for t he d efe n ce , and the de fendants discharged. Thus three men were unjustly imprisoned from Sunday until Wednesday, and dis charged, without any compensation, and labouring under the stigma of having been in the gaol. Can it be sur prising that an opinion should be prevalent, that " there is one law for the rich, and another for the poor ?" Nottingham Mercury. INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, the inhabitants of Stowmarket were alarmed by the cry of " fire," when it was discovered that one beau and two hay stacks, at Abbott's Hall, we re on fire. There appears to b e no d oubt but they were set on fire . at the same time, from their appearance when first seen: one hay and one bean stack were consumed. Fortu nately, three loads of hay were saved. But for the quick arrival of the engines, and the great exertions of the in habitants, a large wheat stack must have been destroy ed ; this, Idowever, sustained little or no damage. It was no doubt the work of an incendiary. Two persons are in custody, who were seen near the spot a short time be fore the fire broke out. The property was insured. MR. NORTON ON INDIGESTION.—SOIIIe excellent remarks on diet, the causes and treatment of indigestion, and sound practical rules for the preservation of health, accompany each bottle of Norton's Camomile Pills, and are well worth the perusal of all who suffer from this complaint. In cases of indigestion, we should endeavour to restore tone and strength to the stomach, and thereby enable it to perform its important functions ; whereas it is not uncommon to hear of persons taking what they are pleased to call anti-bilious pills, which are, generally, some violent drastic compound, having a direct tendency to weaken, and, ultimately, to destroy the digestive organs .---, . -----,----- GENERAL - ASSEMBLY. SATURDAY, MAY 18. CASE OF SIR DA VID BREWSTER. The Assembly took up a petition and complaint from Dr. Ferric against a decision of the Presbytery of St. Andrews. The petition was to the effect that at a meet ing. of the Presbytery, held on Monday,last, it prOceeded to the consideration of a libel against Sir David Brew ster, and found the same relevant. Against this decision Dr. Ferric entered his dissent and complaint, and ap pealed to the - Assembly ; but as the meeting of the Assembly was so near, there was no time to have the papars prepared, and the appellant was compelled to come belt se the court without baying a copy of the libel or the other documents to lay on the table. Dr. FERRIE stated that what he thought ought to be dune was this : that the AssemLly should direct the Presbytery Clerk to send - tip the libel, and the accom panying papers, by Thursday next. There was no time for extracts, seeing thelibel itself occupied from forty to fifty pages. . Dr: iiALTiANE and Mr. MEnsErt, who appeared for the Presbytery, stated that they had no objections whatever to the papers being ordered ; but they contended that copies, not the orginal papers, should be brought up, in case of accident. It might become a ser i ous matter, for example, if the libel were lost. This view was concurred in by the Court, and instruc tions were given that the Clerk of Presbytery should send up copies of the libel and other papers by 'Thursday next. The Assembly next took up an overture from the Presbytery of Abertarff, setting forth that, as the "num ber of parochial and other spiritual charges, now vacant, in which religious instruction is necessarily communi cated through the medium of the Gaelic language, is still very considerable ; and whereas the number of licentiates at present in the Church, qualified by their knowledge of that language to discharge the duties o f these cures, i s no t suc h as to meet the dmand made for them, great injury to the cause of religion and the Church must unavoidably ensue from such a state of mat ters. It is, therefore, humbly overtured by the Presbytery of Abertarff to the venerable General Assembly, that • they take measures to remedy this crying evil as speedily as possible, by expediting the training and li censing of probationers speaking the Gaelic language ; and that, for this purpose, if it seem meet to them, the venerable Assembly will be pleased to direct that one or more of the divinity halls and other schools of theology shall be opened for a session, some time in course of the summer or autumn of this year ; or to do otherwise in the circumstances as to them may seem most proper." Mr. CLARK, of Inverness, supported the overture. He said the number of preachers was entirely insufficient to supply the wants of the Highlands ; but it would be well before the Assembly adopted any resolution on the subject that it should be aware of the facts of the case. It had been said that the cause of the want of preachers now felt in the Highlands was the divi sion which took place last year in the Church t but that was not the fact. He had been observing, for the last eight or nine years, that the number of Gaelic preachers had been gradually decreasing, and that the number of students who entered the Universities, with a view to the ministry, were also on the decrease during that period. This was the fact ; and the cause was, that during the last eight or nine yea's, the expense of theo logical education had been annually augmented by the new enactments which had been passed by the Assem bly. Had the expenses of a theological education been as great 20 or 30 years ago as it was now, not one-half of the ministers in the Highlands would have been able to enter the ministry at all. He proposed that the over ture be sent to a Committee to inquire into the whole matter, and to report. Dr. Hill concurred in the proposal of a Committee to take into consideration the subject of Gaelic preachers. He thought the Committee should also be directed to take into consideration the state of the Church in gene ral on this subject. He was satisfied there was much room for inquiry, and perhaps room also for their taking certain steps in order to meet the difficulties in which they would yet be placed. He had occasion, during the last six weeks, to carry on a large correspondence with friends throughout the Church ; and he had now to express his gratitude to them for the kindness with which they had met his inquiries. This correspondence would enable him to lay before a Committee, which was to be appointed, a mass of information respecting eighty parishes in the Highlands and Lowlands. After some further conversation, a Committee was then adopted to take the, subject of the overture into consideration, and to report. The PROCURATOR g ave in a report f rom th e L aw Com mittee. Since the !ast Assembly not fewer than 146 cases had been before the Committee. They had arisen for the most part out of the disruption of the Church, and were partly connected with the position of q uoa d sacra churches--th e principal difficuhy being in con nection with the deeds and constitution of those chapels. One of those cases, considered by the Com mittee to be the most favourable, was selected for trial, but their endeavours to bring it forward had been foiled. The seceding party had brought forward a case, which was one of the most favourable for them, and in all probability this case would take the lead. There were some cases in which interdicts had been ap plied for and obtained ; but there others where the par ties remained undisturbed, and the churches were still retained by them. He referred to the importance of this matter being considered at an early stage. The Com mittee had very properly been instructed to give ethics in matters of law in all cases that might arise ; and they had also been enjoined to give legal prow c • tion in cases where it might be requisite. In this latter injunction, however, the Assembly p asse d o ut o f its province, a s the Committee had not a single farthing at their disposal, and when legal measures were to be adopted it was necessary for the parties to find the means for themselves. He then impressed upon the Assembly the propriety of funds being procured to xelieie those Pres byteries which had been heavily burdened with ex penses, for some Presbyteries had not been burdened at all, whileothers were ledifitogreat expense. The Procurator then moved that the Assembly should appoint a Com mittee to advise with the Procurator, when necessary, on any question which might have arisen, or might arise, with regard to the civic rights of Presbyteries in parishes and chapels at ease within theirbounds. The motion was unanimously agreed to. The Assembly adjourned at half-past two. THE " MORNING STAR."—ThiS is the title of a forthcoming weekly journal, and tke words will probably excite no agreeable feeling in the mind of a certain no bleman. The prospectus, which is in keeping with tho title, begins thus:—" The Morning Star will urge upoa these nations the immediate re-acknowledgment of the judicial laws written down to divine dictation by Moses, as being the purest and most comprehensive in principle, and the most economical in practice, of all laws that have ever existed, or can, by man, be invented : de manding of the people not merely obedience, on their own part, to these laws for the future, but the full execu tion of retributive justice for the past, upon every class and individual now trampling down or failing to obey these divine statutes; with the consequent annihilation of all systems, institutions, and interests not absolutely consistent with the pure principle of equal justice upon which these laws are founded." After reading this awful announcement, we had not courage to look at another word of the prospectus. It is said that Captain Robert Blucher Wood, of the 10th Royal Hussars ' now private secret ar y t o Si r Il enry Hardinge, accompanies that distinguished officer in the same capacity to India. Captain A. W. F. Somerset (of the Grenadier Guards (son of Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy Somer set), military secretary to Lord Ellenborough, is to occupy the same post on Sir llenry's personal staff as Governor- General of India.—United Service Gazette. STATE OF THE CROPS IN WEST KENT.—There has not been experienced, at a corresponding season of the year, such a continued and (it may be said) so serious e drought. The land has often been in a drier state, but this has been at a later period of the year, when the crops had taken deeper root, and therefore enabled to keep alive, if not to make growth ; but now many crops are completely scorched down, " root and rind," to the bottom. The wheats seldom suffer from want of mois ture in this district, but they are now hoisting the yellow flag of distress, and the yield must be short, both in grain and straw. The barleys are suffering severely. Where sown late they have had no chance to vege tate. Oats the same ; and in many instances the sowing has been posponed, from the stubborn state of the land, and must be abandoned for this season alto gether. The clovers, which at the beginning of March were unusually good, are in many instances com pletely scorched and destroyed ; even on the strong clay soils the land is so cracked in all directions that the crops cannot stand. The grass, both in the meadows and pastures, is looking very unpromising, and the crops of hay must be short. The hop bine is growing fast and looking well. Fruit is also showing a good blossom, especially cherries and apples; there is here and there appearance of blight, but this is by no means general or extensive. The lambing season has proved the most prosperous ever remembered by the oldest shep herds; the fall in Romney-marsh, and, indeed, through out the whole district, has been numerous, and the wea ther continues so fine that they have thrived rapidly on a comparatively small portion of food. The meat mar kets remain dull, and the prices are not satisfactory nor remunerating to the graziers. The corn markets are steady, with a slight inclination upwards. Labour is scarce and many hands unemployed, for even the weeds have ceased to grow. FIRE AT TOLLESDURY.—On Thursday last, about a quarter to seven o'clock r.m., the children of Mr. Jeffery Gardiner, of Tollesbury, whilst at play near a bean stack upon their father's premises, discovered that it was on fire, and gave an immediate alarm. Mr. Gardiner hastened to the spot, and vast numbers of persons were quiCkly in attendance, whin every exertion was made by the labourers and others present to prevent the ignition of the adjacent buildings and stacks Much credit is due to the coast-guard stationed at Tolles bury, two of whom (lately transferred from the Howe) ex erted themselves most meritoriously, and at some personal risk mounted a wheat-stack in dangerous proximity to the flames, and hauled a wetted tarpaulin over it. The _s_upply of water was very limited, and consequently t he . rdaldon of little ser ‘e.tilegei.ne, ich The bea-sn'as efoll o zi en nic quarters, was totally . consumed, but wim and fifty quer stainck, attendance , consisting was of between forty insured in the I', evening, a numerous O h the clergy, h ssex me E et e i o n n g om e i f c. place at the Red Lion Mr. Renshaw in the c h a i r . Tolleshunt D'Arcey, the Rev. and occupiers of land, took lnn, when resolutions were entered into for an application for aa increased force, and offering a reward of 501. en conviction, for each fire. A very prevalent opinion existed at the meet,. ing that the fires were occasioned by persons going sbnus the country employed for that purpose, and the stapivirs distinctly state that they have not the slightest suspicion of any of their own men.—Essex Herald. INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Thursday morning, be tween seven and eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a rye stack, on the estate of IL C. Partridge, Esq., Snarehill, which was entirely destroyed. The plantations anti brush covers were cut down some yards round the stack, to prevent the flames from reaching them. It was no doubt the work of an incendiary. The stack is situated more than a mile Motu the road.—lpswich Earras.. 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