The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-29 00:00:00

r%P,•_ 1 7 1- r SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are about to have a revival of the Inquisition at Oxford. It seems that certain holy men of that seat of learning having discovered what they deem hetro rodoxy in the Bampton Lectures of Dr. Hampden, met on the Nth, and resolved on presenting a requisi tion to the Vice-Chancellor, praying " That he would be pleased to co nvene a meeting of the heads the Heads of Colleges and Halls, for the purpose of considering the propriety of submitting to Convocation an Address from the University of Oxford to the Most Re verend the Archbishops and the Right Reverend the Bishops of the United Church, to the following effect : " That their Lordships would be pleased to accept from candidates for holy orders a certificate of at t e ndance at the Lectures a the Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, in lieu ,of the certificate of at tendance at the Lectures of the Regius Professor of Di vinity in the same University, so long as the chair of the Regius Professor of Divinity continues to be filled by one in the soundness of whose doctrinnal opinions the University can place no confidence. And at a meeting on the 25th, resolved on another requisition to the Vice-Chancellor, praying " That he would be pleased to summon a meeting of Heads of Houses to take into consideration the best means of giving Convocation an opportunity of disavowing and condemning the evil principles and doctrines contained in the Bampton Lectures, and other writings of Dr. Hampden:" The Spanish Inquisition always allowed a defence and we presume that the Vice-Chancellor, before taking the steps point e d o ut in these documents, will allow Dr. Hampden an opportunity of defending him self. In the case of Whiston, if we are not mistaken, there was something like a regular trial before con demnation. Hare, Bishop of Chichester, was led, from the proceedings against Whiston, to write a tract entitled, if we mistake not, " Difficulties and dis couragements attending the study of the Scriptures," the drift of which was to show that a Divine ought to abstain from such study, as he was bound to adopt the conclusions of the Church, and inquiry was therefore not only of no use,. but might •expose him to danger, by leading him to conclusions of his own, different from those of the Church. Pot our part we will not suffer ourselves, in imitation of the Tory papers, to be dragged into a theological controversy. In truth, we cannot say that we understand the meaning of some of Vie extracts given by the Standard, and we leave it to others to settle whether they are orthodox, or smell of heresy. The proceedings at Oxford will no doubt prove exceedingly instructive. The old organ of the High Churchmen, John Bull, is quite furious on the subject of Dr. Hampden's appointment, and assu min g to Ir>i the objections against him, " Lord Mel bourne has suggftted that he should succeed to the seat on the Episcopal Bench, vacated by the death of the pious and exemplary Bishop Van Mildert," ac tually recommends that the Government should be de prived of the power of nominating to the Episcopal Bench. This would be innovation with a vengeance. "If this be true," says Bull if this manifestation of hostility to the faith of the country has actually been male —we say to the Christians end Churchmen of England, laymen as well as Clergymen, from one end of the nation to the other, and as it were with one voice, end that a mighty voice—Speak out ; nothing but the strongest cry —the cry of desperation—can save us. From the love or care of the precut Government the Church can expect nothing. We can only defend her by showing that Mi nisters cannot attack the sacred principles and dearest hopes of Christian men with impunity. They must be made to feel that, after such a demonstration as that which they have made. the Church will, to a man, turn from them, and its whole weiet be thrown into die scale of o; position. It is only to their fears we can now appeal. The question is not whether a man he Whig or Tory—is he a Christian ? Is he a Trinitarian 9—Let no time be lost ; let every archdeacon call a meeting of his archdea eonry—let heresy be denounced—let petitions be addressed to the King, imploring his Majesty not to receive the no mination of his Ministers to a bishopric, until it has re ceived the sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, in whom, until Lord Grey's Ad ministration, the power of a veto was vested. Let. Ox ford set the example—let a convocation be immediatzly summoned for this purpose, and to pass censure upon tLis Dr. Hampden's writings. Christians of England ! be firm, he vigilant, be active—your canary, your Church, your God, demand that every man of ye should do his duty. Tile crisis has arrived." The Tories have already the Lord Lieutenancies of Counties and Magistrates, and were lately exceedingly indignant that the Magistrates of Corporations should not also be Tory. They, no doubt, think it only rea sonable that they should also have the power of naming to the Bench. " His Majesty's Ministers (exclaims the - o rthodox journal) having declared war against the temporalities of the Establishment, arc now prepared to strike a blow at the faith of the country." ono ! there is no alarm for the faith ; but there is alarm lest the Bench should be filled with clergymen of distin guished talents and liberal political principles. The 'Tories care very little for the faith, but a great deal for the temporalities of the Church ; and they have a shrewd suspicion that if Ministers should have a few bishoprics to dispose of, Toryism would soon be at a discount in the - Church. Ministers will only laugh at this impotent raving. They know better than to-allow the Government to be deprived of the power of filling up bishoprics. Indeed, it is to the influence which the Government derives from its Church pa tronage that the Establishment is indebted for its ex istence. Were the Church to be independent of the Government, its duration would be very brief. We cannot, therefore, help thinking the Bull shows more zeal than discretion in wishing to make the Church independent of the Government. We must have no imperizon in imperio revival of Popery in England. The memory of the mischiefs produced by the Con vocation is too fresh to allow any wise and moderate men to wish to see the Church in possession of more power than it at present enjoys. In fact, we are in debted to the patronage of the Crown, and more es pecially to the power of naming Bishops, for our es cape from Jacobitism ; for it is well-known that the spirit of the Church of England, during the reigns of the two first Kings of the House of Hanover, was ge nerally bad ; and that if Government had not coun teracted that spirit, by bestowing its patronage on Libe ral men, the Stuart family would have been restored. —Morning Chronicle. It will be in the general recollection, that when his Majesty, anxious to place the administration of the Government in competent hands, summoned Sir It. Peel from the continent, the Whigs and Radicals (for the two were not then incorporated) exclaimed against the provisional power exercised by the Duke of Wel lington, and denounced him as a Dictator. " How," said they, " is it possible for one man to discharge the several functions of the Government ? The attempt is presumptuous and unconstitutional." We are not aware of any inconvenience that resulted to the public service from the dictatorship thus denounced. How ever, dangerous or otherwise, it was not of long du ration. Sir Robert Peel arrived, and assumed the Premiership, and lo another shout arose. The Right Hon. Baronet was reproached as a political " all in all." The Destructives became clamorous for a division of labour, they of course being the - political operatives. Well, this they have since obtained. They now pos sess a Prime Minister of active pliancy and unparal leled indifference —a Home Secretary of Lilliputian energy—and last and least, a Foreign Secretary of most meddling " n on-intervention." This Minister was on Friday last " trotted out" on the subject of Spanish affairs, and a truly wonderful show of paces he made. Differing as we do from his Lordship's political views, we must no less dissent from his poetical illustrations. He told the House that " the fogs were impartial." This is not only unjust, but most ungrateful. Fogs have always been partial to his Lordship, and never was he more thoroughly mist-ified than on Friday evening last. In that specimen of " What the learned call rigmarole," with which he amused the House, he, with his accus tomed flippancy, pointed to the feats of his foreign policy. The regenerated Greeks, under their Bavarian King—the patriotic Belgians, under their freely. elected Monarch—were offered as proofs of the wisdom of our foreign policy, under the presi dency of the Noble Lord. Did we wish to *gene ralize after this fashion, we might sp ea k o f grea t political considerations which we fear have been too much subject b tp the " non-intervention principle." But we shall: warned by the example of the. Foreign --.: - .;Seerektri, and shall confine ourselves to the question, AN4O is, whether the English people have adopted a line consistent with the national honour in the " non- intervention" interference with the affairs of Spain. At once we affirm that we —no, thank God, not we— but the Government have adopted a line wholly incon sistent with the national honour. In the first place, when the " auxiliary force" was contemplated, did the Government say boldly, " the Foreign Enlistment Act shall be entirely repealed, and British subjects left free to embrace foreign service as they please ?" No ; they partially and for their own purposes repealed that Act, and not satisfied with so repealing it, they pursued a systematic course of deceit, which has natu rally resulted in their own discomfiture. Most cor dially concurring in the patriotic sympathy expressed by Sir Robert Peel for our fellow-countrymen wherever their martial energies may be called forth, we equally coincide with the Right Hon. Baronet that the name of the British nation and the honour of the British character have been unnecessarily committed in this struggle. We contend that from such a course suc cess can gain no glory, while defeat must entail in tolerable degradation. Should the Palmerston plot prove triumphant, in what page in our history shall the valour of England find a parallel? Should that plot fail, vainly will our enemies seek to taunt us with a similar instance of national shame. We have dared, endured, nay oftentimes seemed to defy, fate itself, but never have we skulked to triumph or slunk into dishonour. It is idle to say that we, the English nation, are not compromised by this course of policy. fn the eyes of Europe we are so ; if we judge justly we are so in our own. We will not insult our readers by any refutation of the silly argument by which shallow politicians at tempt to connect the course of Mr. Canning's policy iith their own. It has been well and truly urged, that whatever objections might have been taken to the cha racter of that statesman, it was thoroughly and sincerely English. And in no one act of his was this more evi dent than his decisive interference with the affairs of the Peninsula. He, at that time the Foreign Minister of England, enjoying rare distinction for qualities which always must command it,--he presumed not to insult the national understanding with the pre tence of " non-intervention;" but he declared in the face of the country and of Europe that his pur- pose was to plant on the Peninsula the standard of British independence, and that where that standard was planted, there foreign invasion should not come. Whether agreeing with his views or not, every English man had the satisfaction of feeling that we stood before the world the bold uncompromising supporters of the honour of our country ; and remembering this, can w e suffer the names of Canning and of Palmerston to be blended in the matter of our foreign policy ? Yet there is some excuse for these attempts at alliance between the irresolute living and the glorious dead : for how else shall the Government be compensated for the ac tual contrasts of a Secretary at War disclaiming all connexion and personal regard for the principal support of the Administration, and still more singular, a Presi dent of the Board of Controul apologetically declaring that circumstances had brought the Foreign Secretary and himself to sit on the same benches, and that his defence of that Foreign Secretary was dictated neither by personal regard nor by political attachment. But we must here be indebted to Mr. Brotherton for a sug gestion, and adjourn the consideration of the confusion of Europe through " non-intervention" protocols and Lord Palmerston.—Times. Although the Bill for a Commutation of Tithes in England has been read a second time in the House of Commons, it is not, we believe, the understanding of House itself that it is bound thereby, beyond this broad principle—namely, that tithes ought to by! commuted for a rent-charge upon the lands of the kingdom. Of the Bill itself—that is to say, of the mode in Which this commutation is to be effeted by Parliament—no positive opinion has yet been ex- I pressed, and for this plain reason, that the majority of Members have not vet had time to study and to under stand the Bill. After a diligent perusal Of the Bill,-and considerable inquiry among those whom we know to have considered it with great' attention, we arc com-_ pelled to say that a measure of greater obscurity—one of which the . practical meaning is more difficult to ' come at, was scarcely ever submitted to the Legisla ture. It is not too much to affirm that the House has hitherto proceeded with the Bill in all but complete ignorance of the way in which itovould work if passed into a law ; and we believe the highest professiond opinion to be, that were the Bill (in anything like its present shape) made law, they whose business it would be to execute it would necessarily commence and carry on their proceedings in the dark, and would incur a very perplexing responsibility by proceeding at all. We need scarcely tell our readers, that a measure so greatly and immediately important to all owners and occupierg of land as the Tithe Commutation Bill has received the anxious consideration of a body of man who, under the present circumstances of the . agricul tural interest, are most keenly alive to anything which may possibly hold out to them a prospect of relief. Many sharp-minded men throughout the country, who have more time for the consideration of this particular measure than falls to the lot of Members of the House' of Commons—oppressed as they are with the simul taneous consideration of many important measures— many such men have been employed in a diligent in vestigation of the clauses of the Bill, and in an en deavour to apply them (so far as they can be under stood) to the particular circumstances in which they themselves are placed. We believe that the result of such investigations has not been in favour of the Bill. They who have considered its practical bearings with -the greatest attention are the least pleased with it. We state this with great regret, because we believe it, to be the sincere intention of the Government, and the sincere wish of the public generally, to effect a com mutation of tithes upon a fair and satisfactory basis—, upon principles which shall afford security and steadi ness to the revenues of the Church, while they relieve the land from uncertain and often vexatious claims. This is what the country wants, and what we have no doubt the Government desires to accomplish ; but it has not been fortunate in the mode of ac complishing the object, which is obscurely developed in the Bill now before the House of Commons. Mr. Pemberton, whose peculiar clearness of concep tion, and accuracy of analytical power is well known to the public generally, as well as to the profession which he belongs, says of the Bill that it proposes to effect the commutation of tithes in three ways. First, by voluntary agreement between the tithe-payer and tithe-receiver ; secondly, by making 'a commuta tion agreed to by a certain portion of either binding on the whole ; and thirdly, by giving to the tithe Commissioners power to enforce a fair commutation where the parties interested cannot agree. He adds, that it is founded neither on the voluntary principle nor on the principle of compulsion, but that it unites the disadvantages of both without comprising the advantages of either, and while he admits the great desirableness of a commutation of tithes being effected, he throws out very strong doubts whether such commu tation can be effected in the manner proposed by the Bill. We believe that landholders and occupiers have the same doubt, but before entering upon the consideration of the practicability of doing what the Bill proposes to do, they propound objections to the thing proposed to be done as faulty in principle. It is objected to the tithe system as it now exists, that it goes upon tire unjust portio prince ntoth ip e l of m capital ak an i d ng the labour he cultivatorexpends d pa in su y ponpo trh e land, and not in proportion to the profit he derives from the land. It is a tenth of the produce, and riot a tenth of the profit arising from' the produce, to which the tithe owner is by la:entitled. Now, by the pre sent Bill, the future rent charge in lieu of tithe, is to be calculated upon what the value of the tithe has been for the last seven years preceding the contract of commutation; that i s t o say , a perpetual charge is to be fixed upon the land founded upon a present income, which income is itself confessedly based upon an erro neous principle. It is to make perpetual and unchang able that which, it is admitted, is now a grievance. It is very important that this should be 'clearly un derstood. Let us, therefore, suppose two pieces of land adjoining each other. One of them has been—. for the last seven years—grossly neglected, and upon the other much capital and skill have been expended. The latter will, of course,, have been charg ea bl e with a very large amount of tithe—an d the former with very little, because the tithe is in proportion to the produce. See, then, how the proposed new law would operate, The average for the last seven years is taken on both, and a perpetual charge of a large one THE SUN, L(*bON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1836. dour, and, being free from all guile himself, suspects it not in others, immediately waited op Lord Melbourne, and stated to his Lordship that he had such an address to pre sent. Lord Melbourne informed his Grace that it would be unnecessary to hurry the presentation, for that nothing would be done .immediately. The Archbishop, satisfied with this assurance, retired, when, in two or three days after the interview, Lord Melbourne went down to Brighton, and obtained the Royal assent to Hampden's appointment — the King not having received the appeal from the University, andi consequently, not being aware that he was sanctioning the appointment to the most rssponsible situation in the Establishment to which his Majesty is devotedly and con stitutionally attached—a man, whose business it would bes according to the principles he has asserted, and the doc trines he has avowed, to undermine and weaken the faith, in support of which King Charles the First was martyred on the scaffold, and for the maintenance of which faith this very Regius Professorship of Divinity was created and en dowed." If this be correct, of which we have no doubt, Lord Melbourne ought to be impeached. The Prime Mi nister who steals from his unsuspecting Sovereign the the Royal consent to an appointment of this import. ance, wilfully keeping him in the dark as to facts ne cessary to enable him to form any judgment on the merits o& the case, is a faithless servant and subject, a reckless and unprincipled foe to the Church which the King his master has solemnly sworn to protect, and to the State and people, whose welfare and happiness mainly depend on the maintenance of purity, concord, and peacel in the bosom of the Church. It might be deemed incredible that Lord Melbourne, or any other Minister in this country, should have dared to at tempt such a deception as is described above, cheating by one and the same act the most learned and impor tant members of the University of Oxford out of their right to petition their Sovereign, the venerable Lord Primate out of his unquestionable constitutional pri vilege of access upon all suitable or necessary occasions to the Royal ear, and the Sovereign himself out of the effective controul which he.is entitled, and indeed bound, to exercise over an appointment of this nature. We admit that'it would be difficult to believe this, if we could doubt it without encountering a still greater difficulty on the opposite side. The gracious expres sions of attachment to the Church of England, which have on repeated occasions fallen from his Majesty's lips, have made too deep and too grateful an impression upon the hearts of his subjects to be easily forgotten. And is it to be believed that a Sovereign actuated by those sentiments of attachment to the Church which his Majesty is known to possess would have appointed a teacher of divinity at Oxford against whom lie had been previously warned by no lower authority than that of the principal Tutors and Fellows of Oxford, as a schismatic and a latitudinarian ? Yet this is what we must believe if we suppose that Lord Melbourne, as in the faithful execution of his duty he ought to have done, had apprized his Majesty of the senti ments of Oxford before he procured his consent to the appointment of Dr. Hampden. We shall watch with the utmost anxiety the further steps in this im portant affair, which is at the present moment in a position in which it certainly cannot be allowed to rest.—Morning Post. The Ministers have now an opportunity of enforc ing a practiCal ecclesiastical Reform. They have the opportunity of serving the general cause of Reform — of serving the cause of education—of serving their own reputation for sincerity to the people, and, lastly, of serving - the cause of the Church itself, whose pre sent unpopularity only the enemies of the Establish ment can wish to see maintained. A lucky opportu nity, which not unfrequently haprens in the promotion of great events, and in the production of important results, has placed a sudden and unexpected imple ment of great benefit to the country in their hands. Our readers must have observed the singular mor tality which has hovered over the Bishop's bench. The Bishop of Durham is dead, and the deaths of others have been daily expected. The patronage of four Bishoprics falling into the hands of Minis ters about the same time, would, indeed, be extra ordinary, and would seem as if designed by Provi dence for the purpose of paring down and pruning away the inordinate revenues of the pampered digni taries of the Church. Of the men themselves we have not a word to say. They may, and, we believe, are, estimable, amiable, and honourable characters in private life, and they have gone, or will perhaps go, to give an account of the abuse or use of their talents —to give an account of the manner in which they have fed or scattered their flock, at that bar before which every human being must stand in naked equa lity and responsibility for his own actions. It is not against the individuals who, to their own bane as well as to the bane of the Church, have been by circum stances enabled to revel away their lives in the midst of anti-Christian luxury. It is against the system that we raise our hands. If that 'system be not cor rected by the application of Reform, the Church Etablisliment in this country, which is at present un popular in consequence of its parade and ostentation, will inevitably fall to the ground. The revenues of the See of Durham, which is now in the gift of the Ministers, are perfectly scandalous by their enor mous extent. They, and the patronage connected with them, are estimated to amount to an annual in come of from 20,0001. to 24,0001. sterling ! Is so gross an abuse as this to be any longer endured? Certai n ly no t, if the Ministers do their duty and em ploy the remedy which they now have, beyond all question in their hands. The See of Durham may with propriety be reduced from 24,0001. a year to 4,0001. The surplus may be applied most justifiably, either to the purposes of general education, or to the increase of the poorer livings of the working 'clergy. It may b e very well for the Bishop of London, and other Bish o p s o f th e W o l sey S c h oo l, to advocate the advantage of wealthy prizes in the Church ; but the E do n e g o li m sh people p-arail comparatively nothing, never othn be i4,ar puad e er t s oha ed that vecom t p ho ar s a e ti N v v e l l i y o all, while the working clergy --those who do compa ratively all—are to be paid comparatively nothing. Starveling incomes, with e appearN ex penses great majority of the clergy, like gentlemen and t wish, is not the way to raise the character of the of their public or colleg it i no a c te appa e ay d ci u tt clerg i promote y, an or r can the appendages of modern bishoprics,—epicurean kitchens, troops of liveried menials, and gilded and drapetied saloons, without disgraceful sophistry, be c h y a e t r i n o o il t . h argued to be fitting symbols of a dispensation whose first Bishops boasted of their industry and their poverty ; who preferred working with their hands even to receiving voluntary contributions from their flocks ; and " who went forth to preach to all nations, taking with them neither scrip nor staff." Who will suffer by the wholesome Reform now suggested ? Not the last Bishop of Durham ; death has closed the door on all his anxieties about the things of this world. A Bishopric has no heirs. It reverts on the demise of its incumbent to the Church, or more properly to the n ation, and it should be employed in such a.manner as may promote the interests of the nation, both reli giously and socially. 'The new expectant has no right to complain whatever, if Ministers reduce the amount of the episcopal income ; and we doubt not that Dr. Maltby, who is spoken of, will be per fectly well satisfied with the comparatively princely income of 4,000/..a year. But more than this re duction is expected from the hands of Ministers under the present circumstances of the country, and u nder the present condition of public opinion. It will b e expected from them that they will obtain pledges from the new Bishop of Durham previous to his ap pointment, as well as from the new incumbents of . Peterborough, Ely, and Salisbury (should those Sees become vacant)—that they will join hand and heart with them in fulfilling the universal wish of the British le for an effectual Ecclesiastical Reform. peopThey have an opportunity which may never occur again of correcting and mitigating in some degree the amount of that baneful warfare for the popular measures as well as Church Reform in the House of Lords, which has always found its last rallying point and fulcrum on the Bishops bench. Every liberal measure of every liberal Ministry has been always trammelled, or muti lated, or counteracted there ; and we trust that the Ministers —for their own sakes, for the sake of the march of their administrative policy, and for the sake of that pacific Reform in the Church which the nation w ill have—will take care to obtain pledge's from the new aspirants to the mitres which have fallen or are to fall, of full co-operation, before they move a single step in giving them away.—Morning Advertiser. amount is laid upon the well-farmed land, and of a very small amount upon the ill-farmed land. This does not seem very like justice to begin with ; but how will it operate afterwards ? By and by the land which has been ill-farmed gets into better hands, and better crops are raised from it than from the now well-farmed piece of land—or say that the crops of both pieces of land become exactly equal. But the rent charge in lieu of tithe is not equal—it is very low upon the newly improved piece compared with the other, because it is calculated upon its former neglected condition. A premium in . futuro is thus given to present neglect, and a fine in futuro is imposed upon present industry and diligent application of capital I This cannot be considered a just and sound principle of commutation. See, also; how the tillage farmer will be hampered by the composition, while the owners and occupiers of grass lands will be too much favoured. The land which has grown wheat, barley, and oats, for the last seven years, will be burdened with a perpetual rent charge in pro portion to those valuable crops ; and though it may be the advantage (in other respects) of the owner to turn these lands into grass, he will still have to pay the charge calculated upon a tillage crop. On the other hand, lands which have been in grass for the last seven years, will have a perpetual charge of a small amount laid upon them, because the tithe collected from them is small. But in a few years these lands may be broken up, and very expensive tillage crops may be raised from them, still the rent charge in lieu of tithe will be very slight, because it will be upon the old grass land valua tion. To carry this further. Let us suppose grass land now paying 2s. an acre to the Church, upon a produce worth 2/. per acre, and tillage land paying 10s. upon a produce worth 10/. A - perpetual rent charge is fixed upon these lands accordingly. In a few years the grass land becomes tillage, and the tillage land is laid down in grass. How does the commutation work? Why, in that case, the produce w or th 2/. will be paying 10s. a-year, and the produce wortilh 101. will be paying 2s. a-year. Surely this cannot lbe a sound principle of commutation ! Such are a few of the practical hints which we think it right to throw out at present respecting the new Tithe Bill. The more the measure is considered, the greater will be tiee number of similar considerations that will start up. In the mean time, we have shown some of the difficulties which practice] men have found in it.—Morning Herald. We expressed on Thursday se'nnight our belief that the first effect of Lord Me lbotline s conduct in forcing upon the University of axford a Regius Pro fessor of Divinity, who is known to entertain and to have publicly proclaimed sentirn,ents repugnant to some of the most important articles of the faith of the Church of England, would be some vigorous, and effectual step on the part of the University, to protect its students from the danger to which such an appointment evidently exposed them, of having their religious opinions perverted or unsettled by hearing the creed of the Cheirch, into whose mi nistry they arc preparing to enter, impugned and disavowed from that chair to which they are di rected to resort for the purposes: of being strengthened in the holy faith of the Church of England, and instructed as to the means by which they may best impart, to others a fa?l and assured con viction of its truth. The belief we confidently expressed at the moment when we first receive information of the disgraceful fact that Dr. Hamp den's appointment had beers confirmed in position to the strong rem one trances of all the most eminent men erho are engaged, at th , University of Oxford, in the important business of in struction. It was a belief which necessarily sprung out of our habitual sentiments of respect and esteem for this great seat of learning and piety, or, to spealr of it more correctly, it was idenical with the persue sion that the University of Oxicrd would not, in any Circumstances, however difficult and painful, desert its duty and betray the great interests committed to its charge. The University, unfortunately, has not the means to annul the appointm,mt made by the Minister of the Crown. It did its entire duty, so far as that appointment was concerned, \ vhen it laid before his Ma jesty's Government a statement of its opinion that the religious sentiments which had been expressed by the pert on 'upon whom it was supposed the appointment was about to be conferred, wore of such a nature that, as honest guardians of the purity of that Christian faith which is embodied in the creeds and articles of the Church of England, they could not conscientiously, re frain from remonstrating against it. The appointment however, having been made in defiance of their will folvded and solid objections, the leading members of the University of Oxford now feel that anoth er and still more painful duty devolves upon them. T he y are reduced to the alternative of permitting in silence the lecture room of the Regius Professor of Divinity to be converted into a school of " false doctrine, heresy, and schism," or of exerting their authority and influence to divest it of the character of a school altogether, to leave the Professor without a class, and to change an office hitherto so useful and valuable into an idle amid worthless sinecure. It cannot, we think, be doubted that, in preferring the latter course, the University au thorities have chosen the lesser of two evils. It is tin. questionably better that Dr. Hampden should, for the remainder of his life, be an unattended Professor of Di vinity, if he can persistin holding office, in circumstances so humiliating, than that the • Church should be weak ened, agitated, discredited, and endangered by the in troduction into her pulpits, through the influence of his teaching, of an indefinite number of sceptical or heretical Ministers. The following resolutions, una nimously adopted by meetings of members of the Ox ford Convocation, very numerously attended, indicate the course which the University is about to pursue. It is not merely a just and prudent course, but it is the only just and prudent course which could have been adopted under the circumstances. Lord Mel ba l o ld u r n m e h ost ar in indispensable d is p fa e c n t, left sable no choice. ecessity I that att theirca s of t u University first v r e rs ity, should do what it is about to do. To have done less would have been to throw away its own character and usefulness for ever, and to have brought the Church of England and the cause of true religion in this coun try into a situation of the most imminent peril : At a meeting of members of Convocation holden this day, it was unnnimously resolved— " That a respectful requisition be signed and presented to the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor, praying that . he will be pleased to convene a meeting of the Heads of Colleges and Halls for the purpose of considering the propriety of sub mitting to Convocation an Address from the University of Right O x from That ah n t a det Reverendtat l their e e e si rforthe Lordships Most holyß everend ßishooprds e orwfsa uhot t lec h de e uri: Archbishops at eapleaseddteoc hfdurat Church, and e, n d o following effect : , at the lectures of the Lady M argare t' s Professor of Di vinity in the same University o f O x f or d, i n li eu of the cer tificate of attendance at the lectures o f th e Regius Professor of Divinity in the same University, so lon g as th e chair ti,ssor o the Regius Professor of Divinity continues t o b e filled b y one University can the soundness of whose doctrinal opinions th e U • versity can place no confidence.' " Oxford, Feb. 24, 1836." " At a meeting of members of convocation, holde n t hi s day, it was resolved unanimously. o " That a respectful requisition be signed and present e d acceptt a t the e n c e to the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor, that he would be pleased to summon a meeting of Heads of Houses to take into con sideration the best means of giving Convocation an oppor tunity of disavowing and condemning the evil principles and doctrines contained in the Bampton Lectures and other Writings of Dr. Hampden. " Oxford, Feb. 25, 1836." That the convocation will be convened, that its de cision will ,be in conformity with the object of the numerous and respectable requisitionists, and that the Right Reverend Bench will, with very few exceptions, co-operate with the Oxford Convocation in guarding the Church from the danger with which it is threatened, are anticipations, with respect to which it would be unreasonable to entertain any doubt, although the whole weight of Government influence, and every engine of corruption at the disposal of Ministers, will be strenu ously and actively employed to avert the discomfiture and disgrace which so evidently await them. How unscrupulous the present-Ministers of the Crown are as to the means by which their objects are attained— so that they be but attained—is evident from the following anecdote relating to the subject in hand, which we find in the columns of our vigilant, able, and well-informed contemporary, John Bull The Archbishop of Canterbury having been requested to submit in thethis appeal and petition (the address which ap peared Morning Post of Thursday last), to hii Ma jesty, his Grace, who uniformly acts with hononr and can- PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26. , Price Number Dividend of per CANALS. , per Paid Share. Shares. Annum. . -,700 64 per cent. Ashton and Oldham.... AV srage 97t. ISs. sh. 162 1,482 6/. Ashby.de-le-Zouch Average 110/. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51 1,005 5/. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. sh. 90 4,00015 h. 121. 10s. Birmingham,:l-16th share l7/. 10s. 1294 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....llol. sh. all pd 3 0 1 600 , Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 61 400 H. Chelmer and Blackwater. . 100/. sh. 102 500 42/. Coventry 100/ sh. 510 4,516 Croydon Average 31/.25. 10d. sh. '25 2,06 02 N. 10s. Dudley lOll/. sh. '75 6110 4 61. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,000 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 11131. sh. 85 231 43'. Erewash lOO/. sh. 400 1,297 IN. Forth and Clyde .......Average 44=0/.1;:s. sh. 590 1,500 121. Grand June" - _ .. 00/. sh. 226 2,8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 25 1,521 Grail(' Surrey lOO/. sh. 10,000/. 4/. per cent. I)itto (optional) Loan lOO/. 3,(4)6 Grand Western 600 12/.125. Sd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. I3s. 4d. 215 1,960 Gloucester and Berkley 1004 sh. 15 '749 Wt. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,238 1!. lOs Huddersfield Average 57/. Os. 6d. sh. 30 100 • • Kensington 100 sh all pd. 1(1 2i,228 11. Kennet and Avon,. Average 391.85. 10d. sh. 2 4 2,697; 20/. Leeds and Liverpool 100/ sh. 510 515 121. Leicester l4Ol. rh. 1461 907 41. / Leicester and Northampton... Aver 63/. /its. 78 550 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 251. sh-all pd. 2.409 9/. Monmouthshire 100/.5h. 160 250 9/. Melton Mowbray 100/ sh. 260 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 570 3,000 " '247 15/. Neat h 1001. sh 000 100 1,786 321. Oxford lOBl. sh. COI 522 2/. Oakham 1301. sh. :18 `2,400 41. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 105 21,418 I4s. Regent's (or London) Aver. ay. 16s. 5.669 5/. per cent. it oclidale Average 85/. sh. 1140 12 500 Si. Shropshire 125/. sh. 800 101. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 100 45,600/. 61 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10e. sh. 12 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690 500 11/. :Shrewsbury 125/ sh. :241 300 Si. Stourbridge .ft 3 ,647 11. 10s. Stratford - on - A v al ... Avera g e 79/. 9s. Pd. sh. :89 • 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 215 5,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway ... Ar 374. sh. 18 2,611 0 4 sri. 021. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 4 share 1004 sh. 6.0 5,149 ......... Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Sd. sh. 2 1 , i!1 15/ Warwick and Birmingham lOO/, sh 280 1,000-11i.5 940 104. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 221 (1,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 78/. Os. sh 85 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. 88. sh. 'l9 800 61, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 126 Wisbeach lO5/. sh: 45 905 .1/. Wey and Arun .. 110/. sh. 224 DOCKS. 2,600 & , 1 - ~, lOO/. sh. 57 1,06545 h 3 -p. C. Lommerciai 14X8,6672/. 4 per cent. East India -11 l 0,238,3101/. 50s. p. ct. London Ditto Bonds 1,380,000/. 5/. per ct. West India 2..f0.1 2/. fig. 441. Bristol Average 147/. Ills. sh. 85 68,324/. 5/.percent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1.352,752 3p .r cent. St. Katharine Stock 871 500,001 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOl4 Shoreham Harbour 2:3 ........ Deptford Pier 0 13/. sh. 3/. pd 24 BRIDGES. 1,6'.0 11. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 23 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. (31. '2s. 88. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 74 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 5,000 I!. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. .... 6Ol. pd 24 5,000 11's. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71.. 4O/. pd 2143 60,000/. W. per cent. Pito Bonds 5,818 17s. Vauxhall Av - wage 491. Os. Od. sh. ASIURANCE COMPAN:ES 9,000 3/ Vs Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 764 3 , 4,0 , f 1. 5 per cens. t .l Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 10 /. pd 12 1 "" and 5 .50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 10 0 /. sit. 51. pd 5 24,000 7, 1 per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pa 15 4 1,'200 4sl). 4/. Birmingham Fire 250/. sh. 55/ pd 11.5 20,000 41 percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,1100 6/. per cent. Brit sh Commercial 50/. sh. 5/, pd 11 5,000 1. - ./. per cent. Clerical, Medical,&c. I ife,l(sl sh. 1/10 pd 3; 4,000 2/ 1 0; Cou n ty 100/. sh 2. 10/ s .pd 42 10,000 ss. Eagle '1(115 [at per cent.l Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 1;75 • d 3/ bs. 5 2,271 51/. per cent. European Life 0 0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 Ss. Ditto , New 'OZ. sh. 2/. pd 1/. I2s. 1,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 157 20,000 11. Guardian 1001. sh. '2Ol. pd 31 Fire 5 pet. 40,000 I . Life A pct. ] Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 61 2,400 5/. 73. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. 501. pd 120 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 94 5/ ner cent. Indemnity Marine . l ,O/. sh. N. pd 151 2,020 31 lOs Ker,t Fire 501. sh. all pil 92 3/. Ditto Life 2O 10, 0 00 I6s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 28 3,900 London, Fire 25/ sh. 111. 10s. p 1 16 31,000 ... 30,0 10 1.1. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 2/. pd 21 is ti :)55,00) Is. 6d. frotertor File 2O/. sh. 24 pd 1/17.0d 2,500 I/. Provident Life llO.l. sh. 1'!. pd 194 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20!. sh. 21. pd 63 8411,2201 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange Sto k... 1974 Sun r.:10 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. p 8 JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Au‘trala.ia 4O/. sh. 49/. pd 60 10,0441 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 10/. pd 1:5 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 16,000 '2 per cent. London and Westminster... 100/ sh. 15/. pd 23 3,000 ... ...... Lancaster 100/. sh. 20/. pd :hi 2.5,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sit. 10/. 1 d 17 30,000 74 per cent. Manchester ana Liverpool] Discount 100!. sh. 10! pd 22 2(1,000 G percent. Manchester 100/. sh. 0/ pd I's 20,000 b per cent. Provincial 'Bank of Ireland-100/. eh. 25/. pd 44 20, (0 National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh 10/. pd IL 10,000 National Provincial Eng. ...1001. sh. 25/. pa 2' 10,000 10 p, rent. Gloucestershire 5O /. s h . 5/. 1,11 11 . 6,000 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 509 11 12. s Bath 2O!. sh. 10/. rid 2 5,000 61. per cent. British 4O/. sh. 10/. pit 2 noo rsi.percent.l Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd e" Land Bs. as 3 814 5/ 108 Birmingham 5O/. sh. II 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton ' 20/. sh. 750 ...... ... Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 :3/. Continental Cansolidated lOO. 511/. pd I,OOQ 10/. City of London lOO/sh. all pd 1, 11 00 6/. Ditto, New 4,000 4/. U's. Equitable ... 40/. pd European • 5/. ,1 10,( 00 5/. per cent. Imperial. 5O/. sh. SOO 5/ per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 20/. pd 2,350 6/. per cant. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 1,5 0 0 71 per cent. Leeds "0/ sh. 2 1 48 9,0.1) Si. par cent. Phcenix 50/. sh. 39 /. pd 1,000 4!. per cent. Ratcliff 100/. sh. (4)/. 08 4,010 South Metropolitan 5"/. sh. 13/. pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. '45/. pd 210 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 1/ 5s tValtefield 25/. sh. 12,000 34 Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 6,000 12 Ditto, New . 50/. sh. 104 pi 810 Ya , •niouth 20/. sh. 184 pi WATER warms. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/ pd East London lOO/. sh. Grind Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. Kent lOO4 sh. Liverpool Bootle 2204 sh. New diver London Bridge Water Annuities Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. ;south London 100/. sh. 'West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. s h. York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/ . sh. IRON RAILWAYS. . Bristol and Exeter 24 Bolton and Leigh Stock HO Stock 594 2.500 4,500 4,433 5!. 4,500 21 105 2,000 21. 3 , 4,9 10!. 1,500 2/ 10s 6,486 1/. 1,000 4 per cent 8, 00 3/. 1,360 11 14s CGO 2,000 2,500 IN. Clarence Forest of Dean 5O/. p 1 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 401. p 1 Grand Western 1001. sh. 10/. pd Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. p(l Hull and Selby 5Ol. sh. 4/. pd Leeds and Selby lOO sh. Leicester and Swannington .. .. 501. sh all pd Liverpool and Manchester...loo/. sh. 100/. pd Ditto Quarter Shares ‘")51. pd Loughborough . - ..... Average 142/. 17s. sh. London and Brightou lOO/. sh. 5/ pd Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201. sh. 1/ pd Ditto ditto (Rennie) London and Blackwall 50/ sh W. pd Loud° 1 and Dover 50/. sh. 11. pd London and Gravesend 2Ol sh 1/ lid London and Greenwich ew. sh. QM pd London and Birmingham -100/. sh. 50/. pd London and Southampton UV. sh. DI pd London and Croydon 21. pd Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh. North Midland lOO/. sh. Si. pd Preston and Wigan 3O/. pd Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3/. pd Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh. Durham Junction 100/. sh. 10/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 5/. sh. Si. pd Alten 15/. sh. 10/. lOs pd Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 9.51. pd 80l nos _.... ..._ • . 30,003 30,W° •:,000 '2,100 2,100 1,500 5,100 9 per cent 70 11.11. 10,000 ...... 45,000 12,000 ...... ... •0,000 20,000 3 per ccnt 25,000 20,000 20,000 12,500 2,500 ..... 2,600 1,000 6/. per cent. 800 4,000 10,000 ... ..... 2,000 10,000 3/. '.3. 6,0 0 11,000 Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 20/ pd Macaubas & Cocaes United ....251. sh 22/. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 7.1/. pd Cata Branca 631. pd Candonga 7il. pd _ .__ .. 10,000 10,000 10,000 20,0.) ) IL. 108. ......... 0,000 14,500 31. 20,000 0,153 2,00 u 11,500 Copiapo - 2Ol. sh .211 id Bolivar Copper Company 2U/. sh. 201. pd Ditto Scrip 4!. pd British Iron 5Ol. sh. 50/. pd British Copper 5/. sh. 311. pd Columbian, iss. 51. pm. English 121 Ks. pd General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 151. pd Mexican Company 100/. sh 511/. p Polberou Consols 101. sh, Si. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd Dit o Scrip Ditto Subscrilition 2/. 1)(1 Ditto New Scrip sl pd .... Union Gold, iss. 21. ss. pm .,.. 2211. sh. 41. pd West Cork 504 sh. 40/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. ••....... London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. O. London University 100/. sh. all pd ••....... Russell 25gs. sh. King' College 100!. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh, 2r y. pd 1,020 IL Auction Martso/. sh. 6,000 British American Land Company l3/. pd 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 20/. p 2 200,000 5/. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 1/. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock I/. London Com. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. New Brunswick Land Company 9 21 pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 2,633 Si. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd .1,000 10,000 Van Dierner.'s Land 1001. sh. 17/. pd 30,000 WOO 1,000 1,500 700 2,000 4. I ( 1 2 4' 231 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, FEBRUARY 8, 1836. 1,500,001 i. 61. p. et. Bati'c of Scothtud BANKS. mil. 6s &I, sh, all pd 2,000,0x1. 5 p. et. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. a ll l. l 500.0X'1. SD. et. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :11 3,000,0x1. (11. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/ pd 5,000,0t0/. 5 p. ct National lOOl. sh. 10/. pd 2,00+1,01e1. 4/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/. sh. 50/ b 000,01.0/. 4 p. ct. W es t ern o f S cot l an d 2001. sh 30/. pd INSURANCE COMPANIES. 251 , ,000.11 p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd Oil ' 500 5 p. a. Hercules 100/ sh 10/. pd 11l Os 11*, " sp. et. Insurance Co. of Seotland.... lo/. sh. all pd '7l Os , ''",`""'„,,,, 6p. ct. North British ............ 2001. sh. 101. pd 154 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 5,000 rP. et. Edinburgh 1 Afe lO O/. sh. 10!.10/ pd 13/. pd -14/ 0: 10s 10/. pd 10/ les 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland s 511SCELLANEO US Edip. 2nd Glas Chi. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd Ditto Allocated , h. all pd 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 251% sh. all pd Carron Iron Company '2so/, sh, all pd 2,0005 h• LI per cent. Shotts Iron Founocry 50/. sh. 3.1, pd 10,000 3 per cent. I..:clinburgh & Leith Glass 2220551.11..5ti5hih.,.. A11146/1 o . m p! 4,500 lOper cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow G as 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas - 2 04 . 0,. 01 pd IMO 5 per cent. Edinbursh and Dallteith Itailway.„ - 56/. sh. 3,00 5s per cept, Pitlittshie Lai C0nTany....251. sh. 91. pd 2041. 171/. 240/. 1;2/. 15F, CO/. 34/. 4,910 (151. 34/, 4504 8,000 M3l 50 224 LOI WRON LAND. On Wednesday forenoon, a public meeting was held ' llt Nottingham, in the Town-hall, in compliance with a re q uip ; tion, in which Lord Rancliff's name appears, for the p ur p Os of taking into consideration the present condition of Irelan4; The subjoined resolutions were unanimously adopted. , .. 5 i I. That this meeting deplores the long cours e of inky' "1... policy which has characterized the a dministration b of t mer Governments in the affairs of Ireland, by wh ich that padr, of the United Kingdom has been treated as a conquole country, rather than an integral portion of the British erfO re ' g and thus given ground for the suspicion, that the union lc!' one existing only on the pages of the-statute-book. the equal participation of the benefits of British law ! in British justice. bis 2. That while this meeting is desirous of supporting 1 . ~, Majesty's present Government, in their measures regardintbe the Irish Church, it is yet fully assured, that full and c omp! _ and nof I d a justice cannot be done to the people of that country, until tur exaction of tithe shall entirely cease, or its proceeds be ar plied to purposes of national and general utility.• 3. That this meeting is most anxious to witn ess the ad°lji tion by the legislature, of a measure for placing the Municipal Corporations of Ireland under the influence of popula r sly troul, to an extent not less than that which has been,,wa given to the people of England and Scotland • and also that system of legal provision for the poor of Ireland, may sp ee be passed into a law. r lob 4. That this meeting has witnessed with feelings 0 ' Ai' commendation, the conduct of the Noble Lord at the bea-cca his Majesty's Goyernment in Ireland, by which he has eviuith a determination to adminster equal justice to all clas ses, a out regard to religious belief, and has thus obtained, in e a greater degree, the confidence of the people, than 11 0 b e ever yielded to any previous oneGovrnment. e et 5. That a petition, founded the resolutions of this n'' . 5 ing, be presented to the House of Commons, by the rilei nb ,t e c l a of the town, and- that Daniel O'Connell, E sq ., b e reque; lie to support the same, and that the petition be prepared, an"cho for signatures, under the management of the Committee, s have The planned the business of thiS meetin.. s of IMayor took a distinguished pa rt'in the procee ding this large and important public meeting. CORONER'S INQUESTS. , AT AFFLICTING SUICIDE OF A F OREIGN G E NTLENr — THE ROYAL LITERARY INSTITUTION, AL BE MARLESTB E- e a PICCADILLY.On Saturday evening a very lens inquiry took place in the Board-room of St. George' 1 y pital, Hyde Park-corner, before Mr. limos, and respectable Jury, on view of the body of Monsieur D3n, Boileau, aged 72, a French gentleman, of high literal' acquirements. 0- c tita - Thomas Webster, porter at the Royal Literary a tion, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, deposed that the des the gentleman was a memter of the Institution, and ri . t in habit of visiting it. Witness saw him on Monday the reading-room. About half-past eleven o'clock at n'is,vas witness put out the different lights in the building , „ a f g r th e his custom. On entering the water-closet to turn gas, witness di sco vered the deceased on his knees, lot head recli n i ng over the p a n. On further examination Tiaa ness ascertained that the unfortunate ge ntletu o h i e b wounded hims e lf s ev e rely in the throat with a razor, w t he was lying on the floor. The blood was flowing frau? bad wound over the seat into the pan. The deceasenwit. divested himself of his coat, waistcoat, and cravat. other ness gave an im me di a t e a l arm , an d on the arrival of otl io persons the deceased was removed into an a partmen t ' ia di• was nearl) insensible and incapable of speech. Tv ° , l - 0. 4 cal gentlemen pr om ptly a tt en d e d, a nd the vunn" an d dressed, subsequent to which the sufferer came to, with difficulty expressed his wish not to be removed t°, if own residence, but t o thi s h osp i ta l, w hi c h was aceorcune done By th the e same COURT night. the During the deceased'slate visit at „ institution I have observ e d th a t h e appeared I appearedvery dej ec' in spirits. d in By the Jury—The d ec e ase d was gene rally eugagiere the study whilst at the instituti o n. H e w as a married tleman, and resided at Charlotte-street, Pimlico: f o r A Gentleman present stat e d th a t the deceased hom ip some time before the rash attempt upon his life boe ° ,,j a ry very low, depressed state of mind, arising from Pecu.:ioeo embarrassments. He (deceased) was a man of great so jot? and literary attainments, and of very high honour a nd ' nections. ease a Eventually a verdict was returned " That the Lice, - t he died of disease of the heart and brain, conjointly Wit, ll , te cl wound on the throat, which wound the deceased joie himself." See An inquest was held on John Littell, a prisoner in bile gate. The deceased was admitted into the infirmary w a to suffering from a cold, but erysipelas ensuing, it spre j d i e t the brain and caused death. The Jury returned a ve,c pi r. of " Natural Death." Mr. Cope, the Governor of 'T., s g gate, said the prisoner had been com m itt e d f or obt r ''':: a s goods under false pretences, but b a d not b een tr i e d. not the first time he had visited the prison for similar and m a o n st ex e t x e i n )e t rt beL , o i n n d 4i c e o r trit; d '; ' , and was w lived in dashing style. ~ 41: 'eh The " Quarterly Journal of Agriculture , It e ne n _ur has now arrived at the character of the standard w° rk , ° ; , ll ll culture in the kingdom, and which richly deserves the °'" , c ony tinction among its contemporaries, can be at all times .re-asioe mended as a sound adviser of judicious practice, and o n (rent' ally, as i n th e present Number, as a vehicle of topics c t ral interest i n connex i on with agriculture. A retrosre c fail to the rustic l a b ours of the late Sir John Sinclair, cane ca d o f exhibit this patriot in a favourable light ; nor can th e —al so praise be w ithh e ld f rom the Highland and Agriculto r co the ciety, for th e i r j u di c i ous efforts to collect into . o ne f ° geological k now l e d ge o f Scotland, which has hither to scattered in obscurity. We LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, FE8•,,,, 27 ; have had a moderate demand for Cotton to-day. , r l " e , i ; ; estimated at 3,000 bales. No change in prices. inclitibt espa cipally for American, at 10d. to lOid. Character 0, ket much as yesterday. F s r , . . SO Y° (ADVERTISEMENT.) i n . P O.W ERF U L MUSICAL BOXES , ca , Ai r c s a cases, 12 inches long, by 5 inches wide, each playing ' - 6,, L,t red '.s with the music finished in a very superior manner, are 0 _,, t i, SI Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, ;;00,ini Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. Cox Savoesis'Leodo4 Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Co ell' " N. B. The small musical boxes, 3i inches long, continue a s t l.ll'' in tin cases, price 19s. each, or in composition shell c es.B ' each. • sie h BIRTHS. Le s s o' l4 On the 27th inst., at College-street; the wife of i ll. Esq., of a daughter. , IJr • On the 25th:inst., at Horton hall Staffordshire , t" -a 1 AC I.°"i'l Rev. G. G. Harvey, of a s - ' On the 26th inst., at Lewknor on. Vicarage, Oxon, Lady Gander, of a daughter. . a 01 1 ' On the 17th inst.,ey, 11i.5.11 at Fi nc h , l : lI tcl I t l on son, *)".../ err MA RRIED. n 1 4111 ; ot On the 25th inst. at Westonbirt Sir George - I °'''. lt .ou n ' e of Bart., of Wanlip Hall, Leicestershire, ' to Emily Elizabetb, ? t oy daughter of George Holford, Esq., o Westonbirt, in the aj j Gloucester. Regil ef e ' On the 25th inst., at Bath Wick Church, the ne v a eo evl, eo , Smith, Rector of West Stafford, Dorset, to Elni l Y „f Cso ll ' youngest daughter of the late H. H. Sim Esq•' ''' a , Simpson, place, Bath. Mr' `l l : e ' On the 23d inst. at St. George's, Hanover-squa re, t da of South-street, drosvenor-squaie, to Martha, yo un g - :roga,e' 0' of the late Mr. I. C. Curtiss of Middlesex -place, De w , ye I° o ' On the 12th of December, at St( George's Church , ' AI , t o • Mr. John Doxford, chief officer of " La Belle Alliance, 0 Julia Fisher, Wo o , On the 27th in s t., a t St. G eorge ' s ; Hanover-s c l uar — e 'sbediato Larkins Walke r , E sq ., o f G reat R usse ll-street, 131()O".f the ' Charlotte, elder dau g ht er o f th e l a t e S. Nicholls, Esq'' ° , Sira l ' 6th Royal Veteran Battalion. , j. 11. , t eo t On the 17th of June last, at Birkenhead Priory,, 74 1 r. he ye 0 . ° , 1 700 ker, of Paradise-hill, Salford, to Miss Martha Smth , t f Wl' daughter of the late Mr. William Smith, of the firm ° Smith and Son, of Old Millgate, Manchester- D I ED. dOg bter On the 18th inst., aged 21, Maria Anna Andree, 001 Y f the late of the late J. F. A. Wiltens, Esq of Surinam. er o On the 20th inst., aged 22, Lei ' itia, second daught. „ Le k J. Leath, Esq., Surrey-square, Old Kent-road. f Killg s ' - On the 20th inst., age d 67, Willi am Eyre, Esq rt.- eof" °- A ter ° place. h dau. t; On the 19th i ns t., in Waterloo-place, Fanny , vii a tt s, the late C. B. Wood, Esq. On the 20th inst., at Pembroke, Colonel PonsoubY his 73d On the ear. . -laue' red r. ' y 20th inst, James Waring, Esq., of Mincing- On the 12th inst., at Paris, aged 48, Antonio M 13• P Esq., of that city. Job" On the 16th inst., at West House. Marnbam, S ussel ' 669 Isfr• nett, Es. On the q 13th inst., at 13, Upper Stamford-stree t, ege" A Col, o f th e late , jet' , Plumstead Lloyd. On the 13th inst., at Paris, Mrs. Molle, widow Molle, of the 46th Regiment. ..,,,. WI of the late I '•cif On the 14th inst., aged 76, Ann, widow Esq., of Kentish-town. ,we j 65 ' P On the 10th inst, at Netherleigh, near Chester, -"''' o r, John Cotgreave, Knt. e 1 77, On the 21st inst., at the Vicarage, Eltham, ag -t i re relict of the Rev. J. Myers, late Vicar of Rye, Sus e ''' aged 81 ' On the 13th inst.., at the Vicarage of Ilfracombe, o,ce, vr Rev. Robert Dickenson. jael e:2, On the 24th inst., in Canterbury, aged 85, Mai o ' ,:iit' v many years Assistant Inspector-General of Barracks 8 0, s o, P On the 24th inst., at Wynyaw House, Fulham, aged E l beth, relict of S. Webb, Esq - John Prie s ' On the 19th inst., in Sidmo . uth-street, aged 27, . bar On the 27th inst., in Wilton-street, Grosvenor-placr" j . . 4 ' De Coetlogon, Esq 'l Ater ef On the 26th inst., aged eight months, Alicia, ( 1 A U w A , ire Aldersey, Esq., of Gower-street. On the 18th inst. in Green-sheet, Mile End, ag ,(l 4 ` -'l ' l' , ll e " s leY' wife of Lieut. D. T. Nightingale, R. N• an, of P , 3*' On the 24th inst., aged 72, Mr. Jonathan Goodin , :, , Igt° ° ' Kent. rtE ber — I,e On the 25th inst., Catherine, wife of Mr. Ci' • o f t ~ `r ife al,. Charlotte -street, Portland-place. i sa b , e , li t; a , dia b,i ..... , r‘ OA the 25th inst , at Camberwell, aged 41, nev, E. Craig, late . minister of St, James's Chap1 .. ........., , f_ ,l London: P r i n t e d an d Published by MURD , j,, , , th 112, Strand, at 'the Sun Office, No. 112, andStr of Middlesex. i