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(La Croix). The Dutch flea is stated to have mounted the Scheldt and to have attacked the tort, but their efforts are now too late. K. BRUSSELS, SUNDAY, 3, P.M. This place has bees in the highest state of excitement since the arrival of the intelligence today, at one, of the offer of Chasse to capitulate. Every one was busy with speculations as to the probable terms. Of course, it would be Gerard's policy to put if possible an end to all hostili ties at once, by getting possession of the Tete de Flandres, and the other forts dependent on the citadel ; and, as he intimated in one of his letters, would wish to make the garrison prisoners, as a sort of surety for the possession of the other forts. How far such a measure may be successful remains to be seen if the garrison should consent to the terms of unconditional surrender, hut I understand that even if the citadel and the Tete de Flandres should get into the possession of the French it would not necessarily follow that some of the other forts on the Scheldt would surrender also. If they should hold out, the taking of them by force would be a tedious business, as the country around them is under water. From the moment when the news transpired to-day up to the present groups of persons may be seen at the corners of the streets, particularly the Place Royale, and near the Palace, each anxiously inquiring from his neighbour some account as to the particulars. I have not witnessed such intense interest excited by anything else since 1 came here. 6 O'CLOCK. Nothing has yet transpired as to the terms asked by Chasse, nor of those which the Marshal may accord. At the time the account which I now forward left the head quarters this morning it was understood that the Marshal was occupied in drawing up the terms of the capitulation. w. If they should reach me to-night I shall forward them by another extra courier. FINE ARTS. TURNER'S ANNUAL TOUR. LONDON, 1533. Of all the painters of the day, there is none who invests a landscape with such sentiment as Turner. He surrounds it with a rich atmos phere of poetry ; steeps it in the most glowing colours of fancy and feeling, yet despite the pro. digal use he makes of his imagination, he is seldom (though we must confess we have seen one or two instances to the contrary, put forth evidently at a moment when Homer was napping) betrayed into extravagance or exaggeration. He gives warrant for the license he takes with the stern reality of nature, which, after all, ra not greater than that which Professor Wilson takes with those gorgeous lake land scapes which have so often delighted the readers of Blackwood. Both are painters of the highest and most imaginative character, yet both pre serve a harmony, a consistency, a keeping in their creations, which redeem them from the charge of extravagance. As for Turner, paint what he please, he cannot paint other than poe tically. He would invest a pigsty rith grace, and hang a sentiment on a cabbage- Stump. - What exquisite landscapes are those now before us ! What a spirit of romance, and poetry, and feeling breathes through them all ! Yet all in the main are true to nature. We recognise the lineaments of each individual scene as correct, though heightened by the creative genius of the Painter. " Blois" is the triumph of perspective, to which Mr. Turner shows that he is a master of all the mechanical resources of his art. The engraver, Mr. Brandard, has played his part with nearly equal address, and given all the ef fect to some troublesome and compli cated lights and shades of which they were sus ceptible. The groups in the foreground are managed wi:h consummate skill, and give great relief and vivacity to the landscape. " Palace at Blois," has a fine monastic air of repose- and quiet dignity about it, such as Turner only could feel and adequately express. It tells of the troubled times of the League, and of the old feudal splendours of the Guise family. " Ainboise" has one beautiful hit of engraving—a distance seen dimly through the arch of an old bridge. Mr. Allen has most h aPPily preserved the faint, hazy character of the v ista. Instinctively as it were, a man would be apt to put on his spectacles to bring the view nearer to him. " Canal of the Loire and Cher" 18 a hustling, animated scene, of a more homely, familiar, every-day character, than Turner usually affects. It is suitably engraved by Jeavons. " Rietz near Saunur," is in Turner's most feeling and Poetic style. We should suppose he painted tt con amore, for the softened sun-light throw ing its mellow radiance far and wide upon the water, the picturesque reach of the lake-like Loire, with its many beautiful jutting little capes and headlands, and the old castellated Mansions on its banks—all these combine toge ther to form a scene such as must necessarily tet a poet's heart on the flutter, and his fancy ° II the qui vine. Mr. Brandard has engraved the landscape, as if its magic had inspired him, t° °. " Montjen" is of the same poetic cha racter, with a truth, a force, a vivacity in its M ingled lights and shadows, which engraving can s o seldom catch. The chrystalline transparency tlf th e water, over which the little fishing boats float double, The swan on still St. Mary's Lake, Floats double, swan and shadow, are as true as art can possibly make it. The cas tle, too, on the bluff headland, immediately c verlo o ki ng the river, with its one church-spire b eside it, lends added grace and dignity to the Picture. For the freedom and variety of its *h allows, this engraving is the finest in the book. it St. Florent," as a site, is well selected ; but as an engraving, is harsh, scratchy, and i4PParently finished in haste. It is a fine le k Niscap e , ma d e l ess o f by Mr. Brandard th an it deserves. " Between Clairmont and m a uves," has quite a fairy delicacy about ; One m i g ht i mag i ne it peopled only .4 ? such b e i ngs as P rospero , Mi ran d a , an d a ti e]. The landscape d o es not stand out clear 5 ' 1 ,. (1 distinct, but seems shrouded in a slight veil silv er vapour—it looks a dim, graceful mys titY, and forcibly riv e ts th e i mag i na ti on . Th e srs°uds, rolling in vast fleecy masses from the :°a' of th e moun t a i ns b e f ore a b r i s k w i n d, are :urtrayed with a vividness a nd m i nu t eness ph bi ch proves Turner's keen insight into mature. iel !re are numerous other engravin gs i n thi s i 'ghtful volume—incomparably the most P r l did and meritorious of all the Annuals, finles sperhaps we except the " Book of Beauty," Which if not as critics, at least as cavaliers, we re bound to do—which we must revert to at more leisure opportunity. Luckily it is a ° ° l t that can afford to wait, for the most con rntoate talent and the most indefatigable labour *aft LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1832. The Scotch elections, like the English ones, are cheering for the cause of Reform. Sir G. CLERK, one of the most notorious and perse vering Anti-Reformers on the other side of the Tweed, has at length found his level—in other words, has lost his election for the county of Edinburgh. Divers other Antis are also in the same grievous predicament, infinitely to the mor- tification of themselves, the astonishment of the faction, and the delight of all liberal and enlightened Scotchmen. Such a result, however, could not but have been anticipated, had the anti--Reform clique possessed even an average amount of sa gacity and prescience. It was to have been anti cipated that the re-action throughout Scotland would have been exactly in proportion to the protracted injuries she had suffered at the hands of her oppressors; and that when she once made an effort to free herself from her manacles, she would take special care that that effort should be a decisive one. Scotland can now boldly speak her mind, and make her influence felt, in the National Assembly ; hither- to she has been able only to act, like Sir Per tinax Macsycophant, on the " booing" system, and say " Aye," from necessity, when, from conviction, she would have said " No." Ireland also, like Scotland, will for the first time have a chance of fair play in Parliament, though her national interests will, we fear, not be much advanced by the efforts of the Repealers, who we most sincerely grieve to see returned in such numbers to the House of Commons, as will just enable them to teaze and worry, without 'in the slightest degree enabling them to make progress with their maniacal project. Thirty of " DAN'S Own" will, it seems, make their appearance in the approaching Parliament. We trust that when they find their project hopeless, they will have the discretion to drop it, and confine their attention exclusively to the tithe system. Here, they will find an ample field for the exercise of all their address and sagacity. Here, they may do real, bona fide, substantial good ; for the majority of them are perfect masters of the subject—well acquainted with, and keenly awake to, the progress of public feel ing in Ireland, and, consequently, fully compe tent to combat and vanquish all the ingenious, but injudicious sophistries of Mr. STANLEY. Let the Repealers, then, we say, have the manliness and common sense to forego all those parts of their system that savour too strongly of Utopia, and stick to those only which are likely to produce practical benefit to their coun try. Mr. O'CONNELL and his tail have it in their power to achieve wonders for Ireland, if they work only in a right spirit, but in a cause like that of Repeal, they are " weaker than a woman's tear." Although there can be no doubt of the strength of Ministers in the new House of Commons, when acting with the people, on great questions, there is every reason to believe that their stability in office will depend entirely on their concessions to the popular, or HumE party. Of the 658 Members, about 130 are Tories, who will, as a faction, vote against the Government, and there are probably 30 Ultra- Radicals, who would coalesce with the Tories ; then there are 58 Repealers who will be systema- tically against Ministers, making, altogether, an opposition of 218 in any trial of strength which would afford the Ultra-Radicals and Repealers a pretext of coalescing with the Tories. Now, if we add to this number Mr. HumE's party of 50, and only 70 more for the independent party, who would vote against Ministers on any question, the result of which, if carried, might prove injurious to the welfare of the country, we have a ma jority of 338 ag:linst 320. This calculation merely refers to what might occur if Minis ters were to propose measures of a doubt ful character. Should they attempt any thing directly against the interests of the people, we are quite sure that they would be in a diTrace ful minority. It will be seen, from this calculation, that the only security for Ministers is in an adherence to the principles on which they came into office. The Tories and the Ultra-Radicals of them selves can do nothing; and, joined by the Re pealers, they will still be powerless, without the independent party, which will support the Whigs, so long as they—the Whigs—remain liberal. The citadel of Antwerp has been, at length, brought to a sense of reason—General CHASSE has offered to capitulate. The breaching bat teries of the French were too hot for him on Sunday morning ; and he sent a flag of truce to the head-quarters of Mar shal GERARD. The firing ceased on both sides ; and a Council of War was held to decide whether the propositions of the Dutch should be accepted. 'To-morrow we shall know the result. We may now ask what the Dutch have gained by their obstinacy ? It was clear from the first that the citadel must surrender—even if Prussia had rushed into a general war to support the madness of Holland. What, then, can the foolish old KING say in extenuation of his conduct ? Any other than a crowned head would have to repent in sackcloth and ashes. We sincerely trust that the King of HOLLAND will be made to pay all the expenses of the war, and compelled to subscribe to all the conditions of the conference which he has hitherto so scornfully rejected. The French Papers of Sunday cony An no news of importance. The Queen of SPAIN proceeds in the march of liberalism—the only wise course open to her. German Papers, received this morning, con• tain an article, dated Prussia, which takes great credit for the conduct pursued by the Holy Al- _ . liance in respect to Holland. It admits that the treaty lately entered into between Russia, Prussia, and Austria, was a consequence of the alliance of France and England to enforce the eva cuation of Antwerp citadel by the Dutch. What will these Powers say now that the citadel has been compelled to seek mercy at the hands of the French ? We think the Conservatives abroad appear to be out of their reckoning as much a s our wiseacres nearer home. The English Re form Bill has been the death of Ultra-Toryism throughout the world : PRUSSIA, DEC. 13.—Since England and France have separated from the Con'erence, and employed coercive measures against Holland, which those Powers, indeed, intend to he confined to the blockade of the Dutch coasts and the taking possession of the citadel of Antwerp, but which, against their will and without their concurrence, may be easily carried beyond this line, as they themselves have almost unconsciously passed from the character of mediators to that of belligerents ; under such circum stances it has become the duty of all the other Powers to be prepared for contingencies to which the war in Bel gium may easily give rise, but which may have a decisive influence on the fate and tranquillity of Europe. Conscious of having contributed to the happiness of nations, during the years of peace that have happily intervened from the end of the first French revolution to the breaking out of the second, our Government directs its efforts to the at tainment of this object, and to maintaining the position which is assigned it, both by the nature of the means it has at command, and by treaties which seem to constitute it an umpire in the European system. Supported in its views by the Courts of Vienna and Petershurgh, it must endeavour to steer a middle course, to prevent the countries which have liberal institutions, from being alarmed at the necessary display of military force, and on the other hand, not to encourge any hopes which rashly anticipate the peaceable development of in tellectual improvement. In such times, to preserve unin jured the rights and the prosperity of nations and Princes, a calm dispassionate policy is required, not exclusively founded on old abuses or new doctrines, but on a policy which advances strictly in the spirit of treaties and in the crown, naturally pointed out by the circumstances of the times, which our Cabinet has adopted. The army will there fore lie increased, and be kept ready for action, not as a threat, but to repel unreasonable demands from whatever quarter they may come, and to promote the real interests of peace, and to protect the unmolested intercourse be tween nations. If a union has evidently been formed be tween our Cabinet, and those of Vienna and St. Peters burgh, it is a natural consequence of the vascillat_ ing system of the Cabinets of London and Paris, which_ as caprice, or a spirit of selfishness, is subject to a policy that does not command circumstances, but is subordinate to them—threatens to become the sport of chance. The world must be grateful to the Powers which take precautions to free themselves from the responsibility that seems to attach to that policy. They have been obliged to make this sacrifice to their sense of justice, from their care of the welfare of the people committed to the sceptre, to withdraw from a Conference which was formed for the purpose of tindiug out means to preserve peace, but not to kindle the flames of war. They were bound to prove to friendly Powers how little sympathy they felt for conduct which places the peace of Europe at the point of the sword. VIENNA, DEc. 14. —Five per Cent. Metalliques, 84 15 16; Four per Cents, 73k; Bank Shares, 1,089. A/Igen:eine Zeitung, Dec. 19. 11EssE CAssEL.L_The new formation of the hessian infantry was published on the Bth of IXcernber. It is re duced to two battalions. Only Cassel, Fulda, and Hanau, are to have garrisons. Many officers are removed from Cassel : 38 others (chiefly such as took part in the even ing society, and the fetes given to the Poles) have been dis missed from active service, retaining their full pay. Nuremburg Correspondent., Dec. 17. We have received a letter complaining of the conduct of a surveyor of taxes in one of the parishes of the metropolis, which appears to us to deserve a public notice. It seems that the individual alluded to—and we have reason to believe that he is not the only surveyor of taxes who pursues the line of conduct complained of —is in the habit of employing spies, and acting also as a spy himself, upon householders, with a view to surcharges upon the returns which they are required periodically to give in. Where the indirect means of making discoveries or detect ing opportunities of surcharge apparently justified by the strict letter of the law, are wanting, the surveyor watches for a moment when the house holder is from home, and, by inquiries among the servants, obtains some information upon which he founds his surcharge, leaving it to the parties to appeal—a course which many from indolence, and others from a knowledge of the latitude afforded them by the Commissioners of Taxes to the surcharger, do not adopt. In the instance complained of by our correspon dent, the surveyor, after many questions of an u ns uspicious servant, as to the number of horses and other chargeable articles kept by the master, of all which there had been a faithful return, inquired if the gentleman used armorial bearings on the harness ; and being answered in the negative, he then asked if he had a coat of arms on his seal ; this being also denied, he next inquired if there was any engraving on the plate, and was informed that on a few spoons there was an engraving which resembled a coro net. Upon this a paper was sent in, charging the gentleman alluded to, 2/. Bs. for armorial bearings. It seems that the great grandfather of the person thus surcharged, was a French Marquis, and that eleven spoons, all that re mained of the old family plate, were in the house, but on account of their battered state were never in use, but were preserved as a family relic. This, however, was considered by one BYERS, of the Tax-office, as sufficient evidence of the use of armorial bearings, and the charge was therefore made. The gentleman who has mo destly contented himself to waive his pretensions to ancestry, and assumed the simple condition of a retainer, is punished for no fault of his, but for being the descendant of a nobleman who flourished two generations before him. On being remonstrated with, the surveyor declared that the mere fact of the spoons being on the premises was sufficient to establish the liability of the owner to the tax, and added that, even in a case where an individual had purchased some spoons at a pawnbroker's, which bore a crest, and had used them without effacing it, he was declared by the Commissioners liable to the tax. Now, without denying the legality or pro priety of the surchage system, where there is any attempt at fraudulent concealment, we must say, that this system of espionage is unworthy of a Liberal Government, and we think we have only to allude to its existence to induce the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to disavow it, and give instructions for its being disconti nued. At the same time, it will be useful to put the public on their guard against the ferret ing visits of tax surveyors, who endeavour to increase the Revenue by private treachery. We are glad to find, by the Chronicle of this morning, that our able and zealous contemporary agrees with us in our opinion of Mr. STANLEY'S very rash and unstatesmanlike declaration at Lancaster, on the subject of the ballot. We were the first to point attention to this injudicious con fession of faith. have been bestowed on it. Nor will Mr. Heath (himself an engraver of first-rate eminence) with whom, we understand, the idea originated, lose by his exertions. We predict confidently great popularity for " Turner's Tour," if the poetry of art, as well as all its minor mechanical excellen cies, combined also with literary illustrations from the pen of one of our ablest and most practised tourists, still exercise their usual gene rous influence over the minds of the community. One word more. As we write this sketchy no tice on Christmas day, we are reminded by it, that " Turner's Tour" is one of the most beau- tiftd, appropriate, and acceptable presents for the season we know of. PRINCESS VICTORIA. We have just seen a likeness of the Princess Victoria drawn upon stone, by Mr. Wilkins, who ranks high among his contemporaries in this department of art. Of the production as a portrait, we cannot speak, as we have never had the good fortune to see the illustrious original, but as a specimen of art, we may mention it in terms of praise. The attitude of the young Princess is graceful and natural, though the ex pression of her countenance is grave beyond her years, and she would have been better without that queer learned-like volume in her hand. As Mr. Wilkins is usually fortunate—vide his por trait of the Duke of Devonshire—in catching resemblances—we conclude the present is a suc cessful one. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 22. Bank Stock 19531 St. Patrick Insur.(perShare) Consols, 3 ner cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 90% :National Ditto — Ditto, New 1 per Cent — , Hibernian Bank 21% Gov. Deb. 3% percent.... 84% Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock —l Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent. 77 I ' Mining Co. of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 3 6 minutes after 4. 1 Evening...s3 minutes after 4. TURNER'S SACRED HISTORY of the WORLD. Just published, in Bvo., 3d edition, I4s. bds. SACRED HISTORY of the WORLD, From the Creation to the Deluge; attempted to be Philosophically considered. In a Series of Letters to a Son. By SHARON TURNER, F.S.A and R.A.S.L. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S SALARY, The following is an Official Account of the INCOME of the LORD CHANCELLOR, from the Ist day of January, 1931, to the Ist day of January, 1832, with the sources whence such Income is derived. Salary received by his Lordship at the Exchequer, after deductions From the Secretary of Bankrupts From the Pursebearer, for Fees arising in Bank ruptcy and other matters . From the Secretary of Fines From the Clerk of the Crown From the Clerk of the Letters Patent From the Clerk of the Hanaper From Fees at the House of Lords X. s. d. 4,829 5 0 4,250 11 0 2,127 2 3 692 0 6 309 16 6 305 14 10 1,125 19 6 4,089 15 0 17,731 5 7 DEDUCTIONS. £. Paid the Vice-Chancellor 2,500 Paid Land-tax 450 Paid Writ Duty Net Income 3,025 0 0 14,706 5 7 LEONARD EDMONDS, Pursebearer to the Lord Chancellor. THE FUNDS.--(TIES DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Accounts from Bordeaux of the 20th December bring information of another change in the Spanish Ministry. A Madrid Gazette has been received in the above city by an extraordinary courier, dated the 15th December, which contains five decrees of the Queen of Spain to the following purport :—General Castanos, President of the Council of Castile; General Cruz, Minister of War, takes the place of General Monet, who is appointed Captain- General of Castile : the Minister of Justice is replaced by M. Fernandez del Pino; Maria Periz, has also resigned. The capital continues tranquil. The monks are much disappointed at the return of the Spanish refugees. The capitulation of the citadel of Antwerp, has ex cited considerable interest in the various coffee-houses in the city this morning, as, in general, it was not expected that this important event would have taken place so soon. It being Christmas-day, it is a strict holyday in the city. No further arrivals this morning. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Courricr Francais of Sunday.) t has been resolved that, immediately after the taking of the citadel of Antwerp, the King and the Royal Family will repair to Lille and Valenciennes. The Municipal Council of Nogent almost unani mously declined sending an address to the King on the pistol-shot of the 19th of November. TROYES, DEC. 21.—The first regiment of the line passed yesterday through Nogent, on its way to Verdun, to form part of the corps of Army of Ob.. servation. Lieutenant Montagnac, of that regi ment, excited a lively curiosity, and received the congratulations of many patriots of that town, on his disinterestedness and patriotism. It was that officer who, at the review of the regiments of the line, after the affairs of sth and 6th June, refused to accept the cross of honour, saying that he could not think of wearing a decoration obtained by shedding French blood, and requested his Majesty to wait for a fitter occasion to confer such a mark of distinction upon him. NUREMBURG, DEC. 17.—Arrests still continue in Wurtzburg. The two printers, Uhl and Goetzel, who belonged to the Grunen Bund (the Green As sociation), a society forbidden by the Government, have been both thrown into prison. The Com missary of Police, Wiesend, who is also a Regency Counsellor anda physician,has thus stopped thepub lication of the Popular Journal of Bavaria, which cannot appear any more for want of a printer. Bills, posted up to-day on the walls of Paris, an nounced that masked balls would take place, on Monday next, at the Opera, the Varietes, Sic, and the same evening, an amateur ball was to be given at the theatre of the Palais Royal. The necessary preparations were almost completed, and the refresh ments and costumes already purchased, when, at 12 o'clock, an order to prevent them was issued. For what motive ? None is assigned. The Ministry will not allow them : that is sufficient. The theatres are under their control; the Opera they may deprive of its subventions; the others they have the power of annoying in a thousand ways ; and, if resistance were offered, they can oppose force in lieu of right. Since the Government intended to forbid balls on the 24th, why was not that deter mination made known to the undertakers a fortnight ago, when they published their bills for the first time? They would have saved them considerable expenses, which are a dead loss to them. The Ministry probably had not bestowed a thought on the subject at that time. The whim only occurred to them to-day, and it must be gratified, however prejudicial it may prove to others. A Minister must not mind such trifles, by which his salary is not the least impaired. CARMARTITENSITIRE ELECTION. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) This county was most severely contested by Sir James William•, the lite Member, who voted for the Reform Act in all its stages; the Hon. Colonel Trevor, the former Member, who resigned last year in consequence of having voted against that great measure; and Edward Hamlyn Adams, Esq., who became a candidate by invitation, to prevent the return of the Tory, Trevor, and thereby neu tralizing the voice of the county, which, under the Re form Act, returns two Members. At the nomination on Monday last the show of hands was decidedly in fa vour of Adams, but the Sheriff required a second show before he could decide between Williams and Trevor, after which he declared in favour of the former. The poll commenced on Thursday, at seven different places—was continued on Friday, and, at the close, at four on that day, the numbers were— Trevor Adams Williams 1937 17'25 1538 The two former will he returned on Monday. We greatly regret that the Tory candidate, who voted in Par• liament against every liberal measure, should be at the head of the poll. There is no doubt that Sir James would have been in that proud situation, with Mr. Adams for his colleague, if he had adhered to his published address, wherein he promised to vote for Mr. Adams, although he would ❑ot coalesce with that gentleman, to whom the county is under great obligations for his spirited conduct as High Sheriff at the Reform meetings last year, and for offering himself as a candidate, when no other Reformer could be found. Sir James, however, listened to the crafty suggestions of his Tory advisers (the conformers of last year) who now supported Trevor, and was induced to withdraw his support from Mr. Adams, under a silly pretence of that gentleman's hostility to the Church. The conse quence was, that the Dissenters rallied round Adams's standard, and in spite of the utmost efforts of the Ma gistracy and Squirearchy, influenced by Lord Dynevor, the Lord Lieutenant, and Father of Trevor, they placed him second on the poll. This is the last time a Tory Mem ber will be returned for this county ; for the Liberals and Dissenters now know their strength, and with better orga nization, will undoubtedly return both:Members. They have also eucceeded, after a desperate struggle, in return ing a liberal Member for the Borough of Carmarthen, so that this county will have two stanch Reformers against one Conservative of abuses and corruption. [A report of this election has already appeared in The Sun, but we are willing to oblige our correspondent, who takes a patriotic view of the subject. We agree with him that next time the Reformers will know better how to act. A house divided against itself could not expect to stand any chance.] REPLY of the LORD BISHOP of BRISTOL to the ADDRESS of his CLERGY. (From Felix Farky's Bristol Journal.) TO THE CLERGY OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL AND ITS VICINITY. "My Rev. Brethren,—l am much gratified by the sentiments expressed in your address. " The reverence for the ordinances of the Apostolic ages, which has bound you in attachment to the constitu tion of the Established Church, affords a strong assurance of your faithful adherence to the solemn obligations of your ministry. " Having been precluded lately by painful circum stances from residence among you, I have heard with much pleasure of your exertions for the erection and enlarge ment of churches, for the encouragement and right direc• tion of diocesan and parochial schools, and for the convey ing of instruction, by the aid of the district visiting so cieties and other institutions, into the houses of the poor. " These exertions cannot but have proved beneficial in counteracting the mischievous publications of the day, and in renewing that humble and contrite spirit which has of late occasionally appeared under the awful afflictions with which it pleased God to visit your city, and that just sense of his mercy which was testified when he mitigated the severity of his displeasure. " The avowal of your sentiments at a period so im portant to the interests of the church is both natural and becoming. Nothing can be more just than the confidence you repose in that Providence which has so long and so signally protected it, and which, we trust, will calm the agitation that now prevails ; enabling us to preserve our constancy, to whatever trials it may be ex posed, and drawing forth those principles which will most effectually secure its stability. " I am fully persuaded with you, that the investiga tion which has taken place as to the extent of our revenues must correct the misrepresentations which have gone abroad. The episcopal rulers of our Church are anxious to remove every cause of just complaint. They are sensible of the ancient and confirmed titles on which its ministers hold their possessions, granted as they have been for the benefit of the community, and for the participation of all who are duly qualified to administer in its appointed offices ; and they are the more anxious for the preservation of these "rights because they are sure that any infringe ment of them cannot but be productive of a precedent which must tend to the subversion of all property, the pro tection of which is one of the first principles of all good government. " They yield, moreover, to no descriptio❑ of persons in the earnestness of their wishes that these revenues may at all times be applied to their original and legitimate objects. And while they look with anxiety to the improvement of the small livings, they are convinced that the resources of those other departments which have hitherto given weight and influence to the establishment, and have contributed greatly to the interests of religion, as well as of learning (the best investigator and propounder of the Christian evidences and doctrines), will best operate under the di rection of their possessors by the adoption of such uniform and progressive measures as will tend to the improvement of benefices and other appendant offices subjected to their care. It may be added, that the means which these afford of largely contributing to the furtherance of many objects of religious importance are such as cannot be expected from any other quarter. "United cordially in that supplication for the Divine aid which we should never cease to employ, and in those petitions to the Great Head of the Church with which you have closed your address, I have only to add my humble prayer for the welfare of that diocese in particular for which I feel an especial solicitude, and over which I am permitted (however unworthy) to preside. " With a grateful sense of that esteem which you have so kindly expressed towards me, and with every feeling of regard, I remain, my Rev. Brethren, your faithfu friend and brother, " Durham, Dec. 15." "R. BRISTOL. DEATH OF TWO CHARACTERS. James Fraser, known through all Strathspey, Morayshire, and good part of Inverness, by the appellation of" Jamie Blin," and " the Solicitor- General of Grantown," died at the latter place last week. Poor Jamie was a sort of wandering innocent, with a prodigious memory, and an insatiable desire for political discussion, speechi fying, and newspapers. He was born blind, and hence his first cognomen ; but he contrived, when a mere boy, to grope his way to the Post office at Grantown, where he used to linger, catching the conversation of the gentlemen of the district, and picking up scraps of intelligence concerning public events. His attention and ambition soon led to his employment as a poli tical " caddy" or newsman, in reward for which he got his victuals, with now and then a new coat and an old newspaper. The latter he prized fully as much as the former, and his pockets were generally filled with the " folios of four pages, " the names of which he had learned, and could dis tinguish partly by touch, and partly by the glimmering of eyesight he possessed. Boys, and village politicians, were always willing to read to him, in return for which Jamie enlight ened them with dissertations on the state of parties, and the merits of the daily Journals. From political questions Jamie i n t i me asp i red to science, law and divinity ; with the help of friendly eyes he studied hard ; he wrangled with lawyers, ventured to dispute with Ministers in their own bounds, and was an overmatch for most elders. Jamie now extended his visits to Elgin and Inverness, particularly at the time of th e C ourts o f J ust i c i ar y an d con tested elections. His eccentricities and desire knowledge having been reporte.l w the Lae, Amiable and benevole:t La.: ) , Margaret Grant, Grant, he was sent to London, and placed tinder the charge of the most eminent oculivs, but their operations afforded him but very partial benefit He returned still " Jamie Blin,' while his tas to and morals were by no means ity proved by the journey. Having exhausted all the means of oral information in the Northern towns, Jamie occasionally fought his way to Edinburgh, where he used to hang on for several weeks together, subsi s ti ng nobody c ' could tell how, and listening to th e eloquence of our cele brated Scottish advocates. The phrenologists of the metropolis laid their hands upon him, but even Mr. Combe, it is said, was at fault in illustrating Jamie's peculiar talents and dis positions from the strange nondescript cha racter of his exterior development. Through out his whole life, the memory of poor Jamie was most extraordinary. He could re peat speeches of an hour's length almost verbatim, after once hearing them ; and as he generally copied tone and gesture as well as words, he appeared occasionally, when in the vein, a most imposing orator. His outer man, it is true, was seldom in keeping with the character he assumed ; for Jamie was never solicitous about the busi ness of the toilette, and his tattered vestment, with newspapers bulging out in all directions, sometimes contrasted strangely with his eloquent exordiums and perorations. In all parties the rustic politician was generally welcome, and it may be truly said that the stock of harmless mirth has in many districts been abridged by the death of the Solicitor-General of Grantown.— Inverness Courier. Died at Duncow, in the parish of Kirkmahoe on the 9th ultimo, Mary Lindsay, at the ad vanced age of 85. This singular and useful woman, during the long period of three score years, evinced the most marked and disinterested affection for little children, and voluntarily took upon herself the duties of a protectress. These chosen buds of promise, during their daily attendance on the village school, made greater progress than by the master's lessons, in availing themselves of Mary's goodness of heart ; and hence her humble cot became the common de pot of plaids, coats, Josephs, and that most ne cessary and valuable appendage, the scrip, stored, we shall say, with a couple of scones and a soli tary egg—the sweet though frugal elements of the mid-day refreshment. In an olden pot, of curious dimensions, more than twenty eggs were boiled every day, and not unfrequently the bene volent woman banned the parish hens for not laying them a " wee thought bigger." As pro perty is property even in an egg, to distin guish each urchin's share in the joint-stock boiling became a matter of no slight diffi culty; but Mary's genius was equal to the task ; by the application of her finger to the bottom of the pot, and certain other ceremonies not so easily defined, she pro duced a sort of hieroglyphic mark, which was as final as the court of last resort, although, it must be confessed, nobody knew the key to the cy pher but herself. Occasionally, certain side-long looks revealed pretty plainly that the gazer would have preferred the biggest egg in the pot to his own ; and it was always with reluctance that honest Mary asserted the rights of equity, and insured subordination, by applying, or flourish ing vigorously, the pllff— a sort of substitute for a pair of bellows. But her strokes fell gentle " as from a parent's hand," nor did her acts of benevolence end here. When rains flooded the plain, and the burns ran wild on their way to the sea, or when frost and snow crisped every wood and fell, honest Mary was always at her post, displaying her Meg-Merri lees-like figure to advantage, in handing her scholars over an intervening stream—often in threes and fours at a time. Indeed there are per sons still living who have been honoured with a seat on Mary's shoulders. Latterly she was sup ported almost entirely by what she called " her boys," who are now scattered over various parts of the globe, and all of whom will heave a sigh or drop a tear when they learn that their early protectress is no more. One of the proteges requested Mr. Allan to put forth all his strength in painting Mary's picture, no matter at what cost : and the artist produced a correct likeness, which the owner, much to his credit, says he would not barter for the portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. Another friend, in consideration of the miserable hovel in which his early ac quaintance wonned, pressed on her acceptance the best of his numerous cottages in Duncow, and the answer he received was quite charac teristic. " Na, na, Sir, my mither leeved here, an' deed here ; I myself hae leeved here, and I'll dee here ; and for as little as ye may think o' the bit, I wadna chang't for the bonniest gilt room in a' Dalswinton.—Dumfries Courier. The rehearsal of the Drury-lane pantomime went off splendidly last evening. STANFIELD'S Diorama of the Falls (21 . Niagara is on the grandest scale, and its machinery has cost more than 3001. On Sunday evening a young woman engaged a waterman on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge to con. vey her across the river, and when he had proceeded about half the distance she, in an agitated manner, requested him to take her to Blackfriars, and when near the Temple gardens she began to untie her cloak, and whilst he was looking at the barges be had to pass she threw herself into the river. The waterman instantly seized a part of bet dress which was above the water, pulled her into the boat, and rowed to shore. She then consented to his taking her to her residence in Clare -street, Clare-market, but would give no account as to the cause of her attempting to drown herself. Lord SEGRAVE'S fox hounds killed a brc,ee of foxes in the Broadway country on the Bth inst. The first killed was near Colonel LyaoN's, of Spring Hill ; be was an old warrior with three ree pear B oo r l o y a , dw an a d y, be th i e ng re. a cripple, of cou rse c o u ld no t b e expected to show much sport. The sec o nd led th em a tremendous gallant chase of nearly an hour, and w as ev id ently killed in th e a l e ce ll ar wager L a d y E lcho : it be ena;llllr7ynard b e i ng h ard pressed, t s i a on i t d og ekt n h a c e t oe m toahfne theino h i gh - sce n tedna n Right s h house, u n s d e , day, and made hi s way into the gh a sm a ll aperture of bars, used to admit the h untsman and others entered the cellar a w cei i rl t .la h r, a Wthhn lightedreou candle, reynard was seated on a butt of ale. Worcester Herald. DANGERS OF ANATOMICAL SCHOOLS. In th e summer of 1783, M. FAURE, of Narbonne, in -- France, b oug h t a house, previously occupied as an anato mical ball, and employed three men to dig a cave in the cellar. In digging, they came to a wall of a covered ne cessary, which had been the common receptacle of the remains of human subjects, and, on extracting a few stones, an offensive putrid matter rushed through and suffocated them. or th FAtrax, going to see the workmen, descended but two ree steps befor e he fell senseless. Of nine persons who entered to bring out the sufferers, six died. FAURE died in four days, and the unfortunate la bourers survived bat a day or two. In the mean time the smell increased to such a degree as to create a pestilent*, and the neighbours were obliged to remove, but a,great I '—' • many of them died. The Mayor of the city being,in formed of the circumstance, had the cellar filled up and the house closed ; but the malignant effluvia had pervaflid the town, sad a great many died of the jtis. The disease wa s attended w i th the black vomit, l!Ae n ot - municated la/ contagion.—Parsons Dsk•onsiL 111 11031 to ' 4 IP,