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should moist itself into a Committee on the Ecclesiasti cal Courts' Contempt Bill. Mr. RUTHVEN objected to the Bill, on the ground that it had a retrospective effect, and moved that the House should resolve itself into the Committee on this day three months. The House then divided, and the numbers were— For the Amendment 7 Against it 3O Majority :23 The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill, and after some discussion the House resumed, and the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Friday. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. The House resolved itself into a Committee, pro forma, on the above Bill, and certain amendments were made, on the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL. The House resumed, the report was received, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on Friday. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Three o'clock. LIST OF MEMBERS WHO VOTED IN THE MINORITY IN THE TITHE BILL COMMITTEE. Burke, Sir J. Ruthven, K S. Walker, C. A. French, A. Sheil, R. L. Wyse, T. Leader, N. P. White, TELLER. M‘Namara, W. N. , Wallace, T. Hunt, H. IRISH MEMBEJ Callaghan, D. Duneannon, Vise. Jephson, C. D. 0. ; WHO VOTED W Jones, T. Lefroy, Ponsonby, ITH MINISTERS. 'Rice, T. S. Shaw, F. DUBLIN, JULY 30. TITHES. " A religious establishment is no part of Christianity; it is only the means of inculcating it. " It cannot be proved that any form of Church government was laid down in the Christian as it had been in the Jewish Scriptures, with a view of fixing a constitution for succeeding ages."—PALEY. Supposing the Protestant Church to be the only Esta blished Church in Ireland since the Reformation, it must have been so, according to the first of these propositions, only for the purpose of " inculcating" the reformed reli gion. But as its government was not rendered unchris tian or Jewish, for the purpose of making it what our laws do not rec' gnizP, a perpetuity, it has, according to the second of Dr. Paley's propositions above quoted, failed to be binding on " succeeding ages." The events of the last half year in this country prove the truth of the philosopher's doctrine to a demonstration. Within the short period of six months, a series of facts, as notorious as they are de plorable, bats confirmed what the Protestant Archdeacon of Carlisle admitted nearly half a century ago ; and which the Catholic Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns has been inculcating with more effect very recently. Tithes are morally, I might almost say actually, extinguished in Ireland, in despite of the many obsolete, and the three embryo Stanley laws in support of them. For proof of this I need not rely alone on the " s;gns of the times," and the numerous testimonies of the state of the country to be met with in every newspaper ; the result of the Carrickshock trials, and the thanks of 20,000 people in the county Limerick to Dr. Doyle for his exertions in the cause, are evidences unquestionable of what I have ven tured to assert. These two circumstances,wh en duly reflected on, should convince the most obstinate friend to the tempora lities of the Church, of the danger of enforcing, and the in utility of continuing, laws which are oppressive to the people, who derive no advantage whatever from them. The Kil kenny trials have shown that the law of opinion, acting on the feelings and consciences of jurie., is too powerful for the laws of the Legislature; and that however melan choly the reflection may be to the friends of peace and good order, the latter must succumb to the former, unless Government are prepared to reduce this " country to a wilderness." These were the expressions of Dr. Doyle before the Tithe Committee, warning them against the continuance of a system founded on injustice; and I told you in a former letter, that the sentiments cf that distin guished personage on tithes, and the ether grievances of Ireland, are diffused throughout the land, and, as it were, wrought into the very hearts of his countrymen. At the meeting already alluded at Fedamore, in the county of Limerick., 7th of this month, thanks were voted to him for his letter to Mr. Stanley on tithes ; and the Chairman, it would appear from his letter in the public papers, on forwarding them, adds his own gratitude for " his un numbered services in the cause of a suffering people." Here we have proof of the law of opinion, and the effects those meetings which have made and sustained that law hitherto ; while the following extract from the Doctor's reply to that letter, shows how futile the effort will be to put down public opinion and opposition to tithes in Ireland. " The advocacy of truth will always excite hostility. and he who enforces justice will ever have to combat against the powers of this world. I have, through life, regardless of danger or injury, sought to maintain the course of truth and justice against those "who seek after a lie" and " oppress the weak." We who are now em barked in this cause have to renew our determination, and in proportion as power is exerted against us, to oppose ourselves against it as a wall of brass. Let us receive, but not return its shocks,—for if we abide by the law, and pursue after truth and justice, we may suffer loss for a moment, but as certainly as Providence presides over human affairs, Every arm that will be lifted against us will not prosper, and against every tongue that contendeth against us we will obtain our cause. Indigence, - pestilence, and consequent immorality are making eiant strides through this land ; but till the ini quitous tithe system, and other evils of misgovernment, are abolished, virtue and intelligence cannot exert their influ ence to arrest their progress. Good men cannot combine against the lawless and unnatural part of the c immunity, as long as the government presiding over us suffers the latter Justly to complain against the laws. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY, The north-east winds periodically returning, and conti nuing a considerable length of time in this late season, pro ducing constant vicissitudes of sharp chilling air, and dog ti ty solar heat, cannot fail of producing ill effects on vege tation, however mature ; and more especially on the human constitution, protracting and extending that epidemic which has so long prevailed, the leading symptom of which is cholera morbus, and which indubitably originated in the constitutional derangement induced by sudden and repeat ed changes of temperature. It is probably, also, and in analogy with cases of past times, that the disease is con tracted by atmospheric, not personal contagion. Accounts of the crops are almost universally favourable, from some parts brilliant. Indeed on all dry and rich soils there is promise of abundance, on some beyond an average, of both corn and grasses; so much, however, c Innot be rationally expected on poor, particularly heavy, wet lands, to which the state of the weather, throughout the spring, was in an especial manner inimical * The spring crops, barley, oats, and tares, with few excep tions, are expected to produce a fall average. Beans and peas, as more exposed to the effects of the seasons and the depredations of insects, are necessarily more uncertain crops ; on some soils they are much injured, on others give promise of a fair acreable produce. * Sowing and re-sowing has been practised everywhere to the third time, without success; for no sooner (lid the plants appear above the surface of the earth, than the blasting air devoured them. In Suffolk and the bordering districts they are miserably over-run with supernumerary labourers, and their poors' rates are enormous and ruinous ; whilst in Cornwall, and the far western districts, all their labourers are employed. A most horrible account of long-meditated incendiarism has been lately published from Norfolk ; the whole exten sive premises destroyed, with a frightful and torturing death of animal+. It is the general opinion that the severe distress for money in the country will compel the farmers to thresh and sell their wheat with all possible haste, when the price may be temporarily reduced below its fair level. —Monthly Magazine. FIRE AT COVE.— The rendezvous of the fleet in Cove Harbour, on Wednesday night, very fortu nately saved a considerable part of that extremity of Cove near the Fort from destruction by fire; and if it should be said of its occupants " they had little to lose," we must yet remember that that little was their all. There are three lines of houses parallel, crowded together, and rising over each other. In the centre of the middle line, at be tween ten and eleven o'clock at night,.a fire broke out. Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM, with his characteristic promp titude and vigilance, sent not only the boats of the Done gal, but those of other ships, well manned, and the fire engines of the fleet, and, by the prompt and judicious assistance that was rendered, the fire was got under with the loss of only two houses. This we learned from an old fisherman, one whose house has been saved, a b r id g ing, we admit, his narrative. But we give the conclusion in his own words :—" And sure, Sir, 'tis well they all deserve of us—didn't the Admiral sind his boats and put down the tire, before they on the Bache knowd a word about it, and the officers oft with their coats and alavd like any body ; and the men, every one with his yytittsotplentitur. ; dragging them up that hill, filled - Nrit4 sav-wate ause they wouldn't trust to the chance > -a• &I:101r WitotiSas re." We certainly do not desire a ft-tit , ensable.our s to exercise their humanity in our lf; Litt iiti- tlelyr sfortune should come to our doors, Ilfe ,- WouliVt4;yei y to have such friends as Sir Put.- TarisYYait trite rs at baud..... Cork Reporter. _.„ j.I.),)•L‘'fLOZ; CIVIL LIST ACTS, AND CIVIL GOVERN. MENT CHARGES. [From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, Mantis, 31 0 die Juld, 1832.] Resolutions reported :- 1. That there be issued and paid to the Speaker of the House of Commons, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a clear yearly sum of 6,0001., in lieu of the fees received on his account, of the allowance of Si. a day heretofore usually made out of his Majesty's Civil List revenues, and also of the payments directed to be made by an Act of the 30th year of his late Majesty King George the Third. 2. That his Majesty be empowered to grant to the Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, a net salary of 20,0001. per annum, chargeable upon the said Consolidated Fund. 3. That his Majesty be enabled to charge on the said Consolidated Fund any sum or sums of money, not ex ceeding 203,5101. per annum, to enable his Majesty to pay the salaries of his Diplomatic Servants employed at foreign courts, and the Pensions of those persons who have served, or may hereafter serve his Majesty in diplo inatic employment at foreign courts. 4. That his Majesty be enabled to charge on the said Consolidated Fund any sum or sums of money, not ex ceeding 85,129/. per annum, to pay those Pensions which, prior to the accession of his present Majesty, had been charged upon the Civil List payable in England and in Ireland, upon the Hereditary Revenue of Scotland, and upon the Four and a Half per Cent. duties, and for which no provision has been made in the Civil List granted to his Majesty. 5. That his Majesty be enabled to charge on the said Consolidated Fund any sum or sums of money, not ex ceeding in the whole 23,309/., to pay the Salaries and Allowances which, prior to the accession of his Majesty, were chargeable on the Civil List in England and in Ire land, and on tl.e Hereditary Revenue of Scotland, and for which no provision has been made in the Civil List of his Majesty. 6. That his Majesty be enabled to grant unto any per son holding the office of Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Keeper of the Great Seal of Great Britain, a contingent annuity of 5,000/. a year, to take effect on the resignation or removal of such person from such office. 7. That his Majesty be empowered to grant the seve ral net Annual Salaries following to the under-mentioned Justices of his Majesty's Courts in Westminster Hall, and Dublin, out of the said Consolidated Fund, in lieu of the salaries received by them : To the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster To the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster To the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster To each of the Puisne Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas and Barons of the Coif of the Court of Exchequer, at Westminster, who may have been appointed before the 16th day of November 18‘ , To each of the Puisne Justices and Barons of the said Courts, who may have been appointed since the 16th day of November 1828 ...... To the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer at Westminster, during the continuance of the existing interest therein To the Vice Chancellor of England To the Lord Chancellor of Ireland To the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Dublin To the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin To the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Dublin To the Second Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Dublin To each of the other Puisne Justices of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and Barons of the Coif in the Court of Ex chequer in Dublin To the Judge of the Admiralty Court in Ireland 500 0 0 8,000 0 0 7,000 0 0 5,500 0 0 5,000 0 0 243 0 0 6,000 0 0 8,000 0 0 5,074 9 4 4,612 18 8 4,612 18 8 3,723 19 4 THE KING'S LEVEE. At two o'clock yesterday, his Majesty, attended by Sir Andrew Barnard, arrived in town from Windsor, escorted by a party of Light Horse. Shortly afterwards his Ma jesty held a Levee. The King gave audiences to the Field Officers in Waiting, who made a report of the effec tive state of the three Regiments of Foot Guards ; also to the Marquis of Winchester, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Hill, the Earl of Albemarle, the Marquis of Lansdown, and Sir Augustus Clifford, to which he was introduced by Viscount Melbourne, on his being appointed Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in the room of Sir Thomas Tyrwbitt resigned, when his Majesty was graciously pleased to deliver to him the badge and staff of office. At the entree Levee were the Russian Ambassador, the Neapolitan, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Hanoverian, ' Saxon, French, and Netherlands Ministers ; the Swedish and Austrian Charges d'Affaires ; Baron Fagel, the Lord President, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Post master-General, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Deputy Great Chamberlain, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Master General of the Ordnance, the Judge of the Admiralty, the Attorney-General, the Comptroller of the Household ; Viscount Falkland, Lord in Waiting ; Sir Wathen Waller, Groom in Waiting ; the Master of the Ceremonies. Mons. Durand St. Andre, Consul General of France, was presented to his Majesty on his appointment, by Baron Moretti], the French Minister. Baron Fagel was presented to the King, on his arrival in England. The Baron D'Uckenm mn was presented to the King, by the Minister resident for Saxony. At the general Levee were— MA RQUlS—Cleveland. EARL—Sefton. Sins—Herbert Oakeley, James Dunbar. Rev. MESSIEURS—CharIes Wodsworth. MESSIEURS—Dawkins, Tipping, T. Rigby, Bloomfield. Amurrtats—Halkett, Sir G. Scott. GENERALS—MaxweII, C. 8., S.rayne, Anderson, Peachy, Moister, Sir J. Smith. COLONELS-Michael Creagh, Pym, Salwey, Grey, C. 13., Sir Charles Thorn►on, R. Jones, Bingham. Maaott—Stretton. CarrAiNs—Sir Augustus Clifford, C. Jones, Grubbs, E. Wethered, Jenner, Collier, R. N., Tyler, R.N. COMMANDERS-Smart, W. Kelly. Mr. T. T. Rigby, Barrister of the Inner Temple, Re_ corder of Wallingford, Berk', presented an Address to his Majesty, from the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Burgesses, Clergy, and Inhabitants of Wallingford, expressive of their sorrow and indignation at the recent atrocious attack on his Majesty's Royal Person. Mr. R. was presented by Viscount ?Melbourne. The following were presented to the King:— Major-General Maxwell, C. 8., on his return from the Government of St. Christopher, by Viscount Goderich. Lieut.-Colonel Michael Creagh, 86th Regiment, by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Major-General Anderson, -on being appointed Governor of Pendennis Castle, by Lord Hill. Captain Sir Augustus Clifford, C. B. on his appointment as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, by Viscount Melbourne. Captain C. S. Jones, 59th Regiment, by Lord Dinorben. Lieut.-General Swayne, upon his return from the Conti nent, by Lord Glenlyon. Colonel Pym, R.A. by Sir James Kempt. Major Stretton, 64th Regiment, on promotion, by Lieut.- Colonel Stretton. Capt. Grubbe, 76th Regiment, by Mr. T. B. Estcourt. Capt. Edward Wethered, 3d Dragoon Guards, on promo tion, by Lieut.-General Hawker. Capt. Jenner, 66th Regiment, on his return from Canada, and on promotion, by Lord F. Somerset. Commander Smart, on returning from abroad, by Lord A. Fitzclarenee. Mr. Bloomfield, on his return to Stockholm, 3mmander William Kelly, R.N. on his promotion, by Lord A. Fitzclarence. After the Levee, the King held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Greville attended as Clerk. The Queen, accompanied by the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, left the Palace at Windsor at half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning, and came to town, where her Majesty arrived at twenty minutes before ten o'clock. Mr. Chantrey waited on her Majesty and the Duchess, and re ceived their commands respecting a bust of the Princess Louise. The Queen afterwards accompanied the Duchess to the Tower, where her Serene Highness embarked on board the Atwood steam-packet, commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. The Royal Standard was hoisted on the Tower on her Majesty's arrival. The Queen ac companied her sister to the vessel, at ten minutes past .'leven o'clock, from the private stairs of the Tower, and took leave of her. On her Majesty's re-landing a Royal salute was fired; the vessel soon afterwards proceeded down the river, on her ♦oyage to Rotterdam. The Queen left town in the afternoon on her return to Windsor. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, at tended by a large suite in several carriages, left Kensington Palace yesterday morning on a tour in North %Vales. Their Royal Highnesses will reside principally at Beau rnaris and Bangor, and will visit the Menai-bridge, &c.&r. DEPARTURE.-The Earl of Burlington for his seat at Eastbourne, having recovered from his late attack. LITERATURE. FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. Nos. XXXI. XXXII. LONDON. 1832. These two volumes of an eminently useful publication, contain the well-known translation of Caesar by Dr. Duncan, Professor of Philoso phy in the University of Aberdeen. It is taken from Dr. Clarke's edition, printed for J. Tonson in the year 1712. BYRON S WORKS. VOL. VIII. LONDON, 1832. The illustrations to this volume are in the same style of beauty as their predecessors. The Castle of St. Angelo is finished in Finden's best and chastest manner. There is no modern engraver who sets off his light summer clouds to such advantage as this artist. They are as fleecy and transparent as nature itself, with no hard massive edges or outlines to mar their ex ceeding grace and delicacy. The literary por tion of the volume comprises all Childe Harold, with notes from the pen of the first writers of the day. EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. X a There are many very able and elaborate arti cles in this number, which, we perceive, is at length beginning to adopt the hard, pointed, homely style of the Westminster Review. The notices of the " Corn Law Rhymes," and " Mrs. Trollope's Travels in America," are penned very much after the manner of a West minster Reviewer. Not a word is thrown away. Not a sentence but has its meaning. This is in exact accordance with the spirit of the day, which has an eye to economy, even in the mat ter of style. " Palgrave's Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth " is written with that close attention to historical accuracy, which Mr. Croker so much despises, and for which Mr. Macaulay, by whom we conclude the article is penned, is so remarkable. It is a very agree able and instructive analytical essay. " Corn Law Rhymes " does justice to one of the few really sterling poets of our days. Poetry is now a drug, not from any prosaic spirit in the age, not because it is not as keenly relished as ever, but because there is not one out of a hun dred Professors (as Mr. Wordsworth some where styles a poet) knows aught of its inspiration, or how to write it with common grace and feeling. Mr. Elliott is a genuine poet, if ever genuine poet existed, and the Edinburgh boldly, gene rously, and seasonably declares the fact. He possesses, what Gray talked of, but sadly wanted, the "thoughts that breathe, and words that burn ;" in this sense resembling Burns, to whom in the homely, heart-stirring energy of his man ner, he bears a close resemblance. We prefer the " Splendid Village," published some short time since in the New Monthly Magazine, to any poem, long or short, impassioned or satirical (for it abounds in both these qualities), that has ap peared since the death of Byron. " Political Condition of the Italian States," displays much curious and useful research, and will doubtless attract attention, as will also the very interesting notice of Lander's Voyages and Discoveries on the Niger. The number, on the whole, is an ex cellent one. We give the following extract from the review of Mr. Elliott's Corn Law Rhymes:— " Nature and the doings of men have not passed by this man unheeded, like the endless cloud-rack in dull weather; or lightly heeded, like a theatric phantasmagoria; but earnestly inquired into, like a thing of reality; reverently loved and worshipped, as a thing with divine significance in its reality, glimpses of which divineness he has caught and laid to heart. For his vision, as was said, partakes of the genuinely poetical ; be is not a rhymer and speaker only, but, in some genuine sense, something of a poet. " Farther we must admit him, what indeed is already herein admitted, to be, if clear-sighted, also brave-hearted. A troublous element is his; a life of painfulness, toil, in security, scarcity, yet he fronts it like a man ; yields not to it, tames into some subjection, some order : its wild fearful dinning and tumult, as of a devouring Chaos, be comes a sort of wild war-music for him ; wherein too are passages of beauty, of melodious melting softness, of light ness and bri ,, kness, even of joy. The stout heart is also a warm and kind one; affection dwells with danger, all the holier and the lovelier for such stern environment. A working man is this ; yet, as we said, a man : in his sort, a courageous, much-loving, faithfully enduring and endea vouring man. "What such a one, so gifted and so placed, shall say to a time like ours; how he will fashion himself into peace, or war, or armed neutrality, with the world and his fellow men, and work out his course in joy and grief, in victory and defeat, is a question worth asking; which in these three little volumes partly receives answer. He has turned, as all thinkers up to a very high and rare order in these days must do, into politics ; is a Reformer, at least a stern com plainer, radical to the heart : his poetic melody takes an elegiaco-tragical character ; much of him is converted into hostility, and grim, hardly -suppressed indignation, such as Right long denied, Hope long deferred, xisay awaken in the kindliest heart. Not yet as a rebel against anything does he stand ; but as a free man, and the spokesman of free men, not far from rebelling against much ; with sorrowful appealing dew, yet also with inci pient lightning, in his eyes ; whom it were not desirable to provoke into rebellion. He says, in Volcanic dialect, his feelings have been hammered till they are cold-short ; so they will no longer bend; they snap, and fly off,'—in the face of the hammerer. Not unnatural, though la mentable ! Nevertheless, under all disguises of the Radical, the Poet is still recognisable; a certain music breathes through all dissonances, as the prophecy and ground-tone of returning harmony; the man, as we said, is of a poetical nature. THE HISTORY OF CHARLEMAGNE. LONDON. lan. Mr. James has here taken a high flight in literature. The historian has superseded the novelist. Still the change is far from being a disastrous one, for the author possesses shrewd ness, information, diligence in collecting facts, and skill in comparing and combining them, all which useful requisite's are evinced in every chapter of this History of Charlemagne. A more important —a more interesting subject never yet engrossed the attention of a scholar. It is rich to profusion in all that can tempt the fancy, and strengthen the thinking faculties. Charlemagne is not only the hero of his own times, but of all .times. Even at the distance of nearly eleven centuries he is still a spell to " rouse a devil with." Who has not heard of King Pepin his father, a name dear to childhood—of the famous Witikind, the hero of a thousand ballads—of Orlando and his enchanted sword, which.the ge. nius of Ariosto has immortalized— o f the field of Roncesvalles, to which Cervantes so oft en an d oy of S pa i n ? so beautifully alludes, and which lives and w ill live The floiarmeNe'er of i c n h t a h r e l e m romantic agnebr p i ngs all etr these sti rr i ng recollections to the mind ; and if Mr. James have in one or two instances somewhat impaired their brilliancy, it is only because, in the conscientious discharge of his duty, he is compelled to make fiction subservient to fact, romance to reason, We cannot but think, however, that he might have made more of the battle of Roncesvalles than he has done. This is a sort of pet fight with all readers. It is worth a thousand Waterloo's, and they like to see it made the most of. In no other respect do we complain of Mr. James's volume. It is carefully and spiritedly written ; less chivalrous in its character than we should have expected from the author of " Darnley," yet still full of high interest, and occasionally of splendid graphic touches. We have not a doubt that it will become popular. THE WESTERN GARLAND. A little work, which does credit to Mr. Atkin son, of Glasgow, its spirited publisher, being a very agreeable collection of Scotch songs, set for the most part to sweet and plaintive music. THE REFORMER. 3 VOLS. LONDON', 1832. A well-written tale, as regards incident and character, but with this prevailing blemish, that it is too much spun out. The work should have been comprised in two volumes ; it would then have excited great interest ; but at present it " drags its slow length along' from chapter to chapter, through no inconsiderable portion of a third volume. The females are the best drawn characters in the tale, and prove that the author, possibly authoress, has familiar acquaintance with the hearts of women. LETTERS ON NATURAL MAGIC. LONDON, 1832. This work, it seems, was undertaken at the express instigation of Sir W. Scott, who thought it might make the subject of a very useful and entertaining volume. Dr. Brewster, the author, has not falsified Sir Walter's prognostications, but produced one of the most captivating works we have perused for many a long year. The style is charmingly familiar, and the scientific explanations are stripped of all mysterious tech nicalities, so as to bring them to the level of or dinary intelligence. At some leisure moment we may be tempted to give extracts from the very curious chapter on " Spectral Illusions." ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BIR MINGHAM POLITICAL UNION. On Monday the Third Annual Meeting of the Political Union of this town, postponed from the first Monday in July, was held at Newhall-hill. The attendance was far from being so numerous as upon any former occasion. The Council, carrying their wands, and headed by the Union band, arrived on the ground about half-past eleven o'clock, and immediately proceeded to ascend a new and commodious platform erected for their accommodation, and admissible to others on the payment of one shilling. We observed among the strangers present, Count Czapski, Robert Cassady, Esq, (candidate for King's County), Devereux, Esq. of London, and other Gentlemen of sta tion and influence from distant parts of the country. On the motion of Mr. Arrwoon, seconded by Mr. B. HADLEY, G. F. Musaz, Esq. was called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN advanced to the front of the hustings, amidst loud cheering, and commenced by observing, that they had all heard, and they all knew, that the Reform Bill of itself would not r elieve the country from distress; that although a good measure as far as it went, yet its be nefits would only for the most part be enj'yed by their children or their children's children. As for its imme diate effects upon the people, he need scarcely tell them— for they were all equally and painfully sensible of the truth —that they were as far from prosperity as they were three years ago; aye, even as they were a month ago. He had attended with great anxiety to the remarks in Par liament of various Members of his Majesty's Government —he was sorry to say that they too frequently talked of the rights of the rich, and altogether forgot the wants of the poor—(Cheers)—in the obtainment of Parliamentary Reform. He (Mr. AI.) was in hopes that the present in vestigation before the Bank Charter Committee would in form them upon one important subject; but of this he was certain, that unless prompt measures of relief for the country were adopted, the present Ministers could no more stand in their situation than did the Ministry of the Duke of Wel lington. Mr. Arrwoon then presented himself amidst the most tremendous cheering. He was sorry to inform them that their worthy and excellent friend, Mr. Scholefield, and one or two others connected with them in the Union, had recently resigned. This circumstance, however, he hoped would not induce them to suppose that be felt or anti cipated any weakness, for he could assure them there was no weakness in their camp.—(Loud cheers.) The people of England, he was sure, would not be deceived by the atrocious oligarchs, who asserted that the distress of the country was to be attributed to the excitement occasioned by the proceedings of their great association. If England had not been ground down to the dust like unfortunate Ireland, it was owing, he fearlessly asserted, to the exer tions of the Council of the Birmingham Political Union.— (Cheers.) He (Mr. A.) would take care, if the Union continued their confidence in him, that the oligarchs should be compelled to relax their sordid, and merci less grasp ; or if they refused to do this act o f justice to the people, they would most certainly be compelled to sleep in the same bed with their victims.—(Cheers.) It was certain that the committals for crime had been qua drupled in England during the last fifteen yeas. Those committals had arisen from 4,000 to 16,000 persons per annum since the peace. All this terrible increase of ap parent guilt was in reality the crime of the oligarchs, and not of the people. The poor man was driven by the guilt of the oligarchs from one difficulty to another, until at last he was imperceptibly involved in what the law called crime. He had in part pledged himself, in common with the other members of the Council, that he would not agi tate the public mind upon political subjects, when the prosperity of the mass of the people should be restored. By this test he was willing to abide. If justice was done to the people under the Bill of Reform, he, as a member of the Council, was bound under a solemn pledge to cease to labour in the great work of exciting the public mind to political objects. But if the prosperity of the people should not be speedily and effectually restored, he (Mr. A.) was under no such pledge. He could assure them he should not be content with any nibbling measures, if such a contingency should occur.—(Cheers.) The Marquess of Blandford's Bill would at one period have satisfied him, if it bad then been granted in honesty and good faith ; but if he should ever be compelled to continue the agita tion of the public mind, nothing less than universal suf frage should satisfy him.—(Vehement cheers.) When he first formed the Union, near three years ago, he told them he would never mention the subject of the currency again until a reasonable Reform of the Parliament was effected. He believed he had kept his word; but it was now his duty, Reform being accomplished, to reveal to them the real truth and the real source of all their miseries. He bad told them a few weeks ago of the confession of Mr. Campbell, the eminent lawyer, who had stated publicly, that in the return of peace the sum of 14s. of our present mon ey, ought to have been coined into a pound sterling of our present money ; which was in fact a confession that two hundred and forty millions of sovereigns had been swindled out of the pockets of the people in one single t h i o n n d nbufardete,nms,uveihz.u—ndtheer.rNataetdiotnhails terrible D e b . r p o h f i l i t i e p a Jdnhannsdnnh,eart, though a mere of Leamingt on , h a d ofi‘‘ i Ir t f.l e aor m urt. kdb Cieonufahgpmitogmlpieibeetecsnhihtal the people. A most upright and w or th y man, mechanic, de put this subject in a clear light to him a year ago. He said to him (Mr. A.)—" Here are three half-crowns of silver in my hand ; the other day I had also ten half-crowns of paper. The boroughmongers have now taken away from me the ten half-crowns of paper. But, God curse their souls, they have left the to pay the same rents and taxes out of th e three half crowns as formerly paid out of the thirteen," --(Cheers.) This was the greatest secret of the nation.' distress. Now, he could tell them, that the national dis tress would be relieved in the same way as the national liberty had been restored.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. A.) had now only to a s n p d ea i k i i s o r f e r in e me for the p e le x i a s n ti d ng sh d n i r s t t . ress H o e f thehadpfeoorpmleer;ly told them that the atrocious corn laws had been the basis of the more atrocious money laws, without which the latter could not for a single year have existed. They were twin devils, working together for the infernal purpose of aggrandising the rich, and degrading and de stroying poor.—(Loud cheers.) What, said M r. A ., is eeessary of life? Food, What i s th e second the first st the necessary of life ? Money to buy it with. What is ruin ? not the ruin of a young woman, but the ruin of an honest tradesman ? The want of money to pay his debts, by which he falls into the gaol. Now what do you think of a Government which, on the one hand, passes laws to make scarce the food which supports man's life, and, on the other hand, passes other laws to make scarce the in strument which conveys the food into the mouth— which feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, and breaks open prison doors, and sets the captive free, and saves families from ruin ? Such a Government ought not to exist on the face of the earth.—(Cheers.) It was these sordid and wicked laws of the oligarchs that must be overturned before the prosperity of the people could be restored. The Corn Laws must be repealed ; the Money Laws must be abolished; the Taxes must be taken off the industrious classes, and placed upon the shoulders of their oppressors. These were his remedies— cheaper bread, more money in their pockets, and less taxation to be borne. Mr. Attwood, then, after some further observations, concluded amidst loud cheers, by moving the adoption of the Report of the Council. The report, dated July 30, congratulated the Union on the passing of the Reform Bill, which was attributed, in a great measure, to the exertions of the Union, and re commended confidence in the Reformed House of Com mons, to which the Council looked for still greater im provements in the representation of the people—such as vote by ballot and short Parliaments. It concluded by stating, that if the Reform Bill should not have the speedy effect lof restoring prosperity to the lower and middle classes of the people, the Council would then feel them. selves released from their late pledge—" to cease to labour in the great work of exciting the public mind to political objects." Mr. B. HADLEY, Honorary Secretary to the Union, seconded the adoption of the report. Mr. G. Enatotsps moved the first Resolution— " The Bill of Reform having been obtained, it is now the duty of the Council to exert themselves to the ut most, that instant and effectual measures may be taken by the Government to allay the present severe and into lerable distress amongst the productive classes of the com munity, and to restore the national prosperity."—[Three groans were given for Sir R. Peel, and three cheers for Mr. Edmonds.] The Reverend T. M. M‘DoNNELL seconded the Re solution. Mr. T. C. SALT moved the adoption of a Memorial to Lord Grey, which concluded as follows : " We respectfully submit to your Lordship, that in our humble opinion the three following ,measures are indis pensably necessary to the ends of justice, and to re store the happiness and contentment of the country : " First—The abolition of the present Money Laws, which beat down the price of labour. " Second—The abolition of the Corn Laws, which lift up the price of food. " Third—The abolition of the Malt Tax, and all other taxes which press upon the working classes." Mr. M. P. HAYNES seconded the Resolution proposed by Mr. Salt. When the resolution was put to the meeting, Mr. T. PARKIN rose and proposed the following amendment:— " That the great cause of our distress is the alliance be tween the Church and the State, and the existence of the national debt ; such alliance and such debt being formed and created in opposition to the legitimate object for which Government was ordained ; and that till this alliance is dissolved, and this debt extinguished, there can neither be prosperity in, nor security for, the country."—ln pro posing this resolution, Mr. Parkin said he was anxious to make it known that the people knew the cause of their misery, and that they would no longer have their pockets picked either by knaves in black or red coats.—(Cbeers.) He said the distress at Dudley was excessive; the masters felt it no less than the men.—(Hear.) All the iron masters would soon become bankrupts. The amendment was seconded by Mr. BROWN. Mr. ATTWOOD, in noticing the speeches of the last three speakers, said, that to a great extent he agreed with them upon the character of the enormous burdens which they had alluded to. Mr. Attwood then entered upon a long argument, to prove that at present it would he rash to pass such a resolution as that which Mr. Parkin had proposed. After some remarks from Mr. MuNrz, the Chairman, the amendment was lost, it being supported by not more than six persons, whilst the original resolution was carried triumphantly. Mr. DE Bosco ATTWOOD believed that the Reformed Parliament would not meet before spring ; and he thought that, if no effectual steps to relieve the general distress were taken before that time, the whole fabric of society would be crushed to atoms by the despair and madness of a wretched—a starving populace.—(Hear, bear.) Mr. Attwood then made a long harangue on the wrongs of Po land, and concluded, amidst great applause, by moving the adoption of an address to the people of the United King dom, and a petition to the House of Commons, both of Which were carried by acclamation. The former related to Poland, and concluded as follows : " Friends and fellow-countrymen —There is not a mo ment to be lost. Every hour adds to the wrongs of Po land. Every hour diminishes the strength of our friends, and adds to the confidence of our enemies. Meet respec• ively in all your towns, and petition the Government to consult the national honour and the national safety, by in, listing that the faith of treaties shall be respected, and tha Poland shall be restored to independence." The latter also related to Poland, and contained the fo lowing—. " Your petitioners consider that the interest and safety, as well as the honour of England, require that Poland shall be restored to independence. That it appears evi dent to your petitioners that there exists an atrocious combination amongst the different arbitrary Governments to mutually co-operate in putting down the principles of liberty and humanity throughout the whole of Europe. " Your petitioners believe that there is no time for compromise or delay; and they earnestly pray that your Honourable House will forthwith address his Majesty, imploring him to consult the honour and the safety of England, by insisting that Poland shall be restored to a state of independence and freedom ; and to take any steps whatever which may be deemed necessary to effect that great and paramount national object, without regard to risks or sacrifices—being well assured that the British people will cheerfully support his Majesty in any measures which may be found necessary." Mr. CHARLES JONES seconded the resolution. Mr. DE Bosco ATT WOOD proceeded to introduce to the meeting Count Joseph Napoleon Czapski. The Count being recognised by the meeting as be came forward, was received with the loudest acclamations. He spoke in very intelligible English, and addressed the meeting on the subject of Reform and Poland. Mr. MARDEN, in an animated speech, expressed his delight that Englishmen were at length roused to a sense of duty towards Poland. To lift up that poor, prostrate, bleeding country, was a work of justice and patriotism. The Rev. T. M. M'DoNNELL proposed a resolution respecting the late proceedings in Ireland, which condemned the conduct of Government. Mr. T. A. ATIWOOD seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. Thanks were voted to Mr. Muntz and Mr. Attwood, after which the meeting separated. The unusual length of the proceedings of the meeting prevents us from giving any account of the dinner, which was served up in excellent style at the Globe Tavern. THE ARMY. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. GENERALS-Hart, Gov. of Londonderry and Cul more ; Earl of Donoughmore, G.C.B. and K.C. 18 F. Governor of Stirling Castle, Knocklofty, Co. Tipperary. Colonel Viscount Dillon, London. LIEUTENANT-COLONELS—Fenwick, Lieut. Goy. Pen dennis Castle ; Boyse, late 13 Dr. CAI-rams—Curtis, 2d Dr. Gds. Edinb. ; Ellison, R. Art. Dublin ; Ker, h. p. 7 Dr. Gds. LIEUTENANTS—Finn, 69 F. Athlone ; Cockrane, b. p. 60 F. ; Strange, h. p. 62 F. ; Stewart, b. p. 86 F. ; Angelo, h. p. 8 Dr. ENstcris--Harrison, ret. f. p. 8 RN. B. ; Phayer, h. p. 97 F. Paymaster Briggs, h. p. 1 R. Vet. Bn. Quarter-Master Goad, h. p. 24 Dr. Surgeon Weld, h. p. 23 F. AssistantT rei ur a g n er A ll . l;L t a: C h e la y n lo , n. ll. p. 4 R. Vet. Bn. Chaplain The salary of the SPEAKER of the House of Commons is 7,0001. per annum, with an official residence in Sr. Stephen's Court. It is rumoured that Mr. LITTLE TON, the Member for Staffordshire, will be proposed by Ministers for the office. p hl et on the Catholi c quest i on in The late Viscount DILLON was warmly at tthacehaeadtbator a li f ter a ary pam pursuits, and was understood t o b e 1803, and of a work on the military establi s h ments of the British empire, in two volumes, in 1811. Lord DuLox more recently published a work of fiction founded on ac tual circumstances in Italy and Germany. GOOD NEWS FOR VENISON -EA TERS .—Th e whole of Mr. WATSON TAYLOR'S celeb ra t e d stoc k of deer that s a i eaten, beforeto be the sold i 5 c t f h o ea p "as it must b e c l eare d," o , e t 0 4 cr. FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Tuesday.) The Augsburg Gazette of the 26th instant communi cates the following intelligence of the 22d from Vienna : " This morning at five o'clock an easy death put an end to the painful existence of the Duke de Reichstadt, at the palace of Schoenbrunn. Already on the 19th the symptoms of the last stage of consumption manifested themselves, and the physicians gave up all hope of saving him. The Emperor has directed that his funeral shall be attended with the same forms and honours as that of an Archduke. The corpse is to be interred in the imperial family vault on the 24th instant. Preparations were made immediately for the departure of his disconsolate mother for her duchy. This determination was considered absolutely necessary in order not to endanger her own life." The Constitutionnel contains the following :—" It is said that an extraordinary courier from the Hague ar rived on Saturday at Paris, with the answer of King William to the last acts of the Conference, and that soon after his arrival, interviews took place between the Mini ster for Foreign Affairs and several Foreign Ministers, especially Messrs. Lehon and Rigel. After these inter views, M. Lehon, it is added, sent off a courier to his Go vernment with despatches of great importance. It is said that M. Lehon, with the sanction of the French Go vernment, concluded his despatches in the following terms I am happy to state that the French Govern nsent, in concurrence with that of his Britannic Majesty, will transmit to the King of Holland a note that will put an end to the stain quo of Belgium ; this note is to exhort the King to ratify, and to enter into new negotiations with Belgium, and to intimate, that if Holland should persist in refusing to ratify the treaty of November 15, France and England will be obliged to obtain the ratifica tion by force.' "—" A squadron is now fitting out at Cherbourgh, which appears to be destined to bring to a conclusion the affairs of Belgium. The MeMagre sloop of war has sailed for Dunkirk, with orders to collect positive information on the navigation of the Scheldt. The squadron is to consist of the Ariane, the Resolue, the Me'dee, and the Melpomene, frigates; and the MeMagre, the Endymion, &c., sloops of war. M. Ducrest de Villeneuve is named as likely to have the command of this expedition." 'The following are further extracts from the Augsburg Gazette of the 26th instant :—" The cholera had in creased this week to an alarming extent. On the 17th there occurred 100 cases, and 38 deaths. The cause is probably the sudden change in the temperature, which on the 15th instant was 26 degrees, and the 16th 15 degrees Reaumur. The disease, however, seems to be again on the decline. The marching of troops in the Austrian mo narchy has of late been considerable. The troops are for the most part directed towards Italy. A report is current of the concentration of a small corps of observation in the Roman Marches. Business on our Exchange is very flat, and the prices of stocks continue almost stationary, which is ascribed to the contradictory reports afloat relative to the solution of the question between Holland and Belgium." The same paper also contains the following letter, from Leghorn, of the 19th instant :—" Accounts from Alexan dria of the 9th continue favourable with regard to Mehe med Ali. All the chiefs of the inhabitants of Lebanon have declared for him. Ooly a few days previous to the date of the above letter a son of one of the most powerful of these chiefs, who had hitherto been faithful to the Porte, arrived at Alexandria as a hostage for his father. The Sheriff of Mecca, who had likewise declared for Mehemed Ali, was also expected at Alexandria: it was reported among the people, that he would, as a spiritual Prince, annul the interdiction pronounced by the Sultan against Mehemed Ali, and crown him King of Egypt. A letter contains the following statement of the Egyptian forces in Syria :—The army consists of 80,000 men ; among them are 36,000 regular infantry and 8,000 regu lar cavalry ; the rest are composed of 23,000 irregular in fantry, 7,000 Bedouin horsemen, and 4,000 artillerymen. The war stores found at St. Jean d'Acre are said to be very valuable; it is reported that there were 1,700 pieces of carnon, and a depot of 25,000 cwt. of copper." The Echo de la Frontiere of Valenciennes, of the 28th inst., states that that fortress, and several others in that quarter, have, for some days past, been receiving supplies of corn, which are chiefly brought from Dunkirk. De serters from the Dutch army arrive at Valenciennes al most every day. These soldiers are said to be natives of Switzerland, who enlisted in the Dutch service. On their arrival in France, they apply for a pauper's passport, and an allowance to proceed to their native country. The Ami de la Charte of Nantes, of the 28th inst., has the following, dated Bourbon Vendee, July 26 " On the 23d a considerable number of Carlist brigands proceeded to the house of M. Hi on , a t t h e v i llage of Boullaye, beat him with the but-ends of their muskets, and, after having robbed him of 1,500 f., left him for dead. On the same day another band went, for the se cond time, to the house of M. Mercier, Mayor of Chauche, whom they ill-treated, and dreadfully wounded his daughter. A third band, commanded by La Tour Dupin, commit daily robberies round Herbiers. Lately they pro ceeded to the house of M. Amour, at Richeries, where they committed the most atrocious excesses. The terror which now prevails in the communes of St. Denis-la- Chevasse, Chauche, Brouzils, St. Sulptce, Mormaison, the environs of Roche Serviere and Vieillevigne, is so great, that the patriots of these places no longer sleep at home, and several have taken refuge in the chief towns of their cantons." A great number of crosses of the Legion of Honour have just been granted to different civil functionaries. M. Cahouet, Prefect of the Ille and Vilaine, is appointed an officer, and M. Saladin, Prefect of the Saone and Loire, a Knight of that order. 111 - . Coate, responsible editor of the Temps, has ad dressed , to the Procureur du Roi a complaint, in which be sets forth, that having published an article upon the crosses of the Legion of Honour granted to certain persons attached to the police, he had receive,] a visit from six individuals who considered themselves insulted, and who committed an assault upon him. " About ten o'clock on Sunday morning," says M. Coste, " I was still in my bed-room, in my dressing-gown, when I heard an unusual noise of confused voices, and the questions addressed to the servants, one of whom came to announce to me that M. Ma!level and several other persons wished to speak to me. I replied, that I could not yet receive them ; but soon after, six persons rushed into my room. After some words, in which I recognized their intention of obtaining f s r a a t m i sf a t c h t n i e o f for va a principally t e i i a e r o t i nw c i ac o ho qnwut was ns s fti published un n w ihs he h re i c d l a t irat they e scom plainedLl taken e number of the Temps, I remonstrated with them, and said, finally, If we have committed any error, we are ready to ratify it; if you have to complain of a libel, ap ply to the tribunals for redress; if the offence be personal, any honourable man will obtain satisfaction of the editor.' Upon this, the words and gestures became more vehe ment, and these gentlemen approached so near to me that I expected some acts of violence. ' What, gentle men !' exclaimed I, six against one, who is almost naked ? Can you be assassins ? You public func tionaries, who ought to protect persons and pro perty, force open my door and threaten me in my own house?' Then, amidst loud vociferation., and at the moment I w as rep l y i ng to one o f them who bad pronounced the words " insolent fellow," another, dressed like a c omm i ssary wear ing a sword, rush e d upon me w ith his fist clin c h e d , and gave m e a v i o l en t bl ow on the head. Not h av i ng ' any thing to d e f en d m y se lf ag a i nst an armed man I th rew at his fac e a b ronze p a p e r -knife which lay on th e ta bl e. At that moment, M. A--, who had j us t entered my room, earnestly interfered , and as the servants c ame i n on hearing the noise, the six persons withdrew. S oon a f ter by s k M.at taccknautpeondectlhae declaring g eed th om at h o e f the one of them, who a sling, re t urne d and expressed to me his regret at this l amentable affair. " The Memorial, containing the compl a i nt , t h en goes on to expatiate on the serious nature of th e o ff ence, not only as an assault, in tends to sue for damages. The Memorial des P yrenees says— " Private letters from Spain afford gro un d for apprehension that insur rectionary movem ents will not be confined to Portugal. They state that th e S panish provinces on the borders of Portugal are di sposed to take part with Don Pedro, and that even th e t roops forming the Army of Observation Press,a d concludes but a an manifest th e same sentiments. The presence of General Mina, whom th ey b elieve to be in the Pyrenees, has, it is said, c on t ri b uted to these feelings. They add, that the cause of D on Mi guel appears so desperate, that lodg ings are prepared at Badajos for his reception. Other letters, h owever, intimate that Don Miguel is re solved n o t to y i eld without a struggle, and has as sembled aro un d hi m, at t h e P a l ace o f Q ue l uz, 60,000 men, the gr ea t er part o f w h om are m iliti a . A guard con sisting o f 3 ,000 of his most zealous partisans, defend the approache s t o thi s f or t ress , w hi c h i s mounte d with innu merable cannon, and no t suff e red t o b e entered by any one without th e utmost previous Preca u ti on . Notwith standing all th ese f or midable p reparat i ons for his recep tion, Don Pedro continues to a d vance w i t h conf i dence a t the head of his little army. Th e prec i p i tate fl ight o f t h e Miguelites into the interior mi g h t occas i on a l arm, l est it was only a snare, but num erous d esert i ons are unques tionable. Lisbon is in a sta t e o f stupor di ffi cult to de scribe." had his arm inof polices and Extract of a private letter of the 20th instant, from Mad(id ;...." The reports which have been circulated as to