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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Arm'', 18. GALWAY. Mr. D. BROWNE presented petitions from two CL tholic Bodies of Galway, praying that the present static of the elective franchise in Galway might not be inter - fered with by the Reform Bill. IRIS 3 TITHES. Mr. D. BROWNE presented a petition from the pa rish of Cogn, in Galway, praying for the abolition of tithes in Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman observed, that as long as tithes were legal they must be paid ; but he ex ., ;pressed his conviction that England and Ireland could not long remain united under one Crown, unless' the Eccle siastical revenue were reduced. The Hon. Gentleman then gave notice that on the 7th of June he would move a resolution, that the House would, in the next Session of Parliament, enter upon the consideration of the state of Church Property in Ireland, with a view (as we under stood the Hon. Member) to give ample security to the present incumbents, and to make such future arrangements as might seem requisite. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Lard CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from Bangor, in the county of Down, against the new system of religious education. WEST INDIA. PETITIONS. The Marquess of CHANDOS complained of the Go vernment not having made a House last night, and gave _ notice that he would present the petition from the West India-Merchants on Wednesday the 9th of May. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. A long conversation then ensued touching the great arrear of petitions in the hands of Hon. Members, and the best means of facilitating their presentation hereafter, which concluded by Sir R. PEEL giving notice, tliat'affer the holydays he would move for the appointment of a Com mittee to consider the whole subject, and devise rules for facilitating the presentation of petitions. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. . Lord CASTLEREAGH presented several petitions from Downshire against the ministerial Flan of education in Ireland. Mr. HUNT gave notice that he would, after the recess, aaove for the total abolition of the Corn Laws, the repeal of Mr. Sturges Bourne's Act about Parishes, and the Sus pension of Military flogging for one year. Lord ALTHORP gave notice that he would bring forward the question respecting the Bank Charter on the Rth of May, and on a subsequent day the proposition of an advance of money to the sufferers in the West Indies. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The NOBLE LORD then moved that the House, at its rising, should adjourn to the 7th of May. POLAND. _ Mr. C. FERGUSSON took the opportunity of advert ing to the present state of Poland, and particularly referred to the document of the 26th of Feb. set forth by the Em peror of all the Russias, and the organic statutes therein referred to. These, he contended, were founded upon the simple case that the Emperor now possessed Poland by the right of conquest. But be would put it to the House, whether the Emperor did really possess Poland upon any other conditions excepting those upon which he received the sovereignty of that country at the Congress of Vienna. Upon that occasion, he observed, Lord Castlereagh made a manly—a glorious stand for the perfect independence and separate sovereignty of the whole kingdom of Poland ; and if others had not given way sooner than he (Lord C.), Poland would be still an in dependent State. He referred to the noble and truly manly language which the Noble Lord, as the represen tative of Britain, had used upon that occasion, and con tended that it was our bounden duty, in consideration of the pledges we then gave, to prevent the total extinction of Poland' He remarked that Austria, perhaps touched by the remorse which embittered the last hours of Maria Theresa, was at that time willing to surrender her own share of the country, which resulted to her from that flagraut and infamous act, the partition of Poland. France, too, then warmly urged the re-establishment of Poland in all its territory and in its full independence, through the Prince Talleyrand, who, in a strain of great eloquence, urged the claims of that nation to the grati tude of Europe, and reminded the Allied Powers that Christendom had been saved through the heroism of the Poles, under their illustrious leader, John Sobieski. Even Russia then declared that nothing could be farther from her wish than to unite the Duchy of Warsaw with the Empire of Russia. At last, after a long struggle, it was decided that Poland should forma an independent kingdom in all possible respects, under the Emperor of 'Russia, as a constitutional King ; and he begged to read to them an extract from a document of Lord Castlereagh's, in which .he strongly declared that Poland never should,be and hy the faith of the compacts entered into at the Con gress of Vienna, to see justice done to Poland —compacts, too, which the Emperor of Russia could not break with out violating not only his faith with his own subjects, the Poles, but with al Europe. In short, be could not break them ualess Russia was in reality everything, and all the rest of Europe nothing. He might refer to treaties be tween Russia and Prussia—between Prusaia and Austria, to show that Poland was recognised as an independent kingdom, but he did not think it necessary to trouble the House with them. Tire treaty of Vienna was of the greatest importance in considering this question; and - under its terms France, aye, and the rest of the European Powers who concurred in it, might be called on to vindi cate their national faith, which there stood pledged to preserve the nationality of Poland. All the civilized Powers of Europe were interested in seeing that the strength of Ruseia was not unduly increased, and most especially was England so interested. Ic the Seat place, he found attached to that treaty the names of three Pleni potentiaries of Great Britain—Cathcart, Clancarty, and Stewart. What were the terms of that treaty with re ars,' to the Duchy of Warsaw ? Why, that it should be erects :i into an independent State, to be united to, but not to form ; , art of Russia : but that treaty also stipulated that even in '.he province of Poland there should be representative governments, while his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia!' " reserved to himself the power of giving, from time to time, an extension of territory to the State of Poland." At that time Alexander appeared to wish to restore to Poland the blessing of free institutions, for he promulgated a Constitution that contained all their best principles. That was in Novem ber, 1815. On the 30th of April, 1815, Alexander bad written to the President of the Senate of Poland a letter, in which he said, that by the concurrence of all the powers of Europe assembled at Vienna, the destiny of Poland was about to be fixed : and he pledged himself to obtain for them the full enjoyment of their national rights. How bad he kept that or his other promises ? For the misfor tune of Poland, he had sent thither a Prince, who, by his capricious and cruel acts, had been the cause of all the evils that Poland had since suffered; there was no insult that-he did not offer to the inhabitants of Warsaw—no degradation to which be did not force ber nobility to submit—no breach of the Constitution but what he com mit ed, and he continued to pursue that atrocious conduct till he left nothing for unfortunate Poland but to do what her citizens afterwards did, not, as he firmly believed, through the result of a regularly organized conspiracy of a few, but by the strong indignation of them all at the wrongs they had suffered, and the impossibility they felt of longer submitting to a course of conduct so wantonly outrageous. The Grand Duke Constantine had laid a train which one accidental spark ignited, and the flames of ' re volt enwrapped the whole kingdom of Poland.—(Hear, bear.) The Emperor of Russia had given to Poland a Constitution ; which having given, be could not take away without sufficient cause. The Emperor bound him self to maintain and preserve that Constitution, and the Poles swore allegiance, not to the Emperor alone, but to the Emperor and the Constitution.—(Hear, bear.) By that Constitution the liberty of the Person was gua ranteed—so was the liberty of the press—die Dirt was to be frequently convoked—the right of granting supplies was vested in the people—the nationality of Poland was to be Preserved, and no Russians were to be placed in office there —no Russian army was to be quartered in Poland— northe w v/1 , 1 any R uss i an army to pass t h roug h Poland without whole expense of its pa s sa ge b e i ng b orne by R uss i a. There was not one article of this treaty but had been grossly vi o l ate d . The Polish Constitution was even more tender of personal liberty than that of England, for, by its provisions, if any man were apprehended far any cause whatever, h e must , w i thin three days , be brought and d fo h re is the regular auth or ities —must know his accusation accuser, and if there were not sufficient ground to detain him, he must be discharged. The independ ence of provisions of the e judges was also provided f or , b ut t h ese Constitution were shamefully trampled on by the Grand Duke, who had confined within the fortresses, by his own authority, alone, the most illUstrious Poles, with out ever bringing them before the judges; or taking any legal proceeding" w4atever against them. Without the form of trial he 'bad condemned the inhabitants of Warsaw, and had degAded many of the highest of them to the office of cleaning a : ' ay the dirt in the streets. As to the. liberty of the Press, ) did not exist for a single day. '‘.. Poland -was_ entitled to ' joy the freedom of debate in her Dicts,`, bat , they _stem u sed by order of the Grand Duke. i The necessity of the people, knowing what was passing in their legislature was so great, that he (Mr. Fergusson) believed, that if the debates of the Houses of Parliament took place for one year with closed doors, there would be more danger to the Constitution than could ever happen to it from any other circumstance.—(Hear.) But that was not all ; for the Grand Duke imprisoned the Members of the Diet who ventured to speak their opinions, and in that way the Diets were destroyed. It was thus that the Constitution of Poland bad been grossly infringed, and by that infringement the insurrection had been occasioned, and, in his mind, fully justifi d.—(Hear, hear.) When the insurrection was put down by force of arms, the Con stitution still remained. The Government was not justi fied by the law of nations in taking away the Constitu tion. The actors in the insurrection had exposed them ; selves to punishment, but the nation and the constitution were in the same position as before. Such had been the conduct of this country with regard to the rebellion in Ireland in 1798, and such also had been her conduct with respect to the Scotch on a former occasion. The rights of the Irish nation were not forfeited by that rebellion—(Hear, hear)—nor were the rights of Scotland affected by what was done at the time of the Pretender.—( Hear, hear.) Yet his had been more than a common insurrection; he had been proclaimed King in the capital of Scotland ; he had opposed and de feated the King's troops ; -he had marched into the heart of this kingdom, and the King had shaken on his throne ; yet, when that insurrection was put down, though the chief actors in it were punished, Scotland herself was not held to have forfeited her national rights.—(Hear, hear.) About May, 1815, in the letter already referred to, Alexander told the Poles that their language should be used in all public Acts, and that commerce should not be shackled nor oppressed. Neither of these promises had been observed. What, then, was to be done ? There was not one Power that was a party to the Treaty of Vienna, but was bound, including France and England, to put forth its efforts to the utmost to protect the Poles. He knew that the feeling to do so existed in the breasts of the French people. Then why had it not been done? He did not ask them, nor dui he ask this Government to go to war with Russia; but there was much that might be done, with re. gard to the perfor mance of the stipulations in a treaty, by a vigorous remonstrance. He trusted that England and France would use this remonstrance, and that they would long be united in strict brotherhood, by which union he was confident they would be well able to preserve and maintain against the great Northern Power the liberties of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) He did not ask them to go to war, but he must take that opportunity of observing, that if there was one circumstance more formidable than ano ther in the present aspect of affairs, it was the species of terror (he must use the word) which seemed to pervade the Powers of Europe with respect to the strength of Russia, and the fact, that while they appeared to dread a war with Russia, that Power on all occasions declared its readiness to go to war ; and that readiness it would always manifest unless it was one day taught that that course of dealing with the civilized Powers must no longer continue without interruption. What had the King of the French expressed in his Speech ? That the nationality of Poland should not perish. If this Manifesto of Russia was allowed to be enforced, be (Mr. C. Fergusson) insisted that it had perished. The Pules, of whom it might be said, as of one of the most distinguished of Napoleon's officers, that they were " the bravest of the brave," had no longer any existence as a nation. There was no feeling in the human breast that was not awakened in favour of that unfortunate and gallant people. They had the sympathy of all men ex pressed in their favour ; they deserved the use of power for their preservation. The Polish generals had been told, that if they would delay making an attack on the Russian armies they should be protected. The Polish generals did delay, and the delay was their ruin ; yet no effort had been made to protect them. He hoped that the French would not di-grace themselves by now abandoning the de claration which their King had made, and their Chamber had echoed, that " the nationality of Poland should not perish." lie should say nothing of the conduct of Casi mir Perier, except that that statesman had pursued his course through a variety of difficulties, and that he ap peared to have in view the true interests of France. Now that Minister had, on the 7th of March, 1832, made a speech in the Chamber, in which he declared that Poland had not lost the rights she had acquired by treaties; yet, upon the 26th of the preceding Febtuary, the Manifesto, to which he was now directing the attention of the House, ha I been issued. At the time that M. Casimir Perier had delivered that speech, he had no thought that any such Manifesto had been issued ; but it was then in existence, and by it the rights that had been secured by treaties to Poland were destroyed. By that Manifesto, laws were to be made in the Council of Sate, and taxes were to be there imposed ; but in the first place,' these laws -ilesieFttaYabfli had, in fact, no existence at all, but was to be subject to the most absolute despoti4m. The Polish Diets, instead of being the free legislative assemblies of that country, were to be no more than so many county meetings of the chief men of the district—not to examine and redress evils, and to make the laws that were to govern their country, but merely to report to the Russian authorities the state of Poland. By this manifesto, too, Poland was no longer to have a national army. Before the Poles would have consented to such a condition, they would have shed the last drop of their blood. But they were now powerless, and this condition was imposed upon them. It was the grossest treachery to treat them in this manner. The Russians had only obtained their submission upon the as surance most solemnly given, that Poland was but invited back to the mild and paternal Government of a merciful Sovereign. And this was his mildness, and this his mercy —the Emperor Nicholas authorized the Governor-General of Wilaa to proceed in the most summary manner against the, remnants of the arm) of Poland, whom he called ban ditti, to punish them as he thought fit, and not to embar rass himself with the forms of law, but to act on his own authority. Surely neither this country nor France could ever disgrace themselves by approving, or even by passing over in silence such cruelty acd treachery ! He trusted they would solemnly p ro t es t aga i nst suc h i n i qu i tous pro ceedings. We bad had interventions with Belgium and Greece ; yet of these Belgium had never been an inde pendent power. Ile did not blame the Government for what it had done with regard to Belgium. On the con trary, he approved of it; but if we were to have these in terventions, why were we not to have them with respect to Poland ? Unless some check was imposed to the graspiog ambition of Russia, she would go on adding to her empire, for which purpose she never neglected any opportunity, nor lacked any pretext, and would soon make the nations of Europe f. el, that in neglecting to cheek her, they had neglected the means of securing their own safety. He had hims e lf seen , on hi s return f rom I n di a, some Rus sian Officers of high rank, who were exceedingly anxious to find the route be had pursued in coming from India, and told him that they should some day get to Persia and India, and that they could administer the Government of India quite as well as we did. In conclusion the Hon. and Learned Gentleman would say, that he thought he had made out a -case which not only would justify, but actually called for some decided step on the part of his Majesty's Government; be thought too that he had made out such a case as would interest the feelings not only of every Member of that House, but of every Englishman. He should then move for copses of, or extracts from, any communication received by the Government respecting the present condition of Poland. Lord ALTHORP said that his Noble Friend, the Se cretary for Foreign Affairs, was unavoidably kept away by very important business ; it therefore devolved upon him to say the few words that might be expected to come from some Member of his Majesty's Government upon an occa sion such as that. They had as yet rec ived no official in formation of the occurrences which had recently taken place in Poland ; and for that as well as for other reasons it was not to be expected that he should at that moment enter into the views entertained on that subject by his Majesty's Government, and he therefore hoped that the House would excuse his entering into any details what. ever, at the same time that it was impossible fur him even to touch upon such a subject without expressing the profound sympathy which the sufferings of the un happy Poles must excite in the brea.t of every man of common humanity—in that sympathy he trusted the House would do his colleagues and himself the justice to believe that they fully Firticipati.d. Beyond that, it was impossible for him at the present moment to go, unless he were merely allowed to observe, that the Government of this country had at no time held out any encouragement tending to incite the Polish nation to the late contest, which ended so fatally far their interests. He regretted that it was not in his power to say more upon the sub ject ; but he hoped that the brevity of his remarks would not be construed into any indifference to the condition of Pol Ind. Sir GEORGE WARRENDER thought, that if ever there was a else to interest the feelings of EngliArnen, the ease of Poland was that. England was a party to the treaties that guiranteed the independence of Poland, and be sincerely hoped that Government would not abandon those treaties. Mr. LABOUCHERE said, that civilized Europe would not look on an inditiocnt spectator of the dimities that lied been perretrated, and he hoped it would e shown to Europe that the British House of Commons did sympa thise with the sufferings of that gallant nation. Dr. LUSHINGTON was of opinion that the British Government ought to put forward, on an occasion like that, a solemn remonstrance against the abominable acts of cruelty which bad been committed against the unfor tunate Poles. This he thought they were not only en titled but bound to do, by the several treaties entered into having reference to the independence of that country. He felt much gratified in listening to the speech of his Hon. and Learned Friend, and would trke the liberty of sug gesting to him that he ought to make an addition to his motion, to the effect that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would take measures to induce the cooperation of the other Powers of Europe, with a view to their uniting in one common protest against the conduct of Russia. Lord SANDON (who was very imperfectly heard) was Understood to express a strong desire that a marked ex pression of sentiment should emanate from that House— that it should, in an address to the throne, convey those feelings of indignation at the gross infraction of treaties of which the Russians bad been guilty. The deportation of the Poles was an act of unexampled atrocity, as the disre gard of the treaty of Vienna was one of unexampled insolence. Mr. COURTENAY—If he could not so eloquently ex press those feelings which filled his breast, of painful sympathy with the condition of the Poles, as Hon. Members who had gone before him, it was not because he did not feel as strongly ; it was his opinion, however, that the British Government ought to offer no protest unless we were prepared to follow up such a step with an appeal to arms. There could be no doubt that the late ukase of the Emperor Nicholas was a contravention of the treaty of Vienna. He wished that his Majesty's Ministers would state the course which they meant to follow in this matter. The line of conduct which they had chosen in the affairs of Belgium, might, perhaps, prevent them from insisting upon the strict terms of the Treaty of Vienna, after a lapse of fifteen years. Mr. WRANGHAM (as we understood) said that they fought the battle of Europe under the walls of Warsaw, under circumstances which no less entitled them to its gratitude than their defence of Christendom under the walls of Vienna. All those Powers which were parties to the treaty of Vienna would compromise their own honour, if, in submission to the bullying of the Russian Emperor, they allowed that treaty to he violated. If England stood forward to make a spirited resistance to the encroachments of the barbarian, she would have, no doubt, he cooperation of France, who was pledged to the sup port of Polish independence. Mr. HUME could not allow the present discussiou to piss without expressing his gratitude to his Hon Friend for the statement which he had made. For his part, he thought that, as the treaty of Vienna was the first in which the Government of England recognised the infamous partition of Holland, this country was especially bound to remonstrate against the violation of that treaty.—(Hear.) There was throughout this whole kingdom a deep anxiety to know what measures the Government had taken, either acting by itself er in conjunction with France, to prevent the infliction of the last and most grievous wrongs which Poland had suffered.—(Hear.) He (Mr. Hume) had received more applications from all parts of the country, urging him to inquire what were the measures which the Government bad taken respecting Poland, than had been made to him upon any other subject. It was now full time that the country should be told what course had been taken to maintain the honour and to fulfil the duty of England as a European Power. Let it not be said that those who in sisted on the duty of England to interfere were desirous of forcing this country into hostilities.—(Hear, hear.) There ) don F e ro b m etw e e l e l n th r a e t m h o e n n s o tr u a ld tin e g ol a le n e d t hostility. e —(Hear the Noble Lord, he (Mr. Hume) was led to believe that the conduct of the Government in nd was not so trusted they sodeserving w oo blameo sa a tsy the s i i f thad supposed breseepnecttePla to be. l o country on the subject. Sir C. FORBES was only surprised that the Poles had allowed the Archduke Constantine to escape without in flicting upon him the punishment which the crimes of his tyrannical Government deserved. If they had hung him upon n the more than they had a right the highest of Warsaw, to do.—(Hear, rsaw,theywou hear.) He done He could not believe that this country did not interfere. But he lamented that the interference had not been more timely and more effectual.—(Hear, hear.) An Host. :MEMBER (name unknown) said, that he fully agreed with every sentiment which bad been so ably ex pressed on this subject by the Hon. and Learned Member for Kirkcudbright. He spoke of the indignation which the recent treatment of the Poles by Russia had excited in all parts of Germany, and expressed a hope that the people of that country would assist the other civilized states of Europe in atoning for the criaae of partitioning Poland, dritussia,we should have the sincere o.sd cordial cooperi. tion of the people of Germany. He agreed that we ought not to make any remonstrance against the proceedings of Russia which we were not prepared to follow up by vi gorous measures. He called upon the House to consider whether France would not gladly join us in any remon strance which we might make against the unjust oppres sion which Russia was now exercising over Poland. He was convinced that if ministers would only take a strong and decided part in vindication not only of the rights of Poland, but he might , also add of the liberties of Europe, they would be supported by the unanimous approbation of every man who deserved the name in Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. SHEIL said, that the Hon. and Learned Civilian had expressed a conviction that there existed but one feel ing through Great Britain with respect to the wrongs of Poland, and had added, that he believed that it extended to the sister isl Ind. He could assure him that it did. It were strange if Ireland should not sympathize with na tional misfortune. He (Mr. Sheil) considered that this discussion had been attended with usefult result. The eloquence of the gentleman who had brought it forward was not only the medium by which his own unaffected feelings were expressed, but he had given utterance to the emotions of the entire country.—(Cheers.) He had not opened a new source of national sensibility, but had un locked a fountain which had remained too lung sealed. The Hon. Gentleman bad the merit of calling up the re presentative of his Majesty's Government, who had proved that the principles and feelings of Lord Althorp were not merged in the official formalities and precautions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The eye and the intonitions of the Noble Lord supplied any want of distinct declaration that Poland should not be allowed to perish. An Hon. Gentleman had said, that it was little consolation to the exiles from Poland to re ceive this late and valueless sympathy. True it was that the pains of exile were almost irremediable; but yet it must be to those gallant and illustrious men a source of mournful satisfaction to know, that while Eng land blushed at her having permitted Poland to fall, her blushes were mingled with her tears. This subject bad been so amply treated, the case so clearly established, that he should avoid reiterating what had been already so per sp•cuously expressed. It had been proved that the treaty of Vienna had been violated, that the wrongs of Poland had been unendurable, and that her resistance to oppres sion was not matter of cboics, but of absolute and unavoid able necessity. Gallant, chivalrous, high-minded peeple-- nation of heroes, you are fallen; but your disasters are encompassed with a glory so surpassing, that the most splendid and successful achievements of ancient or modern times, fade and grow dim before it. And shall nothing be done to save a remnant of that illustrious race, and will England, France, Europe, stand by and permit this outrage on all law, on all justice, on all honour, on all humanity ? No, the cause of Poland is that of the world, against whose interests, against whose civilization, against whose liberties, the great Autocrat of the North will aim a deadly blow, if this flagitious proceeding be allowed to pass with impunity, and converted into a precedent for unlimited aggression. Let it not be imagined that Franca and England, if they stand together, will plead for Poland without avail. But if we shall be slow to appeal to arms for Poland, there is a duty which no prudential regards ought to induce us to delay. France has given the ex. ample. She has given to the illustrious exiles from that illustrious and unhappy country a noble national welcome. The coffers of the State have been thrown open. Let England imitate her generosity, or rather let England took to her own conduct in other instances as a model; and as to the refugees of Spain and Portugal, she gave a preanpt and honourable succour, let her with a hand of hospitable liberality lift those men from destitution, who may seek a shelter on her shores, and prose that while England shall last, liberty shall never want a home. (Hear.) Mr. HUNT contended that if the British Government had not held back at the proper moment, France would have assisted the Poles at the time when its assistance would have been most availing. He likewise argued that the Poles had been misled by the public Print s — w hi c h were always misleading the people h ere — ( A laugh)—into a notion that Ministers intended to sup dort t h em in their resistance. He acquitte I the Ministers, h owever, of having done any thing to encourage such a noti on. After a few words from Colonel Evan s not heard in the gallery, the question that this House do on its rising adjourn to the 7th of May was put and carried. ANATOMY BILL. On t h e mo ti o n of Mr, WAv.evaroN, th e srgAKEtt left the Chair, and the House resolved itself into a Committee on this Bill. On the clause being read authorizing the sale of bodies. Sir It. INGLIS said, that he objected both to the gift and to the sale of bodies for dissection. He should there fire propose that there be added to this clause a proviso, prohibiting all governors of hospitals or infirmaries, and all governors of gaols, having the legal custody of persons deceased, from allowing such bodies to be dissected. Mr. ROBINSON re-stated his former objections to the clause. _ _ _ . . Mr. WASON contended that the Bill was anything but popular. He had gone through the petitions presented on the subject, and he found only two in favour of the Bill, while seventeen or eighteen were against some of its leading provisions. Mr. HUNT said, if the amendment were agreed to, he would propose the clause which he mentioned on a former occasion, that the bodies of all pensioners and placemen should be given for dissection. Mr. BRISCOE did not think the welfare of the public would be promoted by this clause, which gave over the whole population of England to the surgeon. The Committee divided. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority —44 . . On the question that the clause stand part of the Bill, he Committee divided, when the numbers were— For the clause Against it Majority for the clause Mr. HUNT moved an amendment to the next clause (the third), the object of which was to require that the inspectors should personally examine the bodies previous to dissection ; upon which the Committee divided, when the numbers were— For the Amendment 1 Against it Majority against the amendment —4B Mr. HUNT next moved the insertion of a clause, the object of which was, to inflict a penalty of 1001. upon all persons engaged in either selling or purchasing dead bodies. The division upon this question was as follows : Ayes m ll Noes 49 —3B Majority The Committee then divided again upon another amend ment proposed by Mr. HUNT, the nature of which was not ascertained. Mr. HUNT proposed another amendment, which had for its object to render it imperative on judges to order the bodies of persons convicted of murder to be dissected. The Committee divided, and the numbers were— For the amendment 1 Against it Majority —4B The rest of the clauses were agreed to, and the Bil passed through Committee. The LORD ADVOCATE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to settle the limits and boundaries of cities and bo roughs in Scotland. The Bill was accordingly brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 16th of May. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday, about half-past one o'clock, the King, attended by Lord Byron, arrived in town in his travelling carriage from Windsor. Shortly after his Majesty received visits from the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Duke of Cumberland. About two o'clock the King held a Levee. In the entree circle, the Baron D. Behr, Minister from Belgium to the United States, was presented to his Majesty by Monsieur Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister. His Majesty gave audiences to the Field Officer and the Colonel of the Guard, who reads a report of the etrective state of the three regiments of Foot Guards. The King also gave audiences to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of De vonshire, Viscount Althorp, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, Sir J. Graham, the Marquess of Lansdownc,and Lord Hill. At the entree levee were—the Netherlands and: French Ambassadors; the Neapolitan, Bavarian, Prussian, Wurtem. berg, Mexican, Belgian, and Saxon Ministers; the Swedish, Sardinian, and United States Charges des Affaires ; Count Orloff, the Russian Minister, on a special mission ; Count Michael Woronzow, the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Bishop of Worcester, Clerk of the Closet, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchepuer, the President of the Board of Control, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of ncaster, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the Lord Cham berlain; the Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen Pen sioners, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick, and Colonel Hanmer, Silver Stick, in waiting ; the Se. cretary at War, the Comptroller of the Household, the Master WrAltnry,% - tibtra firfeafirkettl i k Deputy Master of the Trinity House. MARQUESSES—Westmeath IscouNTs_Berehaven, si , din Sl Sligo. Templetown, Mor- At the general Le v e e were — DUKES—Wellington, Argyll, Richmond. EA RLS—Rosslyn, Leitrim, Ch ar l emon t . peth. LORDS—Ashley, Howard of Effingham, Selsey, North wich, Feversham. RIGHT HON.—Charles Grant. HON.—Captain John Campbell, KN., William H. White. SlRS—Wathen Waller, Robert Bolton, John Kingsmill, William Montagu, Andrew Agnew, William Burnett, C. Aldis, C. Cockerell, E. H. East. REV. MESSIEURS--Bartley Lee, F. Bowes. MESSIEURS—TaIbot, Osborne Yeats, Thomas George Wright, Pulman, Edward Walpole, Robert Burrowes, Corry, Horsley Palmer, Dewar, Cavendish, Spring Rice, Frederick Lewin, Thomas Lewin. ADMIRALS—GosseIin, Adam, Sir Harry Neale, Winthrop, Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Lambert, West. GENERALS—Lord Lynedoch, Sir Robert Bolton, Sir William Keppel, Balfour, Sir H. Warde, Horsford, Sir John Lambert, Gardiner, Sir William M`Bean, K.C.8., Sir W. H. Clinton, Sir C. Dalbiac, Sir J. Fuller. COLONELS—Higgins, Bowater, Hanmer, Sir A. Dal. rymple, Henry Gillman, Thackwell, Baron Tuyll, Woodford. MAJOR—Waller. CAPTAINS—WooImore, Joseph Digby, It.N., Frederick Paget, Thomas Williams, Phillott, R.N., Foerd Bowes, Boyd, Sir John Louis, R.N., Duncombe, C. Boyle, R.N. COMMANDER—Fitzgerald. LIEUTENANTS—Abington, R.N., Robert R. Williamson, Wilkins. ENSIGN—A. F. Welsford. The following presented addresses to his Majesty : Viscount Sidmouth, from the county of Devon, against the new plan of national education in Ireland. The Marquess of Sligo, from the free colonists of New South Wales, congratulating his Majesty on his accession to the Throne. The following were presented to his Majesty : Viscount Berehaven, on his return from Madrid, by the Earl of Listowel. Mr. Robert Burrowes, by Captain Woolmore. Mr. Thomas George Wright, Gentleman Pensioner, by Lord Foley. Mr. Osborne Yeats, Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Gloucester (1802) and of Middlesex (1831), by the Duke of Beaufort. Sir John Kingsmill, Colonel of his Majesty's Battle-ax Guards (Ireland), by the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley. Mr. Frederick Lewin, by Sir Edward Hyde East. Rev. Bartley Lee, Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Errol, by the Earl of Errol. Lieut.-Colonel Henry Gillman, on appointment to the 78th Regiment, by Major-General Sir Charles Dalbiac. Mr. Thomas Lewin, by Sir Edward Hyde East. Mr. Edward Walpole, by Mr. Spring Rice. Lieutenant Abington, R.N., by Sir James Graham. Commander Fitzgerald, on promotion, and return from foreign service, by Sir James Graham. Lieutenant Robert R. Williamson, 624 Regiment, on his return from India, by his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. _ _ Captain Foord Bowes, 95th Regiment, upon his return from Corfu, by his father, Rev. J. Foord Bowes. Lord Westmeath, on appointment, by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmeath. Ensign A. F. Welsford, 97th Regiment, on appointment, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Captain Thomas Williams, 70th Regiment Bengal Infantry, by Lieut.-General Sir H. Taylor. Sir J. Fuller, on removal to the 75th Regiment, by Lord Hill. Lieutenant Wilkins, on his appointment to the Rifle Brigade. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked for some time in Hyde-park yesterday. In the afternoon, their Royal Highnesses paid the Duchess of Gloucester a visit at G loucester-house. The King is not expeeted to hold a Levee next week. His Majesty left town for Windsor soon after the close of the Court. Mr. Justice James Parke, on passing sentence of death on Parker at the .Warwick Assizes, observed " that so far from the new Act preventing poaching, the crime had very considerably increased." In that case we shall soon have but little game to cavil about.—Sunday Times. Th e promise of Lord Mulgrave's new tale called " The Contract," has, we understand, caused more inquiries at the circulating libraries than has been known fqr a considerable time. The peculiar nature of the story has transpired in several quarters, and all are anxious to see the contrast afforded by the peasant countess transplanted from her humble sphere to the salons of the great in London, and the all-accomplished highly bred woman of fashion, both of whom are rivals in the love of the same man. The tale is understood to be a true one, and to be managed with that fineness of tact for which the writings of the noble author are celebrated, MISCELLANEOUS. Lady Peel presented her family with a daugh ter on Tuesday, at the mansion of the Right Hon. Baronet, in Privy Gardens. Sir Robert, by his marriage with her Lady. ship, a daughter of the late General Sir John Floyd, Bart. has an infant family of four or five children. The number's of the division on the third reading of the Tithes (Ireland) Bill were on Tuesday errone ously given in all the Papers. Instead of being ayes 52, noes 7, they were, ayes 52, noes 10. As the reporters, in mainte nance of ridiculous and unmeaning custom, are excluded on divisions, they are compelled to depend upon others for the numbers ; and as sometimes half a dozen Members may be asked immediately afterwards, before one can recollect the numbers, the wonder is, there are not more mistakes. The Earl of Dudley is said to be an accom plished Nobleman, and on the formation of the Administra tion of which Mr. Canning was the head on March, 1827, his Lordship accepted the office of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he, however, resigned in the following January, when the Earl of Aberdeen was appointed his successor. His Lordship's hereditary possessions are immense, and he lately completed the re-building of his magnificent residence in Park-lane, at an enormous exptnse. The Earl is now about 50 years of age, and unmarried ; he is the only issue of the marriage of the late Viscount Dudly and Ward, with a daughter of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. The late Lord died in 18123, but the Viscountess survives, and her Ladyship is the only near relative the Noble Earl possesses. His Lordship's ball, which took place a month ago, is said to have been given in honour of the debut of the Hon. Miss Lyttleton, daughter of Lord Lyttleton, and niece to Lord Althorp. It of appears ,seotland that only foot!, aretheto the measure ntativ f favourable sixteenrepresentative Reform. These are the Marquess of Queensberry, Viscount Falkland, Lord Belhaven, and Lord Napier. Of the 28 I r i sh representative Peers, only five voted in the majority — the Mar. reoe Peers quess of Westmeath, the Earls of Charlemont, O'Neill, Gos ford, and Lord Dunally. A meeting of the Bethnal-green Benevolent Association was held on Monday evening, in the new Church of St, John's, Bethnal-green, when a frightful account was given of the misery, distress, and disease which raged in that district. It was stated the Association received a few days ago from the general fund in the hands of the Metropolitan Relief Committee the sum of 2001. Several instances of individual privation were mentioned, amongst which was that of a poor woman delivered of a male child on Saturday night, and of two more male children early on Sunday morning. ARLINGTON.—Having, in his former novels, given an amusing exposition of most of the varieties of male character in high life, the author of " Granby" seems now re solved to exhibit a gallery of female sketches—the leading ladies of the reign of William IV. The reader will be especi ally amused by the portraits under the names of Lady Roch dale and her daughter, Lady Ulverston, Lady Crawford, Lady Balsover, Lady Berwick, Lady Evesham, Mrs. Hartland, Miss Saville, &c. &c. im mense number of tragedians at present on the stage, because s it s nktswt u : hiae r eoi wtE e 'w sh s el a scieinicbslpcool It has been observed that there are an they murder all characters, whether in comedy or not, with which they are intrusted.—Morning Advertiser. QUEEN CHARLOTTE.—A third death re mains to be recorded in this year—that of queen Charlotte, at Kew Palace, on the 17th of November, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Opposite opinions would be satisfied, and, strange as it may appear, a just notion given of her character, by merely o and n o r t of George prudent. s unquestionable, and, being a virtue of the people, is not without . chastity Sh e w u i its merit in a queen ; but her decorum was suspected of being it sayinghu be h e e n '' s . a a i s d , formedc haste, t o decorous, bethe c hypocritical, and her prudence of being sordid. She accepted presents with a want of scruple which implied either personal meanness, or a return in the corrupt disposal of court honours. The precious stuffs of the East were found piled and moth-eaten in her wardrobe upon her death. Her personal property disposed of by her will was sworn under 140,0001., but it was dated only the day before she died, and there had been previously a family partition of her treasure, chiefly in favour of the Prince Regent in her will only as being already provided for, without the slightest token of remembrance, or expression of kindness. She mentions her eldest daughter, the Queen of Wirternburg, This marked distinction was ascribed to a letter of the Queen of Wirtemburg, in which she said that Napoleon, to whom, by the way, she was indebted for being a Queen, had really the ways of a gentleman. Queen Charlotte has still her duped or canting admirers; but the spirit of the nation and of the times is changed? and a Queen of England in the second quarter of the nineteenth century could hardly choose a more unhappy model. —Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library. THE DUKE OF YORK.—The Duke of York was not without personal good qualities, which scarcely de. served the name of private virtues, and were overclouded by his private vices. He was constant in his friendships ;—but who were his friends and associates ? Were they persons distin guished in the state, in literature, in science, in art, or even in his own profession of arms ? Were they not the companions and sharers of his dissipations and prodigalities ? He did not exact from his associates subserviency or form ; but it was no. torious that, from the meanness of his capacity, or the vulga rity of his tastes, he descended very low before he found him self at his own social level. His services to the army as Corn haigaucfn:pil obasgoav opportunetl Li n itrbamcchy e ln Ehees s tfc s irpoa;eos rg t rfTf o ci eanme dlf,ice a obodai ecperhrrNttetl the ewasth u ses:nee p o nbd;neoa—lwnae n ntfhtoo-tti aoa t torhhnF h hect neie.d.e e s mander-in-Chief were beyond all measure over-rated. Easy afterwards ia u :nnofnd n ggmfehl n iweschis v recfattaE y a: deraatinidnnhin,:se enlightened tcal or James raea p atßapoihn e l pnitla r eiir h Ahnolot huiipcms p iaesrol s nisditad,e u ehfict : n ee drfnit s choe;hAtn—eloth,ri throne. Alike eytlpheh:or measures sbaht l Ae o cosyaeat u lsapii -- .nn.. 2 mechanical regularity of system, which Horse-Guards. But, it will be said, he had an uncompromis amounts to no more than that his bigotry was honest and un cession fortunate for the peace of the country and the stability sight, he would have risked the integrity of the United King monarchy rather than sanction Reform. It would be easy to constitution of his mind and of that of James Duke of York, to choose between their liberties and his deposition from the throne.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library. SIR ISLAC NEWTON.—Every memorial of so great a man as Sir Isaac Newton has been preserved and cherished with pe culiar veneration. The be s t pa i nt i ng of him was by Sir Go. frey Kneller, and is in the possession of Lord Egremont, at Petworth. His house at Woolsthorpe, of which we have given an engraving, has been religiously p rotected by Mr. Tumor, of Stoke Rocheford, the proprietor. Dr. Stukely, who visited it in Sir Isaac's lifetime on the 13th of October, 1721, gives the following description of it in his letter to Dr. Mead, written in 1727 'Tis built of stone, as is the way of the country here abouts, and a reasonable good one. They led me up stairs and showed me Sir Isaac's study, where I suppose he studied when in the country in his younger days, or perhaps when he visited his mother from the university. I observed the shelves were of his own making, being pieces of deal boxes, which probably he sent his books and clothes down in on those occasions. There were some years ago two or three hundred books in it of his father-in-law, Mr. Smith, which Sir Isaac gave to Dr. Newton, of our town." The house is now occupied by a person of the name of John Wollerton : it still contains the two dials made by Newton, but the stiles of both are wanting. The celebrated apple-tree, the fall of one of the apples of which is said to have turned the attention of Newton to the subject of gravity, was destroyed by wind about four years ago ; but Mr. Tumor has preserved it in the form of a chair. The chambers which Sir Isaac inhabited at Cambridge are known by tradition : they are the apartments next to the great gate of Trinity College, and it is believed that they then communicated by a staircase with the Observatory in the Great Tower,—an observatory which was furnished with the contributions of Newton, Cotes, and others. His telescope is preserved in the library of the Royal Society of London, and his globe, his universal ring -dial, quadrant, compass, and a reflecting telescope said to have be longed to him, in the library of Trinity College. There is also in the same collection a long and curled lock of his silver white hair. The door of his bookcase is in the Museum of thr Royal Society of Edinburgh.—Family Library. HOGG AND WORDSWORTH.—I dined with Wordsworth, and called on him several times afterwards, and certainly never met with any thing but the most genuine kind ness ; therefore people have wondered why I should have in. dulged in caricaturing his style in the Poetic Mirror. I have often regretted that myself; but it was merely a piece of ill_ nature at an affront which I conceived had been put on me. It was the triumphal arch scene. This anecdote has been told and told again, but never truly; and was likewise brought for. ward in the Nodes Ambrosiame as a joke; but it was no joke, and the plain simple truth of the matter was thus :—lt chanced one night when I was there, that there was a splendid arch across the zenith, from one horizon to the other, of something like the aurora borealis, but much brighter. It was a scene that is well remembered, for it struck the country with admiration, as such a phenomenon had never before been witnessed in such perfection ; and, as far as I could learn, it had been more bril liant over the mountains and pure waters of Westmoreland than any where else. Welt, when word came into the room of the splendid meteor, wean went out to view it; and, on the beau tiful platform of Mount Ryedale, we were all walking in twos and threes, arm.in-arm, talking about the phenomenon, and admiring it. Now, be it remembered, that Words worth, Professor Wilson, Lloyd, de Quincey, and myself, were present, besides several other literary gentlemen, whose names lam not certain that I remember aright. Miss Wordsworth's arm was in mine, and she was expressing some fears that the splendid stranger might prove ominous, when I, by ill luck, blundered out the following remark, thinking that I was saying a good thing—" Hout, me'm ! it is neither mair nor less than joost a traeumphal airch raised in honour of the meeting of the poets." " That's not amiss. Eh ! Eh ! that's very good," said . ....... _ ..... _______ the Professor, laughing. But Wordsworth, who had De Quincey's arm, gave a grunt and turned on his heel, and leading the little opium chewer aside, he addressed him in these dis. dainful and venomous words—" Poets! Poets ! What does the fellow mean ? Where arc they ?" Who could forgive this ? For my part, I never can, and never will! I admire Wordsworth ; (as who does not, whatever they may pretend ?) but f or that short sentence I have a lingering ill-will at him w hi ch I cannot get rid of. It is surely presumption in any man t o c i rcumscribe all human excellence within the narrow siihere of his own caps . city. The " Where are they ?" was too bad. I h ave a l ways hear come Wordsworth hopes u that De Quincey was lecing, for I did not myself utter the wards,—liogg's Alto* Tales. CURIOUS CONVERSATION BETWEEN Sir ISAAC NEWTON and Mr. CONDUIT. Thc following paper, with the above title pre fixed to it, was found among the Portsmouth MSS. in the hand-writing of Mr. Conduit. ". I was on Sunday night, the 7th of March, 1724.5, at Kensington with Sir Isaac Newton, in his lodgings, just after he was come out of a fit of the the gout, which he had had in both his feet, for the first time, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was better after it, and his head clearer, and memory stronger, than I had known them for some time. He then repeated to me, by way of discourse, very distinctly, though rather in answer to my queries than in continued narra tion, what he had often hinted to me before, viz. that it was his conjecture (he would affirm no thing) that there was a sort of revolution in the heavenly bodies ; that the vapours and light emitted by the sun, which had their sediment as water and other matter, had gathered themselves by degrees into a body, and attracted more mat ter from the planets, and at last made a secon dary planet (viz, one of those that go round another planet), and then, by gathering to them, and attracting more matter, became a primary planet ; and then, by increasing still, became a comet, which, after certain revolutions, by com ing nearer and nearer to the sun, had all its volatile parts condensed, and became a matter fit to recruit and replenish the sun (which must waste by the constant heat and light it emitted), as a faggot would this fire if put into it (we were sitting by a wood fire), and that that would probably be the effect of the comet of 1680, sooner or later, for, by the observations made upon it, it appeared, before it came near the sun, with a tail only two or three degrees long ; but by the heat it contracted in going so near the sun, it seemed to have a tail of thirty or forty degrees when it went from it ; that he could not say when this comet would drop into the sun ; it might perhaps have five or six revolu tions more first, but whenever it did, it would so much increase the heat of the sun, that this earth would be burnt, and no animals on it could live. That he took the three phenomena seen by Hipparchus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler's dis ciples to have been of this kind, for he could not otherwise account for an extraordinary light, as those were, appearing all at once among the fixed stars (all which he took to be suns en lightening other planets as our sun does ours), as big as Mercury or Venus seems to us, and gradually diminishing for sixteen months, and then sinking into nothing. He seemed to doubt whether there were not intelligent beings, superior to us, who superintended these revolutions of the heavenly bodies by the direction of the Supreme Being. He appeared also to be very clearly of opinion that the inhabitants of this world were of a short date, and alleged as one reason for that opinion, that all arts, as letters, ships, printing, the needle, &c. were discovered within the memory of history, which could not have hap pened if the world had been eternal ; and that there were visible marks of ruin upon it which could not be effected by a flood only. When I asked him how this earth could have been re peopled if ever it had undergone the same fate it was threatened with hereafter by the comet of 1680, he answered, that required the power of a Creator. He said he took all the planets to be composed of the same matter with this earth, viz., earth, water, stones, &c., but variously con cocted. I asked him why he would not publish his conjectures as cony-tures, and instanced that Kepler had communicated his ; and though he had not gone near so far as Kepler, yet m answer ' not been deal in in of con jectures.'the But upon my talkin g t o hi m a b out the four observations Kepler's guesses were so just and happy, that h .., h gr i . 1,„,„.. :.__ - a -,~1 tio e t r i s was,h hadl d o mm. I-1 is se w comet of 1680, at 574 years' distance, ask ing him the and particular times, he opened his Principia, which laid on the table, me there th e p ar ti cu l ar periods, and show e d viz., Ist, the Julium Sidus, in the time of Justinian 1106, in 1680. , in " And I observing that he said there of that comet, incidet in corpus solis,' and in the next paragraph adds, fix refici pos sunt,' told him I thought he owned there what we had been talking about, viz., that the comet would drop into the sun, and that fixed stars were recruited and replenished by comets when they dropt into them ; and, consequently, that the sun would be recruited too; and asked him why he would not own as freely what he thought of the sun as well as what he thought of the fixed stars. He said, that concerned us more ;' and, laughing, added, that he had said enough for people to know his meaning." Family Library, No. XXIV., Dr. Brewster's Life of Newton. Sir Walter Scott, accompanied by Sir Wm. Gel], as his Ciceroni, is expected at Rome in the course of next month. There were no less than thirty beer-shops opened at Margate within thiee months from passing the Beer Act The number, however, has been decreasing some time; there are not more than twelve out of the thirty open now Kentish Gazette. The heavy guns which were removed from the Martello Tower, at St. Osyth, some years ago, are about to be remounted all along the coast. This seems as though active measures were about to be taken to prevent the increase of smuggling. SPLENDID FLOWER. --There is at present in flower in Dunninald, near Montrose, that magnificent plant the Yucca Gloriosa, or Adam's Needle. This beautiful exotic, from its root to the top of the flower, is about 15 feet high, and presents about 0 30 blossoms of a rich delicate colour. The spectacle is, indeed, as grand as it is rare. A plant of the same kind flowered there last in 1816.—Scotch Paper. SUICIDE.—We are sorry to have to record a case of suicide, which occurred in this neighbourhood last week. A young man, a gardener, who lived at Pitcullo, and had been recently married, having fallen into a state of religious melan choly, hanged himself. What rendered the circumstance the more afflicting was, that the discovery was made by his wife, who found him suspended from a tree in his garden.—Kfc Herald. We understand that there was caught I n t he Bay of Nigg, on Friday last, in a net constructed for the pur pose, a seal of extraordinary dimensions, measuring no less than 7!a feet in length, and 4 n round the body. This animal has been known to frequent the Bay of Nigg, and the lower parts of the rivers Dec and Doti, for several years, and has been highl detrimental to the salmon fishings at these stations; as a proof of which we may merely Mention, that We greater part of 11/e different salmon were found ill his belly when brought ashore,' .dberdcen Journal, DEATH OF MR. CANNING.—This was a melancholy consummation. When he had unmanacled his genius from the jealous inferiority and bad principles of an oli garchy, to which a vicious system of government and his own toi led long, and at last reached the highest sphere of his hopes —but before he could yet enjoy his conquest, or give lustre to his elevation —his life and genius were extinguished. It is commonly said that Mr. Canning's days were shortened by the ceaseless malice and systematic vexations of his opponents within, and their slanderous scurrility without, the walls of Parliament. Where are the proofs or the presumptions ? If ' Mr. Canning had the susceptibilities, he had also the courage and force, of impassioned temperament. There is, doubtless, in the world much of moral anomaly and evil ; but it would be too much to suppose that this deadly hold was accorded to grovelling upon superior natures. His death spread disappoint ment and mourning, not only over his country, but over Eu. rope. England regretted in him the most accomplished orator whom the popular and better spirit of her constitution had yet produced —a minister who could wield the energies and sustain the greatness of a free people abroad, and create new resources of advanced civilization and refreshed industry at home. Liberal Europe mourned in him the British minister who would at least leave the fair chances of combat to liberty and reason against leagued despotism and hireling force,--Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library,