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Surveyors in London, with the til,r.neYmen's,Prices. To which are added, a variety of Me liuVduals and Tables, useful in to every person concerned in Estimating. -or Valug ; also an Abstract of the W ,`"ng Act, with Plates, sliming the Thickness of Party &c, P • - By AN EMINENT SURVEYOR. tercel for J.. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 59, -401 Holborn. 'Where may be had, lately published, S N,'l. NICHOLSON'S' CARPENTER and JOINER'S AS tin TANT, illustrat or ! - w i t h 79 Plates, and copious Explana ns, the Fourth Edition, Corrected 11 Is..bound. ' 2. NIC HOLSON'S CARPEN TER ' S NEW GUIDE, acorn.Vete RookPla of Lines f ur C arpentry and Joinery, with 84 tes, the Serenth Edition, 11 Is. hound. 3. NICHOLSON'S STUDEN'I"A INSTRUCTOR in .DRAWING and WORKING the FIVE ORDERS, 1 0s. 6d. b ound. 41 Plates, 4. NICHOLSON on the CONSTRUCTION of STAIR CAISES and HAND-RAILS, 59 Plates, 18s. bound. FOR THE SUN. Mr. MALTHUS'S SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECO- NOM Y. [LETTER. V.] " As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind slzeps„ o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landskip, snow, or shower; If chance the radiant Sun with farewell sweet, Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley.rings."—Nlxvrox. MR. Enrrott—We have now, I think, shaken off the incubus which has so long affected our re spiration, and scared us with frightful dreams; we have put to flight Apollyon, who bestrode the path leading to the Celestial City ; we have cut off the head of giant Despair with his own sword (I was about to say, that we had dashed out his' brains with his own club ; but I recollected that he had not as much brain as would supply a luncheon for an earwig).—Without a figure, we have destroyed Mr. Malthus's inevitable Law of Nature ; or rather like a wounded' scorpion, it has inflicted death upon itself by the venom of its own sting. Mr. Malthus has borne me on his shoulders out of " a gulf profound as that Ser bonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Cusius old, where armies whole have sunk." We now respire £he buxom air, and feel that the very ces sation of pain is no mean pleasure.• Human Nature is itself again ; as it was in the days of Bacon, and Locke, and Addison, and Burke, and I may add, of Pitt and Perceval, neither of whom could get rid of the old fashion ed notion that the glory of a Prince is the num ber of his subjects, and that "marriage is honour able in all."—We now feel that, generally speaking, . . . " There is no evil under which the human species can labour, that man is not competent to cure. This is a source of un speakable consolation to us, in two ways :—first, we can bear with some cheerfulness the ill, which for ourselves or our pos terity we have the power to remedy : and secondly; this:power, inherent in our nature, is the basis of that elasticityand exultation which are most congenial to the mind of man. We are perplexed, but not in despair ; we are persecuted but not forsaken ; we are cast down but not destroyed. Man, in the most dejected con dition in which a human being can be placed, has still some thing within him which whispers him, I belong to a world that is worth living in.' Such was, and was admitted to be, the state of the human species, previously to the appearance of the Essay on Population."—(Goodwin, p. 615.) 'r h e goad gossips may now chuckle and smile at christenings, 'as they were wont to do—the mother may forget her pains for joy that a child is born into the world ; the old nurse may boast that the new-corner is the sixth of the same breed that she has dandled on her knee ; and the bluihing spinster may again wr:te, in letters of pins on the cushion of her married friend, a; courteous 46 welcome " to the expected " sweet, babe."—This, Sir, is something worth regaining; it has well rewarded me for many a painful re flection, and for a careful study of Mr. Malthus's three volumes on Population. Heaven be praised we have got quit of the cob-webs which teased, and irritated our eyes whenever we perused the prospectus of a benevolent institution, or busied ourselves in projecting schemes for the improve ment of society at large. I have said, Sir, that Mr. Malthus himself has borne me out of - the Slough of Despond. Shall I prove my assertion ? I will do it, not by re peating the passages which I have already quot ed, to satiety ; but by a fresh sentence, taken from the second volume of the Esay, p. 284. _ . " That the natural check (says he) to early marriages arising from a view of the difficulty (mark this—not from an actual ex perience of the difficulty, but from a view of it) attendii,g the support of a large family, operates very widely throughout all classes of society, in every civilized State, and may be expected to be still more effective, as the lower classes of people continue to improve in knowledge and prudence, cannot admit of the slightest doubt." If this wise sentence, the result of a long, close, and very extensive observation, has not slain that misbegotten imp called 44 geometrical ratio," I renounce all claim to the name of man, and will cheefully allow, nay entreat you, to write me down a❑ ass. Mr. Malthus having brought me this length, must, if be pleases, bear me company a little further ; after which I will beg leave to select another guide. The task I impose upon Mr. Malthus is simply this, to 'tell me under what circumstances the natural check which, he says, operates very widely throughout all classes of society in every civilised State, is most certainly obtained, and most effectually preserved. " The desire of bettering our condition, and the fear of making it worse, like the vis medicatrix naturm in physics, is the vis medicatrix reipublicre in politics."—Vol. 2, p. 343. " Paley states, most justly, that mankind will, in every country, breed up to a certain point of distress. If this be al lowed, that country will evidently be the happiest where the degree of distress at this point is the least : and consequently, if the diffusion of luxury, by producing the check sooner, tend to diminish this degree of distress, it is certainly desirable."— Vol. 3. p. 301. " It is the diffusion of luxury, therefore, among the mass of the people, and not an excess of it in a few, that seems to be most advantageous, both with, regard to national wealth and national happiness."—Vol. 3. p. . . _ " The hrijirovident barbarian, who thinks only of his present wants, or the miserable peasant, who from his political situa tion, feels little security of reaping what he has sown, will sel dom be deterred from gratifying his passions by the prospect of inconveniences which cannot be expected to press on him under three or four years."—Vol. 3. p. 41. °5 .Even poverty itself, which appears to be the great spur to industry, when it has once ,passed certain limits, almost ceases to operate. The indigence whielris hopeless, destroys all vigorous exertion, and confines the efibrts to what is sufficient for bare existence. It is the hope of bettering our condition, and the fear of want rather than Avant itself, that is the best stimulus to industry ; and its most constant and best directed efforts will almost invariably be found among a class' of people &nye the class of the wretchedly poor."—Vol. 3, p. 42. . These are heart cheering passages ; and the more so when contrasted with some which have gone before ; they are . like an orient pearl on the Ethiop's .ear ; they come, like the gentle Zephyr o'er a bed of violets, stealing and yield- , ing sweets. These, and a few more such conso latory and truly benign observations, almost made me a disciple of Malthus. They abundantly atone for a multitude of errors, though they have not served wholly to correct them. As far, at least, as my experience has gone, I have found a much greater propensity on the part of the pro fessed disciples of Malthus to urge, with some small abatement of its force, the law of nature, first brought to light by the Essay, in defea ' sauce of all liberal projects for - greatly improv ing the condition of mankind, than to entertain the hopes and expectations which their master • has expressed in favour of our race. I have yet one passage of the Essay in re serve, which, for manly, patriotic, and truly be nevolent feeling, has seldom been equalled, and cannot be surpassed. I rather think i intended .it -for another place ; but no matter, if needed, it will bear repeating : " One objection (says he) which, perhaps ' will be made to this plan (the phut of strengthening the check of moral restraint) • is that from which 'alone:. market ra i-ther" understocked litedly take place in a certain degree; butliy. no Means - in such a degree'as to affect the wealth and prospenty of the country. But putting this subject of a market understocked with labour in the most unfavourable point of view, if the _rich will not submit to a alight inconvenience, necessarily attendant on the attainment of what they profess to desire, they cannot reallk 'be -in earnest in their professions. Their benevolence to the poor must be either childish play or hypocrisy ; it must be either to amuse themselves, or to paCify the minds of the common peOple with . a•mere shew of attention to their wants. To wish to better the condition of the poor by enabling them to command a greater quantity of the necessaries and comforts of-life, and then to complain of high wages, is the act of a silly boy, who gives away his cake, and'then cries for it. A market overstocked with labour, and an ample remuneration to each labourer, are objects perfectly incompatible with each other. In the annals of the world they never existed together ; and to couple them, even in imagination, betrays a gross ignorance of the simplest principles of political economy"—Vol. 3, p. 115. This is nobly said, and we must not permit ourselves to doubt for an instant that the per son who uttered it is actuated by a serious and strenuous desire to improve the condition of the labouring classes. • We have now Sir, to deal with Mr. Malthus's [ su gg estions for the improvement of the state of society, precisely as we should have done if he had never said one syllable about Geometrical Ratio. On Mr. Malthus's own authority this personage is defunct. We have the' certificate of his death and burial. Ills end was violent, but not a tear was shed at his grave, over which, as he was never baptized, no burial service was read. Geometrical Ratio was the son of In evitable Law, who was the son of No who was the " brood of Folly, without father bred."—He cohabited with a demure Lady, a relative of his, whose name is Arithme- tical Ratio, but they were always quarrelling and fighting ; she says he would push her out of bed even in mid-winter, pretending that the bed clothes were too scanty, and that he had not space to . turn hini6elf ; and she rejoices at.the diSsolution of her connection with such an ill bred paramour.—Requiesco! in yucel Let us, however, in order. to *lke assurance doubly. sure, once more recite the. certificate above alluded to.—" in the present state of things we appear to have under our guidance a great power, capable of peopling a:deSart region in a small number of years ; and yet, under other circumstances, capable of being confined by hunzan energy and virtue to any limits, however narrow, at the expence of a small comparative quantity of evil."—Vol. 3. p. 81. We have, I readily and cheerfully grant, Power of Increase still among us ; but he is not the least akin to Geometrical Ratio who,. as we have 'seen, was the son of Incvitable.Law; a most head strong, intractable brute. Power of Increase is our own flesh and blood, a good christian, and can trace his descent from our common Father Adam, who was the Son of God. lle'is gentle, peaceable, easily in treated, easily restrained :and so plastic with all, that he is " capable of being confined by human energy and virtue to any• limits, however narrow, at the expence of a small comparative quantity of evil." Well -then, seeing that the business before us is simply to strengthen the hands of Moral Re straint, so as thathe may be enabled easily to keep power of increase within due and proper bounds, the main question now is to determine' what sort of diet and. regimen: best agrees with the constitution of our good friend, Moral Re straint.—" Give me, «says he," 'neither poverty, nor riches; feed ~me with food convenient for Me. Lest Ibe full and deny thee, and say who is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the. name of my God in Vain."—Again.---41e else where says—" Give me this day my daily bread. Lead me not into temptation ; but deliver me from evil." Leer neminenz cogit ad: ,tirpessiLitia.— The Law always pre-supposes the power of obe. dience.—Daily Bread, therefore, by which we are to understand food convenient for us s must be afforded to keep Moral Restraint in good case. The starving system, no more agrees with him than faring sumptuously every day. To drop the metaphor, we are intitled to look for moral restraint in wretched huts, and be tween bare walls; not in the dwellings of rude ignorance. The body mist be decently fed and clothed, and the mind and heart must be kept in the knowledge and the fear of God. Mr. Mal thus is well aware of this ; and, therefore, he wishes to diffuse luxury among the people.. Tie does not mean .effeminacy and voluptuousness; but the decencies, the conveniences; and the com forts of life. He wishes, as mankind are prone to breed up to a certain point of distress, to fix that point at the least degree.—Good. " it is the hope of bettering our condition, and the fear of want, rather than want itself, that is the best stino , bius to indus— try, and its most constant and best directed cflbrts will almost invariably be found among a class ‘ of peOple-above the class of the wretchedly poor." This observation well accords 'with a maxim of Burke, whose authority you abd 1 . hold in profound respect. " Great distress (says that great man) has never . hitherto taught, 4 - d, whilst the world lasts, it never will teach; wise lessons to any part of mankind. Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery, as by the extremes of prosperity. Des perate situations produce desperate councils and desperate mea sures."--Vol. 6, p. 12. From the fOregoing premises we. therefore come to this Conclusion,—that if we wish to strengthen and extend the influence of moral re straintz they must not be driven to distress, but must be raised, if possible, above wretched poverty. Mr. Malthus and 1 have travelled very amica bly together to this point; but here, as I sus pect, we are about to separate ; and as I do not wish to mix up any acrimony at parting, I shake him cordially by the hand, and shall also make any bow to you, remaining, as ever, Your's very truly, INDEX. Jan. 24, 1622. LITERARY NOTICE. nr. SNIIRKE'S ILIATSTRATIONS a£ SHARSFEAIiE, Three Numbers of this national and truly beautiful Work are before us; it is to consist of 37 Numbers, one to appear every tyo months. In a long work it is not unusual to detect ne gligence and inferiority after the first or second Number, but in this case it is only justice to declare that it improves in beauty as it proceeds. The Proprietors, refraining from the usual pro ruises and flatteries of a Prospectus, content themselves with re ferring the Public to these three Numbers, as a fair specimen of the care and ability with which the whole will regularly be produced. The name of the Artist from whose hand the Paintings for this Work are to proceed, may fully justify, and will doubt less not deceive, the most sanguine expectations. The Ge nius of Sinirke has successfully displayed its power in his Il lustrations of Gil Bias, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and the late splendid Edition of Don Quixote ; and the varied scenes of passion and humour, in the Plays of Shakspeare, will afford a still more ample scope for the extraordinary skill and beauty of his pencil. The spirit of poetry, which haunts every scene of .the Plays of Shakspeare, beckons to her sister art to wander with her, and thus " make society the sweeter welcome ;" and it will now, it is hoped, be seen that she does not call in vain. In the whole range of the drama, there are no works in which characters so striking and various, or situations so romantic and delightful, present themselves, to invite the illustration, and in spire the emulation, of pai 11 tiAg. The editions of our Post's plays have for the most part been published without •enibellisimients, or encumbered with en gravings so indifferent, as to make their possessors consider them " when unadorned, adorned the most." It is chiefly to supply such editions that the Proprietors of • the present Work have undertaken it. Each Play will furnish subjects foe five elegant Engravings, in addition to a Vignette ; the aggregate number, therefore, of the Plates will be Two Hun dred and Twenty-two. We shall now proceed to criticise the Numbers already pub lished : No. I.—TH E TE MPEST.—The Vignette represents Caliban, with a burden of wood, cursing with bitterness. The figure is replete , with character, and the engraving by Ns r.C. H eath, in his best manner. The first full subject is from the first act—Pros pero, Miranda asleep, and Ariel approaching. This design meets with less of our approbation. Prospero wants dignity; Miranda, in our opinion, is too short, and the approach of Ariel is not well conceived. The engraving is by .r.nglebeart. Act. 2, Caliban, Trinculo, andStephano. In this Air. Smirke has borrowed from himself:: it is nearly the counterpart of the same scene in Boydell's Shakespeare. It is a capital group, and 10eautifully engraved •by W. Fin-dem—Act 3, Miranda, Fer iiinand kneeling, and Prospero observing.- We confess that we do not think very highly of this subject, although the Engraver has done ample justice to it.—Act 4, Caliban, Stephano, and Trineulo, with 'Arid in the back ground, who has been mag ing g4tering apparel on a line. There is great humour and great beauty in this ; indeed Mr. Sinirke's forte appears to be humour. Trinculo, in his robes, is admirable, anti the mis chievous leer of Caliban, and the drunken swagger of Stephano equally good. The contrast of the lovely Ifetuate form (Ariel) in the back ground, or rather back-sky, affords a charming re lief. The engraving is by a clever young artist of the name of Porthury:—Act 5. The Denouement • engraved by Daven port. Here again Miranda appears to us too short ; the rest are well grouped, and the back ground spirited. On tie whole, however, these are very fine performances, and will enrich the page even of the Bard of Avon. No. 2.—TAMING OF THE SHILEW.—This number sur passes the first to fact honourable to the Work and to the Arts), for it shows that better than good faith is kept with the public, and that the excellence of the British school of engraving is not to be estimated entirely by the past, when ' every succeeding example is rich with improvement. The vignette is exquisite, both in design and in execution; we have hardly seen any thing more sweet and delicate. The first en graving is froiat the Induction, and represents Christopher .sly at the moment (we guess) in which he is saying to the ti'ago " much-.-Servants leave ins and her alone." The expression is arch, the grouping simple and natural, the varieties tell the story well, and the plate is well finished by W. Finden.—Act 2. The first encounter of Catherine and l'e.• truchio : tne attitudes are characteristic, the elle - raving caarm ing.—Act 3. This represents the mad husband with his sword drawn, bearing home ..his curst but astonished bride; the engraving is beautifully executed by Portbury. Act 4. The ludicrous acene between Carmel and his mistress; admira bly done: both figures are finely conceived, and Air. Litatii has done them everypossible justice on the copper. The last plate represents Catherine's palinode, with-the frientk; at table, -it it very charmingly engraved by Romney: and, to sum up alltheae points, are worthy of the text they are made to adorn. No. 3. —MERY .WIVES or WINDSOR. —Justice de mands that our praises of this number, to illustrate one•of the most delightfully comic effusions of the immortal Poet shouiti be equally loud and decided with . those we have bestowed upon its predecessors. An artist or a writer acquires more self-possession, more management of his subject, more ease and fluency, • as his task proceeds, and lie - knows from the past that he can command the future. From this cause, we fancy we can perceive en improvement on the present occasion. The humorous figures are more humorous, without being grotesque, and the females certainly more beautiful in. form, than in the former numbers. The vignette is free, brilliant, and characteristic.—Act 1. Anne Page inviting Slender in to dinner ; an unaffected picture; engraved by C. Heath:—Act 2, A finely executed representation of Ford's quitting Falstaff; under the disguise:of Master , Brook, in a state of jealous rage. He:wins to be exclairnieg—" What a damned Epicurean' ras cal is this !" It is from the excellent graver of Portbury.—Act 3. The bestowing of Falstaff in the buck basket; admirable for expression and character. The Satyr-looks of the fat Knight, and the arch beauty of his fair tormentors, are excellent. it is exquisitely engraved by C. Heath.—Act 4. Sir Hugh Evans catechising ; it is charmingly engraved by J. Mitchell, and the composition good, though Mrs. Quickly borders rather on the burlesque,in resembling an Ethiop more than an Euro pean. Mrs. Page, the contrast, is elegantly, anti the silly child very cleverly conceived. —Act 5. The flabgoblin scene in the Forest, engraved by C. Rolls, is both as a painter's fancy, and an engraver's work, one of the happiest illustrations of Shak speare we have ever seen ; and we have only to add, that as this work advances, we have every reason to believe that the most difficult task of aptly adding the adornments of Art to the • imagery of the bard of Avon will be satisfactorily accomplished. e anxiously expect a new number, for it is - delightful to see Shakspeare thus illustrated. Such illustrations may contidendy rely on finding favour with the world; fir if the remainder keep up to the same or nearly equal excellence, there can be no doubt of final success, and of high reputation, for they snust recommend themselves not only to the illustrators of Shak speare, but to the general amateur. BRIGHTON, JAN. 30. Yesterday being the Anniiersary of his MA. iESTY'S Accession to the Throne, was celebrated at Brighton with the usdal demonstrations . of joy. The bells of St. Nicholas, our tutelar and. venerable Saint, rung forth an inspiriting peal, And the battery guns as well as the Hound and Linnet, cutters, fired salutes. The opening of the new road, leading . frOm Middle-street to West-street, took place yesterday, and presented. a most gratifying sight. At one o'clock the Lin net and Bound critters fired royal salutes. The latter vessel was dressed out in the colours of all nations, and had a beautiful appearance. Be tween one and two o'clock his Majesty took his departure Irom the Palace, down East-street, and along the Cliff, and amidst the ringing of bells and sound Of cannon (the battery guns at this moment firing a salute,) the King, exactly at a quarter before two, in an open landau, accompa nied by his Royal Highness 'the Duke of.Tork t and Dukes of Devonshire and Wellington, enter ed the road at the bottom of Middle-street, and proceeded along the Cliff, up West-street, then down North-street, to the Palace. The day *as most delightful for the season of the year; and the gaiety and animated appearance of the im mense assemblage of all ranks, at again behold ing their beloved Patron, exceeded any thing 'we ever witnessed on any former occasion, proving how dear his presence is at all times to the inha bitants of this highly favoured town. We un derstand that his Majesty was rather indisposed in the morning, but the anxiety of the inhabitants to behold their Patron was so strongly expressed, as to induce his Majesty to brave indisposition, in order to gratify the inhabitants of a town on which he has already heaped immense benefits. We are sorry to say that his Majesty's appear ance indicated indisposition. We do not remern ber ever to have seen so great a concourse of persons brought together in Brighton. There were, we should think, .as many as 20,000 persons assem bled along the cliff and beach to witness the spectacle. ANNIVERSA RY DINNER AT THE 01.1) SHIP, IN HONOUR OF HIS MAJESTY'S ACCESSION TO THE THRONE. Yesterday, betweeA two and three hundred persons, comprising some of the most distinguish-. ed visitors, as well as the most respectable inha bitants of the town, celebrated, at the Old Ship, the Anniversary of his Majesty's Accession to the Throne. Walter Burrell, Esq. (M.P. for the County) was in the Chair, agreeably to an ar rangement made at the last Anniversary. The list of Stewards was also of the most respectable description. The scene was altogether of the most animating and gratifying kind. The dinner was, served up by the worthy landlord in his usual style of excellence, and the flavour of the wines which followed vied with the excellence of the viands. The doors were thrown open at six. o'clock precisely. There were three tables, with a cross table at the top of the room, at which the President was seated, supported on his right mid left by the Nobility present. Several persons applied for tickets about five o'clock, which Mr. Shuckard refused, in order that the company might not be incommoded. Among the company we noticed—Sir Edward Kerrison, Sir David Scott, Sir Robert Wihnot, Charbs Craven, Esq., Major Allen, Rev. Mr. Lovell, Dr. Styles, Dean of Hereford, Rev. Mr. Everard, Sir Richard Burroughs, Dr. Blair, Captain Mal cOrn,• General Mundy, Rev. Mr. Taylor, Vice Admiral Sir D. Gould, Captain Tweedle, Sir Henry Rycroft, Capt Dr. Pearson, Sir Matthew Tierney, Sir Charles Doyle, Sir John Paul, Walter Barratt, Esq.; Major Russell, Rear-Ad miral Roles, Col. Jordan, Major Gordon, T. R. Kemp, Esq., R. Ironmonger, Esq., M. Bourgoyne, Esq., R. Burnett, Esq., Dr. Rice, Major-General Burton, Mr. Michael Kelly, Rev. Hon. Mr. Trevor ' Sir John Doyle, Major Stapleton and Offi cers of the 10th, Viscount INlolesworth, Hon. S. E. Eardley, Rev. Dr. Holland, Lieut.-Col. Carpenter, Dr. Gibney, Sir J. Bristow, Mr. IA cod (the High Constable), &c. &c. During the'dinner, the band played the over tures to Figaro and Tancredi, &c. &c. After dinner, Non no6is Domine was sung. Several ap propriate and interesting speeches were then made by the Gentlemen present, and the follow ing 'toast's were dr&nk. A bugleman was placed behind the President, to sound the call for silence previous to the toasts : TOASTS. The King," four times four.—Tune, God save the Ring-- Song,_ God save the King, verse and chorus. . • • - " The Duke of York and the Army," three time three."— Tune, Duke of York's March—Glee, How merrily we live that. Soldiers be. Duke of Clarence and Navy," three times three.—Tune, Rule Britannia—Song, Rule Britannia, verse and chorus. . " Royal Family," three times three.—Glee, Loyal Mee. • " The Duke of Wellington."—Song by Mr. Kelly. " Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex."—Tune, Sus sex Quick March. - " Constitution, With the blessings of Peace, Unanimity, and good order."-•—Recitation by Mr. Smart. • " Members of the County."—Glee, Mr, Speaker. " The Ladies."—Glee, Health to all good LasSes. " The Magistrates for the County."—Song, Woodpecker, by Mr. Kelly. " The Town of Brighton, and prosperity to it."—Song. Auld Lang Syne, by Mr. Donaldson. " Manufactures, Agriculture, and Commerce."—Glee, Hail smiling- morn. " Tie Land we live in."—Tune, Britons, strike home. • " The Rose, Shamrock, and. Thistle:"—Appropriate Song. 'by Mr. Kelly. " The President."—Song, Fox Chase, by Mr. Webber. " British Valour and British Beauty."—Glee, .The Mighty Conqueror. " The Officers of the 10th . Royal Hussars."—Appropriate march. . " The Officers of the 2d Regiment of lnfantry."—Appro- Flate march. " The Visitors who have honoured the Inhabitants this day with their company."—Glce, Here in Cool Grot." " The Vice Prtsidents."—Glee, Glorious Apollo. " The other Presidents."—Glee, The Bells of St: Michael's. In the course of the evening an Address, writ ten for the occasion by himself, was spoken by Mr. B. U. Smart, and received with the warmest and most gratifying applause.