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EVENIN G DIT ON. • . • , 1/11-1. '4O l '•• e • _ - • . , . . --, =•••• . : 1 I • ' 1 44 „ 1 • %le • • 4-, • . • • - „ •,. _ - • ~ I - I •( 4••• •• •„, . 11 ;_ . , • 14, l \ J • „r' t"NI •0/. • .+• • \ 4 • ' a • • , . ,0/fiv, • . . ,Vl O e - 1 . ' C*4_ ~'~• 14; ITION. fished British blockade of that coast against slavers ,vingconvinced them of the determination of Great ritain effectually to put down their illegal slave trade. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, JAN. 1. IW. , Iti 0 TICE TO THE PUBLIC. -- Parties having occasion to transmit through the Post, ioolets which do not contain Letters, are requested not to gide articles which have hard or sharp edges, or which may 4 of a brittle nature, as in the first case the Seals of the Let. .Prs It the Mail-bags may be broken and the Letters mutilated, while, in the second, the articles themselves will probably be injut-ed in the operation of stamping. Bottles containing Liquid slicidld not he transmitted through the Pest7effiee,... they murbe broken by the friction of the Mail-eoaches, even if they should escape injury from the , Sta ntli, when the most serious consequences to the Mails may be experienced from the addresses, and in many instances, the w riting, of the Letters being thereby entirely effaced. By Conam:nd, W.' L. MABERLY, Secretary. -)COMMERCIAL BANK OF LONDON , 3, MOOR GATE-STREET, LOTHBURY. This BANK will be OPENED for Business on the 16th instant. The Directors in giving this Notice beg to state that it is their intention to carry out, the sound Banking Principles laid down in their Prospectus, thus affording to the Public the secu rity of the Joint Stock System, combined with the advantages of Private 13azikin.- The Terms of conducting their business, with all other infor mation, may be obtained at the Company's Banking House. ( Signed) 11. SPARKES, Manager. 10th January, 1840. NEW HOTEL, WOLVERHAMPTON, STAFFORD SHIRE. TO BE LET, and entered upon at Lady Day neat, this well known Family Hotel, Commercial Inn, and Posting-house. The above establishment and its advantages as a house of general business are too well known to the public to need comment. For particulars apply to Messrs. Price, Deakin, and Dent, Attorneys -at-Law, Wolverhampton. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. THE EUSTON HO TEL, EUSTON PLACE.—J. DETHIER and CO., agreeably to their farmer advertisements, have the honour to announce to the Nobility and Gentry travelling by the above Railway, that this HOTEL is NOW OPEN, and they have ne hesitation in asserting that the style and accommodation of the Establish relent will be found equal to any. The Coffee Room is attended by English and Foreign Waiters, and supplied with all publications essential to mercantile information. The Private Sitting and Sleeping Rooms are replete with every comfort that can be desired. Hot and Cold Baths are ready on the shortest notice. The Kitchen is supported by first-rate talent, and the cellars are supplied with a well-selected Stock of Wines, -Spirits, and Liqueurd. The Stabling Department comprises excellent Stalls and lock-up Coach 'Houses, and Carriages belonging to the Hotel are always in readiness. The Porters of the Hotel attend the arrival of the Trains. The Charges are Moderate, and include Gratuities to Servants. LONDON HOTEL, GLASGOW. CIBRIDGES begs to inform Commercial R • Gentlemen that the ENLARGEMENT of the alsovo Hotel is now completed, with every attention to do mestic comfort, and respectfully solicits a share of their pa tronage ; at the same time G. Bridges returns his best thanks to those Gentlemen who have already favoured him with their support, and will feel obliged by their recommendation. N.B. lilt, Cold, and Shower Baths. Glasgow, 29, Maxwell-street, Dec. 16, 1839. CROWN AND THISTLE INN, GROAT-MARKET, NE W CA STLE- UPON- TYNE. WILLIAM LAWSON (from hear Carlisle) having entered upon the whole of those commodious premises, very centrally situated, and which have long been frequented by Commercial Gentlemen, begs to inform his friends and the public that he has laid in a choice and well selected Stock of every Article essential to the comfortable ac commodation of those who may honour him with their patron age ; and also especially solicits the favours of Commercial Gen tlemen who have for many years supported this establishment. The Crown and Thistle Inn has been long one of the most celebrated houses in Newcastle, or even in the North of Erg land, and W. L. is resolved that no exertion on his part shall be spared to maintain its former reputation. N.B.—The stables have undergone a thorough repair, and this department being under the superintendence of Mr. Jus tice, whose knowledge of his professiwn is well known and ap preciated in Newcastle, will be found exceedingly convenient and extensive. Groat- ‘larket, Newcastle, Nov. 18, 1839. FOREIGN PACKETS. T HE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S Powerful and First-rate STEAM SHIPS are appointed to LEAVE from off the CUSTOM HOUSE or TOWER, for HAMBURG (carrying hei Majesty's Mails), every Wed nesday and Saturday Morning, early. ROTTERDAM (carrying her Maj-sty's Mails), every Wed nesday and Saturday Morning at Seven precisely. ANTWC RP BRUSSELS, and COLOGNE, every Thurs day :Morning at Ten. OSTEND and BRUSSELS, every Saturday Morning. HAVRE, Sunday, Jan. 19; and Thursday, Jan. 30, at Eight o'clock in the Morning. BOULOGNE, from London-Bridge Wharf, every Thursday and Saturday. CALAIS, from London-Bridge Wharf, every Thursday and Sunday. Further Particulars may be o'htained. and Berths secured, at . the Company's Offices, 37, Regent-circus ; 61, Char ing-cross , and 69, Lombard-street. PASSAGE TO AUSTRALIA. Persons why may contemplate proceeding to the above h Ahly prosperous Colony, are informed that a LINE of 11 GULAR PACKETS, with the best arrangements for the security and comfort ef Cabin, Intermediate, and Steerage Passengers, are despatched, with strict puoctuality, every nl b „ . ° 1 1 . 0 1, on fixed days, by Mr. JOHN MARSHALL, Aus r"in Emigration Agent, 26, Birchi n -l ane , C ern hill, Lon en, from LONDON and PLYMOUTH to PORT PHILLIP a nd SYDNEY. F . They are all Ships of unusually large Tonnage, and First Class: have Poops, are liberally fitted and supplied with rroristens of= - the very best quality, are commanded and officered' by men. of known , character and competency, carry thoroughly qualified and experienced Surgeons, and Persons engaging their Passage by them, can make their arrange ments with Absolute Certainty as to the Time of Embarka tion. They can join by Steam, at London or Plymouth, at very small cost. A FREE PASSAGE will be granted by these Ships, to suitable married Agricultural Servants and Mechanics ; and also to Single Females, when approved according te the regu lations. Single Male Agricultural Servants particularly Shepherds, and good Household Servants, from 18 t o 30 years of 'age, will be conveyed on pay men t o f si. each, if of approved character. Accounts recently received from the Colony represent the demand for labour there to be greater than ever, and all well conducted and properly qualified persons may reckon with per fect certainty on immediate and constant employment, and, in a few years, by steady perseverance, on materially improving their condition in life. 'rhe Days on which the above Ships will be despatched during the year 1840, will be as follow : . . From London. From Plymouth. Destination. February ... 16 February 24 Pout Phillip and Sydney. March ...... 15 March April i2 April ...... ... 20 Sydney direct. May ... June ... July August August September 27 October 5 Port Phillip and Sydney. October lB October 26 Sydney direct. November ... 29 December 7 Port Phillip and Sydney. December ... 30 January ll .Sydney direct. The Terms mad Conditions of Passage, and all other parti culars respecting these Ships, and th e C o l ony o f N ew s out h \Vales, may b e had on application (-post paid) to Mr. Al AR.- SHAL L, addressed as above. o. 1, JEWRY, CITY, AND No. 36, N OLD OLD BOND-S MEET, PICCADILLY. THE VOICE CONDUCTORS,. invented by Mr. E. SOLOMONS, Optician to the Royal Fa mily, are the most powerful instruments for the relief of deafness. From their minute construction and convenient form deaf perseos are ettalled to wear them entirely unseen, and they may be inserted and removed with the greatest facility. By their use the lowest whisper bre.dhed at a public assembly vibrates on the organs of hearing in such a pleasant manner as to air rd the greatest relief to those la beuri, ag under the distressing ailment of teafness. Testimonials °tithe " Patent Spectacles" of Mr. E Solomon,: The London, No 3, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. The Countess of Clifflird presents her compliments to Mr. E. Solo mons, and is much gratified in being able to say that his " Patent Spectacles," adapted to her sight nearly six years ago, have conti nued undiminished in the perfect ease And pleasure she was so de lighted to have experienced from their use immediately he so sk.l. fully applied them, enabling her to read or engage her sight for the most minute employment, and for any length of time, by day or can dle-light, without the slighted fat,gue. This is the more! re ark. able andgratulatory to the Countess's feelings, considering the total failure in the above respects, ;and consequent mortifying disappoint ments attending the various other spectacles she hitherto a tempted to weir ; indeed, it is with the gre.it,t leisure the Countess tes tifies to Mr. E. is tomons' perfectly successful treatment of her sight, and suhmits her awn peculi.tr case in confirmation of the strong and deserved recommenaations h s Speet icles have received, and t.l Mr. E. bolomons' high professional standing. coUN rEss CONSTA NTI A CLIFFORD, To Mr. E. Solomons; Op ician, 36, Old Bond street. From Sir Anthony Carlisle, F R.S. Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Spectacle Lenses seem to me likely to af ford additional aids to imperfect vision, and, because of their superior refracting power to glass or other dense materials, they promise to af. ford new resources for the construta ion of Spectacles. ANTHONY CARLISLE. F H.S., Langham-place, Prom Dr, J. Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to the lase King, &c. I have been using and am still using Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Suet ta• les s and tied them more pleasant to the Eye than any other glasses which I have tried. JAMES JOHNSON, M D,, 8, Suffolk-place. From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, &c. From the use I have made of a Patent,Lens, and comparing It with these in ordinary glasses, I haven. hesitation in saying, that to my sight, the former is infinitely preferable, in being less trying to the Eye. BRA SBY B. COOPER, 2, New-street, Spring•gardens. em J. G. Andrews, Esq., Senr. Surgeon to the London Hospital. I have much pleasure in bearing testimony to the value and im portanceof Mr. E Solomons' Patent Spectacles, which materially prevent a too strong glare of light, and will be found more beneficial to plain or coloured glasses in defective vision. J. G. ANDREWS, 4, St. Helen's-place. From W. Coulson, Esq. I have exam i ne d Mr. E. Solomons' Patent Lenses, and they appear to me, from their power of modifyi ng the glare of light, better calculated for persons with weak sight than Spectacles in cum. Mon use. WILLIAM COULSON, Frederick.place, Old Jewry. From Martin Ware. the eminent Oculist. I am much pleased with Mr. E. Solomon,' Patent Lenses, and a Gentleman who mode trial of them for several days, says that they relieve the eye much more than any glasses he has before used. MARTI WARE, New Bridge-street. Testimonials from the fol owing eminent practitioner s are also in Mr. E. oos ession: Sir BENJAMIN C. BROI)IE, Part., F.R.S., &c., Sit LA MES E. ANDERSON, NI. D., 11, New Burlington-street. C. ASTON KEY, Esq., St. Helen's-place. JGHN SCOTT, Esq., New Broad-street. Mr E. Solomons has no connection whatever with parties of the same name (in his neighbourhood or elsewhere, except his branch Establishments in Ireland), nor with any Travellers or Hawkers who have assumed his name Observe No. 1, Old Jewry, City, and No, 36, Old Bond.street, TO MILITARY AND NAVAL OFFICERS, SPORTSMEN, GENTLEMEN HU *•"1 ING, RIDING, WALKING, SUyi.Elt. ING FROM DISE A SE . RELAXATI O N , L O CAL DEBILITY, ice. WR AY'S IMPROVED SUSPENSORY B ANDAGES, of superior workmanship, and made of the best materials ;. approved of and recommended by the late Mr. Abernethy for their excellent adaptitton, as being sum•rior aitherto used ; and the extreme ease and comfort with which they are worn, togethervith the exceedingly low price at which they are charged, must ever ensure their general employment Best jean, is. fid. ; knitted or eve silk, 2s. +A. • ditto, with fro n t s , its. 641 ; India dimity, with re a l China net silk purses and elactic springs 7s. 61. each. May be had direct from the inventor, M. 0. Wray, lIS, Holborn hill, and 9, Agar-street, Stz:ind. Steel iSpring Trusses for rota properly adapted, single 7s. ed. and lOs. +;d., double 13s. and 2is each. • L ace d s tockings and han••ate,, f or var i cose ve i ns Ladies Umbilical Belts, B andastes,&c., for all surgical puree:me. -\- No. 14.772. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER II ALL. _ The New and Powerful ORGAN, built for the Society by Mr. Walker, Francis-street, Tottenham-court-road, being now completed, a SELECTION of SACRED MUSIC will be performed by Mr. THOMAS ADAMS on Tucusnay EVENING, January 23, 1840. Tickets 3s. each, 1h served Seats ss. each, may be had, after Wednesday next, of the Principal Music-sellers, and of Mr. Ries, 102, Strand. T. BREWER, Hon. Sec. PROFITABLE SPECULATION. THE MODEL of the BATTLE of WA TERLOO, Which has been visited by nearly 100,000 persons during the the last twelve months, at the admission price of One Shilling each, is now FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, The pursuits and professional duties of the proprietor not ad mitting of his bestowing the attention required for the exhibi tion thereof in the provincial towns of Great Britain, through out the Continent, and the United States of America, whence numerous pressing applications for its transmission and exhibi tion have been received, where it would undoubtedly meet with the same unparalleled success which has attended its exhibi tion in London. Particulars and terms to be known by applying to Mr. Thomat, at THE EGYPTIAN HALL PICCADILLY, where the Model continues to be exhibited as heretofore, from Ten in the Horning until Nine in the Evening.: T A ONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY COMPANY. NOTICE is hereby given, that the next HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY, will be held, pursuant to the Act of Incorporation, on THURS DAY, 30th January, IMO, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, at One o'clock precisely, when Five Members off' the present Direction, viz.—Donald Maclean, Esq , M. A. Goldsmid, Esq., Richard Heavyside, Esq., Thomas Sinclair Robinson, Esq., and Robert Sutton, jun., Esq., will go out of office ; and who, being duly qualified, offer themselves for Re- Election ; and at which meeting certain Shares upon which the Second and Third Calls have not been paid, and have been in consequence thereof declared forfeited, under minutes of the Board of Directors of the 6th December, 1838, and the 28th March, 1839, will be submitted for confirmation of such torfeiture. The Transfer Books of this Company will be closed on Thursday the 16th, and remain shut until the 31st day of January. Under provision of the Act, no person can vote at this meeting who shall not have paid all the Calls due. JOHN HARMAN, Chairman. THOS. WOOD, Secretary. London and Brighton Railway Office, 10, Angel-court, Throgmort on- street, :Id Jan., 1840. Section 151. "Provided always, and be it further enacted, that no person shall be entitled to vote as the proxy of any person or corporation as aforesaid, unless the instrument ap pointing such proxy shall have been transmitted to the secre tary or clerk of the said company, five days at least before the holding of the meeting at which such proxy is intended to be used." METROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY FOR MUTUAL ASSURANCE. This Society APPROPRIATES the WHOLE of the PRO FITS to the reduction of the Premiums of its Members, and this is UNDIMINISHED by AGENCY or COMMISSION, the business of the Society being conducted without incurring that expense. The effect of the principle of Mutual Assurance, so CARRIED Our, is shown by the abatement of FORTY per Cent. declared for the ensuingyear, upon the Premiums of Members of Five Years' standing, and which abatement has been computed on data justifying the expectation of the continuance of an equal rate of abatement, at least, throughout the remaining term of life. This abatement of FORTY per cent., the amount being laid out in a new Assurance, is equivalent to a bonus of one-third of the amount of the existing Policy. A Reduced Table of Rates for Assurances not claiming Profit. RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes-street, Bank, Jan. 1, 1840. FEMALE LIFE INSURANCE. THE peculiar feature of the EAGLE IN SURANCE COMPANY (established in 1807), is its distinct and advantageous rates for the INSURANCE on FEMALE LIFE. The attention of the Public is particu larly zequested to a comparison of the remarkable differences exhibited in the Terms for the Two Sexes. Prospectuses may be obtained from any of the Agents of the Company, or by application at the Office in London. Specimens of the Rates are subjoined, from which it will ap pear that the younger Male Lives, and all the Female Lives, may be Insured In the EAGLE OFFICE with great advantage. Annual Premiums required for the Assurance of 100/. t. be received •n the death of a MALE FEMALE. Seven I Whole Seven I Whole Years. Life. Years. Life. Age £. X. s. d. X. s. d. Age. X. s. d. X. s. d. 21 1 6 3 2 2 6 20 1 5 0 1 15 1 30 1 12 2 g 9 10 3' 1 s 9 2 3 2 4 1 17 4 3 4 4 40 1 13 g 215 0 50 I 212 3 4 12 4 50 I 1 17 3 315 0 61 I 4 7 11 618 2 OS I 3 7 0 514 7 Life Assurance may be effected for North and South America, for the East Indies, for any of the British Colonies or Garrisons, fin a continued or an especial Maritime Risk, far the Whole of Life, or for the duration of any Military, Civil, or Diplomatic Duty. Four-fifths of the Profits are divided among the - Assured, whether at home or abroad. HENRY P. SMITH, Actuary. Eagle Insurance Office, 3, The Crescent, Blackfriars, London PUBLICATIONS. THE CHILD'S OWN BOOK. In a large V.lirme, sc;;;;16mo., embellished with nearly 300 Engravings. Price 7s. 6d. bound in cloth. T" eHILD'S OWN BOOK. The Sixth Edition, revised and correct-.d. Containing, among numerous others, Aladdin ; Blue Beard ; Children in Vie Wood; Fortunatus; Little Jack ; Puss in Boots; Jack and the Bean Stalk ; Three Wishes ; Tom Thumb ; Red Riding Hood ; Robin Hood ; White Cat ; Yellow Dwarf ; Whitting ton and his Cat, &c. &c. London : Primed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside ; and may ;,e procured, by order, of all other Booltselers. SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS' MILLION OF FACTS. This uay is published,oprice Twelve Shillings, bound, a Stereo typed and entirely New Edition of the n iL ae L tu l app N resen O t OF FACTS, A d C al er l e exhibiting Knowledge, Theoretical the and Practical, and serving as a Work of universal ' and certain Reference, on all Subjects of probable Inquiry and Curiosity. The Work consists of Eleven Hundred Columns, of extremely closely printed Matter, and is unequalled in its variety and quantity. Published by Darton and Clark, Holborn-hill, London, and to be had of all Booksellers NEW TRANSLATION of the BIBLE. " Mr. D. O'Connell denominates the mast tolerant man in Europe, the amiable King of Prussia, a • cruel and faithless bigot,' because he wilt not suffer a turbulent Romish Bishop to make war with impunity on the funds. mental laws of his dominions."—The Times, Saturday. Nov. 2. 1839. " Fifthly,the Reformation in England was brought about by the instrumentality of some of the most wicked men the world ever saw ; Henry Vlll.—the adulterer, perjurer, murderer !"—Page 7, Address to the English People " But of the countries we have above mentioned as being peculiarly Protestant, it is remarkable that Protestantism was introduced into England by Henry VIII, and into Denmark by Christern II , two of the greatest monsters that ever disgraced not only the Throne, but human na ture."—Page 42, Mr. O'Connell's First Letter to the Wesleyan Societies in Manchester. " The Rev. Mr. M‘Donnyll, of St. Peter's, Birming ham, rose, and was received 'ith hearty cheers. lie said, When George the IVth, that worthy successor of Henry the &c. "—A_ Full Report of the Proceedings of the Great Meeting of the Catholics ( l'ap:sts) of London, " Messieurs de Beausobre and L'lnfant, Ministers of the French Church at Berlin, represented to the late King of Prussia, that the French translations of the Bible began to be neither so intelligible nor agreeable to be read as they were at first, and that therefore to be edified by them required that they should be revised, or a new translation made. On which that Prince pitched on them for this purpose, and by his Royal Decree appointed them to make a new translation."--:). 372. A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy Bible and Testament, into English, both in MS. and in Print, and of the most remarkable editions of them since the invention of printing, by John Lewis, A. 11., Chaplain t. the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Alalton, and Minister of Margate, in Kent, 1739. " We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' published by Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii, v. 22, is a gross mistransla tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo logians as any in the whole took, and long commentaries have been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821. University Education." " The great resorts and seats of learning often outlive in this way the intentions of founders, as the world outgrows them. Our Universities are, in a great measure, become cisterns to hold, not conduits, to disperse, knowledge. The age has the start of them, that is, other sources of knowledge have been opened since their formation, to which the world have had access, and have drank plentifully at these living fountains, from which they are debarred by the tenor of their Charter, and as a matter of dignity and privilege. All ihat has been invented or thought in the last two hundred years they take no cognizance of, or as little as possible, they are above it, they stand upon the ancient land-marks, and will not budge, whatever was not known when they were endowed, they are still in profound and lofty ignorance of."—ffazlitt's Table Talk: also, the Examiner, Jan. 20, 1823. " Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a life, but revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we blight that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, some times a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaving of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and faith essence, the breath of rea son i tself, slays an immor tality rather than a life. Areopagitica, Milton. National Education.— The ms li si , ti t o p of N orw i ch said the race of clergy which was n.?w hadway had the most favourable opportunity of instituting schools in their parishes, LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1840. and of educating the people in the principles of the Church of , England. If this had been done thirty years ago, and educa tion extended to teaching the children obedience to and re spect for the law, and the frugal husbanding of their means, it would have been impossible to have raised infuriated bands of malcontents like the Chartists of the present day, and Englund would have a very different aspect. He did not cast a general condemnation on the clergy of that period, for many of them had fully done their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an opportunity had passed—an opportunity that would take the greatest labour and energy of those anxious to impose on the rising generation to reclaim." The Sun, No. 14,657, August the Bth, 1839. " We cannot on this occasion lay down our pen without en deavouring to impress on the religious and . Protestant part of the community, the unspeakable importance of speedily taking measures to purify and purge the Church." " If there be truth or consistency in man, sincere Protes tants must turn against those who have given such prodigious advantages to the Popish superstition." — The Morning Sun, Tuesday, September, 10, 1839. " I may therefore conclude, that upon this revision— Bellamy's—of the Hebrew Scriptures, great stress ought to be laid, as anticipating a closer approximation in sentiment among all denominations of Christians now at variance with each other, upon certain disputed points of doctrine—under this impression, I think all must subscribe to its importance."— Chester Chronicle, Feb. 20, 1824. " The Catholic authorized version was first published at Douay in the year 1609. It was the result of forty ears' toil and labour, and can fairly stand a comparison with any other version of the Sacred Scriptures, published in any country, either Popish or Protestant." To the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Wesleyan Me thodist Societies in Manchester, Mr. O'Connell's Letter. To COKRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818. " Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; or shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind, with as much of its original purity as it is po.Aible for human sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."—. The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837. The Guide, March 18th, and 25th, 1838. The Sun, December 27, 1838, Feb. 5, 1839. " Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245. each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as Regent. The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the European versions." Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy. Part 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, c. 1. to I Samuel, c. 13. v. 5. Part sth in 1831, containing from 1 Samuel, c. 13 v. 6. to 2d Kings, c. 17. v. 11. Part 6th in 1834, containing from 2d Kings, c. 17. v. 12 to Job, r. 18. v. 21. Part 7th in 1835, containing from Job, c. 18. v. 22. to Psalms, c. 50. The Anti-Deist, in answer to the publication called the Deist, containing also a refutation of the erroneous opinions held forth in the Age of Reason, and in a recent publication, entitled Researches on Ancient Kingdoms, 1819, price 4s. First and Second Replies to the Quarterly Review, showing the gross errors the Reviewer has made in his Remarks on the New Translation of the Bible. " I now proceed to examine the passage which the Reviewer has adduced to prove how grossly I have erred in translating the word gnaaroumin, prudent, instead of naked ; which is in Job, c. 22. v. 6. And stripped the naked of their clothing. This is, perhaps, one of the passages which he deems elegant,' ' simple,' and 'dignified.' It is ' simple' enough, surely ; and such simple passages abounding in the common version have in all ages excited the wonder of intelligent men. ' Stripped the naked of their clothing !' In the name of common sense, if they were naked, how could they be stripped ?"—Extracts. See Classical Journal, No. 38. A Refutation of the Erroneous Opinions, promulgated by a Right Rev. Bishop of London.—See Classical Journal, No. I, for March, 1810. A Reply to the Right Rev. Bishop of St. David's. See Classical Journal, No. 26, for June, 1816. The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33 but 521 years, price Is. Biblical Criticisms in each quarterly part, in the years, 1810, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, of the Classical Journals, by JOHN BELLAMY. SPEcIMENS OF EMENDATIONS. Authorized Version and Douay Bible, Deuteronomy, c. 28, v. 68, " Anti there ye shall be sold to your enemies, und no man shall buy you." Hebrew New Translation, Part the 3d, 1821—" And ye will prize yourselves there to thy enemies for servants and maidens, but none will purchase." Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part 2d, p. 26, 1819. Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Judges, chap. 15th, v. 4—" And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails." Hebrew, Part the 4th, 18'25, New Translation—" So Sam son went, and he took three hundred sheaves, also he took brands, and he turned end to end, and he put one brand between two of the ends." Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 48, 1819. Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22 ; v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah, ' &e, Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1825, New Translation—" Now Sau' abode by Gibeali, milder she Grove toward Ramah," &e. Note.—See Classical Journal, No. 5, for April, 1811. Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King's, chap. 17, v. 4, "And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." Hebrew New Translation, Part the sth, 1831,—" Thus it shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded the Arabians to supply thee there " V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c. Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. 5, " Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me." Hebrew, Part, 7th, 1834, New Translation.—" If I were shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me." Note.—Behold, I was shaper' in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. This verse, as it stands in the common version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy now as at the beginning: it is pronounced to be superlatively good, Gen; i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore follows, that if man were shapen in iniquity, and conceived in sin, the Divine insti tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him. Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not attempt theology.—The Sun, No. 14,672. " Swift seems to have entertained some gloomy forebodings of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree, the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex claimed, I shall he like that tree, I shall die at top." Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo nition of this paper, in our matter of "sling at top," must still wear his feathers " in his cap of vanity." " In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the English Nation, 1750—" religion seems to be periodical, like an ague, which returns only once in seven days, and then at tacks the inhabitants with the cold fit only, which physicians reckon the most fatal; the burning never succeeds in this country." " Even on their days of worship in their Churches, there is ten thousand times more inattention to their duty, than to the price of stocks in Change alley all the rest of the Week ; and the fervour of their devo tion, to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in Parliament, purchasing a good bar gain on the Exchange, or trying to obtain a good place at Court ; they are as cool and inanimated in their acts of devo tion, as they are warm and active in those of getting riches, and their temples and exchanges are accordingly constructed within for those different dispositions, every family having in their churches a snug pew, a kind of closet, where they can sit and sleep, or employ themselves in anything but their duty to the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez vous there are no seats, they would be useless there, the zeal Of gain keeping them standing to their duty." With this accurate delineation of the " Corporation of the City of London," where " the fervour of their devotion for a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in Parliament ;" and this being the municipal body which gives tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we may expect on behalf of a matter " of the utmost importance to the interest of trankind," and " a life beyond life." It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the calm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley." It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be " of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life." This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi t aperations against them, when one whose purport was and is " of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus tice from the press &England. It is pleasing to us to observe a conspicuous personage in our triple state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly policy which . he has pursued during several Sessions of Parlia ment. We now find this once trumpeted statesman, everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman."— Sunday Times. When malignancy, the; characteristic of olden time—for Shakespeare wrote " 1 I ens' evil manners live in brass ; their virtues we write in wr,ter"—is so rife amongst us, we consider it our bounden duty to break a lance with the assailants of the memory of the Pr'ince and Patron of the Work, " of the ut most importance to the interest of mankind," and a life be yond life"—who Distort. the truth—accumulate the lie, And pile the pyramid of calumny !" —English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.—Byron. Digest of the proceeding, publishing, and publicity of the Work :—The Classical Journal, from 1810 to 1818-1818 the appearance of the First Part. The Sun, Nos. 8,181-8,192. Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review. Reply to, and Rejoinder front the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819, First and Seeond Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part —lB2O, Cri tical Examination of the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A.M., Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a. New Translation of the Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the I?everend Mr. Todd's Vin dication of our Authorized Translation and Translators of the Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.—Mr. Bella my's Reply to S. Lee, A.M., Professor of Arabic in the Uni versity of Cambridge. Third Part.-1822. Compilations in the ExaMiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.-1823. Nos, 785, 786, 793. 801, 803.-1824. Nos. 834, 840, 845. In 1825. Fourth Part. The Times, Saturday, Ocj. 16.-1825. The Durham ! Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa turday Advertiser, July 23 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Satur day, August 13, 1825. In 18`27.—Nos. 1,021, 1,022. The Examiner, Vol.- 111., No. 34 and No. 69. Galway Indepen dent, 1829, Nos. 1,0.49, 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In 1831, Part sth ;in 1834, Part 6th ;in 1835, Part the 7th. In 1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,06 9 , and 14,080. In 1838— The Guide, Nos. 48,49. The Sun, No. 14,447. In 1939 Nos. 14,465, 14,468, 14,475, 14,482, 14,606. 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ROBINSON will SELL'bv AIIC `I'I9N, at the above Rooms, on MuNnAv ' the 13th inst., and Three following Evenings, and resumed MONDAY, the 20th inst., a Large Assortment of UNREDEEMED PLEDGES, Pledged with the following Pawnbrokers from Jan. 18117 to Jan. IS.IO _ Mr. T. Ediss, J. Stapleford, A. Yoill, Kemp and C7otton, Mrs. 11. Fowls, late A. Moses, Jos. Moses and T. Howell, of Portsea ; Mrs. H. Stockman and Miss liagshill, of Portsmouth ; Miss Webber, of Gosport, and Messrs. S. and J, Emanuel, Southampton. Portsmouth, 10th Jan., 1839. REPRESENTATION OF BIR- MINGHAM. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) BIFMINGHANI, THURSDAY. The addresses of Mr. Sturge and Mr. Muntz, the two Reform Candidates for the suffrages of the electors of Birmingham, are now before the public. They are both sufficiently explicit, and equally satisfactory to Reformers as regards the political opinions of these gentlemen, but the circumstance of Mr. Sturge having come forward at a time when Mr. Muntz himself refused to stand, and when no other Liberal candidate offered himself, must give him a strong claim to the support of his fellow-townsmen. As a sincere and sound-thinking Reformer, and as a man whose whole life, and no small portion of his income, have been liberally devoted to the vindication and support of the great principles of justice and rational retorm, Mr. Sturge is pre-eminently entitled to the confidence and the gratitude of his fellow -townsmen, and the country's at large. In the present contest, an unnatural one, I re gret to say, Mr. Sturge takes no active part whatever. He was absent from Birmingham when nominated by his friends, who acted on the opinions which Mr. Sturge was know n to entertain, namely, that under a representative system every man was bound, when called upon by his fel low-citizens, to take his doe share in its administration, unless prevented by paramount obligations; and that he who refused to do so had no right to claim the protection of Government. Mr. Muntz's plea for coming forward at a time time when the field was occupied by one who en joyed, with very few exceptions, the confidence of the Reformers of the borough at large, betrays a singular want of consistency. His friends, he says, were of opinion that Mr. Sturge would not be able to keep out a Tory ; and, therefore, in order to keep out a Tory he determines upon the notable expedient of dividing the Radical interest of the borough I That it is divided, and that it will continue to be divided so long as Mr. Muntz continues in the field there is scarcely a doubt, as Mr. Sturge's friends are determined to persevere in their efforts to secure his election. What the result may be it is not very difficult to forsee when it is known that the Conservative party are united to a man, and ready to come forward in favour of a Tory candidhto when the proper time arrives. Mr. Muntz and his friends will thus, in all probability, have the unenviable credit of throwing the representation of the Radical borough of Birmingham into the hands of the Tory party. A Mr. Allen, a bar rister, who has some practice at our Local Courts and Quarter sessions, has taken great pains to convince some of the electors that he is a very fit person to represent them in the present divided state of the constituency ; he appears by the address he delivers occasionally at some taverns in the town, to be half Conservative half Whig, and something of a Chartist; his net is manufactured with great skill to catch all sorts of " fish, flesh, and good red herring ;" but he is likely to be just as successful as was Darby, the Irish marksman, whose shot "in the lough" brought down just nothing at all. The Conservatives arc keeping this gentleman in pay as a useful foil at the pre sent moment to cover their ulterior designs, and he is vain enough to imagine that they will give him their support. They will bring forward a candidate better known and better understood than Mr. Robert Allen, of whom nine tenths of the electors make the very flattering inquiry, "who or what is he?" As regards the respective amount of support which the two bona fide candidates in the field may receive from the Reformers, it would be premature, eoido a tnp t af oprtsuohtgocsehfihoteeni theotl considered p perceive,r!t t e oro s re e s en declineat election. tchh toa moment, tfmhodert rot. i c Thisch thati to o: fibvo before first efoaot ttrtWhatever t offero between b a opinion, e n w on thed wondered r e twod as a nt t il many whent h e ,mieter be e n e t t ot h ho e el : history tree:ut lhte o fittro true es r representation . two Reformers have entered the field in to be hoped that the electors will have discrimination character and object of those who have been the first to create discord amongst a constituency who should never have been disunited, and lay the odium of this discredit able proceeding upon the shoulders of the guilty party. EGYPT. We have received, by the way of Marseilles, several letters from Alexandria, of late dates. They contain long accouets of the reception of Colonel Hodges, as British Consul. The new Consul had interviews with tha Vice roy on the 15th and 16th, but the grand audience did not take place until the 18th, when he presented his creden tials. On that he proceeded from the Consulate to the Palace, accompanied by Colonel Campbell, the late Con sul, and all the English in Alexandria. The Viceroy seemed much pleased with the compli mentary. address of colonel Hodges, especially when he said his Highness was celebrated all over Europe, not only for his warlike achievements but on account of his great talents for administration. The Russian Consul watched all the proceedings very anxiously. The presents given to Colonel Hodges by the Pacha, are :-1. A horse, value 15 purses, a sabre, 10 purses, and a pelisse worth 15 purses The baznadar, or treasurer, presented the pelisse and the sabre. The horse, which was superbly caparisoned in the Turkish style, was wetting for him at the palace gate when he took leave. The English and French fleets were, by the last ac counts at Ourlac and Smyrna. Admiral Stopford, who applied to be allowed to winter, had received orders to re main with his twelve ships in the Levant. A vessel loaded with valuable gums has been wrecked in the channel of Malimudie, by which a mercantile house will sustain a loss of 50,000 talaris. The Government had just made a sale of saltpetre to the amount of 32,000 talaris, most of which was to be shipped for Greece. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 21. —The Envoy Extraordinary from the Sultan ( Kiamil Pacha) departed yesterday at nine o'clock, in company with Habib Effendi, for Cairo, where a divan will be assembled ad hoc, composed of ulemas and grandees, for the solemn reading of the hatti scheriff of the 2d of November. After it is registered in the Mehkemi, authentic copies will be despatched to Alexandria, and the other towns dependent on Egypt. It is worthy of remark that when, on the 18th, Kiamil Pacha presented to the Viceroy the above.enentioned hatti sheriff, they both stood, Kiamil bowed, and placed the hatti scheriff on his head. The Viceroy did the same. After wards they sat down to smoke and drink coffee. When the overflow of the Nile is abundant, as it has been this year, experience proves that no rain falls in Egypt. Accordingly, we have here the finest weather imaginable, and the thermometer marks only 15 degrees. A company of French players are performing here. sod in very good style. They have been here about a month, and they have already collected subscriptions amounting to upwards olthree talaris. It is reported that Admiral Stopford has resigned his command, and will shortly proceed to England. FATAL ACCIDENT IN SAINT JAMES'S PARK. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the COLA and Horses, Flood-street, Dean-yard, before Mr. Gell, the Coroner for Westminster, and a respectable Jury, touching the death of Christopher Braithwaite, a fine boy aged eleven years and nine months, who was drowned, together with three other boys, on Thursday last, in the orna mental water in the enclosure of St. James's Park, in con sequence of the ice on which they were sliding breaking. G. Bishop, No. 17, of the Royal Humane Society's men, deposed, that on Thursday afternoon, about four o'clock, he was on duty at the Palace end of the park , and having head a cry of " boat," from the south-east end, he imme diately ran down by the side of the water till he reached the spot, when he saw the deueased struggling, and sur rounded by the broken ice, and in his endeavour to re scue him, the ice gave way, and he fell into the water him. self. He, however, catuht hold of the deceased, and ore of the Society's men having thrown him the life line, they were pulled to the shore. The deceased did not appear to be quite dead, and he heard that he was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital. Witness was informed that the deceased, together with three other boys, had been sliding on the spot, when two of them fell into the water in con sequence of the ice breaking, and the deceased and another boy took off their jackets and endeavoured to save their companions, but unfortunately they went too close to the hole, the ice gave way, and they fell in also. The ice boat was then brought from the Palace end on a man's back, the ice being too weak to bear it, and he dragged for toe bodie , , which he soon found, and they were con veyed to St. Mutiti's parish, but quite dead. He was all this time in his wet clothes. By the Jury—He bad frequently cautioned these very same boys not to go on the ice, but they would not mind him. The Society's men were much interrupted by the crowd of persons who flocked around the spot, and it would have been much better if a greater number of police bad been in attendance, for they might have kept, to a certain extent, boys off the ice. After some further evidence, Mr. Tucker (one of the jury) said that every exertion ought to be used to keep persons off the ice when in such a dangerous state. Mr. Williams (Superintendent of the Humane Society) said that would be impossible unless the place was barri caded in all round, for as soon as the men turned their backs people would venture on again. Verdict, Accidental death; and the Jury recommended that the Commissioners of Polic e would allow an efficient number of their men to attend du rin g the p resent we ather , in the Parks, in order to help the men of the Royal H u . mane Society. It is rumo ----.— ured in the musical circles that a wealthy individual has offered advantageous terms to rent the Italian Opera Hous e for three years, an d t h at he has applied to Mr. Bunn, the ex•le.ssee of D rury -l ane, to undertake the office of manager of the theatre. A N TI•CO R N•LA PETITION.—we understand that up to Tuesday night the number of signatures to Glasgow A rgu s. this petition amounted to 22,000.-- PRICE sd. :MONEY MIRK.ET and CITY NEWS. (FRIDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—It has been remarked among the brokers of most extensive business at the Stock Exchange, that they have had scarcely any orers for the purchase of stock; arising frcm the payment of the dividends, but that there have been, on the contrary. more numerous orders than usual to sell for private holders. 'lie Foreign Exchanges hare not fulloxml the course which was anticipated. 111 Is on Amsterdam were in great demand to-day, and the supply not being large there was a depression i❑ the rate on that place. With respect to Paris the ease was similar, though not quite so strongly marked. On Hamburg the business was limited, and the rate about the same as last post. with, however, rather an indication of advance. _ By accoents received from the River Gambia, dated November 3d, it appears that the French have commit ted the most violent and uojustitiable attacks on British trade in that quarter. To make the case more gene rally intelligible, it is as well to describe the position and extent of the French and British possessions in the western part of Africa. The Senegal, which was re stored by England by the treaty of Paris, 1814, with reservation of a right of trading for gum at Portendic, is the principal French possession. The Hand of Gorce, situated about 100 miles to the south of the Senegal, and restored by the same treaty. also belongs to France, and these comprise the whole of her posses sions on the west coast of Africa, and are conse quently the only two places with which she has an exclusive right of trading. The River Gambia is the only British possession in the same quar ter, which was secured to the English by the treaty of 1783, and retained by the treaty of Paris. The taking possession of Albredar, on the north bank of the Gambia, in 1810, by the French, seems to have been the first successful invasion of British rights in that quarter. The facts of the late aggression (which are corroborated by affidavit) are as follow :—There is at St. Louis, on the Senegal, a French chartered com pany, trading with a settlement called Gallam, which is about 1,000 miles up the river. The charter of this Com pany having expired about three years ago, was renewed by the French Government, on condition that the Com pany should form new settlements at the Cazamanza, a river which joins the Gambia on the south. On this river the French Government agreed to build forts, and afford necessary protection. The Portuguese have occupied the Cazamanza from the earliest days of African discovery, without attempting to exclude others from a free trade, and the English have been in the constant habit of navigating its waters to carry on commerce with the natives. In pursuance of the agree ment between the Company and the French Govern ment, a naval and military force proceeded to the Ca zamanza, selected for settlements such places as would he best adapted to draw the trade from the Gambia, and erected forts. The merchants of the Gambia, feeling their trade in peril, addressed the British Governor on the subject, who promised to represent the matter at home. Whether any notice was taken of the affair is not known, but the French carried on their proceedings for two years without impediment, and not a single Bri tish Government vessel has been sent to the Cazamanza to watch what the French were doing, or to protect Bri tish property. In the course of last August, while two Eng lish vessels:were at anchor off the town of Sedjeu, and the supercargo was carrying on trade with the natives, two boats full of French soldiers came alongside one of the.n, and took forcible possession of her, upon whi3h she was left by the supercargo and crew in the hands of the French. The fact is, that although the sovereignty of Cazamanza is admitted by Europe to belong to the Por tuguese, the French, having increased their e,tablish ment to four factories, claim an exclusive right to trade with the natives, and this aggression has been a manifestation of their claim. On application being made to the governor of Senegal, be replied to the Go vernor of Gambia, that the French had undoubted rights in Sedjeu, including that of removing all foreign ships that persisted in trading there, and coolly re commended time English Governor to order ships pro ceeding from St. Mary's to Cazamanza to abstain from going to Sedjeu till" our respective Governments have decided the question." POST.—An attempt was made to bolster up tl.e Spanish Market, but it proved abortive. The cuckoo note of " "or" 1" was heard all day, but the late exposures in the Paris Journals seem to have given the coup de grace to the miserable bubble. None but the veriest idiots, a class of persons whom it would be shame and an indelible blot on toe character of jobbers to saddle with a piece of worthless paper in exchange f o r money, or any longer to be imposed upon with a de scription of " security" which is scarcely to be compared to bank-notes with the word "forged " stamped upon them. The Deferred Bonds left off at ; and the Ac- tives, as they are called, but which would appear to be also " deferred" ad Kaleadas Grcecas, at 25. M. Paradis, the chairman of the Committee at Paris, is ever attentive to the interests of the cheated and insulted bondholders and, were his exertions only seconded in a proper man ner by a London Committee, the villanics of the Madrid Government would be presently put a stop to. M. Paradis and his Committee are doing their duty, while, with us, all is apathy and neglect. On the authorisa tion of the loan and conversion of 1834, by the Stock Exchange Committee, Mr. Weeding and the old Com mittee of Bondholders, acting from the year 1823 to that period, threw up the office and retired, dis e.usted at their toleration of the treatment of the English claimants on his Government by Count Toreno, and thus washed their hands of the busi ness. The home debt was saved from confiscation, and respectable persons could not, without compro mising themselves, do otherwise. It was impossible men of character could in any way countenance so palpable and barefaced an injustice, and it is now seen how correct these gentlemen were in their views. Mr. Thornton became chairman of the Committee upon the resignation of Mr. Weeding, and we believe that if the bondholders would only rally round him, and give him the requisite assistance, their affairs would not long be in the hopeless state they are in at present. The Spanish Government are not only induced to withhold payment of the dividends on their old obligations, but it is plain that they are attempting in every possible way to incur new one;, owing to the culpable forbur ance of their English creditors. Let them not only come forward and support Mr. Thornton in his en deavours to serve them, but, further, let such of them as can afford it enter into subscriptions for defraying a portion of the expenses of the FrencheCommittee. who are in the meanwhile doing so much for the promotion of the common cause. CHRONICLE.—We have on several occasions lately, and yesterday more explicitly, given the reasons why we did not look for a change at present in the po licy of the Bank ; and, in support of that view of the matter, reasons are easily adduced ; but it becomes a very different matter to discover good grounds for say ing that the position of the Bank of England is now so materially improved as to justify those who manage her affairs in adopting such a course of financial conduct as would necessarily lead to a general advance in prices, and stop the foreign merchants from making purchases in our markets. We fully believe that the Directors are desirous to enter upon a more liberal principle of action, as regards the Money Market, se soon as they can do so with safety ; and no doubt the worthy Governor, Sir J. R. Reid, is anxious to get it accomplished before, the meeting of Parliament, otherwise it may be said by Mr. Hume, that his " summer cloud" has cast its shade upon commerce longer than is exactly consistent with the usually short-lived existence of such evanescent appear ances ; but if we reflect on the state of the country generally—consider that in parts of the counties of Northumberland and Durham the harvest of last year was so unfavourable that some of the crop is still ex posed in the fields, and that, in the estimation of good judges, the appearances for next cr o p are vi ewed as very discouraging, we shall find good cause for believ ing that the proceedings of the Bank Parlour must be characterised by great caution until tne spring season sets in, to enable them to see their way more c l ear l y. The parties who still speak confidently th a t th e Di rectors will relax the pressure in a week or t wo , must have private grounds for their opinion, other w i se th e weight of reason points all the other way, with no coun tervailinginfluerpe, unless the circu ms t ance t h at certain c ountry banks, in Manchester an d Liverpool, have set a bold example. The prudence of such a course is ex tremely questionable, but of th a t t h e part i es i nterested ist ab l n i sglmeln countryts are t joinhej t.o u s d t ge ck s. baTnkhes proceed ingshave not n th le o f s etheestablishments English in general been marked with much caution or success ; and, although we do not mean to impugn the acts of those to whom we have just alluded, it will at once be seen that thei r pos i t i on i s very different from that of the Bank of E ng l an d ; f or while they have no burden or responsibility in maintainime the value of the currency, and can pay in Bank of England notes, the Bank of England again must be prepared with bullion, not only for the home supply, but also to meet the drain which has been, and will soon most likely be again, severely felt by her in providing gold to pay for the spring im portations of foreign corn. We notice the arrival in the London Docks (21st December) of the 9ortuguese ship Prayer et Alegria, 500 tons, direct from Angola and Berguela, with valu able cargo of 3,089 sacks of Orchilla, and 115 ele phants' teeth. This, we believe, is the first direct ar rival in this country from a Portuguese African colony. We notice it with the greater satisfaction as an evidence that the Portuguese African colonists have now turned their attention to the products of that rich country for the purposes of legitimate trade; the recently este- Stl N.—Again we have to report the close of another day without h av i ng an y i n f orma ti on f rom the United States. The American merchants are most uneasy at the delay, especially those who are expecting remit tances to cover engagements now becoming due. In American produce there is little or nothing doing. The Foreign Exchanges were all flat this afternoen, at the following reduced rates—Paris, 25f. 57- e le. to 60e.; Hamburg, 18 80 to 51 ; Antwerp, 12 3 ; Am sterdam 12 8 ; and Frankfort, 150;x. The Markets for East India and China produce con tinue in a feverish state. The tea sales have not con cluded as was expected. Of 12,000 packages which have passed to day, 9,000 found buyers. Common Teas are Id. to lAA. per lb. cheaper. Fine sorts keep at the advance of yesterday. The total sales since Mon day, at public auction, have only been 23,500 packages. The West India Produce Markets left off firmly this afternoon at higher prices fdr Sugar and Coffee ; Mocha C.3lTee is up 4s. to ss. per cwt. ; Barbadoes Sugar Is. r t , ;(l. per cwt. ; an d J ama i ca l s. to I s. 6d. per cw t. Ihe Funds left off very steadily at 921 t for Ac count, at 924 for February, and at 10 11 prem. for Exchequer Bills. India Bonds were advanced to 1 prem., but India Stock has fallen to 0 491. In the Foreign Stock Market there was not more done this afternoon. Spanish left off at 0 5, Portu guese Five per Cents. at 36 ; the Three per Cents. at .241 ; Dutch Two-aae-a-Half per Cents. at 51i, and Mexican at 29a g. Shares were not quite so brisk a t th e c l ose o f busi ness as they were n the morning. The latest sales were in the London and Birmingham at 60 premilm ; in the Great Western at par ; in the Greenwich at discount ; in the North Midland at 8i discount in the New Ditto at 3 premium ; and in the Birming ham and Derby at 19 discount, and in the Bristol and Exeter at. 24 discount. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. We are again compelled, from an unusual press of matter, to restrict ourselves to a brief summary of the contents of the leading articles of the Morning Journals of this day. The Morning Herald, alluding to the question most likely to be first mooted, on the approach ing Session of Parliament, says :—" The people of England have a right to know how far the conditions of the Act of Settlement have been fulfilled or overlooked, by this union of their Sovereign with Prince Albert of Gotha. Before one shilling of English money is voted, the most searching questions should be satisfied, that the Prince is really and bona fide a Protestant. Nor should the grant be made any longer than he actually continues a Protestant." The Morning Poa observes, tn reference to the late Corn l a w m e etings :—" There is much of the ludicrous in the lamentations made by Ministerialists of the failure of their Anti-Corn-law meetings, in consequence of the troe.blesome interven tion :of the multitude, who look tsp on these meetings as nothing better than Whig trickery and delusive non sense. Trickery and delusion are the vital principles of Melbourne Whiggery in Great Britain." These aro words easily said, but meaning nothing. The Times, speaking of the Rural Police Act, calls it, " that very curious and indeed unparalleled statute, die most recent and certainly not the least remarkable, of the many monstrous measures of the Whigs." The Morning Chronicle contains a leading article on the subject of the Liverpool Anti-Corn-law meeting, in the course of which our Contemporary observes :--" No advocate of the Corn-laws can possibly suppose that production on a given surface has not its limits, add that, in an old country like Britain, with a population increasing at the rate of a thousand a day, these limits will not soon be attained. The natural cost of food must continually increase under such circumstances ; so that every year's continuance of the Corn•laws must render it more difficult to return to a system of free trade."—The Morning Advertiser thus alludes to the Penny Postage scheme :—" The country will not fail to remark how characteristic of Toryism has been the con duct of the Tories in relation to that bold and b•meficent experiment. They first refuse to grant the boon de manded, and then, reviled and to the latest moment, with untiring energy, both the good and its granters." WHIGS v. TORIES. (From the Morning Advertiser of yesterday.) We were yesterday in a condition to communicate intelligence which will cause the national pulse to throb with a joy amounting to ecatacy, while it will strike utter and eternal despair into the hearts of the Tories. We speak advisedly—hear it and rejoice, ye people of England—hear it and be filled with confusion and dis may, ye Tory faction—we speak advisedly when we say, that Sir Robert Peel has made an unequivocal avowal cf his determination not to take office, in the event of the overthrow of the Melbourne Ministry. lie has farther declared that there is not the slightest hope for a Tory Ministry, so long as the Queen re tains her attachment for a Liberal Administration— which attachment is likely to be co-existent with her life. Sir Robert admits that the dissolution of the pre sent Ministry is by no means an improbable occurrence, but he adds, that even in such an event the position of the Tories would not be one whit improved. The destruction of one Liberal Ministry.would. be. followed by the formation of another. Believing, therefore, that any attempt to construct a Conservative Administra tion, in the event of the present Government being broken up, would prove an utter failure, he, like a cool calculating man of the world, is resolved not to share in the discredit consequent on any such fruitless attempt. We shall be asked, perhaps, on what grounds, or on whose authority, we make the assertion, that Sir Ro bert Peel has made the declaration to which we have referred. It were not advisable, in all the circum stances of the case, either to specify the grounds, or to mention our authority. At present it must suffice our readers to be assured, that we have the most un questionable authority for our assertion ; and a few weeks will afford the •country " confirmation strong" of the accuracy of what we state. The conduct which the Tamworth Baronet will pursue, on the opening of Parliament, will conclusively show that he has no de signs on Dawning -street, because he knows that were it possible for him and his party to get there, it would only be for a week or two at the longest. By why should any one doubt for a moment the accuracy of the information, who takes the trouble to glance at the Tory journals ? There is not a day in which these prints do not contain a negative proof of the correctness of the assertion we have made. Who ever hears of a syllable now about Sir Robert, as the "proximate Prime Minister ?" Who has heard a whisper for the last four weeks respecting a Conservative advent to Downing-street? Two or three months ago the Tory journals contained nothing else. Why so suddenly and so entirely silent on the subject now ? For no other reason, than that they know that the chief of the faction to which they belong 'has intimated that there is no hope for the Tories so long as her Ma jesty lives, and that, consequently, he will never become a consenting party to the attempt to con struct a Conservative Government. Farewell. then, may the Tories well say, to all hopes of their re3tora tion to power. The Queen, so long as it shall please Providence to spare her life—and where is the man . who does not pray that her life may be long preserved —will present an insurmountable obstacle to the ac cession of the Conservatives to office. The prospect is a gloomy one for the enemies of popular ri g hts ; tis a glorious one for the friends of freedom. Everlasting blessings on the head of her Majesty will be the bene diction of the people of England. when they thus see that she stands between them and a Tory despotism. Alas, poor Tories! Madame d'Arblay, better known under her I inaiden name of Burney, has paid the debt to nature. What. a" wide interval separates the period, when we learn, from the pages of Boswell, " that clever jade, Miss Burney," made tea to Dr. Johnson, and fearlessly entered the lists with that formidable intellectual gladia tor! " Cecilia" and " Evelina" placed her in the very , first class of English novelists ; and, notwithstanding !. the rich accessions of late years to that branch of lite rature, and the changes which have taken place in fashions and manners, " Cecilia" and " Evelina" still maintain their place in the public regard. The late Mr H izlitt, in an article in the " Edinburgh Review" on th e British Novelists, drew a character of Miss Burney, io which justice was hardly done to her extraordinary me rits. Her dialogue is peculiarly intellectual. THE REPAIRS AT THE MANSION HOUSE. — The repairs at the Mansion House having, with the exception of those which the Committee ordered to be made in the Egyptian Hall, been completed, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress expect to take formal possession this day, and on Monday they will give the usual Plough Monday dinner to the gentlemen of the household. The Egyptian Hall repairs will be very considerable. Indeed the universal display of hospi tality and the crowding of last. year in that magnificent hall, render it necessary that the painter and carpenter should exert themselves to make it fit for the generous competition of the present Mayoralty. UNREHEARSED STAGE EFFECT.—III a drama recently represented on the theatre at Berlin the bead of a victim of the tyrant of the piece was to be pre sented to him in a dish, on a table, and covered with a napkin. All the preparations were most ingeniously m ade for this awful spectacle. The head was to be a real one, and the actor who was to perform the part of the decapitated person, had to thrust his head through an aperture in the back scene, and lay it in the dish, [ fainted so as to make a ghastly appearance. This was done, the tyrant had raised the napkin, and the audi ence were all becomingly horrified, when the dead man's head replied to the tirade which his murderer was in the act of delivering, by a violent fit of sneezing, which at once turned the scene into a ludicrous farce, and the house rung with laughter. Some wag who had admis sion behind tho scenes bad sprinkled the blood-stained dish with a quantity of snuff. CAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEW NAVAL STORY. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ritHE SPITFIRE. A NAUTICAL ROMANCE. By CAPT. FREDERICK CH AMIER, Author of " The Life of a Sailor," " Ben Brace," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Nearly ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo. THE SAUCY JACK AND THE INDIAMAN. By LIEUT. 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