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London, England, 1858-02-18 00:00:00

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had with-
-. and children, in the face
of Lucknow by Wm-General
M▪ r Atha laio—Chertra ;I—would live is hilkey es long
ao the Mfg* nem
Mr. Law= objselei le the loWedatelead Har James
Oldrela's min. Hs woe the Nue del lie kedlliae. He
men the peeeiele
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Mr. liffu.Loron Br mil Os ode led no rime in the
oseaNdea el Oude ; k
had
only the mamas Is white
the Watery eperetioas had been conducted. It sees
wee tees diebaguiehed this another, it wee
oil only ter hie piste" la the field, bei iris his
hen* earlaet in ilsollelar in emu= the chief ocamead,
oder ad le deplete eaelke heave sinew of the lamer he
woe Judy tailnel et renew* la
ionises etlisielsow.
(impala lArnnez weld no ma la the woke wee NOVI
aleileguielotel foe chivalrous character, lofty didulseeledses
emd devotion to the publi, merrice.
Mr. Lswi o disclaimed any imputation on ftk Janes
Oweven's military cherseter.
The CH•IIIMAN Sidi 10 led done 1,01/0 : he had amend
fain if allowing lassmit is be made • tool of by Lerd Dell •
laimea. lay ma who bed the slightest acqualahmes with
has kaaw he VS/ lithely beepable of anything of the kind.
The preview question we thea put and negatived, only
twe heat bag held up to Meer of it, end the resolution
alfea..„._ „to.
S ai SA 11.111 A X thin most the third resolution —" That
the tholes el tide wart he glom to the other gallant officers
el bee Mir tuesiittrey, Navy, sad Marines ; and also of the
HonoursWit Company's mervioe ; for the in-
tepidity, the paths. endurance, and other high military
which hem wearied their discharge of those arduous
which they haven sowedully performed." He did
net IWk It called to s y murk.
Aare ease commits', the resolution was agreed to
lad the know one sandwl by the insertion of Captain
Pietism&

Ths Clll4lllll AN moved the next resolution —" That this
earl dad highly approve and acknowledge the high
eon" the devoted loyalty, and the brilliant services of the
narmsommieloned °films and men of her Majesty's military
sad bevel brass ; of the European troops in the service of the
Nee. Zest lade Company ; and of the great body of thorn
nodes corps throughout India who have remained faithful to
ear standards ; and that the rams be signified to them by
the cenunenders of the several corps, who are desired to
thank them for their gallant behaviour."
The resolution sea agreed to, as mui also the neat resolution
—" That this court do highly appreciate and cordially approve
toes self•devotioa, and exemplary conduct of the
prom who, though not holding military rank, have
nevertheless paribrused valuable military service in
dines of the various posts throughout the distnrbed dis-
tricts la In& at width they ware resident; end that the
Osones-Oenerel De requested to thank those persona for
disk staritail sal pembeie exertions."
Mr. CILAWSIIAT moved the addition of mother resolution,
ltfvfrKl4e thole at the court to the aeth poise of
Tile CNA:IMAX opposed the motes He did not wish to
detract tram the ealost services of them ma, but other
native Wars had been squally faithful, and they ought not
is asks a dielisodal. He begged to more the previous
geodes.
The geodes ems then pat, and ies a show of hands the
easiness deinred the previous vireos to be decided in the
re.
CLIFIZAT demand I a pad.
The embus wen—

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The CIAIIIIMAN that Slid that it was his ditty to 11111:10t1b011
that the wet wee farther made aperial for the porgies of
laylag before Ur prophesies • draft of a bill now before per-
limes' entitled WI kir enabling the Bast India Com-
pete, to rase nom" IN
W the United Kingdom for the service
at rase
no"
it."
111 r. SIM tam was great ignorance In this
emir, as to the re power of India. If the re-
ams were prvotrl, atenaged there would be no used to
have • ken in this country. It had been mated In the house
that the land tax jn India amounted to two-thirds or thres-
h:ewes of the redt. Such was not the fart ;it did not exceed
ewe-twentieth. In Seagal the land tai peaduad about
000/, whilst the manual vase of the lend was
100,0001. • in tire North Weet Provinces the revenue wee
4„00W. ex an annual value of 75.000,0001.
The hen. proprietor was proceeding to eats the facts on
whisk be based his auction, when it was moved that the
mat be am.*

iiiiiireiprietore set being present, the court adjourned.

81111lIZT ARCHTOLOGICAL SOCIETT.—Sir Henry
Rawllneen, thenewly-elected member for Reigate, hes m-
oped the Agee of Vicet-President of the Survey Aremologi-
cal Ileelety ; sod the 'Mop of Wincheeter has finally ar-
ena the amine, congress of the ' shall bc held
ve7riseedity, the 13th of July, at Farnham Pdero.
ROYAL OZOGRAPIIICAL SOCIETT.—At the !Ten-
hag merlin on Monday next, at Barlinfton-house,
itir Roderick Murchison to the chair, the following papers
ore to be read:-1. Explorations in the DIMS of the
HattrAn ;by C5l C. Graham, Esq. 2. Account of the
Arras Islands; Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., F.R.G.S. 3.
Extract of that unreal of the Schooner Eliza 800tt ; by
Captain J. Balkony ; communicated by Charles Enderby,
Esq. F.R.0.8.
IM
Nzw CAPITAL OF CANADA.—The intelligence
that Ottawa bad been selected by the Queen as the new
/spited of United Canada, was setui•officially promulgated
het Tuesday. It is generally admitted that the selection is
the haat that was r•.• 41., The. noeitiott of Otaaara. one
portion of which Is in Cpper and the other in Lower Canada,
renders that city the only compromise, geographically speak-
ing, that could have been made ; and when tidal. said, there
remains of those questions nothing but that local selfishness
which rendered it impossible for the Canadian parliament to
settle it. Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto would each have
pretend that it had been 'elected ; but even in these cities
there as • general disposition to admit that, after them,
Ottawa is the next best place. Moro than this could not be
tOttawa is approachable by railroad, and is, be•
eed on the finest river, alter the St. Lawrence, in
Canada. Between the river and the Georgian Bay there is
aitibelits for settlement 24,000,000 metes of land. There may
I mos
sot undoubtedly is, some waste; but making all due
for this, it in evident that Ottawa roust be the
entre of the future population of the country. The naviga-
tion between the Ottawa River and the Georg,ian Bay will
wee day be completed by means of the French River and
Lake Nipissing. When this is done, • large portion of the
heavy produce@ of the great west most end its way through
the Ottawa into the St. La. =co.—Toronto correspondent of
Oriserhan News.

A COILIPOZATION TAKEN IN EISCIITION.—Lord
Thurber used to my that a corporation had neither a body to
be kicked nor a soul to be lost , but it would seem that It
turnthe agreeable power of being taken in execution.
. does not operate against a municipal body, •
Lh. doe,. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon than mil*
have bleb seen in the Guildhall of this city. new the deer, •
CdernYipOreeeikreas intodivtreullorl middy_
plmiT—iremet thl
Nub& of the Temple, or the Rev. W. Conway on behalf of
our soldiers' wives—but turning a pair of sharp, wear-
goad round the room, on the Mayor's chair, on the plebiese
sof ether " fining," not reverently, but in • ooestenreil
spirit, and with the eold cyntoel examination of a pawn-
Weber who holds • different opinion from Ton in Ito lihswarth
of • aliirt or a fist-ir in. fa fact, this individual lePeallaild
the Sheriff of this county, and as soon es the we
ever took paeraaafoa fa the Queen's name of all the sod
casuals of the corporation of this city, under a distress Mar-
mot. This startling sweat owes its origin to the ei
of the Town Clerk, whose little bill amounts tolerdir.
19s. led., to which may now be added 9CI/. fur the expressed
the essentials, makieg altogether a total of sot far from
USSt., to be paid before the dire uressity of ettipptag the
Galittell and all that thereto is can be avowed.—Rorketer
OW Clatiain Journal of Wednesday, Feb. 17.

• Mr. NAPIER moved the second reeding of this WD, the
object of which was to codify a mass of confused legislatien
en the subject with which it dealt. The old law was most
ugust—k west on the aasumption that bends. house
Auld always be kept up as new houses. The question of
mein Wu wee most unfairly treated, and the families of
deareeld eiergynian had often to pay over end over again for
ablarßy bill which he Introduced some ter=
are into annual and
Ent •It wee found Nat the law, arOula thea
be
u
required to be repaired, sad in this came the neesseity
arose the between the old en:law
He had a of the koonventenore and
whisk the bet ad net meet. This ME for
't"Ec42 to bo
'met, be proposed to reed the bill a second time. all sot
gommeit It seta after Nester.
sir O. GREY had no objection to the second reading. It
was full of details which could not be commidired now, but
might be dealt with In committee.
The bill wu read a second time.

CHURCHES (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. NAPIER moved the second reading of this MA which
made provision far churchyards in conneske with now
churches, for which sites were even.
The bill was reed a wooed time.

CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL.
Sr 3. TRELAWNY moved the second reading of this
bill. It was not his fault that it was not in abler hands, but
as the chairman of the church, rate committee, It was thought
proper to leave it in his hands, and he had reluctantly consented
to take charge of it. The principle for which he was
contending had already been established by the abolition of
the vestry cesa and ministers' mosey. (Hear.) In the course
of last session • bill was introduced by the noble lord, and
the country expected that the measure would have been
carried into effect, but se yet nothing had been done; and
when • deputation waited on the noble lord the other day, he
turned them round his fingers In his usual happy way, and
they received no no re st all. (Laughter.) -Various plans
had been propounded at different tines as aubetitutes for church
rates--such as charging the amount upon the land tax, upon
church property, and upon pew rents; but he decided)rnat-
jected to the latter proposition, because the working a
had a right to the nos of the church. (Haar.) It would be
• good thing if some steps were taken with regard to that
point. Oa the continent, Ifs person elated to go to church
on a week day he found the doom open. (Hear, leer.) But
in this country the churches were cloeed on theirs days, with
very few exontiona. Sometimes double SWOON were given,
and then the children were kept sitting for two or three hours
listening to maxims which were systematically falsified in
privet* life. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) It would be
much better if the clergy had abort services on week days, and
spread the merriest over the entire week—(bear, bear)—
and instead of rendering the Sabbath • day of morn/sem
sad misery would encourage the opening of parks and museums
on Sundays. (Rear, hear.) It wee high time for the clergy
of the church of England to Initiate • better system than the
present. (Hear, hear.) He implored the country gentlemen
to give him their support on the present occasion. He ap-
pealed to the government to brush awn the cobwebs in this
as they had done in other eases, and trusted the house would
give its puppet t to the mason, the second reading of which
he sow begged to move. (Hear, hear.)
Get. THOMPSON, In seceadhig the motion, said he would
entreat hon. gentlemen to lay ride all feelings of preju-
dice, which had been engendered in dive of contest, and en-
deavour to put an end to the spreading sore, which could
do nothing but reduce the strength sad happiness of the
country. (Hear.)
The question having been put,
Lord R. CECIL said if the hon. gentleman who had pro
posed the second reading of the bill would extend half the
mien which he had shown in the cause to the sweeping
away of the system of pew-rents he would be a great be-
nedsetor to his country. (Hear, bear.) Without entrain/
church
len the merits of the doctrines of the of England,
lea would address himself simply to the question of church
rates. The law regarding church rates, as laid down by the
bun gentleman anointed to this, that every perish bad the
aimed= of granting or refusing a church rate.
'Met were the law where wee the grievance? (Hear,
hear.) The pieces which sent members to that house were
not obliged to oubecribe a farthing. They infused to sup-
port the fabric of the church. But why did they say that
those who wished to subscribe should not do so P (Hear,
hear.) It was said that it was hard on the minority to be
compelled to sabecribe against their will. But the question
wee, ought the minority to carry oat their opinions in de-
in= lithe majority P (Har, hear.) There were many
gorwho *rood to woel who might just well say
u wee el set lo be celled ari to co to as
the
f . The objection in the ens of churchntribute ratewadi, that
the majority might not to have the power of taxing the mi.
aptly. Di how did the case stand ? The returns which
Ira lets perste" to the house showed that independently
of is elves wires the church was supported by other means,
there were 7,337 wines in which the question of church
rates had when, of which 6,960 had adhered to the payment,
sad tidy 157 had resisted it. (Hear.) In other words, more
than 95 per net. bad paid, and not quite 6 per cent.
had refund. In Wales, out of 640 parishes, 457 had Pala,
and 83 had resisted. In the counties of Steen, Wilts,
Somerset, Devon Hertford, sad Cumberland, out of 1,633
1,501 had paid, and only 32 had resisted. (Hear
.) result of experience proved that in ell place's
when the church et England had held her away the
longest, she had been almost absolutely undisturbed. But
in some densely populated towns, which had
.rapid)y in-
creased, and where the means and energies of the
church had not been able to meet the require-
ments of the people, the rate had been ne-
fused. It had been said that the voluntary system would
meet an the necessities of the can. But in many instances
where it had been tried, it had broken down. And it had
not succeeded even in the matter of education. The church
had been established for ten centuries : the voluntary
machinery was out of gear, and she could not raise 350,0001.
• year at a sudden notice. Although the church powered
many advantages from her connexion with the state, she wu
labouring under some dimadvantages. The dissenting bodies
were at liberty to move from one place to another, but the
church was fettered by the parochial system. She did not
appoint her own clergy and her own bishops. He objected to
the bill because it sought to remedy a grievance which did
not in reality exist, that if it did, it was a grievance without
a cause, but principally because it was the first blow for
dividing the church from the state. (Hear, hear.) Under
these circumstances he moved u an amendment, that the
bill be read a second time that day six months.
Sir H. ELTON mid, although he was not prepared to
agree to all the details of the bill, he would candidly late
that if there were no other means of giving up church rates
than by doing so without compensation he would willingly
NOCTiiiOIP them. (If •-as, herr.) Ily ,lotus imrtlia.aunat wowla
extinguish • nuisance and confer a great boon on society.
(Hear, hear.) Church rates were the greatest obstacle in
the way of the church. A wealthy dissenter had told him
that he wished to see a division of church property, but he
should object to the abolition of church ratee, bemuse they
gave a handle to the dissenters to give the church a good
slating now and then. (Laughter.) He knew many disin-
ters who had contributed largely toward* the church, and
believed that they would readily co-operate in the rennte•
trance of the fabric. In the event of the abolition of church
I rates he thought some provision ought to be made by the
state towards the support of the fabric. The state ought
not to indulge in the luxury of being generous without
being just. (Hear, hear.) He thought some such plan
might be adopted as that which was carried into effect with
regard to the building and maintenance of schools, and that
one-third of the amount necessary might be contributed by
the estate if the other two-thirds were raised by the inhabi-
tants of the district. Ho looked upon the question as me in
which churchmen and dissenters might meet half-way, and
tented they would unite in bridging over the way kw • per-
fect reconciliation. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. E. BALL believed there was nothing which caused
so much dissatisfaction enmity, and bed feeling as the
duestion ut church rates, and be was heartily desirous of
oing all he could to deliver the country from the payment
of such an obnoxious impost.
Mr. DRUMMOND said that, in his opinion, this bill
WNW to destroy the church of England, and on that
grand be opposed It.
Sir G. Grey then eon but there being loud cries for
Lad Stanley, whores, at the rms time, Sir George gave
way, end
Lord STANLEY said he believed it was an acknowledged
lace, that win the hat few can the animosity which
timely noisiest between the great bodies slash.
erillessiste and the seteMbhed church had greatly
osbollol. (Neer. base.) UMW thaw Myrumstoscao the
pray of the sioliiiimd aura woo clearly a policy of eon •
bear.) Bet what did they do wherever
the ad.i party was sommrically week or where it
woo bowwombly iloposod P Tiro .they put a tax ow them ;
but whirr, Se seateskesist pat was sloes tied bad a
pier swiries they rides' free =hew He
wilesel le mg !fret twee • wee set
a antis" is sr merles the chumPtren thou, with
to the ladles et the dewy, he had often heart from=
whew= pills* eavareest with the esker that who

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Sir 0. GREY said he ventured to suggest that they
40....
ld recognise the abolition of church rates where, for a
time, thes bird been abolished by the will of the robs-
, that should sot deprive the vestries of other
More mem willig to tio so, sad when their
constituents were willing to pay the rate, from making a
nits. And farther, though at me time be was opposed
to It, yet, with a view to relieve the Individual-con-
sciences of those who differed from the established
church, and with • view to lessen the chances
of a contest, that persons should be /stilled to declare them-
selves, not memben of any other denomination, but not mem-
bers of the established church, end that thereupon they should
be exempt from the payment of the rate, coupling that with
• prohibition an their taking pert in the vestry in any eerie-
smatical affairs. He would further propose that, with a view
to supplement the funds, there should be a general power
gives to churchwardens to raise a certain proportion of the
fonds required by pew rents. C. Oh.") He knew there wen
great objections to that proposition, but he did not think that
when that course wee adopted with the consent of the ordi-
nary there could be any sound objection to It. lie farther
proposed that there should be power given, 17 a relaxation
of the Mortmain Act, to landlords in parishes to charge
their estates to a limited amount es • substitute for church
rates. Those were the terms of the compromise which, in
1866, he submitted to the house ;'and his hon. friend (Sir W.
Clay), who then had charge of the bill, expressed hie sada-
factioa with them. His' hon. friend the member for Surrey
objected to the course he took at that time, and said that those
intendment' would ahem. the character of the bill, and he
thought the better course would be to bring in a new bill.
Not having received the same serorancs from his hon. friend
who had charge of this bill that he had before, he wee in-
clined now to object to the second reading of this bill, and if
the bill was rejected be should then be prepared to lay before
the house a bill having the objects he had stated.

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Mr. A. B. HOPE (who spoke amid loud cries of " Divide")
observed that no two speakers had viewed the question in the
same aspect. He had heard strong arguments in favour of
church rates from those who supported the bill, and equally
strong arguments against church rates from those who
supported the amendment. He should have supported the
bill which the right hon. gentleman proposed but for the ob-
jectionable principle respecting the abolition of church rate.
in towns where they had been refused, which were utterly
irreconcileable with those principles of Christianity that
made the church the church of the poor man. He believed if
the question were not periodically agitated it would =beide.
Mr. GARNETT said be had been • churchwarden, and
could speak to the unpleasant duty cast upon churchwardens
of having to sei as the goods of dissenters for church rates.
He believed that the abolition of this twopenny-halfpenny
rate would establish the church of England on a foundation
on which she bad not stood for a hundred years. He me-
dially supported the motion,
The CHANCELLOR of the 11XCHEQUER sold the
compromise offeerietdenlir George Grey re sot one of the
re ordinary natuoff • certain re— of the extremes
with • view to parties, but if it should be acceded
to would bring about a mecum! solution of the question.
His right hon. friend had explained to the house that there
were two classes of pariahs.. In one class ohurch rates had
not been levied for several years. A substitute had been
found, and local opinion had acquiesced in the abolition of
the este. With regard to that ekes of pariah's it would not
be • cemervadre but ft would be, so to soy, • revolutionary
proceeding if they were to attempt to force on them a re-
newal of church rates. Therefore his right hon. friend pro-
posed that in those parishes ;where the question was prac-
Welly settled, where there had been no church rate for • per
number of years, no church rate should be levied here-
after. But then there was another large class of parishes,
constituting 90 per oast. of the whole, in which church rates
were regularly made, where there was no desire to suppress
them, and his right hon, friend proposed that they should
not take away Iron those parishes the power of making
church rates. But then there wee this objection—then was
• minority of dissenters who might object to the rate. Well,
then, with regard to them, he proposed that they should
be exempted on making a declaration that they had
• conscientious objection to the payment of the
rate, and did not belong to the church of England.
Any person, therefore, who signed a declaration that he was
not • member of the church of England would be excused
from the payment of church rates. It was • remarkable fact
that the persons upon whom the burden of church rates chiedy
ill in thernral d stride were those who were willing to main-
tain the present system. Church rates were really a deduc-
tion from the landlord's tent ; and if they were abolished the
gainers would be, not the rstyers, but the landlords. He
thought the house would sea that his proposal was not • mere
compromise, but that it would afford • practical solution to
this difficult question. (Hear, hear.)

Mr. (MANEY would support the measure of the govern-
ment, because, while it would remove all praotioal objections,
it would provide for the maintenance of the fabrics. On this
ground, and on this only, he should vote against the bill of the
lion. baronet. (Oh, oh.)

fiir J. TRELAWNY, in reply, noticed the remark of
Mr. Drummond, that it was no grievance for a minority
to be compelled to pay • rate made by a majority. It the
hon. gentleman thought so, why did he not, being in a mi-
nority, bow to the decision of the Howe et Lords! (Hear,
hear.) The hon. gentlemaa Sae the great aaaroh. He saki
that the decision of the House of Lords war " scandalous."
He (Sir J. Tralawny) was scandalised by that remark of the
hon. gentleman. (Hear.) The measure proposed by the go-
vernment was not a statesmanlike one, but a ntere atop-gap.
They might easily have devised a better plan. Why, for in-
stance, had they not brought in a bill to define the objects of
church rates f (Hear.) That would at once have removed
a greet part of the evils now complained of. At present,
when a vestry had an item they dH. not know what to do
with, they charged it to the church rate. There were oases
in which mums for rat catching and fox killing had bi en so
charged. To kill foxes was bed enough—(hear, hear)—but
to kill foxes by church rates was a double desecration.
The boom then divided.
For tbe wooed reading 213
Against it l6O-63
PRESCRIPTION (IRELAND).
Mr. BLAND obtained leave to bring in a bill to limit the
time of prescription in certain oases In Ireland.

RETURNS ORDERED.
On, e•twtca nue,. la —On the motion of Sir G. B.
PIRCHELIA a copy of a memorial, dated the 16th day of
January, 1868, to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
from the easel captains end other officers of Greenwich
Hoe/tits!, praying to be allowed their half-pay to the mine
manner as ft ts now granted to the admirals of that establirh-
went, together with tidy lordships' reply to the same.
HAMPTON COUNT PALACE AND Kew GARDENA.-011
the motion of Sir G. B. PECHELL, en address for return
of the number of visitors admitted to see the apartments and
pictures at Hampton Court, and the Gardens at Kew, daring
the year 18.7, distinpoirhing the number in each month,
and the number on the several Sundays (in continuation of
parliamentary paper, No. 318, of session 2, 1867).
The house adjourned at half-past Sr..

WITNESSES' FEES AT ASSIZES AND SESSIONS.—
The Home Secretary has this inch introduced a a
change in the amount of fees to be paid to witilLeelsPial
usilat and earriona, u the following comparative table wal
above

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OW Saba New Isk.
Preimare la kw FT Innikine. &lug 0710 Lai A 0
Mass pretandonully, but not absorbs ...... .. 11 0
Witmer, of tuptulur &mu . 1 1 0 .. 0I 6
Onportnr Ratter %minnows. botailesspirs } I 16 II
armada! tramline, inure' and COW •t
0 1. . 4 3 I
Meta, ea 034 0
Small leadsmen, monleM lama% Pehill ° eTs 1.. 011 I
ass. wanbsemenes. ac • IS 0
Unseen, eddies, 101.1e0. 01,21.51. Pr }0 5 0 .. 0 0 0
ten, de. .
0,101. 06:1100 LI mum ram IU • .. • I I
eumelntesdante of pollee tares 0 II I 6
..
. 0
hopentors
Pont' Common pnlicen7tud '''.""l.
0 5 0 .. • 1 6
Only half the moonlit of the new allows:ow will be pad be
witnesses meiding In the towns where the courts are held,
the mum reduction haying bees made la the old 00110. The
bee do not include tamales but these are to be
limited Is future ia all the eases without soy moor
rim, to 'woad-der railway tem. ere no wity is
'meddle, 3d. per all. la to be allowed ket travelling az-
The or* addition to taaa ammo kg the saw Koh
Le
'Cis. a k ILI, be peil is all caws where the
amins amt hair/radii tie sight. The ow soils le to
le Gobi upset M Iteib eseelere sod as see ; bat is the..
ow elms tbr boo at pewee pia ea gado= an Isis then
Oise la thy in. they am to ba NIA is.

Mr. Macknight has chosen a great subject, and
has treated it with very considerable ability and
power. This " History of the Life and Times of
Edmund Burke " is the nearest approach yet made
towards an adequate biography of the great orator
and greater statesman. This is not, indoed, • h praise,
for Burke has hitherto been singularly unfortunate
in memorialists. To write a life of Burls as it should
be written is no ordinary undertaking. It demands
very extensive political -knowledge ; minute in vesti- '
gat:ion into facts and dates ; a comprehensive grasp
of thought ; a cultivated taste in literature ; a prac-
tical insight into the mechanism of Parliamentary
Government; a wide and deep spirit of philosophy.
It is greatly to the credit of Mr. Macknight that
he should have fulfilled so many of the conditions
requisite for success ; it is no reproach to him that
he should not have combined all. His work is not
a perfect biography, but it is immeasurably the best
Lib of Burke that has yet been given to the world.
Its faults are easily summed up. It is tee diffuse,
too rhetorical, too indiscriminately eulogistic. Hero-
worship, in its degree, is pardonable in a biographer ;
and Berke, in his long-life battle against prejudice,
and ignorance, and corruption, manifested as much
of the heroic element as was perhaps compatible with
the career of a public man in the political struggles
of the latter half of the eighteenth century.
Hero-worship is well, but abjectly prostrate ido-
latry is not so well, and it must be numbered
as one of the defects of Mr. Macknight, that
he obscures the image of his divinity by the
vapour of the incense which he is perpetually
burning before the altar. If the god must never
descend from his pedestal, at all events let us some-
times see his lineaments as they are, not always
through a mist of eulogy. Mr. Macknight again
has hardly done all that might have been fairly ex-
pected in clearing up the obscurer passages in Burke's
career, many of which, as he reminds us in his
Preface, were a few years back so ably pointed
out in a eerie, of remarkable papers in the
dthenceum. On some points, indeed, he has
shown a commendable diligence of research. He
has, for instance, very satisfactorily disposed
of the tradition which represents Burke in 1753,
when a young law student of four or five and twenty,
as having become a candidate for the Moral Philo-
sophy chair at Glasgow. He has taken much pains
in sifting all the facts connected with the extra-
ordinary story of Joseph Emin, the Armenian. He
has with laudable assiduity studied those portions
of tke " Annual Register " which, from its com-
mencement, were contributed or superintended by
Burke, and the importance of which, as throwing
light on Burke's political career, it is, as he justly
says, impossible to exaggerate. It is to be regretted
that he did not push his inquiries more closely
into those other matters so peculiarly interesting in
their bearing on Burke's personal history, to which
his attention, as he admits, had been directed by the
singularly able papers referred to. Had he done
so, though without snowy, the record of his attempts
even would have been interesting, and might have
been valuable as a guide to future inquiry. It is
impassible not to note the absence of all evidence
of such investigation as a deficiency in the present
work. These two volumes, indeed, are only an instal-
ment of the whole biography, and it is possible that
Mr. Macknight may be reserving these and other
similar elucidations for an Appendix. Before pass-
ing final judgment we willingly give him the benefit
of this doubt. The last defect we shall notice is one
of style. Mr. Macknight is fend of fine writing,
and fine writing, as a general rule, is out of
place in a biography. It is not of course meant
that good writing is out of place anywhere, but
fine writing and good writing are two different
things. The best biographies are time in which
the biographer has forgotten himself in his subject.
Rhetoric is a very inconvenient medium for the
conveyance of facts and the portraiture of man-
ners. Characteristic traits lose their distinctness

amid the roll of rounded periods, and the deli-
cate touches that paint the man disappear amid the
coarser glare of a style that sacrifices truth to point.
Mr. Macknight-is too monotonously brilliant, too uni-
formly energetic. Omnia rule belle dicer,. He writes
well, but be knows it. More nature, more repose,
less constant tension, would have been a sensible
relief. Had he been minded " thus to inter-
pose a little ease" we should have learnt
more of Burke and not have thought less
of his biographer. As it is, the rhetorical rattle
become, occasionally distressing, the incessant fire-
works fatigue—we look at everything through a
coloured medium, tinted occasionally by the reflected
radiance of Burke, but more frequently by the
gaudier coruscations of Macaulay.
Such are some of the faults of these volumes ; but
they have very considerable merits. One of their
greatest is that they are what they profess to be, a
history of the " Times" as well es the "Life " of
Burke. The following passage from the preface
states with great force and clearness why, in Burke's
case, this is so indispensable :

Ia truth, the political life of Burke, as illustrated by the
times ia which he lived, has hitherto not been even faintly
sketched. Yet it may be said more emphatically of his career
then that of any other author or politician, that it la impos-
sible to separate the private history and works of the man
from his times ; for, more then almost any other individual,
he lived intensely and fervently among the events of hie
generation. With such rare powers for vivifying the past,
it was the present as it might influence the future, and the
poet only as it might illuminate the present, that peculiarly
co:opted his attention. He was no dreamer. He was no
recluse. Above all, he was no mere men of letters, thinking I
of what was to be written, and not of what was to be done.
It was from the active world as it was stirriug around him
that his eloquence derived its inspiration and his wisdom re-
ceived its application. Hence his times, as they influenced
him, and as he influenced them, form so important and in-
dispensable a foreground to any satisfactory delineation of his
individual character, or any intelligible estimate of his im-
perishable work". Separately they
.illustrate one another,
though it is only when they are woe-rated together that thej
form a complete and Imo rnetive. whole.
It would be difficult to give a better specimen of
the success with which Mr. Macknight has realised
his double object than by transferring to our columns
a portion of his animated picture of London life in
1760, the year in which the future statesman first
went to eat his way to the Bar in the old Hall of the
Middle Temple :
The sight of Werdminster Abbey and the Homes of Per-
dement was delightful to the imaginative and sensitive stu-
dent. A closer view of the court, senate, and fashionable
world, would not, at first eight, have raised them in hie esti-
mation. We mu now look more narrowly at the men of that
time than the young Irish Templar, who, with many high
hopes and ambitious longings, for be knew not as yet what,
mond, in the early months of 1750, the streets of London,
end sated his eager eyes with looking on the objects about
which he had lone dreamed.
The old King. George If., was residing at Kensington with
his Counties of Yarmouth. French and German were the
two languages epoken in the palace; the dear native accents
of England seldom fell upon the ear. Year after par, with
the first approach of summer, the monarch eagerly divested
himself of the Majesty of England, and assumed, what he
' so much more highly prized, that of • petty German Prince.
Year after year, as soon as parliament wee prorogised in
' April, the King crossed the seasin hie yachts, and the fair
realm of Great Britain and Ireland yea abandoned in the
oars of • council of courtiers. The darrenign aides re-
turned to England again until the meeting al pediment
In Novenikr, and even then his heart nomand fn his
electorate.
The heir-apparent to the CTOWlldemnel ems leas dm his
royal father the devoted loyalty of a hlgletallndd and pa-
triotic people. It has been the eon= to aseeibe el good
qualities to a Prince at Welsoi yet lottery WWI Mud it
bald to say that Prince tat pemend • dbie• virtue.
A at
WADS was that Wee amid et Milton Howe.
If Burke could have a glimple ef the entleas=
which George Bnbb wee e•••fammi7
bit own infiuni, became he it Me be deemed dram, I
end therefore did mat heads le ask the lima, d the Al-
mighty on his tedrareers, be egad kdoul
at the corruptions et essellsm peillifiees. Did=
prayer to the Father el May firr amen se east*
exception, the oval Isillerenale=l tad dimesi
vim ow
M the Deity by • wad do. dl his the m

fixed on the earth, confident. ly resumed to rake his eyes to
Herres. Tartaffe was at MA 0011aCkna of his own !Wu-
criey. But Dodington's baseman becomes even sublime,
for be never seems to have doubted that be
a Wes emminently
good, and that the world would be of the same . Taw
men and the mat of the toad-eatere at the I?rizin' Prince's table
were eager for the new ora which they expected soon to
begin. The death of George 11. was anxiously anticipated.
Federici and his worthy associates had emw/meeaurewhich
was to be taken on the death of his father fatly discussed and
mottled. Many dikes of state were prove , and bad even
kissed heads kr. But a Ruler to whom the pkette of this
world are of small mama had dermal that Frfnn Frederick
should never reign over land. Yet another yew; end
all these of state, lords of the trauutry,
aittomeyinarrol citer-gesemh, who, • be. days before,
had fallen at the feet of the poor scion of royalty, asked him
to spit upon them, and had even actually lent his their
money, would dead his lihkes retsina, again be humbly
courting the old Kiries favotuites, and thrtarbig themselves
in him way at Kensington.
The Prince of Wales could only have been despised ; hie
younger brother, the Duke of Cumberland, was somewhat
undemercedly bated. The severity he had Aetna at Cul-
loden, had acciaired him the nickname of the "Butcher," and
though, like the Duke of Wellington in thia osetary, he was
called pre-entinently the " Duke,'• yet this weed of dirtinc-
tion as applied to the second eon of George ll.,was not in-
tended to exprese a nation's gratitude for a wants, who had
suocemaklly upheld the honour of his esuntry's area. But
violent popular antipathies are nether always inkßible, nor
always reasonable; of all the royal family, the olteractey of
the Duke of Cumberland wee certainly the least olueution-
abbe. Re wee • brave soldier, a dutiful subject, aid a con-
scieutioue man.

diptis royal highness was the friend of the Duke of Bed-
ford, he became the terror of the Duke of Newcastle. These
two noblemen ware the two rival Secretarial of State-. The
fullest house and the greatest division of the session was on
• Turnpike Bill, being supported by
the Dole of
Newcastle, whose restless and mischievous energy was then
entirely directed to the removal of his rival from the cabinet.
The prudent moderation of Henry Pelham, the First Lord
of the Treasury, was frequently required to restrain the
fretful effervescence of his brother, the Duke of Newcastle.
The story of Burke's early years of obscurity and
literary labour is well told, and so is that of his sin-
gular connexion with " Single-speech Hamilton."
The character of this strange person is drawn with
great elaboration and considerable power. After
recounting his splendid oratorical triumph, Mr.
Macknight proceeds thus :
He spoke spin, but he did not meet with so much applause
as at first. The terrors of failure beset him ; he might lose
his oratorical reputation. He took the extraordinary method
to preserve it, of never again opening hie mouth in the
English parliament. Some day, as session after session slipped
by, lie thought of making • groat effort which would throw
all other speeches into the shade; session after session passed
on, but the great day never came.
Nevertheless his fortune advanced. For years it seemed
that he might live on the celebrity he had acquired. His
mind was highly cultivated ; his taste only too fastidious.
fio careful was he in the choice of his diction, that if on con-
, adoration he thought a single expression in an ordinary note
might be improved,he would recall his servant, and delibe-
rately re-write the whole composition. Positive convictions
he bad none. On politics he had even scarcely an opinion.
That which he stated In his parliamentary logic seems to
have constituted his whole political creed; be tells the young
aspirant to parliamentary renown that so much was to be
said both for and simian any measure, it was impossible to
declare beforehand what was good or what was evil, and that
it was only when a choice had been made, it should be ao-
gamed in and defended. On this principle of negation, this
bass scepticism of a narrow mind and of a cold heart, he
systematically acted throughout • long life. So far from
speaking in the House of Commons, for many years, when
tr greatest constitutional principle* were at stake, he re-
frained even from expressing in private, to his most intimate
acquaintances, any cpinion which might commit him to
either one side or the other. He had many admirers and
flatterers, to some of whom be gave much ; but he never had,
as he never deserted to have, a friend ; nor did he ever know
what true friendship was. To those who in any way de-
Mon him, if they showed the slightest manliness end
y, he would be tyrannical and insolent ; to those who
had no 000111i011 for his good offices, and who ventured even
to treat him ill, he would be humble and respectful. In
person be wee tall ; his sountenance was even handsome ;
there was an air of aristocratic grace and lofty superiority in
all he said and did; he was sarcastic; he was clever; be was
remarkably intelligent i he wrote well ; he talked well ; he
did his best in all sonatas to be preposeessieg and fascinat-
Aim; but, in spite of himself, his presence ; and en
acute observer weld not but see that, notwithstanding all hie
endeavours to please, and all his varied accomplishments,
William Gerard Hamilton was one of the meanest, most
selfish, timid, crafty, and deceitful of human beings.
After Burke, ni the session of 1766, and in the
37th year of his age, is once fairly launched in public
life, the narrative of his biographer follows with
great animation, vigour, and minuteness of detail
the evolutions of his political career.
The portion of the biography as yet completed
comes to a close before the commencement of those

memorable investigations into the affairs of India
which constitute so great a portion of Burke's just
renown, and at the present time have such a peculiar
interest. Every reader who has followed Mr.
Macknight to the close of his second volume will ex-
pect the continuation of his labours with curiosity
and impatience.

MUSIC.

/LISS ARABELLA GODDARD'S PIANOFORTE
SOIREES.

Miss Goddard gave the second of these truly dea-
dest "ntertaulmfins on Tuesday evening; and bar rooms ware

lbwsßy crowded to suffecation;many gentlemen, unable to get
within the door, being content to remain, and listen u well ss
they could, on the Maims& Our young pianist relies °tibia
own powers end exertions, performing every piece in het
programme, with the exception of the first, in which
she wee accompanied by M. Balaton, and the last,
in which the had the aid of &Mien and Pique
on the violin and violoncello. I ler self-reliance
Is completely justified by her success. Every time she le
heard, her incomparable performances inspire every listener
with greater and greeter delight.
On Tuesday night she began with Mozart's sonata in F for
the piano and violin, a perfoet gem of simplicity, grace, and
feeling, in which she was admirably supported by Sainton's
delicate accompaniment. Then came Dussek's once famous,
bat now too-much-neglected Sonata, known by the name of
"Plus ultra;' a name given to it by way of an-
swer to • bravado of Woeltre, who had published a
Sonata which be entitled "N. plus ultra," by
wayof as that difficulty could go no feeihm
Dumick carried executive difficulty to a height
in those days unheard of, while the &meta, independent of
its difficulty, is from beginning to end full of real and ster-
ling beauties. In Mira Goddard's playing the difficulties dis-
appeared, while the beauties were displajed as they probably
never had been before. The fair pianist then travelled up the
stream of time, and went back to old Sebastian Bach ;
playing two of his fugues, scarcely if at all known in Eng-
land, and exhibiliog that wonderful clearness in the execu-
tion of rapid pampa and complicated harmonies for which
she is so pre-eminently distinguished. From Bach she
passed
Sonata
the very last of Beethoven's plan3forte works, the
C minor ; a composition strongly marked with all
the peculiarities of his latest style; lull of fitful fancies,
impetuous bursts of passion, and exquisite touches of pathos,
to which a performer only of the very highest power. can
give adequate expreesion. Xiadelesoha's grand Trio in lit
minor concluded this most interastiug concert.

•
DRAMATIC SICK FUND ASSOCIATION„—Yesterday
evening the mooed anuivereery festival of this essociation
established for the raid of indigent motors of all branches of
the preterits, whether musical, dramatic, or equestrian, took
place at Willis's Roams, St. James's. Mr. B. Webster took
the chair, stimmted by Mr. Tom Taylor, Mr. Cooke, Mr.
Rbirley,SrooU, &e. About 100 gentlemen, including some of
the chief dramatists, sat down to dinner, which wee excellent
in itself, and rendered still better by good serving. The
customary loyal and patriotic toasts hexing been given
and duly trammed, the chairman gave the toast of the
evening, advocating the came of the charity with warmth
end earnestness. One special and moot praiseworthy feature
is this emaciation watt, that unlike other institutions of
the make kind, it did not wait till infirtuby and old
ego had overtaken its applicants, but extended to-
wards young end old a helping band whenever its
aid wag most needed, sued so regarding nothing but the
need of the petitioner. Thus, those whom slight sickness
and want of professional engagamens bad thrown into dr.
cnnastanoes of distress were always relieved as far as the
moans of the easodation permitted, and furnished with funds
with which to travel down to the provinces to follow their
profession. The statement of the secretary, Mr. Anson,
showed that the Imodhtloa wen steadily gaining ground,
since the last anniversary festival its funded stock bad only
amounted to MI., vane at the present, though after • season
which the claims apes the association hough
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