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THE COSMORAMA.

It is certainly a great advantage to be enabled tb escape
from the exhaktions of the City to the refreshing Bay of
Cad.z; or, after being jostled by the fashionable, of the
west-end, to repose ourselves in the outward court of the
Seraglio at Constantinople. The different views are, in this
Panoramic Exhibition, so faithfully represented, that for
the moment we imagine ourselves transported to the different
scenes which are brought under our contemplation, and our
minds are made so familiar with the detail, that we actually
obtain, to a certain extent, as far as regards local Scenery
and association, all the benefit of foreign travel. In the
view, for instance, of the outward court of the Seraglio at
Constantinople, we may imagine ourselves on the spot;
we have before us the gate of the first court, called Bali-
huniayoun (the grand port, or gate entry) which leads to
the recesses of the Turkish Cabinet, and from which the
Government of the Grand Signior takes the name of the
Ottoman Port. The View (I.2lforcow presents, in the dis-
tance, the Foundling Hospital, founded by the celebrated
Empress CAT/L*IIINR, which is capable of containing 8,000
children, who are clothed and educated, and at the age of
14 have the pennission of choosing, from the different
trades, that to which they feel most inclined, or for which
they conceive themselves hest fitted. At the expiration of
their apprenticeship they reseive a certain sum of money
towards enabling them to embark in business, and are
allowed to carry on their trade without restriction in any part
of the empire, which, in Russia, is no inconsiderable pnvi
lege. There is another View of Moscow during the con--
flagration in 1612, taken from the right of the KREMLIN,
beyond the walls. The interior of the PANTHEON, by
moonlight, is an admirable illusion; the pillars are given
with all the convexity of the Diorama. The interior if
the CHancu of the Il oi.y SEM:LOIRE at Jerusalem, is a
scene full of affecting and solemn associations. The im-
pression is vivid and perfect, and does honour to the skill
of the artist. We extract the account of it from the des-
criptive Catalogue, as having an interest beyond the
moment, from the feelings with which it is connected.
" The monument with a little dome in the centre, is said
to contain the tomb of our Saviour, and is constantly
lighted with lamps. In it is a little plain white marble tomb,
and a stone table, on which they say the body of Christ
was laid to be anointed with myrrh and aloes. It has
lately been inclosed in marble, because pilgrims used to
break off pieces of it as relics.
" The circumference of this church is formed of sixteen
columns, forming seventeen arches, which support seven-
teen smaller arches. Over the upper gallery arc niches
which were formerly ornamented with mosaics, represent-
ing the twelve apostles, St. Helena, the Emperor Constan-
tine. and three other portraits of persons not known.
'.:This church stands on Mount Calvary, and vas b'tilt
by St. Helena' mother of Constantine the Great, over the
spot in which the body of Christ was laid. Though the
tomb was or:ginally under ground, it is now ellbteen steps
above the level of the soi. ; this spot having been Mt
untouched, while the surrounding rocks of Calvary were
reduced to form a site for the church.
" It seems that this church is now let to the Christians
by the 'forks, who put it up to auction and obtain an
exorbitant rent for it, through the jealousy of Catholics,
Greeks, and Arminians, who overbid each other:"

Temple of RAmicuouso, near Etos.s, in Hindi's-
tan one of those stupendous excavations on which a work
I+.4lately been published, called "The 'Wonders of Elora,"
is a view which str'es us with astonishment. It is impos-
sible to contemplate without a feeling of awe, these
magnificent remains of past ages, which bespeak an
advancement in science, and a perseverance in labour,
which, but for such a record of it, would be incredible.
The other views, especially the Entrance of Antioch from
Alexandretta, are excellent, and show how admirably the
Cosinoramic plan is adapted for representing external
scenery, and for giving all its objects with magical effect.

The Duke of York returned to town yesterday after-
noon, at half-past three o'clock, to his residence in Stable-
yard, St. James's.
The Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Hertford,
Lord Cholmondeley, and the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot,
are spending the first days of 1825 with the Earl of West.
morland, at his mansion and domain at .Apethorp, near
Stamford. Many other persons of distinction are expected
to join the party.
The Marquis of Exeter's distinguished party destroyed
about seven hundred head of game in two days last wca.
The Duke of Wellington has had a small statue of
Achilles, a fac-simile of that in Hyde Park, placed in his
garden, at the back of his Grace's house in Piccadilly.
Anionot the late arrivals at Bath are—Viscountess Dud-
ley and Ward, Viscountess Strangford, Hon. G. Canning,
M.P. Hon. Mr. Wallace, Hon. Mr. Butler, Hon.
and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Sir Wm. Call, Sir A. and
Lady Elton, Sir W. Boothby, Sir F. Henniker, Sir J. C'.
Hippialey, Sir F. Shuckbnrgh, Col. Braddyll, &c.
Mrs. Coutts is preparing to give a fancy ball at Byhate
House, Brighton, upon a scale of surpassing magniticen:c.
On Saturday accounts were received in town, of the
decease of Lora Mount-Charles, in Switzerland, where his
Lordship bad gone for the benefit of his health. His
Lordship was the eldest son of the Marquess and Mar-
chioness of Conyngham. In conaquenee of the melancholy
tidings, Lord Francis Conyngham' his Lordship's younger_
brother, did not attend on Saturday at the S.,cretary of
States Office for Foreign Affairs, as tinder Secr.tary of
State.

Wednesday evening last the first BAlford Assembly f.r
this season took place at the Swan Inn, which was numer-
ously and respectably attended by some of the nobility and
gentry of the county. Amongst the company we oM
served, Lord and L-ady Ongly, Mr. Whithrestl, and Mr.
Pym. The assembly rooms were handsomely lighted el',
and the music and dancing were excellent.
On Wednesday the Gentlemen who form the Peter-
borough Oyster Club, at the Bull Inn, had their annual
dinner. The venerable Earl Fitzwilliam and James Sear-
lett, Esq. M.P., were present. Lord Mitten having tn. t
with an accident in bunting the previous day, WU pr,-
: vented attending.
The opera of Der Freischutz' which has produced sM.
great receipts at Drury-lane, has, since its perfermaLce
with the pantomime, been still more attractive, owing :0
the great desire manifested to sec the original, and after-
wants the excellent parody of it introduced in the Bar-
lequinade.
Some wiseacres here chosen to state, that we arc unda
a mistake respecting Mr. Bradshaw, the avowal admirer
of Miss M. A. Tree, and that it is not the nephew of Lady
Peyton who has made that young lady an offer of rne:-
nage, but the son of the late Mr. Bradshaw, Tel Brel
to the East India Company. We never said Mr. Brad-
shaw *as the nephew of Lids, Peyton, because we knot-,
and said, he was her Ladyship's son. It is perhaps in-
comprehensible to those sages, how Lady Peyton can bate
a son whose name is Bradshaw, forgetting that her Lad!-
ship might have been a widow when she married •,.r
Henry.—John Bull.
It is said that Miss Foote, in due season, intends to
brit:g an action for breach of promise of marriage-against
Colonel P.Aelev.

SH CATHOLIC RENT

tholics wan held at St. Patrick's Scheel, Dean,
/day evening, for the purpose of taking into con.
/ means of promoting a general subscription in aid
Charitable Institutions, and to promote the great
: Emancipation.
'clock upwards of 400 of the lower classes of the
at of whom were Irish, had assembled, and men
lie gentlemen entered the room, and John Rua.
imously called to the Chair.
then addressed the miming, by observing, that
to appear before them, not as a ineniber of
.c Association, but as an humble individual who
every one of themselves, to take into consideration
hteving their religious emancipation. The very
,as but another name for loyalty, and therefore,
met, the people might be well aesured that it
constitutional purposes. At a time when their
a their power, they failed to effect that which
now so anxiously sought for, and which ought
been done, namely, that of securing their natural
them within the pale of the British Constitu.
ow mat to consider what means were the best to
: leaders in acquiring those thing.. He conceived
doubt that that end would be beet effected by
iniary contributions. The least thing they could
thirty years had devoted themselves to their
them a portion of their stiperfluitiee. It had
were the ()thefts for which these contribu.
and he could not too frequently reply to that
fur two purposes: first to vindicate their retie
_ •. unmerited reproach; and aecondly, to achieve I
oeir civil emancipation. The manner by which they should ea-
taro= to effect their first abject was, by watching the public
ems—that calumniating and abusive part of it widen aimed by
rem means to misrepresent their principles and motives, and to
natio the good attentions of their leaders ; and then to enable
heir learned and revered clergy, whose greatest honour was their
overly, to answer their opponents through the same nnediutn. It
vas also a part of their design that, whenever they found an indi.
feet moth whose power of doing good was crippled by his po-
may, to augment the income of such, and thus grit their body all
• e edvantsge of their learning. talent, and zeal. Their second
.bjeci, that of achieving their civil emancipation, they all knew
mild not be effected without. considerable expense. The time and
rouble attending the getting up of petitions is Parliament, the col.
ecting the tense of the people from all parts of the United Em.
ire, the defraying the expenses of those who were engaged
:leavening ter those purposes—none of these could be done with-
t money. Meier/ere tiy efficient means by which the great
bjeets they bad in view could be attained. .Let them then use
hew mt3Tlll, and they should at length convince their honourable'
d erecirntious opponents,—those who from opinion, and not
en an irrational and ill-natured prejudice, were opposed to them,— 1
hat that opposition' ought to give way. The business of the present
electing would be best explained to them by the Resolutions, in.
nndetl to be p:oposed fur their adoption seriatim, being read over
them.
Here the Chapman read a long string of Resolutions, the purport 1
f which was, that London and IVestrninster should be divided
no ?Our dietricis,—the one then to be formed to be called the
fatten district ; that there should be a President and Niemen,
nil other nece'eary officers chosen for each district ; th•e the sub-
eripdon should not exceed a penny .a week from any one indivi.
Cal; that 31r. liussen should be appointed Receiver-General of
le Western District ; and that the money received should be paid
no shaker's, and reruitted to the Catholic Association in Dublin
very month.
The CHAIRMAN having read the Resolutions, proceeded to ob-
ere, that if there were one class of people more than another in
ne empire that ought to unite for any object, whatever that object
nigh; ht, it was the Catholics, for their very name signified
.nsnimier. All that was required was thie, and they were then
are of ailaining that which they all so anxiously desired. Ile
/weld new sit down, under the satisfactory conviction that he had
tonehis duty In assisting to coinmence what he conceived to be a
- in the history of British Catholics; and so convinced was
Int, learning, and power which this union, aided by.
contribution., would call forth and put into action ;
rear would be dispelled from the minds of their
the danger of admitting their Catholic fellow-sub.
,e in those rights, from the enjoyment of which
long excluded,—that a short time only would
ice would be done them, and they should be re-
ivileges to which they had as strong and natural
rho now so unjustly withheld them front them.
tuon having been moved--
.D seconded it, and observed, that after what had
.• Chairman, little was left for him to say. That
truly observed, that the Catholics ought to go heart
it their natural leaders in doing away their civil dis.
unfortunately happened, that heretofore they had
, ithout, lie might say, an amiy to lead; no union had
among the members of the Catholic body ; there was
vs purpose, no concentration of power, and thus for a
of their best friends had failed. But now they were
strength together, and notwithstanding bow weak
strength when taken individually, yet when united
irresistible effect. They should recollect that the
more acceptable than all the wealth that had been
_ the treasury. The Catholics had been much in-
press,—their loyalty had been impugned, and their
.nresented ; let them this night convince those of the
' maligned them, that they could be as good cub.
.d peaceable citizens, as any other body of mesa.
sere taught by their religion to pay obedience unto
they would answer their opponents in the words of
'Render unto Crease the things that are Cesar's,
things that are God's." The Catholic paid hie
id as conscientiously to the legitimate Power as
inatioa of Christians, and inquired not whether
hristian or Turk.
lAN, in moving the third Resolution, said, that the
Ithaca was necessary, in order that it should not be
'liament, when the petitions should be presented, that
ipressive of the sentiments of a few, and not of the
had been asked, why did not the Catholics speak
were they silent when they were challenged on all
their real opinions ? This lie felt to be a strong
them, and it was necessary they should resort to
as one side had already urged their reasons and
, they should now do the came: they owed this
le opponents, who judged of them only by the
set from the writings of their adversaries, and
.it to themselves. There was now no restraint on the
:atholic had as free a use of it as the Protestant—they
ere not now obliged to resort to foreign shores to print a book.
Chen he looked back to the past reigm, he found sufficient to en-
Curate them to hope for success. In the 35th year of Gen. 111..
has good Kin,• had granted them a portion of their rights, and
his ought to encourage them to apply again. The kindness of
heir present King, too, should give them hope : he was the first
she visited Ireland to recommend peace and good.will among all
Basses. Hall felt as he did, they would not now have to ask for
that rights. Look at his conduct to Hanover : there religious dis-
fineness existed as here, and as in every part of the world • but no 1
dell-disabilities were inciined there by any one who professed the
faith of his ancestors, whatever that faith might be.
The several Resolutions having been put er.d carried—
Mr. Stria:rice') moved the thanks of the Meeting to the
Chainrum, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair, in
ken which he observed, that all of them ought to bear in mind,
that they were as deeply interested in the question of Catholic
Emancipation, however !tumble might be the station they held in
littletY, as the highest peer in the realm. It had often happened
a history, tnet their greatest men had sprung from the poorest
sae of
Pope Adrian himself was the ton of a poor labouring
nan ot this country. If anybody should therefore sa to u
.centinued the speaker), what itherest have )oat in this question?
roe may answer them—we have children ; they possess talent, but
what benefit have we now in the cultivation of that talent, while
try are excluded from attaining to those advantages which are
he natural traits of Midi'', united with industry, because we,
tide parents, happened to be Homan Catholics?
The Chairman returned thanks, and then urged, as the re-
nnet speaker had done, the necessity of every individual being Ina.
rinsed with the truth, that. he was as much interested in the clues.
:ass an aleillbeT of the Catholic Busy, however illustrious in
ant ; and be observed, thin many who now ma the highest sta-
tus Parents
Gorsenenent were owes perhaps the humblest, and had
heir ihrents been Catholic', would now perhaps have been assist.
rag them in their efforts to attain to the saine honourable station
/WM they were so fortunately enjoying. He concluded by asaur.
ig the meeting that he had hitherto dedicated himself to their
ease, ard he hoped he sleight live and die in their service.
The meeting was then dissolved, but much conversation ensued
it to the mode of collecting the rent fat that evening, and it was
eereed each should give his subscription while keeping his seat,
...c .e. of paying it et ttoa door.

Monday and Tuesday an adjournment of the Quarter
4.wiiJus was held fur the registry of freeholds, when 365
n the interest of Mr. Rice were registered ; not a solitary
mdividual register for the Corporation. Orer one hundred
rf the shore were tenants of that independent gentleman
Rich. Kenny, Esq. Green-Lawn, county Clare.—Lirneriek
Ob.erner.

On Saturday the business of the Northern Banking
(;°"TatY commenced ; their capital Soo,ouol. aterling.
the constitution of this establishment, our readers already
Know, is founded on similar principles to the Scotch Banks,
'which bare long been so *table and useful in that country,
Ind we doubt not that this, and other joint stock compa-
des, Will prove equally beneficial to Ireland.—Beyiut

Orders have this week been issued to the recruiting eta-
.ions in Ireland, directing that boys not exceeding 17-
Years, five feet tive and a half inches, and men not ex-
-ltding 25, fire feet six, may be received for the army.—
An order has been issued to recruit for the following re-
:intents in this garrison :-2d or Queen's. 6th, 6th, 9th,
.3), 80th, Slat, 93d, 38th, 41st, 44th, 45th, 47th, 49th,
,Ith., 39th, 67th, 99th, 91 st, 93d, 94th, and 97th.—Li-
ler.,!: Clronick.

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Mr. STANFIZLI
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and by the press,.
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ten who hate so I
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the Catholics wen
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to fienpture—" Ii
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A GENTLEMAN
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lade their appeal,
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