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out; that with such a Jury, selected from plain and well-
meaning men, tel en from the ',Odle ranks of every-day
life, unaccustomed to mairgetation, and liable to be infiu-
eneed by the artful and apparently candid statements of ex pc-
rienced Counsel, arpearing.hr the Crown and voin.ll the
I accused, the shrinking and unprotected criminal at the bar
'stands the fearful issue, under the deepest and most hope-
less disadvantages. The ad%ocatcs employed against him
often affect moderation, as the most eloadly weapon they
can use ; they dwell on his situation and his crime with pre-
'tended commiseration, in a way that effects more with a
Jury than the most studied invective could hope to produce,
Ara eat (dere artent. The practised pleader in this way
does more with a Jury than by the most vehement ha-
rangues, and the unhappy prisoner too often pinks before
it, without the power of refutation, or of the assistance of
an Advocate to expose the deadly sophistry which has sunk
into the minds of his Jury—without the possibility of any
antidote beingapplied. Mr. Lamb, in the course of his
speech, made a striking appeal to the case of Lord Loyal,
tried for high treason in the reign of George 11. and who
suffered on the block with uncommon firmness. The un-
fortunate old Chieftain, borne down by Crown influence,
declared be could make no defence for himself: his guilt,
it is true, amid all the art by which he sought to disg,uise
it, was but too clear ; but his utterly defenceless situation
was so apparent, that Sir William Vounge, who led the
impeachment for the Commons a.:ainst him, immedi-
ately after brought in a Bill to allow persons accused of
treason to be defended by Counsel. Those so charged
have now the benefit of that statute, and are also en-
titled to a list of the witnesses and the Jury summoned
on their trial. Why should a difference be made between
felony and treason? The convict in either case is equally
attaimed in property and blood. The goods of a traitor
and a felon are alike forfeit, and an inquisition or attaint
is equally summoned for the discovery of the property of
both. The charge of treason is one that is On general
slowly listened to; its consequences are so heavy that the
crime of constructive treason is seldom or never admitted.
The law requires two unimpeachable witnesses to depose to
the commission of overt acts; public interest and public
vigilance are always on such a charge awakened for the ac-
cused ; be is protected at once by the jealousy and the
sympathy of the audience around him—feelings in which
a majority of his Jury generally participate. If be possesses
any means. he can employ able and zealous Counsel; if not,
they are of course assigned him. With such safeguards,
except in the very worst times, his life, unless on
damning evidence adduced against him, can be in no
jeopardy. lint how different is the situation of a
wretched individual charged with mere felony ! He is
brought up to the bar of the Old Bailey, that Hall of
Death, or to an assizes; court, from the dungeon where be
has been immured for months, without means, without
friends, without an advocate or common hope. If Counsel
be employed against him, his Jury are influenced by a
collected and artful statement, embodying every supposition
that can weigh against the arraigned, and even whispering
nothing that could tend to his exculpation. The witnesses
for the Crown are carefully and ably examined • they come
into the wi mess box in general prejudiced against the prisoner,
and anything in his favour must be extracted by the
molt acute and able cross-examination. In the generality
of cases the wretched accused can employ no ('ounsel at all;
but even if, by the most melancholy sacrifices, he can pur-
chase such advocacy, a few questions put to the Crown wit-
nesses, or a few facts elicited from those for the defence,
must limit the efforts of the Advocate who holds a brief,
while the Counsel for the prosecution can harangue in an
opening statement, and after speak to evidence on a solitary
witness to character being called. We ask, is this justice?
Is this consistent with the criminal law of these countries?
Ought such an aiomaly to have been supported by the
eloquence of Mr. North, and • majority io the C.-am-
mots House of both countries? Sir James Mackintosh,
whose effotts are so distinguished on every constitutional
subject which attracts the attention of Parliament, brought
all the stores of his richly-informed mind, to illustrate and
enlighten this most important question. His reply to Mr.
North's objections was decisive and incontrovertible.
Though Mr. Lamb had the array of the Crown Lawyers
against him on this occasion, and was foiled for onees-
lion, not by argument, but by legal sophistry and num-
bers, we trust he will not be disheartened from persisting]
in his humane end honourable career, and that he will
take the earliest oppoltunity of bringing forward the same
motion again. Long existence cannot consecrate any abusel
of this description; it can be no argument for its ex-
istehce. The feelings of the country are with Mr. Lamb,
and he may rely on it, that the debate of Tuesday night,
and his most praise-worthy efforts in a just and consti-
tutional cause, have conciliated most powerful support and
feelings for him, and the ultimate success of his motion,
throughout the empire. If he perseveres he is sure to,
succeed, with the fullest honour to himself, and the greatest
benefit to a large, though unhappy portion of the commu-
n ty.
The Earl of Lauderdale, who has been seriously indis-
posed, we are happy to hear is getting much better.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. Wilberforce has for ten
days past been, and still continues, seriously indisposed.
He is, however, we understand, a little better, and in the
opinion of Dr. Chambers, his physician, his valuable life
is likely to be preserved to his family, his country, and
mankind. _ _

The anniversary meeting of one of those pious but most
mistaken bodies, of which so many now exist in this day of
delusion in this country, took place at the Argyll Rooms
yesterday—the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord
Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in the chair. This
association is styled " The Irish Bible Society of Lon-
don ;" and its object—risuni teneates amici—is to extract
money from the pockets of those who are deluded
enough to contribute to print Bibles in the Irish lan-
guage, to circulate among the peasantry of that island,
and so convert them to the true faith of that island.
Why does not the Society circulate them in Hebrew
or in Greek? for in either character they would be just
as intelligible among the initiated of the Irish Peasantry.
Thousands can read English and speak Irish ; but
there are not twenty, we venture to state, throughout the
entire country, including the village schoolmasters who'
can read Irish, or the complex characters in which this
body print their Bibles. But this meeting answered all its
purposes ; it gave an opportunity to a man of the name of
M'Ncil, to utter the foulest slanders against the Catholic'
clergy. He is called a " Reverend" in our report,—but
we cannot suppose any clergyman would suffer such un-
truths to fall from him, as we find reported to have dropped
from the lips of this individual. This Rev. Mr. WISTeil
stated, " that the daily bread of the Catholic priests de-
;fended on keeping the Irish people in total igncrance, and
that they were consequently sunk into the lowest state of de-
gradation. To this we have no reply to male, but that the
assertion, come from whom it may, is unqualifiedly slan-
derous and false. If Mr. M'Neil would emulate the purity
of character, and the disinterested zeal of' the Catholic
Clergy of Ireland, in place of coming over here to prcpa-
gate atrocious calumnies of this description, his character
as a rcrrresd would stand much higher than it does. This
North of Ireland parson has been disappointed, we suppose,
in his holy expectations of preferment at the other side ; and
in all the bitterness of malevolence he comes over here,
in consequence, to preach against and slander those
amongst whom he failed in his mission of tithe-gathering.
This pious " Munchausen" then went on to relate the
story of a woman, who (as he said) " on being questioned,
said she believed in three Gods, and that as she only spoke
Irish, she could receive no instruction, which was given
by the clergy in Latin or English alone." The disinter-
ested missionary hoped " therefore the Assembly would
nuke the Catholic pietas the objects of their prayers, and
assured them that the conversion of one priest would do
more towards emancipating the Catholics from their state
of barbarism than one hundred Protestant preachers could
effect." Can it be possible, that any public meeting, in
such a day as this, could have listened to such trash as
that we have reconled, with common patienc.t ? Yet we find
it reported that this assembly, with the Bishop of Lichfield
at its head, not only listened to it, but that thanks were
voted to the individual for his pious efforts. They ought,
in common gratitude, to have contributed a supply to the
pious orator, and sent him to the place from whence he
came, to convert the " Popish priests." Such stuff as was
uttered at this meeting would be worthy of the most fa-
natic followers of Joanna Southcote. We are astonished
that Lord Calthorpe and Sir George Rose could have lent
themselves to any thing so fanatical and absurd. Disgust
is the only feeling that can be excited by the perusal of
such garbage. It is a disgrace to this city, in an age so to-
lerant and enlightened, to have any thing half so vile reL
petted. Those who talk of converting the Irish ought
first to convert themselves; they should learn to abjure
falsehood, and speak common truth. As to the Catholic
clergy of Ireland—a body with any one of whom we should
be sorry to compare Parson liPl4Jcil—contempt and scorn
will be their only answer to such calumnies. The whole
tenor of their pure and excellent conduct forms their best
reply to this man's unworthy slanders.

Mr. Alderman Venable.' was yesterday taken suddenly ill
at the King Palace, previous to the commencement of the
levee, which obliged him to leave the Palace, a gentleman
accommodating him with the loan of a carrage to convey
him immediately home.
The Itecordership of Bristol, held by Lord Gifford, and
which it is supposed he will now resibm, is in the gift of
the Corporation of that city, and has almost invariably'.
been conferred upon some Barrister of eminence on the
We tent Circuit. _

The Irish Times, alluding to certain rumours respecting
the Tenth Hussars, says—" The regiment is not to be re-
modeled, the officers are not to be separated, nor any of
them obliged to resign • and, as we mentioned in a former
paper, the exchange between Colonel Quentin and Lieute-
nant-Colonel Wyndham is simply in consequence of a
private arrangement between these gentlemen, agreed on
some time since, and not from any recent transactions in
the regiment."
The assents at the Bank of England to the conversion of
the 4 per cents. are stated, to amount to marl 61 millions.
The Court of Chancery, and Trustees, are allowed an ex-
tension of time for assent. We understand the amount of
the former exceeds one million; the amount of the latter
cannot be calculated, but as assents have been also re-
ceived at the Bank of Ireland, we may conclude that the
plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has completely
succeeded. The amount of old 4 per Cent. Stuck is about
seventy-five millions.
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Paris, rc-
ceived from a very respectable and well-in:nnneci quarter,
on the recent reports concerning the Loan transactions at
Madrid :—" With respect to positive news upon which
you may rely, it is that the arrangement inr the Loan of
Gmbharil is only incidental. The negociation of an emi-
nent London capitalist is still going on, and as some houses
have had a hint that in this negociation it is intended to
reimburse Cue. 'a Loan, or that the holders of his
bonds shoulde the privilege of exchanging them for
Id
the New Loan, y have purchased, in the double expec-
tation of negocia g the bonds at a profit, or of exchanging
them for those of the New Loan."

Mr. Lamb's motion, on Tuesday night, to allow the as-
sistance of Counsel to persons tried for felony, ought not
to have failed: its object was even-handed justice; and its
success would have remedied one of the most oppressive
evils in the criminal code of the country. Mr. Lamb spoke
convincingly and ably on the subject : the introduction of
the motion was equally honourable to his head and to his
heart; lie supported his arguments, not by the idle and
flimsy declamation with which be was opposed, but by the
best references to facts and history—by inferences drawn
from the past experience of other days, when the agitated
and sacrificed accused, standing at the bar of a Court, in pe-
ril of biz life, felt the weight of judicial authority, the pre-
judices of a Prerogative Judge, the collected array of Go-
vernment Counsel pressing at once upon him, with nothing
he could summon to bear up against the load, but his own
broken strength, and, perhaps, feeble innocence, when his
existence hung upon a despairing effint. . We trust the day
never will come, when, as Mr. Lamb said, a prisoner's
safety way depend on the advocacy of such Judges as a
Jeffher, a Page, or an Aysooitgli: but what has been may
be: Judges are but men, subject to all the failings and the
passions that influence authority in other situations; and
the Bench, though now purr, may at some future day be
las arbitrary and tyrannical as in the days of Scroggs and
Jr Fries, in the worst times of the Tudors and the Stuarts.
A well-meaning and an independent Jury would be, in
such a case, the best safeguard of the subject: but we
know also that Juries, even in rases of life and death,
Icannot divest themselves of the prejudices and passions of
men ; that the very accusation of a foul crime, unsupported
by proof, carries with it a stain, that even the longest life
of irrepreachable character cannot afterwards wholly wash

Yesterday a Court of Director was held at the East-
India house, when Captain Barrow was sworn into the
command of the ship General Hewitt, consigned to Bengal
direct.

The East laths (7ompany's ship Farquharson arrived
off Mounts Hay on the 4th instant. She sailed from ('hina
on the 9th of December, from the Cape on the 2d of
February, and from St. Helena on the 17th of February.
Among the crowd of distinguished visitors at Mr. Bul-
lock's interesting exhibitions of ancient and modern Mexico,
yesterday, we were enabled to notice--
His Royal II iglmess the Doke of Sussex, the Princesses Augusta
and Soyhis, the Bishop of London and family, the Bishop of Ely,
the Bishop of Carlisle mid faintly, the Marquis and Marchioness of
l.ansdown, the Count and Countess Munster, Lady Bathurst and
friends, Lord Bexley, //lapilli' and .Verchionena of Staiford and
friends Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl and Countess Tankerville, Lady
Dundas and friends, 'tight Hon. Sir Charles Long, Lady Hamilton
and friends Lady Clifibnl and :riends, Lady Abdv, Lord Arden
and friends, Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant-General Trent, Sir A.
' Crichton arid friends, Sir J. Swinburn and friends, Sir Abraham
Hume and friends, Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, Sir J. G.
Egerton and friends, sir Anthony Carlisle, 1)r. Poynter, &c. &c.
—The Exhibition more than realizcs public expectation,
highly raised as it may have been.

THE KING'S COURT, LEVEE, 4c.

DRURT-LANE THEATRE.

Yesterday was the day appointed for his Majesty to I We were prevented yesterday, by a press of matter, from
hold his second Levee this season, which was very nue saying anything of Mr. Kean's performance of the
merously attended, there being near one thousand per- Stranger, to Kotsebue'n play of that name. Refection
eons present, whom the King received with his aecus- has assisted us to discover in Mr. Kean's representation
'tomes condescension and affability. A detachment from' that which the immediate impression of the inoment was
the King's Guard martin d into the Palace-yard, in Pall- I insufficient to teach us. Taken, as we were, by his power-
mall, preceded by the band of the First Regiment of Foot I ful display of genius, we had not time to detecttuhreaa;:i
Guards, at half-past one o'clock; and soon after, a detach- mirable dial he used in the trying character sustained by
m.nt of the Life Guards, as Cuirassiers, precteLd by a nu- him on Tuesday. To explain--lioteebue, we Mild:, did
mesons hand. I not intend to make the betrayed friend and diahonourel
The Officers of the Court were at their stations, in their , husband a misanthrope: the principles of high hono
state uniforine. I the intensity of love with which lie endowed him would
Two o'clock was the hour appointed for the commence- not allow of this inversion. When our faith in the human
ment of the Court; in a short time after, the King en- I heart has been violated, and the chill touch of despair has
toed his closet, and held a Privy Council, which was at- I checked the ardent current of our young and eonflding
tended by moat of the Cabinet Ministers. I
hopes, the transition is not to hate, which is a passion : but
His Majesty gave audience to the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. all passion is dead ; we no longer feel interested enough
C'anning, Mr. Peel, the Earl of Clancarty, Baron Fagel, I with the ways of men or their concerns to hate them ; •the
and Baron Langsdorff, the resident Minister of Hesse, who ' sensation that lodges in our cracked hearts is that of a
was presented to his Majesty on his return from the Con- dark and dreary void—the blank unimaginative melancholy
tincnt. Ile bad also the honour of being presented upon of the soul. This would induce our conduct to be net
his marriage. social, but not repulsive; it would bespeak, it is true, a
Prince de Polignac, the French Ambassador, came want of harmony or sympathy of mind, but it would not
instate. evince disgust, much less hatred towards others: and
The foreign Ambassador! and Ministers protein were, here we account fur the reluctance of the Stranger to
the Prussian, Portuguese, Danish, Sardinian, Netherlands, ' receive so much as the thanks of the father and mother of
Bavarian, Sicilian, Russian, Baden, and Hesse ; and Mr. I the child, whose life he had saved at the peril of his own.
Colgithonti (the Counsellor to the Austrian Ambassador) ' It' this conception be correct, we are justified in ciying
for the Henze Towns. I that there was in Mr. Kean's Manger too much toorae
There were also present— I and soured impatience shewn towards the world, and
His Royal Highness the Duke of York, ththeeAr.ohnblisiotep.aardof.Canthe-
II wwhhoic,hhianvaidoge hzeiteenivaelprewmar ienmtilgiehtflyrstio
jotrhyref:.r.oatetosolniek.eoa.itinii:,rti
it'Sillastd: ito w • k his sense of it upon all. But mark the art in all
tetbury3iast ,a,indtille.orilko,rsteh,ctilmie
the
olflouandoolnd,andthe
wreak
honour of Knighthood— this . Had Kean been less repulsive to our feelings—had
ndteollwaesofsit:(Pe3elitterr°. Sl,l)hsterthleirlir,ldo,artiduir3Wileadarror). iortfhedemiStilliimccompinied
by Sheriff his manner gained upon us by carrying to our !mans a
l'errin. the Secretary at War, the Under Secretary of State for the sense of his misery, the contrast in the ensuing part of the
Colonial Department. character would have been less striking, and the effect pro-
-Oakes—Leeds, Marlborough, Bk.:arose, Argyll, Athol, %Vel- .
portionably weakened. But when the morose man recog-
lington, and Dorset.
lifarosiscs--Conyngharn. Exeter. Downshire, Lanadown, sane. nines in Count Steinhrt his friend, then a light bulge
bury, Huntly, Anglesey'. and ltath. ! forth and around him, and tells us that he is not 'that
Earle—Liverpool, Roden, Abergavenry, Darnley, Cardigan, which we had hitherto thought him to be ; that his heart,
though shattered, was not seared ; and that nature's
kindlier elements still blended with If being.ls Fran
sc6lFfftifo°lk,rd'ld,
331:1:an:stintrchilde:,31:Las;e:La:caroarrjBeTrYr;onel;:ealg‘ilui,icar,bnamotizreik't:hEn4 to:erversn,:l,l3ladtzort..ne. 3r:lc-in , _
agu in
hise friend
disi 0
nocouurl,d
Bathurst, Westmorland, Talbot, Harrowby, Morley, Clam:any, this moment Mr. Kean was all that the most can.
th°llePet.hotTighhet dotf.eptbaentsi•iilmlamin°wveahohledir iset,
Plymouth, and Uxbridge.
seemed too mighty for him to endure; and when he told
Vircoauts—Eastman. Palmerston, SydnLeybri,
123xfoonrpet, huougizz,, Deer-
the Count that " the fiend seducer! his ariliq and bore her
lguri'lican:df—lkonol,l4l:Siitedvmoue'rezittlioierer,d,3folreivi;allrlPe.:Pirtei,:tftogrstlin.a;ntiifrord,
W.
Fitzroy,
Cawdur, Sherbonw, Montegue William Graham, Eastnor, 'rte. from him," his very heart seemed to burst in telling of eat
lamore, Henniker, C. Townshend, Barham, G. Hill, Churchill, deed. Then, as it' exhausted by the confliction of an in.
Csrbee7, tense love and a profound principle of honour, his spirit
BellalYhanivnego., Ill'eonrcdble'hesteraT'S.lSeAnYgimutdaue: Prudhoe, TSetaffig"uaaalni. ta, Ben- glided into a mod calm but extreme pathos :—a sense of
tinck, G. Cavendish, Ravensworth, Gosiord, a. Howard, Holland,
St. Helens, Clarendon, Bexley. the world's opinion, and hie injuries, every now and then
Right Hommrabicr--Strattorti Canning, Sir G. F. Hill, Charles breaking forth, sufficient to tell how heartless and unlike
Wynn, H. Elliot, G. Canning, Robert Peel, Robinson, and the true dictations of nature are the severe prohibitory
Arbuthnot. judgments of the world in cases like his.
Hostoaraties—W. Scott, —Windsor, T. Liddell, E. Stewart, "Oh ! what a feast would it be for the painted dolls and rennin
Captain Cam bell, R.N., Rev. G. Pelle., E. spencer, Captain of the world, when I appeared among them with my runaway site
Liddell, A. W ve, C. Shore, J. S. S. Cooke,_ W. Temple, upon my anti ! What mocking, whispering, pointing! N.rer!
47ra
Captain S. 31. G ner, H. Lindsay, —lrby, 'l'. A. Erskine, never! never!"
Colonel Grant, ALP., and Captain Roux. The asperity with which this was spoken, and the re-
Sirs—W. K. Grant, G. Martin, J. Malcolm, W. Sterling, A. .
sowed energy with which Mr. Kean uttered the words
Cooper, Pocock, &c. t
Bisho Bristol. Salisbury, London, St. Aleph, and Lincoln. " Never ! never . never !" betrayed a mind capable cf see-
Arclteecou of Dublin. ing the injustice of the world's ways in these matters, yet
Drams—Durham and Christ Church. not courageous enough to withstand them. There was also
to be discovered, in this bootless sneer, a feeling still latent
111.. Doctors—Russell, Sheath, Morrison, D.D., Baler, Chafy,
Bellamy, and Pearson.
smith, in his heart, to be restored to the beautiful sinner who had
su torn it. The last scene was triumphantly effective,
31sDuctairronkr,uorilouV—Scueath_oerdnazhead:res,anPdpreollEolerkgh,' Paris, ,sndT. Robinson.oirt.onD. "
and stamped the completion of Mr. Kean's success in
Alderown—Atkins, Venables, Ileygate, Garratt, and Cox. this very trying and interesting character. Mrs. West's
Cuants—Worourow and Ludole performance was, upon the whole, very good. Her
Admirals—Sir G. Martin, Sir E. Thornbmugh, Sir I. Coffin,
Mrs. Muller does not, indeed, partake of the heart-
rending grief that so particularly distinguished Miss
Dmioogbryz: Sirsir
JT.l4W.elililzi
Janise.c3lß.aryhror,d HRoantiaStorir
kes,. Inolotutigal,,, SsiLtitt„.
Sir C. Rowley, Sind' Rowley, Sir P. Malcolm, sir It. 3looesom, O'Neill in this character ; but to us we confess it seems
more correct to nature that the grandest emotions of the
ToUemache, Sir J. Gore, Plympin, Sir J. Sutton, Sir P. C. S. D.
Page.
Sir soul should be evinced by the language that speaks in the
Generals—Sir A. Hope, Sir W. Hutchinson, Callander, Sir
sjiadllei,aciteodeach,
eAyi,,LeAshrapnleil,:xidDlNDtanacicons,
,Blleiyobonw,
,etti.m‘.ea.n.e. K. Grant, look look and tone, rather than by the rage and tumult of sound
and declamation ; and for this reason we prefer, and were
kiason, Moaheim, Darling. Sir C. Grant, Fraser, Blunder), Moo- happy to witness in Mrs. West's acting last night, that
tresor, Pigot, Lord Blantyre, Sir (.i. Airey, Sir W. Anson, Earl quiet repose which breathed forth her anguish without the
aid of starts and sobs, and which in general does not
Cavan, Sir irsirlLuCa..livnert,gti4l
Lethbridge,
eS..ir
sTir. dce. Rwo.alttene: buor,gbogh, Careiany:
belon to this la I.' at •.lof actin t We however think
ty s y e e.
sir S. Dalrymple. Sir J. Malcolm, Sir J. Lion, Kenyon, 3los- : II
halo, Si, F..Maclean, Thiall, Si- C. Doyle, 1C.C.8., Adais, Sir the failed in some of the parts, particularly when she re-
H. Askew, Sir H. Montresor, Burne, Sir G. cooke, sir A. Clarke, ceivca from her lord the casket of jewels. Perhaps, the re-
Burton, J. G. Scott, E. I. S., Sir H. Pane, Earl of Cork, bold collections they bring up, ought not to have been told at all,
E. Somerset, Sir T. Ilislop, Sandiland, Moore, Sir W. flows- so that the fault is rather that of the author than of the
ton, Dyott, Stowin, Finch.
The agitated state of her mind would not, in na-
Colesels—Hon. H. Townshend, Sir J. C. Smyth, Lindsay, actress.
Lord G. Lennox, Sir R. Arbuthnot. K.C.C. &c. ture, suffer such a minute recite/ of the scenes of former
Majors—Deere, A. Morrison, Sitwell, W. Forrest, Close, Bowles. happiness, although the circumstance would cause them to
Captains—Fitzgerald, 7th Royal Veteran Battalion, Sykes, R.N. strike the ,memory most vividly. After the play, Mr.
Alildmay, Hon. Coventry, Bm. Terry cline forward, but the audience called for Mr,
Lieutenants—G. Mathias, R.A., Macqueen, Otway. ece.
Kean, who immediately appeared, and received the en-
C.JCl.eSsitmrs.—oh,BlackNezth.bumFe,ano,T.llltod'.Rgzoothiset. 11,..WF0z. Tterarorism, H. Windsor,
thusiastie applause of a most delighted and crowded
The following were among the numerous presentations audience. lie then announced the Stranger for repe-
to his Majesty, by Lord Glen' yon, the Lord in Waiting:— tition on Saturday next. Mr. Terry afterwards returned
Colonel Sir James Carmichael Smyth, upon his return from the thanks in the name of the Western Philanthropic Instim-
West Indite, by the Duke of Wellington. tion, and said, that after every expense was defrayed, there
The Right Hon. Stratfonl Canning kissed hands and wss.pre- would be upwards of 3001. to add to its funds.
sented by Mr. Secretary Canning, upon his return from America.
Major Jollifte, on his return then abroad, by Sir Walter
Stirling.
Mr. William Rae Wilson, on his return from abroad, and to pre-
sent his Travels in Turkey, Greece, lonian Isles, Sicily, and
Spain, which was most graciously received.
Conimissary-Benerad Wood, on his return from Canada.
Richard Stafford Cooke, Esq.
Sir Thomas Hardy, on his return from the South American sta-
tion, by Viscount Melville.
Dr. Theodore Gordon, on his appointment as Physician Extraor-
dinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of York.
:..n. Pollock, on his return from India.
The Rev. Mr. Warren Haynes, by Sir Robert Wigram.
Mr. T. C. Bridges, on his going abroad.
31v. Herbert, on his appointment as Fiscal of the United Culo-
nies of Demerara and Essequibo.
3lr. Laxcelles, on his marriage.
31r.James Williams was presented, to receive the honour of
Knighthood, as was Captain G. A. Westphel, by Mr. Peel.
Al. Chevalier, Surgeon Extraordinary to his Blajesty, to present
a copy tat his lecture, delivered before the Royal Collegeof Surgeons
in WM.

ORATORIO-DRURT-LANE.

We have said so much on the subject of the Oratorios pro-
duced at this theatre, that we have now little inclination
to enter at any length into their further consideration. We
have been informed, that stone of our remarks have given
displeasure in certain quarters, the which surprises us not
a little, as we imagined we guarded ourselves, in every
possible manner, from offering either slight or offence to
any. What we confidently felt, we honestly uttered; and
praise indiscriminately we never mean to beitow. It would
be of no service to those on whom it might be lavished,
and it would seriously injure the character of the jour-
nalist who would offer it. We are quite aware that it is
unnecessary, nay, we will add, unjust, for the critic to
step out of his way in order to indulge in censure ; but
artists, of all others, are so keenly susceptible, that really
they arc not to be fully credited when they complain smiths:
animadversion. They estimate their merits too often by
their own standard, and forget that men are not always
the safest judges in their own cause. We wish to re-
spect every class of persons whose labours are useful to society ;
lot us only give honour to those to whom honour is due; we are not
disposed to feed the vain-glory of those who are pulled up by their
own conceit ; but we shall always be happy to notice the exer-
tions of all, when those eitertions are of a nature to demand approval.
The artists who complain should be pleased to remember that
" Praise undeserved is satire in disguise."
We have sr id that a mania prevailed upon the subject of music,
but we did not say that it was either produced or ill-directed by those
who teach it. R e have said that moue, if carried to excess, might
be productive of mischief, and we have not been guilty of the
pedantry of uoti ng those authorities, both ancient and modern, hich
would justify our holding that opinion, because our own experience
is at all events enough foe us. We have not, however, said that the
charucter of our modern music is lowered to what it was, though we
might have said so without any breach of truth. We havi not said spy
thing in censure of the patch-work compositions which peculiarly
nitric the most popular musicians of this day ; of their unseknow-
Weed 'Offerings ; and worse, of their perverted adaptations of this
ill-got store. But we ask any impartial man if he thinks tbeoperas
of this day will ever become stock-pieces? They never can ; they
are writ vii to suit the reigning favorites, male and female, and
not constructed with any regard to the subject of the opera. Of the
ideas which they ought to clothe. We have distress pictured to us
in lyrics and in sprightly measure • sublimity takes its station in tame
trumpet ; and harm° .y emanates from the drum. Unity of design
and consistency of parts are in a great degree neglected rapidity
of transition seems the great end of the composers, and, to own the
truth, the apparent source of gratification to nine-tenths of Or
auditory. Storacc did little to improve our operatic taste, but tf;
operas are still played, and still draw crowded houses; but after
season the operas since his time are generally shelved. There are. s'r
know, some exceptions; hut the exceptions from the rule prove
we are correct as to the inferiority of our modern compo,cr'.
They may be own of genius and industry—of industry. they
certainly are, for there is not a foreign musician of any eminence,
who cannot final a portion of his lahnurs contributing to tine hauls
and the fortunes of our popular composers. We feel for the humour
of our nation. We know the material of musical excellence is to be
found amongst us, if properly encouraged; but we much fear the
utility of the Royal Academy, when we look at the nature of ad
the other academies in our metropolis. Intrigue, and cabal, ard
self-interest, absorb so much of their attention. that merit, pr-
ticularly if in obscurity, has little chance of seeing the day-bght
by their fostering protection. ilowever, of this at wine rather op-
portunity ; and now to the Oratorio of fast night. We Mlle on-
not speak in too high terms of the unahating eawWms d 31_,r•
Bochaa, to give satisfaction to his patrons and the pobße t Iwo
we hope he will not be disappointed of that remit still
so richly deserves, though we fear the present seises walls boo
as pmperous as our wishes would have it. The sthetiass d
night were numerous. and displayed both taste and Nelms is their
dunce. The treasures of the ancients and the moderns were
poured forth in sbunflanee, and the various performers, v0ca1,....,,nd
histrumental, seemed• to feel the power of the melody, wow'
they uttered with a truth and feeling that delighted the ear and
thnlled the heart. We had in the course of the evening Handel."
Overture to Estila ; the Hymn of Eve, bylh. Ante ; Selections
from the Deluge, by Boehm* ; trout the Prophecy, by that inge-
nious yoeng gentleman. 51r. Wade; from Rivalries Sacred Mara*
of Cyrus in Babylon and Moses in Egypt--with some of the most

I.llr. Bingham Bering, on his marriage.
Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, on his being created a
Baronet.

Sir Charles Abney liamings, on taking the name of Abney.
Sir James 311iregor, 1/irector General in the .triny, Medical
rkpartnient, on his being appointed Physician Extraordinary to
his Majesty.
Sir John English, on his being appointed one of the Physicians
in.(Mlinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
Mr. 11. beggatt, on his marriage, by the Lord in Waiting.
Davis,lsrut -Cs 1. on his marriage.
M. A. W. Des Barns, Attorney-General, late Governor of
Cape Breton, un his return troll America.
Mr. Capel, by the Earl of Essex, on his appointment to the Life
Guards.
Mr. Charles Mackinnon, on his return from the East Indies.
Lieut. Hon, on his anaintment to the Uth Hussars.
Captain James Haldane 'fait, /L.'S., by Vice-Admiral Sir Wil-
Liam Johnstone Hope, K.C.B.
Mr. William I)unoutribe, on his marriage, by Mr. Duncombe.
Lieutenant W. O. Stanley, grenadier guards, on his appoint-
' ment, by Colonel Townsend.
lasutenant Nugent, grenadier guards, on his appointment, by
Colonel Townsend.
Lieutenant-Colonel 3legrechi, on his marriage.
Alajor, 'Trevor, Bedfordshire yeomanry cavalry, by Lieutenant-
Colonel Macqueen.
Lieutenanussolonel Moore, grenadier guards, on promotion, by
Viscr.unt Sithnou th.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsey, grenadier-guards, on his promo-
tion, by Colonel the lion. 11. 'I. ownseniL
Lieutenant !tenpin, Bedfordshire yeomanry, on promotion, by
Lieutenant-Colonel Macqui.en.
Lieutenant !Inward, 24.1 life-guards, by Earl Cathcart, on his
apporntinent.
Mr. W. Munday, son of 3lr. 3lunday, M.P. for Derbyshire, by
his father.
Captain W. 11. Sykes. Bombay army, on his return to India.
Mr. William Jones Armstrong, on his return front the West
Indies, by Alr. Ilulmes.
31:thor Roehfort, on his being appointed Consul-General for
East Friesland.
Rev. 1/r. smith, on his promotion to the Deanery of Christ
Church, Oxford. _ .

Ihe remainder of the prexer lotions, which were extremely nu-
merous, will, if possible, be given to-morrow.

MR. BARTLEY'S LECTURE.

This Gentleman again delivered his admirable Lecture
on Astronomy last night, to a respectable audience, at the
English Opera House. Aided by a good voice and correct
delivery, we almost lose that monotony of tone which will ever, in
a lets or greater degree, be felt in s continual repetition of the lame
language, the mind becoming gradually less identified with its
subject, proportionately to the familiarity it acquiresreyi i. lbws
annual Lectures, on the divinest subjects that can be int as es
contemplation of the human mind, deserve to bo
Astronomy is a science so well calculated to improve anlialh=lidrsa
mind, and, at the same time, so little taught to youth, nage early
years are oftener spent in les, important acquirement, that we feel
particularly anxious to countenance the Lectures of well.infoned
men, and consider it to be almost a duty, with every parent, so in-
troduce his children to these intellectual and sublime studies.

favourite airs of Bishop, Stevenson. Eusby, and Jackson. Mr.
Ilulkin spin astonished by his esti-1111.in nn the flute ; and another
foreigner, whose name we cannot venture to spell, as we have lost
the play.bill, obtained applause for • fantasia on the forte.piann.
Of the two Mimes Valise we Audi he
he able to speak wn we have
the ;demure of • further arquaintance with dial, ; and of Alias
Melville we will only say, that she strengthens her claims to ap-
proval by every further . Miss Eulint isnot the happiest
mkomute toe Mint M. see but we suppose it war. a case of ne-
sessity, and therefore disarming criticiam. For the other vocalists,
we need only repeat their the spell of song has long been
upon them, and a gratified public has rrwanied them with well-
meted applause :—Mrs. Salmon, Miss Paton, Miss Iloodall, Mr.
Brabant, Mr. liopio, Mr. Phillips, and though last, not least, Mr.
T. Vookr, exerted themsves with great effect- and what work
cannot sueb a host achieve? The House was crowded.