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THE BOOKSELLING 'TRADE:.
On Tuesday evening, at the rooms et Mr. John Chap-
man, 142, Strand, a number of gent:lolnm authors, pub-
liihers, and bimksellers, Met, convened by circular, ".to
agree upon such an eipression of opinion" on the ques-
tion of the dispute in the booksOing business " as may
hasten the removal of the present trade restrictions, on
the commerce of literature." The circular further in-
timated that the expedieney of Abe advocates ot a free
trade in books Seeking. an interview with Lord Campbell,
Mr. Grote, and Dr. !Allman,' "the arbitrators" selected
by the opposing parties, would be submitted to con-
sideration. .

Mr. CHARLES DICKENS (who, was called upon to act
as chairman, and who was, very warmly received), paid
that on being requested to, take the chair, he had in the
first instance declined, on the ground 'that they had met
to discuss what was a bookseller's question, and not an
author's til:d But consideration suggested that ho
might on that very account be better qualified to act as
chairman, as being necessarily impartial in a contention
betwcen different elaises of booksellers and publishers.
He was,z on principle, most strongly opposed to any

tern, in any commercial direction,- .of exclusion or
restriction. - He held that every man, whatever his call-
ing, must be felt' to the fair and free exercise of,hie.own
iseseatethriftseta4-enterniEse. Iroltrig 'that opinion, he
was there tonight to make a protest against a nerd-
cuter system of restriction;_ and he trusted 'that a. satis-
factory result would be obtained,—(Cheers.) .
Letters were read -excusing the absence of the writers,
and expressing approval in the purposes of the meeting,
from Mr. Cobden, Mr., Thos. Carlyle, Mr. John Stuart
Mill, Professor De Morgan, Mr. Henry Cole, Mr. James
Wilson, Mr. W. J. Fox, Mr. George Combe, Mr. J.
M'Culloch (of the Stationery-office), Mr. W. E. Glad-
stone, Mr. Robert Chambers, Mr. Leigh Flunte Mr. Wm.
Weir, Mr. WO3. Hewitt', Mr. Robert Hunt, Mr. A. B.
Reach, and other gentlemen. The letter from Mr. Car-
lyle, as highly characteristic, we append:—
" Chelsea, &lay 3, 1852—Sir,—Unluckily I shall not
be able to attend your meeting on Tuesday evening, but
I can. have no hesitation in testifying my concurrence
with the object of it, which I understand, in brief;
to be free-trade in books, or the first step in a course
leading straight towards that. Free trade in re-
spect of books, and, indeed, of most other ob-
jects, is by no means the ultimatum one aspires to, or
the perfect condition that will satisfy the world's want
in the matter; ve: y far from that in many cases; and in the
case of literature, farther than in any
.other whatsoever.
lint surely in all cases, and in that of literature too, free
trade is better than trade unjustly crippled by monopolies
which are merely blind and greedy; in present circum:-
stances, free trade were a clear improvement; and more-
over, in the critical disposition -of the world, it is a first
stage through which all faulty things must pass, and only
beyond and after trial of which can any progress thaVvvill
prove true and lasting be looked for. For the rest, I fear
there are few branches of human industry, and most clearly
literature is not one of them—in which the shopkeeper
spirit (so we may call it for the sake of definition) will
suffice to regulate production and distribution 'according
to the world's real want and interest: in regard to very
many there is perpetually needed a generous merchant
spirit (which it may be feared free-trade and
active competition will not much tend to develop among
us)—and in regard to some, there is needed a
spirit higher than any kind of merchandise, and
not looking to profit and loss for advice at
all. Now certainly, beyond all Other objects, li-
terature in its higher forms belongs to the latter class';
to these two latter classes it belongs in all forms of
have nay
looking only value to mankind for the mere
to . the visible vicinity,
and sharpened into ever greater eagerness for imme-
diate returns, is smitten- with eternal incompetence in
sithothpkaetep
even the finance of literature, and can do no good what-
ever there that would not otherwise be done, and does
immensities of mischief there which perhaps might
otherwise remain undone. •
" All this is true even of 'the finance of literature:—
and, alas: literature has many elements besides the finan-
cial, and far more important to it than the financial; in
regard to all of which it would so gladly cease to be
anarchic, and become well ordered, and well governed,
if it only could. Truly, to consider how society at pre-
sent stands related to literature may well fill the think-
lug man with astonishment, with anxiety, almost with
terror. The duties of society towards literature in those
new coalitions of the world are becoming great, vital,
inexpressibly intricate, little capable of. being done or
understood at present, but alt-important to be un-
derstood and done, if society will continue to
exist with it, and it along with society. From
the highest business of spiritual culture and the
most sacred interests of men, down to the lowest
economic and ephemeral concerns where " free press"
rules supreme, society may sea itself, with all its sove-
reignties and parliaments, depending on the thing it calls
literature, and bound, under incalculable penalties, to very
many duties in regard to thatl—of which duties, I per-
ceive, finance alone, and free trade alone, will by no
means be found to be the same. But such considerations
lie far beyond our present business, and must not be
more than alluded to here. •
" What alone concerns us here is to remark that the
present system of book publishing discharges none of
these duties, less and less mnkes oven the appearance
of discharging them;• and indeed as I believe is, by the
nature of the case, incapable of ever in any perceptible
degree discharging any of them in the times that
now are. A century ago there was in the , book-
selling guild=if never any royalty of.spirit, as how
could such be looked for there?—yet a spirit .of
solid merchanthood, which had its value in regard to the
prosaic facts of literature,
,and is ever to be thankfully
remembered there. Of this solid merchant spirit, if we
take the victualling and furnishing of such an enterprise
as Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary for its English
feat (as perhaps we justly may), and many a "
moires," Encyclopedia 13ritannica," &c., in this coun-
try and in others for its lower, we must gratefully
admit the real usefulness, respectability, and, merit to
the world. But in later times, owing to many causes
which have been active, not on the book guild alone,
such spirit has long been diminishing, end has now
es good as disappeared, without hope of re-
suscitation in that quarter. The spirit of the book
trade, it is mournfully evident, is that of modern
trade generally, no better and no worse a hand-
to-mouth spirit, incapable of ever again paying for even
a Johnson's Dictionary; not what I can call a merchant
spirit, but (on the great or on the small scale) a shop-
keeper 'one. Such is the melanchoiy fact, so far
as my experience and observation have taught me
to form an opinion. If my vote is inquired of in
the matter, I grieve to say, and am not con-
scious of either anger or of favour in saying, it is
authentically this which leads me—and, indeed, has long
since led me—to infer that the publishing guild, taking
large wages for doing indispensable work, and quite
omitting to do it, is in no sate or lasting position before
the public, and will prove 'incapable of standing, unless it
Can escape being inquired into. If the public itself (as
I by no means believe, or ever believed) is adequate, by
froa trade or otherwise, to remunerate literature, the,
public 'ought to. have at least a chance of trying to do
it. The present system, by which above one-half of
the selling price of a book (` from 55 to 65 per, cent.,
including advertisements)' is paid over to a min
or set of men, not' who write it or print it, or bind
it, or make paper for it, but who show it across
the counter and draw in the money, remained, to all who
look at it in this point of view, one of the most aatonish•
ing ever seen in human commerce, and seems to me, in
these days, destined to speedy abrogation when once the
public has got eye on it.
" My own interest in the business, I confess, is not of
a lively nature; nor are my hopes for the world, from
such a revolution, what they once might have been;
but such is, and has long been, my view of the case
now come in hand. No duty being done, to litera-
ture but a shopkeeping one, let us have at least the
eligible kind of shopkeeping—your 55 per cent. reduced
gradually (as we find it in America just now) to 15 or
to 10, with books about half the price they now bear,
and with 20 times, or 40 times, as many readers to them
as new—after that, we shall see.
" In haste; I remain, sir, yours very truly,
(Signed) " T. CARLYLE.
" John Chapman, Esq., Publisher, 142, Strand."
Mr. JOHN CHAPMAN then rose to make a statement
explanatory of the circumstances which had led to the
meeting, and descriptive of the position of the contro-
versy. He, in the.first place, entered into the reasons
which had induced him to decline an informal in-
vitation to be present at the deputation of the Book-
sellers' Asaociation to Lord Campbell. Since then he bad
Wad a letter from Mr. Low, the secretary of the
aiksellers' AssoCiation informing him that Lord
Campbell and his
otahs erconference, and, asking if be could attend. This
w
the question which the present meeting had been
called to decide. The
fellowinc, 4„was the correspondence
which
between
himself.(bir. Chapman)
and Lord Campbell

" 142 St and, April 24, 1852.
"To the Right Honour:abler Lord Campbell. •
My Lord,—lt is intended to hold a meeting at my
house abut ten days h e n ei
ne ,
mfionrd,t
thehaeri depxrtpohrmee
solDsteiedoannwoi
olfififnrsge
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taantpidauo
arthose
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nreadwlhoicohfferr, Lmod with
trade in books. Bearing
willing-
ness of your Lordsheninpmy,alllye;b.peiGat:
prraoettpieoa
f;vrolltcourliswteanhtmo
the understanding that an interview with you
will not commit us to any ulterior course it is probable
that at the meeting about to take place,
bo appointed to wait on your Lordship, for the
of stating the views we entertain, and to furnish fug
arguments as we believe will prove their correctness, in
order that your Lordship and the gentlqmen ItsciniL4ted
withyasintly Do lei poaeliii9ll Qf ial the dot; mosiary

for the formation of a lust opinion, before advising the
representatives of the Booksellers' Association, who
have hoot:el-themselves to abide byy-our Lorciship'e de-
cision. I shall be glad to know whether, in the event
of such a deputation being appointed, it will be conve-
nient to your Lordship to faveux us ,with an audience,
apart from the gentlemen who repreieni the Booksellers'
Associetion. They have already adduced
such evidence
as they consider sufficient to ensure year Lordship's
judgment in their favour; and as we have no desire to
enter into a personal dise,uasioti with them on the sub-
ject, a separate interview, would be enore accordant with
our views. I venture to write before the meeting above
referred to takes place, in order to prevent inconvenience
},our Lordship, tis I learn that; your Lordship has
already consented to meet tho representatives of the
Booksellera' Associatiou on the 17th of May.—l am, .my
Lard, yOtir tordship's obedient servant, ..
" Jones
" Stratheden House, April 28, 1852.
" Sir,—l myself would be most happy—and so lam
sure would the Dean of St. Paul's and Mr. Grote—to con-
fer with the deputation you mention, upon the terms you
propose. But, instead of yur cousin' g.to us separately, I
strongly advise you to attend here on the 17th of May.
We appointed that day expressly to afford you an oppor-
timity of meeting us, and by no means exclusively for
the association. You may elepend upon it, that from the
proposed arrangement nothing unpleasant to, any of the
parties can occur.
"I remain, your obedient servant,
"John Chapman, Esq."
" CAMPBELL.
Lord Campbell fully understanding that while his
opinion would be respected, his arbitration was not to be
accepted as final or decisive. The statement. of Mr.
Chapman was, in effect, a reproduction of the documents
and arguments with which the public is already familiar.
It was listened to throughout with great interest.
Mr. BABBAGE moved the first rnelotiont Tbe prin-
ciples of free Article having zioergeedtommobild ~by„ cite,
tiortence as well as by argument, it is the opinion of this
meeting that they ought to be applied to books as to all
other articles of commerce." The principles enunciated
in this resolution he had held all his life, applying them
to the commerce of literature as to every other trade.
He was convinced that the Booksellers' .Association
greatly misapprehended both their rights and their in-
terests; and, though there might in some quarters be
some temporary mischief, as the consequence of abolish-
ing artificial regulations and consenting to a natural and
vrholeiale trade, he was satisfied in the end general bene-
fit even to the retail booksellers themselves would be the
result. He did not see why the arrangement for a more
natural state of things could not be made gradually and
quietly. This was a matter in which there need be no
violent hurry. Free trade in this, as in every depart-
ment was inevitable; and it was folly to attempt the
maintenance of any artificial regulation of the price of
such a commodity as a book.
Mr. ROBERT BELL seconded the resolution. He re-
earded this indirectly as an author's question, the sale
of an author's book, and being dependent upon the price
of the book. Ile had some doubts if the expression
"free trade" was discreetly used in the resolution. The
phrase might leave some wrong quasi-political impres-
sions, and might deter the alliance of some friends; and,
further" than that, he questioned if competition, pro-
perly considered as competition in the ordinary commer-
cial sense, would be regarded as applying to the book
trade. For instance, he could not see how Mr. Ma-
caulay's " History," or any similar distinctly eminent
book, could be regarded as being exposed to competi-
tion. Ia the main principle implied in the resolution he
entirely agreed. The retailer became absolute proprietor
of the copy which he purchased; and it was obviously
his right to sell that property at whatever price be
pleased. Perhaps there might be unfair underselling, if
all restrictions were removed; and this was to be avoided
by the publisher diminishing the margin of allowance
between the advertised and the trade price.
ll of Mr. T. SAUNDERs (bookseller,Classing-cross), ad-
dressed the meeting. The gist of his observations was,
that the Booksellers' Association was proceeding upon
the fairest, principles of trade, and that the restrictions
which were kept up were necessary for the protection
of the dealer. " Free trade" had nothing to do with the
question. He was a free-trader; but he denied that
this question of the regulations of a trade could be set-
tled with reference to the axioms of free trade. Free
trade applied to the taxes on books, and to the import
of books, but not to the terms on which a body of re-
tailers should conduct their business. Mr. Saunders
was supporting the proposition that the meeting was
unwarrantably attempting to interfere with the profits of
the retail booksellers, when several gentlemen inter-
rupted• him, denying that this was the question, and
The CHAIRMAN Saunders that his
suggested to Mr. -
remarks did not apply to the affirmations of the reso-
lution.--(Cheera)
Mr. SAUNDERS would then consent to speak simply
to the precise terms of the resolutions. He continued,
however, in the same strain, and became involved in a
dispute with Mr. Bentley as to the former discounts al-
lowed to the trade.
Mr. NOVELLO replied at length to r igr. Sau
nders.
Mr. G. Wilaos took the same view as Mr. Saunders,
and altogether denied the right of such a meeting to
meddle in trade arrangements.
Mr. SoTnEltoN followed on the same side; and an
angry discussion arose as to the precise points at issue.
[An amendment directly opposed to the resolution was
proposed by Messrs. Willis and Sotheron, and afterwards
withdrawn; and a supplementary discussion was then
provoked es to the right of Messrs. Saunders, Willis, and
Sotheron being present. Mr. Chapman said the meeting
had been convened for a specific object, gentlemen hold-
ing a particular set of opinions only oa, the question hav-
ing been invited; and he explained that on handing one
of the circulars to Mr. Saunders, he had taken for granted
that that gentleman would not offer to take part in the
proceedings. He was surprised, therefore, that Mr.
Saunders and his friends Should have not only spoken,
but moved an amendment. Hereupon, Messrs. Saunders,
Willis, and Sotheron, offered to withdraw; but Mr. Chap'
man begged that they Would not do so; and the chair-
man, with the evident approbation of the meeting ex-
pressed his determination, dissentients being present, to
hoar all they had to say, and fairly y to put whatever pro-
positions
they might think fit to make.]
The resolution, after some further conversation, Was
carried, three hands only being held up against it.
Mr. CARLES KNIGUT proposed, and Mr. Tom TAX-
Lon seconded, the next resolution:—" That the princi-
ples of the. Booksellers' Association are not only op-
posed to those of free trade, but are extremely tyranni-
cal and vexatious in their application, and result in
keeping the prices of books much higher than they would
otherwise be, thus restricting their 'Blle, to the great
injury-of authors, the public, and of all connected with
literature.
Air. BUSH (of the firm of Bickers and Bush) spoke
to the resolution. In his opinion, the association which
came to him to dictate the terms on which he should
deal with his customers might be properly handed over
to the police.—(Laughter.) -
The resolution was carried unanimously, the three dhe
sentients
third resoieasing,
uti to offer further opposition.
The on, which was carried, was proposed
by Professor NawataN, and seconded by Professor
ANSTED:—" This meeting considers the peculiarity of
the book trade—viz., that the publii•her fixes and adver-
tises the retail price of his publications—no valid argu-
ment for the maintenance of the present restrictive sys-
tem, and that the less the office of
the il
sale is centralised in the publisher, andpromoting the more itreta de-
volves on the local bookseller, the bettor for the com-
merce of literature."
Professor Ovum proposed the next resolution—
" That the trade restrictions, failing as they do with
severity upon books of a
limited
peculiar comparative y
circulation, greatly retard the spread of the Meer
branches of science and philosophy by rendering it un-
profitable, profitable,
~,indeed, dangerous, to publish worksde-
voted to them. He illustrated the argument of the re-
solution by referring to his own experience as an author
of books on scientific subjects,
The difficulty of get-
dog such books published had led to combinations of
scientific men, who bad turned amateur publishers, and
4.0 who made the publications pay by fieg
1 natural instead
of artificial prices on them. The publiehing system was
obviously a rotten one, or it would not drive scientific
authors to these resources.
Dr. LANRESTER seconded the resolution; and on
being put it
was
carried.
the fifth
Mr. WARD proposedre. resolution-_" That ex-
perience shown that •
perience having repeatedly trades with arti-
ficially a small roar',
ficie"y,high profits
and
system of low et
gain by being
forced into the natural. profits and a large
of opinion that market; this meetin.gntss,
:lot. the abolition of
so far from
the present restric.tlilo
benefit it:' the book-
selling business, Iv
greatlylided it; and f •
Mr. CHAPMAN BM ter, a speech from
k SAUNDERS, it was carried.
then took place in reference to the
suggOstion to wait upon:i
It teas ulti-
a Chapman should
mately decided that
Lordship, and shotitysdait, on the
appointed, day, on
his. Lordship,
the views of the m convey to
him the resolutions an
rite to Lord Cameehtlng. Mr.
Dickens undertook to .write
batheeined to 1'
P ell, and to
explain that the meetingoo ground aPPoint a com-
mittee as a deputation,
conetitutiaa.gt-tt the
only.
appeal made by thegentlemen not be Courteous to meLeticdg
'was to the public, it would
implying in itself an hie Lord-.
ship toict in a mannerer.
Bush, however,
acoeptance
of his definite umpirager
;dual heer' made it
an in tr. should certainly
understood tin't as the Association of
'attend the deputation isßooksellers
to Strathecien-house- s a _
n broke up After r vot of thanks to
The meeting the
hadexercised the most oonsummate
the Chairman, who
tact " throughout proceedings threatening
to take, an turn.
oar

.)- .„,
urTioN, isitomproN,—.liis
, HOSPITAL FOIL CorgtlP
Royal Highness the Duloot Cambridge, attended by Lord
'William roulett, paid a visit of inspection on Tuesday to the
above institution, preparatory to his takipg the chairyesterday
'at the festival to be held in corarnemorarion of the east wing
emen t
t, Sir Thomas
His, Royal Highness was received by the Rev. Sir IL l'oulis,
the, chairman of the committee of manag
Dr. Carsharn,
-Gladstone, G. Wingfield; Esq., he physician
of the 4ay, and the other officers of the institution. His
Royal. Highness spent a considerable time in the inspection,
,and expressed himself highly gratified with the general az.
rangements.
RATIONAL
ExclsE.„.Whit would be a good sub-
stitute for taxes on ,knowledge ? —Ta*ti- 04 ignorance; te,i.
cam,-in—ite resent state of popular education, fey Would
c 94414117 bo DlRcia more poductlierfruntht

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the Board of Health may perhaps attempt to re-open the
discussion in the House; but there will be little disposi-
tion on the part either of the Government or of Parlia-
ment to overrule the Conclusions at which the Select
Committee have arrived at the close of its laborious in-
vestigation. The present. Bill, as amended, coincides in
almost all respects with the arrangements which we have
repeatedly recommended as just and practicable. The
supply of water to London is still to be confided to pri-
vate enterprise, bat the companies are subjected to va-
rious important restraints and conditions for the protec-
tion of the public. The important question of rates
remains unsettled, in consequence of the judicious
determination of the Committee to deal separately with
the case of every district in the metropolis. The fair
price of water, as of any other commodity, depends on
its cost, and therefore varies greatly according to local
circumstances. Some of the companies are, up teethe
present time, under no legal restriction as regards their
scale of chargee,while others, having recently had occasion
to solicit new Parliamentary powers, aro subjected to the
provisions of the Waterworks Clauses Act. By the
pending Bills a maximum rate will be 'fixed for every
water district in London.; and the Committee will no
doubt take care to provide for future reductions by im-
posing at the same tithe a limit on the diridends, ac-
cording to ordinary modern practice. The progress of
building in the outskirts of London, and the probable in-
troduction of a water supply into the poorer tenements,
may in a few years afford the means, not only of enrich-
ing the stockholders, but of greatly Telieving the present
consumers. The history of the recent struggle affords a
striking proof of the utility of a judicial inquiry in dis-
pelling prejudice, and of the necessity of maintaining the
existing securitjes for the protection of property. Only
`two or thre'e years heti() elapsed since the Board of
Health took advantage of a popular clamour, founded
on their own frivolous and garbled statistics, to recom-
mend that all the existing water resources of London
should be at once arbitrarily abandoned. The Thames
and the streams of Hertfordshire were suddenly disco-
vered to be unfit for human consumption; and the
Board determined to bring supplies exclusively from
the Surrey hills, where no water had previously been
known to exist. It seems strange that any Govern-
ment could so far countenance suph quackery as to
make that project an excuse for impeding all the schemes
which were actually proposed, either by the present
companies or by rival capitalists, for extending or im-
proving the watersupply. At last, however, the Board
attracted the attention of the Administration by a new
and still more daring eccentricity. An ingenious gen-
tleman was sent into Surrey to collect evidence in fa-
boar of the official " gathering -grounds;" and he came
back with a new-fangled project of his own, founded on
a supposed discovery of various springs and streams
which his employers had never heard of. The latter
coolly adopted the substituted plan; and they once more
claimed a monopoly for their new device, at the expense
of all the establishments which had, up to that period,
supplied London with water. Their last vagary had the
fortunate effect of enlightening Sir George Grey as to
the true character of his subordinate advisers. A scien-
tific commission was appointed, which afterwards con-
tradicted in detail almost all the propositions respecting
the quality of our supplies which bad been long and in-
dustriously circulated in blue books at the public ex-
pense; and a Bill—which, however, was wholly untena-
ble in itself—was submitted to a Committee of the House
of Commons, which has been virtually reappointed in the
present session. The measure of 1851 was framed by
Sir William Clay, under the influence probably of a
temporary alarm. It was understood that he
afterwards abandoned his own proposals, and the
Government which endorsed them never affected to give
them any hearty or sincere support. It was provided by
that abortive scheme that all the companies should be
amalgamated, but no principle was laid down for the
valuation of the stock on which the dividends limited by
the Bill were to be calculated. A power of a most ano-
malous kind was given to the Secretary of State, en-
abling him to direct the Water Company at any time to
resort to any new source of supply. It was evident that
this provision was the result of a remnant of the perni-
cious influence formerly possessed by the Board: of
Health. It was perhaps not intended that so extraor-
dinary a discretion should ever be exercised ; but the
clause would have enabled any obstinate or capricious
Minister to rain the Water Company at a moment's
notice, and perhaps at the same time to leave London
dry. It would have been almost as reasonable to
give the Secretary of :State power to order the di-
version of the Great Western Railway into any line
which he might deem preferable to its actual course.
In the present year, the same obnoxious provision
was retained, although Lord Seymour bad the good
sense to abandon the proposed compulsory amalgama-
tion. When the Bill was first introduced, we explained
the objections which attached to its details, stating our
grounds for believing that a Committee would probably
be able to convert it into a working measure. The
Board of Trade, instead of the Secretary of State, is now
to be invested with a certain power of inspection and
control over the ordinary working of each company, and
over the adoption of new sources of supply. All the
existing establishments are to be compelled to filter their
water—a process hitherto employed only by three or
four companies. Covered reservoirs and water-courses
are to be introduced within those limits to which the
smoke of Lonclob may bo considered to extend its dete-
riorating influence. The system of constant supply is
to become universal within a period of five years. The
rates, as we have already stated, are to be regulated ac-
cording to circumstances, under the provisions of spe-
cial Acts; and consequently the most material detail
of the new arrangement still remains to be settled.
One of themost important provisions adopted by the
Committee limits the supply to the waters of the
Thames or of its tributaries, taken above the range
of the tide, But a large portion of the population of
London has no interest in the new regulation. The
New River and the East London Companies supply more
than half the metropolis from the New River and from
the Lea, above the tidal flow. Greenwich and Woolwich,
with the adjoining suburbs, depend on the Ravens-
bourne; and the Lambeth Company has recently opened
its noble works at Ditton, some distance above Tedding-
ton Lock. The Grand Junction and the West Middle-
sex Companies will have to retreat from Kew to a point
somewhat higher up the river; and the Chelsea and
Southwark and liauxhaSl works must be removed from
their present questionable position in Chelsea Reach.
When these changes shall have been effected, any fu-
ture addition to the water supply—should it ever be
required—will probably be drawn from the chalk
to the north of London. There is, however, no
objection to any contribution which may hereafter
be squeezed out of the arid sands of Farnham.
In a conversation which arose some weeks since
on this subject in the House of Commons, Lord
Hbrington attempted to introduce the general saoitary
question—expressing, at the same time, an apprehension
that the lower districts south of the river might be
swamped by au excessive flew of water. It is desirable,
that Parliament should remeinbsr that there are two
independent objects to be considered in dealing with
this matter.- The present Bill purports to provide pur-
chasers with an unlimited supply of water, of the best
quality and at the cheapest rate which circumstances
may permit. The question of providing a universal dis-
tribution of the supply is an entirely indifferent one. At
this moment the companies would willingly furnish the
poorest lodging-house in London with all the water
which it could use. If the price forms the impediment,
it may be' hoptcl that the present measure will lead to a
reduction in the rates; but the fact is that the poor will
not .pay for a comfort which, beyond a certain limit, they
haio. not yet learned to regard es -a necessary of life.
It is for Parliament to decide whether a compulsory
water-rate shall be levied on the owners of houses in-
habited by the poor. In consideration of such an arrange-
ment, the companies might fairly be required to
submit to a reduction of their ordinary rates. There
are many grounds on which Parliament, on behalf of the
public, is entitled to interfere for the purpose of supply-
ing every dwelling with water. A man has a right to
be uncomfortable himself, and perhaps to impose annoy-
ances on' tenants who may be willing to comply
terms; but no one has a right to increase the risks
with hisnf
fire, or to create a certainty of fever. The advhcatcs ofa
smeltery improvement will do well to directniversal
portion of their energies towards securing a
supply already a
of water; and their efforts will certainly.o
impeded by-the circumstance that there
the most
main, fully charged, within a short distance of
is there,
not be
wretched lodging-house in London. The waterlitt_
at a
audit will run through a service pipe the meter
contract.
bargain is made either by law or by spefctal
It is idle to wait for some other mode of
provided by ,some different management.
t water for
d can ge •
municipality nor a Government Boar
reasonable price
Tithing. Let the means of securingbea el-3-ItlYi atter be
whether the companies are exorbitant be provided; and then it will
M Glad-
the Rev. r.
ADVERTISER.—The case ofd
st Popery; that of
stone is that of the Reformation agtitnartodeimnqanudirse.
the Protestant clergyman
which' is now openly assumed _
d her Majesty's stove-
prelates who rebelliously dente
arc the and it is also
againsenft tihdeeivabirebirtirgahryt, by the
,reignty as supreme head of the ye
eat st both bishops and
the case of every
•
the Church fort e purpose of
Tractarians,.have entered
the pope. Their ob-
i s
however identical
hi withgh
mthatmight' t
clueing
priests of Rome, wileaoyi,:euannde°r" thile cloak of Puseyites and
undermining her, and intro
who boasted that the time was
of Archbishop Laud,
ject in regard to the lay.
o standf tthe
c uncoveredhareh. coming when no
in the presence of the meanest.
the Establishment, be his rank and station, would deearrev3.tnot
dissent from nor
Let not those who 'English members,
not interested, and deeply,
pending struggle with Rome,
even those who nevtereybealroanged to the Christian reli-
gion, imagine that
_hthe
gradtoo,emissaries,
in the nefarious die uise
of parishes, and curates of churches
of hitt ops, pawns
for if once they et the ascen-
iitls dishonestthe issee e f
and chapels of easel g
of religious persecution will again be
fires of Smithfield
will again
bared to the sho
dancy, the
and b
night, a and of Celtic ea-
bleze from morning
devoted slaves of the Popish
priests, already
ea-
rages, the
rating for heretic aud infidel blood," will
red
arm of
the
trainesiand thi _
re-enact the horrors-of another three.days and nights of
Bartholomew in the streets of the taetropolia and all our

large towns. The case. nominally " Hodgson v. Gladstone," in the Arches' Court. claims a far more startling
title throughout Protestant Europe, for it is th. Pope v,
Christianity; and should the plot succeed in England,
Ur- blood-red flag and the fiery cross will be sent through
all lands in which the Word of God is revered as the
only rule of faith, and the only hope of the Christian.
This case is said, by a legal fiction, or a limited and tech-
nical use of the word, to be promoted 'by Hodgson
Gladstone, istone, while all the world knows that it is insti-
tuted and carried on by the Bishop of London-by that
prelate who licensed and suffered several Tractarian priests
to preach unscriptural and profane doctrines, to practise
the most offensive idolatries, and to utter the most re-
volting impieties—all without rebuke. He licensed and
endured, in the same manner, Mr. Bennett, whom
all knew to be one of the disguised emissaries of Popery,
and did not withhold his licence until his mummeries,
buffo
buffooneries, and profaneness had nearly occasioned a
public riot in time of divine service. And when the
Bishop withdrew his licence, he joined with others in
recommending this disguised Popish priest to the Popish
holder of the Protestant living of Prosaic as a proper per-
son to be incumbent. That priest, finding his attempts
at deception no longer practicable, has now acknowledged
his allegiance to the Pope, and yet, for aught we ktow
to the contrary, still holds the living. Under 'this Bishop
Of the Established Churcb, the following persons have
thrown off the mask in less than six months from the
publication of the last Catholic Directory announcing
what are falsely called " Clerical Converts to the Catho-
lic (Popish) Faith." The men never belonged to any
other Faith or Church:—

Rev. G. Carey, Curate of Margaret Chapel.
Rev. C. B. Garaide, ditto.

Rev. Mr. Bodley, Curate of Archbishop Tennyson's
Chapel.
T. W. Allies, formerly Examining Chaplain to the
Bishop of London. „
Rev. liiihrißedroiil, -Cara-C.6f Christchnrcb, Hoxton.
Rev. W. Dodavverth, Incumbent of St. Pancras,
London.

Rev. Harper, St. Peter's, Pimlico.
Rev. Joseph Henry Jerrard, D.C.L., Member of the
Senate, and Examiner in Classics and History in the
University of London.
Rev. Vale, 01 Zluchingham Palace Chapel.
To these are now to be soled the R2v. William J. E.

Bennett, of the notorious St. Barnabas Chapel, Pimlico,
whom Lord John Russell and numbers'of the nobility

and gentry patronised, by their constant attendance on
his buffoonery and profane mummeries, assisted by three
or four other Popish priests in disguise. We are
astonished that Protestants have not generally seen
through the shallow device of the Jesuits in intruding
their pupils into tho universities and the Church, for the
very purpose of inuring the people to the practice of
idolatry, and then pretending to be reconciled to Rome,
in the hope and expectation of carrying over their flocks
in a mass. Besides Mr. Turnley, in his " Popery in
Power," Mr. Gladstone, in his excellent sermon, " Tree-
tarianism is Popery, and must be expelled," and our-
selves, no one seems to have noticed the artifices. As to
that sermon of Mr. Gladstone'a, and another on the famous
text," Speaking lies in hypocrisy," we have very little
doubt that they contain the seals of that animosity
with which he is persecuted. A Bishop, under whom so
many unchristian tenets and practices are allowed to be
tried, to the intended overthrow of the Church, which
he is most enormously overpaid to serve, and under
whom so many " clerical converts" to Popery, swell the
lists of the Catholic Directory, had need of very clean
hands before going into a court to prosecute a clergyman
whose real offence is that he preached the doctrines held
by the Latimers, Taylors, Stillingfleets, Tillotsone, and
Sherlock a of his church—men before whom the modern
bunch of bishops hide their diminished heads. He has
also fearlessly, and in the strictest accordance with his
duty, denounced the insidious practices which well-
known bishops publicly protect and encourage in their
dioceses; and, therefore, he and all such clergymen are
to be put down, if possitile, with the forms of courts and
appearances of law, but, at all events, they must be put
down. Who does not see the perfect keeping in fos-
tering Bennett, Allies, and the other disguised priests
in the lists just given; the refusal of the services of such
pious and Protestant clergymen as the celebrated
Merle D'Aubigne, a man with a world's fame for
ever, to the foreign visitors of the Protestant faith;
and the inhibition and persecution ,of Mr. Gladstone?
The connexion is visible—palpable; gross to every
sense of perception. There are four bishops now pub-
licly notorious as deeply implicated in the Popish plot,
and no stronger proof can possibly be adduced of the
weakness of the State Church, and the defectiveness of
its Government. Where is the power to inhibit and
expel these bishops? Does it conveniently sleep? and
why have they not long ago been, every one of them,
tried, even in ecclesiastical courts? Why should a
bishop have his court, into which he can drag and ruin
an honest clergyman, and neither clergy nor people have
a court to punish, in like manner, a traitorous bishop?
If the Church is to stand as a Protestant Establishment

twenty years longer, it must be provided with a remedy
for this glaring defect and absurd inconsistency in its
internal discipline. With reference to the people, and
such upright clergyman as Mr. Gladstone, we would
beg them to remember the great movement in the
Church of Scotland a few years ago. Let the former
support those of the clergy, whom the Popish bishops
now in the Establishment displace, and endeavour to
deprive of all means of subsistence. Their teaching
will be as pure, as holy, and as effectual, in an uncon-
secrated place, as any house made with hands, and
blessed by a bishop. The church, for nearly two cen-
turies and a half, bad no such rite ss consecration. It
was borrowed from the heathen custom of dedicating
the temples of the mythological deities, and is now as
pure a piece of Popery as processions, tapers, crucifixes,
and dolls. A magistrate's licence is all that is suffi-
cient, and, for any purpose of true religion, it will be
fully as valuable as a bishop's, or anything that a bishop
can grant, confirm, or do. The bishops of apostolical
and primitive times were not men exercising authority,
but elders among elders in each church, which was no-
thing more than a congregation for prayer and mutuel
exhortation, and their whole business was to moderate,
and look over, or rather after, the community of goods.
Hence their name. The rest was an encroachment
of the Popes JO personal aggrandisement, and bor-
rowed from the, sacerdotal usages of the Pagans, as soon
as the Popes divested themselves of Christianity and
professed Mariolatry and the old worship of pictures and
doll. Let the people abjure al prelatical authority over
their judgment and conscience, and maintain their faith-
oil preachers. A movement of this sort will commence
the second Reformation, which will spread over Europe
like a train of gunpowder. The opportunity now pre-
:sews its lf, and the direct foes of God and man may b.
briefly defeated with their own weapons. Oe reference
to the proceedings in the Arches' Court on Monday, it
will be seen that Mr. Gladstone was not allowed to enter
upon those subjects which are alone material to his de-
fence. Wo do not doubt that the Judge's objection i 3
strictly technical, but what a farce aro wo witnessing,
where a very different person and far heavier offences
ought to be the subjects of legal investigation. The
proceedings, without some such timely warnings as the
present, will carry the public mind away from the real
and only important matters at issue.
DAILY NEWS.—The decision of Sir John Dodson,
judge of the Arches' Court, in Mr. Gladstone Cote
another example of the loose and unsatistactory rights
the law regulating the powers of bishops and th
of their licensed clergy; whilst the facts of the
case
afford another illustration of the inconsistent manner in
which the diocese of London is governed byi its Bishop.
The Mr. Gladstone in question, it is scarce y necessary
to state, is not the right reverend gentleman cf that name
who occasionally preaches in the House of Commons—
who is for revolutionising the Church of
England in the
colonies—who has assumed the care and protection of
the episcopal communion in Scotland—and whose
works, pamphlets, and essays on ecclesiastical subjects
already fill many volumes remarkable for anything
and everything but coherency of opinions. The de-
fendant in this case is a Reverend Gentleman who was
lately licensed by the Bishop of London to perform di-
vine service in an unconsecrated and proprietary chapel
in seems, he made himself
in Long-acre, where,
as re •
markeble for his low Church opinions es the other Mr.
Gladstone is for his high Church views. Fond as the
Bishop of London is of building new churches,
where they are not at all times wanted, he has a even
huge
dislike to private proprietary chapels. He was always
sorely troubled about the one in John-street,
oB Bedford-
row, r csl-
row, where Mr. Baptist Noel preached so long and o
popularly. He still keeps a sharp look out after Dr.
Thorpe and his chapel in Belgravai,wsh
or devoted. It
ere he will not.
Bloomsbury
have fresh curates, however able,
ou
o district
was in a proprietary chapel in the msbury
that he, last year, silenced the foreign
out his style of
ministers. He is
now in hot water with Mr. Gladstone
preaching in a similar place of worshipa in Long. acre ,
and some of these days we may see him fall foul of the
reverend author of " Satan," a Poem, who occupies the
Percy-street conventicle. Doubtless proprietary chapels
a-
such as these are makeshifts. Now-
ays no one thinks
of resorting to such irregular anddefective moans of
Church extension, and the sooner they can be all used up
as district churches the better. Bat bishops should re-
collect their origin; how theyof were started to supply
great and notorious deficiency
.c church accommodation,
how in those days the liberality, the means and the
legal facilities of the presenth time were wanting; how,
wanting them, dissent would
of the old parish churcihneds..ff have received the overflow
and the supineness, the And recollecting all this
perverse-
ness of their predecessors, lerence, and the
bishops might be excused if
they treated proprietary chapels, their ministers and
their congregations, with a little less haughtiness and a
little more respect and consideration than they do. But
so it is—bishops look
than harshly and unkindly at them;
so
and no bishop more Charles James of London.
It must, however, be admitted that their incumbents are
not especially bishop-loving clergy; they cannot, of
it
s
members belong to the high church party, for none of
members would condescend to sacrifice or meditate within
unconsecrated walls; and of the low church party, they
are generally the lowest. They look more to their con-
gregrations than t their diocesans, and have much of the
sturdiness and independence of dissenters. They work
hard, preach with vigour, and lecture frequently. Perhaps►
we ma- add, that they love to see their name in large pla-
cards-on the walls. Of this sort and school seems to
have been Mr. Gladstone of Long-tiCfC—earnest, active,
,
decided, and, if we judge correctly, a little etr"g and

( iz.47 N
)
coarse. He took to del' in g popular "icl6 s on
Tractetianism i in them e did not mince matteCti. ha.
Biasa- ti.-, pulpit traced the' growth 'of thit fir in in
LouGliThittnepolicy and the proceetriege of astia tt 'hop.
The taste of this, in a chapel' to 'I./hien, be ‘,..,,,5. used -
by the bishop, cas perhapa que.stionsbleasifrha.plandence
nowhere; hut the truth, to greet extent, 'undoubted. 1
Tractarienism would have emits'.^ in atbiefokeese al
London had its present bishop been a Cianmer, but its
spread bas, no doubt, been greatly encouraged by the
fact that he is a Blornfield. Nevertheless, it would
have beeequite as easy to have delivered convincingued
powerful lectures on the subject, without turning the
pulpit into, a forum if acettention even against Bishop ,
Bloinfield; the lecturee: might net bayc+ been so po-
pular or- attractive, unspiokd by the personality; but
they would probably have been gains as effective and
jests/leave - And, after-all. etch proprietary chapels .
b piritual edification,
eaailesitastical bitterness.
are places for divine .worahip, Red
not for polemical strife and
Exeter-hallis still peen for ale4animesities of religion;
and for better, things to. In the midst of this curri-
culum the Bishop -of London deprived Mr. Gladstone of
his licence; which he did without assigning reasons,:
trying him for any ecc!eeiastieal offence, or even making ,
any charge of irragularity against him. The Bishop '
merely served Mr. Gladstone with the following docu-
ment, as plenary in its terms, and as it turns out in its.
authority, as any Papal bull:—
" Charles James, by _Divine permission, Bishop of
London. to the Rev. John Eddowes Gladstone, clerk,
B.A. Whereas, we did on or about the Ist August,
ISSI, give and grant unto you our licence and authority,
but during cur pleasure, to perform the office of minis.
ter of Long-acre Chapel, being an unconsecrated chapel,
to which you were nominated by Charles George
Whitaker Smith, clerk, sole lessee thereof, by and with
the written consent of Henry Mackenzie, diem, vicar of
the said parish. Now, we, for divers good causes and
considerations, do, by virtue of our authority, ordinary
and epiacopal, and as far as in us lies, and by Jaw we'
can revoke, annul, and make void the -staid ljeenaes and
do dismiss yeas from the office of minister aforesaid by
these presents. And we do furiber by these. presents
prohibit yoir from officiating as minister, or performing
any ecclesiastical duties within the said chapel, or-elsea
where, within our diocese."
This peremptory prohibition Mr. Gladstone held to
be of no legal value, because of its assigning no canonical
reasons, or its containing no adjudication of his having
committed any canonical offence; he therefore disre-
garded it; stud,
pursuing his ministerial labours in the
chapel (with certainly no • increased respect ' for the
-HAW'. wasnfer the reformation of his manners and for
his soul's health, thrown into the ecclesiastical courts.
There. on Monday last,
hesitation or doubt, thatSti
the
eJ olin Dodson
bishop
had
a riled,perfect withoutlogal
right to revoke a clergyman's licence thus summarily,
the whole race of curates and other licensed and without stating any reason. follows,
clergymenthen, that
anyare ati them oomtie—retyhaott h
itsh
powereirbishovoeprs
' them whimi.sanrdbcitarparriy.cettoadt
despotic;—that he may at any moment revoke the li-
cence he has granted them;—and that he is under no
legal obligation to explain to any mortal why
l
wherefore he has done so. Ail they have to rely on
or
is bishop's sense of moral responsibility and of duty.
Beyond that they have no security that they may not
at any moment be silenced, ruined, and starves: nif
this really be the state of the law as to curates
and licensed clergymen, it is certainly without parallel
in English jurisprudence; and not one of the inferior
clergy of this country is for an instant safe. He may
be unfrocked whenever his bishop pleases; and not a
word of explanation need the bishop give. Yet no
sooner does he become a beneficed clergyman—no
sooner has he a living instead of a curacy or a chapel—
than he may set his bishop at defiance, he may perne-
trate what moral enormities he chooses, and the bishop
cannot eject him from his benefice. All the diocesan
can do then is to silence him in his church; the profits
of his cure be may continue to enjoy—the only restric-
tion that can be placed on hint being that he must ab-
stain from public service. This contrast is clearly very
discreditable to our Jaw; it is arbitrary, and despotic,
and tyrannical to licensed clergymen; it is over-protec-
tive where beneficed clergymen are concerned. Nor is
this the only unpleusaut contrast furnished by this case.
How long- e offering, enduring, quiescent, and tolerant
was tie Bishop of London with Mr. Oakley, Mr.
Dodsworth, and Mr. Bennett! How premptory, haughty,
and intolerant with Mr. Gladstone! For the former he
had letters, entreaties, requests, end solicitations. • For
the latter, instant dismissal and the Ecclesiastical Court.
He bowed Mr. Oaklay and "dear Mr. Dodsworth"
politely to Rome. He will drive Mr. Gladstone un-
feelingly to dissent.

LAW IN TELLIGEN CE-
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, May 5:
(Before Mr. Coinuaisbiuller LAW.)
IN THE NATTER OP PATRICE STEWART.

This insolvent, a clerk in the Ordnance-office, applied
to be discharged.
Mr. Nichols and Mr. Caalteen opposed for creditois,
and other creditors appeared in person. Mr. Cooke and
Mr. Sargood supported.
In 1846, when the insolvent's salary was 2101, h• ap-
plied to the Court of Bankruptcy, and obtained a 6.e9.1
order. He had paid 601. a year into that wart until
the last quart, r, and dividends had been paid. Beiag
without sufficient means he had raised money on bills,
and had paid for advances and, renewals more than. 60
per cent. for the last two years, until ho resolved, to
come to this court. lie had never been free from the
money-lenders. lie proposzd to continue the 601. to
the Court of Bankruptcy, and to pay 601. a year into
this 'Court for the new creditors out of his present salary
of 33C/.

It was arranged between the creditors and the insol-
vent's counsel that NO/. a year amid be set aside.
Mr. Commissioner Lew was not disposed to discharge
the insolvent, unless the Ordnance Department would
consent to the proposal, as the creditors might obtain no
benefit. As to the money lenders, he only wished the
law allowed him to pay the tradesrncn first, and such
persons in twenty years time.
Ultimately it was settled that the insolvent should go
out on bail, such permission havmg been before refused,
and that the case should be adjourned to the 7th June,
to carry the proposal of 1001 a year to the new creditors
into effect.

COURT OF INLAND REVENUE, May 5.
Before a F. STEPHENSON, Esq., C. J. HEEIUES, Esq.,
and CHARLES PEESSLY, E.tq.)

EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON THE REVENUE AND ASSAULT
ON THE OFFICERS—PENALTY 1,2001.
Charles Rockland, an extensive soap manufacturer
of James street, Walworth-road, was charged on an
information for the following offences against the
excise lures. For rt moving and conveying away
soap, with intent to evade the duty charge-
able thereon; for offering and promising to
°ire 101. to an cfficer of the excise, to prevail upon him
„
to connive at the illegal removal of soap, and to neglect
to report the discovery of such removal to the Com•
lied under an
missioners of Inland Revenue; for molesting and ob.
strUCting the efficers of excise in the execution of their
duty to seize and detain a larga. quantity of tottp, and
six boxes containing such soap torn
of Parliament; for resisting a seizure of goods, eotuACt
ditior, and things; for chaesing without notice; for 13:1°-
venting the titioers of excise fioui t xtrekin .. pro-
venting
and taking an account of soap a,,.,
~e the pre.
Maktvg use of six iratnes irm e„,atiio:u mpleß; for
~ntry ; and fur reccoNime, 13- positing, and .._(,)ftr, without
soap, *WI intent to defraud her mg. atm concealing
therpon. The penalties in tne a Majesty of the duty
3,5001. aggregate amourited to
Mr. Web;by, Q C., appeared on
Mr. Parry fur the defendant.. the part of the Crown;
The ea.e occuliikti the ent• "1 judgintht i„ the
pc..J4l„ .. Ire ~ay,tricl the Court gave
of i 200/.

i
ELECTION ' INTELLIGENCE.
HARWICH.—The retirement of Sir F. Kelly, conse-
quent upon his election for East Suffolk, has, for the
fifth time during the existing Parliament. caused a va-
cancy in the repreentation of this borough. The only
canditive in the field tor the vacant seat is Mr. Isaacu
Butt, QC., who came down lest week and prosecuted
i d an
ectivenueass, beicies addrrs,ing the I
--.0 e_Ectollra;
tWO OCCatiiollS. The resign of tlw. Solicit
has lid to the abandonment of the petition to
was
of Commons against his return, which it appears of Mr.
Ot
h•ebG
HouseenYer at
drawn up and presented under the instructionsire
of air.
Coppock. This proceeding bits aroused the
Butt, who a few evenings
vteedh
td to
to them a counter
meeting of hts
friends and iupporters, and subbmitu
petition, " to have Mr. Coppock
since con.
the bar of the
brought
ignterference with the
liouse of Commons for insProaprew-,c..„
a The writ for the
privileges of the electors of H.ay.l
new election arrived on Ttlesd
Li g of the supporters of Lord
MANCHESTER.—A
mee - D-as held on Tuesday even-
ing and Mr. G. Leeh_,_ .
i Atawnenester. About sixty or
ing at the Albion note-o,_
of
the
whole
number
of
those
seventy persons only, '
el) been sent were present, and the
to whom circulars hamr.
Robert Gardner, Mr. Robert
most influential were
Robert Barbour. Though the can-
Gladstone, and Mr.
come forward on independent and
didates profess to
are brought out by the high Con-
liberal principles, Y.
tdetbe chief motive to action is the
servative party, ian
course which
Members for the borough took
the present
al Titles Bill and a desire to thwart
on the Ecclesiastical
the Anti-Corn-law League.

DEMOLITION OF THE CRYSTAL PALacr.--In con-
sequence of many thousands of persons in the Unite Great
dons having been unable to obtain a copy of th
Exhibition Chart, printed its colours, and presented by the
1 proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch, to their subscribers and
the public, in the months of January and February last, a
re-issue has been determined upon, to take place on Sunday,
the 16th of May. The Chart, which has undergone a careful
revision, shows by simple diagrams thenumber of persons
that visited the Exhibition daily, the amount of money taken
at the;veus entrances, the quantity.of refreshments con-
de agsratis t G
a memento
suin?d the names of the Royal CJairnissioners ; an account
of the origin of the Palace, and its dimensions in feet. In
order that every individual in the country may posses, this
statistical reflex of individual d
interesting results, to mark
abned
dteolivseerrte,
'a
the
el i
tdeemo existence,litlono fttbhee
Charth ldi nwgi
0 every
subscriber and purchaser of the Dispatch on the day stated.
The Dispatch is published at four O'clock every
railway , .Saturday
morning, in time ter the first trains leaviug London,
and fur the morning mails. Early orders should b-
all newsvenders in town or noun-try; or to Mr.given
t
No. th 9, Fleet-street. The news agents will K. - . Woad,
the Chart with every Dispatch of M vill.l have a copy of
ay 16th.
THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGIILIt.---1
distinguished exile requires unfit he escape of this
re-
ceived by some members of his f illation. Letters were
yesterday (Monday) bearinr, family from Smith O'Brien
mowed escape, anti they c a date subsequent to the ru-
subject. Fund this it would appear
nothing relative to the
continues under survtill appear that Mr. Meagher still
brather exiles.— Fre.. (ince, awaiting the fortunes of his
'ltla'es Journal.
The Earl of Maim
yesterday at Birk 'bur 3- had as audience of the qaeea
- Ingham Palace.