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London, England, 1852-10-11 00:00:00

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Match—Phr3gia beat Diomedia.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Advicea from St.
Petersburgh of the 2d October state that the whole Russian
army had been ordered to wear mourning three days for
the late Puke of W 0114400.

LITERATURE.
TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK.

This is the title of a pamphlet lately issued in refer-
ence to the expulsion of students from New College, St.
Jobn's-wood, on account of their theological opinions.
With the religious views of parties, we, as journalists,
have nothing to do, but it seems as if the commotions
upon religious subjects were only growing, and will
eventually, we trust, work out for good to society at
large. Truth has ever survived the struggles and
contentions of men, and will continue so to do. The
defence of the pure essence of religion is the noblest,
dearest standard under which to struggle, and it is a
saddening sight to see frail man dictating to his frail
brother as to the measure, form, and style of his
thoughts. The writings of our ancient philosophers
and thinkers must shuffle off whatever crudeness
they may be clothed in, and be re-clothed and re•
dressed with new growth and brighter utterance.
There are sectarians who, acting as autocrats, would
drag down and smother the thinking powers of a
man when he would endeavour to soar higher. The
aspirations of the spirit are not limited to space, form,
or shape. The soul of man is free, and he who uses
himself aright will think earnestly, yet humbly. We
are all aware of the number of doctrines and theories
which have been exploded and blown to the winds by
the honest thinking and deep research of men
to whom society is a debtor. It is with a desire to
further the cause of truth and progress that we would
advise our readers to peruse the pamphlet. It is
from the pen of a Mr. White, of Bedford, written in
a vigorous, homely, and manly style. It states the
expulsion of three students from the college referred
o, to be in consequence of their holding what are
there considered unorthodox opinions, but which
opinions were previously propounded and endorsed in
the Biblical Review a few years since by the very
men who have expelled them. It charges the officials
of the college with either acting falsely, or cancelling
the very opinions upon which perhaps some of them
attained the position they now occupy. There is
enough bigotry in the world without adding to it.
The expelled acted honestly, and we would even add
nobly in avowing at once their opinions. The quota-
tions from Milton, Shakspere, and Tennyson are in
every way apposite.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Thank the Gods! justice has been speedy as well
as sure, and the latest profanity attempted against this
venerable temple of the drama has been expiated by
the untimely demise of Mr. Bolton's abortive auda-
city. So much for the entrepeneur, but, alas! for the
company. Although it grieves, yet it by no means
surprises us to learn That not a hand on the establish-
ment got a shilling at the expiration of their week's
labour. How any of them suffered themselves to be
inveigled into the concern, in the face of such ante-
cdetits as ought to have been sufficiently noto-
rious to the profession in all its branches down to su-
pers and all, is rather marvellous. Really the com-
mittee ought not to countenance the chousiog of ac-
tors, the desecration of this noble theatre, and the
flagrant insult offered to the playgoing world, by in-
viting them to witness performances that ought to be
pelted off the boards of a barn, for the sake of pocket-
ing a paltry week's rent. They must have known
that the " manager" in this instance is a wight who
is possession of the ring of Gyge9, so that when after
weary day rehearsals and night appearances his un-
fortunate dupes attend the treasury, and find "no
effects" as their consolatory greeting, they may. far
more profitably employ themselves in hunting for a
needle in a bundle of hay, or studying to Fquare the
circle, or chasing a pig with a soaped tail, than in
striving to catch hold of that which is as impalpable
as thin air. Now this sort of game must be put an
end to as an intolerable disgrace and nuisance, and a
scandalous and heartless cruelty; and we warn all
such gentry as go dodging about vacant theatres in
London on the humbugging system, that we shall
keep a sharp look after their proceedings. Let them
and their countenancers look to it, and we feel assured
we shall not stand unassisted in this determination by
the contemporary press.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
An adaptation of a little Parisian piece,called Une
Idee Fixe, and which in the original was neither very
brilliant nor very intelligible, was produced on Sa-
turday evening. Mr. Buckstone's comic agility and
immense flow of drollery rendered tolerable an affair
possessing in itself neither humour, character, nor in-
telligible incident. The excellent actor who played
the droll lawyer's clerk in The Lady I Adore—as
how many droll lawyers' clerks bas Mr. Buekstone
personated—managed to infuse life and spirit into the
inane production, and, by the quaint delivery of catch-
words and those odd turns of expression which Mr.
M. Morton knows so well how to write, as well as by
his blundering in a fashionable ball-room—whither he
is sent by a hoax, but where he contrives by pure inad-
vertence to rescue a couple of ladies from the clutches of
a Polish swindler, whom they believe to be a Mol-
davian count—combines to brighten up the two or
three scenes of which the piece is composed. There
is a want of all coherence and interest in the plot,
which makes the position of the actor one of real dif-
ficulty, but the style in which Mr. Buckstone extri-
cated himself from the awkwardness, and kept the
attention and laughter of the house alternately on the
alert, was itself a work of art. His account of being
run away with by an old hunter and carried into the
midst of the hounds, and his droll embarrassment
when the servant takes away his bat in the ball room
—not, however, before a solemn promise is exacted
that he will faithfully return it—these two passages,
managed with all Mr. Buckstone's drollery, were pro-
bably the best of the piece. There was some applause
at the fall of the curtain.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 9, 1852 £13,755 1 11
'Traffic—Week ending Oct. 11, 1851 ... 14,622 4 5
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 209,975 3 10
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 225,321 5 5
Total number of Passengers 79,553
ending
Oct. 9, 1852 79,553
..£llOBO 10 4
Passengers ... ~
Goods 2,674 11 7

Total... ... £13,755 111
Total miles open, 1852, 173%; ditto, 1851, 173%.
London Terminus. Oct. 11. 1852.

ACCIDENT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—A cor-
respondent mentions that the Lord Chancellor met with an
accident on Wednesday. in the vicinity of his residence,
Boyle Farm, Surrey, which, although not attended with any
serious injury to the Noble and Learned Lord, was likely to
have proved of a very different character. His Lordship
was taking his accustomed airing on horseback, attended by
his groom, when it commenced raining, and on putting up
an umbrella the horse began to rear, and his Lordship was
thrown to the ground. Beyond receiving some rather se-
vere bruises, the Noble Lord was not otherwise hurt. He
returned to his residence at Boyle Farm, and has since re-
covered from the shock his system received from the fall.—
rineLn
Sunday Paper.
SUICIDE OF
banker, of Bi • A BANKER.—James Taylor, Esq.,
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Brighton
on Friday.t
to Brighton abblor.uTt aayniloor,ntwnhaogowafasr7tlnyeebaernseofiftaogfe ,hhi
his
had a gone
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an he had been unwell for some months past. Since his o
stairs
ar-
rival in Brighton tie had been in very low spirits, and on
Friday afternoon he took a drivewithhis wifeandson, and
thea t-lI
returned to his residence in
on Cavendish-placewus.e.dlt
was
s faobuonuddt
that five
body fell into the yard behind'
o'clock. He went u
a short time after his
he bad climed out of the attic
his throat with a razor. A medicalin own;ananwdashacut
imme-
diately sent for, but his services were of no avail, the unfor-
imitate man was quite dead. On Saturday an inquest was
held on the body at the Bedford Hotel, and the jury returned
El verdict of "Temporary insanity."

CHAR3E.

Permanent Debt • . • • ...... .........
Terminable Annuities •.......
Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund .• • • •
.
The Civil List • ..... .• .. .•• •• . ..... • .• •• .• • . • • • . • • .
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Total Charge

The Surplu • • • • • • • • • • .• • • • • • . ..

The amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarter ending sth
July, 1852, and paid out of the growing produce of that Fund, after deducting 540,0001. cancelled by Sinking Fund
The Amount issued in the Quarter ended 10th Oct., 1652, in part of Sums granted by Parliament out of the
Consolidated Fund for Supply Services • • ••••• • • • • •• • • •• • • •••••• • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • •••• • • • • •• • •
Surplus Consolidated Fund ..... .• • „ „ ..... • • .... • • ••••• • • • • • • • ...... •• •• • • ••••• • • • ••
The Surplus Revenue, after providing for the Charges on the Consolidated Fund, and for the payment of Supply
Services in Great Britain in the Quarter eliding 10th Oct., 1852 ........... •

Quarters ended Oct. 10.

5,436,471
1,291,281

5,424,557
1,303,492
71
436,360
99,382
378,246
388,835

758,196
99,195
461,481
286,618

8,333,242
5,308,055

13,641,297

8,030,943
8,634,568

1113,665,511

4,803,065
6,634,558

816,071

831,503

16,432

any further changes in the law—any reduction of the
Army and Navy—any extension of secular education
---because, by being the buttresses of abuses of every
kind, they secure the support of lawyers, parsons, the
universities, the officers of the united services, and the
Methodists. The fourth is the throwing a sop to the
farmers, the shipowners, the colonial planters, by
robbing the public for their benefit, because that will
secure the support of the squires, the mercantile
marine, and the colonies. Knowing that self-interest
is much more zealous and active than patriotism, and
that the great body of the people cannot feel
that concern in public affairs which is ex-
perienced by those whose private fortune and
pecuniary income directly depend upon the
management of State affairs, the Ministry, as repre-
sented by the manifesto of Mr. Henley, fall back on
the support of those who will be moat active at elections,
and are prepared to devote time, money, and social
influence to the game of politics. Their rule is to
be regulated, not by the will of the nation, or the
rights of the great body of the people, but by securing
the help of institutions and class interests to over-
bear and out-vote public opinion, and the general in-
terests of the country. They are to be a Ministry
of resistance. They are to endeavour to obliterate
the whole history of England between the time of
Castlereagh and the year 1852. Their function is to
be that of a grand jury resolved on ignoring all bills
that are brought up to them from
d'etat
the people. In a
small way they will attempt a leisurely coup
in the shape of systematic reaction. They will fall
back to the old policy of outvoting the commonalty
of these realms by means of classes and bodies
whose selfish interests are directly opposed to those
of the nation at large. In short, they will rely upon
material forces to bear down and crush public opinion,
under the old stale pretext of " maintaining our vene-
rable institutions," cherishing" ships, colonies, and com-
merce"—" repairing the wooden walls of England"
—darning
T
at
is the the union-jack,
plain English and feeding the British
—and we think that presumptuous fools who can
venture upon offering such an insult to the nation
merit no " fair trial" whatever. They are re-
actionists, and, therefore, revolutionists, who must be
abolished to prevent their crushing us by a conspi-
racy of State stipendiaries. We must close our ranks
at once—and vow that, whoever else may rule, such
mischievous old women certainly shall not. Nay, we
must go further. We think Lord John Russell was
a great deal too apologetical to the traditions of the
constitution at Perth. In professing his devotion to
the existing organization of the State, he professed his
object to be only to perpetuate by repairing it, by
changing its shape, so as to adapt it to the progress of
events. Substantially that proposition is totally futile
and unfounded. The loyalty of the people to Queen
Victoria is far greater than to George IV. ; but the
power of the Crown is practically much less. The
nobility, before the Reform Bill, especially at the be-
ginning,of the century, were greatly more influential
in society, and by the Constitution, than they are
now, when they have been outgrown by the mercan-
tile and manufacturing classes. The Church, before
the repeal of the Test and Catholic Disabilities Acts,
was far. more influential than it is now, when it is
overshadowed by dissent. It is absurd to say that
the Constitution is the same; or, indeed, that it is
possible that a Constitution, or the organism of a
state, can remain unchanged when society progresses,
and the relative state of classes changes. The nation,
the public, the interests which have no recognition in
the economy of the State, are greatly more politically
powerful than those sectional denominations by whose
support public opinion was overruled ; and unless
Lord John Russell is preparedrecognize this to
fact, and to cease coquetting with a bloated and cor-
rupt Church, and to temporize with an aristocracy
which has not yet been taught its proper place, he is
not the man for this crisis, nor the leader for the
people.— Weekly Dispatch.