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LONDON :
MONDAY, MARCH 25, IL'39.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Saturday have
been received. They confirm the accounts published in
the Papers of Friday, relative to the breaking up of the
new' Ministerial combination. Gleams of a new light
have been thrown on the causes of the dissolution. The
uourrier Franais states, that while the negotiations be-
i!ltwteeerneottlirseKlNG and SOULT were pending-, a constant
was kept up among the Ambassadors of
Russia Austria, Prussia, and Holland ; and it
began to be suspected from the midnight
interviews of Count D'ArPoNT, the Austrian Ambassa-
dor, with the KING, that the positive leaning of TurEn.s
and SOULT to England bad more to do with the delay
in the formation of the Cabinet titan either the Bel-
gbian or Spanish policy of the new Administration. The
raria correspondent of a Morning Contemporary makes
the following statement upon this head, to which we
are Well disposed to give considerable credit ;
will The portion of the British public who follow this affair
to 4: k, what are the difficulties that present themselves
13ritie, formation of a Ministry for France ? The, entire
the 84 Public are interested in the reply. The failure ot
atteMpts to reconstruct the Cabinet were not owing o
bou:ildioirlffetrence respecting the Presidency of the Council,._
the Presidencyar. of the Chamber of Deputies, by
or to the Spanish question. The real
bonaoul On
ursne"ofnthe difference was the leaning of Marshal
andaM. Thiers towards England, and of the King
towards Russia.
The King acquiesced in the article of the programme
Which went to deprive him of the Presidency of the
-! "ncil. In the contemplated change of conduct respect-
ing Spain, his Majesty made some difficulties, but would
Ultimately have given way. The Presidency of the Cham-
ber of Deputies was not the King's concern (as he himself
Stated). but that of the Chamber; nevertheless it was on
that point he seized in order to upset the whole proceeding.
His Majesty has either committed himself, or been so far
committed by others with Russia, that he cannot retract,
and M. Thiers and Marshal Soult are as decidedly friendly
to England, and fully impressed with the necessity of main-
taining the British connexion.
" This statement may be doubted or disbelieved, or
sneered at—that is not my affair, but I repeat that it is
correct. The authority on which I communicate it is un-
questionable.
" It was reported on the Bourse to-day that the King
would open the Chambers on the 26th instant, with the
Mole Cabinet, and the funds rose it, consequence. The
rumour now prevalent there (and I believe the truth) is,
that Session will he opened by Commission ; the Commis-
sioners to be Count Montalivet, M. Bar,he, and General
Bernard. There will, of course, be no speech. The King
we are further informed, will choose his Ministry from that
ff_arl) of the Chamber which shall succeed in electing one of
-**,„.,ruswibers to the Presidency."
bt, 4,1_1118 highly important statement is partially confirmed
d'a 'ea substance of an article from the .2Vational of Sat ur-
thpy'gritten in answer to a paragraph which appeared in
,:i4jebnis of the day preceding. The allusion to the
ells attendance at Court of the. Austrian Ambassador
iciaon_e°,t be misunderstood, while the hostility of the eVa-
..„"lai to this country will account for the omission of
..yogi
to the English alliance :
dT.she Journal des Debats notices the duplicity of the
I"ition press in covertly attacking the King, under the
ignation of " the Court party."
e` The Court party," says this journal, " has no exist-
"ee) but there is a King who scrupulously respects the
rights
of the nation, and who is attacked in his own—a
oing whom the factious boast of having vanquished.
tx pretence of re-establishing the Parliamentary Govern-
tile" in all its purity, the King's name is erased from. the
Constitution—his authority is annihilated. Under such
efireurnstances an absurd superstition will not prevent us
the
pronouncing the King's name—we do not wait till
thue throne is in ruins to cry out against those who over-
throw it." The National, in replying to his Contem-
porary,l admits that there are no courtiers in the Tui-
eties resembling the brilliant minions of Henry HI.
nor the Yonne. followers of Catherine de Medicis, but
it maintains that there is in the Palace " somebody or
Ntetbing which prevents the formation of a Cabinet
ecolfeemable with the wishes expressed by the electoral
~ealleges of France—somebody who, influenced by pri-
dte interested motives, does not wish k'rance to have a
to"ernment--somebody who will not allow the nation
Possess this year railroads, sugar laws, and the con7r-
a."l„.°4 of the Rentese—somebody who spreads consternation
ell.g the commercial classes and paralyzes industry, by
isteitng them constantly in terror of the moat serious events.
th t somebody, whose existence cannot be denied, is not
eieLMole Cabinet, since it has reeigned ; it is not the King
itt.uehr• The laws of September forbid us from supposing
th but if the Journal des Debuts will not own that it is
Te Court party, who can it be—for it must be some one ?"
be National then
proceeds to contend, that if there be no
Co
Igt party, there certainly is a foreign party, represented
te
Tuileries
d'Appony, "who has been met of late as often at
ma. I:uileries as the most devoted Aid-de-Camp of his
tnettJetsetYfl: This journal then observes that the Govern- i
the Restoration was guided by the same influence,
trnh_ant it was not overturned because it was a bad Govern-
ment, but because it was the accomplice and humble ser-
vant of the absolute Powers.
froth IV e have no news from Madrid. The intelligence
than Bayonne is of the 19th, but it amounts to no more
that DON CARLOS continued inactive at Tolosa,
and
PreteoL t
ATERO at Logrono, on the 16th inst. The
NTnder had received supplies in money from his
"orthe
in r Allies, through the agency of his Royal factor
ordinary the KING of Sardinia.
Th. Madrid journals have not arrived for these two
days
A letter from Bayonne of the 19th says_o Operations
,s"ave been se.pended ever since the 9th, on which day EF-
var,rte_rno retreated from Los Areos.
10 E?-
Ten in the service of Den Carlos, who ar,! sent
Prance Zvia, have just proceeded thither, passing through
ine_ye.ia,zetcbacuse they would oz go by way of Arragon, and
opportunity to send horses and bales of wool-
not to General Maroto. This loan of our territory is
ttieaionr
to t,:ea" but affords a fresh proof of the respect paid
gist • the Quadruple Alliance, which still sub_
liptaisosnisvefoatr.,Fms that Maroto does not suspend his prepar_plete thei; o expedition to Castello, and depends on his
n cc:so:17: ttlrlaed French Government, for orders to corn
of cont contracts have been forwarded to many. agents
e.
MARCH 23.—The Senate, at the opening of

its sitting, had a very romarkable speech a :de Bit)liev in
favour of the accentance of the treaty. The words of the
Hon. Senator received the approbation even of his adver-
saries, and will have a real influence on the debate.
M. de Bousies raised an incidental question. He thought
that the Government infringed the prerogatives of the
Senate by submitting to its acceptance a project of law
(that relative to modifications of the teriff of customs for
the province of Luxemburg), which prejudged the treaty
of peace. He moved that it should be withdrawn till the
Senate had pronounced its opinion respecting the treaty of
peace. The motion was got rid of by passing to the order
of the day.
The following Members spoke
:
For the treaty, Messrs. de Biolley, Baron Dubois,
de Pelichy, \Vanteis de Bouchout. Against the treaty,
Messrs. Vanderheyden, de \Vauthier, de Bousies.
At the moment of our writing, M. Lefebvre- Mourit is
exciting the merriment of the Senate by his numerous jokes
and puns in support of his vote against the acceptance.
Yesterday the King received M. Raikem, President
of the Chamber of Representatives.
His Majcstv transacted business with the Minister of the
Interior and Foreign Affairs.

A letter from Diest of the 21st gives an account of a ter-
rible duel en the morning of that day, at ten o'clock, be-
tween a Captain of Lancers and a Captain of Chasseurs.
They fought with the sabre. They were both so deperately
wounded, that there is little hope of saving them. We
have, indeed, heard that one of them is dead.

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Mr. HoasmeN has given notice of a motion on the
subject of Impressment; and preparatory to that is to
move this evening, for a Return of the number of
Officers, Men, and Tenders, employed in the Impress-
ment Service, in the years 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813,
1814 ; the stations at which they were employed ; the
number of men impressed ; and the expense incurred at
each station during those years. Also a Return of the
number of deserters from the Royal Navy in each year
from 1790 to 1839. We know not whether these
returns will he granted, but if they are not, if they are
withheld, on any pretext whatever, we shall conclude
that the Admiralty officials are thoroughly sensible that
those returns will convince the public that impressment
is as cruel as it is unjust. If produced, they will probably
convict the Members, of former Admiralty Boards, ei-
ther of the most gross ignorance ol' the effects of impress
ment ; or, knowing them, of wilful perseverance in an abo-
mi-nable and disgraceful system of tyranny after they had
been made aware that it was as injurious to the public
service as it was revolting to the feelings of humanity.
The object of Mr. HORSMAN'S motion we take to be
the ascertaining the cost of impressment, the number of
men it abstracted from the public defence, and the still
greater number it caused to desert. With these ele-
ments, and the number of men impressed, the country
will have some of the statistics of impressment laid
before it, arid be enabled to form a judgment of its
utility. During the war, we believe, there were some
eight or ten stations at which press-grangs were regu-
larly maintained, and they must have employed on an
average, we conjecture, more than a hundred men, or
the crew of a sloop of war. There were, moreover,
some four or six Tenders continually passing from
port to port, carrying impressed men from one to
another, the crews of which, including the Marines to
keep the impressed men in safety, could not have
amounted to less than 150 men more abstracted from
the public defence, on account of impressment, or the
complement of a 20-gun ship.
In our estimation, however, this number is only a
very small portion of the hands which impressment
caused to be employed in looking after men whom it was
thought expedient to treat as felons. The expense
of cur gaols is a subject of bitter complaint to our
country gentlemen, and can they suppose that the goals
for keeping the bulk of the seamen, treated as criminals,
and more numerous than the felons of the country, were
not also very costly ? At every naval station, such as
Portsmouth, Plymouth, the Nore, and at some mer-
chant ports, such as Liverpool, London, etc., ships were
always lying called guard ships, or receiving ships, or
Tenders, of which the principal use was to serve
as goals for impressed men. Their lower deck
ports were generally fitted up with strong iron
gratings, through which, panting for fresh air and
for liberty, the future gallant defenders of their coun-
try sat, eagerly, but almost hopelessly, watching for any
means of escape. There in the stench of close pent up
and congregated human beings, exposed to quasi pesti-
lence, the spirit of the impressed man was subdued by
sickness ; he frequectly volunteered that he might es-
cape from the noisome dungeon; and was always glad to
he sent into active service in a sea-going ship from the
horrible prison of the guardship. Now the statistics of
impressment will not be completed unless the number of
men and officers always employed in those ships, and
their cost, which, as floating, gaols are enormously extra.
vagani, will be found no small sum, be also laid before
the public.
Moreover, in our opinion, the chief object in
embarking a body of soldiers on board our ships
always was too keep the impressed men in obedience.
The Marines were the allies of the officers in suppressing_
mutiny. They were the instruments and auxiliaries of
a flagrant system of tyranny. Whatever, therefore,
may have been the number of Marines actually on shore
during the war, and we believe it was about one-third
of the whole corps, must be considered as men ab-
stracted from the defence of the country by impress-
ment ; and whatever might have been the expense of
the whole corps of Marines, more than would have
hired the services of a number of seamen, equal to the
Marines, actually embarked, ought, in our judgment,
to be chaeeed against the impressment, and the statis-
tics of this act of national injustice will not be
ceotnpleted unless such a return be also laid before
Parliament.
Moreover, every body knows that the number of
officers in the Navy is enormously and disproportion-
ately great, in comparison to the number of our ships ;
but every body is not aware that a great portion of
that useless surplus, and all their vast cost, is to
he charged to impressment. To keep the impressed
men in order, to look after them and contrAoluis
ldtihiiepmm,ena
large number of' young gentlemen, as
was taken on board each ship. After wasting their
youth in the service, and becoming unfit to pursue any
other business, they had a claim on the country, and
were in due season promoted. and afterwards placed on
the Half-pay list, never again to be employed. We
know not how the surplus number of officers which has
been caused by impressment could be ascertained, but
without ascertaining it the statistics of impressment will
not be complete. ,We recommend the subject, how-
ever, to Mr. HORSMAN'S notice, and it may be made to
tell in a debate if it cannot be tabulated in a return.
We would remind him and the public too, prepara-
tory to his discussion on impressment, which now, in
consequence of the backwardness of men to enter the
Navy, is a subject of painful interest, that there never
has been any want of volunteers for officers in the
Navy, or any great want of men for the Marine corps,
who never are, like the seamen, subjected to im-
pressment. But as both those classes share all the
danger and difficulties of a sea life with the com-
mon seaman, it is demonstrated that nothing has ever
prevented the country from having as many volunteer
seamen as it could pay and employ, but its short-sighted
system of brutal injustice. Impressment stigmatizes
the naval service as something horrible, and makes it
universally shunned. We cordially wish Mr. HORS-
MAN, therefore, success in his efforts to throw light on
its workings, and ultimately to abolish it.
We published, on Thursday, an excellent letter,
signed " Some Seamen," in which, amongst other mat-
ter, the tyranny of some officers is adverted to. Their
tyranny grows from impressment. The officers do but
carry out the principle adopted by the law, and are not
unfrequently made tyrants by the necessity of subduing
refractory or mutinous men. The free use of the cat is
the necessary adjunct of the press-gang. If Mr.
HORSEMAN wishes to harrow up the feelings of the
public by scenes of cruelty, unmatchable except in the
history of the " middle passage," he should move that
the logs and journals of some of our crack ships should
eurnumber
of returns"
men,
what
proportion
and
the be laid before the House. He should call, too, for the
weekly
ain r,ia t during
some period,
punishments
as
, that he might as-
publicmenntese boreto
t
othe
mtbewonder
that our Navy was avoided like a pestilence, when
it was proved that in some ships flogging was
almost as frequent as the men's meals. The records of
those disgraceful and even horrible scenes cannot per-
haps, be recovered, but without them the moral statis-
tics of impressment will never be completed.
Let us, in one word, say that the last war with the
United States was chiefly caused by our persisting in
our right of search, to recover our seamen. Now,
the cost and well-merited naval disgrace of that con-
test the consequences of impressment, seem to us its
proper climax, and ought to induce the whole country to
denounce it as one of the most mischievous acts of
which any Government was ever guilty.

The Tory Papers recommend that during the Easter
holidays addresses and petitions should be got up in
all parts of the country against the Irish policy of Mi-
nisters, to ensure their defeat if possible on the motion
which Lord JOHN RUSSELL iS to make after Easter.
It will be incumbent, therefore,' on the Liberal party,
and particularly incumbent on the people of Ireland,
who have known the benefits of Lord MULGP.AVE'S
mild and impartial rule, to strengthen the hands of the
tlrinisters by counter addresses and petitions.
e have no wish to see them defeated on
this question, for that would be the triumph
of bigotry. It cannot be overlooked that the

prime mover in the ;natter in the House of Peers
was an Orange leader, ;Ind one of the chiefs of the
bigoted party. The true ground on which the Minis-
try is to be assailed is its want of deference to the
Church of Ireland. Had it been the zealous ally of
M‘GHEE and Co. the Tories would have forgiven
it all its sins, but its refusal to countenance and sup•
port all the abuses of the Irish Church Establishment
is an unpardonable offence. As it is to be assailed on
the ground by all the bigots and all the patrons of the
abuses that are perpetrated in the name of religion, all
the friends of Church Reform ought to give it a cordial
support.

For our part we know notling which so much re-
quires now to be opposed and defeated as the Church
party. Turn which way we will, we find, what the
Times, when it was on the right side, called too
much Church. The Church stands in the way of
the Corn-laws being repealed. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
actually described the intention to repeal them, while
the Tithe Commutation Act was retaineA, as a piece of
gross fraud. The Church prevents rational freedom
and good Government in Ireland. For the sake of
the Church municipal institutions have been
denied it, and, for the sake of the Church, a full share of
civil privileges and of the electoral franchise is studiously
withheld from it. The Church prohibits the amuse-
ments, and so sours the disposition, of the people ;
it impedes their business and their freedom, and con- I
signs them to poverty and discontent. The Church,
by its exorbitant claims, has excited animosity in almost
every parish of the empire, and we can have little
hope of either peace or freedom till the enormous
claims of the Church be abated.

A curious instance of the arrogance of the Church
is to be found in a pamphlet, entitled " An Appeal
to the Bishop Of WINCHESTER, Visitor of Trinity Col-
lege, Oxford, &c., by G. R. M. WARD, A.M." This
gentleman makes an appeal to the Bishop against the
decision of the Fellows relative to himself, and com-
plains that the Bishop giveS him no answer ; that the
Church always judges without hearing evidence, and
never condescends to (rive an account of its proceedings
to its victims. Dr. HAMPDEN, WC remember, com-
plained of such conduct in the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY ; but Dr. HAMPDEN, according to Mr.
WARD, is so infected with the principles of the Clergy,
that he himself has acted in the same way. The fol-
lowing is Mr. WARD'S account of this curious matter :
The Primate of all England and Metropolitan backs
the bigots of Oxford in running down their Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity, and his Grace himself denounces him,
behind his back, in the House of Lords. How have I
offended ? asks the much.wronged Professor. What are
ihe specific charges against me, that I may answer them ?
The Primate of all England and Metropolitan has become
dumb as a fish. You have denounced me before the
Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, writes Mr. Lancaster to this
same Professor: What is my crime? " I have received
the letter; that is all :" quoth, in his own turn, the Pro-
fessor. His fingers arc paralyzed on the instant, and fur-
ther answer makes lie none. • • • • •

Mr. Lancaster preaches a sermon, and plies the verbera
linyure lustify on the Regius Professor; for where, if not
in a pulpit, is preacher to tell primitive truth, according
to his lights, and shame the gainsayers ? Still, if he
passes the bounds of propriety, there is an University
Statute, such as it is, for his own correction. Dr. Hhmp-
den thought that he had so transgressed. and therefore
picks up the Statute- Book, goes to our Vice. Chancellor,
slims him chapter and section, and demands enforcement
of the law, by the law's administrator. What should fol.
low ? Here is a judge, an assumed offence, an accuser :
the next step, of course, an ignoramus might have
thought, would be to summon the defendant. By no
means, in Oxford. Papists, Socinians, Nothingarians,
Infidels, and other Dissenters, are abroad, seeking what
Church delinquents they may devour; and besides, inqui-
sitors have an inbred aversion from noise and disturbance.
So what does our Vice-Chancellor actual, but take unto
himself four other spirits of the self-same kidney, the Vice-
Chancellor elect, and two more Heads of Houses inclu-
sive, and cabals with them, and obtains their engagement,
never again to appoint Mr. Lancaster to preach from . St.
Mary's pulpit before the University
Meanwhile Mr. Lancaster knows nothing either of Dr.
Hampden's charge or his own condemnation. Five weeks
pass, and every common room in the University, all the
Masters of Arts in the place, and probably very many far
afield, besides all the younger men who trouble themselves,
in the lowest degree, with the doings of dons, are aware
of the offence, and its punishment. One mortal only is all
unadvised—the prejudged delinquent himself : dedecus
ipse dornus sciet ultimus. When at last he does hear of
his doom, he demands the particulars of his crime, and
an accusation, and a hearing before the legitimate tribunal.
From the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to
Mr. Bursar of Queen's College, not one of the five cabal-
less will accommodate him in either way. Dr. Hampden
will not open his lips, nor handle the pen of a ready writer.
Now, when such is the conduct of the most liberal
Of the Churchmen, what is to be expected from the
most bigotted ? In fact, the whole of the establish-
ment, from the head to the feet, from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury to the college beadle, is one great
system of rigid, monkish, inquisitorial subordination—
a remnant of Popery, admirably adapted to a despotism,
but totally foreign to the genius of a free country.
This system of Church government is to be upheld by
petitions and addresses against the Ministers ; and
this system of Church government is that which the
Liberal party are now called on to oppose, by supporting
the Ministers against the attack of Lord RoDE and
his friends.

The Echo de L'Orient publishes a letter from Con-
stantinople of the 13th ult., which states that through
the powerful mediation of the Court of Russia the
Shah of Persia has been prevailed upon 'to grant a
pardon and a pension of 40,000 florins to his two
nephews, for some time resident in the Turkish capital,
who bad joined in the conspiracy of the other Princes
of the blood for his dethronement. In consideration of
this pension they are to abstain from future treasonable
practices, and, by their own desire, are to fix their resi-
dence at Teflis. That the mission of M. Franchini to
Persia, had direct reference to this affair, was the gene-
ral impression at Constantinople. It is easy to perceive
the deep design which Russia has in thus cheaply
securing the devotion to her interests of two of the
numerous claimants for the Sovereignty of Persia.
Through their agency she can easily sow dissensions in
the Shah's Councils ; and, should he prove untractable,
she will be in a condition, by setting up another
claimant for the Crown, to harass him with civil
wars, and thus, either by fraud or violence,
persevere in pushing her eastern frontier nearer
and nearer to Teheran. No doubt the menac-
ing attitude assumed by England in the East, and the
decided tone in which our Ambassador judged it proper
to make known the views of this Government to the
Shah, greatly influenced the resolutions of the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh. When the unfriendly disposition
of the Shah towards England was first ascertained,
there were public writers in this country who scrupled
not to recommend the setting up of a competitor for
the Musnud in the person of one of the Persian Princes
who resided for some time in London. We then de-
nounced this Machiavelian policy as unworthy of Eng-
land, and, notwithstanding the advantages which Rus-
sia may expect to reap from it, we denounce it still as
most detestable. To make the right of a Sovereign
to the allegiance of his subjects contingent upon his ob-
servance of good faith towards foreign independent
States, would he to introduce a most pernicious prin-
ciple into the law of nations. It may be urged that
the claims of the competitors for the Crown of Persia
are even stronger, according to the laws of regular suc-
cession, than those of the reigning Sovereign.
To this we answer, that all that can be repeated upon
this head was pleaded by the exiled Princes themselves
before the Ministers of England and Russia, and yet
their claims were disallowed, and the reigning Shah
recognised as the rightful Sovereign of Persia by
those Ministers and their respective Governments. If
injury be done us we are powerful enough to right our-
selves without having recourse to the barbarous policy
of seeking to kindle a civil war even in art enemy's
country. The " true end of war," says GROTIUS,
" is peace," but if this detestable policy were adopted,
the real aim and object of war would be the disorgani-
zation of civil society.

Every prospect of the formation of a Coalition Ca-
binet in France, including M. TIMERS as Minister of
Foreign Affairs, appeared at an end on Friday. When
every difficulty seemed removed, the KING, with the
Ordinances for the appointment of the Ministry before
him, and one of them signed and counter-signed, re-
sumed all at once his old position; defended his policy
since his accession ; declared that there should be no
change in the system pursued towards Spain by Count
MOLE ; and that the Cabinet must pledge itself to
oppose the election of M. ODILLoN BARROT to the
Presidency of the Chamber. M. TRIERS replied to
the KING by an instant resignation, which he repeated
in a letter to his MAJESTY ; so that all expectations of
his forming any part of the new Ministry were regarded
on Friday as completely at an end. The example of
TRIERS was followed by SAUZET, DUFAURE, PASSY,
and DUPERRE; leaving only SOULT, HUMANN, and
DUPIN, to form the nucleus of a new Ministry—a
triumvirate, who could not command, by their personal
influence, twenty votes in the Chamber.

Our readers will have observed in our advertising
columns, the establishment of the London and
Westminster Mutual Life Assurance Society,
under the patronage of the Marquis of WESTMIN-
STER, which seems to bid fair, both from the re-
spectability of its Direction and the utility of the
objects it embraces, to take a prominent stand
amongst the existing Societies. We have thought
it right, as public journalists, frequently to notice
Institutions of this kind, from a consciousness of the
benefits which the public may derive from them,
especially from those so framed as to place their
advantages within the reach of the Working Classes,
and there is no Society which does this to a greater
extent than the London and Westminster. The
principle of the Society, as appears from the Pro-
spectus before us, is mutual; by which mode the
assured reciprocally assure each other, and all the
profits are to be divided amongst those who adopt
mutual assurance. The Society is not confined to

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March 24, contained particulars of the Leamington, Not-
tingham, Scott Cup, York, Maidstone, Melton Mowbray,
Burton-on-Trent, Beccles, Aylesbury, Chatham Garrison,
Lioston, Bedford, Fakenham,
and South Devon Steeple
Chases. The price of Bell's Life in London is Fivepence.

QUACKERY.—As a quack practitioner, on Lud-
gate-hill, was standing at his door, a regular bred physician
passed, who had learning and abilities, but not the success
in his practice which he deserved. " How comes it," says
he to the quack, " that you, without education, skill, or the
least knowledge of the science, are enabled to live in the
style you do? You keep your town house and your country
house, while I, allowed to possess some knowledge, have
neither, and can scarcely pick up a subsistence." " Why,
look ye," 'said the quack, " how many people do you think
have passed us since you asked me the question ?"
Why," answered the doctor, "perhaps a hundred."
" And how many out of that hundred, think you, possess
common sense ?" " Possibly, one," answered the doctor.
" Then," said the quack, " that one comes to you; and I
take care to get the other ninety-nine."
CHURCH RATES COMPRONfISED.—At a vestry
meeting at Chelmsford, for the purpose of passing a
Church-rate, the Dissenters opposed the motion, when the
following accommodation of the question took place. Nine
gentlemen were appointed a Committee to examine into
the religious principles of the inhabitants of the parish,
with power to make out a list of all those who are members
of Dissenting congregations, and to excuse such from the
payment of the Church-rate.--Chelmsford Chronicle.