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LONDON, WEDNESDAYtitIyENINp4ULY 21, 1839

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SCOTLAND.—GROUSE SHOOTING.
TO BE LET,
For the ensuing Season, or on a Lease,._

THE Privilege of SHOOTING over the
ESTATE or DISTRICT of STRATIICONON,
in Ross-shire.

This district contains 70,000 Acre. of Muir, well
stocked with Grouse and Ptarmigan. The rivers Meig
and Orrin, which pass through the Estate, and the Conon,
by which it ie hounded for about eleven miles, are all
capital Fishing streams. There are also several Lakes in
which Trout of considerable weight are found. There is
a comfortably Furnished Cottage, of three rooms, kitchen,
and servants' apartment. for the accommodation of :;ports-
men. Attendants and Ponies are to be had at a moderate
expence. The Cottage is about nine miles from Dingwall,
where there are excellent Markets, and the mail passes daily.

Also, TO BE LET, for the Season, or on Leave,

The SHOOTING, &0., of the ESTATE of ARI)ROSS,
in the eastern district of Ross-shire•

This Estate comprehends about 8,000 Acres of Muir,
and 1,000 of Arable Land and Plantations. The Ardross
Muir. are well known to be about the best stocked with
grouse in the north, and the most easily travelled. There
is a good show of Hack game, and the fields abound with
hare and partridge.
The Aloes*, which bounds the Estate for about four
miles, and the Lock of Aelanacloich afford excellent Angling.
A Furnished Cottage, of three rooms, kitchen, and ser-
vants' room, conveniently situated fur the accommodation
of the sportsman, and within a mile of the village of tines*,
where the mail passes daily, will be Let with the shooting.
N.B.—Not more than three guns allowed.
For information as to rent and other particulars apply
to Thomas Mansfield, accountant, Thistle-street ; or to
Gordon and Stuart, H, Bellevue-crescent, Edinburgh.
P.S. Both of these Shooting Quarters have peculiar
advantages' in point of access, and for the despatch of
Game, as a Steam-boat sails for Invergordon each week,
by which Sportsmen, their servants, dogs, and baggage,
can be conveyed at: a trifling expense from Leith in 24
hours, and Game sent South by the Steam-boat, may be
delivered with certainty in London on the fourth day,
without any risk of detention in coach-offices or otherwise.
Invergordon is only five miles from Ardross, and about
twenty miles from Strathconon. The snail coach also
passes daily within a few miles of each place.

of their turperlative abilities. Here again a
little explanation is necessary: the public is to
be informed that the talent of an artist has little
or nothing to do with his election into the
Academy. The pride and self-respect which
are the natural concomitants of genius, will be
more likely to keep a man out of the Aca-
demy than bring him into it ; and if among
that body there are some individuals of incon-
testable abilities, they have got there, not in con-
sequence of their talents, but in spite of them.
Whoever determines to become a member of
the Academy must bid adieu, without remorse,
to the 'spirit and feelings of a gentleman. He
who cannot squeeze himself into every avenue,
whether dirty or clean, and who is inexpert at
the games of intrigue and manoeuvring in all
their contemptible intricacies,—who shrinks
from the tortuous processes of sycophancy,
flattering, canting, wheedling, begging, coaxing,
and crying (for even this last expedient has been
known to have been employed with the happieit
effect),—he who is unable to do these things,
has little chance of obtaining a seat in the
Royal Academy. But, whatever be the means,
how glorious is the end ! The successful can-
didate is no sooner installed in his sacred office
than he is enabled to make.a full atonement to
his humiliated feelings by wreaking on others
the same tyranny which had been exercised upon
himself, and several of them have been heard,
with laudable candour, to avow their resolution
of doing so.
It may be asked, the Academy being of such
questionable character, why should any man of
talent think it eligible to belong to it ? Truly, if
this institution were stripped of its prescriptive
rank, and tacit' by the standard of its actual
strength, the members might be left to play off
their airs of ludicrous dignity, and adjust their
puny 'politics, with a horse-laugh of derision ; but
so long as the Royal Academy is invested with
the character of a national establishment, insti-
tuted and sustained by the sanction of Royal
authority, so long will every artist be desirous,
an.i has a right to expect, that his works should
find in it the opportunity of being fairly pre-
sented to the public. The only plausible excuse
which has been offered by the Academy, in exte-
nuation for any part of those abuses, is the
variety and inadequate size of their apartments
appropriated to exhibitions. This instrument,
placed in their hands, is certainly a bad one, and
it must be admitted that they have made the
worst possible use of it.
The remedy for these evils is simple and ob-
vious. A gallery should be constructed for the
purpose of the National Exhibition, of such ex-
tent and of such a plan as should give sufficient
space to every qualified contributor, and preclude
the possibility of invidious and partial arrange-
ments. Without going into detail, as we pur-
pose to return to the subject, it will be sufficient
at present to hint, that this gallery should, in
shape, resemble that of the Louvre, lighted,
however, not laterally, but by a continuous sky.
light'; and the first law of the establishment
should enact, that no picture should be hung so
far either above or below the eye of the spectator
as to prevent its being commodiously seen. A
grand and animating stimulus would thus be
given to the whole body of practitioners, for the
road to distinction would be open to all ; nor
could that eminence be disputed, or impugned,
which had been obtained by the ordeal of full and
fair comparison.
The establishment of an institution, such as
we now suggest, or something analogous to it,
has been already discussed in the Times, and
among the higher authorities; but the execution
of the plan, it is said, was procrastinated by con-
siderations of finance. These considerations
will be found to be obviated by the following
suggestions :—The annual receipts of the Royal
Academy, as above stated, amount to 5,000/.
or 6,000/. An exhibition, conducted on the
enlarged and liberal principles which we now
recommend, would, no doubt, be much more
productive ; and surely, the appropriation of a
part of its revenue during a given number of
years would be sufficient to defray the expense
of its construction.— Times.

IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT.)

The. LORD CHANCELLOR entered the House at
Twenty Minutes past Five o'clock.
Lords Hoot) and VERNON took the oaths of
allegiance and supremacy.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition
from Bedford, complaining of the oppressive nature
of the poor rates in that county, and praying an
inquiry into the state of the poor laws.
The Earl of 'WESTMORELAND presented a
petition from Sir Jonah Barrington, praying that
lie may be at liberty to strike out part of the evi-
dence taken in his ease, and be at liberty to examine
another witness. _

The LORD CHANCELLOR concurred in the
propriety of acceding to the prayer of the petition.
The Duke of WELLINGTON considered that
enough witnesses bad been examined already, and
that the case ought to proceed in its regular course.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then said, that
their Lordships would have to consider whether they
would deem it proper to concur in the Address to
his most gracious Majesty which had been voted
by the House of Commons, and communicated to
their Lordships at the conference which had lately
taken place. The Address related to the conduct
of Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court
of Admiralty in Ireland : it declared Sir Jonah Bar-
! rington to have been guilty of malversation in his
office, and proposed an application to the Crown for
his removal. He was accused of applying to his
own use certain sums of money paid into the Court
of Admiralty on account of certain causes pending
in that Court. In the course of the inquiry a Mr.
Pineau was examined as a witness,and cross-examined
at very great length by Counsel for Sir Jonah Bar-
rington, and certainly he should recommend, in con-
firmation of the opinion expressed by the House of
Commons, that if the question depended mainly upon
his evidence, that Parliament would not be justified
.in condemning Sir Jonah Barrington; for the con.
duct of Mr. Pineal*, from his own admission, ap-
peared to have been altogether unjustifiable, end
there was, beside, a sufficiency of contradiction in
his evidence to shake it Materially ; but unfortu-
nately the evidence against that Learned Judge did
not depend seared" at all upon the testimony of
Mr. Pineau. It was founded almost entirely upon
written documents in the handwriting of Sir Jonah
himself; or else upon written documents authenti-
cated by interlineutions and corrections in the bawl-
writing of Sir Jonah. The charges were of a very
simple description, and he would despatch them if/

a few words. The Noble and Learned Lord then
recapitulated all the charms established against Sir
Jonah Barrington by. evidence Oven at the bar, tin.:l
submitted the case to their Lordships,- declaring it
was his.opinion that they ought to concur in the
Address voted by the House of Com Mons.
The Address voted by the House of Conimmis
was then, adopted with the necessary formal /atm*
tOns, and it was ordered to be presented to his
Majesty by the Lord High Steward and the Lord
Chamberlain.

diry LIBEL LAIN AMENDMENT BILL.
az the question that their Lordships re.olve
themselves into a Committee on this Bill,
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he rose to
state the nature and pipet of the -13i11 before their
Lordships ; in doing so, his duty Would be of is
simple descrisienrrAttActtlie,6oth of Geo.
--was passed,for the purpose of altering the law of
libel, as far as It related to' libels of a particular
character. It ; provided that those who were coil-
! vieted of a blasphemous or seditious libel a second
time should be subject, at the discretion of the
Court, to the ordinary punishment for a high mi:s.
demeanour, or should be banished for any term of
,ears that he Court thought proper. It was a ma-
terial alffation in the law, at least alit existed 811,11 T
the time of Elizabeth (for in that reign there weir a
particular Act prescribing banishment for a certain
offence); but, except under the provisions of that
.Act no such punishment had ever been inflicted on
a subject of this part of the realm for any offence
prescribed by the Common Law. It was true that
in reality this repeal of the punishment of banish-
ment was not a very great boon to the people, be-
cause, during the lust ten years, there had been no
punishment of this description under the Statute,
nor, indeed, had there been any prosecution. It
would have required that a man should have been
first convicted for a blasphemous and seditious
libel, and then that he should have been a
second time convicted of the same offence. It
wits accordingly, he repeated, no great boon; btu
as there were many persons there, and still wet.,
in the ether House' who desired the alteration,
was happy in being instrumental in the commission.
On this part of the Bill he believed there could be
no difference of opinion. But there was another
part of it to which he was bound to call the attention
of the Ministers. By an Act of the same Session,
and next in order to the Act he had already men-
tioned, it was provided that any person who should
publish a newspaper, or other species of publication
therein named, should previously be bound in re-
cognizances of three hundred pounds for himself,
and should provide two sufficient securities. This
was, if he published in the metropolis; but if in the
country, he was to be bound in two hundred pounds
for himself, mind to find two securities. Now the
object of this was to guard ageinst blasphemous and
seditious libels, by establishing a forthcoming fund
from which fines on the convicted might be levied.
There was a subsequent proposition, that when the
sum was reduced by the payment of any fine, it
should be raised to its original amount before. there
could be any further publication. The object of
the Bill now before their Lordships was to extend
the amount of recognizances by -100/. in each
case, thus making it 400/, in the metropolis, and
3001. in the country; and further, this fund so es-
tablished, was to be made available for the liquida-
tion of damages in civil cases, as well as for the pay-
ment of fines in criminal convictions. In a word,
the grounds upon which that provision was intro-
duced were these not Infrequently happened,
especially in the case of registered and Stamp-office
Newspapers, that the real name of the party con-
cerned was concealed, while some person of no sub.
stance was put forward in his stead. In cases of.
private slander accordingly, when an whan was
brought, and damages recovered, the prosecutor, in-
stead of recovering anything, was compelled to pay
his own costs, and he had no means of obtaining
any redress. To this provision of the Bill he ac-
cordingly gave his most cordial support ; for he
thoUght that it Was more important. to the well
being of the State to repress private slander, then
their political or religious libels of any denomination
whatsoever. He bud now stated the facts, and
would move that the Bill be committed.

Lord HOLLAND thanked the Noble Lord on

the Woolsack for the candour and courtesy with
which he had brought the measure forward. Ile

thought that the repeal of the punishment of ba-
nishment would be received as a boon by the people,
for its enactment was contrary to the spirit of the
English law. He agreed with the. Noble and
Learned Lord that there could be no difference of
opinion upon the first provision of the Bill. He
did not think, however, that some of the Supporters
of the measure in the other House would be satis-
fied with the way in which be bud. recommended it
to their Lordships; for he remembered well that at

the commencement of the Session the measure had
been introduced into the other 11ou►;e with a flourish
of trumpets, us a great boon to the liberty of the
Press; but after a gestation of many months the
cat was at length let out of the bag, and they found
there was a st►ng in the tail which rendered the
whole thing of very questionable advantage to the
people. lie decidedly objected to the increase in the
recognizances, without some better evidence being
advanced in support of it than the simple assertion
upon the face of the Bill that it was expedient.
As to private libels, he would be the last man in the

h
%wvioireltditieo
ewoimslptitatiliet
dtley should
oifwasthe go
onituustpt uan;listihed; but
unphilo-
sophical confounding of two offences so distinct as
private and public libels. They were different in
their nature, the motives which led to them were
different, and they ought to be separated, and con-
sidered in a very different point of view. It was
his intention to propose to omit all the words in the
latter part of the second clause; and to repeal all
securities and recognixances whatever, with the in-
tention of compelling the revision,_ in another Ses-
sion, of the whole law of libel. The objects of that
revision ought, in his opinion, to be, firat, to give in-
creased facility to the punishment of private libels;
secondly, to define more exactly the nature of .public
libels, if public libels must still be the subjects of
prosecution ; and, thirdly, to correct the proceed-
ings by information, especially by ex-officio informau
Lions, and above all, that anomaly in law, that sole-
cism in language, by which it was supposed that
any one could be guilty of punishing a libeller who
had no guilty intention—that one ,person could be
rendered responsible for the uct of another; and by
which Juries were called upon, on their °piths, to
say that a man ought to be iustly convicted and
punished for publishing word; which he had never
previously seen or heard of. He was aware that
this was owing to an erroneous construction of the
Act upon the subject, which bad originated with one
whom he must always revere, but somehow or other
it appeared to him that the astuteness of the Bar
had a perpetual retainer on the part of power against
totebfriedtreiernicvityll.ett in geAoltfhotltilegh:tibjeet ; and that the meaning
question was wrested from its real
he allowed, that the first part
of the measure under their Lordships consideration
wasaboo
fno,yet, when he considered that on the in-
troductionflint measure it was accompanied by
one for imposing heavy stamps upon Newspapers,
he could not but believe that there bad beeil an in-
tention, which however he vis rejoiced had proved
AbortiTe4 to call on Parliament in the present Session
for the adoption of a course of unprecedented se
verity against the Press.
Lord WYNFORU rose but his Lord hilt

not uttered two sentences, when he was interupted
by

A Message from the House of Commons, an-
nouncing that that House had agreed to their Lord-
ships' Amendments in the Forgery Bill, the Beer
and Cider Bill, the Scotch Judie4ture Bill, &c.

Lord WYNFORD then proceeded. He allowed
with the Noble Lord who had just spoken that the
law of libel was by no means in that state in which
it ought to be. No man was more capable than the
Noble Lord of bringing the whole subject under the
cotifOetation Of Parliament ; and he trusted that in
another;Session the •Noble Lord might be induced
to do so. He must, however, defend the profession
to which he had had the honour to belong, from the
imputation of having frittered away the•meaning of
the Bill which had been brought into the other
Rouse of Parliament by that Noble Lord's illustrious
relation. lie had never known an instance of a pro-
secution for libel, in which the Judge had not dis-
rincily stated to , the Jury the province which, as
cording to that Dill, belonged to them. He per-
fectly agreed .with his Noble and Learned Friend
that it was good to put an end to the first part of
the libel. His approbation did not, however, rest
exactly on the same grounds, but on the fact that
the nature of libel wits, by the existing law, so un-
certain, that no man ought.to be subject, on account
of it, to a ruinous punishment. He could not eon-
elude without expressing his utter abhorrence of the
libels which had recently appeared in the public
prints on the first Aingistrate in the land.—( Hear,
hear.)--,Libels, the impurity of which appeared to
him to be utterly incompatible with the preservation
and wellbeing of our present form of Government.
The House then resolved itself into the Committee.
Lord HOLLAND moved the amendment, of
which he had given notice, for doing away with all
lecognizances and securities.

The amendment was negatiVed witkont a division.
Lord HOLLAND wished to know whether, when
any person who bud entered into recognizinces, ren-
dered himself liable to. pay any fine, he must entei-
into a new recognizance ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that when
any part of the money for which a publisher had
given security was exhausted, the party would, be
precluded fiom continuing the publication of his
paper, until he made good the deficiency by a new
security. _

Thiclauses of thell were then gone through,
and agreed to.
On the bringing up the Report, Lord HOLLAND
repeated his amendment, which was vain negatived.
The Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-
morrow.