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ther to say ?) because, in the progress of events, that
veil of delusion by which its real character was once
concealed,has been effectually torn asunder. Now that
the Whigs are seen in open confederacy with the demo-
cratic revolutionists of Great Britain for the overthrow of

,he British Constitution, and with the Popish revolu-

Lonists of Ireland for the overthrow of the Pro-

testant Church, they are of course appreciated at their
real va►ue by all the honourable and loyal portion of
their former adherents. But we willingly quit this pain-
ful train of reflection for a theme which must afford

satisfaction and delight to every class of the commu-
nity. It will at once be perceived that we allude to
the magnificent inaugural oration of Sir Robert Peel.
We cannot bestow upon this admirable production a
juster or a more exalted eulogy, than when we say
that it is entirely worthy of the unrivalled powers,
and the eminent reputation, of its distinguished
author. It breathes throughout the spirit of the
accomplished scholar ; the high-minded gentleman ;
the consummate statesman ; the pious and devout
Christian ; and the emanations of this spirit are
so finely blended with the earnest tone of affectionate
and parental admonition, that we do not hesitate
to pronounce the entire composition one of the finest
and most appropriate that the world has yet seen upon
any occasion. Sir Robert Peel has repaid the youth
of Glasgow by his speech in abundant measure for the
high honour which they had conferred upon him ; for
we hold it to be impostible that of the numerous body
of students who received its impressions warm from
the lips of the orator, there should be a single indivi-
dual whom it will not have rendered a wiser, a better,
and a happier man. We foresee that wherever the
British language is known this inimitable address will
be placed by every father in the hands of his sons,
with the brief and impressive admonition—" As you
value your future happiness and fame, treasure up in
your memory and your heart the advice and instruc-
tions of the Lord Rector of Glasgow."—Morn. Post.

There has been, it seems, a Radical meeting at Kid
derminster, where certain individuals of that kidney
gave a dinner to Mr. George Richard Philips, their
M.P., who in return for, we dare say, a very hospitable
entertainment, gave his Radical auditory but a very
middling speech. If on their side was the flow of
soul, certainly the feast of reason was not furnished
by the Hon. Gentleman. We have only time to no-
tice some two or three of the attempts of Mr. George
Richard Philips upon the understandings of his hearers.
Because the Ministers arc called " Destructives" by
one class of the people of England, and by another por-
tion of their countrymen a set of " timid noodles," not
having pluck to do mischief nor sense to do good, he
(Mr. G. R. Philips) declares that, being abused by
both parties, each of which the Hon. Member chooses
to designate as an extreme one, he is quite satisfied
that the Melbourne Ministers have steered the middle,
which he considers the judicious, course, and that they
have hit what he terms the " golden mean," and there-
fore he has not only afforded them a " generous and
consistent" support, but he inflicts upon them his
munificent and undiscriminating panegyric. Now,
suppose we try Mr. G. R. Philips's logic with re-
ference to an individual personage. Imagine such a
thing possible as that one extreme party of political
critics should pronounce Mr. G. R. Philips to be a
downright knave, and others to insist that he was
no such thing, but only an egregious and arrant
booby. We are, according to the mode of argu-
ment adopted by the Hon. Gentleman in this in-
stance, to take for granted that he is neither one thing
nor the other, but that he has hit "the golden medium,"
and deserves our highest admiration, as something " be-
tween a knave and a fool." Such is the real value
of the panegyric pronounced upon the Whigs of the
Rump by one of their most " generous" supporters.
But when Mr. G. IL Philips talks of the "course"
pursued by His Majesty's Ministers, we beg leave
to ask him what he means ? " Course" implies " pro-
gress,
or something of that hind,' as we have always
conjectured. Now what " progress" in any line or
" path," as he calls it, of policy has been made by these
" gold-mean" hitting Ministers ? They have pro-
gressed in time it is true. They have progressed in
the receipt of their salaries, each Cabinet place-bolder
having bagged some 8,000/. or 10,0001. of the national
revenue since they forced their way into the King's
closet, and then stormed the public treasury. But what
other progress have they made ? What have they
done for all that inoney ? What one good measure
have they even proposed ? or, much more, what one
have they carried through Parliament in the form in
which they proposed it ? Has not the Government
been at a dead lock ever since they came into office ?
Then the second figure of speech resorted to by Mr.
Philips appears to be as unfortunate as the first. He
tells us that the Popish Monopoly Corporation Bill
is to be again brought forward this year, and "carried."
Prophetic Philips ! He tells us that the question of
Irish tithes is to him a subject of " sincere sorrow"
(is he a lay impropriator in Ireland ?), and adds his
hopes that it will be finally and satisfactorily settled,
with a view to the well being of the Protestant estab-
lishment in Ireland. Do, pray, dear Mr. Philips, in
your neutral character of neither knave nor fool, but
some sort of intermediate entity—do think a little
before you thus let loose your aspirations. Do
you so far impose upon your own conscience as to
flatter yourself that the appropriation clause—the
talisman of the Whigs—that " open Sessamy" by
which they found their way into the Government—
do you still besmear "your chest" with the " flattering
" ointment"—that the appropriation clause—" the
golden mean" of the Whigs—will, if passed within
the next six weeks, settle the sorrowful tithe question,
or secure and perpetuate the Established Church of
Ireland ? Why, who are the authorities to be looked
up to on this matter ? The Whigs propose the
clause, professing that it is for the good of the Church,
and on the ground that it is to satisfy the discontented
Papists. But what say the Papists themselves ? They
give the Ministers the lie direct. They inform Lord
John Russell flatly, that the clause is to them worth
nothing in respect of a pacifier ; and to the church
worth nothing as a security. They tell Lord John
Russell that they, the Roman Catholics, value it only
for attributes, which he says it does not possess--an-d
which, if he and his colleagues could have imputed
to it, they would never have introduced it, viz., its
establishment of a principle of indefinite spoliation of
the Protestant church, and its tendency to facilitate
that object which O'Connell and the priests now boast-
fully declare they have in view, and will never desist
from prosecuting—namely, the total overthrow of the
Protestant establishment in Ireland.—This, then, is
the rationale of the vote for the appropriation clause
about to be given by Mr. Philips, and to which the
pig-headed and muddy-hearted Ministers have pledged
themselves. They profess their anxiety to secure and
perpetuate the church, While with their eyes open they
employ as their instrument a measure which the Papists
themselves avow to be the fittest possible for its de-
struction I So far as concerns the House of Lords
and its destruction, Mr. G. R. Philips, like Sir Hussey
Vivian, is a waiter upon Providence, and on Mr. Da-
niel O'Connell. He wisely postpones his assault upon
the Peerage, until he can reckon upon a sufficient force
of march-of-intellect heroes to assist him—Mr. G. R.
Philips ! I !—Times.
The mission of Sir Robert Peel to Scotland, so far
as accounts have yet reached us, in every respect coin-
cides with our anticipations, that is to say, the Tories
have made every effort to magnify it into fictitious im-
portance, and every successive attempt has served only
to make a more ludicrous exposure of the impostures
practised by the parties concerned in the betting up of
these false demonstrations. Yesterday we were fa-
voured by the Tory prints with the report of the pre-
sentation of what was represented to be an address from
the Presbytery of Lanark, to Sir Robert Peel ; but on
referring to the signatures, we found that only five
out of the twelve members of this reverend body
had attached their names ; so that, instead of being
considered as the address of the Presbytery, it
must, like the defeated address of Paisley, be regarded
merely as the address of the individuals who signed it.
It might seem to some to be rather uncourteous and
unclencal in the dissentient members of the Presbytery
to prepare a counter-address, as was done in Paisley ;
but it may be fairly inferred that the seven members
whose signatures do not appear to the address, are not
admirers of Sir Robert's political career, and under
the circumstances the withholding of their signatures

is a tacit expression of their censure. The faction are
straining every nerve to prevail on the operatives of
Glasgow to offer to Sir Robert some mark of their
confidence. It is said that the rejected of the Town
Council is to be presented with the privilege of a mer-
chant burgess of the city, which is to be purchased
by subscription, and presented in a silver box.
This does not surprise us, for it is an old mode
with the Tories, when foiled by fair means, to en-
deavour to obtain the popular suffrage by purchase, as
almost every contested electi•n in town or country can
testify. But it would be a gross delusion to suppose
that the operatives of Glasgow will subscribe to such
an object, though perhaps they might be prevailed
upon, as has been already suggested, to contribute to-
wards the presentation of a silver shuttle, as this
would convey a moral which might restrain Sir
Robert from his habits of tergiversation. The com-
positors in the printing establishments of Glasgow, as
might be expected from men of their intelligence,
when called upon by the address-manufacturers for
their signatures, rejected the application with scorn—
a feeling which we can state from positive and authen-
tic information, to be the prevailing sentiment
amongst all the trades of Glasgow, in respect to the
calumnious Imputation endeavoured to be flung upon
them in representing them as admirers of the Peel
policy.—Morning Advertiser.

A Commission of Lunacy was held on Friday at
Gray's Inn Coffee-house to ascertain the state of mind of
Mrs. Ann Williams, a widow lady residing at Tottenham.
After a full examination of the circumstances the follo•ving
verdict was returned, " That Mrs. Williams was of un-
sound mind, and incapable of managing her affairs, and had
been so from the Ist of November last." The lunatic had
had upwards of 30,0001. left to her since her husband's
decease, and the executor of the will had thought it ne-
cessary to have this inquiry, as she was incapable of ma-
naging her affairs.—On Monday a similar inquiry was held
at the same place respecting the sanity of Mr. Warlters,
late of Carmarthen, and now of St. Alban's ; and the Jury
found that he had been of unsound mind since Feb., 1836.

Wednesday the fine male giraffe, belonging to the
Surrey Zoological Gardens, arrived in London, from Liver-
pool, Manchester, &c., where he has been for the last five
months, exhibiting under the superintendence of Mr. War-
wick, who brought him over to England ; and although
the animal has been travelling during the late severe storm
no accident has befallen him, nor does he appear to have
suffered in health from the low temperature to which he
has been exposed. The Abyssinian attendant, Mahomet,
is also in excellent health, though feeling the effects of our
northern winter as much as the animal. An immense cara-
van, 18 feet high, was built at Salford, to transport him to
the gardens, where his arrival was hailed by the subscribers
and visitors assembled with great delight. A pair of splen-
did lionesses has also been added to this daily improving
collection.

The opinion of Henry, late Earl of Pembroke, who
died in 1794, concerning Bishops, being an extract from a
letter to Garrick, dated Wilton House, March 4, 1771 :
" Though business will prevent my attending personally
in the House of Lords, for Mr. Gibson (manager of the
Liverpool Theatre ; the Liverpool Playhouse Bill was
brought into the House of Peers at this time), I have de-
sired Lady Pembroke to beat up for as many troops for
him as she can, and as it is to oppose an opinion of the
Church, I trust she will get a good many to majority the
Bench, who, far from a voice, should by rights have no
seat but in a pew anywhere." The original letter is in
the collection of Mr. Wm. Upcott.
At the beginning of the present month, a young wo-
man of Chateauneuf, in the Drome, set out for Valence, to
meet a young man at a notary's, in order to sign a contract
of marriage between them. She had with her a written
promise from her lover, settling upon her the sum of 800
francs. Several days having elapsed without her return,
her friends became alarmed, and made inquiries. They
subsequently found her handkerchief and cloak hanging on
some shrubs which grew on the face of a steep rock over-
hanging the Isere, and no doubt remained that she had been
murdered and thrown into the river, although her body has
not been found. Strong circumstances of suspicion being
attached to her intended husband, named Lioret, and two
of his associates, Carrier and Tabarin, those three indivi-
duals were arrested, and conducted to the prison at Va-
lence. It appears that Lioret had been induced by his
confederates to entice the poor girl to the fatal spot where
she was murdered, having been first robbed of the promise
of marriage and a sum of 320 francs she had with her.—
French Paper.
MR. CANNING.-The following instance of Mr.
Canning's eccentricity is given in the Foreign Quarterly
Review. It relates to a proposed commercial treaty be-
twixt the Government of the Netherlands and our own.
The negociation languished, and Mr. Canning and Mr.
Huskisson were tired out. In the January, 1826, Sir C.
Bagot, our Ambassador at the Hague, received, while at-
tending the King's Court, a dispatch, in cipher very short,
but accompanied by every indication of urgency and im-
portance. Unfortunately he had not with him the key of
the cipher, and he was kept in a state of great anxiety
during the interval occupied in procuring it ; at last the let-
ter was deciphered, and the following is a literal copy of
this important communication, made by the command of
his Britannic Majesty to his Minister at the Hague :
" In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch
Is giving too little and asking too much ;
With equal advantage the French are content,
So we'll clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.
Twenty per cent.
Twenty per cent.
Nous frapperons Falck with twenty per cent.
" GEORGE CANNING."

On Wednesday, two of those unusual visitants above
bridge, namely, two immense porpoises, were seen from day-
light until the dusk of the evening playing their unwieldy
gambols in the Thames between Westminster-bridge and
Nine Elms (the Red House.) During the course of the
day there were no less than twenty boats in pursuit of
them ; and a Chelsea waterman, after many a lengthened
chase and the expenditure of many a shot, succeeded in
capturing the smaller of the two. The other, however,
escaped a similar fate, although its numerous pursuers
were equally eager in their efforts to make it prisoner.
The appearance of such unfriendly animals at this season
of the year, whether flying from some more ravenous pur-
suers, or themselves in pursuit of some minor prey, is
generally considered to be indicative of very boisterous and
severe weather. Royal!, the waterman of Milbank, shot
the ramrod of his gun into the back of one of them.
The Frankfort Gazette contains the following sta-
tistical document upon the population of the principal cities
in Russia for the year 1833 :—St. Petersburg, 445,000 in-
habitants ; Moscow, 330,000 ; Odessa, 55,000 ; Kasan,
50,000 ; Riga, 50,000 ; Kiovia, 38,000 ; Wilna, 37,000 ;
Sarstow, 34,000 ; Charcow, 33,000 ; Astracan, 31,000 ;
Chitouisk, 26,000 ; Kalouga, 16,000 ; Woronesch, 23,000 ;
Cronstadt, 25,000 ; Cherson, 25,000 ; Orel, 24,000 ; Ja-

roslaw, 23,000 ; Kirchinew, 22,000 ; Nisnei Novogorod,

22,000 ; Toula, 22,000 ; Nicolajew, 20,000 ; Tambow,
20,000 ; Kourk, 20,000 ; Twer, 20,000 ; and Tells, 10,000.
FRENCH POST-OFFICE.—The number of letters
passing through the post-office in France, has increased
greatly within the last fifteen years. In 1821 the average
number stamped daily amounted to only 124,334, and of
these no less than 889,000 upon the whole year had fallen
en rebut, or became dead and unclaimed letters. In 1830,
the daily average had increased to 174,841, and in 1835 it
was 203,534. It is to be stated, however, that the estab-
lishment of a rural post, which has been in operation since
the Ist of April, 1835, has contributed to swell this amount,
as it is calculated that 4,000,000 of letters pass yearly
through it. On the other hand the letters en rebut have
increased in even greater proportion, for whilst in 1821
they were 889,000 in 1835 they amounted to the enormous
figure of 1,945,183-2,000,000 of letters passing through
the post-office without returning anything but their ashes.
The revenue has kept pace with the increase in the number
of letters. In 1821 it produced 23,892,698 fr. ;in 1830 it
was 33,000,000 ; in 1832, 34,000,000 ; and every year
since it has increased a million. By the budget of 1833 it
amounted to 37,000,000. This amelioration is, no doubt,
due to the progressive movement of business, but the talents
of the distinguished head of the department ought fairly to
receive some part of the merit.—Journal des Debats.
At the Glasgow Assizes, on Saturday, William
Frazer, a coach driver, was tried on a charge of having
murdered his wife on the 10th of July last at his house in
Shuttle-street. It appeared that the wife of the prisoner
was much addicted to drinking. On the day in question
the prisoner had come home at an early hour in the morn-
ing, and found her lying on the floor apparently dying.
He called a man, named Cowper, who lived in the flat be-
low, and requested him to go for a medical man as he
feared she was dying. When first told that she was dying,
Cowper said, " there was no fear of that," adding, " that
she was only in the horrors after the fit of drinking she had
last night." He almost immediately, however, went to Dr.
Craig, who on his arrival pronounced her to be dead. Sus-
picion had been excited against the prisoner in consequence
of the deceased having been heard to cry murder, but
whether she received ill.treatment at the time from the pri-
soner there was no evidence to show. The prisoner, it ap.
peared, was a steady and sober man, but the deceased was
a confirmed drunkard. Injuries were discovered on the
body, which it was believed the deceased could not have
inflicted upon herself, but there being no evidence against
the prisoner, the Judge directed the Jury to give him the
advantage of any doubts they might have, and they ac-
cordingly returned a verdict of " Not proven." The an-
nouncement was received with cheers by a full Court.