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Specimen of emendations•to,be introduced in Part VIII. :
S•rg of Solomon, authorized version, chap. Ist, v. 5. —" I
am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the
tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon."

Neither in this verse, nor Isaiah, chap. 42, v. 11, is the word
Kedar"—" mourning"—translated.
New Translation—,, I am the dawning light, as the compa-
nion of peace, when the habitation of the daughters of Jerusa-
lem is as the tabernacles of mourning."—See Clasieal Journal.
No. 30, for June 1817; the Examiner, Nov. 3, 1822; the
Examiner, Sept. 2, 1827 the Courier, April 23, 1839.
Disturbing Cie Classical Journals of Isl 1 and 1817, on the
shelves of the Universities, must be like disturbing bones in
catacombs; _ .

,May the diffusion of knowledge, the increase of religion
and morality, and the augmented happiness of the people,
make the present reign (era) more glorious than triumphs in
the field have rendered those that preceded it, and peace have
her victories no less renowned than war."
Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the Holy Scrip-
tures. By Sir James Bland Burgess, Bart. 1819.
" The matter is highly deserving of attention. It is a
question of no less magnitude than the choice between a blind
adhesion to error, and a pure and perfect knowledge of the re-
vealed law of God. Which of these is preferable—which of
them is it no less the interest than it is the duty of every rea-
sonable being to adopt—cannot admit of a doubt. In such a
case let us not be alarmed by any vain fear of temporary in-
convenience, which ought not for a moment to weigh against
the permanent and incalculable advantages attendant on such
a measure.' Let us, on the other hand, entertain a lively, and,
'I trust, a well-founded hope, that those who govern our Church
and State, 'nay be pleased to take the matter into consi-
deration, andd irect an immediate revision of our Received
Version, or, what might perhaps be more recommendable, a
New Translation of the Original Text."—Extracts.
A Reply to the Rev. Mr. Todd's Vindication of our Trans-
lation and Translators of the Bible. By Sir James Bland
Burgess, 1830.
o
Library,wiamenrst were
" I certainly, therefore, should have considered them as alto-
gether undeserving of a reply, had they not been employed as
a vehicle of much illiberal personality, to which the writer has
Theuthe
from
affected to give an additional weight, by ostentatiously an-
lrLfbauimnr
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ti
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lei
a.-dcpse
, Arch-
bishop,n Such
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and
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`Keeper
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preface
the birth and 'parentage of our received ver-
sion, as asserted by Mr. Todd himself, and proved by his own
testimony ! No further comment on it is necessary." Suo
sibi gladio hunc jugalo.
" Resting on this evidence, I leave this charge, and with it
the whole of Mr. Todd's Vindication of our authorised transla-
tion and translators, than which a more 'meagre, crude, and
unsatisfactory performance, was never obtruded on the public."
" The charge of Socinianism is a mere stale hacknied trick
of miserable controversialists, when they are reduced to the
naltry shift of calling names, in the hope of thereby escaping
from the effe&, of arguments, which they are incapable of an-
swering. Does not he know that it was employed against Le
Clerc? Did he never hear of a similar charge made against our
immortal Locke ? If such artifices were used against men of
their exalted characters, I can have no pretension to expect a
more liberal treatment."

" So.ne may say, ' Le tus introduce no change, for we cannot
tell what further changes may be required of us.'—Had this
been listened to, neither the Reformation nor the Revolution
could have taken place, and we should have been still subject to
Romish superstition, and to despotic power."
" On the side of those who advocate the necessity of a New
Translation rests the whole weight of facts and arguments. Let
not these be counteracted by less worthy considerations ; let us
not leave to the enemies of Christianity the only weapons by
which it can be assailed; but let us cordially and sincerely
unite with the learned, and pious prelate Archbishop
xNew-
combe, in the prayer with which he concludes his preface.
' May the all-wise God, in His fit time, dispose the Sovereign
of the first Protestant Churches, and of the most learned
countries in the world, to complete his true acts of piety, by
proimhoetinsgune, Januaryqualatte 2
attention
1839, contains an appeal to her the English Bible !' "—Etracts.
Most Gracious Majesty.
Digest of the proceeding, publishing, and publicity of the
Work. The Classical Journal, from 1810 to 1 5it5.....18.18 the
appearance of the First Part. The Sun, Nos.
8,181-8,192.
Review of, and Rejoinder of the Quarterly Review.
Reply to,
and Rejoinder from the Author to Quarterly Review.-1819,
First and Second Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part.-1820, Cri-
tical Examination of the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A.M.,
Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the
Holy Scriptures. A Reply to
p thea
rt.
Mr.o Todd's IVin-
dication of our Authorized 'I cans aton and Translators ~f the
Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, i 821._Mr. Bella-
my's Reply to S. Lee, A. y., Professor of Arabic in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge. Third
the Examiner, No. 771.—Aug., Oct., Nov.--1823. Nos, 785,
786, 793. 801, 80r).-1824. Nos. 834, 840, 845. In 1825--
Fourth Part. The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
ReverendlB22.
Computations
Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa-
turday Advertiser, July 23 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Satur-
day, August 13, 1825. In 1827.—N05. 1,021, 1,022. ,The
Examiner, Vol. HI., No. 34 and No. 69. Galway Indepen-
dent, 1828, Nos. 1,049, 1,050, 1,057.—The Examiner. In
1831, Part sth ;in 1834, Part 6th ;in 1835, Part the 7th. In'
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838--
The Guide Nos. 48,49. The Sun; No. 14,447, In 1839-4-
Nos. 14,465, 14,468, 14,475, 14,482, 14,606. Nos. 14,628.
July 25th, 14,652, 14,653, 14,662, to the latter we lay no pre-,
tension, the insertions each, issuing 3,500 per day_ore from
souls of kindred fire—who in this glorious field fight together
with us in our chivalry--who have allied themselves with us
in this arduous strife to " do that deed 'which shall gild our"
humble names." '
To decry supineness on the part of her Majesty's Govern-
ment in not acting upon the precedent of James the First as de-
reliction of duty, would be fustian and farrago ; the precedent
any longer laying in abeyance is tantamount to misprision of
treason.
By Appointment : Budd and Catkin, Booksellers to her Ma-
jesty, Pail-mall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St
Paul's, London. - • 1

PARK REGULATIONS AND PARK

MUD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
trust a Journal which advocates the
Tights and interests of the humbler classes will not
refuse insertion. to the following statement. A
day or two since I saw a poor woman, cleanly and
decently clad, attempt to enter the enclosure gate
of St. James's-park, near Storey's-gate, but she
was rudely repulsed by the green-coated, top-booted,
rubicund janitor. She pleaded that she wanted to
cross to the Stable-yard on the opposite side of the
Park—that it was a long way round by the outer
gate, and that she was old and feeble ; the gate-
keeper was; however, inflexible. Now if this woman
had been of the class of showily dressed females
who infest our public walks, the gates of the Park
would have been thrown wide to admit her. 1
leave it to your readers to judge which of the two
would have been the greater offence to morality and
public decency.
A few days previously 1 was passing along the
Mall, when I heard the sentry on duty at the
Park entrance to St. James' Palace, challenge a
person near me in regular military style,—" Halt !
take off your pattens !” The person challenged was
a poor woman, whose well-worn slippers afforded
her very inadequate protection in the district fa-
miliarly known as ." the Buckingham Bog." The
pattens were of course taken off, and the humble
pedestrian was obliged to flounder through the mud
(which was literally ancle deep•at the time) as she
best could. The cruelty and injustice of this regu-
lation will be more apparent when it is known that
" the Buckingham bog" is the only route by which
the large population of Pimlico and Chelsea can
get , to or return from town—that there is no pave-
client or flagged way to protect passengers from the
mud, and that neither public nor private vehicles,
(save only a privileged few who have the right of
entree) will be permitted to pass through the Park.
The whole affair—the state of this thoroughfare,
and the regulations referred to, are a positive dis-
grace to the authorities, and the sooner some
remedy is applied the better.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN INHABITANT OF CHELSEA.

The Tithe Commissioners for Wales have ap-
pointed
Robert Page, of Charlton-house, Somerset,
r , an. Assistant Tithe Comnijisioner, for especial
purposes.

" The Plain of,Metidja,is enclosed betweert the
Lesser AtlaS on the south, and the heights of Algiers
on the north. Its greatest breadth is 17,00 Q
metresvand its length, from east to west, about
80,000 metres. It 1i traversed bfthree rivers, the
Hatnist, or:Khatnis; and the- ATaeli, towards the
east ; and the Chiffa, which aftcr*ttrds takes the
.name of Mazafran, on the west.. 'Since the Praia
occupation eight roads, of first, second, and third
class, have been made across the •iplain, connecting
Algiers with Blidah, Kolealb and the several
camps, and forming, at the same time, military,
lines. The chief part of this,plain, according to
the Treaty of the Tafna, belongs to:Trance., whose
limits towards the east are defined as extending
beyond the TJed-Kaddara, and on the west as
bOunded by the Chiffa.. Farther, ,on, in the di-
rection of Oran, the plain is:- Occupied by the
Hadjouts..
" Insalubrious as the plain unquestionably is,
French colonists have formed there a number of
agricultural establishments, among, which one of
the most conspicuous is that of'Baron Vialar, in
the Benimonssi; at the foot of 'the Atlas, round
which are grouped a small village, and a number of
detached farm-houses. The prOperty of M. de
Tonnac, a young and enterprising colonist, deserves
likewise to be mentioned. This gentleman resides
among the Atlas mountains, where he constantly
employs about fifty native labourers: The Model•
Farm, of which mention. is made in some of the
letters from Algiers, as having ibek.7-401-nentan
oe6tifirect by ate' Hadjouts, is situatetr'at—atlcSi-
-9,000 metres from the city.
" The Metidja is defended by a number of camp
and military posts, which makes it difficult to ac-
count for the facility with which it has been ravaged
by a handful-of Hadjouts, for Abd-el•Kader and
his troops had not yet made their appearance ac-
cording to the last dates.

The line of the Chiffa, the western boundary,
is defended by the camp of Koleah, the two camps
of Biidah, the camp of the Chiffa, and by four
blockhouses or fortified posts ; making eight posts
on an extent of 17,000 metres. Behind this line
are the camps of Boufariek, Maelma, and Douera ;
a little farther eastward are the camps of Kouba,
the Hamise, the Foundoue, and Mustapha ; all
these camps are connected by roads ; but this system
of defence, formed upon the system of European
tactics, appears to be of no avail against the wild
incursions of the Arabs.

" It is supposed that the Hadjouts penetrated
into the plain during the night, by fording the
Chiffa. There it was that they surprised and put
to death the 127 men belonging to the 24th Regi-
ment of the line. Thence they must have followed
the foot of the Atlas, to avoid the marshes, since
they appear to have begun by laying waste all the
farms of the Benimoussa. The force by which the
first inroads have been made is said to amount to
about five or six thousand men, composed of the
Emir's allies ; he himself, with a body of 6,000
well-disciplined troops, it is added, was on his way
to support the first attack. tin auxiliary force of
1,000 men from Morocco, it is believed, accom-
panies his march.

" Every thing at Algiers was enormously dear,
no supplies of any kind arriving from the interior.
'Great anxiety was felt to know whether hostilities
had commenced simultaneously in the provinces of
Oran and Constantine ; in the former, it was
thought, the troops would be fully prepared to re-
pulse any attack that might be made, but in Con-
stantine, it was feared sickness had left few men
capable of making an effectual resistance."

HORTICULTURAL NOTICE FOR

DECEMBER.

The extraordinary weather which still prevails ren-
ders it a task of no common difficulty to give directions
suitable to the season. We do not recollet an autumn
that can be cited as a type of that of the present year.
The temperature, as a whole, has been extremely mild;
not a single frost had occurred prior to the 23d of
November, and even then the mercury was not seen at
the freezing point beyond three or four of the morning
hours, with a slight rime, which produced no injury to
the tenderest plants of the garden, and was
succeeded by high temperature on the 24th and
25th. On the 26th, however, it became suddenly
cold, and the morning of the 27th dawned with en
immense deposit of rime and seven degrees of frost,
followed by a very copious fall of snow. It is a circum-
stance almost without precedent, that notwithstanding the
prevalence of south-westerly winds, there has not been one
equinoctial gale! Whatever may have been experienced
on the coasts, the inland counties have scarcely felt a
breeze ; the season has been one of almost uninter-
rupted calm till November 23, when the phenomenon
of the aurora borealis, which occurred about seven
o'clock in the evening, appeared to introduce the strong
westerly current of the two following days.
Subsequent to the hail storms of July, there have
been, with only two exceptions, scarcely three consecu-
tive dry days=haze, fog, drizzling rain, with occa-
sional heavy showers, characterise the summer and au-
tumn of 1839 ; and the eonsequence is, that the gar-
dens are saturated with water, and those, the soil of
which is of a binding quality, are not in a condition to
be disturbed at all.

All the operations in such cases have been done by
snatches—potato digging the raising of parsnips, car-
rots, and beet-root have been performed i❑ detail, the
land being swamped and poached during the progress of
the work.

The routine processes of ridging, trenching, earthing
up, and weeding, which ought to precede the winter's
frosts, must not be lost sight of ; but no one can say that
the state of the ground will be in any degree favourable,
nor will it be easy to sow peas and beans for the second
spring crop. But this flood of water has not fallen in,
vain : it may impede the seasonable work of the gar-
, dener for a time, yet, as several preceding years have
been too dry, a great supply of water may be regarded
as a precursor of a fine and prolific season.
Another consequence of the damp summer has been
the rapid decay of the autumnal fruits—of pears par-
ticularly ; all fruit-trees, however, have made fine wood,
and the spurs and buds are in promising condition.
Defer pruning of every kind till February.
In the flower-garden keep the surface of beds, also
lawns, gravel-walks, &c., as clean as the season will per-
mit; cover the roots of fuchsias with half-decayed
leaves, and apply the same freely about the stems of
China roses, laurustinus, bay-trees, and, indeed, of all
valuable shrubs. We recollect the devastation of the
severe frost of 1838. Where plates of moss can be
readily obtained a capital means of defence will be
found. Beds and plots of the shrubs, called " Ame-
rican," if covered with this substance, are rendered ex-
tremely beautiful to appearance, and are effectually
guarded at the same time ; for the frost will be unable
to penetrate far into the soil.
The green house, and plant frames must be carefully
heeded. A very small charcoal fire, in a close conical
furnace, will keep alight for hours, and diffuse sufficient
heat to repel actual frost. Geraniums, to be kept in
high perfection, ought to be placed in a house devoted
to their express culture : 50 degrees of heat, with
much dry air, will do them good, but as to heaths, ca-
mellias, and all the hard-wooded families, little or no
fire is ever required, for it is not desirable to excite them
to grow.

Succulent plants must be kept dry, they are very
hardy, and like much light with abundance of air during
sunshine.

The plant stove was formerly kept very warm, and
verdure may thus be pretty well maintained. But no-
thing is gained by heat. It is sufficient to support a
temperature of 45 or 50 deg. by fire, and though the
leaves of some plaints will fall, the buds will break finely
in the spring. Plants benefit by a season of torpidity
and perfect repose.
At this season the purple guava (psidium Cattleya-
num) is ripening its fruit : this a charming shrub, and
requires no more than full greenhouse- temperature. It
will be found a great acquisition, as, from its rich purple
berries, a confection can easily be prepared equal to the
West India guava jelly.

ELECTION FOR SOUTHWARK.--There are now
no less than four candidates in the field canvassing for
this borough, viz.—Mr. Walter, Mr. Benjamin Wood,
Mr. Arthur Rose, and Mr. Roebuck. A most active
canvass is going on in all parts of Southwark, and there
is very little doubt of the contest being a very severe
one.

CHIEF BARON.—The Evening Mail has
put forward a circumstantial account of legal arrange-
ments, consequent upon the resignation of the Lord
Chief Baron, which is stated as having actually taken
place. We are authorised to state that his Lordship
has no intention whatever of resigning, and there is,
therefore, no truth whatever in any part of the story of
the Mail. We arc truly happy to add, that his Lord-
ship is on his return from the Continent, greatly im-
proved in hoaltl3.—Dublin Everting Post.

. , LONDON, Dec. 6, 1839.
The Gazette of this 'evening•will quote the ' •
average price'of British Plantation Moto- Per I> wt•
vado Sugar; 'exclusive of du, at .. ;.. '3Bs.
The actual quantity 'of. Sugar sold• on account of the'
importers,in the week ending ad ir*., according to the re-
turusmade upon oath by. the Weit'lndiii Sugar Brokers,
inconformity with the Act of Parlianient, and on
which quantity -the, above price is computed, consisted
of 1,061.. hogsheads, 119 tierce, p-nd 28 kernels.
The accounts brought by the Aleit ;paeket from the
West Indies? are upon the-:whole.very favourable, and
lead to the expectation `tropi 'far: 1840 will
.produce an average supply of 'Sugar. It tnay be trm.,
that in particrdir situations new canes have mit beau
planted according to' the uSuahroptine of cultivating the
plantations, eitlier.from the inability of the proprietors
to defray the -coati of such description of labour, or
from n disinClihation, on the 'part of the •Blacks, to work
for certain' masters upon any terms,;, we are not, how-
ever, to imag,ioe that the estate, wiilt yield no sugar,
iwocanse new canes have not beenplanted; on the con-
trary, the old canes will become' ratfoons; and it is
well -known that • sugar from the rattoons is of
a quality superion'to that from new canes, although the
quantity may not be so large, and When we call to mind
that the predictions of a failure in the crops of 1839,
uttered with .great earnestness and Much plausibility in
112nember 1838, have provdd to .be singularly inaccu-
rate, we are stOw to believe all that is now Stated with
regard to the shortness of creps for 1840. ?Moreover
he extreme :caution with Which the buyers act, shows
that the public at large participate in our opinion, and I
look for an average supply of Seger in the ensuing year.
The Market in Mincing lane is particularly heavy, I
with the exception of a few saleS made for the supply of
tke Government contract,. scarcely any West India
Sugars have changed hands either yesterday or this
morning. .
Foreign Sugars may be purchased at from 16s. 6d.
to 21s. per cwt. ',Those raised by free labour in the
Manillas var!,?, according to quality, from 19s. to 225.,
being about 17s. 6d. per cwt. lower than the average
.price of West India Sugar.
High prices have stimulated an extende?'"Altivation
Or gligan in The-East Indies .inee.'ihe-equalization
duty on it with West India Sugar. From the Ist 'O'T
January to the end of November, 1837, 69,490 bags of ,;
East India sugar were imported into London. For the
same period of the present year 168,883, bags have been
landed, showing an increase in 1839 over 1837 of
99,393 bags. Each bag contains about 2 cwt of sugar.
It is expected that the importation of sugar from Bengal
in 1840, will nearly double the weight landed in 1839.

LONDON FASHIONS FOR DE-

CEMBER.

CLOAIS.—Some of the most elegant of the new ones
are composed of satins of full colours and lined with
rose oelilac ; they are confined to the waist by a tor-
sade, which is terminated by two tassels, composed of
effiles descending as low as the shoe ; a corresponding
cord, placed at some distance from the edge, encircles
the round of the cloak. The sleeves, lined like the
mantle, are quite open on the fore-arm.
NEW MATERIALS FOR HALF-DRESS AND EVENING
DRESS.— We may cite, among the first, the new pat-
terns of striped and plaided silks, and the new mousse-
line de laine, of full colours. Some are trimmed with
velvet of one of the colours of the robe, others with
black lace. We may cite also for dinner dress the Eg-
lintoun velvet, an orange ground with black patterns ;
this material has a golden shade which produces a very
pretty effect. Plain and plaided satins are also in request
for dinner dress. Violet raps with broad satin stripes, and
poplins, imitating reps by the richness of the silk, are
adopted indiscriminately for dinner and evening' dress ;
but the two materials which this season are expected
to bear the belle are Eglinton velvet, a pearl gray s,stin
stripe shot with rose colour, and mouseline de Mims.,
a light gray ground, extremely rich and silky, strewed
with dark blue velvet palms, notched round the edges
aad appliquees on the mousseline de laMe ; and the
trimming is composed of two bias flounces, disposed in
the same style, and bordered with a broad festoon of
velvet, cut in cocks' combs.
BONNETS.—PIain and fancy velVets and terry velvets
are in a decided majority, with the exception, however,
of drawn bonnets, which are composed either of satin,
gros Constantine, or gros d'Afrique. Drawn bonnets
are adopted only in deshabille ; they are trimmed with
satin ribands of the colour of the bonnet, but always
with a stripe at:the edge of a different hue. Tilt trim-
ming is, in general, in a very light style ; if dowers are
employed, a sprig is placed on one side at the bottom of
the crown, and depending on the brim ; it issues. from a
knot of riband of a moderate size.

MoaNuco DaEss.—There is but a slight change: in
the form of morning dresses, and that is, that the
corsage is less open in the bosom ; it is still cut in the
shape of a V, but rises higher behind, and is rather
closer in front.

EVENING DRESS.—Where corsages are rounded at
the top, they are generally made very low ; those en
occur, whether dressed or tight, are more delicate, as
they rise higher on the shoulders and behind, and the
bosom is shaded by a chemiiette. Corsages made en gerbe
arie also 'a good deal adopted. Dresses of Indian
muslin still continue in favour, and will do so during
the winter. Several are made with corsages a milk
plis, and trimmed with a falling tucker of either point
or Brussels lace. The sleeves arc short of the double
bouillon form, surmounted by a fall of lace, and termi-
nated by another fall. Ceintures'are again in vogue ;
they are cbmposed of twisted ribbon tied in front, with
long floating ends. The dresses made en guimpe, trim-
med with three volans.

BALL DRESC—A new and elegant style of ball dress
is composed of tulle over satin ; the former is composed
of three skirts, but the extreme lightness of the material'
and the manner in which it is arranged, produce an
excellent effect. We shall cite as an example a robe of
white tulle ; on the longest skirt a satin riband forms a
hem, surmounted by puff folds of tulle; in the hollow
parts which they form is placed a rose of the four sea-
sons without foliage. The two others' are decorated
with blais of tulle and satin, forming montants, and
that on the left is attached by knots of riband placed
en echelle, from whence sprigs of rose buds issue.
Turbans arc expected to be very much in favour this
season, and both the ornaments and materials will be of
great richness. Nothing, indeed, can be more magni-
ficent than the Persian and Arabian turbans, with foun-
datious of gold net, and the folds formed of gold gauze;
the ends trimmed with a long light gold fringe.
FASHIONABLE COLOURS.—We have given above the
new. colours in favour for velvet bonnets ; they are also
principally those adopted for hats, petits bards, &c., in
evening dress. We observe, however, that black velvet
is coming into favour for, these latter. There is no other
change this month.