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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1836

, The Conservatives of South Essex gave a- dinner
yesterday at Chipping Ongar to the Meinbers for that
diviSiOn, at which upwards of three hundred persons
atteeded ; though had it been previously known that
Mr. iloaAcE Twiss intended to visit the company
with one of his prosy, drowsy, long-winded diatrites,
we question much if there would have been a hnqdred
present. No man clears a room with such 'cxped:tion
as the Hon. Gentleman. Let the House of Commons
be ever so full when he rises, it is pretty sure to be
half empty before he has resumed his seat ; and, ac-
cordingly, we find that the Essex Conservatives enter-
taining, despite his congenial politics,-the same horror of
his insufferable dullness and prolixity, broke up im-
mediately after he had concluded, incapacitated, no
doubt; for sustaining any further oratorical inflictions.

Of course, among the toasts given at this gathering
of " Essex calves," the Church held-a foremost place;
and equally as a matter of course, a clergyman was
found to declare that " it was his pride to belong to
an Establishment which was the glory and envy of the
.world, and from which emanated the peace and happi-
ness of this great empire." The gentleman who vo-
lunteered this diverting declaration was Dr. BAR-
RETT, and who must evidently have had Ireland and
the tithe-hunts—to say nothing of the Dissenters and
their grievances—in his eye, when he spoke of the
Protestant Establishment being mainly instrumental
in securing " peace and happiness" to the kingdom
" Did they not see," continued the Rev. speaker,
" that the effort to lessen the income of the clergy was
in order that the efficiency of the Establishment might
be impaired ?" How thoroughly parsonic is this re-
mark ! It is neither more nor less than a virtual
acknowledgment that the " efficiency" of the Church
consists exclusively in its wealth, and that to reduce
that wealth within becoming limits, is to strike at the
very root of Protestantism. Whenever a parson talks
of the Church, be sure he means its revenues. These
are the substantial recommendations that give it value
and " efficiency" in his eyes. Let others praise the
apostolic purity of its doctrines ; his business is with
its temporalities. He cannot conceive the possibility
of a poor establishment being an effective one ; hence
he resists all attempts to curtail its exorbitant means,
as a deliberate assault on the great, vital truths of
Christianity.
The Reverend Doctor went on to argue that
if the Church revenues were reduced, such reduc-
t: en would be attended with this frightful conse-
quence, that the Clergy would be unable to " manifest
those acts of charity which so constantly marked their
conduct." Now we cannot help differing with the
Doctor on this point. The cause of charity will never
be injured by the Bish ops being compelled to live more
after the apostolic fashion than they do at present ; but
on the contrary, will gain by it, for it will teach them
to put in practice that which they now only profess_
namely, the lessons of moderation, self-denial, and hu-
mility, which are the ground-work on which charity is
the most that
built up. It is not those who have
give the most, but in the majority of mstances,
diame-
trically the reverse. A Bishop having no factitious
wants—no extravagant or luxurious establishment to
keep up, would be enabled to give away much
more in charity than he can ever do under
the present system. But this does not square
with the Reverend Speaker's views. He is all
for a rich Church Establishment ; and laments with
a pathos that might melt the soul of a Hindoo, that
" the Clergy of the Church of England are worse
paid than those of the Church of Scotland." Again
we repeat, how parsonic is this observation Pay—
pay—nothing but pay—enters into a Clergyman's
head when speaking of his Church. The " loaves and
fishes" is that passage in the New Testament which
he has most by heart, and to which he oftenest alludes.
He can see no difference between the Church of
England and the Church of Scotland, except that the
one is better paid than the other. He forgets that the
first apostles were poor fishermen ; that the Divine
Founder of his faith was born in a manger, and " had

not where to lay his head ;" it is enough for him to
remember that tithes are no where spoken against in
Scripture ; and consequently that it is the bounden
duty of all the really pious to pay them to the utmost
fraction. From the sore way in which Dr. BARRETT-
alludes to the poverty of the Church, we conclude that
his flock are not quite so regular in their payments as
he could desire. Possibly the tithe-pig has been miss-

10 a for some months.

In the 29th Number of the Portfolio we find a sum-
mary of the moral statistics of the western part of the
central provinces of Russia, from an official statement
drawn up by C. F. HERMANN, by command of the
Emperor NICHOLAS. Such a work, were it to in-
clude the statistics, political and moral, of the whole
empire, divided regularly into districts or provinces,
would be truly invaluable. The summary before us
only refers to the moral statistics of about ten millions
and a half of people, and as there is no uniformity in
the habits of the entire Russian population, it offers no
secure data whereon to found a theory applicable to
the moral state of the whole empire. The statistical
tables, which are for the years 1821 and 1822, may
be thus arranged with respect to the crimes of suicide
and homicide :
Population 10,593,251
Suicides (proved)
Suicides (doubtful) ••• 3OO
Homicides

Giving Suicides in proportion to the inhabitants in the ratio
of 1 to 16,000, and Homicides in the ratio of 1 to 50,000.
The proportion of male and female Suicides as 4 5-9ths to 1.
The following is the ratio in which these crimes
were committed among the different classes of society
in Russia :

Suicides—Peasants or serfs, 956 ; being in the ratio of
1 to 16,7571 of both sexes.
Merchants, 192 ; being in the proportion of 1 to 20,8331.
Soldiers, 113; or in the proportion of 1 to 3,009.
Nobles, 36; or 1 in 11,111.
Clergy, 8 ; or 1 in 25,000.

What must particularly strike every philosophical
'reader, who examines this table, is the great prevalence
of suicide among the serfs, to the almost total exclu-
sion of every other class, except the army. Now, in
a well regulated state of society, the peasantry are the
very last to meditate suicide ; and wherever the
government is well administered, its commission is very
rare among them. The reason is obvious. - They are
neither the victims of excessive hope or fear. They are
not exposed to the instability of fortune ; and they arc
equally strangers to the elations of spirit which result from
the triumphs of ambition, and the suicidal depressions
which link themselves as dead weights to the bitter-
ness of disappointments. Their mine of wealth is in
their limbs, and they know no ambition more exalted
than the right of employing them in tilling and im-
proving the soil for their own sustenance. Nothing,
therefore, short of the most cruel tyranny can drive
such men to think of suicide ; and the prevalence of
such a crime among them proves their condition to be
the most miserable that can possibly be imagined.
Suicide among merchants and in the very highest
circles in Russia is less common than we were prepared
to expect. The prevalence of this crime among the
commercial men of every country is easily accounted
for by the heavy losses, and sudden reverses of fortune
to which they are constantly exposed, and of which
they are so frequently the hapless victims. The shock
attendant on a momentary plunge from affluence to
squalid penury is more than most minds ar3
able to bear, if not previously imbued with a
good stock of moral and religious sentiments.
With the nobility the case is pretty nearly the
same as with the merchants. Debauchery and
ambition are to the highest classes what the excessive
desire to accumulate gain is to the mercantile world—
the great incentives to the commission of suicide. Du;
the very form of the Russian Government, which pre-
vents every Noble from obtaining rank who does not
pass step by step through the regular grades in the
army, the civil service, or the Church ; and which takes
good care that none of its merchants shall accumulate
too much private wealth, indirectly represses all tempta-
tions to suicide among the middling and higher classes.
As to the crime of homicide, we may always expect to
find it most prevalent among the most ignorant portion
of every community. Russia presents no exception to
this rule. In proportion to their numbers the rich are
as frequently guilty of murder as the poor, except in
those cases where an act of robbery is meditated, but
which, from the resistance offered by the party as-
sailed, unexpectedly terminates in murder. Not so
with homicide, which precludes all deliberation in its
commission, and is mostly the consequence of violent
passion, produced or fostered by drunkenness.

In 1832 the number of Universities in Russia was
ten—namely, in St. Petcrsburigh, in Moscow, in
Charkow, Kozou,. in Dorpat, in Kijew, in Witepsk,
in Odessa, in rifles, and in Siberia. The following
is a synopsis of the general state of education in the
Russian empire, as regards both Universities and
schools of every description:—
Universities
_

Number of Professors employed in the five first above-
named, the others, being not yet organized
Number of Students
Left she Universities, having taken degrees
Left without degrees IE33
Numbers of Lyceums and Gymnases in Russia 5l
Number of Common Schools
Number of Masters in all
Number of Scholars in all

The Universities of `Vilna and Warsaw, together
with several literary institutions of great merit, have
been suppressed, by order of the Emperor, since the
close of the Polish struggle of 1830.
According to the official tables published by M.
UwA allow, Minister of Public Instruction, education
is retrogading in Russia since 1830, while in Poland
it is now all but extinct. In 1833, there were but 582
parish and village school and 40.1 boarding schools in
the whole empire—or not more than half so many as
there are in the City of London alone ! In Poland,
in 1831, not more than between six and seven thou-
sand children—most of them Russians—enjoyed the
benefit of being permitted to learn the very rudi-
ments of education. The system remains unchanged,
as it is hardly necessary to observe, that what
is termed a Collegiate or University course of
education in Russia, is not much calculated to raise
men in the scale of moral being. The sciences of Po-
litical Economy, Politics, and Jurisprudence, are wholly
omitted, and in their room the students are taught
a little barbarous latin, strategy, and the ritual of
the Greek Church.

Owing to the stormy state of the weather the
French and German mails, due on Sunday night, have
not yet
arrived. We are therefore without any intel-
ligence from the Continent. Should the packets ar-
rive before
post hour this evening, we shall give what-
ever important news they bring in a second edition.

CHANGES 01, MINISTRY IN
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quent change of Ministers FRANCE.--The
f is a bad symptom for the Govern-
ment of a country.t
mediocrity
either the seriousness of
IV of public men, or the too great
e.,,leteltlas always been the precursor of
feaicreiluitmysintanzsn,gtihnge
them.
which
hgirceba ti
and:fa nations abandons a Power
'ha? men of honour no longer
enreecsrsiasingt.ly enhaengresl
t. 7, no hope of maintaining
aspire to a situation where they
other
rerve their country. Six
themselves long enough effectually
Ministries have succeeded each
since 1830, without
reckoning the partial modifications they have experienced.
The first, formed in the month of August,
sm, at the head
of which figured MM. Guizot and Mole, retreated three months
afterwards from before the trial of the ex-listers The
Laflitte Ministry had: no loner g duration. It gave place, on"
the 13th of March, 1831, to that of Perier. At the end o
the
year Perk.- (lied, and il,i nein;y i>: months e boa of
interim continued, without power to replace him. The
Ministry of the 1 1 th of October, 1832, at length formed
itself under the presidency of Marshal Soult. Here M.

Guizot reappears, and M. Thiers appears for the first time.
Their united efforts give a longer life to the Ministry, 'but it is
carried on through many modifications and crises. MM.
Bantle, D'Argout, Soult, Humaun, retire in succession.
Twice the Ministry suffer a momentary dissolution—in Octo-
ber, 1834, by the retirement of Marshal Gerard ; in February,
1835, by that of the Duke de Treviso. It is distracted by the
rivalry of its two most influential members ( Guizot and Thiers)
neither of whom chooses to submit to the presidency of the
other. In February, 1836, this Ministry is dissolved for a
third and last time be a vote of the Chamber. A new one is
formed, under the presidency of the younger of the two compe-
titors (Thiers), and, under the influence of a new opinion, or
rather of a new situation. The Ministry lasts not above six
months ; born on the 22d of February, it is superseded on the
6th of September.--Paris Paper.

SUlClDE.—Yesterday the Aberdeen and London
Steam Navigation Company's vessel Duke of Wellington,
Captain Walker, arrived from Aberdeen. The Duke of Wel-
lington sailed from Aberdeen on Sunday last at one A.M. ; the
wind at the time blowing strong from north-east, accompanied
with rain. Soon after the passengers had breakfasted that
morning, the cook, George Allan, having previously deposited
his silver watch and money in one of his lockers, leaped over-
board and was drowned. Immediately before the rash act, the
unfortunate man took off his shoes, and presenting them to
one of the men on board, said—" Wear these for my sake."
Before the slightest suspicion of self-destruction was en-
gendered, Allan had thrown himself into the sea in front of
the larboard paddle-box, and was never again seen. At the
time of the lamentable catastrophe, Captain Walker and
several of the passengers were upon deck, but could not render
the slightest assistance. The steam-ship was immediately
stopped, and Captain Walker ascended the shrouds, but the
unfortunate man was not to be seen. Allan has left a widow
with five or six children to bewail his loss. A liberal sub-
scription for their temporary relief was made amongst the
passengers.
A German valet of Mr. Justice Williams has been
pillaging him and Lady Williams to a great extent for some
time, and the other day Sir John missed his watch, and his
lady lost a banker's cheek for thirty pounds. The latter led
to the discovery of the thief ; and on being searched, the du-
plicate of the watch, left at a neighbouring pawnbroker's, was
found. He had lived five years in the family, and the Judge
very leniently dismissed him without prosecution.
The fourteenth exhibition at the Manchester In-
stitution was opened last week. There is an increase both in
number of exhibitors and of pictures. In 1835, 230 exhibitors
sent 476 oil paintings or water-colour engravings, and 19
pieces of sculpture. To the present exhibition 278 exhibitors
have sent 572 paintings, &c., and 19 pieces of sculpture.
There is an increase, therefore, of 48 exhibitors and 96 pic-
tures over the exhibition of last year, which was, we believe,
one of if not the largest before known.
The Dissenters of the three denominations at Beccles
have met, and passed a resolution to adopt the system of
passive resistance to the payment of church-rates; and they
have appointed a Committee to correspond with the Pro-
visional Committee in London as to the best mode of con-
duct, should any attempt be made to enforce the rate.
There is posted at present at Guildhall, Bristol, ob-
jections to nine hundred freemen whose names are inserted
in the burgesses roll. This will afford some work for the
Revising Barristers.

We are glad to hear, that, in case of a new election,
the Reformers in Scotland arc sure at least to maintain their
ground, if not to extend it. In Roxburghshire, Captain El-
liot is now sure of his election. owing to the result of the
late registration courts. Mr. Ellice, jun., is sure of the
Five Burghs; Mr. Macleod of the Inverness Burghs'; and
Mr. Gibson Craig of the county of Edinburgh. Mr.
Forbes will be turned out of Stirlingshire, to make way for the
Hon. Admiral Fleming. There may be changes in some
other places, of which, however, we are not aware; but on
the whole the cause of reform and sound principle is sure of
gaining a triumph.
At Bristol it is anticipated that the advantages of
the railway from that place to London will be immense to the
agricultural interest. The minimum velocity is to be forty
miles an hour, and therefore, at the slowest rate of travelling,
cattle landed at Bristol quay at five in the morning may be in
Smithfield-market when the clock strikes eight.
A locomotive engine, of the most superior work-
manship, which has just been constructed for the Petersburgh
and Pawlowsky Railway, at the manufactory of Messrs. R.
Stephenson and Co., South-street, Newcastle, had its trial on
Saturday last at the above establishment, and exceeded the
extraordinary speed of 65i miles per hour !—Durham Advert.
WOOL SALE.—Yesterday evening, at Garraway's,
there was submitted 960 bales of Australian, 40 of Van
Diemen's Land, 137 of Cape, 46 German, 105 Africa, and
15 of Portugal, wool; in all, 1,314 bales, which went og with
spirit at former quotations.
TWOPENNY ROPE.—" And pray, Sam, what is
the twopenny rope ? " inquired Mr. Pickwick. " The two-
penny rope I Sir," replied Mr. Weller. "It is just a cheap
lodgin' house, vere the beds is twopence a night." i 0 What
do you call a bed a rope for ? " said Mr. Pickwick. " Bless
your innocence, Sir, that an't it," replied Sam. " Ven the
lady and gen'lman as keeps the ho-tel first begun business, they
used to make the beds on the floor; but this wouldn't do at
no price, 'cos, instead of taking a moderate twopenn'orth o'
sleep, the lodgers used to lie there half the day. So now they
has two ropes, 'bout six foot . apart, and three from the floor,
which goes right down the room ; and the beds are made of
slips of coarse sacking stretched across 'cm." " Well," said
Mr. Pickwick. " Well," said Mr. Weller, "the adwantagc o'
the plan 's hobvious. At six o'clock every mornin' they lets
go the ropes at one end, and down falls all the lodgers. 'Con-
sequence is, that being thoroughly waked, they get up very
quietly and walk away."—Posthzonous Papers of the Pick-
wick Club.

On Saturday, during the voyage of the Lord Mel-
ville, Calais steamer, a young lady was robbed of a purse,
which she left in a basket on one of the benches on deck while
she went below to take some refreshment. The thief was not
discovered.

YACHT CLUB.—This valuable Society is likely to
be broken up, the Secretary having given notice. to the pro-
prietor of the Club House, at Cowes, to quit next July.
FLOODs.—The unintermitting and heavy rain which
we had last Saturday, and which first came from the south,
and veered round to almost every other point, had the effect
of swelling all the rivers in this district to overflowing. The
'ejury which has been sustained in consequence has been
very great. In many places large quantities of flax and hay
have been swept away ; and we have heard also of some in-
stances of cattle having been destroyed ; and even yet several
flat fields on the borders of the rivers arc under water, and it
is apprehended that such crops of potatoes as are growing
upon them will be irrecoverably lost. Old people say that more
unpromising harvest weather they do not remember. It cer-
tainly is as bad as that of the year 1816. —Derry Journal.
CLOVER SEED TRADE.—Considerable demand has
existed in conseqnence of the late rains for red clover seed.
It is not doubted that scarcely any of the maiden crop in Eng-
land ;las been saved, and without a very early and very decided
change of weather, poor yield is looked for from the later clo-
vers. Accounts are moreover by no means favourable from the
Continent, and purchases arc being made by houses connected
with the foreign trade, as well as by English dealers. An ad-
vance of fully 6s. to Bs. per cwt. on foreign seed in bond is sub •
mitted to, and we think the sales would be extensive, but that
there is a very limited quantity in offer. White clover and
trefoil steady. Trifolium dull, and a shade lower.
The Munich papers have the following account from
Athens :—" Emigration to Greece from the neighbouring
countries is increasing in a very satisfactory manner. More
than 1,800 families of nomade herdsmen from Epirus, Mace-
donia, and Thessaly have already arrived, and have brought
with them 500,000 sheep and goats, and 20,000 horses. Though
they have hitherto led a nomade life, they have requested the
Greek Government to be incorporated in different communes
of the kingdom. Besides these, there are about 3,000 fa-
milies from the Aspropotamos, among whom are many me-
chanics and country people, who also have desired to bo incor-
' porated into various communes. Many of them have already
began to build houses, to cultivate land, &c. The Ipsariots,
too, seem disposed finally to settle in Eretia, now that the
Government has granted them some advantages.
HASTINGS.—This favourite place of resort is com-
paratively thinly attended, compared with the last few seasons,
both as regards the rank and number of visitors. St. Leo-
nard's is also very thinly attended.
Kidbroke Park, the seat of Lord and Lady Col-
chester, has lately been devoted to a numerous and splendid
party, on the occasion of a fancy fair being held in aid of the
funds for building the new Trinity Church at East Grinstead.
In addition to the noble host and hostess there were present,
the Earl and Countess of Chichester, Countess of Ely, Earl
of Liverpool and Ladies Jenkinson, Lord Ellenborough and
Hon. Mr. Law, Hon. Misses Law, and about 1,000 of the
respectable inhabitants of the vicinity. After defraying the
expenses, the two days' fair netted upwards of 4001.
WORTHING, SEPT. 10—On Monday next, the
19th instant, our races take place. The Earl of Surrey, Sir
Richard Hunter, and T. B. Danbey, Esq., have accepted the
office of stewards. The recent arrivals include Lord and
Lady Warwick, Lady Caroline Neeld, Sir James and Lady
Macgregor, Sir T. Shelley, Hon. General Bligh, Hon. Au-
gustus Berkeley, Lady and Miss Hippesley, Lord Brook,
Major Chester and family, &c.
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, SEPT. 11.—The Marquis
of Ely and party continue their sojourn here, and we aro tole-
rably full of company. Lord Melbourne has paid us a short
visit. The Marquis Cornwallis and Lord Langdale are daily
expected.
Albemarle-street, one of the dullest, but not the
least frequented streets of the metropolis, is undergoing much
improvement ; besides the whole of the pavement being re-
laid, nearly every second house is undergoing external repair
and decoration.

QUEEN'S THEATRE.---This favourite place o•
amusement has been well attended during the last week{
Among the fashionables were the Countess of Charleville,
Lady Montfort, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Stanhope, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Gardner, General and Mrs.
Barton, the Hon. E. Byng, Sir John Osborne, and many other
persons of distinction.
MADAME MALIBRAN.--This distinguished voca-
list received a mark of Royal favour last week, almost unpre-
cedented in the "annals of song." At Aix la Chapelle, after
the close of the opera of La Sonnambula, in which she had
been performing with the German artiste:, by command of the
King, the soldiers on duty at her departure presented arms
and gave the salute (hitherto alone obs?rved to members of
the Royal family), as a mark of respect to her talented perfor-
mances.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

A meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of the London
Grand Junction Railway Company took place this day at the
City of London Tavern, pursuant to advertisement, for the
purpose of affording the Directtis an opportunity of laying
before the Proprietors a statement of the affairs of the Com-
pany. At one o'clock the chair was taken by Sir SAMUEL
WixALLET, Bart., ill. P., who observed that the first duty, in
compliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, was
to legalize the votes of such of the Proprietors as had not sub-
scribed the Parliamentary Deed, by affixing the Common Seal
of the Company to the Registry of Proprietors now produced.
The question that the Common Seal of the Company be
affixed, was then put and agreed to. This ceremony having
been gone through,
The CHAIRMAN said it now became his duty to call the at-
tention of the Proprietors to the various circumstances usually
laid before a first meeting of Proprietors ; but be confessed
that there were other circumstances which did not usually come
before a first meeting. He regretted that the chair was not
more ably filled, and he could assure them that nothing could
give him more gratification than to see that chair filled
by some gentleman whose commercial eminence lin
the busy world in which they were assembled,
would have carried with him by his name and weight the una-
nimous sentiments of the meeting.—( Hear.) Undoubtedly
it was not his fault that such was the case, and that the Chair
of what he ( Sir S. Whalley) believed would be one of the first
commercial companies in the world, was not filled by one of
their first commercial men. He would assure them that it was
no speculative spirit that had placed him in the situation he
now occupied, but the very circumstances of the Company, and
the various measures they were cane,' upon by the Legislature
to execute, was his apology for appearing now before them.
When the measure was first entertained, and he knew not by
whom it was projected, it seemed but just and reasonable,
' before they attempted to carry a railway through the whole
of the Borough which he bad the honour to represent,
to ascertain what were the opinions of its representatives.
The measure was accordingly submitted to his ( Sir S. W.'s)
consideration. It must be obvious that upon such a project he
could not remain neuter, as it was one which materially affected
the interests of his constituents. After having given it the
most unbiassed consideration, he had come to the conclusion
that it would be most beneficial to the Proprietors, and to the
trade and commerce of their great city, and therefore he had
taken up the matter (and on this subject he would appeal to
his brother directors) most cordially. He believed and was still
satisfied, that it would be a most valuable Company.--( Hear. )
Very early after he had joined the Company he was elected to
fill his present situation, which he had filled up to the present
day. He and the Directors had always looked forward to the
first meeting of the Proprietary as the crowning reward of
their labours ; and, without wishing to depreciate the services
of any other body of Directors, he would say that the labours
of the friends around him had been the most laborious, respon-
sible, and delicate of any. Instead, however, of appearing
before the proprietary merely to claim that meed of approbation,
they were almost called upon to justify their conduct in the dis-
charge of their duties. He had a short time ago regretted that
the chair was not filled by a commercial gentleman of weight.
He would now say that he would not under the circumstances
have let any one fill the Chair. If the Directors were to be
blamed at all, he.was the person who was to bear the greater
share of the blame, for nothing had been done without his
consent and approbation. In fact, never had the Directors
disagreed except on one unfortunate occasion, to which he
would have occasion to allude at a later period of his address.
He begged their attention for rather a lengthened ad-
dress, and in return he promised to hear, with the utmost
patience and attention whatever any shareholder had to say.
Complaints had been made that the Directors had been
dabbling in shares. He was responsible for that if it
was the fact ; for when shares got to a premium the
share-book was pnt in his sole custody. He was responsible
for what they did only with the shares of the Company ; with
their own shares they might deal with as they pleased ; he had no
right to interfere nor to inquire. He, however, would now de-
clare that he yet held every share which had been allotted
to him, with an addition of 100, was inscribed in the book of
Registry which had just been sealed. He had not been
tempted by a premium, nor had he been afraid when
the shares arrived at a discount.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He
did not claim any merit for this, because he had no power
or right to inquire what the Directors had done, if they had
not thought as he had, and had parted with their shares, he
pitied them. Two gentlemen of the name of Richardson and
himself he believed to be the largest proprietors in the Corn-
pang.—( Cheers.) That had been made an accusation against
them. It had been said that the Directors ought not to have a
large number of shares ; he thought otherwise. What was the
the real truth of the case ? Why, if parties wished to
know whether a Company was likely to be flourishing or not,
the first inquiry they made was how many shares the Direc-
tors held, and if they found that the Directors, who, to use a
theatrical phrase, were behind the scenes, -held a large num-
ber of shares, they felt confident it was a good undertaking :
if they did not, they instantly determined to have as little to
do with the Company as they well could.—(Cheers.)
(LEFT SPEAKING.)