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London, England, 1825-06-07 00:00:00

cimtented a itttidle that might bt used with much
terrible effeceagainst- them. With regard toany
argurneot deduced from the natural love of life,
toshew ti;at thi;; praCticielio exercised •more- by
compulsion then worthy of'any
great consideration,,hecause that .inherent princi-
ple ;is never brought into. action • till -we :are
called upon to make
.the sacrifice,. and. .the
spectators who .surround the unhappy- vic-
tim of. thiS barbarous custom, cannot enter
into the feelings that tear her breast and con-
tend for mastery within her. Worked up to
tilieliigleSt pitch
.of nervous excitement, by the
principles of her religion .on the one hand,
dreadful corporeal pain she is about voluntarily
to incur, the natural love of Jifeyand the regret
to ledve "'the warm precincts.,-of the cheerful
day ;". upon the other, all conspire to raise a
host Of feelings within, that might well be con-
sidered as driving. to madness, and- gOading.the
widow Ao the funeral pile:of her busband, to
extinguish the doubts,, allay the • Perturba-
tion, and get rid of the :dreadfully harassing
_Contest her mind is engaged_ju. All these things
do not operate on :persops. not. called upon to saw
crifio their lives—all they feel is for-the honour
of their religiOu„ and thence they learn to admire
the action aml to venerate the victim--all they
consider is the fame this last act has conferred
upon'the unhappy: widow, and the houoUr and
glory she has thus obtained. We confess then,.
that although we would disconrage' the practice,
it caonot.with,safety, be prohibited._ Every fad-
tY should he, given to the widows-to escape the .sa-
cri lice if they fleire iyttid endeavours made to pre
cent their being worked upon by the persuasions of
their friends, or.tite doctrines_ of their priests;
but :to restrain it by.high penal enactments,l to
visit as a crime and punish by death the aiding in
an act alingst the whole population of India
consider. as heroic and noble < Of 'not .requ;..
site) appears to us most cruel. and impolitic.—
We must wait ,the more. general diffusion of the
doctrines of the Gospel—those doctrines 'so
simple and so excellent, so adapted to further
the happiness of
,man, .and so, within the corn-
prehension of the meanest inteJlect, y.et of
meditation, and presenting objects for the con
templation and delight of • the. most cultivated
genius. .

RIGHT HOU. SIR. JOHN STEWART, BART: 1
EXTnACT OF A LETTER FROM DUBLIN, JUNE 31—
" It is our melancholy and painful duty to announce the death
of this great and good man, who has now closed a long
political life of great public services, having
.died from
a contusion in the brain, by a fall from his. pony phaeton,
which he' had been driving near his demesne last Saturday.
The horses took fright and :ran away with the carriage ; and;
being enfeebled by long and severe indisposition, he had
not strength to 'restrain dem, and was thrown out on his head,l
which caused.the concussion of the brain. He lived from Sa-
turday till Wednesday ; he was
.promptly attended by Surgeon
Maxwell, late of Ballygawley, from Omagh Surgeon Oven-
don, frotti Enniskillen ; and lastly- by. Surgeon Todd, and his
nephew Surgeon Stewart, from Dublin ; but alas, 't was all in
vain, he never spoke after the fatal accident.- He is succeeded
in his title and large estates by his eldest son, Hugh,- who, we
hope, will also succeed his father in the representation of the
County. Lir John had been returned- six times for the county
of Tyrone, and had been a Member of the Irish .'and ImpOal
Parliament for forty years, during which time he was a steady
uniform and zealous supporter of the Constitution in Church
and State. ' He, filled the offices of Come' to the Revenue
Board, Solicitor-General, and Attorney-General ; and of him.,
it was truly observed, by an aged 'Statesman, that he was one'
of the few men who grew more huMble the higher he adVanced.
in poltical station:' The county of Tyrone will long remember -
with gratitude hik public servics. Owing to his exertions and
Support ()magi*, the county town, has long been the anoSt im.
proving town in the north of Ireland, and 'every part of the
connty.bears marks of the improvements which have been
matte under his fostering care. Numberless indeed' are the
friends he has left-to deplore his loss, and those-in Tyrone, we
have no doubt, willmaratest their feelings to the father by sup-
porting his son: Sir John was married in the year 1790, to
Miss Archdale, • sister of General Archdale, M.P., for the
county Fermanagh, by whom he had two sons and one daughter.
Hugh, the eldest, his son and heir, and successor to his Consti-
tutional principles.!) •

FRANKFORT, MAY 30.—Their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE have
arrived here to-day with their suite. Their Royal
Highnesses lodge at present in the Weidenhof
Hotel, but will leave us in a few days to go to
Ems.

?vlarshal MACDONALD (Duke of Tarentum)
landed at Southampton on Saturday, from the
Camilla steam packet, and passed through, it is
said, for
_Scotland.

The Quebec Papers of the 23d of April status,
that the Commissioners of the Canada Company are diligently
pursuing their labours at York ; they have I 3 clerks, who are
employed from an early hour till late in the evening.
The Quebec Paper of the 25th Of April say,
that the new large timber ship, intended for England, is ex-
pected to be launched by the middle of June. The fate of the
Cobimbui will probably, however, when it is known, cause the
suspension of this new undertaking.
Private letters by the late arrivals from India
state, that the crops are likely to prove much better than was at
one time expected, as most seasonable and unlooked.for rains
had produced very beneficial effects.*
Dr. PATEitsoN commenced a Course of Lec-
tures on Phrenology, at Calcutta, on the 25th January last.—
The atidience was numerous and highly respectable; and the
first lecture appears to have excited great interest.
The following 'article is 'extracted from the
'Brussels Oracle, 27th May :—On the 9th inst. a fisherman
found, three miles from Swinnemunde, near the shore, a sealed
bottle, which contained two billets written with a pencil; one
of them was in the German language, and to the following
effect :—" The brig A glaja' Capt.. Ankersjoelm, coming from
Stockholm, took tire off the heights of Dantzig, and-at this mo-
ment none of the crew have the least hope of saving therndelvd.
Written by a. German sailor, Charles ltichthofe." The other
billet was written in Swedish, but was illegible on account of
the water which had got into the bottle, except the date which
was 28th April; 1825.
A letter from Muni:ill, 17th 'May sap, the.
they go so far, in point of fact, as'topreach '
field fruits have a very promising appearance, and every thing
seems to portend another bountiful harvest.
According to accoun-o.from Rome, the most
of the devotional exercises in that city are under the direction
in
supplyt:sql,..h
%.:v fert
reherne Moselle;it:sist
rodf.::
tyi in, e. sewbj yaetsaetnnd depositedi Gi:
st::.l
ton
etit;e-thpeub.lleiScupitlsa
The Diaria.di Roma states, that the late Ces and in the Streets:
from the 19w61: Rhine,'..speak of great
ex-
cavations in the neighbourhood of C,orneto (the ancient Tar-
quinii) have produced several beautiful gram) Italian vases.
'actiAvictycboeuinngiSused in the district of Treves in the forming of
an increased
new Vineyards. In this.case we may, anticipate
E 'CIIALM EitS,'
er. They ' were
lithe vault of St.'
Alargaret.',s Church,
followed to the grave-by JAMES C
phew of .the deceased,.-as chief
lIALMEnS, Esq.
nephew
mourner, Dr.
BA/CHAN:NAN,' Colonel liAmifiroN CilAs. BIER-
NELL, EN•7 ---7-- P ETRE, ,
ESQ. of the Record
Ofrice, Tower,. JOHN REEVES) .FA ti-,
with other
private and official friends of a: Gentleman,
whose manly, character, literary attainments, and
active services, render, him 4
loss. to the.
public
.
as well as to his numerous friends and .con-
flexions. . , ,