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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

seriously mistaken if the very magnitude of that majority
be not felt by himself to be one of the most embarrass-
ing circumstances connected with his present perplexing
and painful position.
HERALD.—Of all British Ministers, he who presides
over the Foreign Department is the least uncontrolled,
and is, except on rare and momentous occasions, practi-
cally irresponsible. During the past ten years, the people
of these kingdoms and their Representatives have been
so exclusively devoted to altering and changing, and
piecing and mending their domestic institutions—to war-
ring with each other on grounds to a great extent imagi-
nary, that no event beyond our own shores, however
dangerous, no encroachments on the rights of Europe,
however open, could arrest public attention, or bring the
nation to a perception of its material interests. During
this decade of national perversity Lord Palmerston in
the Foreign-office of Downing-street was in reality as
despotic as the Autocrat himself. The pages of " Han-
sard's Debates" of the reformed House of Commons on
subjects of foreign policy would not form a moderate-
sized pamphlet ; and on no occasion when that dis-
tasteful subject has been discussed—Spanish politics
only excepted—has Lord Palmerston fairly met the sub-
ject. If papers were wanted, or explanations asked for,
his Lordship interposed," the public interests ;" if some
determined Member of . the Opposition or retired diplo-
matist did get a House to listen to his exposition of some
grievous injury or national insult, his Lordship turned
to the Treasury benches, and scattering forth insinua-
tions—ambigua s votes—of factious motives, as a signal
for Ministerial cheers, proceeded to avoid—his Lord-
ship is a complete master of the art of " avoidance "
the question really before the Legislature by a series of
vague generalities, such as " peace," " civilisation,"
" liberty," " increasing commerce," " interest of na-
tions," and hosts of general propositions embodied in
other similar abstract terms, all introduced for the pur-
pose of carrying away men's minds from the examina-
tion of any tangible thing connected with their country's
safety or interest.
GLOBE.—It is curious enough that the Times, in its
present anxiety to place Sir Robert Peel at liberty to
do just as he likes with the Corn-laws, or rather just
as circumstances may impose a fair or foul weather
budget—has furnished, in another of its leading arti-
cles this morning, the amplest apology—the fullest
vindication of the conduct of Ministers—in treating
the time and manner of dealing with questions of this
nature as matters of expediency, and not of principle.
" This," says the Times, " will be the Conservative
principle in the variable matter of politics—constant
improvement, development of useful tendencies, re-
trenchment of inconsistencies or impediments to good,
accommodation to the progress of society, submission
to the reasonable expectations of the people. By this
rule they will act in questions of trade and com-
merce; in financial reforms and legal reforms; in
police and sanatory regulations ; in the second-
ary parts of questions, such as the Poor-law and the
laws relating to the Parliamentary franchise, and indeed
in the practical details of every question. They will
never compromise. their freedom of judgment upon such
subjects by laying down the course which expediency may
dictate as fit to be pursued at one moment, as if it were
an immutable law, to be followed in every possible event."
Mark, reader ! this most conveniently lax code of party
morals stands cheek by jowl with the outcry against Lord
John Russell for having refrained, at an earlier period,
from stirring the Corn-law question, when he knew he
had no chance of carrying it ! Here is a code of party
morals, to enable the Tories to act as they please about
Corn-laws, Poor-laws, and, in fact, about all those ques-
tions on which their organs have raised all the recent
clamour to turn out the present Ministry ! Nothing cer-
tainly can be more convenient ! but now mark the equity
towards opponents. The Whigs have been unprin-
cipled for postponing the stirring of questions on which
they knew the Tories could turn them out by alarming
class interests. The Tories have been well-prin-
cipled in swindling a landed and colonial majority
by exciting alarms, which they mean to disregard
when the " pressure from without" comes on them.
Expediency dictated yesterday the loudest outcries
about Corn-laws and Poor-laws, and the firmest ad-
herence to dear sugars, and deficient finances. Ex-
pediency to-day suggests the folly of holding any
fixed course on such subjects, " as if it were an
immutable law, to be followed in every possible event."
Is it honest, is it endurable, that tie country should
be appealed to, as if the most fundamental prin-
ciples, the most vital interests were at stake ; and then
that the dupes of the Tories should be told, when their
game has been played, that their leaders will not com-
promise their freedom of judgment by laying down any
" immutable law" to themselves on any of those ques-
tions on which they charged their opponents, forsooth,
with having forsaken fixed principles I When Whig
ministers would relieve commerce, and restore revenue, it
is a " party move ;" to be met by appealing to every prin-
ciple that can be dragged in head and shoulders. When
all these appeals to principle have served their turn, it is
now discovered that there are no principles concerned in
the matter ; and that the Tories may take whatever
"party move" suits them ;—even should it suit them to
move precisely in the steps of their vilified predecessors?
STANDARD.—We do not remember ever to have
I read any newspaper article with so much pleasure as has
been afforded to us by that which we have borrowed
from this day's Times. We shall not fall into the
bad taste of complimenting its grace of language and
its eloquence, though on these grounds it may claim
the highest praise. As newspaper writers we are
of course interested in exalting the pretensions of the
press, and our testimony would be received with
suspicion. Let our readers judge for themselves of
the literary merits of the composition. What gratifies us,
and will gratify our readers, is the high moral tone and
sound moral principles of the article to which we call at-
tention. From the first day on which we presumed to
address the public, we have incessantly laboured to incul-
cate the truth, that the moral ground is the only ground
upon which a constitutional party can hope to stand
firmly in this moral country ; and that every departure
from that ground, whether in the selection of public func-
tionaries, or in sacrificing principle to expediency, must
be the cause of weakness in the beginning, and lead
to ruin in the end. It rejoices us to see the most
powerful journal in this or any other country as zealously
employed as ourselves in enforcing the same vital truth.
The constitutional party now possessing the power of the
State, whoever may for a time occupy its offices, commands
more than seven hundred Peers and Commoners—surely
more than one-seventh of them in every way eligible to the
highest offices, andjkstained by a single blemish upon
their private char s, as unsuspected of being capable
of a compromise With principle. Here then, is an ample
field for choice, and to this field the people, who
have made such exertions to place the Conservative
party in power, must justly expect that the choice of
their rulers will be confined. We do not say that it
would be wrong to proscribe any man on account of
his notorious vices or weaknesses. We deny the
proposition ; we think such a proscription a duty,
but proscription of any kind is not necessary. Office
belongs to the public—no man has a claim upon it
but from the public choice. It is not proscription to
say that the demand of this or that man must be
postponed to the public wish and to the public good.
1)o we say this as doubtful of what must be the na-
tural feeling of him whom the Conservative people of
the United Kingdom have unanimously chosen as their
leader, and who probably at no distant day will be
called to dispense the offices of the State ? Far from
it—we have no doubt of Sir Robert Peel's inclina-
tions. His own character, personal and political, is a
warrant that he will not voluntarily affront the
country and his party by any unfitting appointment.
The advice of the Times, which we respectfully
repeat, is however necessary ; though not for Sir IL
Peel's instructions, it is necessary to protect him from
the importunity of such as would weaken and dis-
grace his Government, and from the importunity of
their patrons and immediate adherents. In attempt-
ing to describe the classes who ought not to be per-
mitted to sully, by their direct connection with it, an
Administration representing the moral Conservative
party of the United Kingdom, we have no design
to point to individuals•—we hope not to be understood
as pointing to individuals. Our purpose is to deal in
the abstract. If, then, there be any man who thinks
himself qualified for office, but who is conscious that
before the public he carries a moral stigma, let such a
man remember, that in forcing himself into office, he in-
flicts a deep injury upon his party. He may have
repented of his errors or his crin es—he may have
reformed his life and conversation, but repentance
and reformation are secret. The stain upon his character
is public and enduring, and by forcing himself into
office, he inflicts that stain upon the administration of
which he makes a part. One tainted man in office will
do more to injure a Conservative administration than tly-s
abilities of ten of the most able men can repair—will in-
flict more injury than can be inflicted by one hundred ene-
mies. Secondly, if there is any man who has given
ground to suspect his integrity, or his firmness—which
in politics is the same thing with integrity—let him
reflect that the Conservative party is more eminently
than ever a party was before a party of principles—
of moderate and tolerant, of Liberal and reforming prin-
ciples, but still of principles, not to be abandoned or
compromised in any submission to expediency ; and, re-
flecting upon this, he cannot fail to see, that, whatever
the secret motives with which he may have swerved
from the straight path—however honourable he may
think those motives, the deviation has for ever disqua-
lified him from a prominent situation in that party,
which will dissipate like a rope of sand when it ceases
to consider itself as acting upon fixed and intelligible
principles. The simple single-minded policy is the only
policy by which such a party can be held together for a
single day.
COURIER—Sir Robert Peel is carried into office and
power not on the strength of the promises he has made,
nor the pledges he has given ; on the contrary, he is
pre-eminently exempt from all such embarrassing en-
gagements. His principles and his policy were before
the country ; his speeches and his votes, as leader of the
Opposition during a most trying and eventful period
were also before the country ; these were his claims to
public confidence, and strongly as disinterestedly have
these claims been recognised. He, "in power," will not
be haunted by the ghosts of unredeemed promises ;
neither, in power, will he have to belie the declarations
he made while in pursuit of it. As a constitutional ad-
viser of the Crown he has studiously guarded his free-
(loom of action ; be is hampered by no engagements, no
appropriation clausez, which he can neither redeem with
safety, nor abandon without dishonour. The character
of his policy will of course be strictly Conservative :
that is, he will embrace no plan of wild or hazardous ex-
periments in any department of his administration, while
the complete security of his condition, his prudence, his
sagacity, and his experience, will prompt him to redress
every grievance ; correct every abuse, either of system
or administration ; apply safe and salutary reforms where
needed ;and by his mode of introducing and conducting
important modifications,.either in principles of govern-
ment or system of finance, he will render change as
salutary and safe, as in other hands it has proved- i'iskful
and pernicious—to the requirements of the public ser-
vice he will yield, not to the pressure of faction, or the

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

TIMES.—We shall not imitate those who enter into
discussions upon the personal composition o a Cabinet
yet unformed • yet we gladly avail ourselves of the op-
portunity which that circumstance affords to make one
or two observations upon the great importance of a con-
sistent selection of individuals for office. The country
looks much, and justly, to the characters of individuals,
and does not sympathise with the doctrine which draws
a broad line of distinction between public and private
morality. The nation, of course, is not to be deprived of
the services of men of pre-eminent talents, merel be-
cause the malignity of faction has endeavoured to
blacken their names with imputations whieh have been
refuted as often as the opportunity of refutation has

been given : much less is every passage in the pri-
vate life of every candidate for office to be submitted to
an inquisitorial scrutiny. But no Minister ought
to expect the people to place confidence in men
whom he does not himself esteem. Above all thinc,s, we
should regret to see a Conservative Minister following
the example of the Whigs, in making exceptionable ap •
pointments to posts of distinction about the Court and
Household of the Sovereign. But we are entitled to as-
sume that the offices of state will be filled by suitable
persons. We pass, therefore, from such considerations,
to the more momentous question of the course of policy
which the new Cabinet will follow. Sir Robert Peel, in
that passage of his Tamworth speech to which we have
more than once had occasion to refer, described the Con-
servative party as being, on the one hand, " not dis-
posed to resist such changes as the altered circum-
stances of society may require ;" and, on the other,
" determined to maintain on their ancient foundations.
the institutions of the country in' church and state."
A neglect to discriminate between questions of ex-
pediency and questions of principle was one of the
weaknesses of the old Tory party, of which the Con-
servatives have now happily disencumbered themselves.
This line ought to be clearly drawn, for the sake both of
the character of statesmen and of the public interest.
Upon a question of expediency, what is unwise, and
therefore wrong, at one time, may be wise, and therefore
right, at another ; and a sagacious politician will be
more consistent in changing his course according to cir-
cumstances, than in persevering doggedly in one in-
flexible line of action. Such variations of policy cannot
be disgraceful to any man. The only effect of con-
founding them with matters of principle would be to
place statesmen in a false, and ultimately untenable,
position. Upon questions of principle, what is right
once is right always, and change is inconsistency,
and inconsistency dishonour. When Sir Robert Peel
stated that the Conservatives were " not disposed to resist
such changes as the altered circumstances of society
might require," he pledged the Conservative party,
or himself as its leader, to allow considerations of ex-
pediency their full weight in all practical questions,
and to follow no rule, except that of common sense and
an enlightened and disinterested regard for the public
interest, in adjusting the machinery of our laws and in-
stitutions to the functions which they may from time to
time be required to fulfil. This, then, will be the Con-
servative principle in the variable matter of politics,—
constant improvement, development of useful tendencies,
retrenchment of inconsistencies or impediments to good,
accommodation to the progress of society, submission to
the reasonable expectation of the people. By this rule
they will act in questions of trade and commerce ; in
financial reforms and legal reforms ; in poliee and sana-
tory regulations ; in the secondary parts of questions,
such as the Poor-law and the laws relating to the Parlia-
mentary franchise, and indeed in the practical details of
every question. They will never compromise their free-
dom of judgment upon such subjects by laying down the
course which expediency may dictate as fit to be' pur-
sued at one moment, as if it were an immutable law, to
be followed in every possible event. \ •
CHRONICLE.—Among the delinquencies of the
Whigs, for which they will be severely overhauled when
they shall come to give an account of their stewardship,
surely the most unpardonable in a Churchman's eyes will
ever be considered the extermination of two Arch-
bishops and eight suffragans from the roll of the Irish
Church. The Quarterly Review may, in mincing phrase,
prate about " the enormous folly of the Reform Bill ;"
but here is a proof of its enormous iniquity ; and to
whom are the thanks of the Christian world due for so
flagitious an inroad upon the true faith of the Beres-
fords ? By the mass, to Lord Stanley. We shudder
to record it. His " prentice hand" it was that knocked
off the heads of two metropolitans, and rendered the
divine right of translation almost an impossible thing.
Doubtless he has, at least within these three weeks,
repented in sackcloth and ashes, of having dealt
such a heavy blow and sad discouragement to
the Christian world ; but of what avail are his
tears if they cannot make a Bishop of Ferns ? Who
cares for his repentance while nepotism no longer flou-
rishes upon the Rock of Cashel ? Small comfort are the
Noble Lord's afterthoughts to the hurrays, O'Sullivans,
and Elringtons, when they see three or four Nonagena-
rians ready at this moment to soar aloft to heaven, whose
bishoprics no other man can take. There is Dromore
doomed to be no more; Kilmore, like Macbeth, fated to
perish without a successor ; Kildare to merge in Dublin;
and Clogher—honoured name—to be swallowed up in
Armagh. Alas, the glory of the Church has departed, and
the younger sons' portion, so affectingly bewailed by 1)r.
Boyton, is, together with his own honest expectations, in-
gulfed in Stanley's Bill. But there is worse than this. The
Bishops that are left are overworked, and soon it will be a
difficult matter to find any divine so reckless of his own
ease and enjoyment as to accept a mitre ; whilst already
it has been found that an archbishop's functions are too
much for any poor sinner's shoulders. The following
pathetic paragraph appears in a Church and State Jour-
nal. We need not bespeak the condolence of our readers
for the illustrious sufferers :

" The triennial visitation now imposed upon the only two
remaining archbishops of the Established Church must bear
very hard upon those dignitaries, viz., his Grace the Lord
Primate, and the Archbishop of Dublin ; the whole kingdom
being divided between them."

(_3ll anything be harder than this—to go once in
three years through half the cathedral towns of the land,
and to consume six good wholesome forenoons in holding
as many visitations during that period ! 'Tis " a load
would sink a navy." We are not surprised that his
Grace of Armagh has found it necessary to go to the
Continent, after the fatigues of the London season, in
order to recruit his strength a little, before he enters
upon so onerous an undertaking. But we trust he will
be able to go through it with the spirit of a martyr.
POST.—Some of the beaten Whig-Radical party ap-
pear even now to labour under the hallucination that
they have exhibited considerable virtue as politicians,
and have done great things for the country. This is
most preposterous. Perhaps they will lay claim by and
by to honesty of principle and consistency of action.
When people lose their senses, whether from defeat or
any other cause, there is no limit to the extravagance of
which they may be guilty. At the present moment they-
complain that we Conservatives give them no credit for
their " great and glorious victories over ancient preju-
ciices and false principles of legislation." It is very true
that we do not give them credit for any such thing, but
the reason is that we are not aware of any such "great and
glorious victories." We might 'suspect ourselves of want
of observation or forgetfulness in respect of these illus-
trious deeds, were it not that we find ourselves by no
means alone in our unconsciousness of their existence.
Indeed, from all the inquiries we have made it results
that no set of persons in this nation, save the obstinate
placeholders thems.elves, and the Parliamentary minority
which still adheres to them, has any notion that the
Whig-Radicals have done what they lay claim to. They
alone are conscious of their own merits and achieve-
ments, which is rather an inconvenient thing in a nation
where so much depends upon public opinion. It is net
the Conservative party merely which refuses to give
them credit for " glorious victories," but the Parliament
also. The House of Commons which was in their favour
gradually acquired a distaste for their management, and
finally reprimanded them. Then they persuaded them-
selves that the people mere still charmed with them, and
they appealed to the people. But it turned out that the
people at large liked them even less than the House
of Commons, and had no objection to tell them so by acts
the most unequivocal. Does it never occur to the Whig-
Radicals that, if they really have achieved these' glo-
rious victories," it is the very strangest thing that ever
happened in political history that no one except them-
selves seems to be thankful for these victories, or even to
be in the slightest degree aware of them ? They would
do well to take some means of informing the public
when and where they performed those meritorious deeds
tofxcneerzaphiesh they refer. If they were known they might,
Whig-
Radicals inexcusable, namely, 'a form some excuse for that which now seems
which theyto the adherence of these Whig-
eave office in spite of the direct condemnation
received from the House of Commons,
and subse h
whom the unappetlya,le
from the electors of that House, to
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could always, with an ordinary measure of tact, be
speedily healed. Vastly different is the ease when the
substantialities of office are about to be distributed. The
eagerly-expectant candidate and clamourer for place,
who conceives—and what needy Tory, from Lord Lynd-
hurst down to Mr. Peter Borthwick, does not conceive?—
that he has a preferable claim, a pre-eminent right to a share
of whatever good things may be going, and yet is .un-
successful in his suit—may possess a marvellous facility
at forgiving any apostacy from Tory principles on the
part of the Right Hon. Baronet ; but to spurn the sup-
plicant of place from his door, or even civilly to refuse
to assist him, he will find to be a very different matter.
The sin of conceding Catholic emancipation, fearful as
was its magnitude, is nevertheless a pardonable sin ; the
crime of r_pealing the Test and Corporation Acts, though
a crime of the deepest die, may not only be, but has been
forgiven ; but the guilt of lending a deaf ear to the ear-
nest entreaties of supplicants for
place, is precisely, in
Tory ethics, the unpardonable sin. What, then, can the
proximate Premier do in this extreme emergency? He who
could satisfactorily solve the problem might well beregard-
ed as a man of transcendant wisdom, Sir Robert himself must
be painfully puzzled on this point. The very magnitude
of his majority only adds to the number, and aggravates
the nature of his perplexities. Had the majority been
but half a dozen or a dozen, the unfortunate gentleman
would have found himself in a far better position than he
actually is with his vaunted majority of ninety; for as
in that case the number of mendicant petitioners for
place
would have been considerably less, there would
ave been a corresponding decrease in the disappoint- I
ment. While, therefore, others of the Tory faction sre
ignorantly giving vent to their unrestrainable exultation
X at the extent of the majority of the Premier elect, we are

ITB E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA ir, JULY 28, 1841.

clamours of the restless or disaffected. In a word, his-
measures of improvement will be founded upon large
and comprehensive views of statesmanlike policy, and
not hastily taken up and as hastily avowed, to secure the
wavering attachment, or influence the flagging zeal of
mere partisans.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—A correspondent, who writes under the sig-
nature of " Fair May" seems to have taken quite a
wrong view of our remarks on the minor Stock-exchange,
founded by the " shut out," as if the difference between
them and the members of the " House" were merely
that between large and small dealers ; or, to use his own
illustration, between wholesale and retail. Now, the ob-
jection to the inferior class of stock jobbing is not to the
quantity sold, but to the species of security which forms
the commodity of the market. The smallest quantity of
Consols, for instance, can be purchased on the Stock-
exchange. to suit the convenience of the " retail dealer"
(if that expression may be used) ; but certain stocks have
become so much disgraced, that the committee of the
Stock-exchange have altogether refused to quote them.
These are, however, sought after by certain petty specu-
lators, who are distinguished from the members of the
house by their total disregard for the worth of the secu-
rities they deal in, or the dishonesty which may have
given rise .to them. The comparison should properly be
between the respectable grocer and the dealer in da-
maged tea, and not between the traders in large and
small quantities.
ADVERTISER.—The letters received to-day from
Germany add very little to what has already transpired
respecting the failure of the Vienna bankers ; but some
of the advices before us state that it had been discovered
that there was a 'deficit in the firm of Guy Muller of one
million of florins as far back as 1839. This had given
rise to expressions of indignation among a few of the
wealthy depositors with the firm, and most of the noble
families and annuitants were reducing the balances they
hold at their different bankers, from a feeling of appre-
hension engendered by their stoppage. The Empress
Dowager, it appears, will be a loser to some extent. The
readiest way of accounting for the unfortunate money
crisis in Vienna, is said to be the political occurrences of
1840 and the July treaty, and the enormous depreciation
in the value of the Austrian State securities and shares
that has been going on ever since, under the fear of a
war, and which, from that period to the 15th instant, is
estimated to have been not less than thirty-one millions
of florins. This, therefore, was so much capital taken
out of circulation in the brief space of twelve months,
and it may be some time before a reprise occurs to any-
thing like such an extent.
HERALD.—Accounts from Graham's Town to the
13th May have been received. Great exertions were
making by the inhabitants for the general prosperity of
the colony ; the necessity for the means of quick com-
munication with Cape Town, was not only acknowledged,
but plans were in progress for accomplishing so desira-
ble an end. The loss of the unfortunate steamer, the
Hope, was an additional incentive to exertion, and upon
the proposal for purchasing another being made public,
6,0001. were subscribed in two days. It was considered
that . one would not be sufficient, but that _two at least
would be required, and that scarcely twelve months
would elapse when the town of Albany would be brought
within four days of the Cape, and less than two months
from England. The capabilities of the country would,
by the immigration of labourers (the want of whom was
severely felt) be fully developed, and and another rich
colony be added to the empire.
• POST.—The altered state of the weather, which has
at length become all that the most anxious farmer could
desire for the ripening of his crops, has of course pro-
duced a sensible depression at the Corn Exchange. No
positive decline was admitted to-day, the rates of this
day week being again demanded, though in few in-
stances, if any, submitted to. But, if the weather should
only be equally propitious for a few weeks to come, it
cannot happen but that the quotations must go down ra-
pidly. Such a movement will be promoted in a very
great degree by the knowledge possessed by the public of
the fact that importations upon rather a large scale are
sure to take place.

ETON COLLEGE-ELECTION

MONDAY.

ETON, JULY 26.—This morning a large party of dis-
tinguished personages partook of a splendid dejeuner at
the residence of the Rev. Dr. Hawtry, the head master,
in the college, and at 11 o'clock the numerous party re-
paired to the upper school-room, which had been pre-
pared for the occasion.

- Previously to the commencement of the speeches, the
Rev. the Provost addressed those present, and after
alluding to this being the 400th anniversary, stated, that
in consequence of that circumstance, the holydays would
be extended to an additional week. This announcement
was received with loud cheers by the Etonians.
The speeches were delivered in the following order :
1. Pacavius Calavius, Livius Luxmore, ma.
2. Othello, Shaltspeare ... Hulse.
3. Germanicus, Tacitus ... Ainslie.
4. Henry V., Shakspeare ... Johnson, K.S.
5. Ulysses, Ovidius Buckland.
6. On the French Revolution, Burke Hallam.
7. Antony, Shakspeare Arundell.
8. In Mortem Agricola, Tacitus Baxley, ma.
9. Ravages of the Carnatic, Burke... Monck, K.S.
10. Prometheus, Aschylus ... Dodd.
11. On his own Death, Swift ... Smith Pigot, ma.
13. Cassius. Shakspeare ... Yong, ma., K.S.
12. Ex Ora de Corona, Demosthenes Kaye.l4. Hamlet, Shakspeare ... Smith Pigot, ma.
15. Evander, Virgilius ...... Neville, ma.
16. Charolois, Massinger
Amongst those who particularly distinguished them-
selves 'Smith Pigot, ma., Monck, K.S., Hallam, and Kay,
may be especially noticed. The whole, however, per-
formed their respective tasks with great credit, and were
much applauded.
This evening the election of scholars on the founpa-
tions of Eton and Kings College, Cambridge, will be
proceeded with.
Since 1838 there has been a progressive increase in
the number of students at Eton. In that year the num-
bers on the " election list" were 507 ; in 1839, 545 ; in
1840, 590 ; and this year there are 635—being an in-
crease of 128 during the past three years, and of 45
since last " election," this time twelvemonth.
The following arrangements have been made for the
commencement, at the termination of the vacation in
September :
The Collegers will return on the 8;1 ; the lower school
on the 10th ; the lower boys in the upper school on the
11th ; the fifth form (in two divisions) on the 14th and
16th ; and the sixth form on the 18th.

RICHARD SAVAGE AND BUR-
RIDGE THE SCHOOLMASTER.
Mr. Burridge was at home, and at leisure,—for it was
half-holiday,—and sent word out that we were to be ad-
mitted to his presence. When we entered the apartment,
we beheld a gigantic figure reclined almost horizontally
in a very large chair. He was smoking a pipe, and had,
it would seem, recently divested himself of an enormous
rusty periwig, which lay clutched in his huge fist upon
the table. He regarded us in silence for some moments
through the smoky veil by which he was surrounded,
and then rising leisurely he laid aside his pipe, and came
towards us.

44 This letter, Sir," said Ludlow, " will explain for
what purpose I wait upon you," handing it to him.
" A letter, eh!" said Burridge, whipping a pair of
spectacles out of his waistcoat pocket, and jerking them
on the bridge of his nose. " Let's see—Francis Bur-
ridge, Esquire—Esquire!" and he gave a loud whistle.
" Ah! well;—very good—just so," he added, at inter-
vals, as he hastily perused the letter.
44 This tells me," said he, holding the letter from him,
" that I am to take this little fellow—what's his name?
Richard Freeman—under my care, under my tuition."
" Yes, Sir," said Ludlow.
" And that he is to remain with me during the ho-
lidays ?"

Ludlow bowed.
"That implies that the lad's parents are dead : is it so?"
" I believe they are," replied Ludlow, hesitating.
" Ah! Not certain?" said Burridge. "Perhaps there's
more life than death in the matter, eh?"

" I really do not know," replied Ludlow, disconcerted.
" Ah! well!" returned Burridge. " Who is Henri-
etta Mason?"

" My lady," replied Ludlow, " the Lady Mason."
" The Lady Mason! Oh! I beg her pardon," cried
Burridge, with a low bow, " that's it : I always bow to
a title." He rang the bell. " Bring some wine," as the
servant entered.

Ludlow began to plead headache, but was stopped by
the familiar nd of I3urridge upon his mouth.
" Now, Sir„' said he, when the wine was put on the
table, " I crave pardon—your name?"
" Ludlow, Sir."

" Well, :Nil. Ludlow," and he slapped his brawny leg.
" let us drink to the speedy progress of our young stu-
dent; and we'll give him a glass too, to damp him down,
as printers do their paper, before he goes into the press.
Let us hove he'll contain something good when he comes
out of it.'

" I hope so, indeed," said Ludlow, earnestly, setting
down his glass. " Will you forgive me?" he resumed,
after a pause, " but I trust—l feel no doubt—indeed, I
know that he will be treated kindly. I am, Sir,"—and
poor Ludlow smiled with a kind of mournful humility—
" I am greatly attached to him."
Mr. Burridge raised his black brows, and gazed into
the meek countenance of the other. " well—you
like him," he remarked at length. " Why, yes, we shall
treat him kindly enough, I dare say. We keep a school,
Ludlow, not a slaughter-house ; we are not cannibals,
but Christians ; men, not monsters. But, Sir," and here
he shook his finger in the air, " Mr. Shakspeare, an
author strangely neglected in these our times, albeit the
greatest genius that ever appeared in England, except
Milton, and in all, save sublimity, he surpasses even that
stupendous genius,—Mr. Shakspeare has proposed this
question : Treat a man according to his deserts, and
who shall escape whipping?' Now, Sir, if that be true,
and I believe it is," winking his eye knowingly, and
pointing with. his thumb over to me, " d'ye think the
boys ought to ge'scot-ffee,e h?"
" No, indeed," said Ludlow. "Do you hear what Mr.
Burridge says, Richard? You must take care."
" So he will," cried Burridge, putting on his periwig.
" The truth is, the temples of Greece and Rome are
bosomed high in tufted trees,'—birch trees, Mr. Lud-
low,—and I never knew a boy yet who could find his
way to those temples without going through those trees.
But come, Dick, take leave arm- friend : he is anxious
to go."—" Richard Savage," in Bentley's Miscelhny for
July.

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ABERDEEN, JULY 20.—last week there was
an uncommon take of salmon in this vicinity, during
three days ; the stake nets alone produced above 2,000
fine fish. The Duchess of Sutherland steamer sailed for
Londonk. on -Saturday, -with upwards "Of 000 boxeithe
same vessel had likewise 911 board 165 black cattle in
prime condition.

PRICES OF CAN AL,DOCK,ASSUR-
ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 27.
Number Dist lend Price
of per CANALS. Der
Shares. Annum. Paid. Shrre
1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.l6s.sh. 107
1,482 41. Ashbyate-le.Zouch Average 1151.5 h . 72
I, 60 Basingstoke.... lool.sh. 5
1,01,5 541. Brecknock and Abergavenny l5Ol. sh. 92
P,Olll I-Iftia. 101. Birmingham, 1.16 th share ....831. & 711. 200
4,f00 Ditto & Liverpool Juncti49l. oh . 100 psl 25
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. all pa -
400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lool.sh. 101
500 321. Coventry] 1001. sh. 400
..... .... Croydon. Average 311.25 10d. sh. -
2,060 5/. Os. Dudley 1001. sh. 94
600 131. Derby lool.sh • 120
20,030 4 per cent, Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd 29
3,575# 4' Ellcsin,.re and Chester Average 133:.5h. 81
231 621 Erewasn
.29'7 351. Forth rand Clydo....Average 400/. 16s. b. of,o
.1,630 71. Grand .sunction.. ......... ...... lOOl 6 0 !1c %
1,0494 255. Grand Union lool.sh 21
1,500 Grand Surrey
1,0061 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001.
996 ...... ... Grand Western
800 131.121. lid. Glarnnrganshire, Avcr. cost 1721. 13s. 4d. 130
749 Ili. Grantham l5Ol. sh. 2I
,238 2/. Os. Huchlersfilld Average 0/1. 63.11 d. sh 28
100
25.128 11.10 s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 39/.185.10a. sh 24
11,6994 11. 7s. Lancaster Average 47/. 64. Lid 23
2,8973 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.lh 750
545: 111. Leicester 140/. il 151
1,897 N. Ps. Leicester & Northampton Aver 83/.lof '73
2,409 101 Monmouthshire lOO/.81 200
250 101. Helton Mowbray
500 254 Mersey and [swell lOOl. sh . 550
3,000 21. 10s. Macclesteld lOOl. sh. all pd s4'4
247 171. Neath lool.sh. 325
2,400 U. Peak Forest Avenge about 78/. sh. 71
21,418 Bs. Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.l6e.Ed. sh. 9
5,069 6/. nochdate Average 0,51.5 h. Sa
500 81. Shropshire
„WI. sh. 137
800 101. Os, Somerset Coal
3,600!. 41 p-r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh. 11%,
700 361. Stafford and Worcester ... 140/.sh. 60J
!gm 151 Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 260
300 01. 3t3ursridge ~....... 1451. eh. 396
3.b17 2/. Os. Stratiorci.un.Avol, ,5.er....791. 9s. od. sh. 35
533 1211 Swansea lool.sh. '205
3,762 21. 10s. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 351. sh. 45
2.6004 si, . 121. 10s. Trent andsy, a share WO/. sh. 5!.0
6,149 Thames Nltdway Av. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 2
1,0005h.1 1111. Warwick sad Birmingham lOO/.sn 238
1,00040 h, j
950 13 . Warwick and ..aapi.n. 1001. eh. Pa:
7000 41 Warcesitc & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sh. 55
4.000 2.6 i. Wilts and Berke Average 671. lOs Bd. sh. 30
200 6,0 Wyilev and Essington 115/. sh 74
.26 W:ssseacn . ....... .. ........ 1302.5h. 30
asss I/ Wey and Arun
DOCKS.
1.6" * 3p. c. Commerc al ........ 1001.8 h. 03%
1,96545 h.
5 per cent. East and West India ............ Slack 9934
3,128,310!1, 31.p.ct. London Stock 6:1
Ditto Bonds
2.209 3/.65. sd. Bristol Average 14-/.lls. sh. 75
68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amount: lOB
352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 93
500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds .. lools
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Pier .. "01. sh. 201. pd 10
BRIDGES
1,600 IL Hammersmitl 5Ol. sh. 21
7,231 Southwark, Old A v 63/. 2s. Bd. sh. 3%
1,700 I/. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 7a per cent., 50/. sh. 16
,/,000 ......... Waterloo 100/. sh. 3%
5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 00/. p.. 1 '2l
5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4O!. pd 183¢
sO,OOO/ 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5,848 27s Vauxhall .......„Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/10s Albion 5OO/. sh. 50/. pd '72
53,000 t6Le:i cirs.tl Alliance British & Foreign lON. sh. IIL 14
pd 13
10,000 0 per cent. Ditto, 141:rine lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 5
21,001) 41. per sh. Atlas
1,20045 h. 5!. Birmingham l• ire.. 250!. sh. 55/. pd 10733
20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 5(1/. pd 40
12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/. sls. .51.-pd 5%
5,001! 51. per cent. Clerical & Mee ical Life, 1601,5 h. 2/10s pd .1,4
4,000 2/ Os County lOO/. sh. 10/. pd If
0,000 Is. Eagle 501. sh. 5!. pd 5
200 fasr,,,nti Economic Lilt, 10001. sh. 250!. pd 406
2,271 225. percent. European Li i.s 201. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New 201. sh. 2/. pd 13¢
.000,000/. 6Lper ct Globe Stock 111.34
23,000 51. Guardian
30,000 4s. 01. Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 534
2,400 5!. 12s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OO/. sh. 50/. pd 13134
7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100!. sh. 10/. pd 10
13,459 51. per cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. 81. pd 29
2,020 31 10; Kent Fire 5O/. sh. all pd 92
31. Ditto Life ' 501. pd 60
10/100 I6s. Law Life 10(11. sh. 101. pd 3034
5,000 10s. London, Firs 25/, sh. 121. Ills. IA 1834
3,900 10s. London, Ship .5/. oh. 121. 10s. pd 1834
1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh.
510,0001.
30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Li lc 5Ol. sh. 21. pd 216,
50,000 51. per cent. Proteetor I; f_ 2Ol. sh. 21. pd :8- Od
10,000 4 per cent. Protestant bisoenters ....11 0/. sh. 5/. pd 534
2,500 11. Provl4ent Lite
20'1,60 3s. fd. Rock Life
ria,2201 51. per c,ist. Royal Exchange Stock 181
6,000 5 per cent. University Lite 100/. sh. 51. pd 514
10,060 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 731
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 .... ..... Agric. and Com. of Ireland2s/. sh. 10/. pd
15,000 S per cent. Australasia 40/. sh. 40/. pd 58
10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bil maingham 56/. sh. 10/. pd 10%
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 1934
31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001 sh. 20/, pd 22%
60,000 51. London Joint Stock 50!. sh. 10/. pd 12%
.1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl. sh. 20/, pd 30
25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 124!. pd 19
50,000 74 per cent Manchester and Liver-
} 50/ sh. 15/ pd 1(1%
pool District...-. .... •
20,000 7 per coat. Manchester lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 7
20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of I relandlool. sh. 25/. pa 4!
10,000 8 ler emit National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh. 174/. pd 15%
10,000 6 per cent National Prov;,,cial Eng.loo/. sh. 35/. pd 134%
10,000 Ditto New Wt. sh. 10/ pd 10%
10,000
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 lOs Od Bath
5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 18%
5,000
Myer cent.l .
1.,,,, 8.. 66. Ditto Provincial 204 sh. 191. pd 25
928 51 10s Birmingham
1,250 21 Os Bristol 2oi. sh. 26
2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2O!. sh. 13%
750 3/ lOs Ditto, New 2Ol. oh. la/. pd 9
2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 2O/. oh. all pd 9
4,000 71. 10s. Continental Consolidated ....75/. 6211. vs 103
1,000 10/. City of London.. ....... -OW. oh, all pd 105
1,000 Cl. Ditto, New lOO/..h. 75/. pd ISO
4,060 31.05. F.quitable 5Ol. pd 20
10,000 0/. per cent. Imperial Sill. sh. CI
800 51. per cent. Isle nt Ttianet
2,350 6/. per cent. Independent IN. eh. all r., 49
0,600 41. per cant. Phoenix a()/. sh. 31)1. pa 34 N
1,000 4!. per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 801. pd (034
,000 Ssiuth Metropolitan 50/. sh. 19/. pd 111
MOO 51. per cent. United General 501. sh. 47/. pd :31
240 N. per cent. Warwick ... 501. oh. 50
400 N. per cent Wakefield
2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered ..!.. .._ 501.
sh. 514)4
6,000 12s Ditto New
790 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2O!. sh. 18/. pd
WAl'Ert WJAKS

.. .—.. .. —.._
1,800 3 Is. CirrPin gh.lm .. 25!. sh. 251. pd 21
4,433 7!. East London ....m,,,,.., 100/. sh. IGO%
5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Avera;!o 411 13*. 40. sh. 61
1,000 21. Kent Irn eh. 47
372 161. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326
1,500 2 1108 New River London Bridge Water Ann... 60
6,486 2/ 10s Manchester and Salford 1091.8 h. .
siS 53%
1,000 5 per cont. South London : !flash.
3,294 4jl. West Middlesex Average 631..128. 90. sh. 92
1,360 1/ 148 York Building f,o. Lessee Prop. 1001. eh. 35

-•-- -
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,300 Birmingham and Derby'. .. lOO/ pd 57
95110 Birmingham and Gloucester KO!. pd 59
15,000 .... ..... Bristol and Exeter .... ..... lON. sh. al pd ID%
7,500 . Cheltenham &G. Western 1001. s li. 62, /. •/.2%
3,009 . . ... .... Clarence - 100/. sh. 1001 pd 30
8,000 Dublin and Drogheda 100!. sh. 5/. pd
60,001 ... ...... Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 231. pd 734
10,000 Great North of England WO/. sh. 1/oi. pd 11l
10,9:8 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOO/. O. all pd 503
25,000 Great Western mu. sh. or. pd Ni
25,000 Ditto New 501. sh. 60/. pd 091 A
6,000 per cant Gosport Junction... 50/. sh. 50'. pd 52
2,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 11514
8,000 Hull and Selby 50/. sh, 50/. pd 36
2,100 4/. percept. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 65%
5,100 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 1013.0. 100/.pd 109%
7,968 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 54. pd 00
11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares... 251. pd 45
36,000 .. London and Brighton 50/. sh. 501. pd 4314
24,000
00,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ...201. sls. 20/. pd 8
25,000 8 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. 5h..901, pd 161
25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -.25/. sh. 51. pd 22%
31,250 ......
36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 35/, I7s. llst. 5414
33,000 London and Croydon/ Av. 13/. 15s. 9d. 13
Ditto New Scrip... 13
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds..loo/. sh. 701, pd 50%
13,000 ... Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 1254 pd 21
10.000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.0.40/. Ts
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2%
10,000 Midland Counties 'OUL oh, 106!. pd 87
15,1100 North Midland
Ditto New 4Ol. r.d 31%
5,128 Northern and Eastern...lool. sh. 601. pd 19
C.',600 Preston anti Wyre 5Ol. sh. 30/. pd 36
8,000 South Eastern and Dover ........ as/. pd 18},i
1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington l9O/.3h. 255
%mu ... ...... Thames Haven .'., . 501. oh 01. pd
4,000 York and North Midland DO , oh. 001. pd 71
MINE!!..
8,000 ... . ... Albion Copper 51. s .1 I.T. pg 12
4,000 IL .53. A itch
10,000 .„ ..... An_ gin MolleBtiiis2, 91. pm.lool. sh. at 1 d I
Ditto Sitheiltiptititi ~,,,,,pn.-0.125/. pu I
2,000 10/. Bolanos igiii.iiiii • •I•l3•iilAr..in zill d 35
10,000 11. 103 lkittiliAnlttlll. 111. 31. 0.:.551.0.201, a
6,000
11,000 ... . Ditto 14t..lphh Oki Rot .a.Qql; s¢. 141. N
11,000 Bolivar Copper Company, Di/. §'. AU. d 1
10,000 Ditto Scrip 10!, sh. 10/. pd 2
20,000 ... ...... British Iron lOO/. sh. 60! pd
,000 ... ...... Bri,.ish Coppers.. b! sh 4i/ pd 1%
. ..... . C ill Drama .. . ~...um ..... 54 pd 6h,
Candenga.....•... ilieliilloililloii 'lei pd 5
10,000 1! Coplapo ..... ...,... VI/ sh, 131: pd 10
8,500 ... Columbian, 12i. bt. pftl, ~ 141.5 h. 3,1. lid 01,
2,850 3/. English
20,000 General Mining Association2o/ sh.lBl. pd I%
6,155 Mexican Company .....100/. sh. 574/. tad 6
3,006 ..«..... Polbeton Cblittiis ~, • • • •10/. sh. 8/. pd 4
11,500 ..... .... Itodl del Monte, Utstirel4ts4H,ln.,.....s, ' 2%
Ditto Loan Notes .041111:o, pm 160
30,000 ..... .. United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 40!. sh. all pd ,+4
Ditu. Scrip y.
Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 4
West Cork 5O/. sh 50/. pd 38
LITER AKY 1 riSTITUTIOPIN.
1,000 ...... .., London, with Bronco Tieket .75gs. sh. )6
1,500 London University ...W0/. eh, all pd 7
700
King' College IOO/. 19%
MISCELLANEOUS.
10,x0 15s. Australian A gricultitral.loo/. sh. 28/ pd 3334
6,700 1. per cent. British American Land Company 35F. pd
10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1004 an. 324/. pa 31
80,0 CC 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan
City blonds, 4 per ccitt lOO
20,000 11.65. General Steam Navigation 15/. sit. 14/. N 24
10/. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
,01. 3 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms... Av. 751, sh l9
,00C
New Brunswick Land Cornpa, y... 50,1 pd 12
2,154 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...100/. sit. 100/. pd 104
2,033 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100.'. pd 107
4,000
10.000 6e. Van Die..net.'s Land.... 100/. sh. 17d/. pd 6
.14
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LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
JULY 24, 1841,
,
BAN KS.
imo,ooty, .p. ct. ?Sank of Scotland ...83/. Os. t4d. th all pd 59
2,000,00(. , p. ct. licyal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 151
500,001 r , p. ct. British Linen Company 100/.sh. all pd 218
500,000/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 165%
500,000.. fn. ct. National lO6l. sh. 10/. pd 14
500,000/. 71. p. et. Glasgow Union 2501 sh. 501. pd F 634
1,000,0004 6p. et. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 71