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J ULY 27, 1847.

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A CLASSICAL A'l'L AS TO ILLUSTRA.TE
ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, comprised in Twenty-five Maps,
showin; the various divisions of the world as known to the Ancients,
composed from the most authentic sources, with a copious Index of
the Ancient and Modern Names. By A. G. FINDLAY. F.11.G.5.
LA.
1. Orb's veteribus notus.lST OF M
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I. Germania.
2. Roma,
15. Vitbielicia,Noricum,Rhwtia, '
3. Italia septentrionalis. Pannonia, et Illyricum.
4. Italia media. 16. Hispania.
5. Italia meridionalls.
17. Africa se
6. Athena. ptentrionalls.
18. _Egyptus.
7. Peloponnesus et Attica. 19.
Asia Minor.
8. Gracia septentrionalls. 20. Palles/inat,
9. Instate Marts -,Egal et Creta. 21. Syria. 10. Macedonia, Thraela, Illyria, 22 Armenia, Mesopotamia, As-
Mcesia et Dacia. Syria, et Babylonia.
11. Britannia. 23. Aralia.
12. Insuhe Britannicse. 24. Imperious Persicum.
13. Gallia. 25. Indite.
And Central Italy; with the adjacent countries, from the Peutin.
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ROGERS ON ELECTIONS-7th Edition.
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THE LAW and PRACTICE of ELECTIONS,
JL ELECTION COMMITTEES, and REGISTRATIONS ; with
an Appendix, containing the Acts of Parliament for England, Scot-
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INAIGRE DE BORDEAUX—The first
quality of FRENCII WIMP: WINE VINEGAR Is a pure
vinous acid, and surpasses all other in delicacy of flavour and strength.
It is sold, throughout the kingdom, at a moderate price, by Chemists,
Grocers, and Wine ➢ierchau s, wime names may be learnt by
a:•-
plying to the importers, W. arid S. KENT and SONS, Upton-upon-
Severn, or W. S. Rumsey, 3, Queen-street-place, Cheapside, sole
Wholesale Agent for London and surrounding Counties.

52, Fleet-street.
A NEW DISCOVERY IN TEETH.
MR.-HOWARD,- Surgeon Dentist, 52, Fleet-
street, has introduced an ENTIRELY. WEN DESCRIP-
TION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or
ligatures., They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be
distinguished from the originals hy, the closest observer; they win
never change c6l cur dr Ceday, arid Will be.tduriil very Superior to any
teeth ever before,used. This metjioddgeg-not.requtire the extraction
of roots, or any painful operation, and • vrill support and preserve
to tilthat are loose; aillfds kulraiiteedlit6,iestorel,fitticulation and
mastication; and, that Mr. Howard's improvement may be within
reach of the most economical, he has fixed his charges at the lowest
scale possible. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in inastica
tlon.-52, Fleet-street. At Home from Ten till Five.

AQUATICS.
POPLAR AND BLACKWALL REGATTA.
The regatta at the above named places yesterday was
throughout a most spirited contest, and was most nu-
merously- and respectably attended. The race was ir
five heats, with six scullers, the course being from Black
wall Stairs to the Coal hulk, off the Folly house, to the
East India buoy, an back to the starting-place.
First Heat.

George Weldon (Gwen)
J. Hambrook (Light B!ue) 2
J. Mitchel (Pink) 0
A good start, Green then went in advance, and kep!
t, waited upon by the second man all the way.
Second Heat.

J. Curd ... (Red)
C. Presman (Yellow) 2
J. Gudge (Dark Blua) 0
J. Gudge took the lead, and bid hard to keep it, but
off the Folly-house was displaced by the winner.
Third Heat. •

Freeman
(Yellow) I
Gudge
(Dark Blue) 2
Ham brook (Light Blue) 0
,Mitchel (Pink) 0
They were all nearly scull and scull for a great dis-
tance. It was a capital race, Yellow winning by at) )ut
two lengths.

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placable wrath; but it is possible to attain thins im.
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perfect outward resemblance without the smallestem approach to the substantial qualities of the original.
When the Chinamen observed the wonderful powers
of the Nemesis and our other war-steamers, with
great promptness and ingenuity they constructed
vessels of exactly the same build, the same length and
colour, with paddle-boxes, funnels, &c., all just as
should be. The new steamers looked terrible enough,
but the paddles were turned by men, and the
funnels were supplied by the combustion of green
weeds and straw. There is all the resemblance
between the Nemesis of Tamworth and the
Nemesis of Lynn. The paddles revolve briskly
and brush up the froth saucily enough ; there is also
plenty of smoke ; but there is not much chance of
the craft going ten miles in the hour against wind
and tide, or sinking a score or two junks in a quarter
of that time. Perhaps it is unnecessary to say that
Lord George begins with a shower of abuse. It is
the manner of the man, and we must not quarrel with
it. The Indian howls and grimaces before he dis-
charges his weapon, and even Homer's heroes reviled
their antagonists, living or dead, as we should think,
foully enough. So before his Lordship can get upon
the business of his address, he gives it Sir Robert
-very roundly_ indeed., . There is , &universality in .the
language of invective which makes it seldom neces-
sary to quote the very expressions. The terms here
employed are very much the same that his Lordship
has probably employed a thousand times before to a
jockey whom he suspected of foul play, to a tailor
who had disappointed him of his breeches, or to --,
but that is not enough; our readers on the turf will
be able to supply for themselves the various occa-
sions most likely to make the mouth of a gentleman
run over. After these noisy preliminaries, Lord
George proceeds to state the grounds of his virtuous
indignation. His first and foremost ground,--that
which occupies the greater part of his letter, is this,
that till the latter end of last year, that is, tillk after
the corn-laws were repealed arid Sir Robert Peel
driven fro,m office, there Was no 'considerable failure
of theTofato crop in Ireland; -no consitierible scar-
city of provision for the poor, and, no considerable
distress; that " the alleged potato disease in the au-
tumn of 1845 and the winter of 1846," was a frau-
dulent pretext and a base exaggeration by Sir Robert
Peel ; that, in fact, till June, 1846, provisions were
abundant and cheap, and within reach of the mass of
he Irish population ; that till June, 1846, there was
no just reason whatever for the Legislature to do any
thing to cheapen and augment the supply of food, and
that, inasmuch as Sir R. Peel pretended to be of a con-
trary opinion, and took a contrary course, he" violated
every political principle," &c. &c.,—he dishonestly
broke the understanding on which he had been
raised to power,—he took a line against which "good
faith, honour, truth, the national characteristics of
England," &c., &c., revolted, &c., &c., and which
"must sap the entire virtue of our representative
system," &c., &c., he set "a pernicious example,"—
lie taught that, " to keep power by false pretences was
.cithing worse than a ' pious fraud,' "—he " set the
example of openly sporting with, and of contemptu-
ously disregarding and trampling under foot, the
rightful authority of the electors of the United King-
dom," &c., &c., &c., &c. Sir Robert did all this vil-
lany, and was all this baseness, because, in the winter
of 1845-1846, he alleged a serious failure in the potato
crop in Ireland, and, on that ground, took steps to
remove the legislative obstacles to the supply of food.
Now, whatever we may happen to think on that ex-
ceedingly nice and difficult question, Sir Robert's
political morality, viewed as a whole, during the
thirty-eight years of his public career, we can see
no queatioga .yvhatOer in this particular pigsage
4 that ca „,,,Frain ~ Septenlke;4B4s, when the
sotato‘o s became a pro vent subjVt of
liscassion‘ t only believedat there was a
serious failure the potato, but we repeate ly urged
on Sir Robert the necessity of the course,,h -eventu-
ally adopted. We beg to say that' we a enter,'
Vitt
ing on the gseral defence of the ex-P.remier. We
have only to do with the charge brought against him
by his virulent and insatiable foe. He says there
was no potato disease in Ireland worth speaking of
till the latter end of 1846, and that it was all an in-
vention of Sir Robert's. Why, it was the talk not
only of England, but of Europe, in September,
1845. In that very month it was stated in the
papers that King Leopold had set the example of
doing without potatoes. Early in September the
state of the potato crop, coupled with the temporary
peril in which the grain harvest had been placed, and
other considerations of daily increasing importance,
were putting Sir Robert Peel's supporters in a great
dilemma. The more intelligent of them were already
beginning to talk very ambiguously, as if they were
struggling in fetters, divided between allegiance to
their-party and their own convictions. On September
25, 1845, we noticed this in our remarks upon a
speech by Captain Rous on the corn-laws. It was
evident he did not know what to say. One thing,
however, he did say, though at the very time he was
backing up the corn-laws in entire innocence of
what was soon to happen. The speech was de
livered at an agricultural dinner at Halesworth, on
September 11 :

a Let me remind you that only three weeks since the
rain had partially destroyed your potatoes, and that if
the rain had continued one fortnight longer it would
have materially injured your corn crops ; and what
would have been the result ? I declare solemnly to you
that no Minister can lay his head on his pillow without
first satisfying his mind that he has taken all human
precautions to avert the miseries of such a horrible ca-
tastrophe."

irorn- this date the potato failure was a fact of in-
creasing notoriety and certainty. It was felt in
England as a reason for political anxiety. It was felt
in Ireland by a rise of prices to double the average
of previous years. We will not come lower down
than the famous December 4—though to do so would
only make our case the stronger—because on De-
cember 4 it is evident Sir R. Peel had made up his
mind, and the grounds of his decision were ante-
cedent to that crisis. But we appeal to the recol-
lection of all impartial persons whether there was
not a growing certainty of the potato disease, and
a growing apprehension of actual famine, during
the months of September, October, and November ?
We beg to refer to some very emphatic warnings
in our own leading article of September 1; and also
to another expressly on the potato failure, and the
only proper course to be adopted, on October
10. In the latter we said :—" We have escaped
a bad corn harvest, but the at least partial failure of
the potato crop is, by this time, an ascertained fact.
In many parts of England nearly the whole of the
crop has perished, while still more generally a moiety
is thought a good salvage. The present rainy
weather only hides the extent of the loss, the crop
being still in the ground; but as far as our infwma-
tion reaches, the surface is never disturbed without
disclosing more and more of the mischief.t,
This Our
neighbours have suffered still more serious
was on October 10,
intentions even to his
Cabinet. Every week in the i
al had made the
onrteery
some six or seven weeks before
Sir Robert had disclosed his
urgent. Lord G.
case stronger, the necesstitnyot be surprised if we, at
m
Bentinck, therefore, must
of falsehood and fraud
least, resent with some he flings at
nationthseir R
foul
Robert,
" alleged " a potato failure to suit
having
sham case on the evidence a nlip omiatc Lord-
his political ends, and
of having got up
~
a
Lieutenant and certain learned professors." As
for the exact extent of that first potato failure
do not know what Lord George Bentinck con?
we .
siders a scarcity, or would consider a scarcity, if he
had to live on potatoes, The average price of
pota-
toes throughout Ireland, from August, 1845, to
-
gust, 1846, was double that of ordinary years, and
the inference is, that the people must have eaten only
half as much as usual. Was that scarcity ? The
sum of 734,0001., half by grant, and half by loans,
was spent in relief measures before the harvest of
1846, a fact industriously suppressed by Lord George.
Was that a customary measure ? Was that a sign
of plenty P Lord George Bentinck's own favourite
witness, picked out, garbled, twisted, perverted, and
" jockied,' in every possible way, says on Jan. 31,
1846, "innumerable insulated spots or districts are
approaching rapidly to total destitution. About 450
cases of this kind have already been reported."
Four hundred and fifty Schulls and Skibbereens !
\Vas that state of things, in January,
a sign of
scarcity, or a case for interference ? Lord George
Bentinck is as insatiable for scarity as he is of abuse.
What will satisfy him ? What, in his judgment,
will justify a Minister in casting an eye upon
the future ? Will four millions of people on an
average of one potato a head per diem excuse a
Minister for thinking of to-morrow, and trying to
bring in a little more food ? But, after all, Lord
George misapprehends the argument quite as much as
he misstates the facts. Sir Robert nerer said that
there was an actual famine. He said there was a
scarcity—an injured crop And an insufficient one;