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SPECIMENS OF EMENDATIONS.
Authorized Version and Douay Bible, Deuteronomy, c. 28,
v. 68, " And there ye shall be sold to your enemies, and no
man shall buy you."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the 3d, 1821—" And ye
will prize yourselves there to thy enemies for servants and
maidens, but none will purchase."
Note.—See Anti-Deist, Part 2d, p. 26, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Judges, chap. 15th,
v. 4--" And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes,
and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand
in the midst between two tails."
Hebrew, Part the 4th, 182 b, New Translation—" So Sam-
son went, and he took three hundred sheaves, also he took brands,
and he turned end to end, and he put one brand between two
of the ends."
Note. —See Anti-Deist, Part the 2d, page 48, 1819.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel, chap. 22,
v. 6—" Now Saul abode in Gibeah, under a tree iirßamah, ' &e.
Hebrew, Part the 4th, 1825, New Translation—" Now Saul
abode by Gibeah, under the Grove toward Remaly" &c.
Note.—See Classical Journal, No. 5, for Almil, IEII.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, 1 King's, chap. 17,
v. 4, "And it shall be, that thou (Elijah) shalt drink of the
brook ; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there."
Hebrew New Translation, Part the sth, 18:31.—" Thus it
shall be, thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have commanded
the Arabians to supply thee there."
V. 6.—" There the Arabians brought for him bread, &c.
Authorised Version and Douay Bible, Psalms, chap. 51, v. 5,
" Behold ! I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother
conceive me."
Hebrew, Part, 7th, 11g34, New Translation.--" If I were
shapen in iniquity, or in sin, my mother had conceived me."
Note._Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my
mother conceive me. This eerse, as it stands in the common
version, is not consistent with the Scripture. The Divine com-
munication stands recorded in Gen. i. 28. and God said unto
them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Now
it must strike every reader with conviction, that as God created
man to multiply and replenish the earth, he did not ordain man
to be shapen in iniquity, nor to be conceived in sin. The
Divine order for the multiplication of the human race is as holy
now as at the beginning : it is pronounced to be superlatively
good, Gen. i. 31., and this Divine order is sanctioned through..
out the Scripture, in all its purity, as at the beginning; con-
firmed by the Messiah, who said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom
of heaven, Matt. xviii. 14. ; it therefore follows, that if man
were shapen in iniquity, and conceived in sin, the Divine insti-
tution of marriage could not have been approved of by him.
Mr. O'Connell is a powerful speaker, a skilful politician, an
able advocate for civil and religious liberty, but he should not
attempt theology.--The Sun, No. 14,672.
" Swift seems to have entertained some • gloomy forebodings
NEW TRANSLATION of the BIBLE, of the melancholy fate that awaited him. On seeing a tree,
the top of which was withered, he shook his head, and ex-
" Mr. D. O'Connell denominates the most tolerant claimed, I shall be like that tree, I shill die at top."
man in Europe, the amiable King of Prussia, a . cruel and Mr. O'Connell, though having received the friendly admo-
faithless bigot,' because he will not suffer a turbulent nition of this paper, in our matter of " dying at top," must
Romish Bishop to make war with impunity on the funda- still wear his feathers "in his cap of vanity.'
mental laws of his dominions."—The Times, Saturday,
" In London," observes Batista Angeloni, in Letters on the
Nov. 2, 1839.
English Nation, 1750—" religion seems to be periodical, like
ague which returns only once in seven days, and then at-
" Fifthly, the Reformation in England was brought about
taancks the inhabitants with the cold fit only, which physicians
by the instrumentality of some of the most wicked men the
world ever saw ; Henry Vlll.—the adulterer, perjurer,
country
reckon
.the most fatal; the burning never succeeds in this
"
murderer I"—Page 7, Address to the English People. " Even on their days of worship in their
" But of the countries we have above mentioned as being there is ten thousand times more inattentio Churches,n to their
peculiarly Protestant, it is remarkable that Protestantism duty, than to the price of stocks in Change-alley all
was introduced into England by Henry VIII, and ittlo the rest of the week; and the fervour of their devo-
Denmark by Christern 11., two of the greatest monsters tion, to obtain a seat in Paradise is infinitely short to
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When that ever disgraced not only the Throne, but human na-
ture."—Page 42, Mr. O'Connell's First Letter to the
Wesleyan Societies in Manchester.
" The Rev. Mr. ,I'l Donnell, of St. Peter's, Birming-
within for those different dispositions, everyvkifiaelireiletrhleiaveinz
sitin
ham, rose, and was received with hearty cheers. He said,
3' their churches a snug pew, a kind of closet,
' When George the IVtb, that worthy successor of Henr
the V111.,' &c."—A" Full Report of the Proceedines of and sleep, or employ themselves in anything hut theiryduty to
the Great Meeting of the Catholics (Papists) of Lonedon, the Highest ; whereas in their places of commercial rendez-
" Messieurs de Beausobre and L'lnfant, Ministers of the vous there are no seats, they would be useless there, the zeal of
French Church at Berlin, represented to the late King of gain keeping them standing to their duty."
Prussia, that the French translations of the Bible began to be With this accurate delineation of the " Cor of te
neither so intelligible nor agreeable to be read as they were at City of London," where " the fervour of theirporation devotion fora
first, and that therefore to be edified by them required that seat in Paradise is infinitely short to that of procuring one in
they should be revised, or a new translation made. On which Parliament;" and this being the municipal body which gives
that Prince pitched on them for this purpose, and by his Royal tone to the institutions of the country, what promoter, we
Decree appointed them to make a new translation."—P. 372. may expect on behalf of a matter "of the utmost importance
A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy to the interest of mankind," and " a life beyond life."
Bible and Testament, into English, both in MS. and in Print, It is a melancholy reflection that the " two Estates" distin-
and of the most remarkable editions of them since the invention guished amongst us as " collective wisdom" throughout the
of printing, by John Lewis, A.M., Chaplain to the Right lion. realm should have had no deeper feeling towards a linguist of a
Thomas Earl of Mallon, and Minister of Margate, n Kent, country than the frequenters of " 'Change-alley."
1799.
It is now more than 30 years since the eminent linguist Bel-
"We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' published by lamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical of
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii, v. 22, is a gross mistransla- the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation Journal ;" it is 22 years since we became adherents to his pro-
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of mulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun, the
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis- Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo- "of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
logians as any in the whole took, and long commentaries have life beyond life."
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821. Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
" University Education." " The great resorts and seats of and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of vi-
learning often outlive in this way the intentions of founders, as tuperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
the world outgrows them. Our Universities are, in a great "of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
measure, become cisterns to hold, not conduits, to disperse, life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled injus-
knowledge. The age has the start of them, that is, other tice from the press of England.
sources of knowledge have been opened since their formation, to It is pleasingto us to observe a conspicuous personage in our
which the world have had access, and have drank plentifully at triple state, who was equally unmindful in his day, and of the
these living fountains, from which they are debarred by the posthumous fame of a Prince. Sir Robert Peel has his proper
tenor of their Charter, and as a matter of dignity and privilege, estimation with a portion of the Press. " The Tories quarrel
All that has been invented or thought in the last two hundred with the Hon. Baronet because of the feeble, shifting, cowardly
years they take no cognizance of, or as little as possible, they policy which he has pursued during several Sessions of Parha-
are above it, they stand upon the ancient land-marks, and will anent. We now find this once trumpeted statesman,
notbudge, whateverwasnot known when they vvere'endowed, they everywhere inveighed against by those of his own faction, as a
onogfstoulds,enwetime
are still in profound and lofty ignorance of."—Hazlitt's Table sluggish and irresolute, if not a feeble-minded, statesman. "
Talk: also, the Examiner, Jan. 20, 1823. Sunday Times.
~ Wive kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's \l,rhen
image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, Shakespearemanners live in brass ; their
break a lance with the assailants of the
"---
consider fo.
r
kills the image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man virtues we write in water"—is
lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious it our bounden duty to
and
Patron of the Work, "of the life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on memory of the Princt
malignancy,w rot e
"Oleos't he,
~.._ characteristic
orife a amongst
Prince and
interest of mankind," and a '' life ut-
purpose to a life beyond life. It is true, no age can restore a most importance to
be-
life, but revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a yond life"—who
rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the
pyramid of calumny !"
And pile the . .
worse. We should be wary, therefore, what persecution weers
and Scotch Review •—Byron.
raise against the living labours of public men, how we blight —English Bards
and publicity of the
that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books ; Digest of the proceeding, publishing,l, from 1810 to
since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, some- Work :—The Classical Journal,
The Sun, No
Distort the truth—accumulate the lie,
times a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, appearance of the First Part.
a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the Review of,to Quarterly Review. Reply to,
slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and and Rejoinder from the Author .
t._ Review.—lBl9,
faith essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immor- First anti Second Part of Anti-Deist. Second Part. —lB2O,
the Objections of Mr. Whitaker, A M
Cri-
tality rather ham a life."—Areopagitica, Milton.
tical Examination of . ~
National Education.—" The Bishop of Norwich said the Cambridge. Reasons in favour of a New Translation of the
race of clergy which was now passing away had had the most Holy Scriptures. A Reply to the Reverend Mr. Todd's of the Quarterly e, s' B'lBl-8,192.
Vin-
favourable opportunity of instituting schools in .their parishes, dicaiion of andour Authorized Translation and Translators of the
and of educating the people in the principles of the Church of Bible.-1821. The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.—Mr. Bella-
Nov.-1823. Nos, 785,
England. If this had been done thirty years ago, and educe- y's Reply to S. Lee, A.M., Professor of Arabic in the Uni-
tion extended to teaching the children obedience to and re- me- it of Cambridge.
wouldspect fobratvhee law,been and
impossiblet he fru
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7tvhBe6rs,E7Yx9a3mBi Examiner,
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8-24 A. ugN"oOs.cBt3,4, 840, 845. In 1825.
Third Part.—_lB22. Compilations in
malcontents like the Chartists of the present day, and England Foul•th Part. The Times, Saturday, Oct. 16.-1825. The
would have a very different aspect. He did not cast a general 'Durham Chronicle, Saturday, July 16. The Liverpool Sa-
condemnation on the clergy of that Period, for many of them turdayAdvertiser, July 23 ; and the Norwich Mercury, Satur-
-1,050, 1,0.57.—The Examiner. In
had fully lion
their duty ; but he regretted that so golden an day, August 13, 1825. In 1827.—N05. 1,021, 1,022. The
nestwanitthopuatrteno-f1834, fart 6th ;in 18.35, Part the 7th. In
opportunity had passed—an opportunity that would take the Examiner, Vol. 111., No. 34 and No. 69, Galway In labour and energy of those anxious to impose on the dent, 1898 Nos. 1,049,
nanuclurPri:Oct_,
rising generation to reclaim.
The Sun, No. 14,657, August the Bth, 1839.
14,475, 14,482, 14,606. Nos. 14,628,
1837—The Sun, Nos. 14,056, 14,062, and 14,080. In 1838—
The Sun, No. 14,447, In 1839
dea",oWureincgantnootimonprtelissisoortahsetornellaigyioductsw
the community, the unspeakable importance of speedily taking Jul}'* 25th,652 14 653, 14,662, to the latter we lay no pre-
-14, , ,
measures to purify and purge the Church."
issuing 3 500 tension, the insertions each,
~ per day—are from
Nos. l Guide,,
tP , a4r6t .5, Nos.
holt: . , in
688,19 .
" If there be truth or consistency in man,
~inheresinc Protes- , souls of kindred fire—who in this glorious field fight together
tants must turn against those who have given prdig:ous ,' with us in our chivalry—who have allied themselves with us
vantages to the Popish superstition. '—The Morning Sun, ' in this arduous strife to " do that deed which shall gild our
Tuesday, September, 10, 1839.
11,684, Sept. 28th: 14,703, Oct. 21st:
' humble names."—Nos.
" I may therefore conclude, that upon this revision— 14,706, Oct. 24th . 14,732, Nov. 23(1, 1839.
Bellarny's—of the Hebrew Scriptures, great stress ought By Appointment : Budd and Calkin- Booksellers to her Ma-
among be laid, as anticipating a closer approximation in sentiment Pail' ail-mall; Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, St.
all denominations of Christians now at variance with .I)aul's, London.
each other, upon certain disputed points of doctrine—under this Letter to . ••"•• • • on the Rev. W. L.
impression, .1 think all must subscribe to its importance."— Tlowles's " Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pop o," by
Chester Chronicle, Feb. 20, 1824.
that
the Right Hon. Lord Byron, and Noble Lord's Works,
" The Catholic authorized version was first published n'
at complete in one volume.
Douay in the year 1609. It was the result of forty years' toil
and labour, and can fairly stand a comparison Richard Bentler New Burlington-street. Amsterdam : J.
wlth any other Muller and Co, li.' d • NV. H. Hazenberg. Paris : Ar-
ey en .
version of the Sacred Scrietures, published i
i; n any country, thur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburg:
either Popish or Protestant.
i;
1826.

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MIC HOSPITAL, CHARING-CROSS.
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the application of nearly 1,000 more patients during the last
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the daily demands upon them, particularly forthe support of the
in-patients, ten only of whom can be admitted, although the
hospital is capable of receiving thirty. The Committee
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LONDON COMMERCIAL REPORT

CLOSE OF THE MARKETS.

SUGAR.—Business in the various descriptions has not
been by any means brisk, and no public sales took place.
The transactions in British plantation have not exceeded
4001bs at the late improvement.
Rica.—ln the Rice market very little has been done;
of upwards of 6,000 bags Java only about 1,600 sold, at
from 10s to 11 s.

COFFEE.—Market generally flat. East India and Bra-
zil to the extent of 1,000 bags were offered at public sale,
but there being few buyers, the whole was bought in.
SlLK.—Merchants hold out for high prices for China
and Bengal, if anything, in advance of the rates of the
last sale.

TEa.—Holders will not sell at a reduction, and all the
trade wait with anxiety the news expected by the over-
land mails. Very little business, therefore, is doing.
TALLow.—The market is exceedingly firm. 50s. is
asked upon the spot, but few buyers. The news from
St. Petersbnrg supports the market. Town is at 53s 6d,
with a stock trade.

A report prevailed a few days back, in Paris,
that M. Jules Janier, the celebrated writer of thefenillelons in
the Journal des Debats, had been killed in a duel. In Mon-
day's fenilleton M. Jules Janier begs to assure his readers that
he is not dead, and trusts that they will credit his assertion.
ROBBERY OF STATE PAPERS IN DUBLIN
CASTLE.—The world has just lost a chance of having placed
before it a collection of some of the curious and valuable state
documents which the old archives of Dublin Castle could pro-
duce. It has been discovered that some six months ago a per-
son, not forthcoming at present, having been employed in the
arrangement of old papers in one of the offices of the Castle,
happened to place a portion of them (not the least valuable)
in a small bag, which bag about the same time happened to
be left at the residence of a highly.respectable member of
the Vintners' Society, who has since ceased to carry on re-
tail business. The person who left the bag, it should be
mentioned, owed a matter of about 101. A few days after
this period curiosity prompted the then holder of the bag to
examine its contents, which was done in the presence of a li-
mited circle of friends ; and among other papers it was found
to contain several letters of Lord Castlereagh's and Pitt's, writ-
ten at the time of the Union, and containing some most inte-
resting matter connected with that period of Irish history.
There were also some letters of Robert Emmett's, and in par-
ticular that written by him to Curran's daughter the night
before his execution yThe bag was closed after this exa-
mination, and the whole circumstance forgotten in the
space of a few weeks. It appears, however, that the
disappearance of the papers was noticed in another quar-
ter, and even became a matter for police inquiry, which
was ineffectual until about four days since, when a
friend of the gentleman in whose possession the Papers
were, told Major Brown, the Commissioner of the Me-
tropolitan Police, that he believed he could give him
some clue to the recovery, and in a few hours after arrived in a
car with friend Mr. --, who told Major Brown, without he-
sitation, that he had the papers, and would willingly give them
up if paid the 101. as a security for which they were placed in
his possession. In fine, Mr. -- brought the bag to the
Commissioner's office next day and delivered it up ; but en de-
manding the 101., I may add, that the answer he received
was far from satisfactory; in fact, lie found himself in the
presence of Judge Ball, the Attorney-General, and both Com-
missioners, and was obliged to give security to the amount of
500/. to appear when called upon. Thus rests the matter at
present. The only question, in the solution of which the public
would be in( crested, is, whether Mr. —7- took the precaution
of getting copies of the papers made while they lay in his pos-
session.—Morning Advertiser.
RENFREWSHIRE ELECTION.—We lave been
assailed with a shower of contradictions from the Conservative
Press in this quarter, " all of them stating from authority" that
•
our remarks regarding the retirement of Mr. Houston were
without foundation; that there will be no vacancy
in Renfrew-
shire is
shire on account of Mr. Houston s health, and that he intends
to contest the County at the first election. 'We can have no
objection to the Tories continuing Mr. Houston as their can-
didate, and we are sure the Reformers of the County will also
be satisfied that they could not get a more open and straight-
forward opponent.— Glasgow Chronicle.

WHAT IS GOLD AND WHAT IS
PAPER?

( From a Pamphlet on the Currency by Mr. Donald Black.)
What is gold and what is paper ? Both are used
as the currency of the country.—Which is considered
the best? Gold, and from this superiority it has been
used for a series of years.—Why is not geld used
alone as the currency of the country ? Gold is found
to be too scarce for that purpose, therefore paper is
used in connection with gold.—How are gold and paper
connected? By both performing the offices of a cir-
culating medium.—How are they based so as to form
this circulating medium ? Gold is based as represent-
ing property, and paper as representing gold.—Why
does not paper represent property and not gold? It
were better to found it on the reality of value and not
on an agent of value. This is what never can be ac-
counted for, except that in the ruder ages, before pro-
perty had been called by the accumulated labour of
man into existence, it was necessary to base the first
attempts of a paper representative on the recognized
currency of the world, and that that which sprung from
the epoch of the barren morass and wooden hut has
continued, from the fearfulness of acquirement, in the
reign of the rich field and marble palace. There can
be no solid reason given why paper should represent
gold, the agent of property, and not property itself,
when property is made real.—How do paper and gold
work together as a circulating medium ? By the most
strange distortions—gold being the circulating medium
of the world, and paper of a particular country, all the
most contrary circumstances possible arise from their
union. When gold is revelling in any particular coun-
try, with his glittering and triumphant car, there is
paper, like a paintql shadow, dancing in the car-
nival ; but soon as gold, the fatal bridegroom, is
gone, the spouse paper is withered into air.—ls not
this a singular union for reasonable men to continue ?
It is most unaccountable ; it is endeavouring to
chain to a particular country a wild animal that
cannot be chained ; and yet, tying to that wild
animal the gentlest life of that particular country.
The crashing of its departure can only be likened to the
work of a destroying angel ; and yet that foolish fond
country will woo it back again, and again bind up her
existence to its uncertain sojourn. But why is all this
suffered ? No one can tell : infatuation, prejudice, or
something of that kind ; perhaps the supposition that
gold is wealth. Is not gold wealth ? No more than a
stone is : it is merely the representative of wealth ; for,
let a nation have amassed the most immense quantities
of gold, she can only carry it to foreign countries and
buy with it the wealth, or, in other words, the comforts
and luxuries of the earth, and this nation will get poor ;
(look at Spain) ; but let a nation possess manufac-
tories, which, like the circling of the seasons, bring forth
fresh productions, this nation can never be poor. Why
then make gold the vital of a nation ? Again, that can-
not be answered : all that can be said is, that it is a
barbaric ornament, which, when attempted to be intro-
duced amongst the delicate and winding threads of man's
refined labour and ingenuity, crushes by its unpliability
that which it was designed to assist. What then is
paper as a currency ? Worse than gold, if worse can
be—mere cobwebs, indeed not so aged or so respect-
able. A thing wrote upon to carry round the nation ;
a falsehood. And were it not for the high character
of bankers, we should think them a set of the most
arrant knaves that the world could possibly harbour.
They issue paper and promise to pay gold, when, even
at the first issuing of this paper, they have not a third of
gold to fulfil their promise ; then, when their paper is
out, they traffic with even this small portion of gold till
they are drained of it altogether; then they become
alarmed—the nation thinks ; this thinking tells the
people that they hold pieces of falsehood, (for, indeed,
it can bear no softer name,) they too become alarmed ;
they run upon the bankers, the bankers pull in the
evidences of their false representation—this ma kes the
people run faster—the bankers still pull in till the
whole nation, that was busy with the work of com •
merce, stands struck and motionless ; the crowd is
beggared. The speck of falsehood that commenced
with a banker issuing his notes, has infused itself, like
a taint of leprosy, through the whole mass, and all is
paralyzed with the contaminating infection ; and, to
make the thing still more lamentable, the Government
can find no better plan for a currency than this, that,
like a periodical plague, scourges the nation. Turn it,
and twist it, and sift it, yet must it bear the name of
gold : though that bright ornament may be adorning
the brow of the swarthy Indian, yet must our pale
paper bear at least its name ;—it must be gilded with
the name. This is the established system of the nation
in calm bright weather ; but when the storm comes,
these very issues of paper throw the name of gold
overboard, and appeal to the nation that they have
national securities to back their paper. This is the
infatuation : they give as solid these gilded things to
the nation, when they know well they are only made
of gilt air, and trust in the tempest to national seen-
rities.—Then paper must be abandoned as well as gold?
Not at all, if paper were honest. If paper would say
what it really is, no alarm regarding it could be raised
at any future period. Let a thing be shown what it is
when it is first given, and if agreed to be taken, no
after-thought can disturb it.—How would you make
paper speak what it really is ? By not writing a false-
hood on it.—How make it solid? By basing it on a
proper ground.—What ground would you base it on
On value, not on an agent of value. Then you would
disuse gold altogether as a currency ? Certainly;
gold would be to the nation only the same as any other
commodity.—But we might lose all the gold of the
world by this? That is impossible; empty us your
gold to-morrow, we should have some next day. It is
not that we cannot command gold,—it is that we make
it our life-blood that it disturbs us.—lf we kept it in
our side-pocket ready for the use of the foreign world
all well, but to make it part of our heart is madness.—
How then would you propose to establish paper as a
currency ? By founding it upon the property of the
country, not on straws and falsehoods ; that which

bankers, in their necessities, are compelled to acknow-
ledge is the only sure guarantee for all their operations
when gold is gone—that which all men work for—

properly—and this paper would be convertible into
this property, not into the promised chariot of the sun,
gold. Let people but be plain in their dealing, and the
thing is done ; let people speak what is, and act, on it.
—But the nation would be inundated with this paper ?
Why so ? What, because it is paper ? Why inun-
dated? Fools and knaves would inundate the nation
with paper, but not honest and wise men. Paper can be
dealt out as niggard and as scant as ever gold was ; and
there can be a bridle in its mouth, and a saddle on
its back, to direct its course and guide its movements ;
its value can be made as solid as ever value can be
made ; it can be made a house and home circulating
medium, impervious alike to the machinations of our

countryman-knave and foreign enemy ; and we shall re-
cord an effect worth noting, that will rasult from its
adoption in head second of the argument.

ALDERMAN THOMPSOI'iI AND THE
REPRESENTATION OF SUNDERLAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-Alderman Thompson has been repeatedly before
the electors of this borough, and has, from time to time,
to secure his election, promised almost anything that any
body chose to ask of him. He has made promises verbal
and promises written. He has given pledges in public, and
pledges in private. He has stood up to be
examined before a public meeting of the inhabitants, has
submitted to be publicly catechised, and has given catego
rical answers to the questions that have been put to him.
To enumerate a few of the many pledges that he gave:
he solemnly, distinctly, and unequivocally pledged himself
to vote for an extension of the suffrage, triennial Parlia-
ments, vote by ballot, and the repeal of the Corn-laws.
On every one of these points his conduct in Parliament has
given the lie to his professions. He has voted against an
extension of the suffrage, against triennial Parliaments,
agaiust the ballot, and against the repeal of the Corn-laws.
His conduct on the Corn question has severed the last
link that bound some of his supporters to him. His two
votes on the Corn-laws in the last Session of Parliament
will tell fearfully against him, if he venture to offer hira
self once more as a candidate for the suffrages of the elec-
tors- of this borough. He has taken his staml amongst h
most determined supporters of the tax on foodtHe
has voted against inquiry; he has voted against hearing
evi-
dence. He will neither inquire into the question himself, nor
will he listen to the evidence which those who'have made
inquiry offer to adduce. So far a; his influence as a sena-
rPeesrurnl t oafn al nog ui
oi inquiry
st
toi
gbaet ionos tti
0-
,xtennodrs,iyhdl
heew sillon.er
citthbeor
bttertmedeade known. If he were sincere when he promised to
vote for the repeal of
the Corn-laws, his opinions must,
thata
since then, have
mightyundergnunnedaerstood chn gweh.
en Ohro, psaeyrs-
hans, he wishes it to beNo," he means " Yes;" for his
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nl Parliamentary con-
duct has often been d• opposed to his
professions to his constituenitas
suppose. then, we al e to
understand that by an extension
he means a contraction
of the suffrage • that,
when he speaks of short Pvrlia-
ments, he means that they should he as long
as possible ;
that, when he promises to vote for the Ballot, he intends
to vote against it ; that, with him, " repeal of the Corn-
laws," means " Maintain the bread tax ; " and that in
order to carry every liberal measure for which he professes

the utmost anxiety, he voted in favour of Sir J. Y.
Buller's motion to turn out the Whigs, who will do
sometbiag, and bring in the Tories who will do nothing.
I am, S'n-, your obedient Servant,
Sunderland, Feb. 3, 1840. A PLAIN MAN.

WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.—A publicmeet-
ing was held here this day (Friday), at which resolutions were
adopted and a committee appointed to collect funds in aid of the
subscription in Edinburgh for erecting a national testimonial
to the Duke of Wellington in that city. We are unahle from
the late hour at which the meeting was held, to report the pro-
ceedings.—lnverness Journal.

Whatever it may do for the revenue, it is Ajimfated:
all hands that the penny postage plan works tltiirtt
for the public. To this statement we must add the quit
fication that, were the stamped covers once isete4,zther,
mode of operation would be much simplified, both' fo
, Post-office and the people ; and it is generally believed
• that, great as the increase has been, it would then be much
greater. Prepayment would be secured without personal
attendance at the bar of the office, and many letters of
courtesy and friendship posted which are now left unwrit-
ten from the trouble of going personally to pay the penny,
or the risk of leaving the prepayment in the hands of ser-
vants or porters. Not only in the Glasgow Post-office, but
elsewhere, have the details been managed with the utmost
regularity, notwithstanding the immense increase, amount-
ing, we believe, to fourfold—although we do not state this
latter on official authority. At the outset, the clerks were
compelled to work double tides, but now the system is so
well understood, and so well practised, that no-
thing but more commodious premises—which will be ready
at Whitsunday ensuing—are wanted to make the internal
routine at once comfortable and easy. As was anticipated,
a great part of the increase belongs to commercial corre-
spondence, but we are gratified to learn that the peony
reduction has brought a large portion of the community
into the class of letter-writers, whose correspondence was
previously little known by the Post-office—such as the
humbler classes of Highlanders and Irish—many thou-
sands of whom are located in Glasgow—and who of late
have come into the custom of transmitting by post letters
and small sums of money to their friends at home to a
very considerable extent, instead of sending them, as be-
fore, by some crooked and uncertain channel. The accom-
modation of the Post-office, however, is not solely confined '
to letters, for various articles are now transmitted
which would have been completely tabooed in the
olden time. Samples of spirits or wines, in small
bottles, have been sent to a distance, although the
officials are not willing to receive such brittle ware,
unless inclosed in tin cases. A few days ago, a merchant
here received a pair of shoes from England, the cost of
which was ls. 6d. ; and on Saturday last we were waited
on by a young gentleman, who had just received, by peat,
from Dr. 111‘Allister, of Stratbaird, in the Isle of Skye, a
beautiful owl, which had been found dead by one of the
herds, and the cost of which was only Is. 6d. The par, r'
was regularly sealed and stamped, with the Highland sari
Glasgow post marks, and yet not a feather of the bird was
injured or displaced. It was remarkable in other respects
than in the mode of its transmission, for its plumage was
variegated, brilliant, and beautiful in the extreme, and
more resembled one of the Australian parrot-tribe than the
moping owl of our own clime. It is rarely that any great
good can be granted without pinching some isolated class,
aiid we understand that some hundreds of persons, even in
this neighbourhood, who were in the habit of earning an
honest penny by carrying and delivering letters and little
parcels—such as carriers, their porters, &c., have felt the I
change severely.— Glasgow Herald.

A SUGGESTION FOR THE EDU-

CATION COMMISSION.

The subject of national education having recently occu-
pied a considerable share of public attention, and being
likely to occupy still more, it is desirable to allude to s.
♦erg• essential point in the promotion of this important ob-
ject, which has hitherto been strangely overlooked—namey,
an authorized test of qualification for the professors of the
various branches of tuition. We hold it to be indisputable
that so long as the clergy of the Established Church re-
tain the monopoly in their own hands, it will be impossible
to make any approach to a perfect system of general edu-
cation.

While candidates for the professions of the law, medi-
cine, ice., cannot practise without undergoing certain ordeals,
of greater or lesser responsibility, it is somewhat extraor-
dinary that the not less important pursuit of a professor of
education should require no other ordeal than that of
admission to holy orders ; when even the Bishop of
Exeter, in his late correspondence with Lord John
Russell, admits that "it would be wrong to withhold the
public aid for the instruction of those children of the
poor whose parents conscientiously object to allow their
children to be taught the Church Catechism, or to be
compelled, as the price of their instruction, to attend
divine service in other than their own place of worship."
Surely it is time, if the term
,free trade may be applied
to this branch of science, to throw it open; for if these
restrictions be no longer considered necessary in the edu-
cation of the children of the poor, there can be no rea-
son why they should be adhered to as regards the children
of those who do not require the aid of charity for such
purposes.

One of the evil consequences of the present exclusive
system is that the most ignorant laymen may profess to
instruct, and thus impose upon parents who may have
neither time nor capacity to discover their incompetency.
Another is, that even amongst those professors who have
been admitted to holy orders, many are found to possess a
very limited capacity for such duties; and so it must cot-
tinue as long as ever the mastership of a grammar school
cannot be held by any individual, however qualified in
other respects, unless he be a clergyman.
So long as candidates for such professions see no chance
of success except through the clerical office, go long will
they be fond to enter the church with no other view than
that of rendering it subservient to the scholastic profes-
sion; and while by these means the incompetent are
frequently known to attain independence to the detri-
ment and at the expense of the public (not to say anything
of the scandal thus brought upon the church itself) many
highly accomplished and pre-eminently qualified lay teachers
labour in vain for their subsistence, and are compelled to
occupy lower places in public estimation than they deserve.
To remedy these evils, it appears to us in the last degree
desirable that a college of education should be established
with a board of examiners, to be composed, in the first in-
stance, of certain members of the universities of Oxford,
Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin; and oicertain
Catholic, Wesleyan, and Dissenting colleges, with professors
of the principal European and Oriental languages, anr',
others distinguished for their attainments in the several
branches of literature and science.
That all candidates for the scholastic profession should
be examined by this Board before they should be per-
mitted to practise, and that according to their proficieney
they should be styled professors or licentiates, and receive
certificates accordingly. But those who bad attained cer-
tain honours in other universities should be required only
to register themselves in this College, and might be al-
lowed to practice in those branches for which they, had
attained their honours, having been first examined in all
others.

That a Council should be chosen by the members of
this College out of the list of professors thus assembled,
with a president, vice-presidents, &c., by whom all laws,
rules,and regulations f©r the government of the establishment,
should be framed, subject to the approbation of the general
meetings of the members. The necessary funds would
accrue from the payments of students, and fees from those
who should undergo examination for the practice of tuition.
To obviate any difficulties or delays that might occnr
preparatory to the completion of such an establishment,
and to provide against the evils arising from the want of
the requisite test, the examiners of the London Chartered
University, might be authorized to perform this duty, or
arrangements might possibly be made for adapting one of
the existing establishments to the purposes in question.

CHARTIST INTOLERANCE.—At eight o'clock
on the evening of Friday last, a public meeting of Operatives
was held in the Gaelic Church. Hope-street. The meeting
consisted, or was meant to consist, of those friendly to the
principle of non-intrusion, as contended for by the Church of
Scotland, and their object was to consider the propriety of pe-
titioning the Legislature to give effect to that principle. Mr.
James llrewn opened the proceedings by moving the first reso-
lution, which having been duly seconded, was about to be put
to the meeting, when a Chartist orator rose with the inten-
tion, as was understood, of proposing the usual addendum of
the Charter. This was a signal for a scene of the most perfect
uproar, which continued with little abatement during the entire
evening. The non-intrusion Operatives justly resented the
heunding-on of the Chartist leaders, and one of the former sig-
nifically hinted that it seemed to be the feeling of Chartism to
quaff liberty at the fountain-head, and dribble it out to others
through the tube of a tobacco pipe. '1 he uproar continued to
such a vehement degree that the men who occupied the plat-
form at length retired, leaving the Chartists to make the best
of what they called their victory," and this was done by a
little speechification, and a variorum of groans and cheers, after
which the universal suffrage men scattered themselves.—
Glasgow Herald.

The Northern Times, in that spirit of enmity to
the Sovereign whisk now pervades the Tory faction, declares
that that by an Act passed in 1835 (sth and 6th William IV.), " all
marriages of cousin:, subsequent to the passing of that Act,
are illegal, null, and void," and " the issue of such marriages
are considered illegitimate." The malice of this statement will
be more palpable to the public than its falsehood. And lest it
may be received, by some, for truth, we give it a flat contradic-
tion. The Act renders void certain marriages which, previous
to its passing, were merely voidable. It does not introduce any
Vele prohibitions on the score of consanguinity. Its intention
is, that instead of leaving the marriage of persons "within the
[already] prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity" simply
voidable "by sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court, pronounced
during the lifetime of both the parties thereto," such marriages
should be "ipso facto void;" and it accordingly enacts them to,
be " absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatso-
ever," But "cousins" do not come within the "prohibited
degrees ;" and the Act, therefore, does not affect them in the
slightest degree. So much for Judas's law.-Gateshead Ob-
server.

THE NEW POLICE ACT.--A question of con-
siderable importance, as affecting places within the jurisdiction
of the new Act for the extension of the metropolitan police, in
which markets are held, was decided on Monday before the
Bench of Magistrates at Uxbridge. James Pearce, orange
merchant at New Brentford, was summoned under the 7th
clause of the 60th sect;on of the 2d and Hd Victoria, c. 47,
for having, by erecting a stall; arc., on the carriage-way of the
town of Uxbridge, on Thursday, the 30th ult., caused an
obstruction of the thoroughfare, whereby he had incurred a
penalty of 40s. The charge having been proved, Mr.
Woodbridge said he appeared on the part of the lords and
trust of the manor and borough of Uxbridge, in whom the
tolls, &c., of the market are vested for charitable purposes,
and contended that those authorities of the town have the right
to allow persons to set up stalls on market-days in any part
of the borough, in opposition to the New Police Act, that
privilege having been granted in the reign of Henry 11., in
1154, nearly a thousand years ago, and which must continue
in full force unless specifically mentioned and annulled by
the New Police Act. The Bench said they had not a doubt
that the New Police Act overturned the rights and privileges
hitherto enjoyed by the town, and that although the defendant
had paid toll to the clerk of the market for the standing of his
stall, he had been guilty of an obstruction of the free carriage
way, which could no longer be allowed, and for which he was
amenable under the New Police Act, and liable to the penalty.
As that case was only brought forward to settle the point, they
should convict him in the penalty of ss, only, with costs.
PENNY POSTAGE.-011 Monday morning last
a gentleman in Bradford received a pre-paid letter from a friend
of his in Craven, but instead of having paid the penny at the
Post-office, it had been very carefully inclosed in the letter;
consequently, 4d. was charged on its being delivered in Brad-
ford—Ralf:far Guardian.
The Kendal teetotallers have adopted Dr. Chan-
nine's plan of moral reformation, and appointed a com-
mittee to provide innocent recreative amusements for the people
on several coming holidays—the days to be thus celebrated are
her Majesty's wedding day, Shrove Monday, and Easter Moo"
day.