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ON the DEBILITIES of the GENERA-
TIVE SYSTEM in MAN and WOMAN ; the
Causes that produce a Premature Decay of the Reproductive
Powers in both ; and the Means of their perfect Restoration.
To which are added, Practical Observations on the Nature and
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MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
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Solitary Habits, Sr Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
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altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in-
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Life of Petrarch, 2 vols. 4. ldens and Reflections on the
Properties of Music, by his Royal Highness the Crown Prince
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Persia and Koordistan, 2 vols. small ttvo. 6. Trollope's Sum-
mer in Western France, 2 vols. Bvo. 7. Woman; a Poem
by E. S. Barrett, 3s. 6d. S. The French Stage and the
French People, edited by Theodore Hook, Esq., 2 vols. small
Svo. 9. Dr. Crolv's Personal History: of George IV., 2 vols.
small Bvo. 10. The Book without a Name, by Sir Charles
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A marriage is rumoured in the fashionable cir-
cles, and with all appearance of truth, that an Hon. Baronet,
Alember of Parliament for one of the border counties, will
conduct to the hymeneal altar at the close of the season the
only daught r of a Gallant General related by marriage to
one of the leading statesmen of the day.

LATEST PARTICULARS, AND ACCURATE STATE-
MENT OF PROPERTY CONSUMED AND DAMAGED.
'I he excitement produced by the destruction of this theatre
has in no degree abated. Wednesday the Westminster-road,
and other avenues leading to the ruins were densely thronged
toy crowds of all grades. In the c3urse of the day a great
number tf the nobility and gentry visited the spot in their car-
eages, and several were permitted to enter the desolate arena.
Nothing remains of the theatre but the external walls and
frontage facing the Westminster-road, which must be pulled
down. Mcst of the engines continued working on the ruins
during Tuesday night and the greater portion of Wednesday
morning. The theatre was considered the largest cf the minor,,
and was capable of holding upwards of 3,000 persons. It was
exceedingly lofty, having one tier of boxes and two galleries,
besides a spacious wareroom er 'workshop above the ceiling.
The circle occupied nearly three-fourths of the p:t, being 100
feet in circumference, and the stage upwards of .50 feet in
depth, 70 feet in width, and 40 feet in height. There was a
complete ride round the stage of sufficient width to allow six
horses a-breast, and there were extensive painting-rooms on
each side. The back of the stage adjoined the party wall of
the Pheasant public-house, in Stangate, which, from the en-
trance to the theatre in the Westminster-road, was a space o
nearly 300 feet, and the width in the centre of the building
about 130 feet. Some few months ago a large brick building
was added to the establishment, on the southern side, and con-
verted into stables and dressing-rooms.
From a report made by the brigade force on Tuesday af-
ternoon to the different Insurance Companies, it appears that
the property destroyed and injuted is to the following extent.
In the Westminster Bridge-road, besides the destruction of the
theatre, are the houses—

No. 6, occupied by Messrs. Miller and Field, booksellers and
stationers, which has received much damage to the roof and to
the back part. The firm are said to be insured in the Phcenix
Fire-office to the amount of 3,000/. The building is insured
for 5001. in the Imperial Office.
No. 5, tenanted by Mr. Rogers, linendraper, similarly
damaged. Insured in the Union and Imperial Office.
No. 4, occupied by Mr. Anstey, hat and cap maker, damaged
by water and hasty removal. Not insured. The premises are
covered by an insurance in the Imperial.
No. 3, inhabited by Mr. Smith, butcher, damaged furniture,
which was uninsured. • The premises are covered by an insur-
ance in the Imperial.
Oa the other side of the theatre, No. 7, belonging to Mr.
Bush, licensed-victualler, considerable damage to the back of
the building by fire, and the furniture by removal. The latter
insured in the British Fire-office, and the premises in the Im-
perial-office to the amount of 5001. •

No. 9, Mr. Raper, woolen-draper•and tailor, damaged by
fire and water. Insured .in the Sun and Imperial offices.
No. 10, belonging to Mr. Gray, oil and colourman, slightly
damaged by water and removal. Insured.
No. 11, occupied by Mr. Lucas, haberdasher, much dam-
age to the furniture and contents by water and removal. Partly
insured in the Imperial.
No. 12, tenanted by Mr. Francis, oyster-shop, greatly
damaged. Insured in the Imperial-office.
HOUSES DAMAGED IN AMPHITHEATRE-ROW.

No. 30, tenanted by Mr. Barnsley, rule-maker, and ethers.
Roof partly consumed and house damag.ed throughout by
water and hasty removal. The premises thsured in the Im-
perial-office.

No. 31, M. Wood, boot-maker, some damage. Insured in
the Imperial.
No. 32, M. Beckson, similarly damaged. Insured in the
mperial.

No. 33, occupied by Mr. Gibson, tobacconist, and others
in apartments. Back part of the roof off. House insured in
the Phoenix.
No. 34, Mr. Haern, boot and shoe maker, some damage.
AMPHITHEATRE-PLACE.
Houses Nos. 1,2, and 3, tenanted by families. More or
less damaged by water and removal. The inmates are unin-
sured ; the buildings are insured.
Two houses situate in Palace-row have sustained damage,
but not of any serious magnitude. The roof of one of them
was burnt off. The buildings are covered by an insurance.
Stangate-street—No. 38, the Pheasant public-house, be-
longing to Mr. William Johns, considerable damage to the
roof and upper part of the house by fire ; furniture, &c., al-
most destroyed by removal. Mr. Johns is insured in the Vic-
tualler's Fire Once; the house insured to the amount of 500/.
in the Imperial.
The houses No. 39, belonging to Mr. Dalton, gas-fitter, and
No. 40, Mr. Williams, general dealer, considerably injured.
The buildings are insured.
Nine houses, occupied by five-and-twenty families, princi-
pally labouring classes, situate on the south side of the new
street to the south of the theatre, greatly scorched by the
flames and the windows broken by the heat. The damage to
the furniture and their contents is very considerable. None
of the inmates are insured. Tlie whole of the houses are is..
sured in the Imperial office.
The amount lost by the different insurance companies is very
great. Astley's Theatre is insured in the following offices :
The Royal Exchange, 4,0001. ; imperial, 2,000/. ; Sun, 1,500/. ;
total £7,500
On the dwelling-house occupied by Mr, Ducrow and
family, insured by Mr. West, the proprietor, in the
Imperial office
And on the machinery, scenes, fittings-up, &c., in the
theatre, the property of Mr. West, in the same office 500

T0ta1.... £8,300
Most of the houses that adjoined the theatre mentioned in
the above report were insured in the Imperial, and to an
amount, it is said, of upwards of 6,0001. The loss, however,
Kill not exceed 600/. Dlr. Ducrow is a great sufferer, being
wholly uninsured. His loss last night was reported to be at
least 10,0001.

On Wednesday a general meeting of the ladies and gentlemen
engaged at the Amphitheatre was held at the Spread Eagle
Tavern, Mason-street, Lambeth, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the most efficient measures to be adopted,
in consequence of this dreadful calamity. Mr. Laws was
called to the chair. After some discussion a committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. Widdicomb, Shepherd, Hillier, Elliott,
Broadfoot, andsome other gentlemen, was appointed to wait ott
Mr. Duerew and Mr. West, the proprietors, to ascertain their
intentions.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, JUNE 10.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, A DELA IDE-STREET.
Barometer .. 29.83 In.
Thermometer... 60— Highest 60 1 Lowest ... 49
Wind N.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Marian Luigla was placed before Mr. TWYFORD, charged
with having stolen three pieces of check chalie, the property
of Mr. Robert Howett, of Holborn. _

It seems that the prisoner had been seen, with two other per-
sons, loitering about Holborn on Wednesday, by John Brown,
a police officer ; and suspecting them to be thieves he watched
them, and observed the female prisoner go up to the shop-
door of Mr. Howet.t, while the other prisoners stood at the
window. The prisoner stood some little time at the door,
and then took something bulky that was standing there, and
was making off with it, when the witness stopped her, and she
let fall the parcel produced.
The shopman of Mr. Howett identified the property as that
of his master, and stated its value to be 51.

The prisoner said nothing in her defence, and she was fully
committed fur trial.

ALLEGED MURDER AT DEPTFORD.—The
greatest excitement has prevailed in Deptford since Tuesday,
in consequence of a woman having been discovered with her
throat cut, in a house occupied by a man named Thomas, in
Giffen-street, in the above neighbourhood. Suspicion has
fallen on a man named Jacobs, who has been taken into cus-
tody. On inquiry into the case yesterday at the Police-court,
before I.lr. Jeremy, it transpired that the prisoner had long
resided separately from his wife, and on the night previous to
the murder, brought home the deceased woman with him.
Jacobs's statement before the Magistrate ran thus :—He met
the deceased about 1 o'clock in the street. She came to him
and asked him if he could tell of a lodging, adding that she
had come from Rotherhithe. He offered her to go with him,
which she agreed to. He went to sleep and did not awake till
7 o'clock. When be first woke she was sitting up. He said,
" Why don't you lie down ? " The clock struck 7. Deceased
asked what time it was, and he told her. He afterwards went
to sleep, and was awoke by the rattling of the deceased's
throat. She was sitting up, and had her gown turned over
her head. The blood was streaming from her throat. The
razor was lying in her lap. It was nearly shut up, and she
appeared nearly exhausted. lie ran down stairs without
speaking or doing anything to her, or touching the razor. His
own razor was at the other lodging, and had a black handle.
When they first went in deceased asked for a light, but he
could not get one. The prisoner said he had nothing further
to add. Dlr. Jeremy read the statement over, and the prisoner
said it was correct. An inquest will beheld on the body this day.
FATALITY OF THEATRES.—Drury-lane was
built in 1662, destroyed by fire in 1672, rebuilt in 1674, and
burned down three years after. It was again burned down' in
1809. Covent-garden Theatre was built in 1733, and de-
stroyed by fire in 1603. Her Majesty's Theatre opened in
1704, burned down in 1789. Pantheon, Oxford-street, built
in 1772, burned down in 1784, and eight years after was again
destroyed by fire. Surrey Theatre destroyed in 1805. Royalty
lheatre burned down in 1819. English Opera-house destroyed
by fire on the 17th February, 1830.
From the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen
Waters, Herts., to Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William.
street, Bank of England.—" Gentlemen, having been deaf for
many years, I was induced from recommendation to try your Invisi-
ble Voice Conductors, and I have great pleasure in telling you that
they enable me to hear persons in company and at a place of wor.
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which I have derived, I have recommended many persons to you,
and their report is similar to mine—most favourable. The Spec-
tacles and Hand-glass which you have sent me are very excellent,
and suit my sight precisely, and surpass any thing of the kind I
have ever tried ; the transparency of which is so brilliant, that,
although I have passed my 86th year the 22d of May last, yet they
enable me to read, &c., by candlelight with the greatest ease and
comfort to myself.—Gentlemen, I return you my best thanks,
and remain your most obedient servant. HENRY COWPER.—
June 22, 1839.''—General Browne Clayton feels desirous to ex.
press the comfort and advantage he has derived at his advanced age
of 70 years, and after two years' trial, from the use of Messrs. S. and
B. Solomons' newly.invented Spectacles; their valuable invention
ully merit the patronage they have received of the Royal Family
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25th Feb, 1841.—Address, Addignton Hall, Lancashire.
I-ADVERTISEMENT.]

PERSONAL ORNAMENT.—A highly-interest-
in.. work might be composed on the various and dissimilar
modest of personal embellishment practised among different na-
tions, and the chapter devoted to the teeth could not but prove
one of the most attractive in the volume. Among many savage
nations the practice is well known to prevail of dying the teeth
black, which is esteemed a high degree of ornament ; while, on
the contrary, our British fair, relying on nature for their at-
tractions, seek only to preserve the charms which she has so
richly bestowed on them, and endeavour simply to preserve the
white and pearly character of the teeth. Among the various
means suggested for this object, we wouldselect the celebrated
odonto, ' prepared by Messrs. Rowland, of Batton-garden,
as the most admirable and perfect dentifrice het submitted to
the public. •
BRUS§ELS, JUNE 6.—The Minister of the in-
terior informs the merchants of the kingdom, that by a decree
of his Sicilian Majesty, the export duty on sulphur, in Sicily,
will be reduced from the Ist of January, 1842, from 20 carlins
tOs earlins per 100 weight.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—A very strong desisie ter what is called a
Conservative Government is said to exist insthis country. We
apprehend that it does ; and that the fact might be put more
correctly were it said that there are several very strong desires
for that object. The wish is not one, but many. Its name is
Legion. The peculiarity of the case is, that these various de-
sires are not quite so congruous with each other, or with the
limited powers of any Government that can possibly be formed,
as to afford the prospect of their gratification. They are desires
that only work well for Opposition purposes'; they are hopes that
wouldexpire in what seemed their fruition, leaving those who
indulged them only " cursed with every granted prayer." The
character of deceptiveness clings about every portion of the Peel
policy, and marks for its own every probable development of
that policy. The corn monopolists desire a Peel administra-
tion to sustain the present starvation laws in their full enor-
mity. They think the country would be none the worse for
the ruin of all the great manufacturing towns. The prohi-
bition of foreign grain could then be made absolute; rents
might be doubled or trebled upon their present doubled or
trebled amount of what they were fifty years ago. They for-
get that Sir Robert Peel is not totally blind, though they are,
to the dependence of agriculture upon flourishing manufac-
tures for its prosperity. They forget that the pledge to a
sliding scale is no pledge to details, which may be varied
indefinitely, as the expediency of the occasion may demand.
They overlook the embarrassment that may arise from
such promises as those of Sir George Murray to large
constituencies, and which, however deceptiously in
tended, may hereafter have some degree of retro-
spective and compulsory truth driven into them. But all this
could not be forgotten, were their desire for a Tory Govern-
ment accomplished. The Anti Corn-law agitation, much as it
unsettles the country, and disturbs both commercial and agri-
cultural operations, is but a ripple on the surface, compared
with the tempestuous form which it would then assume. And
what would they do with their Tory Government, or their
Tory Government with them ? Their bitterest enemy could
scarcely be dissatisfied with the prospect before them. The
confederated monopolists desire a Peel Ministry. Each class
thinks to keep its own portion of plunder, and so they con-
spire against the public interest. As an Opposition they have
succeeded. Their leader exults in having no Budget to
produce. He jeers his opponent, borrowing a frag-
ment of Canning's wit, (" Where Patience, beside
the bottomless pool of despondency, sits
,angling for
impossibilities"), marring it in the appropriation,: and the con-
spiracy is in a most gleesome state. But the new Chancellor
of the Exchequer will have to angle for the impossibilities of
such new taxes as the people will rather endure than touch any
monopoly whatever. Does he not wish he may catch them
What will they be ? A house-tax ? That would be very pa-
latable indeed to the town constituencies. High postage again ?
Very agreeable to the trading interests. Or will some of the
monopolies be sacrificed after all ? They will scarcely adhere
so closely, when one or two may serve for Jonases to the rest,
as they do in opposition, where the work is simply that of ne-
gation. Few weeks will elapse before, should they attain it,
they would look very blank on their victory. 0 how they will
watch for the new taxes, and the effect upon the country of
the proposition I
TIMES.—.A report will be found in our columns of to-
day, which, while it forbids us to despair of the ultimate
safety of one of the two transatlantic steamers which have oc-
casioned so much anxiety, affords a striking instance of that
gross and unfeeling nonchalance on the part of captains of
vessels which, we regret to say. has not been singular on this
occasion. It has ever been the just pride of the British sailor
to be the first, not only in encountering danger, but in relieving
distress, and that at all hazards ; and surely if there be any
case where the exercise of these noble qualities could
be pre-eminently called for, it would be in a case where not
only the feelings of individuals, but the sympathies of the
whole British nation have been most painfully excited. Under
such circumstances, it will be a matter of no little surprise and
indignation to our readers to learn that the commander of the
Osprey steamer, from whose account cur report is taken, should
have left to others the task of hailing the steamer which he
perceived to be evidently disabled, and "passed by" himself
"on the other side." It seems to be the peculiar lot of this
unfortunate vessel to fall in with a set of mariners who appear
to entertain as great a horror of ascertaining her real character
as ii'she were the Flying Dutchman himself. We trust, for
the honour of the British flag, that we shall hear of no more
instances of this unfeeling and unseamanlike conduct.
POST.—UpOn the eve of a general election it is of great
importance to the public generally to be furnished with some
test, more worthy of being depended upon than professions at
the hustings generally are, of the real characters of public
men. Such a test is furnished by the proceedings in the
House of Commons on Tuesday—first in the case of the con-
versation preceding the order made upon the clerk of the
peace for the county of Hertford ; and, secondly, in the de-
bate upon Mr. Wynn's motion for a direction to the Attorney-
General to prosecute a certain Mr. Webster for bribery at
St. Alban's. It has always seemed to us.tbat the persons who
most ostentatiously profess what they call " Liberal princi-
ples " are the greatest tyrants in existence. We have taken
many opportunities of showing this both from the conduct of
public men, and the language of public journals of the " Libe-
ral " party. Now, We hope that throughout Great Britain
there is among the people a wholesome detestation of
practical tyranny and injustice, whatever may be the profes-
sions of those who indulge in such practice ; and in so far as
" Liberal " politicians can be convicted of tyranny and par-
tiality in public matters, we hope that they may be hindered
from receiving the trust of legislative power at thehands of the
constituent body. We, therefore, beg that the constituents of
those " Liberal " Members who concurred in advising the
order to be made upon Mr. Storey will seonsider the reckless
despotism of temper which these Members displayed. No one
can doubt that the fashion of Mr. Tom Duncombe's Liberalism
is as unimpeachable as the fashion of his coat. He professes
the most ultra championship of the most unbounded liberties
of the people. And yet what says he to Mr, Storey ? Why,
lie says this, " You have a document in your possession
which you say you cannot copy except at very
considerable trouble and expense ; but I tell you,
Sir, I don't care fur that. Your business is to comply with
the order of the House, and I won't listen for a moment to
your excuses about the trouble and expense to yourself. You
say the document is not yours, and that it belongs to the
county. I don't care for that either. I know that you have
the document, and I have -the sanction of the House for de-
manding that you give it up, or a copy of it. You must obey.
As to the consequences to yourself, you may settle that matter
with those whom it may concern. I don't care for those conse-
quences—l only say that you must obey the order." The
same thing was maintained by the other " Liberal" Members
who supported Mr. Duncombe. This is their practical regard
for freedom and justice when they happen to have absolute
power in their hands. To us this seems most disgusting, and
we hope that many of the electors, to whom these gentlemen
must soon appeal, will think as we do.
HERALD.—The speech of Mr. Hutt, on the bribery busi-
ness of St. Alban's, was more than ordinarily offensive. The
whole argument of the Whigs was suicidal to their theories,
though consistent with their practice. Bribery, corruption,
and so forth, had been always abominable to the utmost de-
gree, and had met with their due share of reprobation, as long
as they could be, justly or unjustly, fastened upon the Tories.
A whole generation of patriots lived, flourished, and fattened
upon Lord Castlereagh's declaration, in (we believe) the Mal-
don case, that " the sale of seats was as notorious as the sun
at noon-day." The pious horror which this excited made all
that was " Liberal" in England thrill through every pore ; it
compelled, as we remember, the hair to stand upon the head of
William Cobbett, an effect nearly as difficult of accomplishment
as that wonderful miracle lately performed, in raising a
blush upon the cheeks of Joseph Hume. Now that
we have supt full of horrors and Reform, nobody thinks that
there is anything astounding in the declaration of Mr. Ward,
Member (pro lac vice) for Sheffield, that every one in the
country knows that bribery is the rule at all elections through-
out the country, and that those who heard him were all ready
to put that rule into immediate practice at the approaching
general election. We may remark, as we pass along, that if
bribery be requisite to obtrude an obnoxious, and a most obnoxi-
ous candidate, upon a constituency, Mr. Ward will be called
upon to open his purse-strings very widely indeed at Sheffield.
Bribery being thus admitted by the Whigs to be nothing more
than the order of the day, i. e., when committed by Whigs, we
have no reason to complain of the arguments of the Bullers,
the M limeys, or the Wards, in its favour, defence, or palliation.
Mr. Hutt, however, introduced another topic of a far different
kind. The corruption of the electors is not sufficient—the in-
timidation of the elected was wanting to complete the work.
Lord Listowell (a rat by the way) was all but convicted of
bribery ;—against his agent, Dr. Webster, there has been
already made out a case quite sufficient to send any man to
trial, out of which we wish him as good a deliverance as he de-
serves ; but Lord Listowell has an office about the person of
the Queen. If his Lordship be guilty of the acts imputed to
him, his position renders his conduct the more inexcusable.
Proximity to the fountain of the law ought to render the law
more sacied in the eyes of those who enjoy that honour ; but
it seems otherwise in the opinion of the Member for Hull.
GLOBE.—The pelf and patronage-loving propensities
of Toryism were last night manifested by the party ex-
pectant, with an effrontery worthy of those halcyon days
when Pitt and Dundas dispensed pensions and sinecures
to their suppporters with a generosity truly disinterested ;
a conduct which their successors in office imitated, at
the cost of the country. Reform at length unkindly
came, like " a nipping frost," and cut off the fair fruit
which their hungry partisans hoped to pluck as their
share of the public plunder. Ito is worthy of remark.
that the old virus, which was so active in the veins
of the Tories of former days, is still possessed of its
ancient properties. No sooner is there a faint pros-
pect of office, than immediately the " patronage"
which pertains to it is the most prominent idea con-
nected with its possession. The country's good is
but a third-rate consideration. First, ourselves ;
secondly, our supporters and dependents ; then—as
subordinate to, and only as the means of promoting
the snore worthy ends and aims of the former—such
measures as will best accomplish the principal objects
for which office is to be sought. Such Toryism ever
has been, and such it will remain. We were not, how-
ever, prepared for so shameless an exhibition of its un-
changed voracity as that afforded last night by the charac:
teristic proceeding of the party on the Administration of
Justice Bill. This Bill, as our readers are aware, was intro-
duced on the recommendation of the Law Commissioners,
as a measure essential to facilitating the administration of
justice in the Court of Chancery. It proposed to abo-
lish the Equity jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer,
and to appoint two additional Equity Judges—thus ob-
viating an acknowledged and extensively felt grievance
in the administration of justice by the Court of Chan-
cery, in which causes are frequently- detained for years
before they are decided ; the suitors, in the mean time,
are exposed to ruinous delay and expense by the dilato-
riness of the process, and the justice of the country is
brought into disrepute by the loud and general com-
plaints of these manifest defects in its judicial adminis-
tration. On the House proceeding with the report of
the Committee on the Bill, Sir E. Sugden rose ; and, after
gravely remarking—as a justification of the motion he
was about to submit—" that a Government situated like
the present ought not to have placed at their disposal
two new and valuable judicial appointments—appoint-
ments which ought ever to be free from the least taint
of undue favour, of bias, or forethought, and from any
suspicion that those who gave the appointment thereof
sought to strengthen their interest"—moved the .
introd -
tionof a clause "to prevent the Bill /rout taping effect before
October." We confidently appeal to that sense of justice and
propriety, which is innate in the breast of every mats
who has not succeeded in quenching the " light within"
by devotion to party, or II blind indulgence of (Its-

the party in office. The Irish tithe anarchy, continued
for more than three years, is an instance instar mi-
nium. As to the compliments, we think unnecessarily,
paid to the Lord Chancellor, we must enter our protest
against being thought to subscribe to them. We cannot
forget Lord (7ottenham's insult to one of the truest and most
high-minded men living—the Duke of Newcastle. The
Chancellor may have generally done little mischief, be-
cause he is a feeble person : but the spirit of the mischief
and the spite of faction were sufficiently manifested in
the case referred to, to prove that it has been, not the
want of will, but the want of ability, to which the com-
paratively small amount of his Lordship's transgressions is
to be assigned. As to his legal appointments, they may hays
been generally good, because the bar is almost universally
Conservative ; and, therefore, he was relieved from the
possibility of a factious bias, if he had not descended to
select objects too low in merit and reputation for so weak
and timid a man to dare to present to the public. His
legal appointments may have been generally good, but
the merit of that circumstance belongs to the bar, for
enough of them have been bad to show (with his Lord-
ship's other conduct) that all were the worst he could
venture to make them.

COURIER.—The Ministry made a vigorous attempt
last night to lay in an extra stock of patronage, in the
shape of the Bill for the appointment of additional Judges
in the Court of Chancery, the immediate passage. of
which was earnestly urged upon the House. The appa-
rent motive for this indecent haste was generally set down
in the legislature, as we apprehend it will be by the pub-
lie at large, notwithstanding the anxious-disclaimers of the
lofty-minded Lord John, as part of a deep-laid de on
1 .
for acting upon the ensuing elections ; that is, for tam-
pering with leading electioneering interests by. the ,
display of two new judicial prizes in hand, sup-
plementary to all the ordinary fallings in of
places and pensions, with the uncontrolled clidposal
besides of sundry funds corning under the conven;..mt deno-
mination of secret service. Sir Edward Sugtlen, however,
acted the part of lilarpkt to the scheme anti spoiled it for
present use ; upon which peevish Lord John threw up
his brief and moved the postponement of the third read-
ing to that day three months, a course equivalent to its
entire abandonment. Sir Edward strongly rebuked the
delays and chicane by which the Bill, which was not ob-
jected to in any quarter, was first needlessly procrasti-
nated and now pressed forward with precipitation so cal-
culating.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The Funds have been quite neglected
to-day.
It has been asked how we make out that a fixed duty oa
corn is essential to the safety of the Beek of England ? We
have demonstrated that problem, not only from arguments ad-
duced by ourselves, but by men of great weight mid authority
on all questions connected with finance, such as Mr. Horsley
Palmer and Mr. Jones Loyd, Mr. Norman, Mr. Grenfell, and
other bankers of experience. It really does not require much
argument to bring conviction home to the mind that a change
in our restrictive policy is essentially requisite to maintain the
value and convertibility of the currency, and at the same
time afford the necessary support and accommodation tot
the trade and industry of the country. It is no
within the legitimate sphere of our province to cute
upon any discursive analysis of the question of th
Corn-laws, but, in order to illustrate the truth of our grin
ciple, we must briefly observe that the frequent contraction
and expansions in the currency, and the consequent altera-
tions in the value of money, have exposed our merchants and
manufacturers to great misfortunes and vicissitudes. These
alterations and fluctuations in the currency have been caused
very much by the uncertain operations of the trade in corn.
In other words, they have been occasioned by the present
Corn-laws, which induced speculators to import large quan-
tities of foreign corn, to be deposited in warehouses in
bond, until, by fictitious means, they can run up the averages
and force down the duty, so as to enable them to throw the
speculation profitably on the home market. Large quan-
tities of gold are dravin off to pay for the grain imported,
causing a panic is the Bank Parlour, who are forced
to make money scarce in order to bring prices down,
with the hope of inducing the Continental merchants
to become purchasers in our market. A scarcity of money is
thus experienced, which suddenly stops trade and paralyzes
the enterprise and productive energies of the country. this
state of things is mainly to be attributed to the sliding scale,
to which the system of averages is an unavoidable appendage ;
and thus, while that system lists, steadiness in price, either
in corn or in money, is entirely out of the question. It seems
to be acknowledged on all hands that we do not raise enough
of corn at home to supply the people with food, and that im-
portation is unavoidable. • Such-hiring the feet it 'ought to be
obtained as cheaply as may be, and'on a principle of avoid-
ing, as much as possible, all derangement of the Mersey
Market. Now the sliding scale seems to have been
invented fur the very reverse purpose. 'lt seems to
have been prepared to make food as dear as may be,
and to have been framed on a system that should produce the
greatest possible derangement in the Money Tiarket, and
create the greatest possible amount of damage to those who
have capital embarked in trade and manufactures. It keeps the
Bank Parlour in a constant state of fever and alarm, watching
atmospherical appearances, and never without apprehensions
that they may be brought to a close by some sudden outbreak of
the elements, which no man can foresee or guard against. By
the sliding scale on corn the Bank is exposed to the operation
of speculative transactions, which act suddenly and capriciously
when the state of the home supply does not require importation:
besides which, the Directors have to guard every consecutive year
against the chances of an unfavourable harvest, and the conse-
quent drain of their bullion. In the year 1839 in particular,
to go no farther back, the Bank of England was upon tho very
verge of bankruptcy in consequence of the had harvest of 1838,
and must have suspended specie payments if the Directors had
not obtained a loan from the Bank of France. While the pre-
sent law is maintained, the continental merchants will not take
our manufactures in exchange for their corn, and thus when a
scarcity of corn is experienced, the price must be paid for in
gold ; whereas if the free trade principle of a fixed duty were
adopted, the supply and demand would find their level. When
there was a deficiency in one part of the globe, it would be
readily supplied from abundance in another ; and reciprocal
intercourse being established between Great Britain and the
corn and timber growing countries, mutual wants would be
supplied by an interchange of mutual products. The immense
increase which our export trade would receive would speedily
rectify the Exchanges without cramping the Money Market,
and gold would flow back to this country so as to relieve the
Bank of England of all fears for the possibility of a had harvest
draining off their bullion, and again placing them on the
threshold of bankruptcy.
POST.—The values of our Government securities have
undergone no change during the day at all worthy of attention.
There was but very little appearance of business, and at the
close of the Market the quotations were as nearly as possible
the same as yesterday.

LATE SII4. DAVID WILKIE, R.A.
This distinguished artist, it appears, enjoyed a very food
state of health daring the ten months he wastravelling through
Germany to the Turkish capital, during his sojourn there,
and in his subsequent excursions to Smyrna, Jerusalem, the
other parts of Palestine and Egypt, in all which places the
plague had been for some time carrying on its ravages. At
Alexandria Sir David and his companion (Mr. Wood-
burne) lived for some weeks at Waghorn's hotel, which
the latter gentleman describes as one of the eleanest and
most comfortable hotels with which he is acquainted.
Waghorn's servants, both male and female, are from Eng-
land, so that our travellers are, as it were, quite at home
in many essentials conneeted with our British ideas of
comfort. Sir David and his friend left Alexandria in the
steamer Oriental, which had clean bills of health, and on the
26th of May arrived at Malta, where they anchored for a few
hours for the mail and some passengers, but did not land.
When they left Malta no ene complained of being unwell;
but the following day Sir David did not come .to table,and
excused himself on account of a slight fever which he ,thonght
would subside if he kept on low diet and did not exert
himself. On the 31st of May, at night, the 0i • ntal en-
tered Gibraltar bay, fired two guns, and
lights ; soon after which a boat from the showed blue
Thunderer, 74,
•
and a Government barge, came alongside, to inquire being
they were, &c.: and in a few hours, the despatches
received on board, they
Shortly after she had
made sail for England, no, one hay-
ing been permitted to go on shore._r
Mr. . Woodbarne went into
got under weigh, six o'clock, a.m.,
e would come up and
Sir D. Wilkie 's berth, to request
breakfast with the company ; b
asW Woodburne,
being see the before he
e repliedh
that
doctorhe should, pi o.
bably, do so, but he should like to
did so. Mr. Gattie,
and soon returned to •
Mr Woodbarne, with an assurance
a medical gentleman, then came to him,
ttlielr.
that his friend was in a very
dangerous
Dr. Brown (who was with Sir
being greatly alarmed, as
withdangeroAufsr.staGtea.
James Carnac) to consult
could be done to save his friend ; anal the two medical
gentlemen made every exertion, and applied all the usual
remedies within their reach, without avail. Sir David
kept gradually sinking, but did not appear to experience
any bodily suffering,
o'clock he half-
pastand at eight ceased to breathe, his
seven,
~
being h h*
friends and the physicians with him all the time.
The passengers assembled to consult what was to be done,
and they requested the Captain to return and land the body
at Gibraltar ; he did return, but the orders of the Governor
are so strict, that the remains could not be allowed to some
on shore. and therefore the last sad offices of committing his
body to the deep were performed in the most solemn and im-
pressive manner, as the Oriental stood out of the bay on her
way to England. Sir David had been for some time anxious
to return home, and declined to visit either Cairo or
Athens, two cities which Mr. Woodburne was most de-
sirous of visiting. The latter gentleman is with the other
passengers, Sir Willoughby Cotton, Sir James Carlow, &e.,
now in quarantine off Portsmouth, in consequence of the fore-
going fatality, although all on board are perfectly free from any
sickness. The immediate cause of Sir David's death was, we
understand, what is called " the Syrian fever."

Bell's Life in London of Sunday next, June
13, will give the most copious Account of Ascot Races, with
Engravings of the Cup and Vase. Price of Bell's Life,
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SECOND GREENWICH HOSPITAL FOR MEI..
cfrANT SICAMEN.-It appears by a circular, tkat this great
project of providing a home and hospital for mercantile mariners,
is to be brought before Parliament early next Session, having
been delayed during this Session from the 'prospect of t. dints,
lution. Some modifications, giving to disabled or -cheayed
sailors the option of being relieved in their awn localities, have
been adopted, and now the feeling is so general in favour of the
plan in the maritime iittriets, that there is little doubter of its
speedy success.