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NUMBER 9809.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1824.

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Lately published,
In Two large closely-printed Volumes, in Bvo. price, in
hoards, 11. 4s. the Third Edition of
THE SCHOLAR, ARMED against the-ER-
RORS of the TIME : or, a Collection of Tracts on
the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution
of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government.
The whole intended for the Information and Assistance of
Young Students in our Schools and Universities ; and pub-
lished originally by a Society for the Reformation of Prin..

Printed for C. and J. Ri►•ington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church-
yard, and N 0.3, Waterloo-place, Pall-Mall.

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This is the age of improvements ; and we see
with pleasure many executed, and many in pro-
gress, in various parts of the metropolis. These
symptoms appear to authorise a hope that a sug-
gestion for one which is- both obvious and easy
will not be thrown away, but will attract the
attention of those who may have power to effect it.
The multitude of churches in London and
Westminster would add very greatly to the
beauty and magnificence of these cities were it
possible to see them to advantage. Nothing
more completely proves how entirely insensible
the less polished ages were to effects of this
kind, than the manner in which almost all the
old churches were crowded, disfigured, and
almost hidden by contiguous buildings.
That much has been done to remove this re-
proach, I admit with no small pleasure : The
east end of Westminster Abbey, and the south
of St. Margaret's, with one complete side of the
beautiful chapel of Henry VII., were, in my
memory, blocked up and built against by the
shabbiest and ugliest brick houses. They are
all removed, and the chapel itself restored ;
thanks and praise to those who planned and
caused these great improvements. The noble
portico of St. Martin's is on the point of being
opened to view,—another triumph of taste. But
much yet remains to be done : In various parts,
especially in the City, ugly houses and shops
are still plastered up against the very walls of
fine churches. St. Clement's has not very long
been emancipated ; but look at his neighbour,
St. Dunstan, Fleet-street ;
see how he is pester-
ed and embarrassed. St. Bride's is absolutely
hidden. The beautiful church of St. Stephen's,
Walbrook, has an ugly single house of a shoe-
maker stuck up against its very tower. St. Bar-
tholomew's, 'Change, has two or three houses
absolutely in contact with its tower and its sides.
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in that part of the town ; but wherever
they exist they are deformities,—they are worse,
to the casualty of fire; and when they stand in
for they are positive dangers •. Houses are liable
contact with churches, the sacred edifice is but
too likely to suffer with the private : Much of
the mischief of the fire in 1666 was caused by
this. The cost of removing these blemishes
would, in many instances, be very trifling. The
profit made fropi these miserable mansions cannot
often great. Barbarism and avarice
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their erection,—let taste and
generosity havebe ry
therefore destroy them. It was some
little satisfaction to me to observe, in travelling
on the Continent, that we are not more barbarous
in this respect than our neighbours; some of the
finest churches in France,—those of Amiens,
Abbeville, Rouen, are disfigured in this horrible
manlier. But such a deficiency of taste, if it
prevailed throughout Europe, would be no apo-
logy for us. Let us set them the example, if
they will not set it to us : Let the paltry gains
merits of a country—its sacred edifices, be de.
which are made by disfiguring the noblest orna-
ments
and rejected. If these gains accrue to
those who cannot afford to lose them, let them
be bought up by public money ; if parishes profit
by them, they ought to be ashamed to make such
profits—they should blush through all their ves-
tries, till the reproach is removed.
I do not contend that every church should be
insulated and stand aloof from other buildings,
though that is much to be desired, but that,
wherever the structure is deformed—embarrassed
—disfigured—crowded up by buildings totally
incongruous, the offence should be removed as
soon as possible—the church placed in safety
from the contact of inflammable neighbours—and
the public eye delighted by the view of sacred
buildings shewn to advantage, while its moral
and religious feeliegs were gratified by seeing its
most venerable structures treated with becoming
respect.

ECCLESIASTICUS.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. I.
was published this Day, price 6s.
By Balwin, Cradock, and Joy.
CONTENTS.

THE CASE OF C. A. DEMPSTER.-This unfor-
tunate man died at Middlewich, on Friday, the 14th instant.
—The public will recollect that in attempting some jug-
gling tricks at Carlisle, he swallowed a table-knife rather
more than nine inches long, which remained in his stomach
without exciting any very acute pain or producing any se-
rious consequences until within a few days of his death.—
Ile left Carlisle with the intention of proceeding to Lon-
don, where his mother resides, for the purpose of consult-
ing Sir Astley Cooper. During the journey to Manchester
he suffered much acute pain from the jolting of the coach ; when
finding himself unable to bear the motion of the carriage, he
embarked in a canal boat, but being taken very ill in the boat,

1. Men and Things in IB2R-2. Moore's Fables fur the
Holy Alliance-3. Irving's Orations-4. Literary Education
—5. Politics and Literature Russia--g, Travels in the
United States of America-7. Vocal Muni.--g, Court of Chan•
eery-9. Special Juries—to, On the Instrument of Exchange
—II. Periodical Literature-12. ;`,liscellaneons Notices, viz.
Cruise's New Zealand ; the Stranger's Grave ; Italian Tales ;
Mitford on Christianity and Paganism ; Tytler's Life of Sir
Thomas Craig; Keneswitha ; the Spae-wife; the Last Days
of Spain ; Gamble's Charlton ; St. Johnstoun ; Schmidt-
rueyer's Travels in Chile ; Hajji Baba; Prose be a Poet.

wtc his case axing excited considerable interest in the
public mind, as also in that of the profession, it may be
proper to observe that the body was opened the day after his
death, and the knife found in the stomach, which, with the
other of the viscera, was in a state of inflammation and gan-
grene. The handle of the knife (which was of bone) was dis-
solved, as likewise a considerable portion of the blade; so
powerfully indeed had the knife been acted upon by the juices
of the stomach, as to impress very forcibly on the minds of
the medical men who opened the body, a belief that had the
man continued at Carlisle, and been kept in a quiet state, the
whole of the knife might have been dissolved, and the case ter-
minated favourably. The knife will be forwarded to Sir Astley
Cooper, together with a more minute account, which will pro-
bably appear in some periodical work. The public prints hav-
ing stated that Sir Astley Cooper had recommended an opera-
tion for extracting the knife, we deem it but justice to the
above-mentioned gentlemen to state, that they saw the man
only about three hours prior to his death, when inflammation
and mortification had already commenced.—(cheater Courant.)

Saturday, the friends of Mr. Fox met in the
Black Bull Inn to celebrate the Anniversary of
his Birth-day. Nearly eighty gentlemen sat
down to dinner ; Mr. WALLACE, of Kelly, in the
Chair; Sir J. MAxwfmr., Croupier. A number
of appropriate toasts were given, and several
neat speeches made, in the course of the even-
ing, and the whole was conducted in the most
harmonious and convivial manner..--(Glasgow
Herald.)

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