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it )s with great pleasure we can state that a
plan has ileen,l44ll decided upon for throwing open to
the public those parts of tha liegent's-park not already
let or actually pledged. That portion to be for the future
open to the public will far exceed in extent the me yad
tarp, It is proposal to make openings or gates into the
westcent sitereatotfliptiio follpo4wru,
fiveing4ocloppoiite Hanover-gate ;he
poit,t;: —viz , on the cot tl -
twem the Marquis of Hertford's vllla and that part now
let out with keys to the public; another gate on tlie north:
west side, between the Marquis of Hertford's ape' Mr,
Halford's ; a gate on the north side between Mr,
Halford's and On Zoological Gardens; a gEta at the
south-east extremity of the Zoelogical grounds and near
Sr. Cotherine's ; and one on We ,east §kle nearly opposite
the Colosseum. We feel Ihat it i 3 quite st.fueicht to i.
nounce this new SOUTCt of health and tocrettion to the
public, without either dwelling upon its many advantags
or upon the additional claim it gives the Noble Lotd at
the I cad of the Woods and Forett3 to their gratitude...._
Observer.

A thiputation from merchants connected • with
the China and India trade had an interview with Viscount
Palma:ratan in the course of the week on the subject of the
recent events in ebica. It would appear that the depu-
tation rested their complaints mainly upon two points_
namely, the inadequacy of tie indemnity proposed to be
p 4,1 by the Chinei.c Goverarnerit to this country, and the
want of any sufficient security, lileing been provided for
tper:onal safety and indepeneence of residents
irlrChina, by the arranLernents which Captain Elliot was
sa'd to hav,.r entered into with the Chinese Pleni-
p:iten:isry. The answer of Viscount Palmerston ea,, we
bear, to the effect, that as et he ,A as acquainted only with
t! 9ir r;e:plei agreed to between the Pleniotenti.rries—
verntoont, and it at efficial
that the Emperor was to (ode to the British Crown
'tiotbercitaLirdlloPtiCetr 5414?itIsliapCioC)*I') on
indemnity
w"
intercourse between the two countries was, tar the future,
to be condutited on tgi ins of perfect equality. As yet his
L rdihip knell' nothing beyond the admission of tbeLe im-
portant principles ; and, as it on; expressly stated that the
tetstia4 •;ver-., to he the subject of further negotiatioc, it
necessarilyttollowedijiat jt
`i;;;P9,2Sb!:7 for his Lordship
to Coale to any conclusive opinitita qui' the ants pi tL
British Plenipotentiary until in full possession of the dc-
tails of the further nei,otiitions so alluded 9„—Obsen4r.

OUR CHINESE POLICY,

TO LORD VISCOUNT PALNIEICST
My L.3rd,—Since the arrival of the last China intelli-
reice. I have btea at some pains in examini-g tt a peeo-
litr policy pu•ittc‘d by her Majesty's rep, esantutive in that
distant pt,t of the globe; st.), in common with the rthile
circle of my friends, 1 see nothing in the whole of his
pr, cc ,dings 'but e til lisle ildecision of purpose, and the
rtTost feebleness of acion.

I a: fur some ycars, in tle ( arty part of my life, a
resident in India, and I am consequently familier with the
geography, histiry, st:eisties, arid local peelliaritis of most
of the rrgions of the East, and I can confidently deel ire,
from a tolerable insight into the Chinese Z,hreacter,
that our whole courseof deelir.g with that singular people,
fr en the earliest date, has been impolitic and vain.
It would be tedious to your Lordship to peruse details
of the extraordinary homage we, an et:slighter:oi eeeple,
have been accustomed, from time iturnetnoli :I, to pay,to
this race of ignorant men. who realy are, for the most
part, in a state of semi-barbarism.
The fear we have been accustomed to entertain cf their
shutting-up the tr.eie in Tea; has been the prolific source
of innumerable evils to our merchants, and in proportion
to our pliancy their rapacity has increased. The extor-
tion, robbery by fraudulent bankruptcies, wretched humi-
liation in all our correspondence with their officials, which
we have suffered for ages, will scarcely fifty years hence,
be eredi•ed by those who shall then read the strafeee
tory of our connexion with the Chinese. But these
things are foreign to the object of my preeent
communication, which is, as oir Lordslii r may infer,
from the observsei sns web which I began this letter, to
print out wh t I conceive to be the errors of Captain El-
liot in his negotiations with the te.
In the first place. then, my Lane, I, in common with
the vast maj eity of her Maj sty's subjects connected with
India, do most strongly impugn the political appointments
in China made by the Government since the revocation
of the East India Company's Charter., At that period,
perhaps, when thing; were going on very smoothly at
Canton, a Bedchantt;er Lord, like Lord Napier, would
answer very well ; his duties were anticipated to be sight,
and nei her long experience nn great talents, seemed to
be necessary for the due fulfilment of the end socgltt in ap-
pointing a sort of consular agent at that c ty. St 11, how-
ever, much as I agree with your Lordship in your ideas
regarding general government, and compelled as I
am by the success which has in so unexampled
a degree crowned your Lordship's for&ge politics,
to admire the talent with which Providence has
endoael you, I cannot hold you quite exonerated
from blame, is appointing to so distant a charge. an eu-
tirely unproved man, rho might have almost irreparably
injured our national character before your Lordship could
have had time to put him tight by your instructions, or bays
entirely removed, him from the ;CAC of 11,s errcri,
Gptain Elliotie appointment wa'S 'even worse—and I do
not know whet, at' that particular juncture, the period of
'Lord' Napier's death, and the brginning.of, our differeeces.
With the Chinese, could hale induced your Lordship to
pass over the multitudes. of highly gifted-Men, rho Lave
womenown in India by the talent thee hove displ'yed for
the highest branches.of eivitand legielatsve Geyernmart,
and to appoint . to: an important diplomatic post an indi-
.vidual known only to the world 'ai I tLe:e militkry ilea:, a
naval,officer, and who has.sitice proved -leitreelf latterly i I-
competent m-manage.with credit: aed.suecese elie,.mose
trifPng politic d negotiation.
My Lord, it is :yens to say that any one Vvih moderate'
abiliVe e and a fir'eduee'i in; is fit for: a consul se 'post :or'
a pert:cal residency. Where all is accustomed to go
smoothly it may be true ; but it is always within the range
o probability that differences may arise ; ard in so distant
a quarter, where a twelvemonth ( lapses before instruc-
tions can to appLed for and received, no one, except a
tried man, one rho has proved himself, when left to the
resources of his own genius, an he:iv:dual on whom the
Government aid the country may safely rely, that u&ther
the honour of the one, nor the interests cf the other, shall
suffer where he is to guide, should have received this most
important appointment. •

Prom the' time of Captain Elliot's arrival at Canton
un!o the prercnt moment, there seems to have been a sort
of Chinese incubus on his mind, cramping his eneigies,
enftebling his motions, and, I might almost say, paral3 zing
his whole powers of thought and cc ion.
Instead of repelling insult in that high tone, and with
th it noble disda'n which we might have txpeeted from
him, not only as the representathe of a great nation, but
as a man and al officer, we have seen him exhibit not
only a total insensibility t 3 larguage which ought to'
base called for the loudest denunciati ins of wrath and in-
dignation. but letnrn to it addresses so nice's, and of such
pusillanimous forbearance, that the Chinese themselves
must have been at once both gratified and astonished.
My Lord, the natives of the East,„f nria„ti.e Euphrates
to Japan at,c,„(rmernatural chat acter and peculiar gbvorn-
mentyalike the creatures of superstition aid vanity. With
them, for the moat part, show is everything, and, as with
children, first impressions are rarely eradicated.
It was anore from Lis rative impudence and the natural
credulity of the people amorgst whom he was borr, that
Mobanmed owed his success in propounding a new reli-
gious faith, than the truths Le announced or the morals he
enforced. In our own io,sscssions in India our whole
course of pol.ev, from the days of Clive and the magnifi-
e.mt Marquis ckeilraley to the present moment, has been
to impress on the triads c.f. cur Lantern su!keta, by out•
ward show and dignified language, scntimoits of awe
of our grca•nese, an.l ailmirati.,n of our gertus; and
there is hardly a nation to be to:lint, f ern Hiliala so Cape
C ramin, who cvtr seliou,ly doubts the pra.ti a MI of
any undertaking by the East India Company. Aid ibis,
my Loid, is the way to act with all half-bai harms nations ;
if you s em to suspect yourself of weakness, nothing cal
be expected from such adversar:es bet unit itigs;ol con-
tempt and causeless injury. On the issuing of the .first in.
solent edict by Lin, the first High Commissioner with
whom Captain Ell it was brought in ccllisior, the Es glish
official should have replied in a strain hoec.mingthe repres
sentative of his nation, denouncing even the Emperor,
threatening his attid his subjects with 00 dire cff:cts of
our hostility, •
. .

However", his conduct Is now subject for history, arnd I
should be sorry to trouble your Lordship with'i
'cation of the series of triscrable 'matures pursded by tlat
officer, from the stppension of hostilities after the capture
Of Chusan, to the last crowning deed r f f(Ily and mischief
erected by his har.ds after the britliant secocss'which at,
tended our arms in the dostruction of the forts irr:the aan.
ton river by our ships end troops.
My Lord, it is romonred tbw. Captain Elliot would
pgvpr have thus stopped short our gallant suldi,-rs and
sailors ill their ca.ppr of .v:atary, had not your L(l724hip,
alirmed by the prospect of a war kith Francrs, iMminon
the dilto of those Inrtruptions, not given orders:to Li.n
to ooncludp p peace with the chines() at alniggt :.py;.pric.. •
and this, so the report goes, is the only capl;rnatio:rit which
64n be given of the stranze hero win which 16slica's
proppsuis NO, a Reif:F., were szied, 11.:4 1w irsrsLytr
his howi Mies brit ft:rr 4 perhaps for day ,Iptioq,-,
might bays obtaige4 hut terms he chose, front tueir
not altogether groundless fears of seeing the rich and
populom city of Canton a prey to the canncn of mit Il.et
and army.

And now. my Lcrd. ae 114%9 peace wi.h them lye 1:g.
wise (1,609,090 c 44114r.,i. a sliro yiri,.h will hardly pay
the expenses of the military expedition, and the barren
islet of [long Kong, which is d% emed by the sapient ne-
gotlator to,Le worth tLe tine) or four millions of money
0,0 for the opinin so trolustiliably seifed by the tyraprical
LL, andt s which t,te to'uerl of tat: drufi will kve a
right to come on inr impoverished Exchcquer. '
My Lord, this is a most lame and impoteet conclusion
to an expensive eiFediti.,n, which, if common talent and
lad directed woad have prodieo resultq ql
higking-oentriLio then fiyrit
The islet of Hong Kong is, you may depend up,,n it,
my Lord, quite useless to us as far as clinioereill purposes
ale concerned ; and if we hat it, it will pro‘p, like ti
islrsj of Aspensino, enpnsivc and brirdensome t) us. if
IPPLIMPreIy stipu!afed for free ingress to the north ern
ports, and unmolested trade tv:t!t the subjects of the Cc,..
asivantages.wquld ii.ofp been
greater than 'tliey 'Odieftiat'lliiiNorthless territo-
rial cession.

4137 tiord, you are imperatlyely called upon, by a due
regard to the intervals .of our belgvcd country; to with
hold your ratkfication from this wretched tr( aty, which is
re Illy so bad as notta..admit of a single opinion being ex.
preqed ip j a defence, Ca,qli4ns, military men, and the
mercantile interest, all noun! 'tn pundunning Wilt
respect to the opinion that our nationallaTtli is plighted by
our representative, I know enough of the bad faith of the
Clines° chancier, to be ceitain that fit y opportunitica
will be uffcrud to us during the negotiations regarding
minor details, to evade the fulfilment of the treaty, and to
try anew the ultima ratio.

As a primary measure, Captain Elliot ought to be in-
stantly recalled, for he seems to haye f.,rfol:ed, by I.ia
weak vapillating conduct; the confidence of all, and
4 neq.ltittor of known talent sent out to fill his place.
My Lord, there is no e@ trth of men able to conduot
the Chlripse affair t) a conc?nsion h ;ttourable and pt.; fit,
able to us, but let us pray that no family consideration,
no partialty for ,c,,l:eagtie or partisan, none of that
Deptistp which. seams to hare absorbed China p..V•onage,
be unwind to ciefeut the public good, I couli mention a
dr•xpa eligible for the post, and even whose names would
be a security that no blinder would he committed, and
whose experience in Eastern affairs would prove of inesti,
neO•ators ai the Table yalve d;iilicgs 514P14
head-
strong L'n, and the crafty liei.hen, The Ittlit lion.
Mackenzie, formerly Territorial Secretary at 1,3,1 n.,
vl—Vrancia ly!rdenllato lecretiliv
sir Cfharlei Nic eteal!p, ..o most pc-
bay—and, ,beep all,
pu!ar man, as an Indian Covet-tier, of the day. 0.10 of
these men at t-.e city of Canton, in the room of the pre-
set.; unfortunate—I had almost said, imbcci!e—r,..fident,
would, with the ample means qt command now in tl.o
only hrlufs7 tiq triumph
Chine seas, no;antfy tbrovigh ltic
dittizulties which now boast our aornmfl-cp and national
honour in that region, but would lay the foundation of a
t, ado between England and the Celestill Empire, so ft uit.
IA of advantage to the former country, that the rcsul:s, if
calculated, would startle even the most sanguine.
My Lore, the country waits -with im-infcnce to learn
ycur decision in the treaty in ruct:tion. *tiq your
Pilc4i;;tirt wifi rLicyc-i: ident, ?Riot
in the I'ehO PQ4y be has uisued, but rather avow
your strongest repr6baikti •of t'ic tti%te, inepA,ion, and
pu,i'lattimay which are its diainguiliing charac:eristics.
My Lord, the public arc sensibly alive to the shame
which this treaty, this second Convention of Cintia, bus
already brought on the naimal character, and something
,'Llergetie from your :...ordship's lips, is absdively neces-
ittary.tb oltiviice it t.ttt the Art of the counig, in its
foreiFn'telatixte,'are.safe in ??dtir'LDrdshirs 61424:
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CHINA QUESTION.

PRICE sd,

Let us tlica h:pe that the distaKrAation i,f Czpta:n
Elliot alit' his policy, so leutqy exprte.l, by the itiei:u
pr.-s., and so la.gely participate) in by be BriLi.l) publ,e,
will 'met a ready echo in your. •Lqrdship's breast, ~ut.l that
a prompt remedy may be applied by your Lt.rdslip's
hand to the extensive evil which that (A 11.% r has .intli:.te I
on our bes,, our commete"al, interests.

I ao, your L3rt!sbip's Obedient s • r:a“,
Apiii 21, 1841. - E RCA TO R.

LO RD PA J. E RST ON AND T

A deputation from merchants cobneeted with the China and
India trade had an interview with Viscount Palmerston, in the
course of the week, on the subject of the recent cvents in Chka.
It would a;pear that the deputation rested their complaint./
mainly upon two points, camels, the inadequacy of the in-
demnity proposed to be paid by the Chinese Government to
this country, and the want of any sufficient security having
been provided for the personal safety and independence of Bri-
tish residents in China by the arrangements which Capta n
Elliot oats said to have entered into with the Chinese Plenip.-
teiniary. The answer cf Viscount Palmerston was, we hear,
to the effect that as yet he was acquainted only with the prin-
ciples agreed to between the Plenipotentiaries, viz., that the
Emperor was to cede to the British Crown a territorial posses-
sion in China, that an indemnity was to be paid to the British
Government, and that the official intercourse between the two
countries was for the future to be conducted on terms of per-
fect equOity. As yet his Lordship knew nothing beyond the
adinissi,U of theac important principles ; and, as it was ex-
pressly stVed that the details were to be the subject of fur-
ther negoti,ation, it necessarily followed that it was impossible
fur his L. r \ship to come to any conclusive opinion as to the
acts of the British Plenipotentiary until is full possession of
the details of the further negotiations so alluded to.
This, we believe, suh-tmtially describes what occurred at
the interview between the Foreign Secretary and the d, pAation,
but of course we can speak only from report.— Sunday Paper.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIM ES.—We have to congratulate the country on the safe
passage through Committee in the• Howe of Commons oa
Rich.y night of the Attoeney-General's Bib for facilitating the
Administration of Justice. Acceding, as we do without
reserve, to the principle laid down by Mr. Pemberton, " that
when the Courts rise at the long- vaeation there should.not be
a single suitor unredressed, if his case is teady for hearing,"
we feel astonished that any man should object to the paltry
outlay of :•n adthtio. al 10,600 i. a-year far such an object, •
coon if it were not provided for out of an already existing
and unappropriated fund It seems to us much more otoubt-
ful, whether the machinery created by the .present Bill,
consisting of two new Judges but may one new Court, will
be effectual for the purpose intended, than whether it was
necessary to go so far Under the present constitution
of the Court of Chancery, the Lord Chancellor and the Master
of the Rolls are fully occupied; at the Rolls, 'where there is no
serious accumulation of business, a cause is seldom heard• till'
six months after it host beditl4etO•down -foe heariveo andocases
hefere the Lord Chancellor usually suffer a much longerb delay.
It is not, however, m
ever, till we come to the Viee-Chait6ilor s
Court that;we discover the,treitl' ekterattiflite' Olt 'A tans°
set down to be hoard there -has to wait, upon the average, not
• less than three'S•ears ; in other Words, the jud:Cial pewer of this
Court; io to the burin:-as brought Intotit, itOthe proportion of
three to one. The existence of so vast nodisproportion a, pear;;
iu itself sufficient to justify, if not to requite, the crootiott
two new Jetlges ; and what we con-sitter,- thitt. 'at-41111:M to
'the pre. cot arrears of Chancery' busincSS, there will be the
-cau•es transferre'd into'Chancery font ••.Ahe ;equ4y side 'oft lb.:.
Excite:pp, and whaleve;' new business may be con:equent
upon the increased faoilaties -given. to suitors, to be provided fur,
we-cannot persuade Ourselves that will be found possWe .
(lisoeese w.th either of them hereafter,, much leos Celt there
will be any deficiency of occupation for them new. tt may,
however, be asked, and has been asked Edward SuatlOth
why not leave the Court of Exchequer as it is—why obehsli one
court of equity for the purpose of creatincr another? The
reply is obvious. It is tie tellePtion boon the eminent
Judges who us,ially pres.ide on the equity side of
the Exchequer, to ray that, haring stn lied and praollsed
exclusively at the common law bar, they canuot by ao well am-,
quainted with equity as these whose hypo hove been devoted to
that branch of the profession, The consequence is,- that
their decisions are not receiTed with the same confidence and
respect ; they are net of equal authority 1 and yet, by a strange
inconsistenc)', there is no appeal from them except to the firtuSq
of Lords, whore app:als are sometimes hung up for four or
five years. Again, the rules and orders which ee.
gulate the practice of the Court of Chancery do
not extend to the Exchequer ; there are vexatious
and unnecesAry variations m the form of proeeedinsz
there, and the scale of costs and fees is exorbitantly
From these causes it naturally happens that very little business
is carried into this Court ; and though it hearer the Dame, it
very inadequately fulfils the notion or answers the 'impose of a
fourth Court of Equity. At the sine 'line it is a ser.ous draw-
back upon the efficieney. of the Common Law Coto t to which
it is attached—a Court, the business and reputation of which
has been constantly advancing of late years. These, we think,
constitute sufficient reasons for hailing the concen-
tration of all equitable ju-isdiction in the Court of Chan-
cery, as in itself a very desirable and valuable improvement.
We carritertectimaiss_. this tubject without cautioning these who
are interested (as all' Etigiiimen ought to be) in the due ad-
ministration of justice, against over=rating the reform which
the Attorney-General's Bill, if carried, will Ut,romplish. It
will only remove that amount of delay its equity proe:edalings
Which ari es from a single catpc—the defect of judicial power ;
it will at the utmost only provide for the speedy hearii.:, of
causes, when may to be heard. Other great and extniive
alteraloi,s, to which we may refer more pertieulorly here-
' alter, will be necessary to remove other c. uses of deity, whose
name is 1 •gion. S.r Sugden truly sta•ed " that if
the number of Judges was raised to 2,C00, they would not
remedy the existing evils, for those crib arose from the com-
plicated nature of the system."
AD VERTISEII.--:The Times has now gut a belly.
full of Sir Robert Peel's liberality upon which to vent its
spleen, or on which to call in the aid of its anonymous e irre-
spondeots. It may abuse the Iliaht.Honourable t entlentan
as much as it pleases, but it is quite clear that he holds it anti
its vitupe:ation in the meet thorough contempt. His step
at the Highland school Society dinner is the proof watt which
o rely. The Right ll:incurable Gentleman, Oiol. only reiterate('
every sentiment which he had preVentoly expressed at 'F.,:
worth,'but he enlarged. upon lots 001441$ it, a mannee.
showed his detevinitwien'te abide hy them, and wi;ch elicited
the ehetes of %he moot numerous and select. co-..irat,). that ever
assembled within the wa.ls of the Freer
.asons' Hall. We
co,old, if we 000ld'find space, write a v°lonte upon the subject ;
but we refer coir readers to the seeee",, nseie
HE RAL D.—The attenoptwh'oth Ministers made on Friday
.
evening to deprive the Hon- Searlett of compensation for
the 10,$ of (lf ce. in the e:ourt of Exchequer was every way
Iverth of tie "slotbb-, economy" Admintstration—an Ad-
usynistration which b :comes exceedingly careful of the public
purse \vie, n called :aeon to satisfy the claims of justice, whilst
profusely squtr..lering the peoples money in swelling the in-
lluence of eorrni.t pitroNe, and providing for its own crea-
tures, by m.ultiplyirl salaried corinnissionershito, and other
rail 4o,ni beyond all preee:lent afforded them by the most
-taeodlsal (l • former Administrations. To the creation of two
two Juolges in ettnity by the Bill which abolishes the equity
kgi diction of the Court of Exclio4uer, we have no objection.
We tiottk the state •of arrearaoe of business in Chancery,
liirll ;s much more likely under the pre_sent system to he
owreased than dimmished, calls for some such measure to ob-
viate the groat loss, inconvenience, and eieense resulting to
suitors nom the esl-itin<3ling delays, not merely incidental to,
but n"cossorlly attendant upon an inadequote judicature in
etteity, It is absolutely requisite that the judicial power in
Chancery should be increased, if we expect to tee, within any
reasonable titan', a sensible, dimitnition of the arrears. Foe
that purpose two new Jnclotes a e not inure than enough, and
if the ehoiee gf Gc_ivemnent allould fall on the Barons Alder-
on and `Ctolle, whose names have been mentioueal fee the new
Viae-Chancellorsh ps by public report, we have no doubt, and
we b:liere all Westminster Hail is of the same opinion, that
the appoitatinents will give great andgt~uerai satisfaction.
POST.—Lord MoeretlA's announcement of his intention to
false i rati,l oalification in his Irish Registration Bill front
tq 6(.1 is not'ealeulated to inspire much confidence amongst
the friends of Ireland as to the extent of legislative relief to be
extended to that country's wrongs in the present Session. It
is not so much the difference in the amount of the pi opo,ed
qualification as the alciilwion of purpose and tendency to mis-
ehievons tewessios; which the intended change implies, that
moist excite unfavouratle anticipations in the minds of all who
have watched the pompous promise and paltry pe,form-
attee • .of legislative profession for the last few years.
The • raising of the qualification to 81. by Lord Mer-
peth, will be merely the signal for the opposition—should
they be eJinpellezi to admit the rating pritietple—!o propose
that the qualifieatiott bo fixed at 2W. or 601. and whatever fate
such proposition may meet with in the House of Common',
there can be no doubt the highest qualification will be that
most favourably received in the Lords—and thus, towards olio
close of the session, we may expect to have the Bill, should it
survive so long' returned to the Commons in such shape os
will oat admit any extension whatever of the franchise—and
olr
the improvements which it proposes in the system of rogistrao
titan will either have to be postponed to another seesastiliootnlny,
beOa
ant'elpated as the fate of Lord Morprs
adopted in connexion withsech
iaarn theana presentountofc'e aunifiti
jailed Wri-
del
altogether to exclude any
increase
stituences of Ireland. Such, at the best, may
eth s Irish Registration Bill.--

a VIEW EdiCIOII by
•
ELEMENTS OF EUCLID;
William Rotlarford, F. IC A, '.„ onc of the Masters of the
Military Academy at Woolwich.--." Men who have ben
genulae bencfccors of their kind hecome more and mare
honoured and tevereneed am:l-ding as their memory grows
older. Every £(113011 presents us with i, Shakespeare" in
a new costume, and notwithstanding the supeii ,r &aims of
the dramatist, in all points of fancy, wit, and humour, the
author of plane and solid ge ntetry is one cf his most pow-
erful rivals for public favour. Some thousands cf. years may
be counted from the period when Euc'id flourished, yet are
his inestimable works studied as diligentiv, and revised,
and cc-edited, and corrected, and republished, with as much
enthusiasm, as if tlicy more but recertly importcd into Eng_
1401 Amongst th ! many editions that have been produced
in the Englil language, that of Simson, has acquired the
most cxtens:ve circulation, and taken the deepest root in.
our mathematical schools. M this fact WC 115nrc often
exp essed surprise, lyi.:4use his labours \litre certainly
intmi eipsi'd to ertni,m, from the tediousness of his
la giiage, and even the a ant of nny via. re4.crquentice in
several of liis dLmonstiatiocs. Ft.;• many years, however,
his work has sold extei:kively, although tochcrs were
a" mplained ef ct
thc.ic very defes, Mr, Ruther-
ford hate at
.cry (laborious,
c
l-etysit supplied a, remedyfor the di,,case, and
by a very laborious, and very chfoful revision cf Simson'd
proli4 language and irotu:iaus triode of demonstration, has
left little mire to be &tired in an edition cf Euclid in-
tended for school?. lie has also very prope,ly inclilds,rl
the honks or, solid geometry, and edded n.ii ;,d,Liirabie se-
lection cf dalueiblcs, or nuestiolla
limbic in przi.';;;lniT, t;ic popit'ili igoc knowledgeecr,i '
of the most
y proa-
.
pnsWons: Wlitl;` he h'as previlualy learned. We do not
b.shate to say, that we are unacquainted with any cdi on
of &ins,,n's Euclid m(r_i circfuly rev%od, more corn( ctly
printed, more cooty..i:ut for academic objects, and offered
t. 4 the pAlie 4t a cost so moderalc. ‘Ve approve of that
taste, judgment, and courage which have s, cared the edi-
tor front the era-kery of presenting us with either vfna.di,.
cc/ or hieroylbphical Euclid's, invo,tior.:: c..-.a roito'a:
eftieelata.d to disgust the tyro with diNttVie r249l)!tst.eXer-
e'sts in xt Liiii the rnOct i.An'l,;,,e el ktged, and
.10 ,t.--
ffoni the. fiurvit for. ever,"--Enst indi,---"-
towlo; Priutcd tyrAlimas 'r-
~,..,

T FIE PRESIDENT.

TO ..ii' 1:1',1TO:t 01, Tlf TIMPF,

-A:reious, sa rise ,genc:aliiy of our ceuntrymel feel,
for ty a it PA esidenti pe.hai7s yeu will by good neurates
to ccr;tt7C! 'are& hat t C xel car ):arefoundered vi re: Ly all ooinhe.s to be rut of de- quesLoe.
Jte next se epoeld wleoh o. curs is. :hat if she ~ et, it
must be by et:ilisi.er either with ice er with anothe • vessel.
The British Queen. Which put into HaTax with damage, w 3.3
said to have eneennteted ice ; but ills was afters- a as con-
trodicted- Then it is reper;ed that the Celedou:a fell in with
a large field of ice in let. 41.51, long. 57.1-)9 (just to the
southward of the Cull of St. Lawrence). Who c.cr heard
ulfsuaaletlidrcoutatatis,-ecree. reAalslyfosie.ellereabs„rger r(rac.
of led ice in that (lire •‘•. in F b • r'y in March ?
.L.ll ne ua cr (a. .
d
iffie'vss
oat, micierstalsuonc,
they are mo3t. COmmmily seen in tlav and June, having floated
fermi Batlin's.Bay with the southerly current : the same ice
never eernair.s io a c•cond. yea.. A. recre likely eoej, eture,
and one which it'is devoutly It
may
tt e prove) correct, is that
ind • I.lw-
in the beaj vale the President encountere , h ,
der steam-ma-
chinery was donaged so as to become u eless
ing hard at N. o.• N.a, she lee eup f.e. Hermrd t:
missed the. is'and (not an unnSual cccurren e), an I made
the best of h r ..rry to the Wes, Indies. Shottle this, hap-
pily, be the ca e, there may scarcely lc time )et to hear o her.
With regard to Atlantic steamers. From the v-loc ty of
e e line vessels, and their having often to pass through thick
weati,er at a gleat r..te. col ision with ice hi the summer, and
with other vessels at all times, is the ereate:t danger to be
apprehended. Could not this danger in a certain degree be-
counteracted by s',reng bulk-heats dividing the vessels into
eorneailments, 'loon the plan of the lsrge iron steamer new
budding at BriAci? ighlte.s in thick weather have f.en run upon
Lel.ergs with dirge more less than their bowsprits ; had they
been going as fast as a steamer, they might have had
more serious tojury, their heat and stern destroyed, and
wooden ends laid open, and nothing could then have
saved them except upon the water corning into the hold
meeting a bulk-heal, which would completely keep the
water from going further. Again : another bulk-head,
a certain distance from aft, might be a security from water in
that direction; and if the centre received damage, the other
compartments might keep the vessel up, and at any rate there
would be less water to pump out.
The. c suggestions are offered, if you tlink them worth in-
s3rting in your valuable columns, by your obedient servant,
Aptil,2l, 1811. PALINURUS.
P. S. The late Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, after
a dangerous illness, detonnined to ;o tr Bermuda in a steamer
from Jamaica ; she unfertunately missed the island, and was
obliged to bear ue for the West Indies, which, in his weak
state, oc,asioned the Admiral's death.

• EDINBURGH.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
A meeting of the Directors mats held in their hall on, Wed.
ntsday, Archibald Themoan, Esq., in the chair.
The minute, were read and approved.
Sys'ram Oa. BaserrNo.-Ih° Secretary 'rated that the
Committce had met, and he having been our of town, Mr. Gal-
laway had kindly•written to Sir .lohn Cea'apade revue-ring in •
formation on the subject, and had. reaeived the folowine an-
swer : " London, Apr.l 16, 18-11.
"My Dear Sir,—l Can only say, that lam not aware of any
intention to interfere with the Sontch banking system. But 1
cannot by any mcane answer for the •views of Covert-intent
upon this subjeotl and I wou'd advise the Chamber el com-
merce to petition, and to use all their meals to sudport the sysa
tem they Lpprove o£•—I remain yours faithfu'lv,y
• n Wm. Gallaway, Esq."J. CAMPBELL.
From this and from other communications, it would appear
to be necessary now tn.conae farward Wth au, rxpreas,ati of
• theit• eilihioh•regarding the system of banking put markt in ilia
cThe Char ountry; -mad to state :my decideally what that opinion was.. hid hitherto deferred what
to steps on the •
• Sab i jee'L tit it was now for A_ lm .I,llreetee-a to deter twine what
step they ought to take,
„.•
11Ir. Al:act:eta, Ora% sonto r
. f•reottoXyeageteatat on the east
iMporlince
.beaged to s•ibmit .% series ot• react-
lutio,es which ho
y.'d, move, the .Directors to adopt. The
ya,annttiens,• foe \aid& Lea onr.advertiaineaeolumns, were then
read, and at;iondA by 114. Walter ,Brown.
Itonante, • (;.14;:r.ii•niii, safer RS they go, th.e resolu-
tions subniitted 'by Maciie are quite right ; Lot it must
be obvious :':at a mu.cleWideratange.ought-to be taken bythe
act a; to tell up n this great question. Let this Chinn-
/arr. prtition, and other. bodies. -ea well; bat to give weight
there should be a great „Edinburgh meeting, so as to let the
CE6ernment know that no yarty views enter into this ques-
tion, and that we are united in sating, that; we atel'eiiii
should be left alone. There hes an nosurd feeling got Poe-
session of many men's minds, tt•at the system of nicking
pursued in Scotland is the same as the unsuccessful at-
tempts upon it in England. There is little or no
analraay. Our system began 150 yea's ago, and gra-
dually grew and strengthened with the advance' of the country
in Prosperity. We had failu-es, such as the Ayr, the Stirling,
the Fait Lothian, and ether smaller banks; but the commu-
nity suffered not; sort the system, as now worked, is ingrafted
on our in,titelions, mercantile. and otherwise, and no man can
tell what effect any change will have upon the interests of al
awe whether merchants, manufacturers, or as agriculturists.
In England they miler' into joint stork banks on the Scotti-it
system, after the rash measures of Lord Liverpool, and Mr.,
(now Sir Robert) Peel, ehauged the value of every man's pro-
petty. But what was the system adopted under the name of
errs Scottish one ? A system of rash competition with each
other in the banks established, where enormous advances;
were • made, not upon banking principles, but upon the
appearance of great business, Wherein, in fact, the hanks
became the manufacturers and speenlaturs But a!-
though individuals were ruined right and left, the
oemmunity did not suffer. notwithstanding a clamour I:as been
raised against a good system which has been abused. Any
one but poorly informed of the working of banks in Seetlano,
knows that the exchanges among them go fir to check any for-
midable over-issue in any one bank ; and all the bask manager,
must, a; men of sagacity, watch the state of the fereign ex,
ehaneea, as well as the stock of bullion in the Bank of linglamd„
the barometer of the whole affair. A new bank in Scotland
may for a while extend its operations unrestricted, brat
ottillicse ad-
mitted while it is kept out of the pale of the old co:war-A;
into the Exchequer Bill plan, for over .doings the re-
medy is very speedy. It is understerat that jealousies
e:Cat, betwixt the old and new banks The old ewes are
desirous, it is said. of doing away with one pow d rerees,
and the new ones for retaining
%nem. The public have
nothing to do with this ; it
is
cot the system
td, they banking, as now practised
to retain; and they ke“, up-rn the farce of only two
Scotland,desire
to
witnesses being eal ni by the Committee of the Cammons to
give evidence on this teate question, and thea. two the oppo•
e
Parties in the, banks, as one of the absurdities or the
whole inquiry. _N.O witnesses are heard upon the part of the
public, therefor-4 ho public ought to speak out—they ought to
have meeting ain ad the great touts—get as many smaller
mer:-VorOs vaijas you cheese ; but the aublie voice ahoald tell the
tl3"lerneet, as was told in 18:16, that we are contented with
`tar present system of banking, and will have no change. If
pe.il,ions had been grit up of individual hardship, as well as
eaacs of great public loss, and Parliament been inundated with
calls upon it to change our monetary system, it might be all
Very well for Committee; to recommend changes ; but we here,
en thi•s'•iete of the Tweed, desire no change, and we ought to
let it be known that we will have non:. Our preterit system
irjures no man; but any important change in it wi:l damage
many, •

. -
Mr. SAweas concurred in the observations of Mr. Cadell
but thought it would be sufficient to hipt their own resolu-
tions, and to circulate thera;lhalling upon others to come for-
ward, so as to show the feciing'Of the country regarding it.
' Air. Wicuaer, jun., said that .as he had aa engagement
which would cause him to leave tlie meeting, he wished to say
that, swce the meeting of the Coailinittee, he had learned from
the manager of one of the Joint Stool: Banks that there had
been a meting of gentlemen connected ni h those Laub
in Edinburgh, who ;wrote of the present system ; that
the Chairman of the Committee of the House of Com-
mons had ietimated that he wished the evidence from Scot-
land to be restricted to two individuals, and that. in record-
anee with this arrangement, ' the manager 4,1 the Bank
of Scotland, and that of the . Glasgow Unioa Bank.
had alone been t umsooned ; that, front information he had,
further received, there is reason to believe that the time Char-
ter Banks arc in favour of some change in the system of;
Scotch hankie... with a view to prevent, as far as rossibie, the
etanuetition which is rapidly sprineing up in the formation of
new companies. Be was infmmed a'so, that the same meeting
had appointed six of their number to proceed to Loodon, to
support and aid the minager cf the Gusgow Union Bank in
hiving full evidence on this important subject. Note, what he,
(Abe W.) wished for was, that such a set of queries should lacy
prepared as should fairly bring out and have put upon retort'
what the system of Scotch • basking really is. For his own
part he did not think this had ever been properly brought,
i. thought
before the public. Such a statement might also with 1.4,
vantage be thrown into the form of a pamphlet, and il.
lilt',
athdoe, E. :I::
painted on thin paper, could be sent at little ex-pe.
through the Post-office, to each member of Parliament! •,.1
otherwise circulated over the country. That forcell:
,orwrahietrgte, dthitelt:l)xedhisatnr:,icetss,tzld L
expected the best effects from the public being
session of such information, for I.e must say th',E \ , In PO'.
the Scotch eystem worked well for all parties; and
' Edinburgh, he belateed the English people
ilii!,:i•l'dcatiup'sittriteisnwse•arech
circulation of one pound notes would ; would find that the
circulating medium, Avhile it i; manifestly rove safe as a genera/
Ho did not object to the agitation b estly Most economical.
titioning suggested by Mr, Cadoll, y publ:c meetings and pe-
in addition, a plain clear stater , 13tat, he was anxious to have
nent of Scotch banking, for the
information of all puties,
:U r. ' . fuoateca ikunsELL thought that if the Committee of
the House of Conmo
into the Scotch ns had resolved upon an examinatio.o
system of banking, doe the Directors I,llollld
stints • . 11(1 fin a complete *and searching inquiry, so that the
advantages of the system might bo fully brought out, and
not merely the opinion done or two individuals.
Mr. CALLAwAy stated -that he meters:oml the Committee
had declined exam:taw, witnesses who were well-informed, and
that Mr, Norman and 'Mr. Loyd, tots gentlemen who are not
trell;a'11:::
dcaloonated, but appeared to Wong to the Bank of England,
were examieed, aad seemed to possess a very imperfect know,.
ledge of the nvatier. Ira the weekly exchanges, the Bank that,
is defective, sustains a loss upon the difference of 4 percent., to
twenty days, being the par of exchange between London auk
'll4:burgh, by paying that difference in Exchequer bibs, 13:11414 cr..
Rugland notes, or gold. This forms a camplete check to au over..
is ue, although Messrs. Norman and Loyd think' otherwia ,
Masts. Norman and Loyd consider banking anslaikas
juntas
invest..
v:'t,....
separtc'e mud distinct, hut, with ad deference to their opteiie •
they are inseparably roanccted. Banking regulates t1..0 td •-n!
lave
(iron whieb•the public are to he accommodated w'all assrms
no eon-
ues,
namely, by the discounting of inland bills, bills .151,
tangs foreign bills, granting cash creditsorewr exchange,
upon securities, cirtiwiav, uron London ay e' tag advances
advances
moms there ; 'seat the transactions with Le„don 1
t eetion wtakii.r:acs, these being provideA for .
changes Thele are only five Banks 0; '1,311e b
.n y, bills ' of ex-
oak') cenltit'ared by Act of ['ornament ut no
.i, ~cotland that
thg P..-,ak of Scotland, Royal .1-lan',,, Britt''" C harter, iii.
b. • Banl• Commercial lianit, t
any ••. , 4 LnCulll National Bank—ail
the other thinks of ise a....e J. ,g 11t Jalt otoC a- Company Banks,
which are ieqUired to loigq , ovel .
Y Ye.ir in the Stature
and Tax Gillen a list of their
partners,rutii(v,,, 3 list a oakesi,eartrs • with tteir de.. :•-•
the head office, a fiat
Gr the i, branches, and of the cill- Et
ee-bc,:rers at each branch ;
and if any alteration takes plat.
in the course of the year,.
eiths ras to the proprietory 0": 'e..
Stamp
1 othee-bearers, it must be untu 4.,..
diately intimated - to the "
~Stamp nil Tax office, and the Ws, •
cot reetcd aceordinel
I 11Prafere any individual (ai, Rips). to,
time Stamp and Tax )o .W. ',zo far a certified e .r.y of they partaaa:s
of any bank of • - '..*
lAsle in Scotland (the Chartered ilauks ,
,s-
-cep.tea., wises are not retorted
j to record their p:1;4,41,4ars or off
0.0
\\44(.1. can be obtained for a fee of 105,,, tad thus sati.fy', .
crem
:Ores of the respoinElAity cf any Joint Stock Banking
patty of issue t 1 • - ' •/1' h beim, cot ; •tl- . ' "n-
-o* partners to ',, .e. 0 ',um. -r•and seve-
rally bout e:, to the poUr•
ecesAlr' Y. gA Fa-eons/tiered the question as ()weal, .lily affe t.
...s.ce'ii.enare or the country. lie concurre4Lviqeur .j',` .i.. ~.e mg
e ob-
tervatlon:3 of Arr. Cadell, and suppeataet tha 'E. '','Y ." '"
- • ;solutions pro-
pose I by Mr. Alaefie.
After some further diesposien ' t/••, yes,' .0 • ,•
1.• -tons were, mini.
Dratted_ •
mously approved cqesiack to be pul P ANL and the Coln.
nit.ee ty,tis t I W. ;-4.;eptiosu _se ,
..eri the additiou cf Mr. Cadell.

• APRIL 24.—A courier has been
.-cl,„1 to Paris to the King. Sir George Hamilton, Se-
._.rn it ~:1L to the llriti,hyeLsetegla.ataioyt:
laetit
us this ntti.ohronsiengarwriityidote
~‘
degraph:.:— l'iluiii ,''''''t‘'re.bi:ltye. ;t:hneG"lti:.ell''.%ltin, to 05teMito cinbark for London.
ciiehpsid,

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EVEN EDITION