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THE SUN LONDON-. FRID ZY. JUNE 25 18-ii

of paintings consisting of representatit a; o! naval ac
tions, and portraits of Admirals and naval men.
some sculpture, and other objects, interesting t;
the public, and chiefly to persons in the
-navy
service. Soldiers have been admitted to see the
Hall free of charge for many years ; and, since th(
Committee began their inquiry, the Lieutenant-Governor,
by order dated 7th May, IS4I, has directed that seamen
shall also in future be admitted free of charge,—a mea-
sure which your Committee highly approve of, The be-
haviour of the visitors is praised by the attendants.
The annual number of visitors to the Painted-hall is
on an average about 100,000, and produces about 1,3001.
a-year. The money received for admission of visitors
applied to the general funds of the hospital. Consider-
ing that all the pictures contained in the Painted-hall
are the free gift of individuals, foreign as well as British,
and that they contribute to illustrate the naval history of
the country, and to perpetuate the momory of those dis
tinguished officers who have been thought worthy of a
place in this collection, your Committee strongly re-
commend that, for the gratification and instruction of
the people, the Painted-hall should be opened to the
public for some hours every day, free of charge, in the
same manner as the National Gallery and Hampton
Court
_Palace, under such regulations as may be re-

quisite.
As it appears from the evidence that the admission of
the public to the apartments, galleries, and gardens at
Hampton Court, and also the Painted-hall at Green-
wich, on Sunday afternoon; is not attended with any in-
convenience or impropriety, the evidence of several
witnesses tends to show that much advantage would be
derived from similar opportunities being afforded, under
' proper regulations, at the British Museum and the Na-
tional Gallery, with beneficial results ; and your Com-
mittee concur in that opinion.
From the above detail, it appears to your Committee
that the use which has been made of the facilities thus
afforded to the public, sufficiently proves the general
disposition of the people to appreciate exhibitions of this
nature, and to avail themselves of these means of in-
struction and innocent recreation. It affords, further,
the most satisfactory evidence of .the safety with which
works of art and other objects of curiosity may be

thrown Open to public inspection.
CATALOGUES.
Your Committee refer to the evidence concerning ca.
talogues, and are of opinion that, where the collections
will allow it, cheap catalogues, divided into distinct por-
tions for each class or department, should be provided at
our national collections, as a valuable mode of dissemi-
nating knowledge, and rendering those collections more
generally' useful. It is also recommended, that a small
tablet should be attached to each object in the collection;
containing the name or subject ; and also, to works of
art, the artist's name and the date.
CATHEDRALS AND PUBLIC MONUMENTS.
Your Committee do not apprehend that any danger
to the monuments in Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's
would result from giving to the public, under proper re-
gulations, the same freedom of admission to those cathe-
drals which is allowed in the case of the exhibitions
r-ferred to. The Committee are aware that serious
injury has in times past been done to the monuments in
Westminster Abbey, but their inquiries lead them to
believe that those injuries have not been the result of
any'evant of attention on the part of those who have
ordinarily charge of the cathedral, still less of a mis-
chievous disposition on the part of the people at large;
but have, for the most part, arisen from the necessity of
erecting on certain public occasions galleries and rooms
within the Abbey, and from want of due care or of power
on the part of those engaged in the. • conduct of such
extensive works, within a limited space, to protect so
many objects of art from injury.
That your Committee strongly deprecate any course
which could create an impression that churches were at
any time to be considered merely in the light of places
for the exhibition of works of art. But it is their opi-
nion, that as by increased facilities of admission to the
inspection of mere works of art, civilisation has been
encouraged and public taste improved, so a more free
admission to religious edifices, under proper regulation,
may be male conducive not merely to the gratification
of curiosity and the acquirement of historical knowledge,
but to the growth and progress of religious impressions,
by leading the mind of the spectator from the contem-
plation of the building to a consideration of the views
with which, and the purposes for which, it was originally
erected and is still maintained.
Your Committee beg to refer to the evidence of
John BHtton, the well-known author of " British
Cathedrals," who, for forty-five years, has devoted
his talents to the study of our national edi-
fices and monuments, as showing the improvement
of the people, through the increased opportunities
aTorded them of studying those subjects, and the confi-
dence which of late years has been placed in their dis-
cretion; his long and extensive experience in these mat-
ters have led him to the following conclusions :
What is the result of your observations upon the con-
duct of the public generally in public places since you
were in the habit of visiting them?—Considerably im-
proved, immensely improved ; you would scarcely sup-
pose it ; supposing I had been from my own country, at
a distant part of the world, for the last fifty years, I
should not have supposed it the same nation or class of
people.
Have you not seen the number so great as to be de-
nominated " mob," but yet conducting themselves with
perfect decorum?—l have seen them crowding through
the British Museum in immense masses, and have seen
them in all instances orderly; nothing has occurred. in
my.own experience, to the contrary; but I have seen
them enisduct themselves with strict propriety and with
laudable curiosity, and to be moving on in their re
searches through the various rooms.
What effects are produced en the minds of the poorer
.classes, in your opinion, from the experience that you
have had in meeting them in those (ecclesiastical) edi-
flees?—l have noticed, upon many occasions, a great
number and variety of persons of the middling and
lower classes visiting cathedrals; ekamiiiingdifferentparts
of them, examining tiie monuments, passing through
witri great order and decorum, and apparently going
away highly satisfied and delighted; and the only draw.
back that I hare seen or known upon_ :melt tefeeslette,
has been the conduct and rather liebn charges de-
manded by the Vergers arid their servants.
Your efonmoittee also refer to the evidence of Mr.
Allan. Cunningham, the author of the " Lives of British
Artists," and other works of general interest, on the lite
portance of public exhibitions; anti the beneficial effects
on the minds and manners of the working classes :
You think that fregnent access to sculpture and other
works of are is the best means of making the public care-
ful of them?—Decidedly; I think that question is Solved
by the National Gallery being opened; you see 'a great
number of poor mechanics there, sitting wondering and
marvelling over those fine works, anti hating no other
feeling but that of pleasure en; astonishment; they have
no notion of destroying them; I was very much de-
Itg_hyd to c.e them.
'Then it is your opinion that facility should be afforded
by every possible means to collections et' meulpftfee and
painting?—Unquestionably, midst proper protection.
What class of rocllk do you say you have seen there?
Men who rife usually called" mob;" but they cease to
beeome mob-when they get a taste.
You think that now they 'are more attentive? Dui-
dedly ; I saw no attempt to hurt anything; I saw a great
deal of wonder and pleasure; there Were Whitt appeared
to me to be slieenteleefs; frieeefis, and joiners.
Do yon consider that there would be any danger to
the monuments in Westminster Abbey if the public were
admitted two or three hours a day, there being proper
attendants in waiting- to observe and look after their con-
: duct ?—I think, under proper restrictions and regula-
tions, with a sensible and able and active man to take
care of them, a man of sense and taste, that there would
be no danger.
The evidence of Mr. Edward Wedlake Brayley, the
historian of Westminster Abbey, is also deserving of tun
tentive consideration, Ile eNfregAna it strong opinion,
that Weetaililetet Abbey and other religious edifices, and
the Monuments of national interest which they contain,
ought to be freely.seen by all classes, with as little impe-
diment and restriction as their safety reqedees; and
states, in the following answers, what the advantages to
the public would be:
I.S it ytiilf opinion that they ought to be freely seen by
all classes, with as little impediment and restriction as
their safety requires?—Certainly, it is my opinion that
it would be useful in many points.
Willy ou state to the Committee the advantages that
mut to_yon as likely to arise from their being freely
eeeii/-That of causing an improved taste for art, gene-
rally, in the public; also, of conveying historical infor-
thation to those who, from the mere sight of them, might
be induced to make inquiry as to their orighl laid
intention.
Several dl` ilia witlW:nes are of opinion that free admis-
sion, under proper regulations, tends to diminish the den:
ger of injury to monuments and eqketi-ijns; and ki-.
Brayley s ', Onion is Pleat ilpon that iiirl.t.. '
L 1 j`pur ilsils to the. AbbeY,,l44 T6U 04iied. 114
far opportunities hate been iiiroided td individuals, ad-
mitted as tikey higiii been upon the payment of money,
*Ad to .i)itities moving about with a guide, if there was an
inclination to pilfer any parts of the tombs?—Certainly,
there have been considerable opportunities; bediese par-
ties of ten or twelve persons moving teent bile ehipel to
another cannot be overlooked by Ofie, supposing they
were disposed 0,061 and even the interference of the
monument i'idiild conceal them from sight.
Do yoti think that if a greater number were itelneittee
to those monuments, there would be better protection b
their being overlooked one by another?—l should ,thins
it would be so; still I have not seen any disposition in 6tty
part of the public to cause eleStructien 19 any of the mo-
numents:
"feat Ceeiraittee have inquired into the state of the
monitments in the Cathedral of St. Paul's and VA. West-
minster Abbey; and beg to refer generally td the evi-
denceeareencitedi
distinguishedn b
noblei.thatng , imf thereon,ean 3
should which
b e ashdoopwtsedhoz;rr dettirseitseatbvileit italita,ibie.
been monumentsnecessary, thosen_atieraosnnanl raotk,Unkelits. The public
yWyesottinesieteftpepr Abbeyrliaamgeens may be divided into
public men by
several classes; via, royal monuments, monuments to
mofowaahmicehnhtsaito-e
subscription, and monuments to private
individuals.
Your Committee
edifices, t;soanilson
But your Committee have
contained therein the investigation of that ve not had time to follow out
have wished,
or which
ar-
rangements may be;
its subject to the extent they could
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ofimportanceopin l.on, thatw ou would
chaveincreased
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atten-
tion should be paid to the preservation of the ecclesias-
ticalSe Paul's and othero
allow the larger portions of Westminster Abbey, and
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and undisturbedea continue
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regard to the
edifices, • '

Your Committee think it right to aid, that if tl4(
treater freedom of admission to those churches s'ioule,
cad, as it probably must, to an increase of the number
,f officers employel in their superintendence, the addi-
iorial expense ought to be defrayed from other fund,
han those help wing to the Cathedrals.
16th June, 1841.

SPANISH, BONDS.
The readers of this Journal will recollect something
about a decree issued five or six months since by
the Spanish Government, declaratory of its intention
to pay the bondholders a dividend of three per cent.
oer annum on the overdue interest of the Active debt.
From the Ist of July next ; as a provision for which
the sum of 20,0001. was to be appropriated monthly of
the national revenue. They will recollect also, it is to
be hoped, the efforts made at the same time by one of
our Government papers to give importance to that de-
cree by the insertion, from day to day, of statistical
tables illustrative of the resources of Spain, her liabili-
ties, &c. They will, perhaps, in justice to ourselves,
further recollect the care we took to disabuse the
public mind upon the subject, by proving, beyond
all doubt, that the decree—the " solemn decree"—of
Gamboa and the statistics of the Morning Chronicle
were not entitled to the smallest credit ; that both the
one thing and the other was, in fact, a contemptible de-
lusion—the merest moonshine. We stated distinctly
that the three per cent. per annum would not be forth-
coming, and our reasons for expressing ourselves with
the confidence we ventured to do were numerous. We
have for years past been vigilant observers of the finan-
cial exploits of the Spanish Government, and the result
of our experience is this : we have come to the irre-
sistible conclusion that there is no deception, no trick,
no manoeuvre, be it ever so heartless, to which, organised
as it has been, it would not willingly have recourse, in
order to get at the pockets of foreigners, those of the peo-
ple of this country more particularly, to whom many of
its members are indebted for the asylum afforded them
during the years of proscription to which they were sub-
ject from political and other causes. We took our stand,
however, principally upon one practical point. We
well knew that if the Spanish Government really in-
tended to return to the path of rectitude from which it
has so long and grievously departed, a symptom of that
change would be first made apparent in the removal of
the foul blot cast upon its credit by the infamous Trea-
sury bond affair of 1836. While the Exchequer paper of
Spain, guaranteed by the express decrees of the Queen-
Regent, the Cortes, the Finance Minister of the day, and
the Ambassador in London, which was, moreover, intro-
duced to the British public under the auspices of
a gentleman like Mr. Isaac Lyon Goldsmid—while
this sacred engagement remained unfulfilled and un-
attended to, we knew to a certainty that Gamboa's
three per cent. proposition would never be faithfully
acted upon or adhered to. Had a rig been produced
in the London and Paris markets and more paper
been got into circulation, the grand object aimed at,
one dividend might have been paid to secure ulterior
advantages ; but the scheme broke down the moment it
was concocted, and the puppet of Mendizabal, its author,
was driven out of office in consequence. We a:re now on
the eve of the day when payment should take place in
virtue of the solemn pledge published all over Europe ;
but where is the money for the purpose ? Why does not the
Spanish Commission—why does not the agents; Messrs.
Ricardo and Co:, advertise it in the Journals ? It really
behoves the Legislature and the Government to take
measures for putting an immediate stop to these decep-
tions. That the onus of such a duty should be thrown
almost exclusively upon oursglakes, and with the Minis-
terial Journalists acting again, r is, too, is unreasonable •,
yet such is the case. Government and Parliament think
it sufficient that the public should be left wholly to the
protection of the press.
To pay the interest of the Treasury bonds it scarcely
requires 10,0001. per annum, and surely, if it were in-
tended to pay anything at all, the Spanish Government
would think it politic to begin with the remittance of
this bagatelle, seeing that the effect would be that of
redeeming the honour of its Queen, the Cortes, the Prime
Minister, and the Ambassador in London. But the Spa-
nish Government will do nothing of the kind without
coercion, physical or moral. The sum wanted to pay
the interest on the Treasury bonds has, to our certain
knowledge, been tendered by a capitalist here, under
mutually proper guarantees, and at the moderate rate
of five per cent. interest. It has been tendered, but
not accepted ; and why ? Because no' bonus would
accrue to the Spanish Treasury—no commissions
and pickings would be secured to individuals
out of such an operation. Had it been in the
power of Gamboa to pay three per cent. per annum
regularly on twelve or fourteen millions of coupons, as his
trumpery decree gave out, it was in his power to pay five
per cent.. on the quarter of a million of Treasury bills,
without assistance from anybody. We exposed the
shuffle at once, and exposed it effectually. The Spanish
Active Stock has now five-and-a-half years' interest due
upon it, and its price in the London market is to-day 22,
or 78 per cent. discount.
There is no longer the excuse of Don Carlos and the
civil war to plead in justification of a postponement of the
payment by Spain of the just claims on her Treasury, as
was the case two or three years back. The country is
now in the enjoyment of general repose, yet the foreign
creditor is farther off from getting his due than ever. .
A most respectable party in the country addresses us
on this matter as follows :
" Of what value," he says, " are the bales of Active,
Deferred, and Passives, to contain which the warehouses
of Thames-street are scarcely sufficient, if our Treasury
bonds are not now at length to be paid ! ! Was
d'Aguilar, the Ambassador, authorised or not to issue
them as he did, and, more, to advertise the payment of
them ? Why does not Mr. Goldsmid, for his own sake,
as well as for our satisfaction, publish every letter, with
the whole of the instructions he received concerning the
issue ? He ought Unquestionably to do so. It is too
bad that nearly five years should have elapsed and not a
fractional payment of interest be made on those securities
which they (the bonds themselves) declare most solemnly,
and in three different languages, to be payable, one-half
iti ei,t; the other _hi twelve months, and which an Am-
bassador announced positively for payment, both prin-
cipal and interest, on June 1, 1837."
The Treasury bonds, when issued by Mr. Goldsmid,
sold freely at 67 per cent. With 251. in interest due
awn theni; they are now quoted at 24. They will not
fetch the value of the interest alone ; and the least the
Chairman can do at the next meeting of the sufferers
will be to communicate the hint here thrown out by our
distressed Correspondent. Let every letter and every in-
struction out -of which this cruel sacrifice of English ca-
pital has arisen be forthwith made public, and let, by all
means, another memorial be drawn up, embodying the
main fads of the ease, and despatched through General
Alava and our Foreign Minister to Senor Supra and Roll.
The Chronicle will perhaps strain a unint, and declare
that in this case there is nothing to e9mplain of.—Post.

SINGULAR VuNEitAt..—A farm of about 180
acres called Woolseys, near Alton bill, Great Easton,
has for the last thirty years been in the occupation of
Mr. Robert Justin, an the property of Thomas Kearsey,
Esq., solicitor; formerly of Rishopsgate-street, but late
of ilticklersbuty, London; and Carshalton,- Surrey.-','his
gentle hail, *hdl illtilettgli in sdme respects an eccentric
person, has left behind him die chafaeief etif a kind-
hearted good landlord, and through life a rildat citarix
table man, was Steward of the Courts of the Right Hon.
Lord Roden. About twenty years ago he projected,
for the purpose of tedeiVing his own remains, a rural
cemetery on the above farm. In an arable et-1(4°913re
containing eight acres; called Cross Field, about a gym',
ter of a mile to the ndith df Wdolseys, he caused a por-
tion to be parted oft, forty rods long from outside to
outside of the ditches; and four broad, thus Malting an
exact acre: - This was formed into a long flower garden,
having a row of otitis in a grass plot on either side. and a
gravel walk up the centre froni end td end; exactly mid-
way in this garden was to be his last resting Place; firsi a
circle of yews were planted round the spdt intended for
the grave, At the bout add Mot of thislit§t stiltidA a cfpfes§
tree, raised from seeds brought from Paris by 'Mr. fearSdy
himself. He generally came to Woolseys at least once a
year in the summerk and always toolf great delight and
interest id icisiting this filial sPdt lit 4 BM gelected for his
burial; and in directing and suggesting alterations Add hill
o.o6nienH td Be Made in it. Abthit five iears ftgo he
Citified the 1;04 id lie Achill iiiiieli ii ifiifieo feet 46p;
and bricked all round to the thickness of fourte6iiiimneof
and also about two years ago he caused a second or outer
circle or yews to be.oaotga. - The inner envie •,.,,e. trees
have be'o46tirddiiii to ,fed AM ttOlitod to overshadow the
getiii6., Ana the whole Will compete ag. it urere ,thi t 4 ii=
brageous mausoleum. Imitative, gethie arches lidie be.:
gun to be fortwl,, and. Will; u. 4 the tie6s gidw; 86 Alit
out froth the intert4initig biaalies df the yew. Mrt
IfearseY died rather siiddenlYg.at his residence in Town
on the 4th instant; and. ininiedtately afterwards the most
a(q4,6 lien:int:es We t 6 tOidri; botli if lii widow and te-
nant, t'S fulfil to the tatei- iibili i+6.4 lindviil td h Ifis
wish. It was his expressed wish, which wss Implicitly
followed that no scarfs, hat-bands, or mourning gloves
siiihgonolvdebieitittese.di(4
'quickLh 6 6
C'h
died Oet'igna #llB tkitila4ltuoiiil,iii4 Iliddkitino liiiltl6lC2
, so unusual a spectacle in the Middle of it renidte And ldtte
had a§Senibled td w#tte44
cedas:eoni As many 6,§ tty.t "tun-
field of clover. Mr. Itearse was i .?±16111161' of tr
Est4hlithed litireli; bilt it is ,lot lirldwil what did t e
Oartionlar, tenets of the Minister wild Offrdiated at his
burial: The, eight labdureis wild bdre hint td the Orate
are; hi frkliA *ill; id tieeit a tell lithidSditle retina:of; aria
tO'd 'cif them in their ttitn. will watch his grave for a
fortnight at least;
tiiih.delle,arsOtuern. females altlhese,-
claS, he tdll6*ilig lamentable accident was reported td
V4.TAT, AbGIOEN't ON TIIE itIVER.Tues-'
the thatikes peace: A few minutes before the lathich of
them,
the Trafalgar, and when the Thames was eoVeivd with
SteanierS•2 hOtts ail 4 Udall graft, 4 skiffl Mitnitiing 11,-sui
• -I
nearlyT hep sk oi
frtf
eamwelloilneepoanrttacy tthwriotwhna fisherman'sintothedaolienll:yaarwd,a waterman,
at
th who
oft was s CarosvizilOgd.
and the water.boat
went right under I ,6 dumb barge,"
a largeand a sailing.
boat lying alongside of b
each other, and some of the peo-
ple were also carried y the current under them. The
people in the boats
near the spot rendered immediate as-
sistance and ,picked up the watermanand ' six of his pas-
sengers ; but two others
hdisappeared, and were drowned.
Jones, a waterman
the pollee, states that ‘11;eo reported the eirounastanoe to
it has, however, beonly saw six persons picked up;
one of e
nascertained that seven were re-
covered,
tiom and did not °l'lWas
rally in a very exhausted wadi-
elapsed. until more than an hour had

THE QUEEN AND CORN-LAWS-.-The cheers
with which her Majesty waJi hailed on her return from
the House of Lords on Tuesday were greatly increased
as she reached Whitehall, but as her Majesty's 'carriage
turned into the Horse Guards, loud cries were raised of
Remember. the Corn-laivS ,Repeal the Q.orn4aws
Those cries evidently -.reached the `Royal 'ear, IS her
Majesty seemed to bow assent to the demand of her, long
subjects, which drew forth removed geolamitioas. -

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Canterbury Tories have had their
rampant exultations of an easy triumph, by the return
of their two choice representatives without contest,
:hanged into the sad certainty of being doomed to en-
munter an opposition in the person of one whose very
same is identified with stirring recollections of former
.riumphs, and will now animate the Liberals of that city
to the most strenuous exertions for his success. Mr.
Twisden Hodges, the son of Mr. Hodges, the Mem-
ber for West Kent, has come forward as a candidate
for the representation of Canterbury, avowedly as the
antagonist of the Queen-defaming Bradshaw ; whose
disgusting speech at the celebrated Canterbury Tory
feast in October 1839, still lives in the memory of the
loyal portion of the community, of whatever politics, as
no less unmanly in its attack upon a young and inte-
resting female, than it was disloyal, as an insult to the
Sovereign. Many of the Canterbury Tories—howbeit
by no means squeamish in their taste as to the quality
of political orations—are known to have expressed their
disapprobation of Mr. Bradshaw's virulent and indecent
attack upon her Majesty—on the ladies of her Court—
and on her selected Consort ; and to have declared that
they would not expose themselves to the odium of ap-
pearing to approve of such sentiments, by again voting
for him as a candidate for the representation of their
city in Parliament. Poor Jemmy trembled for his chance
of continuing to write M.P. after his name, the very sound
of which had become offensive in the loyalty, associated
as it is, and must remain, with ears of his seditious effu-
sions. Mr. Bradshaw has, it is true, kept himself quiet in
the House ; knowing that if he broke an inglorious
silence there, some sentence of his Canterbury oration
would be exhibited as a memorial, to shame him out of
countenance ; or, at least, if shame in him has become
extinct, to warn every man who desires to retain a place
in public estimation as a loyal subject, from too close
an association with him. The Canterbury Tories have,
since the delivery of that oration, prudently foregone
their accustomed orgies, lest a repetition of the villanous
stuff, applauded by the " wine-warmed parsons "—and
given with approving comments by the Tory press,
should involve themselves and party in renewed
embarrassments. These prudential methods of in-
ducing a desirable oblivion of Bradshaw's Canter-
bury oration, and of the applause with which it
was hailed both by those who heard, and the Tory
press which recorded it, have proved unavailing.
STANDARD.—The truth must be told—we rejoice
at the disgrace of Lord Plunket, and we rejoice the more
that he falls by the act of his own accomplices and
pupils. "'Tis sport to see the gunner hoist by his own
petard." To suffer as Lord Plunket suffers, is the just
retributive close of a political life like that of his Lord-
ship. The newspaper reports of the Noble Lord's leave-
taking say that he wept—actually wept.
" Lc brazen tears fell from Lord Plunket's eves."
If his Lordship Sept, they were the first tears he
ever- shed. He did not weep for Robert Emmett—
he did not weep at the sufferings of the amiable
Judge Robert Johnson, dragged from his sick room
in Dublin, which he had not left for years, to be tried
at Westminster for a libel which he never wrote, but of
which he was nevertheless convicted. He did not weep
when he denounced vengeance against that gang, the
Protestant clergy and gentry of his native country. .No ;
his first tears were referred for his leave-taking place, the
object of his passion and idolatry through life. We be-
lieve it, Lord Plunket could weep for himself. But
though Lord Plunket has most justly fallen, they are not
just who have cast him down, and their pretext is a
falsehood.
COURIER.—The cheap bread agitation, which has
been got up by Ministers as their last chance for the re-
tention of office, promises to become as profitless to them
as it is disgraceful. The barefaced desertion of their
former opinions for the sake of regaining Radical de-
serters from their standard will have little effect as a re-
storative of lost popularity with the mass of the people,
whilst it exposes them to the contempt of all their sober-
minded supporters. The free-trade political manoeuvre
can only be of service to them with the Radical faction by
showing their diminishing power to resist destructive
changes, and that the " squeezeable materials," as Mr.
Hume appropriately designates the holders of office, are
still more compressible, and are ready to yield to any im-
pulse that will keep them in their places. As regards
the working classes, among whom more particularly the
new agitation was expected to work wonders, it has
proved- a complete failure. It was no doubt antici-
pated that the cry of " cheap bread" would have raised
a resistless power resembling that called into action
by the Reform Bill agitation. The working classes
have, however, grown wise by experience. The dis-
appointment of the delusive promises of golden times
after obtaining " reform," has generated discontent, and
distrust of the men whose promises have been so mise •
rably- unfulfilled. The " schoolmaster" has also been
abroad, and he has also taught other lessons besides those
of levelling democracy. The artisans and labourers
have learned to examine the prospective warnings of
any plan proposed for their advantage ; they do not
snatch recklessly at the bait of cheap bread, for they
can detect the treacherous hook concealed beneath.
Cheap ht.( ad, they are now aware, will be no boon unless
they have the means of purchase ; and they see good
cause to dread that it would be accompanied by a re-
duction of wages more than commensurate with the re-
duction in the price of food. They can extend their
views to the state of the working classes in those coun-
tries where the much vaunted cheap loaf is to be had,
and they find that instead of abundance and comfort the
great masses of the population are dragging on exist-
ence in wretchedness and want ; the evils of destitution
being increased by the tantalising sight of food without
the power to buy, low as the money price may be

INSTANCES OF LONGEVITY.
(From the Polytechnic Journal.)
In the " Philosophical Transactions" the singular
case of Henry Jenkins is recorded.. This man died at
at the very advanced age of 169. A few years before his
death he appeared in a court of justice, and gave evi-
dence in a cause. The celebrated case of Thomas Parr,
of Wennington, Shropshire, is also detailed in the same
publication. He died in the year 1638, at the age of 152.
1)r. Harvey, who opened the body after death, states that
he found it to be in a most perfect state. His death was
caused by plethora, brought on by more luxurious living
in London than he had been accustomed to in his na-
tive country, where his food was very plain and homely.
Parr lived during the reigns of ten kings and queens,
acid was buried in Westminster Abbey. He married
a widow after lie was 120 years of age. He is said to have
been a man of very different stamina from mankind
in general. When he was 151 years of age, he was
brought to London by Thomas Earl of Arundel, and car-
ried to Court. The king said to him, " You have lived
longer than other men, what have you done more than
other men?" Parr replied, " I did penance when I was
100 years old." His chief rules for longevity were well-
known:—" Keep your head cool by temperance; your
feet warm by exercise; rise early and go soon to bed;
and if you are inclined to get fat, keep your eyes open
and your mouth shut;" or, in other words, " be moderate
in your sleep and diet."
Maffeus, a Portuguese author, who wrote a history of
the East Indies, mentions a man of the name of Numus
de Cogria, a native of Bengal, who died in the year 1565,
at the ahnost incredible age of 370 years.
Maffeus represents him to have been a person of
great simplicity and quite illiterate ; but of so reten-
ti-Yo as memory that he was a kind of living chronicle.
relating distinctly and exactly what had happened
within his knowledge in the compass of his very long
life, together with all the circumstances attending it.
had four new sets of teeth, and the colour of his
hair acid heard had very frequently changed from black
to grey, and from grey to black. He asserted that in
the course of his life he had 700 wives, some of whom
lifid died. and others he had put away. The first cen-
tury of his life was passed in idolatry, from which he
was converted to Fiahonaetanism, which he continued to
profess until his death.
J. Jaeobs, a peasant on the estate of the Prince de
ifeautremont, lived to the age of 120. He travelled at
agB I'roin the Jura mountains to Versailles, to
thank .tlitt OfitionAl Assembly for having released him
from the feudal yoke, He was received by all the
members standing and uncovered, was allowed a chair,
ond to sit with his hat on. A collection was made for
him art 101444 the members, which amounted to 5001.
The tables of longevity published for the year 1817,
2f the tessizrit empire, give the following results :
" Ammo fi4gMl persons who died, all helonging to
the Greek Church, awe appear to have been as fol-
lows ;.-1 above 140 years Of Ago, 1 above 135, 7 above
125 51 above 120, 83 above 115, and 783
1,q0; 21. Ave ? •
1139fe PAH • -lity in Prussia
On the. siihject itivalti and nlbru.... i„
ildfirm/ (kedleittisohe Zeltung,
1805, that thirlrig Mlle years'i eolith:tie/wing January 1,
1820, and ending Decembe' 1837, the mortality in
12,626,379, being the average population of rfuesia
dur-
inA that period, amounted to 6,653,167 ; of this number
itYt€ol4 attrinfecl the age of from 80 to 85 years ; 67,754
that of frau' thi id Stl years and 31,516 attained the age
beyond 90. Thus 248,3 Jg itidivklusis, or 3732 percent.
I of the population, attained an age beyond 80,

MALAN, JUNE 22.—A meeting of the junior
bar Was held to-day, in the Admiralty Court, to express
&if 4eittiffigrits with reference to the appointment of Sir
3,ohu Campbell as Lord Chancellor. Thomas Dickson
Cit.P.l the father of of the bar, presided on the oc:
eakoni liot one of the Queen's Counsel, either Whigs
or Tories, tit t.ended and, on the contrary, they caused it
to be known that they 0.17 cted to the object for which
the meeting had been called, and wc;:id hold a counter
h'2"A' lig if any of the resolutions which ::_bt)aldt.' be
p4Ssed Were to 13d feggded as the opinion Pf the 'lir'
mit .tigoeflifnces,
DicksOn kiggeited thitt; 'hide tbe-eiream t
wOrad be desirable to adjdUrti leis
not agr6i.l and tin dtiSita'Ct resolution C;s76Z
.statiner, in effect,. that Juttilfoitweii,iffes4 called.
;.,::ns in England, so
all judicial
in Ireland. It was urged that merely was an insult
'
offered to the bar, but that Sir John Campoeb, a com-
mon-law lawyer, was not able to fill the office, and they
would therefore be, obliged to teach him the elements
of practice before they could obey his decisions The
second resolution excited more discussion, as it pro-
posed that an address should be presented to her
the
a-
jesty, calling upon her to protect the r
oigf a stranger,
hts of
Irish bar, and to cancel any appoinment
should such be made. Tho more ardent speakers urged
that such an address necessarily followed the previous
resolution ; while others thought that an address in the
terms proposed might seem to trench too much upon the
discretion of the Queen. It was, however, ultimately
arranged that a Committee should be appointed to pro-
pose an address, incorporating in it the first resolution,
presented to the Secretary
and which address should' he
'of! Statb for the Hothe Department. T4e inner bar will
Liobagy meet andiadOpt counter.,resoliitionS ; but before
iiierdan do' soSir ,f. Campbell will have take rihis st4t.
I 1c is expected in town this evening, and will preside ill
t tipl,court of Chancery to morrow (Wednesday).