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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1841.

No 15,992

BANK OF ENGLAND, SEPT. 9, 1841.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of
ENGLAND give Notice, That a GENERAL COURT will
be held at the Bank, on THURSDAY NFXT, the 16th instant,
at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, to consider of a Dividend,
which will alto be one of the Quarterly General Courts ap-
pointed by the Charter.
JOHN WATTS, Deputy Secretary.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. CXXXVI.
Will be published on SATURDAY NEXT.
CONTENTS.
I. BUCKINGHAM AND COMBE ON AMERICA.
11. PATCHWORK.
111. SKETCHES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY.
IV. ELPHINSTONE'S hISTORY OF INDIA
V. BRITISH ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD—REPRESEz-
TATION OF THE PLANTAGENETS AND STU ARTS.
VI. LETTERS FROM THE BALTIC—STATE OF SOCIETY
IN ESTHONI A.
VII. MRS. ADAMS'S COIIRESPONDENCE.
VIII. THE NEW MINISTRY.
John Minray, Albemarle-street.

REPORT FROM THE SELECT
COMMIWEE ON FINE ARTS.
On the 29th of April last the late House of Commons
resolved that a Select Committee be appointed to take
into consideration the promotion of the Fine Arts of this
country in connection with the rebuilding of the new
Houses- of Parliament. It consisted of the following
Members :—Mr. Hawes' • Mr. Labouchere; Sir R. Pool,
Mr. 11. G. Knight, Mr. Hume,* Mr. Wyse,* Mr. Blake,
Sir R. 11. Inglis, Lord Brabazon,* Lord F. Egerton,
Mr. Ewart, Mr. Milnes, Colonel Rawdon, Mr. H. T.
Hope,* and Mr. P. Pusey.
The Committee commence their Report' by stating,
that although the then approaching dissOlution compelled
therrelo conclude their inquiry somewhat abruptly, still
they have obtained the opinions of some distinguished
professors and admirers of art, who are unanimously of
opinion that 'snithportant and national a work as the
erection of the two Houses of Parliament affords an op-
portunity which ought nt, neglected of encoureging
not only the higher, but every subordinate branch of fine
art in this country. In this opinion the Committee state
their entire concurrence, supported, es it is, by witnesses
of extensive information, and by artists of the highest
ability. The Committee, however, in recommending
that measures should betaken without delay to encou-
rage the fine arts, by employing them in the decoration
of the new Houses of Parliament, desire to express
their decided opinion, that, to accomplish this object
successfully, it is absolutely requisite that a plan should
previously be determined upon, and that as soon as prac-
ticable, in order that the architect and the artists to be
employed may work not only in conjunction with, but in
aid.ol, each other.
The Committee are not, in the present stage of the
inquiry, prepared to suggest the details of a plan, but
they think that a Commission „might most usefully be
appointed to assist, both with
.information and advice,
some department of the Government, which, after mature
consideration, should be solely responsible for the exe-
cution of the plan best calculated to realise the objects of
the Committee.
Whether, however, a Commission be appointed or not,
the Committee think it is most desirable that the advice
and assistance of persons should besought who are com-
petent, from their knowledge of art, and their acquaint-
ance with great public works, both at home and abroad,
to propose, in conjunction with the architect, the most
effectual means of attaining the chief object aimed at by
the appointment of the Committee—viz., the encourage-
ment of the fine arts of this country. By taking this
course, the architect and the other artists will be enabled
to understand and assist each other's views ; and thus
the abilities of both would be exerted for the decoration
of so eminently national a building, and, at the same
time, encouragement, beyond the means of private
patronage, would be afforded, not only to the higher
walks, but to all branches of art.
The Committee state that their attention has been
called to one branch of the fine arts hardly known
in this country—namely, fresco painting,, which has
lately been revived on the Continent, and employed
in the decoration of public buildings, especially
at Munich.
,The space which it demands for its
free developement, and the subjects which it is
peculiarly fitted to illustrate, combine to point out na-
tional buildings as almost the only proper sphere for the
display of its peculiar characteristics—grandeur. breadth,
and simplicity. The Committee, after a careful consi-
deration of the evidence, are disposed to recommend that
this style or mode of painting should be adopted. They
fully concur in the opinion of Mr. Eastlake, that Eng-
land possesses artists equal to the occasion, whose genius
only wants that exercise and encouragement which this
great opportunity may be made to afford. But the
Committee suggest that if fresco, painting should he em-
ployed in the decoration of certain portions of the new
buildings, it would be a safe and judicious plan, to give
the artists an opportunity of making some experimental
efforts in the first instance.
The Committee then quote a passage from a valuable
paper on fresco painting, written by Mr. Eastlake.
With reference to another branch of the inquiry—the
cost incident to an extensive and well-devised plan for
the public patronage and encouragement of art—the
Committee, notwithstanding that they are aware that
objections are entertained by many to a large expendi-
ture of the public • money .for such a purpose, are of
opinion, independently of the beneficial and elevating
influence of the fine arts upon a people, that every pecu-
niary outlay, either for the purpose of forming or ex-
tending collections of works of art in this country, has
been directly instrumental in creating new ',objects of
industry and of enjoyment, and therefore in adding at
the same time to the wealth of the country.
The CoMmittee state, that the collection of vases made
by Sir W. Hamilton led to the introduction of a new
branch of manufacture in thiscountry by Mr. Wedgwood,
which not only emplo:, ed artists and artisans, but tended
to improve every branch of a gercats. staple trade, and
in its results elicited from the hands of comparatively
ordinary workmen works almost rivalling their ori-
ginals in texture, form, and beauty. The Committee
further remark, that the collection of Sir W. Hamilton's
ancient Greek vases (for the purchase of which a sum of
8,4001. was granted by Parliament) was a great acqui-
sition to the country, and ought to have opened the eyes
of the Government to the utility arising from similar ac-
quisitions. " The discovery of these vases (the com-
mittee observe), and their communication to the public
by engravings, coinciding with the discoveries of Hercu-
laneum and Pompeii, may be considered an essential epoch
in the history of the arts, and which contributed greatly
to their revival,"
The committee, observe that the beneficial influence of
art upon the character of the people may, it is hoped, be
inferred from the gradually increasing numbers, of late
years, who take an interest in the national collections.
This fact has been fully proved by the report of the select
committee on " national monuments and works of art,"
of which we, some time ago, laid an abstract before our
readers. " The habit," says Reynolds, " of contemplat-
ing and brooding over the ideas of great geniuses till you
find yourself warmed by the contrast, is the true method
of forming an artist4ike mind. It is impossible, in the
presence of those great men, to think or to invent in a
mean manner ; a state of mind is acquired that receives
ideas only which relish grandeur and simplicity."
As, then, the collection and exhibition of works of art
have not only tended to the moral elevation of the peo-
ple, but have also given a fresh stimulus and direction to
their industry; so the Committee is of opinion that a di-
rect encourageMent of the higher branches of the art on
this occasion will have a similar effect in a still higher

-ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
LONDON TAVERN, TUESDAY, SEPT. 14.

TWO SUBJECTS.
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limbs and body ; restoration of smell and hearing, and sensi-
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Just published,
BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW
NO. XXIV.
I. Works of Thomas Carlyle.
2. Ceylon.
3. Alilman's History of Christianity.
4. Colonies and Colonial Government—Java.
5. The Corn Laws.
6. Historic Criticism of the Gospel—Hegel.
7. Servia—her History and Prospects.
London R. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street

degree.
The Committee, after referring to the evidence of Mr.
Dyce, thus conclude their report :
" Your Committee, from the abrupt termination of the
session, and consequently of their inquiry, have not had
the opportunity to form any fair estimate of the expense
of carrying out the ,views here stated ; but they arc,
however, of opinion that, judging from the manner in
which great works have been effected on the Continent,
and by the adoption in the outset of a well-considered
plan for the employment of artists, and the application
of the arts, a moderate annual expenditure would ac-
complish very important results, if not all that can be
desired. They think that the very fact of a determi-
nation by the House to take this opportunity of en-
couraging the arts, and of associating them with our
public architecture, our legislation, our commerce, and
our history, would alone stimulate and raise their cha-
racter and quality, and extend their beneficial influence
over a still wider circle. I consider it,' says Sir M. A.
Shee, a most favourable opportunity for calling forth
the genius of our country, and promoting the fine arts
to the utmost extent of which they are capable ; it is
the only opportunity that has occurred for many years,
and if it be suffered to pass unheeded, I should say that
there is no hope in this country for artists in the higher
departments of the arts.'
Whilst ygur Committee, in conclusion, regret that
they could not investigate the whole subject so fully as
they desired, and as its importance demanded, they
unanimously recommend the evidence herewith presented
to the House to its favourable •consideration, with a view
to its receiving the immediate attention of the Govern-
ment, and in the hope that our new Houses of. Parlia-
ment may hand down to posterity a memorial, as well
of the genius of our artists, as of the importance at-
tached by the country to the nobler productions of art;
and that the subjects embodied in such representations,
whether by painting or sculpture, may serve to perpe-
tuate the events of our past history, and the persons of
our public benefactors, in the grateful remembrance of
the people."

The Members to whose names the asterisk is affixed
are no longer in Parliament.

CAUTION TO MAGISTRATES.
A memorial having been forwarded to Government,
on the part of Denis Mullany, complaining of Mr. Corr,
of French Park, county Roscommon, for illegal impri-
sonment, abusive language, &c., the following letter has
been the result :

iinttg Copy of a minute
en, on reading your
n Dublin Castle, June 16, 1841.
" Sir—l am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to
ranswhichiht
istoEx yc•
,otter of the 10th. inst., in reference to the ease.of Denis
nelnlencthye following
Mullany, viz:— The conduct of the whole of the French
Park bench seems, in this case, to have been arbitrary
and illegal, and that of Mr. Corr -most unbecoming and
improper. A Magistrate in Court should not, under any
circumstances, use such language as 110
hIo;
admits that he
did to. Mullany, as it certainly tends to bring both him-
self and the tribunal'Of which he'is a member into dis-
credit, and calls, therefore, for my strongest censure.'
"Let this be communicated to Mr. Corr, and the
other Magistrates be admonished of the illegality of their
practice of ever issuing blank summonses.—l am, &c.,
(Signed) " N. 11. MACDONALD.
" To Dominic Corr, Esq., French Park."
The Roscommon Journal mentions - that Mr. Corr has
resigned the Magistracy._Boyle Gazette.

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PRICE

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—The London weekly average price
of corn was fixed to-day at 765. 9d., being a decline of sd.
per quarter compared with the previous week ending the
31st ultimo. Some doubts are entertained whether the

averages for the next six weeks will reach 7as. per quar-
ter, so as to admit foreign corn for home consumption at
the minimum duty of Is. ; but " the trade" are all eager
for, and many of them confident of, the event. The
estimate trade, that further supplies to the extent of
1,500,000 quarters of corn from abroad will yet I,,be re-
quired is strengthened by the opinions we have heard
to-day of the probable yield and quality of the present
harvest. The samples of the new wheats are of an in-
ferior colour, and of considerably leis weight on on aver-

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CHRONICLE.—EarI de Gray and Lord Eliot are on
the point of departing for the Irish coast. Does Sir
Robert Peel flatter himself that there are not
breakers a-head? or dues he trust that the skill of his
new pilot will save the ship from striking ? The storm,
as we said on Wednesday, is coming, and Lord Eliot will
not weather it. The new Irish Secretary is a moderate
and impartial man, possessed of considerable ability ;
and his habits of business, so far as they are concerned,
eminently fit him fur his new position. We repeat what
we have already said, that the appointment was one as
little objectionable as Sir Robert Peel could have made.
But fcr this reason precisely Lord Eliot cannot keep his
footing its the Irish Secretary of a Tory Administra-
tion. The Dublin Evening Mail is not the organ of
a few " ultra impracticables." It is not the Journal
of the " vagabonds," to borrow Sir Robert Peel's pithy
epithet, who waved their Orange banner over the head
of the Earl; of Haddington, and who will wave it again
over the head of Earl De Grey. The Mail is the ac-
credited organ of the " Protestants of Ireland." It has
more influence than all the other Orange journals put
together. It is the organ of the parsons, the magistracy,
the landlords; representing the Boytons and O'Sulii-
vans, the Nixons, the Rodens, and the Charlevilles. It
is identified with the views, feelings, and proceedings of
the Right Hon.Frelerick Shaw, the same who we observe
is now honoured with daily interviews by Sir Robert
Peel. By the Dublin Evening Mail, then, is Lord
Eliot fiercely denounced to the Prbtestants of Ireland.
The Standard says Lord Eliot is denounced, be-
cause Sir Robert Peel has not given places to a
sufficient number of the leaders of the Irish Pro-
testants. Be it so. We'are not disposed to question
the fact—certainly not when we have it upon such
authority. It is only fair, however, that those who are
thus accused should be heard in their own defence. Lord
Eliot, says the Standard to the Protestants of Ireland—
Lord Eliot is a marvellous proper man to discharge the
functions of Irish Secretary. Take him upon our assur-
ance. " It is enough to know that he is candid, generous,
and clear-headed ; such a man will not fail to do justice
justice
to Irish Protestants, if only they will do
to themselves, by trusting him, and respectfully acting by
his advice." Take-Lord Eliot upon your a:surance 1 re-
torts the Irish Protestant organ. We will ; but not
upon your present assurance. Now you have a purpose
to serve. Now you are the abetter of Sir Robert Peel in
his attempt "to sell" the Protestants of Ireland. You
charge us with " personal motives which imply base•
ness. Were we inclined to retort, perhaps we might do
so effectually. It is not the honest dog, which by night
barks at the stranger who approaches his master's house
with nothing in his hand to give, and fawns upon him when
he comes with a sop." No ; if the Standard's character
of Lord Eliot is to be his passport to the Protestants of
Ireland, let it be the character given when the motive of
the Standard was above suspicion.
TIMES.—In filling up the numerous offices which
usually become vacant upon -a complete change of Mi-
nistry, Sir R. Peel has had the good fortune, not merely
to occasion no whisper of offence, either among friends
er foes, but to give a degree of general satisfaction,
rasher uncommon, we should think, in his peculiar
circumstances. We say this, to the credit of all
parties', without exception. As far as regards the
flight Honourable Baronet himself, the invidiousness
almost inseparable from the necessity of giving a pre-
ference where numerous claims appear to be
nearly equal has been successfully got rid of by
the perfect rectitude and single-mindedness which
have governed him throughout ; while, with reference
to the immense body of able men from among whom
a selection was to be made, we give them no ordinary
praise when we say, that without the slightest dispa-
ragement having been felt by any one of them, their
competing pretensions have been placed at Sir Robert's
disposal with precisely the generous devotedness most
conducive to the public service, and least likely to em-
barrass him in completing his official arrangements.
Nor must we omit to acknowledge what is really due
to our political opponents. Powerless .though they be,
for any effective resistance to the Conservative Premier,
the impotent. and factious hostility with which their
loss of office is so apt to engender against their
successors has, in the present case, been volun-.
tarily restrained, or very partially exhibited. Never,
perhaps, was less discouteut shown on any similar oc-
casion. The allegation that any particular office has
been filled Op with an incompetent or unmeritorious per-
son has never once been made. To suppose that there
are no vindictive and rankling resentments among the
discarded Whigs were to expect too much from human
infirmity ; yet, though wbare far from imputing to them
any watchful querulousness that might not equally have
attached to their supplanters in similar circumstances,
not a public murmur have they ventured to utter. If a
Conservative Government must needs be formed, the
universal conviction seems to be that the appointments
of Sir Robert Peel are, upon the whole, invulnerable.
POST.—Some observations which we made a few days
ago upon the unreasonableness of trying the Corn-law
question upon merely mercantile principles, have attracted
the critical attention of more than one of our Whig-
Radical Contemporaries.- We should be happy to dis-
cuss the point with them if they would really discuss it ;
but we beg leave to demur to the convenience or conclu-
siveness of an answer which, when analsyed, amounts to
simple contradiction. For instance, when we say that
the principles of free trade, however valuable in their
own sphere, are not so valuable that higher considera-
tions than they involve should give way to them, we
think it no fair answer to be told that free trade prin-
ciples are the paramount principles in the policy of
this nation. If they are, then they should give way
to nothing ; but we deny that they are, and mere as-
sertion will not convince us that we are wrong. When
we advance reasons for thinking that in certain cases re-
straints upon trade are rendered necessary upon grounds
of general policy, we deem it no satisfactory answer to
be peremptorily told that all restraint upon trade must
be injurious, and may be destructive. If it must be so,
why then we must be wrong ; but " must " goes for very
little with us; when unaccompanied by any reason. When
we say that reasons quite apart from mercantile consider-
ations—such as the employment of the people, security
for a future supply of food, and protection of capital em-
barked in other than purely mercantile speculations—
should influence the rulers of the State, we think it no
satisfactory answer to tell us that these which we have
enumerated are mercantile considerations. If they be,
they are not reasons apart from mercantile considerations,
and we are wrong; but mere assertion, as we said before,
will not convince us that we are wrong.
lIERALP.—The more we reflect on the subject of
the Corn-laws the stronger do our objections become to
a fixed duty. In dear years it would be oppressive to
the poor; while in cheap years it would afford no protec-
tion to the agriculturist. We are firmly convinced that a
fixed duty of Ss. a quarter on wheat would be ruinous to
all gradations of the landed interest, and would equally
injure the prosperity of the lord of thousands of acres,
and the comfort of the hind; while the sudden change
fro:n the sliding scale to a permanent tax would in-
flict undreamt-of mischief on every branch of trade
and commerce. Such an unexpected and unprepared-
for alteration would unhinge the business of every
merchant and petty chapman in the empire, and would
throw into confusion every class of the dealers in money.
The disadvantages of every sudden change are notorious
and palpable ; we demonstrate the necessity of their oc-
currence by the experience of the past. 'The majority
of us recollect the misery produced by even the cautious
and long-warned return to cash payments ; but the
effects of any new regulations as to the supply of the
prime necessary of life must far exceed in magnitude, be
it for evil or good, a • partial amendment of the mone-
tary system. While, then, the evils of a sudden al-
teration of these laws may be said to be ascertained, any
ultimate beneficial results to be derived therefrom can
only be tested by the change itself ; and, upon a mere
calculation of probabilities, the more rational course
appears to he, that the acknowledged ills of
the fluctuating scale of duties should be attempted to be
mitigated, rather than that we should "fly to others that
we know not of." The Corn-laws are at all times a most
perplexing subject, because on them the public mind is,
nay, even the foremost of our statesmen are, only half
informed. It is impossible to read or listen to a discus-
sion on those laws in the most enlightened assembly
without at once perceiving that many important elements
relating thereto are omitted or unknown ; that the
speakers have no chance of arriving at a common con-
clusion, because they do not start from the same pre-
mises and recognize the same facts ; that however
anxious they may be to get at the truth, their anxiety is
useless, because they have not agreed on what shall con-
stitute its standard.
ADVERTISER.—When a nation is desirous of ef-
fecting some great change in the character of her poli-
tical or social condition, it is evident she is so near the
epoch of revolution that all that is necessary is to give
audible expression to her volition. If England be sincere
—and who can doubt it ?—in her protestations against
the Coruslaws, let her at once put forth a united fiat
from the lips of her millions, and their abolition is ac•
complished. Driven to an extremity, it were absurd to
speak of the power of any ministry against tke force of
a whole people. In this country it is always the people
who have achieved any national change ; it is always
on the people the necessity ultimately recoils of of--
fecting their own legislation. There are periods when
forms lose their prescribed value, and look the inani-
ties they really are. When we reflect on the present
distracted condition of this country, we confess,
.not-
withstanding the fact of a Peel Cabinet, supported as it
is by a landlord's Parliament, that we see in things.c-lw,
signs of a speedy regeneration. In support of otcuroirj
we deem it merely necessary to point to the sftaznyt the
GO'
districts. Will the strengthr,t3oecno.n_
to vernment enable it to stare, the misery the
it in the face, and persevere in mcaSiir a
o so deluded as
prolongation of that misery ?
.e nY
_a Teryism—the
to think that the most streimous efforts deluded
Ling
of Buckingham,
callous-hearted schemes of the D
the specious sophism
Oozed over though they may betiPeel—will indeed be
of the grand conjuror Sir Robert
of millions wild with all
able to stave off the demands
? Since the reign of
the horrors of want and starvation
as the hateful Stuart dy-
nasty—have Chat lcs the F irst—so long ago
ranks
the manufacturing been bent under
agricultural interest.
„r_
horrible subjection to the e
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age than those of the crop of 1840. The operation of
the system of averages must now be generlly well un-
derstood. It must be seen that they are the cause of
ruinous fluctuations in prices—inherently gambling and
speulative in principle—and that they greatly enhanee
the price of food.
TIMES.—The metal brokers held a meeting to-day
and yesterday for the purpose of disclaiming any impli-
cation that might be cast on them as a body, from the
complaint noticed the other day under this head, that
the broker had been known to make large profits in ad-
dition to his brokerage, by the practice of concealing the
name of his principal. On their part, we arc informed,
that they utterly repudiate the notion of concealing a.
principal's name for the sake of increased profit, arni
that if such occurrences have actually taken place in the
trade, they fully concur in stigmatizing them as wrong,
while they can but regret that the acts of individuals
should have cast suspicion on a whole body. The
promptitude with which these parties have acted to re-
pud:ate what they consider to be improper acts, and to
distinguish what they deem to be the acts of individuals
from their practice as a body, is to be commended,
but at the same time it is to be regretted that the
practice of riving, " sold to my principal," in any
branch of business instead of inserting the names of the
parties, should have gained ground. This is an usage,
and many honourable men act under it as an usage,
without entertaining the slightest notion of departing
from the legitimate business of a broker, and in some
instances it is only by the special consent of the seller
that it is adopted. But it is unfortunate that ate habit of
concealment opens the way for an opportunity of fraud,
and when a system itself is vicious, if any abuse should
take place under it, the parties who act by that system,
although they may not have perverted it, to wrong
purposes, will frequently find suspicion fall upon them.
A correspendent complains that our remaries on this
subject may even injure those brokers who insert the
names of their principals. This is an obvious mis-
t ke, for it is impossible that a statement of. the evils
that arise from concealing the principal can is the.
slightest degree affect those who act without conceal-
meat of any kind.
POST.—The advices we continue to receive of the
state of affairs in the manufacturing districts are far
from encouraging. Several failures have again taken
piece at Liverpool and Manchester, but, sifter the IMPlC-
rous irregularities brought to light in connection with
the trading and banking operations of that part of the
country, they have not excited anything like the sur-
prise. they would formerly ' have clone ; and yet the.
amounts involved are by no means insignificant. In
the case of one house in particular, the conduct of
a Joint-Stock Bank has been visited with severe,
though no doubt well-merited, censure in the com-
mercial walks ; nor is it to be believed that the pre-
. fsrenc: which the Directors have endeavoured to secure,.
for it (the bank) over the rest of the creditors i ,ill
at all compensate for the loss of reputation w'aich,
in the eyes of upright men of business, it has in-
curred by the unjustifiably selfish corrrae they
have thought proper to take. The suspended
house in question had from the bank a large cash
juchement-
ad-
vance, and was induced unadvisedly to give a.
bond, by way of contingent or collateral Sc unity, for its
reimbursement. This powerful instrument, fur the re-
covery of money, has been put in forea, it appears, in a
manuer, and at a time, when there was subjected to its
operation a large amount of property purchased in the
ordinary st ay of business upon the credit of the borrow-
ing firm, and the consequence now is, that what was ac-
quired in an open and straithforward manner for the le-
gitimate purposes of trade, is rendered available for the
bank alone. while the general creditors upon the estate
are left utterly without resources. A knowledge of what
had transpired in this case being obtained—for the facts
could not long remain a secret—confidence in such other
connections of the bank referred to, who either are, or
may be suspected of being, in a similar position, is ne-
cessarily shaken. Attempts are in the meanwhile making
to upset the proceeding complained of ; and there is
reason to hope that something may, in the end, be ace
comp!ished.
The only foreign intelligence is from Port Philip,
but the news had been anticipated by previous arrivals.
HERALD.—Recent advices from the Isthmus of Pa-
nama communicate a decree passed there by the pro-
visional-legislative commission of the state for the re-
gulation of the receipt and transit of correspondence.
which it may be of some utility to the mercantile com-
munity interested, not only in the trade of that portion
of the republic of-New Granada, now however separated.
from it, for a time at least, by its declaration of inde-
pendence, but in thee of Peru, Bolivia, the Beuador and
Chili, to m.k: public. Article 1 of this decree states that

all letters and pne'lets which shall be brought from foreign
i countries or from New Granada into the sthmus, for any
point of the isthmus, must be deposited by the party so
bringing them in the post-office of the port of ar-
rival. From this regulation, however, letters brought
open are excepted. By Article 2 it is decreed that all
letters or packets destined from the one ocean to the
other in transit for foreign countries may be despatched.
at choice in any other way than by the Government
post, without its being necessary to present them to the
post-officos of the State; and in such case they will be
exempt from the post-office charges. By Article 3it is
enacted that no letters, &c., deposited in the post-offices
to be despatched on account of the Government, shall be
so despatched unless pre-paid to the opposite coast. Ar-
ticle 4 provides that in respect of correspondence for-
warded in terms of Article 2, the post-office administration
charged with the receipt of the letters which may have
been transmitted by other parties from one coast of the
isthmus to the other, shall deliver them to the captains of
vessls according to the different places of destination.
SUN.—The English Market has at length shown symp-
oms of some degree of buoyancy, the result of greater
ease in tha Money Market, and the great improvement
in the weather. Consols were marked 89f to k„ and
before the close of business they even touched 89. For
the Account-day they were at 90 to 901. Exchequer
Bills realised 13s. to Its. premium. The New Three-
and•a-Idalf per Cents. were at 98+ to I. And the Re-
duced Three per Cent. Annuities 894 fur Money
Foreign Stocks, however, did not at all participate n.
this rally, although the advices from Spain still come
over favourable. For the Active Spanish Bonds 21-1„
was the price for immediate transfer, and 22 to 214- for
the Account ; Portuguese New Five per Cents., were at
30 ; Mexican Bonds realised 25k, and Brazillian 68,
being a further slight advance for the latter ; Russian
Five per Cents. of 1822, were at 1121; and Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. at 51k to 52.
For Shares there appeared to be an easier sale, and
upon the whole the paces ranged a little higher. Great
Western Railway Sht:ns were 12 to 131 ; the New 4+
to 42; the Fifths, 31 to 3i ; the Birmingham Quarter,
'l7 • the Thirds, 20-A- ; the New, 214 to 22 ; the York
and North Midland New, 101 ; and the South Western,
121 premium. Brighton Shares were 41 to 3 ; Green-
wich, 124 ; Croydon, ;34 to :; ; the Northern and Eastern,
; and the North Midland 35 discount. -*Colonial Bank
Shares were 41 premium.
The Foreign Exchanges were a shade lower again this
afternoon. Three months' bills on Paris were taken at
25f. 65c. to ; on Hamburgh at 13 10 to 101 ; on
Frankfort at 149+ ; on Trieste at 9 50 to 52 ; on Am-
sterdam at 12 4+ ; and on Antwerp at 12 3i. •

EXECUTION.—On Saturday last John and
James Power, brothers, who had been convicted at the
last assizes. of the murder of James Peters, underwent
the extreme penalty of the law in front of the county
gaol. By twelve o'clock an immense concourse of PeeP,llee
was congregated. At about a quarter past one the
wretched men were moved from the pres S-room towa
the scaffold, engaged in prayer. Shortly after, the.„
taller of them (James Power, we believe)
with a firm step and somewhat hurried pace, to the iviv.ise,
of the drop. His face was rather flushed than otherwise,
and his resolution and strength of nerve Were ex
:end
dinary. He addressed the spectators with a stroiplgear,n
distinct voice, and said—" I am now about_tocg
that in
presence of my God ; and I solemnly declare
had neither hand, act, nor part in the
I am going to die, nor in any
I forgive my prosecutors and e
connected with' my prosecution, and
give me. I hope you will pray
t.„
God to grant a favourable
titer then came out, also exhibitingjudgmevory.
then said, e J.
for `'bleb
murder for
one
walked,.ool;
who was
every one
God will for-
for me, and beg of
The other bro-
great resolution,
in a very audible
but quite wan and pale.
been for which we are going
one of us was guilty of the crime.the presence of my God,
He
circulated in the town that
voice—" A report has
to die; but I can declartei;altn
I had neither hand, act, nor
who will soon judge Lue;hor murder. I knew nothing
it was publicly known in the
whatever about 1 until-,E;dI was first told of it by my sister.
neighbourhood, a,ons
part in that or
who committed that murder are
Perhaps the pers
before me. I forgive my prosecutors
the crowd
among
_in of my heart, and I die in peace with the
from the boat)
..11 to God to have mercy
hope ye ‘Vj pray
on my
world; I
After
the executioner had performed his awfuk
soul." took each other's hands, - and continued to
task, they too. any
Yu
sake them with a firm grasp until the fatal bolt was
s;landrawn, wren
they were launched into eternity after
t a fcw • . short convulsive struggles.—Tippaury Con-
stitution.

SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION AT WINGER-
woRTH.--We regret to state that serious loss has' been
experienced by fir Henry Hunloke, Bart., by the de-
struction of ucarlv the whole of his stock of hal-, whie
was placed in a Dutch barn near Winzerworth flail. It
took fire owing to the state in which it was got in, in
consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather
during the hay harvest. Upwards of 100 tons of hay
were in the barn at the time, including a portion of last
year's crop. The fire. engines were . obtained as early as
possible, and wazgons and carts were employed in carry-
ing away the hay into the adjoining fields ; but in many
instances the hay in the waggons, while being removed,
burst into flames, and it was found frequently necessary
to shoot," it Out instantly, to prevent the waggons
taking fire. Maly portions thus removed bur,nlames.
t out
The roof of the Dutch-barn was- completely destroyed,
and fell in en the hay, nothing but the stone pillars being
leifttbsotiltudianngyflames.
The extinguishing the'
. The loss sustained is caiculatsd at nearly
1,000/., viz., 500/. the building, and upwards of 4004
the hay.—Sheffidd Iris.

I stand in need of small caps," as the prin-
ter's t;if'c~ said wi.len she presented her husband with a
little responsil