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N. 17,454.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING

WALTON HALL, near WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE, ESSEX.
High'y valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, great Tithe-free, including
nearly 1,200 Acres of Land, most of it of first-rate quality, and the
remainder capable of great improvement.
Mli. BEADEL is instructed by the Proprietor
to SELL, by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TuEsnav, Sep-
tember 5, at Twelve.
The WALTON HALL ESTATE, one of the most celebrated farms
in the county of Essex, distinguished alike for its salubrity and fer-
tility, Is situate only a short distance from that well-known sea-side
retreat, Walton-on-the Naze, commanding one of the finest sea views
in the kingdom, overlooking Harwich, and skirted by the Lander-
nicer Water. The house is very superior, and adapted for the rest-
deuce of the owner or the occupier. It is centrically situate, as re-
gards the arable laud, the whole of which, 330 acres, is of first-rate
quality. The grass marshes, 376 acres, are susceptible of consider-
able improvement, and at a trifling expense may be made highly
valuable. The saltings, 371 acres, are of a superior character, and
may easily be reclaimed. The entire estate is under lease, which
will expire at Michaelmas, 1852, to Mr. Hicks, at the very low
net rent of 6551. per annum, the tenant doing the repairs to the
buildings and sea walls. The vicarial rent charge and rates are very
low. An enterprising proprietor, by the expenditure of a compara-
tively small sum, may add hundreds of acres to this estate.
Particulars, with lithographic plans attached, will be ready for de-
livery fourteen days prior to the sale, and may be obtained of J.
James, Esq., solicitor, 7, New Palace-yard, Westminster; of Messrs.
James and Smythies. solicitors, Aylesbury ; at the Royal Hotel,
Walton ; the Cups, Colchester ; at the Auction Mart; and at the of-
fices of Mr. Beadel, 20, Gresham-street, City.

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Author of "Sir Theodore Broughton," " The Comiet,"
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and explaining the advantages of each, with Lists of Prices. It is
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on application personally, or by post.
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CELIBACY.—Singleness is not always the con-
sequence of disinclination, disappointed affection, or a diffi-
culty in meeting with a fit helpmate. Thousands of the unmarried
would with joy embrace the sacred conditions of Matrimony, did
the, feel themselves equal to its obligations; and the chequered
page of life reveals innumerable instances where, under that
blighting consciousness, man has permitted the most ardent affec-
tion to consume him to the grave, rather than consign its object to
that life of unmitigable anguish and fettered solitariness Into which
his affianced would be plunged if he married. Some arc, however,
wilful enough to gain the affections of the other sex under these
circumstances; and, though not so villanous as to proceed to the
altar, will make such excuses for procrastination as contribute to his
selfish desire of exclusively enjoying her society, by precluding her
from accepting other offers. There is scarcely a street where this
history is not enacted ; and yet with the exercise of common
foresight, its frequency might be so lessened as to ren-
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ON PIIYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on
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han any other to which it is subject.
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and of the physical capabilities of which everythe man
unhappy
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frequently, but erroneously entertened that these complaints are
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ECLECTIC DISABILITIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,.—To pursue the subject on which some days
ago you admitted a few remarks of mine to a place
in your columns, it is a fact, however at first sight
unaccountable, that amongst the thousands of students
now regularly passing through their respective courses
at the various colleges affiliated to the University of
London, its degrees in Arts are almost universally un-
cared for ; and the Premier is offering to a Dissenting
Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, as a substitute for the
distinction refused him by his Alma Mater, a name-tag
which is scorned and rejected by the boys at Oscott
and King's College.
Neglect like this may doubtless be attributed in
great measure to popular ignorance and prejudice,
but it must still be owing partly to something
wrong in the way of carrying out the system which
is the object of it. And it is by finding out how to
remedy these defects that we shall learn the surest
way to overcome the prejudices. The men attached
to a religious education will not in a hurry be brought
to put confidence in an irreligious examination ; they
have found a new stalking-horse already in the testless
diploma of the College of Preceptors. It will not be
the work of a day nor of a generation to extinguish in
English hearts the love for antiquity; and not until
the names of her now young Bacons and Newtons
shall adorn the calendar of departed heroes will the
University of London acquire a standing with lite-
rary corporations which have acquired with their
age a title to our veneration. Our worship of high
blood, again, which perhaps does amount to snob-
bishness, will check the growth of any plant not fos-
tered by the smiles of aristocracy. These are stum-
bling-blocks which must be worn away by drops of
water. But you may yet, meanwhile, do much to
gain respect in your progress onward.
-You must make your examinations more a reality.
Most people know now, that notwithstanding the
magnificent paper of questions put forward for your
matriculations, a boy can tnanage to answer well enough
to get a First Class by a month's reading. And it is
the same with the B.A. Rest assured—l would venture
to address the Senate—that your Honours will be
considered a shadow as long as your examinations are
a sham.

Again, you might make your degree something
more than a mere certificate of a man's having passed
through a certain ordeal. You should prepare the
graduates when they have attained a certain standing
to expect some share in the government of the body.
You should give them a preference now, and finally
the sole claim, in your election of examiners. You
should insist on affiliated colleges choosing their pro-
fessors from among your graduates, as the first gene-
ration passes away.
Again, you should take up a local habitation, not
quite so spiritual as at present. Let not a man come
up from Cambridge (which Lord John proposes to
affiliate) to matriculate at London ; and after a
search for the University, accustomed to behold
literature adorned with all the pomp and circumstance
of architecture, vestments, and decorations, discover
the sole representatives of its dignity in a couple of
gentlemen mending pens in a two-pair-back, the
whereabouts being indicated by the name upon a
neat brass plate, on one side of the door, " University
of London. Please to ring the bell."
The Government which would foster the institu-

tion should give it an importance by allowing the
graduates to be represented in Parliament ; and by
the incorporation of a new inn of court, where its
degree would entitle to the same privileges as an
Oxford or Cambridge at the old ones.
Here are a few hints hastily thrown together, but
they may possibly point out the way in which others
may follow more ably. I would earnestly wish for
the establishment of a respectable Eclectic University,
which should not be at the expense of injuring those
belonging to the Church of England. The time is
not arrived for the breaking down of all distinctions.
It will come, assuredly, but not at our call. The
best preparation for it is quietness and confidence.
Theological tests will not for ever remain to be a
stumbling•block in the way of unity ; for a shorter
time than we, perhaps, imagine. There certainly is
a seeking in men's minds now to some one level, as in
water. It is the feature of the age, and is shown in
all our mighty movements ; in German Catholicism as
much as in German neologism ; in High Church sighs for
unity with Rome as in evangelical alliances ; in
theories of development,whether physical or religious;
in Communism and in Young Englandism. Sir
Robert Inglis would possibly think all this blas-
phemy.
" Rusticus," (no offence to the country party)
" expectat dum defivat amius, at ille
" Labitur et labetur in omne oevum."

In theology, as in physics and politics, our catholi-
cizings stream all one way. Only bide your time,
and as surely as the grave shall swallow up all human
classification, and youth and age be levelled in eter-
nity with dogmas, articles, and cursing creeds—fences
thrown up to sever man from man by rump-majorities
in ecclesiastical synods more factious and more venal
than any in our just now stag-rag-and-bobtail Com-
mons—crumble before the glory of Gospel simplicity
as the coal- fire dies before the sun, and yield up
Christians one, unfettered and undivided, to the arms
all-conquering and all-embracing of the Prince of
Peace. Away will then be thrown all wordy elabo-
rations of belief; to the winds with all man's pompous
definitions of that which God left undefined,—there
shall be neither speech nor language, but one voice
shall be heard among us !
But this great consummation is in other hands
than ours, and it may be that the movements which
foreshadow it will have no part in effecting it. At
any rate you will do no good by the insulting of pre-
judices, or driving over cherished scruples ; you might
as well try to dam as drile the torrent. Work we
out well our own means, and let us hope that the
various confessions of our lips are welcomed all as aimed
one way, 7,-oAxa,!LEYavapwrotc, a'aaavx-roicrt
—discord to mortal ears, to Heaven's sweet harmony.
FREDERICK W. GREEN.
Brook, near Newport, Isle of Wight.

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CopperT I ON .
Sir,—Onand
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
R A ll FINOTeRdlln e
and Ea
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theß
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Lead, and more of Savings' Banks. The Bill on Copper
and Lead is to reduce the import duty on Copper to a
shilling a ton, both colonial and foreign, and Lead to
half-a-crown. A stout fight was made for a guinea a ton
on foreign ; which is tantamount to telling the users
of copper at Birmingham or elsewhere that they shall
subscribe money for the owners of Cornish mines,
and you at Bradford that your cloths shall not go
abroad for copper. The Bill, however, passed the
Committee without alteration, and was reported.
On Thursday the Government conceded to the
Opposition the limitation of the Savings Banks Bill
to Ireland. As was said by the Member for Dublin
(Reynolds), if the Bill had been good for anything,
England and Scotland would have had a share. For
my own part, I am utterly non-comprehensive on the
goodness or badness of the Bill. When people talk
of it as a remedy, I feel suspicious they are laughing
in their sleeves. Some men flew at me quite hotly,
and said " Here you declare a danger, and you throw
cold water on the remedy." I have no faith in anybody's
believing in the remedy. And this final limitation of
the Bill to Ireland is further proof of a desire to keep
the subject out of sight in England. If lam not mis-
taken, as much was said in Thursday's debate ; for I
certainly heard something about its being desirable to
" prevent alarm "in England. There are, lam told,
twenty-eight millions sterling—a pound apiece, the
boys and girls included—collected from the public in
Savings' Banks. What the Irish have saved out of
their potato-peelings, has been run away with already
to the tune of 50,0001. ; and here are we in the posi-
tion of " preventing alarm." Everybody knows, that
when we thus hear of " preventing alarm," the house
is on fire. The thing is true now; 50,0001. worth
is burnt in Ireland, and the question is whether
the hundred is to pay. This limitation to Ire-
, land is a dangerous move. Its tendency is to prevent
the rest of the family from looking into the peril.
There are a great many in the country more familiar
with the subject than I am,; and thus with them I
leave it.

On Friday was witnessed the mournful spectacle,
of the principal leaders of the Anti-Free-Trade
party putting themselves forward to subject the Go-
vernment to interrogatories touching alleged indul-
gences allowed to one of the Irish political prisoners at
Bermuda. As of the opposite party on the commer-
cial subject, I cannot be prevented from rejoicing, at
the diminution of public influence which will result
from the new association. We know now, where the
resistance to moderation in Ireland comes from ; and
see a possible connexion, with that Marat of the press
who said lately, " that Europe would not do well, till it
witnessed the execution of a great capital." On one
point I should have been bound to answer, if the
forms of the House had permitted entering into
debate. When it was asked whether any officer of
the army or navy would shake hands with a convicted
criminal, I should have answered for myself and
hundreds more, that we should decline shaking hands
with any officer too ignorant to know, that degrada-
tion can only be inflicted for degrading crime; and
the interrogatories have only brought out the fact, that
in this we should find ourselves supported by our caste.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, Sept. 4, IS4B.

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACK WOOD.
Of the political articles in the September number
of Blackwood we may speak elsewhere, if an oppor-
tunity presents itself after the prorogation of Parlia-
ment. We allude of course to the first and last
among the nine contributions—" A Review of the
Last Session," being a bitter anticipation of the sar-
castic speech of Mr. Disraeli; and " What
would Revolutionizing Germany be at ?" a chapter
in which the writer endeavours to sneer down the
effort of a great people to revive and vindicate their
nationality. More, immeasurably more to our taste,
are the miscellaneous papers in the magazine, several
of which (as one may be almost certain of in Black-
wood) are beyond imitation. First and foremost
come " The Caxtons "—a series pleasant to us as the
breath of morning, the whole air of it being so sweet,
so fresh, and so natural. A. new character is intro-
duced to us in this (the sixth) instalment, namely Sir
Sedley Beaudesert—a perfect specimen of " the true
fine gentleman, era the word dandy was known, and
before exquisite became a noun substantive "—a cha-
racter more refined than Lumley Ferrers, as con-
templative as Ernest Maltravers, as bewitch-
ing as Glaucus, and as fastidious as Pelham.
The discussion about the saffron bag on the pit of
the—as recommended, we mean to say, by Lord
Bacon, is capital. Pisistratus becomes the secretary
of Mr. Trevanion, and those who have a difficulty
in guessing what sort of duties devolve upon
the secretary of an active senator may learn the
reality as depicted by one who has evidently in his
time been a Member of Parliament. The twenty-
fifth chapter explains the last project of Uncle Jack
Tibbits, who is evidently bent upon ruining poor
Austin Caxton ; his scheme is certainly a magnificent
one, being nothing less than a literary journal, in size
and manner of arrangement like unto the Times—a
journal devoted to knowledge in contradistinction to
politics, treating respectively of art, science, and lite-
rature. Perhaps, as the author intimates, the project
will really, " one of these days make a man's for-
tune." It is evidently, however, leading rapidly on
to the ruin of the Caxtons, and we look to the sequel
of the story with feelings something akin to those of
trepidation. "Life and Times of George II." is an
agreeable running commentary upon the posthumous
work of the second Lord Hervey, who pourtrays his
contemporaries through the medium of clever satiric
gossip, and whose manuscripts have
.just been
edited by the Right ion. John Wilson Croker. A
notion of the aspect of the Court of George 11. is
conveyed to the mind in half-an-hour's delightful
reading—in the course of which half-hour you learn
much as to the eccentricity of Lord Chesterfield, as
to the bulk of the Queen, the sycophancy of Lord
Hervey-, the daring of the Duchess of Queensberry,
the origin of "The Beggar's Opera," by Gay, the
ministry of Sir Robert Walpole, the avarice of Bishop
Hoadly, and a multitude of other things connected
with the commencement of the eighteenth century.
Immediately before this chapter of political reminis-
cences there is a fine-spirited sonnet to Denmark,
beginning—

" Again the trumpet-blast of war is blown."
B. Simmons, moreover, gives us one of his charming
odes, addressed—" To a Caged Skylark, Regent's-
circus, Picadilly." In one part he apostrophizes the
bird thus :

" Winged darling of sunrise! how ofc at that hour
When the grassy lea lovingly tufted thy bower,
Thy friends the meek cowslips, still folded in sleep,
Didst thou burst, and meet morning half way from
the deep,
And circle and soar till thy small rosy wing
Seem'd a sparkle the far-coming splendour mightfling .t 4
" Life in the Far West" is continued joyously. A
pretty German story, called " The Great Tragedian,"
tells, with an occasional power, the jealousies of
Schonlein for Franz—both great tragedians. The
effect is very striking when they prove to be father
and son. In a rather rambling paper, headed " The
Moscow Retreat," a good idea is conveyed of the
character of the German romance, " 1812," by Rell-
stab, the romance being a kind of paraphrase upon the
picturesque, but too often fallacious, narrative of
Count Segur. The panegyric on Michael Ney, Mar•
shal of the Empire, Due of Elchingen, and Prince
of Moskwa, is nobly written and gloriously deserved.
As a whole, the magazine for September is admirable.