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been made, although they are compelled by the
exigencies of their position to admit the m to be
decided improvements. But surely the object
should be to obtain the legislation which
would prove most beneficial both for Eng-
land and for India, and the mode by
which that great desideratum may be accom-
plished is a matter of comparatively trivial im-
portance. It is measures, not men, that should
receive popular support ; and although it may
be derogatory to a despotic power to follow, in
place of leading public opinion, we should con-
sider it the imperative duty of a constitutional
Cabinet to respect the opinions of the chosen
representatives of independent constituencies.
A little discussion took place in the House of
Lords as to whether the resolutions should be
submitted far consideration before the bill framed
thereon was fairly ventilated in their chamber.
The Government very judiciously decided that
such should not be the case. It was the views of
the popular branch of the Legislature that they
desired to ascertain, before framing the bill, which
should afterwards run in its course with those
" born to statescrafc." The inconvenience of
carrying the resolutions through two assemblies,
possibly of (inflicting views, pari passu, must be
obvious. One side must be preferred, and that
would be calculated to give offence to the other,
and to render it more querulous respecting the
points where the " golden apple" was accorded
to its rival.

yet to be mentioned, and the history of that is
of all perhaps the most curious. This autograph
has, oddly enough, once or twice been supposed
to have been lost irrecoverably. It was known
to have existed, and was supposed thus to have
been lost beyond the chance of redemption, acci-
dentally burnt perhaps or otherwise destroyed—
until it was discovered in 1768, to his great de-
light, by Mr. ALBANY WALLis, a solicitor. It
was then found by Mr. WALLIS among the deeds
of that very same estate in Blackfriars (of which
this was the ancient mortgage deed) at that
period (1768), in the possession of a clergyman of
Oxted, Surrey, the Rev. Mr. FEATEERSTONHAUGH.
It was then presented to GARRICK. It was after-
wards said to have been lent by Mrs. GARRICK
to Mr. GEORGE STEVENS, the commentator. It
was then reported to have been lost again—appa-
rently without hope of recovery. Lost some-
where—nobody knew where Lost sometime—
nobody knew when. Lost by somebody
—nobody knew whom ! So matters continued
in regard to this remarkable—when, lo ! and
behold, it comes to light again, and happily, too,
in a perfect state of preservation. The ghost of
a suspicion is swept clean off the outbarred 'scut-
cheon of poor Mr. STEVENS' reputation. It now
turns out that, after all, the treasure must have
remained in the possession—or, at any rate, to
have returned into the possession—of Mr.
ALBANY WALLIS, the attorney. The partner in
the business belonging to Mr. WALLis was the
father of the present, or rather, we should now
sey, the recent possessor. And now we do really
hope that, for once and for all, we have done in
regard to this inestimable autograph, with these
most tantalising and bewildering mysterious dis-
appearances. It has been purchased by Mr.
BooNx, of Bond-street—Mr. BOONE acting on
behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum.
So that henceforth, like the signature in FLonro's
" Montaigne," the autograph is the national prc-
perty. Instead of bringing it home for merely
1001., or even 1401., the nation has given just
3151. for this jewel of a manuscript. It is well.
Not a farthing of that will be grudged. It was
a golden opportunity, and glad we are that the
opportunity was not lost—any more than the
Autograph.

The Master." Everybody who has read this
charming book, bears the passage tenderly—al-
most tearfully—in recollection.
It might apply equally well to " Old Pimos,"
dead fifteen thousand miles away in his Indian
grave, as to " Codd Colonel," dying calmly in bed
among the poor pensioners of the Asturians.
Read the words again—they are worth it—and
so applied they will be found not a jot less appli-
cable—" The boys of the school, it must be said,
had heard the noble gentleman's history, and had
all got to know and love him"—for TaomAs
NEWCOMB read HENRY HAVELOCK. For a mo-
ment think of the noble gentleman as "Old
PELOS" instead of " Codd Colonel" —and a new
significance will be given to the memorial meeting
holden on Thursday last at the Charter House, a
meeting of old Carthusians.
It was convened, this meeting, for the purpose
of initiating measures for commemorating the
services •f Sir HENRY HAVELOCK and his
brothers-in-arms, both naval and military—fallen
in the service of their country, whether in the
wars of the Crimea or of the Bengal Presidency
—and formerly educated together in the old
school, when " little, laughing, red-cheeked,
white-headed, grown-boy Carthusians." Among
the contemporaries of " Old Phlos "
present on Thursday—were the late Minister of
War, Chairman of the meeting, Lord PAN/LURE ;
the Right Rev. the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, the
Right Hon. Sir 0. CaEsswErz, Sir C. EASTLAKE
(President of the Royal Academy), and Mr. W.
TILA OILMAN, the celebrated novelist. It was
decided by those assembled together on the occa-
sion, that, by a marble tablet, to be inscribed with
the names of the heroic departed, as also probably
by a prize to be hereafter established by
way of commemoration, that the memories
of HAVELOCK and his compatriots should
be kept green among the haunts of their
childhood—the monument, of course, being
created within the walls of the Charter House,
and the prise connected with the foundation.
The Dean of Peterborough —evidently, by voca-
tion, a wag as well as a church dignitary—im-
proved the melancholy occasion somewhat whim-
sically by treating it in a facetious point of view
—in a speech which, we are told by the reporter,
produced shouts of laughter from the juvenile
Carthusians. However the incident may be re-
garded within the walls of the Charter House,
it can scarcely fail to be regarded without
those walls with the holiest inte-
rest. And probably the knowledge of
last Thursday's doings will two months later on
be enspiriting in the midst of that terrible sum-
iner campaign in Rohilcund some toil-worn, strife-
weakened, but heart-whole Carthusian. True
that the movement is somewhat after date
with reference to the Crimean dead, and be it
added in regard to Sir HENRY HAYELOCK him-
self—yet it is happily, as the old proverb says,
" better late than never," and so honour to the
generous memories of old and young Carthusians.

The bill is strictly in accordance with the
explanations given by Lord STANLEY and Mr.
DISRAELI, and seems fully and fairly to carry out
the views accepted by the House of Commons.
There may, of course, be some modification; but
the principles have been virtually sanctioned, and
the House will not be disposed to change its
mind, or subject itself to a charge of tergiversa-
tion, for the purpose of improving the position
of the Palmerstonian malcontents.

Having already explained the nature of the
measure, there is but little to say as to its details,,
save that they are entirely in accordance with the
deductions drawn from the speeches of the lead-
ing members of the Government. There is to be
a Secretary of State ; a fifth, in place of a Presi-
dent ; and it shall not be necessary for the Presi-
dent of the Board of Control, if appointed to that
office, to undergo a new election. Lord STANLEY
has already been three times elected within 15
months. The independent constituency, who
honoured themselves by the election of such a
man, dispensing with his attendance the last
time, in consideration of the arduous duties that
devolved on him, would be the first to approve of
this alteration from the established rule which, if
maintained, would only lead to inconvenience and
delay, when prompt action would be of the ut-
most importance.

THE LATE MEETING AT ST. JAMES'S

HALL.

At a numerously art naed meeting of laymen,
communicants of the Church of St. Barnabas, held
on the 17th of June, 1858, the following resolutions
were moved and passed unanimously :
" 1. That whereas the charge lately made against the
Rev. Alfred Poole, at a meeting held at St. James's Hall,
June 11, 1858, are scandalous and false, and are calculated
to prejudice his appeal to the Archbishop, this meeting
deelares its heartfelt sympathy with, and undiminished
confidense in, Mr. Poole as their minister, who, by his
spotless life, and unceasing labours amongst them for 7
years has won the affection of all classes of his people.
"2. That this meeting declares its admiration of Mr.
Poole's conduct in the trying and difficult circumstances in
which he has been placed ; and that to the best of its belief
during his seven years' ministrations at Sc. Barnabas he has
uniformly acted with discretion, and not exceeded in his
teaching or practice the doctrines or discipline of the
Church of England.
" 3. That this meeting, consisting as it does wholly of
communicants at[St. Barnabas, distinctly denies that it is
the practice of the clergy to require confession as a prepa-
ration necessary to the reception of the Holy Communion ;
but it asserts, on the part of the clergy and of the laity, the
right of the latter to the [practice of confession and the
benefit of obsolutian, as set forth in the service for 'Order-
ing of Priests,' in the ' Exhortation in the office of Holy
Communioni' and the 'Order for the Visitation of the
Sick,' in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of
England.
"4. That this meeting has heard with the utmost indig-
nation of the foul aspersions cast, at the meeting at St.
James's-ball, upon the reputation of ladies of the most un-
blemished character, whose one: tions and kindness among
the poor in the district are held in the highest estimation by
every one here present, and the greatest confidence is felt
by this meeting that the offertory alms have never been
misapplied by the clergy or district visitors.
"5. That this meeting cannot separate without expresiing
its fervent attachment to the Book of Common Prayer, ane
its assent to the following passage, extracted from the 36th
canon of the English Church :—" That the Book of Com-
mon Prayer, and of ordering of bishops, priests, and
deacons, containeth in it nothing contrary ) the Word of
God, and that it may lawfully so bo used."
"ti. Resolved—That a copy of these resolutions ba for-
warded to the Bishop of London, with an urgent request
that his lordship will reinstate the Rev. Alfred Poole in
his curacy, or be pleased tostate, for the satisfaction of the
district, the grounds of his dismissal.
" 7. Resolved,—That a copy of these 'resolutions be for-
warded to the Archbishop of the province."

Four of the five Secretaries of State and four
under Secretaries may, at the same time, sit in
the House of tiommons. This is an essential
proviso in consequence of existing enactments.
But all should be qualified. There is no just
reason why any restriction should be plaeed
on the Government, who should be authorised
to place the most influential and experienced
heads of each department in the position where
their services could be most beneficial to them,
the QUEEN, and the country.

1 sale by auction would certainly appear a
curious theme for comment in this particular part
of our impression. Yet one has recently occurred,
at the mart of a celebrated firm of auctioneers, to
which we would here briefly direct public atten-
tion for a few moments—regarding (as we do)
one item in this sale to be a subject of very gen-
eral interest, and from its significance, a cause, in
a great measure, for national exultation. We
allude to the sale, on Monday last, at Messrs.
SOTHERY and Wiramrsores, of a rare collection of
oil books, until very recently the property of a
well-known Shaksperian commentator. The lite-
rature comprised in this collection was illustrative
of the Early English Drama, including among it
many choice editions of plays by MARSTON; HEY-
WOOD; BEN JoNsort—above all, of SHAKSTERE.
Among these last-mentioned various curiosities,
such as the copy, date 1600, of " The Excellent
Historie of the Merchant of Venice, with extreme
Cruelty of SHYLOCK; the Jew, towards the said
Merchant, in cutting a just Pound of his Flesh,
and the obtaining of PORTIA by the Cuoyse of
Three Caskets :" or, again, the 1619 issue of
"The most pleas‘nt and excellent-conceited
Comedy of Sir JOHN FALSTAFIE and the Merry
Wives of Windsor, with the swaggering vaiue of
Ancient PISTOL and Corporal! NYM." It
is not, however, to the vending of these
choice versions of renowned originals that
we would here direct the popular observation :
any more than we would descant at length upon
the hammer falling at the price of 861. for " The
most excellent and lamentable Tragedie of Romeo
land Juliet,' as it hath been sundrie times pub-
likely acted by the KING'S Majestie's servants at
the Globe"—vended by JOHN SMETHWIQX, Anno
D. 1609, "at his shop in Sainte Dunstane's
Churchyard, in Fleete Street, under the Dyall."
The lot we here wish to refer to, was the last lot
sold at this auction on Monday by Messrs.
SOTHEBY and Wilactsrsorr. It was one of the only
autographs of WILLIAM SHAISPERE DOW extant—
one out of those Six famous Autographs. Three
out of the Six are signatures to the Immortal
Bard's last will and testament—one upon each
of the three sheets of paper upon which that re-
nowned will is written—a document preserved
among the most valuable MSS. belonging to the
nation in the Prerogative Office of Doctors' Com-
mons : one of these three autographs being de-
plorably mutilated, another being very bold and
legible, and the last having a superfluous stroke
or so in it, as if from a tremor in the poet's hand
as he wrote. A fourth signature was that most
perfect of all the autographs of &WESTER; dis-
c )vered some years back in a • small folio
volume, after having been as many as sixty
years in the possession of the Reverend EDWARD
PATTESON, Minister of Smethwick [the ridiculous
name is somehow becoming quite Shaksperian]
near Birmingham. It is on the fly-leaf of the first
edition of FLORIO' S " Translation of Montaigne.'
The volume was sold by auction in 1838, and
was purchased for 1001. by the Trustees of the
British Museum—where it has remained ever
since, of course, tenderly preserved among the
most precious of the national treasures. Twenty
years after that purchase another, the sixth of
SHAKSPERE'S autographs, has just been purchased
at an auction—also for the Trustees of the
British Museum. But before we speak of this
sixth autograph, we have yet to particularize the
fifth—the autograph affixed to the Deed of
Bargain and Sale, which was sold by auction in
1841, being purchased for 1451. by the Corpo-
ration of the City of London ! This extraordi-
nary purchase having been afterwards denounced
in Court of Common Council as "a most wasteful
and prodigalexpenditure," thestep was vindicated,
for, inasmuch as "it was not very likely that the
purchase of the autograph would be acted upon
as a precedent, " for," quoth the defenders of
the act, rather superfluously, " SHAKSPERZ stood
alone in the history of the world." wo wonder,
in remembrance of this act of grace and generosity
on the part of the London Corporation, no wonder
that in referring to the incident CHARLES KNIGHT
exclaims, "Honoured be those who have thus
shown reverence for the name of SHAKSPERE 1"
Bat there is the Sixth autograph of Sitsitsrzaz

The New Bill will doubtless receive fair consi-
deration from both branches of the Legislature.
Anything in the shape of factious opposition is
now out of the question, and we doubt not that a
wise and statesmanlike measure for the future
government of India will receive the Royal
As,ent before the close of the present Session.

The paper duties are doomed. The resolution
unanimously adopted by the House of Commons
last night, w;th the assent of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has sealed their fate. They
cannot survive next session, and we may congra-
tulate our contemporaries of the Fourth Estate,
zind the community at large—the greatest gainers
by the change on this additional felicitious result
—of the accession to place and power of Lord
DERBY and his efficient coadjutors.
The only Member who ventured to impeach
the proposition of the Right Hon. Member for
Ashton, was Sir G. C. Liam. He said quite
enough to show that if he remained at the head
of the financial department, the anxiously looked-
for fiscal changes would be deferred to the Greek
kalends I But Mr. DISRAELI is a man of a very
different calibre of intellect. He gained his
earliest laurels as an author, giving promise of the
future fruit which was then, germinating, and
with a clear knowledge of the trials and difficul-
ties that await a juvenile genius, he could sym-
pathise with the demand, although the stern
exigencies of State policy, and the imperative
claims of the public creditor, prevented him from
immediately granting the required relief.
If, however, Lord DERRY and Mr. DISRAELI be
in office next session, if the earnest cravings of
Lords PALMERSTON and JOHN RUSSELL and their
adherents should be disappointed, we may reason-
ably hope that the last remaining " tax on
knowledge" will be abolished, and that journalism
will be freed from its greatest impediment—the
fiscal fetter—by which it was enchained.

A telegraphic despatch has been received in Paris an-
nouncing that the steam frigate Impetueuse, despatched
from Toulon for the Adriatic, anchored at Gravosa, near
Ragu,a, on the 18,h inst. The Irnpetueuse is to replace
the ship of the line Eylau.
It is said that the Montenegro question is to be
arranged oy coinirai-sioners sent there to define the
boundariei. In that case Admiral.Turien de Lagraviere,
who commands the French ships in the Adriatic, will
act for France. Two steam gun-boats, the Fulminante
and the Aigrette, are to be sent to the Adriatic to facili-
tate Admiral Julien de Lagraviere's communications
with the shore.

The nuptials of Lady Agnes Grosvenor, daughter of
the MarquP and Marchioness of WeAminster, and Sir
Archibald Islay Campbell, Bart., are to be solemnised at
the close of the present month.

MAIL TO THE UNITED STATES.—On Wednesday (to-
morrow) the screws+earner City of Washington will sail
with the mails for the United States from Liverpool to
New York. The Post•offfce box at Liverpool will close
at 7.30 a.m., with late fee at 8.30 a.m., and on the land-
ing-stage a little. after 9 a.m.
EXTRA MAIL TO JAMAIOA.—An extra mail will be
despatched from Liverpool to Kingston, Jamaica, on
Thursday next, the 24th inst., by the screw steamer
&Madill. Letters will be received at the Liverpool post
on that day till 4.15 p.m., and till 4.30 p.m. with a late
fee.

It has been intimated that the late Ahmed Pasha, so
unfortunately drowned in the Nile, has left by will the
sum of 20,0001. to the individual from whom he acquired
his knowledge of the French language during his visit to
Rini.. Needless to say, the professor was not a master,
but a mistress.

One of the Paris journals, having declared what is be-
lieved to be the truth, eoncerning
the hopeless state of
M. de Pens, whose digestive organs are so much injured
that n r remedy can stop the incessant vomiting, has
received a warning, And instructions to contradict the
statement. The editor of the Pays has also been re-
primanded for certain criticisms which appeared in his
paper concerning the English Ministry. -Court Journal.
A DANGEROUS FALL.—A young man in the employ
of Mr. Wilson, farmer, Cairngarroch, Stoneykirk, was
on Tnursday last sent by his master to warn some folk
for peat-nutting, and, to save some travel, be bad takes
a foot-path leading along the edge of the Cairngarroch
heughs, and by some means fell over one of them ; fortu-
nately it was not perpendicular, but. rather inclining to a
declivity, computed to be nearly 300 feet in depth. Over
this the youth rolled ; and it is truly a-tanishing how he
eacaped, not having received a single fracture of bons,
although much bruised and out ; some of the nails of Lis
fl.tgers are torn off, caused by his desperate efforts to re-
gain a footing, the time-worn rock giving way at every
clutch. When hurled to the bottom, stunned by the
fearful descent, he lay from six o'clock on Thursday
evening until two o'clock on Friday efternoon, when he
was discovered in his perilous situation, and at once
taken care nf, and is now fast recovering from the effects
of his fall.— Wigtown Free Press.
REDUCTIoN or POSTAGE ON LETTERS TO MAR•
TINIQUE, GUADELOUPE, AND Cunacoa.---,,0n the let
of July next, and thencef ir ward, the postage upon
letters conveyed isy packet between the United
Kingdom and Martinique, Guadeloupe, or Cu--
rag ra, will be reduced to the uniform British rate of
sixpence the half-ounce, and AO on according to the
usual scale. This postage must ba paid in advance, or
the letters will not be forwarded.—Rovrasin HILL, Se
cretay r.
THE BOMBAY MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday—
Toe steamship Valet a, Csptai i Robert., arrived this
afternoon, with the heavy partion of the above mails,
, pas' Is of the value of 222,0001, 6 cases of tortoise-hell,
1 case of shawls, 3 boxes of di spatchee, 23 cases of sUk,
1,534 hales of raw silk, and 33 packages of sundries.
She brings 40 passengers, among whom are Colonel and
Mrs. Jacobs, M j a and Mrs. Morris, Colonel Bellasie,
and Dr, James. The Valetta spoke the following
ships :—Jnne 9, the Vectis, steering south-east ; 13th,
Judas, off Galita ; 17th, the Engli=h bargee Lady Stan.
le off Cape Vincent ; War, the Northam, off Stsrt
Point; 2lst, steamship Riwin Fox, off St. Alt an's
Head. The dates of sailing were Alexandria, June 8;
Mal a, 11 ; Gibraltar, 16. Gibraltar exchange on 143u-
don at 90 day s' date, 49i.
The East India Company's troop-sh.p Trafalgar,
Captain Ta) lur, arrived at Gravesend on Saturday
from India, with a large number of sick and
wounded troops on bo rd. The detachmen's, con-
sisting of four wen of the 12th Lancers, three men
of the let Royals, two sergeant?, three corporals,
and two privates of the 84th tZegiment, and
twenty-seven men of the 43rd Light Infantry, with
three women and twelve children, embarked at
Madras on the 27th of February, and sailed on the
following day, the voyage occupying 113 days. The
Trafalgar touched at St. Helena on the 30th of
April, and sailed on the 2d ult. During the voyage I
no deAths cccni red on boajd.

This is another of the beneficial results which
has followed the abolition of the Palmerstonian
dictatorship, and the ejectment of his chief
henchman, Sir GEORGE C. LEWIS, from
Downing-street. Should he by any unfor-
tunate chance be restored, the tax on know-
ledge will be maintained, the Leviathin will still
pay its 38,0001. per annum, and we shall pay what
would be a very handsome sal iry for an efficient and
talented writer. We taro not for the competi-
tion that it may produce ; we are for free trade
in literature (and in money) as well as in com-
modities. In the olden time a man's hand
guarded his head--now, the head shall protect
the pocket; aad we rejaioe at the unrestricted com-
petition that may ensue, albeit we have nearly
reached the allotted life of man, and can bail even
the Times as a younger brother.

But it is not only for literary
duty is desirable. It
operates the coarse de-
purpasest
that the abolition of the
operates very prejudicially
Packingor other
scriptions of paper are required,for
purposes, and the Excise restrictions and regulations,
consequent on the tax, are more burdensome,
even then the pecuniary impost. Besides, a hope
has been held out of a total revision of the fiscal
system. The Palmerstonians themselves admit
that Lord DERBY does not promise unless be
means to perform ; and thus, if the noble lord
remain in power, we may reasonally hope' for
what would never be attained under the sway of
PALMERSTON, WOOD, LEWIS, and Co.

"The bays of the school, it must be said, had
heard the noble gentleman's history, and had all
got to know and love him." Mr. THACKERA
readers will remember the sentence—it occurs in
his last chapter of his History of the NEWCOILES.
The reference is to Codd Colonel—dear old
Tuolcas NEWCOME-jUSt before (the close of his
life) he suddenly cries Adsum 1 "and 10, he,
whose heart was as that of a little child, had an-
swered to his name and stood in the preience •f

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