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London, England, 1835-01-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JAN. 24.—The Bordeaux journals say that Mina
left Pampeluna on the 17th. On the following day, a strong
detachment of the Queen's troops went to Iran to receive
a convoy with money and ammunition, sent from Bayonne,
and conducted it to St. Sebastian.

Zumalacarreguy, on his side, displays great activity, and
the Sentinelle says it will hardly be possible to put an end
to the struggle without foreign intervention. On the 14th,
at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zumalacarreguy set out
from Alegria (Alava) with some battalions, some wall
pieces and a 12-pounder, to attack the fort of Maesta, in
which there are 800 Christinos. This entrenched barrack
is at the junction of the roads of La Riaja and of Biscay, to
Arragon. The Christinos have 6,000 men at Zat ella. The
Christinos intend to fortify Lumbier.
Several journals have announced that the tribunals at
Paris did not sit on the 21st of May. This is wholly in-
correct, as any one may convince himself by casting- his eye
on the Gazette de Tribunaux of the 22d January,. which
contains several sentences pronounced the day before.. It
is certain that the Courts and Tribunals at :earls sat and
passed sentence on the 21st as on other days, and we can-
not conceive how it should be otherwise after the formal
abrogation of the law of 1816.—Messager, Jan. ,25.

The London tradesmen are looking fo .rward to a
productive and protracted season, as-there can b e little doubt
of a more than usually numerous assemblage of the Members
of both Houses, and of the sitting of I'arliamen reacLirp; late
into the stuniucr.
•

EDINBURGH.

MEETING of the SPECULATIVE SOCIETY.
(Abridged from the Caledonian Mercury.)
On Tuesday evening, the members of the Speculative
Society residing in Edinburgh, celebrated the seventieth
anniversary of its institution by a dinner in the Hopetoun
Rooms, to which about seventy gent:amen sat down. Lord
Jeffrey, supported by Lord Gillies and Nir..J. A. Murray,
was in the chair ; and Sir George Clerk, supportetihy Lord
Moncrieff and Professor Wilson, acted as croupier.
When the cloth was removed, Lord JEFFREY rose to
propose the toast of the evening, namely " The Speculative
Society." They must all feel that it would be idle in him
to detain them by any explanation of the value of such
an institution, and the benefits it was calculated to be-
stow. But at the same time, having an advantage, not
certainly much to be envied, in having to look back to
his own experience from a greater distance tban almost
any other person in the room—having also had longer op-
portunities than most of them of observing in others the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of having belonged to such an
institution, he might be permitted to say, that all his
observation and all his reflection had tended to enhance,
in his estimation, the value of its advantages, and to di-
minish his fear of any dangers or hazards which it might
be supposed to produce.—(Cheers.) But he could not take
leave of the subject without also saying a word or two on
what had been represented, and perhaps not without some
colour of reason, to be the dangers and disadvantages of
such an institution. He would not deny that an institu-
tion of this nature was not freed entirely from such ob-
jections ; but they were aware how natural it was in the
early aspirations after philosophical pursuits, for young and
ardent minds, to run into error ; but he verily believed that
it was the safest and best course 'for its ultimate eradication
to let such minds fairly exhaust themselves at an early pe-
riod of life. He believed that in the intellectual and physi-
cal, as well as in the moral nature, there was with ambitious
and ardent spirits a liability more or less to excesses and
outbreaks ; but which were best and safest to occur in early
life. It was a common phrase that young men should sow
their wild oats early ; he believed there were wild oats of
the intellectual as well as of the moral nature, and the sooner
they were sown the better—(Cheers.) The ground was
thereby sooner cleared, and in the crop of after-life the tares
were less likely to be mixed with the wheat. Thus the mind
was enabled to extinguish the glitter of paradoxes by the
application of principles early engendered—was armed
against the deceptive influences of scepticism and error,
and accustomed to look back on them as among its
early puerilities, which in its yet untried youth it had com-
batted and overthrown—( Loud cheers.) Snch, he conceived,
were the chief advantages of the Speculative Society in a
moral and intellectual point of view ; that it not only tended
to extend and enlarge the charities of intellectual life, but
in reality it encouraged and enabled its members to form a
justcr estimate both of themselves and of other men. And
though last, certainly not among the least of its advantages,
he was inclined to place the actual enjoyment and enuo-
Wing gratification which it produced. For his own part, in
looking back to that period of his life when he had expe-
rience of this Society, he could hardly conceive anything
in after-life more to be envied than the recollection of that
first burst of intellect—(Cheers)—when free from scholastic
restraint, and throwing off the thraldom of a somewhat ser-
vile docility, the mind first aspired to reason, and to question
nature for itself—(Cheers)—and, half wondering at its own
temerity, first ventured without a guide into the mazes of
speculation, or tried its unaided flight into the regions of in-
tellectual speculation—(Cheers)—to revel uncontrolled
through the bright and boundless realms of literature and
science.—(Great cheering.) True it was that all those
hopes were not realized—that those proud anticipation:,
were often destined to be humbled ; but still, could it be
doubted that they were blessings while they lasted, or that
they tended to multiply the chances of their being one day
realized? The Learned Lord concluded by giving " Pros-
perity to the Speculative Society," which was drunk amid
enthusiastic applause.
Sir GEORGE CLERK proposed " Prosperity to the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh."—(Cheers.)
Professor WILSON rose and returned thanks in his own
name, and in the name of his brother Professors. It had,
he said, frequently been his lot to return thanks for the
same toast, in various meetings, but he had never been pre-
sent at any meeting where the toast was given in a manner
more to his satisfaction and pride than on that occasion—
where he was surrounded by men of the highest education,
who took their stand upon knowledge as the only ground
upon which they would condescend to stand—when he re-
collected, considered, reflected, and felt, that they must
have warm hearts to the University of Edinburgh—when
he considered that there they had laid up these stores
of knowledge—where they had first cultivated the
germs of feeling and thought—where they had pro-
duced beautiful flowers, which had since ripened into
substantial fruitage. His friend, Sir George Clerk, had
alluded to the great men of former times, who had
filled the Chairs of that University. That allu-
sion, he was sure, must have awakened many tender,
many lofty recollections in the hearts of those present. The
most distinguished men there had lived in habits of amity
and friendship with no less men than Stewart, Playfair,
Leslie, Gregory, and others, who bad spread the fame of
the University of Edinburgh over the bounds of the civi-
lized world.—(Cheers.) It would be ungenerous, unjust,
and unphilosophical, and showing an ignorance of human
affairs, if they expected that, at every particular period of
our history, the University should present the same con-
stellation of genius as the past. It would be hard, indeed,
if we should be eclipsed by a comparison with the lustres
of our predecessors—it would be hard if the glory of the
Seminary should be thus turned against itself—and if it
should be said that we were small men, because these were
giants. This would be unfair, unless it could be shown
that we were not willing from the same golden urns to draw
light, and to hold it up to the generous youth who attend
our prelections. He concluded by returning thanks for the
honour which had been done to the Professors of the Uni-
versity, by so many of her chosen and most distinguished
sons.—(Cheers.)
klarofessor WILSON again rose, and begged to propose
The ht,lth.. of Lord Jeffrey."—(Great and continued
cheering.) Thje was no man living who respected Lord
Jeffrey's private ebarizter more than he did—there was no
man living who admired int: various and transcend:rat ta-
lents and great genius more than be did. Ho would say
so boldly ; for h had expressed that _respect and that asi-
miration in private more than a hundred times when ne-
cessary, and he would again express it hundreds of times
before the world. In early boyhood, when a student at
the University of Glasgow, he well remembered the
vivid impression made upon his mind, and the high in-
terest excited among the students there, and of himself
for one, to see something of the light of that then rising
star.—( Cheers.) He was pleased to remember those days,
because they brought back to his mind the generous en-
thusiasm of youth—those thoughts and feelings of which
he then largely partook, and the recollection of the deep
impression made on his mind by the various interesting
anecdotes which then floated about, concerning Lord Jef-
frey's brilliant though short career. At that period,
lie well remembered with what impatience he hurried
to the Courts of Justice, to hear the eloquence of
that astonishing pleader. He remembered how he was
used to look askance at the pale, quivering look of the cul-
prit at the bar, when all the evidence seemed to condemn
him, until he rose, the culprit's friend, the friend of the
wretched and the destitute, and when they heard from his
lips that commanding eloquence and power of argument,
learned at a higher school than the University—those gene-
rous emotions of the heart, and those brilliant scintillations
of the heart and of the reason. Speaking as he was to
some yet young, those sentiments would not appear to be
misplaced : for there and had been many instances of bright
promise in youth which has not been fulfilled—where mis-
fortune or disease had nipt the bud of promise, and ob-
scured the dawn before it could break forth into the glare
and sunshine of meridian day.—(Cheers.) But that was
far from the case with the distinguished person who now
filled the chair. His reputation waxed brighter and
brighter, and it was not many years before strangers
came from afar to listen to his eloquence, and to carry
his fame into distant countries.—(Great Cheering.) His
eloquence was as remarkable for its power as for the
warmth of colouring which his heart threw over it, and
fo is fancy combining the richest energies of political,
imagination. He (Professor Wilson) trusted that he had
shown in his own life, obscure as it was in many respects,
that he had a heart capable of feeling such things. He
hoped he had a fancy equal to understand and to go along
with him (Lord Jeflrey) at whatever distance—at all times
free from jealousy and envy, and still more so at that mo-
ment when lie was called upon to express those emotions.
At the time when Mr. Jeffrey flourished, the Bar of Scot-
land had never been stronger in its strength ; and he
(Lord J.) was one of a constellation as bright as any that
ever shone, though many had shone there, and many of
them were present at that hour. He (Professor W.) pre-
sumed that he might say, that when that bright career, in
the natural course of things, was clothed with the higher
honours of the profession, and when lie was made to sit on
that Bench which he had for so many years, and for hun-
dreds and thousands of times astonished with his matchless
eloquence, it was the universal feeling of the country that
he was well entitled to sit there.—(Cheers.) No false
delicacy should prevent him ; not even the presence of
the illustrious man himself should prevent him fiom ex-
pressing his admiration of the great and original genius
which had extended the fame of Scotland, and added dig-
nity to its national character.--(Cheers,) It was not of
Lord Jeffrey that he wished to speak. He was anxious
to place before their notice that highly-gifted person who
was endeared to the Society, and known to the civilized
world, as Francis Jeffrey.--(Tremendous cheers.) The

Learned Professor then uttered an eloquent eulogium o
the literary and critical labours of Lord Jeffrey ; freely
expressing, at the same time, and in a strain of most ins•
passioned and stirring eloquence, a decided dissent from
some of his critical dicta, especially with regard to the
poets who had been classed together as constituting the
Lake school—(Loud cheering)—in the course of which he
alluded to the manner in which he had brought into notice
the writings of Crabbe ; and, but for whit,'-,, the works of
that eminent poet would not perhaps at this day have been
so highly appreciated. He alluded also to his criticisms on
Burns, and remarked that it was a calumny to say that
Lord Jeffrey had libelled the character of that poet. • -After
some further remarks on his Lordship, in his character of
critic, and after a series of observations, as beautiful as we
ever listened to in panegyrical oratory, on his virtues and
amenity as a private man, the Learned Professor concluded
by proposing the health of Lord Jeffrey, which was drunk
with loud acclamation.
Lord JEFFREY said that he had long thought eloquence
might be best defined as the art of exaggeration—(Laugh-
ter)—and in the speech of his eloquent and Learned Friend,
he was not surprised that his ardour had betrayed him into
an exaggeration of which he (Lord Jeffrey) hoped he was
a little more sensible than some others of his auditors. He
really had not anticipated the very kind and undeserved
compliments which the Learned Profesior had just bestowed
upon him ; but he begged leave to tender his most sincere
and heartfelt thanks for the honour done him ; and while
he must make a large discount from the tribute paid to him,
he was still willing to believe that, in their cooler moments,
and when the excitement caused by the powers of the orator
had subsided, there would be a sufficient residue of good
opinion left to gratify the most craving appetite for praise.
—(Cheers.) He begged to be allowed to propose a toast
which had been assigned to him. The name which he had
then to utter was one which had for many years been more
before the public than any other man in this country,forpraise •
and for blame ; and he hoped so to present it to them as to
insure their universal and cordial approbation. The high ta-
lents and extraordinary powers which the individual to whom
he alluded had brought into public life, had early arrested
the attention of the country. But they who ascend into
high places cannot hope to escape unscathed by the light-
nings, or unruffled by the storms which prevail in those
exalted regions. In the wars of the giants., heavy blows
must be given and received. It was not, however, in this
more imposing and polemic character that he now begged
to offer to their notice the name of Henry Brougham.—
(Cheers.) He wished them to consider him now not only
one of the brightest ornaments of this Society, but as the
unwearied and distinguished friend, from his youth up to
the present day, of education, of literature, of science, and
of general instruction--(Loud cheering)—and he recom-
mended him to their kind consideration as the most dis-
tinguished advocate of all the great and important
branches of human culture and national improvement
this or any other age had beheld. From the time
ut which lie had first delighted his contemporaries in this
Society—from the time when yet in his nonage he pro-
duced a work of profound science, which strongly attracted
the attention of all the learned then in Europe, from Se-
racuse to Copenhagen--from those periods down to the
time when, seated on the woolsack as Lord Chancellor of
England, amongst his multifarious avocations, and amidst
the toils of State, he still found leisure to lay the founda-
tion of Societies for the instruction of the lower orders; and
to write elementary works for their instruction.--(Cheers.)
During the whole of that time he had never ceased to pur-
sue, with untiring zeal, the same great object of promoting
the education and intellectual and moral improvement of
every order in the community. Whether, in his earlier
efforts, he combated narrow prejudices against the admir-
able improvements of Bell and Lancaster (since carried to
a far higher pitch of perfection by our excellent townsman,
Mr. Wood), or, in his place in Parliament, underwent
Herculean labour in endeavouring to reclaim the funds
which the wisdom of our pious ancestors had dedicated to
the purposes of education, from the perversions of after in-
dolence or cupidity—whether by encouraging the establish-
ment of Mechanics' Institutes and Schools of Arts, in every
part of the empire, and that not merely by giving and so-
liciting large pecuniary contributions, but by procuring for
them the still more invaluable benefits of safe and zealous
intellectual guidance, and actually furnishing them with pat-
terns and models of the sort of discourses and expositions with
which they ought to be supplied, or by afterwards organizing
the publication of cheap and useful treatises upon every subject
of useful and entertaining knowledge,and actually, in the midst
of the infinite toils, and cares, and distractions, of the last.
four eventful years, writing with his own hand treatises of
this description, and making large contributions to new
editions of works, in which religion and philosophy were
blended. During that long period of more than thirty
years, he had never rested nor paused, nor turned aside for
an hour from the great task to which his life had been de-
voted, and for his efforts in which he knew that be was
most desirous to be remembered. Among the many won-
derful things that belonged to him, it was not the least,
that of him only it could be said with truth, that in the
midst of all his avocations, he had done more in support of
literature, general instruction, and philanthrophy, than any
other individual whom he (Lord Jeffrey) could name or
call to, his recollection had done, who had devoted his
whole life to nothing else. He could not propose Lord
Brougham's health without recalling to his own recol-
lection, and to that of some present, the effect which
his early appearances had upon this Society—their ad-
miration of the versatility of his talents, his fertile -and
exhaustless fancy, his intrepidity and even apparent
rashness, but which was proved in the end to be but in-
stinctive consciousness of power, encountering all subjects,
that power of illustration, that ardent and somewhat fero-
cious eloquence with which he scorched, and blasted, and
overthrew all those who dared to give him battle.—(Leid
cheers.) Having adopted, with the enthusiasm of his cha-
racter, a decided political course, it cannot be surprising
that his efforts should have not been pleasing to those who
differed from him in opinion ; but he (Lord Jeffrey)
trusted lie might say this, that a man of such a stamp
and such a character, the Speculative Society must be
proud to claim as a member.—(Great cheering.) • He
doubted not that the meeting would acknowledge him'
their most distinguished member ; and it was in that ehii-
racter that be (Lord Jeffrey) now proposed his health...-.
(Long continued cheering.)
Lord GILLIES then gave " The memory of Sir Walter
Scott," which was drunk in solemn silence.
Several other excellent speeches were afterwards deli-
vered, which our limited space will not allow us to give.;
stfter which the company separated, having passed a delight-
; ful evening.

'.THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY).'
ptAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trussei.)
CU MBERLAND.
Coal's'. beavy•;•owland Meadow Hay L 4 u to Z 4 . 6
'Zew Meadow lial, 4lO - 5 5
Useful Old Dittir,.. ..... 4 10., 520
Fine Upland sleadeo,w and Rye grass Hay . 5 5 5 0
Clover Hay - 5-;4
Cat Straw. .... ...... :,71 10 to Cl 121 Wheat Straw II4 . 1 1
- SMITHFIELD . . ..
Coarse heavy Lowland geb;:dow Hay £3 15 to £4.. 0
New Meadow Hay .. 4 I(1 .5 •5
Useful Old Ditto
ye_g,. rase Hay - 4-15
Fine Upland Me {low and R 50, - • 51.:5
(lover Hay (extra line .........5 lb. Generally ~ ..... 40, 5 5
Oat Straw
......... xl6to £ 1 8 • heat Straw ... 110 113
HUNGELIFORD.
Connie Meadow Hay ..... ........f3 lb to £4 0
40 4 1
New Meadow Hay ... 4 10 ... 3
Useful 01,1 Ditto ..... 4 5
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay .;.. 0 0 5 0
Clover Hay
12
lb 5
Oat Straw £0 0 to £0 0 I Wheat Str.'qr

MINING INTELLIGENCE''. Tons.Cwt.Qrs.
Quantity of Copper Ore sold ~ ...,r23 0 0
Quantity of fine Copper ..... •.:7; 15 0
Average Produce B%
...... ......., .
Amount of Sale, 20,5 ifi . 17s. 6d.—Average Standard, !CPI 4s. J.

( COLONIAL MARKETS.—( THIS DAY.'
BRITISH ' PLANTATION SUGARS.—The del Tories last week
were 2,200 hhds. The demand is steady. Further accounts
from the West Indies are looked for most anxiously.
East India and Foreign Sugars and Coffees are in demand,
and British Plantation Coffees arc also in good request, at
last week's, advanced. Low mid. Jamaicas fetch 975. 6d. to
98s. 6d. per cwt. Good to fine ord., 80s. to 965., and ma
to good Berbice, 100 s. to 106 s. 6d. per cwt.
Rest.—The delivery has rather increased both for exporta-
tion and home use : it amounts to 700 puncheons, at last
week's prices, all firm.
TBA.—The small sale announced for this week, by the Co-
lumbian, has produced no effect. The speculation demand is
not so active. The deliveries continue steady.
RICE.—The accounts from India represent that injury had
been done to the crops, and the markets here are firm. About
4,000 bags have been sold at improved prices.
CorroN remains inactive, but WooLs are more in demand.
Taf.tow.—A further decline has taken place in Tallow thi
morning, and sales have been made at 385. per cwt.

A good deal of merriment was caused at the Kil-
dare election by. one of the agents sending up an objection to
the assessor against James Fitzgerald, on the grounds, as stated
in the objection paper, of being an infidel and insane:—.Dublin
Evening Packet.
CIIURCII REFORNI.---NON-RESIDENcE.—The
following are some of the pleas for non-residence admitted by
the present act, 57 George 111., c. 99, s. 15 Serving
as stipendiary curate of another parish. 2. Being master or
usher of any endowed school. 3. Being master or preacher
of any hospital or incorporated charitable foundation. 4.
Being endowed lecturer of any other place, or chaplain of any
endowed chapelry, or preacher of any endowed preachership.
5. Serving as preacher in any proprietary chapel. 6. Be
chaplain of any garrison ; of the Military Asylum ; Military
Academy ; Military College ;• Greenwich'Hospiver 41VOlvia
Hospital ; Hasiar Hospital ; Vlymouth 4,41',1,19L1
.Penitentiary r". •
Asylum ; Navy ; Newgate ; pr
any British Factory abroad. 7. Being teal
Academy. 8. Being principal surrogatqar
clesiastical court. 9. Being librarian to the
or
or Sion College. 10. Being one
thp
Crewe's charity. . ' 011/T: "e