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'Ain "ELIOT WARBURTON'S New Historical Romance, "
GINALD HASTINGS." 3 vols.

Madame PULSZKY'S " MFM6IRS of a HUNGARIAN LADY.
Con-quisling full and ItAeresting Details or the War in Hungar;
2 vols., 21s.

ly PONSONBY'S New Novel, PRIDE anl lICRESOLL7
TION," A Second Series of " The Dlsc,pline of Life." 3 vols.
Iv.
LEAVES from a LADY'S DIARY of her TRAYEL3 in BAR.
DAILY. 2 cols., 21s.

T.
AN EASTER OFFERING. By FREDRIKA BREMER.
Tramlateft from the Unpublished Swedish MS., by MARY
lIOWITT. 1 vol., 55., bound.

VI.
EVELYN'S DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE. New, Revited,
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•
VII.
The sco.rnsii CAVALIER. An Historical Romance. By J.
GRANT Esq., Author of " The Gordon Highlanders," &c. 3 vols.

_
VIII.
REVELATIONS of PRINCE TALLEYRAND. By M. COL
MACHE. the Prince's Private Secretary. Cheaper Edition. 1 vol.
10s. Gd., bound.

IX.
SAM SLICK'S " OLD JUDGE ; or, Life in a Colony." Cheaper
Edition. I vol., 103. id., bound.
Henry Celburn, rub:isher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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and the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regext-street. Also, at 34,
Church-street, Liverpool.
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portraits now taken by Yr. Beard."
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The Times.

zo tThe 20e next quinquennial division of surplus profit will be made up
th November, 1852.
irienr4bd"t haswt thehos
whose
sameprem must iums became duo on the Ist instant, ate
be paidda within thirty day s from that
.de
apCplication opies of the last Report and all other information may bo had on
JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.
April 4, 1850.

NATioNAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
The leadin Capital
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26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
T roprietar Y
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guaranteed of an ample
Act of
r tres of the Society are
Id Capi t a I •oderate Ratee of Premiums.
Two-thirns Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits.
Bair the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years.
Exte
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neive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
A 1641
crate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
N.B. The but Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65
per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid.
—._________ Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options.
IA

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addition Bonus nent Re-1 Assured
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in duction of may bor-
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Assured.
to Sum Cash.
Premium.; Policy.
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UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
II COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
, Waterloo-place,Pall-mall, London; 97, ,;eorge-street, Edinburgh;
12, lit. Vincent-place, Glasgow ;4, College-green,
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Chairman.
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policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of
December, 1847
, is as follows:

Sum_. 0.--
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Flit Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
Silly one-half need be paid for the first five years when the In-
surance is for Life.
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SFENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE,
1,1 patronised by thousands for upwards of twerdy years. is the
only article extant which effeztually changes in a few minutes with-
out trouble, red or gray hair, whiskers, &c., to a dark brown or
black, by simply applying it with a comb. While other dyes destroy
the hair by their pernicious properties, this liquid promotes its
growth. Persons who have been deceived by preparations which
have a horrible stench (dangerous to the head), &c., will dud
Fencer's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye agreeable in every respect, and
that ~ none but itselt can be Its parallel." Price 3s. 6d., Gs., and
les. per Bot le.
To be had of Akers. SPENCER and Co., 29, Nottingham-place,

Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel-road, London ;
Sold also by Hooper; 43, King William-street, London-bridge ;
Johnstone, 68, Cornhill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Barclay, 95, Earring-
don-street ; Front, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; At-
kinson, 24, 014 Bond-street ; Prentis, 84, Edgeware-road ; Finnigan,
30, Siilson-street, Bath ; Elmore, 31, Bull-street, Birmingham ;
alines, Edinburgh ; and of most respectable Perfumers, &c.
Observe—Spencer's Name and Address are on the Wrapper.
HAIR NOURISHED, BEAUTIFIED; AND RESTORED.
SPENCER'S CELEBRATED RUSSIA FLUID.
This inestimable compound is unequalled for preserving and re-
Tr.duelng the huinfut Hair. even at the latest period of life, prevent-
ag it from turning grey, freeing it from dandruff, rendering it soft,
elastic and curly, so that heat, damp, nor continued exercise
Will in the least destroy its splendid appearance, and imparting a
delightful perfume. It is invaluable for children, as it lays the foun-
tytelobrrtooufs. an&e,x.celpleinicteh27. dd6of.,hair; promotes the growth of Whiskers
and 4s. per Bottle.
It may be obtained of the above repectable Shopkeepers.

Dn.
had CULVER WELL'S NEW WORKS.
o be of Sherwood, 23, ; Carva o,
147, FleeTt-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;Paternoster-row
or direct from the author;
Arica One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
, "Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
,syreNTs:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Bills,
FTrips orests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
and Rambles—Thu Sea—Londoi at Night—Evenings at Home
::-Manic—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
11'4q, Ease, Occupation, &c., &s.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Twe
' Yn.
A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &C.
Tol. 11.
TUE. LAKES OF IULLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c.

. -
111.
"
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID-
That three score years and ten our course may run."
popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of net,
vousiydebilitated health tmd enfeebled constitution, that harasses
the
I%;e, With tables and
Di old'Youn besets the man of pleasure , business, or study, and era-
tters
lation of every-day life.. gluesrefor the diet and physical regu-

IV.
" THE PASSIONS.
What passions hurt the body—what improve,
BunucT ;—Life's Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
!i!f the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of
lignntiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
il remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
Plooltlira" To be or not to be, that is the question."
.. z:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
;choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament o and
gum, to secure healthy offspring, with the art H
of rearing them.
Cases, defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
,ases, &c.
(1824)•
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Twenty-five 'years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
matters. Reception hours daily till five. Evenings, sevea till nine.
1° Argvll place. Regeat-street

THIRTY-FIRST EITIN'.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical ColoureDd EsiOgravin7s on Steel.
kIN PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO 31AltRIAG E.
• INCA-
Kew Edition; enlarged to 196 pages. Just pu'ilished,'prlce 2s. Gd., or
'Tby post, dire,t from the Establishment, 3s. Gd. in postage stamps,
HE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of th 3 generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
With remarks en Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
qttalifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and
L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange,
11, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger. 150, Oxtord•street ;
Starit, 23, Tltchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-produe'lvo
organs, and is Illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
Patty treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
4ulgenee, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
Mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity.- Illustrated by 'I brew Explanatory Engravings. P
ear 111. treats of the diseases resulting front infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and ciintains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravings.
Paler IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
Th plc application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
is. important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.
Patti' V. Is devoted to the eonsideration of marriage, and its du-
tWhole ies. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
IMbiect critically and philosophically inquired into.
Coanue BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively employed in
l,reatlna nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I Is. and 335.
ier bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
86rfir„e„13'' for Purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
jo...,...cinaia,,eerrryupstlio,nursir3altid4 the abuse of mercury, Ils. and 335. per
;tie.
Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is.
• per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhcea, gleet, stricture, and
chronic Inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
lion A:minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and post-
. lii,3iisiiiinsiciitcl4;
buy. tw.andi,cetit,,ti,,,eitfietea,dvice, to be had at the Y-ta-
is saved. Messre. Perry,
urgebns, are, in Berners-street, Oxford-
:ttendance daily sitt"l9,
street, London. from Eleven till Two and FiVe to Eight ; on Sun-
-49)21. r40P1,1, to. Ong.

BRIGHTON.

FREEHOLD RESIDENCE, on the MARINE-PARADE, with

Immediate possession.
ATE.. BEADEL is instructed by the Trustees
IT A_ of the late William Greenhill, Esq., to SELL' by AUCTION,
at the Old Ship Hotel, On SATURDAY next, at Three o'clock in the
atlernoon, the Freehold Residence, placed in amost eligible situation,
No. 75, Marine-parade, fronting the Sea, and adapted for the occu-
pation of a small family.
Particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Shearman and Slater,
solicitors, 23, Great Tower-street, London ; Messrs. Copeland,
solicitors, Chelmsford, Essex; at the Old Ship Hotel, Brighton;
and of Mr. Heade', 25, Gresham-street, City.

READING 6—tile; HOLIDAYS.
TILE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS
Have just been published by Mr. COLBERN, and may be had at all

MASTERS'-OFFICES, SOUTHAMPTON-BUILDINGS,
Wednesday, the 3d day of April, 1850.
IN the matter of the JOINT-STOCK COMPA-
NIES' WINDING-UP ACTS, 1818 and 1849, and of the
GALWAY and ENNIS GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY. By direction of JPIDI ELIJAII BLUNT, Esquire, the Master
of the high Court of Chancery cha-ged with the Winding-up of the
atnirs of this Company, Notice is hereby given that the said Master
will, on FI:IDAY, the 19th day of April instant, at Eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane, t (melon, proceed ferther in the Settlement of the List of Con-
tributories of this Company, and atter such List shall have been so
settled, no party affected thureby will be allowed to dispute the same
with Out leave of the High Court of Chancery first obtfd e 1.

G. and C. S3IITII,
5, Southanaptou•buildings, London,
Solicitors to tlic 01/lelal

THE RoYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, P.EGE!ZT-STREF.T.
Dr. Bachhoffner's Second Lecture on the Philosophy of Scientific
Recreation—Optical Effects, daily et Two, and every Evening except
Saturday, at Eight o'clock.—Third Lecture by J. 11. Pepper, Esq.,
on the Chemistry of the Metals, with brilliant Experiments, daily
and in the Evenings. —An entirely new Series of Dissolving Views
exhibiting Scenes in Ceylon, front Sketches taken on the spot by A.
Nicholls, Esq., painted on Glass ry Mr. Clare. Also a series of
Visas of the Arctic Regions, with an interesting Description, daily
at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings. The Views of London in
the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is, are shown at One o'clock.—
Experimeats with the Diver and Diving-hell, &e., &C.

Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.

ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
Windmill-street, St. James's.

Musical Director and Conductor, M. LAURENT, jun.
This ACADEMY, for Tuition and Practice of DANCING, is
NOW OPEN for the Season. Teaching by rrofessors Calkins,
Illoxey, and Franconi.
Eor Terms of Private Tuition apply at the ofTlee.—Terms of Sub-
scription, for morning and evening practice :—Six months, 5/. 5s ;
one month, 11. Is.; one evening, is. Subscribers' tickets not
transferable.

The Academy will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Elzlr
o'elock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely.

EVENING EXHIBITION.

T""
lIIBI'rION of WORKS of ANCIENT
and 31 EDIrEVAL ART and :SPECIMENS of RECENT
Rill ma MANUFACTURES, is NOW OPEN, at the House of
the Society of Arts, Jelin-street, A delphi, Daily, between the hours
of Ten and Five and IN ADDITION from Seven till Ten on the
Evenings of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
Admission, Is.—Catalogue, is.

NEW PICTORIAL EXHIBITION
309, REGENT-STREET,
Adjoining the Roval Polytechnic Institution.
The BRITANNIA TUBULAR BRIDGE on a Grand Scale, with
Views of WOLVERTON VIADUCT, COVENTRY, BIRMING-
HAM, CHESTER. the VICTORIA TUBULAR BRIDGES over the
CONWAY, Re.. &c., &c., to which has been added SNChN DON,
from CAPEL CARIG.
Painted by J. W. ALLEN, Esq.
A Description by JOHN CLARKE, Esq.
During the Holidays this Exhibition will open at Eleven o'clock,
Quarter past Twelve, Malf-past One, Quarter to Three, Four, o'clock;
and in the Evenings at Seven and a Quarter-past Eight.
Admission, One Shilling ; Schools and Children, half-price.
Doors opened a quarter of an hour before each xhibition.

et RAND BAL MASQUE, CASINO DE
VENISE, 218, High Holbo•n.
The SErOND BAL MASQUE at this estaldi=hinent will take
place on MoNnir, April 8, for the BENEFIT of Mr. PACKEIt,
musical director and conductor. The band will be greatly augmented
by the addit.on of numerous artistes of repute. The general ar-
rangements • 1 the bal room will be superintended by six 31.C.'s.
The spac.ous and well•ventilathd salle de danse magnificently embel-
lished, and with accommodation for 3,000 persons, will be thrwwn
open at half past nine o'clock, dancing to commence at ten o'clock.
Lady's ticket, 3s. ; gentlemen's ditto, ss. ; to be had at a 1 the
principal music warehouses and libraries.
Supper in the upper salon at one o'clock, 3s. 6d. each.
Co;timuer, Alr. Nathan, Castle-street, Leicester.square.—Persons
dressed as clowns, pantaloons, not admitted.

VISIT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL

TO MANCHESTER.

MANCHESTER, THllRSDA.Y.—Yesterday afternoon was
devoted by Lord John Russell cnd his friends to sight-
seeing in Manchester. The first place they visited was
the large establishment of Mr. Fairbairn, the eminent
engineer, whose name has been associated with that of
Mr. Stephenson in the construction of the Britannia Tu-
bular Bridge. They were received at the entrance of
the works by Mr. Fairbairn and the other partners of
the firm, and went over all the departments of the esta-
blishment. Their stay here was, however, compara-
tively short, as there was necessarily much similarity
between the works here and those of Messrs. Nasmyth
and Gaskell, at Patricroft, which they:had visited in the
morning. His Lordship minutely examined the loco-
motive engines, of which twelve or fifteen were in
various stages of progress, as well as several large
stationary engines which were also in course of
construction. The drawings for these engines were
also inspected by his Lordship; hut those which
most attracted his attention were the drawings for
the Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges, as well
as the drawings for a tubular girder bridge, constructed
on the same principle as the Britannia, one of which is
now in course of construction for the Norfolk Railway
over the Burn at Yarmouth. Leaving these gigantic
works, his Lordship next turned to several small tank
engines which were making, combining locomotive and
tender in one engine, and calculated to use not more
than half the quantity of fuel expendei by the ordinary
locomotives. These engines are ordered for the Ulster
and the North-Western Companies, and are intended for
those branch lines on which comparatively little traffic
takes place. These engines have a 10-inch cylinder,
which, it is remarkable enough, was the size first
adopte I on the Liverpool Aid Manchester Railway.
Since then the poser and magnitude of the engines
have gone on gradually increasing, till now that the
necessities of the times have induced the railway cern-
panics to return, at least on tleir small lines, to the
standard which was adopted in the infancy of railway
enterprise.

Ilairing gone over these works, Mr. Fairbairn accom-
panied his Lordship and party to the establishment of
Messrs. Par:, Curia, and Co., in the immediate neigh-
bourhood, where Lord John minutely examined the in-
genious mechanism there in use for making the cards
used in the manufacture of cotton.

On leaving Messrs. Curtis's establishment, the party
proceeded to the Mayfield Print Works, a firm which
has acquired so much celebrity from their production of
the fabrics so familiarly known as " Hoyle's Prints."
Here they were received by Mr. Alderman Neild, the
senior partner, and the other members of the firm, who
conducted them over the various departments in their
extensive premises, and showed them, its order, the whole
process of printing. Proceeding first to the roller-room,
the party inspected a great number of cylinders deposited
there, on which were engraved the various designs that
are afterwards to be stamped upon the fabric, from the
simple spot or parsley-leaf up to the most complex and
delicate patterns. They then proceeded to the engrav-
ing-room, where the party—and L idy Fanny Russell in
particular—was much interested in finding a number
of females employed in the, to them, novel species
of industry, that of engraving the design upon the cop-
per cylinder, from a design previously traced and painted
on the copper. The employment of females in this
branch of industry is, we believe, peculiar to the May-
field works, where it was commenced a short time ago
as an experiment; and we understand the firm have
found it to answer perfectly well. Leaving the en-
graving-room, they then proceeded to the printing-room,
where the cylinders so engraved were at work. In a
large, lofty, and well-ventilated room—the most perfect
of its kind yet constructed—twenty machines were
standing in a row, each employing two men and two boys,
and each throwing off, when at full speed, a " piece" or
thirty yards long in a minut'; each too, according to the
pattern on the cylinder at work, preparing the cloth for
receiving from one up to as many as six different
colours. Mr. Alderman Neild here explained to the
Premier the superiority of the cylinder-printing to the
old, though not yet wholly obsolete, practice of printing
from blocks. According to that system the piece of
goods which was thrown off by one of these cylinders in
a minute would, even at the most rapid rate of working,
have occupied a quarter of a day. The superiority t f
the cylinders was very early apparent, but practical diffi-
culties fur a long time prevented their being brought
into geueral use, the difficulty lying chiefly in the en-
graving of the cylinder so as to make the pattern fit on
the cloth. But this difficulty has been recently com-
pletely removed by the inventive genius of Mr. Gaskell,
of Nlanche,ter, to whom the manufacturers are under
many obligations for several other mechanical facilities
iu the process of their industry. The worthy Alderman
further draw the attention of his Lordship to the fact
that the cloth as it came from the machine had not re-
ceived its colour, and explained the process of fixing the
mordent; or chemical preparations, which prepared the
cloth to take on the required colours, in an after stage
of the manufacture. 'these mordents are for the meat
part metallic oxydcs, their nature varying according to
the various colours required, and they are applied to the
cloth in a solution of vinegar. The party then pro.
ceeded to the drying-stoves, where the cloth, fresh front
the machines, and prepared as above described, is
brought, and the pieces hung up in a room open on all
sides to the air. As the cloth dries the vinegar flies off,
while the mordent is completely absorbed into the fabric.
This accomplished, the cloth is removed to the dyehouse,
which was the next department his Lordship and his
friends visited. The Alderman here explained and
made some experiments to show that the cloth, prepared
as above described, is in a condition to receive various
and even contrasting colours from the same material of
dye, according to the different descriptions of mordents
that have been used in its preparation. He also went
into a minute explanation of the process used in pro-
ducing the beautiful lilac colour for which the firm have
at ained so much celebrity, and which no other establish-
ment has been able to equal. After spending some time
in the chemical department, where Mr. GI anarn, one of
the partners, explained the process by which the different
mordents are prepared, the party proceeded to the di -
pant:tient for bleaching the de lathe piecee, where his
Lordship was shown anew process which has recently
bt e,i adopted for what is technically called 6. sulphuring
the de taints." According to the existing plan, the cloth is
air-tight, hung up in a room made where the sulphur
is burnt hem ath it until the fabric is supposed to be
saturated with its fumes. The new process consists t f a
series of rollers driven by machinery, round which the
cloth is driven, while the aniphur isburning beneath as
before. By this means the sulphur is more closely in-
corporated with the substance of the cloth; and the ad-
s aetage of the process is, that it gives the fabric that
softness and delicacy to the touch which has hitherto
been supposed to be peculiar to fabrics made of the
Cachmere wool. The process of manufacture having
been completed, the party were finally shown into the
ward ro,nis, where an immense quantity. of goods of all
qualities, colours, and patterns, were piled up; and se-
veral were shown for their inspection. Of these Lady
Fanny Russell chose one piece for purchase, the pattern

consisting of a simple white leaf on a pale blue ground,
with a delicate edging of chocolate. The party were
nearly an hour and a half occupied in the inspection of
these works, acid at parting his Lordship expressed the
great gratification he had experienced frem his visit of
inspection.
A select party was invited to meet his Lordship at
diaper in the evening at Claremont, comprising the
Lord Bishop of Manchester, the Very Rev. Dean Bow-
ers, the rila,yor f Salford, Sir Thomas Birch, M.P.,
WI. R. Wood, Esq. (son of the late Member for Kendal),
Mr. Rdrbairti, the en.,2ineet, &e., with the members of
Sir Benjamin Heywood's family.
Complimentary ediresses,
.which were voted in the
course of the day to his Lordship, by the Chambers of
Commerce in Manchester and baltord, were presented
to his Lordship et Claremont by deputations from the
respective chambers in the course of the evening, but
there was no formality otserved on the occasion.

This morning Lord John Russell, Lady Fanny, and
the other members c f the party, proceeded to the cotton
factory of Sir Etkanah Armitage, situate.) in Charles-
town, where they were received by Sir Elknuab. On
entering the works his Lordship expressed a wish to fol-
low the process of spinning through all its departments,
from the original raw state of the cotton wool up to. the
completed manufacture. A bale of cotton wool which
had been reccntly cut open was then brought for his
Lordship's inspection; but his Lordship expressing a
wish to examine one that had not been previously
opened, a fresh one vt as brought and cut open in
his Lordship's presence. After examining the
wool thus shown him, his Lordship and friends
were conducted over all the processes of the
manufacture—cleaning, carding, roving, spinning
and weaving—when Lady Fanny Russell expressed a
desire to be permitted to take a small portion of the ma-
terial in each stage of its progress. Specimens of the
various qualities, including cotton rovings, and a quan-
tity of twisty in the manner in whichrit is put together to
firm warps, were accordingly presented to her Ladyship.
During the progress through the mill the party ap-
peared to be much struck with the healthy, comfort-
able appearance of the workmen—a circumstance on
which his Lordship remarked more than once in his ex-
amination.

From Sir E. Armitage's factory the party proceeded
to the Salford Library and Museum, where the corpora-
tion of Salford met his Lordship. This building is in
the Peel Park, one of those places of recreation which
have lately been opened for the accommodation of pent-
up workmen of the place through the munificence of the
private liberality of the millowners, assisted by donations
from other pArties. Among these it may be remembered
Sir Robert Peel gave a donation of I,OOOL, in grateful
recollection of which the park, in which the present re-
ception took place, was distinguished by the Right lion.
Baronet's name. The museum and library itself are
arranged on a scale of liberality equal to that which
characterised the opening of the parks. Donations in
books and specimens have been received to the value of
3,000/.; the latest, and one of the most valuable, being a
donation from the. Earl of Derby, of Gould's splendidly
illustrated volumes on the British and Australian birds.
The museum is not yet opened. The library opened
about three months ago, with more than 5,000 volumes,
which are open to all comers without introduction or for-
mality of any kind. As a proof of the manner in which
the working classes in the neighbourhood appreciate the
advantages conferrei upon them by this institution, it
may be mentioned that 8,000 volumes have been issued
from the library to the reading room during the three
months the institution has been opened, the volumes
chie fly in request being history, biography, and works
on scientific subjects. All these particulars were pointed
out to his Lordship, who appeared to take great interest
in the details. . _

time to time, occupy the high position which it is your
honoured distinction to fill at this moment. We feel sa-
tisfied that every such visit from a Minister of the Crown
must be fruitful in information to themselves, and that
the result will be the advancement of England. My Lord,
I again bid you welcome, and I -rejoice that you have
been good enough to bring Lady Russell amongst us.—
(Loud clie,r3.) We cord.ally hope that both your Lord
ship and Lady Russell may be long permitted to live, to
witness and to rtjoice in ti o moral, the intillecrual, and
the social advancement of tae country.—(Loud and pro-
longed cheering.)
Mr. JOSEPH HERON, the t ran died:, then read the ad
dress which was voted at the council.
L.,rd JOUN RUSSELL having received the address,
replied—Mr. Mayor: Let me in the first pluce expels
my thanks to yourself for the manner in which you
have discharged a duty which mint he most grateful to
ray feelings. Lookingnpon you as the representative of
• this great manufacturing community, it is gratifying to
me to find that any pottion of my conduct has met with
your approbation, and likewise to find that my visit to
this town has been considered as tending in any way to
give me better information, and to further the means of
providing for the well-understood interests of the
country.--(Cheers.) I only regret that at this time,
when the preparation and discussion of measures fir
Parliament must occupy necessarily so great a portion
of my time, my visit must be so extremely short, and
that any knowledge which I may in so short a time
acquire must certainly be insufficient to serve as a means
of legislation. But I 'Just it will be taken as an earnest
that I consider the objects of providing for the trade
and manufactures of this country are of the very
highest importance, and that I shall ever consider
it my duty to obtain the best information I can obtain in
order to give advice to a Sovereign who has ever upper •
most in her heart the welfare of her subjects.—(Loud
and prolonged cheering.) You were good enough to re-
fer to the circumstances of my wife accompanying me on
this visit; and I can assure you that it would have been
impossible for me to prevent her from taking a Fart in it
—so powerful was her anxiety to observe those wonders
of manufacturing skill and• invention of which she, in
common with the rest of the community, had heard so
much.—(Loud chi era.) Let me now proceed, therefore,
to answer the address which you have done me the
honour to present; and I trust you will not think that I
do wrong iu giving effect to my own personal opinions,
because, in all the conduct I have observed in Parlia-
ment, 1 never found that I was able to effect anything
unless I was strongly persuaded of the rectitude of the
course which I was pursuing—(Cheers)—and that, ac-
cording to my judgment, it was the course which was
best calculated to promote the interests of the country.
I shall now proceed, therefore, to answer the address
which has been read by the town clerk. • His Lordship
then read the following address:—
" Mr. Mayor, gentlemen of.the borough of Manches-
ter,—l thank you heartily for the kind manlier in which
you have welcomed me, on the occasion of my visit to
_ .

This important district. I am much gratified by the ap-
probation you have bestowed on my public conduct. I
am glad to have the opportunity of more correctly esti-
mating, although by a short and cursory inspection, the
magnitude of the interests which are connectml with the
borough and neighbourhood of Manchester. There are
two modes in which a Government can foster and pro-
mote trade and commerce. The first, which is the least
direct, but the most powerful in its effects, is by secur-
ing to every man the impartial administration of law,
and the enjoyment of personal and political freedom; the
other is by the removal of restrictions and monopolies
affecting trade, agriculture, and manufactures. It has
been my endeavour to promote, humbly but earnestly,
in both these ways, the great interests of labour. But
I cannot give the chief place to the efforts of statesmen,
eve n far more effective than mine, for the ad-
vancement of these objects. The ree spirit, the
independent mind, the patient industry, the inventive
skill of the people of this realm, have been the
main causes of growing population, increasing wealth,
and augmented power. You have done me the honour
to observe that, in seeking to amend and reform, I have
endeavoured to make the least possible disturbance of
existing arrangements, and I am rejoiced to find that my
caution has met with your approbation. lam confident
that in no part of the empire would the adoption of an
extreme policy, in whatever direction it might tend, be
more sensibly and more calamitously felt (in the sus-
pension of business, the diminution of trade, and the
interruption of confidence) than in this great centre of
manufactures. While, therefore, lam a warm friend of
progress, I am convinced that it is above all things de-
sirable that any reforms which we may propose should
be calmly weighed, and, when proved to be desirable,
effected without disturbance t 3 the peace of the country."
At the conclusion of this address, which was loudly
cheered, his Lordship handed it to the Town-clerk, who
presented it to the Mayor.
On leaving the Town-hall, the Premier was again
enthusiastically cheered by the people without, who
followed the carriage to the Exchange, which his Lord-
ship alighted to inspect. As he walked arm-in•arm
with the Mayor up the noble hall—one of the most
spacious in the kingdom—the building was filled by a
dense mass, who crowded around to obtain a view:ol the
Premier, in such a manner as must have incommoded
him n, t a little. Order, however, was restored; a lane
was made, through which his Lordship and friends
passed down the middle of the hall, amidst the cheers of
the crowd. The party then proceeded to Sir Benjamin
Heywood's bank, in St. Ann's-street, where a lunch was
provided for them.

His Lordship arrived at the Peel Park a little after
half-past eleven o'clock, He was accompanied by Mr.
Russell, Sir Benjamin Heywood, and Mr. Percival Hey-
wood, and was received in the lobby by Mr. Lang-
worthy, the Mayor, the head constable of the borough,
'and the principal members of the corporation. The
morning was rather unfavourable, and comparatively
few persons were assembled round the door of the mee
scum to see his Lordship alight. Those who were pre-
sent received his Lordship with calm respect, but with-
out any demonstration of applause.
His Lordship was conducted to the library by the
Mayor of Salford, where he was most respectfully
greeted by the members of the corporation.
The MAYOR then said—lt is with high gratification,
as the Mayor of this borough, I present to your Lord-
ship this address, which was voted unanimously and with
acclamation by the members of the town council yester-
day; and it is with feelings of great pleasure that,
within our borough, we welcome you as the Prime Mi-
nister of the Crown. In your person, my Lord, we re-
cognise still additional motives for our high gratifica-
tion, when we consider the many great measures with
which your name has been connected during the long
period of your public career, -measures of great value to
ourselves and of great benefit to the community. We
feel deeply indebted for the great exertions your Lord-
ship has made in obtaining those measure.), and now,
without troubling your Lordship with a long speech, I
will proceed to read the address of the council.
The address having been road by the Mayor,
Lord J. RUSSELL said—Mr. Mayor, I thank you f, r
the manner in which you have presented the address;
and it is with great pleasure that I proceed to answer it.
His Lordship then read the following answer:—
" Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen of the borough of Sal-
ford,— I am much gratified by the address you have done
me the honour to present to me. I am happy to find
that you attribute to me a love of social progress and
of c mstitutioeal liberty. It will be my endeavour to
cont
in
continue to deserve that approbation. You are fully
justified saying that much remains to be accomplished,
and that further measures, both fiscal and moral, are res
quired well
fur the ell -being of the people. To improve
Institutions in accordance with the state of the people,
and to fit the people fir improved institutions, are both
of them noble tasks. Your position qualifies you to take
a lead in the second of these labours; and I am happy to
acknowledge that you are doing much to raise the minds,
and direct to worthy objects the pursuits of your fel-
low-citizens. I trust you will bo rewarded by seeing
an increased spirit of loyalty and religion, and that the
content of your community will prove the success of
your exertions."—(Loud cheers.)
After visiting the museum, his Lordship returned to
his carriage, and drove off amidst the cheers of the people
who had assembled at the gates.
From Salford his Lordship proceeded direct to the
Town-hall of
.Manchester, where the corporation of the
city was in waiting to receive him and to present the
address voted yesterday. The broad street in front of
the Town-hall was filled with a dense crowd of persons,
principally composed of the working classes, though in-
terspersed with a good many of the tradesmen of the
town. The arrival of his Lordship was hailed by this
crowd with loud and repeated cheering, and a great
rush was made from all parts to see his Lordship alight
from his carriage, which it required all the efforts of a
strong body of police to prevent from issuing in some
accident. Lord John was received in tho lobby of the
Town-hell by Mr. Potter, the mayor, who introduced
his Lordship to the mayor's parlour in the hail, where
the aldermen, most of the members of the town council,
and severed of the principal manufacturers in the t >wn,
with a number of ladies, were assembled to receive him.
Among those present we noticed Mr. Kershaw, M.P.,
Mr. J. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and on
his Lordship entering the room the company rose to
receive him, and testified their delight at his presence
by loud demonstrations of applause. Silence having been
restored,
The MAYOR addressed his Lordship es follows:—My
Lord John Russell: Though I can assure your Lordship
that I feel very deeply my own inability adequately to
do justice to the occasion which has brought us together
this morning, yet I cannot but esteem it a high and rEs-
tinguished privilege that it has fallen to my lot to be
the first mayorof Manchester who halhad the honourito
receive the Prime Minister of England in this town.—
(Loud cheers.) *3'
Lord, on behalf of the Corpora-
tion of Manchester—on behalf I am sure, I may say, of
my fellow-citizens at large-4 bid you a most cordial, a
most hearty welcome to this town.—(Applause.) My
Lord, I welcome you to Manchester, not only as the first
Minister of the Crown, through whom we may most
legitimately express our loyalty to the Queen, our
ardent attachment to her person, and admiration of her
high virtues; but, my, Lord, I also welcome you as a
statesman, whose name will never be forgotten.—(Loud
cheers.) Representing, my Lord, as you do, the high-
mindedness of the house, of Russell—(Cheers)—it has
been your good fortune to add to the laurels of that
name, and to transmit to posterity a still more illustrious
record of its services.—(Loud cheers.) My Lord, we re-
cognise in you a statesman who, with consummate ability,
with singleness of purpose, with undeviating consistency,
has devoted himself to the best interests of society. We
recognise in you one who at all times has done his ut-
e
terMost to maintain and to promote the rights and
Englishmen.—(Loud cheers)
liberties of Eng My Lord, it
is peculiarly gratifying to me, as ma) or of this borough,
that I have the satisfaction of offering t) you this morn-
ing an address which was unanimously adopted by the
c uacil of this borough. In that council, my Lord, are
the representatives of every party, of every religious
and political opinion. But
.though. there are many mem-
bers in that council who differ from
.the measures which
) ou have so earnestly
and successfully adore Gated, still
privilege to be able to unite in wed-
they feel that it is a
coming you to Manchester, and to offer you the only
compliment which it is in their power to bestow.—(Loud
oh era.) My Lord, I hope that the terms of the ad-
dress which we are about to present to you will convey
some gratification to your Lordship's feelings; and I am
satisfied that any pleasure you may thereby receive will
be infinitely
enhanced by the knowledge that this af!..
dress was unanimously adopted. My Lord, we rejoice
in this your visit to the metropolis of the manufacturing '
districts of England, which we trust will be fruitful of
good to the country. We canna believe that the great
results of the manufacturing industry of this country
can be witnessed without causing in the mind of those
who behold them a higher appreciation of that industry,
a higher appreciation of the importance of the manufac-
tures of England. We believe
that the industry of Eng-
'and, as manifested in this district, is the vivifying and
maintaining cause of the commercial and social pros-
perity of our native land.—(Cheers.) We rejoice in
your visit, and we earnestly
.hope that it may be the
forerunner of many similar visits from those who, from

- About two o'clock his Lordship proceeded to inset
the silk works of Messrs. Smith, in Lower Mosley.
street, and was occupied for an hour and a half in in-
specting the machinery there for the throwing and
manufacture of silk. The Jacquard looms for the fancy
silk weaving excited great interest, and his Lordship
and Lady Fanny were minute in their inquiries as to the
various processes.
The other establishments which it is understood to be
his Lordship's intention to visit are the Oxford-road
Twist Company, the extensive warehouses of his Wor-
ship the Mayor; and, if possible, the Messrs. Whit-
worth's machine establishment and Mr. Edmonstone's
machinery for the manufacture of railway tickets.
It ought to be added, that wherever his Lordship ap-
pears his carriage is surrounded by the people, and his
presence is greeted by them with hearty dicers.
The working classes, however, as well as their betters,
appear determined, if possible, to turn the Premier's
visit to their own account. A public meeting is called
for this evening, to be held in the Corn-Exchange—the
Rev. Canon Wray in the chair—for the purpose of pre-
senting an address to his Lordship. thanking him for the
support he formerly gave to the Ten Hours' Bill, and
requesting him to support the measure now introduced
into Parliament by Lord Ashley. Whether his Lord-
ship will be able to receive this address is uncertain, as
it is stated he is to leave Manchester, on . his return to
town, early to-morrow morning.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CIIRONICLE.—Lord John Russell appears to
have visited Manchester with a view rather to
relaxation than to study, and to have shown
more interest in the workshop than in the
" School." But it was not the less a proud
and happy moment for the inhabitants of that
famous emporium of manufacturing wealth and in-
dustry, when, for the first time (as we learn from the
Salford Town Council). they ware honoured by the
presence of the Chief Minister of the Crown. "A
sight of you is gude for sair een"—and it is not to be
supposed that the Lancashire dames fell into the same
mistake as the French countess who inveigled Talbot
into her castle—
"l thought I should have seen some Hercules,
A second Hector, for his grim aspect
And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs."
If so, they must have been sadly disappointed. :M.
de Cormenin ( Etudes sur les Oratebrs Parliament-
aims) describes his Lordship as " so little, so pale,
and so feeble, that it was necessary to stretch him on
a sofa in the lobby after his speech on Parliamentary
Reform." But this is French exaggeration ; and, at
all events, Lord John Russell might reply with
Talbot—
" You are deceived ; my substance is not here ;
For what you see is but the smallest part
And least proportion of humanity."
Look again—and you are forcibly reminded of Cla-
rendon's remark in his History, that most of the stir-
ring spirits of his time were little men. There is no
mistaking the expression of those small, finely-
chisceled, and impressive features. That pale brow
is the constant seat of thought ; that wasted frame is
u'erinfortned with mind; and it is persevering ambi-
tion of the loftiest order that has shrunk those sinews
and deprived that step of elasticity. Whatever differ-
ences of opinion may exist as to Lord John Russell's
other qualifications, he will be admitted on all hands
to be one of the most highly-cultivated of contempo-
rary statesmen. his lung exclusion from power gave
him ample opportunity for political studies; and his
published works show with shat unremitting dili-
gence he prosecuted them. He had long ago ex-
hausted the entire round of constitutional reading,
and it is deeply to be regretted that many of the wi-e
conclusions at which he arrived in early life in the
closet, were so readily abandoned or disregarded at a
fr.er and far more important period of his
career. Posterity, as well as the impartial and
refh'cting portion of his contemporaries, would cer-
!ainly think better of him if he had less frequently
manifested a willingness to sacrifice principle
for popularity, when popularity happened to
te a necessary guarantee for place. Still, there he
stands—theoretically, if not practically—in spirit and
temper, if not uniformly in act and deed—the em-
bodied essence, the living, breathing personification
of the genuine old Whig party, with all its good and
all its bad qualities—with its liberalising views and
tendencies, its love and patronage of letters, its high-
bred courtesy, its real want of true sympathy with
the people, its inbred haughtiness, and its morgue.
An i well may the elite of Manchester assemble to do
him honour ; for providence has so ordered it that the
great interests which they represent have largely be-,

nefited by the strength and determination of his cha-
racter, and have hitherto suffered little from its faults.
They may be excused for seeing in hitn neither a pro-
moter of the Lichfield House Compact, nor a party
to the Bedchamber Plot; and although we do not
quite agree with Alderman Shuttleworth, that "he is
characterised by a consistency which few other states-
men can boast," we cannot refuse to concur with the
worthy magistrate, to a large extent, in the best part of
his compliment Lord J.ihn Russell entered the
House cf Commons about thirty-seven yvera ago ; and
since that time he had been constantly labouring for
the improvement of our social and politic .1 institutions.
lie was was pledgel by his very name—see Moores
poetical ' Remonstrance'—to freedom in every shape,
and the efforts which he had made had elwsys tended
to remove acknowledged grievances and promote the
principles of justice." That pledge has, on the
whole, been well redeemed, and few names could be
nn re fitly coueled with the favourite Whig toast of
" The cause for which Hampden died on the field and
Sydney on the scaffold ;" in giving which, by the
way, the present head of the House of Russell (on
Sir John Hubhouse's prompting) once transposed
the names so as to mak.t> it appear that Hampden
died on the scaffold and Sidney on the field. We are
not aware whether Lord J. Russell's guides to the
wonders of the place meant any typical allusion to
his services in crushing and beating down in-
tollerance—but hammers of enormous dimensions
formed the chief part of the first day's ex-
hibition. Lord Jeffrey said of the steam- engine,
" The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or
rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a
seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it,
draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gos-
samer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the
air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut
steel into ribbands and impel loaded vessels against
the fury of the winds and waves." Neither this, how-
' ever, nor all that we have since read and seen, quite
prepared us for the exploits of the hammer which was
made to go through its exercise for the edification of
the Premier. It began by beating a shapeless mass
of metal into a longitudinal bar. In this there is no-
thing very extraordinary, except (as noted by our re-
porter), "that the ladies of the party especially mani-
fested almost as much indifference to the sparks that
flew in all directions as the workmen." What followed

was the triumph of mechanic art :—" A piece of timber
being placed upon the forge, two or three tenpenny
nails were driven into it with as much apparent ease
and gentleness as a lady might stick a pin into a pin-
cushion. As if this were not enough, a further trial
was made. An egg was inserted into a wine-glass,
the end projecting as in an ordinary egg-cup, which
was then put upon the forge, and the hammer de-
scending, chipped the egg, while the glass itself re-
mained perfectly uninjured." This hammer has been
made to order for a firm in New York. The Russian
Emperor has become the envied purchaser of the
largest boiler and the largest planing -machine in the
establishment. Does this prove that we cannot com-
pete with foreigners—or that we are acting impru-
dently in permitting them to take advantage of
our skill ? In one way or another, the circum-
stance will doubtless be regarded as a fatal augury
by our Protectionist contemporaries. Not con-
tented with giving his Lordship an illustrated
lecture on physics, some members of the town
council were anxious to improve the opportu-
nity by inoculating him with some of their own
social doctrines. " Mr. Abel Heywood hoped that
his Lordship would not go back from this neighbour-
hood without having carefully baled and a.certained
for himself the working of the Ten Hour Bill." He
might also, it was suggested, advantageously devote
an evening or two to Financial Reform ; and, in fact,
there appeared in some quarters a strong disposition
to forget the proverbial effect of all work and no play
in making John dull boy. But the Premier was in
no humour to imitate that denizen of the Queen's
Bench Prison who, whenever he got a day-rule, spent
it in the Fleet ; his replies to " Mr. Mayor and Gen-
tlemen" of the two boroughs which constitute what is
popularly termed " Manchester," were emphatically
safe ; and there is every chance, we rejoice to believe,
of his Lordship's re-appearance in the House of Com-
mons on Monday next in renovated health and spi-
rits, and haply with increased confidence in the na-
tional resources, but unwarped, unprejudiced, and un-
pledged.

AkitALD.-If there be one thing more than ano-
ther on which we pride ourselves in this realm of
England, it is
.the complete purity—the psi feet inde-
pendence with which justice is administered, irre-
spective of rank, irrespective of party—with which
justice is impartially administered—whether the de-

linquent be a rich rogue—or the innocent sufferer a
poor and unfriended man. In opening the records of
our legal history, even from the earliest ages—and in
considering the conduct of our judges, even at a time
when the prerogative was unquestioned, and the chief
magistrates in the law held their offices at the plea-
sure of the Crown—it is astonishing how few are the
men connected with the administration of the law who
have disgraced the ermine of the bench, or tarnished
the fair repute of the judges of the land. If we have
but one Sir Thomas Weylend, but one Jeffreyes, but
one Scroggs, but one Allybone ; on the other hand,
see the numerous Johannes de Mettinghams, and
Elias de Beckinghams*—the Fortescues, the Cokes,
the Hales, the Holts, the Rsymonds, the Fosters, the
Atkyns, the Somers, the Comyns, the Hardwickes,
the Camdens, the Mansfields, the Denmans, who il-
lustrate and adorn the bench, giving strength and
lustre to the Crown, and satisfaction and contentment
to the people. In the earliest times, end before our
Constitution arrived at its full perfection, the errors
and crimes of judges, recorded in history, are few and
inconsiderable, and weigh but as dust in the balance.
But for now a period of more than a century and a
half that the judges are the grand depositaries
of the fundamental laws of the kingdom, and have
gained a known and stated jurisdiction, regulated
by certain and established rules, which the
Crown cannot alter but by Act of Parliament, it
were difficult to conceive a body of men in any
country more pure, more virtuous, and snore stain-
less. Separated from the legislative, and also from
the executive power—nominated by, but not remov-
able at the pleasure of the Crown—the judges stand
indifferent between the executive and the people, and
there is not a man of any intelligence in the country,
from the Land's End, in one corner of the kingdom,
to the old assize towns of Montnouth, Mold, and
Chester, in the other, who does not feel that his life,
his liberty, and his property are safe in the keeping
of gentlemen who have been distinguished either as
foremost advocates or as leading jurisconsults—men
who have in our day invariably been promoted to the
bench for their ability, their learning, and their high
character. Knowing this to be a cardinal and indis-
putable fact, we always, as journalists, see with regret
the slightest disparaging allusions to the judges on the
bench. Even when such allusions proceed from learned
and instructed writers—not labouring under bias or
prejudice—we entertain the belief that in nine
cases out of ten more minute inquiry would
convince the honest and dispassionate critic of the
judges that he has been misinformed—or proceeded
on false data or imperfect information. When, how-
ever, such allusions proceeded from the Times in re-
ference either to the late Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench or to Mr. Justice Talfourd, the attentive ob-
server may almost always conclude that the observa-
tions and criticism are but a pretence, the real pur-
pose being to malign and vilify men against whom the
Ministerial journal, for some reason best known to
itself, has had a grudge, if not a " lodged hate."
Thus it was that the case of the Birds, husband
and wife, was fixed upon to drag before the public
Mr. Justice Talfourd, as though through his cri-
minal carelessness and culpable indifference this
infamous pair had escaped the punishment they
had so well merited for their crimes. Now, though
when we read this charge some nine or ten days
ago we well knew it was baseless and unfounded—
partly from the character and very nature of the
judge—partly from internal evidence—neverthe-
less we did not choose in a matter in which private
fseling or conviction ought to have sway to pronounce
an opinion one way or other. We determined,
therefore, to wait patiently, well assured that before
the expiration of a week time would do Mr. Justice
Talfourd tardy justice. Glad are we now indeed
that we then adopted this resolve. Since Sunday
last it has so chanced that we have come into contact
with five barristers of the Western Circuit, three of
whom were present at the trial, and each and all of
these gentlemen bear testimony that the general
opinion of the bar of the Western Circuit was, that
the case for the prosecution had completely broken
down ; and that the presiding judge could, according
to law, and according to the obligations of his oath
and his conscience, do no otherwise than direct the
jury as he did direct them. This opinion we find
confirmed yesterday in a letter addressed to. us by
Mr. Henry Ball, a gentleman connected with the
Western Circuit as attorney and barrister for a
period of more than five and thirty years. For
twenty years Mr. Ball has gone that circuit as
barrister. He is known to both branches of the
profession as a pains-taking, laborious, and indus-
trious man—not prone to busy himself in matters
that do not concern him—nor over-anxious to volun-
teer a defence for any one, whether culprit or judge.
What, however, does Mr. Ball—whose letter we

* C opke's 3 and 4 Institute, 147.