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conviction that, in creating all this clamour, you are
only drawing the attention of England to your
Scotch currency, and taking the very measure which
is most likely to promote the danger you wish to avoid.
Sir JAMES GIBSON CRAIG said that the resolutions
were in no degree inconsistent with the different
points alluded to by Lord Melville. On the contrary,
the resolutions expressly state that their supporters
are willing to consider any proposition which has for
its object to add greater security to the present
system. His Noble Eriend (Lord Dunfermline)
went further than Lord Melville, for he would do
away with small notes altogether, as inconsistent with
the resolutions of the Bullion Committee, of which he
was a member. Of the resolutions of this Bullion
Committee, he (Sir James) would only say that they
were attended with a degree of mischief which he hoped
never again to see in this country, and that more
people were ruined by them than by any measure
that was ever brought before Parliament. With regard
to what had fallen from both Noble Lords on the
necessity of Scotland supplying her quota to the gold
circulation of the kingdom, he presumed to differ
from them. He begged them to look at the situation
in which this country was placed. The whole of our
taxes and a great part of our wealth was sent to
London and spent in England. Did we ever ask
anything from England in return which we did not
pay absolute value for? It was a condition, then, of
the situation in which England was placed, that,
having received nearly the whole of the wealth of our
country, she should bear the burden of this wealth.
_ _

Mr. TYTLER, of Woodhouselee, said that, v
ast the
meeting had no proper means of knowing the inten-
tions of the Government on this subject, and as there
was considerable difference of opinion among the high
authorities who tal given the it sentiments upon it,
he thought the molt prudent course was to delay the
consideration of the questic n u thy really knew
the intentions of the Government. He moved ac-
cordingly.
After a few words from Mr. AITCHISON, of Dro-
more, in support of the resolutions, the meeting
divided, when 13 voted for the motion, and 13 for the
amendment.

The votes being equal, Sir JOHN HOPE, the Chair-
man, gave his casting vote in favour of the resolutions,

LITERATURE.

THE COMIC ALMANACK. Bogue, London, 1844,

A copy of George Cruikshank's " Comic Almanack"
for 184 d is now lying before us ; it is illustrated with
twelve embellishments characteristic of the different
months of the year, together with several other plates
hit off in the artist's most facetious vein. A
" Monster Meeting" is an irresistibly humorous pro-
duction. An unhappy jack-tar is standing at the
edge of a forest close by a river, while a vicious-look-
ing bear is leaping up on his shoulders, from which it
has just snatched a hasty mouthful ; a huge alligator,
open-mouthed, is preparing to make an attack on his
legs ; a snake is darting from a tree right down upon
him ' • and to increase the comforts of his situation, the
head of a tiger is seen peeping out from beneath some
thick underwood hard by ! The sailor's countenance
is full of the most ludicrous bewilderment and affright,
and he evidently inclines to the opinion that it is all
over with him, and it is no use, therefore, to attempt
rnakiog any resistance. The "Court of Young Eng-
land" Is a good-humoured quiz upon this band of
sturdy Reformers, and represents an infant Queen
surrounded by a set of infant courtiers, all looking
as innocent and guileless as so many lambs. The
" Fall of the Leaf" is represented by the sudden
giving way of the leaf of a dinner-table, just at the
moment when it is crowded with good things, and the
appetites of the guests are duly wetted for the on-
slaught. The hostess, squatted on the floor with the
dish of fish in her lap, presents an image of the most
touching melancholy, and not less pathetic is the
countenance of the host, who seems philosophicall
resigned to destiny. The "Horticultural Fate'
shows a party of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen
exposed to a pitiless shower of rain, as usually happens
to be the case when the Society give their annual
fete at Chiswick. We quote the verses illustrative of
this lively design :
" The morn was beautiful and bright,
The sun, that general adorner—
Was gliding with its glowing light,
The iron rails at Hyde Park Corner,

" The lodge beneath its radiance gleamed,—
Into some curds there shot a ray;
As if within the bowl it dreamed
To find on earth the milky whey.
" Lured by the clearness of the sky,
A party, though the hour was late,
Resolved on ordering a fly,
To waft them to the Chiswick Fete.
" And by those sympathetic chains
Few can describe, but each one owns,
The same idea had struck the Paynes,
Brown, Thompson, Edwards, Smith, and Jones.
" Oh, sympathy! thou hast the power
To make twelve hearts in concert throb;
And eke to give, within one hour,
Twelve different liv'rymen a job.
" Thus did thine influence extend
(Explain it, ye who study physic);
Making a lot of parties send
For vehicles, to go to Chiswick.
" No sooner had they reached the spot,
Than straight the sky is seen to lower;
And, like a curious watering-pot,
Pours down a most terrific shower.

" The belles can't save their satin bows,
Their silks are watered—how they scamper!
Fate on that fete unkindly throws
A sudden, but decisive, damper."

HISTORY of the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,

Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.
The work before us, which appears from time to
time in separate Parts, is a translation from the
German, and is of a most comprehensive character,
professing to be neither more nor less than a history
of all the leading nations in Europe during the
eighteenth century—and not only a history of their
politics, but of their literatUre also. The work, we
understand, has been favourably received in Germany,
and so far as we can judge, from the detached portions
of it which we have yet seen, it is not unworthy of its
reputation. The account of the famous War of the
Succession, as it is called, is given at great length,
and with much apparent accuracy; and the author
has taken no slight pains in drawing the portrait of
the notorious Count Bruhl, the Saxon Minister—a
clever, dashing adventurer, who indulged in the most
wanton extravagance at the very time when Saxony
was reduced to a state of almost absolute bankruptcy.
The portion of the work which we like least is that
wherein the author passes his opinions on the prin-
cipal literary characters of England during the
period of which he treats ; these opinions are, many
of them, just enough in their way, but they seldom
rise above superficial common-places, and appear to be
less the results of his own critical inquiries, than of
the scores of critics who have preceded him in the
task o 4 investigation.

HEDDER WICK'S POEMS.
Rutherglen, Glasgow, 1844.
The author of this quarto volume of poems is a
skilful versifier, and puts forth no sentiments but such
as do credit to his heart, but we should be guilty of
egregious flattery were we to tell him that he is a
poet. Taste he has and judgment, and occasionally
he exhibits genuine feeling, but he is deficient in the
imaginative faculty, of which we need no more con-
vincing proof than is furnished us in every page of
his namby-pamby " Ode on Shakspeare." The best
things in the volume are the sonnets, one of which,
suggested by the word "Farewell," contains one or
two touches of genuine pathos.

THE TOTTENHAM CHURCHES.
The following circular has been forwarded to us
for publication:—

" TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE WOOD-GREEN CHURCH

FUND.

" The deputation appointed to wait upon the
Bishop of London, on the subject of the proposed
changes in the Church service, having learnt that an
erroneous impression exists as to the result of their
interview with his Lordship, desire to afford to their
fellow-subscribers a correct statement of the facts.

" They do this in consequence of a declaration made
at the last meeting by the clergy to the effect, that the
deputation had engaged to make no opposition to the
introduction of the changes proposed, if deferred for
twelve months.

" The deputation distinctly disavow any such
compact being entered into by them; they made no
stipulation whatever; and the subscribers are per-
fectly at liberty to adopt whatever course they may
deem advisable under the future circumstances of
the case.

" The deputation cannot but regret that the inju-
dicious announcemont of the clergy should have called
forth this declaration.

" THOMAS CORNEY.
B. G. WINDUS.
P. JOHNSON.
JOSIAH WILSON.
CHARLES SHADBOLT, jun.
ROBERT MUSHET.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
" Tottenham, N JOHN JERRAM.ov. 19, 1844 "

RAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL AT VIENNA.--There
was a grand musical festival held at Vienna on the 10th
of this month, by the Society of Musicians of the Aus
trian Empire. The concert was held in the Imperial
Winter Riding-school, on which occasion upwards of one
thousand artists, vocal and instrumental gave their ser-
vices, to assist in the performance of llaydn's cele-
brated oratorio of the " Seasons," which was performed
in a stye of magnificence never before excelled.