The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-08 00:00:00

RETZSCH'S SHAKSPEARE.

The first series of RetzsAts " Outlines to Shak-
speare" has at length been submitted to the judg-
ment of the English public. It embraces the tra-
gedy of Hamlet, than which, the romantic and pic-
turesque graver of the celebrated German artist
could scarcely have found a more fertile subject, or one
more replete with intense interest. It has been of-
ten asserted, and we believe with truth, that the
beauties of Shakspeare's plays, the sublime and pa-
thetic, as well as the humorous and playful, are not
less fervently felt and justly appreciated in Germany
than in England,—that, in fact, the numerous trans-
lations of the works, and the able commentaries on
the text of our immortal bard, which have appeared
in that country, have had the effect of rendering
the Germans as familiar with his writings as they
are with those of their indigenous poets. No won-
der then, that Retzsch should have selected such a
field for the exertion of his talents ; and, having
chosen it, that he should have infused so much ge-
nuine feeling into his graphic illustrations. 'We as-
sume it as an indisputable fact, that in wild and
chivalric composition,—that is, the delineation
of the circumstances and feelings of romantic
fiction, in which the marvellous bears a part,
—Retzsch's equal is not to be found. In the
introduction to the present work, Mr. Fleischer,
the German publisher, (Messrs. Treuttel and
Wurtz are the English publishers) says—"ln Retzsch
as a sketcher, we possess such a master as England
honours in her unrivalled Flaxman. Both stand on
the highest degree of this department of art, equally
unsurpassed." There appears at first sight much
truth in this observation; but we are afraid we can-
not adopt it to the full extent of the writer's mean-
ing. We think that Retzsch has never reached the
sublimity of Flaxman in pure epic composition, nor
his intensity and simplicity in the portraiture of the
workings of unrestrained nature. But Flaxman is
no more ! and Retzsch must now be allowed to
stand without a rival for original conception and
knowledge in the details of composition. The work
before us is in our estimation equal to the illustra-
tions of Faust, which first introduced Retzsch to the
notice of the British public. In variety and energy
of action, the scenes in the Hamlet are superior to
those of the Faust; but there are in the latter
some beautiful examples of repose and tender
pathos, which are here wanting, and which in-
deed, the artist had little opportunity to intro-
duce. Theplates are 17 in number. Fifteen com-
prise the most interesting points of the play; they
are preceded by an apotheosis of Shakspeare, where
two elegant females, floating in the air, representing
Tragedy and Comedy, are crowning the bard with a
wreath of stars. From this we pass to an introduc-
tion or prologue emblematic of the ground-work of
the drama--the murder of Hamlet's father. The
regular illustrations now commence. The two
scenes which follow, representing the struggle of
Hamlet to follow the Ghost, and the proposition of
the oath, have certainly never been exceeded for
beauty of line, and justness of expression, by any for-
mer work of this artist. The last in particular is full
of the most intense feeling. The point represented
is when Hamlet says—" Rest, rest perturbed spirit."
The outline breathes the anxiety of the Prince in the
execution of his father's behest. The pencil could
barely;pourtray with more truth the effect of listening,
and the spectator must acknowledge the power of the
artist in rendering an internal nervous struggle so visi-
ble to ocular apprehension. The soliloquy, " To be or
not to be," we do not like. The figure is fine, but
it wants solidity. It is too trifling, and seems rather
placid. Hamlet looks like a man who fancies him-
self speaking with a grace. The interruption of
Hamlet's conference with his mother in the cham-
ber, by the appearance of the Ghost, howerer, is
another striking and ably-delineated scene. The
artist is here so happy in the expression of surprise
and reverence, that he more than compensates for
his failure in the preceding instance in that of
thought. The mad scene is likewise an admirable
specimen of Retzsch's power in pourtraying the
workings of natural feelings. The sympathy of the
different personages is here indicated in the most
perfect manner; but the expression of Ophelia's face
is perhaps a little too lachrymose, and wants some-
thing:more of that wildness which appertains to insa-
nity. Having just received the copy before us,
we cannot enter into further details, and must, for
the present, dismiss these illustrations, which, we re-
peat, nobly maintain► the artist's already very high
character. On comparing them with the Faust
plates, they will be found to possess more finish and
suavity of execution, and to savour more of care and
thought in regard to composition. We must, how-
ever, admit that in some cases, as much is lost in
spirit and forcible appeal to the feelings, as is gained
in polish and ornament; but this, it may be said, is
unfortunately the destiny of works of art.

The work is dedicated to his Majesty George IV.
The test of the passages referred to is in English,
German, and French ; the German is from Schle-
gel's translation, the French from Guizot's : some
critical notices, on the different scenes, are written
by Bottiger.
We understand that a very splendid copy of the
work, printed in gold, most richly bound, and pre-
served in an elegant inlaid box, ha: been presented
to his Majesty. The execution of this extraordi-
nary copy is said to have cost 1.501.

His MAJESTY received the sacrament on
Sunday in the private chapel of the Royal Lodge, which was
administered by the Bishop of CHICHESTER, the Clerk to
the KING'S closet, after the performance of divine service.
The KING visited Windsor Castle on Satur-
day, and went through the state and private apartments.

The Princess AUGUSTA left her residence, in
the King's Palace, St. James's, yesterday morning, for the
seat of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, at Bushy
Park, where her Royal Highness, ;t is expected, will re-
main about a week on a visit to her Royal relatives.

The Right Hon. W. LAMB, Lord W. PAGET,
the Hon. Captain GRAVES, and Mr. BIRCH, arrived from
England, yesterday morning.—Dublin Evening Post.
ESCAPE FROM APPLEBY GAOL.--We
lately gave a hasty account of the escape of WALES and
HORYBY from Appleby Gaol, and the securing of DENT,
who was also an actor in the plot. Their object, it ap-
pears, was to seize the keys and lock Mr. THWAITES, the
governor, into the day-room. In the struggle, Mr.
THWAITES saw their aim, he therefore thrust his arm
between the door and the frame, when HORNBY fiercely
dashed to the door and crushed his arm severely. At this
moment Mr. TOWERS came up and seized DENT (the
other two were then retreating) to whom he clung till fur-
ther assistance came, notwithstanding that he received
many heavy blows from DENT'. herculean arm ; but fixing
his gripe in the felon's neck, and twisting his handkerchief,
he thus weakened the physical power of his opponent.
After crossing the Eden at Bongate, the fugitives made
directly for Kendal, whither, however, they were preceded
by a messenger from Appleby with an account of their
escape. An alarm was soon given. In the midst of it,
the runaways called at WALES'S mother, but did not tarry
there. In a short time, HoaNEv was apprehended at a
small public-house at Sandside, Milnthorpe, by a party
who went in pursuit; but WALES again escaped, and is
yet at large. On the following Wednesday, HORNBT, in
company with JANE CHORLET, who stands charged on
the Coroner's Inquest with the wilful murder of her female
bastard child, was again removed from Kendal to Appleby,
and lodged in his o d quarters. His reception by DINT
was a rough one. The latter accused him of leaving his
friend in the lurch, called him coward, traitor, villain,
thief, and a fight in irons would have ensued, had not the
officers of the prison interfered. A report is afloat that
Wat.Es was drowned in attempting to cross Lancaster
Sands; but it is probably a story got up to mislead.—
Extract of a letter from Appleby, dated March 27
The two prisoners, HORNET and JANE CHORLET, ar-
rived here yesterday. On HORNBY entering the gaol, his
old comrade, DENT, saluted him with a desperate blow on
the cheek. A short time after HORNBY and WALES had
escaped, DENT confessed the plan, and showed a stocking
with a atone in the foot, intended to give the gaoler a
quietus. This plan they bad borrowed from HAGOART,
whe in 1820 murdered the Dumfries gaoler in a similar
manner; they had also two gaga ready, one for SoLoatox
CALRADICZ, and the other for Mr. Tzmairtsbssmaisil all
was prepared to effect their diabolical purpose.--Cart.q/e
Patriot.

SPORTING INTELLIGENca.

TATTERSALL'S.—Aran, 7.

The Craven Meeting being held, at Newmarket, to-day,
none of the members attended at the Betting Room. The
horses consequently remain as last stated.

NEWMARKET CRAVEN AfEETING.—Arm 7.
The following are some of the most distinguished vieiters
now on the course:—

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lord March,
Duke of Grafton, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Cleveland,
Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Marquis of Clan-
ricarde, Marquis Graham, Lord and Lady Southampton,
Lord and Lady Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux, Lords
Jersey, Orford, Cavendish, Wharncliffe, Anson, G. Ben-
tinck, J. Fitzroy, Lowther, C. Manners, C. Somerset, Ve-
rularn, Brudenell, Sir John Shelley, Hon. Mr. Howard,
T. Houldsworth, Esq. M.P., Colonels Russell, Udny, and
Wilson, Captains Grant, Millar& Macnamara, Broadhead,
Dowbiggin, Haffendrn, and Kennedy, Hon. Colonel An-
son, Messrs. C. and R. Wilson, Vansittart, Hollyoake,
Payne, Sowerbv, Stanley, Stonthewer, Wigram, Newton,
Waddington, DSills, Rush, Perrott, &c. The weather con-
tinues very unfavourable, notwithstanding which the
course is numerously and fashionably attended.
A little before five o'clock th‘a races terminated as fol-
lows

The Craven Stakes : far 2-yr olds, 6st. ; 3-yrs, Bst. 41b. ;
4-yrs, Bst. 131 b. ; 5-yrs, 9st. 51b. ; 6-yrs and aged, 9st.
91b. A.F.
Colonel Wilson's b. c. Lamplighter, 4 yrs
Lord Wharncliffe's b. nr. Pastime, 6 yrs . '2
Mr. Ridsdalc's ch. c. Sharpset, 2 yrs
Mr. Wy-ndham's br. h. Chateau Margaux, 5 yrs
Mr. Payne's Belzoni, 4 yrs
General Grosvenor's gr. c. by Skim, 2 yrs
A good race. Four paid.
Match 200 soya. Set. 41b. each. D.M.
Col. Udny's Ampllion received 45 sovereigns from Lord
Wharncliffe's Carthusian.
Match 200. D.M.
Colonel Udny's Lisette f. received 40 sovereigns from
Mr. Petre's Stapleton.
Handicap Sweepstakes for all ages. Ab. M.
Mr. Pettit's Bobadilla, 2 yrs, 6st. 101 b 1
Colonel Yates's Sharpshooter, 3 yrs, Sat. 41b.
An amazing number started for this race, but we hart'
not time for particulars.
The fourteenth Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 soya. each,
h. ft. colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, fist. 41b. Ab. 111.
Mr. Udny's c. by Orville—EmilyMr. Thornhill's -Magnet (Shoveller)
Lord Exeter's c. by Filho—Advance 0
Mr. Rush's c. by Merlin—Rhoda
Duke of Grafton's Grisette
Three paid.
Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, 60 ft. for colts out of
untried mares ; fist. 71b. R.M.
Mr. Rogers's ch. c. Bugle
Duke of Grafton's gr. c. Archer ...............
One paid.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. for fillies, Bst. 51b.
D.M.
Lord G. Cavendish's, by Godolphin—Barossa
Mr. Greville's Elinor
Duke of Portland's, by Teasdale--Zora
One paid.
_ _

Sweepstakes of 200 sous. ench, h. ft. ; colts, fist. 71b.

fillies, Bst. 41b. R.M.
Mr. Wyndham's Urganda walked oven—Two paid.
Match for 200 sots. h ft. Set. '7lb. each. R.M.
Mr. Payne's Oppidan
Duke of Grafton's Lancastrian
Match 200 sous. h. ft. First three miles of B.C
Marquis of Tavistock's Leeway, Bst. Jib.
Mr. Payne's Babel, Set. 71b.
The following are the fixtures for to-morrow :
Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h. ft. colts, Sst. 71b.; and
fillies, Sat. 31b. R.M.
Mr. Nowell's b. c. by Walton—Eliza
Mr. Rogers's Juryman
Mr. Rush's b. c. by Orville—Discord
Mr. Batson's c. by Skim—Cecilia
Duke of Grafton's Druid
Mr. Wilson's c. by Comus—Juggler's darn.
Sweepstakes of 200 nom each, h. ft. colts, Bst. bib. ; and
fillies, Sat. 21b. R.M.
Lord Stradbroke's c. by Filh.—Mies Cantley
Lord Orford's Vicar
Lord Verulam's Laurcola pays forfeit.
Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h. ft. colts, Set. bib. D.M.
Duke of Grafton's Charm, brother to Carbonaro
Lord Wharucliffe's, by Whisker—Calypeo
Mr. Greville's, by Moses—Gramarie.
Sweepstakes of 100 sove. each, colts, est. 7th. ; fillies Sat.,

2116. D.I.
Duke of Richmond's Turcoman
Lord Jersey's Glenartney
Duke of Portland's c. by Tiresias—L'iluile de Venus
Mr. Greville's Miriam
Mr. Payne's b. c. by Whalebone—Snowdrop.
Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. Bst. 71b. A.F.
Mr. Newell's b. e. by Walton—Johanna Seuthcote
Mr. Greville's b. c. by Moses—Gramarie
Lord Vernlam's b.c. (dead) by Mr. Lowe—Willow.
First class of the Oatlands, of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. D.I.
Lord Cleveland's Memnon, 5 yrs, 9st. 41b.
Mr. Wyndham's Camel, s,yrs, 9st. 91b.
Colonel Yates's Paul Pry; 4 yrs, Bst. 41b.
Mr. Gully's Mameluke, S yrs, Bst. 21b.
Lord Tavistoek's Leeway, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b.
Mr. shailer's Sangrado, 4 yrs, 7st. 121 b.
Duke of Richmond's Miss Craven, 3 yrs, lit. 41b.
Mr. Goddard's c. by Anticipation, 3 yrs, 7st.

Match, sob SM, h. ft.
Lord Anson's c. by Merlin—Prue, Bat. 71b. against Lord
Verulatu's Varennes, Bst. 31b. D.M.
Match, 200 sows. h. ft.
Mr. Udny's Donna Clara filly, 9st. 111 b. against Mr.
Irby's Toso, let. 131 b. A.F.

Match, 200 sovt.
Lord Wharncliffe's Matilda against Mr. Udny's Donna
Clara filly, off by consent.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.--Lord and
Lady Arden, and Miss Wilson, in St. James's-place; Via
count Bury, in Albemarle-street; Mr. Adams, in Gros-
venor-place ; Mrs. and Miss Adeane, in George-street,
Hanover-square; Major and Mrs. Alexander, in Green-
street, Park-lane, from Dublin ; Mr. Charles Adams, in
Grosvenor-place; Mr. Richard Adams, in Berkeley-
square ; Hon. Captain Bentinck, of the Coldstream Guards,
in Portman-square ; Mr. Bloomfield, in Pall-mall ; Mrs.
and Miss Baldwin, in Park-street; Mr. and Mrs. Banks,
in Gloucester-place; Major Barclay, in Piccadilly; Mrs.
and Colonel Baxter, in Albemarle-street ; Mrs. and Miss
Beaufort, in Park-street ; Mr. and Captain Boyce, in
Chesterfield-street ; the Misses Cot, e, in Lower Brook-
street ; Lady Emily Cowper, in George-street, Hanover-
square; Mrs. and Miss Cameron, in Albemarle. street ;
Major Cosgill, in Old Bond-street ; Mrs. Scarsdale, in
Park-street; Major Carr, in Pall-mall, from Paris; Mr.
Henry Chichester, in Somerset-street; Major Clifton, in
St. James's-place ; Captain Garth, and Lady Astley, at
Mivart's Hotel, in Brook-street ; Captain Rooke, in Glou-
cester-place, from Bath ; Captain Rithardon, at Stevens'
Hotel, from Croydon ; Hon. John Bligh, in Berkeley-
square, from Cobham Hall ; General Crosby, in Park-
crescent, from Brighton; Captain Collingwood, in Jer-
myn-street, from Manchester ; Captain Clements, in Albe-
marle-street, from Paris ; the Very Rev. the Dean of Car-
lisle, in Lower Grosvenor-street, from Brighton; Major
and Mrs. Clayton, in Piccadilly, from Florence; Col. Keene,
in Albemarle-street, from Bath ; Major Gledhill, in Pall-
mall, from Berlin; Lieut. Pitman, of the Royal Dragoons,
at Stevens' Hotel, from Cork; Captain Dugdale, in Picca-
dilly, from Paris; Major Wykeham, of the 7th /imam in
Dover-street, from Cheltenham ; Major and Mrs. Dyer, in
Curzon-street, May-fair, from Chester; the Hon. William
Murray, in Park-square, from Brighton ; Major Gilpin,
in Albemarle-street, from Lisbon ; Lord George Quin, in
Bolton-row, from Bath ; Major and Mrs. Dunbar, in
Charges-street, from Portsmouth ; Major and Mrs. Gray,
in Hertford-street, from Paris ; Major Elliot, in Pall-null,
from Portugal ; Captain and Mrs. Hale, in Brook-street,
from Chatham ; Major Harvey, in Regent-street, from
Paris.

DEPARTURES.—AdmiraI Sir William John-
stone Hope, for Dumfries ; Colonel Houston, from Caven-
dish-square, for AddiQrsmbe Park, Croydon; Captain Har-
rington, from Berkeley-square, for Canterbury; Captain
Macqueen, of the King's Dragoon Guards, for Edinburgh;
Major Francis Egerton, for DulAir. ; Air. and Mr.. Haw-
kins, from Portman-square, for Brighton; Captain and
Mrs. Malcolm, for Rochester ; Major and Mrs. Mills, for
Canterbury; Mr. John Hodson, from Grosvenor-square,
for Chigwell, in Essex ; Mr. Andrew Nugent, from Porta_
ferry, in Ireland; Mr. Roger Hall, for Belfast.

One of the persons charged as a principal in
the conspiracy to murder the unfortunate MARA, was cap..
tured on Saturday night between Freshford and Tulle-
roane, in this county, and sent off to Clonmel. The poor
wretch has not stopped for three days in any one place
during the last six months. Such are some of the miseries
of the murderer even before an avenging Proyiikace de.
sican's blood for blood.—Lsiotster Journal,

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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By the official return of the Quarter's Reve-
nue, together with the annual accounts which
usually accompany the quarterly statement, it is
gratifying to see that the result indicates a sen-
sible improvement ; but as the Ministerial jour-
nals have had the modesty not to claim the
whole of that improvement to the measures of
their patrons, we shall leave its amount to be
observed, and its merits estimated, by the coun-
try, without any note or comment from our-
selves. An evening Ministerial contemporary
of Saturday was even self-denying on the point,
for in communicating some " general informa-
tion," (which, by the way, was so " general
to include no particulars), it laid claim to less
than a half df the actual increase which the pub-
lished table now indicates. This depressed esti-
mate probably proceeded more from the want of
knowledge than the want of zeal ; but in mat-
ters of mere figures, which must be verified or
contradicted in twenty-four hours, it would pro-
bably be better not to prophesy, " without see-
mg the vision." In our City article it is men-
tioned, that though there be an increase in tho
Revenue, without any corresponding increase in
there ri
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It is painful, it is even dreadful to contemplate
the fever into which the minds of partisans are
inflamed on every question which involves an
extension of indulgence, civil or religious, to any
fallow-subject who did not before enjoy it. trona
the petition of the English tanners in the last
century, who deprecated the dangerous and un -
constitutional innovation of suffering Irishrnen
to tan the hides of their own oxen in their own
pits, lest it should encroach upon the sacred mo-
nopoly of the worshipful corporation in this fowl,
try, to the foul cry of Dr. Philpotts and his
brethren, that if an Irish Catholic be permitted
to represent the Christians of his own persuasion
in Parliament, he will inevitably subvert the
Protestant Church of Great Britain, scarcely a
year has gone past us without evincing the same
expedient of shallow and silly selfishness in sonic
one body of monopolists or another, employ-
ing as watch-words for their own sordid pur-
poses the most animating, generous, and even
holy names. With regard to the periodi-
cal bellowing of " No Popery," its instiga-
tors arc of a different class from their fol-
lowers, and stand on a far more criminal footing,
In itself that war-cry is only more terrible, as
well as more hateful, than the cry of the silk, or
woollen, or linen manufacturers against foreign
webs, and than that of the landlords against fo
reign corn, in so far as the numbers who fancy
themselves affected by the whoop of the
" Church being in danger" are more numerous,
and as the pretences for raising that haanied
yell are a thousand times more hypocritical and
sinful. But in principle they all bear this stroeg
feature of resemblance—that it is in each case a
mere trick of mercantile rapacity, a combination
of sellers against consumers : the silkman en-
gages our sympathy for his poor weavers, whets
his single object is to have tne power of fixing
at once the wages of the journeyman and the
price of the article at his own pleasure ; the
landlord warns us against making England de-
pend for bread on fogtiviers, when his real ap-
prehension is that shelihall cease to depend on
hint ; while the tribe of Philpotts and Co. carry
the joke a little further, and insist that the cure
of Protestant souls involves in it by right di-
vine the guardianship of Catholic privileges,
rights, and purses. What the Reverend Cham-
pion of the Orange monopoly in Church anti
State proposes for the people of the United
Kingdom by heating the blood of sects against-
each other, we know not : for themselves, wc
fear there are many such crusaders, who calcu-
late nothing but the number of degrees to a
bishopric, and the time that it may take to
cover the intermediate space with pamphlets.—
That, however, though at best a laborious game,
is one likewise open to no inconsiderable hazard.
A dignitary of the church, albeit he speaks on
politics egv eathedril, may now and then expose
himself to an unceremonious reply. For in-
stance, a little pamphlet has been put into our
hands, purporting to come, and actually pro-
ceeding, from " A Clergyman of the Church of
England," entitled " An Answer to two Letters
addressed" by Dr. Philpotts to Mr. Canning,—
those letters memorable for the period at which
they appeared, and, we blush to say, for the
fierce and vindictive temper of personal animo-
sity which they indicated in the learned author,.
We have read the reply, and if Dr. Philpotts
takes the trouble of doing sa, we trust that
he will profit by it, and have done with
faction wearing the mask of fanaticism. On
every point in dispute which forms the
subject of the little. work we refer to—and
there is no point that we can recollect
evaded or omitted—the " Clergyman" is trium-
phant over the very Rev. Dean. The fallacy of
any danger from emancipation,—the non-fuihl-
mentThids
of faith with heretics,—the
.coronation
oath,—the sincerity and sound policy of Mr.
Canning,—are all handled with a force and skill
to which we cannot do justice by a brief quota-
tion. It is enough to affirm, that in the species
wisdoni,—nor of the charity
of war-cry now about, we supptohsee,.ttoembpeerresu;i7lll,
there is none of the strength which belongs to
conscious justice,—lwne of
befits impartial
which he who violat.es, let him call himself Pro-
or Bishop,. eisteni.s? I,r,ohticthh,e
underlz:ule
testant, Dean,
f
t.
tol e a
guise o Christianf n'a'modern " reformation" in Ireland,
has
the Catholic
upon the pe aceporifes
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monopolistsendh
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society,thood awhhearateldverof r pe
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theirt half-stifled, d ,
pari in
shioners
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bersf
of another Church. Far be it from
us to censure—we deeply reverence the honest
and apostolic efforts of clergymen to en-
lighten the dark spirit of ignorance and supersti-
tion, and enlarge by pure doctrine the limits of
the church, as well as to enforce by holy living
the example of virtuous ministers. But a re-
spect for times and seasons, and consequences, is
among the lawful duties of a teacher solicitous
to do effectual good. Ireland has been ruined
by indiscreet instruments in the hands of corrupt
advisers ; the whole face of society is troubled,
—the mind even of infancy is inflamed and dis-
torted, by the perverse ends to which, in many
instances, the means granted for education have
hcen employed by Protestants; and out the other

by the angry retaliation displayed in the lessons
fif the Popish priesthood to their flocks. We see
that the Catholics in Dublin have been prayine-
-and there are many besides Catholics whb wish
—that the large funds hitherto yielded (and much
augmented) to the Kildare-place Asso4ation
might be withheld or curtailed. ' We
would rather suspend all instruction to the poor
youth of Ireland for a time, if the bad and hostile
feelings which we have too much cause to fear
that schools of opposite sects have been' riade
the theatres, and pedagogues on both sides the
apostles, could be suspended with it. Not only
the peace and industry, but the religion of the
Protestant reformed community, would itself he
a gainer by the truce. It is well said by the
author of two eloquent articles on Ireland which
appeared in the Sphya of last week, that " the
clogs upon religion in Ireland at present are, not
wrong opinions,—the dead and worthless forms
of the intellect,—but malignant, fierce, persecut-
ing passions, spiritual pride, and ecclesiastical
intolerance,—the hatreds of sects which have
analyzed religion until its spirit has evaporated,
and nothing is left but the cctput mortuunz of
dogma." So English eccleamstics, when the
business of their lives is to make unrelenting
dogmas the pivots of temporal policy, do not
advance the cause either of just policy or of true
religion, however they may hope to advance
their own vile worldly fortunes,—Eid.
The flourishing condition of the National
Revenue must always inspire the true lovers of
their country with genuine feelings of satisfac-
tion ; but it cannot be denied that at the present
moment there are some circumstances which im-
part to the cheering statement it was our pleasing
duty yesterday to lay before the Public, a greater
than ordinary importance. The population of
Great Britain, in its various classes, has gone
'through a crisis of depression and suffering
which has been rarely equalled in the fluctuating
annals of commerce. The pcopla have gone
through this crisis nobly. The px, c of history
which records the sufferings and privations of
the working classes of a great nation, of the mil-
lions of mankind, is generally a dreary page—
hut in this instance it is not so ; it
presents a bright example of passive en-
durance, unpolluted by turbulence, of pa-
',ient acquiescence in the dispensatious of
Providence, of confidence in the energies,
,md steady hope in the destinies of the country,
which may proudly vie with the most stirring
incidents of the periods denominated too exclu-
sively heroic. The reward of this patience, the
iiifilment of these patriotic hopes, we may now
confidently say, is approaching ; and it is allow-
able and natural for us, and for the great majo-
rity of the British public, who throughout the
-season of gloom thought and felt with us—for
.di wisp adhered to the faith that-the son of Bri-
tain's prosperity was suffering only a temporary
Eclipse—to point with triumph and exultation
to its re-appearing glories. But independently-
of these natural feelings of triumphant exultation,
the renovation of the financial greatness of Eng-
land is to be hailed at the present moment on
account of the visible danger of a step being
taken, had the depression continued much
Longer, which coulo not in our judgment have
failed to produce the most terrible calamities—a
~.4ep which, had it once taken place, would have
been irretrievable and most degrading to the
country. A notion has been industriously pro-
pagated of late, and has very recently received
the sanction of an authority which was once
deemed high, that the Sinking Fund, a fund
appropriated out of the income of the country
or the redemption of its Debt, is useless and
even mischievous. The state of the Revenue

for the last two years, without adding any force
to the arguments- in favour of this modern opinion,
has unquestionably.' the effect of disposing
4tl
the nation to listori l'Eeni more favourably than
it would otherwise have done_ The counteracting
operations of redeeming debt with one hand, and
contracting fresh debts with the other, so long as
both were going on at the same time, did, it must
he confessed, arm the opponents of the Sinking
Fund with a very formidable, or at least a very
annoying weapon. Their war cry of delusion
it was impossible to silence, and difficult to an-
varer in a manner intelligible to the mu!titude ;
yet, nevertheless, we were convinced that their
cry was itself a delusion ; that the weapon they
brandished so proudly and fiercely was not of
the true temper ; and that the first change in the
political atmosphere would utterly destroy its
edge. We now confidently ask if there is any
man who doubts that the existing rate of taxa-
tion will not yield sufficient to defray all the ex-
penses of the State during peace, to pay the
annual interest of the debt, and to maintain the

;Sinking Fund at its present legal amount ?
This question will not be answered in the
affirmative ; but it will be pretended that
the nation requires relief from the present
rate of taxation, and the pretence will be se-
conded, as it has been, by the reasonings
of those who argue that a Sinking Fund for
the redemption of debt is in its own na-
ture, and independently of circumstances, use-
less ; because the money abstracted from the
people in order to maintain it would increase
more rapidly—add more to the capital and re-
sources of tire country, and be to all intents and
purposes a more valuable Sinking Fund if left in
the hands of the people themselves. This is the
reverse of Mr. Pitt's doctrine upon the subject,
although now unfortunately maintained by some
of those who arc indebted to their connection
with that immortal Statesman for the greatest
part of whatever political reputation they
enjoy. \V have no hesitation to describe
it as a false dogtrine. It says in substance,
that a nation, after having contracted a debt,
should make no effort to pay it ofF; that a
nation may go on indefinitely, as occasion re-
quires, encumbering and forestalling its future
revenues, without availing itself of any opportu-
nity to disengage them. Its eventual conse-
quence, in a financial point of view, is national
bankruptcy ; not because curious calculations ofl
compound interest are disregarded—not because
money will not fructify even more rapidly in the
hands of individuals than in the hands of Go-
ernment ;but because its immediate moral effect
upon men's minds is to break down the outward
barrier of national faith, and to familiarise them
to, and legitimate the idea of national bankruptcy.
The debt of England was contracted during the
of the expectation
prevalence, common alike
to the borrowers and the lenders, that it was
eventually to be redeemed by the operation of a
Sinking Fund. No
new lights in political eco-
nomv can enable any body to contradict that fact.
We do not say, however, that Parliament may
not disappoint this expectation, or that to disap-
point it will be to commit national bankruptcy.
But we do say, that the very general notion—a
notion the most honourable and the most ad-
vantageous to England—that a national bank-
ruptcy in this country is an impossible thing,
would be very considerably weakened all over
the wend, by the abandonment of the Sinking

cer-

Fund system, and that it would have tl
tails effect of diminishing the streng
energy of the country in the case of any
war, m a degree altogether beyond oalcula
Morning Post.
A report of a case at the Denbighshire
Assizes, which will be found in another column,
exemplifies very happily the peculiarities WI Eng-
lish jurisprudence. Owen Owens is indicted,
under the statute of 7 and 8 Geo. IV., for hav-
ing feloniously killed a mare, by pouring a
uan-
tity of nitrous acid into one ear and eye. There
were two other counts, charging a wounding and
maiming. The Judge directed an acquittal on
the two counts for killing and wounding, as the
surgeon said the injury caused an ulcer, and not
a wound—remained the maiming, and the
question is, whether pouring aqua-fortis into the
ear of a horse, and thereby destroying it, cOmsti-
lutes maiming. His Lordship said, in the event
of the Jury finding the prisoner guilty of the
maiming, he should reserve the case for thU opi-
nion of the twelve Judges. A verdict of Guilty
of maiming was returned, and if the Judges
should be of opinion that the destroying the
horse by the above means does not constitute
maiming, Mr. Owen Owens will again be a gen-
tleman at large. that peruses the pro-
ceedings of an English Court of Justice would
imagine that the men who occupy themselves
with these trifles were not Chinese, or Burmese,
or some such barbarians, instead of belonging to
the country of Newton, Bacon, Hobbes, and
Locke ? Will no man free the country from
this stain on it ? Nothing so easy as to avoid
the necessity of this minuteness by classification
and arrangement. We address those who wish
that guilt should be punished, and not lawyers,
‘.ho have an interest in the perpetuation of
abuses, by which guilt may be enabled to escape
the consequences of guilt. If the Legislature,
for instance, wish to preserve the lives of horses,
the quo mode is of slight import, except as indi-
cative of the intention of the agent. The life
of the horse may be attempted in a hundred
ways, but all the legislator has to do is to attach
a penalty to the taking away intentionally the life
of the horse, or the committing an act indicative of
an intention to destroy the animal.—Morning
Chronicle.

1 and
Future
on.—

There arc two questions which a Statesman
has to resolve when he ventures on any new or
untried measure. 1. Is it desirable ? 2. Can
it he carried into execution ? Unfortunately it
is a much easier task for a legislator to examine
a theory, or to estimate the force of an abstract
argument, than it is to collect, compare, and
weigh the numerous facts, whose consideration
are absolutely necessary to solve the second
question. It requires more time, inure lakur,
and in appearance, though not in reality, fewer
talents, to enter upon such an examination, and
therefore idle men dislike and brilliant men
despise the task. Thus, it for the most part
happens, that in planning enactments which go
very seriously to affect numerous and important
interests, the manner and degree of their in-
fluence are very slightly attended to ; and some-
times wholly neglected. There are many.pro-
blems in practical politics, which are not the less
true, that they do not admit of a' rigidly logical
proof; and there are many problems in theo-
retical politics which are not the less in-
applicable that they dO. We see no danger
in theoretical men, considered as such. In
fact, without a knowledge of theory, no man can
be a statesman. But we see great and imminent
danger when men who are theorists, and nothing
else, interpose to regulate the complicated ma-
chine of the State. Our present Ministers are
not of this description ; and, with talents to
appreciate just theory, they have also talents to
calculate the numerous disturbing forces to which
the nature of our social system gives birth. Yet
we cannot help thinking that there are some
measures into which they have gone (we speak
of them here as individuals), not from lack of
knowledge, much less from any improper mo-
tives, but solely becan,lc they have not attended
ufficiently to the whole of the paiticulars neces-
sary to answer truly aid well the second question
above adverted to, which their more informed
judgments would lead them seriously to recon-
sider. We should feel some hesitation in pointing
out the propriety of such a reconsideration, had
we weaker men to advise, because we should
anticipate from them, as usually happens, a more
obstinate determination to remain steadfast to
their errors. But when we address Mr. Peel
we know that we address one who is not
ashamed at any time to avow that he is wiser to-
day than he was yeserday. With this know-
ledge of his charm t r, and confidence in his can-
dour, we state to him that, among the measures
requiring re-consideration, is that which declares
that all one pound notes must cease after July,
1829. Without one pound notes it is univer-
sally admitted that the country banks must cease
to do business, or do so on so narrow a scale as
to be of no use to themselves or their employers.
This would, in itself, be a great evil ; for the
men whom it would directly visit, are numerous,
wealthy, and respectable ; but the evil cannot
rest here. Without country bankers the ' inter-
nal commerce of the country must suffer a con-
traction fatal to its prosperity, if not to its exis
tence. From every quarter of the country such
is the language that reaches us. It calls for at-
tention, and ought to have it. It is true, an-
other Session of Parliament must intervene be-
fore the legislative enactment to which we allude
can come into operation ; but it would, we
think, be unwise to allow this to pass, without
some motion, which may tranquillize the fears so
extensively felt from it. It was passed in a mo-
ment of great excitement, and that circumstance
alone would furnish sufficient grounds for a calm
review of its probable consequences. But there
are higher and more imperative reasons, reasons
not accidental but permanent. Even, if upon
such a review as we would recommend, it should
be determined to leave the enactment undis-
turbed, the review would not be made in vain.
But we are much deceived if that would be the
Iconclusion come to.— New Times. •

how little medium is wanted. A man's

anival
um in
200/.
keep
but
let is

return may be 10,0001., and yet the med
his banker's hands may not be more than
on the average, and the banker does not
the 2001. to answer the tradesman's deman
only one-third. When the corn subj(
broached in Parliament, so far as importal
considered, we are surprised that the cut
question should he mixed with it. Thl
questions ought to be discussed distinct
each other. It is mixing the two
causes so much confusion in the speeches
that has been the means of bringing fora
loads of pamphlets. Whether it is the in
of this country that we should import corn rather
than grow it, is the question at issue between
the agriculturists and manufacturers. Considered
generally, it is our interest not to import it, but
tv grow it—because, by producing it ourselves,
we cannot be at any time indebted to other na-
tions for it ; for such a possible circumstance
might arise as that no nation would send,it to
us ; and being accustomed to it, we should: find
an inconvenience in wanting it. Not but, that
there aro other things to live on as well as wheat;
as in Ireland potatoes, or in Scotland oats. So
far as the manufacturers are concerned, we do
not think it signifies to them whether we grow
wheat or whether we import wheat ; for if the
question be wheat only, and if the farmers of
England produce wheat to the amount of one
hundred millions a year, and in exchange for
suclt wheat, take goods of the manufacturers to
an equal amount, here is just the same exchange
of wheat for manufactures as would be if wheat
were imported and manufactures were sent

ion is
trency
two
from
1 that
, and

such
;crest

to foreign farmers. The difference, if any,
to the country, might lay in the shipping;
and here the landlords have probably the
better of the argument ever manufacturers.
For if it would require 1,000, or any
given number of foreign ships, to bring over to
this country the wheat it consumed, it would only
require ton British ships, probably not so many,
to convey 1-ack British goods to other countries
in payment. That is supposing that we had a
law that none but British ships should take
British goods, and that foreign nations had one
that none but foreign ships should take foreign
wheat. Provided there Isere no need for a taxa-

tion of fifty or sixty millions a-year, we should
prefer what is called free trade—that is, to let
nations send what they please to us, while we
exported any thing we thought proper in payment.
But even then we would not have the trade with
foreign countries free from taxation ; fin. as all
nations must have revenue, and as indirect taxation
is more pleasant than direct taxation, we would
lay a tax upon the importation of every thing,
and a smart tax, too, so as, if possible, to
derive all our revenue from an indirect taxation.
Now as to the principle of protection, as wheat
can be produced abroad at 405., while it cannot
be produced at home under 605., if Ave were to

have what is called free trade—that is, no
tax on imports—we should, in all probability,
have such a quantity of wheat imported that it
would knock up those who are at present em-
ployed only in the growing of wheat ; therefore, if
we import wheat, we ought to put a tax on it of

15s. or 20s. to prevent—such people from being
broken up ; for though the time would arrive
that the imported wheat would have to be paid
for, and the people who grew wheat would be ap-
plied to to produce something to pay for the im-
ported wheat, vet there is an old saying, " while
the corn is growing the steed is starving." But
considering, however, the prejudice that there is
on the subject, we think the Ministers would
he wise if their scale of taxation of wheat was'
diminished ; looking at 60s. for the cost of wheat
in this country, a'id that the same might be
bought in a foreign country at 405., we should
say that, when wheat was here 605., that it
should be imported with a tax of 155., instead
of the present tax of 275. Bd.; for we should
think that it would cog not much less than 10s.
to bring it, when we consider freight, insurance,
cartage, merchants' profits, &c. Here, then,
would he sufficient protection ; ,ind, even at such
a tax, very little would be imported. The pre-
sent Statesmen have now the opportunity of
pleasing the people ; for 15s. would be consi-
dered a boon, whereas the tax now fixed of
275. Bd. will be considered a grievance. By-
the-bye, what an odd sort of scale it is. Why
have eightpences—why not shillings ."' Why
should the tax not he as well 255. as 245. Bd. ?
Why cause more work for clerks in Custom-
houses and counting-houses than is needful ?
Morning- Herald.