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The Witness and the Patriot, rowing in the same , MATRIMONIAL ADVE'
boat, will soon get over their love-quarrels, and iIIENTE.
Doctors Cox and Candlish are at one on the practical ' From the Morning Post we extraei
duty of opposition to the Established Church, and
moreeau that is not without its inst
differing only on a transcendental and metaphs sical ing on the question of social refinernei
abstraction, must, unless either change, soon co-ope- propriety mone aong class, at least, cn
rate lie " vera brithers." Whether this new craft
t l hat whose " saying; and doings
will ever get afloat, or whether they will get a crew nit 3.• he cess is t
to men it, Nve know not. This we do know, that the our Contemporary exdressly records, in that well
known department of his journal which is devoted to
Church of England, throned on the intelligence and : '
' the Fashionable World." We have ever felt a sue
affections of her people, surrounded by the tokens of Ipromo indifference about the festive occupations, the
her usefulness, her surest trophies, and built on the
domestic engagements, and the appearances and dis-
rock of ages, can afford to pity the men and to de- . ‘appearances of these very obtrusive " people of quality,"
spise the projects that are set in array against her. ._ goings
.out and comings in—their whereabouts
1 wh,se
In the course of our reading we have met with an
and their routine of movements—are chronicled with
interesting extract, which may suggest a "free "
II tedious minuteness in the inverse ratio of their in-
monument to a distinguished actor in the French portance. To the d til3 business of men, living in a
Revolution, as well as enlighten our readsrs on the period of Europeanx:p
extreme political e iet-a:cbyeiiiitnd indeed but not the less of
origin of some modern phantasies. Dr. Cox may thank
Misses II Y'
the:oraonfnoaus nrnceamn)e,nts
smallof
us tbr it. The true origin of what is called the vo- three Honourable
luntary or non-intrusion principle took place in the Princes, each ,with a whole contingent of long and '
un-
very heart of the French Revolution, and claims as its pronounceable titles tohisforeign back, having taken
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parentage no less illustrious a hero Ilan Robespierre. an airing, or taken fri,s,ht ; or honoured the Ojibbe-
His arguments for the confiscation of the property of way Indians, or the Thames Tunnel, or the ancient
the Church were just the same as those of Dr. Cox and , with a visit; or fifteen
his compeers of the Anti-State Church Association. ' .
Dowager Countess of
artists with last sittings fbr the one-and-twentieth
Premier Principe.—Toutes les functions soot d'in-
painted of each of portrait which has been ;hem;—are
stitution socials; elks out peur but l'ordre et le bon-
matters utterly impertinent. Nevertheless, since there
hetir de la societ4; il en suit qu'il ne pe=at exister dans
la s:ocieti aucune function qui ne soit utile. Dovant cette are, undoubtedly, those who take an interest in such
maxime disparaissent les benefices ,et les ctabli,,semens " intelligence," nobody else has say right to find fault
sans objet, les cathedrales, les collegiates, les cure's et with its being thus communicated. But we hope, in
tousles archereques qui ne demandent par les besoins future, that the intelligence in questien will be con-
publiques. fined to its legitimate daily promenade among the
" Second Principe.—Les officiers ecelesiastiques etant well accustomed parterres appropriated to the " Han's'
instituei pour le bonheur des hommes et pour le hien du TON" in the shape of " Court Circulars," or "from
peuple it en suit qua le peuple doit les nommer. Le authority" paragraphs • and not be. suffered to break.
pouplo pout elire scs pasteurs comae les magistrats et into the" sober,' Pedes4rian• like inclosures, within
autres oflicierspubliques."-,
w' • h steady, quiet advertisements are ordinarily
Dr. Candlish will see that he has been strutting 'me
before the public with borrowed plumes. Robes • congregated. Yet it was from such a position, struck
by the evident symptoms it presented of having lost
Pierre was obviously the first Non-Intrusionist and
way, and being located in some wrong domicile,
Free, Churchman, only with great consistency he saw its
t .
that Dr. Cox's Voluntaryism and Dr. Candlish's Non- lave hastened to extricate—the
hat we found—and
" i
Intrusionism must be combined, and that an Estab-
illustr of the following interesting
ous stranger
fished Church and voluntary machinery, are, as the
no"ti Marransioxr.—A Young Nobleman, with large expecte-
seceders now testify, incompatible. • tions, and at present with a moderate income, wishes, through
the present medium of an advertisement, to meet with a
Lady of fortune, who would be elevated t o a high rank, and
also meet with a young and kind partner for life. Letters
addressed, pre-paid, to Coronet., 43, Upper Berkeley-strost,
Connaught-square, will meet with immediate attention."
Undoubtedly this is a business -like way of pro-
posing to do business ; and, as men of business our-
selves, we must not object to the announcement on
' that account. Nor are we at liberty to attach any
imputation to it, simply on the ground that it pro-
ceeds from some (very) " young nobleman." For
though we shall never be the apologists of the sins
against good sense and morality (neither few nor far
between) which are unhappily brought home, with
the experience of almost every week, to some titled
offender or other, we have a respect for aristocracy as
an institution. We are content, too, to accept the
doctrine of our prerogative lawyers—" that the Crown
is the fountain of honour," for it is a good proposition
—in the abstract. But we have almost as grave
doubts of the decorum with which this derivative
source professes to communicate to the future
fortunate lady of so " young and kind a partner for
life," the same degree of distinction which his own
ancestors had derived from the original " fountain of
honour ;" as we entertain of the delicacy of his public
proclamation of a certain "reward" to be paid to any
lady of fortune disposed to hand it over to a young
nobleman ; to wit, the condition of securing her the
rare felicity of being married to him, and acquiring
at once a title (! !) and "a young and kind partner
for life."
As for the " title," any lady of fortune who closes
with such a proposal will most unquestionably secure
one that is already conceded to many others, mem-
bers of his "order,' besides the "CORONET" who ie
advertising for her. She will take rank among that
interesting community whom men call "fools," be-
yond all possibility of doubt. But we would fain
hope that some of the fair correspondents who may
be caught by such an advertisement as this—if they
don't discover " CORONET" to be a Mere idea, the
phantom of some pocketbook-frontispiece-exquisite.
having no real existence—if they don't find the whole
affair (in spite of the "genuine address" and matter-
of-fact-like directions to obtain "tickets to view, and
further particulars," as the house agents have it) to
prove a mere hoax ;—we would fain hope that they
will enlighten the world on a topic of so much ago-
nising curiosity as the identity of the advertising
nobleman.

THE SLIDING SCALE.

The advocates of monopoly are beginning to meet the
free traders on something like fair ground. They pro-
mise to have recourse to facts and arguments ; and to
employ the press as an instrument for the dissemina-
tion of their views. This is manly and straight-
forward. It is all that we want—all that is requisite
for the speedy triumph of our principles. The mo-
nopolists take the field by accusing the Leaguers of
concealing from the people the duties levied by the
Government upon the importation of cotton, woollen,
and silk manufactures, hard ware and cutlery,
pottery and glass, and various other productions
of British skill and industry; which duties
the said monopolists are pleased to describe as a
protection to commerce. Now, it is too bad to
charge the manufacturers with the enjoyment of a
protection which they do not want, and which they
have repeatedly declared to be injurious to them.
The import duties upon manufactures are levied for
revenue, and not at all under the plea of protection.
Were they for protection and not for revenue they
would, of course, he based upon a sliding scale to
rise and fall according to the market price of manu-
factures in this country. But, as we have iust said,
these duties are levied to enrich the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and not the manufacturer.
It can be easily shown that Parliament cannot pro
tect British manufactures, and, therefore, that the
plea of reciprocity of protection is sheer nonsense.
The manufacturers are exporters of manufactures to
the amount of many millions annually, and for all
that they export they have to find markets in which
they can undersell every other nation. Parliament
cannot protect them in the markets of France, Spain,
Austria, Prussia, Russia, the Netherlands, and North
and South America; and the Government repudiates
any exclusive advantage for British wares even in
China. Were protection necessary or even possible,
in the case of British manufactures, we could not ex-
port a single bale of goods. To talk, therefore, of
protecting the British manufacturer in the British
market is clearly an absurdity. That market becomes
his own by his ability to sell cheaper than the fo-
reigner. Most of the manufactured goods known as
French, and therefore fashionable among certain
classes, are the products of British industry.
But in the article of corn, protection le high price
and starvation. We are not exporters, but importers
of food. Instead of growing corn for the rest of the
world as we manufacture cottons, we do not grow
corn enough for ourselves. There is, therefore, no
analogy between the assumed cases of the protection
of cotton and corn. We beg the attention of the
farmers to this point. There can be no protection of
what we produce in greater abundance than we re-
quire for our own use. Thus, the Chinese could not
protect, by means of import duties, the growth of tea
in their country, simply because no country could
undersell the native teas in the Canton market.
And were the Chinese Government to impose
import duties upon tea, as an equivalent to the
the tea-growers for an import duty upon 'camlets
demanded by the weavers of China, there is not a boy
of 12 years old, at a public school or merchant's
counting-house in this country, who would not he
able to expose the dishonesty of such a juggle.
The Chinese tea-growers would, as a matter of
course, tell the Celestial Government that they
wanted no protection that they could not en-
counter competition in their own market—and that
justice demanded that they should be allowed to
exchange their teas for the cheaper camlets of the
outside barbarians, instead of being compelled to
pay a high price for a worse article manufactured
at home. And were the Emperor to urge in answer
to remarks so well founded; that the rate of import
duty upon teas and camlets being equal, the
protection was the same, who is there that could not
see that the understanding of the tea-growers would
be insulted by such a mode of reasoning ?
Now, the assumed case of the Chinese tea-growers is
precisely that of the British manufacturers. While
they are exporters of their products, and have to find
markets for them in other countries, they can receive
no protection from import duties. Mark the differ-
ence with respect to corn. As we said above, we ex-
port no corn. We do not grow enough to supply
ourselves. The landlord has, therefore, a home
market for the whole of his produce—a market greater
than he has the means of supplying. His
wheat has not to , be carried St. Peters-
burgh, Vienna, Constantinople, Bombay, Can-
ton, New York, or New Orleans, like a bale of Bri-
tish merchandise before finding purchasers for it.
The consumers are all at his own door, ready to take
more than he can given them. Now, this is real pro-
tection, and better protection than is enjoyed by any
other class of producers in the world. With the
protection of an all-absorbing home-market for the
whole of his produce, it is most cruel, must unjust,
and most unreasonable on the part of the British
landlord to require the starvation protection of a
sliding-scale. But the landlords have ever been plun-
derers of the rest of the community for their own
immediate advantage. Seventy years ago, when
more corn was grown in England than was required
to feed the people, artificial scarcities were effected by
Parliament granting a bounty upon the exportation
of grain. This bounty was paid to the landlords out
of the taxes to find a market for a part of their pro-
duce, and to enhance. the price of the rest. The pre-
text, then, of course, was the encouragement of agri-
culture. Were we to retaliate by a bounty upon the
importation of corn, we should be only paying the
landlords with their own dishonest coin. But we do

" Is he a peer of the realm ?—we shall be all dying
to know ;"—such, we can almost fancy, is the excla-
mation we hear from some of our lady readers. "And
what is his present moderate income ?" It is
to be feared an income of extreme tenuity, seeing
that letters, " to meet with attention," must "be
prepaid." Ah! what an age do wq, live in, when
the economising spirit of ROWLAND HILL, roaming
up and down the earth like the evil genius of Valen-
tine and love-letter writers, thus denounces, before-
hand, unpaid billets-dour! These missives, fraught;
with all their delicious confessions—their acknow-
ledgements of "an invincible interest and preposses-
ision" in favour of the noble advertiser, though un-
known, &c. &c., will meet with no attention if their
several penny charges be not first defrayed. Not to
be prepaid, in short, will be a double enormity ; as it
would entail a double postage—two pennies instead of
one per billet But there is some comfort in this sti-
pulated course. It speaks well for the frugality and
forecast of the "young nobleman," who is about to
realise the pictured felicities of WILKIE'S " Penny
Wedding." That he is at present worth a " moderate
income," may be sufficient excuse, too, fur his serious
apprehensions of being made insolvent, without pre-
viou-ly bargaining for prepayment of the 1,000 letters
per diem, which, at least, the faint arid weary post-
men, in whose district, unhappily for them, "No. 43,
Upper Berkeley-street, Connaught-square" is situated,
will have daily to deliver at the door of " Cononrr."
" CORONET" is, however, a man "of large expecta-
tions"—and of Irish connexions, too, we will ven-
ture to wager. For he not only reckons on meeting
with a lady of fortune, who, in return for presenting
him with it, will be elevated to his own rank, hut he
undertakes to prove to her " a young and kind part-
ner for So that if they are to live together
for sixty years from this time, the lady may be pre-
pared to address him in the words of Tom -MOORE'S
ballad—

" Thou wilt still be young to me !"

If his other " expectations" are as large as this, the
advertisement does not overrate them. But the mis-
chief is, the extent of " moderate-incomed" gentle-
men's " expectations' is too often the only realised
property they ever carry with them. Seriously
speaking, it is long since we have seen anything so
disparaging to the rank and dignity of a "young
nobleman," as this " public tender" for a wife with a
fortune. The follies of some of the rakish, profligate
Lords, which Courts of Law and justice have recently
from time to time exposed, have been bad and silly
enough. But still they were little more than vicious
excesses, naturally consequent on the pursuits of a
prodigal and reckless career of personal extrava-
-1 gance, carrying with them their own penal and per-
sonal consequences. They did not infer that the
delinquents would have been content to barter, "by
public roup"—for the consideration of "a wife with a
fortune," the participation of their titles and con-
nexions, their own acceptation probably, in society,
and the best interests of their future progeny. But
" CORONET" thinks it unnecessary to stipulate for
education, accomplishments, amiable manners, respect-
ability, unblemished character, or even youth or
beauty in his bride. She must have a fortune—and
yet that is not all ; she—must prepay her letter of
reply. Among all the precedents of forfeiture, de-
gradation, and decay adduced in the huge blue book
"On the Dignity of a Peer," we have met with no
such case of moral or social destitution as a Peer's thus
advertisineor a lady of fortune.

not want to retaliate wrong. We require justice and
nothing more ; and by discussing the question of the
corn-laws with us, the monopolists are arming us
with weapons with which to win it.—Hull Advertiser.

THE IRON TRADE.—The ironmasters' quarterly
meetings take place next week, when it is expected that thee
recent improvement in the trade will be demonstrated in the
shape of a definitive advance. We have heard of advanceseeubt
already made
,from various quarters,
butn prices,
that, in the main, these accounts are co
and we have no d
though strongly tending upwards, have been correct,
and
of the buyer
regulated much more by the immediate e
and seller than by any
.certain charg , The ensuing
quarter-dav, no doubt, will put an end to these uncer-
tainties.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
Adeal of
NEW MARKET AT CROTDO.N. good
in-
terest was created at Croydon on Wednesday, by the opening
and commodious stock market, at the back of the
Greyhoundaiey Inn, and adjoining the Fair Field. The old mar-
ket at the bottom of the town had long been found very in.
convenient, and, in fact, totally inadequate for the purposes
for which it was intended; and Mr. John Martin, an old in-
habitant of the town, very liberally resolved to supply the
deficiency, by erecting the new market in the centre of the
town, and close to the stations of the Brighton and South-
Eastern Railways, thereby giving very great facility to
graziers, from the lower parts of Surrey and Kent, to bring
their stock to market. The profits of the markets from tolls
are to be vested in trustees, for the benefit of decayed sales-
men of the town. There was a very good show of stock on
the opening day, and the attendance of London and country
butchers was very considerable, nearly the whole of the
stock being sold off very soon after the formal opening of
the market.

THE Hint.—Of the numerous compounds con-
stantly announced for promoting the growth or reproduc-
tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very
limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a
reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public es-
timation. The singular virtues of this successful invention
for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair,
are too well known and appreciated to need much comment.
The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it
enjoys, its general use in all countries, together with nu-
merous testimonials constantly received in its favour, are au-
thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title over all
attempts of a similar nature. Being universally preferred;
its consequent great demand excites the cupidity of un-
principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash as
the "genuine" Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine article is
wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and Son,
and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders
abortive any attempt to discover its component parts—thus
• pmying the imposition of all other articles.bearing the title
of " Macassar Oil." The genuine article has the words
" Rowland's Macassar Oil" on the wrapper.—All others aro
fraudulent counterfeits:

The Norman. Times says :—" In the early part of
the week a number of hands who are thrown out of employ-
ment at the fabriques on the Deville, Maromme, and Ma,
launey-road, near Rouen, assembled in groupsi n several
places about Maromme and Deville, and demanded to be taken
on to work at the railway works just commenced in that
neighbourhood. They expressed much dissatisfaction that
Englishmen should be employed while they were out of work.
Au officer of gendarmerie was sent to them with orders to
have them dispersed, and since that nothing more has been
heard of their complaints. It would only be right to men-
tion here, that these men, from their previous habits, are not
the kind of men whom a contractor would employ for his
peculiar description of labour; and, therefore, supposing a
sufficient quantity of labour could be afforded, which indeed
cannot at present, no blame could be attached to a contrac-
tor for not employing them. The place where the dissatis-
faction exists bears a strong resemblance, from the nature
of its fabrics, and the description of its population, to the
environs of Manchester; and the fact that the population
cannot be kept in full employment by the manufacturers,
affords a curious and instructive commentary to the threat
which has been held out by some of the Manchester men of
emigrating to this country, if Parliament should insist upon
protecting the helpless women and children who work in
their mills, from the grinding oppression to which they are
now subjected."
BERLIN, MARCH 17.—1 t is said that the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, who has been here for some
days past, has, at the request of our King and the Duke of
Brunswick, declared himself ready to offer his personal media-
tion to the King of Hanover, in the differences about the
levying of the duties on the frontier.
MoLIERE AND THE DOCTORS, AND THE PRICE HE
PAID FOR ins WANT OF FAITII.-111oliere made a butt of
physic and physicians. Had he followed the good advice he
received from his medical attendants, however, it would
have been better for him—if longer life be a good. He wail
recommended to giVe up playing, inasmuch as the labour
was too great for his chest ; he was advised to abide by a
, milk dist, inasmuch as it agreed with him ; and he was par-
ticularly counselled to live apart from his wife, a heartless
coquette, of whorn he was nevertheless extremely jealous.
He gave no heed to these wise hygienic and Moral prescrip-
tions, and died at fifty-one, of an attack of pulmonary apo-
plexy, which in all human probability might hive been
warded off for an indefinite length of time, or never have oc-
' urred at all,--.Louden Medical Gazette.

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