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FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, DECEMBER le, 1044..
The Queen has been pleased, by and with the advice of
her Privy Council, to appoint
The Most Reverend Father in God John George Arch-
bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland ;
The Most Reverend Father in God Richard Archbishop
of Dublin ;
The Most Reverend Archbishop William Crolly ;
The Most Reverend Archbishop Daniel Murray ;
The Right Hon. John Hely Earl of Donoughmore, K.P.;
The Right Reverend Bishop Cornelius Denvir ;
The Honourable and Very Reverend Henry Pakenham,
Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin I
The Right Honourable Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart. ;
The Right Honourable Anthony Richard Blake ; and
The Reverend Doctor Pooley Shouldham Henry—to be
Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests
for Ireland.

any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope,
Leeds.

COTTON AND PAPER.
(From the Times.)
As there is a general impression, whether well or
ill•founded, that the income-tax, although it may
perhaps be modified, will not be repealed next session,
and as upon this ground a general reduction of taxation
is anticipated, it becomes a question of moment in what
quarter and in what articles the relief is likely to be
afforded. There are, of course, many conflicting inte-
rests involved in this prospect of amelioration, and every
branch of commerce will necessarily be on the alert to
supplicate and argue for the boon. One impost, how-
ever, the arguments for the repeal of which were dis-
cussed at Manchester on Tuesday, claims attention as
one of the heaviest in its pressure upon all classes, the
poor as well as the afflueut. We mean the import duties
upon raw cotton, width @affect both the manufacturer
and the consumer to an extent that few perhaps can
imagine. Looking to the competition which we are
obliged to encounter with America, where they have
the raw material on the spot, and pay no duty—a com-
petition increasing, be it observed, on all sides, and
which has already begun to affect our trade with
China—the consequences of which unequal rivalry
must inevitably be that the manufacturer, unable to
realise a fa!r sale for his goods, will be driven to curtail
the wages of the operative, and thereby render it a tax
upon labour ; taking into account at the same time the
et:melt:ion it has with the contorts of necessary clothing
for the poor ; we trust that our readers will agree with
us that this is one of tke fairest and fittest objects for a
suppression of taxation. A remission of duty upon an-
other article also, which we think claims consideration,
with a view to lightening, if not entirely removing, the
burden that at present acts injuriously upon all ranks
and orders among us, was suggested at a meeting which
took place yesterday at the London Coffee-house. We
allude to the enormous duty upon paper, which every
one must perceive to be a serious check upon the pro-
gress of education, the advancement of literature, and
the convenience and intercourse of society at large. We
shall hope to see something done in both these instances;
and we refer our readers to the reports of the two meet-
ings, which will be found in another part of our impression,
for arguments which we hope will prove as convincing
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as they will to the
majority of tke public.
(From the Post.)
It would seem that for the surplus revenue which has
accrued under the financial system of the present Go-
vernment there will be no lack of caididates. Among
the various claimants for a reduction or remission of the
duties that affect their particular trade, the paper
manufacturers have now come forward. At a meeting
held in London yesterday, Mr. Dickenson, the Chair-
man, Sir William Magnay, Mr. Crompton, and other
gentlemen, detailed the various grievances under which
the paper trade has become so seriously depressed.
These seem to be--apart from the amount of duty,
though that varies from 80 to 150 per cent.—the strin-
gent Excise regulations which are necessary to prevent
fraud, but far from successful in doing so—the exten-
sive damage occasioned by opening and repacking goods
entered at the Custom-house for exportation—the per-
mission to introduce fancy paper from France at the
duty chargeable only on " manufactured articles," and
the superior facilities afforded to foreign, over native
makers, in the export of paper even to our own colonies.
Reckless competition was also insisted upon very
strongly as a main cause of the depression that exists,
in consequence of the inducement it affords to dishonest
manufacturers, by collusion with the officer of Excise, to
undersell those who faithfully obey the law. This, and
the other matters we have mentioned, are to farm the
subjects for the deliberations of a committee which the
meeting of yesterday agreed to appoint ; and communi-
cations with Government will then be opened, pre-
viously to the: commencement of the ensuing session of
Parliament.

J. Wilson, warehouseman, Manchester—second and
final dlr. of 6s. 4d. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 1,
and every following Wednesday, at the office of Mr.
Putt, Manchester,

J. Gleadhill, cotton-spinner, Oldham—interest on
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G. S. Wells, cotton-spinner, Ripponden-mill, Halifax
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subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
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T. Carter, jun., butcher, Waltham, Leicestershire—
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or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Whit-
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METROPOLITAN VISITING AND
RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
Thursday the first annual meeting of the subscribers
bo this charitable Association was held at the Hanover-
.spare Rooms. It was rather a numerous assemblage.
The Lord Bishop of LONDON, President of the Insti-
tution. took the chair soon after two o'clock. His Lord-
ship, in opening the business, stated that the Association
had been formed for promoting the relief of destitution in
the mt tropolis, and for i.inproving. the condition of the
floor by means of psreclualand district visiting, under
'the sup' erinielidence anddirection of the Bishop and
clergy. The utility of such an Institution was obvious.
He was ready to acknowledge that where distress was
found general relief was given, but that was not enough:
to give proper aid where it was wanted they ought to
make themselves acquainted with the distress and evils
of life. This had been done by the visiting committee,
and if a 'large sum had been properly applied in the re-
lief of distress they had discharged the duties of Chris-
tianity. The system of visiting the poor, in the different
metropolitan districts, had been universally successful.
The visitors had added more than 1,000 persons to their
original number. They were conveying blessings
from the rich, not merely to the dwellings of
the poor, but absolutely to the poorest. By
perseverance in their great work they would do
much good. He
looked upon this Association as
the beginning of improvement in the condition of the
poor. Unless, however, their efforts had the support of
benevolence, his expectation would not be answered. It
was their duty to inquire into distress and relieve it.
The Right Rev. Prelate expressed himself thankful for
having been able, as Bishop of London, to support many
of the destitute population of London. He could assure
the meeting, that so far as support could be extended it
would not be wanted.—(Applause.) He concluded by
calling on the secretary to read the report, and which
was read accordingly. The details were most interesting.
Lord SANDON rejoiced that he had been found among
those around him who had promoted the good object.
He considered-it his duty to move that the report they
had heard read be adopted. Some objections had been
made to it, and one was that they had not expended all
their money before they applied for more. The Society
in nine months had expended all but 9001., and they left
it to the generosity of the public to enable them to pro-
ceed further. He did hope the cause would be left in
the hands of the clergy, and that they would raise fifteen
or eighteen thousand po.unds to go on. They must have
funds of no ordinary dimensions to support this great
work cf charity. He expected the rich inhabitants of
the west of London, and the bankers of the east would
contribute liberally to the relief of the distressed poor.
Upon an object of this magnitude, one so great and
noble, the charitable should not hesitate, in order to find
some error or fault which persons might commit in their
endeavours to do good. The Noble Lord moved that
the meeting do agree to the report.
The Rev. Mr. CIIAMPNEYS
. seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
Sir Sir R. 11. liscus said his Noble Friend had spoken of
objections elsewhere, Tade by muddle-beaded admirers
of the old school of political economy, which in the cause
of charity might bo overlooked. He concluded by
moving that the proceedings of the clergy in the appli-
cation of the funds had not disappointed the expectation
of their doing spiritual good.
The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL (one of the Com-
mittee) seconded the resolution, and eulogized the con-
duct of the visitors.
The Rev. T. DALE supported the proceedings of the
Committee, and moved a resolution to the effect that the
object they had in view was deserving of support.
It having been seconded and carried, the noblemen
and gentlemen who went out of the Committee
.by rota-
tion were re-elected, and after other routine busmen the
meeting separated.

At the Court ofDDlVlnkrpuF4lptCy,Siasinghall-street.
T. Megarey, coal merchant, Love-lane, Billingsgate,
Jan. 19, at twelre—W. M. Senior, hardwareman, St.
Swithin's-lane, Jan. 17, at eleven.
In the Country.
J. Bourne, printer, Bemmersley, Staffordshire, Jan.
17, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court
—J. Smith, corn dealer, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire,
Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—
E. Heron, butcher, Hartlepool, Durham, Jan. 10, at
eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyna District Court—J.
Heron, ship owner, South Blyth, Northumberland, Jan.
10, at one, at the NeWcastle-upon-Tyne District Court
—E. Heron, ship owner, South Blyth, Northumberland,
Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court—R. Chapman, innkeeper, Scorton, Yorkshire,
Jan, 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—T. W.
Wilson, linen manufacturer, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Jan.
16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein,naentioned.
G. Purt, ale merchant, Upper Thames-street, Jan. 10
B, and A. J. Budge, japan leather manufacturers,
Gloucester-street, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, Jan. 10—
H. J. Doogood, wine merchant, Camden-terrace West,
Camden-town, Jan. 10--G. Craven, maltster, Wake-
field, Jan. 13-11. Watkinson, tea dealer, Meredith-
street, Clerkcnwell, Jan. 22--W. J. J. Coal', grocer,
Exeter, Jan. 16—J. Row, chemist, Torrington, Devon-
shire, Jan. 16—C. F. Biggs, mercer, Birmingham, Jan.
21—G. Bate, horse dealer, Birmingham, Jan. 21— IL
Smith, yarn agent, Manchester, Jan. 10—P. Robinson,
bottle manufacturer, Warrington, Lancashire, Jan. 13—
B. Fell, bleacher, Sharpies, Lancashire, Jan. 10—E.
Goldsbury, draper, flastings, Jan. 10—M. Sweetland,
baker, John-street, Fitzroy-square, Jain. 10—A. Pellis-
sier, lodging-house keeper, I.3•2ntinck terrace, Regent's
Park, Jan. 10—II. Gibbons, chemist, Wolverhampton,
Jan. 10—J. Snelling, eating-house keeper, Blackman-
street, Southwark, Jan. 10—J. Johnson, merchant, Li-
verpool, Jan. 10—W. Yuill, tailor, Cornhill, Jan. 10—
G. Rossiter, jeweller, Bridgewater, Jan. 10—T. Gibson,
coal merchant, Dalton, Lancashire, Jan. 10—E. Ed-
wards, draper, City-road, Jan. 10—E. T. Craufnrd, wine
merchant, Piccadilly, Jan. 10—C. James,oilman, Grand
Junction-terrace, Edgeware-road, Paddington, Jan. 10.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TROY THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The meeting over which Lord John
Russell presided yesterday at Exeter Hall—the pro-
ceeding of which are reported in another column—
affords us an occasion of alluding to the Temperance
Society; to Father Mathew, its founder; and to the
pecuniary embarrassments in which he is involved,
by his endeavours to induce his countrymen to bind
themselves, by solemn pledge, to abstain from in-
toxicating drinks. To raise a fund for releiving
Father Mathew from the debts for which he has be-
come liable, and to reimburse him at least a portion of
the sums he has expended in carrying out his benevo-
lent designs, was the immediate object of the meet-
ing. The able advocacy of the Noble Lord who
presided orer the meeting, and the testimony borne
by his Lordship, and by other distinguished
speakers, to the disinterestedness of purpose, and
unwearied diligence, devotedness, and success with
which Father Mathew has laboured, will go far to
remove objections from the proposed subscription.
In endeavouring to reclaim his countrymen from the
self-inflicted curse which preyed upon the earnings—
making the little less—inflamed the passions, and de•
moralised the habits of his countrymen, the Apostle of
Temperance, it appears, has incurred a debt of 7,000/.
The bona fide existence of the debt; the legitimate
modes by which the various items of which it is
constituted were incurred—and the frugality and care
with which Father Mathew, and the agents he
employed, invariably acted, both with respect to their
personal and relative expenses, in connexion with the
object they endeavoured to accomplish—these highly
proper questions have been investigated with great
minuteness by disinterested persons, whose compe-
tency and standing in society furnish a guarantee for
the integrity of their report. That report is, upon
the whole, honourable to Father Mathew; upon whose
conduct and management of the funds which coma
into his hands there is not the slightest imputation.
The only questions with which the public has any
concern, is whether the object sought to be effected
by the Temperance Society be one of sufficient inte-
rest to deserve general sympathy ; and whether Father
Mathew ought to be relieved, by a public subscription,
from the embarrassments he has incurred in carrying
out the objects of the Temperance Society ? In dis-
cussing these questions, it is not necessary to embark
In the wide inquiry, whether the means adopted by the
Temperance Society be the best of all imaginable means
for effecting the diseouragement of drunkenness ; nor
do we undertake to settle the vexed question, which has
been somewhat intemperately debated by the advocates
of the rival Societies, as to whether tee-totalism"
Or 0 temperance" be the best form of pledging the
individual to abstain from intoxicating drinks. The
only material question, we apprehend, is, whether a
considerable improvement in the physical and moral
condition of the lower classes—especially in Ireland,
where it was so much needed—had not been accom-
plished by Father Mathew's exertions ; and whether
patriotism and philanthropy do not prescribe, that
the labourer in this benevolent cause should be exone-
rated from the pecuniary liabilities he has incurred in
promoting its influence in the country where the vice
it assails was working all kinds of abominations? Lord
John Russell, with considerable pathos and manifest
effect, thus stated the case :—" Whatever, therefore,
can remove the temptation and the evil consequences
of that vice requires no ordinary efforts. To make a
great impression upon a whole nation—to bring
them at once from a habit in which they were too
apt to indulge, to the practice of those virtues by
which their domestic happiness may be increased,
and their moral and religious conduct improved,
must, I say, have called for no ordinary diligence ;
no common exertions would have sufficed for such an
object. But we all know the extraordinary elo-
quence, the untiring energy, the disinterested for-
getfulness of all selfish objects, which did enable Mr.
Mathew to accomplish this moral miracle, and by his
exertions to effect a change in Ireland which was
surprising to the whole civilised world," Mr. S. C.
Hall bore testimony, from actual personal comparison,
to the former and present state of the Irish peasantry.
Allusions to the perpetuity of the union, as it exists
between the two countries, were received with cheers
which show how little the people of England are likely
to encourage the repeal project. Lord John Russell
said :—" What, then, should be the conduct of that
country to which he belongs, and of this country,
which is closely, and, I trust, perpetually united with
it ?" We think the claim of Father Mathew to pub-
lic sympathy and aid is established by the facts
brought before the meeting. We cordially concur in
the effort to raise the proposed fund ; and hope that
the amount required will soon be realised.
STANDARD.—Dr. Pusey has published a letter
denouncing the statute proposed for consideration by
the Oxford Convocation on the 13th of February, 1845,
and plainly intimating that as hitherto he has not
subscribed the Articles honestly—that is, adopting
the language used in " the Tracts for the Times,"
in their " natural sense," so he is prepared to retire
from the Church and University if called upon so
to subscribe them. Doctor Pusey, we have heard,
is a rich man, who can well afford to surrender
his canonry and professorship, and therefore the public
is relieved from the single regret that could allay the
general delight with which the realisation of the
Reverend Gentleman's threat will be welcomed by
the Christian public. It will be but a descent from
Portman-square to Baker-street; and this, as Gold-
smith observes, has not enough of the terrible to
give interest to a tragedy, The letter of Dr. Pusey,
however, leaves a comparatively favourable impres-
sion—it is a picture of the writer's mind, hazy,
feeble, and timid. lie sees nothing distinctly, con-
I ceives nothing vigorously, and takes refuge in a mist

—arauluo Eig

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'of generality, because he cannot embrace any
obvious or well-defined truth. We may pity such a
man, but we cannot admit those feelings of contempt
and aversion for him 'that we must for one whose
perversenessiirolher respects is disgraced by hypo-
crisy. Even when we find Dr. Pusey canonising the
betrayer of Bishop Williams, the controversialist who
silenced adversaries with fine and imprisonment, pil-
lory, ear-cutting, and ignominious scourgings, the man
who fined Leighton 10,0001., sentenced him to stand
twice in the pillory, losing an ear upon each occasion,
and to be twice publicly scourged—even when we find
Dr. Pusey canonising this man, we are sure that, if his
saint, Laud would never be his model. We say this
much in defence of Dr. Pusey from an inference that
might hastily be drawn from his letter. The Rev.
Gentleman's objection to the proposed statute ap-
pears to be this, that the statute requires subscribers
to subscribe to the Articles in the known sense
in which the Articles were drawn up (the rule
of interpretation in every other case in which
men make a declaration, from the coronation
oath downward) ; whereas he and others have,
since " Laud won for them the liberty," inter-
preted the ambiguous expressions of the formulary in
some different manner, but in a manner so vague, that
Dr. Pusey can approach to it no more closely than
by such phrases as by "by the faith of the whole
Church, before east and west were divided," a phrase
dislocated from a passage of Bishop Ken ; or, " ac-
cording to the analogy of the faith." We need
scarcely say that so broad a rule of interpretation by
a standard so uncertain, is, in fact, no rule
at all. " The faith of the whole Church before
east and west were divided," is a thing that
never existed, because from the Apostles' time,
and in the Apostles' time, nay, in the blessed
college itself, there were controversies ; and " diver-
sities of faith" are recorded as from the beginning-.
But if the consent of faith did not exist, the analogy
afforded by that consent cannot exist ; so that the in-
terpreter appealed to is but the resource of weakness
or the subterfuge of fraud. The truth is, that the
Church of which Dr. Pusey and his sect speak as the
Church, had no distinct existence (through the universal
Church existed and still exists) before the Council of
Trent, and then the Romish Church obtained its distinct
existence (as any sect may), by excommunicating
all others, us Protestants among the rest. There might
be, however, little harm in this reference even to an
impossible interpretation of ambiguous passages, be-
cause there is really not one ambiguous passage in
the whole Thirty-nine Articles, with such admirable
precision are they drawn up, if men would be only
honest and discreet in determining the question of
ambiguity. The misfortune, however, is, that only
allow dishonest or weak' men a condition on which
they shall be at liberty to indulge their humour, and
they will soon make the condition for themselves.
Words cannot be more plain, distinct, and une-
quivocal than those in which the second clause .of
the 28th Article rejects the doctrine of transub-
stantiation ; yet Dr. Pusey finds that article so
ambiguous, that with the help of his analogy of the
faith, he subscribed the Article, and then preached a
sermon in support of the very doctrine rejected. Such
a loose style of interpretation as this will enable
one to extract any desired meaning from any
combination of words. 'Were not the subject
too grave, we might quote from Swift sonic
examples in point. Doctor Pusey is not singular,
however, in the labyrinth of difficulties in which
he involves himself by a departure from the bona fide
and common-sense rule of interpretation ; his Saint
Laud wandered in the same maze before him. Bishop
Hall addressed to the proto-Puseyita the following
remonstrance at the commencement of his cruel and
tyrannical career would to know where to find
I you, thencould tell how to take a direct aim, whereas
now I must rove and conjecture. To-day you are in
the tents of the Ramantsts, to-morrow in ours, the
next day between both and against both., Our adver-
saries think you ours, we theirs, your Conscience finds
you with both, and neither. I flatter you not ; - this
of yours is the worst of tempers ; heat and cold have
their,uses, lukewarmness is good for nothing but to
trouble the stomach. Those that are spiritually hot
find acceptation, those that are stark cold hare a less
recloning. The mean between both is so much
worse as it comes near the good, and attains it not.
How long will you halt in this indifferency ? Re-
solve one way, and know at last what you de
hold, what you would cast off? Either your wings
or your teeth ; and, loathing this bat-like nature,
be either a bird or a beast. To die wavering and
uncertain, yourself will grant fearful. If you must
settle, where begin you ? 'Tis dangerous deferring
that whose want is deadly, and whose opportunity
is doubtful, Is there any impediment which
delay will abate ? Is there any which a just answer
cannot remove ? If you had rather waver, who can
settle you ? But if}you love not inconstancy, tell
us why you stagger ?" Laud, however, continued
to stagger in his conscienoe until the hour of his fall,
having no better stay to support him than his "analogy
of the faith," hi other respects he was unhappily
too strong, with the " High Commission Court,"
the " Star Chamber," and the hangman to silence
adversaries. But how much better would it have
been both for his happiness and his fame, if Laud had
been only honest. Conscientious scruples might have
prevented his subscribing the Articles, and then he
would have turned his considerable talents to account in
some secular pursuit. True, he would not have been
Archbishop of Canterbury ; but neither would he have
lived in the miserable and disgraceful state described by
Hall, nor would he have brought, a; he did. his master's
head and his own to the block. There is no
danger of a repetition in our day of Laud's ex-
travagances and cruelties, or of their terrible
retribution ; but we believe that there is already
much of the misery of uncertainty which he
suffered, tormenting many conscientious but weak
men, in the orders of the Church, all arising
from the want of a clear understanding of the real
import of the Articles of the Church, or rather of
the meaning in which they themselves subscribed
them. This course of suffering the Oxford
statute will remove at owe and for ever, for
nothing can be clearer than the language of the
Articles themselves ; and if men take them in " the
natural sense," they are their own sufficient ex-
positors. Sordid persons, of course, will creep in
who will swallow anything with any explanation, but
they never suffer much in conscience; there are men
ingenious enough to reconcile anything to their per-
sonal interests. We will be warrant for Mr. Newman,
for example, that he will find an ambiguity in the pro-
posed declaration (to be interpreted according to the
analogy of the faith), as plausible as any that Doctor
Posey can find in the Articles.

TIMES.—It well becomes the affluence and enterprise
of Liverpool for that city to have distinguished itself by
entertaining, foremost of all provincial towns or ports,
the distinguished diplomatist to whom the tribute of
merited homage has been already paid by the repre-
sentatives of the mercantile and trading interests of our
great metropolis. What an ample and gratifying
triumph is his! The triumph of commerce and civiliza-
tion, earned by the bravery of our troops, grounded on
our national character and good faith, and fairly due to
him who, upon his own responsibility, has conducted
negotiations most perplexing and arduous with a people
most strange and exclusive, and has consummated his
work by enlarging the benefits secured to us, indis-
criminately and impartially, to other nations. And
how different such courtesies to the exhibitions which
we so often see so ostentatiously paraded to satisfy
some popular whim that has its day, or panegyrise
some one who passes for a popular hero, till " the age
discovers he's not the true one"—a casualty not alto-
gether unusual, and always a fortunate result for the
public. But how opposite the two instances ! Far dif-
ferent to words of' promise that can end in nothing,
rashly and repeatedly uttered for the multitude, when
the speaker, entirely hopeless of ever making them effec-
tual, caters to his ambition or his avarice, and trusts to
the lucky incidents of the hour to interfere with his im-
possible project, and defer the hollow assurance ; and
such men have been, and have been followed and feasted.
Far different to this—the words, aye, and the deeds, of
Sir Henry Pottinger are recorded in the annals of our
history, and deserve never to be effaced or forgotten. Ile
has nothing to fear from the variations of the vulgar
weathercock, or any reason to dread the drooping laurels
of a superseded favourite. Previously to the dinner, ad-
dresses were presented to Sir Henry by the East India
and China Association of Liverpool, and other associated
bodies of the trade of that place, congratulatir g him on
his safe return to his native land, and expressing their
admiration of his character and the line of policy he had
pursued. The dinner may be said to have been worthy
of the occasion. It was sumptuous and well attended.
The usual toasts were receive with the usual accompa-
niments, and the proper compliment was paid, of course,
to the illustrious guest for whom the grand festivity was
designed, " whose sagacious, enlightened, and successful
policy," as the Mayor observed in proposing his health,
" has opened a new world to -British enterprise and ca-
pital." Sir Henry's reply was natural,: modest, and
manl ; and there were several topics introduced which
well deserve to be remarked and recollected. We are
used to count the Chinese (and they pay us the same
compliment) as no better than barbarians. But if so,
there are among them, upon the unquestionable testi,
mony of Sir Henry Pottinger, individuals utterly free
from any tinge of barbarism, and capable of affording
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