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London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

pointed out. This absurd application of an order, the
wisdom and utility of which we have too little
or too much good sense to appreciate, has been since
put a stop to ; but while it lasted it was a source of
much annoyance and murmur. Let us take, for ex.
ample, the Ramsgate Packet. Many come over in it
to return next day ; most of these arm themselves with
a couple of bottles of brandy. They came late, the
boat was on the point of starting, they were told by
the Custom -house officer they could not take the
brandy with them, unless they previously made a de- 11
claration ; the officer might as well have addressed
them in Hebrew ; an interpreter was called, the order
explained. We leave our readers to imagine the look
and the reply of all thus armed with bottles of brandy.
But we noticed that all finished by saying, " Why
they ought to afford us every facility to take their
brandy with us, and not throw difficulties in our
way !" And we admired the justice of the remark.
We know not who gave the orders, who are the per-
sons who control the Customs, or what their object
for such regulations can be, but this we know, that,
instead of facilitating the commerce or prosperity of
the country, they clog energy and enterprise in every
possible way. They require forms and entries which
demand five clerks to every one they now pay; they
harass merchants by frivolities; they insist upon mi-
nutiae which seem to say, we look upon every man
as a rogue leagued to rob the State. If we might
presume to offer advice it would be this, give more
latitude, rely more upon honour and honesty, but if
you find men cheating you, punish them most se-
verely.]

THE INDISPOSITION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
—The Lord Chancellor, who has for the last few days
been seriously indisposed, is, we are glad to learn, to-day
much better, and will, it is expected, resume his duties
on Monday.
THE RIGHTS Or THE PEOPLE.-A certain Non-
Intrusion minister, not a hundred miles west of Dundee,
while exhorting his hearers one Sabbath lately, launched
out into the regions of the sublime as follows :—" You
tell us you have not time to attend the church ; if an
Anti-Corn-law lecturer comes round you find plenty of
time to hear him ; or if a Chartist lecturer come round
there is no want of time to hear him. And you roar
continually for your 'rights.' What are your rights ?"
And with a powerful emphasis, while with his fist he
made the pulpit tremble, he exclaimed—" Pwill tell you
what are your rights—they are hell and damnation to
all eternity !"—Dundee Chronicle.

A few days since the Beer fishermen caught a
gigantic lobster, which they presented to Sir W. T. Pole,
who has forwarded it as a present to the Bev. Dr. Buck-
land, Professor of Geology at Oxford. The dimensions
of one of the claws was twelve inches in circumference,
and length of tip of tail, when extended to the extremity
of claw, thirty-five inches, and weighed ten pounds ten
ounces. The Learned Doctor, in acknowledging its safe
arrival, observed it was the finest specimen he had ever
seen, and that after its interior, which would afford a de-
licious repast, had been carefully removed, the shell
would be placed in the Oxford Museum. Somerset
County Gazette.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY 22.—There has
been a very fair demand for sugars during the week,
and, without much appearance of business, a good quan-
tity has been disposed of at full prices.—Bristol Mercury.
NATIONAL Music HALL.—We are happy to learn
that the suggestions we made in an early number of this work,
that the price of shares should be reduced from ten pounds to
five pounds, has been adopted by the Directors, the result of
which will doubtless be attended with success, inasmuch as it
will, as we then stated, " enable the less affluent of the profes-
sion to join in the goodly work, and thus create amore extended
interest among musicians of every grade."—Dramatic and
Musical Review.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 22, 1842.
An Address from the Protestant French and Dutch Churches,
in the city of London, having been transmitted to the Earl of
Aberdeen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the
Foreign Department, was by him presented to her Majesty,
who was pleased to receive the same very graciously.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Adolphus La Croix,
Esq., sometime British Vice.Conaul at Nice, to be her Ma.
jesty's Consul at that port.
DOWNING-STREET, JULY 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rawson William
Rawson, Esq., to be Civil Secretary to the Captain-General
and Governor-in.. Chief of the Province of Canada. W. F.
Coffin, Esq., to he one of the Sheriffs of the District of
Montreal, in the Province of Canada; and James Agnew,
Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Clerk of the Crown in the
Virgin Islands.