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DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, JULY 11.--The session of the States-
General was closed to-day by his Excellency the Mi-
nister of the Interior with the following speech:—

" NOBLE AND MIGIITy LORDS— - -
" The affairs which have been intrusted to your con-
sideration during this session arc now terminated.

" Constantly relying on your readiness to co-operate in
promoting the interest of the country, and aiming at the
improvement of the several branches of the administra-
tion, the Government has successively laid before you
some important projects of law. You have gladly given
your assent to the intended marriage of her Royal High-
ness Princess Wilhelmina Maria Sophia Louisa of the
Netherlands, to his Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duke Charles Alexander Augustin John, son of his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe Wiemar
Eirenach.

" A law fixing the expenses of the Department of Fo-
reign Affairs, completed the Budget for this year and next.
" The transfer of the register of mortgages effected he-
ron.. the instructions of the civil code.has been regulated
in a satisfactory manner.
" Provision is made for the wants of the home colonies
for the current year.
" The public credit has been suppopted by the pay-
ment of part of the foreign Syndicate.
" The French law on the National office has been re-
placed by an originally Dutch law, anti another step
has been taken in the consolidation of our national
legislation." .
(His Excellency then "mentioned several points of law
which had not been agreed to by the Second Chamber,
such as that on civil pensions, and that on the appli-
cation of the surplus revenue of the East India colonies.)
He then added, " A considerable portion of the fresh
code would have been laid before you during this session,
had not the appointmeNt of a new Minister of Justice
prevented its being completed in time. As the other
affair has terminated, and the season is so far advanced,
it I:as been thought that it would be best to defer this
matter till the nest session.
" After the important' political events of those latter
times, fluctuation •of opinion has arisen, which in a
sedate nation like ours, will gradually give way to a
regular course of things, arid to a well-considered ad-
vance 'towards the common object. The preceding ses-
sion was the commencement of a new political era. The
present session has been characterised, in the midst of
the operations above alluded to, by the preparations of
enactments, which are the result of our public laws.
" Strong in the pursuit of purposes, and in the inde-
fatigable zeal with which we desire to promote the'wel-
fare of the country, we may look forward with confidence
to t'4o future.
" In the name of the Kling, I declare this ordinary
session of the States-General closed,"
The Chamber then broke up.
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MALT. --
and Distillers, for the same periods
Return of the Quantities of Malt on uhich Duty has been
charged in the United KingdomlB42 ; and of the Quantity
for the Two Years ending
ofth the sth
usedday by of A Brewersril, 1841 and

respectively.
Number of Bushels Number of Bushels of
Years ending of Malt charged Malt used by
April b. with Duty. Brewers. Distillers.
P 341 421193,966 31,229,525 3,934,171
1842 34,418,544 20,002,914 3,872,933
G. A• COTTRELL, Accountant-General.
Ezeise-offize, London, June 29, 1842.

MR. IVAKLEY AND THE POLICE MAGISTRATES.—
The question, as far as the Home-office authorities are con-
cerned, as to the right of the Coroner to have a prisoner, re-
manded or committed by a Police Magistrate upon a charge of
murder the Coroner's Jury, has
been o rdetermined. homicide, brought before
The Report of the Visiting Justices of the
House of Correction, states that the Visiting Justices have re-
ceived a letter from Sir J. Graham, and concurring in opinion
with Sir James, they have resolved that it appears to them that
the Governor will not in future be justified in sending any pri-
soner, committed for re-examination by a Magistrate on a
charge of homicide, before the Coroner, in order to be present
At the inquest.

LITERATURE.
PUNCH. Vol. 11. London, 1842.

There are some admirable wood-cuts in this vo-
lume ; those, in particular, which are in illustration
of Punch's Almanac, are among the most humorous
we have seen for many a long day. The variety, too, of
the embellishments, is quite extraordinary ; and the ca-
ricature portraits of several eminent living individuals
are remarkable for their resemblance to the originals,
notwithstanding their grotesqueness and drollery.' As
regards the literary portion of the volume, it is quite
worthy to vie with the pictorial. Quizzical poems—
neat satirical hits at the passing follies of the day—
puns, anecdotes, and sketches of character in profu-
sion ;—some, or all, of these are to be found in almost
every page of " Punch," which, thus recommended, is
—as it deserves to be—a general favourite.

BATTLES OF THE BRITISH NAVY. 2 Vols.
Bally, London, 1842.
These volumes, which are the production of Mr.
Joseph Allen, of Greenwich Hospital, embrace a pe-
riod of upwards of eight hundred years, commencing,
curiously enough, with the first siege of Acre in the
time of the Crusades, when " King Richard's fleet
was anchored off the port, and effectually prevented
supplies from being thrown into the town, in the
course of which duty it defeated a large fleet of the
enemy ;" and terminating with the last siege and
capture of Acre under the conduct of Commodore
Napier, in the year 1840 ! The first naval engage-
ment of any consequence is recorded by Mr. Allen
to have taken place in 1217, when " the rival fleets
of France and England met in the straits of Dover.
The French consisted of eighty large ships, while the
English had fewer, but of a more warlike description.
The fleet of the latter, therefore, assumed such a mode
of attack, as to counteract the preponderancy of force
against them. They manoeuvred to get to windward
of the enemy, when, bearing down on them before
the wind, they made terrible havoc of the French
ships, by means of the iron beaks with which their
vessels were fitted; they likewise made great
slaughter with their archers. But what completed
their victory was a quantity of quick-lime in powder
that the English had on board, and which being cast
into the air, was blown by the wind into the eyes of
the French, and blinded them. The English gained
a complete victory, and took and destroyed nearly the
whole of the French ships." This unsophisticated
mode of defeating an enemy at sea by throwing dust
into his eyes, will amuse those who are familiar with
the more modern victories of the British navy. It
was not by powdering them with quicklime that we
triumphed over the " Invincible Armada" of the
Spaniards, and destroyed the French fleets at the Nile
and Trafalgar ! During the whole extended period
over which his researches range, Mr. Allen has not
omitted one naval action of the slightest moment.
The tact and diligence he has exhibited throughout
his undertaking are truly praiseworthy ; names,
dates, and localities are given with the most scru-
pulous accuracy ; and a uniform tone of moderation
and impartiality is maintained, that tends greatly to
enhance the value of the work. As books of re-
ference the volumes are invaluable ; they contain the
the very pith and marrow of our best naval histories
and chronicles ; and are embellished with not less
than twenty-four portraits of our ablest naval com-
manders. We have no doubt that they will be taken
under the patronage of the Admiralty, and obtain
a place in the different seamen's libraries on board
her Majesty's ships. We quote an anecdote illustra-
tive of the heroic .powers of endurance which an
English sailor can exhibit, when in the discharge of
his duty. The anecdote refers to an engagement be-
tween the American corvette, 'Wasp, Captain Blakeley,
and the British gun-brig, Reindeer, Captain Manners :
" Captain Manners who had been badly wounded in
the calves of the legs, at the commencement of the
action, nobly refused to quit the deck, but continued
at his station, encouraging his crew by his heroic ex-
ample. Shortly after a canister-shot passed through
both his thighs, and he fell on his knees, but quickly
sprung up again, and, though bleeding profusely,
refused to go below. By this time the musketry from
the Wasp had caused such slaughter, that Captain
Manners determined to board his opponent, and call-
ing to his crew to follow him, was in the act of ascend-
ing the main rigging of the Reindeer with that de-
sign, when two musket-balls from the main-top of
the IVa3p, penetrated his skull, and came out be-
neath his chin. Placing one hand on his forehead,
and .with the other convusively brandishing his sword,
he exclaimed, Oh, God ! ' and dropped lifeless on
the deck!"

ENGLAND IN THE NINETEENTH CEN-
TURY. Part 7.
How and Parsone, London, 1842.

The account of Lzncashire, its scenery, antiquities,
manufactories, Ste., is concluded in this Part, which
is embellished with numerous appropriate illustra-
tions, and among others, with a view of the small,
homely farm-house in Fish-lane, Blackburn, where
the father of the present Sir Robert Peel was born.
We quote the following anecdote respecting this ce-
lebrated Millionaire :—" When the first Sir Robert
Peel lived in Fish-lane with his brother and parents,
which was then a respectable farm-house, it was cus-
tomary for respectable yeomen to use pewter plates
for dinner. Sir Robert, or his brother, sketched a
I figure, or pattern, of some kind or other, upon one of
their plates, and a thought struck him that he would
try whether an impression could be made on calico
with colour. At one end of the farm-building a
young woman of the name of Elizabeth Milton kept
a calendering machine, and he went into her house,
and put the plate with colour in the figured part and
some calico, through the machine, when it left an im-
prcssion ; such, we believe, was the origin of roller-
printing. on calico. This information is derived from
the daughter of the said Elizabeth Milton, a Mrs.
White, of Burnley."

SOFTNESS. Three Vols.
Saunders and Otley, London, 1842.
There are one or two vigorously drawn charac-
ters in this tale, which is written throughout with
spirit, though here and there the tone is somewhat too
exaggerated. The third volume is the most entertain-
ing ; and the scene wherein a reek less, unprincipled
couple; Mr. and Mrs. Meekes, administer a dose of
laudanum to an invalid old woman, who they suspect
knows too many of their secrets, and is likely to
prove a dangerous enemy—this scene is described with
much energy. The closing chapters of the story are
ingeniously wrought up.

MR.MULOCK'S LECTURE ON PAR-
LIAMENTARY SPEAKERS.
The fifth of these dramatic and rhetorical lectures,
given in alternate conjunction by Mr. Sheridan Knowles
and Mr. Mulock, at Kensington, was delivered by the
latter gentleman on Saturday, having for its subject the
rise and progress of oratory in the Parliaments of the
United Kingdom. Grand as was the outburst of dra-
inatic and poetic powers during the Elizabethan age,
public speaking was but little in vogue, or rather, by
broad hints from the Queen, was almost wholly sup-
pressed, as dangerous to the Government. Extempora-
neous oratory, indeed, in England, was neither attempted
nor practised till the reign of Charles the First. Then
it was that the Royalists and Republicans fought man-
fully on the stage of the House. Mr. Mulock, however,
observed this peculiarity on referring to the records of '
those foregone days, that the speeches that were at all
attoned to brilliancy were on the King's side. A fine
sparkling, and courtly beauty, often reigned in these,
while those of the puritanical party, were either dull and
prosy, or rough and verbose. Falkland spoke with a
fine tongue, elegantly full. Pym and Hampden, the
best of the opposition body, were at their best, but
strenuous and rugged. The first James, in the lec-
turer's opinion, though usually accounted an imbecile,
was a King of lofty and generous views, and despite the
quaintness of speech lie introduced, yet by the elevation
of his statesman-like views, he nourished eloquence in
no limited degree. He was the first to notice Ireland.
But if debate began with Charles 1., it had a dreary
blank • in his successor's of the same name : neither
dramatist, poet, nor rhetorican flourished in this reign,
save perchance Shaftesbury, who in. the House was a
brilliant talker, but nothing more. Bolingbroke, though
a model of extraordinary mind, was too much of a mite
man to be an orator. He had no principle—no heart—
the source from which all eloquence springs, and to
which the tongue is tributary. In the beginning of the
Georges, Sir Robert Walpole and Pulteney appear, but
no very radiant stars dawn till about the beginning of
the third George's reign. Then broke a splendid period.
Chatham stood up. The moral, mental, and physical
qualities of the orator beamed around him. Majesty
aggrandised his mind no less than his person.
His country was at heart, and though the taint
of selfishness has been fastened on him, yet when the
nation was to be personified in himself, he rose superior
to sordid views, and was champion to the magnificent
dignity of his country—then he thundered in the Senate,
and " ruled at will the fierce democracy." To the
eloquence of this great man, the lecturer attributed the
fructifying power about the manifestations of the period
in the production of high speakers, considering it as the
originative cause of much of the after-eli9uence of the
day. Superbly they rose in rapid succession. Burke !
—a resplendent name on the roll of ages—who wielded
a mastery over the records of the past—grasped the pre-
sent—and held "colloquy sublime" with the future.
Fo: and Pitt ! the latter exhibiting astonishing prema-
turity of talent, and who, placed at the head of the
Senate early, shone during his " perernfial premiership"
in many a lustrous speech. Fox, his opponent, was
rugged, but how powerful ! The former had been called
forward to uphold an ancient and long-existing state
of things ;. the latter was leader of a new order
and system. Democracy and aristocracy did battle
in their persons. Charles Fox, from the nature of the
things lie advocated, was naturally the more original. He
was tull of an insurrectionary spirit, which finely con-
trasted with the regulated grandeur of Pitt. Wyndham
was a mystic, singular man, too conversational to be the
orator. Then came Sheridan, full of heart. His powers
of pleasantry were unrivalled. Jocoseness mingled with
his grandeur. One occasion, in the Hastings case,
speaks volumes of his power. It was then that Pitt
begged to adjourn the whole House—the entire body of
the senators of the kingdom—lest while the white wand
of the magician was waving over them, they sliculd be
swayed by his unspeakable eloquence to a prejudiced

(7ecision. Canning was the next—one who possessed the
elements of the more perfect orator beyond any
other, ancient or modern. As regarded° his per-
son, aristocracy of mind beamed out in every feature.
Clearness of thought characterised his every expression.
Language was to him an intellectual vehicle for elegance
and beauty ; words were the caskets for his gems of
thought. ' Mr. Mnlock finally passed 'in review the ora-
tors of Ireland, and the characteristics of their style.
These -were Grattan, with his bursts of impassioned
power : Curran—versatile Curran—a very Protons in
'mental efforts, and whose forensic skill, even amid the
dryness and dustiness of Courts, displayed true marvels
of eloquence : Bushe and Plunkett—the former possess-
ing an exquisite suavity of speech, the latter marked by
power. With regard to Scotland and Wales, in debate, the
lecturer knex of no instances of which he could adduce
orators: Winding up his lecture with anticipations on
the eloquence of the future, Mr. Mulock considered that
the grandest kind of oratory that was yet destined to ap-
pear, was that which might be termed Scripture oratory,
oratory in which the deep feelings of humanity had yet
to be expressed in the glories of that magnificent diction
which pertained to Holy Writ.
The Lecture was worthy of an audience tenfold the
number that attended.

MR. SHERIDAN KNOWLI4:S'S LECTURE ON

" MACBETH."

Mr. Knowles, who may be considered to be better read
in Shakspeare than any rhetorical contemporary of the
day, and whose style is so greatly impressed with the
mark and signature of the master whom he follows, de-
livered himself the evening before yesterday in some
eloquent strictures upon the drama of Macbeth. He con-
sidered it unequalled for its bold opening. Other dramas
often shut up four acts, before plot or construction was
developed. Macbeth displayed it at once. The wierd
and invisible witches hold high converse in the very first
scene of him who, regarded by them, could be object of
no slight solicitude. Unearthly spirits were those
three Furies of Aschylus who, as Fuseli had
pictured them—were " things to feel troubled at,"
—traffickers in things forbid abominations who
have been " killing swine " and gathering from
graves and human horrors. Mr. Knowles's sketch
of Lady Macbeth was essentially true. Shakspeare had
here grandly thought for himself, and struck out his
own mighty and original character. Lady. Macbeth,
though a being of human flesh and blood, was incarnated
by an appalling fiend to whom those adjuncts of huma-
nity were subject. Elvin, Volumnia, Queen Catherine
—in each Mrs. Siddons was great—but greatest she
shone forth in this impersonation. • With fifty times less
mannerism than her brother John, she had passion and
talent insuperably above him. Imagine a body of 3,000
spectators listening with the stillness of the tomb to her
utterances in the sleep-walk. Dreadful was that scene.
You felt the tenaciousness of the spot which she endea-
voured to rub out—the scent of the blood was perceptible
—while the sigh . issued from her bosom, as from an
unfathomable depth of despair. One of Mr. Knowles's
shrewder criticisms appeared in the following :—lt is in
the scene of the last act that Macduff enters before
Macbeth's castle, remarking on the build of the swallow,
and the usual sweetness of air ordinarily found in spots
marked by this circumstance. The insertion of this
peaceful scene, Sir Joshuw Reynolds had observed,
created what by artists was called " repose," and was in-
tended by its great author to have that effect. Mr.
Knowles combated this idea. He showed, on the other
hand, that he was, with his colleague in arms, arrived
before the castle that kennelled the very monster of their
hate, they came themselves active for vengeance, and, there-
fore, on the contrary,their feelings, in a state of excessive
tension, were wrought up to that fine and acute species
of sensitiveness which made -them more keenly than
otherwise perceive the most indistinct peculiarities of the
place. A number of excellencies with which Mr.
Knowles's lecture was clustered, and which chiefly de-
pended upon readings of passages, conveying nice nota-
tions and subtle perceptions of character, would fain lead
us to dwell upon them more at length but-fur the restric-
tions of our present space. There is likelihood, we are
happy to hear, of these lectures being repeated in Ken-
nington, when, no doubt, on second delivery, they will
receive that honour which is compatible with their worth.

LYON'S SUBSCRIPTION SCUL-
LERS' MATCH.

The annual match for Lyon's pur;;;f sovereigns, cud
other prizes, amongst regular watermen, from West-
m'nster-bridge to Putney, took place yesterday after-
noon, and afforded an opportunity fir a display of skill
su,ll as is rarely met with amongst so large a number of
competitors. About a month since lots were drawn for
the chance of rowing in this interesting match, and
amongst others the two Doubledays were the successful
candidates, but in consequence ofa match being made by
Parish, to row the Newcastle-on-Tyne crew, on Satur-
day next, and these men, together with Coombes and
ewell, forming that crew, the two former were com-
pelled to withdraw, and the men named to row to-day
were therefore, as under : _

Charles Hill, white; George Campbell, blue; William
Pcieock, green ; Thomas Brabant, yellow ; ~Vil linen
MeteaT, pink ; John Phelps, red ; Robert Young,
tri-colour.

Half-past four was the time named for the start, and
long before that time Westminster-bridge, ELshop's-
walk, and every place from which a view could be
obtained, presented a good display of anxious spec-
tators, and at four o'clock the cutter boats belonging to
the Guards, 'Westminster, Leander, King's College,
St. George's, and other clubs, made their ap.
pearance at the scene of action ; altogether, the
muster on the river was most respectable. At
the appointed time the wager men were as the*
respective stations, and the start took place at
twenty minutes to five, all the parties dashing
off at excellent speed—White taking the lead to Vaux-
hall, which bridge he passed through half a boat's length
in advance, closely followed by red, green being imme-
diately en his quarter; the other four boats being well to-
gether. The match at this time was particularly interest-
ing ; the wind was blowing fresh, in consequence of whieh
white began to fall astern, and was passed by red and
green, and closely pressed by blue. Green, off the Red-
house, in the shoot, passed red, and became, the first boat,
and in that position arrived at Putney-bridge,
closely followed by red. The match between whine
(Charles Hill) and blue (George Campbell) was a
most interesting one, the two boats not being half a
length from each other from the Red House to Patney.
The rowing was excellent throughout, and the men
arrived in the following order :—Pocock, first ' • Phelps,
second ; Hill, third ; Campbell, fourth ; Metcalf, fifth ;
Young. sixth ; and Brabant last. The wind blew very
fresh at Chelsea Reach, and a boat, rowed by a gentle-
man, was filled with water and sunk, the amateur being
picked up by a cutter passing.