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earlier criticisms, more various, impassioned, and
splendid- bursts of eloquence can be selected.
His wit is of the most dazzling character, yet
though often superabundant is never forced, or
stiff or inapposite ; his power of imagery is
lavish in the extreme ; and his mastery over
language, which is invariably malleable and
tractable in his hands, is the despotic mastery
of a Russian Despot over his Serf. As a lite-
rary man, he is an honour to the country which
gave him birth ; as the sta nen supporter through
every vicissitude of good and evil report, of civil
and religious freedom, be is far from being over-
paid even by his appointment as Dean of Faculty

" A man," says SWlFT—and if ever any one
kn,ew the world, it was the incomparable author
of the Tale of a Tub—" is always temperate and
collected, in proportion to 6^ justice of the
cause he advocates." By applying this apho-
ridm to the True Blue Club dinner—some ac-
count of which appears in our columns of to-day—
our readers will not fail to perceive at one dance,
who were right and who were wrong in the opi.
nions they upheld at that notable ovation. On
the side of the Liberal party, appropriately repre-
sented by Mr. BRAAIsToN, they will find tempe-
rate and constitutional doctrines iulvocated in a tem-
perate and constitutional spil it ; and on the side of
t! Bruuswickers, of whom Sir HENRY SMYTH
seems to be the characteristic Corypheus, they
will meet with absurd notions enforced with equal
absurdity. This ingenious Baronet, in a speech
"of considerable warmth, pledged himself that
at the next election, if a vacancy occurred in the
representation of the county, he would not sup-
port Mr. BRANISTON. On the contrary, he
would hunt the country for a candidate to
oppose him, and in the event of his not
being successful, he would do so himself.'
Why this dreadful threat, our readers will natu-
rally ask ? Simply because Mr. BItAAISTON
sent " his `two sons to Oxford to vote for Mr.
PEEL !" Atrocious act ! unparalleled effron-
tery! But granting that Mr. BRANISTON—
and this is making a pretty large concession—
has really been unwise in his Fupport of Mr.
PEEL, pray why is the county to be punished
for his indiscretion ? Why is Essex—harmless
nnoffending Essex—to be visited by the serious
affliction of having its intellect and liberality re-
presented by Sir HENRY SMYTH, simply because
Mr. BRAMSTON in the exercise of a justifiable

discretion (to say the least of it), has thought fi
to support Air. PEEL ? Really, the punishment

as much exceeds the offence, as if a Member,

for having fallen asleep over one of Mr. SAM•
LER'S best speeches, should be compelled to

wade throuo Mr. BANKES'S Constitutions'
History of Rome.

THE FUNDS.--(TIIIS DAY.)

Cl7'l, TwELrp, O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morninr, at the same price
they left off at yesterday, 88i 4 for the account, since
which they have been done at 88,E 1, but as yet no
business is transacting.
The Foreign market is also in the same dull state,
and prices are nominal.

Three per Cent. Consols, shut; Ditto for July 23,
SB4 j; Three per Cent. Reduced, 8-71 8; Three atoi a half
per Ceitt. Reduced, 97-,11; Four per Cent, 1826, 101• i;
Rank Stock, 211:1, 12 ; India Bonds, 54 5; Exchequer
Bills, 69 70 pm.
FORFIGN.-Brazilian, Buenos Ayres, 22 3 ;
Chilian, 17 18 ; Colombian, 164 171 ; Danish, 66 b ;
Greek, 11 15 ; Mexican, 211 Peruvian, 12 ; Portu-
guese, 411 ; Rus*ian, ; Spanit,b, 91.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols continue firm at 884 I, for the Account,
but no speculations of importance are going for-
ward. Reduced have been done at 88. The
Foreign Market remains finite inactive; Brazil, 57
to 1; Buenos Ayres, 22 3; Colombian, 161 to 171;
Mexican, 2114.

THREE O' CL CK.
Consols for account, 881

FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols Danish
Do. for Ac. 884 Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds .57i Mexican, 1825
Buenos Ayres • i Peruvian
Chilian•Do. Russian 971
Columbian, 1824 Spanish

DEATH OF THE RIGHT REV. Dlt

- - • . •.•
M`GovERAN.—It is with unfeigned regret that we hare
to record the death of the Right Rev. Dr. 111.‘CosEnAN,
the late Catholic Bishop of Ardagh.—Ro,wormiton Journal.
Judging from the proceedings against Mr.
GLASCOCK, we should he inclined to consider Mr. O'CoN..
NELL a man more easily frightened than any person we
ever met with.

The inhabitants of Northwich, Cheshire,
have presented Lord ELnos with a fine Cheshire cheese,
painted and beautified in the style of a twelfth cake.

Lord NORTHWICK, at his audit on Saturday
last, at Ketton, near Stamforl, directed his agent to allow
his tenants an abatement of 15 per cent. fro:n their half-
year's rents due at Lady-day last.

In the French Papers of Wednesday, which
arrived last night, we find a continuation of the debates
on the budget. M. HYDE DE NEUVILLE, the Minister of
Marine, brought forward on the previous day, in the
Chamber of Deputies, the navy estimates. Neither his
Excellency's speech. nor the speeches which followed, con•
tained disclosures of much interest in England. The ex-
pences (if the Fr:Reli navy ate this year fixed at
63,212,252 f., or about 2,500,0001. sterling; and the
number of armed vessels afloat is stated at 128, among
which the,e are only one ship of the line and 14 frigates.
In comparing the naval resources of France with those of
England, /M. DE NEUEILLE stated that the latter pos-
sessed 338 steam-vessels, which, in case of emergency,
could be seized by the Government and employed in tow-
ing its slips of war. After detailing the stations of the
different vessels which compose the 12S ships constituting
the nary in actual service, the Minister entered into a his-
tory cf the French marine, and its numerical strength at
difG rent epochs. In 1814, France had, employed and in
dock, 73 ships of the line ; in 1816, 72 ; in 1817, 68 ;
in 1819, 65 ; in 1824, 61; in 1825, 59 ; in 1828, 56 ;
and the number afloat, and constructing, in 1830, will be
52. In 1814, France had in frigates, 42; in 1823, 45 ;
in 1821, 47 ; in 1828, 52 ; and in 1829, 55. On the
let of January next, the number will amount to 63.
Thus, between 1814 and 1830, there will be a difference
of 21 ships of the line in favour of 1814, and 21 frig. tea
in favour of the latter period.

cceded only by his judgment ; his judgment,
one of the most distinguishing faculties of
his mind, only by his eloquence. In _this
last faculty indeed he is confessedly un
rivalled. There is no living author from whose