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a certain distance. said ,the ediki. be cleared ell
the scaffolding which obscures its proportions.rl
Theri it will stand' in the native beauty of the original
design. Mr. Brougham, 1 repeat, will one day be Or
moved Tuts the exaggeration, and the prejudices, and
the noise, and the vulgarity of party spirit ; bin that
day the Negro shall beiree—(Chers);—and. that day
out commercial policy shall be thoroughly reforgied ;
and that day the despotism on the Continent shall be
broken—( Hear, hear, hear!); and in that day, in our
own happy land, the lamp of competent knoilledge
shall be found burning naturally and familiarly, and
be held the glory of every mechanic, and an object of
devotion to every peasant—(Cheers).—Various and
strong as are those claims he bas on our good opinions,
Mr. Brougham will reckon it no deduction from them,
i' I now conclude by adding, that even these are not
his strongest claims, but that he has one which is still
stronger. and the last it is, that he is a cititen of &tiff-
burgh. There ate various other parts of the kingdom
(I know no part indeed) that has not cause to express its
gratitude for his set vices, and admiration of the manner
in which these services have been performed; but am I

not safe, Gentlemen, in assuring him, in your names,
that here, and throughout every step in his career and
his progress, he has been followed by our eyes and our
anxious solicitude? Am I not safe in saying, that
aufdst the long and splendid course of his achieve-
ments, the tidings of not one of them ever reached his
o .vn fellow-citizens of Edinburgh without inspiring us
with a satisfaction which had its source in oar personal
interest in the man? Loup Gentlemen, may there be
a reciprocity of such feelings between us—long may'
we and this Gentleman be united—(Hear, hear ! )
long may we be united in the sacredness of our cause,
and the identity of our principles, and the recollection
of ancient ties, and while the memory of this man re-
mains. Gentlemen, I propose " the health of Mr..
Brougham." This toast was drank with all the ha
flours and the most rapturous applause.
Mr. BROUGHAM: Gentlemen, I am sure I cannot
find words to express what I really feel on this occasion ;
and heing unused to address meetings of this kind, my
difficulty is increased (Hear, hear ) ; yet, in the ins-
possibi icy of anything like a description of the deep
sense which I feel of that very singular kindness with
which I have been received among you in this city, I
know that I owe it to two things—which are of the
many, which the kindness of my friend, our worthy
Chairman, has so eloquently expressed; namely, that
I am your fellow-citizen, born, bred, and educated in
this place. How much I owe to that it would be in
vain for me to attempt to express. Suffice it to say,
that I admit that I owe everything to it, and this I have
never shrunk from saying in England as well as in
Scotland. The other claim that I possess is to a higher
title still—not that I take credit to myself for any,
even of these panegyrics that have been passed upon
me by the kindness and partiality of my friends; but I
feel proud that I now return among you, my fellow-
citizens, and, stretching out these hands, can say they
ate clean—(Loud cheers). I am not a person who
is much in the habit of countenancing discussions,
and would proceed to that which affords the most agree-
able reflections to a British mind ; but where are the
privileges which we once enjoyed ? I perceive not
wound me those who used to grace such occasions, but
whom it is our fate never to see more. I allude to
Miller, Playfair, Horner, and Henry Erskine, and many
others ; but those whom I have named the most illus-
trious, the indomitable friends of the oppressed, and the
enemies of the oppressor. When I see the blank which
they have left among us in these our days, I look for
comfo:t from one man, who, thank GOD ! is yet pre-
served to us, I mean Mr. Dugald Stewart—in old age
firm and active, and in the full vigour of his great in-
tellectual capacity, who glories in the triumph of those
principles which we cherish, and nothing but indisposi-
ti al could have prevented him from appearing amongst
us ; but 1 feel that he must have hailed the arrival of this
day with the greatest pleasure. As has been well observed
by the Learned Chairman, it was in this town I received
my education, and it is my duty to tell you that you can-
not too highly prize your own city as a place of education.
I have seen much of public systems of education, and
have had great opportunities of observing the habits of
teachers, and of hearing the expectations founded upon,
and knowing the effects of various systems ; and I cer-
tainly have never yet seen any one place, or any one
system. so well adapted for training up good citizens,
as well as learned and virtuous men, as the High School
of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities. I do not
mean to depreciate any other system, because it hap-
pens to be new. or to institute any comparisons; but it
is none of the least of their recommendations, that the
establishments I am speaking of are capable of im-
proving themselves; what, however, I chiefly admire in
t! e High School of Edinburgh is this, and I speak in
the presence of those who perhaps think a more select
school is better (I only mention what I know, and what a
mote enlarged experience has now tended more firmly
to confirm), it aims at higher objects than that of
the studying Greek verses—not that there is any
harm in that ; it is such an amusement as I
myself was addicted to, though I must repeat,
an academy should have other and higher objects.—
There is this other recommendation, that the scholars
tieing in the dwellings of their parents, there is a se-
curity for their good conduct; and this other, that
men of the lowest ranks send their children there, and
thus exclude the patrician principle. Ai to the boys
of Edinburgh, they enjoy a singular benefit, not only
(tom the number of learned men and most original
geniuses in the different departments Of science in the
days that they live; but in it they base what appears
superior, in my opinion, to any establishment of the
kind formed originally on monastic terms. While the
youth enjoy the benefits of education, they live under
their fathers roof at night in the middle of the family,
and any anxiety about the state of their morals is pre-
served. So deeply am I rated with its vast supe-
eiority in every tespect, at consider it one of the
first establishments in the kingdom. I certainly hive
taken a part tweedy, and I have very great happieess
in announcing to you to-day, what has been done on
the subject of education, because I know you will be
glad to hear that, upon the Scotch model, an establish-
ment is ably to be formed in the metropolis of the
sister kingdom; a school, on the model of theold High
School, is there about to be established, and there steps
have been taken for the almost immediate establish-
ment of a University, to bestow, upon the Scotch plan,
'the blessiags of a scientific education on the countless
inhabitants of that town. Suffer me, Gentlemen. be-
fore I sit down, to express r 7 regard of a meeting of
• this description as by no means one of mere paatiate'er
curiosity. I regard it as a great public meeting, in
ilk._ which esen are met together, who bold the sane pria-

roples is common, and who hold these principles quite'
safely; they are met to commemorate those principles,
and pledge themselves one to another in the face of
their countrymen to support them; and by becom-
ing United together in such a congregated form,
they follow the example of all ages of the most re-
fined, as well as of the most civilised—in matters
of religion as well as in matters of polity.—lt would
have been mockery to feast together, if it were not
to commemorate those principles, and to shew the
&arms of our minds, and bind us together. What
we do just now is only an outward symbol of what
many may be called upon to suffer in our present, and
hive suffered in worse times for the good cause ; and
that, if a greater and a higher sacrifice is required, they
would not be found wanting to seal their attachment
with their blood. This Meeting sees but what a tew
years ago would hardly have been allowed. Ido not
impute this to their refined principles or language. We
do not live in terror of the dark night which drew down
the vengeance of those in power upon every man who
held an opinion of his own. When frowns did not do,
as some of the most noted here present, one of whom I
see close by me, the Vice•Pres'dent (Mr. Gibson) well
knew, there was nothing left undone to harass the
obnoxious individu .1; and had their power been equi-
valent to their desires, more effectual means would
have been resorted to of crushing their cause ; but,
blessed be GOD. the,e times are now gone by.—
There were not wanting tho,e, who, by the r.selves
and their abandoned minions, have had recom.,e to
men of as abandoned principles as their own for rru.sh•
ing the freedom of speech and fair discussion. Blessed
be GOD, those days are now gone by, and very s'rortly
many may not credit the tale I have now told. But we
have now seen that there was a track f lime, when a
Member who got up in his place in Parliament, and
was bold enough to advocate the principles of free
trade with foreign nations, was denounced as a J !co-
bin—as a theorist at least, or a visionary; but I have
lived also to see those very principles acted npon by
the same men,— and in the very same place, who but
a short while before were loudest in the cry of 4, ja-
cobins and visionary ;"—and hollow majorities voting in
favour of the same measures which they formerly

execrated ;—following in their principles those y
same maxims of our 's in favour of frre trade,—and
this too by men who formerly followed the cry of him
who uttered his severest declamations and jokes against
us. Let us not twit them with their change, for as their
conversion to our principles is but recent, and may not
be so determined and steady as generally liaio ens
with new converts, let us not twit them with it, so as
to give them a pretence to turn back again: but rather
let us extend our eye to the chap fie which has t 'ken,
place in their foreign policy, whiche is no less sinitar.
How many long years have we not seen, when to b an
Englishman on the Continent was painful, it not de-
grading condition? I mean during that dark and
murky night of power, when the mac. 01 the
family of the tyrants of Europe were at work, and
when they could reckon upon the Miniver of England
its silently suffering, nay, permitting their deadly march
against the liberties of mankind—(Hear, hear). Eng-
land then had her fair name degraded, by being cows-
dered as the abettor of every tyrant's plan tor the tub-
jugailln of his subjects. Then was the time when no
despot could open his glazing eye, flashing with ven-
geance for his prey, without catching the glistening
eye of the suppliant 13tithh Minister. Then was the
time when no tyrant could hold out his hand, after
shaking it in the chains which he had tor ged to
bind and excoriate his people, without its meeting the
cordial grasp of friendship of the Btitish Minister.—
Then was the time when the oppressor stalked abroa.l,
with the countenance •if the rulers of that land which
was called the champion and protectress of the free—
then did horrid tyranny, more grim in its blasted action
than even in the vices of its original debasement, dis-
hare the fair face of Europe, while linked and leagued
(0, shame upon the pen of history I) with the free t
Government upon earth, to which, nevertheless, the
tyrant never turned his glance, or stretched his hand in
vain, during such disastrous times--(Loud cheers).—
That black and disgraceful night of intellect and free-
dom has now gone down—the sky is clear, and the
view is changed into a brighter prospect. Now we can
speak out, and look abroad with clear vision. What
man is there now, I would ask, in half-represented Eng-
land—in unrepresented Scotland—(Loud cries oftlear)—
aye, where and which of you, in either country, or even'
in tortured, insulted, fend persecuted Ireland—wh-re, I
say, can the man be found, who dared look forth in the
broad face of day—who dared to raise his voce bef.'re
his fellow-men and say, •• I befriend the Holy Al-
liance"—(9isp/ause).—Not only, I repeat, is there no
such man, I will not say so wicked, but so childish—l
will not say so stricken with hostility to free principles,
or so bent upon the destruction of his own character, in
the whole walk of society, as to avow such sentiments.
Oh, no! not out of Bedlam could we find him: hardly
there, save in the precipitation of a maniac's rage, could
we behold a being in the shape of a man, to stand up
and say, • I am the friend of the Holy Alli
(Cheers). If there be the man where Ireedom shines,
who could look with complaisancy on the accomplished
despot who fills the Calmuc throne—who can behold
with meekness that spacious and ungrateful imbecility
which promised first, and then refused, flee institutions,
to the Germans who had bled and died in thousands to
restore his throne,—if there be any man who can ap-
prove the scourge of fair Italy, and the tyrant of Aus
tria—if there be, I repeat, any such man so reckless of
himself as (not to admire, or approve, for that is out of
the maddest range of speculation, but even) to tolerate
the mere mention of the name of that cruel tyrant
of his people at home—the baffled despot, thank
GOD, of South America (Load and contiaued cheers),
but whose sway, however, it pleased Pnovivzscs still
to permit at home, and to suspend for a short sea-
son the doom of that nameless despot—if there be a
man, I say, so monstrous and unnatural as to approve
of them Royal minions, then it is a consolation to
know that such a tributary bad the graceto confine his
thoughts to the regions best adapted for their culture,
to lock them up in the innermost recesses of the
offices of &ate, or confine his silent migrations to
the merest purlieus of the Court, or perchance to
lurk • behind the arras,' to live there among the con.
genial vermin which were its natural tenants (toad
laughter and there to gloat upon the merits of Alex.
ander, Frederick, Francis, or Ferdinand—have I named
him ?(Cheers)—among the spiders, the vipers, the toad
and those who hated the toads, the lizards"---(Laughta
I never can geethem to confront me in Parliament ; I
seek them there with longing eye. AU attempts to call
them forth are in vain—none of them will appear,—
they all chime in with the cry against the Holy Allies
....all are betimes at bad when a division is called for,

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and then bide themselves air tenets ftona the AP
of that Sun who A* almost diso4. by
shining upon them. Now what are the practical results
we should draw from this representation ? I would avoid
the presumption of giving cheering council to my
friends, or of flattering them with the hopes, that by
perseverance in the good cause they have begun,
all will yet end well. But I want to add a few words to'
my young friends, who say that ambition ought to
the first object of every public man, by which they
mean place and porter. I conceive that place gives no
power at all. If place can give power, I can only say
that I never saw it do so. Many men are led astray
by this false construction of power. They ought not
to suffer themselves to be so fur the sake of mere
office, by the notion that they are mating a sacri
fire to ambition. How they deceive themselves I
Ambition, in my sense of the word, is the love of solid,
substantial, and independent power. I know of none
who have so little power as the Ministers of this country.
Something wai said by my worthy friend of my being
a party man. I know of no way, at least I have never
been able to discover any way, in which an honest man
can effectually serve his country, but by cordially and
strenuously uniting himself to some great party. lam
not now speaking as a party man. The life of a Mi-
nister of this country is not one of power, but of base
truckling, and paltry compromise. He must do so
much for one man to mute his co-operation, twice as
much for another, and to a third he must promise every
thing. To one individual lie must promise all he asks.
If tlos man holds up his little finger, he will get any
thing. His language is, go a little my way to-day, I
will go one hundred and fifty miles with sou to-morrow;
only go a little of the way with me, and I will goal! the
rest with you ; only once, and for this d•ty let me go on
this highway of my oen. and all the other days of :he
year I will go with you into all your dirty tracks.
This is what they cal p,twe,-, aod having the c m-
'nand of other men. The Minister is like the poor cl,-
ludrd man who embraced a cloud, and tcok it f-r a
goddt ss; but th . Minister had not even the excuse of a
cloud fo. his folly, he embt aced a mere suggestion,
saying t it, " be thou my god—power. I.e thou my
goi, and compromise, be thou my glory." I there-
tore deny that he sh-ulti be called an ambitious man
ho seeks place and calls it power, but that he is
the ambitious man who boldly places himself in a si-
tua son which enables him to back his country in her
need. I will not say that the placeman s. eks power for
money, though some certainly do, they are not many
how. vet. But lie does so for patronage—that' is, the
pleasure of having his table crowded with Petitions
from sti.cors, to make one man ungrateful and twenty
di-contested. To have his door blcckaded with bun.
gry applicants, and his t.me consumed in the .ervice
of those on whom he depends for the carrying through
his measures. This is patronage, and mote sacrifices
than these I have hinted at must be made for power.
Ha it is who enjoys the. purest ambition and HI enjoys
power,—not less successful because it has limits, and
secure because he never exceeds the wishes of his con-
stituents. I return my grateful thanks for the honour
you have done me this day. I consider this Meeting
as beyond all'example (and I have seen many). but this
is the most astonishing assemblage of intelligent in-
d.viduali I ever witnessed. I: is astonishing to me—
past words to express. But, oh ! how dearly am I re-
paid for my humble exertions, when I se! in it such a
representation, and such a display of' moral and en.
lightened opinions in the inhabitants of this country,
and when 1 consider that it portends to that country
such a blessed and happy consummation of their fondest
wishes-1 pi opose as a toast, " Lasticg prosperity to
the City of Edinburgh."
HALLIBURTON rose to propose " Catholic Eman-
cipation," in doing which he adverted to the splendid
efforts made in the cause by their illustrious guest; and
that there was now a presage of a sure and not a dis-
tant victory. The Protestant Church, he feared, was
too grasping and selfish. Mr. Halliburton proposed—
., The Duke of Norfolk, and Catholic Emancipation."
Mr. JEFFERY said, that he was well aware that to-
night, and after what they lately heard, their old ac-
customed speaker ss ould not be listened to with great
patience. Perhaps it was unnecessary, but he thought
it right to state, that when he undertook to propose a
toast thus early, " The health of Sir James Mackin-
tosh," he was not so much calling upon them to ho-
nour the distinguished patriot and illustrious statesman
as the grateful, kind, and indulgent friend. Of his emi-
nent qualifications and great political science, it would
be easy for him to speak, and alightful to them to
listen ; but the character of 'that person was too well
known, and his services two conspicuous, to requite,
even if propriety admitted it, any eulogium or discussion.
Thus much, however, must be said, that it was impos-
sible to mention his name, without saying that there
was no individual in our time, nor in former times,
who ever brought into the public councils of his country
a mind so richly stored with the treasures of learning,
or deeply imbued with the light of philrhophy; shewing
on all occasions how extensive learning, and a settled
and mature judgment, gave the best security to poli-
tical government. It was also impossible to avoid le-
marking, among his high and singular qualities, that,
with his less learned colleagues, he was not less distin-
.guished for the range of his intellect. than for the mo-
deration. temper, and consistency, with which he main-
tained his principles. When the inflexible principle of
liberty was the subject of discussion, no man was more
free from violence, scorn, or hostility to his opponents ;
and by the rare union of his powers, the person who
claimed the-least, exercised the greatest authority. It
was no slight sacrifice in him, that he clothed himself
in the shattered armour of another, in order to rest his
claims to the gratitude of posterity, by using every
men that could promote those ends from which
coun&ss generations, and endless posterity, alone were
to derive benefit. The Hon. Gentleman concluded
with proposing the health of Sir James Mackintosh.
Mr. A. Score, in the absence of the distinguished individual
whose health had just been drank, had to propose " The advance-
ment of education in all ranks," which excited considerable applause.
44 The immortal memory of Charles James Fox."
Mr. J. S. MvasAT, after taking a comparative view of the
Chumhes of Ragland and Scotland, gave " Sir H. Moncrieff, and
the independence of the (hatch of Scotland."
air H. Moacaure returned thanks.
Mr. &ace ruse to propose "Parliamentary Reform," which was
drank with applause.
The Hon. Mr. STUMM after Melly paying a just tribute to the
pricy and honour of the Gentlemen of the Bar, proposed The
Members of the Faculty of Advocates."
Bamsenan, in Use absence of Mr. Granetenn, after a brief
impressive address. gave " The memory of Francis Horner," which
was drank in solemn silence.
The ClialinAll gave, " The University of Edinburgh."
Professor Lame returned thanks.
Mr. Fasoirsou. of Reich, in a seat eulogy on the Chairman,
PCedr " the health of Henry Cockburn.'
Calasanan returned thank*, and proposed " the health of
the Red of Rossiya."

Mr. ilkaonhin aim, tilt indisposition akin prtve..t:d tht
a the Noble Elul.
giligisrligni„ of Craig, proposed as the next toast, 44 the bean
Mr. Nrstegbant, and may the Opposition ever Isrersuch a kadek."
Mr. Bitouounst returned thanks. He was not aware
the Opposkiis nknowledged luny eshhly leader. They. bil were
or a toed I% by Which they were Itelttogether.
c=dleader ttid Ist lindeesitondersid, ilLiris on whose
linty k was to • • ielvfse Ms oirn party ; and •11 painful
duty k was es • abossete% He had sometimes had to reproach
bh with saws ritimetidna with being too forward;
but this be would aver, that diey were never duggish.;—never !bond
wanting, when as attack wts 4* fie made on the liberties of the
People. The Learned Gentlentaw, in elusion, to the alleged de.
airE the cgs bad for getting into Power? said, they might have
dawn if they had been Ins scrupulous & the terms on which
' they would accept of it. In conclusion, the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman recommended, that they shOuld endeavour to
obtain a steady and uniform Reform in Parllaitielit, and proposed
" The healdis of. the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyle, and the
Whigs of Scotland"--(Much applause).
Mr. R. B. Rex= proposed " the Hon. James A' betkinlillA, and
soften to his exertions to obtain a free representation for Edm..
burgh in Parliament."
Mr. J. Mosicatne is an animated speech on the atroettß-. of
the Slave Trade, proposed " the Abolition of African Usury,"
which was drank amidst loud applause.
Mr. J. T. Gluon CRAW rose to propose the health of one who
had done much for the • honour of Scotland and the cause ; and
when he mentioned the name of Dugald Stewart, he was sure the
Meeting would agree with hint—(Applause). "The health of Du.
geld Stuart," with all the honours, was drank accordingly.
Lord Guanacos' after some well-merited complimentary ob-
servations, proposed " The health of Mr. Halliburton, the Vice-
President."
Mr. HALLIRERTOW returned his cordial thanks for the honour
done him. The Hon. Gentleman's speech-occasioned considerable
laughter by the happy allusions he made theircumstantes attending
Mr. Brougham's contest for Westmorland, and sat down amidst
much applause, after giving " The Independent Electors of that
County."
Mr. BROUGHAM, as the only Elector present, returned thanks.
The Learned Gentleman, with infinite humour, entered on the
county politics of Westmoreland. The Honourable Gentleman
then allueled to the ungallant conduct of the Meeting, in never
having hinted that there were two stxes, which neither Wbig nor
Tory ought to forget, and which he had &ought proper to bring to
their recollection, as it waa better late than never. The Lady
he meant to give was one of the best and truest of Scotswomen—
the Duchess of 11.4ford—(Applause).—Mr. Brougham then gave.
The Duchess of Bedford, and the fair Ladies of Scotland"—
(Very great applause.)
Lord CHARLES RUSSELL returned thanks in very appropriate
terms, and was much applauded.
Major Lunn HAT then rose, and with much feeling adverted to
the state of South America, which he knew he bad only to mention
to excite the enthusiasm of the :Wetting—(Applause)—* Bolivar,
and the liberties of South America."—Drank with much applause.
Sir A. M. GIBSON gave, " Greece, and the full establishmeut of
her independence—(Applause).
Mr. Ilatuauann proposed " The health of Mr. Jeffrey"—
(Drank with great applause).
Mr. Jairran returned thanks, and concluded an eloquent speech
by giving " The Marquis La Fayette, and the Friends of liberty
in France"—( Applause).
Dr. blact.anan, after an eulogium on the professional talents of
the Gentlemen of the English Bar, gave " Mr. Serjeant Lens, and
the hider:flint* of the English Bar"—(Applause).
Mr. Joust CRASH anticipated the most enthusiastic applause,
whew be mentioned, that the toast be meant to propose was " The
health of Mr. Joseph Hume"—(Long continued applause). In
conclusion he proposed his health, with all the honours.
Mr. Jour Commonest's gave " The President of the United
States" (Applause).

The CHAIRMAII, at half-past one o'clock, having intimated to the
Meeting the propriety of their drinking good night, as Mr. 13roughant
had, just before their assembling, completed a very fatiguing journey,
and had to undertake another in the course of a few nights,
Mr. BROUGHAM rose t. observe, that it was very hard the Chair-
man should lay upon him the blame of dissolving so excellent a
Meeting. He must certainly have supposed the stamina of his
constitution to have ►een relaxed since he left Edinburgh, by re-
siding in a more effeminate climate. He could assure him he was
quite mistaken. He had only been up all one night and the half
of another ; but two nights siccing up he valued as nothing. When
in Edinburgh formerly, four o'clock, and not one, was his usual
hour of going to bed—(Much laughter). The truth was, the
Chairman had exhausted his stock of toasts; and was obliged
to resort to this expedient. But now that be was upon his legs
(to use a phrase common in another House), he would try to sup-
ply the want; in doing which he would have to pronounce a name.
which never was uttered in that same House but with praise of the
tiling it signified ; and then some dire mischief was sure to ensue to
that same thing—he meant " The Liberty of the Press"—(applause).
The Chairman and Mr. Brougham then retired; and the Meet-
lag immediately separated.—This was at two o'clock on Wedges.
[day morning.'

Trik; EvENING snit.

LONDON.

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£l,OOO Excheq. Bins 64 66 63
£5OO ditto 61 66 63
£lOO and £2OO ditto 64 66 63
Commercial 60
India for Acct. 231
Cons. tor Acct. 93%

This forenoon we received Frankfort Papers to the
Sd inst. but they contain little intelligence of any in-
terest. The Honourable FREDZIIICIE CATMOAST, who
was appointed twelve months ago Minister Plenipo•
tentiary from the Kis° of Great Britain to the German
Diet, has been formally recognised by that Body. A
discussion took place on the Petition of Goma to have
kis works protected from piracy, when the talents of
this distinguished writer were highly eulogised ; but
Committee reported, that the subject .did not come
within the attributes of the Diet.

The French Papers of Thursday bate readied as
but they contain little news of importance. It is stated
in the Journal des Debuts, that. a society bad been
Conned at Paris, to raise subscriptions in aid of- the
Greeks, and a list of the MemSers of the Committee
is
given, when the names of men of most opposite politics
are to be found amicably blended together.

So many frivolous documents are called for in Par-
liament, that the expense of printing is every Session

;inmate. We Lave no objection to Members of Par
liameat gaining every information requisite to enable
*them to discharge their legislative funitions, but re-
turns are often called for, which are not only in them-
selves trivial, lint the information might have been ob-
tained through ether channels. Such we conceive to
be the case with .. Parliamentary Paper now before us,
which is entitTed.—" An Account of the Charges made
by, and M ,nies paid to the Court of Chancery, for the
sealing, writing, and enrolling of any one Commission
of Sewers, in the customary and ordinary manner."
From this return we learn the iniport3nt fact, that the
charge for the first skin am3unts to £6 9s. Sd. of which
the LORD CMANCILLOR gets a couple of shillings, and
that for every other skin the expense is £4
Now we really think, if the Honourable Meml-er who
moved for this document had just stepped to the Crown
Office, in Chancery.lane, Mr. WILBRAHAM, the Deputy
Clerk of the Cruwn, would have given him the infor-
mation, and thus saved the expense to the country of
having it printed on a half sheet of foolscap. Pe:haps
if the name of the Member who called for the document
was indorsed on the back of it, it might have a good
effect—for Honourable Members would not like to be
found calling for things which do not exist—as the
emphatic. word Ail, which is the only return to many
a paper called for in Parliament, proves. •

A cnnsiierable portion of our Paper, both yesterday
a•cl to.day, is rccupied with an account of two Public
Dinners given in Scotl,nd, the first at Glasgow to Sir
JAMES MACKINTOSH, and the second at Edinburgh to
Mr. BROUGHAM. Although we agree in the lull right
of any body of persons meeting to express, by a Public
er, or otherwise, their approbation of the conduct
of distinguished individuals, yet we much doubt the
policy of such assemblages, particularly at the present
moment, ilasmuch as they serve to ke-p alive party-
spirit, at a time when nearly all classes are united in
their sentiments as us public measures. The speeches
of some of the Gentlemen at both Meetings, were pretty
highlyseasoned and ra.herwanting in that liberality which
should accompany high birth and distinguished talent.
At the Glasgow Dinner, when the political toasts had
all been exhausted with a due portion of wine, and when
Sir WALTER SCOTT had been abused, and Mr. CAMP•
ZELL eulogized, the health of the liberal part of Lis
MAJESTY'S Ministers was drank as an afterthought.
We think the toast of the Ministers might have been
given without such qnalificstion, without compromising
the sturdy principles of any Gentleman present.
At the Edinburgh Dinner, however, the speakers were
as careful in omitting to drink the health of any Mem-

ber of the Administration as they were in avoiding

praising it. We certainly do not blame these Gentlemen,
but it ill accords with the very liberal feelings they
profess.

FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
• Austrian Bonds 5 per Ct. Tdex.Boods, 5 p Ct. 791
Brasilian Bonds Ditto Ace.
Ditto Scrip, 5 per Cent. Ditto Scrip 1825, oi pr
Ditto Ace. 151 pr Ditto Acct. 01 1 pen
I)irto Scrip 1825, 21 1 pr Neapolitan Bands, 1824, 921
Ditto Ace. 21 pr Perov.Bonds, 6 per Ct.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, Ditto Ace.
Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. Portuguese Bonds 911
Ditto Acct. Prussian &attain?, 5 p Ct.
Colombian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 916 Rtots.Bonds,lB22, 5 p.Ct. 951
Ditto Bonds, 1824, Ditto Acct. 951
Danish Bonds, 5 per Ct. ittli sp. Ct. C. 231 *
Ditto Scrip, 21 dis Aect. 231 I 1 I
Greek Bonds Span. 5 p.et C. 1823,
Ditto Ace. 511 Pitto for Ace. 181
Ditto Scrip 1825, 41 51 dis French Rentes, 5 per C102(.50e.
Ditto Acct. 41 dis Exchange 25f. 10e.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
MINER.

MAIM PAID. PUCE PER IMASS.
Ands Mealean - - £lOO -415. las. 415 pm. £lO2l 105
Auxin Chilian - • 100 - 5 - . 11i i
OdUan and Peruvian Canspany 5 121 i i
Pasco Peruvian . 100. 5 . -12 211 221 MI/
Peruvian - 100 • IS - 73
United Mezlean 40 - 20 . 2 pm. . 46
Welch Imo & Coal 25 • 5 - - 61 i
ASSURANCI COMPANY.
Palladium - so s s
GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY.
Cattioental - . los •s . sir
MISCILLA WWII&

MAIL MID. MCI PM GLUM
Atlantic and Pacific - .1100 • .ClO .sif
British Iron Company - 100 - • IP si
Colombian Agricultural Comp. 190 I lie
Equitable Loan Bank . SO • 1 - Se
Gold Coast Association . 100 . 5 - 11 1
Londe. Brick Conupany SO 1 la
Loudest Drug Company SO 11 iihi
llexican CMY 100 10 141 15 141
Metropelitan Company 25 1 31 211
PrOvissisl Bank of Waal 100 5 - 12
Ratan Bricks SO 2 -
Panne eitalarym Carriage 51 31 1
Royal -- 5 41 1
THE KlNfill MAJILITT is to hold two
Lemma fw the noose of this month. The ant is to tale plate an
the 20th blatant, and the second on the 27th instant; both are to
be holden at the King's Palace, Pall Mall. Thin a/flagman will
be et great accommodation to his Mastier, as ft will prevent the
bet Levee in the season from being so excessively crowded to
cause the Kane to stand for two or three bourses well es it will
divide the attendance of the company in two days, which will
also be ► great convenience to those who cannot bear aowded
Courts, Ste.
Yesterday, the Duchess of Gr.oucursit and the
?dna& Amass. took an airing together la the Parks, &c.
Baroness WILLOUGHBY Ds Enasst gave a Grand
• Diener se Wednesday, at her boom, Whitehall* to a distinguished
Portonling whom were—
hiarchionces of Chollsoodekis the led end
CountessigOlVarwielt. Lord and Lady IL Chohnondeley, Ba-
nister mid Lady Tarkton, Sir William Eambold, Ram Captain
William Corry, Mr. Cholmoodeley, it&
Lord ASHLIY, and his brother the Honourable Mr.
Amstar, have arrived at their father's (the Earl of SUATTISSUST).
in Grosvenor-square, from Geneva.
Sir B. BLOOMFIELD, the British Ambassador, gave a
grand Fete at &ockhclm an the 19th of March (St. Joseph's Day),
it being the Saint's day of his Royal Highness the Caren Pauses.
The Duke cot SAN FeanAnno, Grandee of Spain of
the Ste class, who resided for several mouths at Toulouse, is going
to Paris to be present at the Coronation of his Majesty CISASSIS
Prince MAXIbIILI AN of SAXONY, the Queen of Spain's
father, who has been for some time on a visit to the family of his
daughter, is about to leave the Peninsula.
Co9nWT-GA IDIOT Tat TRIL—A new Musical Piece,
ie three Acts, was produced at this Theatre last evening, under the
title of The Hebrew Family r or, c Trawler's Aleastasre. The music
albs Piece is not very remarkable for novelty or expression, but
same of the mop were good. The characters were well sustained,
and the Piece wee anoommed for loPetithes with awl

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, .
Wribion. Ann, aftirtineet, about two
o'clock, his llgant'P!, aciontpitnied by glut Marquis of
CONTII4IIIAiko left the Rohl Lodge kir an airing to the
Great Park. its Nlthenris drove hitiself in hfit pony
phaeton, and appeared in good health.
Hii MAJZSTit yertterday afternoon *mit Viciously
granted an audiente to the foni. Canadian Chiefs, at
the Royal Lodge, and presented each of their with a
gold Coronation medal, which the It ING was pleased to
place round their necks. They left at five for London.
The KING is expected to leave the Rnal Lodge on
Thursday or Friday next, for Carlton Palace, where he
will remain until Ascot Heath Races; during which
time several alterations will be made at the Lodge.
xxigens
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

aino—
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, and Lady Harriet Villiers,
in South Audley-street; Lady Clerk, at the Admiralty; Lady
Cawdor, in Grosvenor-square; Rarl and Countess Cowper, in
George-street, Hanover-square; Sir George and Lady Pocock, in
York.street, Portman-square; garland Countess of Derby, and the
Misses Stanley, in Grosvenor-square; Viscount and Viscousness
Duncannon, and the Hon. Miss Ponsonby, in Cavendish-square;
Mr. and Miss Henry Dawkins, in Somerset-street; Mrs. and Miss
Hobart, in Baker-street ; Colonel and Mrs. Mackenzie, in 31 ont.igu-
square ; Lady and Miss Mildmay, in Whitehall-place ; Mrs. Prploe,
in Old Burlington-street ; Miss Reynardson. in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square; Major and Mrs. Walter Stevenson, in Lower
Brook street; Mr. Francis Melyneux, in Lower Grosvenor-street;
Mrs. and Miss Allen, in Park-street, Grosvenor-square; Lady
Waterpark and the lion. Miss Cavendish, in Clarges-street, Picca-
dilly ; Mr. Lovaine Smith, at Ibbetson's Hotel, Vere-street ; Capt.
Henry Vyner, in St. James's-square ; P. Brune, Esq. at his house in
Albemarle-street, from a tour; Lord Clonbrooke, at the Royal
Hotel, St. James's street, from Ireland; Sir Charles Chad, Bart.
at Fladeng's Hotel, Oxford-street, front Tunbridge Wells.