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and chat in furtherance of the &yet wash, !beans had
been taken to publish it with all expedition.
an the motion that a sum of £4,547 be granted to
defray the expenses of the British Musetim for the en-
suing year, Mi. BENNETT brought forward the long
expected charge against the Trustees and Managers of
that establishment, founded on, an erroneous statement
in the Edinburgh Review some months ago. Had the,
llonourable Member complained of the remissness dr
the Trustees and Managers in suffering the fallacious
assertiops of that Journal to be re-echoed in the News-
papers and remain so long uncontradicted, we should
have agreed with him. We are far from thinking that
the Trustees of this Establiihment shotild answer every
anonymous attack made upon them, but they should.
tetollect that ..• a he a fortnight old is as good as f
truth," acid that thousands who read the original stater
tint, will never see ,Sir,CHA LILES LoNo's complete and
satisfactory refutation of it.
The Reviewer complained, that of Sir HANS SLOAIIO
collection of insectsrew were left—and no wonder,
when it is considered that it was made nearly a century'
ago; but all that have perished have been, replaced, and
the Museum now contains 70,000 articles in entomti-:
logy, including duplicates of all that had been in the
collection of Sir Mots SLOANE. Another charge was,'
that a collection of 1,886 mammalia, left by Sir liana
SLOANE, had also been wantonly suffered to go to decay.
--Unfortunately for the Reviewer, there never was a
quarter of the number in the collection, and the whole
fragments, whether of bones, teeth, or hair, formed ao
more than 1886 pieces. 4 more serious charge was,
that the managers, not knowing the value of articles
entrusted to them, had given them away, and after;
wards re-purchased them at an expense of 40.01. Now
it so happened that the articles in qaestion were never
sent to the British Museum, and that the expense oU
Obtaining them was only rt. 10s. instead of 4001.
We we're long ago aware that the statements in the
Edinburgh Review were fallacious, and we could not
but feel regret that they should be suffered to ternain a
single day uncontradicted-by those who were more com-
pletely in possession of the real facts of the case, and whop
for their own credit, should have been the first to girt
the injurious report it decided refutation. , -
Some of the Members spoke as if the Trustees need
only to come down to the House of Commons and
obtain' any sum of money they might deem neces-
sary, when, in fact, there s scarcely a grant dual
is allowed without a long discussion. We do not
censure this, slime it enables the Public- to obtain
information to which they are entitled ; but we
have always considered the allowance to that great Na-
tional Establishment as niggardly rather than otherwise,
and we should recommend that a sum of money be ap-
propriated annually towards the completion of its library.
We do not mean by the purchase of other large libraries,
or by the hunting after Caxton and Wynkin de Worde
editions, but in order to purchase modern works, in
which it is deficient, to complete sets, kc. We are aware
that the addition of the KING'S Library, one of the, most
munificent gifts that a Sovereign could give to his
people, and that of Sir JOSEPH BANKS may go very far
towards the object we seek; but yet a few hundred
pounds judiciously employed would be of great service
to the students, in the purchase of some books of re-
ference, in which the library is deficient.

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German Papers to the 23d ult. reached us this morn-
ing. The following are extracts:

CORFU, FEBRUARY es. .1
On the 233 of this month news was received here
that Coron surrendered to, the Greeks on the 13th inst.
At the same time, we received from Missolonghi a con-
firmation of the news of the taking of the outworks
of Lepanto, on which occasion the English Officers of
Engineers,who are gone to the assistance of the Greeks,
particularly distinguished themselves.
Lord Byron had returned from Tripolizza to Misso-
longhi, and had been everywhere received with 'honour.

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