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London, England, 1831-05-03 00:00:00

THE NEEDLE OF CLEOPATRA.

WORCESTERSHIRE ELECTION.

THE Struggle for Liberty will commence in this County
on FRIDAY NEXT, the 6th instant, and knoaing the cur.
tior.s:uhieh will be made by the Enemies of our:Constitution, who have
lung enjoyed undue ascendancy in this County, that it will require
a mighty effort on the part of the Independent Freeholders to secure the
Triumph of the Reform Candidates. We need scarcely apologise:for
Liore earnestly entreating EVERY FRIEND to the GREAT
cAI:SE of REFORM, to ADVOCATE the CAUSE of the Hon.
Captain FREDERICK SPENCER, Brother to the Manly and
Sincere Lord Althorp, one of the most Strenuous Friends, and a
Tried Supporter, of the Grand Cause of Reform.
Come forward, then, ye Emulators of the descendant of the patriot
Russell, and if ye know of a Worcestenhire Freeholder, between the
Land's End and John-o'Groat's House, raise him the means of a con-
veyance to the Poll: and if you cannot send a Freeholder, send us the
pietnre of the Km° we love, which, whether in gold or silver, will
help to defray the expense we calculate that a protracted poll will mar
Sion; and let your aid give the lie to the enemies of Captain Spencer,
their Country, and their King—teho dare assert that the voice of the
rmple is not In favour of Lord John Russell's Bill.

übscriptions forwarded to Captain Spencer's Certificate Committee,
TM] Inn, Worcester, will he entered an a Book, and duly published.

By Order of the Committee,
JAMES REISTOW, ehlll7lllllll.

f ON TRACTS FOR RUM, PEAS, COCOA, TOBACCO, &e.
VICTUALLLYG OFFICE, May 2, 1851.
riE COVVISSIONERS,for VICTUALLING
MAJESTY'S ..VAVY,.S.c. do hereby give Notice,
That on THuasaav, the 12th Instant, they will be ready
• receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of
,he fallowing Articles to be delivered into the Victualling Stores at
f)(ptf td, viz.

itu»
Peer
4 ..cua
)at meal ..
414
flutter
(lireee
r.b.cco

QUANTITY.
100,000 Gallons
500 Quarters
40 Tons
20 Tons
50 Tons
5 Tons
10 Tons
20 Tons

PIRIOD OT DILIIIIIRT.

One half of each
by the 30th instant,
and the remainder by
the 45th June next.

slmple. of the Peas, Cocoa, and Oatmeal, must be producedb 7
the party tendering ; but those for Soap and Tobacco, together with
th 4: Cot-A:lams of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office.
bath Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be de-
. •Jertd before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person
'h) makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend
:•vket when called for.

M. WALLER CLIFTON.

It cannot fail to be deeply lamented by every lover of
antiquity, that this precious object, according to an account',
in a Journal last week, is to be sent to France, although it I
was positively given as a prevent to our late King, by the
Puha of Egypt. We fear this must have arisen on the pert
of the late Government, on account of the expense, which
was calculated at 15,0001. comparatively nothing to the an- I
tiqaity and grandeur of the obelisk, and the importance it
would be to this country, (wormy and navy having grappled
with the French armies on the spot where the immortal
Atercremby perished in the arms of victory. Many were
the efforts made by distinguished officers at that period to
convey it to England entire, as will be found in the top-,
lowing account :
E tett et' these colossal objects, which have been celebrated for ages,
and excited just admiration for exquisite workmanship and antiquity,
is formed of one solid Nock of red granite, originally conveyed front
! the quarries in Upper Egypt, mar the Cataract, and situated close to
• the shore. They arc each about 70 feet in height, from 180 to 190 tons
in %r,E;;It, and upwards of 7 feet square at the base ; all the four side
of both are richly adorned with hieroglyphics, sculptured apwardslof
one iheit in depth. These needles have been considered as part of those
I proud and lofty monuments which once adorned an entrance to the
tei:lendid palace of Cleopatra.
On the terminrtion of hostilities in Egypt, in the year 1801, several.
°Seem of rank proposed to convey the obelisk, which lies horizontally,
to England, in order to be exhibited in some proper situation, as a too-
r.unient of British aeldeveniente. Lord Cavan, Admiral Doncliy, and
milers, who mere so fully competent to decide on its importance to
England, m:antined it with attention, and with approbation of the pro-
ject. bit',scriptions were let on foot among the othcevs of the army and
navy is, wring_ in t:gypt. to raise a rem to transport it to London; and
7,000 i. roistal. The design was abandoned at the time, ths ugh it was
resolv.3.l that some memento should be left on the spot. Accordingly
there was engraven on a tablet of white marble, an inscription cool.
memorative of the valour and intrepidity which was so eminently dis-
played by the British army under General Sir Ralph Abercromhy, and
the nave under Lord Nelson and Sir Sidney Smith, and placed under
tie petiesmi. All English travellers deplore that this Invaluable piece
of antiquity has not, by some expedient, been brought to England.
in ti:e year 1810, the ship of war Africa, belonging to the Pasha,
having occasion to proceed to England, Government, no doubt, calcu•
laeol on the knefizial effects which might be obtained for Britain in a
coainiemial and political point of view, by securing the friendship ofl
the Paeita, saw the expediency of making some repairs to this vowel.
In conseqtance of this she sus admitted into the royal dock at Wool.l
uleh, coppercd, rigged, ornamented, and fitted out like a British man-
of. war ; and returned to Alexandria with presents from the Prince Re-
gent to his Highness. These acts of liberality were never forgotte6,
but, on the contrary, made a proper impression on the mind of the
via roy, and laid the foundation of a friendly understanding between
the governments of the two countries. On the application of the
English administration, he agreed to supply horses from Egypt to
itiouut a regiment of British dragoons engaged in the Spanish cam-
paign; and notwithstanding the general prohibitions of the Ottoman
government to export grain, yet he fitraished supplits of corn to the
island of Malta, and to our forces in the Mediterranean.
Still entertaining an ides !that he had not, by these means, dis-
charged his obligations, he consulted 31r. Briggs whether any further
compensation should be made by him for the 'nark of attention he had
received from our government i that gentlemen suggested the propriety

of offming to the Prince Regent the obeli.k, (Alta the Needle of '
Cleopatra. On this subject several personal conferences took place with
the Pacha and Mr. Briggs. a correspondence was opened between the
latter and the Egyptian minister; and on Mr. Briggs returning to
England it 1820, he received a letter from the minister' authorising
him to offer that relic to the Prince Regent, " as a mark of gratitude
and esteem for the favours received," and the Needle was from that
moment at the disposal of the British Government.
In April following, His Majesty was graciously pleased to accept the
offer; and orders were given to consider the proper means to be adopted
foe its conveyance to England. Officers of ability were despatched to
Alexandria, who surveyed it, and determined on the necessary ore:T*-
10one to convey it to its destination ; and k report, it is understood,
has been drawn op on the practicability of its removaL For
some moat unaccountable reason, however, this report has not
been mud.: p.uilie, whiea it was unque.tioes'lly tie duty of the late
Admiralty to have done; nor lave any exertions b.en made to. bring
'bet mtgatficeto object to ibis country. A variety of opinions on this
subject. by persons of skill and ability, bare been given ; and I hove to
refer some which has been lately expressed to myself by a gallant ad-
teir,l en the subject, in the Appendix.
Shier, therefore, it now remains with the British Government to &-
cid : whether the oteaeures suggested are to he followed up to transport
this precious relic of antiquity to the English capital, not a moment
should he lmt in carryieg tit.su into exceutim ; since in theevent of
the death of the present Pe.cha, the oil) .rtunity tray be lost ; be may,
p:rs ails, give it to another ; and his esser might not be di-ne‘r.l to
surrender it. bet adopt a lire of conduct decidedly hostile to ti. ;At's!'
nation. If this offer should he refused to be listened to, I trust tome other
spirited it.dividuals will be found in our country, and especially those
who have travelled in the East, and among the army and navy which
foa,,lit in Egypt, and wrested, on the memorable 21st March, 1801,
the standard denominated the Invincible, who, highly appreciat-
ing this obelisk, will at once contribute the sum
.neeessary to trans-
port it hitlitr, and which cannot exceed sixteen thousand pounds.
Should this mighty column be landed in England, and set up
in some emetneuding situation, It will form a most striking,
nay, noble object, and not be exceeded by any monument or
the Roman, British, or French capitals, nor perhaps on any
other spot of the glob. Further, it will be eminently calculated In
keep alive, and transmit to future ages, that severe contest obi& iM
place In the " lead of Egypt" between our brave soldiers and hang
and the forces of that most extraordinary man, who, from the easenast
grade, rose to become the tyrant and oppressor of the world, and doe
troyer of the peace of autakind.•—tins Wilson's Travois in thilialp
Land, Evypi, to.
• By letters I lately received from Egypt (1890), it appears that Mr.
Salt, the late Consul-General, had " thrown cold water ou the project
of removing the Needle to England, from the estimated expense- of its
transport, which would be 16,0001 sterling." Subsequent advicee
I (Jan. 1831), add, that to the high honour and liberality of the Pasha,
be has agreed to be at the sole Expense of removing this column from
the spot in which it now lies to any vessel that the British Government
sent ;iv its removal to England ; besides which, persons have actually
. offered to contract to lad- it safely there.
BALVAN.

Of the Russian General Diehitseit whose name has become so fa.
wiliest, t- whoa., laurels, gathered in the mountainous pawcs of Tur.
key; se 103 doomed to wither in the marshy plains of Poland, there
are, fa 46jur .441x1s Journey. many interesting and characteristic
unwsiates. teenling to prove, that the pompous addition to his name
of the "Trans.Balcaniie," was conferred upon him fur an exploit of
very easy accomplishment. The mountainous district of the 13alcan never
having been attempted by troops in moelan times, was supposed to be
impassable; art opialon which had received a long confirmation from the
ooliey, ..r rue•-e prtbally the real ignoranca of the Turks, and the
sepi eze.: of the Russtatts ; but the real obstacles which the latter
mai eunnount when they found themselves in this, nominally, for.
posa, tvere comperativaly insignificant, and the General seems
to L., ecntbited no other talent dam in selecting the Feliumo Balcan,
which is ielte..tted to le the most ;lactic-able route. " The number of
cerri,q;aq thaz iiecompankd the army," says Major Koppel, "is a proof
how trifling were the difficelties they had to encounter. Almost every
liOd-oCierr lied Ws witch* tha general officers three or four, and
evert" company a cart for their camp kettles." Subsequently the au.
ebor ..,tsited the Pravadi pass, another of the great thoroughfares into
Tut!iey, which, so far from presenting an impregnable battier to an in.
vatling force, was unfortified, and perfectly practicable for artillery;
upen which unexpected discovery the Major remarks, that instead of
granting to the Russians the high crealt they assume to themselves for
the passage of the Baleen, he rather felt surprised that they bad not ac-
complished this feat in the war which lasted from 1809 to 1812, or in
the late campaign of 1828.
So miserably mismanaged, hosecer, are the commissariat and medi-
cal departments in the Russian service, that even the comparatively
insigoificant exploit of marching from the Baleen to Adrianople, unop.
posed, except by a few bands of roving and undisciplined Turks,_'pro-
duced an almost total disorganization in their army. There were 700
men in the single hospital of Adrianople. Their loss in the campaign
of 1829, from sickness, alone, was estimated at between 30 nnel 90;000
men, end die ItUrsian officers coat se.d to 70,000. If such were the
mortality of a victorious army, only opposed by raw levies of Turks,
how tcrrrible, we had almost said, how annihilating, must be their
losses in a retreat through the unwholesome marshes of Poland,
with wide.-mead insurrection on one side, and on the other the in.:
domitable Poles, cernmanding the finest cavalry in the world, and
fighting, not only for the liberty, but for the very existence of
their country !

;ui n

On Saturday the members of the Royal Academy gave
their anniversary dinner, at their apartments, Somerset-
house, which was uttended by a numerous assemblage of
' guests of the first rank and talent, among whom were his
Royal Highness the Doke of Sussex, the Lord Chancellor,
First Lord of the Treasury, President of the Council, Lord
Privy Seal, Secretaries of the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments President of the Board of Control, General
commanding in chief, Chief Justices of the king's Bench
and Common Pleas, Master of the Rolls. Vice-Chancellor,
the Lord Mayor, Governor of the Bank, Master and Warden
of Dulwich College, President of the Royal Colleges of
Physicians and Cur eons, Surveyor-General, Field Officer
in waiting, Russian, American, Hanoverian, Netherlands,
Swedish, Danish. Brazilian, Sicilian, Bavarian ministers:
Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Devonshire, Argyll; Marquis
Camden, Earls Carlisle, Cowper, Spencer, Bathurst, Gros-
venor, Roeslyn, Lonsdale, SSeX E Browulow, Morley,Gower;
Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; Bishops of Winches-
ter end Llandaff; Lords De Dunstanville, Farnborough,
Crantham, F. L. Gower, Right Hon. G. Agar Ellis, Hon.
Sir Willoughby Cordon, J. Swinburne, G. Phillips, R. In-
glis, A. Carlisie, F. Freeling, H. Wheatley, Messrs. J. H.
Green, T. Coke, R. Ridley Colborne, W. Sotheby, E. R.
Tanner, J. Nash, S. Rogers, G. B. Tynielie, J. Harman,
W. -,kll, J. Turner, Washington Irving, W. Y. Ottely,
Captain Woolmore, Rev. Mr. Bury, &c. &c. Among the
toasts usually given was the following:—" The health of
the noblemen and gentlemen who have honoured us with
their company en this occasion."
The Loin CIIANCEI. LO lt returned thanks, and spoke
nearly as follows: " Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
AcAenty,—Accidental circumstances having placed me in
the situation of being called to Atom thanks on behalf of
your guests for the honour you have just done them, 1 feel
assured that in expressing the delight with which I always
assist at this periodical ilbsenibinge, I sireak their sentiments
also. It is, indeed, not more a display of the tritimrh of
the fine arts than of the deeivinkrest which the most dis-
tinguished classes of the comnornite take in their Frogress;
and well they may ! Of those pursuits what has not been
said, what panegyrics not pronounced, hundreds, almost
thousands, of years ago, by the most eloquent tongues !
That they are the ornaments of prosperous fortune and the
solace of adverse, give a zest to our daily toil, and watch
with us through the sleepless night, enliven the solitude
of the country, and tranquillize the bustle and turmoil

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i*s town,—all this 2441 but it
hillillis they do, and much mite.;
improvers of mankind : they are living
sent- -the offspring indeed of civilization
Greece, whose piety they have so '
nourishing the parent from whom their .
softening and humanizing the characters
lag the fierceness of the wilder passions
lad harmless enjoyment for more -
maintaining the innocent intercourse
ing one more pledge of peace, their ,
protectress as she is, of all that is most
excellent among men. It becomes
gently to foster them. It is the duty
is the interest of the country. No stai
fortune PO splendid, as not to derive '
such patronage—no lot so obscure as
the benefits they diffuse. And I have,
satisfaction in being at liberty to anno.noe
occasion, that a society of much indur
have the honour to preside, and of
improvement of all conditions of the
pied in maturing a plan which has
pleted for extending the enjoyments
humblest classes of his Majesty's sul
i.ropose, not to those I now address,
accident I represent on the present
of the President and Members of the

KING'I3COLLECtic Lb.
Friday, the annual meeting of the Mends and promoters
melon took place at Rooms, St. Jamee•
hisbop of CANTERBURY in the chair. The most t
supported by the Archbishog' of York. the Bishops
Bristol, blandeff, St. Asap Winchester, and
of Itutlard, the Marquis of Bute, Lord Sidmoutl,
Vict*Chancellor, Sir Henry Raiford, Bart. Sir George
&c. The meeting was otherwise numerously and rest
The Secretary read the annual report. from which
his Majesty King William the Fourth had graciously
deelare himself the Patron of the Institution. (Cheers.
which !tad been made in the building during the le
to satisfy every expectation which the Council had
bad come to a determination to direct their attention,
stance, to the erection of that portion of the intended
Ss sant/tin the lecture-room and other apartments ins,
for the purposes of education ; these apartments
a state of forwarduces, as to warrant expectations
Impediments at present unforeseen should occur.
opened, in• both departments, in the month
The report further stated, that It was the intention
proceed to complete the devotion towards the river'
house, as mom as they shall be justified by the
the corporation ; and as they stand pledged to
meet to finish the same by the summer of 1834..,
be required on the part of the friends of the institut..
plishment of this object.. The report then enumerated
meat of the professors to the various branches of sewn-
to be taught in the establishment, to the number ,
following scale of payments required front students
upon by the Council, as stated in the report, r"
Students admitted for general education, which e.
and morals, classical literature, mathematics, logic,
fish literature, are to pay, when nominated by proprietors,
but nominated. 261. 5.. When the education of students is extended
to other branches in addition, a further payment will be required.
The fees for lectures had not yet been fixed. In the school, the
course of education will include religion and morals, Greek, Latin,
at.d Freuch, arithmetic and elementary mathematics, history, geogra-
phy, English composition,kc. the terms as follows : For a pupil nomi-
nated by a proprietor, 151. 15a. for a pupil not as nominated,
181. 181. Amongst the donations to the College Library, the report in
particular noticed a valuable cabinet of !Bitterne Medics, collected by
Sir Henry Belford, Bart, and presented by him to the College. The
total sum contributed by donation amounted to 52,96517 s 3d ; of this
sum there had been paid into the hands of the bankers 52,6471. ss. 3d.
and it was anticipated that ultimately the deficiency on this account
would not be considerable. The whole number of sit era of 1001. taken
has been 753. The last call made on shareholders was at the elosc of
February last ; it had been promptly answered, and the whole of the
calls for instalments had been paid on :159 shares. The report ex-
pressed regret that some instalments remain unpaid, and that not less
than 51 shareholders bad expressed their intention of not paying any
further instalments, while the representatives of eight others, deceased,
had also declined to make any further payments. In conclusion, the
Council cennatulated the proprietors and the public in general on the
near approach of the period when the College would be opened for the
purposes of education.
Mr. POYNDEE inquired if it were the intention of the Council to
include the Hebrew tongue among the languages to be taught in the
establbhment ?

The Bishop of LONDON said, that nothing definitive had beet
settled on that point. If it was judged adviscable, the Hebrew hut.
guage should also be included. (Hear.)
The Bishop of BRISTOL, in moving that the report be received, eu-
logised the conduct of the Council. and expressed his regret that all the
subscribers bad not met the calls far instalments made upon them, on
the faith of which the Council had entered into large contracts. He
trusted that those shareholders wr'uld reconsider their determination.
and not withhold their support from the institution.
General THORNTON expressed hisregret that the report said nothing
about any power in the. charter of the Cmporation in grant degrees.—
He thought It was expedient such a power should be posseued by
King's College ; for if individuals educated there had afterwards to re.
pair to Oxford or to Cambridge, or to the Scotch Universities. it would
be occasioning what he might term a double trouble in procuring edu-
cation, which ought to be avoided, as detrimental to.the interests of
the College at all events. he was decidedly of opinion, that the (7olirge
ought to have the power of granting degrees in Civil Law and Medicine.
The Bishop of Lownow begged to set the gallant Genoal tight it
never was the intention, nor was it now the intention of the Council
that the College should have the power of conferring a degree. Ile
should not then enter upon a question whether an infest or experimett.
tal institution should or should not have that power; it was eitou,;ll to
say that from the beginning no such intention was held out.
Sir Jews. LANOMAM expressed a hope that the Council would
never ',brink from having the principles of the Christian religion taught
within the walls of the College, such a course would at once benefit the
Institution es it would the state.
The Report was then put and carried unanimously.
MAY-DAY.
Yesterday was what is called " Chimney-sweepers' Day."
It was on this day that their late excellent friend, Mrs.
Montagu, of Portman-square, entertained them at her
house in Portman-square. She gave them rout beef and
plum-pudding, and a shilling each ; and they danced after
their dinner. The following is what an ingenious writer says
of their May-clay gambols Will any body hive ths
goodness to abolish the May-day chimney-sweepers ? They
am a blot upon the season ; a smear ; a smutting of one's
face ; a piece of soot in one's soup ; a cinder in one's gravy ;
a rotten core to one's apple. They are like a tea-kettle on
a sofa. They are a story, alas ! too true : shadowy, with-
out setting off the fa‘.e (.f things ; children, yet not hal.py ;
merry-making., yet nobody is the blither. They are out of
their element at all thrice, and never more so than on their

only holyday. Their dancing is that of lame legs ; their
music is a clattering of stumps; their finery like a Hark
quilt's leavings thrown into the dust hole. They come
like a contradiction to the season, as if nothing clean.
wholesome, or vernal could be got up—the day should be
Spited with the squalidest and sickliest of our in-door asso-
ciations. They did not say we come to make you happy
but to show to the unhappiest man, that there are youths
and boys who beat his unhappy lot. They under-
stand their perverse puniness well, and dress up some of their
party like :Ads; because, of all masqueraders, their dirty
dinginess is less suitable to the sex. They contradict even
the sprit of masiperaile itself ; and, like the miser in the
ro,vel, wear real chimney sweeping clothes, with a little tin-
sel, to make the reality more palatable. It is doubtful even
whether they keep their own pence ; whether the pittance,
which charity itself is ashamed to give them on such a day
(angry with the bad joke, and with forgetting them at other •
times,) is not surrendeml at the close of their hopping expo-
sure to the sturdy keepers who attend them. Nothing is
certainly their own, but the dirt, of which they cannot get
rid, and a disease, or liability to a disease, peculiar to the
trade, and diswraceful to human nature. Our jest has be-
come serious; but so it must if we think well of it. Will
nobody undertake to admonish these sorry-makes eff the
ground, or substitute re..l merry-makers instead ?"

1.

,•77.7,7 , ; ;
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11,95*
is not the whole truth.
The fine arts are great
ving sources of refine-
ration ; but like her of
often commemorated,
eir existence derived—
'eters of men-1'116'1a,.-
ions; substituting calm
perilous excitement--
of nations, and afford-
sir great patroness and
most precious and most
us all, then, most dill-
y of the government, it
'talon is so exalted, no
lustre from bestowing
as not to participate in
ye, therefore, a singular
nounoe to you upon this
nduence, over which 1
which the object is the
e people, has been occu-
been successfully com-
ts of the fine arts to the
subjects. Permit me to
but those whom from
t occasion, the " health
to Academy."
LONDON.
Is and promoters of this Insti.
t. James's-street; the Arch.
.'he must reverend prelate was
Bishops of London. Chester,
and Oloueester ; the Duke
Bidmouth, Lord Bexley, the
t. Sir George Staunton, Bart. •
asly and respectably attended.
from which it ap eared that
id graciously ed to
Ott. (Cheers.) The progress
ing the last year was such as
acil had fanned ; the Council
eir attention, in the first in-
he intended structure which is
rtments immediately shinned
partments were now in such
xpectations that unless some
d occur, the College will be
month of October next.—
intention of the Council to
the river in front's( Somerset t.
by the state of the funds of
red to his Majesty's govern.
F 1834. a renewed effort would
the institution for theaccom-
ten enumerated the appoint-
aches of science and literature
e number of seventeen. The
Lint students had been find .4
report, vin. In the College.—
which will comprise religion
mica. logic, history, and Eng- •
tted by proprietors, 211. when
cation of students is extended