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TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1831.

N°. 13,886.

BAST INDIA HOUSE, August 17, 1531.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of Me
UNITED COMPANY e MERCHANTS qf
ENGLAND, tractive to the EAST INDIES, do keret"
give Notice,

That the Court will be ready to receive Proposals in
Writing, on the 14th of September, from the Owners of
SHIPS, of the bombes of 850 Toss and upwards, hulk for
the Company's service, and which have completed the
number of voyages for which they were contracted to serve
the Company, speelfying the rate of Freight at which they
may be willing to let such Ships for one additional Voyage
to and from China, on a reduced establishment.

The Tenders, with the words " Skip Tender" on the
cover, to be severdly sealed up and left with the Secretary,
at this Haase, at or before Twelve o'Clock at noon, on the
said 14th of September, beyond which hour the Court will
not receive any Tender.

PNTEII JOBER, kallary.

Tin particohn of the Terms and Conditions upon srldch
the Ships will be respectively 'swaged for the Company's
serrke. may be had on application at the Lice of the Qat
to the Committee of Shipping, at this Home. on or after
Moamar, the 29d instant.

HOOTING.—The true SPORTSMAN always
kw arms himself with suitable attire and comfort= but he
Gansu be complete, as regards the covering of the head, with-
out the aid of PERRINO'S Light HATS or CAPS.
These excellent and modern articles are only smut
OwxcEs weight, and are admirably adapted for SHOOT-
ING, TRAVELLING, &c. Prices for Caps, Ss. 6d ;
Hats, 12s; Cloth Hats, Waterproof, 10s. Also, PRE.
RING'S PATENT Extra Light BEAVER HATS, 211.
to 261 ; the best Livery Hats, His ; Opera Hats. 205; the
best Silk Hats in London, 12s; second best ditto, Os. 6d;
Travelling Caps of every description, Youths' Hats and Caps,
Cbildren's Hats, &e.

Cecil House, 85, Strand, corner of Cecil•street.

BY HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

MIAMI'S GENUINE PILLS.
Are pronounced to be $ CURE in General °ironical Rheu-
matic Cases, In all Disorders of the Skin, from the Itch
to the Leprosy, commonly called the Scurry, and in an
especial Manner for all those named Venereal.

THE astonishing Cures this powerful alterative
Medicine has performed in the aboncruel Disorders,
during the course of eighty years (which has been proved in
Thousands of Cases) is the greatest, its best eulogy. It is
only therefore necessary to Caution the Public against the
vile Imitations of unprincipled Impostors, allured by its
great success To prevent such Impositkas in future, every I
Box will be sealed op whir a Stamp printed, by favour of
the Commissioners at the Stamp Mice, Leaden, with the
Name and Place of Abode, of the Propitimor. viz.—.
T. TAYLOR, No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. To'
counterfeit which is Felony.

Prepared and sold, with copious Directions, (describing
die different Symptoms of the Disorder, whereby Persons of
either Sex may judge of their Case, and maples& their
Cure) in Dozes of only 2s. 9d. each, duty included, by the
sole Proprietors,

T. TAYLOR AND SON, Surgeons,•

At their Home No. 9, New Bridge.street ; where they will
give Advice, without a Yee, to Persons taking these Pills,
and will answer Patients' Letters, if post-paid, on the some
Terms, observing In all Cases the most inviolable Seamy.—
Sold also, by the Appointment, at Mrs. Disborongh's
Toy-shop, 4. Be/I.alley. Lomberd-stmet ; and by one Person
in every considerable Town in Great Britain and Ireland.
• Bee the List. published by the Royal College of London.

THE CHURCH.
ECCLISIASTICAL PRIFIRMENTS:

TM Rev. Christopher Stannard, B.D. Fellow of .Jolso's
College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Great Snoring, with
Thunford annexed, Norfolk, vacant by the death of Rev.
J. Fawcett, B.D. Patrons, the Masters and Fellows of
that Society.
The Rev. Francis T. Attwood, Rector of Hammersmith,
and Vicar of Butterley, to the Rectory of St. Mary and the
Vicarage of St. James, Great Grimsby.
The Rev. William Polling, M.A. of Sidney Sussex Col-
lege, to the Chapisiney of Cambridge Town Gaol, on the
resignation of the Rev. Professor Lee.
The Rev. Thomas Gander to be a Prebend of Winchester
Cathedral, in the room of the lie,. W. Gamier, resigned.
The Rev. Sumner Smith, formerly Citrate of Wherwell,
near Andover, to the Rectory of Ham, Wilts.
The Lord Bishop of Norwich has presented the Rev. S.
Fisher, B.A. to the perpetual Olney of Corpusty, in the
diocese of Norwich.

On Saturday loathe Lewd Bishop of Exeter Instituted the
Rev. Edward HouMitch, late Scholar of St. John's College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory of St. Leonard's, vacant by the
resignation of the Rev. Wm. Swett, the last incumbent, on
the presentation of the Rev. Richard Houlditeh, of Ottery
St. Mary, the true patron in full right.—OsfordJournol.
We are glad to see that in the last church promotions
ministers have had the mirage and honesty to promote men
who have maintained, in the worst of times, the principles
to which they themselves owe their elevation. Dr. C.arr,
Bishop of Ottlebewer, is to be translated to Worcester.
Dr. Maltby, who, if keening and virtue constitute a title to'
preferment, ought long ago to have enjoyed it, is to be-
come Bishop of Chichester ; and the Residentlarysldp of
St. Paul's, vacated by the mowed of Dr. Can to
Worcester, is bestowed on dm Reverend Sidney Smith,
one of the best writers England has ever produced, and one
who has laboured incessantly to promote the cause of truth
and benevolence. A few such nominations would go far to
liberalise the Chinch. It is by elevating good men that
good is to be done, and sot by absndoning patronage to the
enemies of good. We wish we could say as much of the
manner In which the Lend Chancellor has exercised his cede.
slastical patronage as we can say of the above promotion.
But the Lad Chancellor, with all his ;good qualities, has
some weaknesses, and one of them le a dispoution to pro-
mote good ends by 31schisvellso means.—Mortnity Chro-
nicle.
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Chirac, a celebrated French physician, as he was
going to the house of a lady, who had sent for him
in a great hurry, received intelligence that the
stocks had fallen. Having a considerable pro-
perty embarked in the Mississippi scheme, the news
•made so strong an impression on his mind, that
`while he was feeling his patient's pulse, he ex-
claimed, " Good heavens, how they fall ! lower,
lower, tower l". The lady, in •alarm, • Bee to 'tli;i•
bell, crying -out'—" I am dying, M. de Chitac says
That my pulse gets lower and lower, :so that It s
Impossible that It shauld-lige.?. You are damm-
ing, madam," replied the physician, rousing him-
nelf frotn htlyrtrvoritr; vu'your 'pulse Is very. gpticl,,
had nothing the'stircicil
log of, for I em 'a great loser by their fall.".

LITERATURE.

Coelho Lemma on the Nature of the Miter's. Trans-
lated from A. Greek by THOMAS TAYLOR RODD.
1851.

This is the first English translation of one of the
most valuable relics of antiquity, and proceeds
from the indefatigable pen of the learned translator
of Plato and Aristotle, a man wbo has dedicated a
long life to the dissemination of the ancient philo-
sophy, and whose astonishing labours fully entitle
him to be considered as one of the most extraarili-
nary literary characters of this or any age.
Ocsllus is supposed to have lived about the time
Pythagoras first opened his school in Italy, B.C.
500 ; which gives him for contemporaries in
the political world, Phalaris, Pisistratus, Cronus,
Polycrates, and Tarquin the Proud ; and in the
philosophical world, the seven sages of Greece,
Heraclitus, of Ephesus, Democritus of Abdera,
&c. All that is extant of his works is " The
Treatise on the Universe," and a fragment pre-
served by Stobaeus "On Laws." Both these re-
luable remains are here faithfully translated, ac-
companied with copious critical and explanatory
notes ; to which are added translations from Tau-
rus, a platonic philosopher, who flourished under
Marcus Antoninus, Julius Firniicus Maternus, and
Proclas, all tending to establish the eternity of the
universe. We have only room for a short extract
from one of the notes, p. 62 :
" Carden was not the only astrologer who fore •
told the time of his own death ; for Martin Hor-
tensius, Professor of Mathematics in Amsterdam,
not only predicted the time of his own death, but
that of two young men who were with him, and
the result proved the truth of his prophecy. The
fact is admitted by Descartes, while he ridicules
the science and underrates the abilities of Horten-
sius." [See the 35th of his Letters to Father
Mersenne, in the 2d volume of that collection.]
When Anne of Austria, the wife of Louis XIII.
was delivered of the Dauphin, afterwards Louis
XIV. a famous German astrologer, was in attend-
ance to draw his nativity, but refused to say more
than these three words, which give a true charac-
ter of Louis the Fourteenth's reign ; Diu, dare,
feliciter, i. e. long, cruel, and fortunate. [See
Limier's Hist. du Eerie de Louis XIV.]
I omitted to mention above a curious circum-
stance related of Carden in Larrey's History of
England, i. 711, via. that having cared the Arch-
bishop of St. Andrew's of a disorder which had
balled the most skilful physicians, he took his
leave of the Primate in these words—" I have
been able to cure you of your sickness, but cannot
change your destiny, nor prevent you from being
hanged."
Eighteen years after (i. e. in 1570) this Prelate
was hung, by order of the commissioners appointed
by Mary, Queen Regent of Scotland.

PRICE SEVENPENCE.

SPIRIT OF THIS nArs JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The Peers who vote against reform do, in
effect, say,--as their dependents in the House of Commons
have said before thern,—that the Legislature of England
shall not consist of King, Lords, and Commons, but only of
King and Lords,—that the constitution of England is not,
and shall not he, a mixed monarchy, but an unmixed oli-
garchy ; and that the people shall have nothing to do with
the Government of which they are the main support, or with
the revenue of which ninety-nine hundredth parts come ces
of their pockets, but to pay, and to obey. The House of
Commons, well understanding the question, have done their
duty in so placing it before the eyes of the Peers, sad they have
performed that gtwt service for the Itetollt ol the people of
Engfand. Need we ask the people whether they will stand by
the HOW of Cossasose? Need wealth them whether they will
leave a pretext in the bands of the boroughmonger enemy,
for asserting that the national representatives elected by
them after so severe and, long doubtful a struggle with the
borot;glunongers, have overstepped their authority in pass-
ing the measure of refonn—that Lord John Russell was
wrong, and Mr. Hunt and Sir Charles Wetherell right,
when the two latter asserted so obstinately, that the people
eared nothing for the bill ?' Beat the. challenge but been
thrown out, and itmust be answtted. Had the conies held their
tongues about the matter and left it to the judgment of the
lords to determine how the country stood affected towards the
bill, the people might have rested on their own conscious
enthusiasm, displayed when reform was first propounded by
the Ministers, and have let things take their course. Nose,
they cannot do sot they have been charged with disaffection
to reform ; It is not alleged that they never were reformers,
but that they have mooed to be so--that ignorance and
levity had made them lovers of reform, but that reflection
sad wisdom have revived in them their former patriotic
attechmeet to roues boroughs. To refer, therefore, to peti-
tions alarm or four months' date is no sufficient answer to
the especial accusation of the Tortes, that we, the
have now of late become " too wise foe reform." rft
grave charge beleft unrefined, what follows ? Not merely will
the and-Women, one and all, be filled with exultation—not
only will anti-refeem pours defend their votes by claiming the
people for their allies, bet many liberal and charitable ob-
arms, judgleg merely by outward signs, will acknowledge
with grief that they were deceived in the people of England,
who have proved themselves, like so many reptile Porto.
guest, deaf to the voids of 1,426111. Above all, if this
dreadful accusation be net well are we con-
viesed of its greas emi —the people will
themselves have the irojettioe of the Bill, by show.
to both friendly lei beadle Peers, that they no longer
UM it wads &feeding, oven at the cheap rice of a public
deslaration of disk sondoints. Far hots stub being the
bawds asedoet of AM finds st' refine out of doors, we
am misled that the snow in at this moment on the eve
et samba essifistatis• of
err* anal and energy in the
tense, whidr serve at boa to boas the Tery tactics;
sad by convincing Use Lords of whet the nation really ex-
pects how them, will =able the uptight and well.disposad
majority of that respectable, but net always well-taught, as-
sembly, to IMMO and papetnate their own just influence in
the coomitution.

POST.—The Impolont sup of the Ministidal Newell&
Easw at thlprounit Milieu sod future of the
Reform The' of elle of asd of
ridicule. in whisb the Meuse of
Peers is tbresinud sad eelt=to be bullied to misled
with so minit _mat ea that. except spas the
me= mob, itsmeet of anyeseisess sect, andlts wicked.'
nese must be sisdered alined Isisiess by the folly which
surrounds it. Such a mess of vulgar ewer, aboard
argument, and bighmosning ohms as the Timm
poured forth yesterday mosning..thengh it promo
a silswessing please of the asimiens violence eie
which the liberty of the Press, under the palmss d
a Whig Government any be curled—cassot be felt by
the Peers of England u worthy of men than $ eon.
timpanist smile, and perhaps suck ma enfermsume of the
privileges of their boom as may quell sod =these* hi
the future. Thank the Times should rage with ten
times its press= impotent fury and malevolence, it cam=
choose the fact, that the people are sick of the bill, as/
vexed and disgusted with all its absurdities, which the
Opposition held up to view, while Ministers sat still with
stupid and dogged pertinacity lie error. The Lords will
doubtless jjeesett the bill, because it is an unjust. absurd,
sad imprsedesble bill, upon which they are at liberty to
exercise their =pledged judgment, just as the Commons
would have done ere this, had sot a majority of its
members told the free exercise of their judgment to the
mob for the poor price of a seat in Parliament, without
that independence which alone makes a seat in either
House of the least value to s ems of principle.
HERALD,—It is a eerie= feet, in illustration of the
evils resulting has seasepthes. that, while the piety and
good feeling of thorned= bum for years pest been ransacked
to raise messy from indlividsole foe the laudable purpose
of distributing and making Mown the Scriptures In all na.
less and lenwegm, the poems holding the patent take of
Pte,ll.lllher with Ithe two Universities, have tic.
OssYy besumijoy_log, sod aegis. to the members of these
dseihebie INIMMeoIn eiminen with the other buyers a
Mire a posit it hem SOL to 1004 per cent. above whet
the sews =his sonli bane been obtained foe bad the trade
is printing Miss been amend as it ought to be, to /my
a•e. the subject is sue so intimately connected with
Obeletiss is scarcely possible to advert to seek an ab-
surdity sod abase in teems quite within the compose of what
that baling mid= The only ground upon which any
manspoly am he &faded is that of its being a general
sheaves bat how very rarely indeed such is the case, the
hiMeey of ail mesoplies is a mending evidence. But, of
sl seauspdlits, a et dm Weed of Life seems the
meet dbepede& the
_met and the most moon.
airiest. Om Mentrish is styled " der of the Faith ;"
and his =his= kg aim, sad justly, to being the people
who, ebonies's'''. have diffused a knowledge of that faith,
wastely thensgbent Ids Majesty's dominione, but in regions
the light of Cbrlstianky never bad, end, but for
ibms, wimp, for spa. never would have penetrated. Yet,
to a few indivkluals, this very fountain of light is ob.
crossed, and, as the as M them bee, blocked op and shut
Onallieen the eyes at hundreds of thousands, whom It would
otherwise reset and illumine. Sorely it is high time that
such a system as this should be put an end to. The death
of the late Xing's printer affords a fair opportunity of doing
se; and we treat that a misruling Administration will not
let the appoetanity peas without via bearing its own contest.
=
and
then:by doing more towards an enlarged dist-iii
of the Scriptures, both at home and abrosJ, than *ht.
wisesst efforts of private charity, great as they are, can ever
hope to effect.
CHRONICLIL—The causes of the distress of the Writ
Indians are, the inability of the home market to consume'
the whole of their produce, and the necessity for export'
don to the continent, where it came into canipetititio'
with the produce of foreign colonies, raised at a smallest
expence. The pries of the continent determines the pith
in the British market, whenever exportation is noes say
It was aduaiited on all bands, that the sugar raised is ems
colonies is greatly beyond ti.c consumption of the he..
'market. The objtct of the Sups: Refinery Act is to Awl
the sugar of foreign colonies to be refined in this away for
exportation, the cheapnes. of me manufacture= is a
great seivan.age in refining over the continental This
question is quite distinct from toot de remedy fri the Weil
India distresses.and we entire.' we are at a loss to Understaita
hoe $ man like Colonel 'forums should suppose the en.
coursgement of this manufacture tould be injurious to the
agonies. We think it Is almost susceptible of dernonstra•
tion that the Act cis neither do gtod nor harM to the
colonies : it being granted that the pries of =gar in the
home market is Iktennined by tie prise in the foreign
inarket, and that the quantity of theMpr in our colonies
re-exported to the continetithi out of lit proportion matey
thin that of the foreign sugar refinid ben fm oniertatiriss
not me hundred weight, more or lets, of our sugar will be
I consumed on the continent, with or without the itdamy