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ed to say :

" I am not going to permit these false accusations to go
forward and not to notice them. The proper place, how-
ever, is not the dinner table here at Braintree, but the
floor of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Still, I am not
going to dismiss you quite so quickly. I tell you here that,
directly or indirectly, I have had no hand whatever in
any case whatsoever of bribery in the borough of Derby.
(Cheers.) Further, as to the particulars, I will not go,
because, whenever Parliament meets, whether it is mooted
on the other side or not, I shall consider it my duty, in
my place, to state that these accusations have been made
against me, and I shall call on those who made them to
prove them. (Loud cheers.) I shall endeavour to have
an inquiry into the whole thing, which, I have not the
slightest hesitation in saying, will expose bare and broad
to the public view as gross a case of conspiracy, combined
falsehood, and vile subornation as ever was brought be-
fore a committee of the House of Commons. (Loud
cheers.) Under these circumstances, it would be impru-
dent to say one word more, because they that can bring
false accusations and suborn people to support them,
would be ready to meet what I know, if I allowed one
scintilla to come out."

Surely this ought to be convincing to every man who is
not afflicted with the obliquity of vision peculiar to the
most bigotted section of the Radical party.
From all the rumpus that has been kicked up about this
affair, one might be led to conclude that Derby was a
place of peculiar purity. Its magistracy and its ultra-
liberal inhabitants have exhibited on this particular occa-
sion all the prudery which might have been expected on
the discovery of a case of scandal in a nunnery, or amongst
a community of old maids. Yet at the election of 1841,
when two Radical members were returned, wholesale per-
sonation was proved to have occurred. Again, in 1847,
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for the purpose of corrupting them would not have lasted
him an hour in another place. Either this is a proof that
Mr. Heyworth's Radical friends at Derby are corrupt to
begin with, or that they do not value very highly his

parliamentary services

ANNUAL INSPECTION BY THE DOCK COMMITTEE OF
THE LIGHT-SHIPS AND LIFE-BOATS.— Yesterday the
chairman and members of the Dock Committee, accom-
panied by his Worship the Mayor and a party of friends
paid their annual visit of inspection to the various life-
boat stations and light-ships. At ten o'clock the party
embarked on board a steamer from the south end of the
landing-stage and proceeded down the river, being joined
opposite Egremont by the Magazines lif, fry
the Formby channel by the Formby an.
boat. They proceeded to the Forraby I;vgnt,- Iyr-sniff
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spected the telegraph, which was also in the motiPatis-
factory condition. Ales spending a pleasalii'lms well as
useful day, they returned to Liverpool abiititted O'clock
in the evening. ' •

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LITERATURE

BOORS FOR REVIEW, &C

)0L STAND.VID,

11:2(.1 re,

tention

The Church of E

s, New Prints, Music, &c

Mr. C. Mitc

terlij Reriezi

A number of Much interest and considerable abi-
lity, varied in its contents, and chiefly biographical.
It opens with an able article upon Apocalyptic in-
terpretation, in which the writer holds the view
respecting the mystic visions that they are applica-
ble to the universal Church, and the loosing of the

" The seals thus
understood, as denoting the spiritual condition of
the Church, and as foreshadowing the consequences
of its spiritual declension, become capable of a con-
sistent interpretation, running exactly parallel with
the spiritual declensions which are reproved in the
seven epistles, and also strictly conformable with
the facts recorded in

seals the epochs in

history,

It were to write an

article, to point out wherein these views may be
subverted, and a volume to illustrate the different
interpretations given to this sealed book ; but the
time approacheth when " it will become manifest
that, during the Christian dispensation, all things,
both in the Church and in the world, have been in
like manner ordered according to the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God ; and that the
kingdom of Providence and the kingdom of Grace
are under the same sceptre." Our command is,

to " search the scriptures."
" The Eighteenth Century" will be read with
much interest, lively as it is in anecdote, and spark-
ling at times in wit; and when, in connexion, we
turn to that important and touching biography, so
ably handled in the present volume, the " Duchess
of Angouleme," and read there the graphic picture
of the first revolution, and the state of morals in
the kingdom, we can well enter into the words of
the writer—it might be of both articles—when speak-
ing of the vices and follies of that age—" We can-
not but see that France is still writhing in the
throes of that tremendous struggle. The crimes of
the eighteenth century are not even yet expiated—
now that another age has more than half passed ;
nor dare we look forward with much hope to any
speedy reestablishment of peace in that country."
And having referred to her whose lot was cast in
such troublous times—the Duchess d'Angouleme,
whose life was one of bitterness, and early one of
sorrow—of whom the writer justly observes, " the
death of her youth had been in one revolutionary
republic • the death of her age was in another"—
we are led to quote a graphic and truthful descrip-
tion of a class in France ever thirsting for blood
and spoil !—" Their very existence is considered
fabulous till they are seen in fierce action, and their
manner of life and place of refuge are a mystery.
They are peculiar in the terrible nature of their
aspect and the fiendish character of their crimes.
In every public commotion they suddenly appear
upon the scene as if by magic, and when it is over
melt away like a mist. These are the miscreants by
whom the excesses are committed which political
adventurers in France deem to be necessary for
their aggrandisement, and before whom peaceable
men stand awe-struck. They are mentioned by the
writers of the time a: giving a peculiar characteristic
to the events of the first revolution ; and all who
have recorded the eme"tes and revolutions which
have convulsed the French metropolis,"the Protes-
tant massacres in the South, or the more recent
outrages of the socialistic bands in the provinces,
agree so completely in their description of the chief
actors, that it might almost seem as though they
formed a distinct family, with a peculiar hereditary
capacity for crime, and a prescriptive right to
commit it in its worst forms." . . .

In connexion with this class of " ferocious crimi-
nals," the writer has the following pertinent re-
marks—"
It is not a twelvemonth since they were
witnessed in France; and whatever may be the sin 1
of Lotlig N2,Cinil Oh the 'score of amLiiion, society
owes him much for the energy with which he
crushed the spirit that was abroad. He crushed
that spirit by the exercise of what is called a
despotic policy' ; but it is the only policy that is
good for France, and her past history proves it.
Her people clamour for liberty, but they do not
understand its real meaning : they are utterly inca-
pable of self-government ; and if they break the
thraldom of a despotic monarchy, it is only to fall
under the greater tyranny of the lawless leader of a
still more lawless mob. These propositions are
sufficiently proved by the fact that the miseries of
France have arisen from the oppression exercised by
a bold and guilty few over the inactive many."
We have left ourselves but little space to speak
of Dante, whose life is written with much elegance;
or of Chalmers, to whom a closing tribute is paid;
or of Jeffrey, who comes before us less as the man
than as the litterateur, and to whose exertions in
the conduct of the Edinburgh Review a graceful
compliment is rendered,—the more sincere, as the
politics and religious principles of these magazines
are so opposed to one another. We can only name
the remaining articles, which will repay careful
perusal—the " History of the Inquisition," " Lord
Derby and Lord Russell," " Guizot on Immorta-
lity," " Mary of England, Queen of France," and
last, not least, " Mr. Thackeray and his Ethics."
But the value of this review does not stop here :
we find some sxcellent matter under the modest
heading, " Notices of Books,"

The Rookeries of London : Past, Present, and Pro-
spective. By Thomas Beames, M.A. Second
Edition. London : Bosworth. _

The task of examining into, and making public,
the history of those congeries of human dwellings
known only in great cities, and in London specially
designated as "rookeries," has often been under-
taken by men of various tastes, characters, and
objects : the feuilletoniste, for the purpose olfeed-
ing the morbid appetites of the uneducated—the
caricaturist, for subjects for his comic pencil—and
sometimes, but too rarely, by the minister of reli-
gion and the philanthropist, cheered on by the
hope of saving men from those dungeons of vice
and misery. This task has, however, been under-
taken and nobly carried out
by rM . Beames, as
this volume will testify. He has entered into the
abodes of the " rookeries," and chronicled his
account of the causes, effects, and probable reme-
dies, both as a statist and a religionist •' and we
strongly recommend his account to the attention
of all who feel an interest in man's moral, social,
and spiritual advancement.

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