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LATI: MISS FAUCIT.)
().. MONDAY n(ext, the 16th instant, the entertainments
to commenee.with Knowles' Play of

THE LOVE CHASE.
Sir W. Fondlove Mr. Baker
Tr_ Master Walter. H6ward.
\vp'orth ...... Mr. Stuart. I Wildrake—Mr,,W. H. Bland.
Green.. Mrs. Clarke. I Lydia...... 7.. Mrs. Baker.
'-onstance Mrs. W. H. Bland, (la,pe Miss Faucit.)
After which, it
THE SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER.
To conclude with,

THE VAMPlRE.ll°,rbiert ........ Mr. Barker. I Effie....
at ikets to be had of Mr. W. H. BLAND, 40, 'liter-
vet,
and at the Box-office.

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141RIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1839.

btliilere is a passage in the admirable charge delivered
'ir Nicholas Tindal to the Grand Jury at Mon-
before whom the bills preferred against the pri-
soners now in the county gaol are laid, which ought to
make a deep impression on the mind of every think-
iprl,g rnan. The learned Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas there probes the mischief to the bottom, and ex-
-I:tesses his conviction of that fact which should be
eeelred as an axiom in Government—namely, that
obedience to the laws ought not to spring from the
terror which their awful sanctions, when they are vio-
lated, inspire, but from a principle of a far higher and
111°re searching nature—one which will extend even
where human enactments are powerless and where their
!In cannot reach--from theyrinciple that obedience
ig a
duty, and, therefore, binding upon each individUal
as a responsible being in the eyes of the Almighty.
ni.l3llt we will lay before our readers the extract, which,
the present juncture, when the subject of popular
education is so much discussed, we think most season-
ab
le and appropriate. It is as follows :—" I would add,
418°, that it is my most earnest hope that it maybe found
iLI the result that the great majority of those who may
I
e been involved in the guilt of these transactions
lave been•iniSled by the arts of wicked and designing
4111' and have sinned thus through ignorance and
blindness rather than from premeditated guilt ; and I
ea,n, Suggest no remedy which can be applied success-
fully t°
to counteract a state of mind and feeling so un-
healthyand diseased, and infecting so large a portion
of the community, except the diffusion amongst them
ri.tile benefits of religious instruction, and of a sound,
het iginns education amongst the rising generation, so
that as the younger part of the community advance to
g anh°°d3 they may feel the conviction of the whole-
me truth, that they are bound to yield obedience to
Ahe.laWS of their country, not from the terror only
the law inspires, but from a much higher and
°re binding motive—the fear of the Almighty, and
from the thorough belief that the powers which be
are ordained of God.' "
it is laying the axe to the root of the matter ;
the remarks of this able and highly respected
trudge ought to be allowed no slight weight in the con-
uverV which has been carried on between the two
Parties in the State who are divided on the subject of
fueati°n• Let those who insist on the perfectability
pethe human intellect and preach the doctrines of ex-
-10 driencY—who tell us that by sharpening the reason-
tht, faculties we shall purify the heart, and, by enlarging
e field of mental vision, shall enable the learner to
calculate consequences in such a way as will deter him
fr°ln
erillie—who think that facts, and events, and
hin. es, and terms of art constitute the bulk of that
let ought to be offered to a man as true knowledge_
by
wthich
pestilent sciolists, we say, show us the process
'ell they arrive at that simple and yet momentous
conciti •
r , 101.1' that " the powers which be are ordained of

We doubt not that even by the aid of Natural Theo-
°gy alone, and by the exercise of an understanding
Passion,
healthy tone is not perverted by prejudice and
1)481°11, the deduction might be made that treason and
rebellion
,ak must be things hateful to the Deity ; but how
n
would be such a conviction—founded upon la-
nie gyredu proof, and a comparison of the various analo-
rnnl which the will of God may be supposed to be
p-ade known to man in the course of his ordinary
el
.r°vidence:—against the wild passions which are ex-
fted in the breast of one who suffers under the pressure
penury, the sense of supposed wrongs, and the heavy
iurthens
i.iare the which oppress the poor man in an une-
belief, so
engendered, 9'1141 and highly artificial state of society. Coin-
protection to the commhoistunity
ls which such
affords against an out-
of rebellion similar to that which has recently
graced South Wales, with that which springs from
UState of mind imbued with reverence for the Scrip-
tures"--which asks not, with prying inquisitiveness, a
eas°n for the commands of the Almighty, but receives
, them with humility, and strives to execute them with
cheerful
submission.
read Such a mind requires not to
the °lle to dread the power of the laws, and from the
Other to admire their admirable machinery; but is
content to be told that he is to hold them in reverence
and
the respect' and is satisfied with the reason because
Powers which be are ordained of God."
la Indeed, such an instance of high treason as has
eg re
telY Occurred, demonstrates, in a very remarkable
te, the difference between a secular and a Scrip-
-11.1111.4 system of education. Send a poor unlettered
ill to the doctors of the modern school, and they
tell him to exercise his reason in matters of Go-
wr,nrnerit—to compare the constitution of one State
1,.h that of another—and to raise his mind above that
Point of view which is dazzled by the conventional dis-
`lactious of
ranks in society; they will teach him that
deesiPeople is the source of all power—that the grand
derahun
in politics is the greatest happiness of the
and equal,
that, as all men are born free
" equal, all are equally entitled to rights and privi-