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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1841

Twenty thousand persons, we are told, obeyed the
summons of the agitator, and met him on the Curragh
of Kildare on Sunday week. Seventy thousand tee-
totallers marched in procession in Dublin on the 17th
inst. in honour of St. Patrick; some five thousand in
Liverpool ; and further sayeth not. We have not kept
an account of the demonstrations in other places, either
in the provinces in Ireland, or in various parts of Eng-
land, where the Irish are quite in sufficient force to
make a respectable show when called out for that
purpose. The question which people who.give them-
selves the trouble to think at all on the subject ask, is,
—are these exhibitions quite innocent—quite justifi-
able—quite right ; should they, in short, be permitted ?
Some put the question in wrath and indignation, bear-
ing in mind how intolerant our authorities are of all
displays of an oyposite kind. But heat and passion
are out of place in the investigation of this nice, pro-
found, and delicate question. It becomes us to be
calm that we may not be ridiculous. There is no
longer the slightest appearance of nervous disturbance
on the other side. All is cool and methodized there;

and on our part, whose business it is to reason over
the affair, a corresponding frame of mind is called for.

These displays of organized masses, then, are re-
garded by those of the adverse party as displays of
strength, and made not only to show strength, but to
acquire more of it. On this point we apprehend no
difference of opinion can exist. But this being so, it
is scarely more than the correlative proposition to say,
that if these displays be a proof of strength, and a
means of augmenting it on the one side, they are to

ust the same extent a proof of weakness, and a means
of increasing that weakness, on the other. We submit
that this is goo] logic and a pretty fair deduction from
the premises. But what next ? Nay, softly gentle
reader, not so fast ! We must go gingerly and delibe.
rately in picking our way through this entangled

We grant that it is not pleasant to see men,
whose politics one does not approve, vaunting their
forces, and displaying them insultingly before your

eyes, and countenanced rather than discouraged therein
by the government. This is not pleasant; still the
amount of the feeling must depend on the opinions en-
tertained of the particular views, and dispositions of
the party thus parading the organization and number
of its troops. We certainly do not consider it right
;nder any circumstances that men should be allowed
to seek the attainment even of a legitimate object by
the exhibition of mere physical strength. It is not
constitutional, and is of evil example. It is a breaking
in upon those rules and laws which the constitution
has provided for the prevention of tumultuous assem-
blages, and to obviate the necessity of even an appear-
ance of resorting to first principles in order to obtain
objects which, if of a legitimate kind, may be obtained,
or at least sought for, by other means. But our dis-
like on this head will bear some proportion to the
known character and purposes of those who resort to
this unconstitutional mode of proceeding. Therefore
it is material to ascertain as nearly as can he, who are
the exhibitors, and what is their purpose ?
In the first place then, this party are all of one reli-
gious creed—Romanists—and this `first place' is so
material and comprehensive in its kind, that it will not
be of very great moment if we should never come to a
second. Not a single Protestant joins in the demon-
strations, or belongs in any way to the fraternity. The
grand cement of their union is their religion, and it
admits of no admixture. It will neither cohere nor
bind, if anyloreign ingredient he introduced into it.
There is a witch's charm in the composition, and that
charm would be spoiled by the slightest deviation from
All the mummers are Romanists—

the prescription

and Romanists acting with the full consent mid appro-
bation of their priesthood. Let us bear constantly in
mind, when we contemplate one of these demonstra-
tions, that it is the church of Rame that is making it;
and with our historical and other recollections of what
that church is, we may he the better able to determine
what these pageants are for.
But the object is in a great measure declared. There
is more candour in this respect in our day than there
was in the olden time. O'Connell repeated at Kildare
race-course, what he had frequently announced before,
that justice to Ireland includes the remaining three-
fourths of the tithes belonging to the church in Ire-
land, household suffrage, but above all, a parliament in
College-green, Dublin.
Now if England grant the parliament in College-
green, or has the most remote intention to grant it,
she may grant all the other things, and as many more
as the agitator may please to add to the list; for what
will it be to her what becomes of Ireland, if a repeal of
the union is to follow?

Let us say then, in one word, that the simple object
of all these demonstrations is the severance of the king-
dom—and if that be not TREASON, what is ? The
traitors are indeed full of exuberant loyalty to the
Queen, personally, while they arc most devoutly seek-
ing to rob her of her dominions; but it her Majesty
should ever deign to cast an eye over th' fulsome, hy-
pocritical, and disgusting declaration of the agitator,
O'Connell, as she may find it in some friendly journal,
we hop she is not deceived thereby. We began this
head of remark by saying that the parties procession-
ing and parading in the manner alluded to, were Ro-
manists ; but if we were to add now that they are
rebels, as well as Rotnanists, should we exceed our
authority ? That wherever they are, whether in Eng-
land, Ireland, Scotland, these Romanist, and for the
most part, Irish masses, are actuated by a common

xe bound to behove, both from tt

nen of their religious profession, and their own express
declarations. We are warranted to believe that they
act in concert, and that they are ready and willing to
co-operate for a common purpose. _ _ .

In this view of affairs—and it is, we apprehend, the
true one, there is evident danger to the state in what is

going on

Let us remember that the Pope's church is

a political as well as religious institution-1

that its

affairs are conducted by a corporation that never dies

-and that ascendant

has ever been its object, with an
utter recklessness as to the means by which the end
may be accomplished. We have little doubt that his
holiness and the college of cardinals calculate on having
Ireland entirely their own within a short period, and that
in the course of time, England, with due management,
will also be brought under the papal yoke

This i

the developement of the plot, and we are. at least fore-
warned. There is no secret at all in the business. All

is candidly and plainly set before us, and we may say
harmlessly so; for here the old maxim--" forewarned
'—seems to have lost some portion of its
verity. Our government at least refuses to profit by
the warning, and continues resolutely deaf to the

fore-armed

" voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely."
The moral of our tale would he mainly this, that we
have much need to be on our guard, and that the go-
vernment which is riot only careless on this subject,
but in a great measure auxiliary to the existing peril.
is absolutely unfit to hold the administration of public
affairs in its hands. But we shall be glad to reduce
our moral from this vague to a more definite shape;
and, for this purpose, not to be tediotls now, shall re-
sume our theme at another, opportunity.

The new American President is an upholder of sla-
very, and has lately taken an opportunity to declare
himself such with a view to his greater popularity. In
our apprehension it is an index to his moral qualities of
no favourable kind. Any man who does not lament
the existence of slavery in the abstract, must be ex-

ceedingly dark in this respect, whatever he may be in

any other

Men may differ as to the time and mode

of suppressing the system in a country where it has
been long established, and it would be a fair subject
for the exercise of individual opinion; but for a man
to uphold and plead for the
.system itself—to boast
himself a defender of it, and a determined, unalterable
enemy to its abolition—that, we say, is a melancholy
proof, to our mind, that the individual championing
such a doctrine, has never submitted his moral feelings
to the influence of Christianity.

Now, General Harrison has made an express de-
claration to this effect, and we can make no exception
of consequences deducible therefrom on his account.
Passing through Richmond in February, he was greeted
by a large multitude, whom he addressed. In the
course of his speech he touched on the subject of sla-
very, and said that the report that he was an Abolition-
ist could only have come from an enemy. He then
made a full communication of his sentiments in the
following strong—nay, glowing language :—[We quote
from the New York Morning Herald of the 25th Fe-
bruary.]

" do; could a Virginian, who sees in every thing around
him, the reminiscences of„ his youth, be an Abolitionist ?
How could a Virginian, bo'in and bred on the lower James
River, and in a house noted for some memorable incidents
in our revolutionary struggle, be an Abolitionist ? How could
a Virginian, whose sires received many distinguished tokens
of confidence and esteem of the hands of this virtuous old
Commonwealth, bean Abolitionist ? Flow could a Virginian
be so irreverent to the sacred ashes of his honored ancestors,
as to be an Abolitionist? Could such a Virginian be called
an Abolitionist by another Virginian, and the other a true
hearted Virginian, and sound to the core ? The thing was
impossible. The bosom could not be free from taint that
harbored such a suspicion. He said he had not given pledges
and promises before the election, because such a precedent
was calculated to produce mischief, and to confer the Presi-
dency upon men of promises instead of men of performances.
But now that he was no more a candidate for the suffrages of
the people, and could not be affected by their votes, he had
no hesitation in declaring, what had ever been his feelings,

his steadfast devotion to the rights and interests of his native

State."

We might moralise at much length on this remark-
able speech, for certainly it affordS rich matter both for
speculation and instruction. It forcibly reminds us,
in the first place, how dangerous it is to take the opi-
nions of the many, as ,a rule of right,—as that which
is in its own nature abominable, and is, in one coun-
try, justly abhorred, may, in another, be deemed even
honourable, virtuous, and praiseworthy

In Virginia,

we perceive, that even to suspect a worthy citizen of
being unfavourable to slavery, a'man must,' according
to General Harrison, have become not free from taint
himself, and that to 'be a " true-hearted Virginian—
sound to the corn"—one must be a resolute,
uncom-
promising defender of slavery.

The Virginian general then ascends the presidential
chair, pledged by the " reverence he bears the ashes
of his sires, and the gratitude he owes this virtuous
old commonwealth," to maintain the slave system ;
and nothing is to be hoped for, favourable to its abro-
gation, during his regime. But is this all ? We fear

not; we do apprehend that there is much more to be
inferred from such a premiss. We conceive, as we
hove already insinuated, :that the man who gives a
monopoly of his benevolence to one colour of the
human family, must derive his philanthropy from some
standard of morals, the acknowledgment of .which is
quite incompatible with a due regard to, or belief in
the truths of Christianity, and therefore, that we have
no security for his conduct, or test of his principles,
beyond that ever-fluctuating sense of propriety s& dif-
ferent in different men, and so liable to change in the
same individual. General Harrison scouts the idea of
not being an abettor of slavery. Could he justify his
system on christian principles Impossible. The law
of christian benevolence requires men to do to others
as they would that others should do by them. Chris-
tianity cuts at the very root of slavery. But the
American President will maintain the system never-
theless, and maintain it, because he is a true Virginian
—because the Virginians are slave-owners, and slave-
dealers, and because they inflict on' others, should be
his own.

We do not envy General Harrison that pinnacle of
honour to which he has climbed. It is at this moment
one of peculiar danger and difficulty. As to the war-
cry, he does not seem to us to be the man who would
risk his popularity to, any great extent in order to
suppress it; but still it is only reasonable to expect
that he may desire to commence his administration by
endeavouring to restrain an outbreak of folly so re-
plete with injurious, if not ruinous consequences.

Our Whig contemporary, the Albion, by his publica-
tion of yesterday, has been much occupied by the
STANDARD family, and devotes four. leading articles
of his paper to the consideration of our numerous
errors and deficiencies. As to our London name-sake,
we know not that he is aware of all the attention be-
stowed upon him, for his good, by our local reviewer
and critic; but as we cannot plead ignorance on the
subject, it would be unpardonable of us not to acknow-
ledge it in some way or other.

In the first place, the Albion evinces a remarkable
anxiety as to the state of our editorial health, both
mental and bodily, and volunteers to perform the office
of surgeon, physician, and apothecary in our behalf.
" Our sympathies," he says, "are divided between the
established church and the intruder to the palace"—a
very bad symptom indeed, and evidently of a strong
anti-whiggish character—" we are careful for our
Church, and our most gracious Queen"—oh, shocking!
It is plain that we are in great need of a Whig phy-
sician, if not of hellebore, and the voyage to Antycira,
to cure us in these respects. But let us hear more of
our case ; this is only, as it were, the first feeling of
our pulse. " Extreme nervous excitement produces
extraordinary illusions."—" Tories and Tory editors
must live in a state of trepidation"—(more shame to
give them fresh cause, say we)—" Turn his eyes which
way lie will, he sees cause for fear and trembling. On
the one side stands a Jew and on the other a Catholic,
both waiting for tardily administered justice; one
requires the rights of citizenship which are his due ;
the other looks but for the fulfilment of a bargain and
for an equitable appropriation." We would guard our
country against Papists and Infidels, the one of whom
is only waiting, as our witness says, for " tardily ad-
ministered justice," and the other for the fulfilment of
a " bargain" and an " equitable appropriation"—and
oh monstrous evidence of disease and infirmity ! We
see in THIS " cause for fear and trembling"—when,
if we were like our physician, could be doctored by
hint to any purpose, we should be rejoicing at the

biftw.us We really hut n" notice before Pf

the alarming atato of our ease, and now perceive, in
the clearest manner, that it is confirme4 "ppNsERVA.
TISM," and nothing less. But what says our Doctor

—why, that his opinion, " the subject is worthy of
consideration by the " Health Committee" of the Town
Council." But nay, friend, why should we go to the
Town Council—or, according to the proverb, out of
the frying-pan into the fire—in order to be cured ?

Our volunteer iEsculapius manifests such arxiety on

our account, and pours forth such torrents of physic,
or wit as he supposes it to be, for our recovery, that

PROCEEDINGS. IN PARLIAMENT

(From our London Correspondent.)

The House of Commons was occupied on Thursday even 7
ing with an attempt on the part of Mr. Easthope to procure,
by a sidcwind, a recognition of the principles which actuate.
in his contumacious resistance to the law of the land, that
worthy imitator of John Thorogood, Mr. W. Baines, of
Leicester. The church-rate question has however, been dis-
cussed "ad nauseam"

and a perusal of the debate of
Thusday will acid little to the stock of philosophy which we

already

lossess omithe

subject, beyond that it is almost as
difficult to drive coninien sense into the heads of the political

dissenters who crowd the ministerial benches as it would be
to elicit an idea from John Thorogdod's lapstone. The
question of the liability of property—no matter to whom be-

longing, or by whom occupied—to be rated for the mainte-

lance of the fabric of the church has now been distinctly set

at rest by' the

[emn decision of the judges

and dissenters

or churchmen have only one plain duty to perform of paying
obedience to the law. I should imagine that there should be

no " conscientious scruple" against that at any rate.
On Friday evening Lord John Russell moved the order of

the day upon going into committee on his new poor-law
and, it is abundantly gratifying to observe, from the
debate which ensued, that a feeling is rapidly growing up in
the house, which is not confined to any party, the direct
leaning of which is towards an amelioration of the working
of this harsh and inhuman measure. The speech of Mr.
Wakley, the member for Finsbury, (who, in his capacity as
coroner for Middlesex, has had opportunities such as few

measure

other members in the house possess, of arriving at a know-
ledge of the cold-blooded and imperturbable heartlessness
with which the system is characterised throughout?) should
be seriously and attentively read by the people of Liverpool
at the present moment, as well for the strong and undeniable
facts, of harrowing import, which it embodies as for its bold
denunciation of that " liberal" and " reformed" (?) parlia-
ment which has dared first to inflict such a measure upon the
British people. The speech of Mr. Townley Parker is also
worthy of attention, as proving distinctly that throughout the
whole of that district df Lancashire into which the system has
so far been introduced, the expense to the rate-payers has
been seriously increased instead of being diminished.
The speech of Lord John Russell, however, "it is above all
others to which the attention of the public Ought to be di-
rected, as displaying the spirit of a fiend mixed up with the
heartless utilitarianism of the modern " liberal." Lord
John openly declared in that speech that " destitution" alone
should form the claim of our suffering poor to relief; that
no distinction should be made between the deserving and
the dissolute ; that the " torture" of the workhouse test
must be applied indiscriminately to the decayed tradesman,
to the widow, and to the victim of misfortune, as to the
abandoned and the idle; and that the commissioners were

the most proper parties to regulate the necessity of that test
or " torture," because they cannot be biassed by feelings of

-because they are gifted with the possession of
hearts of adamant ! It had been urged upon the house that
the guardians of a parish—in Kent, I believe--yhad petitioned
those commissioners for the power of allowing an additional
four ounces of rice per week to the paupers in their work-
house, and that they had been refused ; and Lord John
Russell dared in the face of a Christian legislature to defend
that refusal—to deny the right of men, administering their
own funds, to add 4 ounces of rice a week (!) to the pork
broth and rancid cheese by which their unfortunate fellow-
parishioners were kept on the verge of starvation—to add one
penny a week to the cost of supporting the miserable victims
of misfortune and poverty :—and on what ground ? Because
to do so would be "an injustice to the poor rate-payer" ! I
imagine there are not many rate-payers in Liverpool at least
who would complain of such an injustice.
It had been urged that so strong is the repugnance which

hnmanity—

exists amongst the suffering poor to enter into the union
workhouses, that in one instance a wretched being had been
discovered literally starved to death in a garret, who was
proved to have carried in his pocket for three days an order
of admission to the workhouse, and to have preferred, at
last, this most iifiserable death which human nature can
know, to the protracted torture which was prepared for him
in that abode of despair and wretchedness. And Lord John
Russell ventured even to defend the odious cruelty by which
that bountiful provision which the constitution of our ances-
tors has provided Tor the victim of misfortune, at the expense
of his more affluentfellow-beings, if hedged round with such
unsupportable and wantonly-inflicted degradation, that death
itself is deemed pteferablse to its acceptance. Yet this " libe-
ral" lordling—who appears to possess, with the form, the
deep malignity of the Elfin race—had the assurance to con-
tend that it is wise and Christian policy which renders the
last shelter which offers itself to suffering wretchedness as a
barrier against starvation, so revolting to all the feelings of
numanity as tp_ be scarcely preferable to the very extremity of

human misery

The remarks wilich fell from Sir Robert Peel were cha-
racterized by more ,of a Christian spirit and less of mere
utilitarianism than he has previously displayed upon this sub-
ject. Still, I cannot think that we have much to be thankful
for when we look at the votes by which those remarks were
accompanied. Sir Robert has given his deliberate sanction
to a prolongation of the Somerset House tyranny for five

more years aid although that permission was followed by a
rebuke to the commissioners for the superiluous-cruelty of

!cially for the " harshness of lan-

niveyed ; yet Sir Ro-

Bert Peel ott

ght not to be

id to the fact that it is not to the

be only but to the working principle of
ie whole measure that nine-tenths of the people of England
The right hon. baronet had an opportunity before

harshness of langua

in mountain fastnesses, ok beneath the Foteeting canopy of

darkness

But such a demand, you will say, will not be conceded by
the legislature, even with the additional strength which Po-
pery will have received from the passing of Lord l‘lorpeth's
bill. The House of Lords, at all events, will stand firm
against such a glaring attack upon the religion of their Pro-

testant fellow-countrymen in Ireland. I admit that such a
proposition—in purls naturalibus—would not be entertained
in either house as yet. But let it be borne in mind that Po-
pery works for instalments; and we know how readily a re-
formed (?) House of Commons can grant those instalments,
whilst the experience of the present week has shown us how
the House of Lords stands firm against violations of " the

But admitting

great principles of the reformation
whole force of the objection to such a measure being enter-
tained by the present Houses of Parliament, are we to sup-
pose that the concession to democracy, which is contained
In Lord Morpeth's bill, is to be confined to Ireland alone ?
Oh, no. There is a class in this country too upon whose
" sufferance" Lord Melbourne and his colleagues hold the

reins of government. The fierce voluntaryism which, rages

amongst the population of the manufacturing towns in Eng-
land and in Scotland demands to be appeased. The English
radicals in the House of Commons have the price of their
support of this bill to receive, and that price is at present the

3f the reform bill, if not

abolition of the rate-paying clauses
as yet the lowering of the franchise to a
Indisputably the extension of the democratic interest in
the House of Commons must follow the passing of Lord
Morpeth's bill. With what consistency can it be refused?
UPOII what plea ? Is an English cotter in our counties, or a
mechanic in our large towns, less independent or less enlight-
ened than the corresponding class in the sister country? I
Will not so far libel my fellow-countrymen as for a moment to
entertain the supposition. But to what, 1 ask—primarily—
would the extension of the franchise to the £5 occupiers in
our large towns inevitably lead? Why—to this I answer ;
to the return of at least 50 members from the large manu-
facturing boroughs throughout the kingdom, bound hand
and foot to further by their votes in Parliament the projects
of Popery ! Could any independent member—could any
man who had not previously conciliated the Church of Rome
and brought over her interest in his favour,—presume to offer
himself as the representative of Man Chester, with its 80,000
Papists, of Preston, Bolton, Stockport, Wigan, and a host of
other towns in which an Irish Catholic working population
is congregated ? Undoubtedly not. In those towns under
the operation of a franchise approaching even in extent that
sought to be conferred upon Ireland, the Roman Catholic
population, marshalled as they would be, and are even now
into a compact body, under the guidance of the

£5 rating test

priesthood,

could turn the scale as effectually in favour of that candidate
who might have succeeded in securing the good wishes of
" the Church," as the Popish body in parliament can now
turn the scale in favour of the government which has gained
" by compact" the good wishes of the same power.
The House of Commons, then, by which the designs of
Popery against the Established Church of Ireland are to be
worked out—(and how soon those designs will be directed
against the Church of England too, I will not stay to in-
quire)—is not such a house as we should have by the mere
passing of this measure. Popery is too astute a pupil of
Machiavel to attempt with her own hands to remove the
jewel Protestantism from the crown of our Sovereign. The
" holy order of Jesus" exercises too great an influence in
the councils of the Vatican, to allow of a policy which would
draw upon Rome and her mummeries the crushing weight of
a people's indignation—and that people the people of Eng-
land. No, no. Rome forges the bolts, and strings the
weapon which is to drive them home ; but another hand must
be found, and will be found, to discharge it. A British par-
liament composed of mingled puritanism and infidelity—o
men stained equally with blood and with hypocrisy—was
found at no remote period of our history to apply the torch
to the sacred fanes of our fathers ; and a similar body, in
whose deceitful professions of conscientious scruple is con-
cealed a deep hatred of the Church of England, and whose
" liberal" principles in religion will not prevent them from
allying themselves with Popery or even with infidelity itself
to advance their object, will compose the parliament by which
Rome hopes to work the downfall of the Protestant church
of this empire.

The securing of such a parliament—in which rabid dis Sent,
open infidelity and undiluted Popery will be happily blended,
is the ulterior object aimed at by the promoters of this bill.
Give Popery her first demand ;—give her a £5 qualification
iu Ireland—and she will wring from your hands the same
concession in favour of her dissenting allies, the English and
Scotch " voluntaries." HostilLy to the established Protes-
tant church of the realm is the sure passport to her favour.
Her consummate skill in detecting the workings of the
human mind is not duped by the pretences of your church-

rate martyrs, or even of your liberal" churchmen. She
on mould all alike—the cunning and the duped— into bah-a-
rnents of offence to work out her own long and deeply
cherished designs. .
Fellow Protestants=--can you perceive any mode of escape

from the ruin—the certain and inevitable ruin—'

towards

which an unprincipled faction is hurrying the destinies of this

great nation: Can any merely ordinary e

rtion on the part

of British constituencies arrest permanently the flood of de.

mocracy which is about to be let in upon us, through so many

rents and seams in the once boasted constitution of our

country ? No, no I—you. cannot. The vital principle of that
constitution—the principle of Protestant ascendancy—is
We Possess now only the mangled remains of that
constitution ; and, although we may now denounce the bill of
Lord
Morpeth—although we may point hereafter to those
mangled remains, and exclaim with the Roman, Mark
Antony—‘, See what a rent the envious Casca made!"

we must conclude with him that it Vas the sword of Brutus
which struck to the heart ; it was at his fatal stab that the
spirit of the mighty Caesar fled. Yes, the fatal measure of
1829 it was which laid in ruins the fabric of the British con-
stitution ; and in a further and a final letter I will endeavour
to show that its repeal alone can ultimately repair the in-

Jury, and that THE PASSING OF LORD MORPETH'S BILL

-MUST BE THE SIGNAL FOE EVERY PROTESTANT CONSTI-

TUENCY THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE TO AGITATE FOR THAT

REPEAL

ISHMAN

A PROTESTANT ENGLI
Liverpool, 20th March, 1841.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY

No. 1

SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY, KNT.
We have long had an ambition to hand down to posterity
a few of the illustrious worthies of which our good old town
can boast ; and if we must confess the reason why we have

decided to make our first essay upon the Oxford knight,
whose name we have affixed in good bold type at the head of
this article, it is because, in spite of our Tory predilections,

we cannot but consider that loyalty demands of us to honour

hint first whom the Queen has " delighted to honour."
We did purpose to present to our readers, in addition to
our own laudation, the " facial developments" of the subjects
of our sketches ; but what pencil less talented then those of
Cruikshank or of Phiz could have done justice to the classical

features of such individuals as those whom we destine to im-
mortality in our columns? Could an ordinary daJbe'r—a
man whose whole soul was not absorbed in his art—paint
the vivida via animi displayed in the face of an Earle, a
Bolton, or a Rathbone ? He could not; and, despairing of
our ability to find an artist sufficiently talented, we have
abandoned the attempt, and determined to rely upon the un-
aided strength of our descriptive powers.
Sir Joshua Walmsley—knight in prcesenti, and M.P. in
embryo—is not a large specimen of humanity ; and we may
remark, that few men of the high order of intellect to which
Sir Joshua unquestionably belongs, have ever ranged beyond
the ordinary standard of drummer boys in a marching regi-
ment. Napoleon himself, although, " like a Colossus. he Aid
bestride this narrow world," was but a morsel of a man.
Byron, Moore, and Leigh Hunt, amongst our poets, never
stood in their stocking feet much above five feet nothing ;
and, " last and least"—the quotation doesn't serve exactly—
Lord John Russell himself—the patriot, the statesman, and
the philosopher—has been very justly compared to what
lawyers term " the smallest coin in the realm"—a farthing—

Let no man, therefore,
score of his deficiency in longi-

la Burke or u la Fu; but purely in a style of his own,pa
happy mixture of the " malaprop" and f" bubble-and-sqeak"
schools of oratory. „A.s is the case with most great speakers'
the knight turns " ever and anon" a lozenge in his mouth,
and gets rather red in the face—a characteristic o! the fervid
and impassioned speaker. His addresses, too, have one ad-
mirable quality ; viz., that in perusal you may begin in the
middle or at the end without losing the sense. Nay, we
once tried the experiment of reading only each alternate sen-
tence, and found the sense improved rather than the reverse.
With respect to his general attainments, we are not aware
that the worthy knight is a great classical sell:Aar, or is pos-
sessed of deep historical, philosophical, metaphysical, or
theological lore

We are informed, however, that he is so
far proficient in the Welsh. language—although it is so re-
cently that his attention has been directed to its study—that
he is at present engaged in the compilation of a Welsh ad-
dress, to be issued in the event of a dissolution of Parlia-
ment; and that there is every probability of his becoming a
competitor for the bardic prize at the next Eisteddfod. We
have heard, too, that he has an ambition to contend for the
prize of honour as a performer upon the Welsh harp ; but Ni
disbelieve the rumour

Sir Joshua is after all but a Whig
and no man who has " music in his soul" was ever a Whig

LITERARY NOTICES,

The Asiatic Journal.

Allen & Co., Leadenhall-street

At a period when our relations with India and China are
more complicated, and involve graver results than heretofore,
the number of the Asiatic Journal for March is peculiarly
acceptable, containing as it does an able and comprehensive
digest of the recent important events in the eastern world,
besides a variety of interesting articles of a lighter and amus-
ing character. The " Review of Eastern News," which forms
the opening paper, will be perused with deep attention, par-
ticularly as regards Affghanistan and China. " Hindoo Wo-
men," as described in a discourse delivered by a native young
gentleman, at a new Society for the Acquisition of General
KnowlPdge, furnishes a gratifying example of the growing
acquirements and taste of the better order of natives, and
gives promise of the refinement, by intellectual culture, at no
very distant period, of the people of India. " Wood's Jour-
ney to the Oxus," is a- pleasing detail of eastern adventure
and discovery. The article entitled " The Poetical Charac-
ter of Bfshop Heber," is a tribute of merited admiration to
the genius of an accomplished divine and truly amiable man.
The " Memoirs of a Griffin" is an amusing sketch of a first
visit to India. The description of the approach to Calcutta
by water is excellent, and conveys a lively idea of the luxur-
iant outskirts and the general splendour of that proud me-
tropolis of British India. The other articles, including a
" Memoir of the late Lieutenant Loveday," and a " Review
of Glegg's Memoirs of Warren Hastings," are of considerable
merit, and we Can safely recommend the whole number as
well worth the attention of all who feel interested in the
affairs of the east:

The Law and Practise relating to the Constitution and
Management of Assurance, Banking, and other Joint
Stock Companies. By Swinton Boult, secretary to the
Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company. London,
Ridgways : Liverpool, Wareing Webb.
This is a judicious pamphlet, well timed, and written by
a man evidently conversant with the subject. Mr. Boult
says he " aims at nothing beyond an elucidation of the wants
experienced, and of the principles which should test the real
value and probable operation of any suggestion to supply
them." Whilst advocating the joint-stock system, he has
discussed these points with such moderation and knowledge
as cannot fail to recommend his views to the public.

Six Lessons in Short-hand. By P. B. Templeton. Lon-
don : Orr and Co. ; Manchester : Heywood.
The basis of Mr. Templeton's system is Taylor's, whose
alphabetical characters are neat and lineal, and when written
may be readily deciphered. The work before us, however, is
not a mere rehash, but is in effect a new, and certainly one
of the best treatises on the subject of short-hand published
for some years. The rules, which in reality are few in num-
ber, but which in some works have been minutely sub-
divided, so as to be almost incomprehensible at the age when
their study should be commenced, are here rendered exceed-
ingly simple. "He that runs" may indeed read them. An
additional recommendation is that they are brought down to
the present state of the art, as practised by the best news-
paper reporters. On these grounds we have no hesitation in
recommending this publication to all who feel interested in
the progress of a science of so much public ptility and private
advantage as stenography. There are quacks in all profes-
sions, and short-hand has not escaped, as the foll Owing little
anecdote, which we quote from Mr. Templeton's preface,
will shew

" Between three and four years ago a person named —,
who had been for some time in Manchester professing to
teach writing, mental calculations, short-hand, &c, found his
way to Middleton. a little town midway between Manchester
and Rochdale, where he issued flaming bills announcing the
wonders he was about to perform in the way of communicat-
ing knowledge. The author of this treatise, happening to be
passing through the town in company with a friend, who is
also a good stenographer, was induced, by way of curiosity,
to call upon this professor for the purpose of seeing what his
capabilities were in reference to short-hand. The worthy
teacher, after showing his alphabet, and reiterating his assur-
ances that if we took his four or six lessons, we should be
very competent short-hand writers, exhibited a specimen of
what one of his pupils had done with the aid of his instruc-
tions. This specimen, which was written upon one side of a
common sheet of writing paper, (which side, by the way, was
not half filled, the writing, too, being in a very large charac-
ter)—this specimen, we were assured, contained the whole
of a sermon which had occupied three quarters of an hour
in the delivery. Having expressed our astonishment that so
much matter could be comprised within so limited a space,
the professor, in order to convince our stubborn understand-
ings, began to read it. The task, however, was not quite so
easy as was expected ; and after having gone over, in the
most bungling fashion, four or five lines, which was about
one-third of the whole specimen, and occupied something
like a minute and a half in the reading, the gentleman, with
the greatest possible composure, laid down his specimen,
and proceeded to expatiate on the extraordinary things that
might be achieved by stenography. We assured him we had
often heard what wonderful feats short-hand writers could
acomplish, but that nothing we had ever either heard or, seen
was at all to be compared with the superiority of his system,
which seemingly could enable a pupil to take down a sermon
occupying three-quarters of an hour in its delivery, the whole
of which he might afterwards read in five minutes ! The
gentleman had not another word to say." •
After this, though it is scarcely necessary, we should be
unjust if we omitted to mention that Mr. Templeton is an
excellent practical reporter, well competent to discern and
expose the tricks of such pretenders. We anticipate that his
book will be the means of preventing " payment in advance"
being obtained by these impostors.
In conclusion, we again recommend these " Six Lessons."
The work is neatly got up, and by no means dear consider-
ing the quantity and the quality of its contents./

An Essay on Deafness. By D. Cronin. Wertheim,
London.

This essay, to those afflicted with deafness, will prove very
acceptable. Mr. Cronin appears thoroughly to understand
the construction of the ear, and seems well acquainted with
its diseases. A variety of interesting cases are given in the
work, which have met with a speedy cure in Mr. Croniu's
hands. We recommend this little essay to the notice of all
who require the aurist's aid, and doubt not, under the au-
thor's treatment, that the valuable faculty of hearing will be
restored. His method is simple, but at present a secret to
himself.

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY

INTELLIGENCE

( From the Oxford Herald.)
PROMOTIONS.

Rev. R. Allen, RectOic;tliarconahe, Sussex, to the Pre-
bend of Exceit, on the presentation of her Majesty.
Rev. C. H. Bromby, 8.A., of St. College, Cambridge, to
the Head Mastership of the Stepney Proprietary School.
Rev. G. 0. Townsend, to be Chaplain to the British Resi-
dents at St. Germain-ea-Lave, in the room of the Rev. W.
Wright, D.C.L.
Rev. S. Edmund Walker, M.A., late Crosse Theological
Scholar in the University of Cambridge, to the Rectory of
St. Columb Major, Cornwall, void by the death of the Rev.
John Trefusis ; patron, Edmund Walker, Esq.
Rev. T. Townsend, Curate of Doonas, to the Rectory of
Kilruane' vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Hawkesworth.
Alfred Wrigley, 8.A., of St: John's College, Cambridge,
to be the Mathematical Master of the Artillery and En-
gineers' Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey.
Rev. Owen Jones, Curate of Talyllyn,_ to the Vicarage of
Towyn, Merionethshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J.
M. Edwards ; patron, the Bishop of Bangor.
Rev. R. Dixon, M.A., to be Principal of King William's
College, Isle of Man, in the room of the Rev. A. Phillips,
M. k., resigned.
Rev. Henry Robert Lloyd, M.A., to the Donative of
Taliaris, Caermarthenshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
J. Roberts; patron, William Peel, Esq., of Taliaris.
Rev. William Aldrit, to the Chaplaincy of the Wells Union
Workhouse.
The Lord Bishop of Hereford has instituted the Reverend
Oliver Ormerod, M.A., incumbent of Birch-within-War-
rington, Lancashire, and Domestic Chaplain to the Lord
Viscount Canning, to the Rectoy and Vicarage of Presteign
and Discoyd, in the diocese of Hereford, vacant by the death
of the Rev. James Beebee ; patron, the Earl of Oxford and
Mortimer.
On the Bth instant, the Rev. George Edward Maunsell,
8.A., of Christ Church, was instituted, by the Lord Bishop
of Peterborough, to the Rectory of Thorpe Malsor, North-
amptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev.. J. Young ;
patron, T. P. Maunsell, Esq.
The Rev. W. W. Tireman, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen
College, has been presented to the Rectory of Bowers Gif-
ford, essex, void by the cession of the Rev. J. Bluck,
The Rev. Daniel Butler, M.A., of Lincoln College, has
been elected Master of the Clergy Orphans' School, St.
John's Wood, London.

SUPERSTITION.—An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the
Infirmary, on the body of P. Hayes, aged 40, a labourer,
unmarried, It appeared from the evidence of Mary Cooper,
landlady of the "Fortune of War," Marsh-street, where the
deceased lodged, that on Wednesday night, the Bth inst., he
got up between twelve and one o'clock, and fell down stairs.
Witness, bearing the noise, asked what was the matter? and
Hayes replied, It is me; lam dead." lie was at that time
a little in drink. The witness' then proceeded—" The next
he complained, and was brought here (the Infir-
mary),and attended by the doctors of this house. I rather
morning
think he saw a ghost,
which haunts the .house. It is the
ghost of a lady in silk, and has been troublesome to some
former Lodgers. Two or three lodgers have been killed in
the same house, and no doubt frightened from the same
cause!!! I have never seen the ghost myself." Mr. Wat-
son deposed that the deceased had received injury in the cer-
vical vertebrae, for which proper treatment was used, but be
died that morning. Verdict, accidental death.—Brielot
Journal. • '