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money of his clients and received their
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whole scheme was got up by those two fellows Knowles and
Hole. I have here an authenticated list of individuals who,
in consequence of reliance upon this company, are now in
workhouses. I have given merely the initials of a few whose
relatives requested that the names should not appear :

Ann Tyson, Glo
T. S. Edinburgi

Joanna Austeri, Exeter
Miss White, Nottinghe

Barber, London

Scammell, Wiltshire

20 3 6 per ann
40 0 0 per ann

Gracie Hitchern. Suffolk

;mall, Newbury
Craig, Armagh
Nymouth

100 .. 8 0 0 per ann
200 .. 25 0 0 per ann
90 .. 1G 0 0 per ann

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M., Kid&

A.. 8., ditto

Captain Harris, Weymouth 550
John Harrison, Pocklington 200

20 0 0 per abn

Now, most of the annuitants are poor people, who had given
all they had and could gather together in the world to
-Messrs. Knowles, Hole, and Co., in the fulk,belief that they
would receive the large per tentage which their prospectus
,•

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of livthe, in Ke

the company
Hole's father

and his mother was a washerwoman. After
dasa s. boy to a grocer, now residing at Hythc,
to London and opened a shop, but failed in several
tempts to establish himself. About twelve years he kept

was a t
being li

red as a shot

an Italian warehouse in the Edgeware-road, and at last joined
Knowles in the West Middlesex. The father of ,Knowles was
a servant in the brewery at H y the, and his mother was a wash-,
erwoman. When young the manager Knowles was a footboy.
He afterwards became a footman in London, and about
twelve years ago he was usher at an academy in the neigh-
bourhood of Chelsea, and, as will presently appear, he cut a
figure as an insolvent and a bankrupt before he started upon

the speculation which so con
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Assurance Com-

pany.
Mr. Barrett, the governor of Whitecross-street prison,
stated that Thomas Knowles, the managing director of the
Independent and West Middlesex Assurance Company, was
committed to that orison on the 18th of April, 1829, at the

it of George Vincent for £4O. lie was discharged under
e insolvent act in the following August, but did not leave
...e prison until the 2d of November, 1829, which made the
term of his imprisonment upwards of six months. Knowles,
who had been.the steward of one of the wards, asked to see
him (Mr. Barrett) on the clay of his final discharge, and,
with tears in his eyes, requested the loan of some money to
redeem a suit of clothes which were in pledge, and without
which he was ashamed to return home. The suns of £4 9s.

cordin

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LETTER. FROM THE REV

l'ciockenham, nea.

March 8, 1841.
As your reporter has 'epresented what
Mr. Langdale said about me in the House of Corn-
the 2d instant, and thereby conveyed to your nu-
eaders a most injurious

Liverpool,
zrievously misr

lsethe good
te, not to say veracity, of that gentleman, in repeating an

long since publicly refuted
Langdale also, I should think, 1:;)

you wiil

giving

red the politico-religious system of modern
to the character of " that woman Jezebel," is most
and although the resemblance has been vehemently
and petulantly denied, I have a 4 yet seen no attempt to dis-
prove by fair argument the legitimacy of the parallel. My
statement is reasoned out in detail under distinct heads, and
open to an argumentative refutation, if it can be refuted.
Nothing of -the kind, so far as I know, has been attempted.
My opponents have confined themselves to nickname scur-
There has been nothing so flagrant as rill"

____ In support of a bad cause, it is easier to rail than to
reason. I have no such occasion for condescending to rail
in return. If the descriptions of modern Romanism, on
which her alleged similitude to Jezebel is grounded, be er-
roneous or exaggerated, the blame belongs not to me, but to
the authorised standards, published laws, and unrescinded
formularies of the system, which in that case are convicted
of falsehood, and the rulers of the system are convicted of
retaining them, knowing them to be false.
That I repudiated the idea of Christians holding their
peace while such standards are maintained, is also true; and
I quoted our Saviour's words to show that vital christianity,
however peaceful in itself, can never be at peace in a fallen
world, but must ever be, through the opposition of men, the

nocent cause of contention, or, as our Saviour expresses it,
s%Vord. It has been so, and must be so, until the second
>ming; of our Saviour.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,

HUGH• M

'NEILE

Liverpool, March 5, 1841

Sir,—Your speech in the House ofCon:mons on'Tuesday
night last, as it is reported in the Morning Chronicle of
Wednesday, contains the following passage :—" When the
honourable gentleman adverted to the strong language
which he stlated had been used from the (Roman) Catholic
pulpits in Ireland, could he be a stranger to the new Refor-
mation sermons, as they were called, which had been
preached in this country by Mr. M`Neile and others, in
which the Sovereign of this realm was compared to Jezebel
[hear]?" You will oblige me by letting me know if this be
a correct report of what you saidabout me, and it not, what
it was you did say. As you thought it right to mention my
name in parliament, I cannot doubt that you will feel it
equally right to favour me with a reply to this inquiry.—l
have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
HUGH WNEILE.
To the Hon. Charles Langdale, M.P.

London, March 6, 1841

Sir,—The substance of what I said in the House of Com-
mons, in reference to Mr. M`Neile, was to the following ef-
fect :—That he had denounced the religion of a large portion
of his fellow subjects as Jezebel, and that he repudiated the
idea of peace towards such. I shall be happy to learn, by
any public or private disavowal, that this is not a correct in-
terpretation of the comparison alluded to, any more than that
which had bcen attributed to it as applied to the Queen, and
which, I am aware, has been denied, and theref,re could not
be repeated by me, as reported in the Chronicle.—l have the
honour to remain, sir, your obedient servant,
Rev. H. M`Neile. . CII ARLES LANGDALE.

THE OXFORD TRACTS

At a meeting of the Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, and
Proctors, in the Delegates'-room, March 15, 1841.

Considering that it is enjoined in the statutes of this Uni-
versity (tit. 111., sect. 2; tit. IX., sect. 11., §3, sect. V.,
§ 3) that every student shall be instructed and examined in
the 39 articles, and shall subscribe to them ; considering also
that 'a tract has recently appeared, dated from Oxford, and
entitled Remarks on certain Passages in the 39 Articles,
being No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times, a series pf anony-
mous publications purporting to be written by members of
the University, but which are in no way sanctioned by the
University itself.

Resolved, that modes of interpretation such as are sug-
gested in the said tract, evading rather than explaining the
sense of the 39 Articles, and reconciling subscription to them
with the adoption of errors, which they were designed to
counteract, defeat the object, and are inconsistent with the
due observance, of the abovementioned statutes.
P. WYNTER, Vice-Chancellor.

R. NEWMAN

Mr. Vice-Chancellor,—l write this respectfully to inform
you, that I am the author, and have the whole responsibility,
of the tract on which the hebdomadal board has just now
expressed an opinion, and that I have not given my name
hitherto. under the belief that it was desired that I should
not. I hope it will not surprise you if I say, that my opinions
remain unchanged of the truth and honesty of the principles
maintained in the tract, and of the necessity of putting it
forth. At the same time I am prompted by my deep feel-
ings to add my deep consciousness that every thing I attempt
might be done in a better spirit, and in a better way ; and,
while I am sincerely sorry for the trouble and anxiety I have
giVen to the members of the board, I beg to return my thanks
to them for an act which, even founded on misapprehension,
may be made as profitable to myself as it is religiously and
charitably intended.
I say this with great sincerity, and am,
Mr. Vice-Chancellor,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN HENRY NEW MAN.
Oriel College, March 16.

The University is in a great state of agitation. The printers
are engaged on both sides, hard at work.

PUBLIC EXECUTION OF JAMES TAYLOR, FOR
THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.

SALISBURY, TUESDAY.-It will be in .the recollection o
our readers that James Taylor, a pig-dealer, residing a'

Vootton Bassett, was charged at the lat
Id at Devizes, with the wilful murder
his wife, when it appeared that the prisoner, about 39 year

old, having given up his avocation as a pig-dealer, had let
out his little cottage, consisting merely of the ground-floor,
to railway labourers, who were thereby accommodated in a
very sorry manner, they being huddled together like so many
pigs. This circumstance, it is supposed, gave rise to an illicit
correspondence between the prisoner's wife and a railway la-
bourer, named Jack, and this led to an elopement, which cir-
cumstance so irritated the prisoner, that he coolly and de-
liberately fired his gun at his wife while she was in the act of
cleaning some carrots and potatoes, and killed her dead on
the spot. But as the principal witness could not then attend,
the trial was adjourned to the Salisbury Lent Assizes, when
the jury found him guilty of the charge of wilful murder.
The only question, said Mr. Justice Erskine, for them to'de-
cide was, " whether the prisoner loaded the gun with the in-
tention to destroy or not the life of his wife's paramour (the
railway labourer, Jack); for, if they were satisfied of that
fact, it did not matter whether the wife had been killed acci-
dentally or not, for if the gun exploded, when in the posses-
sion of the prisoner, he having loaded it for an unlawful pur-
pose, that was, by law, murder, and equally the same as
though lie had loaded the said gun for the express purpose of
destroying his wife's life."
_NVe_understand that hundreds

of persons- in this city sympathised with the unfortunate man,
he having taken the life of his wife under circumstances of
the most aggravated nature, and consequently a petition was
got up at Salisbury, and very numerously signed, for the
commutatio❑ of the sentence of death, but to no purpose.
The prosecutors (the authorities of the parish) and the jury
recommended the prisoner to mercy, but we are informed,
on authority of the most official character, that his lordship
most positively declined joining in that petition for mercy.
During the interim between the unhappy man's sentence
and execution, he has conducted himself in a manner altoge-
ther extraordinary.

His wife was a young and very beautiful woman, and it is
supposed his jealousy continued after her death, for he would
not acknowledge himself guilty of a fault, and asserted that
the injury he had sustained fully justified the act he had
committed. His conversation was blasphemous, lewd, and
insulting to the authorities—justification of his own conduct,
and determination not to vepent. Even on his last day, his
first words were imprecations, alleging that the workmen
were lazy fellows for not coming and putting up his drop
(the scaffold) at an earlier hour ; and on his hearing the
sound of the workmen's hammers, when they were beginning
their labour, he gave three hurrahs with a firm voice, having
previously observed that lie had two crooked sixpences to
give Jack Ketch if he would well grease the rope The
Venerable Archdeacon Macdonald, the chaplain (the Rev.
C. H. Hodgson), and the Rev. Mortimer Hodgson, and
other ministers, were indefatigable in their spiritual labours
in his behalf ; but he would not listen to them fora moment.
He would not suffer the sacrament to be administered to
him, nor allow the burial service to be read previously to
his execution. Eleven o'clock came, the hour appointed
for his death, and when the officers went to his cell, lie
exclaimed, " Give me a pint of gin, and I'll show them
how to dance Jim Crow !" Indeed we should be pollut-
ing the ear, and demoralizing the community. were we to
publish the almost dying words of the wretched man. Find-
ing that this conduct was his determination of display at the
last, the under-sheriff and other officers were resolved to al-
low him no time to corrupt the public morals on the scaf-
fold, and a few minutes before twelve o'clock the prison bell
announced the approaching time of his dissolution—(at this
time there were thousands of persons congregated in front
of the gaol to witness the last moments of this unhappy victim
of jealousy), and shorly after the Venerable Arhdeacon Mac-
donald, the Rev. C. H. HodgiOn: and son, preceded by the
officers, were seen advancing from the wretched man's cell,
and then next the turnkeys and prisoner followed, and the
prisoner was seen jumping, dancing, and singing "Turn
about and wheel about, and do just so, arid every time I turns
about I jump Jim Crow. I went up to London," &c. But
here evidently this wretch was almost broken hearted, and
seemed to be a mere puppet of some hidden mechanical
power ; nevertheless he arrived on the fatal spot without be-
traying any very evident symptoms of intimidation, and went
readily and placed himself under the fearful beam, saying, in
a hurried manner, " Ladies and gentlemen, I am very glad
to see so many of you present—such a grand assemblage of
people to see me hanged! And mind, if ever any of you go
a robbing, be sure and take a double-barrelled gun with you
and shoot all you can !—and mind and do it as it should be.
And I got to tell you that Jane Newman and farmer James
Hathway, of Toockenham, are the greatest enemies 1 had ;
and had it not been for them, I should have been there now.
I am glad I killed my wife, and I don't mind being hanged"
—(here the executioner drew the cap over his eyes, and the
unhappy man resumed)—" i don't care for that, I can keep
on talking Oh ! what a pleasant view—what a grand sight.
I likes this sort of fun !" At this moment the bolt was
drawn, and he was launched into eternity. He apparently
suffered but little, and, after hanging the usual time. (au
hour,) his countenance was scarcely changed, nor his fea-
tures distorted ! His body will be interred within the pre-
cincts of the gaol this evening. The populace conducted
themselves altogether with much propriety.

RUMOURED EPIDEMIC AT ETON.—In consequence of
three children of Mr. Tarver, the Italian and French master
at Eton College, having died of scarlet fever during the past
week, the greatest alarm has prevailed on the subject amongst
the parents and friends of the various boys (amounting to
upwards of 600) now at college. On INlonday last a line
youth, 12 years of age, the son of Mr. William Mount, of
Wasing-place, Berks, who was an inmate in the establish-
ment of the Rev. Mr. Coleridge, one of the assistant-mas-
ters, expired of this distressing disorder. It was reported
on Tuesday that one of the servants of Mr. Tarver had died of
the same complaint, but she is now better, and likely to re-
cover. Dr. Ilawtrey has addressed a letter to the parents of
the respective pupils, in which he encloses a letter from a
physician, who states that he sees no necessity for the re-
moval of any of the boys, and that were he a parent or guar-
dian, he would not disturb them at this advanced and so
nearly expiring period of their stay at Eton. The number
of boys who have been sent for by their parents amounts to
upwards of 300. No fresh cases of sickness had occurred
up to Wednesday evening. Some very extensive alterations
and improvements are now in progress in the playing grounds
connected with the college. Several of the adjacent build-
ings are to be removed, and the ground upon which they
stood, together with the gardens, are to be added to the
playing fields.

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 1841

The speech delivered by the Colonial Secretary on
the Jews' Municipal Bill is lauded by a London weekly
journal as " one of the most enlightened speeches
ever delivered on the subject of toleration." So high
an eulogium induced us to turn once more to so po-
tent an oration, and to weigh with more deliberation
than we had before used, those arguments addressed
in it by which it had found so much favour in the re-
gards of a leading organ of Radicalism. Our re-in-
vestigation, however, has not brought us to the same
conclusion with that of the hebdomadal critic; for,
though we are willing to admit that the courage evinced
by the delivery of such a speech was of a surpassing
quality, we cannot conceive that it was at all supported
or matched by the enlightenment. The courage, we
grant, was magnificent. With a large majority to cheer

him on, and ready to laugh down any one that should
oppose, his lordship certainly had the courage to put
forth a manifesto that leaves us nothing more to learn
as to the Whig doctrine of toleration, and the lengths
which the party are prepared to go in carrying it out.

The doctrine which the noble lord avows comes ex-
actly to this, that it is intolerant to maintain any reli-
gious test whatever, and that no man should be ex-
cluded from office on account of his religious belief or
unbelief, as the case might be.

Well, the position is not new. It strikes us we have
heardithe sound thereof before, borne along by the
western breeze and redolent of Hibernian flowers, and
that it was the theme unceasingly celebrated by every
youthful poet or orator mature, in days not so long
passed, when humble Popery was a suitor at our shores.
To originality therefore it can make no pretension, as
coming only a week or two since from her Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Colonies. It is a doc-
trine, however, of a very extreme kind, and, in its ope-
ration and tendencies, subversive of all religious esta-
blishments. It would admit the Jew not only to mu-
nicipal offices but into Parliament; and the minister,
clearly perceiving this consequence, was kind enough
to announce; that should' any one bring in a bill for
such a purpose, he, for one, woule cordially support it.
Follow out the principle, and the. Parliament becomes
an assembly not of Church of England Protestants,
nor even of professing Christians; but of men who

may be anything, everything, or nothing, so far as re-
ligion is concerned.

Nor would the principle cease to operate here. The
houses of Parliament having sanctioned it in their own
favour, would be bound to go forward and give the
benefit of it to the Sovereign. The Crown could not
be kept under religious restrictions while all its sub-
jects were discharged from them, and must soon cease
to be legally Protestant; and revolution having thus
travelled through all ranks of society, what connexion,
we may ask, would remain between Church and State,
or how long would a Parliament that had decreed all
tests and questions to be intolerant and had abolished
them, allow any church to remain that could claim such
a connection ?

On the ground assumed by the Colonial Secretary
we could have no Established Church at all, and must
cease to be a Christian people so far as might be known
by any national law or declaration on the subject. This
is a consequence that follows strictly, naturally, and
legitimately, from his doctrine, and is as perfect in the
egg, though not so fully developed, as it would be in
the actual, full-grown, locomotive cockatrice. His
lordship, we must allow, has shewn great bravery in
broaching such a doctrine, for it is perfect latitudina-
rianism, and exhihits a recklessness on the subject of
religion and a disregard to the known and most che-
rished feelings of Englishmen such as few ministers of
the Crown have had the hardihood or the imprudence
to display. Heretofore some reserve has been prac-
tised when tests were sought to he withdrawn, or our
laws relaxed in favour of persons who were not at one
with the established constitution in all respects, and
the pleas for relaxation were founded not upon that
latitudinarianism now promulgated, hut upon the ex-
pediency and convenience of the thing, and the little
harm which, it was contended, should be apprehended
from the change. But Liberalism has waxed strong,
and now comes abroad confidently without any dis-
guise. But let us leave the Liberal for a moment and
turn to the Conservative. We put this question to
him. Will he sanction tgis latitudinarian, anything-
arian, God-denying principle now openly and unblush-
ingly commended by one of her Majesty's ministers,
and acted upon, we do believe, so far as may be, by his
party ? Dissenters have been emancipated, Papists
have been emancipated, and now equal civil privileges
are sought also for the Jews ; or in other words, our
constitution having ceased to he strictly ecclesiastical,
then to be Protestant, is now sAught to be de-christi-
anised. Such is really the proposition involved in the
municipal liberties solicited for the Jews—liberties, as
we have before said, of perhaps little intrinsic impor-
tance on their own account, but of much and serious
consequence by reason of the momentous relaxation of
principle which the concession of them necessarily re-
quires. The application seems to rest on the presump-
tion that Church Protestants have no scruples of con-
science like other religionists, or that they want the
courage to act upon them. The Dissenter puts his
religion in the foreground, and asks for indulgence
solely on the score of his peculiar religious sentiments;
so does the Papist ; so does the Jew ; but the Church-
man is not supposed to entertain any scruples of the
If he speak of them, he is laughed at or de-
nounced as a bigot; but if he proclaim that all reli-
gions are the same to him, and gives to all classes of
assailants power and opportunity to pull down that
church of which he is a member, oh, then, he is every
thing that is expansive in mind—liberal, generous, and
enlightened. Truly, as the Scripture saith, there is
" a fear of man that bringeth a snare." Why are
Churchmen ashamed of their church-principles ? Pa-
pists and Dissenters are not ashamed of theirs.

Popery, we lament to say, has gained a new and im-
portant victory in the affair of the St. Sulpice frater-
nity of Montreal. We had been led to expect a very
different result by what took place in the House of
Lords when the Bishop of Exeter gave notice of his
motion on the 4th instant. Certainly it could not
have been imagined that when, in less than a fortnight
after, he submitted his proposition to the house, he
would have been completely deserted, and obliged to

ahatbn it without calling for a The Right
Rev. Prelate must have been especially disappointed in
not receiving the support of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, who expressed himself so strongly in fa-
your.of his object on the former evening. His Grace's
language on that occasion will not easily be forgotten,
when he said, 'alluding to the intended incorporation of '

the St. Suipicians, that it was the " first blow struck
at the principles of the reformation," and he entreated
the attention of their lordships to it with an earnestness
suitable to an emergency so serious and important.
Was this appeal put forward merely as a demonstration,
and intended to direct the public mind from, rather
than to fix it on this particular point ? We ask this
question, because, if we mistake not, his Grace ha's on
former occasions applied some of that admirable skill
which distinguished him as the first of military tacti-
cians to the strategy of debate and the conduct of ci-
vil affairs. It is certainly a species of finesse, or, at
least, it so appeared in our eyes, which none could put
in practice with greater probability of success than his
Grace. When people are led to suppose that the Duke
is wide awake, and sees a serious blow aimed at some
vital principle in our constitution, how natural is it
that they should abandon themselves to a feeling of
confidence and security; how natural that they should
exult in the imagination that the threatened attack had
been discerned by his eagle eye, and that they should
give themselves up to the enjoyment of that satisfac-
tion which the idea of having so vigilant a sentinel

and so powerful a defender at the post of danger `vas
calculated to inspire. It might appear at a first glance
that this sort of alarm-cry would tend to excite rather
than to calm, to awaken rather than allay apprehen-
sion ; but under his Grace's refined and judicious ma-
nagement a contrary result takes place. The feint is
applied by his skilful hand with such unequalled tact
that nobody entertains the slightest suspicion of what
is to follow. His Grace, perhaps, does not breathe the
secret of his deceptive missive even to himself. Ile
has said, we may remember, that " if the hairs of his
head knew what was passing inside he would cut them
off." Meanwhile the missive does its work, and no-
body dreams of interfering with a business which it is
supposed the Duke has taken in hands. The day of
trial at length arrives, and-the blow is struck,
' quietly, effectively, and without opposition. And then
what have the people to do but muse upon the melan-
choly result.

We cannot collect from the debate that the incorpo-
ration of the St. Sulpicians, and the confirming to
them the disputed seigniory, out of which it is calcu-
lated they will net some thirty thousand pounds a-year,
will be less a blow at the principles of the reformation,
when inflicted, than it appeared to be while yet only
impending. Popery now obtains a degree of recogni-
tion and establishment in Canada, such as it had not
arrived at before ; and along with this consolidation,
it acquires great possessions with an improved title,
which we fear will give it a new power that will he
felt not only through the entire of our Canadian terri-
tories, but beyond them. Well might the Duke of
Wellington say that this was " a severe blow at the
principle of the reformation"—lamentable under any
circumstances, but particularly so now as coming from
the Sovereign authority, aided, we must add, by that
dignified and (as it should be) independent branch of
the legislature, in which all the loyal and respectable
portion of the population has been accustomed to re-
pose its confidence.
Thus it is that the bravery of the Canadian loyalists
and Protestants in both provinces is rewarded ; and
such is the answer returned to their prayers and re-
monstrances touching this superstitious brotherhood
of St. Sulpice. Rebels are richly remunerated ; loy-
alists are treated with rejection and contempt. The
most ample provision is made for the dissemination of
a false religion, wholly incompatible with an undivided
allegiance to a Protestant Sovereign ; but the national
church, scarcely indulged with toleration, is left to
starve. But this, after all, is not the first blow at the
principles of the reformation; it is only the second.
The first was inflicted some twelve years ago; this is

its legitimate fruit.
In the course of the debate on Monday, it was ar-
gued that, from the neglects or compromises of former
administrations, the right of the Crown to the seigni-
ories now about to be assigned. away irrevocably had
become involved in doubt; and on this doubt, coupled
with certain inuendoes as to what might happen if the
Canadian Papists were to be irritated by a refusal of
their demands, the plea for concession was raised.
Doubt and fear—two bad advisers, especially when
conspiring in their counsels—are the main ingredients
of its actuating motivr. : doubt as to the law, and fear
as to the consequences of non-compliance. But doubt,
under existing circumstances, is certain triumph to
the adversary ; for, in such case, ascendant Popery
steps in, and the scale of Protestantism immediately
kicks the beam. But when and where is this wretched
system to end ? As a system of policy, by the way, it
is absurd, nay suicidal. In strengthening Popery in
Canada, we do but strengthen that disease from which
all the troubles in the province flow. By very large
concessions we purchase dearly a very little temporary
peace, and confirm and establish the power of the ad-
versary immensely. Popery will never be won over
to our side by any concessions. It will bear no rival
near its throne, and be satisfied with nothing short of

absolute command. It is time we should know this.
and act as if we did.

The boy Jones, though the son of a tailor who
works on a bulkhead, and though at this present mo-
ment immured himself in Tothill-fields House of Cor-
rection, as a vagabond whose wanderings have ceased
for the present, he is probably climbing that ever-
beginning, never-ending steep, the tread-mill—is yet,
in our estimation, a youth of noble aspirations. We
should like to examine his phrenological developments.
Our pen upon it, there is something that gives token
of a lofty, soaring spirit in his bumposities. In his
present forlorn state he is, poor fellow, but an abject,
despised thing. The world estimates merit by its for-
tune. External accidents and mere trappings settle
everything in their opinion; and few there are that
can see any genius in the man whose ill luck clothes
him in rags, or sends him to Tothill-fields House of
Correction. Yet, gentle reader, do accompany us for
a moment to the prison of poor Edward Jones. Let
us consider him there, not as a cruel fate has for the
moment disposed of him, but as his own bright ima-
gination would have him be. What is his crime ?
Ambition—ambition, not for the glories of the tented
heath—not " to follow to the field some warlike lord ;"
not to command upon the seas, and shine hereafter a
new star in the galaxy of British naval heroes. No;
letters and the court have been his first love, and he
remains true to the passion. In vain do they ask him
to enlist, or embark, " a shiphoy, on the high and
giddy mast ;" he cannot, will not, break his plighted
faith. He has vowed to become either a Melbourne or
a Normanby—a palace premier or an author, or both ;
and who can blame him for so noble a denouement of
his powers ? We are sure her Maj9sty will not. His
error consists in the rather abrupt method that he has
taken 'to attain the gratification of his wishes. Of a
disposition too impetuous to await the ordinary pace of
events, he strikes off at once into the royal road, and
would become a premier by climbing the palace walls,
or forcing himself through a palace window, or down
a palace chimney; and then, having entered—instead
of paying a nice regard to the solemnity and sacred-
ness of the place, and to the etiquette and ceremony
inseparable from its halls and banquets, as a royal
guest should do, and as Lord Melbourne, no doubt,
does—the bulkhead tailor's son proceeds immediately,
and sans ceremonie, to profit by his advancement.
" He was taken," says the report, " in the hall, but it
was discovered that he had previously visited her Ma-
jesty's larder, as at the time he was disturbed he was
feasting himself with cold meat and potatoes, which he
had conveyed up stairs in a handkerchief." Here
lay the error. The love of the palace kitchen
is, if we may judge by the example of great
men, in itself laudable ; and no wonder that a
poor tailor's son, with a passion for reading, and
reading, as he frequently must have done, of the
sumptuous faring, every day, of the great men alluded
to within the royal residence—should have become
smitten with a desire to partake of the same bounty,
and share in the good things of the palace cupboard.
But, as we have said, to take up the cold meat and
potatoes in a handkerchief, and to munch them behind
a glass door—that shews an ignorance of the ways of
courts, and the uptutored simplicity of the tailor's son.

But he had another, and we may say more cable,

ambition also, " Somebody had told him," he says,
" that if he got into the palace, and could hear the
men and women talk, he might write a book and make
his fortune." Ilere we have the " pursuit of know-
ledge under difficulties," and the love of literary dis-
tinction. And here once more let us ask, who will say
that the tailor's son had not a " soul above buttons" ?
Vet the limbs of this poor boy arc now perhaps endu-
ring indescribable fatigue, treading on the mill, merely
in consequence of his yielding to a noble inclination—
an ardent love of fame and authorship, which our
schoolmaster has many a time flogged us fur not feel-
ing at all, or for failing to exhibit with an adequate
degree of intensity. It strikes us that the impulse of
genius was upon this poor lad, and that he must really
be gifted with powers to distinguish himself in that
elevated sphere for which he evinces so palpable a
penchant. The Herald has given the following speci-
men of his powers of observation, and, considering the
difficulties our young author laboured under, we think
it affords evidence that in due time he will, if his ca-
reer be not cut short by some untoward accident, be-
come eminent as an historian, and publish perhaps a
" Book of the Boudoir," compared with which Lady
Morgan's will be considered insignificance itself:—

" He says he was in a room where there was a coronet,
and many jewels, which he handled ; that he sat upon the
throne in the throne-room, and read books in the library,
which books he can name, and point out the places where
they are placed on the shelves. He says, also, that in one
of the rooms two men came in one morning to light the fire;
that the one began to whistle, and the other said, Jack,
you know that is against the rules ;' to which he replied,
There are many more rules than that broken in this

As we have taken a lively interest in all that con-
cerns this extraordinary youth, we shall attend with
much anxiety to the sequel of his history, and not fail
to report to our readers whatever we may be able to
collect of an important and authentic character.

PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIANIENT.

(From our London Correspondent.)

The proceedings of the House of Lords on Monday night
were of a character, in every point of view, most deeply to
be regretted. A great and influential portion of the public
had looked forward to the result of the motion, to be brought
forward by the Bishop of Exeter, as one which was to revive
the drooping spirits of Protestantism throughout the empire,
by affording evidence of a return, on the part•of the heredi-
tary branch of the legislature, to the ancient principles of the
constitution. The sentiments expressed in a former debate
upon the same subject, by that illustrious man to whom,
under Providence, his country is already so deeply indebted
—need I mention the name of the Duke of Wellington as
that of the statesman to whom I refer ?—had filled the hearts
of thousands of his confiding fellow-countrymen with the clad
thought that he, at least, would not stand tamely by, and see
the Protestantism of any portion of the empire surrendered
by a base and dishonest faction, as the purchase-money of
those venal majorities by which the Church of Rome sustains
' them in office, to work cut her own projects against the li-
berties of Great Britain and of mankind. Those hopes—
those glad thoughts—no longer exist. The friends of Pro-
testantism—the friends of the entireness of the empire itself
—are now left to rely solely upon their own unaided strength
—upon their own resolute exertions—to protect their coun-
try from inevitable decay and ultimate dismemberment, and
to preserve to their children, untarnished and inviolate, the
faith which has been handed down to them by their fathers.

The speech of the Bishop of Exeter in favour of the moticn

afforded a presage of the result which was to attend it. " I
was encouraged," observed the rev. prelate, " in the course
which I have found it my duty to pursue with respect to this
ordinance, by the sentiments expressed by the noble duke,
that he regarded it as the first direct violation of the great
principles of the reformation—sentiments which have already
been echoed with pride and satisfaction by Protestant com-
munities in every corner of the empire ;—and I should in
vain attempt to describe the feelings of bitter humiliation
with which I learn that I am not to-night to be favoured

by his grace's support to this motion." This feeling, which

there are few indeed who would not have experienced in si-
milar circumstances, affected the tone of the rev. prelate's
speech throughout ; and from the circumstance that not one
of those noble lords, who have on other occasions been found
supporting in the house the integrity of the Protestant faith
of the kingdom, came forward on this occasion to his assist-
ance, we can only conclude that the unaccountable conver-
sion of the noble duke to the advocacy of ministerial policy
with respect to the ordinance iu question, had made upon

them the same impression. The country, however, will have
an opportunity of observing that, isolated as he was, and un-
supported by his party, the rev. bishop succeeded fully in
proving the incompatibility of the greet .of St. Sul ice with
the principles of the constitution, with the termii?itle-rreall-
hy which Canada became a possession of the British crown,
and with the act of union of last session ; whilst its support-
ers were satisfied to rest their case upon the assertion that
the present concession is justified by former concessions—
that a new abuse is justified by the " precedent" of an old

I will not enter into an examination of the arguments by
which the Duke of Wellington attempted to vindicate the
course which he had determined to pursue upon this ques-
tion. It is painful to see such a man blight the hopes of his
fellow-countrymen, as the noble duke has done on this occa-
sion ; but there is one consolation—if indeed it can be called
such—in the reflection that it is not by the prompting of his
own noble spirit, or by the exercise of his own strong powers
of judgment, that he has ever been led to do so. When
these qualities of his grace's mind are called into action by
any sudden emergency, his conduct and his sentiments are
all that his most ardent friends could desire ; but when the
impulse is allowed to cool, and the unseen influence (of which
we cannot but suspect the existence) is allowed to creep in,
to poison the springs of action—to draw aside with the
whispers of expediency that noble heart which never swerved
from its Purpose by any coercion—it is then that we are
called upon almost to regret the existence of that influence
upon the minds of his fellow-countrymen, with which grati-
tude and admiration of his virtues have invested him. It is
then, too, that we are led to make the serious inquiry—
" From whose lips are breathed those fatal lessons which
have so darkly blotted the record of the political life of one
whose career of arms presents only bright pages of unsullied
and continuous glory ? " But I will not pursue the ques-
tion. There is one illustrious individual who has been said
to exercise a great influence over the mind of the duke ; but
surely—surely that individual has of late seen sufficient, of
what was on Monday evening termed " carrying out the
measure of emancipation," to induce him to withhold his
approbation from this particular portion of the " carrying
out" in question.

The flippant oration of her Majesty's Secretary of State
for the House Department, Lord Normanby, will, I am
convinced, be read with unmingled disgust by every man of
taste in her dominions. That it was a reply to the rev.
bishop it would be a mockery to suppose for a moment—as
great a mockery, in fact, as to place the frizzle-gated author
of " Yes and No," and " Matilda, a Tale of the Day," in
competition, as to any one quality which enters into the
composition of a statesman, with the illustrious men who
have dignified that office in the better days of the constitu-
tion. The real and the only reply to the rev. bishop was the
exhibition of the Duke of Wellington in contented thrall by
the side of the ministry ; and relying upon the helpless sub-
serviency to which his grace had been brought, his lordship
thought proper to inflict upon the house the frippery of his
wit, and even, like the ass in the fable, to throw up his heels
in insult to the memory of one of the best monarchs who
ever held the throne of Great Britain—the revered grand-
father of her present Majesty. Would that his descendant
possessed one tithe of that acute perception of the character
and capabilities of men and ministers, which distinguished
her illustrious predecessor ! Were such the case, a grea
country like this would surely not be insulted by seeing any
portion of her interests committed to the charge of an inca
pable and insolent compound of pomatum and false hai
whom Nature never designed for any nobler duty than th
of supplying the kitchen-maids of our nobility with nauseous
and tawdry novels, or of occupying any more dignified posi-
tion than a shelf in the window of a fashionable perruquier..
The House of Commons on Monday was occupied by a
motion brought forward by Mr. Hutt, the member for Hull,
with respect to the Sound duties, now levied by the govern-
ment of Denmark upon British tonnage passing through the
Baltic. The honourable member laid before the house, with
considerable clearness, the various treaties relating to the
duties and question; and shewed that the rates now levied
upon many articles of merchandize exceed the rates stipu-
lated in the last of those treaties, in some instances as much
as from 1,500 to 2,200 per cent., and operate as a very seri-
ous check upon our commerce with the North of Europe.
The statements of Mr. Hutt and the effect upon British
interests in the Baltic were admitted by Lord Palmerston,
who nevertheless was anxious that the House of Commons
should not express any opinion upon the motion, as " the at-
tention of government had already been drawn to the subject,
and negotiations were in progress with ,the government of
Denmark"—as happens to be the case with most subjects
connected with our foreign relations which are brought be-
fore parliament. The house manifested some little disincli-
nation to accede to the wishes of the noble lord ; but ulti-
mately the motion was withdrawn, upon the understanding
that unless the negotiations in question were brought to a
conclusion within a reasonable time, the subject should be
brought forward again before the close of the present session.
I may remark, that the attendance of members—as is the
case in the Reformed (?) House of Commons whenever any
" merely commercial" question is to be decided—was thin
enough to have been counted at any moment.
In the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, Mr. W. Stan-
ley—an assistant poor-law commissioner for Ireland—was
brought to the bar to answer a charge of having falsified a
return, made to that house with respect to the election of an