The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-08-17

Delnedre. e.-1'he Hon. Lewis M'Lane has
been nominated Tor the office of Senator in
the goth Congress: election in October.
Mr.. Wright, of Ohio, and Mr.. Miner, Of
Pennsylvania, members Of Congress, are
both printers.
Acknowledgements from Ireland
arc pouring into this country in great num-
bers: 300 arrived at Baltimore on the 5th
and 9TH inst. and large numbers have re-
Gently arrived at y. York and Philadelphia.
Canal I0lIs.--From an estimate recently
made, IL is supposed that the aggregate OF
| tolls on the Northern and Western Canals
for the present year win not fall short of
the sum anticipated by the canal commis-
sioner, viz: sersl hundred and fly thou
sand dollars.
Mrs. Adams, lady of President Adams,
accompanied by party of friends, arrived
at Albany on Tuesday morning in the safe
ty barge Lady Clinton, from New-iork.
Mnnmoih CucumJer.---A cucumber, six
feet long, is gro,ciHg in a gentieman'S gar
den in Charlottesville, Va.
CLAssIcaL LEARNING. II is strange
that any good classical scholar should ever
depreciate, or express doubts of the lmpor-
tance of cultivating knowledge of ancient
languages and writeIs.-To those who DO
not allow themselves duly tn consider the
incalculable benefits derived to the moderns
froina study Of Latin and Greek, in main
tanning the high character oil general lite
nature, Is not matter of surprise /; and yet
il is hardly proper for such to undertake to
decide the question. But 1t may well be
doubted, whether any men Of great attain
ments in classical learning do undervaue
it. We shall not contend, that they con-
slider it essential to the responsibility and
usefulness of every man in society. One
may be useful, in some degree eminent, as
a statesman and practical philosopher with
out studying Greek and Latin. But this
concession initiates not all with the opin-
ion of those who insist, that highly impor-
tant benefits to the cause Of general litera-
ture result from a knowledge of the ancient
languages, in which those master spirits
gave their views and opinions to the world
two thousand years ago, and which, seized
and naturalized by the generations ofmen
Tor two or three centuries past, have been
the occasion Of the advancement Of the
moderns IN all that enlghtens, elevates and
polshes the human intellect. Ii is not our
purpose 10 enter into the merits ofthe quos
ton. For we do not consider this the
place for such discussion, though the sub
ject has been occasionally agitated in news
papers and other periodical publications.
And we cannot but inquire Of any inteli.
gent and learned individual, what would
have been the present condition of the
world, as to philosophy, or history, ecclesi
astlcal or common, or It's condition for the
last 200 years, as to such knowledge, had
not the writings and the languages Of an
cient times been sedulously cultiyatedby
portion of each geheration? Suppose the
study of Greek and Latin had been wholly
neglected by the moGefns for the last 20G
years, what would have been the literary
character Of the present age and Of several
ages past? Without this study and this
knowledge, we should know nothing of ear
ly ecclesiastical history, and should have
been in darkness, superstition and skepti
cism: We should have been strangers to
the sentiments, improvements and phloso-
ply of fancient Greece and Rome ;and bar
barlsm and ignorance would have marked
the character of our age, now enlightened
intellectual and glorious.
Boston Commercial G9z.