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law there can be no inhumanity in the case, though, the service; but all the officers he had consulted on the sub-
if Mr Macaulay saw half the same suffering pro-ject distinctly stated that such a proceeding could only be
duced by the exercise of the powers of civil law, he hear.) Such notice, however, had been taken of this pro-
justified under circumstances of extreme exigency. (Hear,
would probably view the prosecutor with abhor-ceeding, and such further notice would be taken, as to render
it impossible that a recurrence of it could take place,"
But the humane Lord Cardigan for humane The Chronicle, upon this, is so ill-bred as to
henceforth he shall be dubbed on the authority of doubt whether precedents would have been so
Mr Macaulay-the humane Lord Cardigan, though readily pleaded if the Colonel had not been a
he does not much mind ruining officers, or shooting wealthy Earl. Certain it is, that the precedents
them honourably in duels, is not addicted to flog-pleaded have not been specified, and the Chronicle
ging his men, if we are to believe Mr Macaulay.
roundly asserts that they do not exist, and that
"Whatever other imputations there might be cast on Mr Macaulay's assertion is all fudge.
Lord Cardigan, a disposition for the infliction of corporal
punishment was not one which could justly be thrown on
him. From inquiries which he had made, he had found that
since 1839, up to the recent case, there was not an instance
of the infliction of corporal punishment in this regiment.
(Hear, hear.)

only mentioned precedents to show that there were
no precedents. Upon this the Chronicle shrewdly
remarks-
"Why allude to precedents, when there were no pre-
cedents? The flogging on a Sunday, in a case of extreme
exigency, is not a precedent for flogging without necessity
on a Sunday. The word precedent ought not to have been
introduced; and its introduction was only calculated to lead
to misconception."

Mr Macaulay's candour was quite as much brought in question by his statement as to the punishments in the Eleventh, as by the plea of precedents for the Sunday punishment, but he has kept silence as to the former point. We are sincerely sorry to see him so damaging himself.

The following order has been issued by the Commander-in-Chief, on the subject of the punishIment on the Sabbath:

"Horse Guards, 22d April, 1841.-The attention of the General Commanding-in-Chief has been called to the punishment of a soldier of the 11th Hussars, in the Riding house, at Hounslow, on Sunday, the 11th of April. It is well the penal sentences of the law into execution on the Lord's known that it is not the practice of this country to carry Day; neither is it the practice of the army, whether employed abroad or at home. The General Commanding-in Chief, is, therefore, surprised that an officer, in the situa tion of Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a regiment, should have carried such a sentence into execution on Sunday. The General Commanding-in-Chief desires that it may be clearly understood that the sentences of Military Courts are not to be carried into execution on the Lord's Day, excepting in cases of evident necessity, the nature of which it cannot be requisite for him to define. By command of the Right Hon. the General Commanding-in-Chief,

"We have made inquiries in the proper quarter, and are positively assured that such a thing as flogging on a Sunday is utterly unknown in England-nay, that even in the colonies it is unheard of. We subjoin a letter on the subject from an officer who has commanded two regiments, in which Mr Now had we not reason for observing that it was outrage in the United Kingdom or the Colonies:Macaulay is challenged to produce a single case of such an well for Lord Cardigan that he flogged a man on "Sir,-It appears to me most essential that the public Sunday, for if he had not flogged a man on Sunday should be disabused with regard to punishment in the army this tribute to his humanity would not have been being inflicted on a Sunday. I challenge Mr Macaulay, or paid by one of the most eloquent men of our time? any other person, civil or military, to produce a case of such But for the flogging of the man on Sunday the oc-hope you, on behalf of the public, will not let the matter rest outrage in the United Kingdom, or in the Colonies; and I casion would have been wanting for the praise of until the case is produced. It is possible that in the field or Lord Cardigan on the score of the infrequency of active service such an occurrence has taken place; but that his punishments. is a very different affair.Your obedient servant, "AN OLD OFFICER, But here, we are sorry to say, that we find in Mr Macaulay's statement one of those instances of a "Forty years in the army, having commanded two regiments."" want of argumentative honesty of which we have "We cannot quit the subject without observing that it before complained. He states that, from inquiries gives us pain to see a man like Mr Macaulay compromising he has made, he learns that the punishment in ques. his own title to public regard by his mode of defending Lord tion is the only one inflicted since 1839. Why did Cardigan. When Lord Cardigan was the subject of a dishe not carry his inquiries a little farther back? Iscussion in the House before the recess, the right honourable gentleman positively misrepresented the nature of the comMr Macaulay unaware that there was a time when munication from the Commander-in-Chief, when he contrathe punishments in the 11th were so frequent and dicted Mr Warburton, whose account of it was strictly harsh as to have called forth the animadversion of correct. Mr Macaulay said he believed that the commuthe Inspecting General, Sir C. d'Albiac? nication of Lord Hill was a general admonition to the regiment, to the effect that the dissensions between the commanding officer and some of the officers had a tendency to render the corps inefficient, whereas the commanding officer distinctly stated that the 11th Hussars is not in the state in which a regiment ought to be, in order to afford 60 ground for confidence, that it would in quarters or in the 45 field, at home or abroad, render the efficient service which might be expected' from such a body. It cannot surely be - 105 necessary for the right honourable gentleman, in the disOf this number four were pardoned. charge of his official duty, to play the advocate for Lord "The punishments by Lord Cardigan's own authority on Cardigan, though, even as an advocate, he has indulged in a the defaulters' list were:more than allowable looseness of statement. The whole 430 style, too, of his answer to Mr Hume on Tuesday night-ceived by express, state that Reschid Pacha has been dis-318 his laboured tribute to Lord Cardigan's humanity, and his questionable endeavour to shelter his lordship's indecency under precedent, in order to weaken the feeling which his outrageous conduct was calculated to excite-was altogether unworthy of Mr Macaulay."

The Morning Chronicle states

"The strength of the corps under his Lordship's command is about 335, rank and file.

The number of courts-martial from June, 1838, to
June, 1839, was about

June, 1839, to May, 1840, about

In the first year, about

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- 748 "During the time the regiment was in Canterbury there were about 90 men confined in the gaol. "In regard to the defaulters amounting to about 748, it is understood Lord Cardigan received instructions from headquarters to diminish the severity of his punishments. And as to the courts-martial, the inspector-general of cavalry, Sir C. d'Albiac, recorded his opinion, that Lord Cardigan's command had been characterised by unnecessary harshness.""

There are exigencies, undoubtedly, which might render necessary the infliction of punishment on the Sabbath, such as misconduct in the face of the enemy, and it is possible that Lord Cardigan may put himself in the category of the enemy.

So that, if the humanity of Lord Cardigan is to Much as we admire Mr Macaulay's talents, we be deemed beyond all question, because he has only confess that we think he is outshone by the Naval flogged one man since 1839, what was his huma-and Military Gazette in the defence of Lord Carnity when punishments were inflicted every week? But, as the Chronicle remarks

"It is not to Lord Cardigan's humanity, but to the orders of the Horse Guards consequent on his lordship's severity, that the diminution of punishment is to be attributed since the regiment left Canterbury."

The fact seems to be, that since 1839 the men, in the military phrase, had the benefit of a diversion, the noble Colonel having taken to paining the feelings of his officers instead of the backs of the troopers.

digan, for the latter gives its readers to understand
that Lord Cardigan flogged the man on Sunday
purely out of kindness to him, the culprit having
been in prison for eleven days, and his noble Colo-
nel having been eager to give him his liberty, with
his whipping, without more loss of time. We are
to suppose that the man was all impatience to be
flogged, and that the kind Colonel sympathized
with his longings.

(Signed) "JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General."> This is a grave rebuke, and people ask whether Lord Cardigan can stomach it, and remain in his command. Our belief is, that he will be found as callous in bearing as in inflicting ignominy.

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

The Chronicle thus announces a change of Ministry at Constantinople

"The long-menaced ministerial revolution has taken place at Constantinople; at least so states the Austrian Observer of the 10th, the official Vienna journal. Its account is as follows:-Advices from Constantinople of the 29th ult., re

missed from his post as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and replaced by Rifaat Bey, formerly Ambassador from the Porte at the Court of Vienna, who has been also made a Pacha. The Minister of Commerce, Fethi Achmet Pacha, has been replaced by the Capitan Pacha, Said Pacha, who is brotherin-law to the Sultan; and Tahir Pacha has been appointed Capitan Pacha in his stead."-The old school is thus again both removed for incompetence by the late Sultan. The restored to office in the persons of old Tahir and young Said, placing young Said, a swaggering boy, into the post of Com merce Minister, does certainly not promise well for perseverance in the reform of that department. But the new

Ministry, however retrograde its members seem to be in internal policy, are more inclined than Reschid to grant terms, and come to a conclusion with Mehemet. The recom mendation of the conference of London to the Porte to modify the hatti scheriff,' may have been wise; but it has had the untoward result of upsetting in Constantinople that Minister and that party most attached to the liberal ideas of

the west."

It is evident, then, that the writer in the Chronicle would have preferred the continuance of Reschid Pacha's administration to the arrangement of matters with Mehemet Ali, or that he would rather have seen Mehemet deposed than Reschid removed from power.

The foregoing remarks were written and in type As for the case of the Sunday punishment, Mr before the appearance of Mr Macaulay's denial of interested in commerce will certainly not concur. This is a choice in which that part of the public Macaulay lays great stress on the correction of the statement attributed to him by the Parlia-The very day after the Chronicle had deplored the some very immaterial circumstances in the pub-mentary Reporters, that Lord Cardigan's conduct, lished statements. For example, he said that the in inflicting punishment on the Sabbath, was not flogging was not a continuance of the Divine ser- unprecedented.

Liverpool :

fall of Mehemet's enemy, and questioned the wisdom of the London Conference in having recommended a modification of the Hatti Scheriff, inasvice, as if any one could have imagined that it Mr Hawes having given notice of his intention to move much as that recommendation had produced the could have been so! Mr Macaulay might as well for a return on the subject of Sunday floggings, took the untoward event of overthrowing Reschid Pacha have said that it was not introduced at the end of opportunity of asking the Secretary of War a question:-"It the Litany. But to show how clear the punish-seemed, that there had been a precedent for corporal punish-in the same journal this remarkable correspondence he said, "from what fell from that right hon. gen- the very day after this lamentation, there appeared ment was kept of the service, he states that the re-ments being inflicted upon Sundays. He wished to know between the Pacha of Egypt and the Merchants of giment was marched out of the place of prayer, and whether there was any precedent for corporal punishment inspected for a whole half hour before it was on Sunday, until the case occurred on Easter Sunday, in the marched in again for the punishment parade. Eleventh Hussars, under the command of the Earl of CardiThere was then the wadding, as it were, of thirty gan." good minutes between prayer and punishment; that he had stated that there was a precedent for the conIn answer Mr Macaulay said: "It had been imagined but still the punishment was on the Sabbath, and duct followed by Lord Cardigan, which was most improper this the Member for Edinburgh cannot justify, and and culpable. What he had stated was this, that having he accordingly admitsinquired from officers of great knowledge and long experi"Such a proceeding was clearly contrary to the religious ence in the service, he had learned from them that there feelings and habits of the people of this country (loud cries was a precedent for punishments being inflicted on the of Hear, hear), and could not be reconciled with either Sunday; but that was not a precedent that bore out the conduct of Lord Cardigan; because they stated that such good sense or good feeling." punishment never was justified except in cases of military This is not the first time that words of the same exigency, and where they had no choice. His statement tenor have been applied to the proceedings of the was this. He had distinctly stated that the punishment in humane Lord Cardigan. He has once been for-the particular case alluded to was one which, without the slightest inconvenience, could have been postponed, and

"TO HIS HIGHNESS THE PACHA OF EGYPT. "We, the undersigned merchants, bankers, and other inhighness our admiration and grateful thanks for the unifords habitants of the town of Liverpool, beg to convey to your protection and kindness manifested by your highness towards our countrymen for many years past when travelling through or sojourning in the extensive countries under your rule, and which protection has not been less efficacious than universal. These sentiments have been still further enhanced by your highness's conduct on a recent occasion, when, with that consideration for the welfare of the mercantile interest and the benefit of travellers, and with a magnanimity worthy of the most enlightened policy, your highness was pleased to allow the free transit of mails and passengers through your country under circumstances which generally dissever the ties binding mankind together in friendly intercourse,

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justly deserving in our estimation the thanks of the whole
fertile dominion committed to your charge in prosperity and
civilised world. That you may long continue to govern the
peace, devoting to its improvement all the energies of your
enlightened mind; and that you may enjoy advanced age in
health, honour, and happiness is our sincere wish.
"Liverpool, Feb. 26, 1841."

"Gentlemen,-His Highness the Viceroy has ordered the chants, and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, that undersigned to communicate to the mayor, bankers, mer their address has reached him. The sentiments expressed in that address are highly gratifying to his highness, who

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accepts the good wishes thus conveyed to him, and will
always exert himself for their realisation. Mercantile in-
rests and travellers in the countries under the rule of his
highness will always enjoy that effectual protection which
is the type of civilisation in all nations-and in strictly ad-
hering to his system of civilisation even in periods of the
greatest difficulty, when his intentions were unknown, his
highness has been faithful to his principles, and has given
to his officers and to the people under his government a
lesson that will bind them always in more friendly ties to the
enlightened people of other nations, for their mutual welfare.
Amidst the regrets which his highness sometimes experi-
ences at being unable to realise all the good he meditates,
Providence grants him occasionally some consolation, which
comes as a soothing balm, and of this nature is the address
of the mayor, bankers, merchants, and other inhabitants of
the town of Liverpool. The undersigned is charged to
express the great satisfaction that it has given to his highness,
and to convey them his thanks. The undersigned has the
honour to subscribe himself, gentlemen, your most obedient
and most humble servant,
(Signed) "BOGHOS YOUSSOUFF."

that moment Reschid's fall became inevitable. His prin- During his administration Reschid, with his re-
ciples not prevailing, he must have resigned and left to forms and open dealing, has always successfully
others the responsibility of the re-establishment of the combated and checked these attempts at insurrec-
power of Mehemet.”
tion. The old Turks will probably not be so suc-
cessful. It is comical to find that the result of one
year's interference in behalf of the Turks is to de-
throne our friends at Constantinople, and to leave
ourselves without influence.

Here is another indication of the regret of the writer in the Chronicle that Mehemet Ali was not the sacrifice rather than Reschid Pacha.

CONTINENTAL POLITICS.
(From our own Correspondent.)

influence.

THE LITERARY EXAMINER.

Glory to the town!

"Cox

MINISTERIAL CHANGE IN TURKEY. The Election: a Poem, in seven books. Murray. The revolutions in the Turkish Divan and goSince Crabbe, we have had nothing at all equal vernment are very different from what they used to be. They are no longer sanguinary, no longer to this short poem, in any similar style or province marked by violence or vengeance. But the Turks of poetry. And it is thoroughly original. When complain that they are no longer of much use, and we name the Hogarth of his art, it is to claim for The Chronicle bewails the downfal of Reschid occur without bringing any access of vigour to the his successor like qualities of sarcasm and rePacha's party because of its attachment to the government. In the old times of Turkey the kind flection, like knowledge of the heart, and masculine of men who rose to eminence were the active, the powers of observation and expression, not inliberal ideas of the West-that is to say, as we suppose, because they sit on chairs, drink cham-bold, the soldier of fortune and address. The ferior to those of that great writer. In other repagne, and curse Mehemet Ali; but can the Chro-army was the only path to rank, and he who trod spects differences are to be marked, which mark nicle instance any example of their liberal ideas it, forced his way by the sabre and the bow-string, original minds. The election opens in the little town of Alebowhich will bear comparison with the conduct which dealt to friends as well as foes. Craft and cruelty were necessarily the qualities of those who attained rough-a too close resemblance to Aldborough the merchants of Liverpool have so handsomely acknowledged on the part of Mehemet Ali? Who Power, but at least they had vigour, and were men fit should perhaps have been avoided-on the eve in England, except the writer in the Chronicle, to lead Turks. The civilian class has now, however, of the announcement of the death of its sitting cares a straw for the overthrow of Reschid Pacha; superseded the military. The eminent are those who member. The patriot Cox has dined and died in have made their way in diplomacy and office. Turkey his country's service, under the influence of Manbut how many feel that the government of Mehemet Ali, with all its faults, has been attended with cannot boast an officer, much less a general. The sion House turtle; and the London coach is on its consequence of the civilian and diplomatic school way to the borough, full of the afflicting event. great advantages to the interests of this country, dominating is, that through them, European courts The quiet aspect of the little town, unconscious of and, as the Liverpool merchants say, that the and envoys have dominated. France has been all-immediate or impending excitement, and yet full of Pacha's enlightened magnanimity in allowing, nay powerful at one time, Russia at another, England all needful materials to keep it up and carry it on, inviting, the free transit of the mail and travellers of late, and now, it is evident, that Austria has is given with the faithful art of a Dutch painter. through the country, under circumstances gene- taken the reins. We lounge in a pleasant sunset, at the Lion rally dissevering the ties that bind mankind, merits Austria's conduct throughout the negotiations with one group, or against the Bear with anthe thanks of the whole civilized world? It is a pregnant sign of the fault in the Eastern of Prince Metternich in knotted affairs of this kind the distant hum of the coach; we follow excitedly of the last year has been very curious. The policy other; we are moved into undefinable interest by policy, that the man who has for months past been is always to hold back at first, to join in negotia- on the sound with both sets of idlers, and open our the object of the most virulent abuse of the papers tion only so far as not to be shut out from them, ears with theirs to the portentous news. under the influence of the Foreign Secretary, but to compromise himself as little as possible. dead—our member!— Horror strikes mankind.” receives the grateful acknowledgments of the mer-Thus in Greece, Austria allowed all the other Mankind soon recovers, with the inspiring thought chants of the second commercial town of the empire. Our commercial interests and our policy she allowed them to take all the pains, and powers to furnish money, or armies, or guarantees; of a new election. have obviously not been connected. For all there's profit, and for some renown. We have not had time to wade through the de- squabble for influence, whilst, in reality, Austria The Lion opes his hungry jaws and springs, spatches relating to the affairs of the Levant, but steps in at the last hour and exercises all the real And the Black Bear seems dancing as he swings. we have read enough to confirm the opinion we With regard to the Egyptian and Turkish quarThere is, in this opening of the poem, all the have so often expressed, that the danger pretended rels, the same story is to be told. Prince Metter-freshness and lailarity of colouring which marks the that Mehemet would invade Asia Minor had no nich held back at first, put forward a hundred original hand. It is a master stroke, that animate existence, that the influence of England and Aus-modes of settling the differences, and would have expectancy of Lion and Bear. Lion is satisfied tria was strong enough to restrain Mehemet from succeeded had not the headlong and underhand first. Within an hour, the Blues are assembled in any act of aggression, that the disturbance of the policy of M. Thiers overreached himself. Towards his parlour, and have unfurled, for the sacred status was the doing of the Porte, which appears the close of the negotiations, when France evi- cause of Church and State, the flag of Mogg. to have been resolved on it, and unable to rest with-dently refused all terms, Prince Metternich wanted And Mogg? Who reads our author has known out it, notwithstanding all the perils of the step, to withdraw, whilst Lord Palmerston was equally studies as a younger brother at Oxford, and his him all his life, from the moment of his early and Lord Palmerston's policy adapted itself to this anxious to carry the Austrian co-operation along entrance at the Inner Temple, to that happy day desire. And, after all, what has been done at so with him. He pressed Metternich to co-operate in of his elder brother's removal from this toilsome much cost and risk? Is the Ottoman Empire in- the coercion on the coast of Syria, if France revigorated as Lord Palmerston proposed? Not a fused all offers. The Prince at length consented, scene, which told the counsellor was then the whit. The Times well remarks on the condition that England would make still squire. Observe him as he is, called forth by the "The danger," says Lord Palmerston (August 1, 1839), further concessions to France, and believing in his emergency: by which the Turkish empire is threatened, is the heart, that England would not make these concesusurped power of Mehemet Ali.' Would that it were so, sions. They were made nevertheless, and France and no more! But to our apprehension the perpetual danger of Russian power from without, and the ineradicable disease rejected them. Metternich was thereby caught, and of failing power within, are far more to be dreaded. The was forced to co-operation. He intended it, howproof is evident, for now that the usurped power of Mehemet ever, to be a very innocent co-operation, a kind of his been wrested from him, and he has ceased to be a danger gentle blockade to keep out arms and ammunition at all, the dangers of the Turkish empire are at least as from Syria. The British Admirals, however, read great, the maintenance of that state as uncertain, the condition of its government as wretched, as they were before. their instructions otherwise, and they hurried the Consequently the chief source of anxiety lay not in that Austrian squadron into the bombardment of Beyelement which we have succeeded in removing, but in that, rout and the attack on Sidon, with a celerity that less distinct in shape but more certain in effect, which at there was no gainsaying. Great, we are told, was present eludes our policy, and, if we are to believe Lord Prince Metternich's amazement, when he heard of Palmerston's words, escapes our notice." his navy having achieved triumphs and being crowned with laurels. Success reconciled the matter to him. But even the success put his highness into "Said Pacha, who has been appointed Minister of Coni- a fright, from which he has not since recovered, prayer, and the remaining half he divides between the study fan and augment, and profit by. merce for the second time, generally passes half the day at and which Louis Philippe has known well how to of astrology and the Koran. What remains he devotes freely to public affairs., His faith in astrology is sc strong, Prince Metternich's impatience to have the that he consults the stars on the most trifling occasion. On Egyptian question settled has of late been great; his installation into office he sacrificed a number of rams, and Reschid Pacha absurdly held out against this which inundated the court-yard of his residence with blood,

Of the new Ministers the Times gives an amusing

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Great at the festive board, but greater still
When quarter sessions owned his legal skill;
At public meetings ne'er did mightier voice
In Aleborough make the very stones rejoice,
Both firm and fluent as the neighbouring pump,
And like its handle seemed his hand to thump.
Rich too was Mogg, and now but forty-seven,
A man for this great crisis raised by Heaven,-
Red, round, and jolly, gentlemanly, free,
In law profound, but yet no pedant he,-
His own fat acres were his favourite book,
And hungry men might dine upon his look.
He wore a yellow waistcoat and blue coat,

And white the neckcloth on his crowing throat.
It is midnight in Lion; Mogg has seen his friends,
and all are elevated by immortal hopes above the
consideration of mortal toils; disappointed Bear,
meanwhile, swings dreary and slow, and the grave
Nestor of the Reds, Mr Samuel Spark, attorney,
fast verges to despair. Spark's features are worth
glance:

His brow was s tamped in hard reflection's mint,
His eyes gained, meaning from an inward squint;
His nose a hool; with rigid menace hung
Above the close-shut grate that barred his tongue,
And short-cut dark and grizzled locks austere
Seemed whispering craft to each large listening ear.

It was Said Pacha who wished to retard the entry of the impatience, wishing to force terms on Mehemet Turkish fleet on its arrival at Constantinople, under pretence that the latter could not accept. Latterly, howthat a feet should never enter port on Friday. In other ever, Reschid had abandoned his resistance, and he respects he is an honest man, and extremely affable-a rare would have consented to modify the Hatti Scheriff, In the crisis of Samuel's agony, a Mr Francis quality in a Turk of the old school. but Lord Ponsonby, flung into despair by the Con-Vane drives into Aleborough, the angel come to "Tahir Pacha, the new admiral, has travelled much inference so flatly disowning him, let drop his arms contest it. Spark lives again, Bear dances again, Europe, and speaks Italian well. Unfortunately his character has not been refined by intercourse with civilized states. and his efforts, and abandoned Reschid Pacha to and next morning shows a sight which tells He put his son to death for having drunk wine.” his fate; and the opposite party, supported by the world of Samuel's sleepless exertions in the Of Rifaat Bey, the successor of Reschid Pacha, Austria, has at length succeeded in overthrowing sacred cause of liberty and the Reds. the Chronicle saysthe Minister, and replacing him and his friends by Gaunt Samuel grin.ned, and through the window showed If the old Turks were A high dead-wall, which faced his own abode, "The minister chosen to succeed Reschid was Rifaat a set of mere old Turks. With bills adorned that told to earth and skies Bey, the envoy who had been sent with the terms of the good soldiers, active, intelligent men, who could Of many a shop's "Tremendous Sacrifice." treaty to Mehemet Ali in the first instance, and who had organize even after the old fashion, one might have not been at Alexandria twenty-four hours before he was Amid these tragic shows, one huge placard some hopes; but what hopes can be entertained of Flamed fiercely Red with black inscription barred, gained over by Mehemet, and had come to an understanding Rifaat, or Halil, or Said, men who have neither the And seemed to shriele aloud with tongues of fire, with him as to the counter-proposition that Mehemet was to make, and of which he, Rifaat, guaranteed the acceptance at vigour of the old school or the advanced ideas of Mankind should vote for Francis Vane, Esquire! Constantinople. Rifaat has flung himself now for protection the new courtiers and scribes, who can merely pil- What was the other excitement to this? Now, and support into the arms of the Austrian internuncio, who, lage for themselves, and give the same useless there is absolutely nothing else in the world but for the sake of peace at any price, which has become Prince drugs to the expiring constitution of Turkey? these two colours, Red and Blue. Bear exults, Lion Metternich's motto, gives his countenance to Rifaat. As far Then the provinces have been promised a milder trembles, Mogg rises to the danger. We proceed as the peace with Egypt is concerned, we have no objections make. When once the conference determined that system of taxation and government, and, if disap-with that great man, by the author's kind permisMehemet will still sion, on his canvass. And here there is not a face Mehismet should, according to M. Thiers, expression, pointed, will of course rebel. remain virtually and completely Sovereign of Egypt, from have power and money to excite insurrection. The meets, not a hand he shakes, not an order he

gives, not a promise he gets, that are not as exquisitely true to election nature, and faithful to its facts, as the scenes that are this instant going on in Nottingham. The spirit never droops an instant; the vein of genial and happy humour never a moment flags; every line is as pointed and forcible as it is literal and natural. And need we add that Mogg, with many facetious touches of compliment and an unlimited talent for orders and promises, is upon the whole brilliantly successful? The single strong rebuff he gets is worthy of notice, for its keenness and completeness of observation:

And now he crossed the street, and sought to gain,
By blameless arts, the voice of Ephraim Chain,
By trade a shoemaker, aged sixty-five,
The queerest, knottiest, thorn-tree soul alive,
With cross-cut face, and slow sagacious eye,
A nose convex, and large-lipped mouth awry,

And thin white hairs, that touched with quiet snow A forehead arched above and square below: But on his nose's utmost point, a wart Bore five long bristles vigorous and swart. His last upon his knees he seemed to spell, And his great head's deep umbrage o'er it fell, While grave he plied his awl, until the four The sunshine darkened, when he worked no more: He bowed and smiled, but leaving not his seat, Looked in himself shut up, a man complete. Sturdy Ephraim will not be gammoned. He proves worthy of the indomitable race he belongs to. And most gratifying is it to us, to find our frequent observation of these excellent sons of Crispin, with their unalterable radicalism and tendency to all other isms, confirmed so satisfactorily.

But now the Nomination Day awaits us. Ten open public houses send through the Blues their moral influence; seven nerve the spirits of the Reds. Imagine the scene on the hustings, listen to the opposing hurrahs; the candidates have been proposed, and Mogg has risen.

"I will affirm with pride in face of all,

I love my country and attend its call:

We often hear some new-discovered spot

Is better than our own, but I think not.

Old England does for me; I never wish

To hear strange words, or eat a foreign dish,
The names taste dirty. But 'tis my belief

That angels would sing hymns to praise Roast Beef."

And then the orator, after a slight interruption from a chimney-sweep, plunges with eloquent boldness into the question of the Corn Laws. We have his oracular accents in our ears.

"There's one point more that must not be forborne, My friends! I'm not at all for Foreign Corn.

Let those who like it go abroad to eat

French rolls; to me a quartern loaf is sweet;

And while my shilling helps the farmer here,

I will not try to fatten thin Mounseer.

It is no doubt a taking cry to bawl

'Cheap Bread!' But what's so dear as none at all? As milliners perhaps the French are good; But I'll not trust them for my daily food." Warming with the theme, Mogg launches into a picture of the dying children of England begging in vain for victuals from the French, which strikes into the assembled crowd an almost universal awe. All Aleborough shuddered at the scene he drew, And e'en Red faces looked a little Blue. Such indeed the effect of appealing eloquence and answering enthusiasm, that it is recorded of Mogg himself, he must have blushed, had he been “less firmly modest."

A difference betwixt the mean and great,
Which Heaven itself forbids to violate.

"I also love the Church that claims our awe
Tow'rds holy Truth by force of Statute Law,
And helps free grace to gain the soul's assent,
And cleanse our sins by Act of Parliament:
A loyal Church, that keeps the rich and poor
Duly apart, nor blends the lord and boor.
"Tis sweet to witness pews nor mean nor scant
For those who pay-free seats for those who can't;
To hear a Priest too polished to be proud,
A gentleman set up to teach the crowd;
Not puffed by rabble votes to Wisdom's chair,
But by superior judgment settled there,
And so discreetly teaching all to chuse
The path their betters fain would have them use.
"Thus in a phrase but seldom heard of late,
My thoughtful friends, I stick to Church and State;
The State, that guards our rights, and lives, and cash,
And scorns all change as impudent and rash;
The Church, that one day out of every seven
Throws wide the turnpike between us and Heaven:
Such help our ancestors to all supply,
Alike to those who live and those who die;
And none who trust in British Laws can miss
Terrestrial freedom and eternal bliss."

though here scarcely so well made out, which will appear in an examination of the under plot of the poem, and the very fine touches it contains. This for the present we reserve.

The Education of the Lower Classes. A Sermon by Henry Parr Hamilton, M.A., F.R.S., Rector of Wath, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Rivingtons.

If the people die for want of knowledge, says Jeremy Taylor, "they who are set over them shall die for want of charity." It is the sacred lesson of charity, before every other, that is contradicted and despised by the Anti-Education Clergyman.

Some few such men as Mr Hamilton in the high places of the Church would do more to bring back wandering Dissent than all the external and compulsory devices in the world. The defections of the Established Church from the truth of her own doctrines have been many and grave; but in nothing has she proved so false to her objects and origin, as in her continual and disgraceful oppoGreat are the shouts when Mogg subsides, sition to the progress of secular education among doubtful the hurrahs when Vane rises. But he is the lower classes of the people. It is a circumyoung, and resolute, and forces foes as well as stance the better worth remembering, since churchfriends to listen. He begins by asking them why men try so hard to make us forget it, that the two all that turmoil should be going on, if there were great eras of the triumph of pure Christianity were no pain in the world and Mogg's utopian picture also those of a wider diffusion of knowledge among were the true one. He tells them that the boast is the poor. The mission of the Saviour first raised false, and the pain sincere. He admits the Fame the lower orders from an almost hopeless state of and Wealth of Britain, but he contrasts them with moral and intellectual degradation; and with a the Heart and Head, greatly in the latter's dis-revival of the more genuine forms of Christianity favour. in the sixteenth century, there sprang up a renewed thirst for mental cultivation. In close proportion to the ignorance of the People have been the abuses of the Church.

"To me it seems among us much is wrong;
The weak too wretched, and too proud the strong.
My voice would grant to all an ampler scope
Of rights and duties, and would teach them hope;
Unreasoned Custom's bonds would fain unbind,
And yield more bread to body and to mind.
It is, no doubt, a land where wealth bestows
Whate'er enjoyment self-indulgence knows,
Where e'en the trader dares to claim by right,
Both much to vaunt, and much that gives delight;
But still the Many, poor, despised, and rude,
Hate those they feed, and who deny them food.
"Tis thus our Roads are still by all confessed
For those who travel smoothest, hardest, best:
I've sometimes wondered, if the broken stones
Had voices, would Macadam hear no groans.

"And yet 'tis clear, that many a heart refined Esteems it graceful luxury to be kind, With ring-decked hand confers the loaf, the book, And feasts on sordid misery's thanking look; Exults to play the unquestioned lordly friend, To give, to patronise, to condescend, And is amused too pleasantly to heed That thus we more degrade the want we feed." In the same thoughtful spirit, the orator pursues this theme of human rights and duties. With the aid of education, he would alter the relations of rich and poor, by infusing into the poor man a spirit of independence, and into the rich a sense of justice and true charity. The means of self-reliance and self-help he would strive to give to all:

To teach the poor that richer men are not
The eternal gods and fiends who shape their lot;
But One, alike the Lord of rich and poor,

Will bless true toil, and make right paths secure. In conclusion, he warns the 'favoured herd' of the dangers that beset their 'bestial stall'; and conWe will quote all that remains of the speech trasts the monstrous power possessed by his counof this true Conservative statesman: it is a master-try, with the nobler aim to which it might be depiece.

"I have never been abroad, because I know

That all the world no land like ours can show;
The bravest men, the prettiest girls on earth,
Adorn the country where I had my birth,
And Nature strove to make this isle a place
Fit for the noblest of the human race.
Nay, though she often since has tried her hand,
She ne'er has matched what here of old she planned;
For simple truth, and sober mother wit,
And modest worth, no country rivals it;
For were it otherwise, 'tis plain that we
Should have superiors: Friends, it cannot be !
At even our old women, when abroad,
The proudest kings on earth are overawed;
And as they find they cannot buy nor steal
This country, you may fancy what they feel.

"I own I'm sorry for that Russian Czar,
Obliged, poor man to live away so far;
And to drive back the wolves and bears again,
He keeps in arms five hundred thousand men.
But always being shut in ice and snows,
He never heard of England, I suppose;
For else he'd fix at Aleborough, like us,
And feel his frozen crown ridiculous.

"I love the Constitution, yet maintrin
'Tis far too mild tow'rds all who dare complain.
These men would eat their grandmother alive,
As if such food could make a Christian thrive;
And she, dear lady! rightly might devour
The traitors first, but they're a dish 'too sour.
Our boast is British Freedom; no one here
Needs learn, work, dress, or cat from slavish fear,
The rich their daily joint in freedom, carve ;
The poorest men in equal freedom starve;
And he who naked in a ditch expiren,
Yet dies with freedom like his freeborn sires.
Be this our pride! and be it ours to guard
The Sacred Rights that fools would fain discard.
I ask, has earth a spot where laws abound
So many, curious, ample, and profound ?
Where lawyers never strain their private wit
To ask what's reason, but proclaim what's writ ?
Where else are all men equal, save that one
Has landa and houses, and another none ?-

attention.

Mindful of these things, Mr Hamilton has here printed a discourse which merits most respectful It is preeminently distinguished by that spirit of charity, of which Jeremy Taylor makes mention. Its information, its exalted fervour, its eloquent style, are its least recommendations. We observe in it the deep' Christian piety, the conscientious obligation and strong moral responsibility, in all that relates to the intellectual condition of the poor, which, in the person of this true minister of religion, alike assert the duties of the Church, and point out her derelictions.

With what eloquent earnestness Mr Hamilton rejects the monstrous doctrine, that by educating the lower orders, we should render them discontented with their station, and unfit them for the discharge of the duties which belong to their humble sphere:

"The Christian_recognises the true motive to education, not in the outward condition or calling of the man, but in his immortal nature. Piety, virtue, and knowledge are precious, whatever rank of life they adorn. The humblest peasant or artisan has a heart to be spiritualized, and an understanding millions. Hence it is our sacred duty to bring up a child in to be enlightened, as well as the monarch who rules over

the nurture and fear of the Lord, and to lead him into the pleasant paths of wisdom, not because his hand may one day guide the plough, or wield the sceptre, but because he is created in the image of God, and is an inheritor of eternal life."

cludes all that is needful. To argue in sober detail This is the right spirit on such a subject. It inthe question, whether the educated or uneducated man will best discharge the duties of his station, voted. whatever that may be, somewhat savours, in our The young and enthusiastic candidate once fairly opinion, of the ridiculous. And its fellow argusilent, the much bewildered crowd breaks forth. ment, as to the advantages religious truth may Fudge, Gammon, He's a parson, are the least vio-gain from secular ignorance, is tainted with a still lent shapes of the explosion. Samuel Spark is suf- graver error. Mr Hamilton has a happy illustrafocated with disappointment and rage, and Mogg tion of the directly opposite capacity of ignorance, lays heavy bets on his own return. He is right. in imbibing religious error. We recommend it to Vane does not even appear at the polling booths, those who would restrict their educational charities and the hovering and uneasy spirit of Ex-member to mere instruction in religion : Cox exults in the glorious succession of Member Mogg.

"Those bold and bad men, who are now striving to under mine the foundations of our social and political fabric, are in And now that this poem, out of that portion of the habit of appealing to Scripture in support of their pestilent it at least to which we have hitherto restricted our they wrest them into a sanction for hostility to the richer doctrines. By audacious perversions of well known texts, extracts, has been suffered to speak for itself classes, for an equal distribution of property, and for the what says the candid reader to it? Has it not the arming of their illegal associations. Their deluded followers, proper flavour? Smacks it not of the right vein? if they were not so profoundly ignorant as to be incapable of Is not there distinctness of hand here, anima- comprehending the import of the plainest passages of Holy tion and firmness of touch? The versification, is it of the word of God, and reject them with indignation and Writ, would at once detect such blasphemous desecrations not full of easy strength; the keen knowledge of horror."

life, the penetrating observation of character, the In the course of the sermon Mr Hamilton demanly sentiment, the generous sarcasm, the just scribes the state of education abroad, and shows and elevated purpose, are they to be disputed? We shall not attempt, without other guide than great protestant states of Europe, where a comthat England is the solitary exception among the the internal evidence, to make any guess at the au- prehensive scheme of education has not yet been thorship of The Election. Its deliberate and care-framed for the people. It may well excite the exful finish, the nature of its views of society, a cer-treme of astonishment and sorrow, that such a tain grave and settled air it carries with it, seem to country should not yet have put forth all its enerforbid the supposition of its being the work of a gies to rescue the great mass of its population from very young man. We may be certain, however, the degrading ignorance in which it is sunk, and that it is not the work of an old one. He could the effects of which are so justly and forcibly pournot, with such fine powers, have very long forborne, trayed in the publication before us: or failed to discover, their use. In any case, we are justified in expecting more from a writer so compe- union of physical energy and mechanical skill with moral and "Among those vast multitudes we behold a portentous tent, by the truthfulness and refinement of his satire, by his exquisite nicety of observation and "In the Report presented to the General Assembly of simple strength of style, to reopen the delightful the Church of Scotland, by the Committee of Superintendence stream of natural and homely poetry, closed since that those pupils who had made the greatest progress in of Education in the Highland Schools, it is expressly stated, secular knowledge were uniformly found to be the best in

the death of Crabbe.

He has other qualities of an even higher order,structed in religion,"

intellectual torpor. Sensual and improvident, they squander, in prosperous times, their large earnings with reckless proFusion; and, in the day of adversity, the privations to which they are exposed excite the bitterest feelings of discontent, or hurry them into acts of savage violence. Strangers to self-restraint, ignorant alike of religious and moral obligation, and with minds too uncultivated to derive pleasure from aught but the gratifications of sense, they are the ready prey of the political seducer, or the apostle of infidelity. It is chiefly by moral and religious influence that we can expect, by the blessing of Providence, to be delivered from the perils which threaten us from this quarter. Much has been done of late years, particularly by the signal improvement in the administration of the poor laws, to ameliorate the condition, and to elevate the character, of the labouring classes. But the wisest and most liberal system of policy will contribute but little towards the permanent well-being of the people, so long as their education, in the largest sense of the term, is not made the first of national questions. And if we blindly and obstinately put off from year to year this most essential reform, the reform of the mind and heart of the nation, the disastrous consequences, which will inevitably ensue, cannot but be regarded as a righteous judgment of heaven upon us, for our unpardonable apathy in a matter of such vital

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None of the considerations that belong to this important subject, whether relating to the preparation of tutors or the general character of the studies they should direct, are omitted in this able and comprehensive sketch of the educational duties and charities. It thus concludes:

"Education, to be extensively useful, must be conducted upon a large scale, and upon a regularly organised plan. It is to the State, therefore, that we must look, not only for the pecuniary means, but for the uniformity and vigour, requisite for carrying such a plan into execution.

"The present Government may justly claim the distinguished honour of having been the first, of all that have ever administered the affairs of this country, to make the education of the people a national question. The final settlement of this is impeded by formidable, but not, we ardently hope, by insuperable, obstacles. It would be vain to expect, from those who maintain extreme opinions, a concurrence in any system of National Education that could be proposed. But we may reasonably indulge a hope, that the wise and moderate of all parties, by a little mutual concession, and without the surrender of any essential principle, might be brought to agree in some general arrangement, which should secure the pre-eminence of the Established Church on the one hand, and the right of conscience on the other. Surely, if ever there was a subject which ought to be approached in a calm and christian temper, it is this. Would, then, that it were debated in a spirit untainted with prejudice, and unimbittered by political strife, or religious animosity! Would that men might feel they were treading on holy ground, when they enter upon a question, which so deeply concerns the temporal and eternal welfare of millions of their countrymen ! Let us fervently pray that the Almighty Disposer of events will assuage every angry passion, and pour down upon us such a measure of meekness, mutual forbearance, and charity, that Christians of every denomination may heartily unite in the blessed work of devising a system of education for the poorer classes of the people of England."

"It is notorious, that with forty or fifty designs before and there is great fun and some heaviness; and them for examination, Committees have frequently made when we think that it's all over, we find it isn't; their unanimous selection on a second or third meeting; important papers turn up, which concern the life nay, in some cases, on the very day the designs were sent in! When, so far from having entered into a comparison of of the old painter; and when one of the impudent the merits and particular arrangements of the several de- rivals aforesaid fancies he has got possession of his signs (impossible with such men), they cannot even have fair prize by the theft and judicious use of these looked at all the drawings! Deception or influence carries off the prize, and degradation to the profession, and the papers, it turns out, on arrival beyond the Ausarchitectural character of the country, inevitably ensues; trian frontiers, that it is not Katherine he has run and at last, after months of labour and vexation, devoted to away with, but Il Paddy Whack in Italia. stripping their pet design of its meretricious and alluring de- Now and then, we have said, there is heaviness. coration, in order that its cost may be brought to within But it never passes to an unbearable point. There double or treble the amount of the estimate, the Committees is the comfort. In the crisis, something turns up. find they have been nursing and rearing a meagre mono- A smart saying, a good song. It is impossible to sity, wretchedly constructed, and ill adapted; a lasting monument of ignorance, a laughing-stock to their neighbours, a be dull for more than ten minutes, and a half hour's disgrace to themselves, aud an outrage in the public ways pleasantry rewards us. The balance is very greatly of a great city." in their favour, therefore, who will take the chance of entertainment from this merry and musical trifle.

THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

DRURY LANE.

Mr Duruset's short-sighted Englishman was absurdly laughable, and the two young ladies sang some pretty music very prettily.

tion, and must receive it. For this, we refer the Mr Austin's remedial plan is worthy of all attenThe singers duly exerted themselves. Miss Gould reader to the pamphlet. The danger to be avoided and Miss Walstein, Mr Balfe, Mr Wilson, Mr Stretin the other extreme is that of class jealousy or ton, Mr Barker, and Mr Duruset, did as well as posfavour. The mere principle of committing a judg-sible all they were required to do. The exception, ment on architecture to the Institute of Architects, and that was in the way of doing more, was the cirhas the simplest principle of common sense in it. cumstance of an enormous pair of military jack boots, with which Mr Balfe had finished off his footman's livery. What on earth, or in the kitchens under the earth, ever suggested such a taste, we cannot for the life of us imagine. But Mr Balfe, notwithstanding these enormous appendages, went through his It was curious to see an English opera, long fallen sang Paddy Murphy's song of " Molly Bawn" with exWeber's Oberon was revived on Monday night. part with great good humour and success; and he into disuse on the stage for which it was originally quisite taste. One hit that he made in the dialogue, composed, reproduced in a German form. in defiance of time and place, was enormously sucfell short of the better days of Braham; but from of charity beginning at home, when "poor-box! Fair justice was done to the music. Haitzinger cessful. Some one was talking of a poor-box, and Madame Heinefetter we had a manifest improve- charity begins at home!" exclaimed Il Paddy ment, in purity and in strength, upon Miss Whack in Italia, "by Jove, and if charity began Paton; and in the Sherasmin of Herr Staudigl, as at home, it's an English opera box I think they'd contrasted with our recollections of Fawcett, we be taking." had noble singing and fine comedy, to replace hard and bawling farce. The chorus kept its supremacy, of course; though it had something too much of material strength and harshness in style, to do entire justice to the airy and spiritual character of that portion of the music. The laughter in the second died on Friday afternoon, the 16th inst., at his The well known dramatist, Frederick Reynolds, act, where the spirits deride the paltriness of the house in Warren street. Mr Reynolds was in his task committed to them" Nichts als das! Ha! Ha! 77th year, having been born in 1764, amidst all the Ha! Ha!"—and on which there is the decisive im- excitements of Liberty and Wilkes, to whom his print of Weber's genius, failed from this circum-father was solicitor. stance of its elfish and unearthly effect. Wilkes and Liberty were the first words he was taught to lisp by his nurse, First among the great musical effects of the and they had in them, no doubt, the germ of a night was the charming quartett of the second great deal of comedy and farce. act; a kind of double duett between Haitzinger and Staudigl, Heinefetter and Schumann. This pieces, and among them, the newspapers say, of sevenMr Reynolds was the author of innumerable dramatic Every lover of his country or his kind will join The next was the noble air of Rezia, known on memoirs, good-humouredly styled them five act farces; beautiful composition was rapturously encored. teen successful comedies. Their author, in his amusing in this fervent prayer. And we cannot bring ourselves to think, that, with such advocates in the Madame Heinefetter gave this with splendid power the public of their day have enjoyed them amazingly, and our stage as "Ocean, thou mighty monster." "but, call them what we will, it is beyond a doubt that heart of the Church herself, the good work and and completeness; her expressive gestures through- were content to pay for the enjoyment. Mr Reyblessed consummation will be much longer de-out it, were a study for an English actress. We nolds is said to have received upwards of twenty-one layed. had afterwards to admire the perfect execution of thousand pounds for his theatrical successes. last act, in which is given the very soul of mirth other of his pieces will suggest themselves to the theathat exquisite duett of Sherasmin and Fatima in the from a production, aptly named How to Grow Rich, that he derived his largest remuneration. The names of and love. That nice little singer, Madame Schu-trical reader. mann, was here exactly at home; and Herr Staudigl Folly as it Flies, Laugh when You can, Notoriety, SpecuThe Dramatist, The Will, The Rage, justified the enthusiasm of a double encore. More lation, and Begone Dull Care, were among them. masterly expression in every way, it would be im- For the last fifteen or twenty years, with one single expossible to imagine. The last great effect was the ception, we believe that Mr Reynolds had never entered chorus of female slaves towards the conclusion, the walls of a theatre. But this arose from his physical with the interposing strains of Haitzinger. The infirmities. The master passion had never gone to rest in scenery, and general getting up of the piece, were him; it burnt steadily to the last. Had not his breakfast not discreditable. table been covered every morning with the playbills of every theatre in London, he could not have sat down to it

Thoughts on the Abuses of the present System of Competition in Architecture, with an Outline of a Plan for their Remedy. By Henry Austin.

Beyond a doubt this is a noble opera, and worthy of Weber's genius. As little is it to be doubted, that it demands more art in the singers to do it

in comfort.

It was

RIGHTS OF THE MINORS.-Mr Yewins has renewed

cause.

Weale. Every man who passes through the streets of London must have his Thoughts on the abuses of the present system of competition in architecture. They are written in characters of undeniable legibility on every huge front that he sees, of stone or stucco. It is the merit of Mr Austin, in this earnest and well written pamphlet, to have committed these very popular thoughts to print, with the suggestion of a prudent and valuable remedy. Outrages upon public taste, and abuses of public reasonable justice, and more taste in the audience his proceedings against Mr Osbaldiston. The Attorneymoney, are perhaps the most scandalous incidents to give it right appreciation, than the other great General, moving for a new trial, said it was proved of the present system of architectural competition; work of the same composer. The material horrors beyond doubt that Macbeth and other regular plays had but it is certain that the most painful and unjust of Devildom are infinitely easier of comprehension, been acted at Sadler's Wells, and that the defendant had will be found to come within the narrower sphere than the spiritual graces of Fairy land. We cannot taken part in the performance, thereby rendering himself of individual injury. Anything more galling or quit the subject of its present revival without a liable to double penalties. The jury, however, contrary oppressive to a class of accomplished and laborious good word in general for the style in which the books to all the evidence in the case, found a verdict for the men, cannot surely be imagined, than the system of these German operas are issued by Mr Schloss. defendant, he supposed in consequence of their not their lives, and in that the whole success or failure translation of the German, we have to thank the be allowed to stand. The court granted a rule to show which exposes the arduous and difficult study of In the present case, besides a literal and sensible approving of the provisions of the statute under which the information was laid. Now such a finding could not of their worldly prospects, to the judgment of utter publisher for prefixing some very interesting letters, ignorance; of men who, in the language of the illustrative of the first composition of the opera. writer of this pamphlet, "have never spent one These are from Weber himself to Mr Planche, by hour in their whole lives in attempting to acquire whom the clever and pleasing words of the original information on the difficult subject of which they opera were supplied. They have all the truth and are the supreme judges." Mr Austin properly simplicity of genius. scouts the argument so often urged in extenuation of such tribunals, that men of the standing they are generally composed of, being possessed of common sense and common honesty, will surely not attempt to decide on the merits of works they do not comprehend. "The evil is that they believe they do comprehend them; and hold, that any man with We describe it perhaps sufficiently, when we at the Français on Thursday week. The performances The final retirement of Mademoiselle Mars took place five senses has a sufficient appreciation of the five have said that it serves as an agreeable framework chosen for the night for her benefit were Le Misanthrope orders of architecture and all relating to them." for some pleasant Lover-like melodies. The scene and Les Fausses Confidences. The amount received, we This is very well said; and it becomes us always passes in the studio of an Italian painter, concerned learn, was 24,000f. to recollect, in matters of this kind, that what men in a conspiracy against the Austrians. He has two may do, not what they will do, is the consideration daughters, who have two lovers; and these two to be kept in view. A LAWYER'S FAITH.-My brother and I were sublovers have two impudent rivals; and the rivals We avoid the details of Mr Austin's publication, wager with the lovers that they will get access to attorney promised to reimburse the expense, the contenders poenaed as witnesses upon a trial at Warwick. The as somewhat too exclusive and professional; but the studio and to the hearts of its fair occupants; being poor. My brother and myself went in a chaise. they are excellent illustrations of his scheme. One and the real lovers, one an Austrian officer and the We won the cause. I was obliged to bear all the expense, brief passage, from the portion of it better suited other a little Irish tourist, disguise themselves and never received a shilling. So much for the faith of to our columns, touches home: as papa and footman to punish the intruders; la lawyer.-Wm. Hutton's Life.

ENGLISH OPERA.

Il Paddy Whack in Italia is the name of a lively operetta, written and composed by Mr Lover, and produced with all imaginable success on Wednesday night. Slight as it is, it is so managed as to include the whole musical strength of the theatre.

In the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Wednesday, Mr Cooke applied on the part of Mr Hammond, the comedian, for permission to give bail in a smaller sum than required in ordinary cases. The judgment debts against the insolvent were about 1,600., and, according to the practice of the Court, bail must be given in double that sum. Mr Hammond's debts were about 8,000l. He was unable to find two sureties in the amount required; but he could give bail for 2,000l., or find four sureties admitted to bail on two sureties for 2,000, instead of two, as mentioned by the act.

He was

MUSICAL EXAMINER.

CONCERTS OF ANCIENT MUSIC.

Third Concert, Wednesday, April 21.

PART I.

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Chorus, "Gloria in excelsis" (Mass in D.) Hummel.
Recit. and Song, Miss Bruce Wyatt, "An-
gels, ever bright" (Theodora)
Handel.
Trio and Chorus, "Sound the loud timbrel" Avison.
Aria, Miss M. Hawes, "Paga fui" (Pro-
serpina)

Duetto, Mad. Garcia Viardot and Mr W.
Harrison, "Il tuo destino" (Mitridate)
Recit. and Aria, Signor F. Lablache, "O voi
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Aria, Mad. Caradori, "Parto" (La Clemenza di Tito)

Mozart.

Military Symphony; Song and Cho., " Come,

if you dare" (King Arthur)

Purcell,

Recit. and Aria, Mad. Viardot, "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo)

Motet, "Oh, praise the Lord!"

Handel.
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Recit. and Aria, "Ah, chi può;" Coro, "La gioja" (Giunone Lucina) Terzetto, "O dolce" (Gl' Orasjedi Curias) Glee, "Ye spotted snakes' Chorus, "O sing unto Jehovah" (Judah). The Duke of Wellington, the director on this occasion, really seems as much at home in the concert-room as in the battle-field; with this difference, however, that in the one his Grace pleases all the company, in the other only half. The selection was charming, partly owing to the revival of three admirable compositions which have remained in what may be called a state of suspended animation during nearly a century-namely, an air by Handel, from an unknown Italian oratorio; another from his opera of Rinaldo; and one from Buononcini's Griselda. To the first some few accompaniments have been added,-by Mr Bishop, it is said-with great discretion, and decidedly to its advantage,-a practice which we hope to see fol lowed up, but only by persons of much experience and sound judgment. All were sung in the purest style, particularly that allotted to Madame Viardot, who entered into the spirit of a composer with whom she is little, if at all, acquainted, in a manner that alone would suffice to prove her an excellent musician. Miss Bruce Wyatt (who has now added her paternal name to the assumed one) would have been quite successful in her song, but for one or two errors in judgment. The same may be said of Miss Hawes, whose variations from the composer were not at all commendable. Madame Caradori Allan in the aria, and also in the recitative, from Tito, excited murmurs of applause; for here approbation 'seldom is expressed more audibly than in a kind of well-bred whisper. The clarinet accompaniment to the former, by Mr Williams, consoled us for the loss of the excellent Willman. A beautiful air of Marcello, one of his fifty psalms, afforded Madame Viardot another opportunity of displaying her rich, well-delivered voice, and great know ledge of the vocal art; and the song from the Creation was given in a charming manner by Mr Hobbs, now, beyond compare, the best tenor we have in England. The Madrigal was not very well performed. All the rest-a masterly "gloria" by Hummel, an equally fine chorus by Weber, Steevens's lovely glee, and the admirable overture by Cherubini, were executed in a manner that entitles the conductor, leader, and band to the warmest praise.

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Sinfonia in B flat.
Recit. ed Aria, Miss Masson, "Miseri
goletti" (Medea)
Concerto in E flat, Pianoforte, Mrs Anderson
Recit. and Air, Mr Phillips, "Ye guardian
Saints" (Palestine).

Overture to The Ruler of the Spirits

Overture (Melusina)

ACT II

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Vieuxtemps.
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but vicious fashion, he has such frequent recourse, can
In answer to the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of
really be pleasing to the judicious part of his audience, NORMANBY said he was extremely unwilling to put off
however they may affect satisfaction. Some, indeed many, the drainage of buildings bill; but in order to meet the
of his notes are hardly appreciable, to such an extreme wishes of the noble marquis, he would consent to report it
degree of acuteness does he carry them. That they are pro forma, and defer the further consideration till Tues-
produced with unfailing and astonishing accuracy is not day next, for the purpose of introducing a clause to extend
an adequate excuse for what we must consider as either a its provisions to Scotland.
proof of bad taste in himself, or as a subservieney to the
bad taste of others not quite creditable to an artist pos-
sessing powers which, if properly directed, might go far
towards improving the art he professes. Of his composi-
tion we will only say, that it consists mainly of a collec-
tion of passages-most of them in pairs-contrived for the
sole purpose of exhibiting the performer's skill, and rarely
betraying the slightest desire to gratify the real connoisseur
by what we consider the legitimate means of a true
musician. All this, we repeat, is probably to be imputed
to the desire of a youthful debutant to please the many
rather than the few. If so, a little time and experience
may convince him of his error; and then we shall find in
M. Vieuxtemps the most accomplished violinist in Europe.

SUNDAY TRAFFIC ON CANALS.-The Marquis of NonMANBY gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the subject of Sunday traffic on canals.

WEST INDIA PACKETS.-The Earl of FALMOUTH gave notice that on Tuesday next he should call the attention of the house to the subject of the removal of the West India packets from Falmouth to Dartmouth.

In answer to the same noble earl, Lord DUNCANNON said he was not aware of recent claims which had been made against the owners of mines which were submarine, but he would make inquiries on the subject.-Adjourned,

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THE NEW VIOLINIST.-The novelty of the evening,
however and a striking and unexpected novelty it was-
was the first appearance of M. Vieuxtemps. This young
and, we may add, most unpretending musician (a pupil
of De Beriot's) took by storm the wonder of every one
present, including even the whole of the professionals in
the orchestra. We feel we are but recording the opinion
of every competent judge when we say that M. Vieux-
temps, in his playing, unites the perfections of style, in-
tonation, execution, and, beyond all, expression. Although
a pupil of De Beriot, he is not of the school of De Beriot;
nor is he of the school of any other violinist we have ever
heard. Assuming the prerogative of genius, he has made
a school for himself a school in which the most eminent
professors of the instrument may take lessons with ad-
vantage to themselves and pleasure to their hearers. His
bow and wrist are as flexible as the bough of a willow;
his stopping is as if each joint of every finger were a
screw; his facility more like the sweeping of the wind
over an Eolian harp than the rapid movement of a human
hand; his unbroken intonation of a delicious singing
quality; his pathos all subduing; and his expression the
enthusiastic than just; nevertheless, a larger measure
poetry of sound. Praise such as this may appear more
than we have awarded is due to this accomplished per-
should say he was the Beethoven of violin players.to
If we may be allowed a musical simile, we

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EARL OF CARDIGAN.-Mr MACAULAY, in reply to question put by Mr Hume, entered into some explanations relative to the circumstances under which corporal punish ment was recently inflicted on a private of the 11th, Hussars. Mr Macaulay stated that the case had been considerably exaggerated; that the 11th did not continue in the riding-school during the whole of the interval between prayers and the flogging, but were marched out of it, and inspected for half an hour, and then marched back to the riding-school, when the punishment was inflicted; and he also observed that the other regiment (the 14th) was not present at the flogging, having been marched to its quarnity or fondness for corporal punishments could be brought ters. He expressed an opinion that no charge of inhuma. against Lord Cardigan.

REGENT'S PARK.-Mr EWART rose to move an address

the crown, with a view to obtain the opening of the eastern portion of the Regent's park.-Mr E. J. STANLEY said that a large portion of the park was leased to difsocieties, and other portions had been let off to persons ferent persons, portions of it to the Toxopholite and other who had expended considerable sums of money on them, and who had been guaranteed against the intrusion of the the Chronicle) is not a little remarkable, and not very which he agreed with his hon. friend might be opened. WEBER'S OBERON.-The history of this opera (says public. There was one portion of the park, however, creditable, we fear, to England as a musical nation. That portion would lie in the direct line towards Prim Oberon, though by a German composer, is, to all intents rose hill, the use of which had recently been secured for and purposes, an English opera. The music was com- the public by the noble lord at the head of the Woods and posed for the English drama written by Planche, and the Forests.-Mr HUME had hoped that some prospect would piece was brought out at Covent Garden fifteen years ago, have been held out of the formation of a park at the northunder the composer's own direction. It was got up with eastern extremity of the metropolis.-Lord TEIGNMOUTH in a style of excellence which delighted the composer, and public were now excluded. a care and splendour almost unprecedented, and performed said there were 286 acres of the park from which the appeared at first to make a prodigious impression on the been tied up by leases, or had been granted to public soOf these, about 80 acres had public. The first night was a night of triumph to Weber; cieties; but there was no reason why the remaining 200 siastic; and that same night, before retiring to rest, he followed, in the course of which Sir B. Hall, Sir R. the reception of himself as well as his music was enthu- acres should not be thrown open.-A brief discussion poured out his joy and gratitude in one of those letters to Inglis, Sir de Lacy Evans, and Mr Wakley, expressed his wife which give such a charming picture of his themselves in favour of the motion, which, however, was character and his home feelings. Alas! he little knew, eventually withdrawn, at the request of Mr E. J. Stanley, while the plaudits and acclamations of the public were on an understanding that a large portion of the reserved yet ringing in his ears, how false and hollow was their grounds would immediately be thrown open. sound. Weber, for the moment, was the rage. His name On the motion for the second reading of the arms (Iretheatre, chiefly, it would seem, for the purpose of staring was now sufficiently tranquil to render such measures no was in everybody's mouth, and everybody crowded to the land) bill, Mr HUME intimated his opinion that Ireland lion about him; he was quiet and retired, and possessed still an amount and description of outrage in Ireland at the lion of the hour. But Weber had nothing of the longer needful.-Lord MORPETH answered, that there was none of the arts of keeping alive public curiosity. In a which forbade him to incur the responsibility of desisting very few days the rage for Oberon cooled, and it was from this kind of legislation. played to houses which nightly became thinner and In a few weeks poor Weber was laid in his grave; and Oberon, performed for the benefit of his family, did not pay the expenses of the house! It was laid aside; and from that day has never been again performed in England, till it appeared in the guise of a German opera, performed in the German language, and by a German company.

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CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS LORD CARDIGAN. --Mr HAWES gave notice that it was his intention to move tomorrow for a return of the number of instances in which corporal punishment had, within the last ten years, been inflicted on the Sunday. He would take that opportunity The Earl of CHARLEVILLE raised a short discussion, of asking the Secretary at War a question. He wished to by alluding to the debate that occurred on the evening know whether there was any precedent for corporal punishbefore the Easter recess, relative to the trial in Ireland for ment on Sunday, until the case occurred on Easter Sunan attempt on the life of Mr Biddulph. He (Lord day, in the 11th Hussars, under the command of the Earl Charleville) had made some inquiries on the subject, and of Cardigan?-Mr MACAULAY said, it had been imagined he found that Mr Biddulph denied that he had ever that he had stated that there was a precedent for the con expressed his satisfaction with the jury empannelled to duct followed by Lord Cardigan, which was most improtry his cause, as had been stated by the Marquis of Nor- per and culpable. What he had stated was this, that manby. On the contrary, Mr Biddulph had written to having inquired from officers of great knowledge and long him (Lord C.) to say that the moment the jury was experience in the service, he had learned from them that empannelled he felt convinced it was one that would never there was a precedent for punishments being inflicted on The pianoforte piece, though most correctly and neatly agree to a verdict, whatever the evidence might be.-The the Sunday; but that was not a precedent that bore out executed, was one-third too long; and the violin concerto, Marquis of Normanby said that he had given his authority the conduct of Lord Cardigan, because they stated that which reached the intolerable length of three quarters of at the time for the statements which he had made. an hour, could only have been endured on account of the could not hold himself responsible for misunderstandings military exigency, and where they had no choice. His He such punishment never was justified except in cases of surprising talent of the performer. M. Vieuxtemps, a that might occur between the officers of the crown and Mr statement was this. He had distinctly stated that the very young man, can do anything he wishes with his Biddulph. Inquiry should be made. violin. In a word, and without entering into technicalities, he is a thorough master of the instrument, in whatever

Lindpaintner. With one exception, the compositions in this program are all of a superior kind. Beethoven's symphony (admirably performed), his concerto, and Weber's overture, are chefs-d'œuvre, and the vocal pieces are all excellent specimens of their respective authors. Nevertheless, as a whole, the concert was noisy and heavy.

Friday, April 23.

concerns execution, tone, and tune. But we cannot bring the Earl of Zetland on the subject of lay patronage in Petitions were presented by the Duke of Argyle and ourselves to think that the high, not to say squeaking, Scotland, and by Lord Denman for the abolition of sounds to which, perhaps in deference to the prevailing church rates.

punishment in the particular case alluded to was one which, without the slightest inconvenience, could have bear it out. Sunday punishments in the army did not, in been postponed, and therefore there was no precedent to his opinion, bear out the conduct of Lord Cardigan. This explanation, he trusted, would meet the object of the hon.

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