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and a canal or rail- way across the Isthmus of Suez to the Red Sea, 

 and the various countries of the eastern world. The result of this 

 work would be not only a saving of millions per annum, in the 

 diminished cost of the transport of merchandize, troops, and colonists 

 to India, China, and New Holland, but, by the increased rapidity of 

 communication, the improvements of civilization would be carried 

 with redoubled speed to those benighted regions. The expenditure 

 of a million, or of several millions, for the construction of the land 

 passage through the territories of the now independent Pacha of 

 Egypt, would be compensated in a single year by the commercial ad- 

 vantages to result to the whole world, from the completion of this great 

 work. 



Finally, we urge the people of England to awake to the true im- 

 portance of this great question. The renewal of the charter of the 

 East India Company, is the renewal of another term of arbitrary 

 power over a hundred millions of our fellow-men ; for the thirty Di- 

 rectors of Leadenhall Street, are the thirty tyrants of the eastern 

 world. Policy, humanity, and every just legislative principle, re- 

 quire the abolition of a heterogeneous government of merchants and 

 jobbing colonels ; and we trust that a reformed parliament will never, 

 from the tyranically exhausted resources of India, continue the pay- 

 ment of a usurious dividend of 10 per cent, to a company, the expira- 

 tion of whose term of oppression ought to be hailed with acclamations 

 of joy by the friends of liberty all over the world. 



MR. PHILIPPS'S LECTURES ON VOCAL MUSIC. 



WE attended the third and fourth lectures of Mr. Philipps, and were con- 

 siderably gratified by the ability with which they were conducted. This 

 worthy veteran is a zealous advocate for the adoption of a fixed set of prin- 

 ciples, founded on the peculiar genius and construction of our language, as 

 the basis of a legitimate school or style of English vocal music ; applying to its 

 composition and delivery a series of oratorical rules, having for their object, 

 that rational union of sound and sense which ought to be the highest aim of 

 the musician. He ably maintained his theory, and supported it by a mul- 

 titude of facts, and byjudicious illustrations, executed in a very correct and 

 respectable manner. Some of his digressions might, with advantage to pro- 

 fessional dignity, have been omitted. It was, surely, a poor compliment to 

 the intellect of his audience, to attempt " to pick their pockets of a laugh," 

 by grinning at them, through a painted sheet of pasteboard. On the 

 whole, however, these lectures were highly creditable to the professor and 

 his assistants, and, we hope, may have the effect of drawing the attention of 

 the musical world to a much neglected but highly important subject. 



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