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SPIRIT OP ME JOURNALS. CHRONICLE.--Hume, in his " Essay on the Balance of Power," alluding to the mischievous meddling disposition which so long characterised the Government of this country, observes that our Allies " always reckon upon our force as upon their own ; and, ex pecting to carry on war at our expense, refuse all reasonable terms of accommodation ; " that " we are such true combatants that, when once Engaged, we lose all concern for ourselves and our pos. mit), and consider only how we may best annoy the enemy. To mortgage our revenues at so deep a rate, in wars where we were only accessaries, was surely the most fatal delusion that a nation, who had any pretension to politics and prudence, has ever yet been guilty of ; " that the " remedy of funding, if it be a remedy, and not rsther a poison, ought in all reason to be reserved to the last ex tremity ; and no evil, but the greatest and most urgent, should ever induce us to embrace so dangerous an expedient." He adds, that our excesses " may, perhaps, in time become still more prejudicial another way, by begetting, as is usual, the opposite extreme, and rendering us totally careless and supine with regard to the fate of Europe ; " and that " the Athenians, from the most bustling, in. triguing, warlike people of Greece, finding their error in thrusting themselves into every quarrel, abandoned all attention to foreign affairs ; and in no contest even took party on either side, except by heir flatteries and complaisance to the victor." • • • • • The people certainly care very little about Greece, and, therefore, Lord Aberdeen and Prism.: Metternich might perhaps have reduced still more the limits of that country with impunity, as far as public opinion in England is concerned. It is a great consolation to a Minister to know, that provided he keeps at home the noiseless tenor of his way, in his foreign policy he may lend himself to as much injustice as he has a mind for, without danger. In the case of Greece, it is clear that England had no interest in curtailing its limits; but then, as Austria has some purpose to serve, why may sot Lord Aberdeen serve Austria when he can do it on such safe terms ? The Examiner says the talk in parliament " is a mere waste of time and opportunities fur more profitable exertions." Pro fitable to whom ? To politicians in parlianient foreign affairs are a safe ground. Not so domestic affairs. A party falls to pieces the moment you leave the field of foreign politics. Hence the great use of a war to politicians. So long as the war lasts, it furnishes matter to an opposition which can be wrought without much danger of disagreement. But with peace comes the necessity of discussing domestic affairs ; and here every step leads to disagreement. There was, indeed, one great domestic question which did as well as war for holding panics together—the Catholic question ; but that quit- Lion is no more. It was one of the most beautiful abstractions which could possibly be devised for a politician ; fur no one interest could be said to be affected by the carrying of the measure. It is needless to say that there is hardly another question of which the same thing may be practicable. Touch on reform, for instance, and you will find yourself deserted. Propose any measure of efficacious retrenchment, and in ordinary cases you will have at most a couple of dozen votes. Mr. Herries and Mr. Goulbutn have both told the House this Session, that they were defeated in their mea sures of economy by a coalition of both sides. If the higher regions were safe, the Duke of Wellington might set a hundred Terceiras and a hundred Greeces at defiance. But when the danger is in these regions, a question respecting Greece will do as well as another for a trial of strength. Any stick will do to beat a dog with. The public may not care about Greece, but the public does not keep in or turn out a Minister. And if th e di spos i t i on to l oo k out for a pretext should exist, though the public do not take a deep interest in the affairs of Greece, most assuredly the conduct of Lord Aber. deen would not give to the Ministry the support of public opinion. Politicians do not, as we have said, possess now the advantage their predecessors possessed, of having a public interested in foreign af fairs to sympathise with them. They have the fight now nearly all to themselves when they quit this kingdom. But there are weighty reasons for steering as clear of domestic interests as possible in poli tical warfare. There is a fable of a bear who was in alliance with man, and to drive away a fly threw a stone at the fly which broke the man's skull. Our parties are too cunning to recur to a popular alliance which may, like that of the bear, be somewhat unmanageable. HEIIALD.—Sir Robert Peel's remark, that "twenty such Mem ben as 31r. Hume in the House of Commons would put a stop to business altogether," was very complimentary to that gentleman— fur stronger testimony than this could not be borne to his steady and indefatigable zeal in watching over the Interests of his constitu ents and the public. We wish there were many other of our repre sentatives who deserved to be comprehended along with the Hon. Membet for Aberdeen in this sentence of Ministerial reprobation. Then that sort of business which Ministers are most anxious to hurry through the House, namely, the votes of money to Go. vernment, under the heads of supplies, estimates, &c. would certainly be stopped, unless they were reduced to a scale more consatent than they now are with the resources of the country, and the professions of retrenchment and economy, of which Minis. ten were so liberal when they first assumed the administration of affairs. There is indeed another hon. member, whose exertions of late in die same useful line of arresting the progress of pro. fuse expenditure which has long distinguished Mr. Hume, enti tle,' him to a large share of Ministerial obloquy and public ap probation. We allude to Sir James Graham, whose exposure of the "consular jobs" will not be easily forgiven by the official con. semen of the public taxes, nor, we trust, be soon forgotten by the tax-paying people, whose burdens he so industriously labours to re lieve. The smallness of the majority which Ministers were enabled to muster, with all their efforts, on Friday night, when the " con sular charges" came under disc u s s i o n, ought to make them ashamed of persisting with a vote which many of those who usually di vide with them had not sufficient disregard fur their own con science: or for public opinion to support. On such a question a majority of only 23 looks more like a defeat than a victory. Ministers should have understood it as such, and have immediately reduced the vote demanded for the consular charges, which was 87,970 L to the amount of the proposed amendment, which still left them the very liberal sum of 79,9701. No person could have the least doubt that the latter sum would have been amply sufficient for all 3.. t and reasonable purposes, and fur supporting the Jgnity and efficiency of our consular appointments, though it would certainly be too little to supply the prodigal and reckless expendi ture, of which the Honourable Baronet who moved the amendment furnished some striking instances to the House. Let us take one or two of these iutances, to show what has been the nature of the eco nomy practisei in the Foreign Department, of which Lord Aberdeen has the supeentendence. The lion. Baronet stated, if rightly tenoned, that hk . Rickets, who was Consul at Rome, went out in 1825 ; and duties; the first year be received 3,5a31. In 1826 he re ceived, including glary, house rent, and a few other items, 3.7631. In 1827, being on the voyage home, he received 2,8121. During the years 1828 and 15129 he remained at home receiving his full stilary—so that for five years of service, two of which were spent at home, lie received 13,60&. of the public money ! it is true, as the honourable baronet observel, the present ministers were not in - office when this appointment took place ; but they were in office during the you; 1828 and 1829, whies were the years in which 31r. Rickets received his full salary as Consticat Rome while he remained in Eng land. Nobody can blame Mr. rickets for this—he could not be expected to refuse what was so bountifully allowed to him—but the system, and the Ministers who support it, after making the loudest professions of retrenchment and economy, deserve the severest reprobation of a country which the& conduct has so bitterly disappointed. The case of Mr. Nugent, the Consul to was another instance. He also went out in 1825. He received during the first year 3,0501. The second year he re ceived the same amount, h av i ng rema i ne d t h e whole of that year at Ills post. In 1927 he received 2,5001. In June 1828 he returned to England, receiving during half that year his full salary for doing nothing; and during the whole of 1829—during what Sir James Graham sarcastically called " the golden reign of Lord Aberdeen, t he conseientious economist"—lie still continued to receive his full salary. Such are the proofs which, in this department, Ministers Nye given of their determination to redeem their pledge of cutting down all unnecessary expenditure, and lightening the burden or Minding taxation, which presses the industry of the people to the t.trth ! If any of the majority on this occasion represent open and pp] RIS places, we hope their constituents will not forget their conduct when they come, at no distant day, to give an account of tLe:r stewardship. Tiatra.— The French elective chamber is composed of 430 mem hers, returned by bodies or assemblies of electors, who vote in col. ages of :arrondissement or department. Every Frenchman in the apt iseot of civil and political rights, paying 300 francs a-year (121 sterling) in direct taxes, and having attained the 30th year of :Its age. a entitled to vote in one of these collegtas ; or, in other words, has tt voice in the election of a representative to an assembly which disposes of his own and the national purse. The direct taxes nine!' ore thus made the basis of the electoral qualification, are 01 Nor kinds, namely, the tax upon land, the tax upon persulial property, upon doors and windows, and upon patentee ur lictuccs to exercise trades and professions. Of these lazes the tint is the most important, amounting at the last general election (in 1827) to 154,051,889 franca (or more than 6,000,0001. ! t ellfea), while the whole of the direct i nposts was calculated at 4311 ,802,199 francs, or less than 14,000,0001. The tax on patentes for the %Hole kingdom did not amount to 1,000,0001. sterling, while tlist raised on doors and windows is not more than 12,811,000 francs, (sit about 500,0001.) Thus, with the exception of a tax 27,1G55a48 francs (or about 1,100,0002) on personal pro perty, the whole of the electoral qualification for all the depart rnents of the kingdom is founded on the possession of landed estates. But though every Frenchman who pays 121. to the state in direct taxes is entitled to be an elector, all electors have not the same Power in sending dep u ti es t o t h e popular chamber. The 121. qua lification is the minimum, and entitles its possessor to a vote in the college, of arrondissement. But in France there are two kinds of electoral assemblies—those called district orarrondissement colleges, and those called colleges of department, orgreatercolleges; the former amounting to2sB,and the latter to 172. In the former all persona have vote whose contributions amount to the mons above specified; to the latter, only thefourth pert of the electors whom the highest eon. tributions. The latter, in respect to their fortune, have a double vote; they can vote in their arrondissement, and they have an additional vote in their departmental college. Thus suppose, as in Paris, that the number of electors amounts to 10,000 the whole body have votes in the district, arrondissement, or minor colkles, and 2,500, (or one• fourth,) who pay the highest rate of tams, vote likewise for addi tional members in the greater colleges, or colleges of department. The number of deputies returned by this aristocratic body of electors is 172, or two members for each of the 86 departments into which the country is divided. In order to enable the privileged voter to avail himself of his double advantage, a certain interval is always allowed between the two kinds of election. Thus, in the present year, the general election for the arrondissements begins on the 23d instant, while the departmental colleges are convoked on the 3d of July. or ten days later. Such a system of elections, or rat r.er such a divi sion of the electoral bedy into separate classes of elector, with se. parate privileges, would appear arbitrary, capricious, r ar.ificial, if we did not explain the occasion of its occurrence and the motives of its enactment. Anterior to the year 1820 the French had onli one class of electors and one kind of electoral college. The representa tion then consisted of two hundred and fifty-eight members, elected by all the persons who paid 300 francs (or 121.) in direct taxes. In the spring of that year (the alarming period in which the Duke of Berry was murdered,) the Ministry and the Court conceived that the Chamber of Deputies was too democratic in its tendency, and de. sided that a new infusion of the aristocratic spir't Cs neeesary, by raising the qualification of the elector. The ebarer stood in the way of altering the electoral census of the existie.g number of mem- ; hers; but like Pelee in the Tale of Mc . vb, the Ali: !stets of Louis XVIII. if they could not find permission to ettanz,e the ob noxious articles of his political grant, tolidem uertiv or lotident literie, they discovered that an addition was no change, and therefore grafted on the existing Chamber to delegates more fur every department, to be returned by a fourth part ot• the wealthier electors. Thus were 172 members added to the popular branch of the legislature by a single act, and a double vote credited in favour of wealth and fortune. The whole number of electors whose names appeared iu the official list of 1827 at the general election was 1i3,336 ; the whole number who actually voted did not amount to 17,000. Neatly 20,000 of these possessed, of course, the right of the double suffrage, and elected 172 members, besides sharing in the return of the other deputies. Thus a small body of 20,000 men, possessed of the highest fortunes in the country,.—a body not amounting to the number entitled to vote at Covent garden hustings,—return 172 deputies by their exclusive ballot, j independent of their influence on the r:turas of the arrondis.einent 1 colleges. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.—The Avis° o To sal ys, "We have not yet re ceived any positive accounts from the eNpedition to Algiers. Part of the squadron seems to have arrived on the 2/101 of May at Mahon, and their awaiting the arrival of the ca t!.. l ,oats t which are indispensable for the landing, may explain the want of news. The flotilla had sailed from Toulon on the 19th, and was dispersed by a gale of wind. On the 29th part of it was seen lett leagues from Barcelona, and had been obliged to put into several ports, and it was not yet known when they could reach Mahon. FRENCH FUNDS—,Inns 11. Five per Cents. 102 f. 50c. 600. 64c. 75e. 130 c. 90c. 105 f. Four and a Half per Cents. Four per Cents. 99f. 50c. Three per Cents. 76f. 15c. 30c. 40c. 60c. 55c. 50c. 80c. 65c. 60c. 80c. Renter de Naples, 84f. 40c. 50c. 60c. 65c. 70e. 90c. 80c. 804. 80c. 95c. Rentes d'Espagne, 12. Royal Spanish Loan, 80. Rentes Perpetuelles d'Espagne, 711 72 72i i i I. Haytian Loan, 360 f. 380 f. 390 f. Exchange on London.—One month (money) 25f. 45c. Three months (paper,) 251. 35c. (money,) 95f. 30c.—C'ours Auildentigue. GREECE.-TO TUE EDITOR OE TUE MESSENGER. Pans JUNE 9—Sir—To add still more to th e p roo f s contained in the fetter which I had the honour of transmitting to you on Mon day relative to the conduct of Count Capodistrias, I now send you a letter of a more recent date, in %%licit the President expresses the utmost impatience for the arrival of Prince Leopold. It is impos. sible, in the critical position in which his Royal Highness has placed Greece by his refusal, not to admire the perseverance and resigna tion of the man who has the courage to remain at the head of the government, and, so far from blaming him, he ought to be supported by such pecuniary aid as would enable him to maintain his difficult position until the arrival of a new sovereign shall put an end to the fatal temporary situation which dries up all the sources of this nascent state's prosperity.—l have the honour, &c.. J. 0. EYNARD. THE PRESIDENT OF GREECE TO N. EYNARD..— Napoli, di Romania, April 23, IB3o.—My dear Eynard-1 am indebted to the complaisance of the Baron de Rouen for the satisfaction of sending you these lines by the courier he is dispatching to his Court, with the results of the mission which, conjointly with his colleagues, he has been fulfilling at the seat of the Greek Provisional Government. I will not dilate upon the communications I have received from the Residents of the Allied Courts, nor of my answer to them. You will be made acquainted with them, and at all events you shall have copies of them by the first opportunity. The documents that I am now submitting to his Royal Highness l'rince Leo pold will, I hope, when considered altogether, meet with his approbation ; I shall, however, be extremely glad to learn that it is so. In a few words 1 have expressed to him my desire that his Royal Highness will arrive at the earliest possible period in Greece, and that he will immediately send me at least 1,000,000 of francs. It is but on these two conditions—conditions :which are indispensable, that I can be of any service to this country, or to his Royal Highness, either at the present moment or 14 the future. The voluminous despatches I have addressed to him will prove that the more 1 desire to show myself worthy of his confidence, the more faithfully I ought to expose to him the critical situation of this country, and the means which his Royal Highness can and ought to employ to avert the evil consequences thereof. You must have received by this time my letter of April 6, by the Prince de Wretle. Since then the public mind has become agitated and alarmed, more by the explanations given by the official note of the residents than by the tenour of the protocol of the 3d of February. I have cahned and continue to calm, every one, and am willing to flatter myself that with GOD'S assistance, I shall still meet with success ; but I repeat, that if the Prince does not hasten his arrival in Greece, and if, in the mean time, he does not send me the pecuniary supplies I have requested of him, I can no longer be answeralde any thing, for it is impossible to act without means. Endeavour, n.y dear Eynard, to cause the remittances to be made in time. Or. the 23ti of May, I shall be called upon for the quarter's pay dee to the army. Judge what will be the consequences, if, at this ci itical mo ment, the army should be driven to disband itself. The soldiers would exclaim, Our mire land is about to return 111.tki the do. mination of the Turks, and, to reduce us to the necessity of return. ing under it also, the Government withh o ld s our p a y.' This would be to drive 8,000 men to despair and plunder. Let us provide against this extremity. My heart is full, but I an. i ' di enraged. Oon will assist us. (Signed) "CAPOPISTRIAS." GERMANY—We receivelast night Brussels Papers to the 12th of June, from which we make the following extracts ODESSA, MAY 12.—The Turkish frigate the Scheref liet.an, on board of which Bali Pacha came here in November later year, ar rived again in our harbour yesterday, in company of a Tut k6h brig ; these two vessels are to take on board at Constantinople the Turkish Ambassadors, who are expected here about the !Mo.& of June. One of Halil Peebles Aides-de-Camp and one of the r....eretaries arrived at Odessa three or four days ago. His Excellency Field Marshal Count Diebitsch Subalkansky arrived yesterday evening at the fortress of Tiraspol, where he will perform tittarantina Austrian Observer, June 1. FRONTIERS Or HERNIA, MAY 27.—Within tliote few weeks many Christain families have emigrated from Bel t ; tri t to Servia, with the intention of settling in that country. The J . •eha of grade has, indeed, called on the Servian Authorities tv re'nw these persons permission to settle; but Prince illilosch, who consider. the increase of the population by industrious individuals as an advan tage, has paid no regard to this request, but rather ev•tle trews to en courage the emigrants. lie has also endeavoured to mei:tee the Pacha of Belgrade that it is very advantageous to the Porte to ret.....ire in Servia the Christian families that emigrate front tt her Turkish provinces, as they would probably go to Bu's's, to the great Injury of the Porte. CRACOW, May 27.—The Emperor of Russia will stay only a few days at Warsaw, and then go to visit the milits.y colonies in the South, after which he will return, and close the Diet i" about the 28th of lune. It is said that Bahl Pacha, on his return from St. Petersburgh to Constantinople, will take the opportunity of again paying his renects to the Emperor, while he is in the n.i- Bury colonies. The }emperor goes to Reval, for sea bathing. VIENNA, JUNE I.—Metalliques, 100 A ; Four per Cents. 981 ; , Bank Shares, 1431.._. June 2.L-Metalliques, 1001; Four per Certs. 96 ; Bank Shares, I,334.—Aligesseine Zeilung, June 7. WARSAW, JUNE 3.—To our great regret their Majesties have already left us—the Emperor is gone to Biome, and the Empress, accompanied by her brother, the Crown Prince of Prussia, to MiCtli. BERLIN JuxE 6.—His Majesty, who le ft this city on the 2d, arrived on the 3d at Breslow, where the Empress of Russia and her brother were expected on the 4th.—Prussian Slaw Gazate,June7. BaussExs, JustE 9.—The trial of Messrs. Claes and Nesevort before the Court of Assize yesterday, ended in the acquittal of both the prisoners. Lord Cunningham has arrived here Iron' London, on his way to Berlin, with despatches. Jura 10—A Maistrecht Journal says that Messrs. Dr Potter, &c. on mitring at Aix la Chapelle, went to the Director of the po. Bee to show him their passports, but that he discovered that an important formality bad been neglected, viz. to have than wiped by the Ambassador of the King of Prussia in the Netherlands, and that, therefore, he could not receive them in the Prussian territory. They are now at Voles, on the frontier, waiting for a decision on this subject. The decree respecting the free use of the French language, has caused as much joy in the provinces as in the capital. The Journal of Geneva says, " that the King of the Netherlands has concluded a new military capitulation for two Swiss regiments ; the superior officers are already named." VIENNA, JUNE 2.—Their Imperial Ma jesties arrived at Clagen. forth on the 29th May. O n t h e 26 t h of May a tenable hurricane did vast damage at Brunn, in Moravia. The steeple of the church, the roots of many ho uses , &c. were blown down, hundreds of trees were rooted up or btoken asunder, and several persons killed or wounded. Happily the hurricane lasted only a quarter of an hour, during which time the thermometer fell from 21 degs. to 91. Murricu, JusE 3—His Majesty will certainly be here on the 9th.— Brussels Papers, June 10 MADRID, JuNt 1. —lt is announced that the coronation of their Majesties is to take place on the 14th of October next, the anniversary of the King's birth-day. The ceremony is to be per formed in the Cathedral Church of Toledo, by the primate of Spain, when the greatest magnificence is to be displayed. We (Galt tie de France) arc authorised to announce that the indisposition of the King of Naples was never of a grave character. His Majesty was confined to his apartments in consequence of a neglected cold. The consultations of physicians, of which the Journals have sp');:en, tare simple measures of precaution. His Majesty, fully re-t , :ab:holied, went yesterday to St. Cloud. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Bramsty, Dixon, from Liverpool to Tampico, was wrecked on the coast of Yucatan ttd April. The crew saved. The Jane, Williamson, from Sunderland to Rouen, foundered near the Five Fathom Charnel Bth inst. The wreck of the Kathleen, from St. John's, N.B. was fallen In with on the 21st ult. in lat. 45. long. 45. His Majesty's ship Fairy, from Jamaica, was spoken with of Fayal on the 31 st ult. by the Pigeon packet, arrived at Falmouth. DIAL, JUNE 12, Wind S.W. to W.S.W. squally ; and 13, va riable.—Arrived the Lune, Fraser, from Jamaica. Porrsmouvr, JUNE 12 and 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Forte, from Lima, Valparaiso, and Rio Janeiro. with 1.500,000 dollars; Echo steamer, from Falmouth; Thomas Gren ville, and Fairlie, from Bengal ; and Newton, Luce, from Ma tanzas. Sailed his Majesty's ship Alligator, for Plymouth; and Sylvia transport, for Deptford. PLYMOUTH, JuHI 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived of the port, the Sovereign, M'Kellar, from New South Wales; and Percival, Le therby, front St. John's, N.B. FALMOUTH, JuNzll.—Wind N. to W.—Arrived the Sheldrake packet, from the Leeward Islands—oiled from St. Thomas's the Bth ultimo ; and the Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon— sailed 30th ult. Juaa 12.—Wind W. to W. N. W.—Arrived the Pigeon packet, from Buenos Ayres—sailed 14th March, from Monte Video 17th, and Rio Janeiro 7th April. Sailed the Stanmer packet, for Lisbon. LADY LENNOX. We regret much to hear that this lady has yielded to the seduc tions of passion, and that, setting at nought the respect of her bus band's family, and the opinions of the world, she has betaken her. self to the sheltering arms of Mr. Wood, and become the mistress of a man she might, under other circumstances, have commanded as her husband. Miss Paton, for so we must henceforth call her, is living, we understand, with Mr. Wood, in Norfolk-street, Strand. A separation, formal and final, has been acceded to by Lord W. Len nox, who retains the property he at present possesses, pays all debts up to the time of the elopement, and leaves the lady hence forward the full benefit of her professional exertions. It is at all times with reluctance that we allude to the affairs of private life, and particularly of those persons who devote themselves to the stage. They seem, indeed, with a very few exceptions, to have a prescrip tive right to act naughtily, without in the slightest degree endan wring their reputation, and frequently command, through their peccadilloes, an additional portion of public patronage and coalmen. elation. It would be an ungracious task to enkunerate instances in which professional favourites hove availed themselves of this disposi tion on the part of the public. It would be scarcely worth while to in. vestigate its cause. Whether the general conduct of the beauties of the stage has rendered this indulgence necessary, or the licence allowed by the public has encouraged the lapse of morality, is scarcely worth inquiry. It is sufficient for us that it exists to a great extent, and we therefore take our leave of Lady Lennox, under the full as surance that there will be no interregnum of her power, or of the gratification we have always derived from her great professional exertions. The allusion to this lady, however, brings to our recol leetion another popular vocalist, whose uniformly steady and deco rous adhesion to propriety and to celibacy has excited much atten tion and conjecture. That lady, we believe, deserves all the enco. miums that are bestowed on her, and we understand they will not go altogether unrewarded. A Noble Lord, long an ardent admirer, awaits but the freedom of widowhood to confer on her the title of Countess.— Obserrer. TUEATRE. Rossini's opera, La Centre-idola, wi-s represented on Saturday evening, probably for the purpose of affording Signor Lablache an opportunity to display his comic power , / in die character of Don Magnifico. Many portions of this opera have been modelled on Cimarosa's Matriinonio Scg..cto. Geronimo was evidently a pro totype of Don Illugnifico, and the duet in the second act, Un greto d'imporlanza, owes its origin to the celebrated one between Geronimo and Robinson, Se fiat° in corpo uvetc. In some re spects, however, the two male characters differ materially. The one is meant to represent a good-natured old bourgeois, actuated as much by the consideration of his daughter's welfare, in the proposed match with the Count, as by the whispers of vanity for the honour of such an alliance the other is an aristocrat of small wit and great pretensions, full of bombastic absurdity in his mode of displaying the presumed importance of his rank, as his title of Alontiliascone indicates, and who thinks that much weight would be added to it by the acquisition of such a son-in-law as a Prince. Not. withstanding, therefore, the af f inity established by the imitation, the two characters require each a different conception. Of this, Signor Lablache's performance has afforded abundant proof. In Geronimo he is perfect ; but with regard to Mayiiifieo we have seen others sustain the character with greater truth. Too great a so lemnity and stillness of manner are adhered to. That rich comic humour, so much at his command, is but sparingly imparted to the Baron di Montifiascone. Neither his introductory comic air, nor the duet at the opening of the second act. Un ,relo d'im portunta, excited that degree of laughter which corresponding situations in the other opera have invariably done. We make these remarks, not because we think that Signor Lablache's performance on Saturday was of an inferior kind, but merely because we expected to have found it infinitely more in accordance with the spirit of the character he had to sustain. His singing was excellent, and his fine bass voice was never heard to better advantage. Madame Malibran was the heroine, anti being in good voice she indulged in great re dundancy or ornament in her singing. She would have produced better effect had she evinced less impatierce to display the extent of her vocal pool rs. She had a proper opportunity for that purpose in the rondo with which the opera closes, and there she sang with appropriate brilliancy. The other parts were filled as before. The season at Drury Lane Theatre being new brought to a close of its first.tate performers, some go to slar it in the country. M r . Cooper remains in town, purpositn to devote hi. leisure to the in &traction of aspirants to the Bar, the Pulpit, or the Stage, in the art of Elocution. Mitt!' FANNY Kum ur.r: concluded her engagement at the Bath Theatre on Tu:;-day tvAtilisr, when, tor her own benefit, she per sonated La,ie Tom Wet/ in The okol Thulium! ; Mr. KEMBLE acted Lord Townley. The house was crowded to excess long before the drawing up of the curtain, anti the entire orchestr a , w hi c h h a d been converted into st a ll s was likewise full. Atter 3lis s K EIIBLE ' II tune appearance a t B at h In the character of Juliet, some extremely ill-natured remarks upon ;hat perthrmance were inserted in one of 'be Bath newspapers, which were subsequently copied into the Lon don jcurnais. These observations occasioned a considerable excite :nen: aniunge the play-going people, and on each subsequent even- Olg, when KEMIBLE acted, th e theatre overflowed, and Kcene's N4l/1 Journal and The Balk Herald, in consequence of their eulo gi:s on Miss KEMDLE'S genius and powers, occasioned an entire tea,' ion. The eight evenings. this lady performed at Bath realized to her b:twecn six anti seven hundred pounds. After the conclusion of i/sc Provoker/ //usband, on Tuesday, Mr. KEMBLE and his daughter departed for London, where they arrived on ‘Vednesda7 ; and on tl:e evening of that day went on board the James V. att stenni.boat, and set sail for Edinburgh. THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.—It must appear extraordinary that at a time when knowledge is making such rapid advances amongst all classes of society, that the Londoners, for whose especial improvetnent the London University was reared, should so sparingly avail themselves of its advantages. That this must be the case, however unaccountable, m a y b e i n f erre d from the fact, that of Ai medals distributed at the last distribution of honours, only three were bestowed upon pupils resident in London. The medical school is that which has attracted the greatest number of pupils, which is probably owing to the necessity that the student should complete his education in the metropolis before he can obtain a license to practise as a surgeon or apothecary. The Council have resolved to grant a diploma to students in medicine and surgery, and as there is a lot. stamp in the diploma of the College of Surgeons, which is inerely honorary, that circumstance will probably obtain a pre ference for the untaxed certificate of the University. 7112 STEAM-BOATS AND THE trATEEmEN. ~... On Saturday morning the Navigation Committee of the t';it London met for the purpose of viewing the rite of the propo•tio. new pier, at the end of the Custom-house, for the embarkation nt.d embarkarion of passages on board the steam-boats. It was, him. ever, rumoured in the morning. that active and powerful interest was made by various persons concerned in the St. Katharine awks to secure to them a monopoly of the convenience of emb a rki ng sengera at once from their wharf. A petition was presented to [Pe committee from certain inhabitants of Gravesend settieg forth the t the inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton, by grant of Richard t:,e Second, and by virtue of divers acts of parliament, have t'.' exclu sive privilege of conveying passengers on the tiver Tnames limn Gravesend to the city of London, and that the citizens of leo:Alin& MA the like privilege of conveying passengers from the city to (:rays. end. These privileges had been exercised for neatly five eefituries, the Gravesend sailing boats having the right of taking passengers direct from the wharf at Billingsgate, without the intervention or small boats to put passengers on board. At length these szil.:•g boats and passage boats were superseded by the use of ,testa boats, which were at first introduced by strangers. The Pet:. tioners had expended a sum of between 20,0001. and 30 0001. in building steam vessels suitable to the passage, and those vessels had ever been moored within the boundaries of the City, in pur suance of their Charters. They prayed that they might now be allowed accommodation similar to that which had been obtained by the rn;rictors of St. Katharine's Dock, and that permission might be give , ' them to drive piles into the bed of the river for the ere.- dun of a temporary platform for the embarkation of passengers. Un less tl.is permission was given them, they would he obliged to step short of the City boundaries, to the griercus injury of the property of the Petitioners, to the great inconvenience of the citizens of Lon. don and of the public in general, and also to the destruction of ti.e ancient ferry. At half-put one o'clock the Navigation Committee, attended by the Nl'ater-bailif, the Harbour-master, and the City Surveyor, went in their barge to the spot where it is proposed to erect a temporary pier, opposite the east end of the Custom-house. Mr. Hall, the proprietor of the adjacent wharf, waited upon the Committee an.i asked of them permission to drive piles eleven feet beyond the pit, s at present placed there, which would make a projection of 71 fi from the side of the wharf. The CuAißmAx said the Committee were disposed to grant tLat space, but he wished to know how it could be mode use of. >:.,tr that distance still left a considerable space between thr uuttr p .t , and the vessels. Mr. HALL endeavoured to show that a platform might br pr.). jetted from a lighter or covered vessel, which was to be kept wit .1 the proposed piles, and that this platform might be made to rLAt ti the steam vessels. The details of the plan were, however, not I!' a. cured, and the Chairman professed his inability to understand it. Mr. MATTHEWS, the town clerk of Gravesend, said he attended on behalf of a body of freemen of that town, who were also citizens of London. Ile submitted that for the preservation of their ancient passage the corporation of London were bound to provide accom. modation for the embarkation of passengers, with the same safety and convenience that had always been insured in the case of the old passage boats. One of the committee observed, that the corporation had not the means of effecting every proposed improvement or alter, MT. MATTHEWS said, that rather titan allow pecuniary eon. siderations to be interposed as an obstacle to the improvement, the petitioners would undertake to make the erection at their own ex. pence. He did not disguise from the committee that they considend the improvement could not be effected, unless they were permitted Ito drive piles to the extent of low water mark, or thirty feet beyuttel the space usually occupied by vessels loading from the wharf. The CHAIRMAN said, they could not be allowed to do that 1 1 say means. Mr. MATTHEWS asked why they: were to be refused that per mission? The CHAIRM AN T have not time to go into that question 4t present; we have an appointment on public business to which w.. must attend. Mr. MATTI' Ewas.alut surely this bubinses is of no small 111. portance to the public, as well as to the body of petitioners whom I represent The Clumsiest—We shall, at the next meeting of the corn. mittee, take the petition into our grave consideration. Mr. Maenrxws..—Considerable delay will then be cleated, and further loss and mischief Le incurred, and the whole matter is now before the committee. The CHAIRMAN said that they could not wait to discuss it now Their time belonged to the public and was engaged. We understood him to say, in answer to a further pressing in quiry from Mr. Matthews, as to the ground for stating that per mission could not be given to drive piles down at the low water mark, that an impediment to the navigation must be the result. Mr. MATTHEws—But I trust that the convenience of a trw craft (for it is but a few boatmen that would be obliged to alter their course by about 30 feet) will not be put in competition w .01 the convenience and the peace and safety of the public. The CHAIRMAN said the parties would be heard on their peti tion and he could not now discuss the matter. Mr.MATTIIEWS said, those for whom he appeared had heard that there were adverse Interests in operation with respect to the St. Kie therine's Dock. He did not know who the parties were, whether they were citizens of London, or whether they were membets of th e Corporation ; but if they were members of the Corporation, be 'trusted that their duty to the public, and their sense ofjustiee., %%mild prevail over any private or sinister interests. The CHAIRMAN replied that the Committee would do their &icy. The Petitioners then left the Committee-barge, and were put ashore. The watermen on shore having learned what bad taken place, wire in high glee, end exclaimed, " they won't do us with their Pier.' It would appnr, from what has occurred, that we arc to have 3 continuance of the existing nuisance, inconvenience, and danger. At the late Meeting of the Burial Society, most of the company evinced their fitness to perform the part of mutes, nor w.!l there a word uttered calculated to disturb the decorum due to grave a subject. The late College of Physicians, in Ni r arwick-lane, has been converted into an immense brazier's manufictury, where many hammers are constantly at work as are attributed to the fabled rare of Vulcan. A GOOD JUDGE.—The into Chief Baron Thottl,,o7. being at an anise diner, where there was among th e comp.olv tippling Dignitary of the Church, remarked " that the wine e. , .t4 eery good." "Yes, my Lord, it is so," said the pastor of the Christian flock, "and I think a certain quantity of such bevetar,e cannot possibly do any man h arm a f ter a goo d d inner. " "Oh, to, Sir, by no means," replied the Baron, "it is the uncertain quantity that does all the mischief." NUPTIAL MONUMENTS.—At Rio de Janeiro, every society of foreigners has erected some public monument in hont.iir of the recent marriage of the Emperor with the Princess of Bavaria. The English residents have raised a triumphal arch on the squate of Acclamations ; the Portuguese, an obelisk on the square of co medy ; and the French, a pillar resembling that of the place Ven dome at Paris, though on a diminished scale, tun the squat, of St Antony. AN OmEx.—A fact is related in one of the Pa't papers (without note or comment,) which, if true, may hereafter be recalled to notice as " a cut ious coincidence"—at least, in the event of any serious mischief happening to the Bourbon dynasty, in coo. sequence of the present state of political affairs in France. It Is this—tbat thejleur-ds./ii which formed the apex of theJleche which surmounts the Pantheon, in Pais, has just been carried away by a clap of thunder! I HE BITER. BITTEN.—LBt WCek, a poor lad, au itinerant vendor °flues, braces, &c. was so:persevaingly labouring in his vocation in the streets of Lincoln, as to incur the displeasure of a man in office, who determined to put an end to his troublesome importunities. For this purpose he purchased a shilling's -worth of his braces, and immediately demanded the poor tr.:det's licence. To his grew surprise, the lad was prepared for him. The man in authority, who was prepared to punish, was chagrined at the disap pointment, and his braces being no longer of tr.e to him, he lifer, it to re-sell them at :a trifling reduction. The ready witted trader made the purchase, and hastened ton City 3lagisira c, before whew, he lodged an information against his customer, for hawking sithont a licence. The little officer was convicted in a penalty of 1111. was heartily laughed at into the batgain. INQUESTS BY AIR. CA IVES, OF LANG l'OßT.—.lt ilontacute, on Charles Godfrey, aged 27, who, on Vire:driest, 1) the 2d of June, was employed in quarrying stones for the use 01 Ott turnpike, and having prepared and set tire to a charge of powder for blowing a rock, and not having gone far enough when the explosion took place, a piece of the rock, about In pounds weight, fell upon his head, and he was killed on the spot, his skull being severely fractured. Verdict, " Accidentally killed."— At Crowcoltbe, on satutday last, on Sarah Reed, aged 17. De ceased had been living a few week with a farmer named Payne, at Little Quantock, and on the preceding Wednesday, in the morning, and up to dinner time, she appealed perfectly well ; at about one she sat down to dinner with the family, but it was ob. served she did not eat, and soon became sick, vomiting frequently ; at about four o'clock she complained of pain in her head, and 01. thirst. Mr. Payne_gaire her some mint tea, and also, in the e.turse of the albumen, a 'Mk eider mixed with water, and sent her to bed. The vomiting continued at intervals, and on Mrs. Pine (who append Nbs my kind towards her), going fate h bed. room between six and seven in the evening, having lab beg` few moments only, the found her dead. It did not appear that the de ceased had Wilma" thing of a poisonous mum, and the Jury returned a verdkt of •` Died by the vhdtatko et GoZu;,-1114 Herald.