Star. — London, England, 1829-10-15 00:00:00

F THE NEW TRAGEDY. Overdozed by the sickly Manna so often and so nau seously selected and prepared for us by those poisoners of healthy minds—stage Doctors MORTON and REYNOLDS, in the shape of melo-drama, caricatured opera, and " Comedies Larmoyantes," we were not a little pleased to learn their intentions of regaling us with that almost obsolete thing—a tragedy. Grateful for the will, how ever we might find the treat we last evening were at our post in Drury at an early hour. The Roman subject, we must confess, created strange misgivings with us— considering how much elevated genius was required to adventure upon that theme ; and, on the other hand, the long conversion of an English audience into very f roths, by the constant flimsy stuff of modern romantic anti-classic texture, founded on superstitious legends and feudal barbarism, which has reduced our stage to a mere amusement for the nursery and pastime for the Galleries. The view of the Roman toga instead of the eternal mystery in a Spanish cloak was hailed with a sentiment of extreme satisfaction, hoping, for once to escape our nightly tormentors, devils dancing, and Mr. Lee. The plot founded on the conspiracy of Piso, as related in the annals of Tacitus, we will forbear to reca pitulate; a happier subject could not have been selected, and the situations it affords hardly better conceived. Faithful to his stibject the Author, with a delicate and judicious taste, scrupulously adhered to the unities as far as the habits of our Stage would permit, discarding the eternal trick of action at the expence of mind, the small motive for the start and pause, the supernatural mystery and stale knack of rising up surprise upon surprise, he strictly maintained the chastity of the Roinan scene by which he has been ac cused by some of our bustle-enamoured con temporaries of penury in incident. Now we, who are somewhat mercurial in disposition, who detest the drowsy in composition as much as any of the very lively fellows who conduct the Press, cannot per ceive how the author could have given more movement to his piece, unless he had treated our contemporary cri tics with a song or two, a Ballet, or fire-works ; or, to be sure, Rome might have been actually seen burning with dioramic effect, instead of this interesting conflagration being confined to dull narrative. Roman firemen, wa ter-engines, and underwriters, might have given great life to the scene by running about the stage in the first act. In the second, Proculus might have added rape to outrage, upon which Epicharis might have rung all the bells, and the servants have been seen running all over the house in confusion and uproar. In the third act, in stead of Nero saying— lllid ber attend—end choose some Partbian slave From the last troop of captives, to endure The trial other skill. Let him be deal (For, cis my humour,) in a sumptuous vest, And place a regal diadem on his brow, That I may think 'tie Ttridates dies : Then bid my deftest minstrels stand around And sound their lutes, that so the fainting wretch Sigh forth his soul to music. Mr. PAUSLOZ, as the victim, might have been intro duced upon the stage to distort himself under the agonies of poison, and have died to the delectable music of the aforesaid composer of English Operas—Mr. Lee. In the ' fourth act, all the conspirators might have been hanged, wives, children, servants, and slaves, each upon their own family tree ; and the fifth act might have ended with Nero being blown up by a barrel of gunpowder, slily slipped by Epicharis under his splendid throne. But the author, enemy, it would seem, to variety, has contented himself by merely constructing an animated scene between the hero and heroine, illustrative of the warmest love and purest patriotism ; and a secret meet ing of turbulent conspirators, well marked in character, jealous of each other—only lotting the fate of Nero and of Rome. The second begins with a dialogue between the hero and a tame Casca-kind of a rugged Roman, thus introduced:— Theism 'What a scowl of discontent! His visage wears ! well may it. Hold, my friend ; What! deep in dudgeon ! come, I know thou longest To rail aloud—speak out—here's place and leisure. The next which follows shows an lago unmasl who uses violence, threatens the heroine with Nero, and exit—in rage ; whili she, given up by her lover in distraction, is left raving and fainting. In the third she is dragge d Nero, confronted with her accuser, who is sent to Coventry ; while she is first wooed by the tyrant, and naturally and in consequence imprisoned in his palace. Then we have another meeting of the conspirators,who quer rel with Flavius, draw their swords, bind him, and are about to massacre, when he is rescued by a troop of soldiers, who capture his assailants, and restore him to liberty. In the fourth act the plot thickens ; the leader Piso takes poison, raves, and dies, and Ruffus schemes the destruc tion of the hero. Then in the fifth we have the heroine newly racked, and in a dungeon, where she is secretly visited by her lover raving in despair. Then we have a funeral procession of the conspirators marching to the place of execution ; then Nero on his throne. Stabbing, poisoning, imprisonment, the rack and decapitation—the list of the dead being two suicides by poison, eight con spirators hanged and quartered, one stabbed, and the hero led off to torture and desperation. And yet our contemporaries vow there is no incident ! Why, what in the name of Tragedy and Vertigo do they expect for mere six shillings in two hours and a half ? Do they think the author and Mr. Price could kill a whole com pany for such a sum ? We recommend them to frequent the Surrey, or Motley's, if they really insist upon the beauties of incident. But, in spite of these guardians of dramatic chastity, these advocates of intellect over stage trick and panto mime, we maintain that incident richly pervades the whole piece, and that the situations are admirably con trived to inspire interest That the language does not correspond we grant with sorrowful regret; there are few flights of the imagination---no little abstract gem in de tail---no lines to cling to the memory ; the words are frequently of the merest common-place, in many parts spun to unnecessary length ; while a negligence .of construction breaking all harmony, forces recitation to halt so infelicitously. That the language occa sionally appears like meagre prose—for instance, the hero making an excursion from the immediate business of the scene, to compare himself to a broken pillar, kindly painted to assist the simile, thus expresses himself : See you that'broken pillar—'ds a type Of me. It stood unbroken and erect Once : now 'ds fallen. I will rest my limbs On its grey shaft ; and wait for my pursuers. Now the author, assuming the ornament of com parison, isms evidently meant to poetise; but a more areless sacrifice of smoothness could not have escaped on such a subject, or in •cone taste. Ti:' fivat scene com mences with How slow these dropping waters mark Time's flight To my impatient state! Still Flavius comes cot— He was not wont to linger. Yet I wrong him To think him changed in heart. Some secret care Absorbs him—would I shared it ! Flaying ! I am not yet thy bride ; I dare not a..k Thy confidence ; but when thou givest it, I will not prove unworthy of the trust. Would he were come ! Methinks I hear his step— The same poverty of poetic embellishment is again conspicuous here—mere matter of fact divided into the ten syllables, and is dragged on to a fatiguing length. The speeches are in general too long, and destitute of imagery; they .earwig the audience even to a feeling of impatience. Asper's " murrain on this idle time," might succeed amid the beauties of SHAKSPEARE—made excusable by his times; but we cannot swallow them for Roman now. And then again,---" A murrain seize them ! sheep in va lour." This might be very well in the mouth of a Roman shepherd ; but Casca Asper's model, has the art of being rude in another fashion, the conse crated sword is au unnecessary and ill-distributed pas sage, the tone of agony is every where too much pro longed. If Piso was made to suspend his speech with—" There raise a tablet, and on it write" sink ing suddenly to death—the vanity of his frustrated ambition would be powerfully and poetically felt, while the audience would be spared the disagreeable sobs and convulsions of the departing patient. There is - too much of the dungeon scene, and the unnecessaay pro cession of victims, to the extraordinary music of Roman funeral bells approaches the burlesque, it i 3 at least overcramming spectacle. The denouement, • fatal to the virtuous hero and heroine, while the curtain fails ' on the overdrawn Nero---seated in triumph on his throne, in all the panoply of state, is a monstrous infringement on dramatic justice. The Au thor might have been justified in taking a poet's licence, and have hurried the Don Miguel of ancient Rome to the insurrection which cost that monster his life. If, how ever, the Author has failed in the sublimer tone of ex alted tragedy, he, on the other hand has avoided bombast and fustian. His style, though broken, is manly, and affords ample scope for acting ; the characters were all strongly cast, and sustained with a power which agreeably surprised us—the piece, we are convinced, will hold its ground if well pruned, and something done to repair the vice of its con clusion. YOUNG was not young enough, and Miss PHILLIPS two young; she is not sufficiently masculine for die character. We shall return to the subject some other day. ••• • 0 TABLE TALK, HLTTORICAL, POLITICAL, LEARNED. e HUMOROUS. TOR THE STAR. pleasant without scurrility, witty without a:vim, auda cious without impudeney, learned without opiuion, and strange without heresy."--SuasuwAss. FATE OF TILE TIIIItD DOGE OF VENICE.—The first and second Doge governed with moderation and ability ; but the third gave the Venetians reason to repent that they had not confined the powers of their chief magistrate within narrower limits. After having served the State by his military talents, he endeavoured to enslave it—his projects were discovered ; but as the improvident people, in the last arrangement of their constitution, had pre served no legal remedy for such an evil, they were obliged to use the only means now in .their power : they assaulted the Doge in his palace, and put him to death without far ther ceremony.—Moore's Italy. FINANCIERS.—A person who had some small interest in the farming of the taxes, was one day pronouncing an eulogium upon the financers, maintaining that they were the support of the State, " Yes, " replied his antagonist, "as the rope supports the criminal—by hanging him." - - Charpentier. ROYAL REszsyrstEarr.—The Princess of Wales had been delivered of a second son. The Prince had intended his uncle the Duke of York, Bishop of Osnaburg, should, with his Majesty, be godfathers. Nothing could equal the indignation of his Royal Highness when the King named the Duke of Newcastle second sponsor, and would hear of no other. The christening took place, as usual, in the Princess's bed-chamber. Lady Suffolk, then in waiting, as woman of the bed-chamber, and of most ac curate memory, painted the scene to me exactly. On one side of the bed stood the godfathers and godmother ; on the other the Prince, and the Princess's Ladies. No sooner had the Bishop closed the ceremony, than the Prince, crossing the feet of the bed in a rage, stepped up to the Duke of Newcastle, and holding up his hand and forefinger in a menacing attitude, said, " You are a rascal, but I shall find you;" meaning, in broken English, " I shall find a time.; to be revenged."— Walpole's Remin- iscences. GAINING BY A Loss.—A political presence of mind fixad the celebrated Ruy Gomez, in the favor of Philip H.. of Spain. They were playing at primero, and at a time when a vast stake was on the board, the King cried out in ecstacy that he had the game in his hand; Ruy Gomez had superior cards, but flung them up and acquiesced. The next day, the other players told Philip how the affair had really been ; and the King not only made Gomez a liberal amends for what he had given up, but took him into his counsels, and intrusted him with his most secret plans.—Brantome. Vie de D. Juan d'Autriche. ORIGIN OF ROUND ROBIN.—It was customary among the ancients to write names, whether of the Gods, or of their friends, in a circle, that none might take offence at seeing another's name preferred to his own. The Cordeliers have formerly been known to pay the same attention to delicacy, and when a Pope has de manded the names of some priests of their order, that one might be raised to the purple, they have sent those names written circularly, that they might not seem to recommend one more than another. The race of sailors are the only people who preserve this very ancient cus tom in its purity ; for when any remonstrance is on foot among them, they sign it in a circle, and call it a Round Robin.—Andreivs. There is only one instance, we believe, on record, of a " Round Robin" without signatures. " THE HEAD OF GoLD."—Turgot Cattle one day to visit Voltaire in the house of the Marquis de Villette, when he was so much tormented by the gout that he had not the free use of his limbs. " Ah, M. Turgot," said Voltaire, " how do you do ?"—" I can scarcely walk for pain."—" Gentlemen!" cried Voltaire with enthusiasm, " I never see M. Target but I think I see Nebuchad nezzar's image." " Yes," Answered the Minister, " feet of clay."—" And the head of gold, the head of gold !" replied Voltaire. SAC/I0 PANZA.—III a comedy, by Dupeni, bearing the title of " Sancho Panes," the Duke says, at the be ginning of the third act, " I begin to get tired of San cho ;"--" So do I," said a wag in the pit, taking his hat. and walking out. This sealed the fate of the piece.— Cousin d'Avellette. • THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the teth (ist York North Riding) Regiment. and to the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Infantry, embarked on the 10th instant at Cork, on board the He rald steamer, for Liverpool, for the purpose of proceeding to join their respective service companies in the West Indies. The service companies belonging to the 6Stb (2cl York North Riding) Regiment of Foot, marched into Cork, from Fermoy, on the 10th instant, preparatory to their embarkation for the Writ Indies. A detachment belonging to the ed Battalion of the 60th (the Duke of York's own Rifle Corps) marched yesterday morning front London, for Portsmouth, to join the reserve companies of that battalion. A general Court-martial has been assembled during the bet week at Chatham, Major-General Hastings president, to inroad sa te the conduct of Lieutenant Peter Macfarlane, 16th Regl • Mein, respecting a disputed account with his agent., Messrs. Campbell and Co. and which has attracted very great attention among military men. The late Secretary of War, and also the present one, have been summoned to attend. Sir H. Hardinge ar rived on Thursday last to give his evidence, and returned again to town the same d ty—but be will be required to return for examina tion on the defence. The circumstances connected with this Court martial have turn upwards of six months under investigation. but the proceeding under the Court-martial did not commence till last week. A general district court-martial has al.o been assembled at Chatham, uf which Major Lachlan. 17th re Oirent. is president. The Lords of the Admiralty hive direct ed: a general court-mar tial to he held at the Royal Marine barracks, on Monday, for the trial of a corporal for striking an officer. Nil VAL IGENCE. Mates Aaiun° Tuts Dn.—Dubin. aterfurd I—Guernsey , 1 ; and Jersey 2. • The Amiable WI - noire, from Newcastle to Cherbourg, was lo.t near the Crosa Sand on the 11th iust. Crew saved. The Providence,Copeman, of Hull, was on shore near Mundesley yesterday. Crew saved. DUAL, OCT. 14.—Wind N.W.—The Thomas King, and Isa bella, cannot get their anchors, and remain. Sailed the Henry and Sarah. and Hebden. PoRTIMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind N.N.C.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Briton, from Lisbon. Sailed the Katharine Stewart Forbes, Canney, for New South Wales. It blew a gale last might at W. and has blown strong all this day front N.W. t► N.N B. PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 13.-IVind S.W.—Arrived from London, the John, Munro, for Berbice, and Seppings. Loader, for Ceylon. FALMOUTH, OCT. 13.—Wind W. Cane, On. 14.--s Arrived the John Meagan, Legget, from Smyrna. MARGATE, OCT. 14...-1/11 the port, the Nile, Storey, from Quebec. Doves, Oct. 14.—Off the port, the Prince Regent, from Hudson's Bay. lavearom., Ocr. 13.—Arrived the Gen. Wolfe, Stanworthy, and Jessie, Merry, from Quebec ; and Nestor. Yall, from Read gouchr. Off the post, the Rowena, --, from Savanilla. The Helvellyn, arrived bete front Haniburgh. fell in with, on the 10th inst. off Scilly, a foreign brig of ab9ut v.OO tons, with a man's bust head, sad a Prussian Eagle painted on the stern. She was nn her beam ends, and the spars and rigging listing round, and could not have been long in that state. Garamocc Ocr. 12. Arrived the Mary Ann, Wilson, from Grenada ; Romulus, Auld, and Stirling Castle, —, from Mira- Coax; Oct. 12.—Arrived the Hibernia, Mahoney, from Que bec, and Catherine, Mateo, from Gasper. The fine brig, Helen Douglas, Alexander Forrest, master. ar rived irons Richibucto at Annan- Water Foot, on the 11th instant, after a passige of 32 days. When Capt. Fos rest sailed from Rl chibucto, the Experiment and Tetry, of Maryport, bad commenced loading. During the whole season timber has been scarce, and prices on the advance. The snows th a t fell last winter covered the ground to the depth of about eight feet, and lay so long, that the lumberets were prevented front carrying the timber home. On the 16th of September, spoke the Juno, of Jersey, in lat. 46. lung. '5l. 50—same day, spoke the barque Newry, of Newry, in 46. 12. long. 50. 40. W. all well. LOSSES BY THE FLOODS. Returns have been made by several of the Gentlemen of Inverness and Moray Shires, who sustained losses by the late unprecedented floods, which sufficiently evince the extent of that great national calamity. We extract the following : Earl of Seafield—Damage done in loverness-abire, 6,0001. in Morayibire, 19,0001. loss in district roads and bridges, 6 001 . Duke of Gordon—Estimated damage of the crops of the tenants on his Grace's estate, 2,494 65.4 d. lands permanently ruined, or carried away. 10,5001. buildings destroyed, 1,5001. bulwarks and embankments to restrain and confine river Spey. and tributary streams, 2,0001—(No esti mate is made of the damage done to the parks in Gordon Castle, or the loss sustained on roads 16,494 6 4 and bridges. Mr. Grant, of Ballindalloch—Estate of Ballindal loch, 8,0001. Invereshie property, 5001 ... 8,500 0 0 Mr. Fraser, of Relig 5OO 0 0 46094 6 4 MISS ERMBLE. Aexcoorc or Mns Eassm.s.—" In the year 1818 I chanced to be at Boulogne-sur-Mee. and to he present on an occasion, at a seminary for young Ladies, when rewards and other tokens of approbation were publicly bestowed on those scholars who, by their attention and application to their several studies, bad most merited the palm of superiority through the preceding year. The ceremony is attended with coesiderable eclat, all the public func tionaries of the town, both Civil and Ecclesiastical, being present, and the Mayor and Prefect awarding the prises, such as books, little ornaments of the person, wreaths, &c. and on the occasion to which I allude, the successful candidate for these rewards, in every branch of education taught in the seminary, was a little English girl, only ail years of age, and named Mademoiselle FIWICAISII Kann& I shall never forget with what infantine grace and ele pace the little creature came forward on each succeeding occa sion that her name was pronounced, either to be crowned with a wreath or to receive a garland or a book, or other little reward. Her mother, Mrs. Cua eta Karatz, was present, and did not appear to be among the least delighted of the delighted auditory, at a scene so gratifying to her maternal feelings. Tears freq uently rolling down her cheeks, attested what tho s e feelin g s were: DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY INCENDIARIES. — We have already noticed some outrages that have been committed at Ardingly by the breaking of the windows of a newly-erected cottage, the property of the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, since which a still greater spirit of excitation has been evinced by the labouring poor of the above parish, owing to a report that their children were to be placed out to the farmers for a portion of years ; and as it was understood char the affair was to conic under the consideration of the Cockfield Vend: of Magi on Saturday week last, about 150 of them, armed with bludgeons, marched into the town, with the intention of opposing any such measure. They assumed a very threatening exterior, and auspicious arose that they intended an at tack' on certain obnoxious property which came Into the bands of Mr. Rogers, the tithe contractor. On Saturday motning it was discovered that the corn-barn and haystacks, 15 in number, with carts, threshing-machine, tarpaulin, lee. were on fire. The pro perty was totally consumed, and from the circumstance of partially burnt matches, as well as certain threatening letters, being also found there, there is but little doubt that the calamity was the work of incendiaries. It is conjectured that property to the amount of Xl,OOO or 8E1,400 has been thus wantonly destroyed.—Brighroo Guardian. Poisorturo.—Letitia of Charlton, sister to Mr. Mills, of Aklborough, made some dumplings, and seeing a small cup with flour in it, on the backbouse shelf, put in its contents. The flour in the cup was mixed with arsenic for the purpose of poisoning mice. The consequences are painful to relate : in spite of all medical aid, she died the same night in most excruciating agony; and Mr. Hearn, with whom she lived, partook of the deadly food and expired on Monday last. We hope this fatal oc currence will operate as a warning to all to keep poison in safer places. —B„ f ak THE PULPIT.--We are glad to perceive that a de-. tided improVement has been effected in the character of this very useful publication. In addition to full and accurate reports of ser mons, it comprises original essays ea interesting subjects of a lite rary description, review of books, analyses of the magazines, poetry, &c. anti now mid dies a well ted portrait of some poet r y - , character. This is the case with the number of this week, which has a beaudfal portrait of the late Rev. Samuel Crowther, to accompany a funeral sermon by the Rev. D. Wilson, A. H. a sermon by the deceased, an interesting biographical memoir, ac count of the (Unseal, Ste. It 1a said that in the Papal States, under the reign of Pius VI. from 1755 to 1800, there were no fewer than 18,000 persona assassinated ; being, upon the average, about two a day! BEDFORD,simr. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Reerahoit, Woburn, Beds. Oct. 13. Sir—There is a paragraph in your Paper of Saturday, 10th of October, concerning the Everaholt Charity. c:11- culated to make an unfavourable impression on the minds of the public by the implied charge of mal-administra tion which it seems to convey, and which is, as v-e hope to convince you, utterly unfounded. This Estate—consisting of a good farm, of a public house, and of several cottages, produces a yearly income of 1501. not 1321.* only, as you have erroneously stated. The manner in which this income to be applied by the Trustees is correctly given in your paper : let. For the Reparation of the, Parish Church. std. For the Relief of the Poor People. 3d. For the Aid and Ease of the Parish in their Common Town °tarps. These conditions, as required by the award, are now, and have been in preceding years, regularly observed. First,—By yearly payments to the Churchwardens for the reparation of the parish church, varying according to the ;unount of their reasonable demands. Secondly,—By a distribution on St. Thomas's Day of one hundred of coals, severally to one hundred po.tr funilies and upwards, together with a donation of one shilling to each separate family. Thirdly,—By furnishing cottages and rooms to twenty - orie poor families, some paying a small yearly rent. and others, the greater part of them occupying their tone nrnts rent-free. Up to the year 1807, the average yearly income of our Town-Estate did not exceed 801. In 1809, by an Act. of Inc!owe, heavy expences were necessarily incu.r.ll in order to improve the condition of the Town-Farm, and Off..e,, and also that of the Public-house. To ni4-ct these limands, the Trustees borrowed the sum of 56;1i. at five per cent. In 1823, four extensive repairs :IA improvements were made to the tower and the pari-,l;. church ; and upon this occasion, several payments, - geth , !r amounting to 1401. were advanced out of I,tt proceeds of the Town-Estate. The interest upon the debt of 5601. has been reguilly paid, and the principle is now reduced to 2501. The accounts of the charity recorded in our Tor. a - book, have long since received the sanction of two Com missioners appointed under the Act of Parliament thr t 1;.! inspection of Charities ; but if any scruple still remains on your mind unsatisfied, these accounts are at all times open for your investigation. We big leave to assure you that we are by no meati-; unfriendly to the just and benevolent motives which havt , urged you to your present undertaking, namely—" That of circulating, from time to time, Abstracts of Returns made to the House of Commons from the Charitable In stitutions throughout England"—and therefore cantle; conclude this letter without expressing our strong sense of the obligation we own to you, Sir, and to the public Journalists in general, for the ready means which tl y afford to the community at large, of obtaining a know • ledge of the administration of public charities, and of tl; legitimate purposes to which they are, or ought to applied. You will confer a kindness on the undersigned Trustees of the Eversholt Charity by giving this letter a place it: your widely extended Paper. We remain, Sir. your obedient servants, JAMES REED, Rector of Eversholt. G. VIYNTER, U. T. JAMES, Towninnen. • This is the sum returned to Parliament by Mr. TRIED PICA ass. -Editor , f Bras. THE TURN-OUT. We had the pleasure to announce, in a second edition of our last number, the termination of the long and harassing dis pute between the master cotton-spinners and their workmen, by the submission of the latter to the terms of their employers. That this would be the Issue of the turn - out it was not difficuh to fore see, and it is only to be regretted that the wotkmen should have persisted so long in a struggle which, from the first, appeared so hopeless, and which exposed them to much inconvenience, and many severe privations. Hut the sufferings of the spinners, unfor tunately, were not the only consequences of their unhappy reso lution. It brought great distress upon thousands of people who were scarcely, if at all, interested in the question. Men,women, and children, variously employed at weekly wages, were, as much against their consent as their Interest, at the same time deprived cal their means of support The very long period (of twelve years) which had elapsed since they last reduced the wages of their work people, may be considered a proof of the desire of the master spihners to give the best terms their business would afford ; and we have no doubt that the resolution to lower them was forced upon them by circumstances which they could nut controui. Nut while we admit the necessity of such a course, in the present in stance. we cannot shut our eyes to the evil consequences which the practice of reducing wages is calculated to bring not only upon the workmen, but eventually upon the spinners and manufacturers themselves. It is probable that the effect of the present reduction will be to cause a diminished expenditure of five hundred poun.!‘ per week; and, consequently, to the.sune extent, .there will be a diminished demand for fond and clothing. This is a serious evil; hut, if the reduced income of a thousand cotton-spinners can produce such an effect, what must be the Ines sustained by the trade and manufactures of the country from the present condition of the hand-loom weavers? Such considerations ought to be deeply impressed upon the mind of every master before be reduces the wages of his workmen ; but in the pressure of tem porary distress they arc unfortunately lost sight of, and the e - forts of the workman arc too generally made the first sacrific- to the exigencies of the moment. We are the advocates of high wages, because the prosperity of our manufactures must be pro pot tinned to the circumstances of the consumers; and as the lower orders form a large majority of the people, on the means which they possess to become purchasers must, in a great degree, depend the success of every branch of the national industry. We are per fectly sensible of the dithculties which, in the present state of our commerce, oppose themselves to an attempt to force up the remu neration of labour; but the considerations we have sug gested will, we hope, in some degree, tend top its further decline. Above all, we trust there is no foundation for a report which we'have heard, that it is the determination of the country spinners to make such reductions as will enable them to stand in the same relative situation to the Manchester spinners as that which forced 'Witter to lower the wages of their wookmen _jdatteseatee ountee. STATE fly 'f A DF.. —We are extremely glad to stile that the improvement which we mentioned in our last has, beets fully maintained, and we are glad to say it has been experie-ced most seniibly in a description of goods which most of all required it—namely, the inferior description of band-made calteors. We hope the improved demand for cloth of this description will enable the manufscturers to add a trifle to the very low wages which the weavers have of late received. The silk trade, too, has been ex tremely brisk this week ; and the warehouses of the manufacturers have been almost entirely cleared of their stocks of sonnets at,d gros de Naples ; indeed, the silk trade has been for some time no a • , healthy and promising state is this neighbourhood, and no want cat employment has been experienced amongst the weavers.—Mae. cheater Mercury. A person visiting Luton copied the following sitrular inscripdon from a gravestone there:— Reader, I've left a world in which I had a world to do ; Sweating and fretting to be rich, Just such a fool as you. The Rev. Dr. Goodwyn has bequeathal 1,000/. to the Surolk Hospital.—sr feint Hemel. STRAII CARR) AGE.—A series of interesting expo: i meats were made on Saturday, with a new Steam Car riage belonging to .Sonhilts ANDERSON, Bart. and W. H. Ism Es, Esq lhe Vauxhall, Kennington, and Clapham roads, with the view of ascertaining the practi cal advantages of some perfectly novel apparatus attached to the engines ; the results of which were so satisfactory, that the proprietors intend immediately establishing se veral stage coaches on the principle.