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,NOE YESTERDAY. COURS4: Of EXCH. Anieterdarn C. k. 12 3 Oita at sight 12 0 Rotteidadi ....I U. II 4 Antoetp II 4 lisenbaltli ' U. 37 111 Alto,* 21 E. 37 1 Patio., 3 d ay s • sigh i 23 33 lAtto a U. 231.3 Bordtau x 23 $0 thello 7 0 Ft.ink. on )lain Ex. M. lel Peteestiticrli. ?We. 3 Us. 0 Vienne, effective H. 2,31. 111 9 Triode ditto 10 0 Piladrid I 'mill q Bilbao 331 Barcelona sa f rano 311 e fa f braltst II Leghorn 49 Once& 44t Venice n Malts. 0 .I§lnples. 401 Talent per oz. 122 Lisbon 111 Oporto n 1 Rio Janeiro.— 49 liable II Buenos Arm. 43i Dublin ' Cork 9 9 1. ' a ulA.lou, Pct OZ 2. u. d. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 ' Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons.— ... 0 0 0 Now Dollars 0 4 Ili !Inver in bats, stand 0 0 1 Cite nritilsh alrefsg. DRURY-LANE TIIEATRE. To-morrow, THURSDAY, Oct. tn. will be performed LOYC FOR LOVE. S.r Sampson Legend. Mr. wton; Valentine. Mr. Wallach, Fo- , - sight. Mr. tt damns; Scandal, Mr. Pergry ; Ben, Mr. Harley Tattle. Mr. Browne: Jeremy. Mr..). Russell. Angelica, Mrs. Davison; Mn.. Eusenebt, Mn.. Urger; Mr.. Frall, Mrs. Matra; bliss Prue, MAU Kelly. After whleb, VALENTINE AND ORSON. %ale/lUDs, Mr. Tinley Orson. sir. D. Smith. Princess Eglantine, Sinsthsua. CATE:VT-4 ARDEN TIE I EATRE. This tvesslsuv wumnil 4,Y. Oct. W. will be performed HE SCIIOOL FUR SCANDAI - Sir Peter resale, Mr.W. Farren: Joseph Surhice. Mr. Coupe - Char:es Surface, Mr. C. Eernble. Lady'resale, bliss Chaster. ANT which, CHARLES TIIE SECOND. Cherie* the Second. Mr. C. Kimble; Lord Rochester. Mr. Jones; Captain C. , pp, Mr. Fawcett. Mary, Atlas Helms. HAYMAIIKT:T 77IEATRE. Thie Evening. WEDNESCIM Ott. 111. wfil be performed QUITE CORRECT." Ite Principal Characters by Messrs. Vining. Raymond, and Lision; Mesdames Moyer, Egerton, P. Glover, and W.Clitrutd. After which PAUL PRY. The Prlnc!pal Characters by Metre. Williams and ston; Ws. Glover, Ml/4 P. Glover. and Madame Vestals. To conclude with THE SLESPINti DRAI.OHT. Popollno, Mr. Harley; Nonna, Mr.. Ilumby. • The BRITISH Paw econmencod publishing yesterday morn. big at tire o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, °crops' 19, 1823. The Express with the Paris Papers of Sunday did not reach town last night. We have received the Jamaica Courant of the Sth ult. The only intelligence it contains is relative to the measures now adopting in that island for the erection of additional places of worship. At a meeting of the General Committee of Superintendence, at Kingston, on the 16th of August, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL communicated IP message from the GOVERNOR, that " the inhabitants might confidently rely upon his Grace's best endeavours being employed in promoting the very laudable object which engaged their retention." The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, also stated, that in a personal interview, the Ihstrur had assured him, that " he would interest himself in furthering the wishes of the ir!-.abitants." There had been a considerable increase in the amount of the subscriptions, and the necessary steps had been taken for commencing the erection of the build ings. The colonists appear to be actuated by the best spirit, and to have undertaken the discharge of this duty with a warm and becoming zeal. It will have been teen by the band-bill posted on the walls, addressed to The operatives of Liverpool. and its neighbourhood, a coil of which we gave yesterday, In the letter of our 1 lier pool Correspondent, that the Com mittee of the Bradford Unim do not afford any encouraging expectation that harmony is likely soon to prevail. Their resources are becoming daily more insufficient, and their solicitation of aid from all quarters more pressing, but their temper abates nothing of its persistency. The more sensible awl reflective among them, it appears, are getting dissatisfied wick the general system of measures pursued the more acu►e party, and are well inclined in the to furl the standard of revolt, and to return to work their old employers. Messrs. liotstr.s and TEETER ccmplain as if the Members of the Union were most persecuted by the master-manufacturers ; but we , cannot see with what justice this cliarge is made. Thousands of men, women, and children," says their pla " are without employment, because they persisted in Jig 6d. a week to a Union Society, which had nothing .atever fur its object but the protection of the price of labour." This is a very plausible mode of putting the , tout it is by no means correct. The object of these Associators was to create a fund which should enable them maintaia themselves while they stopped the machinery the masters, and reduced them, if possible, by the prospect of utter ruin, to yield to theii demands. It is deception to call this protecting the price of labour, it ztortiag it : and the masters have manifestly no other means of breaking up this combination than by peremptorily , sing to receive into their employment any one known a party to it. If the workmen will give bowls, they take rubbers. If they will enter into confederacies, organise a Irian which has fur its objt t to force their iployers into subjection, they cannot, in common fair cry •ut against the means made use of by them to . it. 'They are tot warranted to complain of this reta liation, and to declare against it as " tyranny and oppres- Their own concerted resistance is, at least, as ty rannical in its principle, and u oppressive in its result, as measure they exclaim against ; added to which, they shouldspenember that it is the scheme first resorted to by themselves, that makes the counteraction of which they plain indispensable on the part of the masters. They would fain make themselves too strong to be governed, they must not expect to delude us into compassion for sufferings because they meet with a resistance that their hope of success. CITY. TUESDAY EVENING. we noticed yesterday, this was a close holyclay on Stock Exclanges ; and, although many jobbers as sembled on the Royal Exchange, still no real business was Consols fur the November Account were called, irally, 881. , a typographical error, Exchcq_uer Bills wore yeater reported, in our City article, at Z premium, instead of 4c., which was their price. :tract of a letter dated MeKiCtl, July 20:—" The fever severely a: Alvarado, and many of the crews of the 9asels that come in are sick and dying. The brig of war Aquila, that belonged to the squadron of the Asia, and left her at the Marian Islands, has touched at Santa f4rbara, in the United States, and said to sail for New ifolland; it is believed, however, that the crew (having to Commander) will take to piracy or else go to Chili, of !Lich Republic the greater part of the crew are natives." the date of the last advice', Mr. Monge, who was to have been ordered from the Republic of Chili, had red at Buenos .Ayres, on his return to France, having ecuted his commission of gaining exact intelligence of e state of the country. The constituent Congress of Peru has abolished the Or -3 of the Sun, which existed under the Provisional Go ernment. • SOUTH AMERICA. PROVINCES OF Tll' RIO DE LA PLATA. SAN 4rt.' AN.—The Executive of this Province has sub mitted to the Legislature a projct of law to serve as the basis of its constitution. It claims consideration for the justice of its principles. The following are among its prin cipal declarations : All authonty emannt•s from the people. Powers vested in public authofaics are granted constitutionally for the good of the people. Every man is the disposer of his own person, eacePting negtocs. Slavery shall shortly be abolished. Every one may think and talk freely on all subjects, and publish and circulate his opinions, without restriction, it another person is not thereby injurer. Every citizen has the Pole disposition of his property. Contributions shall only be exacted when voted by the represen tatives of the people. All citizens are alike subject to law, which alone shall en force obedience. In the eye of the law all men arc equal. No one shall be arrested but In cases provided by lar. The house of the citizen is his asylum, which shall not be forced, except by authority under the hand of A magistrate. The(atholic Apostolic Roman Religion is adopted voluntarily se the dominant religion the law shall provide for the main tenance of its ministers and altars. No person shall be molested in the public exercise of their reli gion of whatever kind. providtd they sustain the expenses thereof. The Executive must be Roman Catholics, as also three-fourths of the Legislature. San Juan, June 6, 1826. in a personal int " he would inter irhabitants." the amount of had been taken 1 ings. The cola spirit, and to hi with a warm am It will have walls, addressed neighbourhood, letter of our mittee of the Hu expectation that resources are Ix solicitation of a their temper abi sensible and ref dissatisfi,xl with • by the more a heart to furl tin with their old e ca,-rnplain as if L'..ter•ly persccu really cannot se " Thousands of • card, " are withi paying 6d. a we whatever fur its labour." This case, -hut it is b Aissociators was t^ maintain ther of the masters, prospect of utte pure deception t is eztortiag it: means of breakii refusing to sect 1 to be a party to '; must take rubb and organises p employers into I h 1 teas, tryout ai avoid it. 'They liation, and to t: sion." Theis of rannital in its p the measure the shouldowneraLr themselves, that ctimplain indispi would fain mak • but they must n their sufferings I airs their hope As we notice the Stock frisch sestbled on the • don.. Consols cemiraUy, 881. El a tYPagfal day reported, in ye to 4c., whirl 'Extract of al rites severely a vessels that core Aquila, that b left her at thi }arbsra, in th ifolland; it i.s •na Commander : which Ripublii At the date said to have be arrived at Buer executed his a the state of the The constitui der of the Sun, varnment. . • •411 THE GREEKS. The following is an extract of a private letter from Zante, dated September the loth. " Since I last wrote, has been here : he left me the enclosed letter, which, doubtless, will give von information on die state of Greece. His representations of the progress of the regular brigade, and of the spirit with which the Motcotes now take up their arms, are very flattering; and I do not in the least doubt that the Greeks will be able to recover all they have lost during the ensuing winter months. An arrival from Mains, represents that part of the Mores as bring completely free of Turks, and the na tives are quietly gathering their produce. The Turks of Patna made a descent on Monday on Gastouni, hut they entirely failed in their attempts at plunder, through the ac tive resistance of the population. The Turkish force con sisted of SOO cavalry, who afterwards retired to Patras. " The Missolonghiots make a most gallant defence, and even act on the offensive. The besieging army must ere long quit the siege, on account of the rainy season, which, is now commenced. A squadron of Greeks are blockading, the Gulf of Arta, and the lonian Government refuse clear ances for Prevesa. The Greek fleet, under Miaulis. pass-1 ed here from Missolnnghi towards the Levant, on Monday last, the sth inst. They are gone in search of &be Turks, who, it is now ascertained, have taken up their quarter. in Port Boodron, opposite the Isle of Rhodes. We hear no thing further respecting the Alexandrian fleet." (Evrn•ce OF ANOTHER LETTER FROM ZANTE, HATCH SEPTFHPER 8.) " I can only write to you a few lines from this hirbour, where I am confined in a most miserable cattle boat, the best conveyance from the Morea to Zante. The laws of quarantine are now exceedingly strict her:, die plague being at Motion, Coron, and Navarino—one of the bless ings brought to us by the Arabs. It has not, however, pe netrated among the Greeks ; on the contrary, Napoli, which is generally a very unhealthy place in summer, has been this year quite healthy, although containing at present more than fifty thousand people. " From Clarentza and Gastouni, where I shall go this night, I will write to you long details upon all the affairs of Greece. I intend also to proceed to Missolonghl, to ex amine closely the state of that place. Ibrahim Pacha, with five thousand men, marched from Tripolizza to Navarino, about twenty days ago, but, finding the plague there, he came back. On his return lie was surrounded by the Greeks, now collecting again under Colocotroni. It is ex pected that he cannot open his way without great loss. He had left at Tripolizza nearly 3,000 men, one part of which was placed at a mill two hours' march from the town ; thtse were attacked during the night, and all killed except a few who were taken prisoners. Nearly 2,500, including many wounded and sick, are strictly closed in Tripolizza, and if Ibrahim cannot relieve them soon, they must surrender for want of provisions. The Greeks are now in very good spirits, and ColocotronTs army, when I crossed the Mores five days ago, was between 12 and 14,000 strong, and was daily increasing, by the Moreotes-coming down from the mountains to join him. Their affairs in all quarters have assumed a favourable aspect. The Greeks are more united than they have ever been, and this eamsaign may be con sidered as approaching to a termination. The Frankfort Papers state that 4,430 francs, the pro duce of a ball given at Geneva on the 41st of September, have been remitted to the (;reek Committee in London. A Satiety has been formed at Lausanne, for the purpose of educating young Greeks, in concert with the Association already established in Paris. The King of Prussia was to leav2 Frankfort on the 13th, on a visit to his sister the Electress, at ‘Vilhelmsbad, and then proceed to Berlin, by way of Gotha and Erfurt. Colonel Gustaffson (ex-King of Sweden) was living in a very retired manner at Mayence, and had sunk into ob livion, when.the reply of M. Segue again drew upon him the public attention. His habits of life are peculiarly simple, unobtrusive, and exemplary ; and the respect of the public towards him has considerably increased, in con sequence of his having, while justifying himself, so nobly defended King Charles John. This philasopher has con stantly refused all the offers which the present King of Sweden and his friends have made to him; the persons with whom he most constantly associates are the Messrs. Humann, brothers of the French deputy, one a banker and the other vicar•general.—Paris Paper. The Stockholm Gazette states, that the affair of the ships of war has been finally arranged, so that they will be able to sail from Carlscrona.—The Editor of the Argus has given in his declaration respecting the insertion of the Arricle about the ships of war, and grounds Isis defence chiefly on the following argument, " That the Chancellor, according to the ordinance relative to the freedom of the press, is bound to confiscate all writings in foreign languages imported into Sweden, which contains any thing contrary to the 3d section of article loon that Ordinance. Now, as no foreign journal, not even the paper from which the article was taken, has been confiscated by the Chancellor, the Edi tor of the Argus considered this as a proof that the Chan cellor himself did not look upon this article as illegal, con sequently did not hesitate to insert it its his paper."-- - This is certainly a singular ground of defence, and will in some respects, we should think, prove embarrassing to the Swedish Government. A Russian Ordinance, that no person in the service of the State shall belong to a Secret Society, or 'Freemason's Lodge, has lately been extended to all individuals who are Candidates for degree! in the Russian Universities. AB Students, before they are admitted, are also to give a certi ficate that they do not belong to a Secret Society. Extract of a letter from Madeira, dated the 29th Sep tember :—" Lately savers' British vessels arriving here, from Lirerpool in particular, have invariably been put under quarantine, owing to their bills of health not being certified and endorsed by the Portuguese Consul. IVith out the ail documents (regularly signed, &c.) the vessels are not allowed to have any communication, until revi sited a second time by the health officers and doctors, &c. which not only causes great delay, but suNects the own ers to an extra expense of about M. sterling. Letters fiom Padang of the 3d of June state, that Col. Stuers, Commandant and Resident there, has returned from Bencoolen, after having passed a month in complet ing the organisation of that establishment. He has sent a commission' and troops to the other English establishments, Natal, Air Bangi, and Tahanooly, to organise them in the same manner as at Bencoolen. At Padang perfect tran quillity prevailed, and the season was healthy. The coast ing trade was very active, commerce flourishing, and the p expottations continually increasing. The interior of the island of Sumatra is now divided into two regencies.— Rotterdam Paper, Oct. 13. The amount of duties received at the Custom-house, Leith, for the quarter ending 10th instant, is 205,577/. 9s. lid. This, we believe, is the largest sum which has ever been collected, during an equal period, at auy port in Scotlaud.—Edidurgh SURREY THEATRE. This theatre still continues to be the favoured resort of all class.s, from the peer to the pessent. inclusive. The extraordinary baboon-imitator, M. Gouffe, is undoubtedly the chief attraction ; but the manager has not been satis fied to rest his hope on a single individual, however won derful his powers may be. The engagement of several new performers, in addition to what was previously a very excellent rorps dramatigue, has given the Surrey theatre a higher claim on public patronage, than it derived even ftom the tricks, the balancing., and the tunning round the gallery .of the Island Ape. Mr. Huntley. who is n Ion; established anti deserved favourite ; Mr. Vale, whose comic powers are far above mediocrity; Mr. Mortittur, who would do credit to a more important theatre; Mr. T. Clifford, Miss Louis, and Mr. Bryant, who is certainly one of the best, if not dna best Irishman en the stage, still con tinue to sustain their own popularity and the reputation of the Surrey Theatre several of the disbanded subalterns of Astley's have also recently made their appearance here; and, altogether every thing promises that the season will proceed as successfully as it commenced. Last evening, a new piece, in two acts, was produced, entitled .4 GAeop Bargain; or I ittle Misery and Lilac .211ise/de/: Its story is the very old and common-place one, of a lover who succeeds in bearing off " the lady of his love" from the charge of an avaricious and roguish guardian. As usual, for so laudable a purpose some dull tricks are invented, and in the end Old Guard!, is of course outwitted, and tie lovers become man and wife. The piece is prettily writ ten. and some lively incidents are introduced—while the scenery is, as it is always at this toeatre, very beautiful. The announcement of its intended repetition was received with a greater degree of applause titan is generally mani fested by an audience at a minor theatre, with whom it is generally a matter of course to let all productions, however wretched, pass muster, and who never dream of dealing that damnation which is dealt out so liberally at the greater houses. M. Gout& repeated hia redly astonishing per formanen. It is not ggnerally known that this individual, whose feats have obtained him so much notice, has several natural defects, Sibielr'one would imagine were highly de trimental to his professional greatness. He is very lame (one leg being much shorter than the other), his figure awkward; and by no means indicative of strength, some what near-sighted, and literally as deaf as a post. Not withstanding these misfortunes, his muscular strength, his surprising agility, and his admirable imitations of those cousin-germans of the human species, the baboons, excite the wonder, and we may add the admiration, of every be holder. The performances of the evening were terminated by a very excellent melo-draina, entitled Maurice, or the Mysterious Host, from the able and prJlLic pen of Mr. T. Dibdin. The Duke of Cumberland arrived at his apartments in the King's Palace, St. James's, about half-past six o'clock yesterday evening, its his travelling carriage and font-, from the Royal Lodge, Windsor Park, where his Ro}al High ness has been staying for some days on a visit to his Ma jesty. The son of Sir Walter Scott, now in Ireland with his regiment, has been lately appointed Aide-dc-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Sir It. Kerr l'orter will sail from Portsmouth to-morrow for Caraccas, in his Majesty's ship Pyramus, accompanied by his physician, Dr. Cox. The daughter of Sir R. K. Porter, whose mother is of the princely family of Tscher batow, has been raised to the rank of Nobility in Russia. Miss Foote dosed her engagement at Edinburgh on Sa turday night, to a very full house. During the twelve nights of her performance at Edinburgh, the theatre was well attended, and she was much applauded. NAVA I. A rem NTM N 7 s.—Lieutenant Arthur Brooking is appointed to the command of the Arrow, vice Powney, appointed to the King's yacht, on promotion. Lieutenant james Burney, of the Preventive Service at Gillingham, has been appointed to the Victory, in the room of Lieu tenent Robert Lowcay of that ship, who has accepted an appointment in the Preventive Service. Subscriptions have been entered into at Wolverhampton towatds the erection of an additional Church in that town, for the accominotlation of' the poor ; and the Honourable and Very Reverend the Dean has handsomely consented to wave his right in the patronage, in order more effectually to promote the undertaking. It appears that the Editor of the Chester Chronicle was excluded from the late dinner of the Cheshire Whig Club, for having last year reported somewhat too accurately one of the speeches delivered nporithat occasion. The Jamaica Courant of Sept. S, which we received yes terday, contains the following account of the Rev. Samuel Isbaki, Rabbi of the Jews of Jerusalem, who died at Kingston on the 2l ult. He was a native of the Holy Land, and had but recently arrived in this island ; he was both a learned and scientific man, and bad formerly at tended the Emperor of Morocco as a physician. He had also a knowledge of botany, having studied the peculiar qualities of the fruits of this island, from some of which he distilled wines amt cordials, and presented samples of the same to our Horticultural Society. Ilis residence was Je rusalem. Under the tyrannical sway of the now rulers of that once happy and still promised land, the remnant of the seed of Abraham residing there have been visited with the bitterest of Turkish persecution. Their temples and their altars have been violated, and the most conspicuous of the tribe are held in bondage, until certain requisitions' are complied with. The above personage, with four others of equal learning and respectability, had been deputed to visit Europe, the United States, and the West Indies, to appeal to their scattered brethren, elicit their sympathies, and ask in the name of the Almighty God, and for the sake of suffering humanity, succour and relief." At a recent corporation dinner, in a neighbouring city, one of the visitors, who haidistinguished himself no less in the field of battle than in the Senate, appropriately pro posed, as a toast—" May the man who has lost one eye in the service of his country never see distress with the other ;" but the person whose duty it was to announce the toast to the company, by omitting the word " distress," com pletely altered the meaning of the sentiment, and caused no small degree of merriment by the blunder.—Gloucterter Journal. RIVAL Lovans.—A fatal quarrel happened no Monday se'rinight, at Weston Wakes, Staffordshire. Two young men, farmers' sons, named Abel Smith and Thomas Bourne, met together at a friend's house: one of the party was a female, also of respectable parentage, whose favour, it rppears, both these young men aspired to obtain. In the course of the afternoon a walk was agreed upon, and, on the point which of the two should be favoured with the arm of the female in question, an altercation arose between the young men, which terminated by Bourne striking Smith a violent blow pn the aide, from the effect of which he died instantly. Verdict of the Coroner's Jury—" Man slaughter." It is slmewhat singular, that the female in question, who was the innocent cause of this melancholy event, had to mourn the loss of a former lover, with whom she wag on the eve of marriage, and whose death was oc casioned by the upsetting of a boat on Alsager Meer, not a long time JAMES WATT SOCIETT.—TIVO ruffians, in the garb, but, we trust, not of the rank, of gentlemen, lately cut and destroyed a beautiful and valuable painting of the justly celebrated Watt, by Fleming, a native artist, which hung up in the room where the Society hold their meetings—the James Watt Tavern in William-street. This painting was highly praised by the great Chantrey, the sculptor, when he visited Greenock, and was greatly prized by the Institu tion. An investigation is going on by the local authorities, which, if successful, will enable us to bold the genteel Vandals up to the hissing infamy they so well &se rre.— Gloszow Free Press. We are sorry to inform our readers that the typhus fever is raging in the suburbs of Carlisle, to a melancholy excess. There are several patients now lying in the House of Recovery, suffering under the affliction of that baneful disorder. The cholera inorbus, too, a disease the ravages of which are equal only to its severity, also prevails, espe cially among the working classes. The best preventives against the approach of these disorders are, cleanliness and sobriety in the former case, and a strict attention to proper food in the latter.--Carlisie Journal. A field of wheat in the parish of Winforton, Hereford shire, which was sawed in April last, was cut and carried before the 12th of Augnst, and the crop was an excellent one. LITERARY GLEANINGS. No. XLVIII. The following spirited and lively illustration of German manners exhibits very strongly the influence of women in moulding the moral and social character of men, and how much the condition of society suffers when they either ab stain from exercising that influence, or fail to make it re spected:— " I know you have an idea of the German women as a race of fair blue-eyed dames ; but these beauties, which in the north are predominant, share admiration in the south with hazel eyes, dark hair, and other charms of a soft, not a lively brunette. It is very rare to see a woman with deep black eyes or hair, or any thing sparkling, or strongly marked in her features. The complexion of the southern ' German women is far from beautiful. In the fairest wcmen it has often a thick sallow sort of tinge, the reverse of that transparent lustre of our countrywomen, which Doctor Do:eel:3 beautiful lines suit:— The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.' " Striking beauty is, in fact, not the forte of the fair Germans near the Ithine—but they have often fine eyes, pleasing voices, and a sentimental grace, and tenderness of manner, interesting because quite natural. All the charm of a German women, peculiar to herielf, centres in this.—ller deportment is often stiff and ungain—but her soft voice and kind sympathising manner give her a charm purely her own.—She seems moulded out of nature's softest materials—tenderness and sentiment appear to be her life. Unlike Pope's heroine, whom he would have only a softer man,' a German woman is purely and exclusively a woman. Iler looks, voice, manners, and conduct, place the soft supple qualities of her sex in a sort of exaggerated contrast with those of (Mrs. She appears more eager to captivate than to shine; to steal softly to the heart, than to ' take it by storm. It would be a mistake, however, to con- sider this a symptom of depth of sensibility. It is only ' the expression of that sort of indolent slowness, little ex cited by cultivation , which find s i n sent i ment the resource of an unoccupied mind. If this softness were merely one ' of the shifting weapons of a coquette, it would be intoller able—its bone fide sincerity in the German ladies makes it interesting, for a time. But the misfortune too often is, that this is not merely the graceful ornament, but the whole substance of character; it turns out that there is no solid base to support this pretty sentimental superstructure. 1 When it is discovered that the unvarying langottr is half want of tact and alacrity, and the perpetual coaxing often the resource of heavy intellect, these qualities lose half their first-sight graces. The poet, who has left us the finest picture of woman, gives her lowliness majestic,' anti obsequious majesty,'—but the German women are too apt to be lowly and obsequious witheut majesty. Their cha racter wants mere of the noun-substantive—they have too much suppleness even to be graceful. " But the softest clay most depends upon the moulding ; and education and corrupt manners must he charged with all the defects I have observed in the German women. Those of the upper, that is the noble classea, are brought up from the cradle under a sort of upper servant, dignified by the title of governess, and who generally couples with her higher functions, those of nursery-maid, housekeeper, and assistant at the toilette of the noble mamma. They learn to waltz, a little music, to speak French enough for use bye and bye at court, to make gowns, bonnets, and turbans. Their acquaintance with books rarely extends beyond sentimental romances and washy poems, and many a lady of no mean title writes neither French nor her own language with moderate correctness. Sixteen is the impor tant era when they emerge from this petty sphere to the full enjoyments of the court, to which they have looked for ward from infancy. Mamma is often a heavy, uninformed, or still worse, a coquctish and unscrupulous person, who little constrains her favourite speculations on sentiment, intrigue, or dress, before her attentive daughters. An old Baronness, with the reputation of ci-denant beauty and intrigues, entertained me on my first visit, and in the pre sence of two fair relations under twenty, with a suffi ciently intelligible history of her intimacy with one of my compatriots at a German court—he was a handsome man ; she had not seen him for many years—but she had his por trait—and for some time she was in regular correspondence with him. This W 45 related with an unconscious sang froid, and listened to, gravely, by the yottug ladies, as to a strain to which they were well Accustomed. " The example of almost all around them, their own mothers, or some of their moth ers ' d ear friends included, helps to finish the weak inflammable character which such an education has too frequently commenced. Sentiment, dress, coquetry, and frivolity reign sometimes by turns, but oftener with a sort of struggle for supremacy more tho roughly intoxicating to the head. The sentimental lady is nearly as fond of her toilette as her lover; anti the co quette who borrows the airs of sentiment is entrapped by her own weapons, and falls partly from soft-licarteduess, and partly to secure a conquest. 'the German women have, in fact, too much feeling to play the coquette with entire security—and not enough to resist playing it at all. " The education of the women of the bourgeoisie is much the same as that of the noble dames, with the exception of rarely speaking or understanding French. Sometimes they are sent to boarding-schools, an advantage which their rivals rarely enjoy, because the above-mentioned compound of gouvernonte, lady's maid, and housekeeper, proves a useful personage to a gay mother. The fair bourgeoises I have also the advantage of some rational, housekeeping occupations, which employ time and a tt en ti on . Wi t h t h e assistance of one slave of a servant they perform all the culinary and other business of the menage—and the fair hands which join with the court beaux once a fortnight at the Casino ball, would he found in a true Grisehla condi tion if their partners called the next morning to make in quiries. Domestic dishabille is not however entirely pe culiar to the bourgeoisie. On paying a visit of form one ' morning to a dignified CouNT, the grand master of a I small court, I found hi s residence on a second floor in a I by-street. A scullion hot from the kitchen showed me into a comfortless parlour, where the COUNTERS, in the absence of her spouse, met me in a half-adjusted coloured gown, a half-naked child squalling in her arms, and two or three more hanging about her. To 1- ve seen the Count bowing in full costume at court, you would have thought he could not breathe out of the tapestry walls of a palace. " This sort of anti-romantic drudgery, and their exclu sion from court gayeties, leave the city ladies open to fewer temptations than the noblesse. The men, too, are toiling in the public offices at the chancellery all the morning ; and in the evening, instead of the intriguing tea-drinkings of the nobles, a savoury supper must be prepared by their wives and daughters, the latter of whom often wait at table during the meal, and then take their seats with the coin pany, or enliven them with a little music on the piano, such as would do credit to our roost accomplished young ladies. I Still, however, many moments remain to the young dam eels for romance reading, picking up at third hand and de tailing court gosip, watching and imitating the beau monde, and rivaling in finery their fellow imitators. Their weak heads, too, arc often turned by the unprincipled attentions of the young nobles, wino (lance with them at the balls and amuse themselves with their affections, by way of change to the elegant insipidity of the court ladies. When danger falls in their way, they have not always more strength to oppose to it than others; but keep them out of harm's way, and they are kind wives and daughters, who mix up senti ment and drudgery with tolerable harmlessness. " If the obligations of' marriage (which, from the idle ness and poverty of the nobles, ie frequently a purely mer cenary engagement), had more influence than they can have in such a state of morals, the facility of obtaining di vorces affbrds an easy means of gratifying inclination with out offence to conscience. In the PROTLST•NT States mere alleged incompat,bility of disposition is a sufficient ground for procuring tin ; and the Cern macs remedy the strict prohibition of their religion, as to all points ex cept marrying again, by an arrangement called a separa tion de corps et de bias. " In cases of divorce the children are frequently divided, according to their sexes—the husband taking charge of the sons, and the wife of the daughters. The common stock of property is shared, by each party taking their own—a regulation which has sometimes the •effect of keeping to gether a restless pair, who would otherwise unhesitatingly break their shah's. A gallant officer of my acquaintance left behind him a pretty wife ou following the army in the Spanish campaign. On returning, after two years' absence, he found himself in possession of an increase of family, f ur which he had to thank a young student from the University. A divorce would have been the immediate remcdy,but th.at his wife bad brought him a considerable fortune, of which he would thus have kiw the enjoyment. He therefore put a gay face on the matter, and consoled himself by the phi. losoploical reflection—F/, Lien, si'no.femnneu en uncalin, mcsifeii of cu delis. This instance is in the class of the bourgeoisie. When I knew the lady, she was just ennobled and shining at court with her easy spouse. " The perfect phlegm aad indifference with which these arrangements are treated, and with which the parties con. cerned live together in society afterwards, are natural co p. sequences of their frequency, an d prove ;hat the ' Dotohl e Arrangement' of the Anti-Jacobin wits is hardly a poetical exaggeration. A friend of mine received a note from a lady of her acquaintance inviting herself to pass the even ing—but happening to exr.et, amongst others, the two former divorced husbands of the lady, out of re7rd for her feelings, she requested her to relay her visit. The hardy lady , however, immediately answered that she sus [wend the cause of the excuse, that she was much obliged by my friend's considerateness, but, it being quite unne cessary, she begged permission to be of the party. Sh e accordingly came, bringing her present husband to make up a friendly trio with her two former ones; and all par ties spent the evening most sociably and happily. This extraordinary apathy will he, in some degree, accountable, when you reflect that these husbands were, in fact, to this lady nothing more than two discarded lovers ; for marriage is thus literally a connexion as transitory as light, and in no respect more sacred or solemn. It is highly possible, indeed, that this easy fair one would not have. encountered lovers to whom site had not been united by decorous forms with so unconscious a coolness. But here site had no oc casion for reproaches of conscience—she had acted in com pliance with the received regulations of society—and merely availed herself of, the privilege they give of shifting hus bands as easily as &eines or residences. " No one can live in German society without being struck by the little consequence which tlie women appear to possess in it. This is, perhaps, at once the cause and consequence of the soft humility of manners which distin guishes them. From the peasant's wife who drudges in the fields and farm-yard, without shoes or stockings, to the noble ladies who are treated with a cool unceremoni ousness by the beaux in the saloons, they have all the air of submissive slavery. This will always be more or less the case in society where the women often want "f he awe About her as a guard angelic placed," with which virtue alone can invest them. But the respect which they thus lose is supplied by few of the little atten tions of gallantry. The women are neither treated. with the respect due to virtuous matrons, nor the incense paid to mistresses. The ceremony of standing hat in hand till dm lady you are talking to tells you to be covered, and ethers of a similar description, are old-fashioned formalities which mean nothing; but they enjoy none of those flatter ing attentions—those little sacrifices to comfort—which proceed from gallantry of feeling. In society the men talk.in clusters, sometimes for a whole evening; not, as in England, from an indolent mauvaise /mute, which admits, in the most striking way, the respect inspired by the fe males, but with an air of indifferent superiority which dis dains to submit to a gene for those whom it does not re spect. Loose, and frequently gross conversations, and oaths, are indulged in their presence, which they often suffer in silence, for went of dignity and influence to check them. The - want of gallantry goes the lettgth of net en tirely exempting the women from bumble observances of rank in the other sex. I have seen a pasty of ladies un easy, and hardly venturing to keep their seats, because a young Prince was on his legs in the circle; and a fair friend of mine, educated in a different school, was con sidered rude b ecause she declined requesting a presentation to the young junior sons of royalty, to whom the German ladies thought it necersaty to volunteer their formal obei sances. You will admit this is the height of anti-chival rous spirit. " The men are naturally losers in the grace of their own manners for their neglect of feminine influence. The rude manners, and savage huis ar h a bi ts, w hi c h you still sometimes fin d in the best society, have, in more civilized countries, vanished before the mild influence of the ladies: but in Germany they are not likely to be for some time in condition to banish sordid habits of debauchery, or to laugh tobacco and mustachios out of countenance. The fair ladies lament these habits ; and at Vienna they are beginning not to dance quite S 3 readily with a partner who smokes: but in the smaller circles it is sometimes the sentimental occu pation of the noble belle to furnish her lover with an ele gant embroidered bag for the tobacco, fungus, and tint, with which his pocket must be stored. " Do not suppose, however, that I have not n.et with many exceptions to tU character of uninformed and unstable senti. ment which is too often to be found in the German woolen. The same soft tempers, the same kindness of heart, which are now too often their ruin, in other instances produce models of domestic ter. derness and pure affection. The German women are all bat de. lightful domestic creatures. One laments that society has so much abused their qualities. In an improved state of morals they will be more than most women capable of solacing and sweetealng pri. sate lite. The fleeting triumphs of wit and the graces will always be monopolized by the more lively beauties of the south s but the fair Germans need by no means envy them; formed as they are by nature—it would be well if equally so by education and habit— for the quiet of the heart's affections, and the lap of domesec hap piness." THE COMPARISON. - Aa rising on its purple wing • The insect-queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kastunecr Invites the young pursuer near, • And leads hint on from flower to flower .at A weary chase and wasted hour, Ns Then leaves him, as it soars on high , With panting heart and tearful eye: So beauty lures the full grown child With hue as bright, and wing as wild; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in lolly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betrayed, ‘Voe waits the trisect and Mr ~raid, A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, or wan's caprice: The lovely toy so fiercely sought Has Inst its ehann by being caught, For every tomb that wooed its stay • Has brusli'd the brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone, "fist left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Alt ! where shall either victim lest ? Can this with faded pinion soar Frain rose to tulip as before ? Or, beauty blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects flattering by Neer droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's altame.—LorcrPoroc• --- WONDERFUL DOGS.—We read is an English Gazette of an act which would indicate a certain extent of reason in brutes. Mustapha, a strong and active greyhound, be longed to au artillerist of Dublin. Raised from its birth in the midst of camps, it always accompanied its master, and exhibited no alarm in the midst of battle. In the hottest engagements 'it remained near the cannon, and carried the match in its mouth. At the memorable battle of Fon tenoi, when we broke the square battalions of the Ilanoverians, the master of •filustapba received a mortal wound. At the mctuent when about to fire upon the enemy, he and several of his corps were struck to the earth bv . a discharge of artillery. Seeing his master extended hitless and bleeding, the dog became desperate and howled piteously. Just at that times body of French soldiers was advancing rapidly to gain possession of the piece, which was aimed at them frog:1111e top of a small rising ground. Who would believe it, if the fact was not attested by several witnesses, worthy of eredit. Doubt less, with a view to revenge his master's death, Mustapha seized the lighted match with his paws, and set fire to the cannon loaded with case shot ; seventy men fell on the spot, and the remainder took to Bight. After this bold stroke the dog laid down sadly near the dead body of its master, licked his wounds, and remained there twenty four hours without sustenance. Ile was at leng th with difficulty taken away by the comrad es o f th e deceased. This courageous greyhound was carried to London, and presented to George 11. who had him taken care of as a brave servant.—From f istare des Chien: Cdebres• ~.. r A