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TARA77IIIS. DRURY-LA NS. E i ger Monday is quite a day of theatrical celebrity in the metropolis. As all the " Lenten entertainments" have oar ed in the preceding week, the winter theatres, with their auxiliariev, the Ailelphi, Surrey, &c. re-open on the e vening eat this day with fresh splendor, and, as it were, with " new-horn beauties." Drury-lane has long enjovid a high reputation for the attractive novelties , t presents to itt patrous on such an occasion ; and let night it sui.taitied, and even enhanced the cele brity it enjoyed for scenic splendors and costly decorations. Macreaily appeared as f'irginerr, in the tragedy that tsars that title, a part which he has made so peculiarly his own, and which is one so admirably suited to asocial Ins defects, and to set off his merits to the utmost advan te4e, that it deserves the fullest and moat unqualified z ononentlation. Indeed there are parts of the performance ea beautifully pathetic and natural, that we almost hesitate to call it acting. His appeal to the multitude, in favour of his dau . ghter, was the viry soul and essence of popular oratory. T here is a vehemence sometimes in his delivery which redeems it from rant, by reason of the real in tensity of passion that accompanies it. Ile was warmly ere.eted on his entrance, and the performance through out was honoured with that loud and general applause which Mr. Macready in this part invariably calls forth.' If he were always to act so, Mr. Kean might well become , apprehensive ter his laurels. Indeed at present Mr. Mecrearly does not yield to him au undisputed superiority. We have seen him in parts rewarded by as loud and as de served applause ss this tragic king, who hitherto ruled su preme at Drury-lane. " insperinne ram ./use Label." A new grand mein-dramatic tale of enchantment, called Zorooater, or Me Nat.', of Mr Slur, was pro d uce d fur the first time after the play. Such pieces are not much pi our taste; but there is a portion of the play-going world who relish them, mid therefore they must be produced at Esiter, and other holiday seasons. Whilst they "put money in the purse" of the tr?asury of the theatre, they ate likely not to be discontinued, as the manager may fairly say-- That 'tis his !aridness to provide For people s taste, and not to guide; And with the nice and squeamish town That novelties alone go down.' To those who are admirers of such exhibitions, we can re commend Zwnnster, as exceeding in scenic embellishment any piece of this kind that has been brought out for Koine years at either of our theatres. The dialogue and plot are not remarkably clever, nor remarkably otherwise. Joshed, holiday entertainments of this description are got up with a view of introducing fine scenery, and therefore probably the talent of the writer is not the subject of legitimate criticism. (If the tomtit piece we understand the author to be Mr. Monerieff, who has been successful in higher departments of the drama, and who is the arch-manufac turer of Christmas and Easter melo-dramas at this tlwatre. 'Elie story of the Drury-lane and Covent-garden piceta are nearly similar. Gehir (Mr. IVallack) and Panting, the rightful heiress to the throne of Egypt, arc mutually at tached. They meet in the humble walk of life, but the power of enchantment soon raises Gebir from a lowly sta tion to the dignity of a princedom. In his exalted sphere of life he spurns her with whom in adversity he was wil ling to unite his destinies. Fortune veers, and she, its turn, in her teal character of Queen of Egypt rejects him. Va rious vicissitudes—tights, processions, &c. intervene, and, as may be expected, " love's young &cam" becomes a re ality, sad they are finally married. Bamina hi accompa nied by a female attendant (Miss Booth) ant Geier by a male attendaut, Mr. Harley, who is somewhat whimsically promuttsl fruits the rank of a swineherd to be Generalissimo of the Prince's army. The rise (Al Bonaparte was but slow promotion to tlw rapidity vs MI which a cottager here becomes a King and his servant a Field-Marshal. By a power "of having all Ilia wishes complied with," granted by Zortstifer, whose disciple It was, Gehir desires to be placed in the centre of the earth, and to have the most beautiful scenes of nature exhibited before him. Here an opportunity is taken of introducing a panoramic represeutation of the i :teat I besert, with Arab tents, the Sphynx and Pyramids, ruins of the great Temple: of Apollinopolis, Magna, Colossus of Rhodes, Bay of Naples, grand falls of Some of these are painted in a style of very superior execution, and they are all ad mirably calculated for scenic effect. We do not remember tohave seen a finer exemplification of perspective paitninitin scenery than was evinced in the ruins of Apollinopolis. The grand falls of 'Tivoli, with all their prowl anal classic recollections, sacred to the Muses, were exhi bited before us in a very correct and vivid resemblance. The view of fort St. Eltno was pleasing, hut the Bay of Naples and the mcompanying scenery were generally less picturesque than the Breakwater at Plymouth, and the sea-secrecy, in the late Nlelo-drante at this Theatre. The Egyptian customs, insignia, & c. were preserved throughout the piece with creditable accuracy, both in the dialogue and scenes, and the performers acquitted themselves of the little they had to do, in a light and a g reeable manner. Wallack was perhaps aoniewhat too iefined for an Egyp tian gentleman ; and much of Harley's comicality might be restrained, without impairing the effect of the piece. Alto:tether, however, there is much snore to admire than to cavil at, and Zioroaster will have, and deserves to have, a run. It was given out for repetition this et • g, amid general applause. The play-bills, announcing this piece, abound iii Greek, but a translation is embodied in the hills, far the benefit of the ladies, and of gentlemen, who either forget their Greek, or who may have never had the good fortune to know any. COVENT-GARDEN. Last night, after the comedy of the School of Reflrm, in which )slr. Rayner sustained the part of that odd , . pound of roguery and pit aching, thrown into the character . of 1 yke, the holiday folks were presented with a piece, 1 1 entitled in the play hills, .1 nt,lo-ilronnthe !ale of enehani ' meet, and called the Sperlif ophe Moon, or 11w laiimdalion of Me Nile. Upon productions of this description, otilf got up, as the theatrical phrase has it, to answer a tempo rary purpose—to make children laugh, and servants talk of the wonders they have seen at the play-house, it would be fastidious to inter into any minuteness of comment ; for, generally speaking, neither their merits nor defects deserve the labour of criticism. The persons frequenting the the atre at these festive twastms of the year arc eatistied with glare and noise ; and if their eyes and ears he both pleased, th-y look for nothing farther. In the nitio-dratita of last night the re were--spirits good and bail—shadows east by the son at noun-day—and gardens and pavilions seen by 1 foam-light- a.:veral fiirce encounters, which alternately trzeiksl the hopes and fears of the children—subterranean caverns, who-Je pillars were resplendent with brightness (strange as that may seem) ;—riiins, citadels, pavilions, and groves—all pass before the view in quick succession ; and /4 to do justice to the artists, were evauttil with very considerable ability. The Dramatis Personae is as fol lows : Zeraek (Usurper of the Throned s ,„ ~ ATI. of Egypt) - ...1 al . r ty. Barad (his ('untittinte) - - Mr. T. P. Cooke. Porn* - - - Mr. Horrelwow. Eteocles - - - Mr. Findley. Mina (asiimitsted Arabian Itoy) Miss Love. Zensain sod A gih (Arabians) - Mr. Henry and Master Roden. 1 0 Bonriesup (Or eseerof the Lands) Mr. Meadows. Shyoboarl (his Secretary) - - Mr. Louis. Timm Shrivel stitch la Tailor) Mr. Blanchard. :Mims (his man) . Mr. Barnes. Marmazetta (slave to Mires) . Mr. J. S. Grimaldi. Tin Prophetic Seer. or ;soothsayer. Mr. Chwtmisit. Leader of the Cwritrati - . Mr. J. Isaacs. Merchants . - - Mesars.'Flnney, Norris, Tett. I Moonbeam - - - Mauer Longhorn. r The Princess Zephina (Niece ,s to) MI ha the Late King . - . j '' 1 Antal' (an Arabian of the Free) .. ... , Tribe) 1 ABM. s using. Amaryllis Strelpimititch (the ) ~_ p Tallor's Wife) - - . j '"'• The story, or plot, of " the wale of enchantment," from what we could gather of it, is to this eft'ecL The empire of Egypt being seizsd by a Usurper, the rightful hr.r. as sisted by a prophetic seer, and following his counsel, joins a band of mt•rchants going with their merchandise to the Crest City, and there contrives to find admission into a a secret cavern, in which the Usurisi had deposited a quantity of treasure, and an enchanted bow and arrow,! upon whose safe possession depend at once his empire, his life, and the hand of a fair prince —niece to the monarch whose throne he bail usurped. The Princess, as is usual, was betrothed to another, and dislike] the I "suris.r, whom she slimed with a degree :if courage not often to he found among the ladies of the East. The rightful heir is also assisted by the confidant of the Usurper, and in the hour or peril betrays his master to obtain his mistreat. The Usurper, to secure his throne, devoted himself to some in fernal deity, and like most persona who make such bar-' gains, brought on himself his speedy and irretrievable de- 1 struetion. The minor incidents introduced to effect the downfall of theUxurper need no mention ; but in fairness we must say, that a henpecked tailor, and a blustering conceited overseer, found very amusing repesentatives in Mr. Blan chard and Mr. Meadows. Brief as the real story was, or as it might he made, there was an utter want of continuity in its parts, and the language of those Egyptians res.:midis' very closely that which is every day to he heard amongst the least educated portion of our own neighbours in and about this metropolis. There was dancing and singing an eagle who caught a doll, who was safely reposing on a couch, but afterwards happily divested of its prize. (The eagle, we understand, is to he handed over to the Bri tish Museum for the inspection of the curious, and the doll is be retained at the theatre, as the next source of our enchantment there.) There was a moving pano ramic view, in which men, and camels, and clouds moved with every been ' g respect to time and order ; and what, we own, startled us not a little was, that gardens, and pyramids, and castles, passed isysucceission before us ex actly to the same tune. However, we must not be over nice on these occasions. Some of the scenes were admir ably well painted,partieularly the "Reflux of the Nile when the Moon is at full, when the Waters are retiring from Egypt, anti the fabulous appearance of the Spirits of the Moon ; the Royal Gardens by Moonlight; the Pavilion of Ceres in the Festival, pr..vious to the sowing the Land with Corn ; and the Grove of Fate, which after wards changes to the Temple of Isis and ()sine." We can say little of the " tole of enchantment," which we must confess had no such influence upon i us, nor slid we throughout its performance hear any of those hearty lasighs and joyous applause*, even from the children, which we were wont to du on other occasions. The curtsin dial nut falLontil within a few minutes of one o'clock. Vb. Faris, innotmoed the repetition of the li r melo dame for this , amidst as ill-deserved 1 cries of " bravo and a nse, , , as we ever recollect to I have heard. There was bin new in the machinery, laud no interest whatmerts in the story ; there was, how ever, a fair portion of excellence in the pantomime of Mr. T. P. Cooke ; and the few tricks of' young Grimaldi reminded us of his inimitable father. We hope the tale of enchantment will du more for the treasury of Covent genie!' than it has done upon our justice, which can only afford us to say of it, that it was not a failure. The house was crowded at half-price. A I/ELPHI THEATRE. Mr. Henry's audience last night was not inconveniently nutiscrous, nor peculiarly channel,. It is, perhaps, with ' out the comeioumness of our readers, that this ingenious gentleman has for some time been sedulously employed "on mighty magic," and gaseous iocantations. In the exhibition of last night there was not even an attempt at novelty. A very dull apology for a very indefensible en ' tertainment was delivered by Mr. Henry, without hesita tion, anal tolerated by the audience for its scarcely attainable ' stupidity. " The force of nonsense could no further go." So thought the thin assembly ; but as Doctor Johnson says,‘Vliat are the thoughts of men or of women either? Mr. Henry's explanation of the properties of gam threw the preliminary notice into utter obscurity. In ' deed, "ignorance seemed a planet" over the professor. From the pit, however, there sprung forward several manly in halers of gas ; and to do the supplier justice, this part of Nlr. Henry's entertainment was well received. The effect • upon a Werter-faced looking man, who was the third to practice in the gas depar tment , was most amusing : he was suddenly cor.vernto an activity of frame that r strongly indicated perpetual motion, and the lad pirouetted I over the stage with a saliency which Charles Vestris might justly envy. Such are the achievementa of gas, chiefly I when administered by Mr. Henry. The tricks were clever. ' A satirical wag in the boxes was solicited by this gentle man to inscribe a few lines upon a piece of paper, and the rogue wrote at ten o'clock at night, " Be wise to-day." This incident mainly contributed to the merriment of the gallery. A gentleman, with a pen behind his ears, ex-j claimed, 'This is dies won, and the wit was cheered for his recollections of Master Monday. Thus, perhaps, ought the critic to feel. On such a night his praise should be Aespansed ; sod if he cannot speak favourably of the gtnuaements of the Satmrislia, he should preserve a discreet mad a Amorous silence. - We tannot panegyrise Mr. henry ; and it would be incompatible with the sentiments just expressed, to enter more fully upon his perform ' antes. SADLI:It'S IVELLS. This Theatre opened last night, and was as usual thronged at an early hour. The house has been much improved as to decoration and ornament since last season ; and from the patronage and favour always conferred by a certain portion of the public upon Sadler a Wells, we feel confident the manager will have no reason to regret hi■ expenditure, or to complain of the unkindness of his friends. After the Caledonian divertisement, called the Birth-Day, the melodrame of the African Shire was per formed. The frequenters of the minor theatres will re collect that this ',Wee was first performed and favourably received at the Surrey ; ■nd we venture to assert, that it has lost no interest in the representation by being trans planted. The great attraction of the night was of course the Pantomime, which abounded in Clowns and Colum bines, there being no fewer than six of these active anal necessary characters. The scenery was excellent, and ex hibited many well-known views of London. The audience manifested their approbation of the night's entertainment in the moat unequivocal manner. SURREY THEATRE. There is a more than usual goiet,' de emu,- apparent among the idlers at the Easter holidays ; for they are gene rally accompanied with tine weather, and all the cheerful recollections of spring. The Proprietors of Theatres greet them most welcomely, as a season that is likely to afford them a profitable harvest, and provide for them with due diligence. The Management at this Theatre has not only produced three new pieces for the holidays, but it has em ployed the short time afforded by the rec.‘s, for entirely re-embellishing the interior of the house, which has been done with great taste. The front of the boxes is now ornamented with rich gilded mouldings on a pink ground, and the upper part of them is fi nished with velvet drapery of the same colour. The proscenium has been retouched, mud the whole interior of the house has a brilliant effect. The first piece that was performed, ertitled 7'he Fire-Wor shippers., or thr Pariblim• of Pie Peril, is taken from Mr. Nhiore's pislai of the tonic name. The spectacle contains a great el, al of very splendid scenery, and affords oppor tunities for the introduction of several interesting inci dents, conneeted with the ancient Ghebers and their Arab conquerors. An unfortunate accident occurred at the end of the first act of the spectacle, in a scene where a real camel was brought upon the stage. In leading him out, he trod upon a trap-door, which gave way, and the poor animal ten through the aperture that had been occasioned by the bolts of the door breaking. Mr. Gallon, who was upon its back, threw himself on the stage and escaped un hurt ; but we regret to say, the camel died in great agonies in about half an hour after the accident happened. The Manager came forward, and requested the iniulgence of the audience in permitting him to curtail the last scene of the first act, in cons: quenee of the accident ' • which reason able request was of course acceded to. We understand that the camel had cost Mr. Williams, the proprietor of the theatre, above lon guineas. The scene of the next pier'', all vl Piqs is Madrid, or the Painter's Stsdy, is laid, as its name imports, in that country which is not more fertile in bigotry than it is in burlettas; it is a very lively production, and not a had version of the P.rtrait erreantra; the fun of which consists in the intrigues of chambermaids, and the ardour of two lovers, who each procure a living loan to represent the ghost of the poet. These living ghosts arc brought to the study of the paimer, for him to exercise his skill, which gives time, in the con fusion that arises, for one of the lovers to run away with his daughter. The last piece, entitled The Floating Bra.. eon, or Norwegian nee-kers, is a very pretty vehicle for conveying vantms incidents, characteristic of th e v a l our and feeling of British sailors. The dialogue is spirited, and the scenery very creditable to those who arc engaged in that &Fathom. The bonne was well tilled ; and, with the exception of a few minutes interruption in consequence of the accident we have noticed, the performances went off' Cliron ely well. (1)111'Illi THE %TRE. At this theatre. last night. an Easter treat was also pre set:tetl to the lielithay acdi um , and here the appear. &nee of the pit and gallery toured a ttarostg eantrast to the boxes. The two former were thrtifiged to excess, while the latter were completely deserted. The Weird Ironton of the Isle; or, Srollaas Ancient pugs, was the first piece performer', in which was exhibited some good scenery, but it was, iike its successor, made up, " for the most part, of inexplicable noise and dumb show." Ti^ acting of Mrs. Stanley, who performed a character imitative of Meg 3fer rilies, was, however, very superior, and worthy the ap plause of more discerning audi!ors. After the melo-drama followed a farce called Nothing- Like Lurk, though we could scarcely discover why it was so denominated. The hero of it is a garret-dwelling poet, whose uncle pays him a visit; and the plot of the piece consists in the entice- Yount of the nephew to receive the uncle properly ; which is done by cheating him of his venison, and sending his goals and chattels to another uncle—the pawnbroker. The third performance was The North Ale, so termed, we presume, because the North Pole is so much the subject of conversa tion at present. The piece opens with the vision of a Capt. Stedfast, who is about to visit the Polar regions, and who receives the pmmises not only of Neptune and Ilritannia, but of Fire, Air, Earth. Water, Summer, Winter, Spring, ' Autumn, and moreover of the East Wind, the ‘Vest Wind, the South Wind, and the North Wind, who each deliver a neat and appropriate speech on the occasion. This Cap tain, by-the-by, we neither see nor hear any thing of afterwards ; but we are introduced to another Captain, who, we are to imagine, has been wrecked on au island in the North Sea. His crew mutinies, deprive him of his savings of bread, and leave him and his chill to perish, while their ringleader takes oft' his wife, "because she is beautiful?' This is, in every sense of the word, a libel on the character of British seamen, and we were astonished that the audience could tamely sit and witness it. In the end, the Captain resolves on destroying himself, his wife, who haul been saved when the mutineers were drowned, in their attempt to escape, and his son: but at the moment he is about to precipitate himself and t}ten into the sea, a boat puts off from a distant vessel tettear bons from the shore. By attune very awkward management of the machinery, they had no 'warner got in than they were obliged to get out, for the boat would not stir with so heavy a cargo, and they very deliberately walked through the ocean to the island back again. Two men in red coats then come forward, to make preparations for the entrance of " u ship of immense size, fully rigged and warmed' (so said the play-bill) ; and this exhibition closed the amusement of the eveniug, and dismissed a must in dulgent and good-humoured audience from an Easter Monday's entertainment attheßorl Coburg Theatre. MEXICAN MINES. At the present moment, every thing that relates to the rising countries of South America becomes of peculiar in terest. We therefore copy the following remarks from the number of the Quarterly Review just publishes! : it is not surprising that in a climate tending to produce indo lence, and with a people of imaginations peculiarly ardent, the few instances of unmeasured success in mining should have more power to encourage, than the numerous but unnoticed instances of failure to deter from, such desperate adventures. The calamities that have recently fallen with their heaviest weight on mining, could never hive been contemplated by any who had embarked in those concerns. The most penetrating eye could nut have foreseen either the revolutionary storm, or its extent, fury and rapidity. With out, however, anticipating the narrative of the revolutionary events, we may quote the words of the minister Alaman, whom we before noticed. " Unfortunately the revolution of the year 1810 began in the districts in which the richest mines are situated, and their pro prietors were its first victims. By the massacre of some, by the ruin of others from the war and the excessive requisitions, by the scarcity of money, and the consequent want of utensils and neces saries to continue the works, they ceased as it were almost in • moment. The celebrated vein of Buantutuato, without its ores being impoverished, only gave out, in 1818, 1 8 0,000 mares of silver and 400 of gold, whereas its product before the year 1810, was greater than all the mines of Pent together, amounting to 6110,0110 mares of silver and 2,000 of gold. In the mint at Mexico, in 1021, there was coined only six million dollars, whereas, pre viously to 1010, from twenty-five to twenty-eight millions had been annually coined. The inundation of the mines has beat the inevitable consequence of their abandonment daring the war. The working of them cannot be resumed until the water has been dis charged ; and to effect that, the miners of Mexico, poor in the midst of riches, have neither the machines required to accomplish it, nor the capitals to procure them," The country is indebted for the Introduction of the improved processes, by which the precious metals have been chiefly separated front the ores in which they are contained, tot aerearation Gelled Tribunal General de la Nigeria t which selected the ablest of stu dents to visit ilia misting slissmiani and impala lir Inseirledge of new facts and scientific improvements. There INK two mode's of ope rating fur this purpose; the first, for a long time, was by the co ninon method of smelting. As firewood grew scarce in the mining districts, as the process of amalgamation became known, the ancient practices regularly declined, and the new method of separating the metals hum the ores advanced; this separation is effected by the adhesive property of mercury, attested by the aid of lime. sulphates, and other chemical ingredients, which increase the intensity of its action. As the quantity of silver that can be procured in this way de pends mainly on the supply of quicksilver ; as in times of war that supply was necessarily uncertain bo:h in quantity and Mig hty ; and as from us being a royal monopoly, the power of dis pensing it rested solely with the viceroy ; it became a subject of frequent intrigue in his court, and was generally distributed from favouritism or bribery. The mercury from the mine* of Istria was esteemed lets pure than that extracted from the mine of Almaden in Spain. By some of the viceroys this has been made a source of great wealth, as those who bribed him or his officers the highest could obtain the best mercury. The quantity of quicksilver de livered to the mitten bore such a proportion to the quantity or silver produced by them as was conceived to be a check on frauds in paying the duties. The products of thyme mines had gone on constantly increasing to the year 1010. Without giving the pro. duce of each year, the following table will chew with what degree of regularity the augmentation had proceeded. This account only shows the quantities which actually paid the duties ; but it is generally believed that, besides what was legally circulated, some portions were extracted by contraband means. The amount is given in dollars. IfyS - . 4.000,000 17811 - 20.000.0110 1728 - - 8,000,000 1795 . - 21.000.000 1 7 4 7 - - 12.0410,r00 1802 - 28,000,000 1776 - 18,1100,0041 11109 - - 28,0110.000 We have no precise data for the several years of confusion that have since followed. In a report from the city of Mexico, in 1813, it is stated that the amount of silver brought to the mint in the year 11111 was but three millions and a half ; and by another, that of the following year, that it amounted to two millions, which was partly from the requisitions made of all the plate of individuals and co tttttttt oath*. Front the opinion of those Mexicans, who are likely to be best informed of the state of their country, we have stone reason to conclude that the average annual product of the several years front 1813 to 11120, was nut more than from four to four and a half millions. In 1821, the duty on silver having been reduced from 17 to 3 per cent. in that year, partly owing to such reduction and partly to the appearance of security to property being restored, the amount of the precious metals increased to more than tire millions and a half, and in the next year, 1822, after I turbitle had been proclaimed Emperor, to seven millio is The future condition of this branch of industry, now that an abundant supply of quicksilver can be obtained and the duties are lowered, must be prospe a, when the government shall be no established as to al . - ford the necessary security to persons and property. Mr. Price, the respectable manager of the principal theatres in America, is now in London, engaging recruits for the entertainment of that flourishing country. lle is said to have engaged Kean, whom the Yank es arc most anxious to see once more amongst them. Liston has not yet been prevailed upon to accept an invitation, although very liberal offers have been made to him by th„. manager. Morton, th.• dramatic author, whose Children in the Wipud, Speed the Plough, Cure fa the Heart Aehe, Irny to get Married, &c. &c. were in their (lay more popular than any other modern theatrical productions, has retired to his villa, on the banks of the Thames, near Reading, in Berk shire, determined to write no more. NUPICALM KXTR•ONDIN A Bishop. who has been composer to Covent-garden for the last I years, at the end of this season removes to Drurv-lane, with a salary of rod. pt . r annum for three years.—ln looking over some new music at a foreign music warehouse, in SAG-square, we perceived some selections from Scott's bolt, of rhe Lake, translated into French, and set to music by the ce ebrated Balochi. This is a compliment seldom paid us y our contineatalneighbours._ _ _ _ 1:111 . ENWICII Fara.—Tlie fineness of the day on Sunday attracted a great number of persons to that scene of mirth and jollity. They seemed to feel much pleasure at the preparations made for visitors for the two succeeding days, via. a number of capacious booths, throws, &c. which no' doubt will prove attractive. Yesterday the weather being extremely tine, a large company of all sorts assembled, which perhaps was more than usually numerous, from the suppression of Stepney fair. Err' xa.—The fineness of yesterday morning induced a great number of persons to quit town at an early hour, in order to be present at the Easter hunt, on Epping Forest. Whitechapel-road was a moving panorama. Vehicles of every description were in a state of requisition, from that of Dusty Bob, in a dogcart, to the first-rate Corinthians, in curftcles. CAPT.IIN PARRY'S . 4 ikeoNb VOYAGE rot THE DISCOVERY or ♦ NORTII-WEST PASSAGE. l'he circumstances attending the death and burial of an Esquitnaux woman and her child ate extremely interest ing, as affinding an insight into the character of this ex traordinary ',tilde, as well as into some of their customs on this solemn occasion. They are thus Mite,' by Captain Lyon : The mother Pno.too-alook was about thirtysfive years of age, the child about three years—yet not wea n e d, an d a female; there was also another daughter Shega, about twelve or thirteen years of age, who all well as her lather was a most attemive nurse. My hopes were but small as far as concerned the mother, but the child was so patient that I hoped front its iluelity sum to accustom it to soups and nourishing food, 24 its only complaint was actual starves tion. I screened off a portion of my cabin, and arranged some bedding for them, in the same manner a. the Esquimau* do their own. IVarni broth, dry bedding, and d cornfottable uibin did wonders before evening, and our medical men gave me great hopes. As an introduction to a system or cleanliness, and preparatory to washing the sick who were in • most filthy state, I scrubbed Shega and her father front head to foot and tireiSfd them in new clothes. During the night I persuaded both mother and child, who were very restless and constantly moaning, to tape a few spoonfuls of soup. On the 'mooing of the 24th the woman ap pealed considerably improved, and she both spoke and ate a little. As she was covered with so thick a coating of dirt theft it could be taken off in scales, I obtained her assent to wash her face and hands a little before noon. The man and his daughter now came to my table to look at some things Iliad laid out to amuse them ; and after a few minutes Shega lifted the curtain to look at her me. ther, when she again let it fall, and tremblingly told us she wai dead. • The husband sighed heavily. the daughter burst Into tears, and the poor little infant made the moment more distreeing by calling in a plaintive tone on mother, by whose side it was lying. II determined on burying the woman on shore, and the husband was much pleased at my promising that the body should he drawn on a sledge by men in►tead of dogs; fur to our horror Takkelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keimooseuk, and that when he left the huts with his wife one was devouring the body all he passed it. Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to drew the dead body. and in the Rest place sttilmed 'his nose with dear's hair and put on his gloves, scenting unwilling chit his naked hand should come in contact with the corpse. I observed in this occupation his care that every article of dress should be as carefully placed as when his wife was living, and having drawn the boots on the wrong legs, h e pulled them oltagain and put them properly ; this ceremony finished, dos deceased was sewed up in a hammock, and at the husband's urgent request her face was left uncovered. An officer who wax present at the time agreed with me in fancying that the man, from his words and actions, intimated a wish that the living child might be en closed with its mother. We may have been mistaken, but there in an equal probability that we were right in Our conjecture; for, according to Crania and Egeile, the Greenlanders were in the habit of burying their motherless intents from a persuasion that they must otherwise starve to death, and also from being unable to bear the erica of the little ones while lingering for several days without sustenance; for no woman will give them any share of their milk which they consider as the exclusive property of their own offspring. Illy dogs being carefully tied up at the titan's re. quest, a party of our people accompanied by me drew the body to the shore, where we nettles grave about a foot deep, being unable to get lower on account of the frozen earth. The body was placed on its bark at the husband's request. and he then stepped into the grave and cut all the stitches of the hamtnock, although without throwing it open, seeming to imply that the dead should he left unconfined. I laid a woman's knife by the side of the body and we tilled up the grave, over which we also piled a quantity of heavy stones which no animal could remove. When all was done and we returned to the ship, the man lingered • few minutes behind us and repeated two or three sentences, as if addressing himself to his departed wife; he then silently followed. We found Shega quite composed and attending her little sister, between whose eye-brows she had made a spot with soot, which I learned was because being unweaned it must certainly die. During the night lily little charge called on its mother without intermission, yet the father slept as soundly until morning as if nothing had happened. All who saw my patient on the morning of the 25th gave me great hopes ; she could swallow easily, and was even strong enough to turn or sit upright without assistance, and in the forenoon slept very soundly. At DOOR the aster of the deceased, t Yotumtuak, with her husband and son, came to visit me. She had first gone to the Fury, and was laughing on deck, and at her own request was, taken below, not caring to hurry herself to come to the house of mourning. Even when she came to the Heck, she was in high spirits, laughing and capering on deck as if nothing hail happened. but on being shown to my cabin, where Shega, having heard of her arrival, was sitting crying in readiness, she began with her niece to howl most wolully. I however hut a stop to this ceremony, for such it certainly was, under the plea of its disturbing the child. The arrival of • pot of smobing walrus-flesh soon brough smiles on all faces but distal Takkeelikkeeta, who refused food and sat sighing deeply ; the others ate, chatted, and laughed, as if nothing but eating was worth thinking of. Dinner being over, I rec e iv e d thanks for haying the woman in such • way that " neither wolves, dogs, nortorta could dig her up and eat her," for all woe full of the story of Keintooseuk, and sago begged iota' of owe officers to, go 40 lONIA sad shoot the offending (Mgt A yoffitg woman named A bilk, sister to Ooyarra, was induced, idler much entreat and a very large present of b ea ds, to offer her breast to the sick child, but the poor little creature pushed it angrily away. Another woman was asked to do the same, but, although her child was half weaned, she flatly refused. The aunt of my little one seeming anxious to remain, and She ga being now slime, I invited her to slop the night. In the even ing the child took meat and jell, and sat up to help itself, but it soon after resumed its melancholy cry for its moth-v. At night my party had retired to sleep, yet I heard loud sighing occasion ally, and on lifting the curtain !saw Takkeelikkeeta standin g and looking mournfully at his child. I endeavoured to compose him. and hr promised to go to bed, but hearing him again sighing in a few minutes, I went and tOund the poor infant was dead, and that its father had been some time aware of it. He now told me it had seen its number the last time it called on her. and that she had beckoned it to Khil-la (Heaven), on which it instantly died. Ile said it was" good" that the child was gone, that no children out lived their mothers, and that the black spot which Shega had frequently renewed was quite auflicient to ensure the death of the infant. 3ly party made a hearty breakfast on the 26th, and I observed they did not scruple to lay the vessel containing the meat on the dead child, which I had wrapped In a blanket ; sod this unnatural table excited neither disgust nor any other feeling amongst them more than a block of wood could have done. We now tied up all the dogs as Takkeelikkeeta desired, and took the child about a quarter of a mile astern of the ships to bury it in the snow; for the father assured me that her mother would cry in her grave if sty weight of atones or earth pressed on her infant. She herself, he feared, had already felt pain from the monument of stones which we had laid upon her. The snow in which we dug the child's grave was not above a foot deep, yet we were not allotted to cut into the ice or even use any slabs of it in constructing the little tomb. The body wrapped in a blanket, and having the face un covered, being placed, the father put the slings by which its de calmed mother had carried it, on the right side, and in compliance with the Esquiniaux custom of burying toys and presents with their dead, I threw in some beads. A few loose sighs of snow were now placed io as to corer without touching the body, and' with this sery slight sepulchre the father was contented, although a fox could have dug through it In half a minute. We however added more snow. and contented all by pouring about twenty buck ets of water, which were brought from the ship, on vvery part of the mound. I remarked that before our task was completed the man turned and walked quietly to the ships. During the two last days, I obtained some information with re , 'meet to mourning ceremonies, or at all events such as related to the loss of a mother of a family ; three days were to be passed by the survivors without their walking out on the ice. performing any kind of work, or even having arty thing made for them. Washing is out of the question with Lsmitinaux at most times, hot now I was not allowed to perform the necessary ablutions of their hands and faces, however greasy or dirty they might be made by their food; the girl's hair was no; to be put in pig.tasla, and every thing was neglected; Takkeelikkeem was nut to go sealing until the summer. iVith the exception of an occasional sigh from the man, there were no more signs of grief; our mourners ate, drank, and were merry, and no one would have supposed they ever had wife, mother, or sister. 11'hen the three days, and it is singular that such should be the time. were expired, the man was to visit the grave; and having talked with his wife, all duties were to be considered as over. The _'Nth was our third day, but a heavy northerly gale and thick drift prevented our visiting the grave. The •29th, although not tine, was more moderate and I accompanied him at an early hour. Arriving at the grave, he anti ly walked up to it and carefully %ought for fisc.tracks on the snow, but finding none repeated to himself. .• wolves, no dogs, no loxes, thank ye, than ye." Ile now be;ran a conversation which he directed entirely to the grave, as if addressing his wile. lie called her twice by name, and twice told her how the wind was blowing, looking at the same time in the direction front whence the drift was coming. lie next broke forth into a low monotonous chaunt, and, keeping hi. eyes fixed on the gave, walked slowly round it in the direction of the sun four or five times, and at each circuit he stopped a few moments at the head. Ilia song was, however, uninterrupted. At , the expiration of about eight minutes he stoped. and. turning suddenly mood tome, exclaimed, " Tst„e•ica" (that's enough) and ' began walking back to the ship. In the song he ehauneed I could frequently distinguish the wont Aoyeana (thank you), and it was occasionally coupled with the Kahlounas. Two other expressions, both the names of the spirits or familiars of the A nnatko, Toetle mak, were used a few times; but the whole of the other words were perfectly unintelligible tome. I now sent :Mega and her father home, well clothed and in good ease. The week they had pained on board was sufficient time to have gained them theewte•nt of every one, for they were the most quiet, inoffensive beings I ever met with, and, to their great cre dit, they never once begged. 'rile man was remarkable for his ea- traorslinary fondness for treacle, sugar, salt, acids, and spruce_ beer, which the o.hers of the tribe could not even smell without disgust ; and he walked about to the different messes in hopes of being treated with these delicacies. Ethega was a timid, well-be. hared girl, and generally remained eating in my cabin, few I am conti.lunt of speakin:4 tar within bounds when I say she got through eight pounds of :lulu's per diem. As far as grati•ude could he chew❑ by Esquimau:, which is saying •• knyenna•• on receiving a present, ins friends was Sir!Slble of the attet.twas I had diem, • RICARDO LiTeTtlitES. At WWII Reams Mr. M`Culloch has found much Luger ae eittunodatiass, end a wore numetous company of Leann. Thom wit yeateMay rooming a greater proportion than mud of menelsent of the Legislature and other distinguished characters. ACCI! SI CLATIONOO CA PI TA Is. In the lest lecture he had explained the advantaiel of the dia. Bice of labour. Rut it must at once Appear manifest, that the ea tent and efficacy of the; divisive of labour must depcod upon Its accumulation of eapi.al. In proportion as capital wog Imi - untwisted. land its profits secured, would the raw material bi provided is larger quantities, and the numbers and varieties of labourite, I. increased. There its‘ In action and re-action he?ween Foal and the division of Jaipur. The division of lahotir facilitited the aeon muLttion of capital, and the accumulation of elpital extended the division of labour, and at the same time increased its efficacy The sidvantages of capital inereadng the pruduetivenew Of la. boor were of three kinds f-- I. It enabled us to produce commodities which we could sot otherwise produce. _ _ 2. It diiiiinished the labour required in the production of ar. ticks. 3. It enabled us to produce superior articles, it the Unit anis that it itruliend the producilol3 more expei.itious. Each of these divi.ions Mr. Ill`Cullioch explainied and illustrated by copious reference. to the various modes in which capital operated in rendering the industry of the labourer constant and effective, and in inventing and lying machinery. Without food and clothing, or what was circulating capital, the laboeter Mudd only work at what immediately produced the IleCeNSlliall of life. Without tools, iminumenta, and machinery, or what said called fixed capital, we could have no houses constructed, no ships built 4 and no clothes woven, le gime celebrated nations of antiquity, and among aemi•civilized molten nations, as in Mexico and Peru When discovered by the Spaniards, clothes were inantinatsured by raising up every thread of the warp with the linger, Ired Intro; ducing the wool. In this proem veers were spent in melaufac.: luring a piece of cloth, which the Itiout enabled us to manidinuti in as many days. It wan the accumulation of capital, and he se. plication to facilitate and lin:reek production, which tointitoted the distinction between the moat savage and the most ci.iliaed lion, an.' which marked every stage of the progress of • nation AVM barbarism to civibeation . The fine,t climate, the ticha , sea. the inching river., the moat examtiodious harb our!, end the &hint mines, were unavailhig without the advantages of !apical: 7* proposition he folty end eneeeinfoUy illinenutd, by beetreettligH. stated* Spain With that of the rioted Provinces. I Ile next proceeded to advert to the causes which *meted the , accumulation of capital. The love of saving, or the iseincipie Si frugality, was the foundation of capital. This passion was strongly implanted in our nature: it was the' first passion which awoke iit the breast, and the last which etpired. There Cu a disposition natural to evefy man to accumulate the surplus of his labour be. pond his wants. On particular days he might be desirous to speud, cat his general desire and habit weight Moline him to save. 'nib passion too, like all our other passions, acquired strength fiton gra. titication. The mote succee.fully a roan amassed capital, the mote carefully and zealously would he persevere in increasing ft. THE PROFITS OF BTOCK. Capital or stock was the produce of lamer induntii. The higher the ;matte derived from the applicition of this atutk to the , further production of articles for the necessities, ionveniences luxuries of life, the more the wealth of a nation wee The capital of a country was its wealth ; the circulating inediind was but a part of this capital. Upon the part lie would have oc. canton to dwell at a future stage o f hie course. The capital g this country had nut, he thought, been over-rated at t#o thousand nel4. lions; while the cireotivieg medium Was not dime than fifty mil. lions. The average profit of the capital of a 000ntry was the limn. meter by which its prosperity was ascertained. If any particular ' employment of capital was depressed, sail, if the average profits of stock were high, the prosperity of the country was not affected. ' But if the average profits were low aid falling, althou no parti cular pressure should be felt by any branch, the prosp erity of that country *as declining, dad poverty was undenummg all its re. source EFFECTS OF TAXATION UPON THE ACCUMULA• TION Or CAPITAL It dm a mistake, opinion of Mr. Malthus, thin she expenditure of the State promoted the wealth of individual'. As the passion of economy was increased by meccas, like owe other pasicona, the more of the profits of capital wereaccumulated, the bore the desire of increasing that accumulation was encouraged and strengthened; therefore, if the produce paid as taxes were left with the capitalist, the greater his wealth. ft was not necessity, but the pleasure of accumulating, which induced men to be economical_ Here Me. 311:1111°th pointed out and illustrated, with great feeling and power, the effects of poverty in perpetuating habits of waste end recklessness. Air. Dif'CuLt.ocw again meet ed to the natural ambition &wren to acquire fortune as the foundation of all prosperity. It had MX* gest,d the lint use of the rudest insruments which facilitate la. bour, and it influenced the accumulation of the largest capitals aril the employment of the most ingenious machinery " The hand of wan," says Colonel Tormns, " is not armed with any efficient natural instruments such aa the beak of the bird, or the claw of the quadruped, for operatim. directly upon the ma. terials presented to him ; but it is admirably adapted for asiaing/ and applying artificial instruments, and Inc employing the powers of one substance to produce the desired changes ix another. liens. almost all the grand results pf gqiulukWltifialt ti n ay AllkillPlUehi - about b# Whams of capital. 'Throughout the world Uwe ors no eery striking inequalities in the muttcular force by which dimet Igo hour is performed • and it is mainly owing to the differences lithe I quantity of capital, and in the skill with *hick' it is appliwk that in one country man is found baked and destitute, and that another all the rude productions of the earth, and alf the forces of nature, are made to contribute to his comfort and to augment his Por.er.", _ _ r Ile shortly adverted to the erect of credit. in giving the use tif capital to those who could employ it to the best advantage. Every facility ought therefore to be given to credit. But this subject hit would investigate mute fully in another part of the course of kci tures. Dr...smith, and others, had laid it down as the principal advantage of applying capital to labour, that it gave employment to inure la. bourera, nut that it increased the quantity of production. In bls next lecture he would inquire whether this opinion was or was net weil.fqunded. lie would also inquire into another opinion of Dr. Smith's, that agriculture was the most advantageous employment of capital, because nature there cooperated with human industry, and did not In any other production. This lecture, which was more popularly eloquent than any of the preceding, was very favourably received, and warmly applauded. SITTINGS OF THE COMMON PLEAS. Sittings appointed in Middles:: and London before the Right Hun. Sir Wiliiam Draper !test, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of In* Majestys Court of Coalition Pleas at Westusinster, in and after Easter Term, Dell— MIDDLEaLI. LONDON. • May $ Ii 21 lx TERM. Friday Friday . . Friday . . Wednesday . • )lay 7 I Saninloty 14 Saturday 21 Saturday 26 Thursday AFTER TERM. Tuesday . - Jur.e 1 Wednesday . . June 2 The court will sit at twelve on Nlay 7, 14. and 21; at one, )lay 8, 1.8, and 22; and half-past nine pruistly on earb of rho other days. Coaxs.—The hardness upon the tors, and other parts of the feet, are in gi neral too familiar to most of our read. e;s to require description. The cure, however, will be necessary to dwell a little upon. When corns become large and painful, th:•y ought to be pared closely down with a sharp knife or ranor, and the centre hard point de. Cached without giving pain. Previous to this opzraticm, the feet should be kept in warm water for half an hour, in order to soften the parts, to render them mote free to the knife ; a plaster composol of equal parts of compound galbanum plaster, and plaster of ammoniac, with mercury. spread upon linen, applied round the to;, and continue it upon it for a fortnight, when it should be taken off, the feat again badvel for half an hour in warm water, and the corns again cut, when a similar plaster should be ap. plied. Some have found great success in merely cutting the corns, as above th sci ilk'', and keeping their feet in warm water every night Cur a month ; cutting the corns whenever they appeared, but wearing no plaster. It is needless to mention that right shoes must not be wont.— , Medical Adriser. IPEOPLE AT BATTLIG—Our readers were apprised that on the 13th inst. there was to he a hearing at the bench at Battle, in StIVWX, of the complaints made by Mr. Cubbett against some lessees of tolls near to that town. On Tuesday last, therefore, the hearing came on before a full and most rtsp..'etable bench of Magistretra. Mr. C. wss unable to leave town ; his eldest son, Mr. Wen. Cobbett, attended the Ma. gist►ates in his 'teed, and by their permission stated to them the grot—eis of the complaints, and the evidemv in support of the allegations. The result was much the name as that which took place at ('ranbrook. Nevertheless there was one point on which the corn. plainant ventured to express an opinion different from that of the Bench, who, though they fined the parties, slid not fine them sufficiently to leave money enough iu the hands of the informer wholly to snake up for the sums tilr justly taken from the two carriers, for whose sakes solely the complaints had been made. Summonses were therefore demanded by Mr. W. ('obbctt against one of the toll. renters, in order to compel him to pay the full penalty of 31., and he is to appear before the Beath, at Battle, on Tuesday, the 27th inst. Nlaiyentsrea FANCY. —On Monday last a dinner was given at the Townhall T.evem , in thin town, to the champian Spring, when a handsome silver eup, with a suitable inacriptsora. and cmbleniatical decorations, which had been purchased by a subs script Ma of his friends in this town, wss resented to bias Sty thy I Chainnan—ManclAcster Gioirdien. I