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toes, and thus, under proper management, supply work and food for theist who could not otherwise .get .employ meat—this, with some small assistance from a general county rate, to purchase comforts for the aged and infirm, would greatly contribute to the happiness of the country. " It is at all events most desirable to get rid of the re gularly practising vagrants is Ireland—a picturesque set of rogues, who are the promoters and abettors of all manner of immorality. These people, front the poor regular wit-to goes aboat to collect meat and potatoes in his bag, for the support of himself and his brother friars, down to the little beggar roman, who carries scandal and love messages, and steals chickens, from cottage to cottage, are cognisant of, or concerned in, every breach of the law, great or email, which is committed. Their profession gives them ready access into every cottage, or kitchen of a great house; and if a hou ;e is to he robbed, a young woman to be carried off, a stolen -beep killed, or any other of those romantic amuse ments so common in Ireland, to be pursued, the assistance of the v %grant is always ready, as a spy, or a messenger. Some of them are very temler-hearted. and faithful to their friends, but nevertheless, very great rogues, almost all." " Luther" is an eloquent and impassioned character and biography of that hero of the Re formation : it is of some length, but it is fr.r from being wearisome or heavy. " First and Last" is a quaint original anecdote, which to be appreciated must be attentively perused ; and The Modern Gyges," a tale, whose leading defectootwithstanding that it possesses passages of great force and descriptive merit, is its some what too voluptuous details of denuded Italian beauty. It is indeed, what its author terms it, a tale of trials, and cannot be read without a quickening pulse. It should therefore be only perused during a severe winter at the North Pole. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The idea of this periodical is very felicitous, and we doubt not will meet with corresponding success. It is addressed almost exclusively to the members of' the Army and Navy, with whom it has already, we understand, become a prodi gious favourite. With regard to its present chapter of contents, they are in the highest de gree amusing, comprising incident, anecdote, information serious and humorous, put forward in a pleasing unassuming manner. The first paper is entitled " The War in the East," and gives an intelligent account of the Emperor of Russia's late doubtful campaign against Turkey. The materials have evidently been gathered together by one who is well versed in the facts which he undertakes to describe, and have the merit of being penned in a simple, concise, and unaffected style. " The late Lieut.-Colonel Denham," is a spirited biography—the work clearly of a friend—of this late enterprising tra veller, whose recently published discoveries in Africa are so unusually captivating. " The storming of Badajos is a hasty animated sketch of one of the most terrific scenes imaginable ; to wit, the siege of a strongly fortified and brave garrison. We subjoin an extract : " Philipon, the Governor, a Frenchman, and our enem v, gave the full particulars of this affair to a friend of mine travelling in England ; he said that he thought the great expiegion would have finished the business, but he was astonished at the resolution of the British troops, and that they were fine fellows, and deserved a better fate. " The single musket shot, fired just as the forlorn hope descended the ditch, was a signal of their approach, which shows how determined the French were to have a good blow up, far not a ball- was fired before the explosion. 'he efforts of the garrison to preserve the place does them meets honour. Philipon was determined not to do as the Chwerner of Ciudad Rodrigo lead done, Had not the Duke of Wellington wisely planned the two extreme attacks by escalade, on the Castle by the third division, and on the south side of the town by part of the fifth division, and on Fort Pardoleros by the Portuguese, the result might have been very serious. Soudt was within a few leagues, and opposite General Sir R. Hill. Mermont had pushed his advanced dragoons as far as the ilridge of Boats at Villa Venue- ,and at length got entangled in the labyrinths of Portage', anal the river Guadiana was in our _rear. I have heard end read of setting down before a town, open ing trenches; &lowing up the counterscarp, and nil ac cording to rule ; but permit me to assure you that it was a crisis,' and dime was precious. When the French eoldiers found that the town was fauin by escalade on the south side, and that the Castle, situated ..en a high hill, was lust to them, they made an at tempt to re -take the latter by an old gage, leading towards the town ; ihett gate was pierced by their musketry in nemberless pla?e,'• I never saw a target beau. rovered with holes. The third division had in return twice dis which made two large holes, t. charged e gun through ,it, An 01 b ,ndspike was p ef e ed uuder its breech to depress it, and remained precisely in the e...'me way three days after wards. When I saw it I wondered what the third divi sion was about, to permit a small body of Frenchmen to make ste h an attempt, or at least to persist in it SO long en they t rust have done from the appearance of the gate; a n t i _I sh sold like to know farther particulars of the ee-ea lade or: ;hese terrifically high walls;—the scaling ledderv , were well pacerl, five quite close together, against an old round tower. Many slain soldiers had evidently, been pushed f.om off ti:e parapet, ants rolled nearly fifty yards down tl e kill ; some lay with heals battered to pieces, whilst o :hers were doubled up, looking scarcely lieu:Gee, and thei broken limbs twisted in all directions. " It was generally understood their first effort failed ; and that many of the enemy, contrary to Gen. Philipon's orders, evacuated the Castle, and went to asist at the breaches At this moment the Commanding Orrice: of the sth Reg went called on an Officer of his corps, ' There, you mount one ladder, and I will lead up the other. Come on sth, I am sure you will follow your Commanding Of ficer.' lie was killed, but the place was carried ! " Let ms pause and reflect that this act of heroism was executed after a long and fearful struggle, high walls and defeat staring them in the face. The third division then filled the Castle, and there remained until skylight. On the south side of the town, a brigade of the sth division, hearing the rolling fire at the breaches, became impatient, L ed with a simultaneous rush gained, by escalade, the top .f yhe walls, and even formed on the ramparts On seeing a 'lot, the cry of a mine was set up, and a eland panic en suing, t;:e enemy at the time charging forward at a run with fixer: bayonets and loud yells, these troops wee forced to give' ground. An Officer informed me that he had thrown him self over the ramparts to save the colours of his corps, whit: nearly surrounded by Wrench grena diers. This bold fel:ew had the choice of either being pinned to the wall, or the risk of breaking his neck.; he ..hose th e latter. However, .fortunately the rear regiment stood firm. Many of the eliie.my then precipitately aban doned the town, accompanied •by the Governor, armed the bridge, and shut themselves up in Fort St. Christeeral i on the other side of the Guadiana, and She next morning surrendered themselves prisoners of war. This brigade continued to be hotl,t engaged in the streets kßring the IC hole night. Some even asserted that many of the Spa niards fired from their windows on our troops, and held nut lights to guide the French ; knowing that their pro perty would fall a sacrifice should the town be taken. The • place was eventually completely sacked by our troops; every atom of furniture broke; beds ripped open in search of tferisure; and one street literally strewed with algid* Twee deep. A convent was in flames, and the poor was in dishabille, striving in vain to burrow thenassiess into some place of security ;• however, that weseimpossible ; xbe town was alive, and every house filled . with road soldiers, from the cellar to the one solitartgentlii: " When I examined the three tireaeheshy day, and wit nessed the defences the enemy had made far their protec tion, I was fully satisfied that they were impregneble to men ; acid 1 do declare, most positi4ly, that I could rant tine cur mounted the chsvaux-de l f;-ise, seen unopposed, in the day-time." The " Details of the Battle of Navin" are _g -gild spirited, but the substance of f ir.. ~;:tz - 0 little variation, Las, if we retnem -4;‘l# I ' ll " - '' — ' - Apeared before in the columns of 4 I t l6 d a ‘,.. ..7 ; taken as a whole, the present As amber of thi..**iazine does credit both to 4s ."..c.-F....itof - 41 : its Publisher, the former of whom \cci A . i .; ;enlisted among hie contributors, ...-, Miss Jane Porter, the highly popular authoress in the course of which he puts forth several per of the " Scottish Chiefs," and who has here tinent hints, our author proceedd to discuss c o mmunicated some particulars regarding the the breed of cattle in France, which he describes siege of Vienna by the Turks in 1683. ORIENTAL HERALD. The " Oriental Herald," owing, we presume, to I the unavoidable absence of Mr. Buckingham frc•.n London, offers this month but little scope IC, criticism, scarcely even for observation. Nine oit of ten of its articles are drawn confessedly fom other sources—they are in fact so many .eprints introduced by some slight introductory remark. The majority, as a matter of course, relate to India, and are chiefly of a local and sta tistic character, with the single exception, perhaps, of Mr. Buckingham's own account of a" Voyage from Bussorah down the river Euphrates to Bushire," a sketch which, though rapid, and somewhat desultory in matter, is vet characterized by all Mr. Buckingham's freshness and vivacity of description. When we say " vivacity" we would be understood to allude solely to vivacity of subject, for Mr. Buckingham's style and mode of expressing himself are any thing rather than vivacious or sparkling. A considerable portion of the present number is made up of ex tracts from the different Liverpool papers, de scriptive and eulogistic of Mr. Buckingham's lectures in that town, which appear by all ac counts to have been distinguished by informa tion and extensive practical experience in the subject, which of course had a reference to India. These lectures, when published, will no doubt be generally read and admired. " Character of Lord Byron,"—though the subject be so stale that we almost dread to revert to it—is yet an article worthy perusal, from the circumstance of its having been penned by the Countess Albriaii; a lady of rank and fortune, and high literary attainments, and one with whom the deceased Poet was intimately acquainted. The article is a translation from the Italian, and was first pub lished in the Bengal Chronicle, whence Mr. Buckingham has transferred it to the pages of his Herald." We give a specimen of its truth and accuracy of observation. " His face appeared tranquil like the ocean on a fine spring morning ; but, like it, in an instant became changed into the tempestuous and terrible, if a passion (a passion did I say ?) a thought, a word, occurred to disturb his mind. His eyes then lost all their sweetness, and sparkled so that it became difficult to look on them. So rapid a change would not have been thought possible ; but it was impossible to avoid acknowledging that the natural state of his mind was the tempestuous. " Wbat delighted him greatly one ;lay, annoyed him the next; and, whenever he appeared constant in the practise of any habits, it arose merely from the indifference, not to say contempt, in which he held them all ; whatever they might be, they were not worthy that he should occupy his thoughts with them. " His heart was highly sensitive, and suffered itself to be governed in an extraordinary degree by sympathy; but his imagination carried him away, and spoiled every thing. He believed in presages, and delighted in the re collection that he held this belief in common with Napo leon. It appeared that, in proportion as his intellectual education was cultivated, his moral education was ne— glected, and that he bad never suffered himself to know or observe other restraints than those imposed by his inclina tions. Nevertheless, who could believe that he had a constant and almost infantine timidity, of which the evi dences were so apparent as to render its existence indis putable, notwithstanding the difficulty experienced in as sociating with Lord Byron a sentiment which had the ap pearance of modesty. Conscious as he was that, wherever he presented himself, all eyes were fixed on him; and all lips, particularly those of the women, were opened to say, There he is, that is Lord Byron,'—he necessarily found himselfin the situation of an actor obliged to sue tain a character, and to render an account, not to others (for about them be gave himself no concern), but to hiM self, of his every action and word. This occasioned bin *feeling Of uneasiness which was obvious to every one. " Without a Hero to expect him on the opposite shore, he swam across the Hellespont, with the sole view of put ting an end to the controversy, whether or no it were poe sible ; and, is the same manner, he also crossed the rapid, and, in that respect, more dangerous, Tagus, at the broadest part of the river,—a feat on which he prided himself more than on the former ; and, as part of the same subject, I raay mention, that he was seen, on leaving a palace situated on the Great Canal, instead of entering into his gondo , a, to throw himself with his clothes on into the water, and swim to his house. On the following night, in order to avoid the risk he had the former evening rue of beige hurt by the numerous oars of the gondoliers, who, in their swift barks, were conveying home their mamters,— as one impatient of every obstacle, he was seen swimming across the same canal with his right arm, and molding, raised in his left hand, a small lamp with which to illumine his e, ay. ..tm.t the view of so strange a wanderer, .t is not poe ;ble to deecribe what was the astonishment of the o,e - arable gondoliers, who, stretched along the decks of ,r te, , rtem waited, singing the beautiful verses o:Ermina am I the Brrm,lipa, until the watchful rock should salute ti a morn,—the hour at which the eight-wandering Vene t in ladies are wont to betake themselves to their homes in immer. With his domestics, from whom he exacted -.c4reoly any thing, he was generous, good, and affe.ble : amoaga tig: rest, he always carried with him an old do mestic, beca4s,e J.e eaid he had been in the family when he as being even up to the present period, very degenerate. He then discusses the quality of the French silk InanJactures, remarking, en passant, that " the value of the silk annually worked up in France may now be taken at about six millions sterling." He concludes with the satisfactory observation, that " property of all kinds in France is now leaping in tranquil lity, the harvest whose seed was sown in the blood of the Revolution and whose growth has outstood the stormy wars of the empire." Hinboldt's " Political and Statistical Account of Cuba," is somewhat dry reading, but full of technical points of information on the subject. " Meyer on the Judicial Institutions of the principal Countries of Europe," is a paper of an enlarged and comprehensive character, it ad vocates, (for it dwells chiefly on the laws of England) a temperate and gradual reform, and on the subject of economy in time, makes the following sensible remarks:— " There is, however, another species of judicial eco nomy which can hardly be too highly rated, although there is often great difficulty as to the right means of en forcing it—the economy of time ; an article of inestimable value, and which we have sometimes heard most unjustly depreciated by being set down as of no account when weighed with the demands of strict and impartial justice. In one sense this is indeed an undeniable axiom—but by no means so when employed in that which it is' usually made to signify, when adduced as an apology either for indolent indifference on the part of the Judge, or for ego tistical proliiity on that of the advocate; and it is accord ingly a matter of well-known experience—not to name any of the present Judges, we refer to the state of lousiness in the Rolls Court during the time of Sir Williark Grant for our example—that the character of the Bench in fluences that of the Bar, and that the opinions entertained by the latter of the unremitting vigilance and strict atten tion exercised by the former, operates as a severer check upon the license of loose and disjointed talk, as well as upon, still more. blameable habits of practice, than any other consideration whatever It was the saying of 4 great Equity Judge, still presiding, that the first duty of an ad vocate is to the Court, the next to himself, and the third only to his client. Perhaps the order might have been well varied by placing self-respect as his highest obligation, and substituting the public (whose officer he is) in place of the Judge, as the second object of reverence. There is no question, we think, but that the client, peculiar as is the nature of his claim for defence and protection, must be content to cede the point of priority in favour of both the former It ought never to be absent from the mind, either of the Advocate or of the Judge, that every minute uselessly consumed in the hearing of a cause is so much of the public time unjustly taken from those whose property it is, and who have a direct right to the provident and thrifty administration of it." Oginski's Memoirs of Poland" is confined chiefly to detached accounts of that country of late years, under the Russian dynasty, in the course of which the Reviewer takes the oppor tunity of doing justice to the character of the late Emperor Alexander—who is the hero of the article—as one of the greatest benefactors of his extended empire. Derode's " New Theory of Harmony" is a scientific analysis of an able but too elaborate treatise on music ; to musical men it will of course be interesting, but is, we fear, caviare to the multitude. " Memoirs of Vi docq" is a light, easy, gossiping notice of a re markably diverting piece of autobiography. Our very circumscribed limits prevent us from saying more of the remaining articles than that they will, most of them, reward the labour of perusal. was born. "Lord Byron disliked his ocitutrimen, but only because he knew that his moral* were held in contempt by them. Ike F., kaglish themselves, rigid observers of family duties, could not pardon him the neglect of his, nor his trampling on principles; 1110efore, neither did he like being present ee to him, nor did they, 'specially when they had their wives with them, like to culawats his acquaintance. Still there was a strong desire in all of them to see him ; and ,the Avomen in particular, who did not dare to look ;t him b u t by stealth, said in an under-voice, What a pity it is!' if, however, are of his compatriots of exalted rank and of high reputAting was the first to treat him with cour tesy, he showed hinaselioWiously Battered by it, and was greatly pleased with such asso c iation. It seemed that to the wound which remained always open in 11i4 ulcerated heart, such soothing attentions were as drops of holing asiaa, which comforted him." FOREKIN QUARTERLY REVIEW. The present nurcher (the sixth) of this mos' promising Patagonian periodical, if it does nol abound in matter of a particularly interesting n 4. ture, is yet any thing but deficient on the score of sound practical information. In fact, it is the most useful number we have yet seen. The first paper, which is replete with sound, well• digested, and well-applied knowledge, gives an accurate .ccount of the " Arts and Manufactures in France"—the" growing prosperity" of which ,the author dates front the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in 1815. " The ravages," he obset“. , s, " made by the wars of the Revolution and .of the prnpire upon her population and wealth have bee: estimated, according to M. Dupin, at two millions of men and 600 millions ' of English money.. Every succeeding year pf peace is, however, healing these severe wounds ; private losses have been indemnified, houses and factories have bc.::.'n rebuilt, the cattle-and live stock are more numerous 0 4 1; ) } b efore the war, an d the population has been augmented, an thirteen -years, by two millions and a half of in habitants." After enteling into an estimate of the a gricultural produce of France, more especially as regards the culture of the vine, o n w hich he dwells at some length, and THE LONDON MAGAZINE. We behold, with much pleasure, the great and well-sustained improvement which has taken place in this very excellent Magazine. In poli tics it is liberal ; in matters of taste refined ; classical in its purely literary department ; and in its remarks upon men, manners, and things in general, every thing that a good periodical ought to be. The present number is distinguished by several articles of sterling merit. But as we would rather that our readers should draw their OWR individual conclusions from a perusal of their intrinsic beauties, we shall refrain from par ticularising. - But we cannot omit to notice with due approbation the very spirited article which opens the number. It is on that all-absorbing topic the approaching Session of Parliament, and dwells with grievous truth upon the merits of the greatest warrior of the age as a statesman and politician. The Catholic Question, as it must naturally engross a considerable portion of the ensuing session, engrosses the major part of this article, which also remarks upon the conduct of llis Grace with respect to that great question, the settle ment of which seems to have been deferred to give the crown of glory or disgrace to the only man in the empire fitted by a wonderful concatenation of circumstances to heal the wound of ages, by giving moral as well as political freedom to his country. If Alexander wept that he had no more worlds to conquer, the modern, but greater Alexander may weep with joy that he has only one world to conquer— and that world is within his grasp ! Can he omit to seize the precious—the tempting opportunity which places the crown of immortality on his brow ? We hope not for his Grace's own sake—we trust not for the honour of humanity— for tl sake of his country. It were indeed a pity that he who has achieved almdst all so gloriously, should hesitate to write with his own hand CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION upon the patent of his immortality. ' The following extract from the article in question is written with much spirit : " The celebrated letter of the Duke of Wellington Was intended, we doubt not, by its celebrated composer, to keep op that patient, forbearing, and expectant confidence, the existence which it was co much his interest to pro long. The attempt we must consider as eminently unfor tunate. The letter, as imitation of the speech, when com pared to it as a specimen of the jesuitical proficiency of the author, was a very inferior performance. It disclosed a great deal too much. At the first glance, indeed, the ap pearance of the letter was not such as at once to put to flight a',.l the sreeable hallucinations in which the Catho lics had been indulgt4. But if we examine its contents more closely, and advert to the statement of the difficulties of the question which are there presented to us by his Grae,e, and the singularly comical expedient by which he proposes to surmount them ; and, moreover, take hie acts and con duct as a commentary upon his expressions, so far from led to believe that the statesman, who could put suck sentiments upep caper af,•. the result of his meditations, had really at heart the final aettiument of the questioe, and with that object had been giving up his mind to the cos.. sideration of the means of attaining it, we find it a hard matter to persuade ourselves that either a final settlement of the question, the difficulties in its way, or the method of surimuati;:g these difficulties, have ever seriously occupied his Mind fit all. What difficulties? and what an expe dient? Party feeling and violence in discussion, foisooth, are the difficulties ! These are the impediments which are acid to paralyze the exertions of ' an upright and straight forward statesman ;' a ' man of coura g e and dec is i o n' ; ' of and united ad a Prime Minieter at the h ead of a firm ministration,' whose mind is made up upon the merits of 1 the question, and vehl anxious to witness a settlement, which, by benefiting the state, would confer a benefit upon every individual belonging to it !%—and delay !—a further time for a diligent consideration' of those difficulties, is the much sought after expedient ! when every day, every hour of that delay necessarily and inevitably increases that very violence and agitation of which he affects to complain. We say affects to 'complain ; for what conclusion are we to come to as to his sincerity, when his Grace alleges party spirit and violkce pervading every discussion of the question' as a much to be lamented difficulty : while he himself has been contemplating ever since the summer, and has at last carried into effect, a measure, which, be yond any event which has happened within this last twelve month, has tended to increase that very party feeling and violence which he laments as insuperable obstacles to Ca tholic Emancipation ! Instead of being engaged in the deep meditations and profound schemes which the romantic imaginations of our confident politicians had assigned as the benevolent occupations of a vigorous mind, bending all its energies towards effecting the restoration of the Ca tholics to the rights of British subjects, the Duke, as far as we have any evidence of his Grace's autumnal avocations, had been compassing and imagining, by all possible subtle devices, the recal of that nobleman, the permanency of whose administration as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was the best chance for the preservation of the tranquillity of that unhappy country;--studying and contriving how to purge his administration of the only remaining Minister whose high sense of honour and political integrity would not admit those considerations which are ever uppermost in the thoughts of low and narrow minded politicians, as an excuse fur the delay of a measure which is the founda tion upon which alone it is possible to build reasonable hopes of the tranquillity of Ireland; and as if anything were wanting to confirm our opinion as to his sincerity, appointing the Duke of Northumberland as the successor of Lord Anglesea. If, indeed, the recal of that Nobleman had arisen from any other error or disqualification than that of his being the honest, and, therefore, (in the Prime Minister's opinion) the too importunate advocate of the Catholics, which we have good reason to know that it did not, Why then not at least. endeavour to appoint some one else with similar opinions upon that important subject? Why, in making the first offer of the vacant post, has he gone amongst the ranks of the best known and most powerful of the anti-Catholics? Or, are we still to feed our hopes and cherish our expectations by the supposition that the selection of the Duke of Northumberland was the result of a determination of the Prime Minister to appoint the whole anti-Catholic aristocracy, one after the other, to the viceroyalty, for the purpose of conversion? Should this chance be the object of his Grace, however ingenious the scheme, we fear that, for his first experiment, the choice has been peculiarly unfortunate." ELEPHANT HUNTING. The following curious account of an elephant is related in the amusing " Memoirs of John Shipp, late Lieut. in 87th regiment :"—ln the year 1804, when we were in pursuit of Hoolkah, there was in our encampment a large elephant, used for the purpose of carrying tents for some of the European corps. It was the season in which they become most unmanageable, and his legs were consequently loaded with huge chains, and he was constantly watched by his keepers.' By day he was pretty passive, save when he saw one of his species, when he roared, and became violent, and during those moments of ungovern able phrenzy it was dangerous for his keepers to approach him, or to irritate his feelings by any epithets that might prove repugnant to him.— On the contrary, every endearing expression was used to soothe and appease him, which, with promises of sweetmeats, sometimes succeeded with the most turbulent to gain them to obedi ence, when coercive measures would have roused them to the most desperate acts of violence. By night, their extreme cunning told them that their keepers were not so watchful or vigilant. The elephant here alluded to, one dark night broke from his chains, and ran wild through the en campment, driving men, women, children, camels, horses, cows, and indeed every thing that could move, before him, and roaring and trumpeting with his trunk, which is with elephants a sure sign of displeasure, and that their usual docility has deserted them. Of course no reasonable beings disputed the road he chose to take : those that did soon found themselves floored. To re cord the mischief done by this infuriated animal, in his nocturnal ramble, would fill a much greater space than I can afford for such matter. Suffice it that,in his flight,followed by swordsmen and spears men, shouting and screaming, he pulleddown tents, upset every thing that impeded his way, wounded and injured many, and ultimately killed his keeper by a blow from his trunk. He was speared in some twenty places, which only in furiated him the more, and he struck away with his trunk at every thing before him. His roaring was terrific, and he frequently struck the ground in indication of his rage. The instant he had struck his keeper and found he did not rise, lie suddenly stopped, seemed concerned, looked at him with the eye of pity, and stood rivetted to the spot. He paused for some seconds, then ran towards the place from whence he had broken loose, and went quietly to his piquet, in front of which lay an infant, about two years old, the daughter of the keeper whom lie had killed. The elephant seized the child round the waist, as gently as its mother would, lifted it from the ground, and caressed and fondled it for some time, every beholder tiembling for its safety and e o x f p i e t c s ti n u g n fo e r v t e i r n y m m t e o mfaetit father r i t ;wouldbu but the share i lesa the sagacious fate ou s animal having turned the child round three times quietly laid it down again, and drew some cloth ing over it that had fallen off. After this it stood over the child with its eyes fixed on it, an d if I did not see the penitential tear start from its eye I have never seen it in my life. He then sub mitted to be re-chained by some other keepers, stood m otionless and dejected, and seemed sen sible that he had done a wrong he could not re pair. From this moment the animal became passive and quiet, and always seemed most de lighted when the little orphan was within its s i g ht. Often have I gone with others of the camp to see him fondling his little ad - opted ; but there was a visible alteration in his health after his keeper's death, and he fell away and died at Cawnpore six months afterwards : people well acquainted with the history of the elephant, and who know the story, did not scruple to say from fretting for his before favourite keeper." The Earl of Westmoreland came to town on Thursday from his seat at Aptlaorp, Northamptonshire, and left town the following day for Brighton. A correspondent, who had the curiosity to count the number of individuals passing into Dr. Monro's class-room, at var►ous periods •f yesterday, found them to amount to 68 per minute, or 4080 per hour. Assuming, what we really believe was the case, that this estimate would vary little during the whole six hours in which the doors were open, the total number who saw the body of the murderer must have been upwards of 24,000.--Edin. burgh Paper. PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELOPEMENT OP BuliKa.—Amativeness, very large. Philoprogenitivenass , full. Concentrativeness, deficient. Adhesiveness, full. cpal4ativener,*, large. Destructiveness, very large. Con structiveness, moderate. Acquisitiveness, large. Secre tiveness, large. Self•esteem, rather large. Love of ap probation, rather large. Cautiousness, rather large. Be nevolence, large. Veneration, large. Hope , sm all. Ideality, small. Conscientiousness, rather large. Firm ness, large. Individuality, upper, moderate. Ditto, lower, full. Form, full. Size, ditto. Weight, ditto. Colour, ditto. Locality t ditto. Order, ditto. Time deficient.— Number, full. Tune, moderate. Language, full. Com ' parbion, full. Casuality, r ath er l arge. Wit, deAeitnt.— Imitation, Paper. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1829. His MAJESTY holds a Council, this day, at Windsor Castle, at which the Speech to be de livered on Thursday next will be submitted for his MAJESTY'S approval. Many a longing eye—many an anxious heart, looks forward with trembling solicitude to that Speech, to learn if justice is at length to be done to Ireland. We trust most sincerely that Ministers have been awakened to a sense of their duty as well to the KING as to his people, by recommending a final settlement of that great—that all-important ques tion-.—a question in which, of all others, our weakness or power, as an united people, is so much involved. Upon this subject, the Times of this morning remarks : " As the opening of Parliament approaches, the public expectation becomes more intense with regard to the mode in which the great measure of emancipation will be announced by his MAJESTY'S Ministers. That emancipation will be proposed to Parliament by the Duke of Wet- LINGTONin the ensuing Session, we have no more doubt than of our own existence. When we pen this brief prediction of an ocearrence whose consequences will be beneficially felt by English men and Irishmen to the remotest generations, our readers may be assured that on the " corning even t" we do not speak but from conviction." It is again whispered that an Ambassador Extraordinary is to be sent from this country to Constantinople. Hamburgh Papers of the 27th ult. have been received. The cold in Russia, and all parts of Germany, has been very excessive : HAMBURGH, JAN. 27. BORSEN HALLS, rout o'crocx.—Funds were dull yes terday, but have recovered to .day. Austrian Bank Shares come nearly one per cent. better from Vienna, having risen from 1092 to 1101. This rise was occasioned by a report that the French and English Ambassadors were already on the way to Constantinople. 13ills on London are rising. Discount 2J per cent. money. End ofJanuary. Ant-la-Danish Loan, 3 per cent Anglo-Russian Loan 9l Haanburgh-Ru6sian Loan Anglo-Prussia* Loan of 1318 99 Austrian Bank Shares 110= Anglian Metalliques BERLIN, JAN. 25. In the interior of Russia the cold is from 23 deg. to 30 deg. (Resumer), and this winter is reckoned one o: the most severe. tdoscovf*.AAN. 1, (18.) We have received the melancholy news that General Count Paskewitsch Erivanski is ill of a bad fever, and that his life is in danger. A courier who has arrived here from Mount Caucasus says, that on the 29th October (Nov. 10) the cold in those countries was 14 deg., so that all the rivers were covered with thick ice in twenty four hours, and the courier was able to walk over and draw his baggage after him on a small sledge. Here (at Berlin) the cold is very severe, the thermoane ter being at 24. CRACOW), JAW. 12. Within these few days the news has been spread here that the second Russian grand army, under the command of Field-Marshal the Count of Osten Sacken, has re ceived orders to march to the southern provinces of the Russian empire. The Journal of St. Petersburgh of the 17th ult. is highly indignant at the false reports cir culated by the German and other Journals re specting the losses sustained during the last campaign, as well as the state of the Russian finances. If we may credit the following, both arc in a prosperous condition. The war has been successful, and the finances were never better : ST. PETERSBUIIGH, JAN. 4. The malevolence of certain Journals, which take delight in inventing disasters of all kinds, which the Russian army is stated to have suffered during the present war, is not contented with preteaded military events, to the disd vantage of that power. This disposition extends to ode finances, which many of them endeavour to represent in the most unfavourable light. 7 hey have lately announced, repeatedly, that a loan of 100 millions had just been openel at Paris, in the name of Russia, and have even named the agents to whom the negotiation was entrusted. We feel it our duty to contradict this news, as wholly false and un' founded. The moderate sum to which Russia limited ite last loan in Holland, in September, MS, even reserving to itself the option to take only a part of it, sufficiently proves the prosperous state of its finances, and shows 1 1 neither needs nor intends at this moment to contract fresh Dana. Foreign capitalists, however, know what they have to think on this subject. We learn that Messrs. Hope aot Co., the negotiators of the above loan, opened the second series at the beginning of this month at 99, that is on Oil same terms as those at which the first series was quickll filled up. This fact is a sufficient answer to the fatsg statemeets which we have noticed. TIFLIS, DEC. 24. Nothing important has passed in the Turkish frontiers since our last communications. The success of the Russiao arms in the war against Persia has made an advantageous impression during the present war on the marauding tribes who live on this side of the Caucasus:; they are perfectli quiet, and chew themselves extremely well disposed to wards us. On the line of the Caucasus, General Emanuel has gained fresh advantages over the mountaineers. We have news from Tauris to the end of November' On the 24th (0.5.) the Minister of Russia notified to Abbas Mirsa the taking of Varna, and the happy return of the Emperor to St. Petersburgh, which news his High' ness heard with much pleasure. On the 25th the Russian Minister, the officers of the mission, and the Russian sub• jects who are at Tauris, most of whom are Armeniauo► assembled in the Armenian church to return thanks to Heaven for the brilliant successes of the Russian arms. This ceremony was ascompanied with the ringing of bells, which are hardly ever heard in Mahornetan countries. The Minister afterwards gave a grand dinner, and •in the even ing the Georgian caravansary was illuminated. According to the Oriental custom, the display of fire works and firing of muskets continued till late in the night, and it was curious to see the Russian merchants, several of whom bad been Janissaries, mingle with the crowd, and share in the general joy. Next day Abbas Mires, desiring to show the interest he felt in the glory of our Monarch, in vited our Minister and the gentlemen belonging to tbs Mission to dinner. This entertainment was succeeded by various rejoicing. and representations in the Eastern fashion, and the evening was closed with a brilliant display of fire-works. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. At a late hour this afternoon we have re- ceived by express the Paris Papers of Saturdays but their contents do not possess any article of importance that can be depended on. Nothing of any consequence took place in the Chambers of Peers or Deputies. The Three per Cents. were quoted at 75 1. 45e. The French Papers state, that the troops which have arrived from the Morea are not to be put on the peace establishment as originally contemplated, but that they are to r e main upon the war-footing, and each battalion is to complete its full complement. This we . think judicious, till the situation of affairs in the East is more confirmed. The greatest activity prevails in the naval department of Toulon in equipping vessels of war. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday, the choice of Members in the elec tion of President was pretty conclusive as to the liberal spirit which actuates the great majority of that body. For the office of President of the Elec tive Chamber, five candidates must be presented to the KING, and those five candidates must unite in their favour the majority of the suffrages of the Assembly, his MAJESTY generally choosing the candidate at the head of the list. On the present occasion the five candidates were M. ROYER-COLLARD, M. CASSIMIR PER' RIER, M. DE BERBIs, Gen. SEBASTIAN!, and M. DE LA LOT, all members of the Liberal party, or of the Ultras, who last year united with the Liberals to resist the return, or to punish the delinquencies of the preceding Administration. The first of these members obtained 175 votes, the second 155, the third 146, the fourth 145, the fifth 132. The candidates of the opposite party lag far behind, M. RAATEz, the former President, who is at the head of the list, not ob taining more than 90 votes. M. BOYER-CoL" LA RD may, therefore, not only consider himself as elected President, but may coneeive himself surrounded by an assembly, the great majority of which share his constitutional opinions. German and Dutch Papers have been received, but they contain nothing new. A paragraphs from Bucharest, denies that the Turks have passed the Danube : ROITERDAW, JAN. tl3. His Majesty's frigate Rupel is to be ready far sea hi the Ist February, to go to the East Indies. It will be commanded by Captain Tiernan and take en board M. Van den Bosch, the Goyerner General. BUCKAftIST, JAI. 5. Nothing new has occurred since the last Mail, and not withstanding the revert of the Turks having lately ap peared near Tournul, no fear is felt here of a general pair ing of the Danube. Russian officers lately arrived say that immense preparations are making in Russia for the open ing of the csmpaign. The typhus has abated in conse quence of the severe cold. Demerara Gazettes, to the 12th of December inclusive, have been received this morning, but their contents are quite uninteresting, the Papers being chiefly filled with extracts from the English Journals. We have received Gibraltar Chronicles to the 13th ult. It is with sincere gratification we give the principal contents of a proclamation of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Garrison and territory of Gibraltar, General DON, dated the 12th January, 1829, in which his Excellency expresses his satisfaction in announcing the ter mination of the epidemic fever which has afflicted the community, anti feels it the first duty of every one to manifest his humble gratitude to the ALMIGHTY for his beneficent interposition. For this purpose he appoints all places of public worship to be opened on Friday, the 16th Jan., and that the day be set apart as one of solemn thanksgiving. His Excellency also orders that all internal measures of quarantine shall cease on PRICKS Or STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK. Bank stock 212 4 South Sea Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 8734% New Ditto — 3 per Cent — Ex. Bills. Xl,OOO 2d. 67 66 pm. Ditto lied. 974 % Ditto 500 2d. 67 66 pm. 4 per Cent......... ... .102 1 A% % Ditto Small 261. 67 89 pm. Ditto, 1826 Bank 1. 1-16 % 1 7 19 Bank (hr Account .. ~ . --- India Stock — 2J9 India for Account Ditto Bonds 68 66 pm. ICons. for Acct trMi rem: its OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE &CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds ... — Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds ..... ........ Ditto, New Ditto, 1824 Danish Greek Bonds —l— 1.923 — Ditto, Me, l5 ;French Rentcs, sp. c. —c. Guatimal•' Mexican Bonds Ditto, 1525 — '— Exchange —f. —c. riticEs OF SHARES Tine DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK, Paid. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O Columbian Nlining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2'N United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) £3934 PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 95% Ditto, New l/5 4 per Cent lOl Gov. Deb. 3% per cent 9 61 Royal Canal Stock ..... 41 Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent . Ballast Office Deb. 4 p. c. 'KS, DUBLIN, JAN. 29. (St. Patrick lmur. (per sh.) I Royal Irish Ditto — National Ditto ;Patriotic Ditto — i Hibernian Bank — 'Provincial Ditto — !Royal Irish Mine — Imperial Mine — Mining Co. of Ireland — Commercial Buildings .— MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 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