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LITERATURE. THE HISTORY OF GEORGE.GODFRRY. TIMEX Voas. LONDON, 1828. : This is an attempt, and a highly successful one, to revive the . faded glories of the Fielding and Smollett school of novel writing. Like the best fictions of those immortal judges of human character, it is wholly of a practical nature, and approaches so, closely to reality, and appeals so confidently to the personal experience of . nine out of ten of its readers, that it cannot fail to delight. Throughout his narrative the au thor has sedulously eschewed all attempts at romance or exaggerated sentiment. From first to last, though his incidents are varied and uniformly diverting, his plot complex, and his personages " thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks of Vallornbrosa," he has adhered scrupulously to probability. There is not a character that does not come within the scope of an ordinary experience—which of course enhances the merit, a's it does the diffi culty of his narrative. 'lt is easy, when the no velist is deficient in knowledge of real life, and contracted in his views of human character, to -take refuge in the creations of fancy ; an unlimited license is gisen- to him in such a case ; but the great difficulty con sists in drawing those portraits with which all his readers are familiar, and which they are all competent to criticise. The author of " George Godfrey" has done this . ; ; he has gone to the Stock Exchange, the Police Offices, the Law Courts, and even Newgate, for his best charac ters, and so admirably his he hit some of them off, that the originals, even through the curtain of fiction that he has dropped before them, must at once be recognized. His hero, like Anasta sius, is an auto-biographer, and like him, too, is thrown from childhood into those scenes where he is most likely to become acquainted with the darkest traits of the human heart. Moreover, he is abit of an adventurer, though not destitute of principle, and has the henour—an original one for the hero of a modern novel—of being very nearly hanged. The chapters in which this peculiar incident of his life is detailed, are drawn with rude masculine energy, severely true to nature, scorning ornament, and not unlike in its style and quality the familiar tragedy of Hogarth.— We give, as a specimen, the preliminary hints respecting Jeremiah Wildfire—a sort of Jona than Wild in ids particular line of business— whom George Godfrey meets with in prison, and whose character is subsequently developed with most impressive egeet. " I was committed to Newgate, and had not rc; - spirit been previously broken, I should, perhaps, have felt the hardship of .my lot more acutely than I did ; but the 'nor ti&cation which I had lately sustained; much abated the anxiety and alarm which, but for these, I should certainly tave er.perienced., The Ordinary, when he first addressed roe, was of opinion that I was by no means properly awake to the - awful situation in which I stood,' though he cer tainly bad no resaon to complain that I was not sufficiently dejected. " My grief was, in fie, , so profenuil, that I was wholly incapable of disguieing it. The rabble with whom 1 was associated, treated my want of pluck,' as they termed it, with incessant derision, s The chop- fallen swell,' as they were *aged to d e signate we, wrs, in their eyes, a very contemptible object. itlany of any cow paeions could aecoet the officers of the prise!) with a degree of freedom only to be tolerated in old :tequaintances, and Inaskieg about them, with a consequentittl sir. they some times threw on me a glance of supercilione pity, which seemed to say, that poor wretch knows nobody to whom he can speak, while we are, in a manner, quite at home.' Notiiieg but the fact of my being about to be tried for a Capital offence, entitled toe to the slightest consideration. My forlorn situation roved at last the ,e,mpe.ssion of a person of considerable iropertance there. This was Jeremiah Wildfire, who had been. .4 meat eminent and .faring burglar for many years. He ceodesceuded to over- Mob the circumstance of my being only a beginner, and pointed out to hie the folly of being low spirited. " Though,' sal;.' he, ' you ware never at college before, and of course lave no r:;,t4ttei expect me to speak to you, as an old acquaintance, yet, - as I suppose you and I shall have to go out together some morniiig . , I wander you can he such a sap for to take on this here sore of way. Vy, you fool, snivelling won't do no good.' "I replied I had no expeetation that it would, and Wee aware that I had been guilty of ti,e weakness to which he had all ul:d. - Vy,' said he, I don't mean to say that you ]lubber out, but you are always sulky and sorry, and what the —'s the use of it?'. " I aseured Mtn it was not my wish to (lister!) him, hat I thought that my prudent situation justified some depres siou. " Pooh ! nemsentie, you fool ! It's no worse for you than it is for another ; then don't bother because you have got to go to sleep with your ears full of cotton.' " This I did not understand at first ; but 1 subsequently learned that it was a cent allusion to the Ordinary, whose name was Cotton, and who attended elm malefactors exe cuted in the Old Bailey in their het momenta. " It's no use going on about it,' my comforter pro ceeded. Ve mutt all, one day or another, come in for a drop tor) muck, and after all scragging is nothing when you are used to it.' " 31:f friend, Mr. Wildfire, recommended me to the attorney who had assisted him i Ilia examinations, and who was then preparing his defence. This was not fleet,- sary, as I had been long knewn to Mr. Searapta and who volunteered his services. He now reproved me for laving neglected his termer advice, which would have led one into a safe course of crime; but he talked over the present business with great pleasantry, and said my affair was a bagatelle—was nothing at all to some of the eases which he had at that moment on his hands. " He hinted to me, that before doing ley thing towards gettfag me off, he must be paid, for you know,' said be, with a significant leer, we cannot trust in our little way, as some of you gentlemen might forget the matter alto gether after the Recorder sae reported.' " The Scampo in the above extract is, as his name imports', a pretty considerable scamp. He is a sort of cross between an attorney and a pick pocket, and has all the appearance of having been drawn from life. Another equally well pourtrayed character is that of Mr. Mason, a religious apothecary, father-in-law of George Godfrey, a gentleman who, in his over-anxiety to multiply his Maker's image on earth, is guilty of one or two awkward mistakes with his maid servant. His wife too is ably depicted, and her undiscriminating jealousy put i:orth in fine styk. Nor must we omit the great Joint Stock Com pany projector, Mr. Skim ; and the spirited and highly finished portrait of Mr. Alderton, the auctioneer. But in fact the book abounds in cha racter, hit offwith all the sternness and discrimina tion of an acutejudge of Inman nature. The style is in 4xcellent keeping with the draynatts , . per some, it is pointed and epigrammetic, una dorned, 'hut scrupulously correct ; and abounJ , inf.; in a certain sly unconseion% archness, which, if not wit, is yet ;eery like it. With respect to ineislentS,- the best are, we think, the Sheriff's breakfast after the execution of Jeremiah Wild fire, in Newgate—a specimen of .exquisite sa tire—the process of getting up a Joir.t Stoc k C om pany—which however le rather too highly LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 144829. There have been no French Papers received last night nor this morning, occasioned, we pre sume, by the state of the weather in the Chan nel; • but the private correspondence from Paris partly supplies the inconvesdence. It would ap pear that the present Ministry in France is by no s means so popular as it might become by adopting more decisive measures. It professes to do good, but fears to carry its wishes into execution. It pursues a system of indecision which alarms its friends, while it only provokes the sneers and contempt of its enemies. It is not sure of the KING'S support, while its hesitation creates distrust in the people. It was the voice of tha people that in fact forced the Ministry upon the Ku o, and hence the coldness of the Court. The KING smiles assent to the acts of his Ministers, but his smile wants the cordiality of a sympathetic feeling. He merely endures— not encourages them in their administration. Hence the timidity of their measures. They would he more daring and decided but for their natural apprehension of the influence behind the Throne, which is constantly working in oppoSi tion to the national spirit. The KING, though he publicly sanctioned the suppression of the jesnits, is yet himself the private slave of their m achinations. Their influence hangs like a nightmare upon all his thoughts, and para- 'ses the free exercise of his more enlightened hut irresolute mind. This is so sensibly felt by the present Ministers that they have to feel the pulse of their enemies before they cau 'hope to agitate any great question—far less attempt to e-.-zenite it. The ultra-Tory incubus is as powerful at Head-quarters in France as in England, and ramifies into many ch7:mels, affect ing neutrality, but secretly cherishing the old leaven of corruption. Parties though divided,' are not cut off from each other by a broad line of distinc tion. They occasionally associate, but do not her monize_living more in dread and self-evasion than in actual hostility. The following is from the private correspondence of a Morning Paper : " It is with difficulty that people can conceive the apathy cf the Ministers at the moment when the Deputies are assembling in Paris. They ought to know that these Deputies arrive from the pro vinces dissatisfied with their supineness and their indecision, and yet they do nothing to sooth their impatient humour. In a few s.;;=lis three import ant nfelzures must be submitted to the Chiun bers,—narneir, .a law for departmental acitni, nistration, one for municipal regulation, sad another for arranging the municipality of Paris. These measures will be brought forward under the shade of the unpopularity of the greatest portion of the incapable administrators who afflict our provinces. Is this sloth, or is it timidity ? The publication of the electoral lists reveals every day more revolting turpitude, anti .attests the frauds which were em ployed in the comp.ssjtion of ouceectoral colleges. You need not doubt that the Ministry both blush at the disclosure and regret the oectnrange of these fiats , but they are more *aid of the abuse of MAOurentie in the Quotidienne, and of the scar casmxitfM. Lourcloo_a!i: in the Gazette de France, tmcaute they are supposed to .peak tht sense of the Court, than of the complaints of the Deputies, which are only re-echoed by the country. " Weakness of purpose and goodness of intention" is the device of our present rulers. It is said that 17 important projects will be pre sented to the Chambers the ensuing session. We are glad to find that the subject of the Game Laws has been brought forward by Mr. BRISCOE before the Surrey Magistrates, under the firm conviction—in which the majority of the Magistrates acquiesced—that the entire system requires a prompt, a fnll, and an en lightened revision. No greater proof of this can be adduced than the plain undisguised fact that owing to these odious laws—a wretched and un , worthy remnant of the feudal system—our gaols, from one end of the country to the other, are crammed with poachers, among whom may be found boys of sixteen or seventeen, whose minds are thus degraded, and whose characters are ruined, even before they have had time to learn the value of a good name. The Chairman, we perceive, dwells most pathetically on the general increase of every species of offence. Is this - to be wondered at, when error is perversely tortured by the Legislature into crime, in order that by the serious penalties attached to it, country sportsmen may be allowed to enjoy the full privileges of, the feudal Game Laws ? In these Laws alone, we unhesitatingly assert, may be found the seeds of half the crimes with which our provinces are invaded. They are unsocial, ungenerous, unnatural to a degree, conceived by tyranny, fostered by prejudice, and per petuated by selfishness. They make no dis tinction is crime ; to be a poacher, is, we verily believe, in the eyes of an interested country gentleman, to be a felon of the blackest die. The result is obvious. It is a general demorali zation of principle on the part of those who, whether from inclination or necessity, have lost their caste, by falling within the pale of the Game Laws. The commercial accounts received from the Russian capital down to the 26th ult., bring an order issued by the Russian Government for the prevention of frauds in the Tallow trade at St. Petersburgh. The document has been received by the Governor of the Russia Company, and by its articles fines are imposed on the proprie tors of tallow who shall have been found to have mixed with their tallow, flour, butter, water, or any other ingredient. Rules are also laid down for insuring the foreign purchaser from being misled by improper marks. The purchases of grain at St. Petersburgh by speculators were on a very extensive scale, and to this circumstance alone is the extraordinary,rise in the Exchange to be attributed, which, according to the latest dates, was a shade above I Id. An expectation was entertained t!,at Ntcnor.As would soon requite another loan, as an enormous expenditure would be occasioned by preparations: tOr com mencing the campaign against Turkey with vigour, as soon as the season would permit. Not the least idea was indulged, when the letters came away, that any negotiations would prevent the re-commencement of the war. Money at St. Petersburgh was becoming more and more scarce, and in every branch of commerce a more than usual depression existed. • THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TwELr o' CLocr. We are exceedingly dull in the City this morning, occasioned by the non-arrival of any intelligence, owing to adverse winds. This had a considerable effect on the Comol market, anti prevented any speculation up to the present hour. Consols have remained during the whole of the morning at the same price they left off at yesterday, S7i for the account, with little or no business. Little or nothing is now said about Stephenson, the Banker, and all hopes are given up of his being taken. The Foreign market is in the same inactive state as the British, scarcely a bargain haying taken place up to the present time. Three per Cent.' Consols, 8C ; Ditto, for ta cos,. at, 67i i; Three per Cent. Reduced, SEA 7; Three and a ball per Cent. Reduced, 96 ; Four per Cent., 101 i ; Four per Cent., 1826, 1051 ; India Stock, 233 40; Beak Stock, 212 ; Exchequer Rills, 73 4 ptn. TWO O'CLO CK• We have no news or reports, arid Consols hare continued all the morning at 871, alternately buyers arid sellers ; at present they may be quoted at S7i sud for next time, S 7-1; no speculation of the least importance is going on, and e ver y thi ng a pp e ars very dull. In the Foreign market there is scarcely any idea of business. THREE 0' CLOCK Consols for Account, 87i :1; for next time, 87, buyers. FOUR O'CLOCK.—' Consols 86i -4 Do. for Ac. 871 Brazilian Bonds 63 Buenos Ayres Chihli Do. Columbian, 1824 23,1 CLOSING PR10E5.3. Danish 631 Greek, 1825 Mexican, 1823 33i Peruvian 17 Russian 95i Spanish 9i Between the 3d and Sth inst., both days in clusive, 28Z.; vessels from ports abroad passed Gravesend. On Monday his Excellency Baron Billow, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia to hi 3 Britannic Majeety, jointly with Mr. N. M. Rothschild, and aecompanied by Mr. John Venn, Notary Public, cancelled and deposited in the Bgatk of Eugland the luta of 28,0001. in special Bonds of the Prue/lien Loan of 1822, being one moiety of the sura fixed for the redemption of Bonds in the sixth year, and also the tikivin.4' of the interest on the 218,800 Z,, redeemed to the Ist of .131 y List inclusive. Tlic following is the resolution with regard to the Gains Laws, which was proposed by Mr. Briscoe at the Surrey Quarter Sessions yesterday, and carried unani mously :7 .-" That this Court deem it a duty to represent to the Secretary of State for the Prome Department the crying evils resulting flow the present state of the Game Laws, and to implore his Majesty's Government to effect such an amendment of those laws as to its wisdom shall seem expedient, for the diminution of crime and the gene ral welfare of the country ; and that the County Members do Ty...,-,zent. - the same." Owing to the largeness of the supply, coals were selling last week at Southampton at 32a. a chaldron, awl 11d. per bnahcls SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTAMOUTU, JAN. 13.—Wind N.B.— Sailed the Mary Ann, O'Brien, for Madras, &c. PLYMOUTI, JAN. 12.—Wind E.—Arrive-d the Ebenezer, Capes, from Nantes ; Amphitrite transport, from Guernsey; and Nymph, from Morlaix. FALMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Wind the Cygnet packet, for Jamaica; Sandwich, King, for St. Lucia; and Pursuit, Alexander, for Bahia. HULL, JAN. 12. —The Stapler, Brady, passed by to-day for Goole ; she left Hamburgh on Tuesday, and the Elbe on Thursday ; the ice was becoming very heavy, and the master thinks no more •easels would get away. SUNDERLAND, JAN. 12.—The Harriet, of this place, during a gale from S.E. this afternoon, came on shore behind the North Pier. T • he King was lately present at an exanuna- tion of the deaf and dumb pupils, -and it would seem that the new plan adopted with a view to restore to thou the partial use of speech has been very successful. One of the pupils, on being presented to his Majesty, articulated the following words very distinctly :—" The pleasure of seeing your Majesty has restored me to speech / Lott live the King !"—Paris Paper. [This is a practical obedience to the maxim of Talleyrand (" that speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts"), when the first use the lad Was taught to make of language was to utter a falsehood.] A Requisition for a call of the County, to ad dress the Marquis of Anglesea on his retirement from the Government of Ireland, is in rapid progress of signature in this town.—Carlow Morning Post. . . TAM O'SHANTER AND SOUTER JOHNNY. —The exhihitioa of these admirable statues, we observe, is shortly to close. It must be a high gratification to the talented artist, and is not less creditable to the taste of our citizens, that so great a number of persons have visited these statues, all of whom, we have been given to nuder- stand, were delighted with the skilful delineation the Artist has given of characters so well known to every reader of Scottish poetry. They were visited on Saturday by their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Atholi, the Lord Chief Commis,oner, and many persons of distinction.--Edin burgh Evening Courant. It is asserted that more persons are annually convicted in tkis country for offences against the Game Laws than are punished for every kind of offence within the same time in the kingdom of liolland and the Nether lands. • CAUTION TO PERSONS WHO LET APART. atimrs.—A fellow, having the outward appearance of a gentleman, applied on Monday afternoon at No. 16, Lambeth-road, respecting apartments which were to let, when after examining them and seeming perfectly satisfied, he asked the servant for pen and ink, to give, as he said, a reference, which not being at hand she had to go to the next room for. The fellow in her absence stole a bracelet, and there is no dmibt if the servant had not returned im mediately, he would have succeeded in taking away some thing more valuable. EXTRAORDINARY CANINE LONGEVITY, —lt is a remarkahle fact, that there are now living at Easingwold, in this county, two dogs, whose united ages amount to 44 years, via.:—the one a sheep cur, aged 23, and the other a Dutch mastiff, aged 21 years. 'The dogs are in good health, suffice it to say the cur only last week killed a rabbit, and the mastiff a rat, in gallant style.— York Courant. NORTHERN HERRING FISHING.—The herrings have been so long of making their appearance in the Frith of Forth thie season, and the fishing 11218 hitherto heen so unsuccessful, that there is no chance of an average quantity being taken. The corers have in consequence already begun to tarn their attention to the summer fisLings in the north. One company in Wick has requested a friend in Fisherrow to engage all the boats belonging to the ex cellent hands at that station, at I Is. a-crane, 2s. above the allowance of last year.—Caledosaion Mercury. DELIBERATE SUICIDE. On Saturday morning week, the body of W. Driver, in the employ of Messrs. Mitchell, at Huddersfield, was found suspended to the crane in the warehouse. Subsequently to committir,g the fatal set, the deluded man had secured the rope to the crane-head to prevent it from slipping. The rope being adjusted round his umk, he next tied his own hands fast, blew out the candle, and launched himself into eternity— thus completing one of the most singular and deliberate acts of suicide w:riell we ever remember to Lave recorded. He was a single men ; tuns very quiet, civil, and industri ous; and by those who knew him was considered quite the beuu.ideal of Don Quixote.— York Cokrant. LIE SINKING FUND.—On every transfer day at the Bank of England, during the current quarter, and which terminates on the stli April, the Commissioners tor the reduction of the Nati;an Debt will iuveet the suni of 12,i552/., which, in the quarter, will make a total of money laid out in the extinction of public deLt 0'576,025/. 11s. 3d. The investments to be made this quarter are arch level than those in the preceding quarter, when the total sum laid out on behalf of the Sinking Fund was 395,8001..55. Id., leaving& balance in favour of the latter of I 9,8731. 13e. 10d. In the remaining quarters of the veer, therefore, the investments by the Commiseioners will he on a larger sae, in order that the total of debt re deemed may amount to three millions, sterling, being the reduced quantity of debt required to be brought up an nually, by the act of the last Session of Parliament. The Commisisiones in the last quarter commenced purchasing_ 3:1 per Cent. Annuities, as well as the Reduced Stock, bearing the ferule interest as S per Cent. Consols and Re duced Annuities. The amount now laid out by the Com inissionere on behalf of the Savings Bauka is understood to be much smaller than at this period last year. `VEST PORT MURDERS.—We have the heat authority for stating that measures have been taken, with the eanctien and by the authority of the nearest kiudred of James Wilson, commonly called " Deft Jeanie," for investigating into the cause and manner of his death, and, if possible, bringing those concerned in his alleged murder to punishment. For this purpose au able an d active agent has been employed, and Mr. Jeffrey, we un derstand, is already retained as senior counsel fur the in tended prosecution, while two other eminent Counsel also be retained in the course of to-day. In these circum stances, it is highly expedient that the press generally should heneeforqi abstain from making any further obser vations upon this case, as advantage might afterwards be taken of the circumstance, by alleging that the public mind had been in&med on the subject, and the case pre judged before it was sent to the Jury. If, however, the ends of justice can be promoted by any private information from any quarter, there can be no doubt that it will be thankfully received by the gentleman appointed to conduct the prosecution. We have learned from good authority that Dr. Knox has dismissed from his employ the max Paterson ; and we are glad of it both for the sake of Dr. Knox himself and for the satisfaction of the public. If this man nas any this; to state, in relation to the late occur rences, which he has not stated already, he is uow free from every trammel; and if he has not, the fair and equit able presumption must be that he has !Token the truth.-- Caledonian Mercury. A DISCONSOLATE HUSBAND.—The Con sul's wife at Ms cone " had been married upwards of six years, and yet at the time I was introduced to her she was scarcely twenty years of age. The Consul appeared ar dently attached to her ; nor did sae seem to bold that servile rank to which the Levantine ladies are devoted ; she was gay, young, and lovely ; her husband, good humoured, frank, and affable ; and, in short, the family was a perfect oriental picture of domestic happiness. • " Here we were visited by my former host, the Consul, whom I was startled at seeing equipped in a full suite of the deepest mourning, and with a beard of six week's growth, according to the mourning custom of the Greeks. On inquiring the cause of his distress, he informed me, with streaming eyes, that bis beloved signora had expired about two months before ; her death being occasioned by followir , g the advice of an inexperienced physician who bad attended her during her confinement. The sight of me seemed to tear open all the closed wounds of the poor fel low's bosom ; he wept profusely, sighed long and deeply, and seemed a turs achely picture of fixed and overwhelm ing grief. * ° • • On his d e p ar t ure , I communi cated to another old acquaintance my sympathy with the s orrow of the worthy Consul ; b ut , j u d ge o f my surprise when he informed me, with a signifi can t sm il e , that Signor Cordia had omitted, in his tale of misfortunes, to mention one little incident—namely, that he had consoled himself with a second partner about a month after the death of the fi r st, and, by a strange commingling of joy and grieving, had absolutely compelled his present lady to put on, along with himself, deep mourning for her lamented predecessor." —Ernereonie Letters from the Xficcurb, FISH-MARKET, PILLINGSGATE This morning's market exhibited but a middling sup ply of the under-mentioned kinds of fish, which met with a ready sale at the following priess:— Prime Turbot, each Sos. W. to 253.0 d. D,tto man, per do. Cod-fish. each 3 0 18 , S.les, per three p:nrs Fine Whitings, per 15.. Scate, each Haddocks, per dozen 2O 0 :10 0 Brill, each .. Gurrietts, each Spz—ats, per bushel 4 U 0 0 Love Flounderi, per quartern Lire Eels, per Mb. Dutch Plaice, per basket 3 U 7 0 Fine Lobsters, per score 4O 0 VO 0 Inferior ditto lO 0 VO 0 Shrimps, per gallon Fine 1 anuoutla Red Herrings, per hutrired 7 0 5 0 Scotch ditto 6 0 7 0 Cud Sounds, per barrel Pickled Herrings, per RAJ Best Common Ilystcrs, per bushel S U IV l) Native's. ................ ......--- ............... - 3 l 3l 4 . , 80 9 A traveller informs us that the contractors for the mail from Tain to Thurso, have lowered their fares one penny per inile.—Layerncas Cokrier. £TATE OF TRADE.—The demand for yarns continues very fair ; stocks are low, and prices evince little tendency to give way. Indeed, the middle numhers of water-twist, we understand, were hardly ever scarcer, or in mare request, than at present. For printing clothe also, there was rather more inquiry on Tuesday last, and for some descriptions of power-loom goods a shade higher prices were asked. We have not beard, however, that any advance was obtained. Altogether, the prospects of business for this year seem rather encouraging than ntLer wise.—Manchester Mercury. T HE MARCH OF INTELLECT ! !—Some ,l a ys ago a ooach, loaded with young folks from the schools of Brighton, departed for London, to spend the holydays with their friends. Soon after commencingjheir journey these children produced their cigars, tinder-boxes, matches, fcc., and commenced smoking, to the great annoyance of a f e w grown-up pers,-)Is •;,-ho happened to be their fellow prussengers; but this VIM not the whole stock of ammuni tion with which they had provided themselves. Several of them had with them a supply of brandy and gin ; one of them, not more than ten years of age, took off nearly a pint of brandy at one draught, aryl, as might be expected, was wry shortly after in a lit, and in so dangerous a state as to make it nectstsary to leave him at the village where the coach stopped to Change horses. This is one of the ae ' complishments we have learned of our Continental neigh bours, and this is the manner in which the rising genera tion is brought up; surely nothing can be more filthy than the practice of smoking, which almost always produces an unconquerable desire to drink, even to intoxication ; it is not the habit of a real gentleman, and every father of a family ought to watch over his son, and prev e nt his falling into so disgusting a practice. It has come to such a pitch at Eton School, that we are told a boy was discovered smoking the other day at Chapel ! ! He was, however, very properly, for so doing, expelled by Dr. Keats ; and ten were expelled lately at Sandhurst, for rioting, which had its commencerneat at a Smokins Club..—Atorning chron. coloured—the mode of disposing'of goods at an auction—and the interview of Scampo the at torney with George Godfrey. On the whole, we have seldom met with a novel which for in - - cident, character, and style-those three essen tials to Mood fictism=puts.forth stronger claims to notice. It is manifesCy the production of LI man well read in burrnin nature ; but who, at the same time, is an unsparing satirist. and looks on the follies of his species, from his own superior mental elevation, with too cynical an eye. PRICES OF STOC7.II ?NM DAY AT ONR &FLOOR. Rank :tuck rprr Cent. lied s l l. t 7 l OW Annuities 31per Cent. Cor-s.. .... ;New Ditto 2t; 96 ,Ex Bills 11 001 1 V.d. 74 IS pm D:.7. lied. 7 96 4 per Cont. Dia....;,.196 Batik L. Ann 19 13-16 I fidll Stock shut Dqto itinas — 77 pm. , . Ditto WO id. '74 75 pm. Ditto Small WI 74 75 pm. II X t t.) Commercial ..... .... pm 'Banklbr Account . — lltylia far Account iComa. for:Av• 87Y1i% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austriau Bon& Brazilian Bonds —!Perurian Bonds _l7 Buenos Ayres Bonds —!Portuguese Bonds CLilian Bonds ... — 'Prussian, Old ........ ....... 104 i, C,lonabian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1E124 Danish ...—....—... .... ;......... Spanish, 1821 Virs Greek Bonds. - 1823 — Ditto, 13?5.......... ............ French Bente', sp. c. 105t...0c. 6 uatitnala — Exchange 2.5t. 30c. Mexican Bonds — 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 1825 l2!,i, rxicris OF StI•NIS TFllfl DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Anzio ?des. Min. Co. (las. at 51. pm.) LOS Brazilian Imp. ('o. ( 4 .a. at U. pm.) £1?t0 Columbian Mining Co. (isa.-at U. pm.) £273i Tlzipumahua liiuing Co ..... (juitod lei. Min. Co. Om at 24 pm.) 38 Protector Insurance Comp, ...... 2 Per Shat • Et 20 69 81 60 19j., £1 9 0 Plt/CES Of IBIBN STOCiA, DUBLIN, JAN. 10. Bank Stock Conedld, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, 3 1 i per cent 95% . , Ditto, New 4 p...-: Cent • 102 Goy. Deb. 3' percent .9,o'i; Royal Canal Stock 4 155 Grand Canal Stock City I)eb.4 nor cent - Ballast Office Deb. 4 p. c - :St. Patrick Insur. (per sb.) Royal Irish Ditto Nallonal ...... Patriotic .......... ibernian Bank ,Provincial Ditto Royal Mine Itrperial Mine Mining Co of Ireland mmercial Buildings . COURSE OE EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. A tostesdArn C.F 12 1 'Leghorn 4B Dittn, at ilzlit 11 19 !Genoa v 5 45 • Mot kt rdarn .. . 9 U 12 11 Vcnice 47li Antwer;) l2 2 Malt.. — flarpburgh 1.1.13 13 11l Nap1..4 Alb,ra 11 12 P4lermo pt-r oz. 13n% Paris, 3 dap' sight ......25 35 i.isbosi Ditto 3 U. 25 60 Oporto .. 4::!,‘ Bordi.aux 25 65 It o Janeiro ri 7 3i Verliti — Bahia 35 *4 Frankfort on Maine, ELM 151 Buenos Ayres — Petersburg'', ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Dublin, 21 days' eight 1 Vienna, eftctiv.: 8. 2 M 14 . 10 2 Cork lf.; Trieste do 10 2 EDI-LION, nut oz. Maerid 3114 .E. s. d. Cada .. %Ili Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Bilbos. BareelAr.a 36% New uoubloons 3 16 0 Seville 37% %ew Dollars Gibraltar Arrived. Due. O Arneriea 0 O Brazil ......... 0 Buenos Ayree 2 1 Lublin 0 O FEridera 0 O France 0 - 0 Gottenburgh ...... 0 O Guernsey &Jeriey 0 Arrived. O Hamburgh 0 Holland O Jamaica O Leeward Islands O Lisbon.. ......... O Malta 0 O Mexico 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO—MORROW. Mortiing —.19 minutes after 10.1 Ever minutes after 10. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter of PHILO•NAUTICUS shall appear to-marrow. 11 ,1 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. This tieing the first Seal, after the Christmas va cation, hi. Lordship sat in Lincoln's-inn-hall. CREMORNS V. ANTROBUS. His LORDSHIP gave judgment in this caie, which was argued before him shortly before the vacation. It was an appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls, and the question was upon the construction of a codicil tothe will of Thotnas Viscount Cremorne. By his will his Lordship devised the bulk of his property to Richard Thomas Dawson, afterwards Lord Cremorne, absolutely. At the time of making his will he was iu possession of a house in Stan hope-street, under a lease of nine hundred years, in which there was a considerable quantity of household furniture : he devised the house and furniture to his wife for life, and after her decease he gave it abso lutely to Richard Thomas Dawson. After wet ds the. testator made a codicil, expressive of his wish to alter that devise, and as far as the rules of law would permit that the horse should:go with the freehold estate, instead of absolutely to the suid Richd. Thos. Dawson. In that codicil the same terms, with respect to the disposition of the furni ture, were not used Its were inserted in the will. Questions then arose between the parties, as to what the testator intended should pass under the terms he had used. It appeared the testator was in pos session of valuable pictures, plate, watches, trinkets, medals, and books, and it was contended that these did not pass under the terms of the codicil. His Honour the. Master of the R9lls was clearly of opi nion that these articles came within the codicil, and gave his judgment accordingly. , His Lordship con curred with that judgment,- but upon some doubt being expressed as to whether the word books had been mentioned in the Master's report, his Lordship said he would read it in order to satisfy himself upon that point, but unless some very spe cial circumstance occurred to all - the impression on the mind of the Court, his Lordship was clearly of opinion they did not pass under the terms " all the furniture." The Court, therefore, confirmed the judgment below, except as far as it related to the watches, trinkets, medals, and books. . After the Court bad had an opportunity of reading the Mas ter's report, it would pronounce its judgment as to the disposition of those articles. IN THE MATTER OF LORD PORTSMOUTH, A LUNATIC. Mr. PEPYS was instructed to apply to the Court to vary an order for raising the sum of .56,0001. by granting an annuity to the Globe Insurance Com pany. The trustees were now in possession of 6,0004, and it would therefore be necessary only to raise 50,000/. The COURT ordered the variation to be made. His LORDSHIP intimated that he should be unable to sit to-morrow, in consequence of having to attend his Majesty at Windsor, ou the Recorder's Report. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. SIR .101 IN PAUL, DART. V. DOWLING AND ANOTURR, This was an action to recover 1,1791., being the amount of certain' property which was seized by the defendant under the following circumstances : The late Sir Charles Rich had built E on hi,s estate, principally for the use of his tenants, in which lime was continued to be burnt after his death, in 1824, when it had fallen into the posses tion of his son who became bankrupt in 1827. The defendant seized the property in question on another process, and this action was now brought by the assignees of the bankrupt to recover its value, the question betng► whether the present Sir J. Rich could be so far considered a trader as to bring his property within the influence of the bank rupt laws. Evidence was adduced on the part of the pla:ntiff that lime, bricks, and tiles had been sold by the orders of Sir J. Rich to any person who would fetch it from the kiln ; and several witnesses remained to be examined when we went to press. LONDON SESSIONS.—(rms DAY.) These Sessions commenced this morning before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, Aldermen AT KINS, ANSLEY, and BIRCU. After the usual pre liminaries had been gone through, the Court ad journed to the Common Council Chamber, for the purpose of administering the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the newly elected Members, which ceremony occupied the entire morning. There were only a few cases of petty assaults for trial, which were put off to the adjournment day. TIIE MARKETS.—(TIIIb DAY.) CORN EXCITANGE. The arrivals of English Corn this week are small, but there is another large quantity of Foreign Wheat. The supply of Flour coastwise is good. The factors are hold ing Wheat at last day's quotations, but there was so much sold on Monday that the buyers appear to want very little to-Ay. Barley remains very heavy in *ale. Beans main tain their value. Pease very dull. The best pareels of Oats support the terms last quoted, other sorts are very Junin disposal. Ia Flour no alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat_ I Barley. Oats. 17.0 qu. 4. qrs. 1,21;0 qu. 5,21.10 sacks. 0,650 &~~lisL Irish - roreAgn COTTON FACTORIES. We are induced, from representation's which • have been made to us, to revert to the abomi nable system which is still continued in Wigan, of working over hours in factories. We have it now before us from indisputable authority, that on, Wednesday week a certain factory in that town, which employs about three hundred hands,. was open from six o'clock in the morning until twelve at night. Many o f th e p ersons employed are mere infants. The only interval between, or cessation.from labour, was about three quarters of ; an hour, allowed for dinner. We are furnished with several other instances, in the same factory, of excessive toil. It has often been our duty to animadvert with just severity on the continuance of a practice which is sapping the foundation of the real interests of the country. For what pur pose, or upon what principle, was Mr. Peel's Act passed, limiting, under penalties, the hours of employment ? Was not humanity taken into consideration, and are not many of the Wigan manufacturers therefore doubly guilty.-- first, in disregarding those benevolent feelings which ought to influence every master in his Conduct ; and next, in violating a law enacted for the reasonable protection of the workman, against the grinding demands of his employer ? But we are told that in Wigan the workman has little chance of redress. It is a borough town,. and has, of course, its own exclusive jurisdic tion, as well as the appointment of its own Ma gistrates, who are individuals generally inte rested in, or engaged in the cotton trade,. and are excluded, according toMr. Peel's Act, from r sitting in judgment in any case .which con cerns their interests. Thus, if a complaint should be made to the present judicial autho rities in Wigan, they would reject it on the ground which we have just stated ; and, as the County Magistrates have no power to in terfere within the precincts of that immaculate Borough, the poor weaver, however glaring his wrongs, is completely isolated. The question then is as to the remedy ? We think that it will be a sufficient ground for an application to Parliament, and we are pretty confident that if the matter be fairly represented to Mr. Peel, either directly or through the medium of some independent Member of Parliament, amend ments would be made to obviate the evil. The accounts which we almost daily hear are shock ing to humanity, and we will gladly render our assistance in exposing and holding up to public reproof, a system which cannot be justified on any principles of necessary expediency. We have also had a communication from Padiham, giving a most deplorable -account of the wretched condition of the operatives in that place. Families are emigrating, and begging their bread, and in one instance, where relief , was applied for to the overseers, they were pre sented with nine turnips ! ! Need there be any comment on this ?—Bolton Chronicle. A CURIOUS WAGER.—A gentleman in this town agreed to give another one guinea far every Lloyd's List that was published without the name of George Cunning, during the years 1827 and 1828: on the other hand, his opponent was to give him a guinea every time any veseel called the George Canning was mentioned in the list. It is supposed the Canuingito will win a considerable sum.—Liverpool Albion. Till; MORAL EFFECT OF ROME UPON THE TeAvsm.Ea.—Those only who have lived in Rome can duly estimate the potent and lasting impression produced upon the mind of a thinking man by :t residence in this capital of the ansient world. The daily contemplation of No many classical and noble objects, eevates awl purified the soul, and has a powerful tendency to allay the inconsi derate fervours and impettioditiee of youth, to mature and consolidate the character. lam already so altered, and, I Wave the vanity to think, so improved a man since tay ar rival here, that there are times when I almost doubt xns own identity, and imagine, that by some preternatural agency, I have been born over again, and have had new blood and new vitality infused into my frame.—B/ach woNds Magazine. HIGHLAND ROAD.—The heritors of Inver net49-shire seem at length to be awakened to a sense of their rashness and imprudence in hastily opposing the views of the Parliamentary Commissioners, respecting the shortening the Highland road from Invernem to Spey Bridge. At a Special Meeting of the county held on Friday last, it was unanimously resolved, that the farther consideration of the paestion should he adjourned till the 12th of February, and that in the interim a Committee of heritors ebould correspond with the Commissioners, and report accordingly. This wise and prudent course was strongly pressed upon the county, at the former Meeting, by its able Chairman, Mr. B. Grant, M.P. ; hut front motives purely end avowedly selfish, disregarded. Whether the atrieturee of ours:Ares and eoutemporaries, aided by part of the local press (the Inverness Courier), have tented to recall the heritora to a proper Renee of their duty, we shall net stop to inquire ; bat new that the measure is placed on a proper footing, we treat nothing will occur to prevent an adjuatmeut of the cauflicting claims of the Heritors and CA)nanziseionere, or to frustrate a measure of such vast importance to the Northern counties. Whate►er tends to facilitate the mane of communication between the capital and the more remote portions of the kingdom eannot fail of proving beneficial to both, particularly to the latter, in which there is ample scope fur improvement. The exertions of the Commissioners in opening up the Highlands by means of roads, bridges, and other public works, have already completely transformed the aspect of the country, and placed it fully a century in advance, as regards commerce and civilization. The heritors of Inverness-whire, there , fore, should be cautious how they con3e to an angry colli sion with the Parliamentary Couirnissioners, by who're splendid exertions they have been so largely benefited. We understand that at the nreeting on Friday, Convenor Tyt ler pointed out in very f,,rcible terms the inconsistency and injuriout tendency of the late rash proceedings of the county; and though nearly all the protesters were present, with the exception of a few words of en apologetic nature from Captain Fraser of Balnaia, not one voice was lifted up ix their defence.-- Caledonian Mercury. William Burton, an antiquated genius of the Don Giovanni specie., was tried for assaulting Luke Brown, a labourer, ot Goabertou. Mr. Burk% is appa rently a man well to do in the world, awt from th e ❑eat inclosure of his i.apacious coat, be ghuice.: %,!!jr 7. so k a at the unfortunate Wight who dared to complain ot Poor Brown, who seemed to have strived to drown sor row in mighty draughts of ale, stated his cue with a vo lubility of utterance which defied the attention of the Court, interlarding his account with sundry node and winks, and " thinks I, you know." He commenced by saying, " One niorniug last November, I caught Burton in bed witk my wife ! They lay there _quite comfortable, you know ; and thinks I, that's hardly right, you see; and I believe I said to him many bad words, you know." This was his account ; and as for the assault which fol lowed, he thought "it was quits natural like." The gay old spark, who had manifested sundry tokens of isrr patience during the first part of the trial, drew forth a sleet of paper, apparently covered with writing, which he proceeded deliberately t* unfold. This he declared to be his defence, which he read in a monotonous tone, that ren dered it superlatively ridiculous. It commenced Gentle men of the Bench! On Thursday, October the SOtb, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight'—and then followed a long cock and bull story about gathering applea in an orchard, The Chairma❑ told him he could not permit such nonsense to occupy the atten. tion of the Court, and proceeded to sum up the 04.42 1 when he was interrupted by -Burton, whs. vociferated "another moment, Sir, if you please ;" and then with the most impudent demeanour, continued his reading. He was, however, at length stopped, and continued peaceable until the Chairman remarked upon the inconsistency of wasting the time of the Court in adjusting such ridiculous trifles. " Trifle-3," cried Burton, " trifles! y ou ca ll them: I say no more," with a significant look, " I say no more, Sir." He was tiltimstely &nod guilty, and sen tenced to pay a fine of one shilling. The poor simple husband, after this public declaration of his own blessed lot, looked very sheepish, or according to one of the flashes of modern slang, as if he had been done Brown.—Roston Gazette, .fieg;