The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-06 00:00:00

Pre tbe I ,„ 1 I I (From the Morni ng Chr on i c l e .) The success of Miss F. KEMBLE was most decided ; we never witnessed a'dOut of a more gratifying description. She carne forward under many advantages of parentage, relationship, and education, and we should not have been surprised if we had found her an exceedingly Well-taught young lady, with all the mechanical parts of her profession thoroughly got by heart, and going through her part with as touch eclat as could be obtained by good instruction. We are happy to add, that we found her much more ; and that she gave the strongest indications of original talents, Which, we have no doubt, will raise her to great eminence t he profession she has chosen. We do not pretend to L I y that sh e i s a p er f ec t ac t ress i n th e outset. W e s h ould be sorry if she were so, as it would indicate that sort of dramatic precociousness which, in nearly all instances, has te L nl ioated in disappointment. We therefore rejoiced that she had faults : they were faults which seemed in some sort j to arise from those very abilities by the display of which she , is to c on fi rm h er repu t a ti on . Sh e i s v e r y y oung , b u t her Person is beautifully symmetrical— " In growth a woman, tho' in years a child." symmetrical— Ilex stature is about the middle size, and her face with m uch snore expression than ordinarily accompanies such regularity of features. Her complexion is decidedly dark; and at she were a dress of white satin, simply but ele gantly made, it was not set off to advantage. Not a few in the house fancied they saw in her a strong resemblance to her aunt, but we could not discover it : once or twice, i ndeed, her action and attitude reminded us of Mrs. SID , n°Ns, particularly when she replied " Amen !" to the Nurse's rec ommendation that she should give up Romeo for Paris. Her voice is unquestionably like that of her mother; it is full, clear, musical, and capable of delicate hatomation. The error into which she was most prone to fall was not rendering Juliet sufficiently innocent and girlish ; but of course this objection only applies to the earlier scenes : she seemed too much impressed with the notion that she was performing tragedy, and that .it was therefore necessary to be stately and dignified. In the balcony scene she only erred once in this respect, but all t he test denoted that simplicity of heart which, knowing n o guile, suspected none. Her action in this scene S od others was graceful and unrestrained, but perhaps a little superabundant. The interview with the Nurse had the additional recommend a ti on , t h at i t trus t e d t o it 1 7 1 f witho u t an y s t age tri c k er y, suc h as i s resorte d to n early all th e Juliets we ever saw—Miss O'NEIL not e xcepted—of dropping at once on the knees, t urnin g the back on the audience, and looking up in the old w oman ' s face. One o f t h e most difficult parts of e lP l ay is a subsequent scene, when Juliet imagines that a °Th eo, and not Tybalt, is dead. She is obliged to stand i „„: n g the wh o l e t i me s h e i s rece i v i ng th e d rea df u l t idi ngs, e have oft en won d ere d that a chair or a so f a i s no t i tn u t d r o d W u _ mit 'et! for h er re li e f. Miss F. KEMBLE, with greatth us i et/t ' assumed the air of petrifaction at the news, and twall4 s otne degree escaped from the di ffi culty. The ni o „ °wi ng of the sleeping draught is always, in our opi sh: overacted, especially the descriptive part of the ce r l h, where it begins, " As in a vault, an ancient re el:tin*" She did not avoid this fault, and perhaps she a ve not saf e l y avo i d i t, as au di ences are accustomed to Tv, 41t , r anted to th em . H er a t t it u d e a t th e wor d s , " S tay, S he thre st a y :Y - !" was strikingly picturesque, and quite new. a r , 4, hers e lf b ac k on th e groun d, res t e d on t h e l e f t the and with the ri g ht p o i n t e d to the spectre sh e f anc i e d roa n The The con c l us i on was followed by three di s ti nc t . av e c * applause ; and, indeed, few remarkable passages Tie unr ewarded w ith a zea l ous t r ib u t e o f j us t a d m i ra ti on . 'lle ! aft and scene of the last act was very powerfully performed, lung -Continued shouts followed the fall of the curtain. It w as Ar lt a very interesting sight when Miss F. KEMBLE and : arn e upon the stage, and was supported in her new k itty ' l in g situation by her mother. At first she could 4,4 articulate a syllable, but she soon gained courage, 14 11 6 , 1° Ived that self-possession which is produced by a k i? -4n tiled confidence in our own powers. Mrs. C. V o i ce, ` a had little or nothing to do ; but the sound of her p eeo „ which is just as sweet as ever, revived a thousand fortt"ections of the pleasure we have received from her per lie„allee. She is somewhat larger than formerly, but "Plre is still extremely well proportioned, and in face ta i i._ Se _ a e r cely locks a day older. The bill states that she IlOpeY rth.:tPPeared " for this occasion," but we earnestly kith ban she may be pr e v a il e d upon aga i n t o underta k e Pens as Dliss Sti r li ng , f or w hi c h s h e is yet so wel l wh enn e h d that she would be without a rival. C. KEMBLE, kiht el: spran g Upon the stage as Mercy/to, was welcomed !uti b l aying his hand upon his heart, and striking his .1474. indicated how deeply he felt the kindness of the au- Na t Of his cutio we will only remark hat we " e ver, c Al e th er e days of Law's; seen any half so eyebrows and eyelashes, which are extremely handsome, give them a power of expression admirably adapted for the stage. Her voice is flexible, and of considerable volume, and her utterance so perfectly distinct that her lower tones are always audible and effective. On her first entrance she seemed to feel very sensibly the embarrassment of the new and overwhelming task she had undertaken. She ran to her mother's arms with a sort of instinctive impulse, and almost immediately recovered her composure. From that time, although there was occasionally something like timidity in her manner, there was not the slightest portion of awkwardness, or even of that want of sell-possession which might have been well pardoned in so yonng an actress. Her first scene with Romeo was very delicately and intelligently acted. In the garden scene, she gave the exquisite poetry of the part with a most innocent gracefulness, and acted quite as well as she spoke. The scene with the Nurse was full of delightful simplicity ; and here the easy portion of the part, that which makes it a favourite with young actresses, ends. The girlish timi dity which characterises Juliet before the influence of the " inauspicious stars" which shape the destiny of her leve is fully felt, then gives way to the irresistible sway of the raaater-spirit that domineers over her soul. In the scenes which ensue, when a more powerful and agitating passion is to he expressed, and where the real strength of the actress is tried, Miss KEMBLE rose with the part. The scene in which the Nurse communicates to her all the horror of her situation— Tybalt slain, and Romeo banished—was acted with great force ; and the manner in which she broke off the conversation, when the weak-witted old woman ad vises her to marry Paris, was marked by a natural dignity of look and gesture, which made it one of the most striking and felicitous parts of the performance. The " Amen" to the Nurse's imprecation on herself, and the passage beginning— " Well, thou bast comforted me marvellous much," were among the most certain indications she gave of pos sessing the true qualities for success. She acted that ex tremely difficult scene in which the soliloquy before she swallows the Friar's potion occurs with extraordinary energy, and in the last scene she was no less excellent.— Upon the whole, we do not remember to have ever seen a more triumphant debut. That Miss KEMBLE has been Well and carefully instructed, as of coui se she would be, is clear; but it is no less clear that she possesses qualifica tions which instruction could not create, although it can bring them to perfection. We shall have probably many future opportunities of returning to the subject, and unless that should happen in this case, which never did in any other, that an actress whose first essay has been so excel lent shall prove less so on future occasions, it may be rea sonably expected that Miss KEstar.E will prove a great ac quisition to the dramatic strength of this theatre, and that, too, in a line in which it has of late been remarkably defi cient. Mrs. C. KEMBLE played Lady Capulet. The part has been thought to be nothing, because it has com monly fallen into the hands of those who have made no thing of it. Those who have seen it played by such an actress as this, may be said to have seen it acted for the first time. Mr. C. KEMBLE appeared for the first time as Msrcutio, and played it admirably. The Queen Mob speech was given with a humour and whimsicality that Were by so much the more agreeable that they were free f rom the gross buffoonery and exaggeration with which some actors, whom we " have heard others praise, and that highly," have interlarded it. The whole character was very ably conceived,—mirthful and manly, and with out th e slightest tinge of Lurd Foppinyton in it. Mr. Warms: appeared as Friar Lawrence, and gained more credit by the sensible and clever manner in which he exe cuted this part, which has been mistakenly thought to be an inferior one, than he has in some more distinguished ch aracters. The play was powerfully and effectively acted, and was loudly applauded throughout. good ; the words did not rattle out of hia meuth as if he knew nothing of their meaning and value, and when he tripped once in his deli►-ery, he recovered himself with astonishing adroitness. A modern critic, and the best of the race, has well said that when JONES plays Mercutio, Sum:sr-EA IRE'S words drops from his lips like a shower of bad sixpences. (From the Morning Post. ) The name of KEMBLE was exercised with magic-like effect at this Theatre last night. Plunged into difficulties almost overwhelming, Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE exerted his best strength and influence : his wife returned to the stage, his daughter made her debut, and a brilliant and overflow ing audience was the consequence. This was precisely as every friend of the Drama must have wished. The name of a family which has for half a century contributed so largely, and with so much distinction and honour, to the most rational and intellectual of our amusements, ought not to be u'ed in vain, or to be heard without cheering and liberal encouragement. On this occasion it met with en thusiastic support, anti those who anticipated a display of hereditary genius were happily confirmed in their kindly hopes. 'I hat the difficulties of the Theatre have been most alarming there can be no question, but however desperate they may have been in their character, or however dis• tressing to the Managers, we can hardly help rejoicing in their occurrence, since they have been the immediate cause of giving to the stage another KEMBLE, and one too who promises to enhance rather than to depreciate the unrivalled reputation of her family. With the debut of Miss FANNY KEMBLE too, we are inclined to date the disappearance of the distresses of the Theatre, and therefore we shall make no further mention of them, but content ourselves with expressing a hope that that young lady's introduction to the stage will only be one of many acts of good judgment on the part of the Manager. Miss KEM BLE in stature is like her mother, being rather under than over the middle size ; but she possibly may not yet have completed her growth, being, as we are informed, and as she really appears, not more than eighteen. Her form, however, is rich in beauties. 'The contour of her throat, neck, and head, reminded us forcibly of Mrs. Sthnorts : and her arms have that roundness and capability of majestic action in which her aunt was so entirely un rivalled. In her countenance Miss KEMBLE partakes more of the beauties of Mrs. SIDDONS and the expression of JOHN KEMBLE, than she does of the features of her father or mother. Her brow is like that of all the KEMBLES— Iofty and full of deep expression ; her eye is finely placed, dark and powerful; her nose is sufficiently prominent to give a good profile, and to add to the effect of the other features ; and her mouth has much of the character of that of her great predecessor, Mrs. StnnoNs, being capable of expressing tenderness, scorn, and triumph, in all their depth, bitterness, anti lofty joy. The general character of her face is dignity; it is plainly and beautifully traced, al though she has hardly yet attained the state of womanhool Her voice is equal to every demand that even Tragedy can make. It is powerful, rich, and has great variety. It has none of the poverty of her uncle's in particular pas-• sages, and little of the monotony of her aunt's in level speaking. It often resembles her mother's in sweetness, and is capable of declamation without any of the evidently acquired facility of her father's. In the peculiar expres sion, however, for which each of her distinguished re• latives have been celebrated, they are likely still to stand unrivalled. Without challenging the triumphant declama tion and the agonizing bursts of Mrs. SIDDONS, Miss KEMBLE has an ample field before her, wherein she may gather " Golden opinions of all sorts of men." (From the Morning Herald.) Covent-garden Theatre commenced the season last night, under circumstances most flattering to those who have taken an interest in supporting it. We are happy to say that the debut of Miss FAN NY KEMBLE was successful, and that she bids fair to be an ornament to the stage, and to transmit the hereditary honours of her family. Her person is interesting, her face expressive, and her voice one of the sweetest we have heard. She played with soul and feeling, struck boldly at once into the spirit of the part, and made every important scene tell from the force of her own instinct. Though evidently accomplished in the business of the stage, we have seldom seen a young lady so clear of the embarrassment which the constant recollec tion of it occasions. Her action is charming, criticism might find fault with it for being too redundant, but it is always suited to the occasion, and its energy adds much to the force of the impressive scenes. Her manner is ori ginal—at least no imitation of the KEMBLE style is to be distinguished. Her voice is said to resemble that of Mrs. SIDDONS, but it is evident, though she brings to the stage all the assistance which the instruction of her accom plished family could give her, th it her own nature is strong within her, and that she is an actress by the force of her own feeling. We dread speaking too favourably of a first appearance, but in this instance the promise is more than ordinarily encouraging. Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE played Mercutio for the first time, and released the cha racter from the frivolity which has generally been attached to it. He pourtrayed it as that of a man of wit, of re finement, and of the world. His description of Queen Mab was full of force ; and he disclosed a powerful pic. ture of the effects of imagination. The part was taken in the right key, and it is an instance of the good taste and judgment of the performer. KEAN made his sixth and last appearance on Wednesday night at Edinburgh, in the character of Ham let. KEAN'S personation of the character was in his very best style. At the close the plaudits were enthusiastic, and immediately after the curtain dropped, he was so loudly called for that he found it necessary to come for ward and make his acknowledgments. His remarks, which were evidently quite unpremeditated, were to the fol lowing effect:—" Ladies and Gentlemen—l feel particu larly flattered by this mark of your kindness. It has ever been my study to cultivate the good opinion of an Edin burgh audience—perhaps more than any other part of the world—because I believe that warm friendship and enlightened feeling are distinguishing characteristics of the inhabitants of this city." He concluded by express ing his sincere thanks, and retired amidst renewed ap• plause. KEAN has drawn excellent houses from, first to last. An actor of great celebrity, who has no aver sion to tipsy revelry, on Saturday night, quarrelled with a supper party of bon vivants in the Strand. After a scuffle, in which he broke a pane of the window that opened into the street, they forced him to make a precipi tate exit. Shortly after he popped his head into the broken pane, and exclaimed—" Gentlemen, I see through my error, and humbly claim your usual indulgence." A loud laugh ensued, and the performer was restored to the honours of the sitting. Ten thousand copies of each volume of the Waverley Novels are published at Philadelphia on the same day they are published in Edinburgh ; proof sheets, as they are worked off, being regularly sent there by the Author, by the swiftest sailing vessels. A large profit is realised by Sir W. Scorn in consequence of this friendly intercourse between the English and Transatlantic publishers.— Morning Paper. THE POETS' GOLDEN AGE.—A fashion once prevailed of writing poems in the form of hearts, altars, pyramids, pillars, and other fantastic devices. Now a-dabs, they are written in the form of large quartos, and have been set to the tune of 3,000 guineas ; so that if we have not gained any thing by the exchange, it is evident the audio's have. " I will soon repay you these five guineas," said a borrower, " in some shape or other." " Do so," replied his friend; " and let it be as much as possible in the shape of five guineas." Were we to lend a two-guinea quarto poem, even by the Poet Laureate him self, we should beg to be repaid as little as possible in the same shape. On Saturday a waggon of Mr. JOHN PE R REY, No. 183,480, overladen with immense boxes of marble, in proceeding over Westminster-bridge proved too much for the horses, when the shaft-horse suddenly fell, and the check caused the front-box to fail on the poor animal, by which both its thighs were broken ; and, after lingering, it appears, two or three hours, it was killed. Accidents of this kind with two-wheeled carts are common occur rences, and are, unhappily, passed over without censure; but nothing short of the most gross negligence and cruelty could occasion such an accident with a waggon with four wheels. One of the buildings in the interior of Lam.. beth Palace recently fell down, the beams and timbers being quite rotten. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The lion. George and Lady Georgians Agar Ellis, at the Marquis of Cholinondeley's seat, Chohnondeley Castle, Cheshire, from the Earl of Barewood's seat in Yorkshire ; Lord and Lady Churchill, at the Dowager Countess of Pembroke's seat at Rich. mond, from their seat in Oxfordshire; Major and Mrs. Bruce, in Park-street, from Cheltenham ; Captain Gordon, in Pall. mall, from Italy ; Dowager Lady and Miss Shee, at Crawler': Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, from their seat, Lock. ley's, Kent; Madame Amelia Beer, at ditto, front Berlin; Mr. and Lady Harriet Suttie, at ditto, front a tour; the Rev. Mr. Chester, at ditto, !from Hertfordshire ; Madame Mason and Mademoiselle Montalbin, at ditto, from France; Captain Har court, at ditto, from Lord Harcourt's seat, St. Leonard's; Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, from Southampton ; Hon. Charles Stewart, at ditto, from Paris ; S. S. Prime, Esq. at ditto, from Cambridge; Captain and Mrs. Griffiths, in Regent street, from Paris ; Sir Gilbert Sterling, at Bryant's Hotel (late Warne's), Conduit-street, from the Conti nent ; Capt. Arthur Webber, Mrs. Webber, and family, at ditto. DEPARTURES. Lord and Lady Holland, from Holland House, for Brighton ; the Earl of Thanet, for his seat in Kent; Sir John and Lady Maria Stanley, from their seat, Alderley Park, Cheshire, for North Wales; W. Chirte, Esq. from Hatchett's Hotel, l'icca. dilly, for his scat in Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Galbert, from Talke's Hotel (late Miller's), Jermyn-street, for Bedfordshire; the Earl of Stair, from Scotland, for Paris ; Lord Ellenborough, from Connaught-place, for Worthing; the Hight Hon. George and Mrs. Tierney, from Dover-street, for Brighton ; Lord Bray_ brook, from New Burlington-street, for his scat in Essex ; Er. nest Bonar, Esq. from Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, for his seat in Kent ; Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow and family, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, from ditto, for Berkshire; Mr. and Mrs, Fitzgerald, from Grosvenor-street, for Brighton; Mrs. G. H. Drummond, from Piccadilly, for Derbyshire; Viscount Wey. mouth, from his house in Cumberland-street, for Hastings. The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to town yesterday afternoon, from a visit to his MAJESTY at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. 'The Austrian Ambassador, the Prussian Mi nister, and the French Charge d'Affaires, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Earl BATHURST and Sir GEORGE MUR- R.►Y transacted business yesterday at the office of the Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. ROTLESCHILD transacted business at the Foreign Office yesterday. Lord HILL visited Sir GEORGE MURRAY yesterday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. LOCKHART, the Editor of the Quar terly Review, and Mrs. L., arc still on a visit to Sir WALTER SCOTT, at Abbotsford. Mr. L. has just finished his new edition of " The Life of Napoleon I3uonaparte," for writing which, it is said, MuRRAY has given him five hundred guineas. rOM DEBDIN, one of the most facetious as well as successful writers of the present day, has written a Drama, which, in the opinion of a veteran of taste in Theatrical matters, is as likely to be successful as the once popular and effective play called The Birth Day, written by the same author. Francis the First is the name of the Histori cal Tragedy written by Miss FANNY KEMBLE, the accom plished daughter of CHARLEs KEMBLE, who last night made her dAut at Covent Garden, in the character of Juliet. We believe it is not intended to produce Francis the First at any Theatre during the present season. Mr. COOPER'S NEW NOVEL.—We are re quested to state that the new Tale of " The Borderers," by the distinguished Author of " The Spy," " The Pilot," " The Red Rover," &c. is now published, and may be had of the Booksellers, and at the various Libraries. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELE and BRADruTE ; fur Ireland, Mr. JOIIN CUMMING. The present Bishop of CHICIIESTER was one of his MAJESTY'S early friends. The writer of this is old enough to remember the period when the hospitali ties of the Pavilion at Brighton were unbounded. In those days of frolic, when DAY, MELLISH, LEE, M‘Ma- HON, Lord CRAVEN Major HANGER, SHERIDAN, Lord JOHN TOWNSHEND, FITZPATRICK, Lord BERKELEY, Capt. Moßars, and many other finished bon vivants, were companions of their Royal Master ; the Rev. Mr. CARR was likewise a constant guest at their midnight orgies. A marriage in high life will, we understand, be solemnized to-day. A most sumptuous dejeune will be given on the occasion, to which numerous fashionable, are invited. From the Dublin Gazette of Thursday, Oct. , 1829 ; - " Ulster's Office, Sept. 30, 1829. " This day, at the Castle, his Excellency the LORD LIEU.. TENANT was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood On CHARLES SCLIDAMORE, of Wimpole-street, London, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., and Physician Extraordinary to his Excellency. " W. BETI-lAM." The Admiralty have despatched a royal yacht, and also one of the Government steam-packets, to Dieppe, to be at the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE. The drawing-rooms of the Duke of WEL- LxNaToN's mansion are finished, and are beginning to exhibit specimens of splendid furniture. Dr. JOHNSON, speaking of claret, said that it would drown a man before it would make him drunk. The House of Commons is to undergo several alterations previous to the meeting of Parliament. Work men are now employed enlarging the long gallery leading from the Coffee-room to the Committee-rooms. The repairs upon the front of the Banqueting Hall, at Whitehall, begin to attract public attention. About one-half of that fine display of architecture wears a new face. Letters from Terceira state, that two days after the attack made by Don ATIGuEL's squadron, which was so gallantly and successfully resisted by the garrison, a Gravesend boat had arrived from England with 20,0004 in specie, for the use of the troops. —Devonport Telegraph. CHARLES KEMBLE, respecting the delicacy or fastidiousness of the age, will not act the character of Romeo to his daughter's Juliet. The writer of this, however, remembers the time when these extremely deco rous niceties were less observed. Many years ago, a daughter of the late GEORGE HOLMAN, nearly related to Mr. NUDE, of Drury-lane Theatre, introduced his daugh ter upon the stage, on their return from America, in Belvidere ; and Mr. Hocmax (a highly accomplished gentleman, educated at the School, in Soho-square, and subsequently at the University), played Jager.—Morn ing Paper. Business is undoubtedly reviving. The last accounts from India announce a considerable advance in the value of yarn and muslins; and there have, in conse quence of these agreeable tidings, been extensive purchases of lappets and other fine goods. The works of HENRY MoNTEITH and Co., at Barrow&ld, which for a con siderable time past were but partially employed, are now, we are happy to learn, in full and active operation. We learn also that the printing works at Campsie have not been fur a long time so fully employed as at present. The improvement, we trust, will be great enough to give full work to the weavers.— Glasgow Chronicle. On Sunday evening, between six and seven o'clock, a beautiful meteor was seen descending to the north of Edinburgh. It was globular-shaped, of a bril liant white colour, and exploded before reaching the earth, leaving behind a whitish cloud of smoke.—Cal. Mercury. At Horsebridge fair, on Tuesday last, there was a large show of sheep and lambs, and a good supply of horned cattle, the whole of which met a very heavy sale ; and for full half of it no purchasers could be found, even at reduced pi ices. Our private advices from Paris assure us that the appointment of M. de VITROLIES, as successor to the Due de LAVAL MONTMORENCY, in the embassy at Vienna, is by no means certain. M. de MONTIIORENCY may be expected in London almost immediately; bat it is considered rather more than probable that the first blamed individual swill be employed in a Ministerial rather than a diplomatic capacity : our sagacious and well-informed correspondent conceives the permanence of the present French Administration to be intimately connected with the course of events in the East; and he considers the published lists of intended successors to various Members of the existing Cabinet to be wholly unworthy of atten tion. Ile leans strongly to the opinion that no material change, nor even any important modification, is to be ex pected, at all events, previous to the opening of the Sessions ; and, contrary to the inference we should natu rally draw from the statements of the Parisian press, he conceives the POLIO NAC Ministry is rather gaining ground. We record his opi n i ons w i t h t h e usua l reservat i on , that althoughintrinsically ent itl e d t o muc h cons id era tion, it is not to be inferred th a t we a d opt t h em i n t h e i r f u ll e x• tent., —Morning Chronicle. COMMERCIAL POLIC V. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The great misfortune under which the who], civilized world seems at present to labour, is an cx cessive competition in the supply of manzffirctu.-es Under the influence of this, manufacturing profit• are reduced to nothing—goods must be got up in the cheapest possible way—even this will not always honestly clear the merchant—frauds are therefore common—manual labour is getting everywhere more and more superseded in manufacture by machinery —where there is no work there can be no wages, and every branch of business suffers, because a large portion of the powers of consumption in every market is thus destroyed. Such at least are the distinctive features of the case. We have no desire to exaggerate the extent to which they may prevail; hut whatever their extent, they obviously proceed necessarily from the competition noticed ; and the inquiry is therefore a very interesting one, are there no means by which it may be abated ? To lessen our own manufacturing exertions would clearly give no relief, because the pressure of pro duction is from without, as well as from within ; and we should thus only give our competitors freer scope—to say nothing of the greater degree in which our artizans would be thus deprived of labour and bread. It seems, probable, however, that if, as in extinguishing competition in private life, we would extraordinarily cheapen them, the effect would be most beneficial ; and, at all events, the consideration of this suggestion seems to open up some new and very interesting views of policy, as we shall now endeavour to explain. The great temptation to manufacture has been the high price of manufactured goods, relatively to the raw material of which they are composed; and to such extent has this disproportion been in some cases carried, (partly, no doubt, from the nature of things, but greatly aided by taxes on materials, ma chinery, food, clothing, lodging, and communication, high profits thus gained on a larger capital than would otherwise have been necessary, high wages, &c.), and so little has its true operation been con sidered, that it is not unusual to find, in newspapers and school-books, a boast made how many thou sand times a little labour and skill have been able to raise the value of an ounce of iron or cotton. The consequences of this, however, have been these. We have driven other nations to manufacture in com petition with us, because a few goods from us ex hausted the stock of new products which they had to spare as equivalents, and their supply would have been otherwise inadequate. We have also sti mulated them to act under this necessity, and be yond it, by the high idea we have given them of the rate of manufacturing profits. We have thus every where called a greater amount of capital into this line than would have naturally flowed into it ; and in our own hands and those of others, have caused it to be accumulated and re-invested, till it now greatly exceeds any powers of consumption which the increase of population, and progress yet made in communication and civilization, have evolved. While the war lasted, indeed, the mischief was not so much felt, although even then a feverish throb occasionally indicated that all was not right. But when the war consumption ceased, the evil soon came to a head. Having keen caused, however, by giving a high relative value to manufactures, it is, obviously, at least probable that it could be repaired by altering this proportion, and, code qui coule, making them extraordinarily cheap. But this probability is greatly more apparent when we examine its detail. The process we have been considering would be just reversed. Presenting our manufactures every where at a very low price, we should in effect raise the value-.f raw produce, and the temptation would be to grow it. The capital now invested abroad in manufactures would be thus gradually transferred to the cultivation of the soil. The pre sent violent competition would cease. Only enough, perhaps, would remain to keep down the profits of manufactures, so that they should neither themselves accumulate so fast as to outrun the powers of con sumption, nor draw in other capital to compete with them, and re-produce all the evil. And there are some other consequences still which seem even more interesting than these. So great is the apparent temptation now held out to manufacture, that it is received as a certain fact in political history, that at a certain stage of its progress in population, wealth, and civilization, every nation must begin ; and, in fact, all now do begin, and many even before this (supposed) natural period, which they seek to anticipate by means of protecting regulations. Manufactures, too, are not like the growth of raw produce—they can be carried on, for the most part, nearly equally well in all cir cumstances; and the consequence must be, that in time there will be little or no interchange of com modities between any two communities, excepting what little may be necessary to supply each with such raw material as it does not grow, and yet re quires for its consumption or manufactures. And yet, more than this, no country will have work for its population. For so great is now the improve ment in machinery for the purposes of manufacture (and still so progressive), it is certain that a very small portion of the labourers of every country will always keep it in manufactured goods, while the cultivation of the soil cannot possibly maintain the rest, so long as its produce bears its present low ex changeable value, compared with these goods. And already, indeed, in every part of the civilized world, is this evil beginning to be experienced. Let us now, however, reverse the picture, and consider how very different all this would be, were the temptation to manufacture less, and that to grow raw produce more,—in other words, if manufac turing in all its stages were made so cheap, that it would take three or four times the quantity of goods that it does now to represent the same quan tity of raw produce. In the first place, it does not appear that in such case there would be any more obligation on a nation to manufacture as it gets rich, than on a boy to make his own coat as he be comes a man ;—on the contrary, in like manner as a child's clothes are first made by his mother, but afterwards got from a tailor, it would appear more natural that a nation which, while yet secluded and barbarous, was forced to use: its own rude manufac •tures, as it gradually came within the pale of civilized life, and in close contact with the great drapers and clothiers of the world, would give these up, and be take itself in preference to a diligent improvement of its natural advantages, so as to grow equivalents for more perfect wares. 2dly, Other countries, then, whose stake already embarked in manu factures is not so great as our's, while their scope for improving the culture of their soil is greater, would probably give their labour and ca• pital, more and more, this latter direction :—and this country, differently circumstanced, and with her mind more peculiarly bent on manufactures, would acquire a share in their supply, proportioned to the energy with which she might bid for it, by at once, and greatly, reducing their cost and prices, by what soever means this may be best effected. 3dly, The prices of manufactures thus falling, the expence of living, and the rate of wages, would also fall ; and manual labour would maintain a better competition with mechanical power than is now possible—if not in the higher branches of manufacture, in those which are more simple ; and at the worst, in hus bandry, the machinery employed in which is neces sarily imperfect, insomuch, that even under present circumstances, many agriculturists arc of opinion that manual labour might be extended to advantage, and this is chiefly prevented by the great immediate expence arising from high wages. 4thly, Wi t h this immense resource, however, for our labouring population, the degree in which the improvement of machinery may yet farther exclude hand labour from manufactures, instead of a curse would be a blessing; because the vacillations which seem inse parable from trade, would thus, less and less, pro gressively, affect the lower orders. And, lastly, The interests of nations, which are now severed by com petition, would be dove-tailed together by reciprocal demand and supply; And the Pam system which, lugurs domestic comfort, would seem thus calculated to insure us also international amity. Perhaps it is !yen suspicious that it should thus, altogether, pro 'rise so much ; hn• the links seem sufficient too by vhich the whole is connected. Surnm►ring up this argument, then, we may say hat our first of jests at pre, , :it 'hould be to cheapen he production, and facilitate the distribution of our manufactures, each as much as possible : and these conclusions, broken down into details, seem to give us the following practical advice. We should re peal all taxes which bear upon the costs of manufac ture, or upon their transit, or upon the transit of the materials of whi?li they are made, or of the equi valents received for them. We should impose duties rather on property already realized, or on polls, gra duating these last according to civil rank, and class ing the middle orders at their own choice, but widi certain qualifications for public and municipal offices, and certain privileges as to liveries, &c., according to the scale they selected—while the higher and lower orders would be marked of then - it - elves. For some years it might even be expedient to raise a large portion of our necessary annual expenditure by loan ; and we ought not to scruple at this, when so great a good is in view as the system thus laid down seems to promise. We should further protect our agricultural interests by bounties on home corn, making food and labour cheap, not by duties on foreign corn, making it dear at still the same, or even a greater expence ; and we should protect them liberally, at least for a time, both that they may be really able to sell cheap, and be led to furnish spade labour extensively to the industrious poor. We should next look abroad, and especially study to improve the domestic communications of foreign countries, because the more minutely and extensively we are able to distribute our manufactures, and bring away raw produce in exchange, the more we shall improve our market, and the fewer competitors we shall ultimately leave in it. And, therefore, lastly, we should also diligently study, and render popular among us a knowledge of all their statistics, that we may be enabled from time to time to sug gest new wants to them, and new articles of raw growth to rear in exchange for them. Our own soil is limited in extent, and we never can compete in such commodities ourselves, and it is not even desirable that we should, for if we sell, we must buy. But, on the other hand, we have more loose capital, more trading► spirit, more general science than most ; and but a few years ago these qualities betrayed us into the most lamentable follies, merely because we wanted exact information by which to guide them. A wide field might yet be opened, however, for their profitable employment, if only minute particu lars were accurately known respecting foreign coun tries, and the means of improving their domestic markets ; and a literary society for compiling and condensing such information into a tangible form for the use of speculative, but not literary men, would be thus one of the most interesting institutions of the present day. We conclude with only one more remark. An analogy will be found between these views and those which govern private life, which may well be claimed as at least a presumption in their favour. They contemplate that division of labour and pro duce among nations which is found to answer so well in private life. They propose to bring it about just as individuals do, by one community putting forth its whole strength in its own particular branch if necessary, even at a temporary sacrifice. And they recommend markets to be sought by facilitating communication, and studying the peculiarities, as they may be termed, of our customers, the points about them by which they may' be induced or en abled to order from us more freely. Even the boun ties on agricultural products, which they contem plate, however repugnant they may seem to the ab stract maxims of political economy, are not without many analogies in every-day practice. If a coach is wanted along a new road, its tolls are remitted, — hi other words it receives a bounty, for a given time, to this extent, If labour is wanted for the poor of a parish, some neighbouring farmer receives a bounty out of the poors' rates towards their wages. Whenever, indeed, an object is much desired, some little sacrifice is readily trade in the outset, to ob- tain it. But the objects here contemplated are among the most important imaginable, and come home to the interests of the whole community.— They are first to cheapen production--next to pro tect agricultural investments against an undue com petition from without, and thereby enable them ex tensively to employ the poor in spade labour,—and lastly, to assist these same poor in maintaining a competition with machinery in the more simple branches of manufacture also. The first is the pivot on which the whole system of national relief here sketched, turns; the second is at present sought by protecting duties, which, however, by raising wages, defeat its most important portion ; the third it has often been proposed to attain in the same way, by ditties on machinery; and the difference between the two methods seems just to be this. Protection by duties is like making head-way in a canal by means of locks; the object is attained, but great inconvenience and expence are incurred, and the price of the goods transmitted is by so much in creased, or the profit on them impaired. Protec tion by bounties is, on the other hand like travelling on rail-ways, laid down, it may be, at public ex pence, but from which every one derives his pro portion of benefit. For it is absurd to suppose that with a free and unobstructed competition from without, which the bounties would be graduated so as'to moderate, not extinguish, either landlords or farmers would keep an undue portion of them to themselves. Much practical wisdom may be frequently learned by watching the devices of untutored minds in par ticular emergencies; and without being fettered by them, suffering them to have their due weight on our conclusions. Some months ago the weavers in a manufacturing town in Scotland, in an ebullition of feeling against the present corn laws, proposed to raise a subscription among themselves to pay the duty on some foreign corn, bonded in their neigh bourhood ; and if they had done this, they would, no doubt, have got their money again in the form of cheap bread, but the neighbouring farmers would have been pro tanto injured, either by losing their markets, or by being forced to enter it under dis advantage. But if, instead of this, the subscription had been universal, and instead of going to pay the duty, had been devoted to purchase up from the farming interest their protection by it, so as to have allowed the foreign corn to come in free, all parties would have been benefited alike, the consumer the rather because the supply would have been thus greater. And this would just have been a bounty; and the snore the idea is thus considered, not with 4 reference to the (supposed) maxims of a seionco yet confessedly unsettled, but to the realities of common life, the more, we are persuaded, will it be relished. Should the system we have thus traced ever be acted on, it is true, (and we cannot help thinking that through some agency or other this is, more than probable), this portion of it may in time be given up; because, through the general prosperity, general density of population wh;,:h need thus have no limits, greater consequent demand on the land for the growth of luxuries, general relief from poors' rates, and greater relative value of !and produce, all of which it is calculated to produce, the agricultural interest may cease to require protection. But meanwhile if we wish to run our coach we must for a time pay its tolls ; in other words, if we wish to change our system we must do it gradually, and put up with some imperfections in our new devices. With the present btirtheus on land it must have some protection, not merely for its own interests, but for those of the whole community ; and the question is not any, or how much, but by what means ? A SINGULAR SIIOT.—Mr. STRuTT, park keeper to his Grace the Dike of DEvossniax, at Chats worth, after looking out fur a good fat buck, and having fixed upon a prime one, fired and killed it, and the ball passed through its neck, struck another equally good, and killed it Also. CITY PROPERTY. The property of the Corporation is improving ra 2idly in price, as the streets in the City gradually widen. That about Fleet-m ar k e t h as h a d a r i se be- vond all expectation. About three weeks ago - Mr. Adamson, the auctioneer, sold by public auction a piece of freehold ground, at the corner of Stonecut ter-street and Fleet-market, which the Corporation had purchased when the new market was projeet. Et consisted of 17 feet up Stonecutter-street and 3`s feet along the line of the old market, and it was knocked down to Mr. Elmes, the surveyor to the port of London, at 1,330/. Five years ago it would not have produced more than 300/. It is reported is the City that the London Improvement Commit tee and the Port of London Committee are to be abandoned this year, the one having accomplished the structure of Fleet-market, and the other having completed the arrangement for the new bye-law, , , of the port, which have given great satisfaction. The former is to be merged in the City Lands Commit tee and the latter in the Navigation Committee, both of which are more constantly occupied with business than any others. The improvements which have been contem plated round St. Paul's, and respecting which se veral conferences were held with the late Earl of Liverpool, are, it is confidently reported, to b e commenced at a very early period. They are upon the most magnificent plan. Alderman Wood, and another of the Corporation, forming a deputation, had impressed the Minister with the idea of the urgent necessity of commencing operations about St. Paul's, on the ground that the retail trade in the ornamental line was abandoning the City,'in consequence of the narrowness of the approaches. A great deal of olp•ervation has been excited by th e long-est a blished practi ce o f se l ect i ng men not qua lified for the business, to sit as members of the Improvement Committee ; and it has bee-1 sug gested, that the way of improving the Committeo effectually would be by substituting a select Corn• mittee of men who undetstood what they wer:- abaut, in the place of a Ward Committee seleetbil at random. This would be in unison with the re commendation of the Lords of the Treasury, and in imitation of the Committee for w id e streets in Dub- lin. It has been also suggested to the Corpnr;;- don, to order a survey of the City to be made, and to have marked out all the improvements deemed necessary, to be proceeded wiih progres sively, as the money might fall in. If this plan should be pursued, it is calculated the City would soon compete with Westminster and Alarylebone, in the fashionable retail business. As soon as London Bridge shall have been cm. pleted, it is said that those improvements will be immediately commenced; and it is also said that the trifling duty on coals will be continued ad infinitym, for the purpose of defraying the expences. The projected improvements round St. Paul's will, it is estimated, by the Port of London Surveyor, cause an expence of 280,0001., of which 80,000/. will he for ever sunk, but the remainder will be recovered by reletting the ground. The defective intercourse between the west and east ends of the town will, by this plan, which, it is supposed, must be adopted, be effectually remedied. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. Yesterday was a busy day at Hyde Park Corner, al though little business was done. In the first place, odds were quoted against several horses for the Derby, which offers a remarkably fine field for betting round ; money, however, is short, so that few engagements were entered into—the heaviest bet was 500 even on the field against the following ten :—The Mummer, Sal, Cressida, Ad vance, Red Rover, Rupert, Cobweb, Captain Atthur, \Vat Tyler, and Brother to Lamplighter. There are no prices as yet for the Oaks. Lord Exeter's Shumla (Sis ter to Varna) appears to be the favourite, the odds being indefinite. Several bets were made on the Garden Stakes ; Coroner, Luss, and Mameluke, being severally backed at 3 to I. Zinganee had no friends, 4to 1 p.p. having been repeatedly offered against him; he is not expecttd start. The St. Leger was not mentioned.—To compen sate for the slackness of business, there were " lots of fun, ' afforded by a person who proposes to tell the colours to be worn by the jockey of the winning horse of Derby, Oaks, or St. Leger ; and avers that he has picked out the " black and pink" for the last two or three years'. How he arrives at the secret, or what his terms are, we cannot state.—We subjoin the present state of the market • DERBY, 1830. 8 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Hammer (taken) 12 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswicker 18 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Cressida colt 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Nat Tyler 20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Major 20 to 1 agst Col. Wilson's Brother to Lamplighter 20 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 20 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt 20 to 1 agst Mr. Dilly's Cetus 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Sal colt 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Advance colt 25 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Red Rover 25 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Brine 25 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Canker, THE SOMERSETSHI RE STAEVE.—The stakes are awanled to Liston, and the bets to Rasselas, who saves his stake ; and there being no second horse in consequence of this decision, the 25 sovereigns are to be divided among the horses not placed. In consequence of the robbery of the. Princess of ORANGE'S jewkli, a positive order w as g i ven by the police to search every person passing th , J frontiers of the Netherlands ; and so rigidly has the order been obeyed, that one family, whose carriage was closely packed, were detained three hours while the hopeless search was making. Another instance of the uncertainty of life, anti the slender tenure of man's existence, occurred on Wedues-• day evening. Mr. Jou); WATT, for many years a mer • chant in Leith, dropped down while reading a newspaper, and expired. We learn that his fortune, which is con siderable, is laid aside as a fund for the support of old and unfortunate merchants.—Scotsman. STAGE COSTUME.--" Gentleman LEWIS" was in the habit of amusing his friends with an account of the circumstances in which he first saw the greatest tragedian of his time. At an early period of his career, Mr. LEWIS, on his way from Covent-garden to Liverpool, stopped at Leicester for the night, and witnessixl at the Theatre there a representation of the Claxdestine Mar riage. _Loren:ell was played by a tall gaunt young mat), tricked out in an antique drab suit, with long, lank, hluck hair hanging about his shoulders—the very moral, in fact, of a stage puritan. Such at that time was JOHN KENl- BLE—destined afterwar:k to embody in his personations all that his contemporaries could conceive as heroic in stage action, azd to aid the effect of these by the adoption of all that was classical in stage costume, Ilis labours in this department were, however, confined chiefly to tilt. gedy ; and the costume of comedy remains scdrcely less anomalous than was that of tragedy before the days of KEMBLE, is, in fact, a tissue of patch-work, neither ancient nor modern, but presenting to our view at once the actual and the obsolete in dress, Why should not the costume in comedies of marmors—comedies having no in violable connection with history or chronology—be the-- roughly modernised? The Loeeu , ells of the present day do not transform themselves into counterparts of &row. .Pure-they wear the fashionable city dress of 1829; and why should the Lord Oglebys by their side masquerade ;e ina court suit of GrcQunD. the First? Let the -Lovetrells and Oglebys keep eauh other in countenance--let the dif ference in their style of dress correspond with the differ ence merely in their ages. Lard Ogleby is not exclu sively the battered beau of GARRICK and COLMAN'S expe iiritiuennpdcreroe,fdaonr;,,,lo,yaf,e years I , i nn e t r eo t a e of Queen sahno ladgAeaLpNpbEeua. age—but He is, t i a s i n t o gh t enn t e o e. :s,aptei generation behind the younger part of the spectators. We would not, indeed, have him caricatured as one of our modern ever greens; we would dispense with the dandy surtout and artificial whiskers of some venerable youngsters, of whom the times give us proof." Let him represent the beaux of thirty years back. We are old enough to recollect the Duke of —, seated in his balcony in Piccadilly, in a green and buff club unifirm, with a broad -brimmed straw hat to guard his eyes and complexion from the intrusive beams of the sun, and believing himself "the glass of fashion" all the while. Nor did the race of Oligthys die with his Grace. But we certainly know no better n,, del of the fine gentleman of the last generation, nor one, by attention to whose costume histrionic aspirants ,E9r.l Ogleby's honours could profit more. _:; Y.) Pr 1!: 0 " e ifv rt o' ,,