The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-31 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN-EXCHANGE. The arrivals of last week were very good of foreign Corn, but short of English. There was not much Flour This morning the fresh supplies consist chiefly of New Wheat and Pease from Essex and Kent, mostly in tender condition. The top price of Flour not having ad vanced, the Wheat trade in consequence has been very dull to-day, prime dry parcels obtain last quotations, other aorta of Old are 25., and New samples 4s. per quar ter lower than this day se'nnight. Barley remains unal tered, notwithstanding the unfavourable reports of this (1 0p., i Beans m a i n t a i n th e t erms o f this day se'nnight. 'ease of both sorts arc unaltered in value. There is not much doing in the Oat trade ; prime parcels are rather dearer, but other kinds remain as last quoted. New Rapeseed is scarce, and sells at 281. to 311. per last. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (1829) sos. 70s. Beans, Small (new)... —s. —s. "'"A-......White"(1829) 528. 765. ,____."""'—'' Red (1§28) ... 525. 565. Tick (new)....335. tss. -----. Fine '.:l‘4s. 61s • (old) .... —s —s. ..------ Superfine.. 68s. '72s. Harrow (new) 375. 40s. ----- ---White (1828). 555. 665. -------- Fine 7os. Its. Brank 225. 248. -----•--- Superfine.. 765. 80s. Oats, Feed 1 5 s. s. 255. —----- Foreign free 48s. 808. New RYe ........................ 30s. 31s. Poland 16s. 28s. Barley , ................ ... 265. :30s. New ---_,. Pine 3os. 323. ---- Superfine Malt "~ rine Pease, Grey ----- Maple ---- White —.---... Boilers - Potatoe New - Scotch - Irish.. Flour Town (per sac mds th Cowl' - Nor Bran ~..225. 28s, s. —s. ..... 295. 345. Is. 18s 265. :k) GOs 655. .... 50s. 6s. try 465. 555. .... 9s. 10s. LITERATURE. CAIN THE WANDERER, AND OTHER POEMS. LoNnoN, 1829. This, beyond all comparison, is the finest poem that has been published since the days of Byron. For loftiness of conception, boldness and magnificence of imagery, depth of feeling, variety, and extent of thought, we should be puzzled to find its equal, except among the sub limer productions of the author of " Childe Ha rold." The writer has selected a subject, to which his original and splendid powers of mind are every way competent. In the characters of Lucifer, and more particularly of Cain, he has developed a faculty of imagination which will delight and astonish even those who are familiar with the awful grandeur of" Heaven and Earth." His " Cain" is in itself a master-piece. It is the impersonation of a bold restless spirit, at war with itself, im patient of control, wretched from the very refine ment and exuberance of its feeling, panting to become acquainted with the mysteries of its own nature, and to penetrate those of the un known world, to monopolize all intellect, to be " the observed of all observers" and to mate with the superior powers themselves on terms of the strictest equality. Such a character, it will at once be seen, is admirably suited to the pur poses of poetry, and accordingly the author has availed himself, to the very fullest extent, of its capabilities. The common notion of Cain, as a mere vulgar, envious, Thurtell-like murderer, he has altogether abandoned ; he has in vested him instead with the noblest and the loftiest attributes, and drawn the ma terials of his errors from the very excess of his feelings and his imagination. To the fallen Archangel he has rendered equal justice, and without servilely adhering to the Miltonic or scriptural notion of him, has developed a cha racter in accordance generally with received opi nion, but for the filling up and completion of which he is indebted solely to himself. The scenery of his drama is worthy of its characters. The world in a state of deluge—the abyss of space—the boundless waste stretching out in terminably on either side the forbidden Eden— the gorgeous realms of Pandemonium—the Paradise of the spirit Heilel, in whose person the power of imagination is embodied, and which constitutes one of the most effective alle gories we ever remember to have read ; these are the scenes to which the author of " Cain" has introduced us, boldly, graphically, and with an obvious and conclusive meaning, as befits a poet and a metaphysician. His drama opens with a dialogue between Lucifer and the Arch angel Michael, in which the unbending character and restless discontent of the former are pour trayed with appropriate vigour : " Can man be happy thus? regret, remorse, Fear, which is bate disguised, shall still be his; Hopes, and joys checked which would have given him bliss (The only natural bliss for which he sighs, Loving and being loved), are to his eyes Things interdicted, sins which draw away His thoughts of heaven : if yielded, what remains But that satiety, to which active pains Are heaven ; to feel how, day by day, The mind sinks with a sense of its decay, Hopeless as powerless, its last energy To watch, and curse its impotence and die ; To see the forms of its idolatry Lifeless and cold, and she to whom were poured All the young heart's fresh feelings, when it is Pure as a fountain in its loneliness! No longer then adored As a superior being ; but changed and faded : And by possession from that shrine degraded, Which should have hallowed her—yet still live o n, Clinging to life, with all life's feelings gone, Till Time, slow withering, gives again to the worm All he once loved so well: if he stand firm And quench all gentle impulse till his heart Corrodes to clay, of which it is a part, Still is the award the same—the same weak breath Of pain and suffering, closed at last in death." The reader will not fail to observe the great truth and spirit of the expression " fear, which is hate disguised." The next scene introduces us to Cain and Ada. The former details to his wife the particulars of a frightful dream, from which he has but just awakened : " I stood upon the heath : I' the distance stretched our father's tent ; before me The spot where Abel—it was night but starless : . - I looked back to the pleasant home I had left, - - • • I heard the evening hymn, and my heart swelled With half-forgotten memories ! I envied ..... . Their quiet happiness ; I felt that I Might have been happy ! when methought I heard The voice of Abel calling me as wont. I turned and saw— ADA. Whom ? CAIN. Him, the Fallen One ! I gazed and stood in fascination fixed : I could not move away, I felt his power. I knew, as from instant prescience, he was The inspirer of my thoughts, which but for him Perchance had never been ; that he stood there The ruler of my destiny. I saw He was inferior to One; for the pride, And sullen majesty on his dark brow showed He was not what he would be ; he seemed shorn Of the lightning splendours he might once have walked in, But, like the sun, he drew towards him more In his setting glory ! His vast wings were furled : But intense light from his grand presence shone, Making the darkness visible; one hand He stretched towards me motioning me on : The other uplifted pointed into space Which, as the clouds rolled surging back, I saw Sparkling with distant worlds." In reply to this dream, followed up as it is by sentiments wild, lawless, and energetic in their nature, the author puts the following touching apostrophe into the mouth of Ada. Its contrast to the stern sullenness of Cain's mind is not its least recommendation : " Feel'st thou no joy, no quiet happiness, No soothing sense of satisfaction in Loving and being loved ? Is there no weight Removed from the heart in knowing there is one To share all, bear all with thee? to soothe grief, Yea, to so soften away its human pain By a superior love, the cup so temper With words of consolation and sweet hope, That e'en its very bitterness shall seem sweet, Forgotten in the love that offers it." On quitting Ada, who overcome by his re fusal to unite longer his destiny with her's, falls senseless at his feet, Cain pours out his whole soul in an invocation to the Deity, fraught with the utmost grandeur of sentiment and poetry, but wanting in what has been usually termed Christian submissiveness. Of course he is unheard, and just at this crisis of his fate Lucifer stands before him. The colloquy that ensues between them is sublime in the extreme. The following is a specimen, it is finely illwstra. Live of Lucifer's scriptural character : " I was like thee, as reverent and as happy. I rose as from a vision, yet it was not, For I was what I am : still is a consciousness Within me of existence indistinct, Where ONE was whom as worshipped —even I; But I was as fir ro,oved from them, say as the sun From the ant-hill which it warms. I sate upon My glorious throne, and when I saw them kneeling To Him, the Unseen One, I believed, and knelt, And prayed to be raised and know him—but in vain. I rose, and stretched my wings through space, the infinite Lay open before me, but He was not there : A quickening Power was forming, changing round me, But the Visible Energy was unbeheld ! I called—l asked but for a sign, as thou : Doubt then arose, and pride ; they looked up to me, As second but to One, and where was He ? I raised my voice, and one half heaven heard me : They girt me round with seraphim, and knelt Lowly in adoration, hailing me The God of Gods ! Then came a change—a struggle— An agony—which thou, if told, couldst not Shape forth, or conceive—l stood a separate king, In separate space—Lord everywhere but there. Thence, star by star, have I contended 'gainst This invisible God, or Destiny, in A strife of hate which cannot end, until One or both of us he annihilate !" Cain's account of his early feelings is detailed with equal force and beauty :7 " I stood alone from boyhood, formed as the rest In outer lineament, but else as separate As earth from heaven. The hues and beautiful forms And life and joyousness of passing things Gladdened me not as once ; I felt imprisoned, And wandered restlessly from place to place, As though to 'scape from self; a void was in My heart, which love, not even Ada's, though So loved, could satisfy. But when night came, And all familiar things were hidden, and darkness Brought the mystery I loved, then by the rock Or cavern, or on the mountain's height I stood, And was happy, because alone, and my heart opened Which ached with its fulness. I looked up to those Mysterious Lights, those ever-living Fires, That through the firmament's floating depths roll on In awful silence, or in melody Heard but by Him who made them ! Then, then only, My all unbounded spirit had its range ! I saw what I could look upon for ever. All—even the thirst for knowledge was forgot, It was enough to stand abstracted there, And blend my being with their eternity ! I stood by the dark trees, my eyes fixed on Those lighted heavens, with half-stilled breath and motion, Fearful to break the silence, or the voice I had wound myself to hear, till from the sounds Of night I shaped it calling—it was phantasy ! I knelt down then in the love and adoration Of a full heart, all open to its God ! I called Him through the hollow abyss of Night ! From the cave, from the wreck of a crushed world I called To Him, the Maker and Destroyer, for A sign—a word, to tell me what I was, And for what end created ? if I should Live again and know him, or might know him now But to fulfil my being in adoring him ! I bent my brow to the damp earth, and listened— Oh, how I listened for an answer—but It came not—the leaf fell lightly down by me— But through the void of earth and hollow air All was death-like silence, broken only By myself-startling voice !" In pursuance of his ambitious desires, Lucifer takes Cain to see the wonders of the upper and lower hemispheres ; in the latter of which worlds, he points out to him the graves of the Preadamite conquerors and their descendants, which draws forth the Wanderer's tenderest feel ings : " Alas ! to think of what they were and are ! How my heart yearns to them, my fellow men ! To think they lived, thought, felt, enjoyed like me; Perchance their very errings but the fulness Of a too o'erflowing heart, which could not check The tide that bore it on. And they who shared Life with them, and gave its most unearthly joys, Woman, the fond, the beautiful, gone too, Like a vision, and her fine sense of love and being, Shrinking from aught save most refined delight, Reduced to this !" In his . opinions on the subject of those (win mysteries, life and death, Lucifer embodies not a few of the Lucretian doctrines, whic*, how ever, arc interpolated with propriety, and seem naturally to form " part and parcel " of the speaker's mind. In the scene entitled Th e Void of Space," occurs the following splendid passage : CAIN. " 0 what a mass of living lights ! 0 thou Bright star-dewed wilderness of ether ! Thou black and vaulted infinite around me, Lit up with waving Fires! Where do you lead? To the throne of the Almighty, step by step, In scaling which dread track the angels fell Headlong? Or are ye gods in yourselves, fulfilling With choral hymn and mystic wheel the secrets Of his ineffable will ? Or are ye worlds As beautiful and fading as wreathed flowers ! For ye seem scattered so in the profuseness Of love, to wither there and die ? Oh, no ! Ye are, ye look immortal ! ye were not Made to shine thus and perish, making him mourn Who made ye, and none could look on ye and be Your Destroyer. LUCIFER. Thou shalt see their inner state, Then judge if it be happier thin thine own. CAIN (not heeding him.) Oh, that I were the Maker of them all ! Oh, that I were a god ! a being unknowing Or time or grief or change ! that I might sit Throned 'midst this infinity of starry worlds, Of all their wonders, men, or gods, and climes, Magnificent Creator ! making all Happy, and worshipped as I gave them happiness! What else should emanate from a god ? Oh that I Could comprehend ye! No ! this sick heart aches With longings never to be satisfied. Thou Spirit ! Here let me die—l cannot wreak in words The vastness of my great conceptions !" The " World in Deluge," with which the sixth scene opens, is one of the sublimest pic tures in ancient or modern poetry. With the exception of Byron's " Heaven and Earth," and Milton's earlier books in " Paradise Lost," we know not where to find its equal in our lan guage : ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN From Whence. Bost o n Qrs. 1 8 1 ColeheistWc:l aHarwich 1 3 Leigh Maldon Gainsborough Glinuby !pervich Poole roole Ry e Southampton Stockto n Wells Wisbe ae h Woodbridge Yarmouth Berwick Inverness !Mall Relfast • Limerick *** ******* Newry Youghall ........... FOREIGN. Archangel Copenhagen Dantsic . Hamburg..... .. ********* Konigsberg Lubeck Memel New York Petersburgh Pillau... Riga Stettin ........ Wismar. . .. . Total ~ AGGREGATE Rye, 1950 —Tan - 1268 1 7310 460 1030 3100 2200 120 450 1320 19378 QUA N' 115- Mu! 'ITY 0 , F OTH ed, 120( 129190 43259 .ING L. ER RES Is, 255: ST W: 'DS OF PULS] eseed, o—Brae SMITHFIELD MARKET. 1 -Scks. kk, 17 In our market of this day, which was throughout ra ther largely, but not very gaudily supplied, the trade with each kind of meat was unusually dull, with Alutton, Lamb, and Veal, at a depres.ion of from 2d. to 4d. per stone ; Peet and Pork at barely Friday's prices. With the excep tion of the above-mentioned dullness of trade, and there standing unsold to a late hour, opposite to the Hospital Gates in Giltspur-street, about 90 twenty months old small north of Ireland—which the seller called Somerset—lean S teers and Heifers, that would have sold well at 555. e ach, there was nothing in the market entitled to parti cular notice. PRICES PEA STONE OF SLIM TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to a. d. Inferior Beasts 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs 3 4 0 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 5 0 Prime largo Oxen... 3 4 3 8 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 0 Prime small ditto 4 4 410 Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 8 Large Hogs 3lO 4 2 Second quality ditto 210 3 4 Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 Coarse.woolledthtto 310 4 0 Suckling Calves 12s to4Bi. each SouthclownWethers 4 0 4 4, Quarter old Pigs 12s to 16s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATE;IENT. Beasts. ISheep and Lambs.' I Calves. Pigs. 3,05 g I 26,630 200 220 About 2600 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 200 from the western and midland districts; about 40 from Norfolk, Sußblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 10 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beet 2 2 3 8 Veal Mutton ... Lomb . 4s. Od. to ss. Oct. MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Aug. 22. During the week we have had much rain, accompanied with cold, which caused the holders of all kinds of Grain and Flour to ask and obtain an advance in price on last week's rates, viz. :—Wheat 9d. to is. per bushel of 701 b. Oats id. to 2d. per 451 b. Beans and Pease ls. to 2s. Per quarter. Fine Malt 6d. to Is. per load, and Flour 2 e. to 3s. per sack, with sales to a considerable extent. This morning's attendance on 'Change was not so nume "lus, and the purchases have been trifling, at a reduction of 3d. to 4d. per bushel on Wheat, on the above quota tions, in consequence of the day being fine, with the ap pearance of a continuance of dry and settled weather. Customary BusheL Quar. of 8 Imp. Bush. Wheat (701 b.) s. d. to s. d. 8. d. to S. ghsh, Old 10 8 11 073 9 75 71 Fine New 0 0 0 0 0 °"""^---- Second Runs 9 8 10 469 7 74 4 Scotch & Welch 910 10 870 9 76 9 Fine Old 9 5 91067 9 70 9 Info New. 0 0 0 0 0 1. 7 i0r 8 9 9 4 —63 2 67 2 oreign, nee _ 10 0 10 472 0 71 4, k, Farley (601b_) rg B b Fine 5 6 Osh 5 0 *""--4--f""".--nfe.rior for grinding 4 9 Oats (451 b.) B — e u tTn Fine Poland 4 0 4 3 Potatoe 4 0 4 2 for Mealing 3 6 3 8 p o 7—, Provender 3 4 3 6 e qn, Old 0 0 0 0 4Pease (Imp. hush.) t. e (boilers). 5 6 5 9 144 0 46 0 , i". n it tli" ° / 4 6 4 9 136 0 38 0 Fi„_ 45 0 EA kanP. Qr.) s. d. to (Per Sack and I. d. to s. d. Irish glish, 46 0 Flour Norfolk Inferior,. 43 0 45 0 'Suffblk, Fine 55 0 57 0 F ore ? , imt, 41 0 42 0 Yorks., Fine 53 0 55 0 41 0 43 0-- Seconds 48 0 49 (Per load of 6 I m p. B us h.) Irish, Fine,. 53 0 55 YorZthram, fine— -44 6 45 Superfine 56 0 58 0 1 4 , e 43 0 44 0 —Heated or stale 50 0 52 0 Flowt a nd Inferior— 38 0 29 0 Per load of 2401 b. Sack of 2801 b. Imp Oatmeal, English.... 30 0 31 0 — ' l lotts. Fine 55 0 ' 56 0 —Scotch & Irish 30 0 31 0 Sup. 57 0 58 0 Feeding 25 0 26 0 Ex, 5 9 5 1 4 10 03a R. rE.::.:B V-t-g• =cc a F ,,, ii-r=.- • (Do 41 0 42 11 37 4 37 11 35 5 36 1 c.„ t:o ,_, ~ :65., g ' P'P 29 10 31 54' 29 10 31 1 26 1 27 4 24 10 26 1 - 0 - 0. tract of a letter.froth Shrewsbury, Aug. 26 ' 1 829 : The death of WILLIAM CLUDDE, Esq. of Orleton, (which took place the 25th inst.) has diffused , universal regret throughout this county, in which he „ * as no less beloved for the amiable and engaging quali ties ti e" of his h eart , t h an revered for the un i form rect i tude of h• . 1 8 cond uc t. A s a h us b an d , a f ather, and a fr i end, .f " e could not be surpassed ; and throughout his long life he was a bright example of every virtue that could adorn • " Christian and the gentleman. During the late war lie - rais e d a corps of yeomanry, which was considered one 4 : of the best disciplined in the kingdom, and which he e d °ll : n atied with the hi g hest credit and distinction till b e e e "Diug health o bli ge d hi m t o res i gn . Hi s un b oun d e d Is (l n evolence, his liberality, and kindness to his tenantry, i , T lin g constantly on hi s estate in true old Engl ish hos- Z talit Y) and his ac ti ve di sc h arge of the duties of th e " w ill Magistracy, as they never have been surpassed so they never be forgotten." A At placard h as b een i ssue d by the LORD 4414111 t st , which i s lik e l y to pro d uce no sma ll exc it emen t °ng the stage-coach proprietors:— " Tuomrsorr, Mayor. n " Mansion-house. Where complaints have been made to the Right driv. the Lnvd 1112Y"' of the number of stage-coaches to r k2 l t hrough the city on the Lord's day, to the great dis t, of the di ff erent congregat i ons assem bl e d , an d con to the statute. (14 ;hit is therefore ordered that constables be appointed Vt e4 , l e . next Lord's day to take the number of those so iss h ,', lo /1 during the time of divine service, that the drivers be prosecuted according to law. " By order of the Lord Mayor, A ceordi " FRANCIS HOBLER. ,, at the n glyconstabl es were stationed yesterday morning for us Princ ipal outlets o f th e c ity, during divine service, me aforesaid purpose INDON DUR, CAIN. " Loek how the wild Waves sweep along the world As if, having strangled it, they were about To break all bound, and rush into the airs ! What life and death and ruin are heaved along The backs of their enormous mountains! Trees, Rocks, are crushed together, and unknown Monsters of the deep and earth roll weltering on And find no shore. The din of crashing sounds And hollow rush of waters drowns the roar Of the thunder and bursting elements above them ! The sun is hid, but a pale and leaden circle, The shadow of his crown, is seen at times Through the hurrying airs ! and a lurid light breaks through The gloom, like the path of the Destroying Angel ! But where are the dwellers ? or were there here who lived Resembling us? and whither are they gone? LUCIFER. Destroyed : they were the least things, and so crushed By the meeting elements, their very dust Is annihilated. Look at yonder peak Which once eyed half the world, and now the I;st Uncovered, sinks lessening each instant. CAIN. I Behold the foam fly over it like smoke, But nothing further. LUCIFER,' Look again. CAIN. Oh God ! A living thing, a human form stands there, A solitary man ! or hath he life Like us? for he is fixed there as unmoved As the rock hehind hint, and looks out upon The wreck of the elements as if he were Their lord, not sacrifice. Luarn. - Even so he is. cArrt (not heeding him). He is not alone I Ah, stretched out at his feet In naked beauty lu e a form that moves not— Alas ! dead—for her hair spreads round his feet, Her arms are stretched in stony lifelessness ! Ah, happier she than him ! she bath escaped The last wild partings, and left him the agonies Of a desolated heart! LUCIFER. Yet is mind there Superior : mark the unshaken firmness Of his unbending form, that swells as with The greatness of the spirit within— CAIN. His eye Is raised towards the cloud which blackens o'er him As if he dared and mocked its wrath, as if His soul's love, source of all his hopes and joys Crushed at his feet, nothing could move him further. LUCIFER. Behold the atom opposed to the mighty Whole— How little in himself and nature, how Sublime in his resistance and fixed will ! What a true majesty, a lonely greatness, Doth dwell round him in his abandonment ! No crown is on his brow but th:tt of virtue : And yet what king bath ever looked like him? His thro'ne, earth's wreck, lord of himself and thoughts. And fate and the elements his subjects ! Why The infinite holds nought so grand as he ! Spirits, as worlds, pursue their marked-out path, Which they must make, and dare not swerve, but he Rising o'er self, the hardest enemy, Doth form his own, and sinks a conqueror Amid a sinking world !" The grand moral power of virtue was never before so worthily developed as in the above passage. None; but 'tbe very highest order of minds could have produced so impressive a ho mily. Of a far different nature, yet equally beautiful in its way, is the description of the spirit Heilel " She stands alone in her purity, like that star Which she doth gaze on, as if her spirit drank Feeling from its rich urn! A very light, Veil-like, is floating round her, haloing From the common airs : she looks as one to whom All knees should bow, and yet as light and graceful As the fleece cloud in heaven. Her eyes are raised To that deep sky, mysterious as herself, Watching that shrine, as if she listed for An answer, or hoped one from it to descend Bright as herself, or had dreamed of such, which waking She dared not hope. Her lips are parted, and move like rose leaves opening To the invisible airs. Her hair how lightly Doth its pale golden wreaths in tangled Luxuriance cluster down that neck ; and rest On her white bosom, where the violet vein sheds a dim lustre ! down even to her knee, Veiling yet hiding not the rounded shape Of those limits swelling with voluptuous fulness, /Ad glowing through them as the softened Moon Through the depths of shadowing leaves !" What a cluster of rich luxuriant images is here! What a lavish outpouring of simple, yet splen did fancy ! What a Crcesus-like wealth of lan guage ! Yet every page of this noble drama abounds in such. The passage, for instance, wherein Eve advocates the deep feelings of a mother, is in itself quite enough to set up a dozen " annual" bardlings for life : " Oh, no ! you cannot share with me The feelings of a mother ! She was not Part of yoar being as mine ; you never watched From its first struggling into life the picture Of ber unfolding flower ! so helplessly Lying, so all-unconscious between life And Math, dependant on a mother's love ! You never felt her joy in seeing her own Lineaments germing forth, her voice and features, Nay, actions imitated, and her smile Reflected in the light from its raised eyes ! And•growing up, you cannot know the fond And anxious watching of each new development; The pride in seeing them realised, in feeling Youth's hopes and fears and innocent joys again All—all revived in them !" Profuse as have already been our extracts, we cannot refrain from giving one more. It is of a touching and solemn character, and is supposed to be spoken by Adam over the corpse of Cain:— " Let me look on his face—how changed ! Can this Be he? Lo, how the stamp of darkest passion Is scathed upon that wrinkled brow, that stiffening In death, yet holds a warning silently That speaks to the living ! The cheeks, how wan and hollow And eyes sunk in with very misery ! And his hair all white, but not with years : and still A smile methinks doth dwell on those thin lips, As if the rest he sought were found at last. Take him where Ada rests ; guilt should not sleep By the guiltless, but she prayed to us when dying, That he should lay down near her whom, with all His crimes and wayward errings she still loved. Such was her latest prayer, and be it sacred! Take him from hence, my Enoch ! And let them rest together ! little joy Have either known ; he was begotten in Sorrow and sin, and perchance took elements Which, free to choose himself, he bad rejected. She was all purity and light ! from earliest Youth her heart turned to him with an unshaken Love, that clung closer to him in his crimes, To share his griefs, because she could not heal them! Beautiful Ada! thou risest even now On these old eyes, which worn with tears o'erflow, For methinks I hear thy sweet voice in my ears, Pleading for him who left thee but to die." There are numerous other passages in this, as well as in the minor poems, to which, notwith standing their extraordinary poetic excellence, we have neither space nor time to revert. Enough, however, have already been given to satisfy our readers that the author of " Cain," if not the first, is yet among the first of modern bards. Thought, feeling, energy, and passion, abound in his pages, and over all is spread the rich, warm, purple light of imagination, dreamy and mellow in its expression, like one of Claude's Italian sun sets. The author in short possesses an intellect of the very loftiest temper. He is familiar with the most elevated forms of thought, and can vasses the abstrusest topics with all the easy consciousness of greatness. There is nothing stilted in his language, or cumbrous in his fancy ; he does not strive to conceal a sterility of ideas beneath a glittering drapery of words, or to puff up the dwarf to the dimensions of the giant ; lie is at home in sublimity, and so per fectly, yet justifiably self-assured in his highest aspirations, that his very ease betrays him at times into the most reprehensible negligences of thought and expression. These, however, are but as motes in the sun-beam ; and as we in tend shortly to revert to his minor poems, we shall reserve what we have further to say in the way of criticism till then. With regard to the moral of the author's drama, it is, like his genius, of the noblest quality, and tends to prove that intellect, feeling, and enthusiasm, no matter how trans, cendant be their temper, must infallibly, if un accompanied by the counteracting powers of judgment, discretion, and a sound religious frame of mind, entail the most disastrous conse quences on their possessor. Mr. Secretary PEEL arrived in town from the Royal Lodge, Windsor Pork, yesterday afternoon. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER. (From the IVo. ld of Fashion.) WA!,!-:ING PRESS.—A dress of white muslin, rirbiy cnibroi , i,Jred in pniies at the border: each of p e : ll , s it;ela:e th e work by a very full ruche, oro:ed of thread tulle; thus triztliing• a conspicuous Vandyck border of rich points. The dress is made high ; and though the body is slightly en gerbc, it is embroidered in a very splendid manner. A pointed zone confines it at the waist. The sleeves are ala Manicluke, with bracelets of dark braided hair, fastened with a gold heart; above this bracelet is a cuff, in Vandycked points, trimmed with a ruche of narrow tulle. A triple ruff of lace encir cles the throat. The bonnet is of pale pink satin, and is trimmed under the brim with long arid broad points of figured ribbon, pink and Spanish brown. Strings of the same kind• of ribbon float over the shoulders. The crown of the bonnet is ornamented with pink satin, en fors de Cheval, stiffened, awl discovering between the interstices full bouquets of pink fancy flowers, without foliage. EVENING DRESS.—A dress of spring green crepe Aerophane, with a broad border beautifully Fainted in different but suitable colours to the green, so that good taste is not offended by the association of tints too glaring; the part next to the shoe consists in a pattern of small spots of deep and rich red; and over this, which forms a broad border, is a full but very delicate wreath of foliage and flowers some what resembling the barberry foliage and its fruit; the leaves are, however, of a green, several shades darker than the dress. The body is full d 'eVant, and is made low particularly at the shoulders : but the bust is very delicately shielded by a transparent tucker of tulle, edged by narrow blond which draws across the lower part of thb neck : from this three rows of blond form a falling tucker, divided from that which draws, by a narrow roulean of yel low and red satin. The sleeves are a confined at the wrist by a bracelet, fastened by a cameo. The hair is arranged in curls on each side of the face, parted on the forehead, and short at the ears; the curls are rather large. The bows of hair on the summit of the head are arched, and d la ser pent. Three puffs of green crepe Aerophane, taste fully disposed, constitute all the ornament. The ear pendants are of gold, en Girandoles, and the neck lace consists of two rows of gold chain, With large round links. The shoes are of satin, the colour of the dress. (From Aehermann's Repository of Fashions.) EVENING DRESS.—A gown of gaze de Chine, the colour is a new one, being between a peach blossom and a lavender bloom. The dress is worn over a sarsnet slip to corre spond. The corsage is cut low round the bust, and finished by a narrow tucker of blond lace standing up all round. The back is plain ; the up per part of the front is disposed in folds on each side of the bosom ; these folds are confined in the centre by a rouleau. Long sleeves a l'inzbecille, of white blond net, very richly embroidered, and surmounted by an epaulette en fichu, consisting of four points of gaze de Chine; they are edged with blond lace, are laid one over another, and are progressively smaller. The skirt is trimmed with a biais of the same mate rial, which reaches more than half way to the waist; it is cut in a novel style round the top, and finished with blond lace, laid on moderately full. The hair is disposed in loose ringlets, which cluster thickly over the forehead, and fall low on each side of the face; the hind hair is partly disposed in a braid, forming a knot on the crown of the head, and partly arranged in bows placed very far back. A garland of exotics encircles the knot, and a few single flowers are carelessly placed among the tresses on each side. Ear-rings, necklace, and bracelets, eme ralds ; white gros de Naples slippers en sandales ; white kid gloves. BALL DREss.—A dress of white crape ; the ground is embroidered in a running pattern with white floize silk. The corsage is cut square round the bust, and of a moderate and becoming height. The bust is bordered with a small rouleau of azure blue satin, edged with narrow blond lace. Folds of plain white crape are placed in the form of a V in front of the bust, and extend from the shoulder to the waist, where the point of the V is concealed by a white gros de Naples ceinture, bound with blue, and terminating behind in short bows without ends. Short full sleeve ; the fullness divided by a band of blue gros de Naples. The skirt is trimmed by a biais of plain white crape, finished at the upper edge by a blue rouleau. A trimming of white crape, arranged en papillon, is laid on the biais. The part representing the wings is bound with blue; instead of the body of butterfly, a mead, also bound with blue, is placed between the wings. The hair is dressed very high behind, in a profusion of bows, intermixed with loose ringlets. The front hair is parted, so as to display the forehead, and arranged on each side in large curls. Sapphire necklace and ear-rings; white kid gloves; white gros des Indes slippers en sandales carved ivory fan, painted in detached bouquets of flowers. (From La Belle Assemblee.) A DINNER PARTY DRESS.---A dress of gros de Naples of a bright, rich red, between the ruby and the amaranth, trimmed at the border of the skirt with black plucbc-de-soye, or with velvet of a light and silky texture. The corsage is made plain to fit the shape, and is encircled by a belt of black vel vet. The head-dress consists of a beret of black satin, tastefully ornamented with white ribbon, with satin stripes the colour of the gown. Feathers of the bird of paradise are disposed with much ele gance, in detached plumage beneath the brim, whence they take a spiral direction towards thesum rnit of the beret. BALL DRESS.—Over a white satin slip is a dress of white tulle, or crepe-aeroplane, with a broad trimming at the border of a novel kind, in honey comb, of the same material as the dress. This trimming is remarkable for its lightness as for its beauty; it is surmounted by detached bouquets of Provence roses. The body is made plain, and the sleeves short and full. A beautiful bouquet of roses, with a few sprigs of myrtle, is placed on the right side of the bust. The hair is arranged in ringlets, and slightly adorned with flowers, or with jewellery ornments. GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. (From the Gentleman's Magazine of Fashions, 6-e.) A hunting-dress now likely to be much in favour with men of fashion is preparing ; it consists of a round jacket of a Mexican green, a knit pair of pantaloons of English thread, ticking gaiters, and a light helmet cap of lady-bird-brown morocco, with a long rounded visor. The waist is tightened by a broad belt about four inches in width, with a pocket in front covered with sea-calf skin. No pouch. A servant follows to take care of the game. Men of fashion at evening parties wear coats of light blue or green, with square flaps, a waistcoat of satin or tabby, of a damask pattern, the figures the same colour as the ground; nankin or white panta loons, and white stockings, with square-toed shoes. We have seen coat-flaps descend nearly as low as the hams, and the two buttons at the base of the waist set very near each other. Some tailors cut the flaps of coats quite d /a militaire—extremely narrow and short—they have a graceful appearance. The exquisites are very partial to nankin panta loons; they fasten under the foot; with these are often worn grey or blue silk stockings, either striped or ribbed. An exclusive has been seen with his shoes fastened by small buckles of polished steel; he had yellow stockings, with large triangular clocks of violet colour. His nankin pantaloons fastened under the feet, and were buttoned at the lower part by two small gold buttons; he had a white waist. coat, and a coat of light brown. We have remarked another with white ticking pantaloons, highly glazed; sitting tight to the thighs and knees, and wide as they descended lower; the waistcoat was white, quilted and stitched, and , turned back, en demi-schal ; the coat was of foresters green, with a broad velvet collar ; the lapels of the coat were also very large. The new white or yellow nanki❑ pantaloons have a waistband only three inches wide. _ A military gentleman lately appeared at a ball, with his shirt plaited across in flutings. He had a spotted silk waistcoat, a raven-grey coat, nankin pantaloons, and ribbed silk stockings. Some young gentlemen have been seen at eve ning parties with cravats of white satin. The black cravats are only long enough to termi nate in a small rosette. At evening parties, and at rural balls, gentlemen no longer have elastic hats; but carry in their hand the kind of hat they usually wear. Some gentlemen, fond of new inventions, have sported a new kind of purse; it has a secret spring; but this is not so useless a precaution as may be imagined : for if a dishonest servant suffers himself to be tempted by opportunity, he would, perhaps, not scruple taking a sovereign from a purse he could open, while he dare not possess himself of the full purse itself. The handle of a gentleman's umbrella has a small ball of gold, and, a few inches lower, are two holes (as in a cane), through which is passed a leather string, the ends united and formed into a small tassel. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. Among the watch-house charges this morning, two decently dressed, although evidently unfortu nate sisters, stood charged by the Strand-lane Nv at c - house-book with having robbed George James Hay ton of nine sovereigns on Saturday night. The night constable stated, that the complainant had (Is• scribed himself as a medical student, residing in Queen-square. He stated on Saturday night, that he had been some time in company with the two females, and that they had picked his pocket of the above sum. As the complainant did not appear this morning to prosecute the charge, the watch house-keeper went to his lodgings, and then learned that the gentleman had merely intended the charge as a drunken frolic, and the night constable ex pressed his conviction that the prisoners were inno cent. He had searched them, and found only 40, in their possession. He had also searched their lodgings, where he heard a good character of them. The poor girls, who had been in the watch-house since they were charged, denied all knowledge of the complainant's sovereign. He had met them in Waterloo-road. He asked them to take supper with him, which they consented to, and they all supped together at their lodgings. He then asked them to walk over Waterloo-bridge with him. s rl, He paid their toll, and chatted with them t ill t he y c a me near Strand-lane, when he suddenly turned servant, z ciio brought ; round, and gave them in charge to a watchmen on —rn( ef a T a g A . ls e e d s a. soing r Ndecent-lookingAn Ii:°1 o t n n i zt eb i k O o vsE whoseN a uT c d l i t a s cte.‘grovieuab.eri icps Charles , nt mason's labourer, who she said had passed himself off to her as a bona fide mason. She assured the Ma gistrate that the defendant, whom she had since dis covered to be a married man, had courted her in due form; had borrowed all her wages under pro mise of marrying her on Tuesday morning last; had then deserted her, and upon complainant going to his house to upbraid him, he gave her a black eye, and 'that was not the worst wound he had in flicted on her, for under the aforesaid promise of marriage he had robbed her of her self-respect, and she expected to be seriously ill in two months. The defendant, a smirking young villain, did not deny any other part of the statement, but that of his having given her a black eye. He assured the Magistrate most smoothly that she had given that to herself. Sir R. BIRDIE ordered him to give good bail, at which the defendant seemed perfectly satisfied. We would recommend such of our readers as are at present sojourning in the Highlands, to inspect. the beautiful villa and grounds belonging to Mr. FRASER in the neighbourhood of Inverness ; lately advertised for private sale. We understand the whole will speedily be brought to the hammer, to give rival competitors an op portunity of fairly contending in open field. VISITATION.—On Wednesday, the Bishop of SALISBURY held his visitation for the Deanery of Reading, in St. Mary's Church. His Lordship arrived on Tuesday, and took up his residence at the house of the Vicar. Prayers were read by the Rev. H. H. Mum AN, and an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. GossETT. His Lordship, shortly after the sermon, de livered his charge. On Thursday, the rite of confirma tion was performed. As many as 1,053 children have been confirmed in the different parishes. The Cockneys are making vigorous prepara tions for the commencement of the sporting season to morrow. As Old London Bridge will be pulled down in the course of next year, the shootineamusetnents of the City will be greatly abridged hereafter. Old LisToar, the father of our comic actor, once quarrelled with a man, who wanted him to fight with pistols; but LISTON', who possessed an inexhaustible fund of dry humour, replied, " No; I once shot London Bridge, and I'll be - if ever you catch me shooting any more." About 12 o'clock last night, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. BOWKER, boot and shoemaker, No. 130, Fleet-street, which, from its first appearance in the rear of the house, threatened the destruction of several houses, including the Globe Tavern, in Shoe-lane. Half an hour elapsed, after the engines belonging to the dif ferent insurance offices were on the spot, before a plenti ful supply of water could be obtained, during which time the destruction of Mr. Bowl:Elea house was complete ; and afterwards, notwithstanding the exertions of the fire men, the two adjoining houses suffered some damage.— The fire was got under by two o'clock, and we are glad to state that no person was hurt. THE WEATHER AND CROPS.--Within tile last ten days we have been visited alternately with tre mendous wind and rain, and excellent drying wind and sunshine. It cannot be stated decidedly that the crops have been actually injured, but the harvest in this neigh bourhood has been for several days retarded. In conse quence of the heavy rains which fell last week the river was much swollen, and inundated the Broomielaw several feet across the quay on Sunday. Some rafts of timber and piles from the New Bridge, and where the quay it undergoing repair, that were carried down the river, struck several vessels; but, fortunately, the shipping as the I3roomielaw sustained no material damage. The weather, since that time, having been dry with a strong fresh breeze from W., a great number of reapers were en gaged on Monday and yesterday at the Cross, and the farmers here are briskly proceeding with their harvest la bour.— Glasgow Free Prese. ENGLISH FASHIONABLES ABROAD.—The topic in the circles of supreme ton, both here and in France, is that of a Noble Lord and his Lady who have re cently arrived in Paris. The Lady, then a supposed widow, was married in Italy to an English Nobleman—by courtesy so called. She is the daughter of a branch of an ex tinct dynasty ;is beautiful, and highly accomplished. Her second husband possessed personal attractions also, but was poor in worldly wealth. A certain celebrated Duchess, now claiming near affinity to the family, taking into con sideration the circumstances of the new married couple, liberally settled two thousand pounds per annum on the husband. They went to Paris; and when in the enjoy ment of the gay festivities in those regions of delight, were apprised of the approach of her first husband—a Hungarian Count, long an exile in Siberia for political offences, and supposed to be dead. By a letter of a recent date from an intelligen officer of our squadron at Constantinople, we learn that the Russian squadron, consisting of 18 ships, was lying in sight of our own, and that in the night previous to the date of this communication, they effected a landing on the Asiatic shore. The batteries, however, opening upon them, they re-embarked without completing any mischief. It is credited by a portion of Turkish politic inns, that the GRAND SEIGNOR is not using his utmost exertions to de fend his dominions ; that contemplating the entrance of the Russians into Constantinople, he will readily, when that event occurs, relinquish the disputed principalities of Mo i l t d a a r v y ia in a s n ti d tu W tio a n ll s a . chia rl'h p e a T u k pay theexpenses mil campaign, and then avail himself o f th e presence and sup he port of the Russi an army , to re-model both his civil and Turks are apprehensive of t Russianof de struction to their ships by fire-vessels. The services of Capt. LIANc urn, who had given 9,0001. for the Hylton Jolffe steam-vessel, were at once rejected by the Cipitalt PAciu.—Hampshire Paper. 1 j ) 1/ 1 1 es" his