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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1837. ..... .........„....... ------------------ MAGAZr ..... INE-DAY. serio u s drama s te e m with p ower end pathos. " This we fear, are already " with the years beyond the flood." absolutely groans beneath their weight ; and how we rags and in want, by some passing Mecmnas, who, en is not the case. They arc turgid in style, and false and The " Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse" is better shall get decently through them, Heaven only-that couraging his genius, drew out that felicitous spirit of F , BLA CKW 0 OD' S MAGAZINE. finical in sentiment to a degree. Who now reads the this month than it has yet been. It is, however, too favours the industrious-can determine. Such being poetry which was ultimately quenched in his own wild „,,, Christopher North continues his criticisms on the o . Mountaineers, or can en dure the maudlin, prosy sen- obvious an imitation of the " Physician's Diary" in our condition, we must content ourselves with saying, excesses." That Mecmnas was the late Marquis of " Mountain Decameron," in this Number, in the course timentality of Peregrine in John Bull ? Colman's Blackwood. The " Story of Eustace the Monk" in general terms, that the present " Miscellany" has Hastings, a high-minded nohleman, who was Der- s , of which he says-" in happier moods we hope we have comic powers were fi rs t- ra te, but he had no tragic ones; describes the career of one of the most extraordinary not fallen short of what w e expected from it. It is, may's best friend, though assuredly he roused not the ti written not altogether in vain about beautiful and be and wh e n h e attem pt s t o b e ser i ous or pathetic, he al- outlaws who ever lived. It will be read by all classes in truth, a very mercu r i a l a ff a ir, and has the advantage Promethean spark of poetry within him, for there was at loved Westmoreland. What would you say to a coin ways Subjectsr e mi n d s us of Liston in Hamlet Travestie. with avidity. In the " Conservative Leaders" the of being embellished hy com ic engravings of the first none to rouse. Dermody was a versilyer, nothing c , plate series of pictures thereof from our pen, in threemore-a fourth-rate Bloomfield. His poems are long pi " j for Pictures " contains one poem entitled writer eulogizes Lords Wharncliffe, Stanley, Lynd- quality. volumes ? " Say ? Why, that if they be like " Hints the "Awakening of Endymion," which is of superior hurst, and Sir R. Peel with a vehemence that has all TAIT'S MAGAZINE. af for the Holidays," or " Christopher in his Sportingsince dead, without hope of resurrection. The "Three tl excellen ce . Th e stanza, in the softness and the effect of adroit irony. The remainder of the Num- Spirits" is a wild imaginative tale by George Soane, Jacket "-which we are glad to find has made as great following We cannot praise too hiahly the generous spirit b whose " Frolics of Puck" deserved more success than la sweetness of its melody, reminds us of Mrs. ber is taken up with the history of the " Berkeley that has dictated the " Memoirs and Trials of the an impression on Tom Hood (vide his last "Comic re Hemans :- Affair," the rise, progress, and termination of which Political Martyrs of Scotland, persecuted during the they met with. " Joseph Tomkins is a lively tale ; si Annual") as it made on us-or " Winandermere," or " Soft amid the pines is a sound as if of singing, would form an excellent chapter for Mr. D'lsraeli's years 1793, 4, 5." It is feelingly written, and will " Loch Awe "-the Pictures will be among the most and Sir E. Brydges's " Conversations in Purgatory" ta f P Tones that seem the lute's from the breathing flowers depart, good-natured, but rather twaddling. The portrait o popular works of the day. Kit North, when in his Not a wind that wanders o'er Mount Latmos, but is bringing " Quarrels and Calamities of Authors." not fail to attract public attention and sympathy to the happiest moods, paints nature, now with the fairy grace Music that is murmured from nature's inmost heart." BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. melancholy tragedies it recalls. The fate of " Gerrald," Lady Macfarlane exhibits high finish as a work of art. le - - tc and delicacy and lightness of touch of a Claude; and " The Disasters of Carfington Blundell, Esq., which This wor k will make a hit-at least, if the future in particular, the friend and pupil of Dr. Parr-the MONTHLY. d, now with the more gorgeous and elaborate splendour is the first tale in that portion of the " New Monthly" Numbers are carried on in the same spirit as the eloquent, impassioned, disinterested advocate of the The best essay in this Number is one on the poetry in of a Turner. He can also, too, on occasions, be as entitled the " Humourist," is written in Leigh Hunt's present. " Boz" is a capital caterer for the public, rights of the people, whose only fault was speaking the of John Keats, but it is unfinished ; and we have a 1 , 3 rough and vigorous, and matter of fact, as a Gainsbo- s p ri g htliest and most heart-felt manner. The dandy whether as editor or contributor, and we see a brilliant truth too boldly, forms one of the blackest pages in the great di s lik e to all unfinished articles. If they be J , rough-witness his famous description of the fight of hero s adventure with the flock of sheep is irresistible. course before him , if h e will b ut condescend to read as san g uinar y annals of Ultra-Toryism, and cannot be worth completing-and this is-they are worth corn- P the two dogs in the first " Fytte "of the " Sortin glt is worked up with a skill and vivacity worthy of the well as write. The "Prologue" to the Number is read without dee p emotion. Mr. Hume, we under- pletinglin one Number. The Editor should look to this; ti p , " author of that ingenious essay on " pig-driving" which from the pen of Dr. Ma g inn. It is a g reeabl y and stand, p ro p oses to take u p the subject. We are quite for-he may take our word for it-there is a strong ni Jackett, which, though it be some years since we read it, we remember just as vividly as if it were only may be found in the " Companion." We subjoin this pertinently written, and would be worth remembering , sure it cannot be in better hands. The writer of this and natural p re j udice in the public mind against all of yesterday that we devoured it. Then, for fun and hu- little episode, for it is the best possible Christmas were it only for the truth and good sense of this re- kindly article asks if Mr. Calder, one of the Reformers "t o h e con ti n u e d i n o ur next." The " Night Voices' a( mour, who can vary his landscape sketches with such reading :- mark, "it has been frequently observed-a. I, indee, of those days, be still alive, We have reason to be- is a poem after the manner of Mrs. Hemans. It is . exquisitely comic little episodes, as Christopher the Bewildered . with contending emotions of shame, grief, we have more than fifty times experienced the taee ou lieve he is, and in the enjoyment of an old age made pleasing, but rather too verbose. The remaining arti- a c i disappointment, anger, nay hunger, and the sympathy between selves-that of all the stupid dinner-par/las, by Ca, Le hapeee and tranquil by the recollection of the efforts spas are of the usual average. fc Unapproachable ? Who but himself could relate the his present pumps and departed elegancies , our hero p icked his way as delicately as he could along the curb-stones : and, stupidest , is that at which the cliverest merktin the of b. youth and manhood in the now triumphant THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY. b' A conversation of the hungry r avens, or picture the dis- turning slowly a corner,.. had the pleasure of seeing a hackney-coach world do congregate." The most miserable day - , , :jareer of Reform. " Popular Songs of the Germans" appointment in their expressive visnomies, 00 u lurking moving in the distance, and the man holding forth his Charles Fox. ever remember to have spent, was one spent in coin- is one of those " admirable digests" for which this when they kept away with their beaks at the whip to the pedestrians evidently disengaged. The back of The history of the " British Auxiliary Bantling" is d ' pegging ° tl it, to be sure, was towards him, and the street long, and Hare pany with two undoubted wits, both of whom waxed periodical has always been celebrated. " Tales of the drab cloth of the dead Quaker under the brow of Hel- the best things in the Repository-albeit such a row, and very muddy. But no matter. An object's an ob- hypochondriacal inter scyphos-that is to say, over Cleikum Inn, St. Ronan's," promises well ; but we among 0 vellyn, and could not, with all their hunger, and all jest ;-a little more mud could not signify : our light-footed their cups, and groaned in concert, like Testy and shall not speak positively till we have seen more of it. a production as Don Carlos would be delighted to J r their exertions, get at a single mouthful of flesh ?If sufferer began running. see multiplied. "Is there a Standard of Taste ?" . " Now runners, unfortunately, are not always prepared for Sensitive in Beresford's admirable " Miseries of Human " The Tory Dinner Dirge" is very mediocre. From ever there was a description remarkable for the breadth corners ; especially when their anxiety has an object rightpossesses considerable merit. " Our Representa- Life." The criticism on George Colman ,is worth the article on the Scotch Reformers we quote an ex- and unexpectedness of its humour, this was that one. before it, and the haste is in proportion. Mr. Blundell, lives" by the present editor, Mr. HORNE, iS SO c almost before he was aware of it, found himself in the middle nothing, even though Theodore Hook be the perpe- tract from a private letter written by Godwin to poor Let Us then have more such-we cannot have too of a flock of sheep. There was a hackney-coach also in the trator. The ",Monstre Balloon" is capital ; full of Gerrald, just previous to his trial. It has far more very good in its way, that we only wish it were longer. b ti many-for we have lots of clever landscape painters, wa y ; the dog was yelping, and leaping hither and thither ; . The analytical disquisition on Punch and Judy, by but few original ones. We subjoin a fine passage and the drover, in a very loud state of mind, hooting, whistling, animal spirits, and with a "graceful negligence" about feeling than Godwin usually showed :- the late CHARLES LAMB, is not equal to many of b from the introductory remarks on the " Decameron ":- and swearing, and tossing . his arms up. it, difficult to attain, and not to be imitated without " Your trial, if you so please, may be a day such as Eng- ri the best known essays of that exquisite humourist. s , " Mr. Blundell, it is certain, could not have got into a po- land, and, I believe the world , never sa w . It m a y be the " But a truce with d e scription-for we are giving an histo- sition less conenial to his self-possession, or calculated to set grievous peril to the imitator. Here it is :- means of converting thousands, and progressively millions , to The reviews are numerous, brief, and well writtecongenial nisei sketch of the progress of the spirit of discovery in the off his graces in the eyes of the unpropitiated. And the sheep THE " MONSTRE" BALLOON. the cause of reason and public justice. You have a great e THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. ii Highlands. Lord bless the Lowlands, how they love them instead of sympathizing with him, as in their own distress they' Oh I the balloon, the great balloon I stake. You place your fortune, your youth, your liberty, and now t Lord bless the Highlands, how they love us in return I might (poetically) be supposed to do, positively seemed in the It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon, your talents, on a single throw. If you must suffer, do not, I Allen and Co. P And Lord bless merry England, how she loves the " Heelans I" league to distress his stockings, and not at all to consider even And every one said we should hear of it soon conjure you, suffer without first making use of this opportunity This Number is a great improvement upon the a a - Her daughters delight to wear the tartan-and in their white his higher garment. They ran ' against him ; they bolted at With news from Aleppo or Scanderoon. of telling a tale upon which the happiness of nations depends. throats the Gaelic gurgles with ' a music sweeter than its him ; they leaped at him ;or if they seemed to avoid him, it But very soon after, folks changed their tune : Spare none of the resources of your powerful mind. Is this a last. The " Reflections of a Returned Exile" are replete i, own.' And who thus illumined the Land with Rainbows? was only to brush him with muddier sides, and to let in upon " The netting had burst-the silk-the shalloon ; day for reserves, a day to be slurred over in negligence and with excellent suggestions; as is the letter of a corre- Who but our Mighty Minstrel-from Loch Catrine to Cape his weakened forces the frightful earnestness of the dog, and It had met with a trade-wind-a deuced monsoon-. neglect, the day that constitutes the very crisis of your fate ? spondent on the abolition of corporal punishments in the r Wrath. 'Tis now the Land of Poetry and Romance-but the inconsiderate, if not somewhat suspicious, circumambiences It was blown out to sea-it was blown to the moon- Never forget that juries are men, and that men are made of It ,• their light is the light of Truth-' unborrowed from the Sun' of the coachman's whip. They ought to have put off their journey till June; penetrable stuff. Probe all the recesses of their souls. Do saran army. The debates in the India House on the n .-and in its effOlgence the Past re-appears, powerful as the " Mr. Blundell suddenly disappeared. Sure none but a donkey, a goose, or baboon, Present, and bold and bright, fresh and fair, as it burst or "He fell down, and the sheep began jumping over him ! Would go up, in November, in any balloon !" not spend your strength in vain defiance and empty vaunting, abolition of the Pilgrim Tax in India, are deserving of t Let every syllable you utter be fraught with persuasion. bloomed into being, tile' very form and pressure' of the cha- The spectators, lam sorry to say, were in an ecstasy. Then they talk'd about Green-" Oh 1 where's Mister Green? What an event would it be for England and mankind, if you the serious attention of the whole Christian world. : racter of the Olden Time ! Death and Oblivion had their " You know, observant reader, the way in which sheep carry And where's Mister Holland who hired the machine ? could gain an acquittal !Is not such an event worthy striving The speech of Mr. POYNDER on Idol Wor - reign, now Life and Memory have theirs ; Persons die-Ire- themselves on abrupt and saltatory occasions ; how they follow And whe re is Monk Mason, the man that has been for? It is in man, lam sure it is, to effect that event. Ger- shi p is highly creditable to the religious zeal r personations live for ever ; Flesh is like grass that is cut down one another with a sort of spurious and involuntary energy ; Up so often before-twelve times or thirteen- raid, you are that man. Fertile in genius, strong in moral enlarged 'philanthropy 1 and wither; Feelings, Thoughts, Virtues, Actions, Imagina- w h a t a pretended air of determination they have • how they And who writes such nice letters describing the scene ? feeling, prepared with every accomplishment that literreure and of that gentleman. His lion recalls from the ' vasty deep,' and re-insouled, as well as r eally have it, as far as example induces, and fear propels And where's the cold fowl, and the ham, and poteen ? and reflection can give. Stand up to the situation. Be disclosures must rouse the Court of Directors and the ' re-embodied, Genius shows that they are immortal. Breathe them; with what a heavy kind of lightness they take the The press'd beef, with the fat cut off,-nothing but lean? wholly yourself. Above all, let me entreat you to abstain Government to the adoption of measures for the Era- i hot a word-if you love us-against the ghosts of Ossian. leap ; how brittle in the legs, lumpish in the body, and in- And the portable soup in the patent tureen ? from all harsh epithets and bitter invective. Show that you o I Seldom, alas 1 will they visit these sad eyes of ours-Malvina's significant in the face ; now they seem to quiver with appre- Have they got to Grand Cairo ?or reach'd Aberdeen ? are not terrible, but kind, and anxious for the good of all. dual abolition of such gross idolatry. The other' ar- 1 self is ut the shadow of a shade-the dream of a dream-and pension, while they are bold in act ; and with what a pro- Or Jerusalem-Hamburg-or Ballyporeen ? Truth will lose nothing by this. Truth can never gain by tides are in general well written, and full of interesting 1 her unsubstantial form will not for us assemble and settle, even yoking and massy springiness they brush by you, if you happen No I they have not been seen ! Oh I they haven't been seen 1" passion, violence, arid resentment. It is never so strong as in b for a moment, into its uncertain lineaments among the ani- to be in the way, as though they wouldn't avoid the terrors of Stay ! here's Mister Gye Mister Frederick G the firm, fixed mind, that yields to the emotions neither of ran society. details of the forms of Ind' ' I mated companies of clouds. But the visions of that greater your presence, if possible-or rather, as if they would avoid it ~- i At Paris " says he, " I've been up ver hi h Ye. rage nor fear. It is by calm and collected boldness that we THE MARKETS-(T HIS DAY). bard, they are distinct-palpable as life itself ; they can en- with all their hearts, but insulted you out of a desperation of A couple Of hundred of toises, or nigh, y g ' can shake the pillars of the vault of Heaven." duce the daylight-they are what they seem-tide and time inability. Baas intermix their pensive objections with the -.....--_ 1 A cockstride the Tuileries pantiles, to ' s may dislimn th e m not-and to the eyes of each successive ge- hurry, and a sound of feet as of water. Then, ever and With Dolland's best telescop e P stuck at m P y y' e e THE PICKWICK PAPERS, No. X. CORN EXCHANGE. neration they will be the same as the outlines of the mountains anon, come the fiercer leaps, the conglomerating circuits, the And my umbrella under my arra like Paul Pry, y, This Number, though of a more serious character The arrivals of both Grain and Flour last week were mode- in the sky, and the stedfast scenery on their sides, charade- dorsal visitations, the yelps and tongue-lollings of the dog,rate, and the heavy Snow havinss interrupted communications, But I could see nothing at all but the sky; than its predecessors, is quite equal to the best of them. very little business was transacted. ristic for ever of the Alps of Albyn. Yet why:will no! . .the , lean and earnest minister of compulsion; and loud, and do- So I thought with myself 'twas of no use to try This morning the show of Admirers of Scott study his creations in a more judicious spirit. moment over all, exult the no less yelping orders of the An longer - and feelin remarkably d " Boz" tells a ghost story with remarkable spirit, samples fresh up was small, and . the frost continhing, caused Even his creations are not all in all to the lovers of nature, drover-indefinite, it is true, but expressive-rustical co- From y sitting' all day stuck g up there, lik r e y a Guy,the factors to demand higher prices for every article. There visiting the Highlands. With book in heart, not in hand, gencies of oo and ou, the intelligible jargon of the Corydon I came down again, and-you see-here am II" nearly as well as Washington Irving; throwing in was little done in the Wheat trade, but such sales as were should they wander through those regions; nor should the or Thyrsis of Chalk-Ditch, who cometh, final and humane, little touches of fancy, and quaint, but earnest descrip- effected realized full Is. per quarter advance on the terms of manual be the works of any one poet, however great, to the with a bit of candle in his hat, a spike at the 'end of his stick, But here's Mister Hughes !-What says young Mr. Hughes ? ,ion, that show the master-hand. In the Number before last Monday. Barley is also rather dearer, but has met few exclusion of all other inspirations. Has nature no power over and a hoarseness full of pastoral catarrh and juniper. " Why, I'm sorry to say, we've not got any news buyers. Beans and Pease maintain last quotations with a them, but what he has given her ? Shall she not have from " Thrice has the poets say) did Carfington Bludell, Esq., Since the letter they threw down in one of their shoes, us, he tells us the anecdote of the morose, envious slack demand. 'lucre has been a fair demand for Oats, which their hearts her own worship ? Can no Loch charm, if by him raise his unhappy head out of the melee, hatless and mudded • Which gave the Mayor's nose such a deuce of a bruise, sexton, who was carried away by the Devil one fi n e have obtained full Is. per quarter more than on Monday unsung ?No Isle be lovely but where, at the touch of his thrice did the spectators shout; and thrice did he sink back As be popp'd up his eye-glass to look at their cruise Christmas eve, because he thumped a little boy who se'nnight. The demand for Flour is steady at no variation in wand, arose fairy bower, or silvan palace? No tradition en- from the shout and the sheep, in calamitous acquiescence. Over Dover ; and which the folks flock'd to peruse prices, but more money is required for ship parcels. chain, if he has not forged or fitted the fetters? Must fancy, " ' Lie still, you fool,' said the hackney coachman, 'and At Squier's bazaar, the same evening, in crews, looked impertinently happy and frolicsome. The story PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. no longer free, obey at all times his bidding, and follow the they'll jump easy.' Politicians, nevrsmongers, town council, and blues, Wheat, Red (old) conveys an excellent moral -namely, that envy and White 6 .56 05 5 . . ( 7 i4 08 5.. Beans, Small (new) (old) 385.433. 443 50s. heels even of a magician ? Imagination fold her own wings, " ' JUMP EASY r Heavens ! how strange are the vicissitudes Turks, heretics, infidels, jumpers, and Jews, 44 5s Tick (new) 34s 365. (01d)... malignity always carry their own punishment along Red and be satisfied to sit between the wings of his as he soars? of human affairs. To think of Mr. Blundell only but yes- Scorning Bachelor's papers, and Warren's reviews; s2s.s 555. Kings are not despots-nor should subjects be slaves. None terda), or this evening rather-nay, not an hour ago-his day But the wind was then blowing towards Helvoetsluys, with them ; and that he who sours and sulks at the white---''er(tit3e6) 4 4 i t 2.:: ____ Harrow ( 1 , T4? :. .... ..... V )s sl i s , can understand, or feel his creations, who do not according to fine, his hopes immense, his whole life lapped up, as it were, And my father and I are in terrible stews, happiness of others, and tries to make them as splene- - Fine 545. 58s Brank ~ 345.385. their powers study man and nature for themselves ; and that, in cotton and lavender, his success elegant, his evening about For so large a balloon is a sad thing to lose r -- Superfine 603. 643 Cats, Feed 285.325. tic as himself, has all of the Devil about him-but his --Foreign free s. o New 24,27:. too, among the people and their habitations, whom he described to be spent in a room ull (as he thought) of admirers ; and Here's news come at last 1 Here's news come at last ! live ^4s. 38s - Poland 2.5 s 323 in the fulness of knowledge and love." NOW his very prosperity is to consist in lying still in the mud, A vessel's come in, which has sail'd very fast; intellect. Gabriel Grub is supposed to be seated in Barley oSs. ses New 0 45. 305. Grinding 303. 325. -- Potatoe 30s. 325. e ing sheep over him I . And a gentleman serving before the mast, " Despatches of the Duke of Wellington is an and ' l letting jump the church-yard, scowling at the merry faces that have - Malting 365. 355. Then to be called a 'fool :-' Lie still, you fool.' Mister Nokes, has declared that "the party has past Malt 465. 555, Scotch 30;.353. interesting historiette, relative to the military career of " Mr. Blundell could not stand it any longer (as the Irish- Safe across to the Hague, where their grapnel they cast been passing by, when he suddenly hears his name - Fine New 60s. 655. Irish ' , 3s. Pease, Grey, New .365. 38s. Flour Town (per sack) 5 0'.555. ere " Great Captain" in India. The account of the man said) ;so he rose up finally, just in time to secure a kick As a fat burgomaster was staring aghast called in very Satanic tones :- - Maple New 48s. 40s. -- Seconds 40, 50s. from the last sheep, and emerged amidst a roar of congratu- To see such a monster come borne on the blast,--- white I,Bs 40s. -- North Country 423 455. stcon of Seringapatam is animated, but the circum- "Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a Boilers 425. 44s Bran .lO Hs. lation." And it caught in his breeches, and there it stuck fast 1" strange unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once was no „ , „ , ,„ stances are already well known.' One of the Duke's " Theatre Royal, Little Pedlington," is a broad Huzzah I huzzah 1 one and eight-pence to pay being of this world. His long fantastic legs, which might ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAsl WI,LK letters is singularly characteristic. He asks one of his For a letter from Hamborough, just come to say have reached the ground, were cocked up, and crossed after a. se ss 0 4 4 Tsp.. , quiz on Managers, actors, and play-wrights. Mr. p , cp 'D friends to send him, per bearer, a Provost, in order to They descended at Weilburg about break of day ; quaint, fantastic fashion ; his sinewy arms were bare, and his From Whence. g . 7 : F • ''' . Poole is the author, and exposes the foibles of And they've lent them the palace there, during their stay, bands rested on his knees. On his short round body he wore r. -.1 • . the f some plunderers," whose necks are ripe or " hangthe green-room with racy humour. The " Wine And the town is becoming uncommonly gay, a close covering, ornamented with small slashes ; and a short ------- Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Q,Is. Sacks. -.e • " The World we live in" is amusing and de- t' „ . And they're feasting the party, and soaking their clay cloak dangled at his back ; the collar was cut into curious Alemouth 54 - 508 - - -_ - "100 s • Cellar, by Douglas Jerrold, is too serious for the With Johannisberg, iand Rudesheim, Moselle, and Tokay; ~ which served the goblin in lieu of ruff or neckerchief • Boston 37 . 0 - 7_ '1370 . 7 . - = :-._ the production of an observant man of the e ultory, " Humourist ;'' and the " Grand Kentucky Balloon" And the graves, and margraves, and counts beg and pray end his shoes curled up at the toes into long points. On his' Colchester:- 210 210 487 - - 168 147 1597 world. " Sketches among the Poor" contain some is a good imitation of Whistlecraft's (Freere) free-and- That they won't think as yet about going away ; head he wore abroad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with til .. Harwich - - 305 :255 - 19u9 beautiful poetic lines. We shall be glad to find the Notwithstanding, they don't . mean to make much delay, a single feather. The hat was covered with the white frost, Dartmouth t 3 Leigh 3Ol 111 - - - 151 1:!8 - easy manner. If the future Numbers of the " NeW . Malden - 375 213 1329 But pack up the balloon in a waggon or dray, and the goblin looked as if he had sat on the same tombstone I,,, w i c h - - 9 , --." 695 series continued. " Alcibiade s the Man" is brought Monthly are equal to the present one, it will take as And pop themselves into a German "po-shay," very comfortably for two or three hundred years. He was keut - - 83 115 210 conclusion, and reads with spirit to the very last And get on to Paris by Lisle and Tourney • sitting perfectly still ; bis tongue was put out, as if in derision ; !: to a high a station as it did under the earlier management of N o e u w t c h astle - 22 839 -- - - 20 t:, We like the arch vivacity of the introductions Where they boldly declare, any wager they'll lay, and he was grinning at Gabriel Grub with such a grin as only Rye word. Campbell, when the Smiths were constant contributors. If the gas people there do not ask them to pay a goblin could call up. , uuthwold - - - different chapters, though Mr. Savage Landor,Stockton to- the Mr. Hook is just the sort of man to conduct such a Such a sum as must force them at once to say " Nay," "' lt was not the echoes,' said the goblin. Wells 3 0 - - - - 14 - - whose savage satire on Ebony and Wordsworth we They'll inflate the balloon in the Champs Elysees, " Gabriel Grub was paralysed, and could make no reply. Wisbeach - - _ _ publication. and shall notice in due course, can see ~ And be back again here, the begging of May. " ' What do you do here on Christmas Eve ?' said the gob- no nn ee o e u rr .... t 6) 9 , A? 7... - n4 6 1 2. 1. 7 1 hay e received, FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Dear met what a treat for a juvenile fete! lie sternly. Aberdeen them-we apprehend, because they are not nothing in What thousands will flock their arrival . to greet 1 "' I came to dig a grave, Sir,' stammered Gabriel Grub. Banff ......... - - - 650 - - - eulogistic of his intellectuals. " Demo- .F . raser r , like the New Monthly, begins the year with" . What man wanders among graves and churchyards on Le'th - 132 - - - - sufficiently There'll be hardly a soul to be seen in the street, .a well-written diatribe, but the spirit that spirit. The present Number is carefully got up, but For at Vauxhall the whole population will meet, such a night as this?' said the goblin. 4025 4171 3676 4693 - 1169 :874 7314 CraCy" is we miss the " Gallery of Portraits"-which is a sad And you'll scarcely get standing-room, much less a seat, " ' Gabriel Grub ! Gabriel Grub I' screamed a wild chorus IRISH. it t , e , ems 'With prejudice and captiousness. of voices that seemed to fill the churchyard. Gabriel looked Dublin - - pervades miss, for whatever may be said of some of the engrav- For this all preceding attraction must beat. ~ Violin is a d e li g htful article, and the personal . fearfully round-nothing was to be seen. FOREIGN. The And there they'll be seen-they'll be all to be seen ! 0 80 1400 ---16 60 - " • What have you got in that bottle?' said the goblin. Altona . • • " painted • " Paganini pal wi ings, the literary sketches were always ably written. The great-coats, the coffee-pot, mugs, and tureen! Amsterdam BB5 - - ..432.7 -- - - _ sketch of th the .skill of a " , Hollands, Sir,' replied the sexton, trembling more than - lto - - Antwerp We do not forget the arch memoir of Mr. Dunlop- With the tight-rope, and fire-works, and dancing between, Whoever wrote this. animated paper must ever; for he had bought it of the smugglers, and he thought Brake - 1345 - 436 -., - - - maerter. If the weather should :only prove fair and serene. violinist of no mean excellence. Tact, that " remarkable biped, who had a beard as black as that perhaps his questioner might be in the Excise department kanil Harlingen n hirn:;elf be a e And there, on a beautiful transparent screen, of the goblins. Memel - - - - without la lasm could have ei nem , on d e nothing with a shoe-brush, and always shaved with a brick-bat, In the middle you'll see a large picture of Green,' " ' Who drinks Hollands alone, and in a churchyard, on Rotterdam 920 1057 - 2466 - 575 111 - and should have been to see more of such good- With Holland on one side who hired the machine, Stettin gladbsuch a night as this ?' said the goblin. - 2... - 1090 -. -_. i 5 - 34 = - _ ..7 such a subject.describing scene; Coastways humoured, biographical quizzes. The " Diamond And Monk Mason on t'other, ' the " ' Gabriel Grub 1 Gabriel Grub 1' exclaimed the wild voices A,,,l Fame on one leg in the air, like a queen, Total ... 6425 9189 awe 11:675 - 1830 1045 7114 ,main. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. This work will make a hit—at least, if the future Numbers are carried on in the same spirit as the present. " Boa" is a capital caterer for the public, whether as editor or contributor, and we see a brilliant course before him, if he will but condescend to read as well as write. The " Prologue" to the Number is from the pen of Dr. Maginn. It is agreeably and pertinently written, and would be worth remembering, were it only for the truth and good sense of this re mark, "it has been frequently observed—a. 1, indee, we have more than fifty times experienced the fa:, selves—that of all the stupid dinner-pars, by fa, 'it, stupidest, is that at which the cliverest merkin the world do congregate." The most miserable day ever remember to have spent, was one spent in com pany with two undoubted wits, both of whom waxed hypochondriacal inter scyphos—that is to say, over their cups, and groaned in concert, like Testy and Sensitive in Beresford's admirable " Miseries of Human Life." The criticism on George Colman is worth nothing, even though Theodore Hook be the perpe trator. The ",Monstre Balloon" is capital ; full of animal spirits, and with a " graceful negligence" about it, difficult to attain, and not to be imitated without grievous peril to the imitator. Here it is : THE " MONSTRE" BALLOON. Oh t the balloon, the great balloon I It left Vauxhall one Monday at noon, And every one said we should hear of it soon With news from Aleppo or Scanderoon. But very soon after, folks changed their tune : " The netting had burst—the silk—the shalloon ; It had met with a trade-wind—a deuced monsoon— It was blown out to sea—it was blown to the moon— They ought to have put off their journey till June; Sure none but a donkey, a goose, or baboon, Would go up, in November, in any balloon I" Then they talk'd about Green—" Oh I where's Mister Green? And where's Mister Holland who hired the machine ? And where is Monk Mason, the man that has been ,Up so often before—twelve times or thirteen— And who writes such nice letters describing the scene ? And where's the cold fowl, and the ham, and poteen ? The press'd beef, with the fat cut off,—nothing but lean ? And the portable soup in the patent tureen ? Have they got to Grand Cairo ? or reach'd Aberdeen ? Or Jerusalem—Hamburg—or Ballyporeen ? No 1 they have not been seen ! Oh 1 they haven't been seen I" Stay 1 here's Mister Gye—Mister Frederick Gye. " At Paris," says he, " I've been up very high, A couple of hundred of toises, or nigh, A cockstride the Tuileries pantiles, to spy, With Dolland's best telescope stuck at my eye, And my umbrella under my arm like Paul Pry, But I could see nothing at all but the sky; So I thought with myself 'twas of no use to try Any longer; and feeling remarkably dry From sitting all day stuck up there, like a Guy, I came down again, and—you see—here am I I" But here's Mister Hughes !—What says young Mr. Hughes ? " Why, I'm sorry to say, we've not got any news Since the letter they threw down in one of their shoes, Which gave the Mayor's nose such a deuce of a bruise, As be popp'd up his eye-glass to look at their cruise Over Dover ; and which the folks fiock'd to peruse At Squier's bazaar, the same evening, in crews, Politicians, newsmongers, town council, and blues, Turks, heretics, infidels, jumpers, and Jews, Scorning Bachelor's papers, and Warren's reviews; But the wind was then blowing towards Helvoetsluys, And my father and I are in terrible stews, For so large a balloon is a sad thing to lose 1" Here's news come at last I Here's news come at last 1 A vessel's come in, which has sail'd very fast; And a gentleman serving before the mast, Mister Nokes, has declared that " the party has past Safe across to the Hague, where their grapnel they cast As a fat burgomaster was staring aghast To see such a monster come borne on the blast, And it caught in his breeches, and there it stuck fast l" Huzzah huzzah I one and eight-pence to pay For a letter from Hamborough, just come to say They descended at Weilburg about break of day ; And they've lent them the palace there, during their stay, And the town is becoming uncommonly gay, And they're feasting the party, and soaking their clay With Johannisberg, Rudesheim, Moselle, and Tokay ; And the landgraves, and margraves, and counts beg and pray That they won't think as yet about going away ; Notwithstanding, they don't mean to make much delay, But pack up the balloon in a waggon or dray, And pop themselves into a German "po-shay," And get on to Paris by Lisle and Tourney • Where they boldly declare, any wager they'll lay, If the gas people there do not ask them to pay Such a sum as must force them at once to say " Nay," They'll inflate the balloon in the Champs Elysees, And be back again here, the begging of May. Dear met what a treat for a juvenile fete What thousands will flock their arrival to greet 1 There'll be hardly a soul to be seen in the street, For at Vauxhall the whole population will meet, And you'll scarcely get standing-room, much less a seat, For this all preceding attraction must beat. And there they'll be seen—they'll be all to be seen ! The great-coats, the coffee-pot, mugs, and tureen I With the tight-rope, and fire-works, and dancing between, If the weather should only prove fair and serene. And there, on a beautiful transparent screen, In the middle you'll see a large picture of Green,' With Holland on one side, who hired the machine, And Monk Mason on t'other, describing the scene; And Fame on one leg in the air, like a queen, With three wreaths and a trumpet, will aver them lean; While Envy, in serpents and black bombazine, Looks on from below with an air of chagrin. " Handy Andy" is a sprightly tale, by Mr. Lover, one of the most cordial and sincere of our hurnourists. There is a festive spirit in Mr. Lover's temperament, equalled only by O'Doherty. The " Legend of Manor Hall" is scarcely worthy of Peacock, whose romance of " Melincourt," we once heard the late Dr. Valpy—and he was high authority—praise as one of the best satirical fictions of the age. Well we remember the noble old man's hearty chuckle over the country bank of Messrs. " Air-bubble, Smoke-shadow, and Hop-the-twig," with their appropriately-designated Secretary, " William Walk-off, Esq." Mr. Peacock is one of the best (though not best known) comic writers of his day. His " Island of Cimmerian Gloom," in the tale of Melincourt, is an allegory worthy to vie with the immortal 44 Voyage to the Holy Bottle." Here, however, he is evidently out of his element, for rhyme cramps his humour. He dances in fetters. The " Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble" is by Boa. It is good, but not in his best manner. Who are you ?" is an ingenious—we might almost add—original notion, worthily worked out by Lover. Charles 011ier's " Gossip with s ome old English Poets" forms a delightful relief to the Number. We are glad to find him speaking re verently of the author of the " Spleen." Quaker Green was one of the most original poets of his day, and Melmoth has not appreciated him too highly. Few now read the " Spleen "—the more's the pity— but there arc single lines in it with which every reader is familiar. Green was an odd fish, testy, waspish, and sensitive ; but with as brave a heart as ever beat in human bosom. Oilier praises Herrick too, which shows his good sense ; but he makes no mention of the " Mad Maid's Song," which is the finest poem he ever wrote, particularly as regards the last stanza, which, if we mistake not, runs thus— " He's soft and tender, pray take heed, With bands of cowslips bind him ; And bring him here, but 'tis decreed, That I shall never find him ! " The partial return to:reason in this last line has always struck us as exquisitely pathetic, and not the less so from its extreme simplicity. We have given but a hasty notice of this " Miscellany ;" but we cannot help it, for a whole pyramid of periodicals awaits us, Our " library table"—as the Athenmum would THE PICKWICK PAPERS, No. X. This Number, though of a more serious character han its predecessors, is quite equal to the best of them. " Boz" tells a ghost story with remarkable spirit, nearly as well as Washington Irving ; throwing in little touches of fancy, and quaint, but earnest descrip tion, that show the master-hand. In the Number before us, he tells us the anecdote of the morose, envious sexton, who was carried away by the Devil one fine Christmas eve, because he thumped a little boy who looked impertinently happy and frolicsome. The story conveys an excellent moral —namely, that envy and malignity always carry their own punishment along with them ; and that he who sours and sulks at the happiness of others, and tries to make them as splene tic as himself, has all of the Devil about him—but his intellect. Gabriel Grub is supposed to be seated in the church-yard, scowling at the merry faces that have been passing by, when he suddenly hears his name called in very Satanic tones : " Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once was no being of this world. His long fantastic legs, which might have reached the ground, were cocked up, and crossed after a quaint, fantastic fashion ; his sinewy arms were bare, and his hands rested on his knees. On his short round body he wore a close covering, ornamented with small slashes ; and a short cloak dangled at his back ; the collar was cut into curious peaks, which served the goblin in lieu of ruff or neckerchief ; and his shoes curled up at the toes into long points. On his head he wore a broad-brimmed sugar-loaf hat, garnished with a single feather. The hat was covered with the white frost, and the goblin looked as if he had sat on the same tombstone very comfortably for two or three hundred years. He was 'ing perfectly still ; his tongue was put out, as if in derision ; and he was grinning at Gabriel Grub with such a grin as only a goblin could call up. 6' ' It was not the echoes,' said the goblin. " Gabriel Grub was paralysed, and could make no reply. "' What do you do here on Christmas Eve ?' said the gob lin sternly. " I came to dig a grave, Sir,' stammered Gabriel Grub. "' What man wanders among graves and churchyards on such a night as this ?' said the goblin. " ' Gabriel Grub ! Gabriel Grub screamed a wild chorus of voices that seemed to fill the churchyard. Gabriel looked fearfully round—nothing was to be seen. " What have you got in that bottle?' said the goblin. " ' Hollands, Sir,' replied the sexton, trembling more than ever ; for he had bought it of the smugglers, and he thought that perhaps his questioner might be in the Excise department of the goblins. Who drinks Hollands alone, and in a churchyard, on such a night as this ?' said the goblin. " ' Gabriel Grub Gabriel Grub I' exclaimed the wild voices again. " The goblin leered maliciously at the terrified sexton, and then raising his voice, exclaimed— "' And who, then, is our fair and lawful prize?' " To this inquiry the invisible chorus replied, in a strain that sounded like the voices of many choristers singing to the mighty swell of the old church organ—a strain that seemed borne to the sexton's ears upon a gentle wind, and to die away as its soft breath passed onward—but the burden of the reply was still the same, ' Gabriel Grub 1 Gabriel Grnb 1' " The goblin grinned a broader grin than before, as he said, Well, Gabriel, what do you say to this?' " The sexton gasped for breath. ," What do you think of this, Gabriel?' said the goblin, kicking up his feet in the air on either side the tombstone, and looking at the turned-up points with as much complacency as if he had been contemplating the most fashionable pair of Wellingtons in all Bond-street.: " ' Its—its—very curious, Sir,' replied the sexton, half dead with fright, very curious, and very pretty; but I think I'll go back and finish my work, Sir, if you please.' " ' Work !' said the goblin, what work ?' " The grave, Sir, making the grave,' stammered the sexton. " Oh, the grave, eh ?' said the goblin ; who makes graves at a time when all other men are merry, and takes a pleasure in it ?' ‘• Again the mysterious voices replied, Gabriel Grub I, Gabriel Grub l' " ' I'm afraid my friends want you, Gabriel,' said the goblin thrusting his tongue further into his cheek than ever—and a most astonishing tongue it was—' I'm afraid my friends want , ou, Gabriel,' said the goblin. "' Under favour, Sir,' replied the horror-struck sexton, FBA SER' S MAGAZINE. Fraser, like the New Monthly, begins the year with spirit. The present Number is carefully got up, but we miss the " Gallery of Portraits"—which is a sad miss, for whatever may be said of some of the engrav ings, the literary sketches were always ably written. We do not forget the arch memoir of Mr. Dunlop— that " remarkable biped, who had a beard as black as a shoe-brush, and always shaved with a brick-bat," and should have been glad to see more of such good humoured, biographical quizzes. The " Diamond Necklace" is a striking production, containing passages of subtle, profound thought, and impassioned elo quence, and not a few, to our dim apprehension at least, utterly unintelligible. The fancy of the poet, and the good sense and erudition of the scholar, are quaintly mixed up with the mysticism and affectation of the" German transcendentalist. The following passage which, bating a few eccentricities of thought and ex pression, deserves all praise for its high-toned, poetic character, will give a good idea of Mr. Carlyle's man lOW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Theodore Hook—the new Editor of this perio dical—has s et to work in good style, and turned out a e very way equals our Number thatexpectation. It is full of fun--full of variety—full . of li g ht, sparkling contributors are numerous, and each talent ; for the has put his shoulder to the wheel, and done his best. and Anticipations " Retrospection s "-----what a compre bens.:ve theme for wit, moralist, or metaphysician !—is - pleasantly introductory, but is something irreverent in i Chrstmas, which is its mention of pronounced " a bore." Now this, as the late Lord Liverpool would have said, is " r eally too bad. ' What, Christmas a with its Pantomimes an d holiday bore ! Christma s, ;makings, its social family parties, its clear sunny frosts, and droll exhibitions to be seen in every street, of fat gentlemen grotesquely wavering upon pa veme nt slides, or sh u t up in their hats by snowy avalanches hurled 4idown on them from the house-tops--what ! this season of fun a nd festivity ? when lips are hea r d smac king under the missletoe, and broad laughter is the order of the day —a bore ? Not so. Gentility is a good thing in itss was, but it must not affect to sneer at Christmas, or ell low it out of fashion as a bore. 'Tis En g land's ,ily holid a y, a s Leigh Hunt has lately told us in one of the most piquant little poems we have ever read, and should be respected as such. " The Gurn e y Papers" are from the p en o f Theodore Hook. They are writ ten in a fine c omic spirit, bordering on caricature. << Beniden de B e rg " is by American Willi s , and in some of its descriptions displays considerabl e graphic ability. " The History of a Radical ". would be better -were it more candid in its tone. We demur, not to its talent, but its spirit, which is one of unleavened Toryism. The " Late Georg e Colman " is but sorry criticism. The writer, we perceive, talks of George as being P e ter Pindar's superi o r, whereas he was not fit to hold a rtlsh-light to him. We look , i the autho r :4 the " Lousiad," as one of the most fertile and original humoilrists that ever lived, and would scarcely hesitate to rank him with Lucian and Rabelais. Who, but a man of :first-rate powers of comic invention could have penned a mock-heroic poem in four books sufficient to fill a volume, on the simple fact of his Majeqy's ap petite being disordered at dinner by the unexpected ap parition of a louse on his plate ? The idea may be 100 gross for the present age, yet the " Lousiad " once convulsed a court, and split the sides of universal 'England. Again', the critic tells us, that " Colnlan's AGGREGAT Tares, 239—Linsl 6425 guAN d,520 I 9189 VTITIE .Rapese 113676 S OF 1:675 I 3TIIER -Brank, KTNE M' 118;)0 I DS OF rustard,' 1015 ruLs: ,9--Sei ) MARKET , and the sale was dull at little ited SMITHFIEL. This day's supply was verygood, alteration from the prices last (plot . . PRICES PER STONE OF BLI3. TO SINK TUE OFFALS. s. d. to s. et. s. d. to s 0. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep ...... ...... 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 4 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto..... 310 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 3lO 4 2 Southdown Wethers ... 4 8 5 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 8 Large Hogs 3 2 2 8 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 Small Porkers Sulaing Calves each ...16 0 32 0 Quarter old Pig teach) 12 to 20 0 SUPPLY, AS PER. CLERIC'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 2,030 27, 5 00 160 260 About 700 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road ; about 800 up the other northern roads; about 650 (including Irish) from the western and midland districts : about 350 from Norfolk, Suftblk, Emsex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 80 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &e. iu the neighbourhood of London. ner : " In our own poor nineteenth century, the writer of these lines has been fortunate enough to see not a few glimpses of romance ; the imagines this nineteenth is hardly a whit less romantic than that ninth, or any other, since centuries began. Apart from Napoleon, and the Demons, and Mirabeans, whose fire-words (of public speaking) and fire-whirlwinds (of cannon and musketry), which for a season darkened the air, are, perhaps, at bottom but superficial phenomena, he has witnessed, in re motest places, much that could be called romantic, even mira culous. He has witnessed overhead the infinite deep, with greater and lesser lights, bright-rolling, silent-beaming, hurled forth by the hand of God ; around him, and under his feet, the wonderfullest earth, with her winter snow-storms and her summer spice-airs, and (unaccountablest of all) him - Self stand ing there. He stood in the lapse of time ;he saw eternity behind him, and before him. The all-encircling mysterious tide of Force, thousand fold (for from force of thought to force of gravitation what an interval I) billowed shoreless on ; bore him too along with it,—he too was part of it. From its bosom rose and vanished, in perpetual change, the lordliest Real- Phantasmagory ( which was Being) ; and ever anew rose and vanished ; and ever that lordliest:many-coloured scene was full, another yet the same. Oak trees fell, young acorns sprang : men too, new sent from the Unknown, he met, of tiniest size, who waxed into stature, into strength of sinew, passionate fire and light : in other men the light was growing dim, the si news all feeble ; they sank, motionless, into ashes, into invi sibility ; returned back to the Unknown, beckoning him their mute farewell. He wanders still by the parting-spot ; cannot hear them ; they are far, how far It was a sight for angels, and archangels ; for, indeed, God himself had made it wholly. One many-glancing asbestos-thread in the web of Universal History, spirit-woven, it rustled there, as with the howl of mighty winds, through that " wild-roaring Loom of Time." Generation after generation (hcndreds of them, or thousands of them, from the unknown Beginning), so loud, so stormful busy, rushed torrent-wise, thundering, down, down ; and fell all silent (only some feeble re-echo, which grew ever feebler, struggling up), and oblivion swallowed them all. Thousands more, to the unknown Ending, will follow ; and thou here (of this present one) hangest as a drop, still sungilt, on the giddy edge ; one moment, while the darkness hat not yet engulphed thee ! 0, brother !is that what thou callest prosaic ; of small interest ? Of small interest, and for thee ? Awake, poor troubled sleeper ; shake off thy torpid nightmare dream. look, sea behold it, the flame-image ; splendours high as heaven, terrors deep as hell : this is God's Creation ; this is Man's Life." " A Scourging Soliloquy about the Annuals" is a light, sketchy, half-waspish, half-good-humoured no tice of these elegant ephemera, the majority of which, JENHALL MARKETS, ,y the Careasi, NEWUATE AND LEA . At per stone, 1 s. d. to s d. s d to s d. Beef, inferior 2 '2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 6 - middling . ..... ..... 2 6 210 - middling '2 8 2 '2 - prime large 3 2 3 4 - prime 3 4 3 8 -- prime 5ma11......... 3 8 4' 0 Pork, large 1 6 4 4 Veal 3 2 4 4 -small 4 6 410 In consequence of a very. general expression of pub lic opinion, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre has announced his intention from this day to reduce his prices to the same scale as those of Covent-garden Theatre. With a theatre so newly and beautifully decorated, with such a numerous establishment, and such extraordinary foreign engagements as the lessee is said to have made, it is evident the house must be full every night to enable him to reap ,any great profit ; and . when all these are to be seen for 45., 25., and ls. (the prices of all the minor theatres), we have no doubt it will be. Indeed Our wonder is that Mr. Bunn had not resorted to this plan long ago, taking all circumstances into amount : but " better late than never i" We heartily wish him all success, and the public at large will do themselves honour, and us a great pleasure by confirming our good don't think they can, Sir ; ihey don't know me, Sir ; I don't think the gentlemen have ever seen me, Sir.' " Oh yes they have,' replied the goblin ; we know the man with the sulky face and the grim scowl, that came down the street to-night, throwing his evil looks at the children, and grasping his burying spade the tighter. We know the man that struck the boy in the envious malice of his heart, because the boy could be merry, and he could not. We know him, we know him.' Gabriel is soon afterwards carried off to Tophet, where he meets with strange sights, and is put to strange tortures. The thing, of course, is but a dream—people are apt to have the night-mare about Christmas time— but it produces a most wholesome effect on Gabriel's mind, for he finally becomes a tolerant, benevolent, and cheerful man, and as popular throughout the village as he once was the reverse. wishes. We have much pleasure in hearing that the Post master-General is about to bestow suitable rewards upon the mail•coach guards who have so much distinguished themselves by their intrepid conduct during the, late snow storm. For ourselves, we deem it but justice to these men to say that a strong sense of public duty influencing brave men could alone have sustained them during the almost superhuman efforts on their part which hale been recorded in our paper. Wit and humour are no novelty in the pages of Mr. Colburn's New Monthly, whatever they may be elsewhere. The January number of that publication, however, will be found to contain a double quantum of those pleasant qualities which we all know to be so particularly desirable at this sea son. One of those new periodicals, which are born with every new year—though their deaths are not regularly re corded—talks about the other Magazines hiding their dimi ilished heads. This, at all events, cannot apply to the New Monthly, which in size approaches to a Quarterly Review, and in its contents offers more readable, racy, and piquant articles than, perhaps, were ever before assembled together in a single number of any periodical. We commend the public, how ever, to judge for 4 - - lye' COURT MAGAZINE. All the periodicals are stirring this month, and the Court Magazine is not among the least active. There is evident improvement in its literary contents ; but as for the engravings, they can scarcely be better than they have been. The " Books of the Past Year" brings the titles of many defunct worthies before us in a pleasant, gossipping manner. Speaking of the once well-knowr "*"." the writer says, "He learned Greek where he was discovered in THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. FAREWELL MESSAGE OF ANDREW JACKSON, TO THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives, Addressing to you the last annual message I shall ever pre sent to the Congress of the United States, it is a source of the most heartfelt satisfaction to be able to congratulate you on the high state of prosperity which our beloved country has attained. With no causes at home or abroad to lessen the confidence with which we look to the future for continuing proofs of the capacity of our free institutions to produce all the fruits of good government, the general condition of our affairs may excite our national pride. I cannot avoid congratulating you and my country particu larly on the success of the efforts made during my administra tion by the Executive and Legislature, in conformity with the sincere, constant, and earnest desire of the people, to main tain peace and establish cordial relations with all foreign Powers. Our gratitude is due to the Supreme Ruler of Universe, and I invite you to unite with me in offering to him fervant supplications that his providential care may ever be ex teneed to those who follow us, enabling them to avoid the dangers and the horrors of war, consistently with a just and indispensable regard to the rights and honour of our country. But, although the present state of our foreign affairs standing without important change as they did when you separated in July last is flattering in the extreme, I regret to say that many questions of an interesting character at issue with other Powers are pet unadjusted. Among the most prominent of these is that of the north-eastern boundary. With an undimh nished confidence in the sincere desire of his Britannic Majesty's Government to adjust that question, I am not yet in possession of precise grounds upon which it proposes a satisfactory adjustment. _ _ _ With France our diplomatic relations have been resumed, and under circumstances which attest the disposition of both Governments to preserve a ;mutual beneficial intercourse, and roster those amicable feelings which are so strongly required )3T the true interests of the two countries. With Russia, Austria, Prussia, Naples, Sweden, and Denmark, the best understanding exists, and our, commercial intercourse is gra dually expanding itself with them. It is encouraged in all these countries except Naples, by their mutually advantageous and liberal treaties with us. The claims of our citizens on Portugal are admitted to be just, but provision for the payment of them has been unfortu nately delayed by frequent political changes in that kingdom. The blessings of peace have not been secured by Spain. Our connections with that country are on the best footing, with the exception of the burden still imposed upon our commerce by her possessions out of Europe. The claims of American citizens for losses sustained at the bombardment of Antwerp, have been presented to the Govern ment of Holland and Relgium, and will pressed in due sea son for settlement. With Brazil, and all other neighbours of this continent, we continue to maintain relations of amity and concord, extend ing our commerce with them as far as the resources of the peo ple, and the policy of their Government will permit. The just and long-standing claims of our citizens upon some of them, are yet sources of dissatisfaction and complaint. No danger is apprehended, however, that they will not be peaceably, although tardily acknowledged, and paid by all, unless the ir ritating effect of her struggle with Texas should unfortunately make cur immediate neighbour, Mexico, an exception. It is alreadysknown to you, by the correspondence between the two Governments, communicated at your last session, that our conduct in relation to that struggle is regulated by the same principles that governed us in the dispute between Spain and Mexico herself, and I trust that it will be found on the most severe scrutiny that our acts have strictly corresponded with our professions. That the inabitants of the United States should feel strong prepossessions for the one party is not surprising. But this circumstance should, of itself, teach us great caution, lest it lead us into the great error of suffering public policy to be regulated by partiality or prejudice ; and there are considerations connected with the possible result of this contest between the parties of so much delicacy and im portance to the United States, that our character requires that we should neither anticipate events nor attempt to controul them. The known desire of the Texians to become a part of our system, although its gratification depends upon the recon cilement of various and conflicting interests, necessarily a work of time and uncertain in itself, is calculated to expose our conduct to misconstruction in the eyes of the world. Them are already those who, indifferent to principle themselves, and prone to suspect the want of it in others, charge us with ambitious designs and insidious policy. You will perceive, by the accompanying documents, that the extraordinary , mission from Mexico has been terminated, on the sole grounds that the obligations of this Government to itself and to Mexico, under treaty stipulations, have compelled me to trust a discretionary authority to a high officer of our army, to advance into territory claimed as part of Texas, if necessary to protect our own or the neighbouring frontier from Indian depredation. In the opinion of the Mexican functionary who has just left us the honour of his country will be wounded by American soldiers entering, with the most amicable avowed purposes, upon ground from which the followers of his Go vernment have been expelled, and over which there is at pre sent no certainty of a serious effort on its part being made to re-establish its dominion. The departure of this Minister was the more singular, as he was apprised that the suf.F.,:ei.ev of thecauses assigned for the advance of our troops by th e ' commanding General had been seriously doubted by me ; and that there was every reason to suppose that the troops of the United States—their commander having had time to ascertain the truth or falsehood of the information upon which they had been" marched to Nacogdoches—would be either there in perfect accordance with the principles a dmitted to be just in his conference with the Secretary of S t ate by the Mexican Minister himself, or were already withdrawn in consequence of the impressive warnings their co mmanding officer had received from the Department of War. It is hoped , and believed that his Government will take a more dispassionate and just view of this subject, and not be disposed to construe a measure of justifiable precaution, made necessary by its own inability, in execution of the stipu lations of our treaty, to act upon the frontier, into an encroach ment upon its rights, or a stain upon its honour. In the meantime, the ancient complaints of injustice, made on behalf of our citizens, are disregarded, and new causes of dissatisfaction have arisen, some of them of a character re quiring prompt remonstrance, and ample and immediate re dress. I trust, however, by tempering firmness which cour tesy, and acting with great forbearance on every incident that has occurred, or that may happen, to obtain justice, and thus avoid the necessity of again bringing this subject to the view of Congress. It is my duty to remind you that no provision has been made to execute our treaty with Mexico for tracing the boundary line between the two countries. Whatever may be the pros pect of Mexico being soon able to execute the treaty on it:: part, it is proper that we should be, in anticipation, prepared at all times to perform our obligations, without regard to the probable condition of those with whom we have contracted them. The result of the confidential inquiries made into the condi tion and prospects of the newly declared Texas Government will be communicated to you in the course of the session. Commercial treaties, promising great advantages to our en terprising merchants and navigators, have been formed with the distant Governments of Muscat and Siam. The ratifica. tions have been exchanged, but have not reached the depart ment of State ,• copies of the treaties will be transmitted to you, if received before, or published if arriving after, the closr of the present session of Congress. Nothing has occurred to interrupt the good understanding* that has long existed with the Barbary Powers , nor to che ck the good will which is gradually growing up in our intercourse with the dominions of the Government of the distinguished Chief of the Ottoman Empire. Information has been received at the department of State that a treaty with the Emperor of Morocco has just been ne gociated, which, I hope, will be received in time to he laid be fore the Senate previous to the close of the Session. You will perceive, from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the financial means of the country continue to keep pace with its improvement in all other respects. The receipts into the Treasury, during the present year, will amount to about 47,691,898 dollars ; those from customs being estimated at 22,523,151 dollars ; those from lands at about 24,000,000, and the residue from miscellaneous sources. The expenditure for all objects during the year is estimated not to exceed 22,000,000 dollars, which will leave a balance in the Treasury for public purposes, on the Ist, may of January next,. of about 41,723,959 dollars. This sum, with the exception of 5,000,000, will be transferred to the several States, in accord ance with the provisions of the Act regulating the deposits of the public money. The unexpected balance of appropriation, on the Ist day of January next, is estimated at 14,636,062 dollars, exceeding, by 9,636,062 dollars the amount which will be left in the de posit banks, subject to the drafts of the Treasurer of the United States, after the contemplated transfers to the several States are made. If therefore the future receipts should not be sufficient to meet . these outstanding and future appropria tions there may be soon a necessity to use a portion of the funds deposited with the States. The consequences apprehended, when the Deposit Act of the last session received a reluctant approval, have been mea surably realised. Though an Act merely for the deposit of the surplus moneys of the United States in the State Trea sury, for safe keeping, until they may be wanted for the ser vices of the General Government, it has been extensively spoken -of as an Act to give the money to the several States, and they have been advised to use it as a gift, without regard to the means of refunding it when called for. Such a suggestion has doubtless been made without a due considera tion of the obligation of the Deposit Act, and without a proper attention to the various principles and interests which are affected by it. It is manifest that the law itself cannot sanc tion such a suggestion, and that as it now stands, the States have no more authority to receive and use these deposits with out intending to return them than any deposit bank, or any individual temporarily charged with the safe keeping or appli tation of the public money, would now have for converting the same to their private use, without the consent and against the will of the Government. But, independently of the violation of public faith and moral obligation which are involved in • suggestion, when examined in reference to the term. present Deposit Act, it is believed that the con which should govern the future legislation of Cong subject will beequally conclusive against the ado! , measure recognising the principles on which the has been made. Considering the intimate connection of the financial intepests of the country, and its grec, whatever shape it may be viewed, I have besto most anxious reflection, and feel it to be n 1 to Congress such thoughts -- have occurred tc deliberations it, treating it 14 manitc, i r to the •••• 16,203.