The Sun. — London, England, 1835-01-22 00:00:00

DELIGHTS OF A DIRTY MAN. (From the Dublin University Magazine) lam a dirty man—a very dirty man—the dirtiest man perhaps you ever met with, or heard of, except Magliabecchi, the celebrated librarian of Florence, who, like the Chinese, as Disraeli tells us, " always wore his shirt as long as it lasted." It is now well nigh an Olympiad since I endured the misery of a change of sheets ; and the customary state of my outer man you may gather from the 'fact, that I merely shift my linen and shave myself when I wish to preserve a strict incognito. My friends call me the Great Un washed, and sometimes (alluding to my " capillary attractions") the Great Uncombed. Both appellations are tolerably correct : for never, since with raptures un speakable, I escaped from the hands of the nursery maid, about my tenth year, has the repose of my locks been troubled by the hair-brush, or the surface of my cuticle irritated with soap and towel. From my cradle up I had ax instinctive and insuperable horror of the jug and basin, with all their abominable accompani ments. What has been said of madness is extremely appli• cable to dirt. There is a pleasure in it which none but the dirty have any notion of. I have not the slightest doubt but that I should make a host of con verts to my views upon this subject, could I but con vey anything like an accurate idea of the happy life I have led, ever since I had the moral intrepidity to break my looking-glass, discharge my washer-woman, put the sweeping-brush under an interdict, and mend my pen, and occasionally open oysters with my razor. You would hardly believe all I have saved in time and money, and gained in warmth, peace, and comfort of every kind. Then, I not only save money but time. While others are rubbing, scrubbing, combing and currying themselves, as if they desired nothing more ardently then to get out of their skins, I get through a quan tity of business that would amaze you. The moment I spring out of bed lamat my desk. No tarrying at the toilette-table ; no washing, scraping, brushing, gargling, dabbling, or any of those disgusting pro cesses which your fine gentlemen rejoice in, and which take up so much of the " precious stuff that life is made of." Such as Igo to bed at night, I rise in the morning ; and such as I rise in the morning, I go to bed at night. I often compare myself to the sun, who (let the poets say what they please) never washed his face in all his days, the best proof of which is, that astronomers have observed a smut on his nose, which they calculate (Sir J. Hershel informs us) to be at least forty-five thousand miles in diameter ! That is some thing like a smut ! In good sooth, Lady Thetis, if you discharge the office of nursery-maid for your fair nephew, Sol, you have no sinecure place, nor is the Atlantic too large a basin. It was an odd appoint ment for the poets to give you. I marvel, since their ears are so sharp as to hear the sun hissing in the ocean, they have not informed us that it was the whim pering of the bright-haired urchin, under his aunt's mother-of-pearl comb. You have often heard of the dust of the schools ; if Ton have a fancy to see it, visit me any day you please in my " sanctum-sanctorum." I will show it to you, an inch and a half thick, the accumulation of some six or seven studious years ; I would not exchange it for a Gobelin carpet, or the gold dust under the feet of eastern monarchs, when they condescend to walk. My study, Sir, has never been profaned by a sweeping brush ; it has never seen the face of that sworn foe to peace and literature—a house-maid. Its hangings were manufactured in the loom of Arachne ; that's the drapery for me, at once cheap and clasSical. Litera ture knows nothing about moreen or muslin. \Vas it a Manchester weaver tapestried the Tusculan villa ? Who was Socrates' upholsterer ? The spider, Sir, the spider—the despised and persecuted spider. " The sage's curtain-maker she by trade, The poet's hangings in her loom are made, She has illustrious customers, she spreads Her drapery oft o'er great and good men's heads, Beneath her canopy they slumber sound, While villains wake with silk pavilioned round." My poor spiders !—let me tell you how narrowly they escaped the utter ruin of their manufacture, about eighteen months or two years ago. I had a female servant who had, I suppose, been trained in some of your desperately neat houses, where sweeping and scrubbing are elevated to the importance of eating and drinking, for she was scarcely an hour under my roof before I observed her with a mop in one hand and a pail of water in the other ; and I perceived by her con sequential looks, and the air of hustle about her, that she was bent upon some great scheme. " Betty," said I—besides alarm, I felt a little curious to know what the girl meant—" Betty," said I, " what are you going to do with the mop and pail ?" " Only going to clean the house, Sir," she replied, with as complacent a smile as if she had been about the most laudable enterprise in the world, " and I in tend to begin with the study." I felt, Sir, as if the Whigs had repealed the great charter. - What I said, when I recovered the power of utterance, it is needless to repeat ; but the issue was this : Betty . lost her post ; and the trade of my poor epiders survived the short administration of this Pou lett Thomson in petticoats. " Oh I but my dear Sir," quoth somebody, " clean liness is so conducive to health I" . " Balderdash, Sir, balderdash—that's what I call balderdash. Cleanliness, Sir, kills more people than the cholera, or the whole college of surgeons." " Will you stand to that, Mr. Dirtyman ?" ~ Yes, Sir, I will stand to it, stand to it against the whole world. Here are my proofs. Look at all the agues, palsies, fevers, and deaths occasioned by damp sheets." " Aye, Mr. DliVman, but not by clean sheets." " There is a logician for you ! The gentleman has been reading Whately, for a hundred guineas ! When are sheets damp, Sir, but when they are clean ? I never lie in damp sheets, and why so ? Because, Sir, I never lie in clean ones. Next to damp sheets, come damp shirts. What ! is a man's life to be daily at the mercy of a slut of a washerwoman ? More men die of clean shirts than Mr. Babbage himself would find it easy to count. The distinction taken between clean and damp is quite idle. Clean is damp, and damp is clean ; the terms are con vertible. Ladies and gentlemen must keep their pores open ! Well ! all I have to say is this, my plan is just the opposite ; I keep my pores shut, and as fast shut as I can. If I could seal them every one herme tically, I would do it, and for the very same reason that I lock my doors and bar my windows to secure my house against thieves. . Shakspeare calls the body the " house of life," and to carry on the metaphor, colds and fevers may be compared to house-breakers, and the pores are the various avenues, and approaches which cannot be too firmly barricaded against their burglarious designs. Your jug-and-basin man is a simpleton, who goes to bed with his gate unbolted and his casement wide open. No wonder when he gets up in the morning if he finds his desk rifled and his throat cut ! You open your pores with soap and towel. —what .follows ? A knave of a typhus, who has been watching you for months, like a Bengal tiger, springs in at the breach, and you are a dead man. He died of a fever says A ; he died of the doctor says B ; but A and B are a pair of donkeys ; your true mur derer, Sir, is that knot of ruffians, Soap, Towel, Jug, Basin,. and Co. Eschew them, Sir I Resist them 1 Fly from them! Let them not come nigh you, if you would see a grand-child upon ycur knee, and sit under the tree of your own planting. Shut your pores up, shut them to constipation ; fasten them as you would your hall-door on a winter's night in the county of Kilkenny. Let your hatred of cold water amount, like. mine, to hydrophobia ; get rid of all your old womanly, grand-motherly, childrens'-maidenly, preju dices against smuts, dust, and dirt of all descriptions ; if a shower overtakes you, and washes your face, whether you will or no, submit, without repining, to the dispensations of an overruling Providence ; for, says the proverb— ., What can't be cured Must be endured;" but never, Sir, never lift your arm against yourself 1 This is the well-Welghed, And well-meant counsel of Diggory Dirtyman." " You have no _objection, I presume, Mr. Dirty man, to ventilation." ,14 4E6 :ventilation i no objection to ventilation I i ' V e l ii i ii ohketiOn- in the world. As many objections , Ae: 'l.ltirtteherefirijoints in the compass for the wind - --e'L7 , --• ,-, ,w . 4 ,,,,... , ; ,.., ,- •.. .. T?A": n' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1835. it was put forth ; namely, when almost all the elections of Ireland and Scotland were undecided, and they, we should think, were entitled to some con sideration in the Right Hon. Baronet's calculation. But these pitiful attempts to delude will soon be at an end. The Tories may set down in their lists such men as Sergeant TALFOURD, Mr. HIND LEY, \lr. BURDON, and others of similar principles ; they will soon be undeceived. Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, it appears, is about to be made as great a trump-card as Sir ROBERT PEEL was before him. The Tories are terribly alarmed for their pet SPEAKER, and abide, in fear and tremb ling, the issue of the first division of the new House. In order to coax over the waverers, they have been dressing him up in his best Sunday suit, and trotting him out in his finest paces. There never was such a Speaker in any time of the world—so urbane, so tem perate, so courteous, so impartial, so hard-working, so well acquainted with Parliamentary laws and usages ; Jr' short, such a proper person to fill the presidential chair, nobody ever before saw--only take him, and fry him ! Of all the rubbish, called argument, that has been written on this ticklish point, the most absurd is that part of it which holds Sir CHARLES forth as the only one person comps tent to fulfil the duties of that dis tinguished office ; because, for that very reason, the sooner another tries his " 'prentice han' " at it the better; else, if any accident were to befal Sir C HARLES before he had time to educate a successor up to the managing point, the House might exhibit a bear-garden condition, for GOD knows how many sessions to come. It is plain, therefore, that, while his urbanity and great Parliamentary knowledge are left to us as an available fund, we ought to make the most use of it, and with as much expedition as possible. Of Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON whilst en gaged in his late high official functions, we would not speak a word disparagingly. The courtesy, prompti tude, evenness of temper, and knowledge which for so many years he displayed in the discharge of his duties as Speaker, demanded, and have received, the appro bation of all parties. But when it pleased him to descend from his elevated station, and level himself with the herd of factious brawlers after power and place, he certainly forfeited one of the chief ornaments of his reputation, and the highest of his claims for support to a re-appointment of the Presidency of the • House of Commmons. The Right Hon. Gentleman must not delude him self with the panegyrics which his friends are trowell ing upon him. His qualifications for the speakership we question not ; but there are other persons whom we believe to be equally competent, (waiving the finished adroitness he has acquired by tenth of service,) for the office, and none more so than the Gentleman to whom all eyes are now being turned—Mr. ABERCROMBIE, the Member for Edinburgh. We can scarcely bring ourselves to doubt that he, if proposed, and not Sir CHARLES, will receive the distinguished honour. It will be droll if Government should be out-voted in this, the first question that can divide the House; and nothing can be more likely. Now that the Elections are nearly completed, we ardently hope that immediate steps will be taken to organize an effective Opposition, and to choose a leader in whose ability, temperance, judgment, and influence (personal and political,) all parties—whatever be their shades of difference as Reformer —shall have extensive confidence. We cannot too urgently enforce the necessity of union, as the very essence of the power by which an Opposition may be rendered irresistible : where each man is in doubt as to what way and to what extent his neighbour is about to direct his energies, his own ardour rapidly evaporates—his own zeal falters in hesi tation. If the strength of the Opposition is frittered away in petty personal dissensions on this point or on that, its potency will soon become of little value : if its might is split in private rivalries, or the jealousies of gradation in certain points of opinion, its main efficiency will became paralyzed. _ . We confidently trust, therefore, that not an hour's unnecessary delay will be suffered to elapse in well organising the Opposition forces, and in the selection of a sound head for governing the members of so able a body. One of the objections urged by Lord Jo u N RUSSEL L. before his constituents at the Honiton dinner against the Ballot, as being a " secret voting which would give to the electors an irresponsible power," has been adduced by the Tory prints as a " neat" refutation of the expediency of that measure. The quotation, so far as it goes, is made strictly to the letter ; but, as may be very naturally supposed, a subsequent quali fying remark of his Lordship's is inadvertently sup pressed:— " I am sensible," he went on to say—" no man more so—of the progress which the question of the Ballot has made during the late election ; nor will I deny that as an ultimate remedy we' may be obliged to adopt it—but let us first exhaust every other." This throws a new light upon Lord JOHN'S objec tion, and, placed in juxta-position, our adversaries are welcome to all the value they can derive from it. Now, the sole object of the advocates of Ballot-voting that the electors may freely and independently exercise their choice, unrestrained by the fear of personal in jury, and uninfluenced by the temptation of bribery, which in such a condition no candidate, however un principled, would be so foolish as to offer: The pro posers of that measure—none more than they—dis like hole-and-corner secresy, whether in voting or in any other public act; but they dislike the necessity for secresy much more. It is because of the corrupt influences which now exist, and which many thou sands of the necessitous, and therefore dependent, elec tors have not the moral courage (with the prospect of utter ruin before their eyes if they do,) to resist, that they would place in every hand the means of manifest ing freedom of choice, without incurring the peril of personal enmity and commercial loss. Those of the electors whose humble condition precludes that free exercise of judgment, dare not hazard an inde pendent vote, and right well the corruptionists know this. 'Where would they be if every elector were unshackled by this dread : where their Tory majori ties ? A House of Commons freely chosen would most probably present the astounding spectacle on a Tory Government division of noes 648, ayes 10—and half a score is an ultra-liberal allowance. Let but the people for one election only have the power of choosing their Representatives by Ballot, and such a return of Reformers would be the result, that corrup tion dies for ever. Thus, indeed, would the voice of the nation be heard in sincerity and truth. Lord JOHN' seems to have a very shrewd forecast that the Ballot may yet become an ultimate remedy ; and if the necessity shall arise, it is pfetty clear that he for one will not hesitate to adopt it. But why will he do so ?—simply because he finds that the purity and freedom of election cannot be otherwise attained,—the great and only end which the Ballotites have in view I It is not for this mode, or that mode of voting they are contending, as for a particular scheme : secure to the people but the means of freely exercising their electoral power, and little matters it about the fashion of the method. Why, forsooth, are the Tories so hostile to the Ballot—not for the paltry reason assigned, of its being un-English and ignoble—but be cause they dread the liberty which the voters would then uncontrolledly exercise, to the annihilation of Tory corruption ? _ _ _ The guilt of political hypocrisy, be it practised by Peer or peasant, is not yet sufficiently understood. In degree of moral turpitude, the man who compels, or he who yields a vote, contrary to the dictates of reason and conscience, is as culpable as the thief who robs, or the accomplice who connives at the robbing—nay, far beyond ; for in the one case the loss is defined and specific, but in the other its extent is incalculable for years or generations. When the sacredness of the trust placed in the electors' hands becomes properly recognised, the infamy of the political seducer will be regarded with as much abhorrence as that of the villain of private life. In late years, unhappily, an act of political bribery or intimidation, employed to wrest away an elector's vote, is viewed as a venial trick—a clever electioneering manoeuvre--no more. The day, however, is fast approaching when such depravity will receive its just appreciation; and the candidate, or the voter, who would influence, or be influenced, by cor rupt agency, will be visited with the same testimonials of public indignation which are now awarded to the criminal infraction of the moral law. When that day shall arrive, we care not how soon the Ballot is aban doned ; but such a mode of voting must, we apprehend, precede its coming. We have received intelligence from Madrid, dated the 11th instant, of which the most important relates to the probable change of the Spanish Cabinet, for which we believe there exist no rational grounds. In the North, the war is still carried on with various suc cess. MINA is still too ill to take the fiAd, and the Carlists are profiting by his indisposition, by carrying on a system of plunder and pedatory warfare. We have received advices from Athens to the 25th of December, now the capital of King OTHO'S do minions. The King had then taken up his residence in the new Palace, amid the rejoicings of his people, and had honoured the British Ambassador by being present at a public entertainment prepared for his Ma jesty. The country was then tranquil. We have received the Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday, from which we learn that the Swiss Direc tory at Berne has transmitted an official note to the Austrian Envoy, in answer to his note of the first of January. For once the Austrian Court has not triumphed in the crooked policy of diplomatic genera lities. The Swiss Directory promises to do all that Austria and the other Great Powers require ; but in language so vague that it will puzzle IVletternich himself to make out its precise mean ing. It is reported that Austria has again trans mitted a second Note to the Swiss Government at Berne, but the contents have not yet been made public. At all events, it is quite clear that the Vorort will not incautiously provoke the hostility of Austria. It would appear from the Note, that the Swiss Go vernment is not ignorant of the real motives of the Austrian Court. There is no domestic intelligence in these Journals, possessing either novelty or public interest. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being pay-day for the settling of the Co.isol Account of yesterday, which terminated without any defaulter being de clared, it is expected that all drafts given to the bankers will be duly honoured this morning. Soon after the account was adjusted yesterday afternoon, Consols were not so good as in the previous part of the morn ing, and left off at 91* for money, and for the account 91i ex div. For the 26th of February account 92i In the foreign market the Spanish Scrip, which is at present the chief speculation, left off at 1+ premium. To-morrow being the first payment of 10 per cent. on the new Spanish Loan, will no doubt bring to market some Spanish Stock, particularly from those persons who have received letters, and are anxious to secure first profit in it. Consols opened this morning at 91 / i- for the Account ; same for Money, with little doing. In the Foreign Market, the unfavourable news received from Spain by the Express from Paris, of the reported change or dissolution of the Spanish Ministry, has had an effect on the above Stock, which has receded from 55i to 54k. Spanish Scrip has also receded from 11 I premium to 1. It appears that the Carlists have carried the war into Old Castile with a force of 3,000 infantry and 300 cavalry, which has caused some sensation at Madrid. Our arrivals this morning are two mails from Calais with the express from Paris; also a mail from Mexico by the Lap wing packet—left Tampico on the 22d of November, and Vera Cruz on the 28th of November, with a mail and eight hun(sed thousand dollars on merchants' account. She brings no news. His Majesty's sloop Nimrod has also arrived from San tander with despatches from Government—left on the 16th inst. ; reports that the Queen's troops, just previous to her sailing, had experienced a defeat near Bilboa, and twelve officers fell into the hands of the Carlists. The Spanish Bondholders are now alarmed at the state of Spain, and within a short period the Spanish Scrip has re ceded to premium. Spanish Stock done at 54k, very heavy. It is expected that Spanish will be kept up until after the first payment of tem• per cent. to-morrow. HALF-PAST ONE. Consols continue at the price of the early part of the morn. i n ..-91 to* for the Account, with little business doing. In the Foreigh Market there has been a re action in Spa wish Bonds, which have improved from 54 to 541 Portu guese Stock remains steady at 88g. - Spanish Scrip still continues heavy at premium ;Ex chequer bills 40_42 ; India Bonds 21 23. No further arrivals at present. India Stock 257 g. Consols for the Account, 9lk. THREE O'CLOCK EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.—On Monday evening last an elderly lady, residing in Brewer-street, Goswell-road, having strong piscatorial predilections, was attracted to the door, plate in hand, by the magic sounds of •' Sprats alive 0 1" Anxious to gratify her fishy appetite, she soon concluded a bargain for a small quantity. On searching her pocket to pay the man, she found that half a sovereign was the smallest coin at that moment in her possession. The sum required being three-pence, and the sprat-merchant not having change, proffered his services to procure it, saying that he could leave his " stock in trade" until his return. He obtained the half sovereign from Mrs. G., but unfortunately, being troubled with a short memory, forgot to return to claim his basket and give back the change ; the estimated value of sprats and basket being about " one shilling and sixpence l" THE COTTON TRADE.—By the John Baring w e have advices from Savannah to the 20th ultimo. These state that the cotton crop falls short to a greater extent than was imagined a month previously. A considerable quantity will be held hack, and the shipments will be retarded by the operations of the speculators. In Charleston, on the 15th of December, the market was stoady, with full prices. These ranged from 144 to 164 arid 17 cents, for Uplands. Sea Islands 32 to 40 and upwards. On the 18th they state the opinion is stronger than ever that the crop will not exceed 1,150,000 bales.--Liverpool Standard. GENERAL ELECTION THIS DAY. EAST SVRREI7. BY EXPRESS. DECLARAI lON OF NUMBERS. The announcement of the numbers polled for the several candidates took place this day at the Town Hall, Croy don. At about half-past eleven the procession which accompanied Mr. Alsager from his house reached the town. The line of carriages extended to nearly a mile, and was preceded by bands of music, and horsemen carrying flags and banners, and wearing cockades of orange and blue (the Tory colours). The High Sheriff having kindly acco modated the reporters with a place upon the platform previous to the opening of the doors, much of the inconvenience to which we were subjected on the day of nomination was avoided. As one of the " signs of the times," we may observe that the parish beadle was decorated with a broad orange scarf and cockade. Mr. Beauclerk reached the Court-house on foot, accom panied by a numerous body of his friends and supporters, and was followed shortly afterwards by Mr. Briscoe. On one 'side of the platform a temporary gallery was erected purposely for the ladies which was completely filled. At twelve o'clock precisely the doors were thrown open, and in a short time the hall was densely crowded. When the confusion occasioned by the rush of so large a body of persons had in some degree subsided, The High SHERIFF, (G. T. Nicholson, Esq.) came forward and said—Gentlemen, electors of East Surrey, we nre now met for the purpose of casting up the poll. That is an operation which will require a considerable time, very likely two hours, and will therefore require great patience on your parts.—(Hear, hear.) I hope that you will show that forbearance and patience, for every act of impatience ma nifested by you will impede the operation of casting up the votes. When they have been cast up, I shall again have the honour of presenting myself to your notice, to declare tee numbers polled.—( Cheers. ) At ten minutes to two o'clock the HMIs SHERIFF came for ward, and the proclamation having been made, lie said— Gentlemen, on casting up the poll books, I find that the num bers are, for— Mr. Alsager Beauclerk 1,324 Mr. Briscoe .... 1,200 I, therefore, as Sheriff of this County, now declare the said Richard Alsager and Aubrey William Beauclerck, EsL i s. ' to have the majority of votes, and are duly elected as your Re presentatives. (To be concluded in a Second Edition.) LITERATURE. to blow from. Thorough air is just as bad as clean linen. I dislike all libertines, and the chartered _ _ libertine' most of all. What does catching cold mean, but exposing one's self to the blustry visits of Messrs. Boreas, Zephyrus, and the rest of that stormy firm ? I make it a rule to honour none of their draughts." PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 9l,ils 3 per Cent. Cons 9ll. ii 1 I 4 354 per Cent 99% Ditto Red. 99343's New 31; ? per Cent 99 IA SA 9 n 4 per Cent. / - Diss Ass ent ted ed -- Link LengAtinuitiestoexpire Jan. 3, , Stiil . l7 3-16 I,i 1..),,t 10, 1559 --- Jan. 5,1.16 P — Jan. 5, IF.AO • — April 5, !SAO — Jan. 5, 1870 — DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent India Stock 237cy 8 72 Ditto Bonds 2l 23 pin. South Sea Stock - Old Annuities - New Ditto per Cent. Annuities, 115 h.. - Exch. Bills, .£I,OPO 4.3 41 43 pm.. Ditto 500 431141 43 prn Ditto Small 4341 43 pm Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — pm Bank Stock for Account India Stock for Account ?,S_ . Consols for Accou• t Vi PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds elgian Bonds ( VOi Ditto Account . ug Brazilian Bonds 8 2 1 41 ,i Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ...... ....... Chilhan Bonds Ditto Account "olumliian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bends, Int 32N Ibtto Account D.nish Bonds titto Account Greek Bonds Onto Bonds, ISlri Ditto Accodut Nlextcan Bu nts, 5 per cent — Ditto Account ti per cent . DM, Account ti'eapolitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Ronda Dit•o Account Portuguese Bonds £43!,6 I)itto Account I)itto New Bonds til3% Ditto Account SSlisli Y 9 Prussian Bonds ... ~'= Dittii 80nd5,1 ,0 2 Russian Bonds, 182'1 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 5 4 14 4 Ditto Account 3.5% 4 % Ditto Bonds, 1633 Ditto Account French, 5 per cent. 107 f. 50c. 4 per cent. —f. —c. —f. .c. 3 per cent. ----- Exchange 2sf. 40c. Dutch, 2.4 per cent. 5 45,M Ditto Account 51% Ditto, 5 per cent lOl.. I Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share Anglo Mexican Mining Company (im at 5!. pm.) 100 83 9ki Mexican Mining Company 4914 4!4 Redmoor Comolidated Mining Company 2 5 Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered 'lll. 10s. tid Ditto Unregistered United Mexican (issued at la. pm.) Union Gold All'ance Marine Assurance Company 50 , ; ( 4 I 6 PRICES OF HUSH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 19. :3 per Cent. Consols 9n% Grand Canal Deb.. ti per cent. 921,; Ditto Reduced 5 9 34 Ditto, 4 per rent 6lii 3t4 per Cent. Stock 9134 Htbernian Bank Ditto New, ISllti flci per Cent. Debentures Pt National Insurance Company ::1; 3 ,.i Bank Stock 2'2l City Debentures, 4 per cent... 81,., Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due Arrived. Due. LI America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 13razi: 0 13uelios Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 1 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 1 :/üblin 0 Jamaica 1 0 Fianders HIGH 1, ATER. AT LONDON lIRIDGE TO-MORROW. >luri ins 34 minutes after 8. Evening 7 minutes after 9 HAMBURG, Nov. 26, 1834 EINE BROTHERS, Contractors for the ; GREAT LOTTERY, published and drawn by authority and under guarantee of the Hamburg Government, beg to inform the 1:u1)lic, that the 65th Lottery of 10,000 Tickets will be drawn on the 18th of March next ; and Tickets are now selling at 108 marks banco, or Si. The prizes are lof 100,000, lof 50,000, lof 30,000, 1 of 20,000, 1 of 10,000, 2 of 5,000, 4 of 3,000, 7 of 2,000, 20 of 1,000, 40 of 500, and 1,500 of 108 marks, which 1,578 money prizes are altogether stated ;n marks banco, and payable without any deduction whatever; 4,000 tieketsbeing delivered gratis to the holders of the 2,000 first-drawn tickets, as per scheme, those purchasin ,, one ticket, at the trifling cost of Si., may obtain t hree p rizes, and thus, if fortune proves favourable, gain 180,000 marks banco, at the present exchange, equal to 13,0001. sterling. Owing to the gratis-tickets, the number of tickets on sale is a very limited one, so that, of course, they will be cleared off very rapidly, and a rise in price occur very soon. Those desirous to purchase at the present first price of Si., are requested to direct, by one of the first mails, but only for whole tickets, to the above-named Con tractors, Heine Brothers, in Hamburg. Those remitting a 10/. note will receive an order for the balance of 21., together with the ticket, by return of mail ; on the other hand, those preferring to pay Heine Brothers' draft for the cost, are recommended to pay such draft immediately when presented. A full scheme, and every desirable information, being always sent with the tickets, those giving orders will only have to write a line, ordering the ticket or tickets, adding the money, or an order for the sow, or stating the mode of payment that may be more convenient to the orderer, and giving their full and plain directions, to secure the safe receipt of the communications. Those honouring Heine Brothers by pur chasing, may depend on the strictest secrecy, as to their taking a chat.ce or getting a prize ; such being the undeviating rule of the old-established and most lucky Office. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Comedy, entitled THE KING'S SEAL. Henri Quatre, Mr. Cooper ; Duc de Sully, Mr. Warde; Bortholdus Delfin, Mr. W. Farren ; Gronikind, Mr. Harley. Marchioness de Verneiull, Miss E Tree; Louise de Balzac, Miss Clifton ; Lena, Miss Murray. After which`the New Interlude, entitled THE KING'S WORD. To conclude with the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE. In which Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Horses will be introduced Arthur, Mr. Diddear ; Sir Roland, Mr. T. P Cooke; John.Galadin n Mr. Harley; Gybe Dagonet, Mr. Webster; Gabriel, Mr. Bedford. Gyneth, Miss Clifton; Morgana La Faye, Mrs. Vining; Dorothy Stump. Mrs. Humby. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed the Drama of THE BRIGAND. Allesandro Massaroni, Mr. Wallack ; Maria Grazie, Mrs. Vining. After which, THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM. Mehemet, Mr. Howell; Ismael, Mr. Gilbert; Myssouf, Mr. W. H. Payne; Zeir, Miss Lee. Zulma, Mdlle. Keppler ; Zelika, Miss Bailin; Atargul, Madame P. Giubilei; Mina, Mdlle. Burgoin ; Genius of the Harem, Miss Kenneth. After which, the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN MAB ; OR, THE THREE GLASS DISTAFFS. Harlequin, Mr. Eller ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past 3 o'clock. _ ,' . 4242 ~ . r -- 170, - ', N .443 .. r.t% -41 --- ni' , , --- ~ ~~ ~~~ ~i 3 ~~ t'be LONDON; THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1835. Sir ROBERT PEEL, it is said, has announced his " entire satisfaction" 4 at the result of the elections, and a week , ago stated to his constituents, the free agents of Tamworth, " His firm conviction that he shall be able to conduct the Government of the C 0217 1- try, with the new House of COI7I7IZOIIS, on Conservative principles, and in the spirit of those Constitutional Reforms on which all reasonable and reflecting men are agreed." Some people are easily satisfied ; and that man possesses a truly enviable frame of mind, who can draw consolation and hope from those dispensations of Providence which overwhelm others with despair. Sir ROBERT is a man of this description, or, at least, it is his cue to appear so at present. He has only one of two courses to pursue. He must either resign the helm at once, or pretend that he shall be able to carry on the Government with the new House of Commons. A statesman, uninfluenced by party motives, and ac tuated solely by a desire to serve his country on Con stitutional principles, would not have hesitated, after so decided an expression of public sentiment as the elections have called forth, to withdraw from the posi tion in which a false estimate of that sentiment had acci dentally placed him. But this is a degree of political virtue far above the Tory standard. The gentlemen who are in possession of office, and the good things it be stows, cannot be expected to feel the weight of any reason that would tend to abridge the term of the former, or the amount of the latter. Though they know well enough that they must be turned off in a month or two, yet such is their lust of power, such the ingrained selfishness of their nature, that they cannot voluntarily part with that which they are per suaded it is impossible for them to retain. They will contrive, if possible, to prolong their term of service beyond the 25th of March. If they can accomplish this, they will claim another quarter's salary, and to secure that first and greatest of objects, they will readily consent to wait for the finishing kick, and think themselves well off. The Coryphteus of the party may exhibit his antics every now and then. If these tricks can keep up their spirits, we have no objections ; but we are sure they can deceive nobody. The declaration so confidently made on Friday last is not worth serious no tice. Xt ii confuted by the very time at which THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JACK KETCH. Churton. London. 1835. The idea of this work is a good one, yet its con ception is by no means its least recommendation. With ready powers of humour, it combines a fancy and a pathos worthy of the best novelist of the day. The scenes, as might be anticipated, are for the most part, laid in low—in the very lowest—walks of life, as is the case with " Jonathan Wild," and' Paul Clifford ;" and in the hands of an inferior artist would have given rise only to emotions of disgust ; but such is the au thor's skill that he contrives to throw a grace, without departing from the truth of nature, over even his broadest sketches. Though he is perpetually " stepping on the brink of all we hate," yet the strong, natural powers of his mind support him there, as Hazlitt ob served of Burke, in " dignified security." His portrait of Catherine, the injured wife of his hero, may vie in elegance and unaffected tenderness, with Charles Lamb's Rosamond Grey. She blooms amidst the dreary mass of vice and vulgarity by which she is sur sounded, like an Oasis in an Arabian desert. There is no ambitious attempt at display in this delightful character—nothing theatrical—nothing exaggerated— the author has taken nature as his sole guide, and she has borne him triumphantly through the perils of his task. As a sample of his pathos, we quote his account of the death of Catherine : " I sat down in a chair, and my heart sank within me. The young creature whom I had once loved, and who had so loved me, through ill-treatment, cruelty, crime, and beggary—with out whom I had died of want in the streets ; who had never given me a harsh word or a look of unkindness in her life— she was passing away from me,—to leave me for ever,—to damn me with a load of hoarded reproach, which my heart was busy in preparing for me. Every act of cruelty, of mean ness, of base and paltry unkindness of which I had been guilty since my marriage ; every endearing word she had ever spoken to me ; but, worst of all, that sweet, helpless, timid face, that had so often sought, and sought in vain, to appease my brutal nature ; all these came, now that it was all too late to make reparation, like the very retribution of God himself. Bitterly, bitterly did the scalding tears start into my eyes ; but it was a mockery—an insult to her whom I had so wronged, and I forced them back again into my bosom. They have never risen since. " At this moment Mrs. Chadwick approached me hastily, her face bathed in tears. Go at once to your wife,' she cried, sobbing, ' she's sinking very fast, and wants to see you before she dies. Oh ! I cannot bear the sight of the poor thing any longer, indeed I and covering her face with her apron, she sank into the chair which I had just left. " I entered the room softly, and Catharine, by a mute signal, motioned me to come to her side.. I did so, and she made several efforts to speak, but could not articulate a word ; but, at length, after I had bent my head towards her lips, she uttered, in a painful whisper, I sent for you, John, to see you once more—perhaps you may have something to say to me, — for, John, lam dying. Will you not speak to me ?' " I could not speak. Thrice did I strive to move my lips, but I could not speak. She saw my state of mind, for she looked mildly upon me,—but that she had ever done,—and her hand leaned against my cheek. ' Dear John, when lam gone, do not ' She was silent, and her hand fell U. on her bosom. Oh ! Catharine ! oh ! my sweet creature, can you forgive me ?' Her lips, methought, moved,—but no sound escaped them. Again—and again—but not a word came from her,— and a sudden trembling moved her entire frame,—and all was still." This is genuine, unaffected tenderness ; the work. ings of nature are visible throughout, and will touch an answering chord in the heart of every reader. Equally good, but in a different style, is the episodical narrative, entitled " The Confession of James Wilson," in which a certain gloomy power, like that which Godwin has developed with such terrible effect in his Mandeville, is the predominant feature. It is impossible to peruse this thrilling story without being struck with the vigour and fertility of the author's mind. Its opening shows peculiar evidence of skill, and in its sweetness and simplicity is in ad mirable contrast to the more tragic close. It is dra matic rather than narrative, and would form an ex cellent subject for the stage ; indeed, the scene where the murderer's knife is found by his own children some ten or a dozen years after the commission, is one ready made for the dramatist. In speaking of his per sonages, we must not omit to notice the author's hu mourous sketches—which possess the rare excellence of breadth without extravagance—of Bill Grimes, with his one solitary reminiscence of having been " tossed about three days on the Atlantic in a tar barrel ;" or of the sharkish attorney, Jahez Snavel, with his " one respectable client." We shall look for the next pro duction of this author with considerable interest and curiosity ; in the firm conviction that if he will only give fair play to his powers, he will attain high rank as a novelist. His " James Wilson "is unques tionably, for its length, the finest talc we have read for many years. THE PRINCESS ; OR THE BEGUINE. By Lady Morgan, .Author of " O'Donnd," &c. In 3 vois, London . Richard Bentley, 1835. " As cold water is to the panting hart, so is good news from a far country," was the forcible and elo quent language of the wisest of men, when describing the delighted feeling which accompanies unexpected good fortune ; and to those who have experienced the toil of perusing the various publication s w hi c h d a ily teem from the press in endless variety of subject, size, and style, this description would not appear misapplied in expressing the pleasure which accompanies the laying hold of a really clever work, in which instruction and amusement are happily blended. There appears some thing refreshing in the very look of the pages; and upon a genuine " devourer" of books, the reading of each • chapter acts as a spell, " steeping the senses" in still deeper " forgetfulness ;" till at last the charmed being realizes the prayer of the distracted lover, by " an nihilating both time and space" in the imaginc,l. 'reality of a new existence. The heart expands itself to re ceive the friendship of unknown individuals, to whom we feel drawn by the strongest chords of sympathy ; and though we know not whether another page will not raise them to the highest pinnacle of earthly am bition, or sink them to the lowest depths of abject wretchedness, still are we alike prepared to participate in the full extent of their joys or their sorrows—to pour out the vial of our wrath on their oppressors, or to burn the sweetest incense of our heart before the shrine of their benefactors and deliverers. Such is the mysterious power which the creations of real genius obtain over the minds of all true lovers of books ; and to readers of this class such creations and the Tales of Lady Morgan are well entitled to that distinction—are not less objects of gratification, flan the cooling stream to the parched throat and quivering limbs of the hart hunted on the mountains of Judwa. The " Princess" is a powerful ta'e, and exhibits on every page the impress of the extraordinary intel lect, and.vigorous faculties of the highly-gifted autho ress. In some respects it bears a strong resemblance to Lady Morgan's previous works of fiction, only dif fering from them, in a marked degree, in the political character which belongs to it—and in treading with a more incautious step on the very verge of social morality. We confess, though agreeing in the politi cal opinions of Lady Morgan, that we should have preferred her adoption of incidents which would have led her to eschew the discussion of our social system. We have a horror of female system-mongers—female diplo matists, and female politicians under whatever banner they choose to enrol themselves. When they do write on such subjects, we are happy and thankful to witness their exertions in the cause of civil and religious liberty but were they to be influenced by our counsel, WC would recommend them to preserve the purity of their feelings, and the sweetness of their tempers, by shun ning a path only trodden from dire necessity, and as a consequence of the incorrigibility of the depraved na ture of mankind. The apparent object of the " Princess" is altogether unnecessary—the justification of the Belgian revo luion. The tale has little plot, and less incident. Sir Frederick Mottram, a highly sensitive and intellec tual gentleman, and a member of the House of Com' mons, has, in early life, formed an attachment to a beautiful orphan, a relation of hiS mother's, who had been brought up in the family. As the girl was not considered by Sir Frederick's parents a proper match for their son, he was sent to Italy, and the orphan turned out on the world to seek her fortune in any way she pleased. Fortunately for her, she had studied painting, and had a correct taste in the fine arts, 14 means of which she contrived to support herself for some time. Failing to obtain the patronage her talents merited, she went to the Conti neat, where in the course of her sojourning , she was takdn notice of, patronized, and eventually married, by the Prince of Schaffenhausen. After a short time the Prince died, and the Princess returned to England, where we find her received into th e , highest circles, the brightest luminary in the world 0 ' fashion, and secretly regarded as an intri guante from the Court of Austria, charged with the counsels 0 Prince 7Aletternich. In the meantime Sir Frederick Mottram had been naany years married to a lady of rank and family, but destitute of every quality of head and heart capable of riveting th e affections, or commanding the respect, of her hus band. They soon grow indifferent to the society. ° f each other, and at last, in a fit of extreme irritatio n at the fashionable levity of his wife, Sir Frederick quit s his residence in town, and goes to Belgium. Th e , Princess, who had seen him repeatedly in London, han, ingratiated herself into the afilTtions of his wife, an ° by a strange incident led him to believe that herself, the first mistress of his affections, had died in a workhouse' follows him ; and 'in the habit of a Beguine, or nu° of the Order of Charity, contrives to meet him so often that at last he falls in love with her. His offers ar e rejected, and soon after he is joined by his wife, and a party of English friends, to whom the Princess Pr' cents herself in her high character. We pass over the various adventures which led to the discovery of h er real character, on the part of the Princess ; and of he r relationship to an Irish family, who is likewise eo n ' fleeted with Sir Frederick Mottram, though all poi ties, the Princess excepted, are previ ous l y i gnor an. ° the existence of such ties. The shock, however' proves too much for the constancy of Sir Fred r rick's wife, and the lady accordingly elopes with $ young nobleman, and shortly after dies. To presers i l the purity of her heroine, Lady Morga n , strangely enough, in our opinion, makes the Princess reject t he , Land of Sir Frederick, and ascribe her own previ oll ' conduct more to political motives than to se ntimen s ( :If a more tender nature. The termin a ti on i s no rel ief to the general character of the work, which vers es throughout on the very brink of a mora l pre ciPle'i Lady Morgan may advance in ju s tifi ca tion t i her book, tkat she has d escr ib e d lif e °- it exists in the highest circles ; but we 01 ; tend that the existence of certain vices is no rea s° l for giving publicity to them, and wh a t i s s till mfr, dangerous, ascribing them to p ersons ot h erw ise ' 11 '; tuous arid intelligent. Her heroine, whatever she Il ta i la seem to Lady Morgan, w ill appear to t h e mora l O r a as a woman whose vi r t ue was h ar dl y wort h preservin§: and who throughout acted a part which no really 11 tuous person would dare attempt. The great excellence of the Princess consists in th e e masterly manner in which Lady Morgan has dill, the character of Sir F re d er i c k M ottram ' s I r i s h se „( vant, and the strength, sternness, and that ctitt irj ,; irony so peculiar to herself, with which she ~..1 5), 11 bare the cold-blood e d C onvent i ona li sts of -,"„i',11 life among the most f as hi ona bl e c i rc l es o f the Br";:s, aristocracy. In the w h o l e range o f R omance - w ilted we know of no author who has attacked a n d exlie s o i, the absurdities of conventional forms, with such be g thering power as Lady Morgan. But that she Pi' s the evil too far must be confessed by all who are l e o that such forms could n o t b e di spense d w i t h, u n for a at. the manifest risk. of sub s tit u ti ng a greater evil of less one—without endangerin g th e w h o l e soc ial cys t as it only can exist in this count r y. I n h er reprohaoie of Sabbath legislation ; and her prophecies of the ors, of the Aristocracy unless th a t b o d y an ti c i pa t e the " vs , and spirit of the age, by re f orm i ng t h ose i ns titute social and civil, to which it owes its claims to r es V t 'lli we most entirely and heartily concur . Sh e ha s - t he some wholesome truths ; but we feel confiden t we ll Aristocracy will not thank her fo r th em , h o wever 00 e intended. In the following trite extract—the 0 111 Y s of las we can give—we have a fine exa m pl e o f the c ct ifr people who cry out against th e w ild destr u eel s schemes of the Reformers, and the present opr 9 . ll l , e i; of the Wellington-Peel Admini s t ra t ion . We g l ogi l as a fair sample of the caustic v e i n w hi c h r uns th e . the whole of these volumes : le ; ‘‘ Mr. and Mrs. St. Leger were rather a popular 64/ 2 7 11 for she was a flirt, and he was a fool. Each, there ;i0 e:1 1" representing a very large c l ass i n th e wor ld o f f as hion, °,ba a considerable portion of its suffrages. Mr. St. Leg e rl i j 0 1 , r ruined his own private aff a i rs i n th e outset o f life ;!a De e that reason, probably, (n o o th er b e i ng ostens ibl e ,) he Pa d selected to manage those of th e na ti on . " Among other diplomatic offices, he had re centlY, the honour of representing th e M a j esty , o f E ng land 111 , 0 v co man Court of the third o r f ourt h c l ass ; w h ere , as E i ' s ' o cl o traordinary, he h a d b een sent by the then Ministry , cu d the Polonaise with D owager M argrav i ncs , play icaroyect o truckle to legiti mac y. F or th ese serv i ces h e had e . n , i i,rit• 113 income which excee d e d th a t o f t h e A mer i can Pres l ` - 0 . might have salaried the whole frugal Cabinet of 1 3 e I tc l ,doOia " Bentham would have said that Mr. St. Leger w mired his wages, and minimized his services s but b ° lo te.l e t the grandson of two Dukes r ep resen t w ith o ut an ae c i st ios t i t, come ? and in a German *Court, where qualities are e ws s . by quarterings, high birth was indispensable. it 0 , therefore, selon les regles of legitimate diplomacy- ta '4 3 Reform, however, came and, rePardiess of vel .bb!l'oee had, among other things, ministre ; and the Ilor , :ourable - Mr. St. Leger, be l l ' t 5 permitted to 13.7ig. on the public purse, had return! to fi s "c".-Lly reformed this petit_ aoov wife to P „ ngland, to hang on their own noble relatiolnoVerAss'nj a seat in the House if they could„—a seat at a ci _ o icl,< ic tif where they could,—a box at the Opera when they if te , tc ,t e i to join in the full cry of Conservatism against a _sYs ru i v , whatever it may prove to the nation, was to thou fullest development." ................ 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