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L—Fs MAJESTY the EMPEROR o f AUSTRIA having AUTHORISED and GUA RANI': FEU several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIViDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) ofF,r many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Are now SELLING BONDS for the said DISTRIBLI PIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for one of the next Distributions may revive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PROS. PECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing, WITH OUT DELAY, a line to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION, contains SEVEN HUN. DREI) DIVIDENDS, amounting to £72,170, Tno Dividends being .C 25,000 £6OO £l2O £BO 5,000 400 110 70 1,500 200 100 60 1,000 150 90 50 Sterling. tOO THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT'GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS. THIS EVENING. FEB. 1. Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway; Pantaloon, Mr. Mo•olli; Cc.lumbine, Miss Fairbrother. To-morrow, the Spanish Curate, with Brother Ben, and the New Pantomime•. OW Wednesday, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with the New Pantomime. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Tiskets and places for the Boxer. to be taken of Mr. Grogan, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may De had upon application. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2s. ; Gallery, le. Private Bose s to be had so'ely of Mr. Andr ems, bookseller ID% New Bond-street. Itt)YAL SURREY THEATRE. Continual overflows, signal success of the Cask Vaulter, and i,,ereasiu 4 desire of the Public to witness Ainsworth's Tower of Lon.!on, and the best Pantomime of the Season. THIS EVENING, FEB. 1, Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruiksbanks. after which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. In which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramie Symipsis of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri valled Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Clown; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gyranastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeoni's, at Paris. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS : , AY. Mrrning...... 8 minutes after 8 I Evening ..... 9Y minutes after 8. etv,, . , r 1 , 44, , nu) , 4 ; •-• 4 ,5 6 431( 11Wr • N 0 , 4 , rli - _Aso o§un. L; LONDON: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1841. We rejoiced to see the Address of the Wesley_ ans of Walsall to the electors of that borough, which appeared in our paper of Saturday. It is a proof that this respectable body of religionists really believe the Bible, and mean to act on their belief. For their hostility to the younger Mr. GLADSTONE, a thick and thin Tory and bread taxer, the general conduct of the Tories, who are also for the most part high and persecuting Churchmen, offers a complete justification. We find, for example, a letter in the Manchester• Guardian, of Saturday, of which the following is the substance : Sir,—The Wesleyan Methodists have, for some years past, preached in the village of High Legh, Cheshire, in a house belonging to George Cornwall Legh, Esq., and have a very good congregation, a considerable number of whom are members of the society, and appear to be in a very improving and flourishing condition. But it seems that Mr. Legh has found himself aggrieved by the growing prosperity of the Methodists ; as lie waited upon the old woman who occupies the house, and informed her that she must not allow the Methodists to conic there any more ; if she did„ he should feel it his duty to turn her out of the house. The old woman began at once to tell him what had been the lot of all persecutors of the people of God, and that such would undoubtedly be his condition if he persisted in his opposition. He, however, would hear no reason, but insisted on her prohibiting them fr,,m coming to her house. Since then, be has had several letters on the subject from Methodists who bad promised him their support ; and since he sees that it is likely to lose him a considerable number of votes, he has consented to allow them to preach, but not in Church hours ; neither must they get the house licensed. Now if such a misfor tune were to happen the country, as to have a majority of Members of Parliament like Mr. Legh, what would be come of the Methodists, or any other sect who differ from the Church of England ? If the Methodists ought not to be allowed to worship God in High Legh, they ought not to be tolerated anywhere else ; and as Mr. Legh would banish them from his estate, a Parliament of Leglis would gladly banish them from the country. I hope the Wes. leyans will duly consider these things; and that not one of them will record a vote for such a candidate. Assuredly he cannot do so without betraying the cause he professes to love and cherish, and his vote will be an everlasting mark of disgrace upon his forehead.—l remain yours, &0., A WESLEYAN LOCAL PREACHER. Warrington, Jan. 25, 1841. The Tories are all persecutors, and the bulk of them, like Mr. LEGH, enemies of Dissenters. We hope therefore that the sensible admonition to the Methodists not to record their votes for Tory candidates, will prevail at Walsall, Canter bury, and in Surrey, where there are many Me thodists. The Church of England is extremely solicitous to extend its power, and it adopts all kinds of means, persuasive and coercive, to obtain its end. Should the Wesleyans support it, and support the Tories, they may be assured that in the end the majority of Parliament will be composed of CORNWALL LEG Hs, who will en deavour to constrain them by law to return into union with the Church. In Mr. GLADSTONE'S case, the Walsall Me thodists and Dissenters have a right to be ex tremely suspicious. He has been supported by his brother, the Member fin. Newark ; and that brother is the author of a book, written to sup port the most arrogant claims of the Church. Mr. GLADSTONE is an advocate of apostolic suc e_!ssion—cf tie worthlessness of the sacraments administered by any hands but those of an or dained priest; and, of course, he denies the pos sibility of salvation out of the pale of the Church. For the Wesleyans, therefore, to vote for the brother of such a man, who has been at Walsall to support the candidate, is to vote against their own religion—their own sacred creed, and to I vote against their GOD as well . as against their country. The appeal of the Minister at War rington has, therefore, come just in time, and only in time, to save the Wesleyans of Walsall from voting to their own perdition. The lesson should not be lost on the electors of Canterbury and Surrey. Let no honest man, no religious man, no Dissenter, vote in any place for a Tory and a bread-taxer, unless he think it right to honour plunder, to sanctify irreligion, and coerce all men into obedience to the cold, formal, faith-killing ritual of the State priest hood. Our accounts from all these three quar ters are most encouraging. 'At Walsall the Tories are angry and full of complaints. They begin to see that they are not likely to succeed. They are afraid to trust their own voters, and, according to a Manchester Paper, they prevent the residents of Bloxwich, who have votes, from communicating with Walsall, lest they should catch the prevailing enthusiasm. The bread-taxers are, in fact, so unpopular at Walsall, that they dare not show themselves in the streets ; and the same unpopularity would be generally experienced. A Walsall elector who votes for GLADSTONE will be hooted in almost every town of the empire. We are not sure that a similar fate will not attend the elec tors of Canterbury who vote for SMYTHE, though they have not been so directly appealed to as the electors of Walsall. They are, however, as much concerned in the issue. To vote for SMYTHE, is to vote for the accursed bread-tax—a tax which takes from the poor to give to the rich—which extorts bread from the half-starved industrious labourer to bestow it on the idle landowner's hounds—which gives the solemn sanction of the law to plunder, and honours greediness and dishonesty. To the electors cf Surrey, we need address no such remarks, for Mr. ALcocK, a landlord, has undertaken to con vince them that the Corn-law is injurious as it is dishonest. When, in fact, was dishonesty other wise than injurious? But to the electors of Wal sall, Canterbury, and Surrey, we say that the peace and happiness of the community are at stake, and will be irretrievably lost, we arc afraid, if they return to Parliament three bread taxers. The suffering people of this country will not, and dare not, submit much ;onger to the ruinous bread-tax ; and it depends on the electors whether that scandalous violation of all moral principle, of all honesty and justice, shall be peaceably abrogated, or be the parent of a destruc tive revolution. Electors of Walsall, Canter bury, and Surrey, your country adjures you to give an honest and conscientious vote. The arrogant character of the Tori,es is well dis played by Lord STANLEY. No sooner did Lord MORPETH give notice of a motion for a Regis tration Bill for Ireland, than a friend of Lord STANLEY, in his name, gave notice of a motion by the Noble Lord on the same subject to precede Lord MonPTH's. He is determined therefore to take the matter out of the hands of Government. He and his friend have been hooted as it were by the bulk of a nation, but they are insensible to the ignominy of a nation's hate, and ask to be hooted again. With a self-conceit which is perfectly indomitable, which has over and over again been convicted of extreme foolishness, the Ultra-Protestant bigots insist on forg ing new chains for Catholic Ireland. The Protestant landlords are not, according to them, disliked enough for ages of persecution, and they are determined to rouse against them the concentrated hatred of the people. They are too easy in their possessions, according to Lord STANLEY and Mr. EMERSON TENNENT, and the people are to be exasperated in their behalf, that their enjoyment of life and property may be made more precarious. They have already so used their right of property, as in many cases to make themselves hated; Lord STANLEY, by giving them more political power, and a more certain means of harassing their tenants, is determined that they shall be universally detested. He is probably envious, and wishes all to be reduced to the same level. His love of coercion has made the Irish detest him, and his Bill seems adapted to make every landlord share his fate. It may be natural in him to wish that they should be re duced to his condition, but we see no reason why the empire should be convulsed to gratify the malignity or love of despotism in any man• The community can well spare Lord STANLEY— it cannot dispense with peace. The debates in the French Chamber, on the project of fortifying Paris, present the singular spectacle of the genius of NAPOLEON still domi neering over France, and fixing, by the hands of such revolutionists as M. TRIERS, and such old soldiers as Marshal SOULT, the chains of military despotism over her young and growing liberties• By the authority of NAPOLEON, and by acts drawn from his history, do the ci-devant Republi cans justify the fortifications of Paris. His words are thus quoted by M. TRIERS " But whatever care, whatever activity is employed in reforming the army, in re-organising the defence of the frontiers, it is to be feared that if hostilities began before autumn, the combined armies of Europe might be much more numerous than the French, and it would then be under the walls of Paris or Lyons that the fate of the empire would be decided. These great cities were formerly fortified. Napoleon had frequently thought of for. tifying the heights round Paris. especially at his return from the campaign of Austerlitz; the fear of alarming the inhabitants, and the events which succeeded, prevented him accomplishing this project. He thought that a great capital is the county of the elite of the population, the centre of opinion, the depot of everything, and that it is the greatest contradiction to leave so important a point without sufficient defence. At the period of misfortunes States are frequently short of soldiers, but never of men capable of defending the interior : 50,000 National Guards, 2,000 to 3,000 artillerymen, will defend a ca pital against an army of 300,000 men. These 50,000 men in the field, unless soldiers commanded by experienced officers, will be routed by a charge of a few thousand horse. Paris might have owed her safety to her walls, ten or twelve times. Iu 1814, bad it been fortified and capable of resisting but eight days, what influence would not that have had upon the events of the world. If, in 1805, Vienna had been fortified, the battle of Ulm would not have decided the war; if, in 1606, Berlin had been fortified, the army beaten at Jena might have rallied there, and the Russian army would have joined it ; if, in 1808, Madrid had been fortified, the French army, after victories of Espinosa, Tudela, Burgos, and the Somo- Sierra, had not marched upon that capital, leaving be hind Salamanca and Valladolid, and the English and Spanish army." He continued :—What Napoleon said in these lines he did in 1815, before Paris, and at that period he announced in the Moniteur that the field works should, at a future period, be replaced by perma nent works. All the examples of capitals taken and empires perilled or overturned are borrowed, then, from the history of NAPOLEON, and Paris is to be forti fied to save it from the fate which the French inflicted on Vienna and Austria, on Berlin and Prussia, on Madrid and Spain. The French now propose to put themselves to immense expense, take immense trouble, and inflict vast injury on themselves, to guarantee themselves against being served as they under NAPOLEON served other nations. What a wonderful and use ful law of mental association is that, thus influencing the policy of nations, as it is felt by individuals, which makes the cunning, the dishonest, or the aggressive, always anticipate, and always dread, retaliation. Paris is to be for tified, lest France should be paid in the NAPO LEON coin, which the French so much admired. Her pleasant vices are thus made the instruments of her punishment. The chalice she poisoned is commended to her own lips. The delight expe rienced in victories over other nations now re turns in alarm to herself. As the veneration for BONA PARTE has revived, so apprehension has increased; and, in bringing him back to the In valides, France seems already to have brought on herself many of the evils of his iron despotism, without the possibility of reviving the glories of his living genius. We have received the whole of the Paris Jour nals of Thursday. It appears from them that the French Government expected that a paragraph in the QUEEN' S S peec h wou ld re f er to our rela tions with France, and its omission has inflicted a wound upon the sensibility ofour Gallic neigh bours, which we trust will be healed by the pe rusal of the first night's debate in Parliament. Tue Court organ, the Debats, has significant remark upon this omissiou : " In the paragraph of the Speech of the Queen, which re fers to the relations of Great Britain with foreign Powers, no mention is made of the name of France. That is a circum stance the force of which we have no intention to disguise. We accept this silence without exaggerating or lessening its signification. These sorts of national courtesy should be alto gether free. We have no right to complain of their omissioe. fhe debates already opened in Parliament, without any doubt, will throw a light on the consequences of the events which have occupied Europe. We wait for them before we judge definitely of the dispositions which the discourse of the Crown abstains from speaking of." The Chamber of Deputies was - still occupied on Thursday with the Fortifications Bill. Gene ral SCHNEIDER had proposed a whole string of amendments, which were supported by LAMARTINE and MAGUIN, and opposed by MM. DE BESSIERES and DE REMUSAT, who spoke en thusiastically in favour of the original Bill. M. ODILLON BARROT was ascending the tribune when the mails left Paris. The speeches have no interest whatever for English readers. The following extracts include all the news of any interest in these papers:— On Wednesday evening the first grand ball for the season was given at the Palace of the Tuileries. The invitations amounted to 4,000, and carriages continued setting down till a very late hour. All the Ministers, many of the members of the corps diplomatique, numerous foreigners of distinction, includ ing many English, and most of the Members of the two Cham bers, were among the guests. The supper was given as usual in the theatre of the chateau, and the effect produ ce d by thi s hall, when the l a di es were adseated, was very dazzling. Danc ing was kept up to an early hour. A letter from Pau says :—" The return of the Carlist refugees to Spain by way of Oleron, continues to take place with all desirable regularity. Three or four hundred refugees are forwarded every day. In Spain, too, the regulation for their route appears to be very satisfactory. The neces sary provision and pay are allowed with equal humanity and judgment. The Government of Jaca has given notice that all the refugees sent to that place have arrived without one being missing . " On the 20th of January, 2,794 refugees had recrossed the frontier by the road of Urdoz."—Moniieur. The Messager of yesterday having said that the first three letters publivhed by the Gazette are falsified, appropriating to itself the article of the Morning Post, which it quoted some days ago, we ca'inot suffer a violation of the truth by that Journal, and a calumny so odious as that which tends to excite a belief that we have published falsified letters, and that we knew that they were falsified. Consequently using the right which the law gives us, we are resolved to-day to bring an action for calumny against the Messager. We have repeatedly declared that the letters published by us were authorised. We have required that they may be sub mitted to a legal examination. The Messager is really not ex cusable in repeating that they were falsified. There are two contrary assertions before us, and we desire public opinion to decide between its assertion and eurs with full knowledge of the fact. It must be known whether it or we are calumniators. —La Ga:ette de France. The ordinary estafette from Calais has not yet arrived, but the Speech of the Queen of England, which we subjoin, bas been brought by an express. Admiral Mackau arrived at Paris on Wednesday morning, and immediately waited on the President of Council and the Minister of Marine and Foreign-office. The Toulon Sentinelle de la Marine of the 24th instant has the annexed article:— " The British packet Hydra has arrived at Marseilles from Marmoriee direct, and it is supposed that it brings despatches of the utmost importance for its Government. But this packet had but one despatch for Lord Palmerston, which was sent off by estafette ; and as the vessel is in quarantine, there was no means of obtaining any information from the officers, who have received orders, no doubt, to say nothing. Therefore the greatest uncertainty prevails with respect to the affairs of the Levant, the usual post not having yet arrived; besides, it will only bring news to the 7th. There is a vast field for conjec. tures. Admiral Walker left Constantinople on the 29th Dec in the Stromboli ; he was the bearer of Mehemet Ali's pardon, and the hope of being recognised hereditary Pacha of Egypt, under the quadruple condition of restoring the fleet, evacuating Syria, reducing his land and naval forces, and of proclaiming the fundamental laws of Turkey in his pachalic. Admiral Walker must have arrived at Marmoriee on the 31st of Decem ber, and at Alexandria on the Ist or 2d of January. What has passed from that period to the 13th, the day of the depar ture of the Hydra, is not known." The Augsburgh Gazette of the 23d has the annexed letter from Beyrout of the 21st December:— " In a very short time four Governors of Antioch have been changed. One expelled the other, and this catastrophe has crested reports tending to compromise the authorities. At La takia the Christians are treated in the most revolting manner. The priests have been beaten and insulted most grossly. There was a meeting in broad day, before the British agent's hotel, and there a native of the Levant, named Elias, uttered excla mations which resounded. We will give up our finances,' said this infuriated individual, to Arab soldiers, rather than sub . mit to the dominion of Christians,' and the people applauded. The most bloodthirsty songs were repeated with frenzy, the dogs of Christians were to be subjected to the vengeance of the people; Ibrahim is no longer here. Those cursed dogs of infi dels shall be trampled under foot by us. At Aleppo, Tripoli, and everywhere the Mussulmea are very numerous, the same excesses are renewed. At Damascus only tranquillity prevails, that city still acknowledging Ibrahim's authority. It is to be hoped t hat Mehemet Ali's enemies, who have so much ex claimed against him, will repair to Syria in order to form an idea of the prosperity which a change of Government has effected in this country. Assuredly Mehemet Ali's despotism is better than anarchy !" BO URSE.--•PARIS. THURSDAY, JAN. 28. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents.. ..... 112 40 ... 11 , 3 40 ... 112 10 112 10 4 per Cents O9 ... 9D ... 99 99 3 per Lents 77 5 ... 77 5 76 S 5 in 85 13ai k of Prance Lathue Bank 1.0001. Sh 10.47 50 —.1047 50 ...1047 50 ...1f47 50 5000 f. Shares 5110 ...5110 ...NW Belgian 5 per Cent, 28% ... 233 h ... 28% ... 28% New Lean 98% ... 984% ... 98% ... 98 Spanish Active 25% ... 25 25% ... 25% Passive 6 39 ... ... 6 ... New inferred Portuguese 3 per Cents 2l 21 ... 21 ... 21 Roman lOl ... 101 ... ICON ... 100 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,R. R 4:35 ... 435 ... 432 50 ... 435 LB 320 ... 320 ... 320 no Orleans .............. Strsshurg to Bale 243 75 ... 248 75 ... 247 50 .. 2 7 5 Rouen Madrid Journals of the 21st inst. have reached us, but they do not contain a syllable of political news of the slightest importance. The following extract from a private letter is of some com mercial interest : There is some rumour in the financial world of a combina tion which Safont, the capitalist, is said to have proposed to the Government, by which he purposes to place at its disposal 100 millions of reels in money at different periods, and 500 millions in paper ; the latter to be negotiated at 25 per cent. The capitalist requires as a guarantee the revenue arising from the saltworks. No reliance can be placed on these rumours, which emanate from parties interested in stock-jobbing opera tions. The elections are said to be entirely at the mercy of the Exaltados. The Moderados resolved to keep away, and they have fulfilled their promise. According to a statement published by the Madrid Gazette, 933 of the national domains have been sold during the month of November ; they were valued at 10,251,188 reels, and sold for 27,179,166 reals. By adding these figures to those of the domains sold in the preceding month, there have been 35,159 domains sold, which were valued at 623,082,691 real., and re alised a nett sum of 1,375,347,543 reals. The Fives were at 30 for cash on the 21st. Undr lder the head of " Literary and Parliamen imry Agency," among the advertisements, will be found a prospectus of a new establishment, which is much required, and we trust will ultimately be successful. The mode in which Petitions to Parliament, Memorials to Govennnent, and statements on subjects connected with various in terests are drawn up, cannot fail to influence more or less the parties to whom they are addressed; and it ought, therefore, to be one of the primary ob jects of those interested to have them shaped in such a way as to produce the strongest effect. This appears to us one of the most commendable features of the undertaking. Travellers, also, who have taken notes of the manners, cus toms, and institutions of foreign nations, but unacquained with the best mode of exhibiting these remarks in an attractive form, will find advantage by applying for information on this subject from one of the parties who has visited almost every country in Europe, who is a good scholar, and well skilled in literary compo sition. The undertaking altogether is one which promises success, and which we are convinced will be fbund useful to different classes of society. For particulars, we refer to the advertisement. DARTMOUTH.—We are glad to say that the Government have adopted the Report of the Commis sioners, and Dartmouth is now fixed upon as the Packet station. The Government have acted in this matter with great firmness and disinterestedness ; and we hope the Dartmouth people, who are quite alive to the benefit which the measure wili confer on them, will do all that they pos sibly can to improve the communication with their town, and that the South of Devon will generally co-operate in any measure to improve the communication with Exeter. We understand that most of the contracts are taken for completing the line of railway from Bridgwater —since the line has been leased to the Great Western Company. The admirable plan on which the Great Western line has been constructed—a plan so compli-nentary to the sagacity of the engineer, Mr. Brunel, and the spirit and enterprise of the enlightened capitalists who stood by him—has placed this line first in reputation in England. The Company have attained immense strength in consequence; and, at. far as we can judge, there is no doubt that, now it is leased to them, the whole work will be completed to Exeter within three years. The adoption of Dartmouth, and the acceleration of the completion of this line, is a fortunate conjunction, of which we hope the Dartmouth people will fully avail themselves, by an endeavour to make their communication with the line as perfect as air curntance. will permit. — Western Times. THE FRENCH CAVALRY.—GeneraI Count de Sparre has, according to the Echo de la Frontiers, arrived at Valenciennes as Inspector-General cf the horses pur chased for remounting use cavalry at that town and Dun kirk. This Jouroal adds—'' The Remount-Commission at Valenciennes. presided over by General Dandre, has already received about 3,500 horses, and expects only be tween 800 and 1,000 more. The lowest price paid has been 493 t., the highest 850 f. The first are intended for the waggon train, and the last for the Carbineers. The paymaster at Valenciennes has paid for horses to the amount of more than 2,000,000 f. The prohibitions in Germany against the expert of horses have not had any sensible effect on the supplies brought to this place."— Galignant's Messenger. AFFAIR. OF tioNoux..—On Wednesday last a duel took place in Rots-shire betwixt Duncan Davidson . Esq., of Tulloch, and Hugh Ross, Esq., of Cromarty and Glastullich. The quarrel originated in the proceedings of the county meeting lately held at Invergordon on th e subje ct vies, fir. Davidsonof the Prison fired, onßoard. as we a After informed, rtheus ualprelirnina e"somewhat in the direction" of hia opponent, and Mr. Ross discharged his pistol in the air. The seconds now interfered, and the principals having shaken hands, left the ground.--Inver mess Courier. TEE SUN. LONDON. MONDAY. FPBRUARY IP4I. iloi'lEY and ('")%i ", {C (From The Sun ur etening,) LIVERPOOL COTTON MA . KET, FRIDAY.---The demand this seek hr. 3 fallen much short of last. Con.equently the transac tions are less extensive, with a greater degree of unsteadiners in prices of all kinds, save Egyptian and Sea Islands, the latter being still inclined to improvement. In other American .iescriptions purchases are being made at id. per lb. under th• highest point, particularly for qualities ranging from fair down wards. Surats may be had at a similar decline, and 13razils at about id. under Friday's rates. Speculators have taken 3,000 bales of American, and 300 Surat. 630 America, 20 Bahia, andilso Surat have been forwarded into the:country this month unsold. Though there is not much animation in the Market there is more disposition to business at the decline noticed above, and the sales to-day are about 4,500 bags of all kinds. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 29.—Our mar ket is firm, but little business doing :—London and Birming ham, 179; London and South Western, 68; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 51; Manchester and Birmingham, 25* ; Ditto Extension, 21 1 ; Manchester and Salford Water Works, 54 ; Macclesfield Canal, 33; Mersey and Irwell Navigation, 555. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off prices of yes terday, 89a for the Account ; M oney , 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock, 166 167 ; I n di a S tuc k , 246 248. In the - Foreign Market Spanish Active same as they closed, 244 ; Deferred, 12a ; Passive, 6a6 ; Portuguese a shade better, left off 32k, at present 321 ; Three per Cents., 201; Brazilian, 73 74 ; Colombian 22123* : Mexican, 271 25* ; Chilian, 58 60; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 50* ; Five per Cents : , 981 991. - SHA Ras.— Great Western, 28i to 29i prem. ; New, 13! ) 14i prem. ; London and Brighton, 6% 6 dis. ; Blackwall, 4% 3 dis. ; Birmingham, 88 90 prem. ; Southampton, 58 59 per share; Croydon, 12i per share; Gr eenw i c h , 8 i per share; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Ditto Debentures Great Western Ditto Fifths London and Greenwich..... Ditto Scrip London and South Western ni 58*..... to Northern and Eastern fork and North Midland . PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAN. 28. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i I Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97i Ditto 4 per cent .. 3} per Cent. Debs. 40 Royal Canal Stock — In consequence of a general impression that Ministers will soon require a loan, or funding of Exchequer Bills, several sales have taken place in the course of the morning in the Bri • tisk Market, both in Consols and Reduced. One broker sold sixty thousand Consols, as well as a lot of Reduced, which had the effect to damp the market. Consols, whieh were in the early part of the morning at 894 for the Account, may be quoted at present 89k, money 89j, they were 89i t;; Exchequer Bills lower, 6 3 5 prena. ; In dia Bonds, 10 dis. In Bank Stock nothing done ; India Stock 248. The Foreign Market has been inactive. Spanish Active reached 24k, at present 244 ; Passive 66 ; Portuguese nothing done; Mexican 28; Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. 50; Five per Cents. nothing done. In Shares not much doing. Eastern Counties 8g ; Ditto Debentures 5 1 / 2 ; Great Western fifths 10i ; South Western 58*; Northern and Eastern 26* ; York and North Midland 73. We have no further arrivals at present. Spanish just done at 244 254. _ _ _ CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Steck 3 per Cent. Red S9k ' Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89/1 Ditto Old Annuities — 3 per Cent Red........ 98, 1 Ditto New Annuitie s — New 3k per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d spm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 3pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small spm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859 ... Jan. 1860 ... Consols for Opg B9} FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bonds .. .. .. Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chihli 6 per cunt -_Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent ... Spanish, 5 per cent 25 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred .. 13 Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent... 271 French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2k per cent sok Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99k SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........ 8k Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) Grea Western Railway (65 paid) — Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid) London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. . .........74k Northern ,and Eastern (40 paid) .... 26* North blidland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (28 paid) ..... ... 13 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 73 DUTC /I AND FLANDERS MAIL. ANTWERP, JAN. 27.—Fishermen who have arrived to-day from Goedereede report that the Ocean steamer, bound from London to Rotterdam, was aground there, and that nothwithstanding all the efforts that were made, it had not been posible to get her afloat. HELVOETSLUYS. JAN. 26.—The English steamer, Sir Edward Banks, Capt. Stranack, is still aground. The people are landing their furniture.—Journal du Commerce d'Anvers. Jan. 29. The Journal du Commerce d'Anvers, of the `.29.h and 30th, does not make any mention of the Ocean steamer. BERLIN, JAN. 10.—Accounts from St. Petersburgh say that important changes are going to be made in the Russian Legations. Among others, it is said that Ge ❑eral Buteineff, now Ambassador at Constantinople, will be sent to Naples, that Baron Brunow will be Ambas sador at Constantinople, and that Count Gourieff, now Ambassador at the Court of Naples, will retire. TRIESTE, JAN. IB.—Just before the departure of the mail, the Metternich steamer has arrived from Syria. The letters will most probably not be delivered to-day. I can, therefore, only say, that, according to the report made by Captain Zencpvich, nothing decided was known respecting the fate of Mehemet Ali. The ac counts from Alexandria were of the 7th of this month. Ibrahim Pacha, with the remainder of his army, was still at Damascus. THE HAGUE, JAN. 28.—The Avondbodc has the following account from our in ian possessions :—ln the island of Sumatra the state of things was on the whole favourable. Some of the troops employed in the expe dition against Sinkel, had returned to Padang. and thence to their usual quarters. Accounts from Ben coolen, say that the district of Caner had been invaded on the 29th of June, by 500 Passumabs, and that Linaw was invaded by 200 more, led by one Pangcran Poeting, and a priest. These bands had destroyed some buildings and proas, belonging to the natives, but all necessary measures had been taken to restore tranquillity. ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 16.—His Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to order that Anatole Von Domidoff, who was attached to the department of foreign affairs, shall be dismissed from the service. HANlNuncn, JAN. 26.—We have not yet received the English mail of the 19th of this month.—Hant burgh Borsen/jalle, Jan. 26. t.t.LitAN , JAN. :9 Actual Detot,*.i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent , 47 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. (I 4 . 9 1)5% 3per Cent. Thirty,scven. E 9 Loan of City, - 183'2, 4 per Cent ........ ...„ 9O Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent ..... Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. .......... NationalSeciety. Exchange on London (short) .................. 11 95 —Brussels Papers, Jan. 29. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSrERDAM, JAN. 29. Money. Bli's. teems! Debt, c. 34 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per teat. Amor Si.ridie, 4% per cent E3 , -;% t Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7O 4 71 Commercial Company, 4% per cent 159% 16' 34 Ditto (1635 and 1837) 5 per cent. ...... 99% 100 Loan 1537, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month ll 97% Two months Dutch Papers, Jan. 30. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VrePtria, JAN, 20 five per Cents. Metalliques You* per Cents Three pr Cents. Bank Shares .... 1628 ..-Aligernesne Zeitung. Jan. 25 HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, JAN. 211 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6_s Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 10ii% Russian 5 per Cent. tat series, Cortilicate 10214 Inscription, Ist Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series 90% 96 Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe r Cent. 49 •i9:„‘ Ditto 5 per Cent — - Polish Bonds New 1 icket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cep. l4!i 74 Nrwegi a N t e l w .oa a n i , ,e l , Bl :e 4, ,,t 4 s. per .......... 11 1 1 14 Spanish, EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMIIVRO, JAN. ^6.—:3 44.—Two months, 13 24. VIENNA, JAN 19.—Three months. 9. 44. BREMEN, JAN. 22 —Two months, lil 1. Prreastinacii, JAN. Is.—Two months, 391 pence. sTocanoLm, Jas. 15.—Seventy-five days. 11. 35. BERLIN, JAN 20.—Three months, 6, 17%. FAMOUS SHOEMAKER.—A correct catalogue of shoemakers who have in any one way or other made themselves remarkable would be a curious thing. It is yet among the undiscoverable mysteries why ilustmin should wear red plush breeches, and as unsuccessful have been all attempts to account for those very peculiar reflective habits to which the craft of Crispin are notoriously addicted. The mere circumstance of the fkcting turn ',resents no difficulty ; more or less it is incident to all sedentary pursuits ; its especial tendencies in the case of the shoemaker aro the great marvel. From the turbulent days of Quaker Fox, and Reformers Hans Sachs and Jacob Bohmen, to the scarcely lesr unruly times of Radicals Holcroft and Hardy, we note, in this most respectable trade, such a long list of religienisms, "dicaligmg, jscobinisms, and every variety of isms, as we find in no other class of men. It was against this tendency indeed, the old proverb was launched, as far back as the age of Appelles. Why is this? Can any one explain it? Fitness is the object and endeavour of the trade. Is there of necessity associat e d w i t h it the restless impulse to dis cover in everything else an e t e r n al unfitness. We wish we could consult Philosopher Square.—Examiner. A COLD BATH.—On the morning of Sunday the 10th instant, eight p e r s o na un derwent the ceremony of baptism by immersion in the mill stream, near the iron and tin works of H. R. Downman, Esq., Carmarthen. Of the eight, six were females, and the whole most heroically braved the plunge, with the thermometer at the freezing point. M A ti- A Z I'4 .1.1; i) II V. BLA Ch WOT; 11 , 1 AGAZ LVE. , The present punier' or Mr. Wafre.i's tale of " Ten Thousand a Year" is taken up exclusively with a description ofa sma,il country tilv err r aon, to which tip -, %.7.1. , ,.; • •• • toe digeition or ai ()scrim ! Thirty of Maga's pages occupied with the details of a common place, which figures in at least three out of every four tales of modern life, and which Boz has al ready so tersely and forcibly hit off in his " Pickwick Papers," as to render all competition hopeless! Never was there an instance of worse taste. Were even the election scenes well sketched, they would be far too tedious; but, prolix as they are, and minute to a degree resem °tin, the details of a P ar li amentary C ommittee of Inquiry, they are—as Dogberry phrases it— " most tolerable, and not to be endured." We have read many sermons far less drowsy than Mr. Warren's lumbering caricature of a provin cial election; and if we happen—which is very likely—to be particularly dull in our present criticism of Maga, we beg it may be attributed to the benumbing influence occasioned by our perusal of the fifteenth part of " Ten Thousand a Year." One solitary point in its favour, how ever, we must not, in common fairness, omit to notice. The character of the election agent, Crafty, though only in outline, is delineated with infinite acuteness, and is, we suspect, a transcript direct from the life. " History of France" is a review of an able work by M. Mi chelet. The extracts are the most interesting Portion of this article. " Hints to Authors" is capital. The ridicule of certain modern novel ists is well applied, and calculated to do good. In the " Memoirs of Strombeck" we meet with some amusing particulars respecting the Court of Westphalia, during the brief reign of Jerome • Bonaparte—the most imbecile of all the brothers of Napoleon. " Syria" is a well-timed article, in which the writer praises (and justly) Mohammed. Ali for the toleration, as regards religious mat ters, which he has adopted, and caused to be re spected throughout his dominions. With refer ence to the late successful attack on Acre, we are ' told that " by this memorable success probably more was gained than national glory. Its unex pected evidence of the power of the British fleet instantly taught common sense to France, diffi cult as that lesson may be to be learned by a people, all whose hair-dressers and cooks think that they are made for Admirals and Field-Mar shals, and talk once a quarter of conquering the world. The fall of Acre instantly cooled the French blood down from the boiling point." The essay " On Style" is the production of a superior writer, but of one whose thoughts, not duly dis ciplined, play truant too often, and expatiate over too large a field. We think we cannot be mis taken in attributing this ingenious essay to the pen of Mr. De Quincey. "Secret Societies of Asia" gives an account of the notorious Thugs of India. The details would have been more read able had they appeared four or five years since, but now the subject is as hacknied as a discus sion on the site of Troy, or a criticism on Shak speare. " Song Sung at th e S ympos i um i n the Saloon" is a lively trifle in verse. The " Disin terment" is a striking poem by Mr. Simmons, suggested by the recent opening of Napoleon's coffn, and his removal from St. Helena to France. Our readers, we think, will be pleased with this passage : 'Tis done—his chiefs are lifting now The shroud from that tremendous brow, That with the lightning's rapid might Illumed Marengo's awful night— Fiash'd over Lodi's murderous bridge, Swept Prussia from red Jena's ridge, And broke once more the Austrian sword By Wagram's memorable ford. And may Man's puny race that shook Before the terrors of that look, Approach unshrinking now, and see How far corruption's mastery Has tamed the tyrant tamer 1 Raise That silken cloud, what meets the gaze? The scanty dust, or whitening bones, Or fleshless jaws' horrific mirth, Of Him whose threshold rose on thrones, A mockery now to earth ? No--even as though his haughty clay Scoff d at the contact of decay. And from his mind's immortal flame Itself immortalized became, Tranquilly there Napoleon lies reveal'd, Like a king sleeping on his own proud shield, Harness'd for conflict, and that eagle-star, Whose fire-eyed L eg i on f aremost waked the war, Still on his bosom, tarnish'd too and dim, As if hot battle's cloud had lately circled him. Fast fades the vision—from that glen Wind slow those aching-hearted men, While every mountiin echo floats, Fill'd with the bugle's regal notes— And now the guns' redoubled roar Tells the lone peak and mighty main, Beneath his glorious Tricolor Napoleon rests again And France's galley soon the sail Shall spread triumphant to the gale; Till, lost upon the lingering eye, It melts and mingles in the sky. Let Paris, too, prepare a show, And deck her streets in gaudy woe; And rear a more than kingly shrine, Whose taper's blaze shall ne'er be dim, And bid the sculptor's art divine Be lavish'd there for Him. And let him take his rest serene, (Even so he will'd it) by the Seine; But ever to the poet's heart, Or pilgrim musing o'er those pages (Replete with marvels) that impart His story unto Ages; The spacious azure of yon sea Alone his minster floor shall be, Coped by the stars—red evening's smile His epitaph ; and thou, rude Isle, Austerely-brow'd and thunder -rent, Napoleon's only monument 1 BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mr. Daniel's sketches of " Merrie England in the Olden Time" are here resumed. They show much out-of-the-way antiquarian research, and are mixed up with quaint snatches of serious and humorous verse, by way of setting off the subject to the best advantage. Some diverting anec dotes, too, are introduced, the best, or at any rate the briefest, of which is the following :-- " An acquaintance of mine, one Deputy Dewlap, after dining with the Patten-makers on the ninth of November, was attacked with a violent fit of indigestion. His good lady sent for the family doctor, who was a humourist. Ah,' cried the medical man, 'the old complaint, a coagulation in the lungs. Let me feel your pulse. In a high fever ! Show me your tongue. Aye, as white as a curd. Open your mouth wide, Mr. Deputy— you can open it wide enough sometimes—wider still. Good heavens, what do I see here I'—' Oh my stars !' screamed the fat Deputy's lady, what, my dear doctor, do you see ? " Why, madam, I see the leg of a turkey, and a tureen of oyster sauce! Hah, hah! gluttons all, glut tons all!' " The late Mathews would have made an excellent thing of this anecdote, for he would have hit off the open-mouthed Deputy, his alarmed dame, and the doctor's sly, grave humour to the life. Indeed it was just the sort of story that he delighted to dramatize in his "At Home." Mr. Ainsworth's " Guy Fawkes " moves steadily onward. In one of the chapters before us, Viviana, the young heroine, is wrought upon to confess her love for Guy, but immediately afterwards consents with singular sang froid to his proposal to " die the death of a martyr," a sudden change of sentirwit on the part of an impassioned virgin, seldom found but in modern romances of three volumes. The " Pop Visit" is a scene of low domestic cockney life. The dialogue portion is natural enough, and is not without some pretensions to humour. In the article headed " Children of the Mobility versus the Children of the Nobility," there are several smart hits at the prevalent fashion among the upper and middle classes of over-dressing as well as under-dressing children. "We cannot forgive," says the writer, " the ir rational cruelty which exposes the little naked arms of a new born infant to the nipping of a bitter winter's day, its sleeves tied up with satin ribands. The wantonness of our folly, too, places on its head a finely-embroidered cap with half a dozen borders of stiff, well-crimped lace, on which, when it lies down to sleep, it must expe rience the torments of Regulus. To entitle them to walk, the childrens' little feet are encased in shapely shoes of morocco, such as would have ensured corns to the 'Venus de Medicis. Their waist is at the same time encircled by a prodi gious sash, with bows and ends large enough for the effigy of Queen Anne in St. Paul's church yard." As an edifying contrast the writer's ac e )unt of the manner in which the children of the Mobility are brought up : The children of the mobility sprawl unmolested, squall unmolested. No impulse of theirs is checked by the close fitting of their ragged garments. They enjoy free exer cise of limb and lungs. No one excoriates their epidermis with much scrubbing, or brings on catarrhs by the pro longation of their toilet. Their lives, like their garments, sit easy. They may play with the cat,—they may make dirt pies, --they may make themselves happy.—lf they want to sail their walnut-shell boat, there is the near. at puddle: if they ~ want to fly their kite, the common is at their door. The woods are theirs, with their early vio lets and late blackberries, their squirrels and birds' nests. To their imagination, trees are made to be climbed, rivers to be bathed in. The free air is all their own. They breathe it uncompressed by stay, unharassed by the badgering of a nursery governess. hey look the sun in :he face, fearless That in return It 'sit the! rhey are berliStOill,d to lt?t v rougl•tv. I.,toati of ' eina torment° ,bou! turott.g nut their toes are allowed o enjoy a state of wattee. Instet.d of being engiried with a backboard, their b..eks sul.port a sties! f !uirushos, or haskoitul nvorns or bre° , lte .9t. pe , bsitg .i‘mr.n. : I ~tio prkttn,. : fir, or 7 "- D , g aid, t"'y tict - hedge, their strawberries from the wood, their nuts f-orn the hazelbush. They have no notion of a juvenile fancy - ball, with two months training beforehand from Mio,ine Michau. But on May-day, they rise with the lark (and who is better up to a lark than a child of the wood; fields ?) adorn themselves with garlands of wild hyacinths or eglantine, and caper with all their hearts and cools round the hawthorn-bush nn the village green I Who in vented cowslip halls ?—The children of the mobilir..— Who invented daisy chains?—The children of the mobility. —Who made the first necklaces of sparrows' eggs ?—Tbe children of the mobility.—Wh o originated leapfrog. blindman's huff, and all other boisterous diversions ? The children of the tnobility.—Unobstructed by finery and frippery, they pursue the sports of chil, , hood with child hood's retkless impulses of joy. Instead of the tedious airing, smothered up in a nurat's lap instead of the monotonous saunter, handcuffed by a nurse's authority.— instead of the discipline of the school-room, the preven tive physickirg of the apothecary inflicted upon their miserable rivals,—the offsets of the mobility bask in the sunshine, or freshen in the shade. As if to counterbalance the cards of after-life, the little ragged urchins hunt their butterflies in inconsiderate delight. A gallop on the tinker's donkey is a happier thing than the formal ride under the stiff documentation of a family coachman ; nay, a swing on a gate is a happier thing, or a see-saw across the carpenter's bench. " Sydney" is the story of a strong, but ill-re gulated intellect, half-crazed by the reveries of Swedenborg who--if we except Anacharsis Clootz—was the most crack-brained fanatic that ever committed his thoughts to paper. The story is not amiss, but it is somewhat too maudlin in its turn of sentiment. The " Praise of Wine" is a poem translated from the German, but ap pears to have been penned under the inspiration of brisk swipes, rather than of the juice of the grape. " Irish Superstitions" is a threadbare topic, but it is lightly and good-humouredly treated. " Stanley Thorn" goes on pretty much as usual. FRASERS MAGAZINE. In, an essay on " Religious Authority as the Principles of Social Organization," which leads off this Number, and which is of too subtle and metaphysical a character to please generally, the writer assures us, in his very first paragraph, that " the old religious mind is gone, and in its place anything but enlightenment has succeeded." Now we contend, in flat opposition to this dogma, that the true religious spirit is more rife through out the country than it ever was, though we grant that religious phrenzy is on the decline ; but surely the writer would not wish to see revived among us the purblind, desperate bigotry of the Millenarians and the other fanatics of the days of Cromwell ! " Winslow's Physic and Physicians" is a sharp, satirical notice of a work that ap peared the other day under this title; wherein, alluding to the present dearth of sterling poets, the Reviewer neatly observes that " Apollo is become an old man, and of infirm nervous sys tem." We do not wonder at the superannuated Deity's nevervousness, seeing that there has been some talk lately among the Utilitarians of en closing his favourite Parnassus, and running a railroad right across it. " The Pirate Fight," is a spirited tale of the sea, as its name imports. The recent obsequies of Napoleon furnish the subject of a whimsical poem, in the Ingoldsby strain, headed the " Funeral Procession." While the ashes of the Emperor are being conveyed to the Hospital of the invalids, the spirits of those whom his ambition has deprived of life, are sup posed to join the cavalcade. Here is a descrip tion of these indignant hobgoblins : But, hark 1 'tis old Notre Dame chiming for one. It has struck 1 To the top of the column upsprang A spectre terrific in aspect and mien, First form'd from the haze of the fell guillotine—. The Spectre of Vengeance was he, I ween I And his clarion rang Forth at the blast, through the glorious arch Of triumph at Neuilly—stiff, stark, and starcb— Some myriads of spectres commence their march 1 While Death, th' undertaker,: Stalk'd cool as a Quaker, Or gallant Napier promenading through Acre. First s;ngiug con brio, the Marsellaise, Come " the terrible sections" of St. Marceau. Just as they appear'd in their palmier days, Before they were mow'd by young Bonaparte's cannon, Which speedily broke Down the docns of St. Roch, And pepper'd the altars with many a man on 1 Waving o'et Albion's " alien" foe Floats the banner of green In its ghastly sheen, Glare the spectral pikes from the shores of the Shannon. Who is he? Thy shade, D'Enghein 1 And yonder? Toussaint ! One slim like a dog at Valenciennes, One famish'd to death in his dungeon den There, the loyal and free, De la Rochejacquelin leads on La Vendee, Huzza Jena and Wagram give up their dead, ANd the Vistula sends from her gory bed Each eski and owski, Words set to a cow's-key ; Each owski and eski, As brave as Fteschi,— The shades of the slain to a tyrant's fell reign ; And next march the patriot spirits of Spain! " Guerra al cuchillo !" with crashing caraccos, Cigars in their mouths of unearthly tobaccos Stalk the solemn senors From Iberia's shores, With knives in their girdles—on crania shakos. Sounds the death trump of the Osmanlie ! The Crescent glares down on th' Invader's pall, Who, minus big Kleber, Could stoutly belabour The Mameluke Copt and his Padishaw neighbour; Could smile at the terrors of Mahomet's sabre, And kick the Impostor from Taurus to Tabor 1 Next, one and all, In their terrible glee, And close on the tribes of the ghost of Mustapha March 'neath the arch, quite as gelid as Staffs, The poor devils poison'd by Honey at Jaffa. While after the hydrocyanicised Gaul Rush a pulk of Cosaqaes on their spectral hack;, That were roasted to death near the Kremlin's wall. " Eminent Soldiers of the Eighteenth Century" —a good subject for a series of Magazine Papers —contains a biographical memoir of Prince Eugene, the contemporary and rival of Marl borough. " Eugene, says the writer, " was meagre in person, hollow-chested, and rather be low the middle size. He had high features, and fine dark eyes and eye-brows, but nothing pre possessing in his thee ; and the quantity of snuff which he took, gave him a habit of always keep ing his mouth open. Though of a quick and lively temperament, he spoke in a slow, delibe rate manner. He was never robust, but was dis tinguished for bold, elegant, and graceful horse manship. Like many other illustrious men, he was the slave of women, but was never married." The " Three Great Epochs" maintains its inte rest as a narrative unimpaired. In the political diatribe "On our Foreign Policy and Home Prospects," Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill is defended with more zeal than ability. We doubt much if the writer be aware of the ten dency of this measure. The " Criminal Bro thers" is a highly wrought tale of guilt and sorrow. 1110N7WLY CHRONICLE. The subject of a " French and English Al .ance," which was started in the last number of his periodical, is resumed in the present. The article is penned in a sensible and liberal spirit, and repudiates the notion that France is anxious for a war with this country. " War," we are as sured, " is not the wish of France ; it is the wish of scattered parties who are at war with each other. We have no right to attribute- hostile views to the nation from the blusterings of such —no right to feel less friendly to her alliance— no right to allow of ourselves being irritated be cause the press of her capital is so, Paris is France, but France is not Paris. Admitting her centralising system, admitting her intellectual and moral monopoly, admitting the influence she exerts throughout the country, we are to recol lect what this country has now become; we are to recollect that it is to material rather than moral industry her great mass is indebted, and that it is to that mass we must look, and ask, are they inclined for war ?" " Illustrations of Dart moor" is a poem from the pen of Mr. Reade. It is languid as a whole, but the versification in places is not amiss. " New Zealand" is a glance at the history of the colonisation of these remote islands, and at the present period will be read with interest. In the " Sketches of Spanish Generals" we have an entertaining memoir of the Carlist Chief Gomez. " Saison" is an account of a visit paid to the famous executioner of that name, who guillotined the Royal Family of France, arid the majority of the Girond -. sts, during the notorious Reign of Terror. From an int.res.ing document entitled " Inedited Facts respecting the French Revolution of 1789," we quote the subjoined singular anecdote : " Politics and cupidity were not the only evil passions which sent their victims to the revolutionary scaffold. All the baser feelings of human nature furnished their con tingent, envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness,' jealousy, sensuality, and even the wounded pride of bad poets and wretched actors. The following anecdote is related by Heron, private secretary of Fonquier Tinville, the public accuser. On the sixth or seventh Thermidor (two or three days before the fall of Robespierre) one of Heron's friends called upon him at the bar of the tribunal, for Fonquier had scarcely any other domicile taking his meals and his rest at the bar, so urgent wa s t h e wor k o f I NIOI3.,NINTG ,ppirr!o_N' ; and bis to t.,10 e al His e !on, tobtn'; oral a ehuck.i4 -I'l4 his lips. • Br4vo I citizen Heron !' said he, 'l,:n the wok coca brit-0y on ; ffty-four to-day !Eb I h. V. al, many for •e-morrow ?'...• Not qu ite' "• • 11A ? i` 11V , 7. Nui Y'; but. ;:o you y e rat. fanatic, or any o th tr to denounce? ' Unfortunatell' no ; but I have a small favour to ask of you. I PY for you are n•y friend, are you not? Oblige ine,d! c p u u l t o .ti u n s g i m yc y m w a i r fe e 's j n ,k am in e , o r n . t . he list.' ... ' Your wilet C ; earnest ; and I assure you, ‘ it Ur s l t ' . ( ll7 h t : lY d } :,:n b g lju n r ie la li s' n ;L :11 ; service' r joit;eti H.. , on • t,t riy, 0 4 " last Duodi we din , d th,r. '; •0. on; see t ied Ls" lighted with the citoyenne Ni tu.) o h nt ot her HU , • BUT s'" iA a:, , 1 culotte 7' ... N ot at a ll,' r .• p i te d t h f . hui,hand. 4 , e t % -n d ar sli , erc. and I can p r ova r • Yo:t Heron ; ' s h e is :th go. , ti wife, And y(.4 t at quickly rrii pent it ' Not at, aim ; tist, nto inc.; once, twice' rill y .0 gu llotine my waf t , ier rt e ?' ... • C e rtainly n" t br it Heron ; ‘• have ,;„ It' to place any r e l iance uo n te exelaiwed the p visitor as he nillnin w, angry Nth 1 - 1,..t0tt ir ,f,. - ed e latter had ',fu se d to him eat assiquat for a bu' d franca, or to s i gn a c r fi ee t c o f The er e ' - of the story is, that they cont - nucd to live lot/int:111 to gether for thirty years; and that. the stile never re% tamped the sli g h tes t suspic i on o f h er h us b an d's stno 6)l ' attempt to get rid of her,' TAI T'S MAGAZINE. Tait is somewh a t t ame an d h eav y this 111°ut11, o with the single e xce pti on o f hi s op e ning ar ticle ; entitled " Burschen M e l o di es ," w h e rein he , cie hibits both spirit a n d li ve li ness . I n this ar u . nk , we find some c ur i ous d eta il s respect i ng the dr l are ing associati ons o f t h e G ermans, w hich, we set told, " are h e ld f rom t i me to time in hous e., re .. apart specially for that purpose ; and in the P gred ceedings of which none but students are al i l° oo g to participate. Beer on these occasions is u r ire g right methodically ; and woe be to him who g' .tif f the least indication here that he is not a toper his thirst will be quenched for ala. il Y o ..-0 day, for .. th e wa t c h- wor d is, .4 drink and 51,..11;, and whoso on these points cannot a pprove !".! 1 self well app o i n t e d, i s d espised as a vveaki lll gi We must co n f ess we h ave nd- great aPILPf t he a with these you ng German beer-guzzlers, ir o ut beverage—provided at l east it resem bled , common English beer--is anything but enii y es . ing; inde e d, it i s provocat i ve rather o f s ulleaa te than vivacity, and subdues rather than invig .An °ra e tle the fancy. It must b e a very coarse, 1111c.ellf sort of nature th a t can s i t for hours con tea. guzzling swipes. In a letter addressed to the editor by Mr. Cobden, on the subject oft;it " Eastern Question," the writer draws a I )° , l ' of the late Sultan Mahmoud, which, though tl the flattering, is, we suspect, more correct tila u tee o generality of the characters that have dir. given of him. " The Sultan," saYs ust Cobden ic was amusing himself with the ri n g childish pursuits, while the world was e r t i l e him credit for bestowing all his thoughts 011 . 00 . improvement of his country. He was passe e 4 ately addicted to the bottle ; and his face, I / po . I saw him, bore the usual evidences of de r P lato tations. Yet when violating, in this partieli t . to the precepts of his religion, he lent Mais el t he the most rigid enforcement of its forms upo n t he people. When I was at ConstantinopleL fl oi populace were actuall y d r i ven to the 111°7,0r. five times a day b y t h e pol i ce with whips, rtho suant to an order just before obtained fr° lll Thet Sultan by the ministers of relicrion." " Feats and Fortunes of Richard the Re ive " a isil of the ordinary tone of magazine stories , ,,, h " o r defers to one of the freaks of James the flr Scotland, who was very fond, as is well kiw i ,' o . of traversing the country in disguise, from 'l O O tives of gallantry and adventure. " A uto g 0 graphy of an English Opium-Eater," is deu c- of in point of interest; moreover, it is neglig i e i ri q and verbosely written. " Oliver Cromvve,,' an able and dispassionate notice of a late poP: t hs romance, which appeared four or five ilir r eo ago. We select for quotation, some sensible re' marks by the Editor on Tee-Totalisn l drinking songs:— " A Reverend and a teetotaller expresses gna ts s t t l . tisfaction with our melodious efforts for the aalu selit n e ,;4 the public; accusing us, in plain phrase, of ' e orr ;lp ti rs° the manners of the age ;' and warns us that, if ° ue' ceed in our wicked courses, we shall certainly fall of der the condemnation of Jack Sheppard.' T o this e lls - r o d our answer may be very short : we advocate drinking. !` uo r sing drir.king songs; but we say nothing a b ou t the that shall be d run k. Banish beer, banish wine, bate Crambarnbuli (of which anon), and say coffee, coc e tt water, and the son g w ill rema i n as good as ever. exe'vr'oo rhyme here and there, which it is your duty to chset, e s oll are dissatisfied. I t i s not w i ne that we sing. but ts",ree' orjoy and jovialty i ncarnated in wine ; and if theeP totaller shall succee d i n incarnating that soul in"-. p ' rn il• fectly (for Vi s h nu h as many Avaters) in coffee or woe water, and convi nc i ng the world to t h at affect Oenelr web which Pantag rue li z i ng f ancy weaves. will n show ," 1 0 pictures, and the la nguage of convivial poetry w il l changed But the poet cannot dictate in these matte! ;? be receives and e n j oys . F or himself, the present wr''."o confesses that b e l oves a g l ass of good wine, both o a own account, and as a clear mirror wherein truth from t av i, face of a fri en d b at h aga i n and again revealed itself ti.; umphantly—to the utt e r rout and prostrat i on of , t " r . minced prop r i e ty an d l aced dignity which has how l'eusbie pily become p a rt o f t h e h a bi tude of social etiquette in t a , country. Aral as for Tee-t o t a li sm , no doubt it is° a ye mirable thing, acco rd ing to t h at S cripture, . If thin! ,eoc offend thee, pluck it out ;' w h ere b y, however . it I I be said, that what i s expedient or neces sar y for one g o obligatory on all. But let abstinenc e flourish by all me its rather than drunkenness; and if a man loves wate r ' Ai him rejoice in it—as wine-drinkers rejoice in w inc h ' e reS the same time it must b e remar k ed, that never was t ", e aa greater mistake th an t o su p pose that &inking-song§ e- i - of e drunkenness. They do so certainly in a fashion, as 1 * may create lust, a nd re li g i on superstition ; b ut is it a' somewhat mare c ommon to find that lust burns love to o r cinder, and that s u p erst i t i on chokes and strangles relighose Let a man look about among his friends, and note I t o, who are most g i ven to mere physical excess at the tiitb Certainly not those who make the banquet billow " 0 0 flJods of melodious glee. They who give so much t he farm the soul, cannot be Wring in to the body ;• ran I st human being can I) Iform only tine function g:io' the same time. A bl ac k h en l ays a wh i te egg ; as pinta gen. of drinkin g - songs are generally very temp persons." UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL 6 0- , ° The first article, on " F ort ifi cat i ons o f s of great length, and embodies the argun i c i e rs and opinions of the most ce l e b rate d commander engineers as to the ex p e di ency o f an 1111,00 taking which now oc cu pi es un i versa ll y t he at' tion of the French p eo pl e , an d to a cer tain e t o tent the attention of Europe. It is needless o f give even a summary of them, as they a re t he a conflicting character, and the subject for t he last ten days has been so fully discussed in re newspapers. We shall content ourselves, ti"bf fore, with quoting the conclusions c ome Ode the writer of the article o n th e print'. of fortifying Paris, which are briefly these h e Ist. That French legislators far overvalue e it importance of the P ar i s i an fortifications, 117--er they attribute any serious moral influence v i Europe to their const ruc ti on , or w h en they ';;;oot upon them as calculat e d t o avert war, or to nrl io t the progress of counter-agg ress i on . 2dly. ai if these fortifications can be serviceable in trolling the population of Paris, all Europe unite in applauding their establishment. 3d Y d That the enormous expense to the nation, ; i d positive vexation and loss to the citizens dur, l o l peace, do not appear. to promise any e quival i v e o benefits in the event of war. 4thly. That 1111 ,,• v e Paris be defended at a distance, by her acl, i t if armies, she never can be rendered sufficien o f strong to defend herself, through the agen c y e 5 her citizen garrison. And, lastly, if th e fortun e , of war should turn against the French arID as it did in 1814 and 1815, an d should ;wehe Allies, after a successi on o f v i ctor i es , o r ";" it within gun-shot of th e d e t ac h e d forts, tlia'oo would be an act of cruel heroism, t o the part of commanders and citizens , the ii attempt resistance, and thus to expose i'dc. great city to all the penalties of attt in " The Navy and Army of the United Stat es n. 1810" will be read with interest. The Nail c oo e slsts at present of seven ships of the line, 06 frigate of 54 gut s ,f.airteen of 44 guns, tw° ° n d guns, twenty-o: e 'loops of from 20 to 16 Winki n g. a few smaller vesse!s, with five war steam- 9 'W. a .. The Army, altogether, including infantry , u o g goons, artillery, &c., amounts to only 19 ' r e , men. These returns are furnished by the Le i c ia taries of the Navy and of War; and cer — t he appear not very formidable,—not equallingitte naval and military forces of even a third power in Europe. DRURY LANE THEATRE. —Lord Caws. - • who occupied the front seat in ono of the private heli at this theatre, on Thursday night, was perceiy ed , s ed recognised by some persons in the pit, who comma ",, he pointing him out to others as the " black-bottle man' bu t was groaned and !rimed by a majority of the We e ' Hig he had a considerable party who cheered hie' f o r , Lordship o remained in the box to the close of the Perjet mance, apparently disregarding the reception he t h e with:; of course under these circumstances very little f, beautiful music could be appreciated. When the i t m, formances were over numbers of persons rushed out o 0 pit to give him, which they did, a lusty parting gr otto the street. l A. SPEIRS, ESQ., M.P.—We rejoice to el that there is no truth in the report that Mr. SP el" din g at Leamington on NVedneaday the 17th inst. Accer.ii at to letters received within the last ten days, he wa s Naples, but not in very good health. The Paagr b an ,announcing hs death was communicated by a gentle° on whose authority we have generally implicit reliaPee' .1 IV 0. , ....1. e . A Porti o C94.lhi li " foi th, 1 101, 1 , u m v. ° 404