The Sun. — London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDI I lON. organisation are included in the budget before you ; we have included therein the interests of the Sinking Fund bonds, the allowances for the Pension Fund, and other experres not contained in former budgets. The budget of 1842 may therefore be considered as a faithful and com plete :able of the ordinary necessities of the State. We have omitted the ex eases of extraordinary public storks. But it does not enter into our thoughts, that this being placed in a special budget prevents them being in cluded also in the general one. The pubic debt presents us with the leading services Which we have to pass in review. It figures in the Budget under four divisions. the Consolideted Debt, Loans for Canal`, and ether Works, capital reimbursed in different Ways, and Annuities. Some annulments h"ve reduced the amount of 5 per Cents. rentes by 2,811 E, whilst the 3 per cents. have in creased 1,144 t, by the indemnity to emigrants. On the the side the fueemive consolidation of the reserve 43 ,f the Saiki cg F und augments the credit demande d f or the 4 per cents. by a sum of 13.064,357 f., composed of 11,122,357 f. demanded as a supplement of 1841, and of 1,942. 0 001. fur the service cf 1843. The Sinkng Fund with its dJtation of 44,616,463 prem. litd i , ts rentes bought out, will dispose, in 1842, of a sum °f 90,1 78,962 francs, The funds applied to the extinction of loans is, by the division of account, increased by 142,982 francs, when the charg e of int, rest is diminished in the same proportion. ask fur interest on security money a credit of 8.250,000 instead of eight millions in the last Budget. Ex- Perience has shown that the latter sum was insufficient, since it was increased by 350,000 f. for 1840, and that we Lave required for 1841 a supplement of 250,000 f. The proposed sum is in proportion to the real wants of the ser /ice, by voting it y ou w ill avo id cre di ts b y or di nance . The interest of the unfunded debt required an allowance of Sixteen millions, which will allow of raising the temporary Loans to five hundred million, in account current and in se curities at fixed periods. The progressive extinctions reduce from 423,200 francs, the credits for the life annuities and pensions. The in crease that you will observe on civil pensions for 61,723 Banes, and on the military pensions, for 1,350,000 francs *ill be but apparent. The endow,: erns, forming the said part of the budget, are carried to 16,225,000 francs ; that. is 253,000 francs less than in 1841. The result is the sequence of the re duction which the subvention allowed to the Legion of Honour experiences which decreases from year to year, in proportion to the extinctions. The Budget of Justice offers an increase of 7,050 f., which results from supplementary allotment.; demanded for 32,3001., and compensaSed by reductions to the sum of 25,250 f. The expense of public worship is increased also by the laic of 1226,787 f rancs : t h e f o ll ow i ng are t h e causes; ' 85 .000f. must be added to the salaries and indemnification of the Parochial Clergy by the replacing of the old ecele - siasties by young non-pensioned priests. A supplement of 12,000 r. is applied to the rent of the hotel for the re sidence of the Archbishop of Paris, 20,000 francs are claimed In order to increase the number of Protestant h. cler gymen ; f i fty thousand francs in order to facilitate the Jewish re li g i on i n t h e payment o f a d e b t con t rac t e d for the building o f a s y nagogue , a nd 4,780 francs, which it is a cknowledged is necessary to increase the subvention sup plied to the case des retrattes • The budget of foreign affairs is in conformity in every Point to that of 1841, only it takes in the subvention of 10 5,000 francs for the pensions of retirement, which for Several, was attached by title of supplementary credit and by virtue of a special law. An augmentation of 378,162' francs seems to re sult from the preposition of the Minister of Public In struction. It is, in reality, but 113,362 francs. The surplus of 264,800 f. represents expenses covered by equi valent receipts, but the expenses of primary schools, and schools of pharmacy, united to the University by the Royal ordounance of September, 1840. A sum of 11 3.362 franca is destined to remunerate a Ninth Coun cillor of the University, and certain Profess .rs of the Normal School and Collage de France, as well as two Royal Colleges. The Home Minister demands that the union to refugees be resisted in the list of services voted. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce demands an augmentation of 51,799 f. for the establishment of Vichy ; but this will be covered by the increase of revenue. The plans for finishing the werks of public utility, which ose have laid before you, bring hack the Budget of the Minister of Public Works to its usual proportions; but after the passing of the special law, which will shortly Le presented to you, the cost of the extraordinary works which shall be authorised for the year 1842, will be in cluded in the Budget of that department, of which it will form a distinct section. The amount required for 1842 shows an increase of 318,000 f. ; composed of 28,2001. for the central administration, of 160,0001. for the salaries of the Department of Roads, Bridges, and Mines, of 1 30,0001. fur internal waterways and the superintendence of railways. The charges of the War department for 1842 are esti mated at 3 64,718.391 f., of which 49,028,274 f. are for our possessions in Africa. These estimates exceed by 113 , 1 77,610 r, the credits originally opened for the budget of 1841 ; but when compared to the special laws of supplemeatary audits recently presented, it will be seen that keeping up the same effective, the budget of 1842 is has by 53,238,000 f. than that of 1840, and by 21,718,000 f. than that of 1841. The credit of 361 millions is the consequence of a temporary situation ; it, lhowever, cannot be concealed, that under the most favour able hypothesis, the increase of effective forces produces a permanent increase which does not amount to less than 42 millions. The particulars published by the Minister of War, explain In detail the increased expenditure ; the cause may be thus "' mi ned op. The incr ease o f b o di es an d t h e i ncrease o f the effective (men and horses) have increased the annual -ex p e nditure by ab ou t 93,0 00,000 f., as well for home as for fgcris ; 3,400,0001. are required for the manufacturing arms and the making of powder ; 4 248,0001. for the troops, in huts, 5,126,0001. for fortifications and buildings foe the use of the military, 890,0001, on account of the increased price of materials and provisions, and about 4,000,000 f. for Improving the supply of the wants of the army in Africa. The Minister of War keeps up, for 1842, the amount of 1,050,00 0 f., the cre di t i ntende d as a provisional amount for military p ens i ons, and which is the object of a special 1 2 a n w- The n ava l an d colonial department requires 127, ' 0 . 40 01. ; but this includes a suns of 14 millions, which, according to the special law of July 16, 1840, is to be ap pled t o t h e b uilding of steamers for Transatlantic naviga tion, and the preparations for the service. If this acciden tal cause of expense be deducted, which is not a regular expense attached to the Royal Navy, the credit for the fleet and colonial establishments is reduced to the sum of 143,290400 r. With the proposed credits the Minister of Marne will keep up to their present footing the naval forces the Effective of the crews, the Marines and Artil lery, I come, Gentlemen, to unroll before you the exact itatement of the charges of the country. The budget presented to you exceeds 190,000,0001. that which 7ou voted last session. But we have joined to it expenses left out of the budget of 1841 to the amount of 40 ,000,0001., for which we have been obliged to provide by supplementary credit!. With respect to this mass of expenses. which amounts to 1 ,316,0001 ., the sum of the public revenue estimated at ,262,000 f., according to the results of the present year, offers an insufficiency amounting to 154,000,000 f. And if the exp enses be calculated according to a peace este lblishmenn—if, setting aside the extraordinary charges, we reduce it to a nominal state ; the insufficiency of ways and means i s st ill 64,000,000 francs, without including die interests of the amortissement of the new Rentes which we propose to create. Of all the facts just offered for your meditations, this calls for most attention. The two of direct contribution for 1842 is estimated at 396.054,6101., of which 286,030,1101. are supplied to the general services of the bu 'get, and 110,024,5001. to de paitraent and parochial expenses. Yet we do not pro le( se new taxes, nor yet the augmentation of taxes. 'There is something first to be tried. Our con tribution system, in my op:non, ought to suffice for the permanent wants of the country. But among (our fiscal laws. Some ought to be adapted to the energies of our social state. There are some which have been telexed, and hence vices and irregularities, which of fend public morals and equity as much as the interests of the Treasury. Wo present measures herewith to strengthen the receipt of taxes, and generalise the application of Imes We shall immediately ask for a new law to ensure the collection of the stamp-duty, and other taxes of the kind. The produce of customs and of the salt has arisen in 1840 to 1,841,000,000, although the sum has been increased by 4,000,000, arising from the importation of foreign corn, quite an accidental receipt, a renewal of which is not to be desired, we fear no mistake in admitting an equal revenue lor 1842. In short, the cheapness of provisions, by eeclud hog foreign corn, can but favour other consumption more productive fcr the Treasury. The law of the 3d of Jule last, on the sugars, insures us besides a more than sufficient compensation, by admitting only the valuation .of the duties to collect on the exotic sugars, sack as has \been adopted for the budget of 1841. The indirect con. tributions have been valued according to th e realizations Aral the year 1840. First, respecting colonial sugar, we thought to be enabled, by the progressive development of the manufacture, to add three millions of killogrammes to the quantities produced by the last crop. We, there fore calculate that the new duty of twenty-five francs, .reckoned upon a quantity of twenty-seven killogrammes, tt he which, united to 80 millions supplied by exotic sugars, Will bring to 107 millions the mean consumption of the last five years. Hence arises the contributions indirectes, not including the tobacco, and a total receipt of 139,350,000 francs. It would offer 38 to 40 millions more, if, at the etsd of the year 1830, she tariffs on beverage had not been reduced ose-third. .A general system, too, with re 'Pe to the sale of spirits in towns ought to be adopted, and a new vase for the conveyance of liquors into alcohol adopted; The sale of tobacco in 1840 has produced 94,458,000 f. The estimate of it for 1842 is 95 millions. The sale of lands is valued in the esti mates of 1842 at 5,357,000 f. the same as in 1840. We lope front the Poet-office 9 7,025,500 f. ; the same as that obtairnd in tho last twelve months, diminished by a aunt of 100 dOof., by the suppression of Corsican packet- In fine, the different products, in which are in cluded cert a i n spec i al revenues, suc h as t h e retribution of ti University, and of Algiers, amount to 30,486 582 f. This estimate exceeds that of the last budget by 740,000 f. T h e augment a ti on procee d s f rom t h e actua l va l ue o f ten _ "ers to be delivered by the War Minister to the War and Finance Department, and from the increase of the reserve labours, from the expenses of the materiel of Marine. We have terminat e d t h e enumerat i on o f th e or di nary revenue ' f or 1 840. It amoussts, as we have already said, to .161 .838,14°L, to be divided thus : Francs. direct contributions... 396.054,610 -Indirect taxes and rerimua Produce of domains and woods 39,744,500 Divers revenue and produce It 'n 1.161,t38,142 -ovr remains to consider the extraordinary ways and means Which eircur, - istances call for, and which form, with u lsKsitions hab:tually destined to facilitate the service, Lai , O bject of the last chapter of the law of receipts. We you then $o authorise us to inscribe on the great book of the public debt, and to negotiate with publicity and competition the sum of rentes necessary to bring to the treasury, as the result of the operation, a capital of 450,000,0001. It will be shown to you immediately that the 450,000 0001. will be absorbed by the works for which it is required. In all cases the realisation of a loan will not be immediate. The Treasury has a reserve which is still 120,000,0001., and it is at a good administration to in crease the balance in chest beyond measure, and cause the loss of interest for which inadequate compensation can be received. Therefore, we have not demanded any credit for the service of renter to be negotiated—we only claim the facility of creating them, if there be a necessity by Royal ordinance without waiting to submit them for legis lative sanction at the opening of the Chambers as to the choice of rentes to be created, with regard to the price or the periods at which the payments of the loan arc to be made. We also demand of you a credit of 250 millions in Treasury Bonds. If the peace be confirmed, as it promises to be, the resource will permit us to wait to realize or com plete the loan when our public funds have attained the price which we consider belong to them. Gentlemen, you now know the whole of our financial situation. You have under our eyes a complete picture of our wants, and the resources we have prepared to meet them. The views which we now submit may be summed up in a few words. The Go vernment believes in peace, and because it so believes it does not ask of you to step the progress given, for some years, to the works of peace. In this view we make an ap peal to credit—the resources which we ask, in waiting till their nominal datination is accomplished, will yield to the treasury a temporary assistance, and aid in bearing the weight of our deficits, which will be converted by degrees by the consolidation of the successive resources of the Sinking Fund. The budget, which we present to you, has been conceived in the spirit of peace and the preserva tion of peace, which I and my colleagues have accepted in taking upon us the responsibility of affairs. This task, Gentlemen, we would have declined, if we had not the estimate of connection that a good understanding between the Great Powers of Europe might be confirmed and maintained on conditions honourable and sure to our coun try. If our confidence is not ill-founded, a little time and a low efforts will st.ffice to replace in our budgets a durable equilibrium, and restore the prosperity of our finances. That, Gentlemen, is necessary to enable France to maintain its elevated rank among nations. BO URSE.—Paars, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30. first Highest Lowest Lon Price Price. Pilo. Price Fren :115 tet Cents 4 per Cents 96 75 ... 96 75 ... 96 75 ... 96 '75 3 per Cents '76 60 ":6 7a 60 On 75 of france . . /wan :Sant: S I•er Cent,.., 97S, ... 97 3, et Cents New Loan Active. Portuguese 3 per Cents :2054 ... :2054 ... :2054 '2054 Neap:Mt:oi ttrunan ... 99 1 ,4 ... 995$ ... 99!i, 9945 I'AI.LWAY SHARES. St. Germain \re:saint:l,R. [3 3:40 50 ...:38`2 50 ... 380 50 ... 3 , 2 re LB Orleans .. 4130 ... 480 ... 480 ... 431 S.r3iiuritto Bale 236 95 ... ....a5 25 ... 35 . 235 ilulhausen to Thane Dreadful has been the loss of life and property, occasioned by the late tremendous gales in the Black Sea. In addition to the sad accounts al ready published, we find the following in the French and German journals received this morn- mg : Extract of a letter from Constantinople of the Bth instant : We had a dreadful gale here on the Ist inst. Among the known losses are the barque Emma, Captain Hudson, lead• d at Odessa with linseed and tallow, captain and all hands perished ; the schooner Robert Symms, of Plymouth, loaded at Od• ssa with tallow, captain and three men saved, four lost; the Russian commercial steamer Neva or Em peror Nicholas,•Captain Rogers, from Odessa, with passen gers and cargo, 13 of the . crew and six passengers lost; the captain, first engineer, and four of the crew, with four male and two female passengers, saved ; these went on shore to the west and east of the Boghsz. The Seri Per vas, Austrian commercial steamer, loft Constantinople just before the gale set in, with 525 Turkish soldiers for Beyrout. She drifted out of her course, and was wrecked near the entrance of the Gulf of Moudania. Two soldiers washed off the deck, six or eight frozen to death, and all the rest, including several Austrian officers going to join the army in Syria, with the crew, saved. Several ships are lost in the Bosphorus. The Tahiri Baltiri is just put in from Syria, but there is no time to learn what she brings before the departure of the present. The Turks are dis pleased with the officious interference of Commodore Na pier. The Crescent steamer, on her passage from Tre bisond, was struck by a sea, which carried twelve deck passengers overboard. The Turkish steamer Zibaishi Zidgeiret, also from Trebisond, had three passengers car ried overboard, and seven frozen to death." Another letter says, " The storm of the Ist caused numerous wrecks in the Black Sea. We have already re ceived accounts of the loss of 18 Greek vessels, three English, and a much greater number of Austrians, Sar dinians, and Neapolitans. Even in the Channel seven were cast away. Lieutenant-Colonel de Phillppovitch and Capt. Count Szechvyni were onboard the Seri Paves during the storm." LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, JAN. I.—Wind this day at noon, light airs at W.S. W., and with fine mild clear weather. DEAL, Dec. 31.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the Wil liam Bayley, Jeffries, for the Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrived the Independence, Wyc, from New York, sailed on the 10th inst. ; Johnstone, Demerara, sailed on the 14th ult. ; Hector, Henderson, Montreal; Ocean Queen, Quebec ; Parthenon, Woodbury, New o:leans ; Sobieaky, Emmer son, ditto; Niagara, Cole, ditto ; henry Leeds, Charles ton ; Shenandore, West, Philadelphia; Hannah, Ewing, Miramiclii ; Welcome, Buren, Newfoundland; Cartha. genian, Quebec. A schooner was driven on West Hoyle during the night ; crew saved. SHEERNESS, Dec. 31.—The Olive, Rennett, from Lon. don to Dundee, is on shore on the Knock, but is expected to be got off without damage. The Jane, Palmer, from Sunderland to London. has been assisted in here, leaky, having struck on the Shears Beacon. 4P. M. —The Olive has been got off. SOUTHWQLD, DEC. 31.—The Pedlar, of Rye, from Sunderland, bus been brought in here much damaged, having been in contact with a brig off the Kentish Knock. CAMPBLE7OWN, DEC. 29.—The Sesostris, M'Kenzie, from Pictou to the Clyde, is stranded in the bay, and is expected will become a wreck—one man drowned; cargo and materials expected to be saved. TORBAY, DEC. 30.—Arrived off, the President, Owey, from New York. FALMOUTH, DEC. 30.—The Magnet packet arrived here frora Rio Janeiro. On Aug. 31 fell in with in lat. 8 N. lon. 21 W., with a schooner having the appearance of a pirate ; fired several shots at her, but she escaped by superior sailing. The Francis Lawson, from Tatma gauche to Liverpool, being waterlogged, was abandoned by the crew, Nov. 28, in lat. 44, long. 42 ; crew saved by the Cornwall, Vivian, arrivad off this port. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. The frost being gone, a fair show of samples appeared of all Grain except Wts. The factors endeavoured to obtain higher prices than of late, with which the buyers were unwilling to comply. - The sale of Flour was good. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The demand for Beef was dull. Mutton lower, and none but the best Downs realized 4s. 10d. The supply of Veal was plentiful, and the prices lower. The demand for Pork was good, and fine qualities filly realized late prices. Beasts, 595 ; Sheep, 3,020 ; Pigs, 612 ; Calves, 131. Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s to 4s. 101 ; Veal, 4s. to 553 6d. ; Pork. 4s. 4d. to 54. 4d. COLONIAL MARKET. There was no public sale, and privately little business was transacted ; prices, however, were firm for all articles. The arrivals were small. TEA MARKET. Thcrc was a fair amount of business transacted in Free Trade, cud prices had an upward tendency. Company's Cungou in fair request at 2s. lid. cash. TALLOW MARKET. Prices for P. Y. Candle were steady at 475. 91. and 435. on the spot, and a fair business was transacted. THE LATE FIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.—In your Morning Sun of this day appears an in quest on the body of the unfortunate fireman named Loader, at Guy's Hospital, last night, and the verdict re tutned as accidental death. That was the unanimous opinion of the Jury ; but sulosequently to the reporters leaving the hospital, it was deemed advisable not to record that verdict, with a view, if possible, to ascertain the cause of the fire, and other injuries the deceased is supposed to have died of. The inquest was adjourned till Monday next. I remain, Sir, with great respect, A CONSTANT READER. Jan. 1, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. you allow a Citizen to ask, through the medium of your respectable Journal, whether any funds arc provided in the City for an unfortunate tradesman with a large family, who has carried on an extensive business fur the last twenty-seven years, Laving paid all rates and taxes, and served all the offices, including churchwarden, to the satisfaction of the Inhabitants of the Ward he re presented? 31st December, 1840. CITIZEN. The ship Marlborough, Captain Blithe, be longing to the West India lrnmigra;ion Society, 1,11 the Downs a few days since with emigrants for .Jamaica, and a c understand the Company are about to depatch another vessel to that Island in three or four weeks, and also to cut. bArlt ploughmen and tradesmen for St. Vincent's. We are sorry to announce the death of Frank Hall Standish, Esq., of Duxbury, in Lancashire. He had almost entirely recovered from a long and painful but being attacked with inflammation he died suddenly at Cadiz on the 21st of December. It EPEAL MEETING.—We have often stated that while unflinchingly sustaining Repeal, we, Repealers, will oat be instrumental in dividing Reformers on topics upon which all concur. We, therefore, publish, with great pleasure, letters proving the progress which the great re. frm meeting, for the 16th, is making. The names of Listowel, Gosford, Hawarden, Sac., joined as they are with an O'Connell and a 111. Hale, mark in a manner not to be mistaken that uncompromising Repeal and Constitutional R e form can stand on the same platform together.—Pilot. Lord aml Lady Carrington have arrived at Wy combe Abbey, but will return to their town residence, Whitehall-place, in about three weeks, for the season. THE SUN, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The New York packet-ship Independence has arrived at Liverpool , bringing Papers one day later. The Presi dent's Message had not been received at New York, owing to the snow-storm having prevented a sufficient number of the Members from arriving to farm a quorum. The Money Market at New York was heavy, and most of the Stocks had declined in prices. The rate of Exchange was 81 to 9 per cent. prem. ; United States Bank Shares 661. A Brazil Mail has arrived by her Majesty's Packet Magnet ; the dates from Rio Janeiro are of the 18th of October, up to which date the Minister of Finance had not adopted any measure to supply his credit. Money was scarce, discounts from 10 to 12 ; Exchange on the 17th was 31i-, at which price a great deal of business was done for the Packet. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 31.—The tran sactions since our report of Friday last have been to a good extent, but there was more spirit in thel demand during the first three days than there has been since, yet on the whole prices may be considered a shade higher than Friday last. Speculators have taken 500 bales of American and 1,200 Surat ; there has been 260 bales of American and 530 Surat forwarded into the country this month unsaid. The import has exceeded that of last year 398.564 bales, being in excess from the United States 382,280 bales; yet with this great increase of supply our stock is only 160,100 moro than at the same time last year, (the whole of the stock being equal to fifteen weeks supply from hence), showing that there has been 1,185 000 bales required from hence for consumption against 980,000 bales in 1839. 1' is estimated by good authority that the present consump tion averages for the kingdom 24 500 bales for the week, of which we may fairly put down 22 500 bales per week, es supplied by this port ; making an aggregate from hence for the year of 1,170,000 bales. Prices have varied very little this year. There has been only three instances (or weeks) when choice Uplands sold above 73. per lb. The lowe't point of the market was in the middle of the year, when common qualities, now worth ,51d., were sr,ld at 4id., and fair, now worth 6:0, brought sid. per lb. LIVERPOOL SHARE LIST, DEC. 31.—Eastern Counties, 81-; Debentures, b ; Grand Junction, 212 ; Quarter Shares, 521 ; New Shares, 28i; Liverpool and Man chester Halt' Shares, 89. ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 49i 50 ; Brighton United Company, 27i ; Midland Counties, New Shares, 92-. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester day's date. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, DEC. 29. —The news that the Treaty made by Admiral Napier no having been ratified, and the fall at Paris, caused a reaction. The Integrates were offered at 491 yesterday after the Bourse, but at the opening to.day they were at 494. The Actions of the Society of Commerce opened at 1571, and fell to 1561, and remained at 1574. Ardoin's Spanish, owing to their coming better from Antwerp, got up to 21k f,-; Coupons, 17i. We have received a Rio de Janeiro Price Current of the 17th of October:— Money Market—Exchange—Since our last, bills to some extent have been passed on England at 30i, and at the close of the month money was not forthcoming at this rate. The amount negotiated during the month may be fairly estimated at 220,0001. sterling. Stock was last sold at 74g. Specie generally flat, with a limited business done. Revenue—A perusal of Table No. 4 will show an in crease in the amount received for duties on imports, both in the month and quarter ending 30th September, 1840, compared with the four preceding years, and on exports dining the same respective periods, except 11139, when, as before stated, the export of coffee was unprccedently large. Table No. 4 shows, likewise, an excess in the month and quarter of 1840. both on imports and exports of the average of the five years from 1836 to 18 40 . The arrivals from foreign ports amount to 41 vessels, including 1 in ballast; of 40 vessels which sailed hence, 22 were laden, and 8 in port, laden with our produce. The coasting trade consists of 74 arrivals and 96 departures. Trade generally very dull, owing to the unsettled state of the money market and the foreign exchanges. Offers arc stated to have been made to the Ministers for stock to the amount of 3,000 to 4,000 Apolires at 74. which offers, we understand, have been refused upon the plea that the market price was 3 to 4 per cent. higher. The difficulties of the money market have been materially augmented, owing to rumours in a variety of shapes, of an intended issue of notes. A petition to be presented to Ministers, favourable to an increase of our circulating me dium, is now under signature. We are induced to attri bute the rise of the exchange upon London to the general opinion that the Government has directed a loan to be made in England. THS FUNDS. The British Funds are not quiteso good as they left off yesterday, :881 i for the Account, at present may be quoted at 68 it ; Exchequer Bills, 3 5 premium ; BAnk Stock, 157 158 ; India Stock 237 239. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active lower than it left off, 25- ; Deferred, 121 13 ; Passive, 51 .a; Portu guese same as they left off, 321 it ; Three per Cents., 201 ''- ; Brazilian, 701 711 ; Colombian, 241; Mexican, 29f ; DutchTwo-and-a.Half per Cents. 493 50k ex. div. ; Five per Cents. 971 :f. SIIAREL—Great Western, 251 261 prem. ; New, 11 121 prem. ; London and Brighton, 61 6 discount ; Black wall, 41 4 discount ; Birmingham, 81 83 premium ; South ampton, 56 57 per share ; Croydon, 121 i per shale ; Greenwich, 81 per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT, ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Dittos Debentures Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths .. London and Brighton London and Greenwich ..... ...... 20 Ditto Scrip HALF-PAST ONE. Very late dates ftom Buenos Ayres have been received at Havre, of the 21st of October, and from Monte Video of the 29th of October, by which it is stated that the blockade of Buenos Ayres was not severe, and that a great quantity of merchandise entered the tow e. The French residents found themselves in such a situation that most of them were preparing to leave the town, but they found protection, in the British Consul, from mo lestation and had treatment. At Monte Video the French division, commanded by Admiral Mack3u, arrived on the 21ith, and were preparing to act. Already the companies were formed for effecting a land ing, which were going to make a descent at Martin Garcia, and from thence proceed to Buenos Ayres. A report prevailed in the squadron that Rosas had caused a lieutenant of a French ship to be assassinated, but the report appeared rather vague. In the Rio de la Plata there were 44 French ships of war of all descriptions. From the American papers received this morning to the 11th December : " Ica in the Delaware.—All the vessels along the ends of the wharfs yesterday morning were compelled to haul inside of the docks, in order to:avoid being cut through by the skim ice, large quantities of which came down yester day. The river Delawarre at Bordenton, yesterday morn ing was filled with ice afloat from shore to shore. The r.a vigation of the river, for the present, is completely stopped." Consols, which were nominally in the early part of the morning at 88a 4 for the Account, have since been done at 881 and at present may be quoted a shade lower, 884. For the Opening little has been doine , during the course of the morning ; Exchequer Bills rather im. proved, 4 6 premium; Bank Stock, 157 158, also im- proved. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active may be quoted at 25i; Deterred, 121; Portuguese 311; Three per Cent's., 201 ; Mexican, 294; Brazilian, 7lk ; Colombian, 24 ; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents., nothing done. In Shares not much doing. Eastern Counties De bentures, 5; Great Western, New, 6241; ditto, Fifths, 114; London and Brighten, 44-; Greenwich Scrip, 3i I. We are given to understand that the Lord Chamberlain has moat considerably extended the license of the Haymarket Theatre, by which act the manager of this place of amusement will be enabled to continue his present successful season beyond the 15th inst., at.which period he must otherwise have closed his doors. LEWES, DEC. 31.—The Hon. H. Fitzroy and Lord Cantilupe will to-morrow present such of the elec. tors of the borou g h as choose to accept the gift, with a quarter of a ton of coals each,—Brighton Gazelle. llis Excellency General Alava, Lord Grenville Somerset, and a crowd of fashionables, have visited the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Regent-street, doting the present week. The attractions of this place of in structive amusement are daily receiving additions, and amongst the novelties that are announced as in prepara tion arc a new form of railway carriage, which is to be ex hibited in the Great Hall, and an ingenious modification of the powers of the hydro-oxygen microscope, which by an entirely novel invention can be adapted so as to magnify, by reflection, opaque bodies. The first application of this discovery will be to exhibit the pictures thrown by the Daguerreotype on metallic plates, which will thus have all the effect of a natural panorama, strictly faithful to the ori ginal view. ENGLISHWOMEN IN ITALY.—The English women, too, evince a no less warm attachment to the customs of their native land. Balls, soirees, and tableaux, a-la.mode de Londres, arc continually given, where may be seen assembled mashy of the same faces to he met with at Almack's every spring ; wearing the same smiles, and lisping about the fetes of the previous and ensuing weeks just as they are wont to do at home. In short, men and wo men endeavour as much as in their power to forget, and make others do so too, that they are dwellers in the " Niobe of nations ;" and though they leave London, take with them all its luxurious habits and dissipations. It is a positive tact, that one English lady of fashion proposed to exclude from her circle any individual who should in con- versat•on revert to the works of art or antiquities of Rome. —Lady Blessington's Idler in holy, VolllL ; How TO HAND A NAME DOWN TO POS- Thityrv.—There is now to be seen on a post at the corner of a street forming in the Faubourg du Temple, Paris, a pl6card with the following notice :—" To be sold, the right of giving a name to this street." Extract of a letter, dated from on board the Princess Charlotte, Marmorice Bay, Dec. 13, 1410:-- " 1 am sorry to inform you that the Zebra was driven on shore and totally wrecked, with the loss of three of her crew. The Bellerophon was nearly lost, and the Pique lost her masts. Dreadful weather on the coast. We, thank God, have escaped, but most miraculously ; four anchors a-head. I never saw worse weather. We have twelve sail of the line here, and a host of small craft." It is calculated that at the Shrewsbury Christmas market there were sold in one day 6,000 turkeys, which realised the sum of 1,800/. ; 8,000 geese for 1,8001. ; ducks and fowls (couples), 7,000 fur 1,0501 ; making a grand total of 4,6501. Worcester Journal. lON DON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1841. MOTHER SHIPTON'S POLITICAL PROPHECIES FOR 1841. Hearken, Gentles, to your wise Mother Shipton's Prophecies 1 Drums shall beat and broad-swords gleam, Trumpets flourish, banners stream, And tiny Thiers shout forth " Advance I" Once again to bristling France; Vowing by Napoleon's tomb, To put down—he knows not whom I And panting with desire red-hot To achieve—he knows not what 1 But, despite his war-array, Peace shall still maintain her sway ; Vainly shall he ply his trade Of bombastic gasconade; He shall prove a very so-so French Bombastes Furioso, And, tho' sore against his will, Meet the fato of Bobadil I Rage combined with huge dismay, prevail in far Cathay; Mandarin with Mandarin Shall vie in cursing Viceroy Lin, And Emperor Fum to Premier Fo Shall mutter, " here's a pretty go I" As England threats with many a scoff, To cut his precious pig-tail off! Napier's deeds by land and sea Shall fill the Porte with extacy, Set Ali groaning like a paviour, And put him on his best behaviour I With France and England, Nick the Younger, Daily —hourly growing stronger, Shall strive to play a slippery trick, Worthy of his sire, Old Nick, But scared by Britain's wrathful mood, Shall swear he meant it for their good 1 In the British House of Lords Fierce shall rise the war of worts; Londonderry shall commence The co:Act with his usual sense, Bursting forth in fire and fury, Like Tom Thumb the Great at Drury; And Proteus Philpotts, ever proudest To be heard among the loudest, Shall resume the hacknied story Of Dame Church's vanished glory ; Tell how Whiggish sons of Mammon Have seduced her by their gammon, Torn her from her Cantuar's arms, Rifled all her golden charms, Encouraged in his devilish mood Her fiend-like foe, John Thorogood, And—to crown their heinous sin— Coolly stripped her to the skin ; But tho', shocked at such a tale, Rosy Abinger turns pale, And, with knowing look, like Mundell. Sly old Lyndhurst winks at London:— Ghostly Philpotts nought shall take By his motion, meant to shake A realm, for Mother Church's sake, But crush'd by Brougham's sarcastic sense, And Demosthenic eloquence, Become a theme for laughs and jeers, Like Bottom with the Ass's ears! In St. Stephen's halls, ere yet The (louse but one short night has met, Oily Peel shall rise and praise Ilis candour in superfluous phrase ; Stanley strive iu desperate fashion, Russell's back to lay the lash on, Soon to feel, misguided elf, Ills blows recoil upon himself Thrice shall Graham rise, and thrice Clear the benches in a trice, Just as Coates, long time Igo, Ch.ar'd the pit in Romeo I Once a woek the Tory faction Shall predict a sure reaction, And in sunny day.dreams sip Treasury sweets with eager lip ; But, alas 1 the Session's close Shail find them looking black as crows, And—despite each fierce endeavour— Just as far from place as ever 1 As the year rolls onward, she Our Princess Royal, born to bo In time to come a nation's stay, Shall like an infant flower in May, Lustier blossom day by day, Crushing thus, at Heaven's command, The last fond hope of Cumberland, And deepening every frown, I wis, On that ugly mug of his I Thus my weird Predictions run Fur the New Year, Forty One Quoth Mother Shipton. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TIIURSDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked for some time this morning on the terrace of the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, took her accustomed exercise. Her Majesty rode out this afternoon in an open pony phae on, which was driven by his Rbyal Highness Prince Albert. Colonel Wemyss, Mr. Rich, and Cap tain Seymour were in attendance. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Fowler with an interview this morning, and inspected a finished picture and sketch of her Majesty the Queen Lord and Lady Holland and Sir George Grey, are expected to arrive this evening on a visit. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, a quarter be fore four o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Conti nent. His Royal Highness, after his arrival, paid a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester, and in the evening dined at Gloucester House. The Right Hon. J. B. Macaulay has arrived at Br oadland, Hants, on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. Titre Earl of Minto has left town, for his seat near Hawick. Despatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off yesterday, from the Colonial-office. MAGAZINE DAY BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Christopher North seems to have been nodding of late, for we have missed for several months those sportive sallies of humour, and light sparkling cri ticisms which used to illuminate the pages of Maga. We trust " the old man eloquent" will soon shake off his torpor; rise like a giant re freshed ; and come forth in all his wonted power. Meantime, we have no great cause to complain, for the Number of Maga now lying on our table is de cidedly among the best that the last year has pro duced. " Ten Thousand a-Year" commences it, and forms a worthy commencement, for the tedious ness and frequent languor that we have more than once complained of, are no longer visible in the tale, which dashes forward, page after page, with the rapidity of a steam-engine on a rail-road. The character of Gammon, - too—that most astute and inscrutable of attorneys—is brought out with a tact and quietness of manner that will iccal the teconeetion of the admirable leg<<l sketches in Fielding's " Amelia." " A Fourth Chapter of Turkish History" gives an ac count of the origin and progress of the Mamelukes —a remarkable military corps, not very dissimilar to the Praetorian Guard of Imperial Rome, who, until they were annihilated by the present ruler of Egypt, had kept that counto in subjection for cen turies. " Lyrics" is a review of the poems of the late Capt. Morris, once the most fashionable bard of his day. Often has this celebrated bon vivant set the Carlton House circle in a roar ; but the boon companions whom he enlivened with his wit, nay, the very Palace wherein they used to meet, have alike passed away ; and he himself but the other day dropped into the grave with the snows of ninety winters on his head. The Captain was Moore 's i►nmediate predecessor in the festive lyric, in which he has sometimes equalled, if not surpassed, him. We quote the introductory passage of the criticism on his poems : Those who were in the habit, some forty years ago, of wandering at the West-end of London, must have re marked an individual frequently seen in St. James's street, about the hour when, the Morning Papers having been looked over, the Clubs pour out their members into St. James's-street and Pall-mall. There and then groups were to be met with in all directions, composed of the most celebrated men of the day—when England possessed celebrated men—busily conversing on the pro ceedings of Parliament the night before, or which were to take place before another night had passed away. From the close of the American war, thou groups were chiefly composed of the Opposition ; for the unrivalled ascendancy of the greatest minister that England had ever seen, gave the Whigs the leisure for these confer ences which the occupations of public life generally de nied to the Tories, or their reliance on their great leader rendered unnecessary. There were to be met, from the hours of two to four, the elite of the Foxites, mingled occasionally with a few of the leading Peers and country gentlemen who formed the small neutrality of Parlia ment ; there stood Fox, with his ponderous figure, good humoured smile, and heavy step ; Grey, grim from his cradle, perpendicular, and repulsive ; Sheridan, with a face purpled over with claret—the stamp of his habitual excesses—a stooping form and neglected dress, but with an eye among the blackest, largest, and most beaming that ever was set in the head of man ; Tierney, grave, sly, and with a look of inveterate subtlety, that might have established him as the most crafty of men, even before he had uttered one of his cunning syllables ; kVidtbread, short, strong, and broad-shouldered, the complete model of the brewer that he was, even to his pepper-and-salt coat, but with a countenance of singular manliness, and indicative of the John Bullistn of his cha- racter ; Wyndham, with the graceful figure, airy step, and handsome countenance that seemed made for Courts —if the oddity, fantasy, and ill-fortune of his career had riot lett him in a state of oscillation between the Whigs and Tories, and, like other pendulums, left him to swing while the hands in front were gaining ground at every move ; Dundas, who feared no one, and had a lively word for all, sometimes min:in with the circle ; for a moment thro.ving in his easy jest, and easily bearing its return, doubtless amused by the sense that he was the possessor of power, while they were but nibblers at the hook. There too was Jenkinson, with the pro found brow that seemed surcharged with the secrets of an empire ; silent, if not sullen, and returning their sa lutations as cautiously as if a bow were a betrayal. Tnere too, on his two huge legs, was the Duke of Nor folk, in his grey coat and black cap. Fluttering round and among these groups, was to be seen the individual to whom we have alluded—a man of remarkably expres sive features, with a determined and even a stern air, which, however, frequently relaxed into a smile of the liveliest hilarity—his dress rather rieglige, yet alwsys that of a gentleman ; his step alert, and evidently formed by the drill ; and the Thole man bearing evi dence of ono who had acquired the art of using his limbs on the parade of the Horse Guards. This was Charles Morris, the Whig Apollo, the volunteer laureate of' the Opposition, of whomsoever it might be composed ; the head of the Beefsteak Club, and the leader of pleasantry wherever he appeared. While speaking of Captain Morris's Whig prin ciples, which he deserted in order that he might still continue to bask in the sunshine of Court favour, the Reviewer asserts that the charge of in temperance was a mere scandal brought against Pitt by his political enemies. Such is not the case. Pitt was notoriously a hard drinker, and numerous are the anecdotes to this effect recorded of him by Wraxall, and other contemporary memoir-writers. " Hints to Authors" is a very felicitous quiz on modern writers of fiction, whose love of the impas sioned and the intense—in other words, of the non sensical—is cleverly hit off in a mock-romance, where the chief personages, in pursuance of the taste of the day, are thieves, cut-throats, swindlers, and such like attractive creatures. " Mohammed Ali," though the dish be somewhat of the stalest, is served up with piquant sauces, so as to render it perfectly palateable. One historical error, however, in it, we must correct. "At the commencement of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign," says the author, " the Mamelukes were a vigorous enemy, but they wanted numbers. Not amounting to more than three thousand cavalry, and having neither infantry nor guns, they were unable to make an impression on the solid columns of the French ; and at the battle of the Pyramids they were almost totally destroyed by the musketry and the cannon." Now, it happens that at this famous battle the Alameluke cavalry were, not three thousand, but ten thousand strong, for Mourad Bey, their commander, had gathered them from all quarters of Egypt ; and their charge, as they came thundering on in a body, is described by the French historians as having been one of the most impressive military spectacles ever witnessed. " The Chew Tragedy is a spirited and diverting poem, in the Colman style of humour. " 'Nit and Wisdom " is an ironical allegory, setting forth, in terms of solemnity worthy of the inspiring theme, how Christopher North sprang full-fledged, like Minerva, from the brain of Jupiter. In the essay on the " Foreign Policy of France," the lash is applied to M. Thiers' back with as much vigour and dexterity, as if it were laid on by a six-foot drummer at the triangles. We arc not sorry to see the little man thus flagellated, for he is a busy, restless, mischievous personage, who mistakes the promptings of vanity for the impulses of ambition ; and is constantly vaunting his regard for the honour of France, when he is merely consulting his own self-interest. M. Thiers is a greater man at the Bourse, which is the barometer by which he regu lates his patriotism, than in the Senate, whore he is a mere pert, shallow, though entertaining, de claimer. SHOCKING EVENT AT NAPLES.—The follow ing deplorable event has lately taken place at Naples Extract of a letter from Naples, 20th instant. 4. A few days ago a Sicilian, named Muratori, a coffee-house keeper, married fourteen years since to a respectable Eng lishwoman, having three female children, eight, six, aid three years of age, from an ungrounded fit of jealousy, which had driven him to a state of phrenzy, shot his wife, and an hoar after that himself. A subscription has been made for the orphans by the British residents and visitors, and the Rev. C. Lushington, the resident chaplain, has kindly taken charge of the poor children, until they can be placed in some asylum in England. The relation of this tragical insane act was thus given by the eldest child, who, with her sisters, slept in the room with her parents:— . My father, at daybreak, suddenly left his bed, seized a piat,l from the drawers, and fired it at my mother. Tho pistol missed fire; my mother jumped from the bed, struggled with my father , and succee ded i n g ainin g the shop adjoining the bedroom . M y fath er too k another p is. tol, followed my mother quickly into the shop, and shot her dead : she never spoke or moved. We all ran and clang around our mother. At length, an hour after, as far as I could judge, my father came and dragged us from our dead mother, put her watch around my neck, gave trifling presents to my sisters, kissed us affectionately, and yam, no one heard us. At noon the locked us up in a room, desiring us to remain quiet, under threat of punishment, and then shot himself. We cried father with the pistol firmly anieligshehroeuarnsl,edseeihing the shop closed, informed the police of the quarter of the circumstance, who same and forced the objects seen, h the ih m y uzzle touching the throat, where door, when the horrid spectacle of my dead parents were the gthr ca s fpfaietr grasped fatal hound i nvi o , Oh, my poor mother ! I can say no m ore.' " ANECDOTE OF ARIOSTO.—The father of the post having been displeased with him, reprehended his o bhj u ies nd had been given. conduct with unusual warmth and severity; Ariosto listened to the reproaches with an abstracte d air, but replied not , and his father left the chamber. Gabrieli, the brother of Ari father had'sta°t'whovaussPer d ; present, urged th e same repr i man d s t h at their when Ariosto immediately satisfied him that the condemnation, which h e h a d i ncurre d was un merited, by explaining- the mi sconcept i on o f t h e i r l o ) u ar r e i n 'a t t . h; "Butand ally not have communic a ted this fact to so have exculpated yourself ?" was the na tural question of Gabrieli. " Because I was thinking all the time he reproached me so angrily, that the scene then passing might be successfully used in the comedy I am son,the actual, in the composition gdaajendrla,:ttoi°hv::)lt.:V'lLi elf'osLgrtgarnh'ioyti his I B a t i r e ; s h i n a g s tw b " e been slightly in disposedwritnig,—the . Cassaria ;' in which I have introduced an and mine furnished as o go l fa d ,;:n: f ,e a la t li l ea t m e l r ,oE Idler in Italy, Vol 111 discontinuednow nearly recovered. his dinner Thursday n c o n l s a e s ci t , u e b n a c t e is , parties, tut will resume them to-morrow, on which day since the Noble Lord will outer his 82c1 year, having been born Ells Lordship had, on the Ist of January, l7s9.—Brighton Gazelle. The Earl and Countess of Kentnare have ar rived in town, from their beautiful seat, near the Lake of Killarney, for the season. Th e Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Chancellor and Senior Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Mi chael and St. George, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Order, BENTLEY'S MISCELLAVY. Tom Ingoldsby, the prince of wags, who com bines broad practical humour with a play of fancy to be found in Wilson alone, of all the writers of the day, opens the new year with a comic legend calculated to put us all in the best possible spirits, notwithstanding the disheartening fact that with the advent of 1841, we arc all of us a year older, and but few of us a year wiser. The theme that Tom has selected for his drollery, is the tradition of Nell the cook-maid, who having found favour in the eves of a fat old monk in the monastery to which she belonged, was afterwards supplanted in his good graces by a handsome young lady who repre sented herself as his niece, and was in consequence furnished by him with board and lodging in a vil lage within a comfortable walking distance of the monastery. Here the monk often visited her at nightfall—no doubt for purposes of spiritual edifi cation ; but Nell thinking that she had quite as much right to be edified as her rival, took umbrage at the ghostly man's neglect of her soul ; and one fine day, in a fit of raging jealousy, poisoned both him and his niece, as is duly related in these " But where that Lady pass'd her nights I may not well divine, Perhaps in pious oraisons at good St. Thomas' Shrine, And for her father far away breathed tender vows and true— It may bo so—l cannot say—but Nelly luok'd askew. " And still a t n i g h t, b y f a i r moon li g h t , w h en a ll arc l oc k'd in sleep, She'd listen at the Canon's door,—she'd through the key hole peep— I know not what she heard or saw, but fury fill'd her eye -She bought some nasty Doctur's-stuff, and she put it in a pie ! " It was a glorious summer's eve —with beams of rosy red The Sun went down—all Nature smiled—but Nelly shook her head! Full softly to the balmy breeze rang out the Vesper bell -Upon the C:non's startled ear it sounded like a knell! " ' Now here's to thee, mine Uncle! a health I drink to thee Now pledge me back in Slaerris sack, or a cup of Mal voisie ! The Canon sigh'd—but rousing, cried, ' I answer to thy call, And a Warden-pie's a dainty dish to mortify withal !' " 'Tis early dawn—the matin chime rings out for morning pray 'r— And Prior and Friar is in his stall—the Canon is not there ! Nor in the small Refcct'ry hall, nor cloister'd walk is he— All wonder•—and the Sacristan says Lauk-a-daisey-ma 1' They've searched the aisles and Baptistry—they've search'd :sbove—around— The ' Sermon House'—the Audit Room'—the Canon is not found. They only find the pretty cook concocting a ragout ; They ask here whore her master is—but Nelly looks askew ! They call for crow-bars—' jemmies' is the modern name they bear— They burst through lock, and bolt, and bar—but what a sight is there ! The Canon's head lies on the bed—his Niece lies on the floor ! —They are dead as any nail that is in any door ! " The livid spot is on his breast, the spot is on his back ! His portly form, no longer warm with life, is swoln and black The livid spot is on her cheek—it's on her neck of snow, And the Prior sighs and sadly cries, ' Well ! here's a pretty Go !' " All at the silent hour of night a bell is heard to toll, A knell is rung, a requiem's sung as for a sinful soul, And there's a grave within the Nave, it's dark, and deep, and wide, And they bury there a Lady fair, and a Canon by her side ! " An Uncle !—so 'tis whisper'd now throughout the sacred lane,— And a Niece—whose father's far away upon the Spanish Main— The Sacristan he says no word to indicate a doubt, But he put his thumb unto his nose, and he spreads his fingers out f" " Guy Fawkes" proceeds pretty much in its usual style—that is to say, with a full flow of incident, but with an utter disregard to anything like individu ality of character. The scene wherein Viviana, the heroine, is represented as being put to the torture, is meant to be impressive, instead of which it is simply repulsive. We hate to read of pretty young girls having their taper fingers crushed by thumb-screws, which of course involves the ne cessity of a poultice, and God knows how many other unsentimental applications But Mr. Ains worth is always prodigal of his horrors, and whe ther we like the feast or not, compels us, like Macbeth, to sup full of them. " Merrie England in the Olden Time," abounds in quaint conceits and characteristic anecdotes. " Opinions of the Times" is horrid stuff. The "Village Blacksmith" is a spirited poem, some of whose descriptive touches are as literally true to life as Crabbe's. Charles Lamb and his jokes are again brought on the tapis in an amusing paper, headed, the '' Old Ledger," the writer of which eulogizes Elia in far too ex travagant terms. He was a discriminating critic, but his sphere was a circumscribed one, and his powi rs of humour and fancy were equally He wrote many quaint essays, through which trickled a small stream of thought, but he achieved nothing really great in literature. As for his poems, they have quite a cast-iron stiffness about them, and, in point of melody, resemble no thing so much as the drone of the bag-pipes. The " 13iographical Memoir of time late Thomas Hill " is penned in a friendly, cordial spirit. - This lite rary veteran, who knew everything and everybody, and who NN - as already in the autumn of his life when half the present generation were in their cradles, confessed in his last illness to the patriarchal age of eighty-two, but we learn on good authority that in the agitation of the moment, he had omitted a century in his confession. It is conjectured, and not without reason, that he assisted Gay in his Beggar's Opera, and some years afterwards lent Goldsmith the money with which he purchased his famous peach-blossom coat. Poor Tommy Hill! He had set death;at defiance so long,that most people thought that, like Godwin's St. Leon, he was proof against mor tality ; hut the old archer brought him down at last. " My Grand Tour" is a rough sketch hastily dashed off in oils. In Cohn Clink," the closing scenes of the murderer, Dr. Rowel's, life are pourtrayed with vigour, yet without any visible straining after effect. The power is that of robust health, not of convu lsion. We here lay down our pen, for just at this moment, the clock on our mantel-piece warns us that the old year is dead It was " launched into eternity" scarce half a minute since, so that our sentence about " Cohn Clink' which wos commenced in 1840, was actually not concluded ti:l 1841 1 We might indulge in divers grave and sage reflections on this subject ; but shall content ourselves —in lieu of solitary meditation which is apt to make one too thirsty—with just drinking a temperate bumper of port to the men ory of the depa;ted year, and another in honour of its successor, whom we earnestly conjure to load us with no war taxes, but to keep us in peace and good fellowship with all the world. stanzas : " The Canon's house is lofty and spacious to the view ; The Canon's cell is order'd well—yet Nelly looks askew ; The Lady's bower is in the tower,—yet Nelly shakes her head— She hides the poker and the tongs in that gay Lady's bed " Six weeks were gone and over, full six weeks and a day, Yet in that bed the poker and the tongs unheeded lay From which, I fear, it's pretty clear that Lady rest had none; Or, if she slept in any bed—it was nit in her own. 21 1 EIV MONTHLY MAGAZINE. In the present chapters of Mr. Hook's " Fathers and Sons," we find Mrs. Smylar—what an apt na.ne for a sly, intriguing housekeeper to an elderly widower !—manceuvering with a tact and ingenuity that might become the most wily diplomatist. This character is clearly a favourite with the author, and accordingly he lavishes all his strength on her, drawing out her peculiarities through that best pus• Bible medium, dialogue. " Sketches of Modern Character" are by Mrs. Gore ; and the present subjects of her analysis, " Plausible People"—a nu merous race, and always well to do in the world. How true is this remark, " your plausible forks are the fatted kine of this world. They insinuate themselves like the weasel into the meal-tub ; and reynard, their stealthy steps make an unexpected way into the hen-roost. While your ears are still fascinated by their gentle protestations, you find they have been picking your locks or your pocket. You hear a patriot praising himself for more than Spartan virtue, watching your eye all the time for a favourable opportunity to escape up the back stairs, and sneak into the presence of royalty. The next time you see him, he will be on the Treasury bench !" It is by an assumption of sanctity, however, that plausible people achieve their greatest triumphs. By cultivating a long, solemn phiz, and chaunting psalms through the nose at a conventicle, they win the ear of some rich, pious old maid, whose sole remaining corn forts are prayers Laid the brandy-bottle in the corner-cupboard, marry her, spend all her fortune, and then take ship for America, where plausibility is sure to make a livelihood. There arc various classes of plausible people, some of a lesser, some of a deeper die, in point of hypocrisy ; but the worst form they can assume, is when they graft the Saint upon the attorney. This last is a character which makes as close an approximation to pure diabolism as the imperfect limits of human nature will allow. " Early English and German Dramas" is a heavy, prolix essay, stuffed full of matters which few or none care a straw about. " Ambition" is a readable article, but some of the instances which the writer adduces, are rather those of vanity, than ambition. There is a wide distinction between the two passions. Ambition is an all-engrossing prin ciple of action, which proposes to itself the achieve ment of some great, particular end ; which knows neither ebb nor flow ; but presses boldly forward, through a thousand difficulties, to the goal ; vanity is a shallow, inconsistent impulse, ever fluctuating, ever changing its direction, ever haunted by mis trust, and, as a necessary consequence, ever ending in bitterest disappointment. Sometimes, however, though but seldom, we see the two passions com bined in the same individual —as in Lord Chatham, for instance, who though among the most ambi tious, was also among the vainest of m an ki n d. F ore i g n Sporting ' is by Nimrod. It is too strictly professional. The " Life and Adventures of Charles Chesterfield " will hardly raise the re putation of Mrs. Trollope, whose chief object in w riting it seems to hav e been, to fill up space. The majority of her dialogues are very poor, constantly aiming at effect, and as constantly missing it. Some account of the late Mr. Dodge " is lively, and not devoid of humour, though the humour is more that of words than of ideas. The closing portions are by f ar t h e b est . A n " E ven i ng w ith M. Thier s ' is happily tinned. We would quote the whole of this article, did space and time permit, EVENING EDITION but must content ourselves for the present with the following extract : There is no such thing as keeping M. Thiers stationary for five minutes ; we might say, perhaps, for five seconds. He sits, he stands, he sits again, and all in half a minute. He walks up and down the room, runs, jumps, tilts on his toes. shrugs his shoulders, raises them almost to the top of his head, puts on his spectacles, takes them off again, and all with the rapidity of a sleight-of.hand man on tile Place de la Bourse. On the e%ening in question M. Thiers spoke to every one us fast as he could ; and perhaps in three houra said a greater number of words than any man who ever lived from the time of Adam downwards. " Que voulez vous, mon cher ?" said M. Thiers to a member of the centre droit, who had some doubts as to the legality of arresting and imprisoning a Princess, without putting her upon trial. '• Que voulez vous ?" and then he went on to say, " This state of things was impossible. We could not be bearded by the Duchess of Berry. God knows our revolivion was moderate enough ; we merely sent them out of France, and told them not to come beck again ; their property, their lives, their titles all preserved to them, and yet they persist in coming back. 1 could endure it no longe r ; I could not see the throne of the King continually disputed by this heroine, as they call her. It became in dispensable to terminate all these Chouau hopes and Yen dean plunderieg s and rapine—and now all is finished." Every sentence pronounced by M. Thiers during the evening began or closed with " Tout eat foil ;" sometimes varying it by " Alaintenant tout est fini." lie rang the double changes on these phrases fur three mortal hours. M. OJdon Barrot made his appearance. This was a sort of event, lie was at that time the political anta• , onist of M. Thiers ; for the latter was then a Connive nye, and the former was, what he is still, the chief of the gauche. M. Odilon Barret was only a lawyer under the Resto ration, but the revolutien of 1830 made him one of the Commissioners charged to conduct Charles X., and the Duke and Duchess d'Angouleme, &c to Cherbourg. lle is a cold, calm, calculating man, enamoured of his own views of a Parliamentary Government, and believes that every thing may be cifected by the influence of the Ballot. Oa the night i❑ question he was more excited than he is wont to be, and appeared to regard M. Thiers as a sort of prodigy. " Eh bier ! M. Barrot," said the host to him, as be entered the second saloon, " quo penzes sous mainte nant ?" M. I3arrot replied, " C'cst trey habila, M. Ic Ministrc," and M. Thiers was delighted, lie shuffled his spectacles a little nearer his eyes, doubt less that he might examine with more attention the move ments of the face of M. Barrot, and then continued, " Nlsintenant tout est fini." M. Barrott looked credulous, and simply said " Oui tout est fini dans la Vendee." This was not enough to satisfy M. Thiers. " All is finished every where, M. Barrot, not only in La Vendee, but every where. The hopes of the Le gitimists are finish: d ; the plots of the factions are finished; the opp@sitio n to our wise and moderate re volution is finished ; the'attacks to our form of Govern ment are unshed ; the secret enmities of foreign Powers are finished ; the reputation of the Bourbons is finished; the Henry V. party is finished ; the hope of recognising the throne i f France is finished ; the Carlists arc finished ; they can exist no longer as a party ; all predictions so in jurious to a new throne and new institutions arc finished ; in one word, tout est fini !" This was uttered with a rapidity almost inconceivable, and in an air of triumph almost burlesque. M. Barrot smiled—not sequiesculace, but a little good-humoured sa tire, and he seemed to say, " I am glad you have finished your harangue." M. Barrot was not convinced by the flourish of drums and trumpets which had just reached his ear ; but, as is the care with all who listen to M. Thiers, ho was at least amused. Few men can talk brttcr, that is more fluently and "co zily" than M. Tillers. lie goes on and on, and on an 1 on, never hunting for a word, never seeking for a phrase; but manceuvring with his tongue so ably that he actop all its accents and words without your percevingr it, to ti e emotions depicted on :your faces, or on the aucltory he is addressing. Coleridge was more ,eloquent than Thiers, but by no means so persuasive. TAJ7'S MAGAZINE. Miss Martineau's late romance, " The Hour and the Man," wherein she has shadowed forth the destinies of that extraordinary negro soldier and statesman, Toussaint L'Ouverture, forms the sub ject of one of those sensible critical notices for which Tait has always been celebrated. The Reviewer justly condemns Napoleon for his conduct towards this illustrious black chiel,who achieved the independ ence of St. Domingo, to the face of a thousand diffi culties ; but the condemnation might have been more severe, and still not have been more so than the circumstances of the case warranted. Tous saint was secretly murdered in a remote Swiss pri son by the expiess orders of the First Consul, for no other reason than that he was an inflexible, dis- interested, N high-souled patriot, whose example might in time have become dangerous to the system of despotism which it was sought to establish in France. Dazzled by, the splendour of his renown, we have long held the character of Napoleon in admiration ; and it is not without reluctance, therefore, that we have lately been brought to the conviction that it is one which will not bear tog close an investigation. It shows to the greatest advantage at a distance. With many great and good qualities, the French Emperor combined abundant paltry ones ; he was jealous, heartless, and vindictive ; and when we desire to think as highly of him as we once did, truth stands between us and our admit ation ; and we scarcely acknowledge even the long dreary imprisonment of St. Helena, to be a sufficient retribution for the murders of the heroic Hofer, and the still more heroic deliverer of St. Domingo. " France, England, and the Pal merston Policy," takes the people to task for not being sufficiently alive to the rumours of impending war. Why should we be ? Surely the pompous vapourings of M. niers are not such as should throw us into convulsions ! We are content tran quilly to bide our time, prepared for war, should war take place, but by no means anxious to pro voke it. We consider the present calm attitude of England to be, not the result of indifference, but the repose of a gi nt conscious of his strength, and careless, therefore f snaking a premature parade of it. The " Biograp ical Sketch of Beethoven" is an article which will give infinite delight to all readers. of musical tastes. " Violet Hamilton" runs its course rejoicingly. We subjoin a specimen of our friend Tait's poetics : Old year, good by ! with bumpers glowing, Around the couch of death we stand ! Thy coming once, as now thy going, We chanted, joining hand in hand! In draughts of punch we welcomed thee, And, pledging, sang Crambambuli ! Crambimbambuli, &c. Faithfully through thy short life by thee, Warm-hearted Burschen, firm we stood; Nor in thy hour of death will fly thee, Although thou wort not over-good. But still thou gav'st some moments bright, For which here's thanks in punch to-night ! True Crambimbambuli, &c., Sometimes our hearts did nearly fail us, Yoa let such jilts upon them seize! Sometimes an empty purse did quail us, No cash to pay for our degrees! But now 'tis over, we'll forget, Nor for such fleeting sorrows fret! But drink Crambambuli, Freely we grant thou bast had troubles To bother the eabroad, at home ! British flare-ups and Yankee bubbles, The hi, k, too, in a froth and foam ! And monarchs at their ancient tricks,-- Egyptians blowing up like bricks! Without Crambambuli, Scc. But, Shoutgo ! ou fo t r , successor ! shout out, Hail T. For our Princess, new-born (Gad bless her I) Of caudle sue he brings a pail ! But ammunition for the kings, I;'eercßucr°slenleienti.iy And grog for us he also brings I 'rile true Crambambuli, &c, New year, come on 1 .—we gladly bail thee, Our g lasses lifted up on high ; Nor s h , lll our cheers a moment fail thee, If with good luck our fates you ply : load, n d a s w true ewi to l b thee e g ki o n o d d , t a o s u s With Crambitubambuli, &c. thing out life's bowl to brew the measure, New Year! which thou for us bast planned ; Pour in the spirit strong of pleasure, With wisdom's water make it bland, — Love's lemon with joy's sugar link, The punch is made—we drink ! we drink ! This grand Crambambuli, &c. By the r6cent demise of Lord Bruce, the eldest son of Lord Elgin, his sister, Lady Mary Christopher, the Lady of the Member fur North Lincolnshire. has become the next in succession to an immense fortune, approaching to thirty thousand a year. TRULY YOURS." —To illustrate the asser tion, of on VI hat slight or erroneous grounds scandalous re ports may be based, I know an Italian gentleman who having received a note of invitation from an English lady of irreproachable morals, concluding in the usual way, T, u ly yours," took it to a friend, to whom he expreseed his regret and cnibatrassment at having unwillingly and unintentionally achieved the conquest of Lady -'s heat t. " Impossible," said the friend; " why Lady --• is one of the most reserved and correct women in Eng land." " Here is, however, the proof of my assertion," replied the Italian, drawing forth a merely civil invitation to dinner, and exhibiting it with an air of triumph, 4 ! what say you now ? vou cannot surely doubt her hand ?"...Lao) Blessinyton's Idler in Italy, Vol, 111.