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After which, the Nautical Drama, in Four Parts, called POOR JACK; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. In which Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the entire strengtk of the Company, will perform. To conclude with THE KING OF SPAIN AND HIS BARBER. The King, Mr. Henry llughes ; Gil Perez (the Barber), Mr. W. Smith. NOTICE. “ THE CHINA SUN ', Is again Out of Print, but will be REPRINTED shortly, with the NEXT NEWS from CHINA. THE RAILWAY SUN Is now NEARLY COMPLETED. We shall announce in a few days when it will appear. In the meantime we shall be happy to hear from the Secretaries of all Railway Companies the Latest Alterations in their TIME -TABLES, and any other News of Pub lie Interest relative to their concerns. Also the PROSPECTIVE TIME when any of the LINES will be further OPENED, and their probable COMPLETION. Sun Office, 20th March, 1841. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS :)AY. Morning...—. 47 minutes after 5 I Evening 14 minutes after 6. LONDON: MONDAY, MARCH t 9, Isl4l. According to a Tory Journal, the highest authority in the Church of England, the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY, " has felt it his duty to lay an injunction, or some equally binding order, on the Editors of the " Tracts for the Times," to cease from troubling the Church. Supposing that to be true, and supposing the Archbishop of CANTERBURY to have power to enforce such an order, and supposing, whatever may be hii power, that the order, out of respect for him, may be willingly obeyed, will such a termination of the heresy and schism in the Church (to be delivered from which is one of its weekly, if not daily prayers) be satisfactory ? We venture to assert that it will not. A very important question has been started by the Puseyites, namely, how far the Church of England, as governed and adminis tered up to this time, is suitable to the pre sent condition of society; and how far its doctrines, as hitherto taught, are adapted to the h o p e s and affections of man. They have an swered this question, or both questions, prac tically—which is the most forcible of answers —in the negative ; and they, in consequence, pro pose great alterations in the Church. Thei r enemies admit them to be men of integrity, of holiest purpose, of simplicity of life ; men of winning behaviour, of great knowledge .. and e , learnin • and it would equally belie their cha racters, the great progress they have already made, and the expectations of the public, to important questions, that their answers to these questions, and their inquiries to arrive at the truth, can be suppressed by the order of that amiable, but insignificant prelate, Dr. liowLx . v. Quench such a conflagration as that which consumed the two Houses of Parlia ment by a squirt, but do not think of ex tinguishing inquiries into the Church of Eng land, and hostile convictions, by the decree of an A.rohbishop. He has no authority to suppress discussion, and his attempt will only add to the materials for dispute which already exist. We have no doubt that the Archbishop, the Bishops, and the inferior clergy, would be ex tremely glad to suppie ss puseyism at any price, much less at so small a cost as an Archbishop's injunction. We have no doubt whatever that the supporters of the Church —the demanders of Church-rates, the denouncers Of Maynooth, the solicitors for Church extension, the advocates of Church supremacy and clerical intolerance —we have no doubt that the whole tribe of the holiest of-all men would think that Vie Archbishop has laid the Church of England under the deep est obligations," if he can so easily stop what its friends call the poisonous stream, and heal the rent which exposes its nakedness and deformity to the world; but the Archbishop has no such power. The public have taken up the question. The newspapers have ranged themselves on different sides. The character and influence of the Church, and the moral effects of its teaching, are matters of great political importance, and inquiries into them, after th e deductions L e d ' condemnations of the Puseyites, are not, we can assure the Church men, to be put a stop to by Dr. HOWLEY'S cora . mands. If Dr. PUSEY should be silenced, if Mr. NEWMAN should cease to preach and write, if Dr. SEWELL should be steady in his rat ting, if Dr. HOOK should prefer the plainness of Methodism to the blandishments of a quasi Po pery, other men will arise in the bosom of the Church itself, who will help the public to expose the faults and the vices of the corrupted and de caying institution. We hold the Puseyites to be quite right in their main and first conclusion, namely - , that the Church, as hitherto administered, has not an swered either the wants of society or the hopes of individuals. Dr. NEWMAN has said— " There is at this moment a great progress of the religi.us ' mind of our Church to something deeper and truer than satis fied the last century. The age is moving towards something, and most unhappily the one religious communion among us, which has of late years been practically in possession of this something, is the Church of Rome. She alone, amid all the errors and evils of her practical system, has given free scope to the feelings of awe, mystery, tenderness, devotedness, and other feelings which may be especially called Catholic. The question then is, whether we shall give them up to the Roman Church, or claim them for ourselves, as well we may, by revert ing to that older system which has of late years indeed been superseded, but which has been, and is, quite congenial (to say the least), I should rather say proper and natural, to our Church. But if we do give them up, then we must give up the men who cherish them. We must consent either to give up the men or the principles." A High Church authority explains this to mean—and there can be no question about it— that the Church of England, as at present con stituted, with her creeds, her liturgy, her homi lieS, are not sufficient to satisfy the age. There fore Mr. NEWMAN and his friends seek after something deeper and truer. That is the great truth which the Puseyites maintain —their first discovery; but, with singular obtuseness, they search only amongst the despised mummeries of a departed age for means to satisfy the wants of this age, though its own feelings and tendencies have (and nothing else) forced on them the con viction of the inefficiency of the Church. In stead of seeking, in the knowledge of the age, for the means of satisfying its wants, the Pusey ites go back to the Fathers. Mr. NEWMAN has no concealment about him. lie maintains boldly that the Church of Rome is in possession of that something which is to satisfy the age! SHE A LONE, not the Church ofEngland, he says, gives free scope to awe and mystery, or, in other words, cherishes the vague and puts down the tangible. She alone keeps alive those feelings of devotedness and tenderness on which the priesthood fasten their iron hooks to hoist them selves into greatness ; and though the eulogium is somewhat scandalous in a member of that Church which has been persecuting Rome po litically for many years, on account of tendencies the reverse of these, it is not the less instruc tive, as a clue to what these new reformers of re- tigion propose. The Church of Rome, according to the plain speaking Mr. NEWMAN, is the steadfast adherent of that older system, which has of late years been superseded; and the Church of England must, he says, conform to the practices of Rome, or it must lose the votaries who will have the vague, the mystical, and the awful. In plain language, if the Church of England, ac cording to Mr. NEWMAN, does not go back to the Church of Rome, it will be deserted. He has a logical mind. He feels that there is no stopping half way with a mystery. Men cannot believe a part, and deny a part. Mr. NEWMAN is a believer in the mys teries of the Church; he perceives, however, that they do not satisfy this inquiring age, and lie flees to Rome—there, amidst the awe and mystery of the theatrical celebration of Easter at St. Peter's, he fixes the anchor of his hope and his faith. The first discovery of the Pusey ites is a great truth; their deduction from the Church dogmas, that safety is only to be found through Rome, will be scouted and decried by all but the slaves of the Papacy. Dr. PUSEY and his friends, however, teach doctrines too congenial to the Church of Eng land for that Church to be able to put them down. Presbyterianism denounced as no Church at all, while the ordination of a Pa pal priest holds good in the Church of England—is what the Church dreads, not the quasi Popery of Mr. NEWMAN and his friends. Accordingly, at the eleventh hour his doctrine is censured, not because it is unchristian, contrary to the Gospel, and opposed to tradition and apcstolical succession, all of which the Church cherishes, but because it is contrary to the statutes of the University. If Dr. HOWLEY is only to receive the thanks of the Church when he has succeeded in putting down this important investigation—if the Church will not accept the will for the deed, the poor Archbishop, we may safely prognosticate, will descend to his grave without the plaudits of the Church. The Puseyite heresy has too much truth in it to be blown out by the motion of one of his lawn sleeves. We were a good deal interested by reading a few days ago in the Morning Post the following description of a gentleman who was lately the Governor of the Bank of England, and of course was one of the most conspicuous merchants of the City of London : The balance-sheet handed into the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, in behalf of Sir. Timothy A. Curtis, has been scru tinised with extraordinary interest, the items of which it is composed being, in certain instances, of a very startling cha racter. Mr. Curtis's debits, on his private account, are put down at the considerable total of 106,6921. 15s. 2d., of which the portion comprising the original capital brought by him into the business of Garry and Curtis, in 1819, was 1,774/. 13s. To this it is proper to add, as a gift of Sir W. Curtis, 5,047/., and, as a legacy received out of Sir William's estate, at his de cease, 1,9801. further, the three items forming an aggregate of 8,7711. 135., or less than one-twelfth pa , t of the debits. Mr. Curtis takes credit, on account of bad debts, for 6,0601., and on account of losses, for 27,252/. 16s. 4d., which sums form, etween them, it will be allowed, no mean amount; but, when the expenditure comes to be brou g ht simultaneously into view, and it is seen that, between 1819 and 1841, Mr. Curtis has taken out of the concern as much as 53,130/. 125., or 2,500/. a• year for expenses, it becomes a subject of astoni s h ment to our I grave, plain, matter-of-fact men of business how he should , have been able, with his insignificant capital of 8,771/. 13s , to maintain his position so long. Mr. Curtis debits himself with 14,500/. for sums obtained from dif ferent directions, including 4,600/. from the Banic of England, 4,3501. from the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, 1,800/. from the Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, 2,4001. from the Marine Assurance, and 1,350/., from the London Dock Company. The withdrawal of amounts like these from the funds of the Companies to which they are appli cable, while it has done but little for the creditors of Alr. Curtis, serves, on the other hand, to disgust the shareholders of such bodies, and to render them exceedingly dissatisfied with the poor dividends they are in many cases receiving on their investments. It is, moreover, deemed to be most objection able that an individual with the very slender pecuniary means possessed by Mr. Curtis, and with a business the reverse of prosperous, should have been permitted to occupy a seat at the Council table of our National Bank, availing himself during the time, as he appears to have done, of a credit with the establishment out of which a loss has been realised by the tjeheetedthe balance-sheet, arairs of tak A e ir n . prop r i e t ors b e y on d th e amount o f hi s capital. The aspect of t whole, o a se verity i ssuc has of to criticismh es Curtisuabo asa have seldoin witnessed man •'1 and similar occasion, and we should have failed to give a fair . outline of t h e movements of the day had we o m i tted to say so We occasionally hear a great deal about stagna tion of trade dan want of credit in the City for our • or our parts, with such occurrences, we are surprised that there is any credit at all, and that trad • not wholly e x ti nguished. es r. CURTIS, bearing one of the best known M names in the City, is by no means a solitary example of a gentleman who has lately caused considerable surprise, not to say consternation. The Messrs. TEFIORE, who lately failed, bore a name ° l l l - - most as well known as that of Mr. CURTIS; and we believe that City people look with as much astonishment at their gigantic undertaking s , an d their actual amount of capital, as they look at Mr. CURTIS'S balance-sheet. Such circumstanc es occurring amongst the best known men in the City, may well create universal distrust. If the Governor of the Bank, the Director of the Imperial Brazilian Mining Company, of the Alliance Fire and Life Assurance Office, of the Marine Assurance, and the London Dock Corn sbe not a trustworthy merchant, where shall we find one? If he be false and hol low, what merchant in the City of London shall be looked on as sound and substantial ? If the gentlemen of the City be not habitually aware how much of hollowness there is amongst them, we can scarcely conceive their vast asto nishment at witnessing the dissection of Mr. CURTIS'S affairs. There is a moral belonging to this state of things In the City, for the sake of which we refer to it, not from a wish to make remarks painful to individuals. But when gentlemen are in such a condition of doubtful solvency, we can well un stand that they must look with dread and horror at any proposed change which, like the total and immediate abolition of the Corn-laws, may per chance lower the value of the goods they hold, a poor 5 per cent. The want_of patriotism in the City of London may be perhaps explained by the balance-sheet of Mr. CURTIS. The following extract from a letter from Bris tol, was posted at the North and South American Coffee-house on Saturday. It has created rather a stir in the city, as implying a doubt of the probability of our maintaining friendly relations with the United States :- 4 , The intended departure of the Great Western is deferred from the 3d to Thursday, Bth of April, when she proceeds to New York, calling at Halifax for intehigence as to ear politi cal relations with the United States, as also to take in coals to ensure her return to Halifax, in the event of Captain Hoskins obtaining any information, when or Sandy Hook, which may cause him to consider it dangerous to enter the harbour of New York." We received last night the Flanders and Dutch Mail, with accounts from the Hague, Am sterdam, Brussels, Vienna, and Constantinople, but they contain no news of importance. The following is the state of the Money Market up to the latest dates in some of the Continental States : DUTCH FUNDS.. —AMSTERDAM, MARCH £6 Money. di' 's. actual Debt, 2% per Cent Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amen Si - ndic,4% per cent B--% B,N Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7i% 71% Ce.rnmercial Company, 4' per cent 1(3% 64% Ditto (1835 and 1637) 5 per cent...... Loan 137, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months Dutch Papers, March 26. BELGIAN I. U N DS...BRUSSELS, MARCY 25 Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 98% `Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. B9 • 2 per Cent. — (1.40) 9S Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent B9 Society of Commerce, 4%per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .. 77 National Society, Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vtamts, Masten IS rive per Cents. Metalliques Foar per Cents. 99 Three per Cents. 13ank Marts 3(25 ..-Allgoneine Zetlung, Mareh 1'.3 PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BERLIN, ;MARCH 23 Bids. Money St. Schuld. Sch., 4k per cent lO A 11.3t4 Pruslian English aan, 1830, 4 per cent. 100 i, 100N1 Exchange on London, three months 6 13% —Prussian Stale Gazette, March 24. HAMBU RG BORSENHALLE, MARcii 23 Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l6lO Anglo-Russian Loan 106% 106% Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Sears ICI Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... 911% -.- Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe - Cent 49 49 Ditto 5 per Cent — Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 13% 73% N,twegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cont — Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCO 23.-13 s%.—Two months, 13 ax. BREMEN, MARCO 19 —Tao months, 6 15. Thirty.seven• The Madrid Papers received, are of the 18th inst. They contain no news of any interest to an English reader. The Journals are much di vided about the Regency question. Some are for one Regent, others for three. The Five per Cents. were 27i for cash, and at 27i at 60 days. The Paris Journals of Thursday have al reached us. The Messager of Wednesday nigh . has the following telegraphic despatch : " MARSEILLES, MARCH 24. " THE PREFECT OF THE DOUCHE DU RHONE TO THE MINIS. TER OF THE INTERIOR. " Some anarchists of the lowest class attempted a movement last night. We were on our guard. From 12 to 15 indivi duals, most of them bearers of arms and cartridges, have been arrested. Justice is pursuing her course of inquiries. Every thing is perfectly tranquil." Thursday's Journals are occupied with the de bate in the Chamber of Peers, on the Fortifica tions Bill. In the meantime the works are pro gressing rapidly. Should the Bill be much de layed, the Bill will only be wanted to sanction the defraying the expenses of the Fortifications. The French Chamber of Deputies has fixed the copyright in books and prints at thirty years after the death of the author. The Palace of the Elysee Bourbon was fitting out for the reception of Queen Christina, who was shortly expected in Paris. Her Majesty intends making that palace her winter residence, and to spend the summer in Meudon. The Augs burg Gazette announces her arrival at Venice on the 14th. A letter from Milan mentions the following melancholy ter mination of the life of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky, Com mander-in-Chief of the Austrian Army in Italy:—" This distinguished officer had for some time been afflicted with a complaint in his eyes, which at length degenerated into a can cer. For a long while no one would venture to acquaint him with the real state of the case, but at last his physicians, on being urged by him to tell the truth, explained the dangerous nature of the disease. He received the information with ap parent firmness, but as soon as he was left atone in his cham ber, he took one of his pistols, which always. hung by his bed side, and shot himself. The Austrian army has thus lost one of its most able commanders." The Droit furnishes us with the following singular story "In 1829, M. S., a F r e nc h man , arrive in London from Paraguay, where he had passed 15 years in the service of the arbitrary and eccentric Dr. Francia. Soon atter his arrival M. S. formed a close intimacy with a fellow -countryman who lived in the same hotel, to whom he related his whole history, informing him that he was about to proceed to Paris to see his only relation, an uncle, who was an honorary canon of the Chapter of a t Denis, with a fortune amounting to 15,000 f. a year, to which he, M. S., was the only legi timate heir, and that he had with him in his trunk all the necessary documents for proving his identity, as he doubted whether his uncle, who was 80 years of age, would recollect him. It was agreed between the two friends that they should 1 1 set off together for F r a nce , b u t i n th e even i ng b e f ore the day ' fixed for their departure M. S. was arrested and taken to Worship-street, on a charge of having forged some Bank of England notes. His pocket-book, which he had about him, was examined, and in it were ten notes, four of which were ascertained to be forged, M. S. was committed. On reach ing the prison he sent for his friend, M. 8., and received for answer that he was gone, with all M. S.'s baggage arid his own, on board a steam-packet, having first paid their joint bills. It was in vain that poor S. stated and proved these circumstances, and pretested that the forged notes were received by him of B. He was brought to trial, con victed, sentenced to be transported for ten years, and sent to Botany Bay. In the meantime B. came to Paris, presented himself to the old Canon as his nephew, assuming his name, and, by means of the documents in his possession, so com pletely imposed himself upon the aged ecclesiastic as his nephew, that when he died, two years afterwards, he made the pretender sole inheritor by wi.l of all his property. After a lapse of 11 years, M. S. was at last carried back from Botmy Bay to London, and thence made his way to Paris. After two months search M. S. has discovered the retreat of 8., and claimed the fortune and name of which he had been robbed by him. 8., of course, rraintains himself to be the true ne t ,hew, and proclaims the claimant to lie the impostor. A suit is about to be commenced which cannot fail of being long and intricate ' • for not only will it he difficult f o r S. t o maintain his case by proofs, on account of his many years ab sence from France, but it is a question whether he is not pre eluded by the law of prescription. The interest of this case is greatly heightened by the circumstance that B. has fur the last six years been living in one of the northern towns of France, making a most honourable use of his wealth, was two years ago married to the daughter of one of the greatest landowners of the department, and had, it is said, in contemplation to offer himself as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies at the next election.— Galignani. THE BORDEAUX BEAUTIES.—Nowhere can wittier, more elegant, and handsomer women be found than at Bordeaux. Bordeaux is really the hothouse of France; women bloom here in all seasons ; they have the gracefulness of French, the flexi bility, vivacity, and velvet looks of Spanish, and the fine, transparent complexions of English women. Last year a book, entitled " Les Belles Femmes de Paris," was publ . shed. Pooh ! the beautiful women of Paris ! It is to Bordeaux you must come to see beautiful women. If, in the late Carnival, you had seen our delicate beauties at work—if you had been able to measure with your eye all the slices of pie, all the sand wiches, cups of chocolate, soups, sorbets, orgeat, punch, and cakes of all sorts which they swallowed up, you would have been as astonished as myself at the size of their charming sto machs.— Bordeaux Print. FRANKFORT, MARCIE 20.—The drill of the German press is so complete, and the Prussian State Gazette is so chary of communications respecting the proceedings of the Diets in the Prussian provinces, that you will be glad to hear something of their doings from private sources. The Estates of the pro vinces of Prussia still take the lead. On the Bth instant the resolutions recommended by the committee appointed to con sider the Royal propositions were submitted to the Diet assembled in full, and were adopted by a large ma , jority. The first declaration, that " the committees, whose appointment is recommended by the King, are viewed as forming, the transition to a development of the representative institutions," was adopted against a minority of ten votes, the total number of voters being 98 The amendment further proposed that the permanent com mittee to be chosen should only be empowered to act in con junction with the committees of all the other Diets, or at least with several of them : passed against a minority of only five voices. The proposal that the standing committee should not bweit_hchatisieztbeymEa majority, but by the lull Diet, met with more op pporsoivtiidoendthwaniththe preceding resolutions, but passed at length Marseilles Th ete telegraphic despatch i d e e n s e p d a tch respectingse Somethe d fi i f s t t e u e r n b a p n e c r e s se persons, e must have been apretty muskets asnodmeesaurtrrpirdige.s, tt igue t r o a n nt t „e o ther risen in opposif considerable assemblage that had whetherthe aut authorities. r w i t s i s e s a . s e d 1 ); The t a i e n i laconic , leaves U 3 1 - • that caused the conflict at M • arseilles, as well as in other places, and in the state in which things now are we may expect to see symptoms of the disquietude which generally prevails manifest e a nr ii c e o despatchns p arrested; r . tc y The accounts f r om . La Gazette de France. Holland which, as they state,• speak of a great fermentation, manifests itself population of all classes, in amongst the Protestant an nounced by the King to carry into l e f ffect the concordat concluded in from the Hague, the King, notwiTise may give credit to a letter some of the wrongs of his father etandine hit desire to repair subjects will be forced to give wards his Roman Catholic up the execution o f this con cordat, on the ground that the concord eluded during the union with Belgium, wathen the m haulm been of been con the nation was Catholic, cannot be suitable now that the ma jority is Protestant. A Toulon journal t e en tne e dela Marine) hie despatch had just been of the 21st, says that a telegrap ing the Cornaline corvette, Captain Desfosses, to be inreadi ness to the Levant with despatches and • to proceed with spare stores for the light vess els stationed in these seas, —Le Commerce. BOURSE.--PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 25. f irs t Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pricy. Price 11l 85 ... 111 00 ~ . 11155.. ill 65 French 5 per Cents 4 per Cents t 50 ... Ott 50 ... 90 50 .., gg r i o 77 25 77 30 ... 7 7 15 ... .21 15 3 per Cents 3120 r.. 3120 ...3090 ..3090 Bank of terance .....,_, LAM* Bank I,ooof. sh.. 1055 ...1 055 ...1055 ...1035 50004 Shares 5115 ...0105 „.510* ~.6165 „ •%,.,” 110 4 ta " • -7. a - ta' 3 ,, j .....,, trit „..... THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1841 ilelglan Bank 5 per Cents IOZ ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 New Loan WITi ". 1 , 1% .. 104% ... 101% 4 psnisli Active. Passive sit ... 5 ... 514 .. 5% s; eapolitan Rornan RAILWAY SHARES. 720 ... 720 ... 720 ... 710 350 ... 390 ... 3.1 25 ... 381 25 307 51 ... 707 50 ... 705 ... 305 420 ... 42) ... 420 ... 421 400 ... 41:0 ... 400 ... 400 255 ... 235 ...:35 ... 235 R. Germain Versailles, K. B L. F. I , lulhausen to Thann Bordeaux to La 1 este ...... Strasburg to Bale COUNTING OUT THE HOUSE.—The Spectator is very angry with General Johnson tbr having counted out the House when Mr. Grote brought forward a pet motion concerning New South Wales. W e are bound to defend his conduct, be cause we approve of it. There were only thirty Membei s present, and it is quite right to stop all business which it is proposed to carry on by such a small number of Members. If at the close of the evening, it was not customary for some half dozen or, a dozen gentlemen to transact a great many matters of routine unchecked—if, when ever there were less titan the required number of Members present to constitute a House, General Johnson, or some other Member, were always to count it out, and never allow any business to be transacted without a quorum, the Members would attend more, and being constrained to attend more, they would put a stop to much of the idle talk that now wastes the time of the House. Mr. Grote's motion was, according to the Spectator, one of great importance both to the colony and the people of England, and it was a disgrace to the House of Commons to allow such a motion to be discussed in the presence of only thirty Mem bers. How could the ignorance of the House be instructed, as the Spectator says, when there were so few to hear Mr. Grote ? To designate such an assertion properly, we must call it fudge; and all fudge, including that of supposing the House of Commons to be assembled when a little clique of twenty or thirty Members are gathered together ought to be put an end to by every ho nest man who possesses the power -to put an end to it. In our estimation it is of far more conse quence to inform the people of England how the Members of the House of Commons attend to their duties than to listen to Doctrinaire Grote on giving more money or labour to New South Wales; and we therefore cordially thank General Johnson for having been the means of informing the people of England that out of 658 Members only 30 attended to their business on Thursday, " a working At the same time, we may mention that Mr. Grote's motion, without the consent of the Crown, which was • not and would not have been given, could not have been put, and it would have come to nothing, whether Ge neral Johnson had interfered or not. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 26. —The tram actions in our Cotton Market this week are moderate, but with out any change in prices, which remain the same as at the close of last week. Speculators have taken 3,380 bales of American, exporters 180 bales. The sales to-day are about 2,500 to 3,000 bales, with rather firm prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 26.—The following comprise the transactions as reported at the close of the Stock Exchange :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 33i ; Grand Junction, 203 ; Glasgow and Ayrshire, 38*; Lancaster and Preston New Shares, '23 3 / 4 . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.—Manches ter and Leeds, 66i to 67; Ditto Halves, 28i to 284; Man chester and Birmingham, 24* to 244 ; London and Birming ham, 170 to 171 ; London and South Western, 54 to 55 ; Midland Counties, 79 to 80. Accounts from Odessa of the 15th of February state that the port being closed by the ice the most part of January had stopped the activity of the ex' erior commerce. The exporta tion amounted to 202,445 fubles in money, and the importa tions to 169,475 rubles 50 cop. ; there were sent into the inte rior to the amount of 166 360 cop.; during the year 1840 there arrived in the Port of Kherson 694 ships, and left 680. A notice was posted yesterday at Lloyd's, respecting a ship of 1,100 tons, which sailed from London to Sydney and Port Phillip in October last, to give immediate information to the Secretary relative to shipments, owing to some reports concern ing the above vessel. Consols opened this morning at 88i for the Account, at pre sent may be quoted 881 89; Money 883 4, with scarce any thing doing as yet. Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. In the foreign market Spanish Active as it left off, 23i 3, Deferred 12* Passive 54 I, Portugues, , rather better 32* 2 4 , Tree per Cents, 19* 4, Brazilian 71 72, Colombian, 221, Mexican 30*, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, left off 50i 51i, at present 503 ; Five per Cents. 99& 100*. SseAaxs.—Great Western 24 1 25i prem. ; New 11* 12* prem. ; London and Brighton 6i 54 dis. ; Blackwall 6 dis. ; Birmingham 61 63 prem. ; Southampton 54i 5.5 i per share ; Croydon 12* 4 per share; Greenwich 74 8* per share ; Man chester and Birmingham 16 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid, Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 78i to Bristol and Exeter........ 6O ...... 36 .. Great Western Ditto New Ditto Fifths London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O lsl Ditto New .. London and South Western .38i 55 to - , North Midland . lOO / 7:31 to We still continue with the same anxiety for the arrival of the President steamer, from New York ; it is stated that she has permission to be detained forty-eight hours at the request of Mr. Fox ; if this event has taken place, she would not sail until the 12th or 13th inst. The British funifshavebeen inactive during the course of the morning, and Consols may be quoted at present 88z, 89 for the amount ; Money rather better 88 ; Exchequer Bills, ss. 7s. premium. The Foreign Market is in the same state as that o f th e Bri tish, without a feature worth notice. In Spanish nothing, done. Portuguese rather better, 324 ; Three per Cents. 191; Mexi can 30h ; Dutch nothing dune. In Shares some business has been doing, market firm as on yesterday ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 78i ; Bristol and Exeter, 36; Great Western, 90; Ditt o N ew, 62k; Ditto Fifths, 104: London and Brighton, 43/ ; London and Bir mingham, 152 ; London and South Western, 55 ; North Mid land, 75/. Consols, Money, 884 ; Account, 881:8 9 ; Mexican, 301 ; s P p o an rtu is g h u , e 2 se 3 f 23 ive i. per Cents. 32 ; Three per C en t s ., 19i ; No intelligence of the arrival of the President at Liverpool. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. ... I n di a Stock Bank Stock 3 per Cent Red 3 per Cent Cons B9l IDitto Old An nu iti es ... 31 per Cent Red.. Ditto New Annuities... 86,i New 3 per Cent ' 971 'Ex. Bill s , 1,000/....2-id 7pm 1 New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 7p m m Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9 Jan. 1860 • Bank Stock fo r Op r p i -- ,oc.x ior upg. ... Oct 1859 — India St oc k f or C pg. ••• Jan. 1860. — Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS, Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent loli Ditto, New Ditto 32* Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per c e n t. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent :23 Russian, 5 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, 1824. ... ..... !Ditto, Deferred ... -- Danish, 3 per cent Greek, 18:15, 5 per cent — ;Exchange —f. —e. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30 !French, 3 percent --f. --e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 50/ Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent — SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 78i Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) 19* London and Bilmingharn Railway (90 pd) 152 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and . Greenwich Railway (20 pd) Ditto Scrip. (3 paid).,,,,,,., 4i London and South Western ... ........... 55 Ditto Tenths . London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2i North Midland Railway (100 paid)...,,. .., Ditto New Shares (40 paid) South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... . 17 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 79i DUNDEE, MARCH IL—IMPORTANT DlS pMrer.veNnvtaiviei, against of ac t h h e e a pco destructionm potie n c , p e s o b rn y r lere COVRRY.— A very important discovery has been made by au ' l h e i d ch to il sh a i bar nacles and other sea insects. For a long period t f years copper has been used for this purpose, which completely answers the end, so fir as protection to the vessel alone is concerned. The only objection to the tr:e of copper is its great expense, and cite rapidity with which it is corroded. The average expense of coppering is upwards of IL per ton; and so rapid is the corrosion caused by the air and the sea water, that the copper requires to be renewed every five or six years. Sir Humphrey Davy endeavoured to remedy these objections to th, use f copper by placing sheets of z'iric in contact with it, which almost entirely prevented the corrosion and destruction of the copper ; but, unfortunately for the discovery of this great chemist, it was found that the means he used to preserve the copper rendered it use -I..ss as a prottetion against sea worms, the poisonous substance that formed doling the corrosion of the copper being found to be almost the sole cause of its protecting powers. The great advantage of the disco very of Mr. Wall consists in this, that he covers the cop per with a thin coating of poisonous composition, which, while it completely resists corrosion, by its poisonous qualities also prevents all destruction to the vessel by ma rine insects. The composition may be applied to iron, zinc, or any other cheap metal, which, wten coated over with, preserves ships as well as ccpper does. The pre pared zinc is about one-half, and the iron about one-third, the expense of copper.—Edinburgh Observer. MARIE ANTONIETTE.—I ventured a few words of consolation, hinting that times were now im prosing, and that her popularity and happiness would be res'ored. She shook her head. We were alone. I knew not hew I was worked up to it, or had courage to make the proposal; but I did so—that if she thought herself in danger, my services were at her command, and that she could come with me to England in the disguise of my maid, whom I could easily dispose of by sending her under some pretext to her friends at St. Germain. She thanked me, and smiled faintly, but said nothing would induce her to leave htr family. She added that she had refused other offers of the same sort. " Besides" —and she looked round—" si je voulais, cela ne se pourrail pas; I ity a trop d' es pi ons ." I took leave of her with regret and affection.—Swinburne's Courts of Europe. No. 27, Hatton-garden was, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. the residence of the _Lord Chancellor, Sid Christopher Helton.; EMIGRATION. We see that this subject is attracting attention in Germany as well as England, and a remark in a late number of the Allgemeine Zeitung, teaches by one word that there is much more in this subject than our common philosophy has sounded. It is there stated that unless the Germans go to South America in musses, they cannot hope to withstand the barbarism by which they will be surrounded. They will fall into the savage or semi-savage state. But if they go in masses, the opinion is they will be preserved from it. This opinion seems to be correct. It is the massing together of human beings, mutually satis fying their wants, on easy terms, by the divi sion of labour, which promotes civilization. Now, to the massing of people together, the selling or letting land on the Wakefield plan, is not essential. Scarcity of land is incidental to the peculiar, condition of Europe : it is much less stringent, however, looking at the number of population on a square mile, in Germany than in Ireland, yet the want of room is equally felt in both. But this incidental and unessential cir cumstance has been made the basis of our emi gration system. Unfortunately the Colonial office, because it yields a large land fund, to add to the sums which it has to disburse, has readily adopted this scheme, and the unessential circum stance is made the guide of our national councils. Barbarism, and a few and scanty popula tion, are identical. , All the known improve ments in society have originated amongst a comparatively dense population. The wisdom of God is not the wisdom of man, and hence the very circumstance of powerful Indian tribes being found in the vicinity of the first settlers from Great Britain in North America, which they experienced to be a great evil, kept them cemented together, and prevented them from falling into barbarism, by scattering themselves ' sparingly over that continent. Hence we say with the German Journalist, it is massing and keeping human beings together which is the essential circumstance to promote civilization. The present plan ofobtaining that end is for some power to seize on land, and put a high price on it, transporting with the money so obtained to the spot 'sold a great number of labourers. This scheme, establishing a proprietary and a labour class, distinguished from, and opposed to, each other, carries with it all the evils of a European monarchical society. Looking at the present contrasted condition of these two classes, of advantage we think to neither, we conclude it cannot be for the permanent benefit of mankind to perpetuate, by an artificial contrivance, such a peculiar and not happy condition. The object being the condensation of a considerable number of hu man beings, not the separation of mankind into landowners and over-toiled and under-paid 'la bourers, it would probably be as well obtained by a voluntary association, sensible of the princi ple on which it depends, as by the Government claiming the possession of the soil, and selling it for large sums, which are not always appropriated to the purposes for which they are obtained. We throw out this hint for the consideration of those who are now with great propriety intent on emigration, but who waste, we think, their re sources by buying land of Government, or of usurping companies and quackish adventurers IRELAND. The following is the letter of Lord Ebrington to the Duke of Leinster, announcing a subscription of 200/. to the Irish Agricultural Association, which we noticed some days ago. The letter is characteristic of the good sense and kind disposition of the present Lord• Lie u. tenant of Ireland : "Dublin Castle, March 12, 1841. "My dear Duke,--I request that you will have the goodness to announce to the Committee of the Irish Agricultural Society a contribution from me of 2001. "I have abstained from offering this at an earlie, period of your proceedings from no want of interest it their success, but under an impression that that success would be based on a surer foundation from the spon taneous liberality and public spirit of Irish gentlemen than from any additional stimulus which my co-opera tion, as the head of the Government, could have gives, to the outset of the undertaking. " Tne result has fully borne out my expectations, an( l whilst the general principle of the English and Hightail( Agricultural Societies will, I believe, furnish you tilt beet materials wherewith to form one for Ireland, tht composition of the Committee, of which your Grace i the Chairman, affords a full guarantee that these prin. ciples will be judiciously and beneficially adapted to this country.—l am always, my dear Duke, yours very sincerely, "EBRINGTON. " The Duke of Leinster." GREENOCK.---OPENIN G OF THE RAILWAY. —Monday two locotrotives with twelve waggons loaded with coke arrived at the terminus, direct from Glasgow. At Paisley the arrival of the train was hailed with cheers. and on arriving at Bishopton the workmen and villagers turned out and welcomed the unexpected visitors by tre mendous cheering. The trains, in coming over the line, were stopped on every arch, and thus tried the stability of the works. The first train ran over the whole line of the railway the very day that the stupendous and magnificent ater-wheel of the cotton-mill performed its first revolu tions. Tee3day next the Et:rectors and Shareholders are to proceed from this town to Glasgow by the railway ; and, on the following day, the line is to be open to the public. We congratulate our readers on the near completion of a work fr.,m which we confidently anticipate much conve nience tl individuals, and great benefit to the t0wn...... Glasgow Chronicle. SHAMEFUL AND UNFEELING FRAUD.—We have received a number of communications, in reference to the scandalous fraud perpetrated upon mechar.ics and others by offering them engagements in New York, on condition of their send,ng a sovereign each, to secure registration ; but, as these do not add materially to the facts detailed in the Guardian on Wednesday, we do not think it neces sary to publish any of them. From what has come to our knowle,:ge on the subject, we are inclined to think that many of those who have been imposed upon by the letters of Mr. WaahinOon Percival, and induced to send a sove reign each to No. '2, Oxford-street. will recover their money; as tie seems to have taken alarm at something which be saw or heard, and discontinued his visits to the house, before any large number of letters had arrived. One communication which we have received, states that there were in the care of the police as many letters as a man could hold in both hands, many of them evidently contain ing money er orders. We believe it will turn out that no letters which arrived in London after the Itith instant would fall into the bands of the swindlers; and those parties who transmitted money on or after that day would do well to address letters to the head Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard, London, re. questing that their money may be returned; taking care at the same time, to Rive very careful and clear directions as to the mode in which letters are to be addressed so av to find th-m.—Marichester Guardian. CuA RTIST VINDICATION.—Mr. Hethering ton, in a letter to the Chronicle, attempts a vindication of the sarong-headedness of the Chartists. Failing in novel arguments, he int oduces the story of the cock. " The worki , g classes who a'tend public meetings are beginning to take a right view of th. it position . They view the parties calling a public meeting, for any purpose not in cluding the suffr,ge, in the light of the rustic who was re pteiented convoking the poultry of his barn-yard, with this opening address;—' Dear animals, I have assembled you to advise me what sauce I shall dress you with ;' to whieu a cock responding, We don't want to be eaten,' is cheekqd by You wander from the point.' Just so with you, Sir. When we demand political justice and protec tion above all otter thing:, you tell us that we wane.e. from the point,' and ' deprecate' public meetings, called for the express purpose of asking the cocks what sauce they shall be dressed with—being thus violently thrust into abeyance.'" REVISION OF OUR COMMERCIAL CODE.-- On Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, pursuant to notice, the Mayor presided at a public meeting held for the above purpose in the Town-hall. Mr. T. H. Higgin then moved the adoption of a petition, praying Pat hareem to re%iie the whole of our Commercial Code. Mr. J. Armstrong seconded the adoption of this proposition. A mechanic of the name of Lund,seconded by another named Addison, moved an amendment, to the effect that the work ing classes were much interested in this discussion, and that therefore it should be adjourned until half-pa3t seven-, in order to give them an opportunity of attend Lg. Agreed to. At the adjourned meeting Mr. John Greg made a few re ' marks. Thomas Lund, a Chartist, said the Chartists are favourable as any man can be to free trade, yet we differ from many tbi.igs the last speaker has said. The Whigs have given us some good measures, but they have also with them given us bushels of evil. Look at the continuance cf the war system. Is it right to increase our coinrre, C 3 and extend the Gospel at the point of the bayonet ? He despaired under the present system of ever seeing the tights of the people attended to, and therefore should move, as an amendment, that the charter, as a means to ai end, take pri: rlty of all other measure?. This amendment was seconded by another Chartist. The Mayor said that the amendment proposed by Lund could not be put. Mr. T. H. Higgin agreed with what the Mayor had said. The original motion was carried. After thanking the Mayor the meeting separated. ....-Lancashire Guardian. We hear that some curious discoveries of old coins, bones, &c., have lately been made in pulling down the French Protestant church in Theadneedle.street, by Mr. Moxbay, the purchaser of the ground from the City. One of the coins appears (although the image and super scription are almost entirely effaced) to be one of Char'es l.'s reign. From a reference to old books and records, the space in the immediate vicinity of the French church, which is enclosed on one side by Threadneedle. street, and on the other by Old Broad-street, was for. tnerly laid out in gardens, LITERATURE. MOORE'S POETICAL WORKS, Voz. Longman, London, 1841. In his preface to this volume, Mr. Moore gives some interesting particulars respecting Lalla Rookh, the most successful, with the exception perhaps of the Irish Melodies, of all his poems. After stating that a negotiation was opened on the subject with the Longmans in the year 1812, and that the late Mr. Perry offered himself as the poet's representative in the treaty, he goes on to say—" The short discussion that then took place between the two parties, may be comprised in a very few sentences. lam of opinion,' said Mr. Perry, enforcing his view of the case by argu ments which it is not for me to cite, that Mr. Moore ought to receive for his poem the largest price that has been given, in our day, for such a work.' That was,' answered the Messrs. Long man, 'three thousand guineas.' ' Exactly so,' replied Mr. Perry, and no less a sum ought he to receive.' It was then objected, and very rea sonably, on the part of the firm, that they had never yet seen a single line of the poem; and that a perusal of the work ought to be allowed to them, before they embarked so large a sum in the purchase. But no, the romantic view which my friend Perry took of the matter was, that this price should. be given as a tribute to repu tation already acquired, without any condition for a previous perusal of the new work. This high tone, I must confess, not a little startled and alarmed me ; but, to the honour and glory of romance—as well on the publisher's side as the poet's—this very generous view of the trans action was, without any difficulty, acceded to, and the firm agreed, before we separated, that I was to receive three thousand guineas for my poem." At this period, scarcely a line of Lalla ftookh, as it at present stands, had been written ; but in the year 1816, it was sufficiently advanced to be placed in the publishers' hands. Alluding to the time spent in its composition, Mr. Moore tells us that he had been "at all times a far more slow and painstaking workman than would ever be guessed." This confession does not at all take us by- surprise. for we have no great faith in what may be called the impromptu inspirations of ge nius, and cordially agree with Sheridan that very often " your easy writing is d—d hard reading.' Genius, if it desire to display itself to advantage, and make its fine powers appreciated; must labour, and labour hard .too; it must dig deep for the golden ore of thought and sentiment, and not content itself with that which comes readiest to hand, and lies on the surface. But to resume our quotations : Having thus laid open the secrets of the workshop to ac count for the time expended in writing this work, I must also, in justice to my own industry, notice the pains I took in long and laboriously reading for it. To form a store-house, as it were, of illustration purely Oriental, and so familiarise myself with its various treasures, that, as quick as Fancy required the aid of fact, in her spiritings, the memory was ready, like an other Arid, at her " strong bidding," to furnish materials for the spell-work,—such was, for a long while, the sole object of my studies ; and whatever time an d trouble this preparatory process may have cost me, the effects resulting from it, as far as the humble merit of truthfulness is concerted, have been such as to repay me more than sufficiently for my pains. I have not forgotten how great was my pleasure, when told by the late Sir James Mackintosh, that he was once asked by Colonel W--s, the historian of British India, " whether it was true that Moore had never been in the East ?" " Never," answered Mackintosh. " Well, that shows me," replied Colonel " that reading over. D'Herbelot is as good as ridi ng on the back of a camel." I need hardly subjoin to this lively speech, that although D'Herbelot's valuable work was, of course, one of my manuals, I took the whole range of all such Oriental reading as was ac cessible to me ; and became, for the time, indeed, far more conversant with all 'elating to that distant region, than I have ever been with the scenery, p ro d uc ti ons , or modes of life of any of those countries lying most within my reach. We know that D'Anville, though never in his life out of Paris, was able' to correct a number of error s i n a p l an o f the Troad taken by De Choiseul, on the spot ; and, for my own very different, as well as far inferior, purposes, the knowledge I had thus ac quired of distant localities, seen only by me in my day-dreams, was no less ready and useful. An ample reward for all this painstaking has been found in such welcome tributes as I have just now cited; nor can I deny myself the gratification of citing a few more of the same description. From another distinguished authority on Eastern subjects, the late Sir John Malcolm, I had myself the plea suoe of hearing a similar opinion publicly expressed ;—that eminent person, in a speech spoken by him at a Literary Fund Dinner, having remarked, that together with those qualities of the poet, which he much too partially assigned to me, was combined also "the truth of the historian." Few poems have been honoured with more tri umphant marks of public approbation than Lalla tiookh. On its first appearance it was received vith a burst of enthusiasm by all classes of English readers ; and since then, it has been ,ranslated, not only into most of the C on ti nenta l languages, but even into Persian ! Mr. Fraser .net with a copy of it at a "town on the shores Jf the Caspian ;" and a splendid divertissement, founded on it, was acted at the Chateau Royal -)f Berlin, in 1822, when the present Emperor end Empress of Russia performed two of the inincipal characters! Yet notwithstanding these striking testimonies in favour of its power of ,twakening interest, we are not disposed to rank Lalla Rookh among the happiest flights of its author's genius. It is too much encumbered— ndeed overlaid—with ornament; and the very learning, on which Mr. Moore so much piques iimself, assists in leading him astray from the right path of taste and judgment. With a little less parade of orientalisms he would have pro duced a better poem, nor would he have los anything in point of popularity. THE FRENCH STAGE AND THE FRENCH PEOPLE. Two VoLs. Colburn, London, 1841. From the title of this work many readers would he apt to suppose that it referred to the drama as it at present exists in France, but such is not the case ; it is a collection of anecdotes and sketches illustrative, for the most part, of the French stage previous to the revolution, when Preville and Le Kain were in the height of their celebrity, and Talma was yet a name unknown. The au thor is M. Fleury, a comic actor of considerable note during the latter part of the reign of Louis the Sixteenth, and who. was specially patronized '.)y the ill-fated Marie Antoinette, herself an amateur performer of no ordinary talent. In his s cond volume, M. Fleury indulges in some re ainiscences of the stage subsequent to the-death of the King and the Queen, and makes one or two passing allusions to Napoleon, and the effect that his avowed patronage produced on the drama; but these are the most meagre and uninteresting portions of his work, whose attrac tion may be said to be confined in a great mea cure to the first volume. It is from this, there fore, that we shall select our extracts; and first, here is a recollection of Voltaire at Ferney, with whom the author, then scarcely out of his teens, tad just commencing his theatrical career, chanced to be staying on a visit : We stayed about a fortnight at Ferney, and during that time were overwhelmed with kindness and attention by the great philosopher. For my part, I had my share of censure as well as of praise, and both had their influence on my subsequent success. I have still present in imagination that satirical coun tenance, every wrinkle of which seemed to laugh the whole world to scorn. Voltaire's wig was a memorable curiosity. I had for some time sacrilegiously premeditated an attack on this strange sanctuary of genius; and I made an attempt to put my design into execution one morning when the philosopher s a lli e d forth after breakfast. V o lt a i re turned sharply round, and with his penetrating eye scanned my little figure from head to foot, while I stood as it were transfixed and spell-bound. After a few moments he said, " Per-met-fez-rnoi, Mon-sieur Having uttered these words, dividing the syllables in his pecu liar manner, he paused as if ransacking his memory, as if searching for some appropriate term of reproach. Then curling his mouth to the left side of his face, as he always did when he wished to be particularly sarcastic, he continued, " Per-met tez-moi, Mon-sieur . . . de Fleury . . . to tell you (here he softened his tone, doubtlessly thinking me sufficiently punished), that lam not royal enough to understand and tolerate pages' tricks. Remember, that at the court of Ferney wigs are re spected in consideration of what may happen to be within them." Observing my mortified and penitent air (which he seemed to suspect, and rightly, was partly assumed), he placed his hand under my chin, and raising my head, said, " Come, let me look at you; if I mistake not, there is something in your face that tells me you will be a wicked rogue, and a good actor." Every one remembers, of course, Burke's de scription of Marie Antoinette, whose charms of face and figure have been praised in the most extravagant terms by almost every writer who lived during her reign. We subjoin M. Fleury's sketch of this celebrated Queen, who is not quite so lavish of his admiration of her, except as an actress : I have seen her Majesty perform, and superintended several rehearsals, and her acting appeared to me to be very far from royally bad. She was quite at her ease on the stage ; and in the art of acting the acquirement of self-possessian is one-half the battle. On the other hand, Iby no means agree with those who have so loudly extolled the beauty of Marie-Antoinette. Still there was something in her look and manner even mons fascinating than positive beauty. Her eyes, though not large, had a power of expression which rendered them a perfect index of her mind. Her skin was delicately fair, and the con tour of her neck and shoulders exquisitely formed. Her mouth, though stamped with that peculiarity which has been termed the Austrian lip, was exceedingly pretty, and had a certain pouting expression, which was peculiarly appropriate in many of the characters she personated. In /liaise and Babet, for example, nothing could be more charming than her manner of half reciting, half singing, the following lines : "Le soir on dansa sur l'herbette, Blaise et moi nous dansions tous deux; Mais it me quitta pour Lisette Qui vint se meler a nos jeux.", The fact is, that the Queen's acting was characterised by a degree of grace, feeling, and delicacy, which would have made the fortune of any public performer. These volumes, which are translated, we pre sume, by the Editor, Theodore Hook, abound in curious anecdotes, though they certainly do not illustrate the manners of the French people, as is stated in the title-page. CHOICE SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST FRENCH POETS. Whittaker, London, 1841. The compiler of this useful school book, M. Delille, is a gentleman well known as a success ful teacher of the French language, and the MORN IN9 EDIT 10• author of manyelementary works in 4. - ht ra w guage, which are favourably spoken of by who are qualified to judge of their v as present work will not detract from Nr. Pe', l 4 l reputation, for it is compiled with great skill judgment; the extracts from the different Fre,,P.o poets are arranged in chronological order, l ar is a great improvement t,n the majority of siT go , publications ; and a treatise_ on French vePi., er , tion is added, in which will be found rnaoY, l o viceable suggestions to those who maY des"jite become acquainted with the laws that r e g u ta l the metrical productions of our contitiqo neighbours. We have looked over the v 311,61 extracts carefully, and have been much plea:ce with the good taste manifested in those that to ld been taken from Moliere, La Fontain e ; Racine. DIBDIN 'S SONGS, P ub s, The name of Dibdi n has been.before the for fully s even ty y ears . Th e fi rs t Dibdin, ke pt actor, musical composer, and dramatist, turyi possession of the stage for n e arly half.a et l ife , he was celebrat e d an d id o li se d d u ring h or ci time as the most suc c e ss f u l an d varied wr i _`„ t e. sea-songs i n an y age, and his memory at tfllvics, sent day is still ass oc i a t e d w ith the a ill Bri t courage, and the renow ne d v ictories of os tof sailors. lie wrote above 1,300 songs , lil a n otA them good, some o f th em exce llent, awl. t he few of them admirably ealcUlated to obtal!l the great objects h e h a d in view—to cheris h l oso le breast of the sailor a l ove o f coun try, to e° llo l- him under his num erous deprivations an d „ t il, ships, to look i n every contest, however tni: s ibie. upon victory as cert a i n an d d e f e at inr at ioo Never, perhaps, was the re su ch a enn urn 4ool e of the well-known saying of Chatham, ° r 1 ; 0 0 1 other great statesman, on the effect of n t a nr it songs in formin g th e national character, w as (ill now universally allowed that his war-s 0 unison, we admit, with th e g enius el coo' sailors) did more to reconcile them to tbe i l ao all dition, and cheer them on to victory', t i) 80 10 the regulations of the Admiralty, theft 0 14 of Parliament, the expected repose „ ns ioll!_l age in Greenwich Hospital, or arty t/P 6 places, or honours whatever. So sensible c' t t he}' truth were the Government at one time i t b o s o o/. A 6 granted Charles Dibdin an annuity of loge' '„ d agr an inducement to give up his professiona le t 7ipol e ments, and write, publish, sing, and (I ,, is t solA e war songs for the na v y. Th a t salary,' 'l ie Dll.' ill economy, o r s ome unac couutab c a ge , apprehension about the nature of the e : 1 ; went, was pitifully withdrawn by ann tb wrile r nistry, at a time, too, wh en thi s ce l e brated was but little able to submit to the deP r f i l ie A third Ministry, possibly ashamed of . ot ist ° serable policy of their pred ecesso rs, or des u ort ido lessen them in public opi n i on , ren ewed a S in co ; of the salary when it was t oo l a te, nib joyed the pittance for only a few Ye a %tilP died, like Burns, in poverty, but not in oln ito q both signal i n st ances o f the folly and ing ra ,pek of rulers who l av i s h m illi ons i n u seless e ' co def tions, or wars without an objeCt, who fourth ' honours and pensions (to the third ° r dGe generation, or for ever) on Admirals an bare nerals, and deny, eve n for their own li fe) , s oog existence to th ose patriots whose nation al have cherished the spirit of independene e P. he the courage of our s o ldi ers an d s ail o rs in foray of battle, and carried with them their tal ov erll' nate leaders on to victory. The present (t heir ment seem to have some glimmering, WY ° ay th e duty in this respect; b u t th e y ex hibit in i fo blindness of me n gro pi ng a b out i n the Or k o s s .oti while they have con f erre d amp l e pen Bl° T ae d Mrs. Somerville and Sir David Brewst e taid other astronomers and opti c i an s, all tli t Aolo have done for th e on l y surv i v i ng s on a t o pr Dibdin, as far as the public are aware, rs , pub . ; tronize a volume of his fath er ' s songs lat e tIA.Z, lished, the Admiralty t a ki ng 500 coPlfr' fi'd! most of the memb ers o f th e :R o y a l Faun J ii' 50 to 10 copies, at the price of ss. p ay son, we believe, is now in his 73d year sessed, in his best days, the genius and Pe".,, ante of his father; he has written also 0137 lige tional songs and pieces for the stage, a ii n o his father, seems destined to go down to t- t i r, as a second instance of national ingratit; s io• wards the same family. A pension tbr b lo ll ' life, if . only to honour the memory o f gi0 14 ,; would do more credit t o th e Melbourne, o try, and give mor e genera l sa ti s f a ction tr i o te tar, r the pensions they have y e t con f e rred el!,',‘ genius. The book ref e rr e d t o i s entitle" ro of $ din's Sea Songs," tho ug h it con tains °th e i t er different sort, and by different a uthors l e a bi tends 'to 352 pages, beautifully P ri A ll ,-11 11.1 ,, 5 ' Clowes, and published by Murray', an Trull' trated by numerous sk e t c h es b y GeOrge _shank. When it reaches a second edit l°ll/ ro ye we expect . soon, Mr. Dibdin might greatly by leaving out some; and addiog s War eight of his father's best songs , with tw t,, ,'" e trative of the occasions on w hi c h they ten, and the persons to whom they rei' or iptiv". has done this with good effect in the de i !. o ,ooZ, of his father's grave, and the occasion w, o ,m i w irag',, rise to one, of his best songs, " Ton ° ,o ; e 11 " which, though well known, we shall 111 , 0 , r e:‘,°, apology for giving at length. The t 5 l l tract from the " Memoir of Charles - 1 -" will be read with interest : A a h.' His retirement on a gr a t u ity o f 200 1 . a year, alar_e rather late, for having, at the express desire of the the s i , hit" put himself to an expense of more than 6001., by (Pli tt a rre lucrative provincial engag emen t s , an d open ing his lit e re be f re hot July to considerable nightl) loss (in town) , ol? e w b a t , c e r , instructed to write, sing, publish, and give avia) e d the P 3 be termed war songs, is well-known, as he publicly se. t t- befe re iti ll titulars, accompanied by the melancholy fact, W I : his 9 , e j r y, had enjoyed the said income long enough to rer n losses in earning it, it was withdrawn by a succee bis des A part of it was restored a short period anteceden, t a ° t n which took place in 104 4 in his 69th year, in Aru n i ,:l3l o- . _ Camden Town. He was followed to the gra ve ,Zeelenito Charles and Thomas, his medical attendant, and n":„, of at , philanthropic oculist and eccentric writer John TOl4 efrof r Sun newspaper. H e was in t erre d i n t h e b u rial grn n James, Camden Town, where, in the midst of a CluinPop pee ering shrubs, his " frail mem or i a l" quo t es , from hi s ° ful song, that— " Though his body's under hatches ra° His saul is gone aloft !" wl f so d which lines he had written in memory of a brother ' je-, marry years master of a vessel in the merchant se " ot th .„bers from whom { he imbibed that devotedness to rot i d to g nautical profession which characterised his Norio • ;isterc i olo He had another-brother (an auctioneer) an d a d at 0 $ 7 tor since dead. He had three sons—the youngest cue yr opl a , a youth, in 1794 ; the eldest, Charles, many Yea rs tithe o, of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and author of the opera s " bur l 01 mer's Wife, My Spouse and I, and innumerable a O rrt . songs, and pantomimes, died in 1831. He als°,_ e te pro l , ll # daughter, and the son who, with perhaps too Dun n a bove " has attempted this Memoir. Mr. Dibdin wrote songs, and his son; nearly double that number. • TOM BOWLING. Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bo w li°g ' The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling , For death has brought him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft, Faithful, below, he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed, His virtues were so rare, His friends were many and true-hearte d, His Poll was kind and fair: And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, . Ah, many's the time and oft But mirth is turn'd to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft. Yet shall poor Tern find pleasant weather, When He, who all commands, Shall give, to call life's crew together , The word to pipe all hands. Thus Death, vvlio kings and tars despatches, In vain Tom's life has doff'd, For, though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone aloft. v® - Ar. ~., Th DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL FUN—* -- „, We d k : nual dinner ef this admirable fund takes place —day me ncsday next, at the Freemnsons'-hall. On Sa ter b COW Secretary reported that he had been honoured Wit a dis munications from nearly two hundred illustrtous I to w tieguished personages who had kindly condescenden,ibetal come vice-presidents, many had forwarded o° St ;old , donations. He also reported that Mr. T. Conketi that tbe as usual, conduct the musical departments an t _ d A kind l i following professional ladies and gentlemen na g % Matil l volunteered their cervices on the occasion reacts 01' Hawes, Miss Rainforth, Hams; Mr. Hatton (the _celebrated pianist), M e s s rs Bennett, Walmsley, Alentle-, ) Blewett, Collyrrc Alac ° ' Bellamy, Crer.ch, =Fermi', J. Bland, Fitzwilliarni I coo' S. Jones, and Paul Bedford. Prince Geo r g e h ° bis 1 311 ,, i ; Miss Grant, and the Malsswo. bridge is ex} ected to honour the company wit- 0 1 "` cence ; and ti:e festival, it is anticipate& will be g with great splendour, RAILROADS IN IRELAND.--We feel .1, s ag selves fully in O r : authorised to at flounce that the formation of a oder railroad, so th n wards from Dublin, will be soon _molt§ a position to state—indeed we "r i l e OF which have been made, the delays attendant uP°,,blo liamentary notices, &e., will be obviated, so could If be if the work to be commenced long be f ore it e Kobe rise—astrethellie n" bei4 these krms were to be observed. The funds.a.r w supplied by three great London capitalists, %fin _ li b is names we are ar quainted, and whose immense wortribute indisputable. 'I he terms upon which theY c which were interposed by Sir Robert Pcel__ e u io a them are also communicated to us, and all the d . iffi_ n e d eli b ie i: be grant carried o r advance — they on bypr party in he year 1839, against the GoverninentorooVa w t a L o d OD' quered by the present arrangement, Governmes_ Is a nd in the meanwhile so mixed up ivat e with reacthaisflaletlion if, will be thrown in. It wculd give us g enabledwrt _ . osto in making this announcement, we were d " 7 t ke the e er a • that it was intended in the first instance to It the wor k i s railroad all through to Cork; but at Present. tija c ora only contemplated to extend to Holy Crol'inerick to be of Tipperary—the extension to Cork and lin 0rk...-- • f the first tv postponed till after the completion o Cork Reporter. / / - ' fwd