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Sir ROBERT PEEL appears to have been keep ing bad company of late, and to have acquired some bad habits. We pointed out on Saturday his jesuitical and contradictory arguments got up to serve a temporary factious purpose, and now we must advert to what we can only characterise as a contemptible sneer. We suspect Sir ROBERT has taken to studying the Standard since the Times, by the help of its correspondent " CATHO LICUS," has cut him up and cast him out for food to the bigots. At least his last oration has many vc the peculiar attributes of the Standard, and, therefore, inconsistent, false, factious, and jesuiti cal as it was, it met with the cordial approbation of that journal. Here are two or three passages of Sir ROBERT'S speech :-- of the franchise it were juansttsi—iotieftniotttwhweeriibcothne- If the extension sistent with past engagements —if great legislative Act, w hichhagiven emancipation Catholics—if it would conduce to the order and social welfare of Ireland, he would entreat the House to forget the inflamma tory language of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman—to forget the spirit of his declaration, which was so calculated to inju re Would it not be any cause, and to do w hat was j ust in spite o advocacy of the Learned Gentleman. Vri , ie, therefore, that they should. distinctions;ellco nsideT but but iwf-htohleeyof,tehree question, not making any partial to make concessions against their reason and conviction faotr war rake of 'peace, they should make the whole concession demanded from them, and not give to the Hon. o th n e . r a e n s d t, Gentleman that by which he would extort ) . • even purchasing a temporary Learned ca l m .—(C .f he . e t r If the present measure was a just one—if it of Ireand, then he trusted that, notwithstanding the state ments of that Hon. and Learned Gentleman, the House would show its determination to do justice to Ireland. Let those who had p u bli c d ut i es to perform claim to themselves t h e privilege of dispassionately considering whether the measure then under their consideration was a measure perfectly consistent with the best interests of Ireland, and whether it was calculated to ad vance the independenc e of the electors, and promote the social welfare of th e country.—(Hear, hear. ; Those who heard Sir ROBERT PEEL, and saw him, knew that these passages were meant to taunt the Members with making concessions to Mr. O'CONNELL. He told them to consider the whole question, not to make partial distinctions and concessions, but go the whole hog at once, and do justice to Ireland. These taunts were uttered by a man nominally at the head of a party which is powerful enough to impede the smallest advance towards doing justice to Ireland, which resolutely resists every at tempt of the kind, and renders it vain. They were uttered by a man, too, who has been all his life a rule-o'-thumb politician, never looking beyond the hour, with no com prehension for futurity', and who, without the 'least regard to justice, gave up to a threat and a • corrupt bargain, in 18:29, just as much at the mo ment as satisfied the demands then made by the Roman Catholics. This is the man, with the will and the power to thwart all attempts to do justice to Ireland, who taunted Ministers with not embracing a c omprehensive policy, and not art ct o u n i c r e es m . ak T i h n e g y alelotl concession which . justi . ce ntshider not what quires, but what meat will agree to. justice se c Houses of Parlia be for them to consideOrf what use would it land consider what is due to Ire muster can be expected from the Tories. We should like very much if it were possible to act on the language of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and if statesmen, instead of con sidering what bargains they can drive with rival or allied statesmen, would think only of what is due to the peoFle. Of that they never do thi.lk, though Sir ROBERT PEEL, knowing its present impracticability, would have had Minis ters stop all the demands of Mr. O'CoNNELL by at once doing justice to his countrymen. Like a big boy, who has taken possession of the play things of a little one, and sneeringly asks, while he threatens him with his fist, why he does not take them back, and what what has become of his courage, Sir R. PEEL, who, as a politician, has taken possession of the political rights of the Irish, and is resolved to withhold them, taunts the Ministers with not daring to give, and the Irish Catholics with not having the courage to take, their own. Sir R. PEEL had referred just before, however, to Mr. O'CONNELL'S expressed wish to have the whole revenues of the Church in Ireland devoted to the public service, as one of the things which it was monstrous in Mr. O'CONNELL to ask. But why ? Surely it is a great injustice to apply the whole revenues of the Church, how ever small, to the spiritual instruction of about one-tenth of the people. In no other country of Europe is any such contrivance tolerated. In no other would it be borne. It could only be maintained in a country which is enslaved. It is a badge of hateful inferiority. The law, which ought to be equal, treats the Catholics as pos sessing an inferior religion, and an unworthy faith which must be stifled, not protected by the law. The existence of the Established Church is an insult and an injury to the Catholics of Ireland. The English, we are quite sure, would not bear for a single day that the whole revenue de voted to spiritual instruction should be given to the Baptists, or the English Catholics, or any other small sect. Why then should the Irish be required to submit to such a wrong? Why should Mr. O'CONNELL not ask to have the Esta blished Church in Ireland put down ? If he were to ask to have the Roman Catholic Church established, and made the State Church, we can readily conceive that such a demand would be an injustice to all who are not Catholics, and ought to be resisted; and, on precisely the same ground as that ought to be resisted, the present Established Church ought to be put an end to. Till it be put down, justice will not be done to the Catholics of Ireland, and they will have a right to complain. We hope, for our parts, that they never will cease their agitation till the Church of Ireland is placed on a precisely similar footing with the Catholic Church and the Inde pendent Chapel, and till it relies exclusively for support on the voluntary contributions of its members. That would be justice to Ireland. At the same time Sir ROBERT PEEL knows very well that in the present state of public opinion, it would be next to impossible for any Minister to accom plish that object. The English priesthood would shake the State to its foundations to preserve their flesh-pots. He knows that the Catholics demand, and justice requires, the abolition of the Irish Church ; but, conscious of the power he possesses, founded on the prejudices and bigotry of the people, he taunts the Ministers with not proposing, agreeably to the wishes of Mr. O'CoNNELL, to abolish the Established Church in Ireland. For a grave statesman like Sir R. PEEL to use such language in an important de bate, seems to us quite unworthy. It was, as we have already said, a contemptible sneer, worthy of the Standard ; and so we leave it to the meditation of our readers. We were obliged last year to dwell on Mr. AINSWORTH'S defection, and we regret, after the llon. Member's promises of amendment, that we should this year be compelled to renew our animadversions. Though returned for Bolton on the Liberal interest, Mr. AINSWORTH voted on Lord MORPETH'S motion for the Tories. We cannot comprehend such conduct. Mr. AINS WORTH pretends to be friendly to the repeal of the Corn-laws. He has put his name to the reso lution agreed to by the Liberal Members for the revision of the tariff and the reduction of duties; we must consider him, therefore, as a supporter of free trade, and an opponent of the bread taxers. Yet he voted with them on Friday morn ing. This is monstrously inconsistent. To vote with Lord STANLEY iS to vote for upholding the power of that class of men whose scan dalous avarice, operating by means of a law, is ruining the trade of Bolton, and actually impo verishing and starying Mr. AINSWORTH'S consti tuents. He vt,tedArvith. the landlords, and voted that they may continue to oppress Ireland. If the electors of Bolton do not call the Hon Mem ber to account, and compel him, if they can, to give up that charge of which lie is unworthy, they will sanction his conduct, and make them selves responsible for it. But we know the men of Bolton too well to believe that they will in any manner countenance and encourage the bread taxers and franchise destroyers. We con fidently expect, therefore, to see a requisition from the electors, numerously signed, calling on Mr. AINSWORTH to return into his proper and native obscurity. They will not suffer their in terests to be misrepresented by him for the pur pose of enabling him to make his peace with the Lancashire Tones, and be received in their en vied society. Belgian and German Papers, of the latest dates, have been received. Letters from the Banks of the Danube, of the 6th ult., state that no interruption of public tranquillity at Cracow is to be feared in consequence of any measure which Austria may take with respect to the withdrawal of the garrison. But whatever changes Austria may contemplate in the govern ment of this unfortunate skeleton of a Republic, nothing will be done till the ferment raised by the Eastern question has entirely subsided. The Deputies elected to form the Provincial Assembly of the Duchy of Posen are staunch ad vocates of the independent nationality of Poland. This circumstance has created some uneasiness at Berlin. A letter from Copenhagen, of the 11th of Oc tober, states that the marriage of the Crown Prince of DENMARK is fixed for the 22d of May. The following extract from a Dutch Paper is chiefly interesting to Stock Exchange readers:— AMSTERDAM, FEB. 23.—We are happy to be able to con tradict, on good authority, the reports that the extraordinary credits voted by the States General would be speedily realised, is wholly destitute of foundation. No issue of new Five per Cents. will be made in the next four months, nor of any other stock whatever, and even after that itime has elapsed, it is probable that a very moderate use will be made of the credit granted, and that it will be done with all the caution that so important an operation requires. These facts will prove better than all worth that the Minister of Finance, though competent to ask for votes of credit, in order to make good the existing deficiency, is by no means among the advocates for increasing the national debt. His Excellency is, on the contrary, desirous, by a well-regulated sinking fund, to reduce the debt (which has been swelled to such an extent) within moderate limits. In the French Chamber of Deputies on Thurs day the anxiously expected debate on the Secret Service Bill was opened by M. MARION, a mem ber of the Opposition. He opposed th e Bill, an d denounced in strong terms the Report of M. JOUPPROY upon d w . hich it was founded.. M. de CARNE adopted' the PORTALIB wisted in t the office it was agreed statem e nts withen M. GuizoT said that when since to disturb its h armo ny n then before it, and t hat support of the in the Report. ea l‘ f li fe n c i t st i r t y s a st cc ab e i p li t t e d y. knowo ma d e if the Cabinet had itself th ron ha a d ll questions nncurred the f person h that the The very acceptance of offi or ng could leave no the policy of its doubt upon the mind of any present Cabinet disapproved c:' predecessor, and this was the sub Report of the Commission upon the the Chamber. M. BILLAUT attacked the Ministers, whom he accused of Bille of the before succumbing to ' the enemies of France. This called up thel !lister of the Interior, who was ably defendin i g his colleagues in the tribune when the mails de parted The passing of the Secret Service Bill will de for London. terrnine the fate of the French Ministry. If carried by a large majority, TRIERS sinks with scarce a hope of ever rising again. As the Bill is founded upon a Report which unsparingly de nounces his whole policy as domestically and in ternationally ruinous and humiliating to France, its adoption will be tantamount to a verdict of guilty against the TRIERS Administration, or, as the French themselves call it, the Cabinet of the Ist of March. TRIERS himself is said to be furi ous. To be thus knocked on the head after his sacrifice of the freedom of France to the Court, in the support which he gave to the Fortifications Bill, certainly promises to form a no pleasant reminiscence ) for the old age of the little would- I disturber of the peace of Europe ! On the arrival of Senor ANTONIO GONZALES i n Paris, on his way to London, M. GUIZOT sent to request an interview with him. The Spanish on the , Envoy, however, declined seeing the French Mi nister, plea of extreme fatigue. appeared i n The in the French Pa The Memorandum of the Four Powers which Sun of Friday, is published word of comment. of (Private Corresponden ce Thursday, with hardly a po4lence of the Constitutio nnel.) e o great Council of Berne which met BERNE, Fan. to-day heard the Re port efnthe Executive Council on the events which have latetick place in the Cantons of Soleure oNt• 4 ' 011 ." °‘' L ' ltA<N Vl'' .;4* . .Ni,' -;;.: ~„%,••.s.', . tW.-. 7,., ( " Q E S T ' mos ~ _. ~, _ ,-:,... ~ 0,..„.. ;,.-: - 1" ~.,.., .. ,,,0 0, - k Thg TRH SUN'. and Argovia. The facts that are stated in this Report are generally known, but not so the motives which have induced the Government to adopt a line of conduct which has excited such violent opposition from the Cantons which have de manded the convocation of a diet. The Report eon'ains ex planations on this subject, from which we shall make on a future occasion some extracts. SLAVERY. -It is affirmed that a deputy will shortly call the attention of the Chamber to the abominable details disclosed in the late trial at Guadalupe. It is intended to require at least the suppression, in all the houses, of those dungeons of which the planters speak with such wonderful serenity—ithose dun geons in which the slave has neither air, nor light, nor bread, nor room to stand upright. We shall most gladly support the d-mand which will be made in the Chamber, but the trial in question, and the acquittal in which it terminated, have excited the sympathy of all honourable minds in too great a degree for the duties of the Legislature to stop at that point. A letter from Toulon of the 21st Feb. says : " Admiral Hugon received yesterday a telegraphic des patch from Paris, relative to the new organization of the feet. It is thought that a division will be sent to the Levant, whence it might be supposed that the Government is going to take a part in the arrangements in Syria. The Didon is ready to put to sea at the first signal. The Jena is expected in a few days from Cagliari. " Admiral Massieu de Clerval is expected shortly. It is not known whether he is coming as Major-General of the aqua 'ron or to command a division. " Two rew steamers of 160 to 160 horse-power are going to be built here for the conveyance of the mails to the Levant." —Le Commerce. BO IJRSE.-PARIS, THURSDAY, FED. 25. Flrst Highest Lowest Lail Price Price. Pricy. Price French 5 per Cents ll2 35 ... 112 90 ... 112 90 ... 112 RS 434 per Cents...— lO2 ..0 ... 441 ... 102 40 ... 102 40 4 per Cents lOO ... 100 ... 100 lie 3 per Cent 5....... Rank of r'rance L.ffitte Bank 5000 f. Skares 5152 .0 .4152 50 ...51:0 ...5150 aelgian /Sank 3 per 69 25 ... 69 25 ... 69 25 ... f 9 5 Spanish Active ... 243 1:4% 24% Passive.. 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6 Neapolitan Roman EAILWA IHABES. St. Germain Ve:satlles,K. B 415 415 ... 410 411 25 320 320 ... 315 ... 315 louen 455 ... 455 455 ... 455 488 75 4118 75 ... 488 ... 488 75 ltr3sburg to Bale 212 50 542 50 ... 241 •25 . 241 i 5 We are glad to find that no lives have been lost by the falling of the houses in Fleet-street, on Saturday night. The City policemen de serve great credit for the timely warning they gave to the inhabitants, and the exertions they made to secure the safety of the persons passing along the street. But for their exertions the consequences might have been frightful. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—As compared with last week the demand during the present week has been moderate, neither the trade nor speculations evincing the same anxiety to buy, yet but for the operation of the latter the mar ket must have assumed a very inactive appearance, and it was probable that our quotations of last week must have been re duced, as it is prices are rather in favour of buyers than other wise, particularly for the middle Ind lower qualities of Ame rican ; speculators have taken 9,800 bales of American, and 500 Surat, and Exporters, 100 Surats. The sales to-day are about 5,000 bales of all kinds. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 26.—We have a better inquiry for Shares, but no material alteration in prices. Manchester and Leeds, 751; Ditto Halves, 33 ; London and South Western, 571; Ditto, Tenths, 18 6 prem. ; Lancaster and Preston 32k; Ditto, New, 19i; Midland Counties, New, 141 ; Bank of Manchester, 9i. The packet-ship Mediator, from New York has arrived, but she dues not bring later papers than received by the last arrival (South America) of the 2d instant. The . British Market is inactive, and there is every appear. ante it will continue so during . the course of the day. Consols spened at the leaving-off prices of yesterday, 884 Money ; for the Aeccunt, 89k ; Exchequer Bills 6 8 prem. Bank Stock, 166 167 ; India Stock 247 248. In the Foreign Market the prices at present are nominal. Spanish Active, 23b 24 ; Deferred 12b ; Passive, 5 6* ; Portuguese 31i 4 ; Three per Cents 19} ; Brazilian 71b 74; Colombian 224 23 ; Mexican 274 28 ; Dutch Two. and-a-Half per Cents. 504 3 / 4 ; Five per Cents., 991 100. Shares.—Great Western, 214 224 preta. ; New 104 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 3 / 4 # di.. ; Blackwall, 6 1 / 2 6 dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 56 57 ex-dividend per share ; Croydon, 11 3 4 124 per share ; Greenwich, B,} 3 / 4 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New 50 Ditto Fifths London and Brighton ...... .. _._ . ..._. London and Blaawall fork and North Mid1and......... 50 JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of England... 35 Ditto New The British Funds continue as in the early part of the morn ing. Scarce a bargain doing, and up to the present time there is not a feature worth noticing. Contrsry winds, with the gale of last night, have prevented our having arrivals this morn ing, in consequence of which we are very dull in the City for want of intelligence. Consols are not so good as in the morning, when they were 896 for the Account ; at present, 89 sellets ; for Money, 88 Money continues scarce in the house at the rate of 6 per cent. Exchequer Bab, 8 7 prem. ; in Bank Stock no thing done ; India Bonds, 19 dis. Very litle doing in the Foreign Market to the present hour. Spanish Active, 2.3 24 ; Passive, 65i ; Portuguese, 31i ; Mexican, 27* Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 50 1 / 2 ; Five per Cents., 99a I. In Shares also little doing. Great Western, New, 60%; Fifths, 84 ; London and Brighton, 421 A ; Blackwall, 16i ; York and North Midland, 76 1 / 2 75* 77 div. CLOSINU PRiCE.S. 13RITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... India Stock 3 per Cent. Red BB4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 88i Ditto Old Annuities 31i per Cent Red ...... .. 974 Ditto New Annuities — New 3i per Cent .. ... 976 Ex. hills, 1,0001....2;d 9pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 9pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7pm Jan. 1860 Oct 1859... — India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ...... Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... 31 Brazilian Bowls .. . Prussian, 5 per cent... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian. 6 per cent... Spanish. b per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred ... 12; Danish, 3 per cent..... Frenc h,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange .. Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99i SHARES. Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)... ..... 81 Great Western Railway (65 paid) B6 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9 London anal Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (22k pd) 16i London and Souls Western 55 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) 751 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 77 FLANDERS, DUTCH, AND HAM BURGH MAILS. BRUSSELS, FEE. 25.—Tbe average price of wheat last week was 18f. 790., that of Rye llf. 51c. The King arrived at Ostend yesterday at half-past one o'clock, and set out for Ghent, where he was ex pected by the Queen, who had left Brusse:s at twe've o'clock. Their Majesties arrived by a special train a:. six o'clock at the Brussels station of the iron railway, where carriages were ready to convey them and their suite to the Palace. BERLIN, FEB. 19.—Our finances appear to be in a most flourishing condition according to the last accounts which are made up every three 3ears. There is an excess of 10 or 12 millions of dollars above the amount in 1838. This may Le considered as the best proof of the progress of manufacture in Prussia during the last three years, and of the increase of our commerce which the Government endeavour by all means to encourage. The benefits and advantages of the Customs Union, which many persons at first doubted, become more and more manifest. THE HAGUE, FEB. 25.—We learn that her Royal Highness the Princess of Orange is ill, and confined to her bed. The cold and damp weather have had an un favourable effect on her health. We are happy to announce the entire completion, in ten days only, of the immense work of cutting a channel in the sea from Nicuve Deep to Amsterdam, in spite of the difficulties of the execution. The first ships from the sea have already arrived in our docks ; some ships left yesterday to go to sea, and fifty lighters went to the Nieuve Deep to recover the whole, or part, of the cargoes of several East Indiamen now lying there. BELO lAN ly UNDS—lintessims, Vas. 96. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent. Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent. .....„,»,„ 1.9% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent ..... .......•• 69% .(1 40) 99 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Society of Commerce, 4y, per Cent. lt 2 Bank of Belgium, S per National Society . Exchange on London (shoe t) ........ 11 95 --Brussels Papers, Feb. 26. DUTCH FUNDS.—A.MITXRDAII, Fie. 23. Money. Ble's. kctual aitto, dDitebtos t, 2 pe % r p cent er Cent ..... ••••••••••• ..... tO% 50 % 97N 96 Ain't t Syndlc.4% per cent 84% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent.........„.,,...., O% 70% Commercial Company, 4% per cent ..... 160 10% Ditto (1835 and 11137) 5 per cent. A% 100. Loan 1537, 5 per cent. 94% 9.:58 Exchange on London, One m0nth....,„,..,, 12 0 Two months .••••••• 11 02% Dutch Papers, Feb. 24. HAMBURG BORSESIHALLE, Fie. 19. Thirty.seven• 162 10 1 : Hope and Co. 3d and 4th . . Austrian S per Cents. ... R A u ni s e s t i o a . n ß s uss p i e e r n c L c Loan Bills. Mimey Bank Shares .......... 6666666 NI 00000000000 104% 10134 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist aeries, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se:ies IO2N Series Ditto in Certificates .... o i ..... Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 00000 4 6 Ditto 5 per Cent ..••••••••••, .... Polish onds New ticket , •••••••• 147 -. 156% _ Anglo-Danish Loa n, 3 p er Cent 13% 73 N otweg ian Loan, 183 4 , 4 per Cent i , B Sp a nish, New 5 per Cen ts . ' 1% eACHANGES ON LONDON. Histavito, FEB. 19.3 4N.—Two months 13 PETERSIIIIKOH, FEL 12.--Two months, 38 days, ~1 16 pence. STOCKHOLM, FEB. 5. —Seventy- fi ve ll. lig, VIENNA. Fen. 12.—Three months. 9. 48. CautsTiaN. Fee. 'O.—Three monthsLl, PRUSSIAN FUN DS..—BERN, PK& 20. Mils. Money. St. Schuld. Sch.. 4 1 v per cent lOl 1,3, Prussian English Loan, 130, 4 per cent WO Kichange on St Lon ate G a zette. e Feb mon 2/, ths 8 1 —Prussian ONDOW, MONDAY, MARCH I, 1811 THE BREAD-TAX We have copied from the Morning Chronicle an article on the meeting held at Stockport this day week, containing an extract from Mr. Cob den's speech. Want of space formerly and now giving the whole of the proceed piurgesv,enat u an outline s of which has appeared in our Journal, but we must find room fur the follow ing additional observations of the same eloquent speaker. They may serve to make our readers dream over the almost unbounded happiness which would await our now starving countrymen were the bread-tax abolished, and free-trade es tablished. But our people must only, it appears, dream of such felicity. The law-makers who call them themselves our fathers, and who are said to exercise power for our good, will take a hellish care that it shall not be re alised. Is there any man so besotted, so blind, so atheistical, as to doubt whether the laws of God and nature prevail in the moral as in the physical world? and not doubting that, while he sees that the transgression of the physical laws entailson a man debility, disease, and death, can he doubt, when he witnesses the misery which pervades society, that it outrages some of the moral laws of God and nature, against which that misery is intended as the warning, and of which it is the punishment? We have not the smallest doubt, as Mr. Cobden says, that our pre • sent system of restrictions on commerce, includ ing what we shall continue to name the DEVIL'S LAWS, is a terrible violation of the laws of nature and of God, for which we are punished by all that vice, misery, and crime, which overwhelm the land. Here is part of what Mr. Cobden said : Now, Gentlemen, you have heard something of the foreign competition which afflicts us. If we followed the laws of God and of nature, we should hear nothing of foreign competition ; for God has given enough in the wide world for us all. We are not striving and fighting against the Germans merely for some miserable district in Europe ; what we claim is the right to trade with all the countries of the world, and to bring back what they have to give in exchange.—(Applause.) And this traffic opens up to the people of England a prospect greater by far than to any other country, since you are always wanting what tlfey have to give in exchange, corn and other articles of food, which they have in great abundance.—( Applause.) Go to South America—there we have an almost boundless extent of land, watered by immense rivers, flowing through plain of which we in Europe have no conception. 'I hink you, if we were allowed to bring back the productions of those vast plains, that we should not be able, growing as our population is, to sa tisfy the wants of the people in so small a speck as this island is ? But you go to South America, and bring back cotton. I'll take you to the River Plate : my friend, Mr. John Brooks, who sends goods to Buenos Ayres and to Monte Video, shall take a cargo up that majestic stream : there, from those enor mous plains of which I have been speaking, are countless numbers of castle brought down and slaughtered. The ship that carries out the produce of your industry waits for its freight; the cattle are slaughtered, and you bring the skins because they are wanted for boots and other accoutrements for the rich ; the horns are brought because they are wanted for umbrella handles, and something else, which the man in mode rate circumstances may require—( A pplause)—the very hoofs are brought because they are to be made into glue, for some other classes to use; nay, the very bones are brought, because the aristocracy may use them for their hot-beds, and thus raise the price of what you want.--( Applause. ) But what becomes of the meat ? Oh, the meat is dried and preserved, and there it remains stocked up in warehouses ; and if Mr. Brooks could ship that meat, he could bring it to Liverpool, and deliver it at I%d. apound—(Loud applause)—but that meat is not allowed to be brought to England at all.—( Hear.) But, when we talk of Brazil, and the whole South American continent, vast as it is, and boundless in its means of production, yet it becomes in significant when it is compared with the prospect that is held out to you, to-morrow, of trade with America—with people of your own blood and your own language.—( Applause.) 'I he Mississippi valley itself, over which people are stragglingly dis tributed, living, sometimes, at distances of fifty miles from earls other, it has been calculated would produce food enough for the support of the whole world at present.—( Hear, hear. ) That seems a vast conception, too vast almost for us to grasp ; but I will narrow it, and take one State that has lately been laid out in that valley. The state of the Illinois lying in the north west portion of that valley. lhat State alone, it has been shown to me by an intelligent gentleman who went into the calculation, is capable of producing w heat enough to give every man, woman, and child, in the United States, in the British Islands, and in France, three pounds of wheaten bread every day of their lives. —(Loud applause.) And that State does not comprise one thirtieth part of the territory comprised within the domibion of the United States. Now, gentlemen, the great advantage which you would have, if you were in possession of your right —for it is a right, an inalienable right, as much as life and liberty—your right to exchange the produce of your labour for the food of the United States, of Brazil, and other countries —the great advantage would be this, that you would be mono polising, to a certain extent, the trade of all these countries, since your merchants would he the only parties who would be able to take in exchange the corn and other provisions which those countries have to give. MONUMENT TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. We have had an opportunity lately of viewing the preparations made by Mr. Wyatt for com pleting the equestrian statue in honour of the Noble Duke, to be placed on the arch at Hyde park-corner, and we are confident that he will be as successful in this undertaking as he has been in the beautiful monument erected to George the Third in Pall-Mall East. No man of the pre sent day, we believe, is so well qualified, as regards taste and execution, for erecting equestrian statues. He has paid great attention to this department of the art ; he is indefatigable in making improvements in casting ; and we confidently hope that this monument will do credit to himself and the illustrious warrior to whom it is to be erected. We understand the work will not be completed in less than two years ; but when we take into account the nu merous and difficult operations connected with it, and compare these with undertakings of a similar description, this will appear a very short period. The model for the horse is perfect, and the bust is the best likeness of the illustrious Duke that we have seen. The bust, we understand, has been cast from a brass gun captured from some old enemy, now allied with England; the boots are made of the same material ; and it is to be hoped that the Government will supply old guns enough to complete the group. The statue will be about thirty feet high, the weight of the metal from fifty to sixty tons, and altogether it wi 1 be the most magnificent statue erected in ancient or modern times. We cordially wish that the hero of a hundred battles may live to see it from Apsley House, and enjoy the gratitude of his c ountry before he sinks into the grave. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Extract from a Return to an Order of the House of Commons, dated 2d February, 1841, for the following London Papers, from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1840, inclusive : SUN GLOBE 526,000 STANDARD ..... ... 505.000 COURIER ....... . ...... 111,000 Since the recent departure of Mr. Catt from Lancaster, who from the commencement until a few weeks back, was the editor of the Lancaster Guardian, a subscrip tion has been actively going forward amongst the leading gen tlemen and the supporters of the Liberal party, in order to pre sent him with a substantial proof of the ability, independence, and zeal with which he conducted this paper, as well as a mark of the high estimation in which he was held amongst them for his private character and worth. The subscription closed last week, and in the course of the present, John Armstrong, Esq., of Acreland., transmitted to Mr. Catt, now in London. a purse, containing 120 sovereigns, accompanying the gift with a letter expressive of the kind sentiments of the subscribers towards him.— Lancaster Guardian. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.--^-We hear that an investigation is going on in the Bank of Ireland on a most extraordinary ell cumstance, which was this morning di covered to have occurred— It would appear that on closing the cash-room, after business, yesterday, some person or persons bad contrived to secrete themselves there, and had succeeded in breaking open the door of the safe in expectation of a good booty, but found them selves impeded by a second door, which resisted every ef fort to force it open. The whole affair is involved in the greatest mystery, and, of course, has produced great ex citement —Dublin Evening Post, Thursday. TEETOTALISM IN IRELAND. —At a meeting held the other day in Cork, st which the Rev. Theobald igsti-.ew was present, it was stated by one of the speakers, that " they had eight Roman Cathc lic Prelates enrolled, and 700 of the Catholic clergy. The late tour had pro ducei I,l4 7,ooo—which, added to the former general returns—namely, 3,500,000—1eft the total 4,647,000. Yes, four gni lions six hundred and f. rty-seven thousand of the population of Ireland were at that moment sound and determined teetotallers 1" It is understood that Colonel Hodges, our:Con sul at Alexandria, is to be appointed British Consul- Ge neral at Hamburg!), in the place of the late lamented Mr. Canning. STRANGE BRIDEGROOM.--A couple presented thesmelves before the curate of Wrexham Church on the morning of Tuesday last, to be joined together in the 11,1 y bonds of matrimony. The service had proceeded to that part cf the ceremony where the minister calls upon the bridegroom to say after hi m , 1, A. B. take thee, C. D., to be my wedded wife," when the m an, instead of re peating the words, sa id, wull, have her." The minister remonstrated with him, and told him to repeat the exact words after him, as above men• tierce". The man, however, persisted in his manner of reply, and said, " I wull, I'll have her." The clerk, thinking he bad some impediment in his speec h, whis p ered to him softly to repeat the words after the Curate, but without fleet. The man contiared to reply as before; and the Curate, who said he was an obstinate fellow, re. fused to proceed with the ceremony. The parties came from Church unmarried. The man is a potter, and lives in the Walks, Wrexham.—Carnervon Herald. ARBROATH.—The Presbytery met in the Guild Hall on Wednesday, and proceeded to take into considera tion the draft of a libel against Mr. Carruthers of Kirkden, for charges of drunkenness. A petition signed by nearly the whole of the parishioners of Kirkden, bearing testi mony to their esteem and affection for Mr. Carruthers, and praying the Presbytery to take no farther procedure in the matter, was read, and after some 'marks, laid on the table. The Presb3tery, after much discussion, by a me jority sustained the libel, and appointed it to be &geed by the Moderator and Clerk, and to be proceeded with ac cording to the laws of the Church.--Scolch Paper. MAGAZINE DAY BLACKWOOD'S MAG'AZINE. --- • • - - We should have imagined that Wordsworth's poetry was by this time a critical thethe well nigh exhausted ; but not so thinks Christopher North, and accordingly we find in the present Maga, an essay on the peculiar cliarecer of this great poet's genius, which is manifestly the production of one who not only understands, but feels, his subject. 'the occasional affectations of Words worth, who in his " Lyrical Ballads"has not seldom mistaken sheer childishness for manly simplicity, arc very properly protested against, while jus tice is done to his striking powers of thought, his easy, nervous, and unaffected versification, and the uniformly healthy and elevated tone of his philosophy. The critic, however, insists on his pathos, which is a quality we are strongly disposed to deny him. He is a poet too habitually calm, too severe and profound of reflection, ever to be melted into tenderness. He soars above such weakness—for such, we suspect, he would consider that tremulous, active sensibility which touches our hearts so deeply in the works of Collins, Byron, and, we may add, Burns. We have been struck with the truth of these re marks : " An obstinate habit of reflection, cultivated in retirement, explains what is peculiar both in the faults and merits of Wordsworth's poetry. Rarely do we meet with any spon taneous burst of passion ; his vehemence appears cold and studied ; he waves a wand, does this ma*ician, who has no power except to still the tempest. But is not this enough power for one spirit to possess? And what praise is too great for him whose genius makes pure our solitude, and imposes peace on our perturbed meditations?" " Ten Thousand a Year"—which bids fair to rival the EncyclopEedia Britannica in length—is this month full of the grossest political carica ture, unredeemed by the slightest humour or fancy. Were it not fbr the inscrutable character of Gammon, and the interest with which we watch the progress of his stealthy, cat-like ma nceuverings which are hinted at with uncommon adroitness, and will, we anticipate, give rise to some impressive scenes—were it not, we say, for this striking, mysterious character, which in its way, is a master-piece, the tale would be perfect ly intolerable, for its aristocratic sketches evince a perfect ignorance of the conventional usages of high life its low life representations are dis gusting to a degree to which we have few parallels in modern fiction ; its sentiment is mere twaddle, and its dialogues are spun out to an extent that would almost tempt one to believe that the re spective parties were talking against each other for a wager. We subjoin the only amusing inci dent in the present chapter ; but even here, the effect is sadly overcharged. Mr. Titmouse, after taking his seat in the House of Commons, dis tinguishes himself by his clever imitations of the crowing of a cock—which, by the bye, is a Tory propensity—and one night, when an important debate is going forward, crows so inimitably as to give rise to the following scene : " Cock-a-doodle-do-o-o-o !" issued, with .inimitable fidelity of tone and manner, from immediately behind Lord Bulfinch, who started from his seat as if he had been shot. Every one, started; Mr. Vivid recoiled a pace or two from the table— and then a universal peal of laughter echoed from all quarters of the House, not excepting even the strangers' gallery. The Speaker was convu'sed, and could not rise to c " order !" Lord Bulfinch laughed himself almcst into fits; even those immediately behind Mr. Vivid were giving way to uncontrolla ble laughter, at so comical and monstrous an issue. He him self tried for a moment to join in the laugh, but in vain ; he as terribly disconcerted and cor&unOed. This frightful and disgusting incident had done away with the effect of his whole speech ; and in twenty-four hours' time, the occurrence would be exciting laughter and derision in every corner of the king dom. " Order! order ! order !" cried the Speaker, his face red and swollen with scarce subdued laughter. Several times Mr. Vivid attempted to resume, only, however, occasioning re newed laughter. Still he persevered; and, with much pre sence of mind, made a pointed and witty allusion to Rome saved by the cackling of a goose. 'Twas, however, plainly useless ; and after a moment or two's pause of irresolution, he yielded to his fate, wi h visible vexation abruptly concluded his observations, gathered ha'tily together his papers, and resumed his seat and his hat—a s - gnal for renewed laughter and triumphant cheering trt m the Ministerial side of the House. Up then started Mr. O'Squeal—and, despite his aliurd and extravagant gesticulation, and perfectly frightful tone of voice, dashed boldly off at one or two of the weakest points which had been made by his discomfited adversary, which he dealt with very dexterously ; and then threw up a vast number of rhetorical fireworks, a-nidst the glitter and blaze of which he sat down, and was enthusiastically cheered. 'Twas my friend Mr. Titmouse that had worked this wonder, and entirely changed the fate of the day. Up rose Mr. O'Squeal's dreaded opponent—but in vain; he was quite crest fallen; evidently in momentary apprehension► of receiving an interruption similar to that which Mr. Vivid had experienced. He was nervous and fidgety—as well he might be ; and would most assuredly have shared the fate of Mr. Vivid, but that Titmouse was (not without great difficulty) restrained by Lord Bulfinch, on the ground that the desired effect had been pro duced, and would be only impaired by a repetition. The " llourraunee Empire" is a delightful arti cle, descriptive of Affghanistan and the manners of the Affghan tribes, and penned in that spirited and colloquial style which never fails to con -ciliate the reader. " A Lounge on the Sea" is a pleasing sort of a prose pastoral, in which, how ever, far too much praise is lavished on that quaint, sly old dog, Izaac 'Walton, whose great literary merits we have never yet been fortunate enough to discover. He wrote some passable lives of eminent contemporaries, and a book about fish ing, in which occur one or two pretty sylvan de scriptions; and this is the whole amount of his claims upon the favour of posterity. " Hints to Authors" is duller this month than usual. The satire is not well applied—consequently it misses fire. A " Fifth Chapter of Turkish History" contains a clever account of the capture of Cairo by the Turks, and the massacre of the Mame luk es in the year 1517. In " Conservative Pros pects" the speedy advent of Sir R. Peel to power is confidently predicted. We have no apprehen sion of such a visitation. The Tories are stuck as fast to the opposition benches as if they were glued to them. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. We have little sympathy for Maria Louisa, ex-Queen of France, and can read of her re verses, as duly set forth here in an article des cribing her career as " Duchess of Parma," with marvellous sang froid, for we cannot forget her heartless neglect of Napoleon in the days of his adversity, who, despot as he was, to her at least was ever the most affectionate of husbands. In his last moments the names of his wife and child fluttered on his lips, yet at that very time the former was pursuing a reckless career of dissipa tion at her Court of Parma, and intriguing with her Chamberlain, Count eipperg, without a sigh—without even a thought of him who had raised her to a station in the world's eye, which she could never . have hoped to obtain. Of her paramour, and subsequently her husband, Neip perg, we are told that " on his arrival in Parma he was not much above thirty. He had a bright, martial countenance, and his left-side face was a type of manly beauty. In his early campaigns the lance of a French hussar had deprived him of Ws left eye. That honourable wound was carefully covered with a black band, and there were charms enough in the eye that remained, to win a weak woman's heart. The Count was a man of liberal sentiments. He was mild, abhorred violent mea sures, and generally upheld the cause of justice and truth. He was very popular; his style of living was simple; his manners affable and easy. He died in 1827. " Fathers and Sons" is carried on with vigour, but the present chapter contains no incidents worthy of notice. " Might against Right" is a romance of the Tyrolese war of 1809, when the patriot Hofer, whose murder is one of the darkest stains on Napoleon's scut cheon, distinguished himself so highly. The theme is a fertile one for the purposes of fiction, and we have often wondered that it has never till now been attempted. Mr. Phipp's romance, which is now only in its commencement, pro mises favourably, but we should be glad to see a little more vigour and terseness thrown into it. At present, it is too diffuse, and the opening dia logue is languid. Mrs. Trollope's " Life and Adventures of Charles Chesterfield" is neither better nor worse than usual. There is a hard ness and stiffness of manner in this lady's latest productions, which act with a repelling power on the reader. Her humour is without good-nature—her , sarcasm has no finer edge than a hand-saw ; as for her sentiment, it is positively excruciating. " Foreign Sporting," by Nimrod, is interesting, principally on account of the sketches it supplies us with of Washington's hunting establishment at Mount Vernon, prior to the American Revo lution. In the article headed " French Press," the reader will find some useful statistical infor mation respecting the eirculation, influence, &c., of the Parisian journals, whose theatrical and gossiping matters, we are told, " are the most lively and witty in Europe." The Charivari is certainly a gem in its way—but no wonder, for the French have ever been remarkable for their ready powers of wit and repartee. This national peculiarity may be seen to advantage in Vol taire's tales, who sneers away a principle by a pointed sarcasm, and demolishes an argument by a joke. The " Friend in Need" is an imitation of Sterne's manner. It is aptly enough called an " Extravaganza," for it is very—very broad. " Anti-Pacification " is an arch, airy little es say. " Pellets for Prosers" is a quizzical hit, in the form of an allegory, at the present mania for prose in preference to poetry. We subjoin the opening stanzas : One day, when the fetes on Parnassus were ended, And Helicon dull for the rest of the year, Like other gay tourists, Apollo descended With Momus—to visit his votaries here ! For whoever the other gods took to amuse them, They found them so learned, or so dull, or so prim, That sometimes they'd leave them—and sometimes they'd lose • them ; So he always took Folly to travel with him ! Having lasso'd two Pegasus-ponies—they bound them With sunbeams for traces—took stars for their seat ; And thus, at each step flinging rainbows around them, They alighted, like sunset, in Marlborough-street ! But tliere the old Temple they stopped at so often, Was shot in their teeth !—and 'twas only in spite Of orders the strictest, they managed to soften The P.rter—and sit in the shop for the night ! But Apollo, who cares very little for sleeping, Tried over some " Chansons" that seemed rather new ; While Memos, who always loved bindings—and peeping At pictures and Peers—look'd the Annuals through ! And often, when struck by some discord within it, Apollo would fling down his song with sneer ; While Momus cried out with delight ev'ry minute, " What a gent of a Print !—What a love of a Peer !" So they got through the night ;—and next morning they wander'd Through all the new streets, and new squares they could find; And though Momus his whole stock of sympathy squandered, Apollo could scarce find a spot to his mind ! There were altars to Reason, and temples to Science, But Poesy's minarets nowhere arose ; And go where they would, still a look of defiance Glared on them from some hideous statue of—Prose ! MORNING .14DJA..,1,0.14,:, BENTLEY'S MISELLANY. " Guy Fawkes,7 like Pope's wounded snake, " drags its slow length along" this month in a very wearisome manner. The dialogues are stiff and cold as usual—for Mr. Ainsworth has no no tion of making his personages talk naturally— and the incidents are in keeping with the dia logues. Nor is Cruikshank's illustration much better. Guy Fawkes looks all legs, like a gi raffe, and the man who is presenting a pistol at him, is as rigid and unbending in figure as if he had been hewn out of a granite block. George should never attempt either the heroic or the melodramatic, but stick to the humorous, the familiar, and the fantastic, where he has no rival. "An Irish Love Adventure" is a whimsical story well told, except as regards the denoue ment, which is lame and impotent. " Merrie England in the Olden Time" trips on at a brisk, ambling pace, and is interspersed with some lively rhymed conceits, which enliven and vary the article. " Hone Offleanm" is a series of reminiscences connected with Offley's once cele brated—we say, once celebrated, for we be lieve its popularity is now on the wane— supper-rooms near Covent-garden. The most interesting portion of these reminiscences is that which refers to the. late Captain Simon Fairfield, who, it seems, was in his day a great frequenter of Offley's, and was remarkable for his musical and conversational powers—ac complishments always ...to be regretted, except when they are under the control of a strong, well-regulated mind; for in nine out of ten cases they drive their popular possessor headlong to the devil. It is astonishing how many men have been utterly ruined by a fine voice, and a power of sprightly repartee ! For steering safely through the quicksands and breakers of life, commend us to good-humoured common-place. " Diary of a Dining-out Man" has one or two smart, piquant paragraphs. The progress of conversation at a large dinner party, from the formal to the familiar, is described with, much truth and happiness of expression. " A Classical Ode, with a Free Translation," is a coarse, un meaning version of an exquisitely beautiful Latin epigram by Dr. Jortin, of which the trans lator does not seem to have been aware, for he has evidently mistaken it for the production of one of the classical poets of old Rome. In addi tion to its pot-house vulgarity, the translation is not a translation at all, but simply a loose para phrase. " Modern English Dramatists" is a criticism on Sergeant Talfourd's tragedies. It is penned in a temperate manner, and speaks with becoming respect of a dramatist whose works are models of their sort, strongly con ceived, chastely and forcibly expressed, and con sistently maintained throughout. Mr. Talfourd is an 7 author who has studied deeply in the best and most enduring school; he is impassioned without being exaggerated, and even in his tenderest scenes, never degenerates into maud lin sentimentality. His notions of the dignity of his art, however, are somewhat too severe, ana we think at times he might relax with advan tage. " Ho-Fi of the Yellow Girdle," is an amusing story, embellished with a still more amusing plate by Leech, a very promising illus trator of books. " Wanted—a Widow," is from the pen of Mr. Whitehead. It is a tale ingeni ously conceived, and worked out with proportion ate dexterity. " Epistle to Fanny Elssler at New York, from the Omnibus' in London," is a lively piece of familiar verse, defaced, however, =by one or two desperate Cockney rhymes. As it is of a reasonable length, we quote it entire :- 1 " Sweet Fanny the 'Bus is half frantic To find you so long in a fix; By demurring to cross the Atantic, You make us as cross as two sticks. No more of this silly delaying The Western is now under way ; The Yankees grow wild with your staying, And we with your staying away. Each step seems as light as a feather That Congress has taken of late ; Since you and DAN WEBSTER together Concocted the airy debate. But grant us the slightest concession, And our English Al. P.-rical fops Shall bring in a bill by next session For increasing the duty on hops. Oh ! FANNY, just listen to reason, And stick to LAPORTE for the future; Or who 's to enchant us next season ? Or who 'a to attempt the Caehucha? Or whom at her benefit bobbing, Shall our bouquets in thunder-showers cover, Like the Ba es in the Wood, by Cock-Robin, With leaves smothered over and over. In the Bus, grown as dull as a hearse, We sit, like a legion of mopers, Applauding, for better, for worse, Those terrible long legs of Corzait's 1 While we gaze at the steps of Miss Hughes, it's To show us how wilful an elf ye ate, You pretend to prefer Massachusetts, And fill with your fame Philadelphia. But beware, lest, when bent on returning, The Bits should oppose its dread veto ! Certain traitors, our motley concern in, Hold up their white kids for CEarro ! At present, the ladies and lords Are as patient as sawyers at top e'er are ; But p. este !—on board for our boards ! Or prepare to be hissed from the OPERA I FBASERS' MAGAZINE. The " Non-Intrusion" question is resumed in this Number, but we cannot say that it is very luminously treated, nor is there any force or novelty in the arguments, which are merely such as have been repeated a hundred times within the last twelve months. The allusion to Dr. Chalmers is the most readable part of the paper, and it is perfectly true, that this able but crotchetty Divine, whenever he sets hold of a hobby invariably makes a point of riding it to death. He is aptly enough described as " jog ging on at a ricketty trot, whipping up his worn out Rozinante, and fancying that wind-mills are Church principles, arid the echoes of their thun der solid argument." " A Chapter about Faustus and the Devil"—as may be surmised from its title —enters into some particulars respecting the famous old German printer, and the legend of which he is the hero. There islittle interest in the subject, for we are all familiarly acquainted with it, thanks to Marlowe and Gcethe. In " Eminent Soldiers of the Eighteenth Century" we have a memoir of the Duke of Marlborough ; but it does not evince any very accurate knowledge of the times, for in the first place, the writer doubts whether Anne's desertion of her father, James the Second, was brought about by the insidious influence of the Duchess, which is a fact esta blished beyond a question ; and secondly, he as serts of the Duke, that "his great qualities were not of a nature to have led him successfully through difficulties in a subordinate rank," which argues but an imperfect acquaintance with his character, which was subtle, wily, and dexterous, as it was ambitious, and decided, when decision was necessary. Marlborough was a man who would have distinguished himself, no matter how subordinate the situation from which he sprang. He had all the qualities necessary to achieve re nown, had he even sprung from the lowest class of peasantry. The Duke's military talents are praised no more than is their due, but it is curious to see a high Tory Journal endeav our i ng to prove that the Whig Marlborough was a greater com mander than the Tory Wellington. The sub joined anecdotes may perhaps be new to some of our readers : We must conclude our present sketch with two anecdotes relating both to the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, and which we think highly characteristic of this singular and highly-gifted couple. None of the Duchess's charms, when they were at their proudest height, had been so fondly prized by the poor Duke, her husband, as her splendid head of hair. Therefore one day, upon his offending her, by some act of dis obedience to her " sovereign will," the bright thought oc curred, as she sat considering how she could plague him most, hat it would be a hearty vexation to see his favourite tresses cut off. Instantly the deed was done ; she cropped them short, and laid them in an ante-chamber he must pass through to enter her apartment ; but, to her cruel disappointment, he passed, entered, and repassed, calm enough to provoke a saint, neither angry nor sorrowful, seemingly quite unconscious both cf his crime and his punishment. Conclud ng he must Faye overlooked the hair, she ran to secure it. Lo ! it had va nished, and she remained in perplexity the rest of the day. The next, as he continued silent, and her looking-glass spoke the change—a rueful one—she began to think she had for once done a foolish thing. Nothing more ever transpired upon the subject until after the Duke's death, when she found her beau tiful ringlets carefully laid up in a cabinet, where he kept whatever he held most precious. We deem this almost affect ing. What an adorable vixen she must have been 1 The Duchess suruivedber illustrious husband not less than twenty two years, dying at the age of eighty-four, in 1744. The love she had for the Duke may in no small degree be imagined from the following anecdote :—Though in her sixty-second year, she still possessed some attractions, insomuch that she was sought in marriage by Lord Coningsby and the Duke of Somerset. What her answer was to the former is, we be lieve, nowhere upon record. That to the Duke of Somerset is highly characteristic, and greatly to b e a d m i red I Marriage is very unsuitable at n y ego but. were I only thirty , t hat" °ui ;-.,--; hmeatipteirlicthevhenastibleeeetlin,raelrlormoyf life, tlie world t o devoted John 17uke ‘ o • to sueceeel in f INlaribmough." ut int° Those who would desire to got an insigh t • the character of this extraordinary lvoinan-- " Old Sal," as she was call / 1 'll fi d muc h t° called—will n , s Ile - answer their purpose in Horace Walpole ,I g miniscences. " Macbeth, Satan, and Sylla, an attempt—not very successful — to parallel between these three characters. SPer t ) ing of Milton's Satan, the writer tells us tr h cc there is nothing low, mean, base, or sel ir e about him." This is not correct. Satan is d : voured by envy, which is one of the lowest en most grovelling of the passions; and cuts a ver t Y: instittite„, sorry figure indeed, when represented as bul, ing with hate and envious spleen, at sight o f t h e .5 beauty and happiness of Evc. We have alwo,,Y thought this a defect in Milton's otherwise niatf` - t less delineation of the fiend, flir it di s turbs tilt lofty notion, which he sought to impress" oa ill ncset of the magnificet but fallen archangel, ,' face deep scars n of thunder had entre nche The cc Condemned Cells" is a Newgate anecdote, related with simple energy. From the inernoirse of that unprincipled courtier, Lord illelcoMb, w e .- quote this ludicrous incident : King George 111., as before observed, made WO * Lord' s after which exaltation he exhibited himself at the Quee n , ' drawing-room at St. James's Palace. lie was most superb!! • attired ; but, at the same time, so trussed in his court seloli that he apreared all prompt to burst ; when, wheeling. rt,d to perform his newly-studied, best lordly bow, the wela'r,., • of his tights, which the tailor by order had rendered Vet. naturally scanty, in bending forward, the whole fabrie Pi" denly became ruptured, when, as the witnesses of his O D : fusion worse founded," relate, he stood like the luckless plo f ° losopher who was inflated by swallowing too co p ious a (113'..,,e laughing gas, and retired with his chapea u -bras as eiiii before, and his hinder parts turned towards the throne, . ; „ 1 ,,, the Majesty, whose memory was ever retentive a a .r ....7' 4111 next time he saw my Lord Melcomb Regis after the unt° ll : i , accident, kindly advised the sufferer to bring his action for e wages against h.s tailor. • MONTHLY CHIiONICLE. it care_ We are glad to meet with, in th e Word," a tale far superior to the general runeulf‘ Magazine fictions. It is told simply and ite ingly, and turns upon a hasty, mark let drop by a young girl, just before 1, 1 : union with a jealous and sensitive youth/110 taking her random observation seriously, br °l ce thoughtless . off the match, and, as a natural consequ4e,l! breaks her heart, which, according to Saul 50, is - the most difficult thing in the world India, ladies' hearts being generally as tough as e rubber. The tale may be considered as .anj tration of Moore's well-known couplet, " Alas, how slight a cause may Move „ Dissension between hearts that love. , , n . t hp In the " Hungarian Daughter" we find 0 ,1 7 5 00 • notice of a recently published tragek ° , 0 01 name, in which the author's defects are (6.1.4 pointed out, and his merits as diligently 11;iion on. We hope the following sanguine pref ut `ye of the Reviewer may soon be realised, u_enti must acknowledge that we are somewhat s:;, that cal on the point. "We feel," he say s c,„ n the there is a great dramatic era before us, wi" - as it monopoly shall have been broken dow y P ro issid must be soon. New poets will then crowubrigbt new theatres, and the age of all the w ith galaxy that filled the reign of Elizabeth in , a glory--of all but one—will be revived.olvi younger life." There is unquestionably we n t to taste for dramatic poems, as must be ev l u,..but those who watch the literary signs of the tinsees:4ol as yet, there are but few indications of faeraiwstlgoe: of the stirring genius of the Elizabetban_aed " National Education" is a shrewdly essay. How just is this observation I t is to from the diffusion of knowledge that dang e r ..be be apprehended, but from the higher Orci e j 1t ing left behind in the race of improvenletiof is not by supercilious looks or by an a il % pole sumption that the deference of the v u lgar 5 too ; a-days to be attained. It is intellect and o.ctquaitis. ment, the precious fruits of time and ePP °I ; s ae' which fix upon individuals the stamp a col' riority." " Fragments from Richter" are, tas tie lection of aphorisms in which sense and Ja n a Ore, absurdity are strangely jumbled together• sole pheus" is a poem by Mr. Horne. There a re far tee . impressive thoughts in it, but there is also og y, much cant about the old Greek 11 1 Y 11 , 14 boli which we had hoped had expired with J ° for --hi Keats. " Sketches of Spanish General s her e h oe the most entertaining series of papers t h t ti p d yet appeared in this periodical—arc deveLaere' month to the famous Spanish Guerilla "fi i , - v ont' Mina, whose character is fairly enotlP f nt 0 trayed. We quote an animated acp oll -: ri; be ambuscade into which he and his Folk% viere trayed a large body of French soldiers, 1 " on their road from Madrid : ..„ji tor " They halted at the entrance of the defile, as ", „ ur ol if , purpose of breathing the horses as to take a carere' P the formidable ground on which they were about to en ti e de d th ter a short delay in this spot, the officer who comp': poll , esovrt, discovering no apparent cause for alarm , e n " Ate be ot t ,nothing of the movements of Mina, who was ' suPPu se. o lll that moment in the nt iglibcurhood of Los Areos, (LI; Ebro, gave orders that. the culumn should move i"'losl.ton lently, steadily, and cautiously. 'I hey advanced clel,„itearAl gorge ; yet not a s'gn nor a sound betra3ed the pre; r tata.v p i„ hidden foe. Not until they had penetrated into that ft iter e four men could scarcely wa lk a b rets t, a nd whera th e /A sile u r i o most concealed from each other's sight, was that ten d broken. When the last man o f the rear -guard had t mouth of that abyss, then indeed did the echoes of tilistlel7, fain solitude leap into life. But one short shrill I",__„it heard, when a discharge of more than 3,0.00 nnoketsg D th e 6ic t a hi:ls as if with an earthquake, and suddenly flunaverin ; fe°,l the darkness of midnight. Again , --and again—nds/3 1 v ait every fissure of the rock, from every crevice, death l ot sr e y 'd amongst the bewildered French, who knew not, the enemy that destroyed them. The veterans Of t " e d Ito Italy were astounded ; and the hearts of those Wit ° "" - A" death in a thousand shapes now failed them for a .ce " r0P"..4 were armed—but what could arms do against lin; :„7 - 4 Three hundred men lay dead after the first disewlrrite l7 tt e nearly double that number, mortally wounded, W ere o f in anguish, like crushed serpents, beneath the mas' es .bialt, which, hurled from their frail resting-places, came e # l - 0 0 1 7,, thundering into that valley of death. Waggons e n , t 0 1 10 ' of all descriptions were shivered to atoms, or Dr ig iere, 43 l tl. tangled amongst the rocks and brushwood. The 1 1 - their,ail musketry—the screams of the women as they hehe,,--f feeble dren slaughtered in their arms—the low moan' g • r V.- 00 age—the frantic cries of equally h••Iple s youth—t - of of the wounded, the ,iek, and the dying — the she t eltl iers ooe tent rage, and the load execrations uttered by yid 4 Napoleon, who wrre thus massacred by a foe thef cu be tlaa' — s h —the darkness of the gorge itself, relieved only DY ! de of 'I I of the muskets, from which streamed the ceaseless tideooll7o, —all flung over this spot the terrors of hell. Th e the 8 9111 character of the scene was deepened still more wheneffectato, rilleros, seeing that the work of carnage was thu s - defil e ', of begun, leaped forth from their hiding-places into thet, toy Ot t tering those yells which vengeance throws forth moldl bar d, maddest intoxication. They continued with the u „g e t ; that which had been so well commenced with the "„'" r itotte r to in their blind fury, did not even spare the unhaPPl r e eetul their own countrymen — who, confounded with t ' Pe this terrible melee, called in vain for mercy !" TA ITS' MAGAZINE. ta sj01 111 „,1 In his leading article—to speak "fluicilie —on the " Present State of Parties," p r o ne; at 't it friend Tait deliv e rs it as hi s conviction T4ertesf Administration is verging to its fall." c oil ) e 't• is not in the m os t flourishing condition t)'rity but as things now are, ev en its poor n itli worl' ill a five, may be considered as a tolerablew co s majority.npr e 1 them have seTgidovl_iiebei gone c t t l ttit a hilo y ee . sseaotia.feocblt,poiecarrsolsvtulolgieibl.iirrnrn ; a t orlidt owe s i ie t e ver, ajor itl ,, used to delight the hearts of 3 113i i i n li3srt l er c 5 On l" . je e t writer's observations on the political.- of Sir Robert Peel are founded iniustl o o.' agree with bins that " all the Right 0 , e get!: russet's delays have for their object . 1 , 1. 2 #6 . rid of the assistance of the Orange raesiev.esiesio faction are a perfect drag-chain on his iii .they t o e be They will not advance themselves, tha t o f slot let him advance ; what. wosader th , , e-- ra ein re g ile should be anxiously- lookisigabout for ti i . e p s ? " + he extricating himself from their clutc" - oen time, we apprehend, is not far distan t ;. s Right Hon. Baronet will fling off 11 • red shackles, and start up, an unenculn'-bsi 7 0 f former. This is the only alternative 11.heioelr.ai him, and if he do not hasten to ava il .r n - fiaee h ti ll it, he will be extinguished as a n , statesman, as surely as to-morrow:s su anon .g rise. " Violet Hamilton," is the cont ill t 't a story commenced several montl4.ls, t r o y g i d ll o l o Magazine. There is one piquant p - a k t P° .- A ft• of the provincial manager of a gr.-- tbe ot Joint Stock Company. 4 , A "Visit t; i r e can to r mastery of La Trappe," is passable.' " Jere ti b. give it higher praise. " Memoirs ._ es of P plaYe sta g e of fet id Il lie entilam' have long since passed from .the characters,are rwephloe,teiwlailthingreminiseentcheir a Here c contemporary t e e m s sketch of 3, o Lord Burke, S 1 elb urne, . pea and • of his political career:— Tell m e d do Lord Shelburne used frequently to say, w oul o tt # right and proper—tell me what a man of vinli pK or, el l, o re this matter . ' I I told him that Balak, the son of t he _ O4 l 66 That whit the sn' i Balsam to prophesy, who answexed, e a puts into my mouth will I prophesy and the t f w c i screP e u t ii . 1 made. Be caught hold of the most ilu P el : e ta en tre fed idea, and filled it up in his own mind— som ettin_ r ipef, o f sometimes erroneously. His manner was very. IP: Hot _ dignified, and he talked his vague generalities in at t ra ` oft eet;e 4te i Lords in a very emphatic way, as if something • w t be the bottom , in the eat at its when, in fact, there was nothing aotaii.o,__a boot me what he could do for me—l told hie], 0 ;. thDee about fow d this so different to the universal spir.it. of to , aci. e d itt him, as to endear me to him. - He was afraid as occur ! , be was not much intimate communication. .Intler, writing and reading between breakfast and `" ARO. P; took walks with the eldest Miss Vernon (np er „ er e then , f to Smith). I seldom saw him except at dinner,:te"took ray da p f mostly company. Supper I never took, but r u to hilt' hymt~ my room. I was of more-importance, hoss'eve . s . r est jo , wed by 1 % • t could bring myself to believe. I was co a d liation. —I felt like an ;outcast in the worlit...4icesectileti a fe n w e e T tolerable hat p a ! o m p l u e o , s o h n o e u a i d t a h t Ina boree ,bu u no t g 1 e ti n e,...std p !t ll e e b. cu tonr a: " abroad," was a sufficient recommendation. NIL op t had a wildness about him, and conceived grou, 00. wit.%, about nothing at all. I remember going_ tf ratanslaTari of his servants, and being accos ted ! by. -9!",„dit,...,0,7' spoke to out of pure civility; and, °ix' meats°2ls7•