The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

MORNING SUM Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., THE GLORT AND SHAME OF ENG LAND. By AN AMERICAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. Now ready, in 3 vols. post vo., E R R E R S. FA ROMANCE of the REIGN of GEORGE 11. By CHARLES OLLIER. " Such a work as his has not appeared since ' Oliver Twist.' In some respects we prefer it to that well• known story ; for, with equal spirit, it has far more refinement of thought and grace of expression. There is no maudlin sentimentality about it—no pandering to depraved tastes. The whale story is told with terse, simple, manly vigour, the vigour of health—not of convulsion. The author does not bid us admire the magna nimity of ruffians; in a word, he i 3 an Anti-Jack- Skep pardist."—Sun. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had at all the Libraries. MR. AINSWORTH'S NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE Immediately, in 3 vols. post Bvo., illustrated with Twenty large Designs on Steel, by Franklin, OLD SAINT PAUL'S: A TALE of the PLAGUE and the FIRE. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq., Author of " The Tower of London," &c. Hugh Cunningham, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square. MAJESTY STR th m e EMPEROR of His MAJESTY the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His MAJESTY the KING of PRUSSIA, having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, Are now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS TRIBU TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions may receive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION contains DI VIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO 5,000 400 1,500 200 1,000 150 • 800 120 HEINE BROTHERS having remitted during a short time 25,0001., 18,0004, 9,000/, 5,0001., 3,600/., &c. &c. &c., to London ; 3,600/., 800/, and 7001., to Edinburgh ; 3,6001. to Dublin ; 3,6001. to Beverley; 3,600/. to Halifax (Yorkshire); 1,200/. to Portleaven Harbour ; 900/., 7001. and 6001. to Li verpool ; 900/. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 9001. to Hull ; 900/. and 600/. to Manchester ; 7001. to East Retford (Not tinghamshire); 600/. to Bideford ; 6001. to Cork ; 6001. to Bradford ; they shall feel glad to remit many Dividends of the next Distribution to England, Ireland, and Scotland. Direct for Prospectus and Particulars, without delay, either to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, or to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. £llO £7O 100 60 90 50 80 Sterling. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.' U , ;DER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTALS. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORMA.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison •, Flavius, Mr. Clement White Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble (her fourteenth appear ance upon the English Stage). After which the Farce of FREE AND EASY.—Sir John Freeman, Mr. Charles Mathews; Mr. Charles Courtley, Mr. Bartley ; Michael, Mr. Harley ; Gertrude, Mrs. Orger. To conclude with ( Second Time) the Ballet Divertissement of the WOODEN LEG. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Ballia, Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, Miss Jackson, &c. Doors to 're opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, mss. 6d. ; Pit, 35.; Second Price. 21.• Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken Of Mr. Grogan. at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had tit en application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. iIOYAL SURREY THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE AND MR. WILLIS JONES. Extraordinary Novelty. First Week of the New French Drama. THIS EVENING, DEC. 2. Will be acted an entirely New Drama from the French, re plete with situations of ingenuity, intensity of interest, and stronddrawn character, entitled THE TWO LOCKSMITHS, 011 POVERTY AND CRlME.—Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Smith, Neville, Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, &c. After which, DAMON AND PYHIAS.—Damon, Mr. Graham ; Pythias, Mr. Henry Hughes; Calanthe, Miss Waverley. TO conclude with Dibdin's popfar Farce of MY SPOUSE AND I.—Dick, Mr. Walton. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. MR. OSBALDISTON'S BENEFIT. Mr. OSBALDISTON cannot omit the present pleasing opportunity of thus publicly and energetically RETURNING HIS WARM THANKS for the splendid support which he had the honour to experience on the occasion of his BENEFIT on TUESDAY, November 23d, another gratifying and moat convincing proof that his strenuous and never-tiring exertions to render the Royal Victoria Theatre the first minor establish ment of the metropolis, has been crowned with that trium phant success which his best friends and numerous supporters could never have anticipated to have been so fully and sub stantially realized, as every night's success must make palpable to the most common observer. Mr. OSBALDIS'f ON also begs to announce, that all parties having tickets or checks, who were unable, in consequence of the immense pressure, to obtain entrance into the theatre on TUESDAY, November 23d, will be admitted THIS EVENING, December 2, when the entertainments will consist of THE TWO LONDON LOCKSMITHS. After which THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. OSBALDISTON ; Mrs. Haller, MISS VIN CENT. To conclude with CASPER, THE DOOMED; or, The Victim of the Vault. _ _ . Boxes, 25.—Pit, Is.— uallery, 6d.—lalf-price to the Boxes only, at Hag-put Eight. To-morrow, London Locksmiths, Nature and Art, and Cas per the Doomed. THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.--A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is NOTV PUBLISHING. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Dec. 2, 1841. TIIE WEATHER.—NOON, DECEMBER 1. ROY AL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 50 Highest 5l Lowest 42 Barometer 29.42.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 2.2 Deg. HIGH - WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 53 minutes attar 3. Evening 21 minutes after 4. ,§utt. LONDON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1841. DEATH OF DR. BIRKBECK. We announce with regret that Dr. BIRKBECK, the President of the London Mechanics' Insti tute, and the patron, pr omoter, and founder of such institutions in every part of the country, (lied, yesterday morning, at his residence, Fins bury-square. He had been ailing for some months, and his death was not unexpected. In him science has lost a devoted student, and the wor ki n g classes an ardent . and affectionate friend. was in his sixty-fifth Dr. But.KBEcK year, and, was best w kn o o ln wn i t i o the whole empire as the e was much trusted a nd beloved, of his patients ' by h - .beyond the c ircle author and ch ampion of scientific instruction to the classes. It working thirty years s i nce he is now, we believe, ne a rly • first undertook to deli v er lectures to them at Glasgow, and from that rime till within a few months of his death he was unwearied in pro moting motin their instruction. Not only did he ex plain, on various occasions, to admiring audiences, the truths of mechanics and chemistry, he also lectured on the principles of physiology, and taught the members of the Mechanics' Institute by specimens, and even by the human subject, the anatomy and functions of life. There was scarcely one branch of the mechanical and phy sical sciences on which he did not occasionally lecture, and not one which he did not improve and adorn. His language was eloquent as well as simple, and the influence which he wielded over great numbers of men, supposed to be rude and unpolished, was overwhelming while he was speaking, and will be beneficially remembered by many persons to the latest moment of their lives. Though not obtrusive, though never courting fame, though little known to the noisy, bastling, political world, we, who have watched his course and his proceedings for nearly twenty years, venture to assort that no man in this age and nation has done so much to improve and soften, to elevate and adorn, the minds of the working classes as Dr. BIRKBECK. We trust that he will not be allowe d to pass from amongst us without some proof—for our own honour—that we were sensible of his worth. Dr. BIRKBECK, though not the author of the address which first appeared in the Mechanics' Magazine, nor the ori • • ginator of the suggestion to establish a Mechanics' Institution in London, was one of the first persons who united himself to the projectors, and, if he may be called the founder to whom its success was owing, Dr. BIRKBECK, whose influence, talents, purse, and zeal, gave life and soul to the scheme, may be called the founder of the Lon don Mechanics' Institute. It would be unjust, knowing, as we do, the fact, not to add that the person with whom the suggestion originated was Mr. J. C. ROBERTSON, a gentleman remarkable for the usefulness and fertility of his schemes ; but to Dr. BIRKBECK is mainly due the honour of setting the Institution on foot. He was una nimously elected its President, and continued to preside over the Institution, always assisting it with his counsel and his services, till his death. The London Mechanics' Institute was the parent of the many similar institutions that are now to be found in several parts of the metropolis, and in almost every large town of the empire. They have already done much to promote scientific knowledge throughout the kingdom; and the great impulse which they have given to human improvement, begun in 1823, will be imperish ably connected with the name of Dr. BIRKBECK. At a meeting of the Mechanics' Institute, last night, the lamented event was announced by reading the following letter from Miss BIRK BECK : " My poor father, as you are aware, has been a great sufferer for many months, but still we had hoped that he would have been spared to us for many years; but it was not so willed, for at six o'clock this morning he expired. Late last night he called me to him, and dictated the inclosed note, which he bade me send you, showing how interested he felt, even in his dying moments, for the Institution : "My Dear Sir—l should have liked to have been present at another Anniversary of the In stitution, but it is not permitted. I have read the programme, and I do not doubt but all will be successful." Dr. BIRKBECK lived to see the 18th year of the Institution completed, and died within a few hours of the time when many of his grateful scholars were preparing to celebrate the 19th birth-day of the Institution. On several occasions lately the Times has drawn attention to the reports which it has dili gently published of an investigation still pending into the manner in which the union workhouse of Sevenoaks has been conducted. Very dis gusting and very revolting scenes, as may be ex pected when you open wide the doors of every ward and every dormitory of a workhouse, have been placed before the public. We have read the accounts and the comments in the Times with great disgust, and we will not disgust our readers by repeating them. We will content ourselves with saying, that in this union workhouse, sixty one persons more were placed after it was said to be full; that seven boys slept in one bed, and five in another ; that the itch, and the terrible disease called goitre, prevail from the dampness of the situation and the crowded state of the workhouse; and that, altogether, the place is:-lore loathsome than the most crowded and worst prison in this empire. To the Times we are indebted for a knowledge of the fact that the Marquis of CAMDEN and Colonel H. AUSTEN, an opulent country gentle man, lately constituted the Visiting Committee, and that the workhouse has been frequently visited by the Rev. Dr. D'OYLY. But the Times does not tell the public, which we desire to im press on our readers, that this Sevenoaks Union is not in the manufacturimg districts, but in the heart of one of the finest rural districts of the county of Kent. Memory will not serve us to enumerate the noblemen's and gentlemen's seats which are within a very few miles of Sevenoaks. Besides the Marquis of CAMDEN, the Earl AMHERST, and the Marquis of DOWN SHIRE, we believe, Earl STANHOPE, Sir HENRY HARDINGE, Mr. HEautEs, with scores of other noblemen and gentlemen, have all spacious mansions and parks in the immediate vicinity of the beautiful town of Sevenoaks. There may be a paper-mill or two, and there is, we believe, a a silk mill in the district ; but the character of the district is that of rural beauty, embellished with a great number of noble parks and magni ficent mansions. In this district, and under the eye of these noblemen and gentlemen, and on the tillers of their estates, have the disgusting and revolting atrocities, described in the Times, been practised. Agricultural and clerical Kent is doomed to be instructive to the nation. When THOM found believers and followers within the sound of the Cathedral bell of Canterbury, Kent re vealed to the astonished world how deplorably and thoroughly the rich clergy had neglected and injured the people ; and the same kind of testimony which Thom and Canterbury bore to the character of the priesthood, do the horrors of the Sevenoaks' union workhouse, surrounded by noblemen's seats, bear to the character of the gentry of England. The French Journals, delayed by the incle ment state of the weather, have reached us. The Presse has an article in which it violently denounces the miniature revolution at Geneva, where, however, public tranquillity has not for one moment been disturbed. Don CARLOS has become discontented with the negotiations of the Carlists and Christinos for settling the affairs of Spain by a mar riage between his son and the young QUEEN. Accordingly, at the desire of Prussia, he repudiates them, and declares that he will consent to nothing till he is set at liberty, and acknowledged Sovereign of Spain. Like the barber of Bagdad, he will be content with reigning a single day, for he protests his willingness to resign on the next. But there is small chance of his would-be Majesty being gratified with a Crown, even for this brief period. Moreover, as his abdication could not be made in favour of Queen ISABELLA, he might as well whistle jigs to a milestone as dream of the reali zation of a proceeding so utterly preposterous. (From the Private Correspondence of the Constitutionnet) " Oran, Nov. 16. " When the Spaniards came to Oran under the cele brated Cardinal Ximenes, they, as we do, coveted the possession of the whole of this vast and beautiful pro vince, but confined their occupations within narrow limits. They spread themselves along the coast, con tenting themselves with Central Oran, Mostaganem, and a port in front of Algiers, called the Pennon. It was only at the instigation of a scion of the Sovereigns of Tlemecen, who had been dispossessed by Arondji, that they determined to march against this place, and having defeated the famous Barbarossa, killed him in his flight near the small river and bivouac of the Oned Sinan. This success, however, did not open the eyes of the Spanish General, and he never attempted to take se llous hold of the province by planting himself in the centre. The Spanish Governors did as wo have done now, they were charmed by the picturesque and commodio us position of Oran, its ready and easy with O n f n i ic ts ations with the northern country, the excel founding of erected stron forts t, Merd-el-Kebir, and contented themselves wilgeir more of the magnificent colony, the they had at first contemplated. They and left Spain for the invasions" them , with under-ground works and Kas bahs,fmonuments of the reprisals of Count of Alcandate and his Moors. Oran, under the s:r e cessors, became a seat of elegance and pleasur e , and the d wealthy young patricians of It thus acquired resort r of the gay and little court. In 1793 ifprosvvience Without having t t h h e e a s p p p a e th ll ar at d iv s e e o v f ae C n o a r t t d Ch t i do never been w w rn e or s s ho h ulavd e were now to give conqueroeduritg, governors it up. trans fer the head-quarters of the division j this province to to Mascara, because their Generals were loathe province oathe to deprive themselves of the enjoyments of thi • s minor capital. General Bugeaud, however, has suddenly de termined upon this measure, which will annoy many per sons, derange many projects, and be injurious to many interests, but which ca rries with it the nearl y ripe fruits' of an efficient conquest and a judicious colonisation." The Moniteur of Nov. 29th has no official part. The King has just signed the letters to the Members of the two Chambers for the opening of the Session, which is fixed, as we have stated, for December 27th. M. Guizot, before going to the Council yesterday, called on the English Ambassador, with whom he had a conference of three-quarters of an hour. M. Sancho, the Spanish Ambassador to England, left Paris the day before yesterday, for London. The Gazette de Berri, a Legitimist Journal, announces that the Princess:of Brisa is indisposed.—Constitutionnel. The Commerce states that since the remains of Napo leon have been placed at the Invalides, a period of rather more than eleven months, four millions of persons are estimated to have visited the spot. " The Protestants of France," says the National, "are about to establish Sisters of Charity of their own com munion, for the purpose of attending their sick in the prisons, hospitals, &c., for which, it is said, permission of the Government has been obtained. We understand that they are to wear a costume similar to that of the Catho lie grey sisters, and, like them, will be selected from among respectable young women." The ancient Church of the Convent de Panthemont, in the Rue de Grenelle, now used as a storehouse for the War Department, is going to be converted into a place of Protestant worship, as soon as the stores are removed to the depot, in Gros Caillou, orders for which have been issued by the Minister of War. The Duke of San Carlos, who, after lying concealed at Madrid eight days, made his way to Santander, and thence escaped into France, has arrived in Paris. M. Sancho, Ambassador from the Spanish Government to the Court of St. James's, has left Paris for London. M. Verstolk Van Soelen, Minister of Foreign Affairs at the Hague, M. Vander Capellen, and M. Fabricius, formerly Ambassador at Paris, and whose removal dur ing the Ministry of Count Mole will be remembered, are now in the capital. M. Merilhou, Peer of France, has been made a Com mander in the Legion of Honour. The Archbishop of Bourges, M. de Villele, died on the 24th inst. of a sudden attack of apoplexy, The Marquis de Dreux-Breze has arrived in Paris. • fr*, 4 1 1# ) o cr 4'67, psr, ' CIF . Y 4 • THE SUN": LONDON, TffURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1841. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, Nov. 29. k Ira Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Prick Prier. French 5 per Cent, ll6 35 ... 116 35 116 25 116 25 4 per Cents.-- ...... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents... PO 40 80 40 80 15 ... 80 15 Loan . Sank of France Lattitte Bank 1,0001. Shares 1050 ...1050 —..-- 5,000 f. Shares 5075 ...5075 ...5070 ...5070 Belgian Bank 18H Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent'., 1840 lO2 ... 102 „„ 102 .„ 182 3 per Cents 7l 70 ... 71 70 ... 71 70 ... 71 70 ipanish Active ........ 24X ... 25 ... 24% ... 25% Passive s' ... 5% ... 5% ... 5% New Deferred Por tugUese 3 per Cents. Neapolitan lO6 50 —. 196 50 ... 106 50 ... ity6 50 Ronan, ex. div .... 102 ... 102!8 ... 102 ... 102% RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles. R. B 316 25 ... 316 25 ... 316 25 ... 316 95 Rouen ..... 452 50 ... 452 50 ... 452 50 452 St Orleans • 480 480 4t.0 4811 Strasburgto Bnle.shares red 2?.7 50 ... 9:27 50 ... 227 50 ... 221 50 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visrm, Nov. 20. rive per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 0000000 ••••••• 99% Three per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••• 00000 ••••••••••••••••••••• 754 Bank Shares ....—........ 0000000 .. 000 o ......• ...111gerneine Zeitung. Nov. 25. DEATH OF SIR HENRY FREELING, BART.—We regret to learn - that Sir Henry Freeling, Bart., died suddenly on Monday last. He was in town on Saturday, quite well; but he had been in rather delicate health for some time previously. Sir Henry was son of the first Baronet, by his first wife, the daughter of Christian Carstadt, Esq., of London. He was born 1789. He married in 1816 the daughter of Robert Lang, Esq., of Moor Park, Surrey, and succeeded to his father in 1836. The first Baronet, his father, was Se cretary to the General Post-office for more than thirty years. The family seats are Ford and Hutchings, Sussex. His son, Francis Freeling, Esq., born in 1816, is his heir. The deceased was one of the Commissioners of Customs. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. There has been a slight rally in the quotations of the public securities to-day, although in the morning the market opened rather heavily. Consols for immediate transfer ranged from 884 to 891. For the Account the value realised was 89i to 89; : . Exchequer Bills were Bs. to 10s. premium, and India Bonds par to 2s. prem. Bank Stock was rather better, viz., 1631 to 1641, but India Stock was flat at 2471. The Reduced Three-and a-Half per Cents. brought 97i to and the Three per Cent. Annuities 871 to 881. There was still a good deal of speculative business in the Foreign Market, but the Peninsular Bonds are not in quite so much favour with the Bulls, though this, pro bably, is a mere temporary affair. The 'Active Spanish Bonds, which opened at 25 to 251, closed . at 244 to 241 ; Portuguese New Five per Cents. were at 334 to 34.1 for Account, and the Three per Cents. at 204 to 21, owing to the more favourable accounts from that guar tn. ; and Mexican Stock was firmer at 251 ; Belgian Bonds were marked locq, and Dutch Five per Cents. 99i to 991. Shares attracted very little attention. Birmingham were 68 ; York and North Midland New, 15 prem., and Brighton, 14i to 151 discount. The letters by the steamer from America were delivered late this afternoon, and appeared to give more satisfaction. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 30.—The business done in the Cotton Market to-clay is to a moderate ex tent, the sales amounting to 3,000 bales, all of which are taken by the trade. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, Nov. 30.—The trans actions in this Market were in Eastern Counties, 74 ; Grand Junctions, 191 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 954 ; Lon don and Birmingham Quarter Shares, 22 ; London and South Western, 56 ; Ditto, 1-10th Shares, 43. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 30.—The Market is steady, and more business might have been done than for some days previous had Stock been more plentiful. Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 241 ; Ditto, Quarter, 2 : 1 ; Bank of Stockport, 21. 6s. 3d. We have a West India packet in this morning ; her Majesty's packet Crane. She brings advices from ;La matea to the 3d November ; Barbadoes to the 28th October ; Demerara to the 24th October ; and St. Thomas's, November 7. The Colonial Parliament of Jamaica was opened by his Excellency the Governor at the date fixed by the last proclamation. After the usual preliminary proceedings, the speech of his Excellency was delivered. On the 28th October the President of the Council replied, and on the next day the House of Assembly, by its Speaker, responded thereunto. Although there were some heavy sales effected by the Government and the brokers yesterday in the British Stocks, the Market still continued firm, and at the close of business, the quotations of the early part of the morn ing were fully maintained. Consols for Money closed at BEq.-, 89, and for the Account 891 -1, at which price they opened this morning, and are now firm at those quota tions ; there is, however, but a limited business doing ; Three per Cents. Reduced are 874 88 ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 981-1 a ; Exchequer Bills, 8 to 10 premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active Stock continues to be the favourite security for speculating in ; they opened this morning at 25 to I-, and are now firm at 251, buyers ; the Passive, is 54 64 ; and Deferred, 124 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 334 4 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 20 to 204 ; Colombian, 20 to 204 ; Mexican, 251 26; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52 to 524 ; and the Five per Cents., 994 to 100. It may not be uninteresting to the holders of Spanish Bonds to learn that the Spanish Finance Agency in London, hitherto conducted by M. de Zulueta, has 13.'!en transferred to the highly respectable firm of Aguirre, Solante, and Murietta, of the Old Jewry. The English Stock Market continues steady, with a fair amount of business doing. Consols for Money were last done at 89, and for the Account 894 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88 ; Three-and•a-half per Cents. Re duced, 974, and the New T hree-and-a-Half, 98,4 ; Bank Stock, 1631 ; India Stock, 2474 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 to 10 premium. In the Foreign Market the operations have been very limited, Spanish Stock maintaining its price ; business has been done in them as high as 251 during the morn ing, but they are now vtoted at 251 ; Passive, q- 6 ; Deferred, 124 i; Portuguese Five per Cents,•334 344 ; and the Three per Cents. 204 ;- Colombian, 201 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 52k; at:d Five per Cents. 994. Very little doing in the Share lYtarket. London and Brighton are heavy at 351 1 ; the other Shares present no alteration. Consols, Money, 89 to 894 ; Consols, Account, 894 to 84; Mexican, 24 to 26 ; Spanish, 25 to 251. We have nothing very new this morning from any quarter. Money is still at a fair rate of interest, and is likely to continue so while the transfer books remain closed, as there are still some large exports of silver in progress, and our foreign trade is not brisk. If we do have a revival of animation in commerce next year, the failures will have swept off the weak private and joint-stock banks, and leave a sounder ground to work upon ; for there can be no question, but that it is for the benefit of the community at large, when houses in a state of insol vency, no matter how long they may have con trived to keep on, are at once brought to a stand. Banks of all institutions are least likely to recover from any excessive losses, out of proportion, as they often are, to the capital paid up, and this remark will apply even more to private than joint stock establishments. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. _ Rank Stock 1637 lndia Stock. 3 per Cent Red. • 88A Ditto Bonds 2pm 3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 97A. Ditte New Annuities... New 3i per Cent 9S Ea. Bills, 1,000/....2id Bpm New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 Bpm Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto Small. . Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct... Oct, 1859 l2 3.16 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. l2l ,Consols for Acct B9l ____ FOREIG FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent lO O4 Ditto, New Ditto 34 Brazilian f onds.... — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cez Russian, 5 per cent - - Dit+ letallic Chilian, 6 per cent..... ditto, M._ Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 24i Ditto, 1824. 204 Ditto, Deferred .. 12i Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent 52 Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. , Ditto, 5 per cent. _ . SHARES Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. 27 Great Western Railway( 65 paid) - Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid).....,...... , 1 2 8 4 1 London and Birmingham (90) ......... •• Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) London and South Western Ditto Tenths (3a paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) •••••• 23 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Norther n an d E astern (35 paid) ...... ..• • 2 2 1 South Eastern and Dover (43 paid )••• York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (15 paid 3O The late Mr. Evans, formerly shoemaker of Shrevvsbury, has left the large sum of . 6,0001., to be laid out by his executors in the erection of almshouses for the widows of decayed tradesmen, and for their support whilst residing therei n . Th e same benevolent indivi dual has left 100/. to each of the parishes of St. Chad and Brace Meole, Shrewsbury, th e i nterest o f w hich is to be annually distributed in bread to the poor of those parishes. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt Optuton. " Who runs may read." rOILEIGN. It was reported in Paris on Monday that Don Carlos, at the instigation of the King of Prussia, bad addressed a letter to the Marquis of Escars, for the purpose of being communicated to the Diplomatic Body, in which he formally protests against any project for a matrimo nial compromise which shall emanate from the ex-Regent Christina. He declares that his rights are sacred and imprescriptible, and that he could not abandon them even in an indirect manner, by binding himself to any plan that would renounce his rights to those of usurpa tion. Don Carlos adds, that his son, the Prince of' As turias, fully participates in his sentiments. The Chris tines have been striving hard since their defeat in Spain to bring about the marriage of Don Carlos's son and Queen Isabella, as the basis of a Carlist and Christino coalition against Espartero and the Exaltados, but the plan has failed, owing to the continued detention of Don Carlos, who has refused all overtures made to him until he has qUitted France. In reality it matters nothing what Don Carlos determines one way or the other. The King of Prussia is a potent personage at Berlin, but he is a name and nothing more at Madrid. Espartero laughs, as he well may, at the ridiculous negotiations of Christinos and Carlists about a Crown whic is for ever beyond their reach. The following is among the most interesting political gossip in the French capital :—" The political circles are reviving the rumours of a Mole and Thiers coalition. The latter abandons his pretensions to the Foreign office in favour of Count Mole, and will accept the Min istry of the Interior. Count Mole, in turn, is to give up the Presidency of the Council to Marshal Vallee, who is also to be Minister of War, Count Mole holding the Foreign Department. Lamartine to have the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, and Dufaure and Passy to be offered places in this allee-Mole-Thiers Cabinet. This combination is much canvassed, but there are other reports that the present Ministry will resort to a dissolu tion, should it not find a majority. This menace, how ever, will not be of much value, as the Chambers are entering upon their last session." We have heard a good deal lately of M. Thiers' intrigues to effect a return to office. The Foreign Department is out of the question, as all the cabinets of Europe would oppose such an appointment. But the Ministry of the Interior answers M. Thiers better for the present. The vast patronage which it would place at his disposal would enable him to recruit the spirits of his party, and re-imburse him for the expenses of his Italian and German tours. No per son knows better than M. Thiers how to turn a seat in the Cabinet to profitable account, politically and per sonally. M. Chauteaubriand, the harlequin of French diplo macy at the Congress of Verona, and author of more rhapsodical nonsense than any writer in Europe, visited on Sunday the Abbe Lamennais, the apostle of Socialism, now confined in prison for a political libel. The shallow French egotist, who fancies himself a poet, a statesman, and a philosopher, boaSts that he is the only man who could throw dust in the eyes of Canning ! La Presse has the following :—" The commercial acti vity of Great Britain is indefatigable. Not satisfied with having taken possession of Aden, at the entrance of the Red Sea, she has sent an embassy to the Abyssinian chiefs, demanding permission to establish a factory at Massonah, an island in the Red Sea, the port at which all travellers land who intend to visit Abyssinia by sea. If, as we have reason to believe, this permission be granted, Great Britain will have availed herself of the fruit of the exertions made by some Frenchmen during several years to establish the influence of their nation in that country." The following description of a long bulletin in the Moniteur of Monday is thus happily given by the Chro nicle :—" Algiers is a god-send to the Moniteur. The French occupy three or four fortified villages in the in terior, which are surrounded by hostile Arabs, and it requires an army to be put in motion in order to re-victual and relieve the garrisons of these places. Accordingly every three months a General marches off with a greater army than supplied Alexander for the conquest of Asia, and with this he achieves the task of bringing some sacks of corn and sides of pork to Mascara or Medea. This marching and victualling costs mil lions, and it is necessary to give the worthy French public at home something for their millions. The re muneration is given in the shape of a bulletin. The Moniteur of Monday contains one of three columns. The bulletin states that General Lamoriciere marched to re-victual Mascara. Abd-el-Kader mustered immedi ately 10,000 men, and waited for the French in a desert spot, for the purpoLe of attacking them, and forcing them, at least, to pass the night without water. "M. de Lamoriciere," says the bulletin, " took a wise resolu tion that does him honour. lie took another road." We have to add, that in this expedition the French lost one officer and 23 men killed on the field, and 11 who died of illness, besides a number of wounded. PUBLIC OPINION. The Herald is relaxing its notions a little on the sub ject of the Corn-laws, as appears by the subjoined pas sages from a leading article suggested by Lord John Russell's late address to the inhabitants of Plymouth. Our Contemporary admits the expediency of only the slightest alteration in this impost ; still even this con cession is something from an uncompromising Tory journal In legislating on the Corn-law one truth must never be lost sight of ; it is that the soil of this country, if properly cultivated under fair and moderate rents, with those facilities which arise from an equable and unexciteable system of currency, and before either in importance, with the blessing of ordinary seasons, can feed the population of the United Kingdom ; and that any Corn-law alterations which would lead to the throwing land permanently out of cultivation is a sacri fice wholly unwarranted by the real necessities of the people, or the state of the nation. To any compromise in the declension of the sliding scale, which shall increase facilities for importing grain, shall get rid of fraudulent averages, and give greater regularity to the corn trade, without that sacrifice, we respectfully suggest to the landed interest they ought not to object, when proceeding from the hands of a national Administration like the present ; in the permanency of which in power is greatly involved the safety of the kingdom." The Post remark?, in answer to an observation in n Liberal Print of Tuesday, that the Austrian peasantry are better off than those in Ireland Whatever may have been the original cause of the very bad condition of the Irish peasantry, this is true, that on account of the nature of our British Government, there resides no where the sufficient power to apply a vigorous, humane, and intelligent remedy. It is also true that the Whig- Radical faction is constantly employed in giving nourish ment and excitement to these bad parts of our governing system, which disable the supreme authority from re medying the bad :condition of the Irish peasantry." — The original cause of the very bad condition of the Irish peasantry is at once accounted for, when one calls to mind the long system of Tory misrule in that country. When this despotic, grinding system was a little relaxed the condition of the Irish peasant began slowly to im prove, and had a Liberal Government continued in office a few years longer, we have no doubt his most vexatious grievances would have been redressed ; but now that the Tories are once again in power, it is to be feared that the faint dawn of his prosperity will be again overcast. The Chronicle says :—" The Whigs, who for ten years held possession of Dublin Castle, never thought of dis placing any of the Tory clerks whom they found there, but even (much to their discredit, be it said) added to the number, as often as a vacancy occurred by death or any other casualty. Even public officers charged with the administration of the functions of Government, whom they could not trust, were yet so far respected as not to be sent totally adrift. Sir William Gossett, for example, was handsomely provided for in the House of Commons, and another gentleman was promoted to the government of a colony. But Earl De Grey and his subordinates have other notions about the patronage which power be stows upon them. After ten years of Whig administra tion, they find one or two Whigs in the Castle, and these they set about forthwith to eject, by fair means or by foul."—The truth is, Earl De Grey cannot help himself. The party whom he serves, are too strong for him. The Orangemen, greedy and amourous for a share of the loaves and fishes, will take no denial from his Lordship; but insist that every Liberal shall be turned out of the Castle, the Chief Secretary's office and elsewhere, to make room for members of their ravenous, cormorant squad. And this is the independence and impartiality on which the Noble Viceroy so much prided himself, on accepting thelrish Lord-Lieutenantey I Further comment is useless. , The Times thus alludes to Lord` John 'Russell's recent visit to Plymouth, and his answer to the complimentary address presented to him by the inhabitants :—" Hav ing gone thither in the character of a noted political leech, his Lordship's pre-eminent pretensions as an in fallible prescriber seem to have brought around him the whole of the incurable Liberals in that unhealthy neigh bourhood, the more especially as his Lordship's advice is always given gratuitously, provided the applicants will only swallow his drugs. The origin of this Plymouth demonstration may be easily accounted for. Our readers are not such greenhorns as not to be aware of the intel ligible device commonly practised by empirics in order to procure popularity for their nostrums. Unhappy persons who, in the overpowering competitions of the present day, can no longer pick up a few half-crowns for swearing to characters at the Old Bailey, are too successfully ensnared to publish their formal attestation of the miraculous virtue of certain advertised specifics. Every newspaper exhibits scores of such certificates daily."—The allusion to quackery in the above passage is unfortunate, for it instantly suggests the recollection of the Tamworth Quack —the most adroit proficient in that line that modern times can show. MONET—TRADE—COMMERCE. At the tea sales on Tuesday a dozen sample packages of Japan tea were sold at a high price. It was said to be equal to any yet exhibited from China or elsewhere. Above 4,0001. has been already subscribed in London in aid of the Paisley Operative Relief Fund. Since the deputation was in London the number receiving relief from this fund has increased from between 4,000 and 5,000 to the fearful amount of 11,000, being a fourth part of the whole population of Paisley, according to the last census. The eminent commercial house of Balmerie and Co., of Bordeaux, has stopped payment, but, it is hoped,i only for a short time. COMMERCIAL REFORM. The journeyman paper-makers, employed at the Car shalton Mill, have published an address to their fellow workmen employed in the different mills of the United Kingdom, deprecating the Corn-laws, and calling on them to act for their repeal by every legitimate method. Two hundred new members have already joined the West Hackney Anti-Corn-law Association. A new mode of agitating the free-trade auestion has arisen in Ireland. Associations are formed, the members of which agree to abstain entirely from the use of every liquor on which a tax is imposed by Government. If this plan were adopted in England, the gross defalcation in the annual revenue would be 5,000,0001. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Tracts for the Times have been republished in the United States, and are circulated under the recommen dation of Bishop Onderdonk. AND POLICE. The Chancery case of "Blake and others v. the Mi nister and Feoffees of Whaplode Drove Chapelry," re garding the funds of the same, was settled on the 6th instant, nineteen years and four days after the commence meat of the suit 1 The case of Crim. Con., Sewell v. Farmer, was heard on the 29th at the Sheriff's Court. The circumstances were these. The defendant, Farmer, filled the situation of Secretary to the Calcutta Amateur Theatre, when a friend of Captain Thomas Sewell, of the Bengal In fantry, having accidentally hurt him with a sword, Farmer was kindly received into Captain Sewell's house for five or six years. Captain Sewell's wife was Mar garet Susannah, daughter of Major Hay, of the 66th Native Infantry, who, at the time of her marriage, in 1828, was 18 years of age, and her husband 30. For ten years they lived in India, and had four children, two boys and two girls. In 1838, for the benefit of her health, Mrs. Sewell, with her children, sailed for England, Cap tain Sewell allowing her 9001. a-year out of his income of 1,2001. On her arrival she resided with her uncle, Mr. Kerr, of Oxford-terrace, but in a few days quarrelled with him, and subsequently resided in Manchester square, Blandford-street, and Portland-place, at all of which, by letters and witnesses, it was clearly proved that she had kept up a flagrant and adulterous intercourse with the defendant, Farmer. The damages recovered were 2,000 L On 'Tuesday Elizabeth M`Cabe, a well-dressed young woman, was committed at Marylebone-office for robbing her master, Mr. Beagley, landlord of the Camden Head, of notes and gold and other property to a large amount. When a policeman searched her boxes he found in one of them 13 sovereigns, five half ditto, one crown, 37 half ditto, 44 shillings, 22 sixpences, eight fourpenny pieces, 192 farthings, and a 1/. note stamped as " forged," to gether with some salt spoons, ear-rings, necklaces, and a brooch ; in another box were a pair of stays, two pieces of calico, 11 knives, 10 forks, six plates, some tumblers, salt-cellars, and other property. At Greenwich a young man, named James Harris, was committed to take his trial for inflicting a dangerous wound on his wife's face with a knife. FINE ARTS. On Tuesday were sold by Mr. Sotheby the ninth and last portion of the cabinet of coins and medals forming the col lection of the late Mr. Young, of Tavistock-street ; and among other curiositiessold was the following :—A proof halfpenny token, obverse gallows, Tom Paine pendant, over whose head a small devil, regaling 'with a pipe of to bacco, in his front a church with banner attached ; re verse, a posture-master teaching a monkey to dance on one leg. Legend—" We dance ; Paine swings." Sold for V. 14s. Owing to Sir Francis Chantrey's death, the Testimo nial Committee will have to elect another artist to com plete the " Wellington Testimonial." The respective Committees, also, for the testimonial to Sir David Wilkie, and the monument for the late Mrs. Siddons, will also have to revoke their former vote, and to decide upon some other competent artists. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. Dr. Skene, Professor of Universal History in the Uni versity of Edinburgh, has been removed by a decision of the Town Council, and the chair has been declared vacant. The shaft of the Artesian well at Southampton is now sunk within sixty feet of the extreme depth required by contract to be attained, namely, 500 feet. The well is expected to be completed about Christmas, whereby a supply of the purest water will thenceforward be pro vided for the town. THEATRICAL. Workmen commenced pulling down the remains of the late Astley's Theatre on Tuesday. The new one will be ready for opening on Easter Monday next. Rubini has been received with immense applause at Madrid. They call him the " Sovereign of Tenors." One writer does not know how to speak of him in mode ration, and exclaims " Que diremos de el ?" COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Duke of Buceleuch left Montagu House, White hall, on Saturday last for Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset intend passing the approaching Christmas at Dover House, Devon. The Earl of Pembroke has returned to Stratton-street from a tour. Miss Burdett Coutts has taken the late residence of Lord Poltimore at Roehampton for a term. MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday, in 1783, the first aerostatic attempt was made by M. Charles, a physician, and Member of the Freneh Institute. From the Secretary's Report of the Sheriff's Fund, a meeting of the members whereof was held on Tuesday on Ludgate-hill, it appeared that the clear balance in hand was sot 16s. 9d., and an arrangement had been made to further extend the institution. The Limerick Chronicle states that there is in the workhouse of that district a woman of the name of Scully, 106 years of age, and that, according to her best recollection, she never tasted medicine in her life. The convicts on board the hulks at Deptford, Wool wich, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Pembroke, Cork, and other places, who have behaved well, are under Royal cle mency to be released, on the occasion of the birth of the Prince. In Manchester on Thursday evening the fog was for soma time so dense that coachmen could not even see the horses they were driving. The Bristol Mirror says—" A most formidable rat is in the possession of Mr. Jordan, Spring Gardens Ta vern, Hotwell -road. This extraordinary animal is 30 inches in length from the nose to the end of the tail (a part of which it has lost by accident), the girth of the bcdy is 161 inches, that of the tail close to the body 41 inches, the claws 2 inches, and the hair on its back 14- inches in length, and weight 61b. looz. The strength and gnawing capabilities of this animal are truly asto nishing, it having eaten its way through two sides of a seaman's chest, and the bulk-head of a bread-locker in one night, when on board ship."—Sir James Graham is a more voracious rat even than this, for he has actually eaten his way into the Home-office. - RUMOURS 01' THE DAT. We understand, says a Dublin paper, that the follow ing Tories will shortly be created Baronets :--Colonel Bruen, Colonel Verner, and Mr. Emerson Tennent, M.P. The two Sheriffdoms of Kircudbright and Perthshire are spoken of as about to become vacant, the former by the resignation of the Dean of Faculty, the latter by that of Adam Anderson, Esq. COURT CIRCULAR. M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday at Buck ingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. The Hon. Colonel Grey has relieved Colonel Arbuth not in the duties of Equerry in Waiting on her Majesty; and Major-General Sir Edward Bouverie has succeeded Colonel Wylde as Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, left town on Tuesday, to honour the Earl of Cardigan with a visit at his residence, Dean Park. Lady Fanny Howard has succeeded Lady Charlotte Dundas, as the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Despatches from the Governor of the North American Colonies were received yesterday afternoon at the Colo nial-office. Despatches were also received in the morning at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITU- TION.—DEATH OF DR. BIRKBECK. The General Quarterly Meeting of the Subscribers to this Institution was held last evening in the theatre of the Institution, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Secretary for the first quarter. Dr. TURNABOUT took the Chair, and called oa the Se cretary to report, which commenced by expressing the sorrow of the Committee in having the painful duty to announce the lamented death of Dr.Birkbeck,the late Pres ident of the Institution. The Report then set forth the ac counts of the Institution, recapitulating the various dona tions recently made to the Institution. The Secretary con cluded by reading two letters, one from A l ass Birkbeck, and the other from Dr. Birkbeck himself", written but a few hours before his death. The letter from Miss Birk beck was to' announce the death of her lamented father, which took place yesterday morning at six o'clock. It appeared that the lamented. Doctor had called Miss Birk beck to his bedside late on Tuesday evening, and dictated to her the note alluded to. It expressed his wish to have been present at the forthcoming anniversary of the Institution, stating that he had read the programme. and that he felt confident of its success. This was in allusion to the concert which :was to have taken place this evening. —Mr. Spickett, at the conclusion of the Report, rose and said, that he felt they would be guilty of an ill-feeling, and a want of proper respect to their late revered President, if they proceeded to the con sideration of the Report then. He therefore submitted, that they should defer its consideration till next Monday fortnight.—The Chairman, in putting the motion, said he was sure they were too much absorbed in their feel ings of regret to be in a position to consider the Report. —The motion was agreed to, and the thanks of the meeting having been voted to the Chairman, the meet ing adjourned. The theatre was extremely full. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Anew ballet divertissement was produced at this thea tre last evening u n d er t h e t i t l e o f Th e W oo d en Leg. The, curtain draws up, and di scovers a s hi p at anc h or i n one of the Highland lochs. Thi s scene (th e on l y one o f t h e piece) is a perfect picture, and was loudly applauded. The location, of course, affords ample opportunities for the exhibition of a series of picturesque groupings of blue jackets an d hi ghlanders; and when we state that the piece has been produced under the superintendence of Mr. Oscar Byrne, our readers will at once understand that the most has been made of these opportunities. A pas de deux by Mr. and Miss Marshall at the opening, and another by Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin at the close of the piece, were each much applauded; and Mr. T. Ridgway, by his humorous acting and dancing as a bag piper, elicited shouts of laughter and applause. The piece, which is excellently put upon the stage was per fectly successful. The house was well filled. SUICIDE.—On Tuesday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, Mr. Thomas Germaine, a gentleman of independent property, who resided at No. 2, West moreland-place, City-road, put a period to his existence by shooting himself through the heart with his own sporting gun. For some days past the unfortunate gen tleman has been much depressed in spirits. It is sup posed that he committed th e ac t whil e in bed (as he was only partly dressed), and that he discharged the gun by placing the trigger at the foot of the bed. Ile was about 52 years of age. !Hs wife died several years ag THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. In the dissertation on " Homer and the Ho merithe" which is here continued from the last Number, Mr. De Quincey—for we suspect that he is the author—strenuously contends for the " absolute integrity" of the Iliad, in opposition to the theory of some of the German commenta tors. It was scarcely worth his while to enter at so much length into the question, for it is one that has been long since set at rest by the com mon sense of the learned world ; and indeed no one can peruse the Iliad with attention, without seeing that it is throughout the harmonious pro duction of a single, vigorous, imaginative, well proportioned intellect. The character of Achilles alone—as fhe author justly remarks—" has an ideal finish and a divinity about it, which argue that it never could have been a fiction, or a gra dual accumulation from successive touches. It was raised by a single flash of creative imagina tion, it was a reality seen through the har monizing abstractions of two centuries; and it is in itself a great unity which penetrates every section where it comes forward, vitli an identifi cation of these several parts as the work of one man." In Mr. Aird's " Churchyard Eclogue" there are some striking thoughts, and a power of versification that proves the author to have a true ear for the various melody of rhyme. " Phi losophic Nuts" is a clever sarcastic notice of a work lately published under this quaint title. In some of its passages we think we can detect traces of the manner of Christopher North, whose versatile and vigorous pen has been most unaccountably idle forseveral months. "Sketches of Italy" will amuse those who are easily pleased, but the theme is a terribly hacknied one, for who has not already read, in verse as well as prose, all he cares to read on the subject of Italian scenery, manners, antiquities, and so forth? The " World of London" sketches the various classes of Irishmen in the metropolis with great minuteness, but in rather too prejudiced a spirit. There is truth, however, in the following ob servation—" You hear many complaints from Irish gentlemen of the aversion and hostility with which they imagine they are regarded by Englishmen; to hear them talk you would ima gine that all England was in a conspiracy,against them to crush their rising talent, and to put them down. Never was prejudice so unjust. An Englishman deals with the adventurers of other countries in a spirit worthy his commercial cha racter; he examines him, and if he finds he suits the market he buys him; if otherwise, he will have nothing to do with him." In " Modern Schools of Art in France, Belgium, and Swit zerland," we find several details respecting the most eminent living French painters. The author commences by asserting that the exhibition at Paris was this year far superior to that in Tra falgar-square, not only in manual execution and the special technicalities of art, but also in the poetry of painting, sculpture, and design; and then goes on to give brief biographical and criti cal sketches of several of the most celebrated French painters, foremost among whom he ranks Horace Vernet, of whom he says, " his delineations possess all the vigour of Rubens without any of that illustrious master's exagge rations, and his colouring, in many instances, shows that he has been a careful student of the great Fleming's best qualities. He is not only very bold, but very rapid in his execution, and anecdotes are told of some of his feats in painting against time that are quite surprising." The " Hints to Authors" are excellent—more parti cularly the introductory portion, wherein the author launches his fiercest fulminations against those abandoned wretches who neglect to pre pay the post, and who " to make the paltry saving of a penny, force their correspondents to an outlay of two-pence." For such wretches there can indeed be no hope of salvation. The hottest seat in Tophet is their destined lot for ever. The account of the " Tower of London" is mere common-place twaddle,,dished up pretty much in the style of a local Guide-Book. From the " Tittle-Tattle of a Philosopher," we quote an account of the writer's—who was one of the Professors of the University of Leipsic—inter view with Napoleon, about the time of the cele brated battle which took place in the immediate neighbourhood of that city : At length the day dawned on which the great Napo leon himself was expected to honour Leipsic with his presence. He did not appear, however, until three days after the time appointed ; and meanwhile the chief authorities of the town were moved about from place to place, and kept almost continually on their feet. We had, indeed a most weary time of it during these three clays. At length •the great man arrived, and gave us an audience in the King of Saxony's palace in the market-place. Here the domineering character of the man displayed itself most conspicuously. He came burning with wrath against the University, and almost the first words he uttered were—" Where are the deputies of the University My. colleagues and myself immediately came forward, when he overwhelmed us with a torrent of invective, , on account of some students who had en listed in the corps of Luckow's volunteers—as if the students had been schoolboys, who could not take a single step without the permission of the Senatus Aea demicus. He then turned to the mercantile authori ties, and demanded—" How many millionaires have you in Leipsic ?" (he alluded to francs, but those in terrogated thought that he meant dollars) ; and when it was answered him that there was not one, he clapped his hand upon his pocket with a sarcastic leer, as much as to say--I'll find out a method to make them render up their coin. Avarice and the lust of dominion seemed to be the only passions of his soul. When the audience was at an end, and Napoleon was departing, one of my colleagues ventured to step for ward to address him. The Emperor started back, ap parently doubtful what the intentions of my friend might be. For so timorous was this great man grown, that he lived in the constant dread of assassination ; and when I was at Konigsberg I remember his once leaping out of a boat in the middle of the Pregel, and making for the shore, because he had observed a movement among the crowd upon the opposite bank of the river, and imagined that an attempt was about to be made upon his precious life. But on the pre sent occasion, when he discovered that the Professor had no dagger in his bosom, and merely wished to mollify the tiger with a few civil words, he grinned scornfully in his face, and then turned his back upon him. And this was the great man who had made the world his footstool, and whom all the nations wor shipped as a perfect god ! To me he appeared to be nothing but a drill sergeant, who had a certain knack of railing the rabble into obedience to his will. Nei ther in his demeanour nor in his language was there the smallest trace of dignity or grace. Terror was his only talisman. The colossus was now tottering on his pedestal, but he had not yet fallen. He collected his strength for one last desperate effort, and assembled all his forces in the neighbourhood of Leipsic. My house was in the outskirts of the town, and commanded a prospect of a large portion of the battle-field. Cannon-balls and hand-grenades flew around us on all sides, and many peaceful inhabitants were struck dead in the streets. The hot tide of battle then set in upon the city itself, and raged furiously within its narrow pre cincts. But the brave Allies were at length victorious, and before nightfall I had the satisfaction of witnessing from my windows the flight of the discomfited foe. And what a flight it was! Pell-mell they went—neck and heels, by scores into the ditches which intercepted their ignominious retreat.;;Napoleon himself escaped by blow ing up a bridge in his rear, and thereby consigning to death or captivity many of his devoted train. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. "Fathers and Sons," though not one of Theo. dore Hook's best stories, is still a very entertain. ing one, so much so, as to make us regret that we have now come to the end of it. It is brought to a close in the present Number, and the denoue ment is such as might have been anticipated. The roue father, after all his plans are defeated, be comes a melancholy hypochondriac—in plain English, a desperate bore and croaker; and his roue son gets shot through the thorax at Bou logne, for being detected in the act of taking certain liberties with honesty at cards. As for the young heroines, they are happily disposed ofin marriage to the lovers of their own choice ; and the intriguing housekeeper, Mrs. Sinylar, is left to chew the cud of disappointment at the frustration of all her worldly schemes of self aggrandisement. "A Sea-Totaller" is a smart hit at Temperance Societies, and has much more naturalness than is usual in Mr. T. Hood's prose sketches. " Recreations in Natural History" are descriptive of the peculiarities of the owl—a grave, formal bird, who has often reminded us of a Master in Chancery. The portrait of this winged symbol of wisdom—who, by the bye, is a far better sym bol of solemn, dull common-place—is by Mr. Hood, and is equal in drollery to anything w e have lately met with in the Comic Annual. " Graduates and Under-Graduates" displays a familiar acquaintance with the habits of Univer sity life, and gives a diverting sketch of an im posing Oxford Don, by name Pomponius Atti cus Potts. " Bully Bottom's Babes" is by Dou glas Jerrold. It is a satirical portrait of a certain class of thick-skulled Do-Nothings, who —as the old adage says—are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. How just is the following : " Nor are Bottom's Babes less like their sire, if they have suffered no transformation. There are those who came into the world with the ass's head, and live and die, wound in the arms of doting wealth. The hard task -masters of life aro often of these. The foolish, arrogant censors of the faults and back-slippings of penury are to be found among them; the full-fleshed moral ists who shake their ha s mall delinquencie s Shakspeare's Bottom, thsewggeaYveer,ar i In sweat have of strug g len g men, the true lineaments of a vulgar nature embla zoned by luck. 'lt is here we recognise the self. MORNING' SIN -- - ig as sufficient creature of worldly success—the rant Bashaw of life, wearing his bravery him ordained and necessary part of himself. To there is no such power as Providence. it ispart ~. of the world's destiny that he should be Pr; cisely what he is. He is the begotten of fL- I .' ; ' and owns no obligation to vulgar fortune." Poole's " Phineas Quiddy" does not din in interest as the tale proceeds, and abounds the shrewd, worldly reflections, that show thatat to author is a close and caustic observer of l; day life. The " Manager in Search of a ' ta o f is exceedingly laughable, but the ch datals o e r . the hero, Mr. Bajazet Gag, and the his adventures, are a little too much exaglo. rated. By way of extract, we quote the mencement of Mr. Hood's sketch of t he ter , Totaller :" so ‘ c ‘ i l a ' l ll G te i l as ly si o t u es 7 a h t at th i e t same is," d e bier of grog—rather stiffer than the last—fur th e -- „,1 be of Temperance and Tea-totalism had turned up, could not discuss it with dry lips. " I'll telly in Temperance is all very well, provided it's inclulgeo or with moderation ; and without injury to your h en r• t in h iexi P ng res s ide ft. n re t si nf itl t m er be ; business ; but when it sets a man spouting, and swsKg ing, and flag-carrying, and tea•gardening , and dr u eb b sl u ve himself up like a play-actor, why he might as we his mind unsobered with anything else. tie' " That's very true," said the Vice President —a gentle, man with a remarkably red nose. ~ continued 11 " I have seen many T Procons, the President, " and I don't eatotal hesitate essito say that ~ man and woman amongst them, was more or lessl toxica what h, I is " Eh, ?" asked a member, hastily replevin, cigar. whet " Yes, intoxicated, I say, with pride and vanitYl kp r ib' with the bands of music, and the banners, and t.-white bons, and maybe one of their topsawyers, with hi s , , qu ite wand, swaggering along at their head, and lonki n p' biar convinced that because he hasn't made a Beas t c 6 t 0 tei self he must be a Beauty. Instead of which , ,y r esg mind, there can't be a more pitiful sight than boo hulking fellow, all covered with medals and 0 1136 , 5 ;0 1 s a Lord Nelson, for only taking care of ifrk" o " ll _,, L r tien' health, and trying to live long in the land; a"" v vrby th e larly if he's got a short neck and a full habit. " Royal Humane Society might just as well make It'xcess, cession of all the people w ho don't drink water to 11 e ' s an a instead of those object s th a t d o , a nd with ribisw.l life 'p re' medals round their necks, for being their o wn servers !" 14 115 ' " That's very true," said the Vice. " seen 11 c ute ° ter Grand of a Teatotaller with as many or about him as a foreign Prince !" the I'rr " Why I once stopped my own grog," co ntinue d ac ' sident, " for twelve months together, of my °stuck esefle because I was a little wheezy; and yet neve r atoci e l a snip of ribbon at my button-hole. But tba w oe l 7 merit,—whereas a regular Temperance fe l l r ; n ioll! () ; have put on a broad blue sash, as if he was t' Thuien n ° the Bath, and had drunk it all up instead of 5" in it." " That's very true," repeated the Vice. d e Fr' of " Temperance is, no doubt, a virtue," sai d dent, " but it is not the only one; though, t e „ld s"„'" iL some of their Tracts and Speeches, you o' 0 " ; A s is a l; that because a Totaller drinks Adam's ale, h e :l47 cent as our first Parents in Paradise, wh i t panei their pardons, is altogether an error, and the r Sin and strong drink are not born relations; ;:tke r often come together. The first murderer 00 0 r was a water-drinker, and when he killed Vic e ' cL ther, was as sober as a judge." ; e " If that arn't true," exclaimed the red -n " I'll be pounded !" rr esi "It was intemperance, however," said th e „ o ions io o, " because why ?it was indulging ardent P," l , - °pi ° , 0 fermented feelings, agin which, in m y how's' ratio vg we ought to take Long and Short Pledges, the .011)0 agin spiritous liquors. Not to mention O, things that come out of people's mouths, and ample, deleterious as any that go into them—for egrhaPPii; fane swearing, and lying, and slandering , a rl " guit lt guage, and which, not to name names, ar e -- kipeor` parties who would not even look at Fine Old re Rum, or Cream of the Vall9r." and he " That's correct, anyhow, ' said the Vic e • 0 Ir e : plenished his tumbler. d e rs "To be sure, Temperance has done NW m i n d,f land," continued the President, " and to mY short of a miracle—namely, repealing the Old e e er Whisky-and-Water,—and which would ha ve s r e P ti3 much tougher job than O'Connell's. llowevear'poleepr Mathey has accomplished it, and instead of a r 0,0 0 6 6 in College Green, we are likely to see a ,f ar „s 1 / ° ‘ sight, and that's a whole County of Cork villa - 0 1 to it." j ibe " Humph !" ejaculated the Vice, and took draught of his mixture. " But they'll take ore spirit in loo." " Like enough," said the President : ft c ri li t e h P litt t' : we get accustomed to strong stimuluses, we (ho se Jo go without 'em, and they do say, that many °` ; ', ol , j,4 ties who have left off liquors, have taken to °P.:ielyo the greatest danger with new converts and p r° ' of their rushing into another extreme." FI?ASER' S MAGAZINE. .„,,,,0113,e,fr greatt. o n secret which gtfß.eoelinyrnor i eoi l 'e ootirnh N niar v ittoi horlovasefeni same nercreaeirillisni but Almost all the prose papers in this "tsiow Si l are of an anecdotical character and will c t el ,. ' ",, not be the popular on that' acc 0 2 ' lev' dotes and personal reminiscences of ° e u min ' es: ; :s sc ' however l indifferently related, possess all'i s t o p t : rf r aa L e rLe s t i to e , f is e r t: dme t ° continue unrivalled sat : - ntueedeodaerunrr success Scott, s oc h ei a s o c v e n t L e n d: ;e s t s e a o : ei l ' el :;: v e i t ie j 4 :1 11 ; i : f f o oy : i : e e r t i l : ee, e l; may be overdone,, and we think Ll' e t . t irti el m e i . insitl e for r " a somewhat too much of it. The Pl e a - san,t, l l, t iCe t , A lit S er u a m ry m l e o r un H g o e i r i . d t a h y o / u 7 oo"' " i ot ie ci e itve , dispensed with some of the perS °ll , ll au i , ll O for Shenstone, who was at best lit," A rlalb l ',. 4 oo s rent poet, and, as a man, r e dew Pee.„-qte§ his touchy, restless vanity. t he 0 ; 0 1 can be curious to know ahe lD „ cb r and habits of such an author, ich°'',,fe for' a ute Ballads"—despite Johnson's praiser; 10 5 , (3 00 o. far advanced on their road to obliv .l° A - e . oingl," ( - of incidental allusions to landscape e lr , - h - e gestcd by his " Summer Holiday, ; fl - r cl. this agreeable melange talkS of pors ti ii t e broke's " temporary passion" for f tl Y i roog l . t $ but adds, that he " had not passed Thint _, l° on e trials of life in a temper that ntt e "' garden." This is justly said. Bolingbr° f e et of those feverish, aspiring spirits t 0 .3 a ref e if comparative solitude of the country I i l l i li t i t e hell, and who are never comPletelY art io , re , element but when tak an active P great business of life. fn his rehlette f00 c 0 , 9 3 ment among the Pyrenean mountains himself a resigned philosopher, -where'olitic,i,Pe nothing more than a disappotnted P a po ll 'o He wrote some' elegant " Reflections_,orid iota in order to convince himself and the 10 1,. s i he was perfectly contented with hl' ioo fot o) would not exchange his tranquil seel us rA ibli / v er that ambition had to offer ; but he vi, a ' s , n e bt ol in his estimate of his own feelings, I°'et ceased to sigh after the political 11 1 .jity t"pot lost, and to speculate on the possoll-030, restoration. Bolingbroke was a gre 31 ,,,e50. of his was not the highest order of greaicrol t, „ail wanted soundness and elevation an "priria thought and sentiment. Despite its , rte , enchaining eloquence, his philosoll' l J,. or shallow, and conduces to no ennohlitv P' ip factory results. It contains no nut riti° 3. t "tr of ciple to feed and strengthen the l ili g n e ati°d ti ,iol Bolingbroke of his sounding amPlij:uperP:fla style, and you shall see at once ho w 'a j eti ti O was the matter which he palmed 1 1 1 3 1 s ser" for philosophy. The " Greater and - 1- ' e wad e *of Old Pall Mall" is another artl e e 4t iot e 4 3 almost exclusively of anecdote. N,teele, brief personal sketch of Sir Richard most e of the last days of Purcell, o ne of th e w e er nent musical composers this country iup duced m er' s 5 4 20 3 Sir Richard Steele, who lodged at ape va-it as J e te mall, kept by a Frenchwoman, sometimes, illan ob, by Prior, perambulated Sr. James's Park, . 3 h, c eo toothpick in his mouth, and hands now ['chinVie. now in his breeches' pockets, when ti nny toe ro te provokingly forbade him the indulgence of ! ner even for one, and that one his nuserablries, '." O - 0 5; are many pithy stories recorded of these s olits riv/a tt, 0 , their gaiety and witty soliloquies under su ch ; 00 0 . 0 0 J but as James Quin sensibly observed, theY n i o yeci 11 ,14 Ling to relate after a man of the tow n has ch rr , to: dinner, and is seated with his friends in % D o, '4o' presence of a magnum bonum of generous whi turn to poor Purcell, whose lamented death in ott 're premature. He had been long engage d t t, ° ;'b ° ` vet tl'`''.' versary meeting in Covent-garden, at W .O and; '; sent the managers of old Drury-lane thaatreliansfs,Tr of Lincoln's Inn-fields; the celebrated com e 4, 00 1) i d and many of the elite of those joyous times . ip iingrif fey took the chair; and there was mu ch .. f i% 7 l l3lt ;so hilarity, so that Purcell did not leave the col,, it a t o A until an hour after midnight, and then he . ter , 0 1 '00 to his residence in Tufton-street, Wrestniiriscards:ol Purcell, being d be a i c n c g ompanied him to within 5 few d:ela rev lie home. This friend was Dr. TudwaY, who a . O r d stormy, and a sharp wind blew in from th I , Y wine, and returannedinlvioamlide apterthfeecttli7 seo'bheaid.. t e -i r4 „", ee h i n i o ig c ll ,l :° : l ed drove the rain in his face. He had his P r .' . as l o° for hat it the street-door in his pocket, but found t 1 , 0 0 , by his shrew of a wife, who suffered him w ue co o$ v m i o o l r e e n t t h ly a ; n b h u a t l f- s an c - h hour, wa s d u th ri e n g te v m h p ic e l ; toi r, c . th t u." ; ti op li e l o ei r% virago, she would not permit the serva ni re hio,_ol ll door, observing, "I am determined to en a t lc_ 5 0 tavern-going habits!" subsided, the door was opened, and he flee Cha ir o' be cl; exhausted a state that he sank into ascended to i ni s o vd' parlour, and with great difficulty shor tly r°:- 1 and, alas! from whence, indeed, he was pbo ttri%ey Her evil humour T i t pat, n„, , but only to be borne to his pository for the illustriousgrdaveeadi,nitVheestninejrniitoent9l:roltl°le' Not long after this Jezebel solicited sub_ 5ee;140,0053 the p . tiblication of a complete collection of h and be'gg, e av ir,4 steal compositions, sacred and secular, ro st 1 0 ,110 , patronage of the benevolent " towards ill' vb ient P, ,pie t and very afflicted widow!" And the . hen r e enc rottlesr for want of knowing her real character, b the appeal, and the work sold to a vast ;tent' on' • by t" while all that this rare genius obtained