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Bart., fr jo the Ree'port; near St °°r 10 0', 'sari of ti sir ilic P a r ton' for LeaT l ''iffiti for the ir o', 31, r • ea c 5 r unte- t" Zichy, fr°° the Italy Ita for ; on a t t' u o tin te • and ‘''''l‘e o " 1 Lodg e ' f- a ug i ci i ; Jarae' s ftir , !ct,ofor thecb 0 rite, ; ve to re, I. ° l. a rwielcsh, re I r a t, fr o k en a t o mptO , f Jr; ;he 51r 1404( P a ; i s Cove' gst at teir h Lora 1# n on ; c, f ro m a et b i‘loa9°l3' 6 0 1,'11. bi) , ; 4 FS4 e9 4 i 074 a TO y 1)); 9 , h (4. 10 0 :4) r Jce p 1 lo 7 fig 3. n el' I , l° • 1114 1001. , ri INTING EDITION EGYPT. ALtxAxDRIA, MAECII 16.—Tie Paella continues his tn. arceuts. He hai 60.000 men, and is recruiting. The iglus Carot yet Oiehzirged from the army. A large force Aii \ "" and the sea-coast. Fortifying Cairo. Mehemet It Cairo. returned to Alexandria on the 15ih. Ibrahim remained His health is doubtful- More plague reports than gue epics in Alexandria. CON XTANT;NOPLE, Maacn TURI(tY 17. The fleet, which had ar- Zed. fortnight ago at L am p saca , an d h a d been for the last previ ous drys anchored In the Sea of Ilarmora, under the of_ Constantinople, waiting for a wind to enter the Boa : 7 11, niade its long-expetted appearance - yesterday mo , ning. te7:lllv!ather had for some time p ,st been very cold and beis there.hui. been a considerable fill of snow, and a dense : t F e i covering land and sea, not only concealed from each rw even the European and Asiatic shores, but intercepted t he vie • th,f tnA en across therharboor: But the wind having pi s s' tf' the :south-west clueil,g Tuesday night had wrought .anee in the scene, not _unusual here, yet not to be rivaled tanhYsw,hCre else for splendour and effect. • Favoured by deal r eeze, at half-past nine, A.M., the Mahmoudie sod , e t appeared o ff t h e S eragl i o po i nt, b ear i ng t h e fl ag o f t h e teri ' , tan Pagla. She ex c hanged royal salute; with the bat tna sof the Seraglio d in the ; also with the Russian t,Anstrian brigs then in the harbour. She was followed b distance of about half a mile by the Mesondieh, and 4 1 en othe r s hi psu f. t h e li ne at equa l i nterva l s ; a ll o f t h em fie etare wafted slowly .. .and majestically by the Seraglio 4 ta t l er enty-one guns. The frigates and corvettes, to the setthirteen, swept . with a larger circuit through '"ei of Marmara, and at two o'clock had taken up their Oral stations With the ships of the line, which had anchored ..,o`twet divisions, extending from the Palace of Bishik Tash ' l 7re the Sultan had repaired that morning,) as far as the p,„ue n Horn. Th e M a h mou di e, under t h e d i rect i on o f Y aver 1 - 17 48 . (Captain Walker), who superintended the whole of se m inceuvres, had been for some time exchanging signals the Mesondieh, and, when the whole fleet had arrived, the r " of every ship were suddenl y manned, and the shrouds decked tt :n top to bottom with streamers; the crews raised simultaneous the 4t ' and the next moment, and for some minutes afterwards, 'whole of the Bosphorus, and the glorious pageant on its l;u'erg, disappeared in the smoke of contending thunder of the i t n r s : Thus terminated a spectacle as beautiful as any I ever t .""sed• The fleet thundered to the batteries, and the bat ;rilles to the fleet ; and the seamen shouted, as they had been tl lif id , : to do ; but not a voice among the turbaned multitude 1hi;„"lled the shore was raised in welcome of the long-absent 1 1 4" Indeed, the sentiment, lam persuaded, was not con tt; apathy but partook largely, if I mistake not, of morti tat;lt'll and disgust. The triumph affected by the .Govern at the return of a fleet, notor.ously a present of the Giaour, all of them felt to be weak and degrading. I myself aj i . 4 1, .1 bystander roundly assert . to another that the ships !I'll arrived were not Turkish, but English ; and that to ••'itish had lent them to the Ottoman Government in order bido the people. btuPacha seems to be in safe in his place for the present ; acril l 4 . l4 lllience, if he remain office, must be greatly circum- vi s P rota the gewrna Oriental Observer of March 19.) • the Dr ".___ S TAlixisioeLr, Maness 16.—Whilst we are penning t° Er u pt the thunder o! the guns of the restored fleet an- Pas & e d e , s ,to the most distant minters its arrival, as each ship ige.", i4B Seraglio Point, and went to its respective anchor i3 rumoured that this evening we are to have an to celebrate the event, as well as a handsome display E R Z/forks. How happy must be the men who, after their Its l T" bondage, have got back to their homes and families I tte• uee t Was in sight on the 14th, and we ascended Galata 5 t ,4 4 With a telescope to enjoy the splendid view, as the yes trltt,lebe b eating up against a contrary wind. In that cele anding an anxious and curious crowd was collected, tbt b r e n "g the rest we noticed mothers and wives who could ttilVersuaded of the reality of the approach of the fleet tl, iL e d,"ey witnessed it with their own eyes. They absolutely `'•fs of joy as they beheld the ships. %, ( 1 toe 10th and 11th inst. we experienced a strong gale of ir , i ron/ the N. W., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. lin4nately there were few vessels exposed to its fury in the to . ::, 110 8 e w a, cr the loss might have been severe. The wind is le - "in fresh from the south, and it is probable that the g, 1 4;1 " has so long closed the port of Odessa will break up the resumption of its navigation. 44 f,,:,` I k a Y a council extraordinary is convoked for the purpose T i j 'er discussing the deMands of Mehemet Ali. Pei k i Shevitet and Tahiri Bahri steamers were this morn t4;eletsed from quarantine, and Hussein Pachs, the Presi h,.' Lf tile Military Council, landed to resume his official te I , V B, ild t e , hew lately had several failures in the bazaars. Trade to Vail, and many complain that it is impossible either The or self without loss. ne w pap r money is, we are assured, about to be is -4lt is th ou . 4 1t that it will bear no discount, as the old i 4, l 's are now at ' a 7ery trifling one. Til p atriarch and 111. Logotheti, who are at the head of Rayahs here, reL•eiv:Tl, on Friday last, presents of It "'mounted snuff-boxes from the Sultan. '/liti„,stated that on the 26th a number of large boats, I),i,ung about 300 armed Greeks, mostly Candiot Capitani , 'ho l , e ',, e d on th e sou th coas t o f the island of Candia, and an intention of landing. Intellig`ence of this having 1 / 4 (1„ - : nsulte Canes the Governor called the Fore ign Consuls, with them as to what was best to be done under SiN:l43llllStatlCeS. It was decided that a deputation, con ,9 te d °F som e o f th e C onsu l s th emse lves and °them, should rite oc er nand of the invaders what they wanted, and then in -144.111 to withdraw. It is thought they are a branch of the oti k ' s q, ox Society, which seems to be spreading so rapidly p',`"e Greek nation, and that illegal combination cannot „ltio'cwn too quickly. We are happy to say that an expe met eorisistin o f about 2,000 Ottoman troops. left this Will a k g. . ton,. "' days since for Candia, and we sincerely hope they 'ftra - 4 1 / a ccee,i in purging that beautiful island of the last tiAb rebellion. . ei l9.—At three o'clock this morning precisely we a smart shock of earthquake which Wre seems to have 4 4 ,7 e atIylly everybody in . Constantinople. ewe not suf „ wake before it subsided to observe its direction , 'Nequently form no judgment as to where its seat of /nay have been. , , 0 CAND lA. ij-A, AIARCII 0 0.—Letters from Souda, in Candia, to the ; No acts of open hostil i ty yet shown by the insurgents, t , t , ev had is4ued a proclamation very well drawn up ; but t t 41 4iiing it Clear wnether they wanted merely certain privi tit.r an independency. The Pacha was awaiting instruc li tro oq 41altd reinforcements from Constantinople. The Allies kiqijoe to settle the Candian question. Two frigates, with e • -, left Constantinople on the 7th for Candia, but I ' l4 d p -bound at the Dardanelles. SMYRNA. ' ll i 1 4 . 015 1 9.—The Austrian steamer Marianne arrived here '„ , 4 4 „,..: 13 th from the Bay of Marmorice. On entering she t i" l assistance to two vessels which had got on shore on Th i l , t t l bank n ear th e cas tl e . R d t i 443 trian division, commanded by Admiral Bandiera, t d w .ltas expected here, has changed its intended destination, portly sail for Alexandria. , nglish corvette Daphne set sail about nine 4,7 last for the I s l a nd of Samoa, whence she will proceed 'hi t t, I. She i s t o b e re pl ace d on thi s s t a ti on b y t h e H az ard, lv e t wvette is daily expected. tilopieltOderstand by the arrival of the Galata, from Cei?stan %; that the lonia, Captain Badcock, from that capital to 'hib,? , was on share near the Dardanelles, and would be to discharge part of her cargo ere she could be got off. MALTA. • N,!I;:,A , MARCH 25.—The Vanguard and Hastings came ji,,LA T ;' I II this morning. The Havre is coining in. "111, DaTcs. —London, sth ; Marseilles, 11th ; Constan 17th ; Alexandria, 17th inst. ; Bombay, Feb. 1. P ( i th ( Fro m the Malta Chronicle of March 25. ) t , 4 , 4 ba l j 2 , 1 the Powerful, bearing the broad pennant of • iii - sn'e Sir Charles Napier, arrived from Marmorice. No el t i iint , "diate movements of ships of war are anticipated 1 ; 1 , 1(i l e 7th proximo, when a messenger is looked f 7 from 1: t , 4 , 11 03 ! ) Y the French steamer from Marseilles, with de n answer to those sent home from Alexandria by Zre Napier, on the subject of the hard conditions im ttla, the Pacha of Egypt by the Sultan, and which, no 4 A , ill create some stir. 4jqiiei,2 ort prevails that Commodore Napier's broad pendant Istasferred to the first ship of war proceeding to Eng .itlier he is d es i r ou s o f repairing for the purpose of , I,ttie n s°l3l , e important communications to her Majesty's Go h 'on the Eastern question, and, if no ship of war be or ttt j7 r te shortly, that he will then take his passage in the trt t ad ;erpool or Oriental steamer; and it is also currently t, 4 4 4 . t net Sir Charles Adam, the l o ng-talked-of successor 41ka, „, 41 Sir Robert Stopford, will come out in the next Thy hean• Great Liverpool, to assume the command in the - so, f o 4l ttic C t , r 4„ I niance steamer is under orders to proceed to Pa tjAii,,r the urpose, as we understand, of ing hether ar capnnot be made for watering the see fleet in w Palern - ,0, t j is found to be in some respects inconvenient. s ;N. I °,,!entx steamer left yesterday for Gozo, having on r,-xcellency the Governor of these dependencies, on Il tti kd Inspection of the newly laid down aqueducts, and 4 11 1 . Ist . t ti , la tr; -e in the evening. Captain Richardson, availing thm4k o entertained a large party of fashi nahles on board, t k. . l )4i, i n g others Lady Stopford and fam ly ; hut we are afraid t er ° ll s state of the weather will have in some measure oo Wire 11, on the pleasures of the feat. t h ; th e e ,oate steamer is hourly looked for from Marniori ce . N l ' *1, 4 oattalion of Royal Marines lately serving in Syria, ti k v , 4l ll o ; !t is said, will remain at Male, doing duty at the , N . tl ,4tt i lirei . iP izt , r t t a to l, e d oetcs i f yard, victualling stores, bakery, and other ` ns tandiniv no new cases of plague have manifested q: .salt . th \ ' ‘4l .l on board the Castor, the measures of precaution 'tea' I liminished in the least, and although fumigated, and otherwise purified, she will not be admitted a„'' t t ,'" e for a month to come. The officers and crew were ti 1 ;`, 1, 4 5 .:" , /i ashore to the plague hospital, where new cloth- PR o 7.ting them, leaving their own apparel behind to h i Ile I / `Puratton. t did S d ra steamer of war was despatched to Souda, in 401 4 . ; ' 4 l the 19th instant, from whence we have accounts s . /1 1 4 te the 16th; up to which date no open ac' of hos l'ltilat,been committed by the insurgents, nor . from their th .° lts can their precise object te ascertained. The np„ f •ind Hastings ships of the line arrived here inst. "o th - ' tr ( ,:" 1 Souda Bay, whence they sailed the 14th n t C(), - P‘ Were despatched to Candia en the 7th instant r . ,, 1 4 1 11 -. o % f tl 'ltinople in two . frigates. This malva up the ky r egulars in that island te 5,000 rank and tile. t(ltl,` o th the Apollo troop ship pot into Malta on her th, ° nd \‘ eat Indies from Corfu,- having on board the attalion of the 60th Rifles, under the command of . 1 h 4 4 11 Ll enfenant-Colocel Ellis, and still remains in port tl ° M Str °ln boli steam-frigate, from Beyrout and M a rmorice, ri s t he 19th, bringing Captain Stopford, late of the ;*loieal, Midshipman of the same vessel, Lieutenants 1 4 4 It's ‘ l,l 'Winthrop, and Messrs. Foley and Hoare Mid etr o f ' d • , o k the Castor, le ft behind on the hurried epar fi, -aiff a of this letter. 1 e, 4 1,,, L4 OP SHIES OF WAR AND PACKETS.—March 19, t ear ( alit i s Y'' steame r Stromboli, Captain W. J. Williams, from firs d *itli - o v t „ en days, Marmorice four ; Ottomarllll. schooner of i'• 14a• i e 'tame), Corn. Mehemet, from Tripoli twenty :l, (s . it . e , E ..' her Majesty's troop .ship Apollo, Commander oe ) . . 1 ? 1 , 1 1 Corfu seven days ;. her ship Majesty's erio P titi tt 7 ° lansel, from Marmorice, 17 day s,lie g the w pen r - - 'l°l4' Se % tiortore Sir C. Napier; 24, the French steam. et s , Lieutenant Paul Cosnier, from Constanti- Ptt,'',attl:p'raYroa 20th, Syra 21st; 25, her Majesty's ship ' ( ropy ner ics l Ptain Sir D. Dunn, K. C.H.. from Sonde 14th N u‘i 'Nesly's Hasting s, Captain J. Laurence, C. 8., tp A 14th i n shi p k it% i tts rs St. tici t. l9 ---.1 OF SHIPS or WAR AND PAC:ST . III. Atarer Majesty's steamer Hydra, Com. MurrV•. f or ?,(4,1:4 llli for Sicily steamer Francesco rimo, s I' 14,1 and Naples . 'lose tVcable, Capt. Harvey, for Syracuse ; her Ma -4 1y Locust, Lieutenant J. Lunn, * to survey Graham ti la (11 (). (1i te , 4 1 .! , 41 s• Ili Princess Charlotte, 104 (bearing the flag 41 A the Stopford G. C. B. , G. C. M. G.) ; Ceylon, .1111 0 Rears Admiral S 3. Louis, Bart.); Powerful, 84 (bearing► the broad pennant of Commodore Sir C. Napier); Bellerophon, 78 ; Thunderer, 64 ; Benbow, ; Hastings, 72; Vanguard, 80; Carysfort, 26; Castor, :36; Dido, ;8 , surveying vessels Beacon and Magpie ; troop-chip Apollo; steamers Cyclops, Gorgon, Stromboli, Vesuvius, and Pocenix ; steam-packets Alecto, Alegmra, and Prometheus ; French steam-packets Minos, Dante, and Sesostris; and Ot toman B. schooner (without name). LITERAT U it E. HISTORY OF D UEL LIN G.--2 VoLs. _Bentley, London, 1841. Doctor Millingen — has here furnished us with a slight, sketchy history of duelling, which is calculated to be of great moral benefit to the community, by showing the absurdity of a prac tise against which the nest and wisest men have iu vain raised their voices. Though the Doctor's history is perfectly serious, yet it reads like the most cutting irony, so exquisitely ridiculous are the majority of the quarrels which it gravely re lates. The author adduces numerous instances of fools who, fought duels, and lost their lives in consequence—no great loss, by the way,--Ibr reasons whiph they themselves were scarcely able to explain; and of cowardly desperadoes who thought it a fine act of courage and gentility to kill their man, and sought every opportunity of achieving such a disgraceful notoriety. Com mencing his work with the origin of duelling, which he considers contemporaneous with the rise of chivalry, Doctor Millingen pursues it down to the present day, closing with a circum stantial account of the affair of honour that took place a few months since between Capt. Tuckett and the Earl of Cardigan, a most appropriate close to a history whose details are a fine satirical com ment on th,?,fbllies and vices of human nature. The old French aristocracy, of course, figure con spicuously in the Doctor's volumes; from 'the period of the reign of Francis \ the First, who sanctioned the monomachia by his own example, down to that of Louis the Sixteenth, who made every effort to suppress it, the Nobles of France were stanch advocates for the duel, fighting on the most trivial and ridiculous occasions, like the hot-headed Irishman, mentioned by Sir Jonah Barrington, who demanded satisfaction of a pa cific old citizen, whom he met one night in the pit of Drury-lane Theatre, for venturing to dis pute his assertion that Othello was written by his friend Captain O'Flannaghan! But it was during the Regency of the profligate Duke of Orleans that the duelling system was carried to its greatest height. At that period duels were not 'unfre quently fought in the streets of Paris in the open day, and one, which our author relates, and which grew out of a quarrel about an Angola cat, was so ineffably ridiculous, that when the Regent was informed of it, he drily observed, that the parties should have settled the matter in dispute with claws instead of swords. Among the most celebrated affairs of honour that took place in the eighteenth cen tury, was one between the Duke of Bourbon and the Count d'Artois, afterwards Charles the Tenth, which originated in an insult offered by the latter to the former's wife. After a world of diplomatic negotiation between their seconds, the parties met in the Bois de Boulogne, when both having had their quantum suff of fighting, the Duke b:owed to his adversary, and thanked him for the honour he had done him in accepting his challenge, adding, ".I feel penetrated with gratitude at your kindness;" whereupon—adds our author—" the Count 'opened his -arms, and the Duke flew into his embrace !" How tho roughly French is-all this frioekieirtiment! We subjoin two other anecdotes of duelling, which will give the reader some little insight into the character of Doctor Millingen's volumes : St. Evremont was another celebrated duellist of this period: he had discover ed a particular thrust, which was honoured with his name, and called la botte de St. Evremont. This brave was witty and capricious, and would accept or refuse a challenge according to the fancy of the moment. St. Foix WU his rival in this puisuit of an honourable name. Some of his diAi were remarkable. One day, at the Cafe Procope, at dinner time, he saw a gentleman seated at a bavaroise, and he exclaimed—" That is a confounded bad dinner for a gentle man 1" The stranger, thus insulted, insisted upon satisfac tion ; which was granted, when St. Foix was wounded. Not withstanding this injury, he coolly said to his antagonist—" If you had killed me, Sir, I still should have persisted in main taining that a bavaroise is a confounded bad dinner." Another time he asked a gentleman, whose aroma was not of the most pleasant nature—" Why the devil he smelt so con foundedly?' The offended party sent him a challenge, which St. Foix refused in the following terms :—" Were you to kill me, you would not smell the less ; and were I to kill you, you would smell a great deal more !" One day, meeting a lawyer, whose countenance did not please him, he walked up to him, and whispered in his car—" Sir, I have some business with you." 'I he attorney, not understanding the drift of his speech, quietly named an hour when he would Lind him in his office. The meeting was (4 course most amusing ; the expression cf St. Foix being—" That he wanted to have an affaire with him," a term which is equally applicable to a duel and a legal transaction. FOREIGN Q UAR 7'ERL Y REVIEW.—No. 63. Black and Armstrong, London, 1841. The • famous Russian Admiral Chichagoff, who, it may be remembered, defended the passage of the Beresina against Napoleon, on his disastrous retreat from Moscow in 181'2, is, it seems, still living in a cottage at Brighton, in a state of comparative poverty and retire ment, notwithstanding the ukase of Nicholas, issued ten years ago, ordering all Russians re siding abroad to return home, on pain of losing their property. This fact, with which we .are now for the first time acquainted, is alluded to in a notice of a manuscript entitled "Memoirs of Admiral Chichagoff, Russian Minister of State," which appears in the present Number of this pe riodical. The notice is chiefly interesting from the numerous extracts which the Reviewer makes from the Admiral's work, who must be a man considerably advanced in years, for, we are told, that he "lived under two tyrannical govern ments, those of Peter and Paul, and under two despoticones, those of Catherine and Alexander." Of Catherine he speaks in terms of the warmest admiration, observing that "she was the first aristocrat who conceived the idea of a progres- Sive government, by spontaneously making con cessions to the people at the expense of abgolute power," and that " she desired to teach them to value the benefits of a social existence,' guaran teed by institutions." History tells quite a dif ferent story of this powerful Empress, who com menced her blood-stained and tyrannical career by the murder of her husband, and concluded it by the subjugation and partition of Poland, whose liberal political code, drawn up by order of Stanislaus, and which extorted the approba tion of every liberal spirit in Europe, was a con stant thorn in her side.. As for Catherine's de sire to " give the benefits of a social existence" to Russia, this assertion is refuted by the fact that by her own open, unbridled licentiousness— unsurpassed even by Messalina—she destroyed all healthy social feeling, and rendered St. Peters burgh the most notoriously corrupt and profligate capital in Europe. In fact, she was as inex orable a despot and as abandoned a woman as any that modern times have known, and the very last act of her life was to imprison all those of her more enlightened subjects whom she sus pected of being favourable to the principles of the French Revolution. "Engraving, Ancient • and Modern," is a curious history of the rise and progress of this art, in the course of which the. Reviewer does every justice to the British school of engraving, adding " that we have only to enter the house of Hodgson and Graves, Colnaghi, or any other large establishment, to be imme diately struck with the immense number of beau tiful subjects from the hands of English masters." in the criticism headed " Rousseau's Nouvelle Heloise, and the Modern Extravagant Literature of France," the moral and intellectual worth of Rousseau's writings is assessed at far too high a rate. What maudlin nonsense is this !—" His eloquent commendation of good morals and of domestic virtue in an age of philosophical profli gacy ; his secret partiality for religious sentiments when boastful impiety was rife ; his deep reve rence foi the Gospel and its Divine Author at the time when the most blasphemous aspersions of Christianity teemed around him—whilst they show the depth of Rousseau's intellectual capa city, have in themselves something pathetic and sublime." And yet this " eloquent commender of good morals" clothed vice in its most seduc tive colours in his Nouvelle Heloise; this advo cate of " domestic virtues" openly defended the propriety of sending his natural children to the Foundling Hospital of Paris; this reverencer " of the Gospel and its Divine Author" was a mere sentimental Deist ! Rousseau has had, and still has, many imitators among his countrymen, and much of the meretricious trash that now deluges the French capi tal, and wears the mask of philosophy, may he traced to the influence of his writings. This literary nuisance, however, will soon abate, for it is at variance with every dictate of good sense and healthy feeling. " Tezcuco" is a rapid sketch of the conquest of Mexico by Cortes—an intrepid adventurer, but debased by the most re volting. crimes. The article is cleverly writen, and will entertain those of our readers who may not happen to be familiar with the daring charac ter of Cortes's military exploits. In his critical notice of the " Italian Drama," the Reviewer thus happily describes Alfieri's plays :—" His tragedies are only a group of four or five statues, his characters are figures of marble, incorruptible, everlasting, but not flesh, nothing like flesh, hav ing nothing of its freshness and hue. He de scribes no scene. The statues stand by them selves, isolated on their pedestals, on a vacant, ideal stage, without back-ground, without con trast of landscape or scenery, all wrapped in their heroic mantles, all moving, breathing sta tues, perhaps; but still nothing but statues." Of the remaining articles in the Number, the best is one entitled " Romanisrn and Catholicism." PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARRPART 31. . C. Knight, London, 1841. This Part contains the entire play of Macbeth —the noblest monument of Shakspeare's tragic powers. It is embellished with numerous appro priute wood-cuts, and with a steel engraving, re presenting Duncan's horses, , tearing wildlTover the mountains in a state of frantic excitement; as described by Rosse in the drama, who adds also that " they ate each other," like . the Kil kenny cats so often alluded to by Mr. O'con- - neil. This miraculous meal, however, is not I noticed by the artist, whose • delineation of the maddened steeds in their headlon career reminds us somewhat of Fuseli's energetic manner. In the "Supplementary Notice " the Editor introduces the following interesting anec dote, wherein Mrs. Siddons describes the impres sions made on her imagination by her first study of Lady Macbeth :—" It was my custom to study my characters at night, when all the domestic cares of the day were over. On the night pre ceding that on which I was to appear in this part for the first time, I shut myself up, as usual, when all the family were retired, ar.d com menced my study of Lady Macbeth. As the character is very short, I thought I should soon accomplish it. Being then only twenty years of age, I believed, as many others do, that little more was necessary than to get the words into my head ; for the necessity of discrimination, and the developernent of character, at that time of my life, had scarcely entered into my imagi nation. But to proceed. I went on with tole rable composure, in the silence of the night (a night I can never forget) till I came to the as sassination scene, when the horrors of the scene rose to a degree ,that made it impossible for me to get further. I snatched up my - candle, and hurried out of the room in a paroxysm of terror. My dress was of silk, and the rustling of it, as I ascended the stairs to go to bed, seemed to my panic struck fancy like the movement of a spectre pursuing me. At last I reached my chamber, where I found my husband fast asleep. I clapped my candlestick down upon the table, without the power of putting it out; and I threw myself on my bed, without daring to stay even to take off my clothes." We have here the secret of the unrivalled power which Mrs. Sid dor.., at a later period threw into her representa tion of Lady Macbeth. "Si vis me Here, d.olen duM est primumipsi tibi," says Horace. IR.:LAND, ITS SCENERY, CHARACTER, 6-c. Pen , 6. How and Parsons, London, 1841. Well may Mrs. Har speak in terms of high adrniration of the ben ty of the little island of Innisfallen, in the Lower Lake of Killarney, for if the sketch of it in the present Part be an accu rate one, it must be one of the loveliest spots that the traveller's eye ever rested on. The ruined monastery in the foreground, overrun with para sitic plants ; the gleaming waters, backed by green, sunny hills, in the distance; the jutting capes and promontories, here fringed with 'luxu riant copses, and there sloping down to the lake in flowery lawns ;—all these various objects give a picturesque and cheerful beauty to the landscape which may be equalled, but cannot possibly be surpassed.' Of a 'far different character is the sketch of the " Black Valley" in the county of Kerry,. which' is a dark, Tugged , gien„ overhung, with frowning' rocks - arid' precipices, and Inter sected by a turbulent mountain stream, which rushes down in cataracts from the' surrounding heights. It is difficult to conceive a more wild, gloomy, solitary scene than this, where every ob ject wears a chilling and melancholy aspect. As an engraving, the sketch deserves great praise, for its distances are finely marked, and there is a breadth and massiveness in its shadows, which we do not often meet with in works of art of this class. By Way of frontispiece, the part contains a map of the counties of Tipperary and Water ford, which is singularly accurate in its localities. The letter-press portion of the work blends, as usual, amusement with instruction in a very re lishing manner. The descriptions and traits of the Killarney Lakes are full of spirit, arid enli vened. with characteristic anecdotes, and traits of Irish peasant life, which no one relates with more piquant humour, and genuine, unforced feeling than Mrs. Hall. We subjoin her account of a hoax passed on two American travellers by a Killarney peasant. The anecdote was told her by the peasant himself, and she quotes his own words with infinite unction : " There, were two young gentlemen here last summer, mighty dandy chaps they were entirely, and we couldn't make out what country they belonged to, portending they couldn't understand us. And sure enough we could return the com pliment, for their words war fine drawn, finer than flax, twenty cuts to the dozen—they bothered the life cut of us wid questions, and kept putting down every thing they saw or heard in their bits of note-b.oks. One of 'em was from Americy, I believe, and his comrade' called him ' Willey.' Well, they war just the sort—for we're used to 'em, and can see asy enough whether they have a good heart to the coun try or not ; they war just the sort to misrepresent every thing, not out of badness, but from being strangers to our ways ; and so we thought we'd give 'em some fine big lie, to carry home ; and we met that ba,te in the Gap (point ing to a long-haired dorility a few yards off), and that's the original Irish ass, your honors,' said I, the true breed'—well, that went down in the book wid a sketch. "That's the dis cindant, and the only one living in the counthry, your honors, of the rale one that O'Donoghue was riding the evening the waters broke in on him. Are you sure of that ?' said one. It's as true, Sir,' I made answer, as that it's the rale ani mal'—well, that went down, too, and then they chatted together, and said, that's a singular fact l' And so I thot I'd give 'em another to make it plural, ' There's an ould, ancient woman in the Gap makes beautiful stockings out of its hair,' I says, and if your honors would like a pair, just as a cu riosity, I think I could get them may be as a favour; and then no one could misdoubt, when you had them to show.' Well, they took wonderful to the stockings, and got some ; fine grey stockings they war, made out of the wool of the Kerry sheep ; and the ould woman caught the wind of the word 'cute enough, and was up to the thing at once ;—well, they paid her for them more than what she axed, and yet her conscience was not altogether tender about the price ; and oh, just to hear how they talked to each other, in a foreign tongue that sounded mighty like bog Latin, and put the stockings by so careful l Sure the strangers get many a laugh out of poor Paddy, and it would ill become us not to return the compliment !" STANDARD NO VELS.—Ne. 83. Bentley, London, 1841. A republication, in one compact, closely printed volume, of Miss Ferrier's popular novel of " Marriage," which was first brought into no tice by Sir Walter Scott's generous praise of it, in the Introduction to the Third Serious of " Tales of My Landlord." The story, if not very artfully conducted in point of plot, abounds in characters nicely discriminated, and developed with a caust:e humour truly Scottish. The vo lume is illustrated with a whimsical full length portrait of old Lady Maclaughlan, one of Miss Ferrier's must consistently maintained characters. THE COWHERD. _Knight and Co. This little publication, which is addressed rather to the master than the servant, contains some valuable information on the breeds of cattle, their diseases and general management. The history of the breeds from the middle horns to the doddies is given with the peculiar qualities . pf each, and some curious details on " breeding. in and in." The injurious effects of this practice is not confined to the brute creation, as will be seen from the following extract. "Some indi vidual gains an ascendancy in a town and gets richer than those about him, and his family to keep the wealth among them intermarry from cousins downwards. All is well for a generation or two, and the Hobson& or the ' Jobsons,' as it may be, are the leading men. But a genera tion or two more and the state of things is sadly altered. Mental deficiency always, and gene rally scrofula, idiocy, and barrenness break out, and after a time the once leading people va nish from the town. It is curious to examine the records of such a place, and .riaark the period during which certain names have predominated, and how they have all one after another become extinct." In treating of the diseases of cattle the writer states that the murrain which was so prevalent lately was in former times as great a scourge to cattle as pestilence was to the human race. In the 18th century it thinned the cattle in every part of Europe, and in 1747 there died not fewer than 70,000 in the three counties of Leicester, Nottingham, and Chester. Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P. for Totnes, left town this morning for Tours, from whence he will return to his duties in Pailiament after the recess. LACE Tit ADE —A new era seems to have suddenly arisen in the lace trale, which promises most beneficial results to this district, namely, the making of plat nets, in imitation of foreign grounds, which are orna mented by the application of the jacquard apparatus, in exact imitation of the Valenciennes laces. The prices at which there are sold are extremely high, and yet, in de_ fiance of all former slop propensities, they are in great de. mand. The te:t patterns r f there plat nets we have seen are produce l from the pusher machine, not as the exact figure is good, but the net and . the linen orna men t are the best 11114:ail' of Ilia Valenc iennes laces. The in ver.tar is said to be. a young man scarcely 22 years of age; be only wants a few instructions from an able drawing master to perfect Lim. It may be n ecessary to stat e , that by a patent granted to Mr. Wiliam Crofts (gene_ rail: termed Bzgley's) the method is claimed of making all i.ets which have double the number of warp threads to those of bobbin threats ; and that a similar pa tent has been obtained by Mr. Samuel Draper, claiming the method of making plain nets by having two guide 6u:tads to one needle. A patent has been obtained by 3 , 11. Whit, ly, Lr the long.said-to-bc-impossibility cf tra. vat Lig the tirt:re threads on the warp tree frame ; it is a nic , 3t c,mplicated method. having no warp boani but t.a -' ye ses the cartiages in two tiers, back and front, from set vage to selvage, to make the act,—Nottingham Journal. TELE SUN, LONDON.; -TRUTISDAY, APRIL •8, • 1841 LAMBETH RATEPAYERS' ASSO- CIATION, Tne above Society dined yesterday at the Angel Tavern, Lainbutn-walk, the Chair. was taken at Five o'clock by Mr. Harrison, Deputy, Mr. Luelsom, when upwards of 70 parishioners were present. A good dinner having oeen discussed, " Non nobis" was sung in excellent 'style •by Messrs. Bannister,' Fry, and Sba.rpe._ • The CHAIRMAN, in a very happy strain, eulogised such meetings as affording bright spots in the path of life, and proposed the toast "The people, the source of all legitimate power." In doing so, he said, however it might be denied by the Aristocracy, the Clergy, or any otter class, the sentiment embodied in the toast formed part of our Constitution, and was embodied tLearetically in our laws, If all had an hearty n de testa:ion of all " Political Esauism," as he bad—( Hear, I ear)—tley would never again hear of such gross and systematic bribery, as late occurrences had brought to light. —i Cheers.) He trusted the time was not far distant when the people would fully learn the power i.v},i;:b actually was in their hands at elections—when t'ley did so we would have a different House of Com mons than we had now. The toast was drank with all the honours. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Queer.." They were all interested is her good government.— ( Hear.) Some oajected to a woman ruling over t':c dc:lnies of a great empire like England, but he was one of those who thought that it vas better to live under the reign of a virtuous Queen than under that of a profligate King.—( Hear.) Many ameliorations had taco place in our laws—the punishment of death was now seldom inflicted to what it was in his young days— (Hear, hear)—and he trusted all present would live to see it wholly removed from the Statute-book.— (Cheers.) The papers of last Monday must hasten such . a wished-for consummation to their wishes.— (Hear.) It was heart-rending to think that a man was pzt to death in such a horrid intoner, who, on the brink of eternity declared his innocence of the crime charged against him. Let them hope that our gra cious Queen, with her womanly feelings, would soon rejoice in giving her sanction to an Act abolishing such a punishment. The toast was drank with enthusiasm. Glee—" The Queen's Anthem." The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family now in England," which toast was responded to most cordially. Air—" Here's a heilth to the Prince and the Queen." Mr. FALL then proposed, " The Associated Rate payers of L.imbeth." In doing so he said he supposed tie teat was put into his hands because he was the oldest battler for Reform in the parish, although not the ablest. He was always sorry to see parochial asso ciations at all—the reason was that he thought all the parish ought to be united as one family—r hen there would be no necessity.for associations.—(Cheers.) But when associations were formed on one side, it was gene rally felt to be necessary to form associations on the other side. After going through a history of the associations in the parish during the thirty-three years be had lived in it, he said he had no doubt there was enough of public principle in the parish as to once more Live them the upper hand in the parochial affairs, which they only wanted for the benefit of all. The worthy gentleman defended his conduct while filling the office of Surv:lor of the Highways, which had been grossly mis represented by the opposite parry. It was necessary that ti. ey should exert themselves, for the present guardianshad alre idy doubled the rates, though the number of poor weie the same, and the contracts were made very low by the Outgoing Guardians. They worked in secret, whill the fOriner Guardians threw their doors open.. Too rate-payer's must say on E ister Tuesday which slstem they liked best—one where everything was open to every parishioner, or one where if a servant of the house divulged one word of what took place amongst the Guardians, the servants of the rate-payers world be instantly dismissed. The toast was drank with all the honours. Mr. GRADY then proposed "Parochial Reform." He said the sentiment of the toast entered more deeply into the pockets of the public than evan general Reform, be cause their pockets were reached through parochial rates in a vast variety of ways.—through the Poors-rate, watching and lighting rate, the county rate, the sewer rate, the police rate, and many others. He condemned Sturges Bourne's Act, which gave plurality of voting; that Act was called for by the Church ; it arose out of the opposition to Church-rates in 1817 and 1818, in the parish of Christchurch, and was brought about by the father of the present member for Lam beth. The result of it was, that Lord Brougham, when he wanted them to pass the Poor-law, told them that the question was whether they would amend the law or have their estates swallowed up; it was a just judgment upon the party who gave existence to the plurality of voting. They •woull never have any red re form in the parish until they had get Sturges Bourne's Act repealed, and Sir John Hothouse's Ait introduced. He had before said that, col lnctivtly and individually, the Protection Asso ciaCon abounded in two qualities, lying and cowardice ; that be had said, and that he again repeated, and he did so without any fear of the consequences. They acre in power now, but the people of Lambeth could cast up figures, and at the end of the year they would see that the rates had been doubled, with the same number of poor, and soon they would be turned out ; but until they had Sir John 0. Hothouse's Act in force, there would be only . alternat'ng parties in office, and no fixed principles would govern the parish. The party with which he acted had always acted honestly in the face of the parishioners ; they had acted openly, aad he hoped they would soon be replaced. The toast was drank with enthusiasm and all the honours. Mr. WILES proposed " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the world." He did so most cordially because he thought if it existed at all it would greatly ame i srato the condition of mankind. It had never t fairly existed even in our own country.—(Cheers.) Could it be said that religious liberty existed here while within a mile of where they were assembled a man was incarcerated for publishing a book on a reli gious subject. He thought if bell could not prevail against the Established Church, which was said to be founded on the rock of ages, why then fear the designs of men ? He hoped the people generally would co operate and send better men to Parliament, and then they would get better laws. The toast was received with the usual honours and much applause. M. NPLEoD then proposed " The Extension of the Suffrage and vote by Ballot." He defended his conduct as one of the lat-s Board of Guardians for the parish, in which office he thought they ought to have been left without any other control than that of the rate payers. In place of assisting to reduce the rates, the Commissioners had resisted them when they wanted to put down a sinecurist at their Board. The toast was drank with applause. Tue co:nraoy were aroused during the evening with many good glees from the musical gentlemen. Several other toasts were proposed, and the com pany enjoyed themselve s till a late hour. YORK-ROAD BRITISH•SOHOOLS. The first annual public meeting of these schools took place last 'evening at the Royal Infirmary for Children, Waterloo-road. Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P., in the chair. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform were the Rev. John Burnet, of Camberwell ; the Rev. Geo, Clay ton, Andrew White. Esq , M.P. ; Messrs. Dunn and Althans, of the Parent Society, and many of the roost influential gentleman in the neighbourhood. The Secretary read the report, from which it appeared that the want of schools in that part of the metropolis was so great, that within a few weeks of the opening of tl:e British Schools, about a twelvemonth ago, they were thronged by some hundreds of the children of the poorer classes. A considerable expense had been incurred in the fitting up of the school rooms, &e. There was a balance of above 1001. against tie institu• tion. Scvaral important statistical facts, relative to the present s t tie of education in London, were elicited in the course of the evening. Amongst others it was stated, from Parliamentary Returns, that in the City of West minster, at the very fountain head of legislation, out of hew en 30,000 and 40,000 children of an age capable of receiving instruction in the rudiments of knowledge, upwards of 16,000 either had no education at all, or were in the habit of receiving what was worse than none at all. Amongst the subscriptions announced, w as Field,Ben Benjamin s a l wes, Esq., . to in ad , ition .Pi5l. addi t i ona l ; J os h ua ten guineas last year. Among the various parties btought to Marlbo rough-street on Tuesday from the station-house, on charges of having been drunk, disorderly, &c., was Lori F. C. Beau clerk, R.N., who was charged by a cabman of the name of Bosworth with damaging his cab and assaulting him. From the statement of the complainant it appeared that Queen -street, the le e tand innogb noble i t de his fend cab, on w t h h o e preceding; d ing intoxicated,nig i n drove his ph ae ton against the cab and broke the shaft, and on his remonstrating " bonnetted" him. Police constable Flattery, 73 C, who wit nessed the transaction, then took the defendant into custody. The damage amoun'ed to Iss. Mr. Long suggested that the best way would be for the parties to come to an amicable ar rangement. With this suggestion Lord Frederick willingly complied, and the parties left the office. It was afterwards understood that the cabman had received 255. for damages and loss of time. ON THE DISTANCE OF A FIXED STAR.— M. Becel, a German astronomer , has made one of the greatest discoveries of modern times, by having ascerained the paral lax of the double star 61 Cygra. He found from repeated ob servations made from August, 1837, to March, 1840, that the parallax of a Cygni did not exceed thirty-one hundredths of a second, which places the distance of that star from us at nearly 670,000 times that of the sun, or which is nearly sixty-four millions of millions of miles (or more nearly 63,630,000,000,060 miles). This immense distance can bet ter be conceived, when we state that if a cannon-ball were to traverse this vast space at the rate of twenty miles a minute, it would occupy more than six rfullions o f years in coming from that star to our earth ; and if a body could be rrojected from our earth to 61 Cgrii, at thirty m iles an hour (which h about the snine rate as the carriages on railroads travel), it would occupy at least ninety-six millions of years. whieli travels more than eleven millions of miles in a minute, would occupy about twelve years in coming from that star to our earth.—Dritish Qum'. NEW CHURCHES AND RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR— Allow me, through the medium of your columnr, to draw the attention of the Dissenting inhabitants of the above parish to an attempt to saddle the rate-payers with expenses for which they are not liable. A few 3cars ago three churches in the above parish were erected by private contributions, viz., All Saitits, St. Stephen's, and St. Philip's. It will hardly be credited that in an account of the churchwardens' expenditure for the last year, and for payment of which they look for a vote next Easter Tuesday, is a charge of several pounds for fonts for the th.ea subscription churches! The church party, no doubt, w ant to smuggle these charges through, that they may form a precedent for other expenses con nected with the same edifices, and unless there is a good rtendance on the part of the Dissenters there is no doubt that the Church party will gain their object. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A DISSENTER. St. Mary, !slit gtcn, Aptils, 1841. THE GE RMANLANGUAGE. TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR-I have just seen in The Sun newspaper of Friday last your very proper and correct remarks in regard to that language, in reply to a sreering article that it appears had been m,icle in the Morning Post as to the word translate ; which the writer of that article, in his ignorance of the German. puta overset. Now I happen to know some thing of German, and I c.n.tainly should never think of putting or translating the English word overset into neber setzen in German, but rather into nebersturzen or unrtecrfen, if he will ; and we:e I a3ked to translate thl German word neberretzen literally into English, I should put it passed into or ov,r, or put into, or over into, and most assuredly not overset. But it is thus that many who have only a superficial knowledge of that rich and energetic, origi nal language, as the German undoubtedly is, are ever com. mitting the greatest blunders in their display of it, or cri ticisirg it. _ _ _ I soTne time ago saw the name of Rothschild translated into English in the Globe newspaper by some would-b: German scholar or critic, and his translation was Redehild, which at once shows his ignorance of the commonest names or wards. Rothschild is undoubtedly a compound of two German words, %h., Roth (Red) and Sehild, a sign, re presentation of anything, &c. Thus if Rothschild is to be literally translated, it is Redsign, and not Redchild. It is really quite irritating occasionally to see such igno rant and stupid distortions of and criticisms on foreign languages by half-learned scholars; but I am afraid I have occupied too much of your valuable time and attention. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient, humble servant, Worcester, April 6. J. C. TRADE IN PAISLEY. We have received the followin g communication from ot:c of the most enterprising and extensive manufac turers of Paisley. The facts therein stated are of a most striking and alarming character " Having had occasiln to visit France about the end of last summer, I particularly remarked tho prosperity with which the various manufactures were carried on ; but when I was informed that the Government took such spe cial interest in the manufacturing concerns, I at once perceived the cause of such flourishing trade. The French Government aro the best customers for Indian shawls, for the purpose of affording patterns to their own manufac turers. But no private manufacturer is allowed to enter the India House in London, except it be by stealth. I myself was once in it, but was admiled only through the influence of ccitain persons connected with the establish rr en t. " I dined with a gentleman io Paris, who lisd come from England by way of Havre. He observed in Havre above one hundred ships from America, mostly ladcri with cot ton, none of them less than three hundred tons burden. This genticman also stated that while at Rouen, he went up to the top of a spire and looking round the country, he counted forty-five stalk vents where, a few, years age, you would not have seen one. From Paris I proceeded to Belgium, where I counted in less than an hour more than sixty stalk vents ; and here, as in Rouen, they have all hcen built quite recently. Some of the public works in Belgium are very extensive ; as for weavers' wages, they are considerably higher than here; besides, provisions are much cheaper there than with us, the e being no Corn-laws to contend with. It is about three weeks since I was in London, where I met with a gentleman from Paris, with whom I transacted business ; he asked me how we were going on in the north, referring to our manufacturing success. I answered that our trade was in a very languishing state indeed ; and when I. in turn, in quired how the trade of France was prospering, he lifted up his hands and said that trade never was better, and that the quantity of goods making for the London market was immense. Look at the goods exported from Paris to England in one month—the month of August last : Pure woollen goods and shawls Mixed woollen goods and shawls £43,982 16 8 " Ten years ago, in Lyons, there were 27,000 silk-looms, and now there are 40,000, being an increase of 13,000. What a contrast is this to Paisley o l Within these two years the looms emple,yed in this town have decreased from 6,000 to under 5,000, and they arc still coniinuing to decrease. About 25 years ag,,, before the destructive Corn-laws were in, operation, the making of shawls in Paisley for the " c ia m ,, burgh trade was carried on to a great extent, but since that time it has gradually diminished, and is now altogether extinct. The town is now sunk is deep distress with no prospect (f relief. Unless something be done to improve trade, and that speedily, the bulk of the population will be in the most deplorable state of destitution. Vast numbers are already in beggary and suffering heart-rending priva tions who, from their industrious habits and skill, ought to be comfortable. R. K." We believe this picture is not overdrawn, but, on the contrary. is but a faint outline of the adverse circumstances in which not only Paisley, but almost all the other manu facturing towns arc placed.—Edinburgh Weekly Chron. MUSICAL PARTIES AT DRESDEN. ( Extract of a letter from Dresden, March 29th, 1841.) Among the chief attractions of our winter season, Charles Lipinski's quartets concerts have been received with un rererved applause, kindling as they proceeded, into a gene ral enthusiasm. Our court, our fashionable world, and the distinguished foreigners here resident, proved this by attending them with exemplary assiduity. The force and the purity of Lipinski's style hare by this time deservedly become proverbial. Others may astonish for a while with the brilliancy of their execution, by the rapidity of their passages, or adroit contrivances, and, if I may so, stage trickery for catching a momentary applause. But Lip inskt's performance, alwayi so classic, so pure, and so well sustained, possesses this peculiarity, that having once suc ceeded in subduing the attention of the audience, it keeps it constantly on the increase under its irresistible charm, followsthe attentive listeners home with its tuneful tenacity, bends itself with the dreams of the night, awakes with their recollections in the morning. In very deed, Ido not know any artist who, for vigour and force, could be compared to Lipinski. Paganini himself conceded it to him, Oie Bull, an artist so justly celebrated, arrived at Dresden about the middle of December, with the inten tion of' giving a series of concerts, Unfortunately for him the day before his first appearance, Lipinski had given one of his quartett soirees, during which he executed the gre :test works of Bethoven, 'Mozart, and Haydn. He met, however, with but partial support, and is gone to Chemnitz, Leipsic, and some other towns of southern Germany. I have only to add that if you wish fully to appreciate the influence which Lipinski has acquired upon the taste, and the progress of music on the Continent, you should read the opinions given of him by the best Journals pub li,bed here, always keeping in mind that Dresden is the Florence of Ge , many, and that our present King may be reckoned himself amongst the first rate virtuosi of the day. THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following interesting new works have just been published by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough.street, and may now be hat at all the Libraries —l. Dc Clifford, or The Con stant Man, By R. Plumer Ward, Esq., author of " Tre. maine," " De Vere," &c.-2. The French Stage and the French People. Edited by Theodore Hook, Esq. 2 vols., small Bvo.-3. The Book without a Name, By Sir Charles and Lady Morgan. 2 vols., small Svo.-4. The Engage ment: a Novel. 3 vols.-6. The Personal History of George the Fourth. By the Rev. George Croly. Second Edition. 2 vols., small Bvo, 21s. bd.-6. Swinburne's Courts of Europe. 2 vols., Bvo.-7. The Moneyed Man, or The Lesson of a Life. By Horace Smith, Esq. 3 vols.-8. Dr. Granville's Spas of England. 1 vol., with Map and Thirty Illustrations, 15s. bound, —9. Society in India. By an Indian Officer. 2 vols., small Bvo.-10. The Life and Letters of Beethoven. Edited by Ignace Moscheles. 2 vols., small Bvo. —1 I. Greville, or a Season in Paris. By Mrs. Gore. 3 vols.-12. The third and concluding volume of the small paper editioh of Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy. PARIS, APRIL am sorry to inform you that the health of your respected Ambassador here, Lord Granville, has recently undergone a change for the worse. His symptoms of gout had for some time been increasing in intensity, and a few days ago it was found necessary to abstract blood by , means of cupping-glasses. Nothing, however, like danger was anticipated until last night, when his Lordship had a very severe attack, almost ap. proaching to. paralysis, in the upper extremities. It was even said that there was metastasis to the brain. The me dical report this morning is much more favourable; and there is reason to hope that, with the return of fine wea ther, his Lordship may soon be restored to comparative health. It has been reported for some days that the health of the King had given way. This, lam happy to say, is not the case to any extent ; but it is certainly true that his Majesty has for some time exhibited symptoms of bilious derangement. I saw him yesterday, and remarked that his countenance was more than usually yellow, but be appeared to be perfectly strong ; and I understand, from medical gentlemen, thas there is nothing about him to create the slightest apprehension.—From an Evening Paper. The Havre Journal, in noticing the arrival of waggons and workmen for the Paris and Rouen Railroad in that port, says that the waggons have been hired from the London and Southampton Company at a much lower price than they could possibly have been in France, and that the workmen, who have been se n t over , ar e all chosen from the most sober and laborious of their class that could be found in England. This Journal takes the opportunity of pointing out the activity and energy shown by the English engineers, and the Paris and Rouen Company, and holds up their example to the notice of all engaged in France on similar works. The Marq uis w and Marchioness of Abercorn, who arrived at Dudley House from the Priory, on Saturday,- the Noble Marquis being engaged to dine with the Duke of Wellington, returned to Stanmore on Monday last. The Hon, Captain and Lady Harriet Hamilon arrivedon Tuesday at the Priory, on a visit to the Noble Marquis and Marchioness, 1 um their seat in Scotland. THE FIRST METHODIST PREACHERS. At the commencement of Methodism, they wers chosen by Mr. Wesley on account of their knowledge of Scrip ture, and powerful, though not often highly cultivated. minds. Samuel Bradburn (a roan whose life, were it pub lished, would be one of the most interesting, and even amusing of books) was remarkable fur dis strong mind and his unuewied labours. In wit and humour, few men ex celled him ; and the early annals of Methodhui are brightened by the sparkling of his facetiousness. " Sec (said he on one occasion, t) one of the first chosen preachers), see the good that Methodism has done." Yes (was the reply), it has done a great deal for us." S:imething in this displeased Bradburn, for he immediately raid, pointing to a Mr. Marsden, " For us ! Why, yes; you were a cobbler and I was a tinker, and it has made es gentlemen; but brother Marsden was a gentleman before." " You should not have called me a cobbler (said the preaAer in question); it wt,uld have been more civil to have said, a hoot and shoe maker."—" Ycs (added Brad burn); but I did nut mil myself a tin plate worker, but simply a tinker." Such were the men whom Wesley made his first itine rant preachers. The writer of this has sen and can versed with many of them ; among others, with the three of whom the above story is told; and it must be acknow ledged that they were a class of men of great mental power—rough sometimes, and perhaps a little uncouth, but energetic, :elf-denying, indomitable. They were often, too, men of great personal strength; and there is current an anecdote of one who was much annoyed, on one occa. sion, by the profanity and impertinence of a gigantic butcher. For some time he bole patiently with the man's ribaldry ; but at Lent his feelings were too much outraged, and, walking up to the fellow, he. took him by the collar and the waistband of his breeches, an though he had been a little child, and hung him up by the latter to one of the meat hocks of his own shop, where he remained dangling till the exhortation was concluded. --Church of England Review. TEST OF PORTER AND CO.'S PATENT ANCHORS. One of the most interesting experiments, and one which cannot fail to prove of immense advantage to the navy, both in her Majesty's and the merchant service, took place on Saturday in the presence of Captain Phipps Hornby, B. C , Superintendent of her Majesty's Dockyard, Wool wich ; Captain Percy Grace, R. N., Captain Thomas, of her Majesty's surveying vessel Mastiff; Captain Bowater, R.N., Captain Denham, R.N. and F.R. S., Mr. Wells, Master of the Mastiff, and a number of nautical gentle men. At half-past one o'clock one of Porter and Co.'s patent anchors having been previously placed on the test ing frame. au immense power was applied by an hydraulic machine invented by Bramah and San, and the anchor, weighing 5 cwt. 2 qrs. 241b5., which would have been considered safe, according to the adopted test of fl tons, actually sustained additional strains until it reached 201 tons before it gave way under the application of that immense power—nearly 2} times greater than would ever be required under ordinary circumstances. A second anchor, weighing 5 cwt., was afterwards placed on the testing frame, and the power having been applied, it sustained a strain of 2li tons, given by jerks, before it cave way, although it would have been considered perfectly safe if it had stood 81 tons. There was another anchor by the same patentee on the spot, of still larger dimensions, but the experiments with the other two were so satisfar_ tory that it was not found necessary to prove its capabil - ties. It appears strange, and yet it is evidently the fret, that the more simple the construction of any article is, there is the greater certainty of success. The principal difference betwixt this anchor of Porter and Co. and those at present in use, is a projection on the outside of the fluke, which enables it to catch hold of the most diffi cult ground, and ensures its obtaining a firm hold and double power by the upper fluke descending on the shark, and acting as a fulcrum in the most effectual manner. By the kindness of Captain Denham, cf the Marine Sur aeyor's department, we have been enabled to give the fol lowing details of the advantages of this anchor :—" It is almost impossible to foul it. it litea quickly into the west stubborn ground. It holds on the shorte t. stay-peak. It cannot well lodge on its stock end. It presents no up. per fluke to injure the vessel herself cr others in shoal water. It cannot injure vesscla' bows when hanging cock bill, as merchants find a convenient practice. It is not so likely to break off an arm or part in a shank as anchors with fixed flukes do, because the construction of these arms can be of continuous rod-iron, and the leverage is sq much nearer the ring, owing to the pea of the upper ring closing upon the shank. It is a most convenient anchor fur stowing on board, on a voyage, as the flukes can be easily separated, and passed into the hold; it can as easily he transported by two boats, when one would be distressed with the whole weight. Several of the officers who ait ceased the experiments stated their intention of attplyin i e to the Admiralty for anchors on this construea,ien, as •• were so satisfied of their advantages, Th e 1"- . - " e j t . Chandos, Sir Hesketh Fleetweed, Bart., ea • : P , - a a nl u o is ther gentlemen were present, and appear- cu interested in what Pi a s going on ; and amongst ota of the P' Oliver in crs we observed Mr. Lang, Master —arpari e ht s , an d ot h er aut h or i t i es result Of t in the Dockyard , who appe are d hi g hl y to approve o f t h e . .ae experiments. ~,.._ _. THE ATIIISTAD. The decree of the Supreme Court of the United , States, terminating the case (f the Armistad, is coa tained at length in the list file of the N ew York pepers. The facts of the case, it will be remembered, wen, that in June, 1839, the schooner Amistad, being the pro perty of Spanish subjects, cleared out from the port of Havannah for Puerto Principe. On board the schooner were the e iptain, Ramo m Ferrer, Jose Ruiz, Pedro Mon tez, and a certain number of negroes claimed by the former individuals, and stated in certain documents, signed by the Governor-General of Cuba, to be their property. On the voyage, and before the arrival of the vessel at her .Destination, the negroes rose, killed the Captain, and took possession of her. On the 26th of August the vessel was discovered by Lieutenant Gedney, of the United States brig Washington, at anchor at the distance of half a mile from the shore of Lung Is land. A part of the negroes were then on shore, who were seized by Lieutenant Gedney and brought on board. The vessel with the negroes and other persons on board was brought by Lieutenant Gedney into the district of Connecticut, and there libelled for salvage in the District Court of the United States. Subse quently claims were put in by Ruiz and Montez to the negroes as their slaves, and certain parts of the cargo ; and the Attorney of the United States for the district of Connecticut filed an information, stating that the Spanish Minister had officially presented a claim for the restoration of the vessel, cargo, and slaves, according to the treaty between the United States and Spain, and praying that if this claim should appear well founded, such order should be made for the disposal of the vessel, cargo, and slaves, as would best agree with the terms of the treaty. On the 7th of January, 1840, the negroes filed an answer denying that they were slaves, or the property of Ruiz and Montez, but asserting that they were native Afri cans, born free, that they were unlawfully kidnapped and conveyed by a vessel engaged in the slave trade to Cuba, where a pretended sale of them was made to Ruiz and Montez, who were aware of the premises, and confederated with Ferrer to cause them to be trans ported to some place unknown, there to be enslaved for life ; that on the voyage they rose on the master and seized the vessel, intending to return there with to their native country, or to seek an asylum in some free State. On the 23d the District Court made a decree, allowing Lieutenant Gedney salvage en the vessel and cargo, rejecting the claims of Ruiz and Montez for the delivery of the negroes, but admitting them for the cargo, and rejecting the claim of the attorney of the United States in behalf of the Spanish Minister, for the restoration of the ne groes under treaty, who were to be delivered to time President of the United States, to be transported to Africa, From this decree the district attorney ap pealed to the Circuit Court, which, by a mere pro forma decree, affirmed the decree of the District Court, and from that decree an appeal was brought to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it was de cided in a final decree that there was an error in that part of the decree of the Circuit Court which orjered the said negroes to be delivered to the President of the United States to be transported to Africa ; and, in lie❑ of that part of the decree, the said negroes were de clared free, and to be dismissed from custody, and dis charged from the suit.—Tinics. SCOTCH DEGREES.—When the University of St. Andrew's sold her honours---a proceeding which pro voked Dr. Johnson to tell the heals of the college that they would get rich by degree', and which has now been long abandoned—a certain minister, who deemed that his ministrations would be more acceptable and more useful if he possessed what the Germans call the doctor-hat, put la in his purse and went to St. Andrew's " to purchase for himself a good degree." His man-servant accom panied him, and was present when his master was formally admitted to the long desired honour. On his return " tho doctor" sent for his servant, and addressed him somewhat as follows :—" Non, Saunders, ye'll aye be sure to ca' me the doctor, and gin onybody spices at you aboot me, ye'll be aye sure to say the doctor's in his study, or the doctor's engaged, or the doctor will see ye in a crack." " That a' depends (was the reply) upon whether yell ca' me doctor too. (The reverend doctor stared). Aye, (continued the other); for when I fend that i its just so it cost sae little, I e'en got a diploma myself; sae ye'll just be good enough to say—doctor, put on some coals, or, docto r, bring me the whiskej and hot water ; and gin o n y bo d y :piers at ye aboot me, ye'll ke aye sure to say the decor's in the stable, or the doctor's in the pantry , or th e doctor's digging potatoes, as the case may be."--Church of Eng land Review. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE.--The grand con test which is to take place next Wednesday, from Westminster to Putney, between the Cambridge and Oxford crews, is at present the all-engrossing subject with the gentlemen of the two Universities, lovers of rowing. Both of the crews have been in active training for some time past. Every day both Searle's upper and lower prembes are crowded by the nobilit y and gentry to witness the departu re of the d two crews to take their daily practice from Wes tminster to Putn ey and back. It will be recollected that last year the Oxonians kept the lead and arrived at Putney first, the b ows of the Oxford to Battersea, _ w here the Cambridge coxswain mana ge d to get being upon the oar of the Camb r id ge strokes m Theg eight being is at present in fav our o f the Cantabs, but not at odds. his boat ahead, Every eight-oared boat th at could be got has an. ei been hired to witness this match, which no doubt will prove a splendid one. Several steam-boats have also been hired to go up with the match, but it is to be hoped that they will kc ep well away from the rowers, in order f ur them •to row on as smooth water as possible. ~1 -tom i 1 V EN NG EDITION PARIS FORTIFICATION BILL. SIM PLE CALCULATIONS. ( From the Chariv In order to terminate the nterniin, l e question of the fortifications one of the most eminent statistical writers has just made the following calculations : By cutting out from the Alonittur the speeches that were delivered on that occasion, and by placing . them oLe alter the other, it will .be seen that they would occupy a spacO of 70 . ,000 metre;, that is to say, 'twit:se - the cireum ference of the enceinte continue: M. Thiera' speeches alone would make the fronts of twenty-two bastions, and those of M. t'i'Aigout might make eight detached forts. The nasal ornament of the Noble Peer might occupy a half moon. Another calculation, which is no: less ingenious If, instead of employing printed paper, tt;e type which had served for the printing of the speeches hqd been made use of, the following result would havc been of tained tl,e b3urgeois. long printer, nonpareil, sinall•pica, &c., use ! on tl.e funifications, it is pnasibie to obtain-- A wall flint: -two metres high by five metres br oa d, i n a circumference of thirty-six metres, Oat it is to sty the cu. tire enceinte with its exterior projeett:res. It is even calcula'ed-- That if each word uttered on that qucstiin had beert turned into stone, there would have been sufaint Maws by that econotnicll means to erect the rampart as it is laid down in the Bill voted by the Cltn - iber. Instead of oh word, if each letter is taken, a mass is obtained, el kit, by culi.)l7; it c irre tly, is ecinvalent to the gre,t wall cf China, that chef-d'aurre cf Aria'ic genius. The glasses of water th at wt re drank on that occasion are equivalent, on an inclined plane, to twelve-horse power, seven fop - 2s more ti.-an the jet of the Artesian well of Gre. noble. The bits of sugar that were used in preparing those glasses of water (eau sucrec) would be sutiicieut to sweeten all the bvins of the Tuileries, and to procure for the fish that are therein a delicious beverage. Oee huriered cambric and three hundred fiik pocket. handko chiefs, without reckoning the chalets and Madras cheeks, were soiled in wipir g he fercheads of the speakers_ Sixty coats, patdots, or parliamentary great coats, expe— rienced solt,t , onA of continuity in cOnsequence of the frau. tic attitude; which the taibtzret exh.bited. Medical statistics give besides, as the teiult of an exag gerated account, six pleurisies, twelve sore throat=, and forty , . two pulmonary comp:ants. We only cite h, re the cases of lassitude and culds but as a memento. Eighteen catarrhs grew worse visibly, a nd are now i n an alarming state. In short, in the crowds that were present at the first sittings, forty-five silk handkerchirrs end twenty-tiro snuff-boxes, not counting the riffiards, disappeared. The total age of the orators who spoke f-ar the fortifica tions amounts to eight thousand two hundred and thirty four years ; that of those who spoke agaiost, to nine thou sand seven hundred and twenty years, Total, seven t een thou, , and nine hundred and fifty-fouks years. Three times the age of the globe. By calculating each brca . .b at a decagra-nme of pressure there !,as been sufficient breathirg to ,make the windatilts of Montmartre go round for sixty-two years and a half. Such o:e the calculations cf our eminent statistician_ We confidently bend them over to ail the moaner: and. mangiameles of France al - K1 of Cie Calahres. They are in tricate ealeolation.l, it ever thzre were wry. - Just ask the Institute 1 INTELLIGENCE PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Archbiihap of CaAterbury has licease3 th e R ey. Frank Howson, B. A., to the Incrinbency £ tha rhurck of St. Jolly, Southall, on the no:ulna:ion of He . .;Ty Dobbs, On Monday last the 11:x. Wm. Own), M. A., of Wad ham College. Oxford, was eleeteato the °lila. of Lower Niso.er iltrrow School, 'l4 the room of the late Rev. Henry Drury. The Rt.‘A.. I3e. y Down Fussell, M.A., Curate- r.f Eft-- beshorrre Woke, Wilts, to the S:ireadiary Curacy of Fifidld Bayant, the adjoining parish. the R.N. Richard Shutt!, MMor Caron of St. Paula Cathedral, London, to the Pcri - trual Currey of Tann-too St. Jamr.p. The Rev. George Pickard, M. A., to tha 17,•: - Ct,ry of Warmwell with Pokesneil a»nexed. Durso, void by the death of the Rev. Georpe The Re , . John Phillips, of Ellesmere, has ace: - . pre- - F.creed by the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of St. Law rence, Ludlow. Rev. Edward Tottnham, M. A., to the Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral Church f Weft,. The Rev. Montague thwtrcy, M. A., to the Rectory of Rimpton, Somersetshire, The W. R . Lawrence, to the Perpetual Curacy of White!humb. ' th Rev. T. Cnrfield, Curate of Bri , rstcck, Northamp. Imshirc, to the Vi,,arlge of Much Wen Cock, Salop, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. T&ll:r•. The lin-. Thos. Johnn, Curate of St. Che's's, Shrews bury, to the Perpetual Curacy of Tied non, Montgomery shire. The Rev. Thlams, of Shrewsbur, to the Vi. carnge of Loppington, Salop. The Rev. G. W. Brameld, B. A . AsF,istant Curate of INT:stet, appointed Curate of the Parish Church of Louth, Lincolnshire. OBITUARY. At Merriot, near Crevilerne,Liged 10, the Rc.v. R. A. Templtman. Ti;rt W. J. Birdwoo(', 34 ycars Rector cf Devon. Tr,e R. Lsepll Lancatt 4!) year Perpetual Curate of Therrolo.Naite, he:tr age.l 74. A:zorl 81, the Rev. Christopher Flee', Re: tar of Dur west-in k“:c1 Bryanstone, and LyteLett Matrevers. PI STATE OF TRIDE. ( Fr . ..nr the Mu ndcster Guardian.) AIAsenEsTER —There was not the slightest improve. meat in our market yesterday ; on the contrary, the dull nes", which has prevailed 1, r some time past was aug mented by reports of failures in Germany, which, though not to any serious event, were quite sufficient, in the pre sent sensitive state of the market, to produce a further decline in some descriptions of yarn, and the business done was very limited. In the cloth market there was no change to be notic,d. Tne export trade, to all quarters, seems, fir the prevent, to ba almost suspended; aud, not withstanding an activc home trade, goods of all kinds-con. tinu much depressed. RecitosLc FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 5.-- There has been a dull ma-ket to_thty : a very iinntcd de mand for goods, with prices exceedingly low. The wool market has been no better than the piece market, and prices rather giving way. LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYL. VANI A. Every one acquaint , d w i t h the machinery ,of the B r i. • tish Parliament knows that for many years nothing could exceed the profligate dereliction of all principle which characterized the action of the Commit ees of ' the House of Commons on private Bills. A gentlemen who has been a Member of the Senate of Pennsylvania informed me, that the same mischievous machinery is at work in their Legislature. There is extensive jobbing and treating relative to private Bills, or Bids for the es• tablishment of public companie:. The parties who ap ply for the Bill, or their agents, coma to Harrisburg while the Legislature is in Session, and, under pretence of explaining the subjlet to the members, flatter them, give them suppers, and open their understandings by means of plentiful libations of tvine. Macy of the tepre sentatives arc men from country districts, ollittle edu cation and bumble fortune, but of unquestionable integrity, who would reject with indignation a money bribe, but who unconsciously fall before personal flattery arid champagne. The technical name for these practices is " lobbying." In the legislature of New York, some years ago, " lolo hying" was reduced to a system. T h e agents for the various Bills, public and private, concerted their mea sures together, and made up lists of all the members of the Le4islature, specifying those wheal they could infl ue nce absolutely, those u horn they could probably carry, and those (a very smell remnant) who wore altogether inde pendent ; and after " the order of tae day," or list of business before'thc Chamber;, was published, they met in a tame., and - timk ' the "yeas and nays" on 'every Bill in whi c h t h ey were in tereste d , e i t h er rib or eon,. The first B i ll, f or i nstance, was named (probably one for . a cha r t er to a b an k) ; t h e roll of the repre. sentatives was tlea called, and the different agents spectivelv wh o se votes they could command. , „ ten answered " yea" o r " nay," for the me tb7 re.. 7 ' l u they had done, the independent members were next distributed, according to the hest estimate rhichthe agents could forth of their probable course of action i the balance seas then struck, and the announce ment , yeas" or the " nays" have it. So, machiuery, and so perfect the saa'a. complete was this . . of the . _ 1 .., regularly made, city with which the opinions Cers were guessed at, that the decisions of the Chambers became ludicrous echoes of those of the . 1 lobby 1" .A t the " ' a e ti ; v in e n s o o t t . t rise ha t higher than its fountain , so, in social life, if the p u bli c mind last a check ;yrs given to the practice, b ut much' o f it stream still „ja i ; and it will exist until a hi g h er eduCation of t h e peopla shall raise the standard of their moral and iiirtii h cllecte blind l and se fish, m lierctiptions.As a St r a e ni nt the rep mind will never rise into the regions of truth and jue• - tice.—Combe's Notes on the United States. n ,:;~ ~ DESTRUCTION Or A CO----TTON MILL NEAR ROCIIDALE.—On Thursday morning, abo u t three o'clock, aCr a discovered ' in t% ~s a 'dist engines; and the alarmtwtobb o t n a t f i o n o n t , t o and,Rochdale, l:oiing Old Mill, at Shawforth. thes superintendents, with their men, eg e c Aap ; ali c o o i rb t ao t e e liff: n b f o a srr c use t er o r, s r factory, k e rt a o c w h n is thetho fi w v a e s m i i m le m s, e n t d ho ia isf te t ly h se h nt at a rapid engines, the Mogan and the Extinguiihcr ge . t : i p ic e y ed p i r l o ye c aa e rtr e i ti vtt e haie sav,ng pac, to the spot ; and, although the fire had e , .n raging during an hour and a hnlf, they succeeded in the steam engine cmd the wazer wheel. The building, which was of an irregular ft ran, and part of it very old, was, with its machinery (a few f•team looms ex. eel ted), burned 'down to the ground. The building w ait the property of Mr. Edmund Lord, and %vas insured in tin, L ids and Yorkshire Office. The machii.cry, which was fur spinning and %%dying, belonged to the severel sm a ll 'a stcAm-ennine of manufacturers who rented the rooms uneer Mr. Lord, and was, with the above trifling exception , destroyed, and was, The: building was of consideraole length, and three stories: —Manchester d aL Y ut Is horses'' power. ti 2 ,0001 l i: f e t. e i Peed, Bart., a l r c t s . t , ei l` d l a . , P iz high l l6 . i : curses ' power, willc r n e a c b c r i d Y t, a l ' awshh he : a l r about Guardian. aDerca°l;n:ilineln3ißcld:ngbulryl,trLSll-It'aiol;:edseSihiarrned,RffatOrcrbetili: holidays '!