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Mathews; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley; Grace Harkaway, .Madainc Vestris; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs- Ilumbv. To conclude with the Ntw Cometly, in Two Acts, entitled THE WHITE AIILLINER. Lord Ortolan, Mr. C. Mathews ; !Jastiee Twilight, Mr. W. Farren; Robert Conway, Mr. J. Vining ; Saul Sneezum, Mr. beeley ; Lady Ortelan, Miss Cooper ; Albina, Madame Vei t is ; Mrs. Slellovri ear, Mrs. C. Jones ; Betty Furbelow, Doors to be opened at half-past Sit —the performances to cora:lle:Ace at Seven o'clock. Dress Ihies, 7s. ; Fecund Prieci, 3s. 6d.; First and Second rire'es ss. ; Second Price, .. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price. 2 • ; d a allcry, h. Ti , :kets and plat as for the Boil: to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten_ till Four, where Season Tiztieta nu . , cc had upon application. Private Boa& . tt, he had so'ely of Mr. And:zxs, bookseile•, 67,, New Bond-street. . auYAI. SURREY THEATRE. Anaz;ng attraction.—Fifth adpearance these Two Years of Mr. T. P. Cooke—Re-engagement of Mr. Collins. Two New Dramas and " Paul Clifford," which has been attract ing crowded houses. THIS EVENING. MARCH 5. Will be acted an tutirely New Drama, entitled THE KING OF SPADI AND 111$ BARBER. After which a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK : OR THE \UM OF A SAILOR. n %illicit Mr. J. P. Cooke, arid the entire strength of the Con.pny, will perform. To conclude with the Operatic Drama of PAUL CLIFFORD. Paul Clifford (with ail the Or igiral Songs), Mr. Collins. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We arc much obliged to a " Railway Broker" at Bristol. " J. S."—The second son s.f Edward I. was created Prince f 1Va.1, - 33 in 1254, when the Principality was fully annexed to the English Crown. It gave from that period a title to the eldest sins of the Kings of England ; and if our G.rrespondent is materially interested in ascertaining the camber, he could not do better than study the history of his country for the last SCO years. Etna W I`lll AT 1.0 , ..D0N BRIDGE THIS AY. 0 mimeos after 0. II Evening...... 16 minutes after O. " x wp I , :.;•••-• - %.,.'" , ... T . ..5. c 4 4'se'- Vrff . ..; -,4' -da: ,:4 - -- t r 'll-'" Vir-gf..).1: C,4's 4:1 4 .. ,-' ‘ l, ‘':'':,,,'",,,,.. 0 ',.,, 4 :-..,, 1 4 ;., ',l O l. ..,.4"._ , ....„ . , 4 _ 3171° ~. ~ ( 4.,- . 4,:___:. ... i.!1„„..._.,V,..., I. C. .. .5. , , - j.?1 :4 ... .. , ..1".• •s•"l".<2:a:•._ -..,,_:.,0 rrt, A, s /: t (Iv) LONDON : FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1841 The House of Peers was almost exclusively oc supied last night by the Bishop of EXETER, who Jilacle a speech, which lasted two hours and a !rill, on the sukects of San Sulpice and Canada, and the growth of Popery. To give a succinct and full analysis of such a lengthy oration, on ,uch, a subject, isbeyond our power. The Bishop , -gan by presenting a petition from certain inba )itauts of Montreal, praying their Lordships to address her MAJESTY not to give her as- to Le oreinance for settling the claims which the Seminary of San Sulpice has lo the seignories .of Montreal. The Rev. l'relate asserted that the consent of the of Canada to that ordinance had been obtained by extraordinary means. He hinted at brib.,.ry, and •he affirmed intimidation. The Governor-Gel - le:al, contrary to custom, in a most extraordinary and unheard of manner, had presided over the Council. The ordinanc.3 was petitioned agzinst by two-thirds of the British Protestants resident in. Montreal, and it did what it was contrary to the Constitution, contrary to the duty of the Sove.reiga, and beyoLid the moral power of Parliament. The Right Rev. Prelate endeavoured to prove, by the history of the •Setninary, by the laws of the Co lony, by the capitulation of Quebec, by the Act of Constitution, by the Act of Union, by the Crown having resigned all its rights to the State of Canada -for a Civil List, that the Seminary had no legal right whatever to the seignories, and the Crown had no power to make, as was lone by the Gover 6 or-General, any ordinance of the kind. The Right R ev . Prelate declared too, thatif Ministe rs h ad meant to confer t h e property on the Seminary, theme might l ose done so without constituting into and he in s t anced the Col a corporatiOn ! e ge of Maynooth but they had consti tuted it" into a corporation, and had thereby violated the fundamental principles and laws of •The Constitution, both as they existed before the Reformation. A Ficfor.nation and . since ..--- --orporation was a perpetual body, and it was a ~„ neat offence for a Protestant Government to create a perpetual Romish corporation. The Rev. Prelate might have tolerated it for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, but not for a per p,2tuity ;, th o u g h in the market there is not a fraction of di&rence in the value of property held for only ninety-nine years, and perpetual possession. The .Right Rev. Prelate concluded elaboi ate speech, full of research, and by no tneaus destitute of bitterness, by calling on their Lordships to stand between the country and the ilanger to which it was exposed from the en croachments of Popery, which the Ministers :incouraged, which WAS everywhere making great strides, and which the ordinance of the Go vernor-General was calculated and intended to promote. - Viscount MELBOURNE defended the conduct of the Governor. Genera], and stated that no , uch measure was ever passed without giving oc casion to such remarks as those iu!tde by the ri• ,l i t Rev. Pi-Aate. The Noble Viscount said, its to the right of LLI , „ an Sulpice t o th e seignories, it had been Li undisturbed possession of them fi,r upwards of 70 years; that successi ve Govern- successi ye Governors, suceessive ss elI! „ Tull( 8, had never questioned the right ; and if their pcssession, ai.ictic - ne(l by all !tat gay , security to property, did not confer a right, there were no rights Which could b 2 considered safe, and nothing in the affairs of man which could be considered s t a ll and permanent. To the accu sation that the Romish Church was encroaching, ,the Noble Viscount replied that the ecclesiastical spirit was encroaching everywhere, and he ia stanced the Non-intrusionists in Scotland, and the arrogance of the priesthood in England, as proof; that other Churches were as rapacious of power as the priesthood of Rome. With respect to the Ministers encouraging the Romish aggressions, he could only give such an assertion an absolute and peremptory denial. He entreated their Lordships, as they valued justice and the peace of Canada, not to support the Right Reverend Prelate in opposing an ordinance which was the best settlement that could be effected of a diffi cult and perplexing question. As a proof that it was so, many of the persons who had signed the petition had since gladly accepted the terms, and agreed to the seignorial rights claimed by the Seminary on the terms prescribed by the ordinances. - The Duke of WELLINGTON complimented the Bishop of EXETER very highly forhis instructive speech ; blamed Lord MELBOURNE for his in sufficient answer; and described the ordinance as a blow struck at the Reformation and at the rights of the Crown. His Grace called on their Lordships to consider, in the next few days, whether they would allow this ordinance to be come law or not. . No motion was submitted to their Lordships, but the petition was laid on the table, and motion will be Submitted by the Bishop in a few days. No doubt, with the support of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Lords will address her MAJESTY to refuse her con sent to the ordinance, which will set it aside, and the affairs of Canada will be again throWn into some confusion. The Tories seem bent on renewing a religious contest with their Catholic fellow-subjects. Their error lies in considering that ours is now a Protestant Go vernment and a Protestant nation. Both Go vernment and nation are now partly Catho lic; and it is the duty of the Govern ment to treat all its subjects, whatever may be their religious creed, with strict impartiality, and without any reference to one Church or another. By departing from that wise principle the Tories will add religious broils to the com mercial, manufacturing, and currency distress, which threatens us and fills society with deadly disease. It seems as if they were anxi„us to rea lise their own diabolical theory. They propound the notion that man is essentially a wicked animal, destined to plague and punishment here; and they mean, if they are allowed, to prove that they at least are very wicked, and they will make the earth very like the hell with which they threaten mankind. We trust they will be stopped. - The renewed suspension of cash-payments by the United States Bank will affect England as well as America, and is calculated to make the public look with some alarm on b other banks. Nor are there wanting circumstances of no plea sant nature amongst ourselves to excite suspi cions of banks and bankers, both private and pub lic. The late disclosures made by the bank ruptcy of the Messrs. WRIG HT are anything but assuring, while the recent cond uc t o f t h e _ Bank of England has not increased the public confidence in that establishment. In a second pamphlet lately published by Mr. LEATIIAM, the Wakefield banker, "Letter to William Rayner Wood," whose first pamphlet setting forth the amount of bills in circulation obtained considerable notice, there are some passages which may now be appropriately quoted. The following refers not only to the conduct of the Bank, but points out a very heavy loss sustained by the commercial community in 1839, by its conduct in making money first plen tiful and then scarce, which the mercantile classes will be slow to forgive : " Had you examined the published low rates of interest by the Bank, for the discouct of Bills, the loans granted on the p'edges of Stock, and other securities, for the years 1834 and 1835, up to the middle of 1836, all of them years of high prices compared with the years following, of ruinously high rates of interest, panic, and low prices, as well as with the enormous fluctuations in the Currency of Bills of Exchange and Acceptances in both periods, your case would have been fully proved, and made out to demonstration. The Bank of England at all times acting upon the focus ref the money market in London, has the power to rule the rate of interest for the kingdom ; and when she offers low rates of interest, the market for all other lenders of cash is still lower; and, when she afers high rates of interest, the market for all other lenders and borrowers is a still higher rate :--this may be taken as the rule. When money is abundant, and would naturally soon be corrected if the nraket were not interfered with, she steps in is ith large sums, and makes it worth nothing ; and then follows a train of events full of excitement, with a delirium of prosperity, succeedosi by periods of depression and langour. " Thus in the former years, of a rise of prices, the Bank of EnglAnd ruled and depressed the rates of interest and the money market, by her endeavours to find employment for her surrlus funds, to enable her to keep up a seven per cent, divi dend to her Proprietors. She then departed from the practice and rule of more than a hundred years, in taking for the first time a loan from the East India Company, at two per cent. in terest, with w hich she el ened accounts frith the leading Bill Brokers ; and although professing in her advertisements and no tices, that she would make advances and grant discounts at three per cent., she was at the same time privately lend ing very large sums to the Bill Brokers at two and a half per cent. It is a curious fact, that although the Bank first took this loan from the East India Company at two pei cent., the interest was raised ultimately to four per cent. in the pe riod of a drain of bullion, as money became more scarce. Now, what did I find to be the effect of these measures, as a Ba iker, on the money market, where, by the nature of my business, I am always a lender of ca,h?—that while the Banks r was allowing two and a half per cent. on deposits, he could not make even that rate in London, for a time : and at last infor mation came from the Bill Brokers, that cash could find no employment at all on balls. The bills of the old highly respect able American houses in London, thus encouraged and created, were scrambled for by the Bill Brokers at that time, though soon to become victims, and to be placed in jeopardy, and ex po.sed to dishonour, by the altered nu asures of the Bank ; millions of money were lent on foreign securities with broad margins, and millions more were actually invested in them, especially Dutch and American." I must beg to draw thy attention to a fact that involves the charge of overtrading, and shows a great error of the commer cial body ; though previously allured out of the sale path, by the glare of the false and delusive prosperity, created for them by the conduct of the Bank of England, in making money cheap or of no value, precisely similar to the events preceding every other panic (and there have been four), since the sto.m of 1825 and 1826, though less destructive, because there was no internal discredit. I find then also, in 1839. the very singular fact, that the enormous sum of 40,000,000 of Bills of Exchange and Acceptances were discounted at six per cent. by the Bank of England, in the last six months of that year ; and I can safely infer from inquiry, that not less that 60,000,000 sterling more were discounted in the same period by the Bill Brokers, at seven, eight, ten, and even twelve per cent., to meet, I pre sume, or take up, principally, other bills coming due. If the comm , rcial world had not departed from sound pr:nciples of business, and from making their capital the measure of their transactions, this astounding fact could never have existed. It is no wonder the Bank st curities increased, when I agree with thee they ought to have decreased, wi.h a large export of bul'ion ; but what an awful and curious retributive puliishment is inflicted, on all concerned in this erroneous course ; for, had the Bank refused to discount even one-tenth of this sum of 100,000,000, what would have been the extent of failu r e,—and how tar would her own existence have been compromised? for there was only wanting panic, and general discredit, to finish the work. What a powerful argument have you gained in proving, that the Corn-law has recently Imposed on commerce a ruinously high rate of interest, for nearly two years, and has robbed the country of more than twenty millions of gold and capital; and has actually endangered, —yes, imminently endangered, the Bank, and driven_ her, not to pawn, as our kings in " olden times," the Crovin-iewels; but eally to pledge a security of the English Government (the Dead Weight),. to obtain from France, her old enemy, the loan of two-and-a-half millions of Ler gold, when on the eve of a war with this country. I find in the 10th month (October), 1839, the bullion is re turned to the Currency Committee, at 2,52.5001., from which, if I deduct the gold due to France, not then repaid, there is left a balance of 25,0001. for the Bank, and the branches, to meet a circulation and liabilities by law, payable in gold, cf near twenty. four millions. ••• Men are extremely sensitive and acute when their own interest is concerned, of which Mr. LEATHAM, in fact, furnishes a notable .example.. This gentleman is a Member of the Society of Friends, and he tells us that " I have taken no part hitherto in thnesagtt abstract iin o into thequestion s o u f lu t e h e e t Corn-law, but the investigation of the currency has fearfully impressed the con viction on my mind that unless a change be made to a fixed duty the prosperity of our commerce and manufactures, now languish ing-, will ere long expire, and, when e rn _ tombed, the prosperity of agriculture will be followed to the grave, and take a niche in the same vault." Here, then, is a humane and kindly man, like all his co-religionists, who has probably taken a deep interest in the emancipation of the blacks, but he has been quite unmoved by the mass of distress he has seen around him, and has taken no interest in the absti•act question of the present Corn-law. He has seen at Wakefield, and all through the manufacturing.distriet3; men hungering . for want of employment, females perishing, and children dying for lack of that food their half-starved mo thers had not to give them. All the frightful scenes have been exhibited in our manufacturing districts during the last ten years have made no impression on this good and intellige: - A Quaker; but the i ns t ant h e perce i ves t h at hi s poc k et i touched, the instant lie is aware by his investiga tion that the trade of banking is rendered less lu crative or d angero u s by- adverse exchanges caused by the necessity to buy food, he becomes interested in the repeal of the Corn-law, and ad vocates a fixed duty. H is blame of the Bank of England smacks . of a similar origin. He has suffered in his own pecuniary concerns b y its conduct, and lie de dares that " not all th e wealth of India would induce me to pass another thirty years of such anxiety unless a . change can be made in the . future management of the currency." Mr. LEATHAM may in this respect be taken as the representative of the bulk of the middle classes, who , have " h a d th e i r property de stroyed -by the operations, of the Bank;" of those merchants and manufacturers who, calculating on a rate of interest equal to 4 per cent., when the Bank made money plentiful. had to give 8 or 10, on a sum amounting to 100,000,0001.; thus sacrificing amongst them at least 4,000,0004 at the pleasure of and for the safety of the Bank ; and all these suffering classes, like Mr. LEAMAN, tracing their distress to the Bank—for they will never suppose that they have been in error themselves—will probably be so,, angry with that establishment th a t i t w ill b e brought into great peril. As long as the mercan tile and manufacturing interests are prosperous, the Bank monopoly may be continued; but un just in its nature, and pregnant with mischief as it has been, whenever those great interests begin to sutler the maintenance of the monopbly will be impossible. It cannot, therefore, be. otherwise than that the money derangement America, producing distress and derangement here, should bring on something like a crisis in our own money affairs. The picture Y which Mr. LEATIIAM has dram n of the resources of the Bank as above quoted, is dark enough to make us tremble for the conse quences. A little panic in our money market, caused by the stoppage in America, and by the conduCt of banks and bankers at home, creating, in ever so small a degree, a demand for gold, would obviously shake the Bank of England to its foundation, and leave nothing be twixt a stoppage and almost irremediable confu sion, but an Order of Council to suspend cash payments. We know not, we say not, that such an evil is coming; but with a stagnation in our trade, with an expenditure far exceeding our re venue, with a people living fully up to their means, and now saving little or nothing, we look fbrward to the future, unless some bold and vi gorous measures to relieve our trade be speedily adopted, with much apprehension. At the meeting of the Town Council of Edin burgh, on Tuesday last, aletter from the Marquis of NORMANDY was read, ...,stating that he had thought it right, as well for the interests of the University . as for the promotion of sound Biblical learning in Scotland, to recommend her MA JESTY to institute a chair of Biblical criticism in the Edinburgh University; and to the astonish ment of the inhabitants—of all classes—a Com mission has been issuedby the Crown, appointing the Rev. R. S. CANDLISH, Regius Professor, to fill the chair. This Mr. CANDLISH has been one of the most active in preaching and practising open rebellion against the law of the land, and was commissioned but the other d4y- to the non-intrusion demagogues at Edinburgh to open a new church in the Presbytery of Strathbogie, in utter defiance of an interdict of the Court of Session, and in direct contradiction to the law laid down by the House of Peers. Thus the LORD-ADV OCATE (for, as LORD ABERDE EN says, he is supreme in Scotland), under the influence and advice, probably, of his brother non-intru sionist, Mr. Fox MALTLE, has conferred a pre mium on a rebellious priest, and thereby encou raged other reverend agitators to follow his example. The friends of law and order in Scot land are in utter amazement at this outrageous proceeding. By the arrival of the George Washington and United States at Liverpool on Wednesday we have received New York Papers, of the 14th ult., bringing the painfully interesting in telligence of the stoppage of the United States Bank, as also of several other banks throughout the Union. We have given in another part of The Sun the details of these sus pensions as reported in the New York journals. Mr. M‘LEon was still in custody, and his trial_ was to come on in a few days. United States Bank Shares had varied so much for some days previous to the sailing of the packet, that it is difficult to ascertain their real price. At Phila delphia, for instance, on the 9th Feb., they sold at 30, on the 11th at 28i 291, and on the 12th at New York they brought only 2G. Belgian and German Journals of the latest dates reached us yesterday. The following ex tracts from them contain all the news they bring of any interest : BRUSSELS, FEB. Vl—The clerks in one of the offices of the Minister of Finance are busily employed in drawing up the general Budget of the receipt and expenditurP for the year 1842, to be laid before the Chambers during the present Ses:ion. It appears from a statistical table laid beeore,the Chamber by th. Mini-ter of Public Works, that the number of com munes which have no school houses is 1,040. There are about 2,500 communes in Belgium ; so that it appears that two•fifths of them have no school-houses. BRUSSELS, Mutest 2.—On the Ist of this month Senor Quadrado was, xeceived by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaire of her Ma jesty the Queen of Spain to the King's Government. Posxx, FEB. 18.—We received from a quarter worthy of credit, that within these few weeks the march of troops in the kingdom of Poland to the frontiers of Prussia has recom menced, and that a corisdi rable number of fresh regiments has arrived very recently in Kalisch and the neighbourhood, so that it is difficult to find quarters for the troops. Accordingly to a rough 'estimate 50,000 men have already arrived, and it is said that more divisions will follow, so that th , whole number may be seventy Ave thousand men, so that unless the aspect of political affairs should change, of which there is little probability, while France continues its military preparations; those troops will form, in the spring a camp near Kalisch, where they will remain till the continu ance of peace in Europe shall be fully secured. At least an equaily considerable n mber of troops is said to be already assembled in Warsaw and the eastern provinces of the king dom, so that the Russian army at this moment amounts to 150,000 men. It is evident, especially when we consider the position of the tin .ps, that such a force is not assembled merely on account of the facility of subsisti ng them, as was at first asserted.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 26. CRACOW, FEB. 22.—The Austrian garrison evacuated this city on the 20th inst. The Commander, Colonel Walter, had intimated to the authorities that hi' Government expected that a farewell entertainment, a ba I or banquet would be given to the officers previous to their departure, but the former, how ever wiling to gratify those from whom they held their offices, could not succeed in getting up even the appearance of a de monstration of regret on the part of the Cracovians, and the Austrian troops marched out of the place amidst ex pressions of joy from the entire population. Although the military oceul alien of this " free " city is at an end, its oppressors continue to be at effectually masters in it as ever. The direction of affairs is now in the hands of a Ca tholic clergyman named Shindler, the President ad interim of the Senate, a man justly detested and despised by the in habitants. He was formerly attached as chaplain to an Aus trian regiment, was imported and imposed on the people by. the Austrians. and has not only been elevated to the highest. post in the republic, but to the)), st benefice in the city—the' Cathedral of St. Stanislius. All the patriotic public function aries have been superseded in their functions, which are now in trusted to creatures "and tools of the soi-disant protecting Powers. The Senate is filled with the dregs of the nobility, and seats in that once-respected body have at present fallen into such ii-repute that several were offered to w e althy merc h an t s , w h o t fused them, not wishing to be contaminated by the association. Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have been re ceived. Spain is at present tranquil, and it is hoped that if the next year prove abundant the peasantry will recover from the effects of the ravages committed during the civil war. It was reported that the QUEEN and Court would visit Aranjuez before the opening of the Cortes. Little business was doing at the Bourse. On the 23d the Fives were done at 28i for cash, and 29/ for sixty days. The Paris Journals . of Tuesdayhave all reached us. They publish a proc l amat i on of the relativeSUL TAN, to the set tl ement o f t h e E astern iuesti question, which will be found in another column. published letters r i s n a a c n t d ive service having recently of the pacific of the army, the discipline Policy of p t a h m e p G hl o e v ts ernment condemnatory and6f Minister of War, has addresMse circular to the Lieutenant-GeneralsFrance r n s tchiecai the following ___ .lnn ia SOULT, nd i i as pi . u . s throughout F Y ra d ls i ' — '. ;:i ' s the duty of the army to give an example to m countryi‘tillii?taenr'e if their respec,t morefor the laws which govern it. or less severe, the govern pub our military organiza ourca's, and published against the constitution of f so t r h d e e l e a r t i t f s i criticisms, s ot ittitoni a' it a ;h e li b t e s e s n ig i n n i se .d r : b e ; :f i licers aotiti,faacelcittNie-e sit:t,ti:ev.i violation cf the feeling •an o c f e o d f i' which I have seen wishes conscientiously to perform the du : with B s 7 , at the e profound stii t., ,b se r : circulars issued on the 17th of July, its:-, may find sufficient food for the activity nd 13th of March, i t r ie il ,: it oTh ar f y hei d so is ffip e r i ceo p f l re in sls e ,ih : oon . , of his disposition in the attention which the welfare of the c soldier, and the practic al instruction of tho se under his mo mud, incessantly .deman d ; and if, after having faithfully . performed all his duties , he should still find some l eisure time, should he not employ it in addin g to his ac q uireme nts in the art of war, and thus rendering himself worthy of filling a su perior command ? " I trust that it will be sufficient for me to refer to the evil in order to arrest its progress. Should, however, military men persevere in new publications without the formal appro. ba•ion and permission of superior authority, I shall not hesi • tate to apply to them the provisions of the law of the 19th of May, 1834, upon the officers of the army, by immediately re quiring the King to deprive them of their employments, ind_ pei,d,rit of the severe penalties,which they may incur. " I invite you, General, to pay attention that the orders which I hereby traremit to you be strictly executed, and to report to me on the instant the sligh , est infraction of them. " You will likewise have the kindness to acknowledge the receipt of the present communication, and to insert it in the order of the day of your division. THE MARSHAL DUKE OF bALMATIA." Marshal VICTOR, Duke of Belluno, died of an attack of gout in Paris on Monday. During his illness he was daily visited by Peers, Mar shals, and the most eminent men of all ranks in France. • He received all the rites of the Catholic Church with much seeming devotion. I Private advices from Paric, speak confidently of the success of the negotiations now going for ward, with a view to restore amicable relations between France and the Great Powers. Already has some progress been made in the formation of a treaty for securing the independence of the Ottoman Porte, which France is to sign in con junction with Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain : The Committee on the Fortifications of the Chamber of Pcers yesterday appointed . M. Monier reporter Ly a majority of 4 to 3. Tie Commit tee decided by the same majority that an amend ment to the project of law voted by th e Ch am b er of Deputies should be proposed, the object of which amendment should be the suppression of the continuous wall. It is probable that the public discussion will not take place before the 25th of this month. The Univers says, " Numerous complaints have been re ceived at the War-office respecting the late purchases 01 horses for our cavalry regiments. 64 '1 he Minister of War has just ordered an extraordinary general inspection. Six Generals of Cavalry have received orders to set out immediately to inspect all the horses lately added to the regiments." 31. Lucien a literary man, was arrested the day be fore yesterday at his residence, in the Rue Notre Dame des Victories, accused of belonging to a secret society, whose ob ject is the overthrow of the Government. A young student was also arrested yes!erday on suspicion of being concerned in a plot. he National says :—" The Chamber of Peers has sum moned us to appear at the bar on the Bth of this. month. Five days later we shall have to appear bt fore the Court of Assize. It will be recollected that on account of the illness of M. Delaroche and the indisposition of M. Mare, the Court had adjou rne d ou r affair ti I ano th er S ess i on . W e have now received summonses for the 13th of March."—Le Con stitutionnel. The accouats of the inundation of the Rhone are more fa vourab!e. The letters from Avignon announce that the waters had begun to subside.— Le Commerce. BO URSE.--PARIS, TUESDAY. AIARCH 2. first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents 5... 111 45 ... 'll3 45 ... 113 25 ... 113 30 4 per Cents lOO ... 10J ... 100 .. 100 3 per Cents 77 10 . ;7 10 ... 76 85 ... 76 85 Sank or France ....... Idelgian Bank S 74er Cents... 3 per Cents 7O ... 70 ... 70 ... 70 New Loan .. 101,6 ... 1 1 1 / 4 ... 10: 1 / 4 ... Ri l / 4 :pan.sh Active TS ... To% ... 25_ ... . 15 Passive 6 ...... 0 Portuguese 3 per Cents 19% ..• 19%, ... 19% ... 19% Ne3,011:All lonian.., /0 0 1 /4 ... 101 1 / 4 ... WO% ... 1001,. ?AMWAY SHARES. St. Get main Ve:sailles.R. B 422 50 ... 422 50 ... 41' ... 415 L. 13• 317 51, ... 30 ... 317 51 .. 318 75 Orleans .. 4BB 75 ... 490 ... 488 75 ... 488 75 5tr,,,,,g to Bale ....... Montpellier to Cette louen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 4.:)5 B t:t.tslAl.l h UNDS—Baussets. Mallon 2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent, Rothschild's Loan, 5 per C.nt 19% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent B9 3 per Cent. Z.7_ ---..Thirty.seven--- -- -----------__( I .p,) lf f Loan of City, 15:32, 4 per Cent B7 Society of Commerce, .15,, per Cent II 2 Batik of Ittlgiunt, 5 per Cent.— ......... National Society . Exchange on Londom ( ~ liort) —Brussels Papers, Niarch 2. MOCK REFORMERS. - " TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l herewith enclose you the copy of a letter written by our itimacultt e Member, Peter Ainsworth, wl,e7ein his reasons are given for his abandonment of his principles. As you have noticed some of them as coming from Sir Robert Peel, 1 think they are not less worthy your notice as emanating from the now Member for Bolton. You may depend upon it the independent electors of Bolton will relieve him from misrepresenting them the first opportunity that occurs.—Respectfully, Belton, March 3, 1841. J. M. [cove.] Dear Sir,—l received your letter on Monday last, and the petition 'from Bolton in fay.,ur of Lord Mor peth's Bill, which I presented the same evening to the House of Commons. I should have written to you earlier, had I not intended to speak ow the debate, but as I was unable for two nights to catch the eye of the Speake-, I hasten to lay before you the grounds of my opposition to Lord Morpeth's 811. Last year. you are aware, I sup Ported Lord Stanley's Biil for reform and amendment in the Irish registration. The Go vernment then decidedly opposed the principle of that Bill ; this year, the same Government have not only admitted the princillf, but. Lord Morpeth publely declared he should be happy t ) go along with Lord Stad .y, as far as he was ahle, in improving the sytt2m of the Irish registration. However different this Inn, gunge may Le to that which assailed Lord Stanley's 1111 last year, I should have preferred the Government taking up this important question, and I shoul I not have hesitated giving them my support, had not their Bill, whilst it adopted a mode of registration atmn:t similar to Lord Stanley's, introduced clauses which gave a new Reform 8.11 to Ireland, rejecting altogether the principle of the Reform Bill of 1832, and melting a new constituency, based upon a .51. rating to the poor. v f a o l r os b ri c . ) l7e either f or count i es, a The Reform Bill comprehends two descripti ons o f gin, the occup anc y o f property as w e ll as popu l ation. houses r u a a n i ch fi: o a n v o n ei c b z e:r s t e a d i n n The Government Bill recognises the principle of population only. If carried into law, land lords would be enabled to create any num• her of voters on. their estate?, and we shoal again witness, as under the 40s. freeholders, a subdivision of farms, and the revival of a_system in Ireland, injurious to the moral and social improve:te a t of her people. 1 have another objection to this Bill. I thnk it would give additions 1 weight to the agricultural interest. it Ireland. In looking over the division` of last year on Mr. Villiers' motion for an inquiry in , o the present system of the Corn-laws, I find only ten Irish Members out of forty voted in its favour. The .50/. tr.mat.tiy clause in the Eng!ish Reform Bill has Leen considered a great boon to the agricultural interest ; I am not dis posed to inert ase that influence by the adoption of a 51. rating franebise to the poor (two-thirds of which rate is payable by the landlords), and thereby to create a numerous and dependent county constituency. With t h ese main objections to Lord Morpeth's Bill, which, in my opinion, will never even pass the Commons, I could not consistently give it my support. - I beg to remain, dear Sir, Most respectfully your's, P. AINSWORTH. To. J. Winder, Esq., Bolton. House al Commong, nirch 1,1841. FIRE AT COLNBROOK.—An alarming fire broke out between two and three o'clock on the morning of Monday last, at the Crown Inn, at Colnbrook. The tholes were first discovered by the poi ce issuing from tl.e cindows of a bedroom on the first floor, in which, it sub equently appeared, some t h3ets and other linen had been left to zit- before a stove when the itanates retired t, res.. The landlady, Mrs. Pike, with the family and s(verd lodgers, had just time to effect their esrape. In the alarm which Prevailed first oulhrrak of ti .e fire, two n.e.., who had engaged a bed fur that Light, jump( d out Iron an upper window, one of whom eleaped wit's cn!y some slight Lruises; the other fell upon a horse water- troug'i beneath the window, and broke two of his rib., be sides sustaining other injurict. An express was hurtle. diately sent to Windsor (a distance of n' arly six mile.) for the town engine, and within less than half an hew' the engine was at Colnbrook, whe se it rendered the most e ;see tial service in stopping the prcg can of the flames. The fire war fortunately confined to the centre of the inn, which w a• completely gutted ; and the roof fell in about an hour after the fire was discovered, leaving the two wings unconsumed. The flames were got under about five o'clock, and short I) consisting of f a u f: r e o r u t u h r a o t w ti a m s e s‘ a v ll ed d , an b g u e t r awassuomvero.f m S o o o m o e y, portion of do , SOL in noes and 30 sovereigns, which was in a chest of drawers, was stctel to h ave bee I lost by the landlady. The drawers were found a ft er t h e f i re, fill e d w ith a quanfty of linen partly consumed, but no trace of the money could be discoverer. The whole of the stabling fortunately escaped. The stuck of beer w as lik ew i se prese rved, and also the principal portion of th e w i nes an d sp i r it=. The property is i'lturcd in the Sun Fi re Offi ce to t h e full amount of the damage sustained. COMMERCIAL CODE.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool is called for Monday Pest, " to take into consideration the restrictions and prohibAions of our Commercial Code, and to determine upon all proper Ent alures for obtaining such alterations therein as may ap pear expedient." It has been convened, pursuant to requi siticn, by the Mayor. SCENERY OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN SPAS. p —As to the ContempLtiiin of a beautiful co untr y , in man y put equal, and even Suelor to y a w , o ne beholds mar son.e of the Spas abroad; cr the view of interest ing object", particularly those of human industry and agriculture; or the display of country residences and superb domains ; or the sight of neatness, comfort, and order, i g,neral preva•ling among the country villages and country towns:—in all te e thiriv; supposing them to rc•, as tht re is no doubt they tic, influentially and bene ficially on the invalid who journeys to his allotted Spa-- England affords them all to a degree that leases no room for ,envying - those of eJnticental nations.— Granvide's Spas of England. MAYNOOTIL—The argument for the e xtin ction~that, of this establishment, on which an Evening org an of the Tories relies , that, in after life, having net her t he habits is, that the students are not th e sons of gen tlemen; and nor the feelings o f g e n tl e m e n, they are necess aril y ex cluded f rom good soc i ety, keep l ow company, and be come Chartist s . Why, it i 4 a well-known fact , an d is the boast of Mr O'Connell and other f, i!nds of May. n°°tb; that not a Chartist can be found in all Ireland. J. Edgerton, Esq., aged 76, was burnt to death in lis b e d- room last Saturday at Heggerston . Hi; ckthes caught fire, :?; EY and COMMERCIAL - NE W S. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. It may be easily inferred that. the tenor of the advice-, bo;11 political and monetary, received from the Ua.i;ed St.• e 3 to -day, had the effect of depressing the value of stocks, and it is fortunate, this being the 4th of the month, wben so large an amount of mercantile bias fall due, that no pressure for money was occasioned by it. Consols fluctuated to-day from 881 to 88f fir money, and from 89-k 881 for the aeciunt, the market closing rather he vily. Exchequer Bills were 10r. to 1 ls. premium, and India Bonds 155. discount. The Reduced Three and-a_ Half per Cents. realised 98 to 97k, and the Three per Cents. 88} to 884. The Foreign securities were dull, and under the in fluence of our own funds had a downward tendency. Spanish Active Bonds were at 24' t0,24k , Portuguese Ti ree per CI) its. at 19* to 191; Mexican 281 f ; Colombi in, 231 to 231; Buenos Ayres 24 to 23; Bra zilian, 711 ; Ft each Five per Cents, 113 f. 50c. ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 to 50f. The Railway Shares were rather steady, but there was not much business done in them. Great Western rea!ized 24; the New, 114; and the Fifths, 54- ; the Birming ham, 80 to 79 • the South Wetrern, 14 , and the York Lnti North M idland 30 to 31 prem.; Bustliton as ere 61 ; South Eastern 16f ; aid Hull aid Selby 61 discount; N:stiJeal Provir,cial Bank of England New Shares were' ii:count. - Most persons in the City tike a very gloomy view of the afftirs of the United States Back, but &Jule !ew think it would be a national benefit if the institution were broken up. (Rom The Sun of Lact Night.) l'Tew Yolk Papers received this morning to- the 14th Feb ruary, by the United States and Washington. LEOD INDICTED.—An extra from the office of the Lock port Democratic and Ballance, confirms the statement pub lished in our paper of yesterday, that the Grand Jury after being engaged two or three days in hearir.g the evidence against Alexander M'Leod, came into Court on Saturday last with a bill against him for murder. The Democratic adds that M-Leod will have to remain in gaol until the Court of Oyer and Terminer, to be hed on the fourth Monday in March, unle,s a Special Commission may be issued by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. A Jatice of the Supreme Court, or a,Court Judge, mu s t i n all eases be ap pointed to pre-ide in such Special Court. Extract of a letter posted at the North and South American Cuff. e• house : " Office of Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 8. " I have unpleasant news to communicate to you. The United States Bank suspended payments last week, and other banks in Philadelphia followed the examp'e. Delaware Banks have also suspended. The United States Bank paid a large sum before its stoppage." SarALL NcrEs.—" We are extremely glad to be able to state," says the Philadelphia Standard," that we have ju.t learned from a gentleman direct from Harrisbourg, that not only every sound Harrison democrat, but also a large number of the friends of Governor Porter, are in favour of granting to the banks the privilege of issuing one, two, and three dol lar bills. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. THE BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 1.-The Bourse has been but little animated, without business, or variations in the funds. In Ardoin's some business has been doing, and it has improved ; it remains at 22b 3-16 ; Coupons, 2l HAGUE, MARCH I.—Prices at Amsterdam—Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 50 7 •16 ; Five per Cents. 971. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 3.—The trans actions in our Market to-day have been very limited. London and Birmingham, 1711 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24 ; Manchester and Leeds, 74; Ditto Halves, 32}; London and south Western, 58; Liverpool and Manchester, 186; union Bank of Manchester, 8a 83; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11. The important intelligence received this morning by the New York Papers of the Bth and 10th, of the suspension of the pay ments by the United States Bank, with several others in Phila delphia, which caused a great deeliiie in the Bank Shares, to 26, as well as a great confusion at the Exchange there, has also had the effect to create a great sensation in the City, and more particularly amongst the Kmerican merchants and Shareholders of the United States Bank, who did not anticipate the blow so soon, in consequence of which they will be great sufferers. The 111 itish Market, left off yesterday at 895 5 for the Account; Money, 885 89 ; opened this morning at 894 5 far the Ac count ; Money, 8855. with little doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India Stock, 247 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Acti ve as it l e f t o ff, 245 5 ; ferred, 125 a ; Passive, 55 64 ; Portuguese a shade better, 315 32; Brazilian, 715 725; Colombian, 235 5, also a shade better; Mexican ' 285 29; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 505 5 ; Five per Cents. 995 100. Bhares.—Great Western, 24 25 prem. ; Ditto, New, 11 12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 65 die. ; Blackwall, 6 55 dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 555 565 per share ; Croydon, 11 3 / i 125 per share ; Greenwich, 85 5 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 die. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New 50 Ditto Fifths Tull and Selby 5O 43* to London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O l7O London and South Western 3n 55i..... to fork and North Midland... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 2. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 9 6 11 , Grand Canal Stock, ..... ... Ditto Reduced ... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent... Ditto New, 1830 ...... 97 . Ditto 4 per cent 34 per Cent. Debs. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. —WO have had an animated demand for Cotton to-day, chiefly for home consumption. The. sales realise 5,000 bales, at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 3.—The following transactions comprise the business of the Stock Exchange this day. Eas'ern Counties deb. 4 ; Glasgow and Paisley, and Gr, enock, 20 ; Grand Junction, Half Shares. 89 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares 27 3 4 ; ditto New Shares, 57k; 32/. Shares 21 ; London and South Western; New, 18. According to the accounts from New York it appears that the United States Bank closed its doors at two o'clock in the afernoon of the 4th, on a demand of $lOO,OOO for specie; the tirz,t demand of any considerable amount was for $lO,OOO, which was paid. It is added, that the suspension of specie payment was caused by their continued disappointment in the receipt of large amounts of specie. The run was brisk the whole of yesterday, and everything was promptly met until a few minutes before three, when abroker appeared with a de mai:d for $lOO,OOO in specie. Up to the present time we do not hear of any business doing in the United States Bank Shares in the British Market, the holders being afraid to sell at present. A broker offered Si. for one hundred shares. The British Funds, which left off yesterday 891 for the Account, have receded to 69 ; for money 881, in consequence of die intelligence from New York this morning, as well as the Grant Jury having found a true bill against ill'Leod for mur d‘r Exchequer Bills 11 10 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; little doi e. In the Foreign Market little has been doing. Spanish Active, 243 k ; in Portuguese, nothing done ; Colombian, Zia ; Mexican, 28i a ; DutehTvs o- and-a-Half per Cents. 50k; Five per Cents., 100 993. In &hares als,)l.ttle doing. Great. Western, ex div., 89 ; New, 62 ex. div. ; Fifths, 94 ;1 London and Brighton, 43 ; London and Birmingham, 170; South Western, 55L ; York and North Midland, 60. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. India Stock — Bank stack 3 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds :3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 8 5 / 1 Ditto Old Annuities 3 per Cent Red........ 974 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent ..... 97A Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2Ad 9pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ lO pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small lO pm Jan. 186() Oct 1859 l3 India Stock for Aect ... Jan. 1860 ... FOREIGN FUNDS. A uArian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. rkigian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... Brazilian Bon's .. .. 71i Prussian, 5 per cent.... iluenosAyres, 6 percent •-•- Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian, ti per cent Co:ombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 6 per cent 24S Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent...ll3f. 50e. Greek.lB2s, .spercent. Exchange .. —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... • French, 3 per cent... —l. —e. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 2i per cent . ... 501 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto. 5 per cent 99 SHARES. Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9i Hull and Selby (50 paid) 43* London anal Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 169 London and South. Western South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... I6i York and North Midland Railway (50 pen 81 APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE. -,-We understand from a source on which reliance can b:.• place I, that a marriage is on the topic between Viscount Jocelyn, eldest son of the Earl of Roden, and Lady Fanny Cowper, youngest daughter of Viscountess Palmerston. The nuptials of the Earl of Abingdon and the Hoe. Miss Hardwick Kerr, daughter of the Ire Lord Ma-k Kerr and Countess of Antrim, and cousin of the Marquis of Lothian. are to be solem nis, don Thursday, the 11th instant. The Noble Earl is iu his 57th year, and the fair fiancee will complete her 25th heir in June next. It is said the " match" is not wholly approved of by the members of the Noble Earl's family. The marriage of Sir Willoughby Wollaston Dixie, Bart., and Miss Lloyd, daughter of the Dowager Lady Trimles towr, and Major-General Sir Evan Lloyd, is to take place at the close of this or early in the ensuing month. The day fixed f r the marriage of Lord Monteagle and Miss Marshall not transpired, his Lordship has taken the mansion of the Right Hoe. Wm. Sturges Bourne, in Lower Brook -street, al his residence after his marriage. It is currently re ported in tl e higher circles that a cer:ain wealthy lady has rejected the addresses of the eldest son of a Noble Earl, and his Lordship has, within the last few days, raker his departure for the "sunny clime," to brood over lis manuals succes. It is fully believed that a distinguished Member of the Administration, at the close of the ie son, wlt lead to h: hyme e 1 altar, the fair dauelittr of one of his colleague!. When announced a few months back, the tl.en rumour was denied, as was said, from " authority ;" but numerous cases might oe meat onrd, where such eentradictions have gone for zit i. g. By the way it is rumoured that a marriage will be brought abt,ut this season Letween the beautiful and accompli he _1 daughter cf a Countess, /a belle blonde of Almack's, and the sou of a Noble Prince. This, we ap- Frehend, is only a " matrimonial view," and should say, at most, in re - spective. Letters from Bremen, dated the 22d ult., mention that an exptriment made for blowing up the ice with gun powder, by which the Weser was covered, had corn p'e,ely succeeded. The ice, it is said, has been wholly cleared away, and tie naviga.ion of the river throughout' i 9 entire course, at and near Bremen, rendered per t! tly free. The Hastings mail coach was overturned on wejlie•lay niet, on its way to London, betwcen Tun bridge Wels and Tunbridge. One passenger was injured, but not severely. COVENT -GA itbEN THEATRE. A new comedy, in five acts, entitled London Ass:trance, was produced, for the first time, last night at this theatre. We understand that it is the first dramatic attempt of a young writer, by name Morton ; and if so, it is highly creditable to his talents, for it evinces considerable tact and knowledge of stage effect. The plot—which in places is somewhat confused and perplexing— is as follows :—Sir Harcourt Courtly (Farren) is a rich, vain old man, who, despite his years and infirmities, affects the follies and vices of a youth of fashion, and is specially solicitous to be thought a favourite of the fair sex. At the open ing of the play we find him engaged to be mar ried to a young girl, Grace Harkaway (Madame Vestris), whose guardian, a jolly elderly Norfolk squire (Bartley), has just come to town, with the. view of inviting the Baronet to his country seat, Thorpe Hall. While he is preparing to quit Sir Harcourt Courtly's house, a smart, flippant, young man (C. Mathews) enters, and introduces himself to the Norfolk squire, as Mr. Dazzle, a friend of the family, and is, in consequence, included in the invitation given to the Baronet. This part of the plot is rather obscure, but we gather that Dazzle, who is a mere London adventurer, has contrived to ingratiate himself with Sir Harcourt's son and heir (Anderson) by assisting him out of a scrape into which he had got one night in consequence of a drunken lark, totally unknown to his father, who had imagined him to be a model of pru dence and propriety. Having received the invi tation to Thorpe Hall, the Baronet hastens to avail himself of it, but is preceded by his son Charles and Dazzle, the former of whom hastens to fall in love with his father's intended, Grace Harkaway ; and when he meets the old man, boldly denies that he is in any way related to him,- but that his name is Augustus Hamilton—a highly improbal)le incident, savouring more of broad farce than comedy. Meantime, the Baronet continues his courtship, but, just as he is accepted, his fickle fancy is diverted by the charms of a lively married woman, Lady Gay Spanker (Mrs . . Nes bitt), who, by the dexterous manoeuvring of Dazzle, is persuaded to induce the old fop to be lieve that she is in love with him, in order that by so doing, she may assist his son's suit to Grace Harkaway, her friend and neighbour. As may be supposed, the Baronet falls into the trap so artfully laid for him ; and has already de cided on the place and time of his elope ment with Lady Gay, when an officious bustling attorney, Mark Meddle (Harley), who happens—by some means or other, which we do not profess to understand—to be at Thorpe Hall at the time, reveals the plot to the husband, Mr. Adolphus Spanker (Keeley). An eclair cissement immediately takes place. The indig nant husband is prevailed on to send a challenge to the supposed seducer of his wife; but the joke being explained betimes, all the parties are re conciled; the old Baronet, finding that he has been made a dupe throughout, resolves on refor mation, and, in proof of his sincerity, resigns his claim on Grace Harkaway's hand to his son Charles ; and 'the play concludes with his reading a fine moral Lsson to Dazzle, whose character as a London adventurer—and this gives the title to the comedy—has been dis covered, through the agency of a bailiff who had followed him and the supposed Augustus Hamil ton, to Thorpe Hail. Such is a brief outline of the principal incidents of a play, in which there is much more of promise than of positive perfor mance. The plot is neither ingeniously con ceived, nor dexterously unravelled; and as for the chief personages, scarcely one of them can put forth the slightest claims to originality. The foppish old Baronet is but a modernized version of Lord Ogleby ; Lady Gay Spanker, the rattUng, off-hand horsewoman, is a revival of Constance in the Love Chase; her husband is a Jerry Sneak, moving, however, in higher life, and consequently with the more absurd traits of the character softened off; Meddle is a com-; pound of Marplot and Paul , Pry; and as for the sporting squire and the adven turer Dazzle, they are such as are familiar to all who have the slightest acquaintance with our modern farces. In what then, it may be asked, lies the great recommendation of the comedy ? -We answer, in the uncommon spright liness and archness of its dialogue, which abounds in sallies of humour, sometimes of wit, and evinces a point and power of real; repartee of which few living drathatists are capable. Not unfrequently we meet with a sentence turned with all the sparkling polish of the School of Scandal; and sometimes, it must be added, with a co arse allusion worthier of the days of Con greve than the present. The comedy was received with great approbation by a crowded house, and was singularly well acted throughout. Farren played the part of the old beau with a gentle manlike ease and self-possession that showed the consummate artist; Mrs. Nesbitt was spirited and effective as Lady Gay—though in one or two places she over-acted the part, and substituted boisterousness for vivacity ; Mathews made a capi tal cockney adventurer, and was as glib of tongue, and ready of suggestion as could ha ve been wished; Bartley, as the squire, displayed a truly orthodox English jollity ; and - Keeley and Har ley did all that could possibly have been done for characters unworthy of their abilities. The scenery throughout was in excel ant taste; in deed the comedy seems to have been got up without regard to expense, and was announced for repetition every evening. We conclude with saying that if it really be the first dramatic effort of a young man, it is—so far as the dialogue is concerned—the most promising effort we have witues , ed of late years. LITERATURE. MOORE'S POETICAL WORKS.—VoL. V. Longman, London, 1841. In this volume there are two showy illustra tions, engraved by Heath from original designs furnished by Maclise. The subject of one is a group of young Greek girls dancing by moon light in the gorge of a lofty mountain, with the sea at a distance; the other represents a party of Thracian huntresses resting at sunset after the toils of the chase. The last, which has a truly picturesque back-ground, is the best, for there is a want of proportion in some of the dancing figures in the first plate. The Pref ace gives a brief sketch of the celebrated gala which took place at Boyle Farm in •the year 1527, when all the fashionable world of London was present; and also—which is far more interesting—some reminiscences of a visit which Moore paid to Scott at Abbotsford,. from which we quote the following pa-sages:— I must say, that, pleased as my illustrious friend a ppe are d really to be, when I first a. ng for him at Abbotsford, it was not till an evening or two after, at his own hospitable supper table, that I saw him in his true sphere of musical enjoyment. No sooner had the quaigh taken its round, after our repast, than his friend, Sir Adam, was called upon, with the general acclaim of the whole table, for the song of " Hey tuttie tattie," and gave it out to us with all the true national relish. But it was during the chorus that Scott's delight at this festive scene chiefly showed itself. At the end of every verse, the whole company rose from their seats, and stood round the table with arms crossed, so as to grasp the hand of the neigh boor on each side. Thus interlinked, we continued to keep measure to the strain, by moving our arms up and down, all chanting forth vociferously, " Hey tuttie tattie, hey tuttie tattie." Sir Walter's enjoyment Of this old Jacobite chorus— a little increased, doubtless, by seeing hoW t entered into the spirit of it , --gave to the whole scene, I . confess, a zest and charm in my eyes such as the finest musical performance could not have bestowed on it. Having been thus led to allude to this visit, I am ten9ted to mention a few other circumstances connected with it. From Abbotsford I proceeded to Edinburgh, whither Sir Walter, in a few days after, followed ; and during my short stay in that city an incident occurred, which, though already mentioned by Scott in his Diary, and owing its chief interest to the con nection of his name with it. ought not to be omitted among these memoranda. As I had expressed a desire to visit the Edinburgh theatre, which opened but the evening before my departure, it was proposed to Sir .Walter and myself, by our fr;eed Jeffrey, that we shnuLt dine with him at an early hour, for that purpo-e, and both were good-natured enough to ac company me to the theatre. Having found, in a volume sent to me by some anonymous correspondent, a more circum stantial account of the smile of that evening than Sir Walter, has given in his Diary, I shall here avail myself of its gra.phirs and ( with one exception) accurate details. After adverting to the sensation produced by the appearance of the late Duchess of St. Alban's in one of the boxes, the writer thus proceeds :—" There was a general buzz and stare, for a few seconds: the audience then turned their backs to the lady, and their attention to the stage, to wait till the first piece should be over ere they intended staring again. Just as it terminsted, another party quietly glided into a box near that fill, dby the Duchess. One pleasing female was with the three male comers. In a minute the cry ran round Eh, yon's Sir Walter, wi' Lockhait an' his wife, and wha's the wee bit bodie wi' the pawkie een ? Wovi, but it's Tam Moore, just— Sl'e)3, Scott! Moore, Moore!'—with shouts, cheers, bravos, and applause. But bcott would not rise to appropriate tbpv. tributes. One could see that he ur.ed Moore 4 , - -1 . 1. yielded, and so ; and dbosved n tsiton.LasThe cry f or S cott was h h e a , nd th o outh w modestly reluctant, . then redoubled, He gathered himself up, and, with a be -- nevolent 1 e.td, acknowledged this clescrvea vrelc• me. orchestra played alternately Scotch and Ir:sn I nelud:ei." Among th e e h t i ces t o f my reco ll ec ti ons o f that "* 0 to Edinburgh, ar the I:.‘v days I passed with Lord Jeffrq his agreeall t , retreat, Craig Crook. I Lad *:en retcrkt written the word s an d mu ,i c of a glee contained lume, " Ship a boy which ther e won its fit st Lorours• d often, indeed, was I cllled upon to tepcat it, t h a t the uP i n echoes of Craig Crook oug h t long to have had its b uru "" „ by heart. in this 11c):0 CECIL. 3 Vols. • Bentley, London, 1841. Cecil is a novel of the Vivian Grey school, possessing all its assumption, but combined with more point and vigour of style than any of the novelists of that school have yet exhibited. Th e hero, who is his own biographer, pourtrays him self as a fashionable coxcomb of the first water-- a character of no great interest, but who, never theless, is here rendered interesting by the re deeming touches of quick and kindly feeling' in which it abounds. The Hon. Cecil Mo l l is indeed, by no Means so • much of a eox; comb as he represents himself to be, ail ° so far, therefore, his idiosyncrasy is not con sistently maintained. Flippant he certainly is, addicted to the frivolous dissipations of bir ° life, ready at the small talk of the boudoir and the club, and vain of his personal • accom plishments ; but these are the mere supertiel a points of his character, shuffled aside and re sumed at will; his better and more enduring qualities—and which are evidently the most na tural to him —are, his strong common sense, or larged by habits of thought and observation, h im • ready sympathy with genius, his unaffecte d moral courage, and, above all, his sc ut sensibility. The story of big life, wh ich is told throughout with -.unflagging ~ wears an aspect of reality which we do ,nut often meet . with is fictions of this class, beil just sufficiently spiced with r o mance to inter e o fr f the reader, wallou .. startling his credulity. course, as may be inferred from its title, the taw., abounds in sketches of fashionable . life, reminiscences of the Carlton House coterie, • when the Prince was in the flower of his III"' hood; but these are far from being its chief ex; ' cellences, for, notwith s t an di ng th e i r occasion a l ', sprightliness 'and, caustic humour, there is 1 ; • aristocratic arro gance a b out t h em t h a t repel" rather than conciliates the reader; the best ~port ions of the story are th ose wherein the al itil i essays the earnest a n d th e • pat h et i c , as in his er, codes of Emily Barnet and her distracted fatber+ the death of Cecil's n e ph ew; an d t h e entire nar rative of Franszetta, the B o h em i an d an cing-g! „ r in which last episode there is as much g'en °le 1 0 ' tenderness and manly vi go u r o f d escr iption, e- 5 to be found in Hope's account of EuphrosY ne ; and the last moments o f A nstas i us . We bavn spoken of our author's flippancy. There is a r instance in point. Alluding incidentally t° greatest livino• poet, he speaks of him as :dr fellow called e' Wordsworth,'' and' yet, not iv ",..t standing this affected contempt, he does ne t hesitate to. borrow from him the ~,1 11, ° , s i t striking thou g ht i n hi s novel. ,_•`::;-0. our readers may no t i mag i ne we are s peak'' without warrant, we quote first our author. tame, flat, prosaic imitation and next the. 011 ginal passage from whi c h it is taken wit h° , ll . s acknowledgments. "W e b r i ng w i t h us ," 61 4 5 Cecil, in one of hi s mora li z i ng moods, "int° this shabby little planet, a refl ec ti on o f th e heaven l y light from which our s ou l s are em i tte d ; but 0 4 longer we live, the more: the earthly parti ele d obtain the ascendancy over its brightness, s e , blot out the spark divine." Precisely the s a A , lll - idea is thus exquisitely d eve l ope d by W°l* worth " Heaven lies about us in our infancy ; Shades of the IT:san-house begin to close Around the gr:iwing boy;— The youth who da ly lurther from the last Must travel, still is nature's priest,' And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended, At length the man r.erceives it die away, And fade int) th e li g ht o f common day. 1., We would reco mmen d t h e author o f Ceel should he again try his hand at fiction—to e c i l deavour to think f or hi mse lf , and not deg and disfigure the noble thoughts of others• we have already hi n t e d, h e h as considerable, irri ta lent, but certainly no t so muc h as to j ust ify ds ° lto in affecting a tone of su p erc ili ousness towards, author so immeasurably hi s super i or as lir°l. worth. LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. the A well-engraved half-length p or trait 0- f late Lady John Russell, forms the frontispi e e , to this Numbe r , an d if t h e portra i t bear ant'ro semblance to the original, she must have u e oe an exceedingly beautiful woman, pocsessiog2of Of those lively, intellectual countenances w; ic . paintcrs love to draw from. In the l i terary partment of th e Magazine' there are some eni - o f tabling tales i n p rose , and divers small pocf o "/ which the less Jaid the better. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE- Mr TroHope, we perceive, figures P r A W, nently among the c on t r ib u t ors to th i s eriou,' loo and leads off with a ta l e ent i t l e d the "B lue Belles of Engla n d," w hi c h L as alrea d y reao.' in its seventh chapter. There is some s arctesrn i .. c h this tale, but it wants grace and e l eg ance, w 1 1 1 , 1 09 are qualification s in which this cl eve r writer tit . alwriys show n h erse lf remarka b ly defieaentr " Address to the T wen t y - secon d B ay of Jaffe ary," is a poem f rom t h e pen o f kr. ye-15e Raymond. The stanzas possess considero,o melody of versification, arid- a vein of ge lll-1 , 1 ; o t •snsibility runs throu g h th em , sat i s fyi n g 115 ; or y the poet's heart was i n hi s subject. "11's`/:01 of the Jews" is a th eme not to b e h ast ily tn - 0 1, up after Millman, who has a l rea dy FaldT , totz said well, too—all th a t i s necessary to be 51,';.00 the subject. It i s h ere treate d i n a manne r Lull means calculated to recommerd likeily" is much improved this month, e.sPe cig o 4. as regards its dialogues, which are spirited I v pointed. Of the few remaining articles, best is the " Memoirs of en Italian Exile." EN. GL ISH JOURNAL. iSt‘ A cheap, amusing w ee kly miscellauv, 011 ;01 ing partly of compil a ti ons , an d part l y o f orig7,o contributions. Mrs. Hull and Douglas Je rj u i n g are among the contribut ors; th e l a tt er fur a clever sketch of chara c t er , drawn manl iest from the life, entitl e d th e "Toll-bar KeePY . , There is also a spirited poem, by Cyrus Re"' the subject of which is th e " F a t e o f Saul." MONTHLY LAW MAGAZINE. cre There are here some sensilL observatio ng the . subject of the Earl of Cardigan's trial," be d to in . , after stating that his Lordship was entitl, the writer proceeds to reinari‘.s Tor Our own part, we regard the acquitt Bl :he matter of slight importance; the fact that has been tried is all-important • that fact r i t e serve . as an admonition . and a precedent the magistracy; that fact will lead to inquiry' 1 1 3 4 all duels, no matter how they terminate; that fact is the fir s t h uge str id e towards 01'10 pression of a barbaro us an d f ran ti c cu stom. „,, o ir • the " Spirit of the F renc h B ar " occu rs a Inel — re r i of the celebrated Royali s t a d voca t e , 31. 13e1.1100 who, the biographer assures us, is just nnw n most eloquent, as he is th e mos t p o pular, 1:111 ! - ItO ! France. "NO othe r man ," we are told, g a p feted, so cried up, so fl a tt ere d, so 1 ,ved, ss r) l,l3 ized. , The Radicals lik e him 2 on account e ' rte ro occasional democratic outbreaks ; the sIIPP ° A" io[r of the July dynasty like him by t u r n s, ac cord to the part he takes in their quarrels au l b ini themselves : thus the niers' section admir e t he for his attacks on the Mole section ; and 0°,: ° 664. , Mole party are in rapt ures w i t h hi m for W pr o slaught he has made on th e f o ll ower s of 1111,. to a tirade against the D oc t r i na i res i s e veryt ll 7, 0 Dupin; an apostroph e t o th e l e ft ce ntre g al" laugh from M. Guizot." • THE SPORTING MAGAZINE 44' The first embellishm en t i s a b eau tiful engl„ - ,01" from a painti ng by T urn e r , t h e co mposit i° ;l4 which is correct and. spirited. " T" ch iot Take" is a good "second." The literarYTh e to led by " Whalebone," who chronicles the 1 "; i and the takes of " the Q u e e n's Hounds." hy`ei Curling Match between the Perth and ge t of tie Clubs" - follows. Passing so m e others w e : - d ia to a veterinary paper, i n w hi c h the writer, sl ended with Dr. Elliotso n , who first reconni leil life kreosote for glanders, states that his soil:: 0- was saved by its us e . Th e young man , 3. re pears, while exa m i n i ng a g l a ndered hor se ' t ter. ceived on his fac e a p or ti on o f th e poisonous 1118 0 ro f The disease manifested itself in a day or out and assumed a most fearful character. 01„. aftcr the kreosote . was applied a n g e aoli cha most magical t oo k p l ace . There ar e 1 r ch other interesti ng s h or t no tices in the Na ek. number, and our ancient friend, therefore, 011 hig amination will be found fully maintaining place amongst his three younger rivals. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN ARRIVALS. s'o I 00' G. G. 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