The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-01 00:00:00

EVENING- SUN. them to terms. About the end of: June, it is supposed, we may have opened the camp . aig-.1. .The Dutch Mail, just in, bring ; intelligence of a steady but rather dull market for the funds at Amsterdam on Monday. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 51i. From Dresden we learn, that the wife of M. Thier's had been taken ill there, and was likely to be confined to her chamber for some days. Consols, Money, 893:, a ; Ditto, Accovnt, 901 ; Spa nish, 21 the may Foreign Stock in which there is any business doing, and speculation seems to have set in for the rise. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, SEPT. I.—Wind this day at noon N.W. DEAL, Auc. 31.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.--Arrived the Henry, J: inner, from India. Arrived front the River and sailed the. Nautilus, for the Mauritius ; Angenoria, Lisbon; Tennessee, Boston. Sailed the Charlotte, for the Cape of Goo d Hope, and the outward bound. Orr Dov' tH, Atm. 31.—Arrived the Teesdale, from Boston, and sailed for St. Petersburgh. PLYMOU^S.I ' AUG. 31.—Wind N.N.W Sailed the Lalla Root Al, for Sydney. LIVERF 00L, AUG. 31.—Wind - N.N.W.—Arrived the Stormont , from Honduras; Elizr.beth, Orr, St. Domingo ; Shabo, Schoof, New Orlears ; Orozembo, Mobile ; Emma, Daphne, and Eblane, 'Montreal ; Iris, Hender son, Malta. The Frederica. Amelia, for Stettin ; and Mary -A lie, for Pernam, p. - ..ouuded on Burbo yesterday afternoon, but got off on ',he flood, and proceeded. PO3.7,'SMOUTH, AUG...r.A.—Sailed her Majesty's ship Scout, for the Mediterranean. P2tLMOUTII, AGG. S.E. to S.lV.—Arrived tha Dundee, from Memel, for Rio de la Pla.a. Sailed the Royal Tar steamer, for Vigo. JERSEY, Auc. 2 5.—Arrived the Argus, from Gaspe. :Sailed the Hero, for Rio Janeiro ; Ce.nturion, Mauri tius; Guernsey Lily, Gaspe. Manor., AUG. 31.—Arrived the George, Roberts, from_ St. Vincent's; Clint , , n , Vir g i n i a , an d J u lie, Lynn, Montreal. Sailed .the B urlington, Baltimore; Rowland, —, and Mary's, 1 fevis. PORT TALBOT, A - 41G. 29.—Sailed, William, Alicant. KINGISTOWN, 31.—Arrived the Hampton, Janet, from St. John's,. Nev' Brunswick. Conk, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Prince Albert, from Miramichi. Sailed the Idea, for Quebec. Arrived off— Rebecca, Pia .ers, St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, Ar G. 29.—Arrived the Sir John Ogilvy, Strachan, fr( ir i Leghorn. SHIELDS, AUG.. 29.—Arrived the Europe, Brodie, from Buenos Ayres; and Arcadia, Robinson, Pictou. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN• CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL, YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. SAILINGS. AUG. 2.s.—Midge cutter, John Petre, Esq., for Ports mouth, 1 !ft for the serson. arow cutter, Lord Godolphin, for Exeter, light breeze S.S.E., and hazy ; Kestrel yawl, Commodore Earl of. Yarboroup.,b, for Pymouth and other ports. 28--Rostellan r.chooner, Thomas George French, Esq., for Cork, light b reeze N.N.W. 30—Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., for Cher bourg and. west,epn ports ; Cynthia cutter, R: Frankland, Esq., for Cher'ourg and Guernsey ; Peri schooner. Captain Bulkei.ey, for Cherbourg and Guernsey ; Ariel cutter, I earl of Coventry, for Southampton and Brighton; Nymph eutte . r, John Bayley, Esq., for Plymouth and Cherbourg ; Hebe cutter, A. W. Corbet, Esq., for South impto a, left for the season. ARRIVALS. Arc. `M.—Merlin schooner, William Lyon, Esq., from North Y armouth and Portsmouth. 28—P Wel cutter, Earl of Ilchester, from Weymouth ; Camilla scho'iner, Thomas Halifax, jun., Esq., from Weymo ath. YA CHIS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Sche cuers—Crusader, Gem, Hawk, Camilla, Wan derer, Xarifa, Janette, Merlin. Ya xls—Alarm, Falcon, Breeze. CI fitters—Nautilus, Sparrowhawk, Lord of the Isles, Pet reel, Reindeer, Naiad, Forest-fly, Phoebe, Talisman, W Itch, Ariadne, Will-o'-the-Wisp. Colonel Sykes has taken Rose Lodge ; Mr. Newnham Cannon House ; Mr. Lister and Lady Theresa Lister stile Parsonage ; Mr. Mullins Gothic Hall ; Sir Ralph :Howard has applied for the King's House ; Lady Sey :mour has taken the 10th Cottage • Lady Shuckburg the 11th Cottage ; Sir B e lli ng h am draham has taken Nor folk House for September ; Sir James Graham Beach Villa • Lord R. Grosvenor the 9th C o tt age ; L or d an d Lady Boyle are still at Harriet Lodge ; Lord Congleton and the Countess of Darnley at Woodvale ; the Earl and Countess of Belmore at the 6th Cottage ; Mr. Con greve and family at the 7th Cottage, with whom Lord Clonbrook is on a visit ; Mr. Cole and Lady Henry Moore at the Bth Cottage ; Lady Cadogan and family have left for the season, as has R. B. Sheridan, Esq., and family, Lord and Lady Sydney, A. Corbet, Esq., Colonel Knox, and many other families, but the town is again filling fast for September and October. General Richardson has purchased Mill Hill estate, near Cowes, the property of the late Admiral Osborne, for 6,0001. Vast quantities of whiting have been caught off Cowes during the past week, and have been sold at from 4d. to 6d. per dozen. Some boats have taken from twenty to thirty dozen a tide. With a view to try the validity of the Cowes votes for the return. of Members for the Borough of Newport at the last election, Mr. Gisborne's friends have objected to every voter on the register for river property, whether Liberal or Tory. The battle will, therefore, be fought beforo - the Revising Barrister. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) SOUTHAMPTON RACES.—TUESDAY (CONCLUDED). 'The Champagne Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 300 added. Winner to be sold for 801. Heats, two miles. Mr. Foster's Variety, 4 yrs, lOst 31b...(King) 4 1 1 Mr. Budd's Adrian, aged, 1 Ist 31b 1 2 2 Mr. Hopkins' Viginti, 5 yrs, lOst 71b Mr. Lr.cas"rraitress, 3 yrs, 9st Won in a canter. STOURBRH)GE RACES.-(CONCLUDED.) TUESDAY. Term Stourbridge Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 50 added. Mile and three quarters. (6 Subs. 2 paid 5 sovs. each.) Mr. Morris' Fat Jack, aged, Bst 61b walked over. The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each ; the second saves his stake. Two miles and a half. (7 Subs.) Mr. Key's Marialva, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Frost) 1 Mr. Morris' Fat Jack, aged, 9st 2 Mr. Barrow's Catharina, aged, Bst 11Ib 3 Won easy. 'The Ladies' Purse of 301., and a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each. Two-mile heats. (Five subs.) Mr. Wood's King Cole, aged, 9st 61b (Marlow) 3 1 1 Mr. Arthur's The Star, 3 yrs, 7st llb ......... . 1 2dr Mr. Skerratt's Hudibras, 3 yrs, ist 41b ......... 2 3 dr The Himley Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 25 added, one mile and a quarter, were won in two heats by Mr. Saunders's Miss Kitty Cockle, aged, 9st 31b (Stagg), beating Mr. Barrow's Catharine, aged, 9st 51b, Mr. :Frost's Image, 3 yrs, ist, and Mr. Wood's Sir Mark, 5 yrs, 7st 41b. ECCLES RACES.—MONDAY. The Trafford Park Stakes of 3 toys. each, with 25 added ; the second saves his stake; 3 yrs old, 7st 71b; 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; 5 yrs, 9st 41b ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 101 b ; mares, &c., allowed albs ; winners of one 50 this year 5113 s extra, of two or more, 101 b. Heats, thrice round and a dis. Mr. Heppl e ' s Sambo Sutton, aged...(Livesley) 0 1 1 Hon. J. Sandiland's Easingwold, 5 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Thomas's Velocity, 5 yrs 2 3 dr Mr. Pratt's Mary Anne, 4 yrs 3 0 dr Mr. Foulke's nd The Marquis, 4 yrs 0 0 dr Mr. Ogden's St. Leonard, 6 yrs 0 0 dr Mr. J. Bake's Kersal Maid, 5 yrs. Mr. I )uckworth's Margaret Miller, aged Easingwold the favourite won cleverly-. The Pony Stakes,with , 101. added, , second saves his stakes, 'thric e round, were won ill two heats by Mr. Fli n t' s b p l 4, l , dvalent, late Deception (Yates), beating Mr. Holland's Cupid, and three others, easily. Match—Once round ; Mr. Coupe's d m Miss Helton (Mr. Bowring) beat Mr. Chandler's Canieleon in a canter. Match—SO ; half-mile heats ; Mr. italliburton's Little F e tt e r (Hollinshead) beat Mr. Gordon's Spid er i n a canter. NORWICH.—GREAT ROWING MATCH I tE _ TWEEN LONDON AND NORWICH ROWRS. This match came off on Thursday, and was witnessed by an immense concourse of spectators from all parts of • the country. During the afternoon the city was half emptied of its inhabitants. The boats started from Coldham-hall, about half-past four o'clock. In the London boat, the two Maynards, Lett, Perry, and Noul ton—one of the Maynards being coxswain. In the Nor wich boat, the two Girlings, Clarke, Le Fevre, and But tle steersman. 'The Norwich men, who strained every nerve, plied their equal oars with great neatness and rapidity, and appeared to gain at first, but the superior strength and skill of the Londoners prevailed, and before they Tassed Brundell Dyke they had increasad the original distance of a hundred yards apart ; they left the Nor wich boat still further behind as they passed Surlingham Ferry, and at Bramerton Woodsend and Pastwick Grove the boats were not in sight of each other. Tens of thou-. sands were on the look-out at Willingham. The red oars of the London boat first appeared in sight, gleaming in the sunshine, but the multitude appeared by no means -pleased while waiting for the appearance of the Norwich boat ; when it did appear, the Londoners seemed to be half a mile in advance. The Norwich men did their best, but had hardly passed Willingham when the signal gun announced that their competitors had won the day, and passed the advanced distant post The seven miles were rowed by the London crew in 53 minutes, and in 56 mi nutes by the Norwich. The boat of the former is said to have given them a decided advantage. On Saturday several other matches came off. The first, for twenty sovereigns, was intended to try what the Londoners could do in a Norwich boat ; it was a three miles match, from Bramerton to Thorpe. In this match both crews were in Norwich boats, 24 feet long, but the Londoners were, as before, successful ; it was, however, a close run, the Norwich men coming in within 15 seconds of time, and but 50 yards behind ; the three miles were rowed in 22 minutes and 55 seconds by the Londoners, and in 23 minutes and 10 seconds by the Norwich rowers. The second was a two miles match, between two London and two Norwich amateurs, but in this again the Londoners *on by a few yards.—lpswich Express. WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS.—The Vaux ail of the North is becoming a place of fashionable resort, and we are assured that the gala of this evening, for the benefit of Mr. Hilton, will be one of the most splendid of this season, THE NEW MINISTRY. At an early hour yesterday morning Treasury mes sengers were despatched with communications from the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to the Duke of Buckingham, at Stowe Park, near Buckingham, and to the Earl of Liverpool, at Buxted Park, near Uckfield, Sussex. The Duke of. Buckingham arrived at Buckingham House, Pall-mall, late in the afternoon, and immediately proceeded to Sir Robert's residence in Whitehall-gar dens, to have an interview. The Earl of Liverpool arrived at Fife House, White hall, last evening. The Noble Earl is named as Lord Steward of the Queen's Household. Yesterday the Right Hon. Baronet was busily en gaged from an early hour in completing the Ministerial. arrangements. The Earl We Aberdeen and Lord Ellenborough had audience i of Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning, and the ng Noblemen and Gentlemen had interviews with 9 ).?, Right Hon. Baronet by appointment :—The Earl of rladdin g t on , Earl of Ripon, Viscount Castlereagh, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Francis Egerton, Lord Wharn cliffe, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Thomas Freemantle, Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir William Follett, Sir George Clerk, Sir George Cockburn, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Lyndhurst, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Shortly before five Mr. E. H. Anson, treasurer to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, arrived from Windsor Castle, and had an audience of Sir Robert Peel, and we understand was the bearer of a letter from her Majesty to the Right Hon. Baronet. The Duke of Wellington received the chief members of the future Administration to dinner last evening at Apsley House. It was a select circle confined to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Earl of Aber deen, Earl of Ripon, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Stanley, Lord Ellenborough, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., and the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. OA retiring from the dinner-table the Noble Duke and his colleagues held a conference, which lasted several hours. The meeting at Sir Robert Peel's on Monday night did not break up until nearly one o'clock. We learnt at a late hour last night, from an authentic source, that the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., will leave town this morning for Windsor Castle, when the Right Hon. Baronet will submit to his Sovereign the list of his Ministerial appointments. It is said that, in addition to the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Stan ley, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, and the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn will form the chief members of the Cabinet. The househal of his Royal Highness Prince Albert will,under'go hilt a very trifling change, an d we h ave reason to „b elieve Mr. E. Anson Will continue treasurer to his Royal Highness. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. Charles Boughton St. Ge;;;;:iia.:OfSesus College, Cambridge, has be en a ppoint e d t o th e C urac y o f Chiswick, Middlesex, and also to the Chaplaincy of the Kensington Union: The Rev. Gilbert Rodbard Blackburne, M.A., to the Vicarage of Long Ashton, Somerset. Patrons, Sir John Smyth, Bart., and Col. Gore Langton, M.P. The Rev. ohn Henry Lovett Cameron, M.A. to the Vicarage of Fleet, Dorset, void by the death of the Rev. George Gould. The Rev. John Clayton, M.A., Curate of Redditch, to the Vicarage of Stratford-upon-Avon and Weston, void by the death of the late Dr. Davenport. The Rev. Alfred Tooke, Clerk, M.A., to the Vicarage of :Harden, Dorset, void by the death of Charles Bowie, Clerk. The Rev. Thomas Williams, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Pitcombe, Somerset, on the nomination of Sir H. Hugh Hoare, Bart. The Rev. William Dyer, 117. A., to the Perpetual Cu racy of Imber, Wilts, void by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Williams, on the nomination of the trustees of the Marquis of Bath. The Rev. Henry Browne, Rector, Earnley, Sussex, to be Principal of the Chichester Diocesan Theological College, void by the resignation of the Rev. C. Marriott. The Rev. Edward Norman, A.M., late Curate of Kingscourt, has been appointed to the curacy of Abbey feale, in the diocese of Limerick. OBITUARY, Aged 72, the Rev. Richard Foster, M.A., for the term of 33 years incumbent Minister of Hunslet, in the parish of Leeds. At the Vicarage, Bridstow, the Rev. Love Robertson, Vicar of Bridstow, Sellack, and Capel, and Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, in his 77th year. At Thorp Arnold Vicarage, near Melton Mowbray, the Rev. John Cleathing, M.A., Vicar of Thorpe Arnold and Brentingby, in his 76th year. At Limerick, the Rev. John Duddell, M.A., formerly Vicar of Westbury, Bucks, which living he resigned in 1797, upon his appointment to the living of St. Mun chin's, Limerick, and a prebendal stall in the Cathedral, which preferment he held to the day of his death. At Templemore, the Rev. Richard Forsayeth, Rector of Kilfithmone, in the diocese of Cashel. At the Rectory, St. George's, in the Island of Barba does, the Rev. 'William Pinder, son of the late Hon. William Pinder, Chief Judge of the Island of Barbadoes. THE WEATHER—Noox, SEPTEMBER 1. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 61 1 Highest '76 j Lowest ... 47 Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. SPITALFIELD'S SCHOOL OF DESIGN.. The first annual meeting of this institution took place yesterday at All Saints National School-house, Spicer street, Mile-end New-town, Lord Robert Grosvenor, in the Chair. Some extremely beautiful fabrics, the produce of the Spitalfields looms, were prodigally lavished on the walls. There were four beautiful specimens of glass fabric, woven bp the men of Spitalfields, and a blue tissue of silk and gold, and a crimson and gold pattern, which were the perfection of art. The walls of the school-room were also adorned with drawings or designs of the scholars. Among these was a very striking design for a picture, to be executed in silk, or silk and glass, by Bailey, of her Gracious Majesty and Prince Albert. Lord Grosvenor, M.P., having taken the Chair, Mr. IIANBURY read the Report. After a few prelimi nary remarks, it went on to say, that the establishment of schools of design was of modern invention. Except the Government School of Design, and that of Manches ter, there were no others in England. English manufactu rers had been compelled, in consequence, to commit. pi racy on foreign artists. This evil was felt severely in the silk manufactories. The artistical character of Lyons, and other Continental cities, was entirely owing to their Schools of Design. In Paris alone 19 Professors of De sign were appointed, who were attended by 800 pupils. Many of them did not exceed nine years, and they paid five francs for the first, and six francs for the second and third years. Of 80 Schools of Design in France, Lyons was the most successful. It originated in a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte written in Poland. The Report then reverted to the condition of the Spitalfields School of Design, which had been in operation only six months, and yet numbered 60 pupils. They met on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays, and paid 3d. per week for instruction. Further the Report stated that they looked forward with confidence to the speedy erection of a building for a School of De sign in those parts. - Lord ROBEiT GROSVENOR then said that the duty de volved upon him of awarding the prizes. The selection had been made with great care and impartiality, and the decisions of the Committee had been influenced by the excellence of the productions themselves, and by the in dication of other qualifications—namely, diligence and attention, and well-regulated habits of study. It was satisfactory to see the great progress which had been made by the pupils. It was rather mortifying to think that in regard to our silk manufactories we had now, after so long a period of practice, been obliged to resort to first principles—to study, as it were, the alphabet and grammar of the art—the only true foundations of science. By this neglect the manufactures of the Spitalfields district had been reduced to so great a state of depression, but happier prospects, he trusted, were about to open. The Consort of our Gracious Quc'en had lately condescended to be present at the annual distribution of prizes at the central school in Somerset-house • our belovered Sove reign herself had patronized the last year's ball at the Opera-house, the proceeds of which were to be appro priated to relieve the distress of the Spitalfields weavers, tz:Zumstances had prevented her being present on that .e n r , as she had intended. It was her gracious intention, hoN , the Ne% ,to reiterate the command this year for a ball for the same o bi ! , ts.—(Applause.) His Lordship then deli veredfollowing prizes, chiefly for designs for silk mole's Book of and satin patternsth :—No. 1. To Mr. J. Brown ; Cattgr- Treat e is Cartoons. No. 2. To Mr. Wm. H. on Practical Perspective. No. 3. Towner • a To Mr. 'C. Cutter4. r e . a Treatise i on Isometrical Perspec of the Silk Manufacture. No. 5. tive. No. 4. To ; a c 1 . ine r a a t n is c e on Insect Transforma gin and present State Martin a Treatise on the CampbellOri r.NJo..6. a,o r. , Treatise on peds. No. Mr. W m Is •hflower • a T tQi o o u n . a sd M . r u Wm. Themas, presented by the Rev. Henry Taylor ; Babbag ' Economy nufactures. No. 8. To Mr. JO5. e s of Ma Hiberd, Natural by Robert Hanbury, Esq. ; C o nversations on Phi losophy. The following students also received testimonials from the committee for ge neral g ood co nduct and profi ciency :—Messrs. Wm. E. Cadman, J. Tuffnell J. Whiter, J. Burridge, W. Justin, J J. Connell, H. H a Y watd, J. Cain, W. Edward Davis, W. Poster. The following resolution, moved by Mr. C ockerel], and seconded by Mr. Wilkinson, was then agreed t o :____ " That this meeting, regarding with much pleasure the exertions of the Committee of the Spitalfields School of Design, and considering the obvious importance of such an institution, as a means to improve the art of silk manufacture, do earnestly recommend the cause to public sympathy and support." In the course of a few observations h e made while proposing the resolution, Mr. COCKERELL stated that his friend, Mr. Baily, the sculptor, had offered to present his bust of the late Mr. Stothard to the institution. Mr. Stothard commenced life as a designer for silk patterns in Spitalfields, but afterwards acquired such great celebrity, that he was placed at the head of the English School of Design. In no place, therefore, could the bust of that remarkable man be more appropriately placed than in the Spitalfields School of Design. Mr. EAST, a working weaver, in a quiet and pleasant manner, seconded the resolution. The Rev. HENRY TAYLOR, seconded by Mr.. Dyer, offered the thanks of the meeting to the Right Hon. Loid Robert Grosvenor, for his kindness in presiding. His LORDSiIIr having teturned thanks, the mootirg separated. . TIM SUN; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 141. - -,--- TO THE EDI2I r)R O F TB "E SUN. wearied 7 ith the continued splutter Sin —After beingt,out the majority in the a.. which the Tory press keeps' up ix. in g the voice of the landlords' and monopolists party I was resolved to . peole, the verdict of the co, 8:0 end p eavour, by reference to untr y a clever ., i i.:tle work (" Oli: vier's Parliamentary Register"), to agVE...rt`it`il how far the Tory scribes could be depended upan fer . the accurac y of; . _ . their assertions. in The returns from Ireland and Scotland, MN. . g a large. he F majority to her Majesty's present Ministers, ou iish boroughs a smallone,l applied myself to those WI "ain s of England which have returned Tories, to ILK" ii how far the assertion of the Tory scribes , that " Radicals had been everywhere put to complete rout; ' was true or the reverse. In consequence of Lord Howick's remarks on Duke Smithson's manceuvering, I also added one county, North Northumberland. The result appears that the Tories have gained 29 seats ; in all of which (with two exceptions, 'Westminster and Northumber land), their majorities have been under fifty. It further comes out that they have only a majority of 471, in 27 contested seats, where the total number of electors qualified to poll amounts to 22,461. Westminster and North Northumberland give them a majority of 142, on a constituency of 18,531. It does not argue quite so unanimous an opinion in favour of Doctor Peel, that in Bedford, Cambridge, Can terbury, and Lancaster, containing about seven thousand electors, the Tory majority was only 10, 13, 9, and 16. Compare these results with the glorious majorities in Marylebone, the Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, and Green wich, and surely the Liberals have no just reason to be afraid that the enemies of the people will ultimately be able to prevail. Should you think fit to closed in your widely circu service. give publication to the in ated Journal, it is at your BOZEY. Electors. 1,091 Electors. 807 Barnstaple Hodgson l5 Gore Bedford Stuart Berwick Hodgson lB _ Lincoln Collett 37 Malden Round 33 Montgomery Cholmondeley... 26 Newport Martin 25 Hamilton 23 N.Northumberland 2,786 Creswell ...... 62 Rochester Douglas Bodkin 8 Blackburn Hornby Bridgewater Broadwood 27 Forman Cambridge 1,698, Grant Canterbury 1,660 Bradshaw Harwich 195 Attwocod ll Beresford Scarborough Trench lB Westminster Rous BO Weymouth Villiers Hope Wigan 583 Greenall Crosse Ifelston Vivyan Kidderminster 440 Godson Lancaster Marten Leeds Beckitt 40,992 The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the Incorporated General Steam Navigation Company was held yesterday at the office of the Company in Lom bard-street. The Chair was taken by Wolverly Attwood, Esq., at two o'clock. The report and half-yearly ac counts were read, and appeared to afford general satis faction. The dividend was declared, and after voting the cordial thanks of the Proprietors to the Chairman and Directors, the meeting separated. ACCIDENT AT THE NEW HOUSES OF PAR LIAMENT.—This morning, about half-past seven o'clock, as George Butler, a bricklayer's labourer, was at work at the building ot the new Houses of Parliament, a mass of stone, weighing between three and four tons, fell upon him ; he was with much difficulty extricated from un derneath the ponderous load, and was found to be dread fully injured, particularly his right arm, which is so se verely shattered, that it is greatly feared amputation will become necessary. He was removed to Westminster Hospital. ' An official letter has been received at Castlebar Gaol, announcing that the law must take its course rela tive to the persons sentenced to be hanged for the mur der of Hallinan at Claremorris. Stanford, ex-policeman, relied on the recommendation to mercy, but the Execu tive could not, under the circumstances, commute the sentence. Stanford, and the woman Mary Hallinan, had conspired to murder the husband of the female, which they perpetrated, in order to gratify an illicit amour. Friday, the 24th of September, is the day named for Stanford's execution. The sentence of death on the woman will not, in consequence of her pregnancy, be carried into effect until after next Assizes. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE CONCERTS D'ETE.—Last night this Theatre was elegantly and fashionably attended. The Tableaux Vivans have been considerably improved, and are received with great ap plause. Among the company we noticed the Countesses of Charleville, raulet, Essex ; Ladies Cavendish, Beckett, Anstruther, Hon. Mrs. Leicester Stanhope ; Lords Lis burne, Camoys, Cantelupe, Fitzclarence, &c. &c. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 29.—The Pique fri gate, Captain Yates, arrived at Spithead last night to receive the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, ap pointed to the command in the West Indies and North America. The Pique will receive the flag to-morrow, and sail forthwith. The Belvidera frigate of 38 guns was commissioned this morning by Captain George Grey. The Electra, 18, Commander Gosling, sailed yesterday for the West Indies. She has returned again to Spit head to wait further orders. The Droitstates that r few days ago , a gentle• man who rented a gaiden with a pretty pavilion, outside one of the barriers, but who had been absent for some months, re turne to Paris, and invited some friehds to go on the follow ing morning with him to see his garden and breakfast there. He gave orders to his servants accordingly, and next morning, on arriving, found the pavilion open, and two cooks in the kitchen busy in preparing a splendid breakfast. The cooks said they did not expect the party so soon, but would hasten their preparations, and having done so, the tenant and his friends sat down to a breakfast, at which the choicest wines had not been forgotten. Just as they had finished, three coaches drove up to the gate, and another party, for whom the breakfast had really been intended, made their appear ance. They consisted of the owner of the house, and several dandies and ladies of the opera, whom he had invite d. It ap pears that the owner, notexpecting the retu rn o f his tenant so soon, had taken the liberty of using his house in leis absence, without recollecting to apprise him of the fact at :the period when the rent was paid to him by his agent, and the tenants own servants had not carried his orders into effect. ',The ladies are stated to have been furious. NOVEL RAILWAY EXCURSION.--Chi Mon day morning, at eleven o'clock, several hundred persons were observed to emerge from the London termi nus of the Birmingham Railway. Being nearly two hours be fore the usual arrival of the first train, the circumstance excited much attention, and on inquiry it was ascer certained that they had arrived by a special train, which Iral left Birmingham at six o'clock, and had been engaged by the Mechanics' Institute of that town to cons - ey to London 500 persons, composed of mechanics and. Citeisr families, on very advantageous terms. The above 1 u. 1.-- ties will return on Wednesday evening, and array ige ments have been made for their visiting (free of expe rise) , the Collosseum, Zoological Gardens in the liege: at's park, the Royal Gallery, Lowther Arcade, the Ur Red Service Institution, and some other exhibitions. The whole charge for the trip to London and back, inclu ding the admission to the several places of amusement, is only 225, each person. GERMAN RAILROADS..---A letter from B aden states that the railway on the left bank of the Rhi me is proceeding with activity. At Carlsruhe they have com menced the works on the place where the statton. to be fixed, outside the Ettlingen gate. On the 16th inst., a contract for furnishing 80,000 quin tals rails was adjudged to Messrs. Ilmsch bi -others, at Duren, between Cologne and Aix-la-Cl tapelly:, at 171. sc. the 50 kilogrammes, to be delivt wed at Manheim. The number of offers were considerable, fr( int Germany, Belgium, England, and even from S wed en. The rails for the line from Manheim to Heidelberg cost 22f. 30c. the kilogramme, the difference in this y2rice causing a saving to the Baden Government of mem . than. 400,0001. The section from Kehl to Appenwigh , is ad vancing rapidly; that from Heidelberg to Carlsru be, it is thought, will be opened about the end of 1843. The Duchess of Kent steamer left Ramsg ate yes terday morning at nine o'clock with about 200 passen gers, met with an accident soon afterwards, and her ma chinery got out of order. The vessel came up a grekt part of the voyage with only one engine gc dug, the other being totally disabled, and she made a teli9us passage of eleven hours before she made he T appear ance at London-bridge-wharf, where she la ndec 1 her passengers a few minutes past eight o'clock la st n ight. The detention of the Duchess of Kent, which is - . a le of the most regular steamers on the Thames, and g 'ene rally makes the voyage between London and Re rut gate in six or seven hours, caused some alarm among 'le nu merous persons waiting for thei r f r i en d s an d relatr.vc :s on the wharf. HOUSEHORD BRIGADE OF FOOT GUAI IDS. —CHANGE OF QUARTERS.—'this being the Ist of l Sep tember, the following change of quarters in the Ho use hold Brigade of Foot Guards will take place, I stir • suant to orders issued from the Adjutant-Genert d's office, Horse Guards :—Grenadier Guards, first 1 'tat talion, will march from the Tower, four companies ' to head-quarter, St. John's-wood Barracks, two compani€ ,s to St. George's Barracks, one company:to Kensington 7 &w -racks, one company to Magazine Barracks, one corn oar iy t Buckingham Palace Barracks, and one company to,' tV , lington Barracks. The third battalion will marcl t f tem St. John's-wood and detached Barracks to Po rt man street Barracks. Coldstream guards, the.- first b attalion will march from Wellington Barracks to Cie Tows n; ; and the second Battalion from St. George's B,u-rack t, to the Wellington Barracks. PARENTAL BRUTALITY.—On lYlor * d a y a very shocking occurrence took place at Sanda-e ad, Ful ham. It appears that a man named Baker, wbo id is an to s eavator an d o f very dissipated habits, r e tan home about ten o'clock to his dinner. Fintlii > a his wife out and his meal not ready, he flew into a f riots pas sion,3,ears and, old oe expostulating p e h s i t s w e a l t d i e n s g t dllaiutghh him,ter, g h i e r la s la o t vi e t i t c : rh O le r r t e f( e Ll i. gi ho r scoc k iehnti e .,die ss r lGi, . dn iefgfiteo euTrudgehaedtse,hshdeyHi profuselyshp cot o oh: u o rlef ts‘snihei, examinationhei eeom e san a sro head doev efnhde with htysnes e wretched ir h oe r ee e ao a nn j u h s a : t e n ge P c b l d e ol . 70 11 11, 4: „' a iibour ' s, dread fulas wound on the head. The father on - seeing the irl had received a severe scalp wound, and tl le r; t . s .1 341 , h N T t V ehr l h l a -e e st n k g , on ull was also severely fractured. She lies in a h opeless con , dition. The police are in pursuit of the ft th er. The beautiful mansion, Belmont, St ok e, the pro perty of J. Norman, Esq., banker, was soli l a t auction on Thursday last for 2,340 guineas, to Gen' 11 4 Wilson.— Dublin Pilot. - FINE ATtTS. THE TA.KING" OF SIDON.—THE BOMBARD MENT AND CAPTURE OF ACRE. ' Colnaghi, London, 1841. The prints representing these late glorious naval actions, on the Syrian coast, are three in. number, and are executed from original designs, furnished by Lieutenant War.-e, who was pre sent both at Acre and Sidon, on. "board the Prin cess Charlotte. The first print represents the taking of Sidon by the Marines and Blue jackets on the twenty-sixth of September last; and the two others, the bombardment of Acre, on the i . the third of November following, including the , al, 'Cul spectacle of the explosion a f the powder I •azine. This last incident is poet rtrayed with `truly graphic ability; and. by th..e vivid and vastly light of the explosion is seen the Power a 1 , ~, ,omodo.~e Napier, firing bro. idside after ( broadsic aat t he devoted fortress.,w Pith all the i promptitu e amid energy that Briti.th seamen .never fail to 1, rill prints teem wit. with them into actiop. These Til , ife andanimation; are crowded, but not to much so, with incidents; a."e care fully engraved; an'd being published " by sub scription for the be. iefit of the families of the killed in the Allied Fi'eet , during the late opera lions on the Coast of 13y. informs us-will no doubt - 1 ria"—as the prospectus neet with all the suc- I cess to which they are entnt, 'ed. MAGAZINE 1 )AY. 7-AZINE. BLACKWOOD'S MAt As usual, there are some ainto in g inconsisten cies in Moga's political article this month. In •" Lessons from the Past," after assuring us that the " English Constitution, the boast of the patriot and the pride of the historian during so many ages, sunk to the dust" at the i'-riocl when the Reform Bill was carried, the wri,ter goes on to assure us that this defunct Constitutie It is just 0.5 well as ever, and as strong au& hea, •ty as if nothing had ever ailed it ! Never was the."e such a phenomena as this same Constitution! It has actually as many lives as a cat. The Tories •con fess to its having been put to Cieath not less :than three times within the last twelve or fourte en years, yet now they tell us with all the gravity imaginable that it is in the enjoyrnent of excel lent ! Though we differ from the majo rity of th; opinions put forth in " Lslssons from the Past," ii.4-=re isrone the'spirit of w:iich we Cordially agree ;---" The Conservatives," -.says the writer,' "have inaLv lessons of wisdom to learn." fitey have indeed, fir hitherto they have shown themselves but indifferently furnished with poli tical sagacity. Every great national question brought forward Once the memorable year 1529 has tended only to bewilder, instead o. t to en lighten, their understanding. They bat e been standing in a state ot.' stupid perplexity, while the wortd was in active:. thrward motion about them. Henceforth, they must either nia“e up their minds to accommodate their ideas of legisla tion to those of the day, or else consent to be shuffled aside as so much )worthless lumber. There is no longer time for hesitation. They must decide -at once b for, while they a."e conside ring, the golden opportunity is passing, ne yer to ret urn. The "World of London" is a lively, shrewd essay. I-low just is this remark !—" There is no fowx i's talk in London; your provincial lion . is here .a Very tame beast, and let him roar ever so loud, not a soul will think more of his roaring than of the rumbling of a cart." London is indeed the best of all places to cure a man's self-conceit Here, he is sure to rise or fall to his proper level. The metropolis is no respecter of persons. It thinks no more of a duke than a dustman. We quote some amusing thoughts on suicide from this entertaining essay : " When Sam Scott, the Amegican, hanged himself, by way of a lark, upon Waterloo -bridge, (by the way, what, may we ask, became of the inquiry, whether or no the Directors sanctioned that disgusting exhibition ?) 'lye happened to have occasion to walk up the Waterloo road about ten minutes after the untoward event ; the crowd had already dispersed, but some stray sentences dropped by the passers-by induced us to imagine some thing interesting might have occurred. Laying down Sixpence to pay our toll, while waiting the change, we took occasion to inquire of the gate-keeper what was the matter. " Only a Yankee diver hanged hisself on the bridge, Sir—all right !" replied the functionary ; whe ther the " all right" referred to the propriety of Sam Scott acting as his own hangman upon this occasion, or to the correctness of the change tendered me by the gate-keeper, I cannot say ; however that may be, I could not help censuring the folly of Sam Scott in executing himsen in London, where, not merely the manner of his death, but his previous existence, was forgotten in some seconds less than five minutes ; whereas, had he onl3 taken the trout; le to strangulate himself in Edin burgh or Dublin, he would have been talked of for a week, and remembered for a fortnight. Songs would have been sung, and sermons made, about him ; public meetings would have been called to petition Parliament against capital punishments. Scott would have• become a household word, and his effigy would have been seen in every shop hanging in mezzo tint° ; we would have had the Saut Scott quadrilles, and the Sam Scott magic strop, and the Sam Scott cravats ; in short, if Sam had any sense, he might have been not Only notorious in himself; but the came of notoriety in others. It is, therefore, sheer folly in inteud. 7 .ng sui cides to think of creating a sensation by performing their antics in London. Ithadamanthus Wakley, sitting in, judgment on half a score corpses a day, or thereabouts, Cannot confer upon all an immortality : tumbling " from the monument" even has lost its novelty, and is now considered by the, town a very "slow" way of cutting • one's self off. No suicide, therefore, who cannot strike out a new line of bold, dashing, and original fel° de se has the chance even of seeing his inquest headed " Sui cide Extraordinary." We therefore recommend all daring spirits, ambitious of immortality by hanging or otherwise, to take themselves off to the country, where a sensation is worth any money, and where they will have twelve columns of inquest in the county papers." The " Picture of Danae." is a translation from ; a German drama by Deinhordstein. We cannot vouch for the accuracy of the v ersion, as we are 1 unacquainted with the origira; play ; but the blank verse is spirited and meloa,:ous, and some of the imagery is far above em omon place. " Royal Academy, &c.," is a notice pf some of exhibi tion. The criticism . on the whole is just—so the more prominent pictures in the late .exhibi far at least as our recollection serves us—but it is somewhat out of date. Instead of thinking of the past, the public is now looking forward to the next exhibition. " Biwa and the Bastille " is an instructive historiette, enlivened with sketches of character. The " POwler " is a poem -by Delta. It is in his pleasantest manner. In the article entitled " Sir Robert Peel's Position on next Resuming Power," we have an elaborately drawn character of the Right Hon. Baronet, which is not a little at variance with the account given - of him in this very Magazine, immediately after the passing of the Catholic Emancipation. He was then a rat—an apostate. He is now a firm, upright statesman ; the very one to whom, of all others, may be most fitly entrusted the destinies of the empire. " Good Bye to the Whigs" is a smart, satirical farewell to the dis placed Ministry. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Not the least interesting article in the Number before us is a brief biographical sketch of the late Theodore Hook, whose sudden and unex pected death has left a blank in the social circle that will not easily be filled up. We had no idea, till we read this memoir, that Hook pos sessed so much versatility of talent. We all know that he was a passable dramatist, a clever novelist, and a wit of very considerable powers; but we here learn that he was also an excellent musician, and a caricaturist of no ordinary preten sions. No wonder that, aided by these recom mendations, together with a handsome. person, and mild, gentleman-like address, he was a favourite with all classes. "He wrote," says his biographer, " not fewer than eleven dramatic compositions in three years ;" but they are all long since forgotten, being the merest ephemera, intended only for the passing hour. We are assured that in his youth he was very good looking, but the portrait prefixed to this Me moir is by no means remarkable for comeliness of feature ; the forehead indeed is broad and in tellectual, but the rest of the countenance is rather ordinary than otherwise. We are glad to learn that the poetical squibs an 4 " Rams bottom Letters," which he contributed from time to time in the John Bull, are about to be collected and republished, fdr they abound in humour, and deserve—like the Anti-Jacobin poetry—So be remembered beyond their day. Richard Savage" keeps up with undiminished spirit. The dialogues are neat and forcible, and frequently evince dramatic point. " Merrie England in the Olden Time" is a quaint, racy melange of humour and antiquities. The bal lads interspersed throughout it are lightly and easily versified. " Ode to Taglioni" is a very se-so affair. It is thickly studded with italics, in order, we presume, that the jokes may not escape the notice of the reader. Without the help of these italics, we must honestly confess we should never have detected , the drollery of .the poem. " Seven Years" is a tale' from the prolific pen of the author of " Stephen Dugard, It contains some vigorous bits of description.. In the " Old Ledger" there is a humorous parody of the clas sic story of " Pyramus and Thisbe," which Ovid has immortalized in his Metamorphoses. " Death of the Red Man" is an episode from Mr. Coo per's forthcoming romance of " The Deerslayer." It is graphically, and in places, pathetically, written. - The " Smuggler's Leap" is another of Ingoldsby's richly comic legends.. As usual, it has some touches of the supernatural, for the author's fancy is quite as remarkable as his powers of humour. Our readers will, no doubt, -thank us for this extract:— Smuggler Bill, he looks behind, And he sees a dun horse come swift as the wind, And his nostrils smoke, and his eyes they blaze Like a couple of lamps on a yellow post-chaise ! Every shoe he has got Appears red-hot, And sparks round his ears snap, crackle, and play, And his tail cocks up in a very odd way, Every hair in his main seems a porcupine's quill, And there on his back sits Exciseman Gill, Crying " Yield thee ! now yield thee, thou Smuggler Bill " Smuggler Bill, from his holster drew A large horse pistol, of which he had two, Made by Nock ; He pull'd back the cock As far as he could to the back of the lock ; The trigger he touch'd, and the welkin rang To the sound of the weapon, it made such a bang ; Smuggler Bill ne'cr miss'd his aim, The shot told true on the dun—but there came From the hole where it enter'd, not blood, but flame ! So he changed his plan, And fired at the man ; But his second horse-pistol flash'd in the pan ! And Exciseman Gill, with a hearty good will, Made a grab at the collar of Smuggler Bill. The dapple-grey mare made a desperate bound When that queer dun-horse on her flank she found, Alack ! and alas ! on what dangerous grOund ! It is enough to make one's flesh creep To stand on that fearful verge, and peep, Down the rugged sides so dreadfully steep, Where the chalk-hole yawns full sixty feet deep, O'er which that steed took that desperate leap ! It was so dark then under the trees, No horse in the world could tell chalk from cheese— Down they went—o'er that terrible fall, Horses, Exciseman, Smuggler, and all ! ! Below were found Next day on the ground, By an elderly Gentleman walking his round, (1 wouldn't have seen such a sight for a pound) All smash'd and dash'd, three mangled corses, Two of them human, the third was a horse's, That good dapple-grey, and Exciseman Gill Yet grasping the collar of Smuggler Bill ! But where was the Dun ? that terrible Dun ? From that terrible night he was seen by twee ! There are some people think, though I am not one, That part of the story all nonsense and fun, But the country-folks there One and all declare, When the " Crowner's 'Quest" came to sit on the pair, They heard a loud horse-laugh up in the air ! NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Poole, the author of " Paul Pry," leads off the present Number with a new prose story entitled " Phit,eas Quiddy, or Sheer Industry," which, if we may judge from the chapter before us, is intended to illustrate the career of a shrewd, selfish adventurer, who begins life without a sixpence, but by constantly attending to the main chance, obtains immense wealth. The story opens with spirit, and the incidents, obvious and familiar as they are, are worked up with singular ingenuity. Mr. Poole is an excellent Magazine contributor, for he writes with point and preci sion, and in his attempt at the humorous, keeps always on this side exaggeration. There are evi dent symptoms of pains-taking in his " Phineas Quiddy," and this, after all, is the true secret of success, for in nine out of ten cases, the work that is dashed off in haste is read with indiffer ence. " Canaletti in London" is a picturesque site, tch of the recent architectural improvements in the metropolis. Nash, of course, comes in fur a con siderable share of the writer's attention; but w.a think his talents as an architect are over rated, for his taste was almost uniformly de fective, and his conceptions wanting in dig nity and simplicity. " Indecision" is a short, neatly written story, inculcating a useful moral :Lesson. The " Molten Calf " is by Mrs. G ore. It is a smart prose sketch, and hits hard at the money-getting propensities of the day. "B. tjazet Gag" ridicules the absurd quackeries of so.'ne of the managers of our minor theatres in very happy style. Mr. Jerrold, the author, is always at home in the sarcastic. The peculiar abilities of the illustrious Gag are thus cleverly glanced at :—" It is his peculiar genius to con dense—to merge the tremendous in the insigni ficant. He would, at four and twenty hour's notice, get up an earthquake in a needle-case ; turn a gutter into the storm-lashed Bay of Bis cay ; produce the Great Plague of London in one patient, and that one a child from the Small-pox Hospital; give you for the Falls of Niagara a water-spout down a ladder; act the battle of Waterloo, giving a distant view of Brussels by lamp-light in a sentry-box ; and, did the Cham berlain permit the experiment, represent all the locusts of Egypt with not more than half a dozen of the industrious fleas." A " Day at Tivoli" is not amiss in point of manner, but the theme is backnied. From the lively and appa rently accurate account of " Russia in 1841," we quote an anecdote of the Emperor Nicholas, and his favourite French comedian Vernet : At St: Petersburg'', as well as in Moscow, the French theatre is preferred to the great national theatres, and the Czar himself is an assiduous frequenter of it. The French company sustained a great-loss by the death of Mademoiselle Bras, an actress formerly attached to the Vaudeville in Paris. This lady is said to have been ho noured with the especial favour and protection of the Emperor Nicholas. A comic actor named Vernet is a great favourite at St. Petersburgh, and has received fre quent marks of the Imperial satisfaction. One day as the Emperor was walking in the streets of St. Petersburgh, accompanied only by his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, Vernet happened to pass. The Czar had seen him on the preceding evening in a new character, and had been greatly amused by his perform ance. His Majesty accosted him, saying— ' " Vernet, I must compliment you on your performance of last night. You were excessively droll." " Sire," replied the actor, " I feel too highly flattered by your Majesty's approbation." "I should like to see you play the character again," returned the Emperor. " I was much amused — so much so, that I could not suffer you to pass without expressing the gratification your performance afforded me." , The Czar walked on, but Vernet stood riveted to the spot, perfectly astounded by the honour conferred on him. He was suddenly restored to his self-possession by feeling on his shoulder the heavy hand of a Commissioner of Police, and at the same moment a thundering voice uttered the word " Halt." " What meant this ?" exclaimed Vernet. 4C 2 arrest you. It is forbidden to accost the Emperor in the rt; blic streets." " I did nu t accost the Emperor. His Majesty accosted me." " Accost you, indeed ! a likely story, truly ! You Frenchmen have so much assurance, you think you may do anything. You are n. , y prisoner, so come along—no resistance !" In spite of his earnest remonstrances, Vernet was dragged to the guard-house, where he was confined for four-and-twenty hours. On the following evening the actor again played his new character, and the Emperor applauded him with in creased warmth. At the termination of the play, when the Czar was leaving his box, he saw a man standing in the lobby, and evidently waiting for him. He immedi ately recognized Vernet. " Ah, Vernet !" exclaimed the Emperor, " 'have been as much amused as on the first night. lam enchanted with your talent." " I am most grateful for your Majesty's gracious in dulgence ; but I humbly entreat that your Majesty will never again stop ,me in the street to honour me with your approbation. ' " And why not ?" " Because your Majesty's kind condescension cost me twenty-four hours imprisonment. I was arrested by a Commissary of Police, and falsely . charged with having presumed to accost your Majesty , in the street." " I sin very sorry to hear that, Vernet. I will inquire into the matter." Early on the following morning Vernet received a visit from the Commissioner of Police, who came to beg very humbly that he would pardon the mistake which had led to his imprisonment. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. As a matter of course, Fraser is quite de lighted with the present prospects of his party The Whigs being on their last legs—in articulo mortis—he thinks there is now every chance of the speedy advent of a political millennium. The " End of the Beginning" is a curious diatribe, whose object is to show that the distress of the country is almost wholly attributable to the in capacity of the Whigs, and that with their re tirement from office a new and improved state of things will necessarily commence. The ar ticle is excellently adapted to the tastes of Tory readers, for whose express edification it is writ ten, but more impartial people will be apt to treat some of its statements with contempt. The " Journal of an Autumn in the Country" are se lections taken ap-hazard from a literary com mon-place-book. These selections are critical, anecdotical, and descriptive, and evince both taste and ingenuity. We differ, however, from the author's remark, that " every person ac quainted with the lives and writings of Gray and Walpole is unavoidably struck with the resemblance between them," for never were two authors more unlike each other, in their habits, not less than in their genius. Gray was stiff, reserved, scholastic, and of thoughtful and Somewhat melancholy temperament; Walpole, sprightly, social, foppish, and a mere smatterer in point of knowledge. The one was sensitive to a degree ; the other as heartless as those are apt to be who have spent theirbest days in fashi onable society. Gray was a poet; Walpole was a satirist, and a would-be wit. Gray's prose writings are remarkable for their free, and easy, and elegant flow; Walpole's for their terse smartness, and constant affectation of brilliancy. The one turned a trembling, ever-vigilant ear to —what Wordsworth so beautifully calls—" the still, sad music of humanity;" the other had no regard for, no sympathy with, any other world han that of aristocracy. Speaking of memory, the author says : Strength and tenacity of memory are regularly for gotten in ancient panegyrics. Quintilian measured the genius by the memory. Pliny, in one of his letters, mentions a Greek philosopher who, having delivered an extempore oration, could immediately repeat it without a single error. Seneca, when a young man, was able to recite two thousand words in the order in which they had been pronounced. The anecdote of Cyrus, who re membered the name of every soldier in his army, seems to belong to romance. An Eastern warrior of savage renown—Hyder Ali—supplied by his memory the de fects of education. He was unable to read or write ; and having desired his secretary to indite a letter for him upon any occasion, he directed him to read it aloud ; he then ordered another person to do the same, and any variation or descrepancy was punished by the death of the scribe. Let us examine memory under more pleas ing aspect. _ _ _ It was the practice of Gassendi to recite every day six hundred lines in various languages. He could repeat six thousand Latin verses, and the entire poem of Lu cretius. He recommended the habit to others in very alluring terms, assuring them that the memory retained its vigour and health only through exercise. In very early life, he used to say, acquire as many beautiful verses as you can ; they not only amuse the mind, but inspire it with dignity and grandeur of sentiment. We notice the same habit in other men of great scientific and philosophic reputation. Galileo—who attributed the fluency of his style to the diligent study of Ariosto— repeated very large portions of that poet and romancer, Tetrarch, and genii. Adam Smith—an unpromising illustration—enriched his .memory with numerous pas sages of great beauty from the works of ancient and modern poets, and was fond of introducing them into conversation. Leyden, the accomplished friend of Scott, had a very peculiar memory. Dr. Abercrombie was in formed by a gentleman who knew him well, that he could repeat correctly a long act of Parliament or any similar document after having once read it. But this faculty was rendered comparatively useless, and often positively injurious, by a total absence of analytical reason or judgment. Leyden could recollect the whole, but not the parts. If he wished to recal a particular fact, lie could only accomplish his desire by repeating .the composition from the commencement, until he arrived at the passage for which he sought. Bishop Jewel was remarkable for his power of recollection. The martyr Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, upon one occasion wrote down forty Irish words, which, after reading over three or four times, Jewel repeated in exact order, both backward and forward ; and Lord Bacon having read ten lines from Erasnihs, he repeated them in the right and in the wrong connection. The author adds that " memory seems to be the necessary companion of genius," which we doubt, preferring rather to agree with Cobbett, who declares it to be one of the most mechanical of faculties. George the Third had a singularly retentive memory, yet no one ever suspected him of genius. In his cursory remarks on the me moirs of Martinus Scribbens, the author greatly overrat es the wit and power of this well-known sa tire. Itisat best but a tame, elaborate affair, and no more to be compared to " Gulliver's Travels" than a wren to an eagle. The observations on Burnett are excellent, and so are those on Shakspeare, whose glaring faults of taste it is now the fashion to cry up as exquisite beauties. In the " Chapter on Tailors" a just measure is taken of the subject. We could have dispensed with the chapter, however; for who can be in spired when a tailor is his theme ? "Budget of a Blue Jacket" is just passable, and no more. In " The History of Samuel Titmarsh " there is much humour and vivacity of dieogue. " The Dissenting Convention at Manchester" is a coarse, vulgar attempt at sarcasm and irony. The writer lays clumsily about him with an Irish bludgeon, and imagines he is doing skilful execution with the light rapier of Mercutio. TAIT' S MAGAZINE. Tait has no political article this month, but to compensate for this omission he gives us one or two clever critical notices of new books, and several specimens of very creditable poetry. The talc of " Violet Hamilton" continues to be carried on with spirit, but we should be glad to see a little less diffusiness in the dialogues. They are na tural enough, but they want conciseness. " Oxo nian Ethics" is a carefully considered review of Professor Sewell's work on " Christian Morals"— a work whose chief object is to base anew system of ethics on testimony. The Reviewer shrewdly points out the absurdity of this object, and allud ing to the general character of Oxford scholar ship and divinity, says, happily enough, that their Professors are men who " mistake a little Greek for the wisdom of the world, and the whisper of an episcopal benediction for the Spirit of God upon the waters." The " Feast of the Poets for 1841" is a collection of fugitive pieces, serious and humorous, strung together at random, with a lively, pertinent, introduction from the pen of the editor. Here are some pleasing stanzas entitled " A Highlander's Lament for Glen garry :" Wail ! wail ! for thy glens, Invergarry, Shall echo no more to the steps of the brave ! Wail ! wail ! for the chief of Glengarry Has left his blue hills for a home o'er the wave. Wail ! through the forest and mountain resounding No more shall his bugle-note startle the deer Nor foot, fleet as light, from crag to crag bounding, Shall tell us how little Glengarry could fear. Wail ! ne'er again, the blue waters dividing, Shall be heard on Loch Oich the stroke of his oar, And the prance of h is proud steed, the laggard wind leaving, Shall gladden the hearts of his people no more. Wail ! for far away is our roof-tree transplanted, Our eagle 's forsaken his eyrie, and flown ; The hand never stinted—the heart never daunted, Have left us for ever—Glengarry is gone ! We'll seek him in vain when the heather-bell's filling, We'll wait him in vain at the fall of the leaf : Never more, never more, to our Highland hearts thrilling, Shall pibrochs swell proudly to welcome our chief. Wail ! wail ! for thy glens, Invergarry, Shall echo no more to the steps of the brave, Wail ! wail ! for the chief of Glengarry Hath left his blue hills for a home o'er the wave. But bless'd for his sake be each valley and mountain, And sweet be the flowerets that smile on the plain, And bright be the sparkle of river and fountain, In lands that shall welcome him over the main. And bless'd be his bride for the words she hath spoken, The vows that she breathed—and the pledge that she gave For the friends she hath left—for the ties she hath broken, To brighten and bless that far home o'er the wave ! Though ours be no more the delight to behold him, To live for his pleasure—to die for his fame ; May the banner of love, like a garment enfold him, And honour for ever attend on his name ! The review of " Miss Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home" is skilfully and impartially written, and the extracts are well cal culated to please the majority of readers. " Mu sings in the Wen" are a series of reflections sug gested to the writer by occasional stroles in the parks of London, which Wyndham, in his quaint, forcible manner, once described as the lungs of the metropolis. The remark that " St. James's Park swarms with association's of those who seem to have been born only to amuse themselves, or utter clever sayings,' is perfectly just. It is for ever associated with Ch axles the Second, and the gay courtiers of his day, as also with the amusing fops and demireps of Etheredge, Wy cherley, and Congreve. The Mall, in particular, is classic ground, and will be recognized as such by all who are familiar with Count Grammont's delightful Memoirs. " Lines written in a Roman Camp in Bavaria" are gracefully and unaffectedly written. We subjoin a portion of them : There is a cloud before the sun, The wind is hushed and still, And silently the water's run Beneath the sombre hill ; The sky is dark in every place, As is the earth below, — Methinks it wore the self-same face Two thousand years ago. No light is on the ancient wall, No light upon the mound, The very trees so thick and tall Cast little shade around ; So silent is the place and cold, So far from human ken, It hath a look that makes me old, And spectres time again. I listen half in thought to hear The Roman trumpet blow, I search for glint of helm and spear Amidst the forest bough ; And armour rings and voices swell, — I hear the legion's tramp, And see the lonely sentinel Who guards the lonely camp. Methinks I have no other home— Ne other hearth to find, For nothing but the thought of Rome Is stirring in my mind. And all that I have heard or dreamed, And all I had forgot, Are rising up as though they seemed The household of the spot. And all the names which Romans knew Seem just as known to me, As if I were a Roman too, A Roman born and free. And I could rise at Ctesar's name, As if it were a charm To draw sharp lightnin g r d - 's arm! from the tame, And nerve the cowa And yet if yonder sky were blue, And earth were sunny gay, If Nature were the summer hue, That decked her yesterday ; The mound, the trench, the rampart's space Would move me nothing more Than many a well-remembered place That I have marked before. ... - - ....71"._,-•.....7., METROPMVAN: -4 -,,., f ,, , y ; . \ -4 . There is seldom any 1 lati`irifolits - .9 . 44:r1:4 periodical, which would IA !,,still - *it attach? \ -•-. if the Editor gave us few -priase - .ta ~..yr.- - --..-2,Fe • r two are not amiss, but rea iiiiiian , atLie-iKitmber is too much of a dose. ffiviettkiii4Obiki of England" i s h ere con ti nu enslo IVM. Tedll6pe 5 but, as we have already taken occasion to say, the story is by no means one of this lady's most suc cessful efforts. Her genius nods through whole pages, and the consequence is, that her readers nod too. The best tale in the Number before us is the one entitled "Spencer Middleton" which contains a laughable sketch of a certain Metropolitan Coroner, whom our readers vii!l have no difficulty in identifying. The " Notices of New Books" are numerous, and, so far as we can judge, penned in a temperate and impartial spirit. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRI- CULTURE. The history of " The Norman Horse," a con tinuation of " Sketches in Normandy" in a recent Number, gives a very, favourable account of that breed. A better cross, says the writer, fir sonic of our horses, cannot be imagined than those of Normandy, provided they have not the ordinary failing of too much length from the neck down wards and a heavy head—a common detect in the Norman race. It is painful, however, to read the want of attention, nay the wanton cruelty, to this fine animal in that part, and indeed in many other parts of France. The remarks on the cruel mode of shoeing, which we have frequently witnessed, contain but too much truth. In the " Agriculturists' Note Book" will also be found an interesting account of the horse in general, with a brief account of some of the best breeds in this country. The article by Mr. J. Duncan, "On Insects most Injurious to Vegetables," &c., we can safely recommend to the notice of market gardeners. A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERA TURE, AND ART. The eighth number of this periodical publica tion has appeared, and contains a long article on music, with numerous diagrams illustrating this favourite and fashionable amusement.• No article in the nu►nbers yet published extend to such a length, and we are therefore inclined to think that the political economists who furnish ma terials for the work, begin to think that a little amusement on the violin or the harp is better than long discussions about exports and imports, demand and supply, labour and price of labour, and all the other abstruse details contained iu "The Wealth of Nations." Under the head "Par liament" will be found a useful account of the mode of proceeding in both Houses, with time peculiar privileges and functions of each. The article on paper is also good. It gives a detailed history of the process of paper-making, and pays a high compliment to Dickenson and Co., who, according to the writer, have long been cele brated for producing paper of a superior quality. We recommend this article to the especial at tention of the authorities who preside over her Majesty's Stationery office. EVENIN U •- FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1841. (From the World of Fashion.) BONNETS.—Drawn bonnets-of apple green you de soie. with the exterior ornamented with a demi wreath of velvet foliage, in various shades of green, and the in terior of the brim trimmed with moss rose buds and rose coloured ribbon brides are fashionable. Lace retains its vogue ; it is adopted for bonnets of every different ma terial ; thus we see those of Italian straw of a close form decorated with a small lace veil, which entirely covers the brim, and is retained at the ears on each side by a knot of green taffetas ribbon. Rice straw bonnets with very long brims trimmed with white feathers, shaded with blue, and a small veil of English point lace, retained at each side by a small sprig of blue flowers. The most remarkable of the silk bonnets are those of pea green gros des Indes, decorated with white ostrich feathers shaded with green, and a lace voilette, disposed partly on the crown and partly on the brim. Gauze bonnets are partially covered with lace ; and crape ones with lace draperies, arranged in novel and elegant forms, have lost nothing of their vogue. Su i tsvLs AND SCARFS.—Lace shawls and those of em broidered muslin, have resumed their vogue. White cashmere scarfs have made their appearance ; they are of exquisite fineness, the ends finished by a beautiful cashmere fringe ; they are likely to become very fa shionable. Silk scarfs of the material of the dress are now quite out of favour. CORSAGES OF MUSLIN ROBES IN HALF DRESS.—The prevalence of canezous has introduced various forms of corsages for half dress robes, which are rendered ex • tremely pretty by entre deux casings, bouillonne, and various other ornaments. Among the robes of this de scription, those of organdy, of the very clearest kind, lined with pink, or sarsenet ; the border trimmed with four deep tucks, also lined with sarsenet. Some have the tucks edged with narrow lace, set on with a little . fulness ; others have the tuck surmounted by a small tulle ruche ; the last style of trimming has a very pretty and novel effect. The corsage is drawn in small casings from the waist to the bosom ; the upper part is not cased, but drawn full round the bust, nearly, but not quite, up to the throat. The sleeve is of the small bishop form, drawn both at top and bottom, but mode rately full in the centre. CEINTURE EcuAßPE.—They are adopted only with muslin and argandy-robes, and are always of the mate rial of the dress. The scarf is narrow, and either trim med with a broad hem, through which a ribbon is run, of the colour of the lining of the robe, or else it is edged with narrow lace. The scarf is passed twice round the waist, and the ends, which are always made a little bioader, fall as low as the knee. SILK ROBES IN HALF-DRESS have corsages tight, or else, if they are drawn, the drawings are arranged in a kind of gerbe that is very advantageous to the shape; but, upon the whole drawn corsages are seldom adopted for silk dresses. These corsages are generally trimmed with lace, which is mostly disposed 'Aat, in the lappel style, or those opening en cieur. If the sleeve is made long, it is , almost always tight, and we must say that these sleeves have, in some instances, a very undress appearance, being made without any ornament. They are, however, more frequently decorated with fancy silk trimmings, which still continue in the highest vogue. EVENING HEAD-DRESSES.—Those of hair ornamented with flowers are now more general than they were last month. Those a la Vierge are the most in vogue. Ringlets, however, though not in a majority, arc quite as numerous as bands. Caps and demi-coiffures, though not so generally adopted last month, are quite as fashion able. Those of white tulle are adopted in half-dress only. are extremely small, scarcely covering the back of ' the head ; the material is arranged in a very light style, but one for which our language has no words,—so we must adopt the French words chiffonnee ; the trimming is composed of maize-coloured ribbon, disposed rather sparingly, and in a very light style. UNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES OP PAISLEY AND RENFREWSIIIRE.—A, county meeting On this sub ject was held on Thursday in Paisley, when it was agreed that a subscription should be entered into for the purpose of relieving the existing distress. Several sums, varying from 51. to 1004, have already been sub scribed. C t li th ett a e from t r th r e o A b R y s o si m th e a , i . i the C i d i eputation o , n stt ui consisting to nx ei, of twenty-three persons, headed by the Abb4 Jacobi, had arrived in that city, and were to have an auciieuec of the Pope. They were busily occupied in visiting the curio sities of the capital. CURIOUS LOVE AFFAIR..-- The following circumstance happened a few miles west of Midsome Norton, about twelve months since ; A young Ulan and woman, quite strangers to each other, were acci dentally placed by the sexton of a parish church in the same pew. During the course of the sermon the young man read love in the eyes of the lady,_ whic h made a greater impression on his mind than did the lecture of the pious minister. As love, although blind, is neverat a loss for expedients, he presented the maiden,_ whose charms had so attracted him, with a strip of Paper, bearing the following portion of Scripture, taken from the Second Epistle of St. John, sth ver se :—" And now r t e h m e rn i6 f t r h om I beseech thee, lady, not as though 1 wre e te ha a d n f ew com mandment unto thee, but that whic h vv,, from the beginning, that we love one an ; after reading follow which, she selected another portion, and returned him, verse : fjo E m et t r h e e at Ist chapter n ch e a t p te ter lee o v f e Harbo ro ii .e ot_li , e a r, _and in less than ten ing after thee, for whither thou . goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge ;,,thy people shall be my people, and thy God From that time they an to d months after they w ere m dan and now they live very er.—Detonport Telegraph. comfortably togeth A became acquainted w ith Tcy PENSIONS T O Da. NSTER AND MR. CA REY.—We rejoice sincerely in the opportunity which the • e minent has given outgoing gov -- us, to state that two gen tlemen, every way unexceptionable, have obtained small ones, pensions— we believe—for the pension list h as been sadly cut down—but still sufficient to mark the feelings of the Queen in regard to the individuals in question —both poets, one, our fellow-citizen Dr. Ans ter, who has given tis the best translation of the Faust of Goethe ; and the other Mr. Carey, the best of Dante.— Dubl;n Evening P ost. CHINESE ECCENTRICITIES. —Nothing can be more novel, rich, and diverting to us of the Western world, than a picture of the absurdities wh ich ( thou g h they hav e hitherto been ca refully concealed from us) charact er i se t h e p eo ple of the " Celestial Empire." Thcir very name.; are jokes, and their actions are more prepos terous than can be conceived ; as is abundantly shown in a new work, which has just appeared, on " Life in China," called " The Porcelain Tower," so named after one of the ridiculous public edifices of great altitude, which the Chinese with a perverse industry have lately erected in Crockery-ware. Love, jealousy, anger, am bition, war, pride, and other emotions, which in Europe are serious matters, assume in China a drollery of aspect 1 which, to the last degree, is provocative of irrepressible laughter. This book will be the greatest treasure to the lovers of merriment than has appeared for many years. The weather since our last has, on the whole, much improved, but the nights are still moist and un favourable. Last night rain began to fall about ten ' o'clock, and it has continued heavily since. We ob serve occasional stooks in our neighbourhood, but har• ve st, even with the best weather, will not be general fo at least ten days or a fortnight —Glasgow Argus. rss c r• i ce of os• re' to del tri old har 3et, c ob ,de , ' e6' h 10, c! :io L'adel r A 5 7 4 Pt' ._ re - IV :10