The Sun. — London, England, 1842-09-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. ths r.oyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at ded by Colonel Jones, left Cambridge House, on °s(aly afternoon for h:s residence at Kew. '-f4ptain Fitzgerald, R.N., had an interview with `..,tanley, on Tuesday, at the Colonial-office. i?ortique, the Vetezu elan Minister, transacted 'ne:s on Tuesday, at the Foreign-office. M. b r" l -I(4', the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, transacted bu siness esterdity, at the office of the Secretary of State f or For sign Affairs. Earl Auckland-transacted business yesterday at the Tress, try. Disp,aches from Sir Geo:ge Gipps, Governor of Nets Suuth Wales, were recei,-ed yesterday afternoon at the Colonial-office. MO E Y autiCOMM ERCiAL NEWS. Tlie CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. leastter " bear" party having ceased their operations, at the present, the Market recovered its firmness, I n ' 0 0, .sols l e ft o ff at 92:i for Money, and 93 for the ; Bank S toc k, 1671 1684 ; I n di a St oc k, 251 '!.:::chequer Bills, Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51 prem. t_' - '°:l2 . ition has been shown to purchase Foreign r e !tritics, ;11 * (1 ' during the last few days several parcels ,4ving been ta k en qu i et l y out of the Market, prices are Z ' se que . .itly rising, with the rosect of further improve nt• t3elgian Stock was 10 p 11- I p o2i ; Dutch Twoßale Cents. 524 52i; the Five per Cents. 102 1021 ; 47 11 ,! 1 / 84 85 ; and Brazilian, 64-1 : 651. The quotation = exicalt was 354 35k. The prier s of Shares exhibited a further decline upon that(. of ye ,rerday ; London a nd Bir m in g ham w e r e 186 82 ; ;ham and Gloucester, 42 44; Great Western, 83 4: tb Half Shares 65 65i ex div.; South Western, .7.„ 61 . ex d _v. ; North Midland, 57 59 ; the New Shares, ` 4 l - qBf div. ; South Eastern and Dover, 214 224 ; ; Easter n C. unties, 8i ; and Northern and Eastern, 31 38k e . c h ex di v . ; B r i g h ton, 33 33 i per Share. The qi otations of the Bonds were— Colombian, 20 20k; :cil, eruvia-.1, 15 16 ; P ortuguese Fi ve per C ents., 33 1 34i; Three per C ents ., 20 201 ; Spanish Five per Cents., :121-i ; and the Three per Cents., 20 201. aPe'es from Sydney to the 3d April have been re 7Eved, thi s a f ternoon, b ut t h ey do not appear to add any ;acts to the last which came to hand. The markets are 21 3 Y.esent e d to extremely ood, and the prospects to COIOLiStS t o hill still furth g er improved. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The mark e t s h ave been exceedingly heavy, and in e t onsequen ce of :.everal large sales, the price of Consols ilas l dropped ft,ily per cent., an d th ey now are 921 lor Money, and 93 for th e A ccount; Th ree per C ents. Ito l} 102 educed, 93 N / ; Three -and- a -H al f per Cents. R e d uced, ; ew T hree -and-a-Half per Cents., 100-/ 10 1; Bank t_lock. 168, 169 ; I n di a Slosk, 25251 k; xchequ er Bills retain their value, the Old being at 51 , 53, and the New at 49 51 prem. more D o 4 re Prices o f r • ta.. . an o ,s r ,ao et, , f i t o i o S s e . curitie s are rather higher, and they have been—Belgian at 1 1 „. Dutch wo-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 ; the lee lv ri e,pe! Cents, 1021; and Brazilian at the improve -1.1,2 me nto r 65 i. Mexican has also been quoted a shade r,lre yesterday, but has since receded to 35i. _The Share Market has been very flat, with scarcely my business. Great Western, 821 ex dm.; New es —u4r, an 5 9i- 60f ex div.; d South Western, 60i. div. The n Bond s qu ted. to-day are Portugues e Fi ve p er 11_ ee: p er Cents. 15 '1 3 4; Spanish Five per Cents., 201; and the ,be -20 i. Measure of raising the fares on the Blackwell a',out to be adopted by that Company, has b.,,Teauertatimot.er discussion in the City, inasmuch as that Men, 1 1 - principally, supported by mercantile W ards th e Proceedin g is viewed both as impolitic to s, _ e e t‘harebolders and unjust towards the public. ta tu uc e h. 1 1 3 7 line has been opened, the fares have been so almost the those charged by coaches, as to drive the piatie e whole of theta from off the road, and now aplteteii s ha.ving business at the Docks, &c., are corn yresa e t the mercy of this Company, there being Prices; aorentto no other mode of communication. be rai-ed 50 per tent. to those who may Prefer and „ _ r be obliged to use, the cheaper carriages, was °. 10-3 d percent. to:the better classes. This railway L t l a used as a plea fora preference being given to "lst alld West dia Dock, as a deposit for goods, over the London and St. Katherine on account of the echea P and expeditious method of reaching them, ele. , merchants to examine the various arti tho'ueagatituualatthan they would at the others ; and lusivelv 84 the first -named Company are so holder s ; „;-4 lereated in the railroad, both as share meet., that a farding an easy access to their establish eyented t • a we s should have endeavoured to hive oustw ere 7 an ytuee, which must be paid by their 'A mu st adm , , e ultimately injure themselves. have but 'tte4 that the original shareholders 15ccording to the iream".nt of profit, but the expenses, rate :: would ina great. d egree from aPpear to have arisen paid f or inter imp rov i dence, and the high this thou, he material., latt er i tem m i g h t, i t is stateght of • be market, i Y' vvhe loans reduced,er from might the be present ob .. tatw inedt money one-half of what is now charged. &MUIR STOCX Excluatax, AUG. 30.—We s v :le h; much business doing to-day in Railway br ir e.s. Our quotations are as follow ;—London and. t'utirnan, g.ham,'lB3 ; Ditto 321. Old Shares, 62; Man -I'e'ter and Birmingham, 24i ; Manchester and Leeds, k ; danchester . and Li verpoo l District Banks, ter 3s. ; Union Bank of Manch es t er , 8} ; M anches- I A sE urance,-Q. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. bulk Stuck 4 ,‘ is.rer Cnt. Red. .. 168 India ! Stock .251 pm .... „ 931 !Ditto Bonds ....... - —pm 4 L '''' Cent. C0n5 .... ...... 931 Ditto Old Annuities ... g P. , Cent. Red.........101# Ditto New Annuities... k,:: i.er Cent... ...... 101# Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2d. 51 pm D i tto 500/ 49 pm . tsi,er Cen'. ig Annuities to expire Ditto Small 49 pm u ' a• 1869 ... ..... 12# Bank Stock for Acct — (1 et• i 859 ......... India Stock for 0pg.... J a laAtistria a, 5 -n • 1860 ...... 12 7-16 Consols for Acct. FOREIGN FUNDS. Per cent.... 'Portuguese, 5 per cent. 34 li e g i a , ., 6 'per c !lit 1024 ,Ditto, New Ditto k r a_ zilLin Bondi .. ....... 651, Prussian, 5 per cent. 6710v.Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent..... e o l i tan. 6 per , :e nt. — , Ditto, Metallic . .... I)i t " Th 'ln. 6 i e;• cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 2l h to, 13124 ............. Ditto, Deferred—. • 9 1 i ;7 4 ish. 3 per 'fit . — :French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. ' llT ee . k, 1 825, 5 - por cent. Exchange ea ' , bik... n, 5 Pel * ent ..... 35# French, 3 per ce nt . —f —c. ii,..., per (m. o . 1 1 , 07 _ Dutch, 2i per cent. 52 - " i a 4,1825,6 perct. Ditto, 5 per cent. - ... 102# SHARES. • Irist of and Exeter (70 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 45 4 Eas..ern Counties Railway (23 I aid) .... 54 Gri ,at Western Railway (tis paid) B2l '_)itto New Shares ( 50 paid).. 604 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ' Lt .ntion and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwell ( paid) ..... •••••• 74 London and Birmingham (90) ...... ••' •• .. - Ditto Thirds (32 uaid) ...... ...... ...... . 62 L ' 4l (lon and South V% extern (4116 s 10dpd) bO4 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) North Midland Railway, (100) Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) ~. S io ll t tot , h Eastern an d D over (50 pa i d ) ......... 224 Scrip (10 pai dO . ... 64 1 .'k and N ort h AlinlanV 60 paid) ... ...... 91 rir, _ ' ' ''' ,Ptl , ki - u -.. iPS.- VIENNA, AUG. 23 p cii r i. Per Cents. Metaltiques ... , 148 . per Cents 4 ~,... 10.)% 5,e per Cents -k Shares ' 4.2lgenfeine Zeitung, Augdst 24, • a A „ _________„-_ , - ‘'‘uP,OGATiON OF THE tip - -k% EN Cil CHAMBERS. i!' Ti PARIS, AUGUST 30. Bth Chambers were prorogued to-day till the 4 - rt tlext January. The Ordinances - for the h 37 - I t i\4 Tatitio were read in the Chamber of Peers Ile a 7 41 .. 811 4 Soult, a n d i n the Chamber of Depu (nr the Uiniste r of . thOnterior. _ sl the, Chamber o f I puties M. Pascalis, t iui r le nt of the C omm ii§ion of Electoral In ' aunounced, in the 'Tame of the Comm is I b at, in consequence of the prorogation, he 11 1 ,2 1 , ,lable to present his, Report, but that he ".' resume his labours in the approaching . t iLtl • L'llerbette thought the labours of the ought not to be suspended in conse r, ex`( of the prorogation} After a few words the ( .1 3 larlati on from the Minister of the Interior, la,nb(.r passed to the order of the day. to having returned from his chateau I. (.'et - ived the deputation of the Chamber vvho presented the Regency Bill. His t:. !ft town in the evening. ERLAND MAIL- ' t 4 00,' "'tun Mail ar -i ve d at M arse i lles on Tues. " uur o f No news had transpired at Paris up to the our courier leaving on Tuesday evening, th LI GHT DT THE STR.4.ltiD.—The Bude light in Iti Qt : aQd , oppe ite Northumberland House, which has io n f •' fir . g preparatioo, was lit last night fir 1, ) 1 . 4 , 1 time, has a brilliant and imp , sing effect 'Strum. and renders the whole of Charing—ross ;74 . ' 4 ,s daY Charing-cross was crowded with per minh‘,lll..: • to look at " the sight." The light tUl t ": 1 opt n 'six pillars of wood, joined at the top Zty - „'"ftPe of a Bourbon crown. The light itself is " )4 sibfg e, and it so extremely powerful, that it un grf,..e to 14)(0( at it for mere than a second. It will be ( 1 .. 1, 411, N 7 "Jr : F!',; part of '.he town, which at Fren•• Z ~ en ,:.•iteci with vPhielt• • 44 40: 1 : to foci I)a.l§9tagers. S Ali Pa OP WS AND OutOtt taptivtott. " Who runs may read." r O~.~FSsT7~ Several of our Paris Contemporaries devote con siderable space to comments on the Report of the Committee of the Chamber of 'Peers on the Regency Bill, but they are without interest. It will be suffi cient for us in our notice of them to say that they are in the usual spirit of party praise or censure, being bestowed rather according to the general political opinions of the commentators, than the real merits of the document under consideration. The Commerce says :—." A great change is to take place in the beginning of October in the troops com posing the garrison of Paris and :the camps. It is stated that those about to be removed - from Paris will be previously reviewed by the Duke de Nemours." A letter from Athens, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that an intimation had been received there from Paris, that M. Piscatory was about td be created a peer, and sent as Ambassador to Gteece. The Univers states that the Spanish Government has under its consideration a proposition for the build ing of sixty vessels of war, twenty of which are to be iron steamers, within a period of four years, the contractors for the building of them to be paid by a privilege to cut down timber in the forests of Libiena, for exportation. We much doubt the accuracy of this statement. It appears, by a communication from the Prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees to the Spanish authorities, that most of the Spanish rebels who recently fell into the hands of the French have been sent to Calais on their way to England. The three brothers and nephew of the famous Felipo, who was shot by the Spanish troops, have had Aurillac assigned to them as their place of residence. 'England ch Press. Nicara ties wi th ed as in our al- France. of them )r France Gulf of nents by land—to 7eece—to rria with whom SULTAN, hardly mortal 'hen it is ade by a lefarious, to in- uties, it ,o make purpose a foreign virtually Id linen- a single ess. In atty war- Ipposition LOOD, we the lion content lend the irit of our And yet not en all will to know rity than leading acquire ►f it upon can she Lrt of the e French Iffy with I the Re nbers are Sotne of duties to Algiers, to antities of imposing d, we find d Belgium has been notion in se articles days ago, f I ug- sail be found le. The ontraband ndestinely rge of not the article mounts to w, thread cannot be a at a less e duty on per cent., and pro ary chan ater temp •ely prohi ities in the urn to the dible that se articles ins are is [WI them , with th'e a cheaper rimmed in o and sold ea elicited . ough Bel however, used, viz., ) competi rhis is not per cent., n sending notwith from 10 to would ap ireads and s ; but, in ories, and he process ) see large le regular ged in this vote them ' manufac !ry upon a mblesome ew weeks ?d of, but lotbing is race a final nst several when new re pointed ring state lice having were com of finance, ,f persons, from the the guilty accused of fully con- t, says :-- , oats, built lent." , say that ion of an 'rontier at er houses completed .ts that a on the Bth tutionne.l. ,ular about e in great ions. .chell ap I have pre- Meted for i-el-Kader is an irre- mission.— ave come Erm that Lt troops, re is a Cher. hind assembling t that this thing au illustrious y 15, esents Pps itussi& that no perclemai n ante it re all sides ; before you of all the i'..nglish all , is indeed ds of re nt Count lied by im classed in ropagated however, ci in some Last Price. ... 120 5 10..% 79 20 32C0 ... 775 ~. 102* ... 103* 70 ~. 21* ~. 9* ~. 106 80 1031 .. 2b7 50 .. 95 .. 535 .. 561 73 .. 202 50 PUBLIC OPINION. Speaking of the late riots in the mining and ma • nufacturing districts, the Times says :—" We ear nestly trust that the mass of the workmen have been entrapped by their reckless and designing leaders into a position in which they have appeared as advocates of a. cause to which they are not, and do not intend to be, attached. We hope this may be so. But it is a favourable view which cannot and ought not to be too carelessly adopted. Their first words may have done injustice to their designs, but it is at least equally possible that they may not. The failure of the Chartist cry may have resulted from a want of sympathy in them frcm whom it professed to emanate, but it may have proceeded from a perception of those motives of policy to which we have already alluded. We may hope the former, but we cannot forget the latter alternative. We cannot shut our eyes to the symptoms which have appeared that Manchester was led to act as a kind of forlorn hope to an organised political movement; and that by the success which crowned the efforts in that neighbourhood (we are alluding especially to what appeared probable at Merthyr) was the course pursued in distant parts of the country to be determined. And being alive to these symptoms, we cannot but provide against the evil which they menace. The law of self-defence, our duty to society, and to the cause of order, bind , us to gain a marked victory to defeat this power which has measured its strength with the law; they have appealed from justice to power, and it must be—we hope has been—clearly shown where that power re sides. So only can we check in our present opponents that exaggerated notion of their of 11 strength which must produce the most fearful restilts." The following is from the Post:—" Amongst the devices resorted to by ,the interested clamourers for free-trade and low wages, we krmy no more favourite one than that of an allusion to the 'disposition of other nations to deal with us for manufactured articles if we deal with them for corn. It is coolly advanced that foreign countries are animated by a more than Christian anxiety to keep us stout and thriving on their beef and bread, if we but forego the care of pro viding beef and bread for ourselves . . And this bene volent disposition is plausibly accounted for., We are to send them manufactures, and they, ,‘ in exchange,' are to send us food. 'Very good,' say file half-witted imbeciles whom the knaves of the" League have im posed upon ; 'if this be so, let us have 'free trade and Corn-law repeal by all means.' We should not cry ' very good,' even supposing the representation to be true, for we believe labour in nature's glorious garden is far more conducive to man's happiness than the labour performed in the unwholesome air of the tem ple dedicated to selfish avarice. But setting this aside we have another reason for refusing to cry ' very good,' viz., that the prospective represcntaticn of a mutual interchange of productions with other nations contingent on England's abandonment or discourage ment of her native agriculture, is not true, but quite untrue, and we shall presently prove it to be so." The Herald says:—" Lord Auckland has had no audience of reception from her Majesty. Strange and ominous as'is this circumstance, we still can soarcely indulge in the hope that there is left in any man's mind connected with public affairs sufficient gravity of thought to counsel such a reproof on the part of her Majesty, towards a man who has had the dis tinction of being the instrument of great crimes. We again i m pl or e that so circumvented N o bl eman to weigh himself against his coadjutors, and t o con sider wh e th er it is safe for him to put himself i n th e i r power, a n d whether it is possible for him to retain honesty of purpose, unless he saves himself from cons munication with those whom he must know have without dealt falsely with him, have spoken f a l se l y of h,, ; and that to serve no object that he can comprehend, We are as yet but at the beginnin g o f our Indian troubles, dishonours, and dangers. Lord Auckland has not only brought upon us enemi es f rom insurrection from within—he has not onl • ro over' o Asia and over India the (lark shadow f u ht the Northern Colossus ; but he has destroy e d the sense of duty in British officers, and of suhrJrdination in the British service. What can we expect but i nsub dination and disaffection in our troops when thousands of them, in perishing, went to the grave with the knowledge that their dying anguish was commanded by no stern necessity, and imposed by no national duty—that they were the victims of the " intrigues of women and of secretaries ?" The Chronicle, alluding to the present state of the manufacturing districts, observes,—" The question of wages is now the only one which seems to affect the manufacturing districts. At Aberdeen the Chartists have met, and agreed not to turn out for the Charter or anything else. An attempt to get up a Chartist meeting at Glasgow on Saturday last, turned out a complete failure. Still we perceive that in Lancashire the men do not return to their work so generally at was anticipated. The accounts from Manchester of Monday night distinctly state that the greater part of the factory operalives still remain out,' and declare that they win not resume their employment until their masters advance their wages. One account states that, L all the power-loom weavers, and a great oortien of the fine spinners are still out, and some persons accuse the manufacturers of being impli cated in the prolonged cessation of work, in order to get rid of their large stocks, which they have been enabled to do at a considerable advance in the prices. It is also said that many respectable mill owners and others are subscribing to the support of the workmen in order to enable them to continue out.' The interruption of the public peace by bands of men who compel those who are willing to work to turn out,' is quite a distinct matter from such combina tions as are above alluded to. Of the prudence or expediency of the latter, the unitiated are without the means of judging. We know it has often been stated that wealthy millowners occasionally supply cora binators with funds, to secure themselves against the competition of rivals who would extend their opera tions by means of reducing wages. In all trades there are secrets. The masters and workmen must be left to fight the matter out as they best can. In a town like Manchester the turn-outs can do little mis chief after the authorities are put on their guard. But in the midland mining districts we fear a turn-out of colliers generally means disturbance." MONEY-TRADE - COMMERCE. Four of the - largest steain 7 s - brisint - hTs or any country—viz., the Great Western, Acadia, Columbia, and Hindestan—are at the present moment in the Coburg dock, Liverpool. Their burden altogether is 5,817 tons, and their value is estimated at upwards of 200,0001. PUBLIC IMPROVZIVIENTS. The new Pier at Kilteery, in Ireland has j us t b een completed by the Shannon Navigation Commissi oners . This important public work , which stands upon the Limerick side of the river below Gum, will open means of export for the produce of a vast tract of country, including Athea, .Abbeyfeale,andNewcastle. NAVAL AND IVIZZITAILY. Greenwich Hospital at present contains 2,710 pen • sioners, 732 of whom are maimed. LAW AND POLICY:. The Hundred sessions for Salford, Manchester, was opened on Monday, at the New Bailey. - The calen dar contains the names of no less than 358 prisoners. Of these 142 are for rioting in different parts of the Hundred, besides which there are 17 other persons on charges of misdemeanour, and 199 felons. George Dean, a young waterman, was on Tuesday charged at the Thames Police Office by the Cus toms Solicitor with smuggling 81b. of foreign tobacco on the river, and fined 1001., or to be imprisoned six months in the Clerkenwell prison. Matthew Stephenson and William Stephenson, brothers, were on Tuesday finally examined at Bow street on the charge of embezzling, which has already been stated in The Sun, and both fully committed for trial. 17 n;" 1 Sir IV : 1!: ldih) magni fic en t candelabrum, weighing about 100 ounces, THE SUN, LONDON, THITRSDAN MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1842. at a public dinner last. On one of the compartments of the vase is the following inscription :—" Presented to Colonel Sir William Robert Clayton, Bart., by 378 Ladies of Great Marlow, and its vicinity, as an ex pression of their esteem for his faithful services through a period of nearly twelve years, during which time he represented the borough in Parliament, and also as a testimonial of their deep sympathy and af fectionate regard.—August 23, 1842." SPORTING. In most of the districts of Ireland grouse-shooting affords capital sport this season, particularly at Ennis. One sportsman bagged on the expanse of moor-land between Bangor and Belmullet, seven and twenty brace in five hours. The whole of the Earl of Chesterfield's stud at Bretby-park is to be brought to the hammer next week. the perfections of both." This is true, for more original compositions never yet astonished, delighted, and mystified the - world. Abounding in tropes, studded with glittering expletives, like a frosty night with stars, teeming with classical allusions, impa ! tient of the ignoble trammels of syntax, and soaring far above the reach of ordinary sense into the cloudiest regions of the imagination, these unrivalled adver tisements may be styled the very poetry of business, where matters of fiction are curiously blended with matters of fact, where adjectives do duty as substantives, verbs officiate as ad verbs, and conjunctions couple words and sen•. tences together, that must be astonished to find themselves in such close companionship with each other ! George Robins is decidedly the most ori ginal genius of the day, with the single exception of the author of that impressive production, the Income tax Bill, whose congenial flights of no-meaning de serve, and will obtain, imperishable renown. The writer goes on .to say :—" Geo rge h as th e h a ppy , faculty of investing a genteel residence with :Riper natural enchantments, and of transporting his rea ders, all in the way of business, into the regions of fairy-land, where splendour and beauty strive for the mastery." Eloquent criticism, and how true ! Who has not admired the skill with which our illustrious Auctioneer clothes the barren rock with luxuriant copses ; converts a stag nant pool into a clear, expansive lake dotted with sunny, green islands, and bordered : by. picturesque slopes, dropping gracefully down to the water's edge; transforms a damp cottage, with a pig-stye in the rear, into a romantic villa, of the Venetian schpol of architecture ; and plants preserves, 11.1.6,,,gamia',- on a barren moor, where a partridge wimikrW,of tion, and a jackass find considerablolifficati; covering a stale thistle ? We wiA:„„ti- 'rag of Egypt would commission George ts:)' sell , .the 'Great Desert in lots. How the dry sand would become ver dant pasturages at his touch ! Roses would bloom, bul buls would sing, and rivers, flowing with milk and honey, irradiate the whole face of the landscape, to say no thing of " hard and soft water" which would be seen to abound on " the premises !" " Mr. Ledbury's Grand Tour" is an arch, quizzical sketch of a tra velling Cockney, whose mistakes, so full of sim plicity, will afford the . reader no slight diversion. The " Microscope" is a pleasant anecdotical remi niscence of an English missionary named Clarke, who went out to convert the natives of India to Chris tianity, but, failing in his efforts, returned in despair to Calcutta. We give the rest of the anecdote in the writer's own words : One day our missionary learned, to his great joy, that a Bhramin of the very firstrank had arrived in the me tropolis. Determined to bring matters to an issue, Clarke wrote to him, and begged him to meet him on a certain day, when he undertook to convince him (the Hindoo priest) of the e rrors of his faith. To this the Brahmin consented, and at the time appointed the -Hea then and the Christian champion met to discuss, in the presence of several witnesses. the merits of their respec tive creeds. As is usual in polemical discussions, the controversy was opened by several in co ns equ entia l ! queries and an swers. For half an hour neither party had put forth a startling proposition; the wily Indian taking care to con fine himself to er.e defensive. Tired at length by this scene, Clarke suddenly and abruptly asked him, " Are you forbidden to eat anything in which animal life exists ?"—" I am." " Have you ever broken through this law?"—" Never." "May you not unconsciously have been led into this crime ?" —" Impossible." " Will you swear to it ?"—" Most solemnly I do." "Do you ever eat pomegranates ?"-7-" Daily." . " Bring me some of that fruit, then," rejoined Clarke, turning to a servant. His order was complied with; the pomegranates were brought. "Choose one." The Brahmin did so.—" Cut it in two." With this direction he complied.—" Place it here," and Clarke assisted him to put it beneath a micro., scope.—" Now look at it." The Brahmin did so; but no sooner did he apply his eye, than he started back with affright. The fruit was perfectly alive . with animalculre. The puzzled Hiudoo drew out the pomegranate (which, perhaps, my readers are not aware is more closely filled with insects than any other fruit), looked at it, examined it, replaced it, and again beheld the myriads of living creatures with which it was rife. He felt it with his hand, to convince him• self that there was no trick in the affair. Then, sud denly drawing himself up, he slowly uttered "Bus-such hi." (" Enough—it is true.") " You acknowledge, then, that you have sinned un consciously ? That every thing being filled with ani malculm, invisible to the naked eye, you can neither eat nor drink without committing a crime ?" The abashed !Endo() bowed. " Shall I show you how full of similar insects every drop of water is —" No ! I have seen enough." "Do you desire further proof ?"—" I have it favour to ask." " What is it ? If I can, I will grant it." " Give me your microscope. I cannot buy it ; give it me." Clarke paused for a moment, for he had that morning paid ten guineas fcr it ; and, being a poor man, he could afford to part with it. But, as the Indian was urgent, almost to entreaty, he at length consented (especially as he thought the other would afford him in return some curiosity of equal value), and presented it to him. The 13rahmin took it, gave one look of triumph round the hall, and suddenly raising his arm, dashed it into a thousand atoms on themarble floor. " What do you mean by this ?" exclaimed Clarke, in undisguised astonishment. " It means, Sir Christian," replied the Ilindoo in a cold, grave tone, " it means that I was a happy, a good, a proud man. By means of yonder instrument you have robbed me of all future happiness. You have condemned me to descend to my grave wretched and miserable !" With these words the unfortunate Brahmin quitted the hall, and soon after retired up the country. " My Honey-Moon" is a stale subject treated in a novel and ingenious manner. The denouement is ex ceedingly edifying. " Richard Savage" represents the auto-biographer in his new capacity of poet, and as the personal friend of Pope. Some portions of the dialogue are spirited and characteristic. The " Fiddler of Marseilles' is entertai n i ng i n po i n t o f i nc ident, not withstanding that it bids a bold defiance to probability. The " Philosophy of Punning" is cleverly illustrated, but the letter-press is very common-place stuff. " Fa miliar Epistle from an Elderly Gentleman on Half pay" is a whimsical description of a voyage to Rams gate, and of the perils the writer encountered off the precipitous coast of the Isle of Dogs ! His log is in teresting, but it is nothing to Mr. Dillon's immortal record of the " Lord Mayor's Voyage ". and of the narrow escape this mighty Potentate 11;t1 from ship wreck on an uninhabited island near Isleworth. neighbourhood of a great manufacturing town, there are several extensive paper works. 'De proprietors of these having been induced to try -Mr. Basil's patent, ware so well pleased with its working, as to invite him to a public dinner before his leaving the place, after seeing his ma chines put in action. He had received many threatening letters from those whom his invention had, for the time, deprived of their living, and he was given to understand that a combination, for his destruction, was afoot among them. This, however, did not in any degree affect him, and without taking the slightest notice of it, or even making any precaution, he went to the party, amid the hootings of an immense - crowd of labouring people, of every de scription, that beset the neighbourhood. The hall in which it was held was the ball-room of one of the principal hotels in the place. It had two large windows opening to the street, and two into a wide grassy space in its rear. These latter were thrown open to ad mit the air. About forty gentlemen dined, and the even ing had passed in toasts and complimentary speeches. Mr. Basil was remarked to preserve throughout a calm and habitually melancholy expression, though not at.all such as to depress the general hilarity. How much then were the company surprised %% hen, on a sudden, they saw him start into a listening posture, while his face assumed a look of surprise, anxiety, and deep attention. Presently his feelings appeared roused to a pitch of extreme excite ment, and, while every eye was fixed upon him in silent wonder, he apologised to the chairman, stating, that under the open windows lie heard a voice speak, and a name mentioned, which brought to his memory scenes long since past, and raised in his mind a curiosity of which he could not resist the gratification. Thereupon, rising, he went quickly to the window, and, bending forwards, looked out. The next instant he staggered rapidly back, and uttering a scream so strangely loud and thrilling that the glasses on the table quivered and rang, fell senseless on the floor. All immediately sprang up and flew to his assistance. They found his face covered with what appeared to them a quantity of mud. especially his eyes were com pletely filled with it. Those parts of the features not reached were of a burning scarlet hue, and his black neckerchief and the collar of his coat were sprinkled with vivid red stains. They could not divine what this was till one, attempt ing to wipe it away, had his fingers burnt. It was a large quantity of the strongest oil of vitriol, mixed with sand. A cry of horror arose in that hall, so recently ringing with shouts of conviviality, and at once all was confusion, uproar, indecision, wonder, fear. Some cried out to fix and barricade the doors ; others, to send to the barraCks, and call out a guard of soldiers. Some crowded round the prostrate gentleman ; others ran hither and thither about the great apartment, un knowing what to do or where to fly. . At length a gentlemanpresent, who had been exerting himself to produce something like order, succeeded in pressing, as it were, two terrifid waiters to bring cold water, wherewith to dilute and wash away the acid. He was a surgeon, and the leading person of that profession in the place. He had him then removed up stairs to one of the bed rooms of the hotel, and renewed his sanative endeavours. But it was plainly of no avail—the hellish scheine had been to well concocted, and too adroitly executed. The sand bad found its way into the eyes, and deep into the nos trils. Part of the face was already a black, burnt, life less mass, and it was plain that sloughing or mortifica tion must spread to a fearful extent. The eyes !—they were already burnt out—there was no hope for them. Was there hope for life ?—the surgeon shook his head. Shortly the unfortunate sufferer recovered conscious ness—the agony he now endured must have been dread ful ; and though he appeared a man who had great con trol over his feelings, yet his groans were so harrowing, that several people living at the hotel immediately left it for other establishments. lor twenty-four hours this continued ; then the pain ceased—for why ?—the nerves were dead. The flesh of his face was now a burnt, lifeless mass, and was fast be ginning to separate from the bone. Horrible ! COIIILT-FitSRIONABLE. Col. Sir E. Curry, K.C.8., died on Saturday last, near Bagshot, in his 64th year. The 3d battalion of Foot Guards will return to town in few days from Manchester. The Marchioness of Douro is on a visit to the Duke of Wellington at Walmer Castle. A numerous attendance of the Nobility and Gentry is expected at the forthcoming Norwich Festival. _ _ NLISCELL.fi - NMOUS. Lord Abercromby, Lord Lieutenant of Stirling shire, and the Noblemen at Linlithgow, have each caused meetings to :.)e convened, to vote Addresses to her Majesty on her progress. The third annual general meeting of the Royal Bo tanic Society of London took place on Tuesday in the Regent's Park. The total collection of plants was reported to amount to 3,160 species. The number of fellows was now 481, and the subscribers of the past year were 149, being 42 more than the preceding ; while the subscriptions were 2,4641. 75., exceeding the previous year by 7101., by which means the Coun cil had been able to reduce the debt of the Society from '2,1511. to 1,4071. MA GA ZIP/1E DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Schiller's Poems and Ballads—a theme that has been often discussed before —are, many of them, translated with vigour and elegance, by a writer who leads off the present Number with a prose criticism on the genius of this celebrated German poet, who, he tells us, has a command over all the resources of his art, is manly in his sentiment, simple even in his richness, and broad and large in his philosophy; adding, " Schiller's minor poems 'are very rarely obscure,_ the thought is not subtle and wir e -d r a wn , th e ar t which conceives them is essentially warm and living. Though veiled in a more ornate and learned dress, the man's heart beats under them, as strongly and as loudly:as in the _verse of Burns." This is high praise, hut it i s not unmerited, as will be, seen by the subjoined ballad, which is founded on an . old legend of the Rhine, familiar to most tourists; and exhibits much unaffected feeling. It is entitled " The Knight of Toggenburg :" " Sir Knight ! the love that sisters feel, • Could that content, is thine ; The love thy heart would fain reveal, Has only pain fur mine ! I calmly still would see thee go, And calmly welcome thee ! The silent tears thine eyelids know, Are language strange to me." Ile heard her speak ; his lips supprest The bitter thoughts that bleed ; He rose—he clasp'd her to his breast, And sprang upon his steed, • " Up, liegemen, up !—thro' Swisserland !" The word awakes the brave ! The cross abreast—the holy band Shall seek the Saviour's grave. High deeds for many a Christian knight ' chieved a hero's lame ; As glittering thro' the foremost fight, Their dancing plumage came. Yet, most of all, one name of fear Atpall'd the Moslem foe. Alas, in fame the heart can ne'er Its heaviness forego ! • • One weary Tear he sought to bear, What then he might no more, Away from her—what rest was there ? He left the holy shore. He hair(' a ship on .hppa's strand, Sails hoist and breezes fair ; Away once more to that dear land In which she breathes the air. And now the pilgrim paused in fear Before the castle gate, Dark roll'd upon the pilgrim's ear The thunder-words of fate. " To her thou seek'st but yester-eve The solemn veil was given, Content the world for God to leave, She lives—the bride of heaven 1" So left he then for evermore His father's proud abode, And ne'er the knightly harness wore, Nor knightly steed bestrode. Below his castle-crowned height, Unknown, he sate him down, And, for the warrior's armour, dight The hermit's hairy gown. A lonely hut he built him there, Her dwelling-place in view, Where still the cloister glisten'd fair The dusky lindens through. From morn, in that unwitness'd place, Till starry evening shone, Mute, yet with hope upon his face, The hermit sate alone. And hour by hour, as magic -bound, Her casement watch'd afar, Until he heard, with feeble sound, Her lattice-bolt unbar. There upwards still his look was cast, Until her image, pale And angel-mild, the while it past, Bow'd meekly towards the vale. Then laid he down, the vigil o'er, Consoled, perchance, awhile, To greet, in quiet joy, once more The morning's early smile. He sate—the days, the seasons fly— He sate, and gaz'd afar, And tch'd—if sod, without a sigh— To hear that lattice-bar. There upward still the look was cast, Until her image, pale And angel-mild, the while it past, • Bow'd meekly towards the vale. So sate he on that lonely spot The morn that-was kis last, And still the look,_ where life was not, Was towards the casement cast. Campbell, as some of our readers may perhaps re member, has versified this legend, but his "Brave Roland " is by no means one of his most felicitous productions. The diction is polished enough; but the sentiment wants depth and earnestness. "Re collections of Early Reading" is a strange concern, whose exact meaning we do not profess to com prehend. So far as we can make out, it Is intended as a quiz on the exaggerated school of ;mantic fiction ; but if so, it is too grave and formal to answer its purpose. The ridicule that is not obvious at first sight, is little better than a failure. The "Elopement" is a Spanish story, founded on fact, and related in a very mercurial spirit of enjoyment. A young soldier of fortune has formed an attachment to a pretty Spanish girl. Her father, a wealthy merchant, is opposed to the match, and hurries off his reluctant daughter to the solitude of the country. Her lover, of course, finds her out in her retirement ; assumes, in concert with a few friends, the disguise of a Carlist chief; surrounds the house ; and while his companions are pretend ing to ransack it for the purpose of pillage, coolly walks off with the girl. Once married, he returns and explains the whole circumstances of the case to his father-in-law, who forgives him, in con sideration of the incredible impudence and in genuity of his statagem. " Exhibitions " is a notice—surely an unseasonable one !—of the paint ings in the British Institution, and other Picture galleries that are now closed. The critic is in raptures with Titian's well-known " Bacchus and Ariadne,"—a painting, the extraordinary excel lence of which, w• are ashamed to sty, we have never yet been able to discover. " Ricardo and Adam Smith"—as its title implies—is a treatise on that liveliest and most imaginative of subjects, Politica Economy. In the course of this captivating dis quisition, the author discusses the theory of rent, and with a force and effect that has all but closed our eye-lids. Next to mathematics, the object of our most reverential abhorrence is political economy, which the witty author of " Headlong Hall" has shrewdly defined as being the art of " taking all one can get, and paying no more than one can help." " Dennis on Shakspeare," is an ingenious imitation of the manner of this surly critic, who was Pope's great bug-bear, and kept this sensitive poet in a constant state of mental disquietude. Despite his caprices and frequent violations of good taste, Dennis had much critical sagacity, and more real feeling than the world —taking the cue from his enemies—has given him credit for. The great cause of his unpopularity with his contemporaries, was his infirm temper, which he knew not how to keep in subjection. He is now forgotten, or lives only in the pages of Johnson, who has quoted some of his criticisms in his excellent memoir of Dryden. " Caleb Stukely" exhibits here and there considerable vigour of description. " The Doom of the Mirror" is a ballad from the pen of Mr. Sim mons' whose poems would be more effective, if they were.less precise and elaborate in their versification. This gentleman's Muse is never seen en dishabille, but is always tricked out in a full Court suit. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The professional peculiarities of that Cicero of the Auction-mart, George Robins, are admirably pour trayed in a sketch entitled the " Great Auctioneer," which, warmly eulogistic as it is, does no more than justice to the exalted genius of this distinguished in r advertisements the writer 0!- ; s 0717 , 5. : or modern literature affords, or rather they combine AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Downes, the author of the "Mountain De cameron"—a work far less known than it deserves to be—contributes a prose tale to this Number, under the title of the " Welch Wrecker's Revenge." The tale is not in his most fortunate manner, still there are indications in it of that vigorous and impassioned mind which produced the striking story of the " Her mit Vicar"—the closing chapters of which are fraught with a stern, solemn, heart-felt pathoi such as no work of fiction. of the day can boast. Mr. Downes's present narrative is one of sin and suffering ; it is slight and sketchy in its character, and is chiefly to be admired for its graphic descriptive touches, which combine the skill of the painter with the fancy and feeling of the poet. If he would but look more to the sunny, and less to the shady, side of life ; and instead of constantly dwelling on the darker passions of hu manity, bring out its redeeming qualities, there is no thing to prevent him from winning a foremost rank among living novelists for he is not merely a man of talent—that most ordinary of literary cliaracters— but of decided genius, who can move the springs of pity and terror as effectively as even the author of " Anastasius." The "Miser's Daughter" contains one animated scene—that, we mean, wherein the Miser is represented digging at midnight in his cellar for his darling money-bags. His strong determina tion of purpose, struggling with, and overcoming for the time, all sense of physical weakness, is here deli neated with more than Mr. Ainsworth's usual energy. " September" is an amusing lament for the decline of female influence during this celebrated sporting month. It is, indeed, but too true that the petticoat is at a dis count during this rude; unpolished season. The syren voice of beauty fails of its wonted effect, for the only music in request is that of the loud whirr of the partridge or pheasant, as it springs from the stubble or the preserve. The ladies should resent this ne glect. They should turn-out in all the sporting dis • tricts, like the northern Operatives, and force the men to come to terms. " Enough—as good as a Feast," is a lively sketch from every-day life, illustrating the truth of this old adage. ft is from the ?Den of Mr. George Raymond. The " Walls of Famagusta," gives some particulars respecting the siege of this town by the Turks, towards the close of the six teenth century. The present chapters of " 'Windsor Castle" introduce Cardinal Wolsey .to our notice, who is represented paying a visit in more than regal state to Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn at . the Castle. The description of his procession is very gorgeous, and apparently true to historical fact. To pourtray the character of this magnificent and am bitious adventurer, as it ought to be pourtrayed— especially at that critical period when Anne Boleyn's influence was in the ascendant—will task all Mr. Ainworth's best and highest faculties. The biographical sketch of the " Late Doctor Magnin" is penned by Mr. Kenealy in a friendly, cordial, but far from, exagge rated spirit. The biographer, however, has scarcely touched on the Doctor's conversational powers, which were really extraordinary. Like Johnson, Cole ridge, Mackintosh, Sharp, Scott, and other social and intellectual spirits, he loved talking, for he knew he talked well. He was not one of your dry, dull, finical, cautious dogs, who content themselves on all occasions with a brief sentence or two, because, in truth, they have nothing to say—no ideas to deve lope ; but gave free vent to his feelings and fancies as they rose, whether grave or gay, worldly or other wise. Your mere, hard-headed man of business,. whose heart is in his breeches-pockets, and the proofs of whose understanding are to be found only in his ledger, would not have understood him ; but those whose praise is an honour—Christopher North, Southey, Sir Walter Scott, and many others of his more gifted contemporaries—understood, and valued him accordingly. We quote a portion of Mr. Ken ealy's sketch of the Doctor : " The first and chief attribute of his mind was its ori ginality. The works of no distinguished man, within our own reading at least, display the same vein of thought and style. There is scarcely a subject on which he has written that he has not treated in a new manner, illuminating the grave by the livelineis of his fancy, colouring the witty by the solidity of his judgment ; for he possessed both in an extraordinary degree, and his mind resembled a mine of gold, curiously prankt on the ' surface with flowers, but truly valuable within. Nor was his genius acquired by long and patient study ; on the contrary, it beamed very beautitully in his earliest years, and was the fair Aurora of his future brilliancy. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in his tenth year, and was a doctor of laws in his twenty-third—a precocity rivalled but by that of Wolsey, who was a bachelor when only fourteen. And though his reading was im mense, no man was less of a copyist of other men's thoughts, a stealer of other men's fire, than William Magnin. " His memory was the strongest in the world, and was a rich storehouse of all learning, so that ho might with propriety have been called, like the sublime Longinus, the living library.' Often when in want of some scho lastic illustrations for our own writings, have we applied to him, and never did we ask in vain. Quotations the most apposite ; episodes the most befitting ; obscure points of literary history, an elucidation of which we had ineffectually hunted fq.r ; sketches of minor literary men of other lands, the difficulty of finding which, those con versant with such studies alone can appreciate ; stray lines and sentences from authors read only once in a cen tury, and quoted but as curiosities ; parallel passages in the Greek and Latin and Italian and German autriors— all these he could refer to without a moment's delibera tion, as easily as if they had formed the business of his whole life. And yet, like Scott, no eye ever saw him reading. He seemed a , perfectly idle man, and know ledge to come to him by intuition. " His erudition was without pedantry—his mind had no dogmatism. The Ateroc ai:CX of the Greek sage did not enter into any of his opinions, which were never put forth in conversation but. with the most singular mo desty. He would talk .to you like a little child on the most learned subjects, and whenever he advanced a sen timent, he would turn to his hearer with an appealing look, as if he distrusted his own judgment, and would not willingly mislead another's. We have seen him lis ten attentively to the speculations of a boy ; gently cor recting.hien when lie was wrong, and when he was right entering with alacrity into the spirit of his views, but always more anxious to hear another speak than himself. We do not think lie ever uttered a sophism in his life, but was an eager inquirer after truth ; and his investiga tions were like those of another illustrious student. — cat (0,14 v-rat getLicn'ac----who ever, loved justice. His sense of honour was heroic ; and he adhered, like Sheri dan, inflexibly to his principles, though they did not meet those rewards on which he might hays well calcu ated. The devotion with which he loved his family is well known, and the memory of it is painted on their hearts. He would instruct his daughters for hours in the beautiful Italian, of which he was a complete master, and the sight of them always brought hrightness to his eyes. Oa his death-bed, the desolate condition in which he knew he was leaving them, was the great sorrow to his soul ; but he committed them to the noble generosity of this mighty country, whose charities are more sublime tro phies of its greatness than its grandest copquests by sea or on the land. " Hisyoetry was of the highest order of humour—far superior to Swift, and entirely exempt from its grossness and obscenity. Not a single line did he ever write which, dying, he might have wished to blot ; isot a sin gle impure thought can be discerned in the whore range his compositions, poetical, or in prose. The wildne.v3 of his wit was well known ; but his muse was always dece. l 4 and never arrayed herself in the immodest peplos in' which some of onr modern authors have shown her. His theological knowledge was extensive. He had deeply studied the ecclesiastical writers, and spoke of Hooker and Barrow with rapture. Never - lived a man impressed with a more humble sense of his own failings, or with a finer veneration of our Great Creator. He entertained for mankiud an enlarged and bewitching love, and, conscious of human frailty, never spoke severely of their errors, but always in charity. He did not hold himself aloof from his kind with the sullen dignity of other writers, but mingled with them with the careless, familiar ease of a Fielding. or Fox, or Goldsmith, and would share in the noisy sports of younger spirits as if he were a boy him self, and not the rival of Swift in all true greatness, and infinitely beyond him in every private trait deserving of our lu*ve." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Most cockneys love, or fancy_ say, they love, the country, We and all that belongs to it. fancy, because • in seven cases out of ten, their notions of the pastoral • are mere delusions, and terminate in disappointment. Johnson has an entertaining essay on this subject in the " Idler," wherein he reads a useful lesson to such town-bred folks as may be smitten with a penchant for the rural. The same theme is dextrously handled in the Number before us, in an article on " The Love of the Country," whose writer ob serves, " the mere desire of change causes many a town-mouse to metamorphose himself for months into a country mouse. This class provincialise themselves for one half the year, merely b ecause th ey h a ve been metropolitans for the other. They are fully as happy in returning to town in February, as in returning to the country in June. Their enjoyment of life, like the amusement of dancing, consists entirely in changing places. They have been so long in Harley street, that they must go down .to Hants ; and then they remain so long in Hants, that they must go back to Harley-street. Thus they swing between town and country, like a pendulum, and if ever they settle, it is in the suburbs."—lt seldom happens that a cockney ever quits town to establish himself in the country without cursing the hour he ventured upon such an experiment. He takes a picturesque cottage, Say, with a fine garden, and a meadow or two. Ere , long he finds that his cottage is damp, and overrun with insects ; that his garden —notwithstanding he digs, trims, and hoes it himself—grows everything hut what it should grow ; and that his meadow is a dead swindle, the soil being suited to nothing but weeds and rank grass. If he ventures upon an after noon nap in his cool, shady summer-house, earwigs creep into his ears, gnats sting him through his small clothes, and blue-bottles settle upon his nose. Town bred men should be slow of indulgin g in a pen chant for the country, for it is an expensive enjoyment, as much so, as when a sailor—no un common case, by the by—suddenly discovers, and acts on the discovery, that he is a born genius for farming. The " Barnabys in America" represents this hopeful family floating on a full tide of success in New Orleans. The Widow's promise to write a book praising everything transatlantic, has en listed all classes in her favour. The slave-owners, in particular, are enraptured; Mrs. Barnaby receives invitations by the score ; and is every where lion ized as the great English genius. There is infinite caricature in all this—for Jonathan i 3 no fool, what ever Mrs. Trollope may hint to the contrary ; still, the extravagance is exceedingly diverting. The " Elm Tree ' is a poem in Mr. Hood's serious style. It is not devoid of fancy, and there are thoughts in it of no ordinary character; but the manner is too quaint, and the versificati on in places, offends the ear by its ruggedness. In Air. Horace Smith's " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus," we find this sensible, aphoristic reflection—" We go on, age after age, expatiating upon the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of life, notwithstanding all which, many of us live as if we were nevei to die, while some there are who die, as if they were never to live." "Reminiscences of a M e di ca l Stu dent"—a series of papers evidently suggested by the " Physician's Diary" of Blackwood describes the tragic end of a man who, having made certain me chanical discoveries, which threw hundr e d s o f work men out of employment by restricting the demand for hands, was invited to a public dinner by the ma , rnfacturers of a nortl - ::_)rn ~.11.en the follow ,n. . g-incalent took place : 1 In a certain district in the North of England, in tlia DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. In some remarks on the " Income-tax and-the New Tariff," a lame attempt is made to defend the former inquisitorial impost, which is described as being remarkable for its just and equable character. It required a great deal of intrepid effrontery in a writer to praise the justness of a tax whose inequali ties are obvious to every one, and were frequently pointed out in Parliament; but your Tory partizan is seldom encumbered with diffidence, and as seldom scrupulous in his statements. The Income-tax is as unjust as it is unintelligible ; indeed, so obscure and perplexing is it in its details, that the daily journals are filled with advertisementsof men offering themselves—for a due pecuniary consideration—as interpreters, so that hundreds, possibly thousands, will have to pay, not only the tax, but the dragoman also ! In " Jack Hinton, the Life-Guardsman," Mr. Lever, the author, gives a very spirited account of a , party being overtaken by a 'high tide on the west coast of Ireland, and escaping the danger not without considerable difficulty. The incident will remind the reader of a similar sketch in Sir W. Scott's best tale, the " Antiquary." The " Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen" contains a biographical me moir of Barry the painter, who, after having for years been greatly overrated as an artist, has at length at-- tabled his just level in public estimation. If he be now remembered, it is not by his absurd drawings in the Society of Arts, but by his connexion with Burke —his most generous and influential patron. In the notice of " Boaden's Life of Gregory. the Seventh" occurs a judicious portrait of this celebrated Pontiff, who, during a great portion of his troublous career, kept Europe in the condition of ayassal, and sacri ficed health, peace of mind, justice, and even common sense itself, to his insatiable ambition. With the single exception of Napoleon, we consider this Pope as the most ambitious man of whom the modern world can boast. His life has been often written, but it has yet to be written in an impartial and philosophic spirit. "St Sinan's Warning" is an Irish legend, told with much vivacity. " A Narrative of the Affghanis tan War" is from the pen of the late Col. Dennie, who was himself an actor in the stormy scenes he describes. The Narrative bears every appearance of the strictest accuracy, " Levawn's Eye" is a humourous poem of the Ingoldsby school. The " Dream-Tryst" is grace fully versified. We subjoin the opening stanzas : We meet in dreams ! to-night thou shalt be mine, Mine, and mine deeply, wh — eresoe'r thou art ! Mine in that shadowy world, the phantom-shrine Where Fancy bowers the idols of the Heart. Through the dim air, blank midnight's pathless waste, O'er haunted wood, wild dell, and dashing stream, My Spirit summons thee, I bid thee haste, Come to me, Lady ! meet me in my Dream ! Ah, there each timid hope, too fond for Day, In deepening colours flushed, shall learn to glow ; There those soft eyes shall shed a softer ray, Than waking eyes have seen, or dare bestow ! There nought can come to sadden or to chill, Each untold wish still known and still forgiven ; There every lovely tint is lovelier still, • And all of Earth in thee refines to Heaven ! Skies even of hue more cloudless shall be there Than charm those climes where first my spirit found thee, The mute enchantment of Italian air, And all Heaven's softest sounds shall float around thee. But these are words of weakness ! Earth bath nought . In its least earthly forms so pure and deep, As fills that gorgeous inner world where Thought Builds her own phantom Paradise of Sleep, Immortal longings not even yet subdued, Though hushed by day, at such dim hours half free, And struggling in their chained infinitude, Lisp the strange music of Eternity The broken echoes of celestial songs, Caught from the heaven immortals should inherit, And whispering still the glory that belongs To that lost homeland of the exiled Spirit Splendours confused, in glory glory hid, Cities of sunset clouds and shadowy gleams, All that our dead material bonds forbid, Meet in the living Poetry of Dreams. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The political tone of Fraser is this month unusually bitter and intemperate. In the very first article, 'on " The First Session of Sir Robert Peel's Parliament," the writer fires a tremendous broadside at the Whigs, accusing them of all sorts of meannesses and incon sistencies, and putting them in direct and artful con- , trast with the Tories, who, of course, are represented as so many spotless angels of light. Despite its vehe mence, the diatribe is ludicrous—in fact, is a mere political extravaganza, like some of the more ferocious speeches of the. Hon. and Gallant Member for Lin coln. Not the least amusing feature in it, is the cir cumstance that the writer attributes to Sir R. Peel the salvation of the country ; and yet in his postscript he is compelled to acknowledge—alluding to the re cent alarming riots in the north—that this same country is just as far removed from salvation as ever it was, even under the sway of the Whigs ! " Wilkie and his Works " is evidently the production of one who lived in habits of intimacy with the great artist, and who says of him, that " with all his love of study, he was fond of a frolic, or what he was wont to call high jinks. He was also fond of dancing, whether at civic parties, or at quiet Kensington par ties. His mind was naturally playful. He had no sombre seriousness of character. He never made an enemy ; it would perhaps be saying too much to as sert that he never deserved one. He was the most cautious of all human beings—the most unwilling to wound the sensitive nature of.another ; and one of 1 the most reserved of creation." There is, we think, some little inconsistency in this portrait—at least, we cannot understand how a naturally " playful" man, could also have been an excessively " re served" one. Wilkie might have been either one or the other, but he could scarcely have been both, for playfulness is incompatible with reserve. " Excursion to Port Arthur" is an account of a visit paid recently by the writer to this thriving Australasian colony, • in the course of which visit he had the honour of an in -1 terview with the celebrated Chartist leader, Frost, who, it appears, was by no means enamoured of the beauties of the country, but was exceedingly anxious to get back to England, notwithstanding Govern ment's refusal to recognise the five points of the Char ter. " Neglected French Poets" is a lengthy criticism on some of the principal works of Du Bartas. The extracts quoted by the Reviewer are in no respect re markable for excellence, whether of thought or ex pression ; but France has produced few original poets; there is not sentiment enough in the national character to foster their growth. We should rather say, was not sentiment enough, for there can be no question that the first great Revolution has produced an extraordi nary change in the French mind, giving it a far deeper and more impressive tone than it ever had during the long sway of Absolutism. In "My Life and Times," Nimrod—Mr. Apperley—makes some observations on public schools, which he says, and there - is no ques tioning the fact, are infinitely better for the purposes of education than private academies, where the spirit of emulation cannot be so surely and strongly ex cited. The chief defect in all our leading public schools is the absurd pedantry that insists on considering Latin and Greek as superior to every other branch of study. Perhaps there is no knowledge so utterly useless, in proportion to the time wasted on it, or that so disqualifies a man for w active intercourse with the `world, provided he is not born to a fortune, but has his own way to . make. In " Hoaxing Histories" we find the following sketch of the late James Smith—a well-known wi▪ t about town, and one of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses :" James Smith was a happy mixture of gravity and levity. As Solicitor to the Ordnance, Ins morning passed in strict attention to business k but as the Ordnance did not require his evening s uperintendence , i▪ t was at that period that ho fired away his jokes, let off his puns, wholesale, old or new, and exploded in song. He had an ingenious method on launching a new story or jest; he could not endure to hazard a failure as Ins own ; so he would commence his essay thus, " My brother liorace, the other day, said," th e n came the story. If it was victimised (which was very rare), it fell on the well-earned and fully-established reputation of brother Horace. if the joke was successful on its debut, it afterwards became the undivided property of I brother James. He made use of another device, which completely an swered two purposes. He would very amiably ingra tiate himself with the junior branches of the families he visited, and first try the joke or song with them. The prime point was certain to be gained—a sure laugh ; the secondary view was, that the mammas and I par as were always flattered that so pleasant andzentle_ l ma; aly a person should condescend to notice their 1 chi ldr.!n. A brother author haring several' time's oh sw ved this, remarked to Mr. Smith, "'That he pursued a 1? ery cautious course, and produced all his pieces at the mit 'or theatres, where there was little chance of con dem nation." IN . ho does not recollect his tall, well-built figure (much reset" bling that of the Emperor Alexander of Russia), mount. td on a grey horse, wending from the neighbour hood of Austin-friars to th e W es t- en d ? But have they ever noticed (every one will recollect it, now it is pointed out), that after the grey charger has been drawn up to the side of the pavement, a brief friendly chat has lensued, accompanied by the bland smile of the cavalier, and e - dt on ajoke ? On which a sharp clicking of the horse's hinder legs is heard. From whence does this proceed ? James Smith was perfectly aware that when a gentle man on horseback pat is with a friend, and rides in a ,entrary irection, that the pedestrian friend, it canot )-,,, reason d ed why, naturally turns his head and n has n „ , rther look at the cavalier. Conscious of this, although srni :ll was a humane man, he always dug the rowels of his snx. .rs into the fat sides of .his white steed ; and, hold ing'lmbs Afquite erect, his ch a r ger also made a good ex it curveting,, lid whi s ki ng hi s ta il a b out i n all directions. This was , momentary ; for so large an acquaintance had Smith, that. immediately th e h orse was again at the corner of a street, ..- hen the sam e grac i ous sm il e was re peated, and pr o b a bly the same j o k e ; b ut most certainly the same ti c kl e w ith th e spur, and toe subsequent pran cing on taking leave. Smith looked well as an e q uoriftv, he might• have y ht lIorse" i n it s . been taken fo r a ca p ta i n o r the `• City JA best day ; and we remember that as a track volunteer , regiment, albeit un lik e other dragonns, h 'me of these warriors rode in spectacles. To be sure the troops of of Messieurs Ducrow and Batty do the same. LITERA TUBE. LIVES of the QUEENS qf ENGLAND. °Aunt, London, 1842. Vol. Y. The best and most carefully written Life in the Volume before us, is that of Queen Mary, through out Al hich Miss Strickland, the biograph er , evinces a. more than ordinary degree of research. The ma jority of our English historians have insisted on the homely, and even repulsive expression of this Queen's countenance, but Miss Strickland quotes a variety of curious contemporary authorities to Prove that she was far fromill-looking, and indeed, at one period of her life, was of an attractive exterior. The biography of this bigoted Sovereign will well repay an attentive perusal, for it abounds in interesting matters of in formation, some of which will be quite new to the majority of readers. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Incorporated General Steam Navigation Company wns held on Tuesday, at the office of the Company, in Lom bard-street. The chair was taken by Wolverley Att wood, Esq., at two o'clock. The Report and half-yearly accounts were read, and gave general satisfaction. The usual dividend was declared ; and after voting the cor dial thanks of the proprietors to the chairman and direc tors, the meeting separated. _ _ The lateral canal of the Aisne, begun in 1838, is at present terminated, and will be soon opened to the public. This noble work, of 51,500 metres in length, extending from the canal of the Ardent;es to Conde, has been finished by the State in four years. The second part of the works for the improvement of the Aisne, consisting of the canalisation of this river from Conde to its falling into the Oise, will soon be completed. The Town Council of Glasgow, on the 24th inst., addressed a letter to the Home Secretary, urgently re questing the honour of a visit from her Majesty to that, city. The request was !aid before the Queen, and her ➢lajesty directed Sir James Graham to express her great regret that it would not be in her power, during the short period to which her stay in Scotland was limited, to visit the city of Glasgow. ILFORD SPECIAL SESSION.-IMPORTANT TO PUB LICANS AND BEEB-HOUSE KEEPERS.—On Saturday last, a special session was held at the Angel Inn,•llfbrd, Es sex, before William Cotton, Esq. (the Governor of the Bank of England), chairman, and a full bench of Ma gistrates, for the purpose of renewing the licenses of the numerous victuallers in that district tor the ensuing year, and also for the discharge of other magisterial business. After the licenses were renewed, applications were made to the bench, to grant a spirit and wine license to five or six houses that have lately been held as beer-shops. The Chairman, after the various claims had been heard and duly considered, said that the Bench was of opinion that, with the exception of one case, where a license was to be transferred from a licensed house to a beer-house, sufficient grounds had not been shown to grant the prayers of the petitions. The Chairman further said that, for his own part, he had a very serious objection to conferring licenses on beer-houses, and would at all times prefer granting spirit licenses to new houses, or he should rather say, houses built fer the purposes of public houses, than beer-shops. Indeed he much regretted the Legislature had not inserted a clause in the Retail Beer Bill, to prohibit all houses that were opened as beer houses, being licensed for the retail of spirits and wines. The fact was, that these houses were unnecessarily mul tiplied, by the hope on the part of their owners, of getting them licensed some time or other as victuallers' houses. About a fortnight ago a glacier, near the village of Setnpeiu, in Switzerland, fell, and destroyed three cot tages and their outbuildings. Several cows were killed, but happily no human life was lost. A curious procession . took place at Besancon a few days back, occasioned by a gitano or gipsy marriage. Some horsemen came first, throwing about sugar-plums on all sides. 'They were followed by a number of young gitanos, each conducting a young girl, also scattering sugar-plums. The bridegroom, a sine looking young man of thirty, walked with a stately step, clad in embroidered vest, large Spanish hat, red sash, and lace collar. The bridesmen who accompanied him, scattered sugarplums over him in great abundance. The bride, a tall haughty looking woman of forty-six, a thorough -bred gitano, walked along with a proud demeanour, accompanied by one of her sons by a former marriage. tier white veil con trasted strikingly with the colour of her hair, and the deck tinge of her complexion. Ikr hair was allowed to fall on a red shawl which covered her shoulders, and which was drawn in tight round the waist. As she was the object of especial honour, she was absolutely ircommoded by the quantity of sugar-plums thrown over her. This woman's name is Ilamonde Lopez. She is a native of Barcelona. and possesses a considerable fortune. She has been three times married, and has had children by each husband, but they had all given their consent to her marriage with her fourth lord, Baptista Antonio, a horse dealer. Everything went on smoothly until after the wedding feast, but wine then (lid its office, and drew forth the real sentiments of the children of the bride, who attacked the gay husband and beat him dreadfully. The honeymoon only lasted half a day. Antonio, who in the morning had appeared so bright in his handsome dress, hurried forth in the evening with haggard eye, and vestments in disorder, to seek a passport, with the view of quitting Besancon. The night, however, brought peace to the tribe, and on the following morning the matter was made up. RUN FOR GOLD.—Soho ludicrous incidents arose out of the withdrawal from the banks of the money be longing to several sick and benefit societies. One case has beer. mentioned to us in which the members drew between 3001 and 4001. from the bank, and resolved to place it in the hands of the landlord of the house at which they hold their meetings. The landlord, having no use for the money, and finding it would add to his cares, de terthined to place it in a bank, and actually deposited it the same day in the very bank from which it had been taken. The members of another society having 1%-ith drawn their money, were divided in their opinions as to the disposal of it. It was proposed to place it'in the landlord's bards, but that was opposed. as were several propositions to place it in the hands of trustworthy mem bers, and to divide it, and they ultimately agreed to re turn with it to the bank from which it hail been taken.— Boton Press. TIM DUBLIN COLLEGE CONTEST.--MF. Smith hav ing been promised, or promoted, to the Solicitor-Gene ralship, by the elevation to the Bench of that truth telling person, Joseph l)evonshir Jackson —the supposed necessity of the Government having an Irish law-officer in Parliament has caused, it seems, Mr. Smith to be started by the Government as candidate for 'Trinity Col , lege ; and, of course, against the •` great sacrificing" Conservative, Alexander G. Hamilton. We are told by the Government papers that the College will return any one named by the Government. We shall now see th is assertion tested.—Dullin Pdd. A singular fact is stated by tbe. J ourju d ice Belgique. A man confined en the criminal side of the acknowledged perpetrator of a l to 'ri tTi n e dle'rolcieutritesurecalrowleZosi a ti f t e al v d h?x s va n s go, crime committed last year in the parish of Cortenberg, for wh i c h t h r ee men, eens, Bonne, and his SOU, all three pedlars, were tried, convicted, and condemned to death by the Court of Brabant, but. whose sentence was after wards commuted into hard labour at the hulks for life. and exposure on the pillory, which last punishment they have u ndergone. The rest of their judgment is sus pended until the truth of the confession is ascertained. • DEATH OF, SIR EDMUND CURREY, K.C.B.—Sir Edmund died at his seat, Eriwood, near Bagshot, on Saturday last, in his 64th year. lie served in the artil lery in the campaigns in Holland and Egypt. He Ivas appointed Aide-de-Camp to his late loyal Highness the Duke of Gloucester in 1803, and Secretary and Comp troller of his Household in 1805, and received the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel from William the Fourth, and was honoured with the Guelphic Order. Married 1818 second daughter of Lord Chief Baron Abinger, by whom Sir Edmund has left an infant family. GRENWICII lIOSPIT A L.—The number of pensioners in Greenwich Hospital at this time is 2,710 • amongst whom there are 732 maimed ; namely, with loss of right arm 12, left arm 8— total, 20 ; both legs 3, right leg 29, left leg 36—total, 68 ; both eyes 61, right eye 44, left eye 45—total, 150 ; ruptured on both sides 162, right side 152, left side 175, umbilical s—total 494. Grand total, 732. WATSON'S GENERAL TELEGRAPH OFFICE,_ 83, CORNIIILL, LONDON, AUG. 31, 1842. — The _Royal George yacht, with her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and suite, was off the North coast of Norfolk at 6 A.M.: yesterday, in tow by steamers. It is supposed that the Royal squadron brought up during the night below Yarmouth, in consequence of thick weather. Wind W.N.W., light, and rather hazy. The paper-mills of Essonne were two days ago de stroyed by fire. Upwards of 300 workraen aro thrown out of oulployment by this disaster Kihli. 775 i, !43y.i