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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, OCT. 1, Will be produced an English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy, her first appearance on the English Stage) ; Assur, Mr, Giubilei • ' Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Nines, Mr. J. Bland. After which, the Farce of DEAF AS A POST.—Capt. Tegu?leton, Mr. Cooper ; Tristram Sappy, Mr. Harley ; Sally Itlazgs, Mrs. Urger ; Mrs. Plumpley, Mrs. Tayleure. Doors open at - Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s, Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places fcr tile Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Priyate Boxes to be had at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Ccmbination of talent, Mr. T. P. Cooke, and the finest Company in London. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 1, Will be produced a New Drama entitled BLANCHE HERIOT ; on, THE CHERTSEY CURFEW. Atter which, with New Scenery. Haines's Nautical Drama, MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE.—Harry Haulyard, Mr. T. P. cuotte ; Joe Tiller, Mr. R. Honn,r ; Waxend Mr. W. Smith ; Mary Maybud, Ms. R. Honner ; Abigail, Miss E. Terrey. lii conclude with, THE PLEDGE OF LOVE; OR, A SIS. TER'SISACRIFICE. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, firs. Vining, &c. Places and Private Soxes may be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the ux Office, from Eleven till Four daily. Just ready, in 2 vols. small Svo., with Portrait, from the original at Hampton Court, LETTERS OF Ai - Alt Y, QUEEN OF SCOTS, -1-7-a_ and Documents connected with her Personal History, Ewe; first publishe, A wit G h an Introductio, L By d NES STRICK AND, Author of 46 The Live 3 of the Queens of England." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in three volumes Sao, with numerous Plates, &e., NARRATIVE OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS IN TaALOCHISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, and the PANJAB ; including a Residence in those Countries from 1826 to 1838. By CHARLES MASSON, Esq. " Mr. Masson had better opportunities than any other European of becoming acquainted with the real facts in the life and character of Dost Mohammed Khan, both of which have now become important to history."—Athena3um. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. Published this day, price Half-a-Crown, IHE OCTOBER NUMBER OF AINS _IL. WORTH'S MAGAZINE, containing, Chapters VI., VII., VIII., IX., and X., of THEMISER'S D AUGHTER, Ly the 'EDITOR, with two illustrations by GEORGE CRUM- Chapters IV. and V. of Windsor Castle, by the Editor, with an illustration on steel, by Tony Johannot, and seven engravings on wood, designed by W. Alfred Delamotte. Also contributions by Nimrod, J. Barrow, John Oxenford, R. B. Peak, Miss Costello, Margaret Scott, Laman Blanchard, W. F. Ainsworth, J. A. Heraud, Captain Medw in, Charles Moutray, Charles Honey, Charles Oilier, &c., &c., &c. London : Cunningham and Alortimer, St. .Martin's -place, Trafalgar- square HAMBORGH, 12TH AUGUST, 1642. /WS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, HIS MAJESTY the EMP E ROR of RUSSIA, AND- HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, Hiving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several T;1/UNIONS of MONEY DIVIDEND, b y wkieh, th ),Igh they are NO LOTTERIES, LARGE FORTUNES may be obtained, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, k I Sellin,g GENUINE .and WARRANTED SELECTED BONDS for the said DIKTRIBUTIONS. ilersens desirous to purchase may receive, PREVIOUS to riving any order, the PROS PEcrus with full PARTI- Ut'LARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. r,xtract from a Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps, at One Penny and One Halfpenny, issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist of April to 30th June, 1842, inclusive : Number Amount of of Advertisement Stamps. Duty. Courier . . Globe ,andard .;UST.... . 260,000 278 3 6 . 313,000 323 3 6 1-I!Gki WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. , l °ruing ll minutes after II i Evening .42 minutes after 11. fri tg Mt* LONDON: SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1, 1842. We are not much inclined to criticise the lan ,guage of prayer, but the public has a right to demand that the prayers ordained by authority, azid to be repeated in all the churches and chapels in England and Wales to-morrow, shall express sentiments that are very generally felt. To ordain prayers at all, seems to us a usurpa tion of the right of conscience ; at the same tune it takes away all spontaniety from prayer, ana destroys its merit. Nevertheless, if autho i-,:y will interfere in such matters, it ought to /a'.:2 especial care to commit no mistake either io sentiment or language. The first part of the' prayer seems to us to sin against good sense and good language. It says, " 0 Goo, through whose good Providence the earth yieldeth food for ithe sustenance of man," To pass over the degradation of Providence, usuallyemployed substantively to signifyGoD, into the denomination of one of his attributes, why is the idea, suggested of the possibility of a bad l'rovidence by using the epithet good ? Can t.:ere be a bad Providence ? Is it possible for a Providence, particularly the Providence of GOD, to be other than good ? Is not the use of the )rd good, then, intended—we presume, to en iluee the idea of GoDa—violation of good sense a:.l good taste? Again, the prayer says, " Give us grace, we .c.unbly beseech Thee, that, whilst we receive thy bounty with thankfulness, we may regard t:.1? blessing; bestowed on us as a call to repent ..;:ce, and turn from the evil of our ways." This prayer, it must be recollected, is to be used by ail the people, and especially by the poor, for whose benefit the Church is said to exist; and what must the poor think of being enjoined to pr.ly that they may regard a bountiful harvest — which makes it probable that they may, perhaps, for the first time these four years, be able to get a sufficiency of food—as a call to repentance ? What have they to repent of in relation to food, that this idea of punishment and sin should be intruded on them by the priests, and by men in authority, in conjunction with the blessing of a goon harvest, with which GOD has gladdened tlLe earth? • The connection of a blessing with repentance is . of itself a contradiction, and is contrary to the whole tenor and scope of the Christian religion, which connects punishments, not blessings, with sin, and sends the former, not the latter, as mo :yes for repentance. It may be, indeed, that those who drew up the prayer have many and urgent reasons for repentance in relation to the article • of food—repentance for having in dulged in it too largely, and repentance for withheld it from the people ; but right have they to make their feel ings the guide to the prayers of the true- ' hearted, patient, and suffering people? I f one thing be calculated more than another to brillg the public worship of the ALMIGUTY into . discredit, it is this meddling with, by authority, and decreeing, prayers which do not correspond to the feelings of th e people. Their hearts, we believe and hope, overflow with gratitude to the Great Giver of ail good, and it is totally at variance with such feelings to regard theta in conjunction with a good harvest as calls to repentance. The prayer further says, g‘ Remove from amongst us all cause of strife and contention, put an end to our unhappy divisions." We pre sume.those words are used with a direct refer ence to the political disputes which exist, the consequence of misgovernment, and to the strife and contention which are generated by Corn-laws; but the men who command the use of that prayer, obstinately persevere in this cause of*strife and contention. They enjoin the people to pray for the removal of that which they m i g ht remove to-morrow, and will not. T o it very humbly, but very earnestly, us, speaking the command to use such a prayer seems a iaockery of the people and of the Great Being whom they are instructed thus to address. It is, however, satisfactory to find that our rulers are of opinion that a plentiful increase of _ _ 2 , ••• It o A yttkai k „‘ . - . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1842. daining such a prayer, they can hardly have the more stringent laws such e passed, for public feg face to maintain a law which deprives the people ;in would not allow such harshness to be exercised on board merchant vessels. The defendant had no of food, and has actually compelled men to de right to strike the boy at all ; if he had misconducted stroy wheat, by throwing it into the Thames, himself a complaint should have been made to the because that law would, not allow them to give it ' I captain, who might, if • circu mstances demanded it, either to man or beast. If we ma y believe the I and, after due inqu i ry , have order ed p ro p er and tern reports from the United States, there is at this Aerate chastisement. moment food going to decay there which the owners would gladly send for the use of our people ; but those very men who now ordain a thanksgiving for a plentiful increase of food, will not allow that abundance which the ALMIGHTY has sent to be used by his suffering creatures. Men in authority may fleece us by an Income tax—they may even starve us by a Corn-law — but they go too far when they interfere with our prayers, and ordain that our lips shall utter a solemn mockery' of our own hearts, and of our , belief in the goodness of GOD. The Paris Papers of Wednesday had not ar rived at the time our paper was put to press. MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. A report being current that favourable intelligence had been received from India, the Money Market ex hibited a degree of firmness, and Consols improved a shade, notwithstanding the mercantile accounts are of a very gloomy character. The corn market has again been much unsettled by the suspension of a highly re spectable firm, whose assets, it is stated, are more than sufficient to cover its liabilities. This has been occasioned by the failure of certain large speculators on the Continent, with whom it was Connected, and it is apprehended that its extensive connexions may be all more or less sufferers ; hence may be traced several unpleasant rumours which have been current during the day. Consols left off at 925 for Money, and 93 buyers for the Account. India Stock, 247 249. The circumstances above alluded to caused a continued demand for money, and the premium on Exchequer Bills declined to 51 49 for the Old, and 60 4$ for the New. The principal occurrence in N I Foreig,n market was the announcement that a fresh loan would be brought forward on account of the Dutch Government; this caused a decline in the price of the bonds, and the Five per Cents. closed at 102 1025; and the Two and-a-Half per Cents., 511 515 ;13elgia,n, 102 103 ; Danish, 83 84 ; and Brazilian, 66 67. The Mexican bondholders and the agents of that Government have been brought into collision, in con sequence of instructions from our officials to deduct the Income-tax from the dividends. This is an ex tremely harsh proceeding, so much so, that it would appear to be only necessary to represent the circum stances under which the money is to be received, in order to obtain a remission. The quotations for the Bonds were rather lower, being 345 355. The receipts of the railways this week exhibiting an increase generally, the firmness of' the Market his aoatinued, and the shares in the Brighton line have improved, the sum received having amounted to 4,5231. London and Birmingham Shares were 183 185, earnings 17,264/. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 39 41 ; eat Western, 81 82 ; the Half Shares, 59 595, earnings 14,632/. ; South Western, 575 58, earnings 6,6571.; North Midland, 56 58 ' • the New Shares, 27 28, earnings 2, 8 22 1 .; South Eastern, - 235 231; Eastern Counties, 8 61-, earnings 1, 0 77 1 . ; Northern arid Eastern, 35 36; B ackwall, 61 7 ; and Brighton, 35 351. The Shares in the following lines are not so frequently offered in this market as to warrant a constant quotation, but their takings in the past week were—Hull and Selby, 1,062/. ; Birmingham and Derby, 2,214/. ' • Greenwich, 735/, • Great North of E n gland, 1,3231. ; Midland Counties, 7,841/, ; Man chester and Leeds, 5,018/. ; and Edinburgh and Glas gow, 1,9981. The Exchanges were again rather higher. Amster dam, - 12 61, 12 6.'1; Rotterdam, 12 61 ; Antwerp, 12 41 ; Hamburgh, 13 111 ; Frankfort, 1501 151 ; Paris, 25f, 80c., 25f. 85c. ; Vienna, 9 56, 9 561 ; Trieste, 9 57, 9 58 ; Naples, 40+ 405 ; Leghorn, 30 25, 30 30 ; Lisbon, 5 25 ; radrid, 361 37. The quotations for the Bonds were—Colombian, 20+ 21 . ; Peruvian, 15 16 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 35+ 351 ; the Three per Cents., 21 21 1 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 158 151 ; the Three per Cents., 201 204. (From The San of Last Night.) There was scarcely an alteration in the funds to day, either in price or the extent of business. Con sols are 921 925 for Money, and 93 for the Ac count. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1005 ; India Stock 249 250 ; India Bonds, 36 ; Exche quer Bills, Old, 49 51 ; New, 48 50 prem. lii Foreign Securities transactions have been small, although this is the half-monthly settlement ; time bargains in these bonds, as well as in shares, being now unknown. Dutch Bonds have been sold a shade lower ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 515; and the Five per Cents., 102/. The quotation for Mexican is not quite so good, being 35 355. The Shares which have changed hands to-day have been—London and Birmingham, Quarters, 471 47; ; Great, Western, 82 ; Fifths, 71 74 ; South Western, 51 58 ; South Eastern Scrip, 12 ; Eastern Counties, 81 ; Brighton, 341 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 21-; and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 461. Phis being the day for arranging speculative ope rations- in the Bonds, some alteration has taken place in the quotations for Spanish, the Five per Cents. being 155; and the Three per Cents., 201. Buenos Ayres are quoted 205 also. The most important feature in the produce market has been the commencement of the large sales of tea. The quantity to be brought forward extends to up wards of 25,000 packages ; and as far as the sales have proceeded, they have gone off more favourably than was expected. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 29. — We cannot report any improvement in prices to-day. Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 185; Manchester and Birmingham , 211 22 ; Manchester and Leeds, 705 71 ' • ditto Halves,3os 1; South East ern, 221 23; ditto Scrip, 115 1. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3si Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres6 per cent 2O/ Russian, 5 pet cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent...... 155 Ditto, le4 2oi Ditto, Deferred.... . Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Danish, 3 per cent — Exchange —f --e. G reek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, '3 per cent —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent 35 Dutch, 25 per cent. 515 Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per, cent. .. 1025 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. 165 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway(loo pd... 37 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... 85 Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ....•• 46 Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) . . London and Brighton (50 paid) 355 London and Birmingham (90) ...... Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 475 London and Greenwich Rai1way......15s 4d pd) 5 London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 58 London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ...) 10 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) North Midland Railway (100) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 235 Ditto Scrip (15 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto New Shares (20 paid) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY. The Church Extension party is making great literary exertions, preparatory to a demand on Parliament for hinds to extend the Church. It i 3 arranging h all its forces, drawing up all the arguments that can be mustered in its favour, counting all its friends, and, after showing its whole moral and physical strength, it appeals earnestly and threateningly to the PREMIER. He is told that the Church moralises the State ; that it is the soul of all goodness in society; his own opinions of the necessity of the State pro viding religious instruction for the whole people are not forgotten, and he is emphatically told that unless he wish both to break up his own Administration, and demoralise the people, he must, as one of the first measures of next Parliament, propose a large grant to build more churches and pay more parsons. At any rate it is plain that the next onslaught of the Conservatives on the national purse—for which they live and breathe —is to be made from the portals of the Church, with the clergy for leaders. The time seems favourable for the attainment of their object. Great evils exist in society, the origin and cure of which are not exactly known, but the clergy dogmatically and positively assert —and in :general they are believed—that their teaching is the only, and that it is a certain, re medy. Church Extension is already favoured by a large portion of well-meaning persons as a cure for our present social disorders, and it is very likely that the disputes and discrepancies of opinion amongst those who recommend worldly remedies will cause many other well meaning, but not strong-minded, persons to swallow with indifference and submission, if I they have no lively faith in its effects , the dose prescribed by the Church Extensionists. There cannot be, we are afraid, any resistance on the part of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on account of the insufficiency of the national resources. The Income-tax which the clergy have powerfully helped to recommend to the trader, fanner, and manufacturer, will yield a large surplus, which can be no better employed, according to the estimation of the Extensionists, than in show ing gratitude to the GREAT GIVER by pro viding for . an increased number of His ministers. In addition to the Income-tax, also, will Sir R. PEEL not obtain a great sum from cattle . iinported, and has he not got most unexpectedly a full million sterling from the bread of the people ? His Corn-law, in conjunction with the early harvest, has been productive of revenue, if of nothing else. To carry on war, or to build palaces with the produce of a tax on food, might be unseemly, but the end of building a church might hallow the means, and the greater the sacrifice of the people, the more sweetly might smell the incense of new churches, and the prayers of a much enlarged hierarchy. In the present temper of the public, and in the present flourishing condition of the revenue, we think it not unlikely that the Church Extensionists will succeed. And why should they not? The clergy art generally spoken of as indispensable to society ; they are generally idolised ; and we can scarcely conceive anything:which they may demand, as es sential to the performance of their duty, which those who idolise them must not be ready to grant. We think that they may succeed, and we express our fears, to put those on their guard who, differing from the Extensionists, feel bound to resist them. Their exertions must be met by corresponding exertions—not to sub stitute something else for Church Exten sion, be it education, or new sanitary re gulations, or a sharper police, but to dis prove the asserted usefulness of the Church Extension, and to establish the insolent arrogance of those who, after much experience of the in efficiency of the Church, urge her claims now as if she had never been tried and found wanting. We have, in fact, already too much Church, and too much of the priesthood, and to add to their wealth, power, and numbers, by taking a single sixpence by taxes from the industrious classes, would only hasten and embitter the quarrels which are impending over the State. Flogging in the Royal Navy, and other cruet ties inflicted on our seamen, often for the most venial offences, have long been a reproach to the country. The system was a disgrace to humanity, and, like all other acts of injustice, recoiled upon the oppressors. Some of the best of our sailors fled to the United States, and either engaged in the merchant service, or enlisted in the navy to fight against their own countrymen. Since the public voice, and the Press, began to denounce the cruel and wretched policy of our rulers, the evil i►asbeen greatly abated, personal punishment is inflicted with less severity, and greater attention is paid to the health and comfort of the men. It appears, however, by recent trials and convic tions before the Magistrates, thatithe Royal Navy is mot the only department where these brutal exhibitions take place, and that similar atrocities, not sanctioned by law, or any investigation by the officers, are constantly committed on board ships engaged in the merchant service. Not a week passes without several charges of this kind being brought before the Magistrate at Thames street Police-court, and, disgraceful and inhuman as flogging is, that mode of punishment is even surpassed by the violent and barbarous con duct of petty officers and captains of ships. They generally inflict punishment when in a passion, strike their victims with some dangerous weapon, the first generally they can lay their hands on, and in many instances the unfortunate sufferers die in consequence before they reach their native country. Some legislative enactment is required to put an end to this system of Amsterdam C F. 12 9 Ditto, at sight edam 2 U l2 9i Gibraltar Leghorn ........ 30 40 Genoa ... 26 Rotterdam Antwerp t h Hamburgh M. B. 13 14 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine... 151 i Petersburgh, 3Us ... 36i Berlin Vienna, effac. 11. 3 M 959 Trieste, ditto Madrid Cadiz 36.6 Bilbao 36 Barcelona Seville Aan ,lil ' Venice 'Naples 'Palermo, per oz 120 Lisbon Oporto 524 ;Rio Janeiro 234 (Bahia Buenos Ayres New York, 21days sight 4fa4 'Philadelphia 4tf PRICX6 OF BULLION, FEB Ur. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin ...3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars... 0 4 9i Silver in Bars ... 0 4 11i tyranny. The law as it exists certainly provides some remedy, but unfortunately the Judges look upon the authority claimed by commanders of vessels with such respect, and impress upon Juries the dangers of disobeying orders, however harsh and unwarrantable, that a lenient verdict is often returned, and a still more lenient punishment is inflicted by the Judge. Two remarkable instances of this bias have lately occurred. A respectable tradesman, who was convicted of some trifling assault on a policeman, if assault it could be called, when he was not the aggressor, was sen tenced to work for twelve months on the tread mill; while the cantain of a vessel, who had com mitted cruelties which led to the death of one of his men, was sentenced to six months' imprison ment and hard labour. This is an absolute per version ofj , tstice in favour of a particular class. If deeds of this kind were punished as they deserve, banishment for life, or for a cer tain number of years, would soon put an end to the system. It has reached such a pitch that even the Police-Magistrates c ry out against it, and seem to consider the law insufficient to protect the weaker party. On hearing two charges made by sailors against a mate and a commander yesterday, Mr. BAL, LANTINE made the following remarks, which we trust will attract the attention of the Govern ment : ' Z 19,914,000 5,098,259 2,819,749 Bank of England Private Banks Joint Stock Banks SCOTLAND. Chartered and Private Joint Stock Banks 2,648,549 IRELAND. Bank of Ireland Private and Joint Stock Banks 1,663,012 Total Bullion in the Bank of England £9,816,000 JOHN THORNTON. Stamps and Taxes, Sept. 30, 1842. He heard of these things almost daily, and the tyranny and cruelty of those encrusted with a little power on board ship, and who did not know how to use it, either drove seamen to make resistance, which was mutiny, or else to leave the ship and forfeit their wages. . If thR law was not sufficient to protect sea- ra PA RS these. other n PROMISSORY NOTES. ( From last night's Gazette.) Aa account of the average aggregate amount of Promissory Notes payable to bearer on demand , which have been in circula tion in the United Kingdom , distinguishing those circulated by ee, Private hy Bthane Banks in Scotland, by ks, and by Joint Stock the Bank of Ireland, and by a l l other 14anks i n Ireland , and of Banks, tthe Bk n o England E gi nin and d' b Wales, the Average Amount of Bullion in the Bank of England, during the four weeks ending the 17th day of September, 1842, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 : ENGLAND. _ PLEASURE EXCURSION ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Thursday morning a special train, which was a curiosity from its length and freight of pas sengers, arrived from Bristol at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, propelled by two powerful engines, and containing between 700 and 800 of the inhabitants of Bristol and its vicinity, who had availed themselves of the opportunity fur- - nished by the Directors of the railway, of making a trip at one half the usual fares to London, to pass Michaeltnas-day among their friends, and see the sights of the great metropolis. The train left Bristol at 7 A. M., and arrived at the Paddington terminus at a quarter to twelve, half an hour beyond the usual time, the delay being caused by the high wind which prevailed, and the loss of time occasioned by the train stopping to take up an additional number of passen gers, at the Bath, Chippenham, and Swindon stations. The parties, who were incumbered with little in the shape of luggage, beyond a few goodly geese for presentation among their friends, will leave town, on their return to Bristol again, by a special train at five this evening. The Government contract for the supply of 100,000 gallons of rum for the public service was taken at SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtibitt etantoii. " Who runs may read." rs ONEIY-TRADE-COMMERCE. Stourbridge fair, formerly one of the most exien sive in England, and occupying an extent of ground of nearly a mile in length, by half a mile in breadth, was opened on Monday last : it is now only a shadow of what it once was. An Anti-Corn-law meeting was held at Lower Tooting on Wednesday, at which Dr. Epps illus trated his address with a number of diagrams, pointing out geographically that the Corn-laws were at direct variance with the laws of nature, and in opposition to the will of the Creator. Mr. Sidney Smith also ad dressed the meeting. The result of the great hop fair at Robert's-bridge, in East Sussex, was unfavourable ; so bad a fair is not remembered. The total number of live cattle imported into the ports of London and Hull during September, has been 3,062 head of cattle, 570 sheep and lambs, and 311 swine. PUBLIC XVIPROVEVIENTS. The Coinmissioners of Woods and Forests have let the kitchen-garden and orchard of Kensington Palace, for building villas and cottages. No property erected on the site is to be of less value than 8001. or 900/. : some of the houses will be worth 2,000/. A new street is contemplated to be opened from Notting-hill to High-street, Kensington. ECCLESIASTICAL. The foundation-stone of the fourth of ten churches, which are to be erected in the borough of Birmingham was laid on Wednesday last by the Bishop of Wor cester : it was dedicated to St. Stephen. NAVAL &ND IVIIIACTATLY. The residences of the Military Knights of Wind sor, on the lower foundation, were on Thursday visited by the Earl of Lincoln (the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests), with the Government architect and the Clerk of the Works. They were repaired by the Crown about 40 years ago, but have since become so dilapidated as to need entire restoration or re building. LAW AND POLICE. On Thursday Wm. Dell was charged at Queen-square with having fraudulently obtained goods from a num ber of tradesmen, by representing himself as a gen tleman's butler, sent by his master. He stands re manded for a week. _ _ _ James Unwin, porter, in the employ of Messrs. Northey and Co., linen-drapers in Leicester-square, was finally examined for robbing his employers, at Marlborough-street on Thursday, and fully committed, Thomas Taylor, a lodging-house keeper in Horse lydown, was . summoned at. Union-hall on Thursday, charged with having smuggled brandy, Geneva cor dials, and tobacco, on his premises. The mitigated penalty of 501. was inflicted, and in default of pay ment committed for six months to Kingston gaol. LITEN.A.ZT AND SCIENTIFIC. Berlioz is said to be composing a new opera at Paris COU2T-F..A.kB/oNABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland remain at Dunrobin Castle till the middle of October, and will pass the winter at Trentham Hall. The Cavendish family arrive at Burlington House on Monday next. The Marquis of Tavistock has returned to Belgrave square. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster leave town next week to pass the winter in Cheshire. The Earl of Lonsdale is in treaty with the Marquis of Ailsa for the villa at Isleworth for a term. The Earl of Ilchester returned to town early in the week from Woburn Abbey. The Duke of Grafton's hearth continues favourable. The Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz arrived in town on Thursday, and visited the National Gallery. Mr. and Mrs. Paul and Miss Beauclerk have re turned to Ivy Cottage, Parson's-green, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. MISCELLANEOUS. The section of Chartists at Birmingham, known by the name of the " National Co m p lete Suffra g e Union," have published their manifesto, inviting political Re formers of all shades of opinion to a "N ational Con ference" in that town, in December next. The income-tax, according to several landlords, is forcing many persons to quit large houses for lower and more economical positions. COURT CIRCULAR. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD' S MAGAZINE. The concluding volume of Mr. Alison's " Eu ropean History" forms the subject of an eloquent but prejudiced notice in the present Number of this Magazine. The Reviewer is, of course, an ardent panegyrist of the historian, for the poli tics of the one are, with scarcely a shade of dif ference, the politics of the other; and observes of his work, that it is one of the " noblest" pro ductions of the age. The work is certainly an able one--that is to say, it shows great variety of research: great skill and patience in comparing and sifting — evidence ; and great impartiality, considering that the author is a zealous Tory, and that the exciting period of which he treats, is one calculated to call forth all political pre judices ; but while we allow that Mr. Alison's history possesses these u questionable recom mendations, we must observe, on the other hand, that its sketches of character are often erroneous, and still oftener superficial ; that it lays down hasty premises, and drawsfrom them still hastier c:mclusions ; that its descriptions—especially of battles, in which the author evidently delights— though frequently picturesque and spirited, are deformed by tawdry and inflated verbiage; and that its style abounds in Scotticisms, and is too thickly studded with trope and simile to suit the grave, sober dignity of the historic muse. Still, even with these drawbacks, it is by far the best English history we have of Europe during the gigantic wars of the Revolution, and if judiciously abridged, would be invaluable as a work of re ference. Alluding to the grand and comprelien . sive subject of whiCit Mr. Alison treats, the Re viewer says, " The French Revolution has wholly passed away. We have seen its cradle, its maturity, and its grave." This may be true, as regards the great outbreak itself ; but the bold democratic spirit which prompted that out .__ break, still walks the earth. tVe can trace its in fluence in every. recent popular movement in France ; while hi England, it makes itself felt and feared as Chartism, which is the alias by which it is now best known among us. The de mocratic spirit, quickened by the French Revo lution, has yet a mighty task to achieve ere it can be said to have fulfilled the mission on which it was sent by destiny. Speaking cursorily of modern historians, the Reviewer, after paying a generous and deserved tribute to the transcendant merits of Gibbon, remarks of his celebrated contemporary, Robertson, that he "has sincerity, knowledge, and a serious, yet forcible eloquence." This is very vague, general criticism, and like a general invitation, it means nothing. Robert son's chief excellence is the clear and distinct views he exhibits of periods and events .which the. nattire of his sUbject.will not alioW him to do more than. just ,brietiy, glance at, as in „his intro duction to " Charles the,,Fifth," where . . he- gives a brief, butadmirably digested and lucid summary of the rise and progress of the feudal system ; and his chief defect is. the heavy, languid monotony of his manner, and the- cumbrous and artificial construction of his :Sentences. With tire Re viewer's opinions of Hallam we cordially agree ; but not so with his remark, that " the later writers of history in England have scarcely risen beyond the rank of compilers." Surely Sharon Turner, the laborious, exact, scrupulous chro nicler of the Anglo Saxon ages; Ling,ard, the more than Ml of Hume—his superior iu all the qualities, save style, that constitute the historian; Thirlwall, whose history of Greece is beyond all question the best that has yet ap peared, Mitford's being a mere school-boy's essay compared with it; —surely, these writers are something better than mere compilers! The Reviewer, we suspect, is wholly unacquainted with their works, or be would not have hazarded sr) flippant an observation. His character of Carnot is still more to be objected to; but dais, not from its flippancy, but its fierce Prejudices He condemns the sturdy Republican, because he was a member of Robespierre's Government, forgetting —or, what is more probable, not caring to remember—that Carnot had nothing at all to do with the cruelties then practised, but uni formly kept aloof from his Terrorist colleagues, and confined himself exclusively to the war department, and the creating and provisioning of fourteen vast armies, whic he precipitated on the frontiers, and by so doing saved France, when almost every one but himself despaired of her salvation ! " We believe," adds the Reviewer, " that Carnot was one of those who voted for the death of Louis the Sixteenth." He might have been positive of the fact with perfect safety, for the great Republican's vote was given in these memorable words, which the Reviewer ought not to have forgotten—" Death, and never was a decision come to with such reluctance !" " Poems and Ballads of Schiller" are translated with singular spirit and elegance, by one whose powers of versification are of no ordinary character. " Ricardo and Adam Smith" is a clever essay, but by no meana so interesting or imaginative as a fairy-tale. We have read it with about the same pleasure that we should read Cocker's Arithmetic, whose plot, characters, and incidents, &c., so puzzled poor James Hogg, that he pronounce) it to be the most bewildering love-story that had ever been recommended to his perusal. " Sketches of Italy" are somewhat dull and common place; hut the subject is scarcely susceptible of novel treatment. "Caleb Stokely" gives the bio graphical sketch of a young gentlewoman, M 153 Emma Fitzjones, whose ini4ortune it was to be descended from a race of drunkards ; and who took special care that the family failing should not be extinguished in her person. Accordingly she indulged in strong waters till her nose blushed like a mulberry, and resembled " the tower of Lebanon that looketh toward Damas cus." Her reminiscences are exciting and pala table enough, for the flavour of brandy and water impregnates every line. " The League's Re venge" is a political diatribe, full of misstate ments. From the review of " Alison's Europe," we quote a graphic sketch. of the waning glories of Napoleon in the memorable year, 1813: The spell was now consciously broken. The star whose influence had hitherto grown into a kind of gallant and illustrious credulity, a brilliant supersti tion of soldiership, was now swept from the sky. Even the name of Napoleon was no longer the sound of a trumpet ; and the Man of France had suddenly sunk down from that exaltation which, whether fic titieus or true, makes men soldiers, and makes sol diers heroes ; into the level of which all things must become common-place, and small and personal inter ests supersede the splendid illusions of our general being. The heart of imperial France was broken, aad she was thenceforth to be prepared to meet her share in the common burdens and contempts that be long to the sufferers and strugglers among mankind. Posterity will not believe things; and in a hundred or a thousand years hence, the philosopher, turning over the eloquent pages of this history, will attribute a large portion of their fervid imagery to the ardour of a contemporaneous mind—the overwrought pres sure of the time. But the philosopher will be wrong, and the historian right; the only defect in the de scriber will be the native weakness of human expres- I sion to speak of impulses and causes beyond the re sources of language. No speech of man can realise the actual sensation with which the power of France was really regarded in its days of power. No con ception of atter times can approach the mixture of fear, astonishment, and anxiety, the solemn won der, and even the mysterious and fearful admiration, with which Europe looked on the throne of Napo leon. Yet, what must be the effect on the general human mind, of living in the perpetual presence of a sovereign which had concentrated all the powers of the vast French empire on conquest—which had turned every monarch into a vassal; whose armies were poured out by the hundred thousand—whose march was from capital to capital, and whose tri umphs had the extent, rapidity, and completeness of something beyond man ! Even the language of the time felt the impression of these extraordinary events, and the phrases of " Invincible," "Son of Destiny," " Irresistible," " King-maker," though given in other days in the sycophancy of courtiers or the terror of slaves, were given to the head of this fearful empire and army, almost by a natural use of words. The impression is wearing away now even among our selves, but it was not the less vivid while it existed. In the conquering days of Napoleon there was but one name in the world, and that name was his own. His- guilt, his personal vices, his perfidy, and his reckless love of blood, were as fully acknowledged then as at this moment, when we are recounting the causes which brought him to his grave ; but success, genius, grandeur of plan, and triumph of execution, had given him an elevation in the eye of Europe to which no man, for a thousand years before him, had been raised, and to France a power, not merely over the frame of nations, but the mind, which almost divested submission of its disgrace, and to which the simple-resistance ' as it was resisted for many a passive and painful year by England, with a title to glory. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. —Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe (Lady in Waiting), and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, rode out this afternoon in a pony carriage and four, fol lowed by the Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Hamilton, Maids of Honour in Waiting, in another pony carriage ; his Royal Highness Prince Albert riding on horseback, attended by- the Equerries in Waiting - , Colonel Bouverie and General Weityss. Sir Henry Wheatley took his departure from the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, will join the Royal Circle at the Castle at dinner this evening. The band of the 15th Regiment will perform during dinner, and her Majesty's private band will be in attendance in the Castle during the evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Frances Lady Clinton, left her residence, Bushy house, Bushy-park, yesterday morning, for Kew, to visit her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Soon after her arrival at Kew, a dejeune was served, of which her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Mecklen burg Strelitz, partook. The Queen Dowager, attended by Frances Lady Clinton, took her departure from Kew in the after noon for town, and arrived at her residence, Marlbo rough-house, shortly before five o'elock. His Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz visited the British Museum on Thursday, and inspected the various collections. In the evening his Serene Highness attended the per formance at Covent-garden Theatre. Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. John Gregory kad an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Ccuncil, and Lady Wharriclitre, left their residence in Curzon street yesterday morning, for Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office, Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Ceylon, and also for the Governor of the Falkland Islands. ERRONEOUS OPINIONS TOUCHING THE SUDDEN DEATHS OF CHILDREN.-At an inquest held on Thurs day by Mr. Wakley, M.P., on the body of a child that had died suddenly, he made the following obser vations to the jury :—lt was extremely erroneous to suppose that children who were found dead had been overlaid, or otherwise suffocated by their mothers. Nature had so well provided for the preservation of the most helpless of her offspring, that a child over laid or placed in bed in a s uffocating position would, for self-preservation sake struggle, and scream so violently as in most cases to wake not only the mother or nurse, but the other inmates of the house. The generality of cases like the prese nt were instanc es of sudden death, and not of any s ort of suffocation. The pale hue of th e skin showed that it had not been suffocated ; but that was not by any means an infallible test, for lately he had held an inquest on two lads of the same age. who died from the same• cause—viz., imbibing foul air whilst asleep on the top of a lime-kiln. The skin of one of them was as white as the paper before him, a proof of natural death ; the skin of the other was of a deep vermillion colour, and the features were bloated, proofs of death from suffocation. He would also observe, that in the cases of the sudden deaths of illegitimate children, whose mothers received no sums for maintenance from the fathers (and it was so in the present instance), jurors were too prone to entertain suspicions that the mothers had acted unnaturally. Such suspicions ought not to be entertained, unless cruelty and ill-treatment were proved, for it every day happened that children, those of the rich and most affluent, were found dead in their cradles, whilst asleep on mattresses, where they could not possibly be over laid or suffocated, and in the midst of play the infant heirs to large possessions had the hand of death sup denly placed upon them. It was wrong to suppose, that because poor frail woman often became the vic tim of seduction, the sin she thereby committed stifled in her bosom the natural love of offspring all the fe male creation happily possess. It did not do so, and it vas very doubtful whether illegitimate or legitimate children were the most belo ved of their mothers. SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREETS. - Mr. Wakl e y h w e o ld rk a h n ou in se r oensttohne body Thu of John Tate, aged 35. It rsday at the St. Marylebone appeared that the deceased , who was a broker's assist -ant, lived in Circus-street , N ew-road. On Mond ay afternoon last he left hom e on business, p revious to which h e , as was rather u nusual, kissed his wife an d child affectio na t e ly, bidding th em each " good by e ." He then seemed in perfect health, and had the same day said that he never felt bette r in his life. Shortly afterwards he was proceeding a lon g the north s ide of Bryanstone square, when, on arriving opposite No. 24, he was observed suddenly to stagger and fall on the steps. Assistance being immediately rendered he was carried to a surgeon s, where life being pro nounced extinct, he was removed to the above insti tution. The Jury having remarked upon the many instances of sudden death which had of late occurred, returned a verdict of " Natural death." BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. There are several entertaining tales and sketches in this month's " Miscellany ;" and foremost among them is an ingenious story entitled " Hunting John Dory," which describes the dis appointments endured by an epicure in his hunt after this daintiest of sea-fish. He had seen it lying full-length on the slab of a fishmonger's shop, and on making. inquiries as to its destina tion, fbund that it was just going to be despatched to the house of one of his most intimate friends. Off he goes there without an instant's loss of time, hoping to receive an invitation to dinner ; but in course of conversation he learns that his friend intends to dispatch the dainty, by way of present, to a neighbour. The epicure's next visit is to that envied neighbour; but here again denouement, however, is somewhat tio.! he is disappointed ; at last, after tracking the melo-dramatic i n i ts c h arac t er . From drollt'`u John Dory from house to house, with the despe- " Five Incumbents" w e quo t e a brief, rite pertinacity of a bloodhound, lie achieves the : sketch of a mischievous se h oo lshoy. ‘i As a great object of his ambition, and makes a hearty boy," observes the you scam p, ~ I was fond:, dinner off the fish, which by some means or other science, and investig a ted th e p owers and Pr°l'., .! ' has found its way into the kitchen of Sir Robert ties of a squ irt ; b u t b e i ng soon t i re d o f soilirtl l n. .: Walpole. These incide n ts, it w ill be seen, bur- l a t i nsec t s , I ma d e up my m i n d to h ave a shot_ -_, der closely on the extravagant, but they are ! a man or a woman —l did not care w hich. i 'v l .- , ' skilfully wrought up ; and here and there occurs 1 garden pal e s ra n par a ll e l w ith th e high road. irt a touch of genuine humour. " Mr. Ledbury's i hid myself behind them, and loaded my W eb .- • - Grand Tour" recounts the adventures of an un- 1 with dirty ditch-water. I heard a step aPPw' l . n d sophisticated cockney who journeys to Paris, in ing, caught a glimpse of a well-dressed man , : s company with a sprightly, rakish adventurer— let - fly ! I felt I had succeeded, for I heard one Jack Johnson, who leads ' him into all sorts hearty and well-developed oath. In a few sec ° ,. e d of scrapes. This amusing scamp's character is the f'ace and neckcloth of a gentleman apPe, 9 l„ l , , • hit off with . ..was then sure I bad D_ A . . diverting by-sketch of a pretty French grisette, successful, for both were covered with duek-we: . who, desiroi;s of being thought to speak our lan- and green slime. He wielded a bamboo at 1 11 _ . ,, gunge with fluency, says, " I spik Angleesh— and threatened to break every bone in mY skin' 0 rosbif—Got-dam—pot-portare," which she thinks In an amusing essay, entitled "Horse and Foo t , is an unanswerable proof of her perfect acquaint- Mr. Hood thus alludes to his own deficienci es .. 7 ante with the English tongue. "My First Client, an equestrian : the Bishop," is a story of two clever Irish rogues, Th e c h ase o f course exc it es my a d m i r ation scini ~ ci i . i .: tle. one of whom passes himself off as a Bishop won d er , an d, lik e L or d Ch es t er fi e ld, I u nfeigne to a simple and inexperienced young London at- marvel—but for a different reason—that any gen o f -: torney. This hoax is improbable enough, but still man ever goes t o i t a secon d t i me. A chapte r. ' 1 g',' more improbable is it that a London attorney Nimrod's invariably gives me a crick in the nett bu t should possess either simplicity or innocence. We can well believe that "it is the pace that kills, T __, de . should just.as soon think of suspecting Satan of w h y rat i ona l b e i ngs w i t h t h at conv i ct i on s h o uld ' ii. .. Methodism. All attorneys—whether young or t o b e kill e d, excee d s my compre h ens i on. F or my oo, it old, rich or poor, metropolitan or provincial— part, could such a pace ever come into fashi°l,',a,:' are necessarily as keen as Sheffield razors; and would be suicidal in me to attempt to hunt at a - or ~ even the dullest among them is as sharp as the or even in a walk. Ride and tie, perhaps, if, as I ' o i , ' appetite of a crocodile after a banyan day. This pose, it means one's being tied on—but no, g I Y bat' , .l is an axiom which—unlike the patent safety cabs genius would evade even that security. Above a11,_56 —cannot be overturned. The ~ Forged Will" is for certain visits to Epsom and Ascot,l should have qe, , , a story of wild and fearful interest, professing to down horse-racing as a pleasant fiction. That Buckle').; be founded on fact. " Bartholomew Fair, Past without being buckled on, should have reachscl, so ';'' and Present" describes the glories of this rollick- age he attained to—or that Day should have hM e s. , , , ing holiday festival, as it existed in the good old long a day—are to my mind "remarkable insb`fi c e:: . times—say, half a century ago. It is now, we of longevity" far more wonderful than any recorn,di, fear, numbered amons , the things that were, in the newspapers. How a jockey can bestride, greatly, no doubt, to the satisfaction of the im- what is more, start with one of those thorough'' mortsil author of the " Lord Mayor's Voyage to stee d s, i s to me a stand i ng, or rather runni,„nt, e s-''-' Oxford," who some years ago formally de- rat h er fl y i ng m i racle. Were I a Robinson or a "tie; flounced it from the pulpit at Pirnlico, as a scene I s h ou ld certa i n l y th i nk of the plate as a coffin'T for . . of awful vice and villainy, where reckless liber- and that, the stakes were such as those that wer e -4 '-''' . , - , tines were constantly on the look-out for un- merly driven through self-murderers' bodies. _t: , sophisticated maid-servants, whom they too It would appear, then, that a rider, like s l'i;r! ) ' : often tempted to " let go the anchor of their must be born and not made—that there are virginity ! If we remember rightly, these were races of men as differently fated as the silver;sP,;l4!':: Dr. Dillon's own words; and wonderfully ex- and the wooden-ladled—some coming into the ir,, ti s,' pressive they are, and sure to create an intense 30 to speak, at Ryde, others, like myself, at -i7l o P'' ) . sensation, when delivered from a Pimlico pulpit. cray, and thus, by necessity, equestrians or "A Campaign with the Christinos" contains trians. In fact, to corroborate this theory', t 7, if,'" j , some graphic descriptions, together with charac. the Championship, which, being hereditary', .1" . 0` teristic sketches of : well-known Spanish leaders. least one instance of a gentleman being ordaill'i l e:, " The Philosophy of Time" is somewhat obscure horseback from his birth. As to me, instead .f. , ,,,,, 0 0 4 , -: and enigmatical-as.regards the ' letter-press por- trograding through Westminster-hall on Cato, •-ir.0 , ,. tion of the article; but the embellishments are have backed out of the office.- It is probable , 1; lively and' faticiful ;'aftd : the engraving 'entitled Ever; -that 'beside - 'the causes' alread' "ehtiite ril f ,re; A `W TO-day" Thrills 'a Striking pictorial allegory. something of my inaptitude may be due to 1 11 : 1 4,0e; e close with, ao extract from Ingoldsby's Cession. It has been remarked elsewhere as ttr;i a t4 ° ' ' whimsical version of the legend of the„ "Babes that "sedentary persons seldom have a:gonct 00 47, in the 'Wood." The wicked uncle, having re- and literary men generally appear to have' he r :L l - 01 '1 '.:, solved on getting rid of his deceased brother's par, as to horsemanship, with the sailors. ' 1 "7,,;14 . children, sends for two Bravos, as is duly stated thor of " Paul Pry," in an extremely Lu n— se* in the following stanzas : naper, has recorded his own quadrupedal mischfitf, Having thought on the How and the When Coleridge, for a similar or still greater inealT o alt To get rid of his nephew and niece, was discharged from a dragoon regiment. i ' s life. He now sent for two ill-looking men, avowe dly never wen t " h orse - p i c kb ac k" in b bold . And he gave them five guineas a piece.— Byron, for all his ambition to be thought a s ub' Says he, " Each of you take up a child cavalier, and in spite of his own hints on th e f r On the crupper, and when you have trotted j e ct, appear s to h ave b een suc h an i n differem s i fe, Some miles through that wood lone and wild, ormer—andi Sir Walter Scott, as we read in I' ll f al Take a knife out and cut its carotid ! " tumbled from his galloway, and Sir HumPhrY Bs ‘4 16 l:.. "Done" and " done" is pronounced on each side, umped over him. Even Shakspeare, as far , ef et While the poor little dears are delighted have any account of his knowledge of horses , at',,, ?,ot beyond holding them. Lord Chesterfield l To think they a cock-horse shall ride, And are not in the least degree frighted; scribed Doctor Johnson's appearance in the saute p-I'.'4 out the catalogue would be too tedious. Su ° e sce,4 They say their "Ta! Ta!" as they start, riding be the "poetry of motion," authors ,,,ii ,5 And they prattle so nice on their journey, her in its prose. That the rogues themselves wish to their heart rat ./ They could finish the job by attorney. Nay, one was so taken aback By seeing such spirit and life in them, That he fairly exclaimed, "I say, Jack, I'm blow'd if I Can put a knife in them !" " Pooh!" says his pal, "you great dunce! You've pouch'd the good gentleman's money, So out with your whinger at once, And scrag Jane, while I spiflicate Johnny !" FRASER'S MAGAZINE. a te? In an introduction to a " Life of Sir 1 > In Maxwell," which heads this Number, the,f s isso'' expresses his gratification at having °lnso ,l such a memoir, which, he adds, is "a t s set;') original and authentic." We think he „,sso rates the value of the biographical conune7,l s 1 Lion he has secured, for the gallant 1 311 :t s' i however exemplary he might have been ' •°t ~ s private capacity, was, as a public charalo ittle or no importance, and is already' a' a r, Ibrgotten. He achieved no naval trittinPhs'ises played no striking talents for naval wart: e% ot,' is only remarkable for having stood for $ 13. 00:, of Westminster, in opposition—if we realr a sfks rightly—to Sir John Hobhouse. Here-''_,, anecdote of his infancy, which is the only 00 e 7 . taining one we can find in the present. 1 4. . '' of c h a i p s ta b in m iogr a a x p w h e y ll — had in his service a lad_s'lv-11.''r:lifii often exhibited sig ns o f a b a d as well es Of `imbue temper, but whom no one suspec t e d o f beiega s ' y tisio 3 " I with a dispositi on a b so l u t e l y di a b o li ca l. One was' tt%„'s' youth committed some fault, for which I s e h!",, corrected him. He took his beating sulkily, fir;'' was apt to do, but no more was thought of the Tail) and, by and by, Captain and Mrs. Maxwel l ' si 3OP the children at home, went, according to a Pil a s ss i i engagement, to spend a day or two with the ,are ti;', Galloway. That very night the groom set botriblii Penningham Manse, and so managed his „ so t P'' scheme, that, but for the working of some reul i ' o ftb t , better feeling within his own breast, the wh° l l, 4 oo o ,' inmates must have perished. There was, it ' L .r ve b, one of Captain Maxwell's children, we bel le T eldest son, to whom the lad was much attache d ' 0 01 thought of giving him over to certain death v'zs g ro e t than even the incendiary could endure, so h e rti pe' s through the smoke and flames into the 0 1 31 '. 0 0 . r t where his favourite lay and called him 1 1 11 „ - / tr . rise. Happily, there were other occupant s %Aape chamber than one. The alarm was instantly biolf, the cry ran from room to room, and w ithout it i erf 0 1 1 so much as to put on their apparel, the me in btls: the family ran into the open air. They In et bsbel was to discover that two were still missing, ° 1 . 5 . Murray was one. We have been given to u nde 4 that of the horrors of that moment, when , s ilk, suddenly out of sleep, he found his chambe r s ., tP', -with smoke, Sir Murray Maxwell retained, ,y e isb? last day of his life, a distinct recollection. 1- ' ho d could he tell, except from the reports of othetsciio he and his younger brother escaped. " i t,:e . arm," he used to say, "seized us. I was t ''' . a b bomy little brother a year and a-half old, an . I wrapped up in the coverlid, we neither saw n°ressfi more, till we found ourselves in the midst of 1 !, of people, all of whom were shouting 'lnstill' fes s' r ig fact was, that a blacksmith, who used to w°, l ' l ‘ iv , family, not finding the two boys beside w e - 4 at the muster, eagerly inquired for them. l i t „ t hew si g ascertained, and not before, that they haan - r s , removed from their chamber; and in their e" ot 9; they would have doubtless perished, had, . 1 , 1 1 00, 7. promptitude of the blacksmith been as consPt o sti - :h action as it had first shown itself to be in dell:9 The gallant fellow dashed through the blazing' ran up-stairs, burst open the children's door, ti Prso them up tightly in the coverlids and called t° ne d.);e below to receive his burden. He then clr°Pr t r7; ss e unconscious boys into the arms that were out s . v eir e i to break their fall, and saved himself by leap '.' 4 . • the garden. jo‘ 00 2 " My Life and Times" by Nimrod vi e;, ( 1, brought to a close. We have read the ' 4 with interest, and have been particularlYosiif," with the biographer's account of b biih ) • studies, and the classical criticisms in _ .... ,,m r j s i l ls freely indulges. He tells us that " Te',lii was the first work that ever called for t 11,1 a decided love of reading; and .that . „„noir s ak which made a deep and lasting - inif l rv - 4 0 1 V his mind was " Roderick Random."'" ario4 that lie tried hard to get through Ri',oo , P 9 'ol novels, but could not succeed—and flo c p i for despite the interested eulogiums 9,; a 4r , l e Johnson, the author of " Clarissa 1 1 30 , Of was a prolix and insipid writer, .° o f 0 0 stead of taxing the sensibilities - t it so' is readers, taxed only their patience. I , e h iogl I be confessed there are some. fine : n d lii Richardson. The spirit, and grace) '-, yrs „,se' Lovelace's letters will not easily be se i :1 0", i 0 0 and the morning scene at the notab' e fsin 'sO house in Soho.square is one of the rnes t i oteA bits of painting in the language, as Kon a 1 A vigorous, and as matter-of-fact, as , , c eo , s ie " Gin-lane." But these rare excelle l sr ste . : 4 l , not compensate fbr whole pages of ' O, .L tame prolixity. Quitting English autl i° o ess9 ll rod proceeds to speak of the Latin , w e' iset 11 says of Virgil's pet hero, that he is ' as skslia i pious, valiant, good-natured, patient, ~.g es s , ,s. 0 to his purpose." Fine epithets .t ll ti aiti, wholly unmerited by the " pius...S'f o si,4 SO' was a methodistical scamp, a.canting e - of Oki, that most heartless of characters, .a '7 toSnsle seducer. His mean, tricky condue: thee whom lie deserted, as he pretended, o ", ei , sails mind of Apollo, is not to be forgut` e . ) o 9 :o4 given. Having seduced her Cartnsciolo7oo jesty under promise of marriage, h e ca._ a Id' —as Winifred Jenkins would saY" - ,‘ „ , e: ,, v 1 an honest woman of her;" and li d 10 ,0 0 llido's advisers, we should certain Y' _ ,4,10500 commended her bringing an action i' 0 " 11 ' 00;1 of promise," which would, no doub'';', a dS., O l, brought /Eneas to his senses, for ' , le i l eet te h el l derful care for his own personal re_7 l) a s l e tf and was never so :moralss, his. Nef f; Referring on his lulu o bSe beo Referring to Terence, 'Nimrod to site' "he has no charms for me." -N•or ibr o siPi ci d; for we think him an elegant, but ' e v er.-`o ° matist, whose best scenes scare ely e tho s% a' more than a languid smile. Pia! JELL S, ig 0 12f At ? so choice or polished in his lang-tiage4 a boOPY" dozen Terences. His " Amphisi •you He refus'd, and harsh language ensued, Which ended at length in a duel, When he that was mildest in mood Gave the truculent rascal his gruel ; The Babes quake with hunger and fear, While the ruffian his dead comrade, Jack buries ; Then he cries, " Loves, amuse yourselves here With the hips, and the haws, and the blackberries ! " I'll be back in a couple of shakes ; So don't, dears, be quivering and quaking : I'm going to get you some cakes, And a nice butter'd roll—that's a-baking!" He rode off with a tear in his eye, Which soon ran down his rough cheek and wet it, And he said to himself with a sigh, " Pretty souls !—don't they wish they may get it !" From that moment the Babes ne'er caught sight Of the wretch who thus wrought their undoing, But passed all that day and that night In wandering about and " boo-hoo''-ing. The night proved cold, dreary, and dark, So that, worn out with sighing and sobbings, Next morn they were found stiff and stark, And stone-dead, by two little Cock-Robins. These two little birds it sore grieves To see what so cruel a dodge I call, They cover the bodies with leaves, An interment quite ornithological ; It might more expensive have been, But I doubt, though I've not been to see 'ern, If among those in all Kensal Green You could find a more neat Mausoleum. Now, whatever your rogues may suppose, Conscience always makes restless their pillows, And Justice, though blind, has a nose, That sniffs out all conceal'd peccadilloes. The wicked old Uncle, they say, In spite of his riot and revel, Was hippish and qualmish all day, And dreamt all night long of the d—L He grew gouty, dyspeptic, and sour, And his brow, once so smooth and so placid, Fresh wrinkles acquired every hour, And whatever he swallowed turned acid. The neighbours thought all was not right, Scareely one with him ventured to parley, And Captain Swing came in the night, And burnt all his beans and his barley. There was hardly a day but some fox, Ran away with his geese and his ganders, His wheat had the mildew, his flocks Took the rot, and his horses the glanders ; His daughters drank rum in their tea, His son, who had gone for a sailor, Went down in a steamer at sea, And his wife ran away with a tailor. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mrs. Trollope quizzes the " Whims and Oddi ties" of brother Jonathan with, if possible, in creased relish this month. Her notable ' Wi dow Barnaby" is now on a visit at the country seat of Colonel and Mrs. Beauchamp, near New Orleans; and is of course smitten with a sudden admiration of the slave system, which she looks on as the pride and the safeguard of Yankee land. Equally as a matter of course, her host and hostess are astonished to find so much ge nuine liberality of sentiment in a thorough-bred Englishwoman ; and the compliments that pass between the parties in consequence—each striv ing which can " pepper the highest"—are con ceived in the broadest spirit of caricature. It is impossible not to be diverted with Mrs. Trollope's ludicrous and sarcastic sketches of American character, even while we utterly repudiate them as studies from nature. " More Hullahbaloo" is a good-humoured quiz on Mr. Hullak's musical system, which is just now in such high favour with the long-eared denizens of the West-end. "Epigram on a late Cattle-show in Smithfield" is in Mr. Hood's archest manner. But our read ers shall judge for themselves : " Old farmer Bull is taken sick, Yet not with any sudden trick Of fever, or his old dyspepsy ; But having seen the foreign stock, It gave his system such a shock, He's had a fit of cattle-epsy." In " Short Rides in au Author's Omnibus," we meet with some shrewd aphoristic remarks. " Desdemona," says Mr. Horace Smith, " saw the Moor's complexion in his mind; and a dark or dirty deed may assume a very fair aspect, when we look at it through the purse. That man must be a sturdy moralist, who does not prefer his cash to his conscience; and what casuist ever wanted an excuse fur a profitable traisgression?" Here is another aphorism equally true to life—" For stopping a man's mouth, when lie is in the habit of uttering disagreeable truths, there is no gag like gold. Complaint having been made to a certain bishop, that a vicar in his diocese was always preacoing against pluralities, I will silence him in less than a week' said the prelate; and so he did, by giving the vicar an additional benefice." Sir Robert Walpole, it may be remembered, adopted a similar method for silencing patriots. When their clamour be came inconvenient to him, he gave them a fat sinecure ; ond their noise ceased in an instant, as if by miracle. -" "Reminiscences of a Medical Student " are related with an impressive ear nestness of manner. that keeps the reader's attention on the stretch throughout. Ile tal 111 E Sel Pro ari