The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

Juthor.is right in his assertion that "the grand era `'of French cookery may be dated from the commence zment of. the imperial regime." We always imagined „that the science--for a science it assuredly is—had ~.reached its. highest point of perfection during the reign of the Regent Orleans. Certainly never was it in such universal esteem as then. Lady Morgan, in one of her pleasant _works on France, has furnished us Avithisomn racy gossip respecting Carema, the great v.tOtik . of his' day, who invented such an exquisite ", iioe . that a man might digest his own grandfather Wiffi • it, hitt even he does not appear to have ?en so transcendant a genius iart ; for this Aast inspired artist, by the magic force of his genius, ,aety c s. - lkveonverted a ham, far gone in decomposition, biiittojoim oClthe most fragrant and delicious dainties 31iliatiimer-electrifled the palate of a gastronomist ! In 0-ShortAtidesin an Author's Omnibus," Mr. Horace Sonithindulges in some felicitous aphoristic reflections, 114 24 ciallY on the subject of jokes and joking. '.Nothing," he Obser - ves, "is so delightful as a few jkiwers in a room, but if they be too numerous, their AlourS sicken. Thus it is with the flowers of wit." . j Barnabys in America" is clever, but in parts ..o)o;wire-d rawn . Mrs. Trollop has now landed her 4:i-ourite , family of the Barnabys in New Orleans, where, of course, they are all busily engaged in seek ng! " like Apollyon, whom they may devout.." -11eo-ollections -of Eton" furnish us with a pic turesque sketch of the Montem—one of the few re taining holiday pageants of the days of Henry the Like other pageants, we suppose this also be ere long allowed to fall into disuse, for the )_current. of public opinion seems to be gradually set tg iii artinst it. " Recollections in Natural His-. Convey instructive information in a familiar, 1 146§unaiag manner. We are sorry to hear this-eha 4",!eter, of Mi nerva ' s p e t-bi r d, th e ow l. A cco rding t o lab)Mthor' s account, he must be a most unscrupulous f ir* "-in his eating Owls are nbt -beloved by other birds, especially the smaller ones, for the latter, kno: w well enough that the-former will make no scru ple of gobbling up their young ones, and sometimes making free with themselves. Sir Wm. Jardine found the remains of a thrush in an individual of the species O f Which we are now treating." As a .specimen of Mr' s. Trollop - es descriptive powers in her new tale, we , 91 1 9'te her sketch of dip fat landlady of a New Orleans hotel jlie person of Mrs. Carmichael, the dimensions of which. were, seen in whatever direction she could be placed, very nearly six feet - by four; was not only enor- Potts in size, but so astonishingly-out of all ordinary S hape, as to make it no easy matter to clothe it at all. It it not very surprising, therefore, 'considering' the pro fligious.bulk of e very limb, whereby every movement beeame a labour; that Mrs. Carmichael could get into her clothes with as little labour and 'pains as possible. And then-the heat ! Boor Mrs. Carmichael suffered dreadfully from the heat, and certainly cared 'greatly less how her draperies looked in the eyes of others, than how they felt to herself. So her. enormous white calico , gown •-withits colossal. hangi ng - sleeves, w as f as t ene d so • itioseiyin the front by one single pin, as to create per petual alarm in the bystaxders, as to the stability 'of the investiture by which this very important portion of her revering was Attached.. There was indeed what might have been about: a - yard. square of pink gauze loosely lucked innrouud the bust but even this depended for its adhesion to the aforesaid pin, and without it must ItaiTe.ilbated away into air still thinner than itself. Xotwithstanding the immensity of Mrs. Carmichael's per: oft, itwas not, .as in the case of a preternaturally expansive -oak-tree, the result of advanced age, every year of which had' added to its bulk. All the fat which ad thus miraculously found a resting-place on the bones 91 --atr's eirMichael, hacl been eonsiderab'yless than forty Years in collecting itself together, and had her face been finished by one chin instead of three, and the rest 'of her featnres in less evident danger - of being smothered, she 'sould have been far from ill-looking. Excepting the pink gauze and the white robe already described, with the probable garment under it, together with her lar g e slippers, and pro b a bl y stockings, se was as much with out the foreign aid .of ornament as Eve herself. Stays she had none; she wore nothing, on . her head; nor wits_ thime the.slightest reason whatever to suppose that she "sat . embarrass.edhy anything ilkore in the way of cloth ing,than wh a t h as a l rea dy b een d esc ribed. I.xcepting, th e hartl,btimi thing, and an occasional eja culation expressive of fatigue from mowing, Mrs. ear- Weitzel uttered nothing for several minutes after she en tOted the apartment.- Having at length made her way to the part ct the room; where Major Allen Barnaby stood ikening himself, shedropped du wn upon a large cane chair, without any arms,overy part-of which, back and all, became so completely invisible, that, she seemed to have perched .herself on a three-legged- stool—having thus deposited her person, she fixed her soft eyes on the major's, face, and seemed to expect that he should speak first. Bat her heavy breathing gave her so much the appearance 'of being, as yet ; unfit for any exertion, that her visiter was too polite to address her, and it was there fore-Mrs. Carmichael herself who at last opened the con- Versat ion. Oa r bat is your pita-awe,. sir r said she, in a voice which; notwithstanding her want of breath, was harmo nio-tis, though somewhat drawling. I have called, madam," he replied, "at the request of onrfriend Captain Titus, to inquire whether you can aceommodateour party with board and lodging." =Wlrs.:Carmichael eyed the numerous grroup very corn • i "!3'6r the whole kit of you, sir i" she demanded, with - ti mule as in; get as it was possible a smile could be from lip s so overwhelmed by cheeks. tt • Yes, madam, for all of us." ii: 4 : `And for a goodish spell, sir ?" - *'"Very likely,. madam ; but that , must depend on Cit.- emnstance s ." aOf course, sir, of course. Well then, 1-do not know -'-•I rather 'expect I might make it convene, provided any-- ti,ro of the ladies could lie together." • • _ - FRASER' S MAGAZINE. After a long interval Dr. Maginn has at length re limed his ‘, for no Homeric Ballads." We are glad of this, of the day is better .able—when he Ple.aes— tn.give a spirited version of Homer, or_ more thoroughly appreciates the genius of his original. But he is apt to be careless at times, and to thrust in un warranted expletives, for the mere purpose of saving himself trouble and :keeping out the rhyme. In his prese n t translation of the latter part of the fourteenth book of the Iliad, more than one instance of this negli gence occurs. Thus the terse, simple description, eouic tvo y otE ; which literally means, " and the- stAeiadour ascended to Heaven," in allusion to the flas hing light of the arms of the Greeks—is expanded into this verb ose couplet, And their brilliant beam, in dazzling stream. the ascending soared." • Again, the lines immediately following, viz uro 6si XTIP7rO; IrOGO - 11 , Apar fil v . Ey , E thETGIOI Mit:TO - En 610;AX1AAnc. Are thus loosely rendered, or rather paraphrased— " While their trampling feet raised a thunder sound As they closed about their Lord." There is nothing. in the original. about " thunder s°111:41 ' " Homer .says " a sound was roused under th e f eet of the men." Neither does he make the slightest reference to the act of their closing about Weir Lord.. - Hi s Words are, " and the divine AchilleslY9s, tcrip armed in the "naidst.of them." The emphatic de ti on „ . FY SE - - • - -istranslated as folloWs, ” His soul with grief and rage was fraught. s And wrapping his heart in vengeful thought." The last line is wholly superfluous, for there is no - I} ,iing like it in the Greek; and the forcible expression in reference to the intensity of Achilles' grief, is but tamely rendered by " his soul with grief 41,1 rag e was fraught." The description that imme diately follows, of the arming of the warrior, and the nob le simile to w hi c h i t g i ves r i se, are translated b y ?r. illaginn with uncommon spirit, and with suffi ient literalness. The line, in particular, " like the 111 °on from afar it shone," is perfectly Homeric in its t erse simplicity, and is almost;word for , word with the ° tiginal. If the Doctor will but endure to'bestow a li ttle more pains on his version, he has it his power to R i ve the English reader a better translation of Homer,. - an any that has yet appeared. It is continuous, vigilant 'application only that is wanting to the right 2 L ni f pleti on o f th e Herculean task, not capacity. " My . ab and Times," are continued byNiinrod with un x(l,4,Led spirit. Here are two of his punning anecdotes, eh may perhaps amuse the reader : tn l nnist not forget the circumstance that associates the k e e; nd fame of the Witty Watki n H a y man w i t h t h e ta a ,, t ,',,u 3 squire of Gwersylt Park. Of cours e , h e (Hay th'''-fia make a pun when he chose to descend so low e v , .e scale of colloquial accomplishments; and dining an t4 lll k ng that he passed tete-a•tete With Mr. Humbc. , rtone, S t i' en "ad Punned against each other, in rivalry. Hayman, aNfg,l l l ', , finding that he had brought the " squire" to . a (1.40,'"&i, brought his wit into play; and putting his titt e ' ; u nder his arm, got up and rung the bell. On the mt'N ea to L akin g hi s appearance , h e t h us grave l y ad ,; `•I will thank you to bring your master apun. tb~atulthough it was th e opinion of Dr. Johnson that tby wh ° makes a pun is equal to picking pockets, N siliressing his thorough contempt of the prac thera ar e moments in which one well and aptl y ~~ I` 4 nnot fail to be applauded ; and I will give an the di ^ ryo the heel of an evening at Gwersylt Welsh squires, sitting close to each other at e witoable, and having made the best use of their s n -e ,,P , to ', 1 4 bottle, were nodding their heads, in their 11 (4-e " nt.4 l , - danger of their coming into contact with sleep gentlemen \till fight in thei r . Me n s-t d n o tlY ': q b:e ' r r v i e m d se one of the party. " That would be si on to said the late Sir Richard Pulestan, in allu we 'ny Pugilist Mendoza, at that time in repute; and t '„j.ect"„e re -Ini e , in compliMent to his host, who might -41 cha r i . Pun from a guest of so lively a fancy as Sir ari e , characters of Celebrated Authors," we have G ra r4 ertainin g biog rap hi ca l an d cr iti ca l s k e t c h o f th at Y : t he poet. tßut what nonsense to object to him, ap pear s he great doctrine of hu - man" redemption never thc si in his writinws !" What had he to do with couoctrine in his Pindarics, or in his " Ode on Eton w ell e .ge." He was not a theologian, but a poet. As the tmig.t it be objected to Tom Moore, that , octrine of human redemption never appears 11 ",, his " Lally Rookh," or his " Little's Poems !' We bare _n° patience with such idle cant. The criticiqn =, ~ ~- on Gray's Elegy is.sound, and neatly expressed, and his general character as a poet rightly appreciated. lie was a man of more judgment than genins = niore . erudition than imagination. Fe w real ly original pas sages are to be met with in his poems ; he WftS a pro digious borrower of the thoughts and images hf others; but as he derived his allusions from the most various and distant sources, and i_,4l the rare tact to melt them down, end mingle them harmoniously with his own conceptions, it is not. without considerable difficulty and research that the extent of his loans can be discovered. " May-day in the Country,:and-Atay day in Town ". is a seasonable article,' full of pteasure able descriptions and reminiscences. Pe Re Nretti-: culari " is a lively account of the origin.and.progress of coach-making, mixed up with learned, ckut.7of-the way references, and quaint matches of humour. The writer wields a ready pen, and has proditeed - ,, a ,very agreeable, rambling essay. The " Preniierat Home and Abroad" is not amiss, so far rr ,mere manner is concerned, but it is far too enthusiastic in praise of Sir Robert -Peel, who is by no,mutins-a. ",1 leaven born Minister," notwithstanding, .1 - Lis. Income-tax, which—to our thinking—hai , been suggested in a quarter very remote indeed from. Ilea - rent , The "Enchanted. Postilion " is a capital tr:story._ We subjoin'a sketch of a scape-grace,, Tint Ryan, who is always getting himself into trouble : Tim Ryan laud got into a scrape: h had borrowed a gun, and one fine morning, as he w:-.s sporting about in his master's (Lord Kilskiddery's) plantations, he espied a hare sitting in her form. Tim could not withstand the temptation of the - divil that superintends field-sports, and he shot the hare. On the report of the gun, Mr. Michael Oregan, gamekeeper to my Lord Viscount Kaskiddery, dilicr b ently dodged about until he c?..ught Tim Ryan with the hare -thrust up behind his, jacket, and tightly but toned up; and there it lay, the length of Tim's spine, 1 he a gipsy child a-pick-a-back, and would never have been discovered at all, if the dog's that followed the gamekeeper had not. been very fidgetty about Tim's per son, which occasioned Michael Oreg,atfs eye to turn in that direction, when he descried the tail of the hare just onerging betaVixt the skirts of Tim's coat, having been squeezed out by the extraordinary pressure. Th: zealous gamekeeper, who was no friend to Tim, laid hold'of him, and, ripping up his buttoning in a trice, puss fell to the ground. "'Ye villin!" he exelaimed, "ye ve been depre dating my Lord's presarves." Tim Ryan attempted to excuse himself,by informing the gamekeeper, " that the hare had jumped tip his back of its own accord, to hide it self. bccaase he heard a gun discharged." Mr. Oregan shook his • :head, and implied that he did not give perfect credence to this asseveration. " Tim Ryan," said the honest gamekeeper, " if so be as you'll give me a tinpenny, I'll not develoPe to my Dird Viscount Kilskiddery that you poached his game." Tim was indignant. " Ah, bathershin, Mike, an 'you know I haven't got a tinpenny in the world!" Oregan went away with the hare, and reported the whole matler to his Lordship. On the following morning, Lord Kilskiddery, in the presence of Captain O'Halloran (who breakfasted with hint), summoned poor Tim Ryan to a private examina tion, having made notes of the evidence of the game keeper. He sternly asked his postilion, how lie dared to destroy his game? " Plaise 'your Lordship's honour and glory," replied TiM, " I shot the hare by accident." " By accident," remarked Captain O'llalloran. " By accident," continued the po3tilion. " I was firing at a bush, and the beast ran across my aim, all of his own accord." "The gamekeeper. tells a different story," replied his Lordship.... • " OA! don't put. faith in what that man sap," said Tim .Ryan, " when. he :niver can's about 'spaking the truth my how. He tould me, t'other day, yer Lordship was not so fit to fill the chair of justice as ajackass!" Ay, ay," exclaimed Viscount - Kilskiddery, " indeed, -and what did you say?" . - " .Plaise yer Lordship, I said yer Lordship was." MINS WORTHS MAGAZINE. The sale of Strawberry-hill, and the eclat connected , h *ith that grotesque specimen of Gothic architecture, has had the effect of once again setting all the essay ists to work' on Horace Walpole—his tastes, humours, wit, sarcasm, fancy, and so forth. An ingenious paper on the subject appears in the present number of this periodical, in which a tolerably correct estimate is formed of the livay-Whig trifler. The writer, how ever, is mistaken in supposing that Walpole was a man of the world, in the enlarged sense of the term. He was a man of the West-end of the World only. He had no other notion of humanity than that it com prised some one or two hundred individuals of rank and fashion in London and Paris. Of all below this grade he was profoundly ignorant, and had no other ideas of the " People," than that they were a mass of brute animation, created for no nobler purpose than to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to their aristocratic rulers. A man like Burns would have perplexed him cruelly. He would have under stood him quite enough to know that he was not one to he despised; his powers of mind would have ex torted his involuntary respect ; but he would have been repelled by his plebeian origin ; and when as sured that nature had been the sole prompter of his genius, he would have stared at him as a sort of sole- cism in Walpole had a sound, clear head enough, but ;the smallest of all possible hearts. Healthy, natural emotion—that quickening power of genius—was - .wholly unknovial t:) him, Such sym pathies as he had to bestow were bestowed exclusively on the artificial and the COnVentional. He shrunk from the rude vigour of untrained humanity; and a horse-laugh Would have thrown him into hysterics. His chief objection to Chatterton was, that he was a Nobody'— a inere attorney's clerk ; and even the classic intellect of the low-born, Only scarcely secured him from his supercilious contempt. Of true poetic taste he had little or nothing, or he would never have written in such rapturous terms of Darwin —the most turgid, empty, and presumptuous of poetasters. The present essay indulges in much lively gossip respecting Horace Walpole's private habits, and reminds us of the airy, good-humoured manner Of Leigh Hunt. It is, in truth, a very cre ditable imitation of his style. The "Miser's Daugh ter" improves gradually in interest. The description of the old man's agonies on discovering the loss of his darling treasures, exhibits more earnestness and sin cerity of feeling than Mr. Ainsworth has yet evinced. But what a ludicrous figure does the Miser cut, as re presented by George Cruikshank ? He is not horri fied, but is simply making faces, and stands with his legs stretched wide apart, just like a pair of com passes. In his next establishment, where Randolph refuses to drink the King's health over the water, the artist shows to more advantage. Here he is at home. again, and throws infinite force and propriety of ex pression into the countenances of the astonished re vellers. Ciankshank should never attempt the heroic or the impassioned, but stick to the familiar, the fan tastic, and the humourous, where he reigns without a rival.—Verbum sap. The " Two Minstrel Bands" is a strange, wild ballad, of German origin. We are not quite sure that we understand it, so extract a portion, in order that our readers may judge for themselves : I slept one night in the gloomy wool, The tombs of the minstrels near me Stood ; The birds had WM me, from every tree, The sound of the branches was meloly. And when every eye was in slumber closed, When all except anguish and love reposed, The bolts and the coffins were rattling and shaking, The bolts and the coffins were bursting and breaking As wave upon wave on a boist'rous ocean Pass thousands of forms, iria wild commotion, The harpers in troops froni the coffins appear, - Their harps in their skeleton arms they hear. • Their lips are dry. and their glapee is cold, Their pallid cheeks are sunken - and old ; 14ro feeling is in this rhostly band-L-. They strike at their harp-strings with lifeless hand. though they strike and hammer on, The lisening ear can detect no tone ; The owlets leaving their nooks are seen, While fiends from rocky crevices grin. Beneath the harpers the grass is dried—, The bashful moon must her visage hide, And ever at midnight thus tinkle they-- And "Oblivion" is their constant lay. A tone like the angel's trump is heard, When God had the world's foundations rear'd • , Through mead and through tree what a sound is rushing, How joyously is the streamlet gushing - • With flapping noise all the coffins close — The harpers reel to their dull repose.;. And now from a thousand coffins springing, Come other bards, who are gladly singing. A race for an endless time I see, Who have suck'd at the breaSt of eternity ; Their eye is so mild, yet it shines like lightning, Their face with love's rosy tint is bright'ning. They strike the sounding harp with,fire, They raise it on high—that gallant choir ; As an avalanche-fall, as -a seraph song, It echoes the spacious fields along. The waters hear, and they cease to flow- - The roses, as if it were spring -tin]?, blow ; • And while the moon is more brightly glancing, Young fags are around, the minstrels dancing. 'The tree shakes with joy - as the 7,ong, is heard— On his branch more sweetly dreams the bird ; And ever at - midnight thus sing they, And " Immortality " is their lay. " The Tengin Pass" is a common-place narrative from the pen of Captain Medwin. " Sultan Stork" is a whimsical travesty of the tales of enchantment in the " Arabian Nights." Of the " Pirate Knight" we can say no more than that it is a passable Scottish ballad. " A Country Dinner Party" is a. sprightly prose sketch, apparently from the life. Charles Matthews Not at Home," by Mr. Buller, of Brazen nose, is an imitation—and not a very successful one— of Thomas Ingoldsby's style of versification. Among the critical notices, is an intelligent and generous re view of Mr. Lever's `c Charles O'Malley," in which admirable tale, we may assure our readers, occurs the most graphic description yet penned, of the battle of Waterloo. " Truth and Rumour" is such a grace- THE SUN, LONDON, MOND A 'MORNING, MAY 2, 1842. ful little-allegory that—pressed iOr space as we are— we cannot resist the - temptation of quoting it : , . As truth once passed On 'her pilgrim way, To rest by a hedge-side, thorny and sere. Few wanderers there she charmed to stay, . . - Though hers were the tidings that all should hear. She, Whisperirro., sang, and her deep rich voice Yet richer, deeper, each moment grew ; And still, though it bade thecrow:l rejoi ; Iler strain hut a scanty audience drew. But Rumour close bv, as , she pluck'da reed From a babbling brook, detained the throng ;- With a hundred tongues that never agreed, She gave to the Winds a 'mocking song. The crowd with deligh . t.its echoes caught, And closer around her yet, they dre%v ; So wondr9US and wild the lore she taught. They listenrd, entranc'd, the long day through. The sun went down : when he rose again, And sleep had beealm'd each listener's mind, The voice of Humour had rung in vain, NO echo had left a charm behind. But Truth's pure note, ever mhispering cloar, Wand'ring in air fresh sweetness caught ; Then all unnotiet,d, it totieh'd the ear, And fill'd with music the cells of thought. TAITS MAGAZINE, The recent .visit of 13oz to the United States has furnished a writer in Tait with an excellent opportu nity of indulging his powers of good-natured carica ture, in a whimsical article,. entitled; " Duggins's Impressions of America." This Duggins, who is no other than Charles Dickens, is supposed to detail, to an English traveller who has accidentally encountered him in Yankee-land, the particulars of his tour through the States—how he was feasted and flattered in New York; gazed at as a prodigy on the shores of the Niagara ; lionized in every town along the banks of the Mississippi ; and, finally, how, tired of being thus made a•publie show of, he ran off as fast as his legs would carry him, to one of the most re tired parts of the country, where he wandered, quite at his ease, over the vast rolling prairies of the New World, Accompanied by Mr. N. P. Willis, and one or two more poetical friends, till at length the whole party were surprised by Red Indians; some .of them scalped, tomahawked, ,and set fire to at a stake; and others, among whom were 'Duggins and Willis, tat toed, and ultimatelyliberated,by their captors. The whole of these fanciful adventures are related with infi Hite humour, • and in the broad, rattling style of that renowned veteran Sir Morgan O'Doherty. We quote . . the descrlptton of the roasting of the American poet Bryant., and the'mock speech of the Savage:— `` On the evening of the second day we reached the Indian village. It was a hideous place. A circle of wretched, squalid wigWams formed a sort & arena, in the midst of which was planted the terrible war-post, with a heap of resinous faggots at its base. Round it were gathered the squaws of the tribe ; lean, cadaverous hags, than whom Alecto must have been less revolting, and lleclte more humane. Children,—very, very little children.(!) quite naked, like imps of darkness, crawled to and fro, contesting the possession of bones and half gnawed morsels with the surly and ravenous .dogs. Im potent old men, too, .sate cowering at the entrance of their huts, shaking their withered hands and muttering curses at us, as, bound and helpless in the middle of the braves, we were led into the middle space, and made to lie down upon the ground, whilst a war-counsel was held around the pile. " I'm a gone'coon, I know," said .Mullins Bryan. "'They marked me when I shot their chief, the great Bull-tuftle as they called him, and my life isn't worth one of Willis's copyrights. But it's a. huckleberry above my persimmon as to what they'll do with you ; • and So ' Duggins, if you geroff and return safe to New York, don't fOrget to tell Congress, that -Mullins-Bryan died like the American Byron, he is true, true to the rale principles of' freedom, and an uncompromising enemy of all emancipation !" I will, I will," said. I, fervently ; " and I'll write your epitaph " " Bosh,L—you'll do it," interrupted Bryan, mournfully. " But you'll not do it so well as I could have . written your'n ; but that's past praying for. only, if, yOu should, just keep out all mention of • the very little ehildren, will you? in respect that there's a 'tarnation black little imp at this moment a-biting of my leg, and I can't heel him no how." • " Great men will have their prejudices !" "At last the savages rose. Brandishing:their toma hawks and sCalping-knives, they rushed towards us, and, joining hands,•executed an extempore war-dance around us,' to the music of the hicleouS whoop. That.over, an aged, scarred, skeleton figure, father of the fallen chief, stood forth, and spoke as follows : " Children of the Chip-chow-cherry-chow ! listen to the voice of your Sachem. Seven • times ten summers have .passed :since Smack- whack-girnigo was young- ; tall as a warliost ; spry as the mountain cat. His hand was on the scalp of the Yenghese ; his foot on the trail of the buffalo. When the squaws cried for meat he gave it them ; his wigwam was full of rum. But years came upon him, and his sinews were as weak as the skunk's, The 'coon sate upon the gum-tree, and laughed as he went by, and the father of the beavers was glad— " But Smack-whack-girnigo had a son, and he was of the braves. Who was so swift as Calipashawash, the great Bull-turtle of his tribe ? When he smoked the calumet of peace, his breath was like the cloud of the morning ; when he raised the war-whoop, the leaves of the forest fell. He filled his father's mouth 'with food. He gave him the roasted rattlesnake, and the baked opos sum to: eat, and he made his heart glad with the strong fire-water of the pule-face. But the Yenghese came to the crooked river, •and drove the deer from the prairies ; the beaVer heard them and fled. The redskins dug up the war-hatchet ; they threw fire into the fort, and took the scalps of their enemies. They came back to the wigwams of their tathers, - but Calipashawash was not with them,. and , Smack- whack-giritigo has a son no • more !" " Here the old savage paused, and the India: - .s yelled reyengefullyovith a dissonance more fearful than that of a chorus:at-Drury-lane. "But the great Spirit is good. He loves the Chip chow-cherry:chow. My young men have trought two pale-faces and Calipashawash shall not go to the far Lunting-grounds alone. The death-song of the Yenghese shall cheer him on his way. Let my young men light the pile." "Swift as lightning this horrid mandate was obeyed. Thick jets. of smoke began to rise from the crackling faggots, When the old man turned to ns. " The pale-faces are two, said. he, " and death is slow. My' young men love to look upon the burning of the brave, and the moon is but newly risen. Which of you will go first to the war-post and sing his death-song, that the. hears of the Other may be g l a d ?" "'Before I had time to speak, Mullins Byran,burst out 1— It my hands *ere free and a bowie-knife in them, you !tarnation 'coon-faced nigger, I'd tickle your ribs without, laughing. Howsomd'ever, I'm shot if I don't dig like a free American ; and since the best singer's to go first, I'm the'man to break the heart of a nightingale. So kindle up your fires; you bloody critters, and do your worst. Duggiuls, My lad, I'm sorrier for you than my self: .This' is sort o' nat'ral to a dOwn-Easter like me ; but you're n strannger, and can't cotton to the business, no how you can fix it. There'll beta& o' this on Broad was-, I reckon, anyhow. One comfort is, the President will be us wrathy as a painter. His shirt won't hold him, and he'll have them qa.rnal Nines lynched before Six weeks arc over, or there's no gougers in Hoboken." .„. Mrs. Gore's tale of Abednego, the Money-lender," exhibits all that archness. -and vivacity of dialogue for which this lady's fictions are so remarkable. The sketch of Mr. Stubbs, the picture-dealer, is so like life, that we can almost fancy we',know the man. ", Irish Treason in Paris" is the commencement of a prose tale from the pen of Mr. Banirit The scene is laid in the French capital, and the present chapter re counts the misfortunes of an Irishrnan who had es caped by flight the sufferings entailed on. all +those who . had joined in the rebellion of 1798. The ",Song of May" contains. a few striking lines, but, as a whole, the poem is . somewhat lackadaisical in its tone. The "Story- of the Marquise de Gange" is a 'deeply tragic narrative, founded on fact. The events occurred in France during the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, and havereference to the fate of a beau tiful and high-born Frenchwoman, who was murdered, at the instigation of her jealous husband, under cir cumstances of unwonted barbarity.. Cases of this atrocious character are frequently to be met, with in the Causes Celebres. In " Tytler's History of Scot land" the,_ Reviewer speaks in terms of becoming re spect of titis sound and trust-worthy publication, ob seiwing,.and with truth, that the historian has "in every case gone to the fountain-head; taking nothing for granted, nothing at second-hand, and leaving no thing unexamined. 'This argues a degree of parse veranee, and of actual, time.-consuming .drudgery, through which nothing save ardent enthusiasm in the pursuit could have -carried an author. The results are corresponding. We have a work valuable for the primary quality of all history—authenticity, accuracy, and fulness in the detail of facts." England, but there is 2 - ww at, Athensette, vendablegrnnchnama, gnmdmama, in the person or n I+ - 10000 iiyeiity i-bui• years old !" It 'is a sin!..ittlar circumstance that the handsomest nation in Enrope have the ugliest dog in all Christendom for their kingt!,ll MONEY and UOMNIER.UIA .NE CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. The markets gave way to,day on account of some sales in Consali by the Hank, and in the new Three-atd-a- Half per . Cents.. by the Chancery broker. • These only to a compa ratively trifling; amount were greater than the market could • bear alter - the late' considerable rise. Opinion appears gene rally flavour of the idea that, the Bank is operating on account of the Saving's Banks, and that further sales will take place for these institutions. It is much to be regretted that. the stagnant state in which business has been for sonic time• vast strengthens the correctness of this supposition, Numbers have been out of employ, and obliged to have recourse to the sums previously deposited, and others, from the same cause,' have been unable to lay anything by. Thus, the managers, finding the withdrawals greater than the deposits, are now obliged to fall back upon the Commissioners, and hence the sale!. i. Consols left off at 924 92k for Money, and 92k 92, 3 ,- for the Account ; Three per Cents. Reduced 91k 91k ; Three-and-a , Half per Cents. Reduced, 99.4 99k; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., It N looL; Bank Stock, 167:4 • India Stock, 246 248 ; the Bonds, 20 22, an d Exchequer Bills, 39 40 prem. Foreign Securities' were as yesterday, and some put chases were made in Dutch Bonds at 521534 for the Two-and-a. Halt, and 101 1014 fur the Five pe: Cents. Belgian, 1034 1044 ; Danish, 804 814 ; and Br. z 674 581. Mexican had but one quotation, 35 fur Money and 34k for Inc Account. More &mind existed for Railway Sharei,. the .market for which looks exceedingly firth. Birmingham were . 180 182; Birmingham and Gloucester, 55 57 ; Great Western, 934 944; the Halt-shares, 64465.'-. premium; South Western, 63 634; Gosport, 63 634 ; North Midland, 65 67 ; the New Shares, 32 33 ; South Eastern and Dover, z!O 3 / 31; Eastern Caunties, 9k 10 ; Thames Haven, 79 8 ; Blackwell, 12 . 124-; and the Nevv Sl.ares, 10 104- per share. Brighton advanced to 374. Up to one o'clock not a. single quotation appealed for the Bonds of any of the insolvent States, and from that time to the cicse of business a solitary one appears for each of the follow ing :—COltimbian, 264; Peruvian, 194; Portuguese Five per Cents.. 38g; Spanish Three per Cents., 24%; and the Five per Cents., 244. • (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) A sale of Consols to the exfent of about 30,000/ , has ren dered the market heavy, and quotations 92g to 924 for Money, and 924 to 92h . for the Account ;. Three per Cents. Reduced, 9lit to 91i; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 100 k to 101 ,• Three-anti-a- Half per Cents. Reduced, 991 to 99k ; Bank Stock, 1671 ; Exchequer Bills, 39 40 premium. The Foreign Security, which has been dea!t in, has been the Dutch Two-and-a,Hall per Cents. Stock at 53k. Railway Shares are in better demand; Birmingham, 182; Great Western, 94; Cheltenham and Great Western, 18%, South Western, 63; South Eastern, 30%; Eastern Counties Net, 5/.. 14s. 2d; Thames .Haven, 7g 71 ; Croydon, 14; and Brighton, 37. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have declared that Monday will be a holiday, consequently no business will be transacted in the Funds.' The bonds cf the insolvent States are quoted, Colombian, 26 1 / 2 ; Peruvian, 19 1 / 2 ; Spanish Five per Cents. and the Three per Cents. are al.ke, 24 1 / 2 . The usual return of the quarterly average of the weekly lia bilities and assets of the Bank of England, for the twelve weeks ending the 23d inst., when compared with the last re turn shows the circulation to have increased 283,0001., the dif ference between 17,235,0001. and 16,952,000/. ; the deposits to have deceased 374,000/., the difference between 8,283,000/. and 8,687,000/. ; the securities to have decreased 688,0001., the difference between 21,891;000/. and 22,586,000/. ; and the bullion to have increased 465,0001., the difference between 6, 590 OW. and 6,125,1)001. • the balance in favou r o f th e B an k is also less by 132,0001., the eifference between 2,970,0001. and 3,102,000/. This return shows an increase in the circula tion of F 49,000/. ; in the deposits of 1,058,0001. ; in the bul lion of 1,952,000/. ; and a decrease in the securities of 184,000/., in comparison with the corresponding period of 1841. Papers to the 2(1 March have come to hand from the Cape of Good Hope. They are, like the last, completely destitute of colonial news. A severe hurricane had been experienced in the Indian Ocean, whereby three vessels had b een c h amas t e d, and to seriously injured as to be obliged to put into the Cape to refit. They ridgee the discovery by an Fnglish whaler of several islands in the Pacific Ocean, previously unknown. They were eight in number, of some•extent, fertile, and inhabited. The appearance of the natives and the canoes, &c., were totally dif ferent from any others in that neighbourhood. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 29.—The larg business of the two preceding weeks has done nothing toward placing the quotations at a higher rate. Directly the demand became more moderate, as it did after Tuesday, the last Man chester market day, the whole class of middling quality of Ame rican became heavy, with a tendency to decline. The tales to. day are from 3,000 to 3,500 bags, and although it is unneces sary to change the figures in the scale of prices, th e geberal duloess justifies the report of a worse market. The sales of the week amount to 19,910 haled, of which 2,000 have been taken on speculation, and 1,600 for export. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 29.—The market was firm, and closed well for South Western and South East ern. Eastern Counties, are quoted 9i, the New Debentures, 51. Hs. 10d. ; Gla.govv, Paisley, and Greenock New, 6 ; South Western, 63i ; Manchester and Leeds, SS; Midland Counties, 79i, Quarters, I9i. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.—We have nothing material to note on the state of our market to-day. Our sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 444 ; Bolton and Preston, 22 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 15 ; Edinbu rg h an d Gl asgow , ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. _ _ Bank Stock 167,1 India Stock 3 per Cent Red 914 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cens ,92i1 Ditto Old Annuities ... 3,i per Cent Red......., 994 .Ditte New Annuities... New Si per Cent New 5 per Cent. . i Ditto 500 1 . ..... 40 poi Long Annuities :.o expire Ditto &nail 4O pm Jan. 1860 .... 12b Bank Stock for Acct ...167i Oct. 1959. ........ 12 7-16 India Stock for Acct.... -- jail. 1860. .... 1860........ l ' ConseAs for Acct 92 FOttEIGN .FUNDS. Austrian, 5 psi cent.— • Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pet vent — Ditto, New Ditto 3Bb Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent.. Buenos Ayres 6 Per cell Russian, 5 per cent ll3* Chilian, 6 per cent..... Ditto, M e t a lli c ...... . Culomt:an, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent lei Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... 26; Ditto, Deferred.... Dani,h, 3 per cent - , French, 5 per cent.ll9.. —c. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —l Exchange t 'c. Mexican, 5 rer eent..... 35 . i French, 3 percent — '. — e . Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 !Dutch, 2b per cent. , . 53b Peruvian, 1825, f: per et. I Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 56 Cheltenham 'and Great Western (72b pant) 18b Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) ... Ditto New Shares (--. paid) Edinburgh and GlasgoW .(50 paid) ... 541 Great Western Railway (65 raid) 94 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Birmingham (90 ) ...... ...,... 182 London and Greenwich Railway ( I,d) 5i London and South Western London. and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern . (4s . paid) ...7,R.... 424 North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (itl paid.... South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) • 30 i- Ditto Scrip. ( 5 - paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto New Shares (15 paid) 33 PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. COALS, CINDERS, AND CULJT. These are accounts, Moved for respectively by Mr. W. Gibson Craig, Mr., H. Ilinde, and Mr. R. Hodgson, of coals, cinders, and man), shipped coastways, and ex ported to foreign parts ; with the rates and amount of duty charged thereon ;—of coals exported from the United Kingdom from the sth of January, 1828, to the sth of January, 1842 ; and of coalS shipped to foreign countries in 1841; &c. It appears therefrom, that the total quantities of coal, cinders, and culm, so exported to foreign countries and the British settlements abroad, amounted, altogether, to 1,848,294 tons, the gross total export duties which were received thereon being 12,0151. ss. 6d. • The total quantities on coal brought coastways and by inland navigation into the port of London during the year 1841 amounted to 2,942,738 tons. It further appears that the total quantity of coals ex ported' from the United Kingdom from the sth day of January, 1828, to the sth day of January, 1842, was as ollows : Years. Tons. 1828 1829 1830 • 1831 1832 1 8 ,7,3 1834 1835 1836 1837 ... 1,113,610 1838 1839 1840 1,841 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.—The following no tice was issued on Monday 'last, by the Vice-Chancellor of Cam bridge ;—« Whereas, it has been represented unto the Vice- Chancellor, that some students of the University have lately resorted to a 'professional teacher of the art of boxing, con trary to the good order and discipline of the University ; we, the Vice -Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, whose names are underwritten, hereby order and decree, that if any person in statu pupillare be hereafter found resorting to, or having any e)rumunication whatever, with any such teacher of the art of boxing, or be found attending any prize fight, he shall be liable to the punishment of suspension, rustication, or expulsion, as the case shalt appear to the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses to require."—( Signed by - the Vice-Chancellor and Master.. ) THE GRAVE or ST. PATRICK.—The Dount Re corder, a Conservative paper, contains the following ac count of a very disgraceful Orange outrage :—" On Tuesday night last some persons at present unknown, entered the burying-ground adjoining the cathedral, and car. tied off the headstone from the grave of St. Patrick. The venei able relic of antiquity—which some affirm to be a portion of the old market-cross, and others maintain to be of a much older date—was found next morning at some distance from the grave-yard, having been conveyed thither on one of the machines employed in making the new road from this town to Ballydugan. It has been removed from that spot, and placed for safety within the catredral. The disgraceful act of moving this head-stone—by whomsoever it has been committed—cannot be too strongly rept ehentled. It is gene rally supposed to have been the work of some low persons calling themselves Protestants, •and that their object was to wound the feelings of our Roman Catholic brethren. The persons who would be guilty of such act as to enter, Lt mid night, an enclosure consecrated to the dead, where their re mains should be allowed to rest in peace, and carry off there from a stone, however intrinsically valueless, which marked the grave of the venerable individual who brought Christianity to the Irish shores, ere the purity and simplicity of the primitive faith was corrupted by the inventions of men—the persons who would be guilty of such a disgraceful act, have no religion of any kind—their conduct excommunicates them from every Christian pale." The Duke de Montpensier is to undergo .en exa mination by a special military jury, of which Marshal Vallee is President, in order that he may enter the army as sub-lieutenant of the Artillery. The young Prince will he subjected to the examination imposed upon the pupils of the Ecole Polytechnique. A grand banquet will, it is un derstood, be given to the garrison of Vincennes, in the wood of 'that place, on this occasion. ' Mr. and Mrs. Grote have returne•i to their residence in Ec cles -street, from a Continental tour. SALE. AT STRAWBERRY HILL. On Saturday the books sold were for the most part more ►aluable than those disposed of on the preceding days •of the sale .'1 he proceeds, though the sale was limited to books and manuscripts, as before, exceeded 1,600/. The following are among the more interesting of the purchases that were made, with the names of the buyers, where it was possible to ascer tain them : A collection of interesting Satirical Prints and Poems, bf the reign of Charles la., very rare and curious, folio. Mr. Rhodes. 31/. 10s. The Earl of Northumberland's Household Book, Bvo., calf, presented by Dr. Percy to H. W. - Mr. Thorpe. 6/. 11s. 6,1. Sentences from St. Augustin. small 4t0., scarce, and Hol beirt's Prints and Wood-cuts to illustrate the Bible, very rare. Mr. Boone. 91. 15s. The Complete Angler, Bvo., red morocco, with prints, and Dalrymple's Memorials and Letters, Bvo., red morocco, a pre sent from the author. Mr. Thorpe. 121. 125.. An account of Lord Waldegrave's • ptoceedings on his Em • ba‘s y to Tunis, folio, manuscript, bl ue morocco, s il ver clasps, :23/. 2s. A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Family of Harley Earl of Oxford, with Catalogues of his Coins, Books, &e., illustrated with Notes and Drawings by G. Vertue. Air. Boone. lit 17s. The Iliad and the Odyssey, 2 vols. 12mo, and Additions to the Works of Mr. Pope, with manuscript notes by H. W., 2. Mr. Thorpe, 101. The Iliad and the Odyssey are the identical works from Which Mr. Pope made his translations; in one of the vols. is a view of Twickenham, drawn by Mr. Pope . Milton's Paradise Lost, giVen • by the Duke of Wharton to Lady Mary Wortley M ontague, an d a small oblong manuscript Pocket-book, with the expenses of Robert Walpole, Esq., father of Sir Robert, 3/. 10s. Richard Payne Knight's account of the Worship of Priapus, 4to, elegant red morocco, a present from the author. See a note in the flyleaf, by H. W., extremely rare. 22/. 2s. Two folio vole., bound in vellum, containing several hundred original letters arid accounts, orders of council, and original documents of the time of King James 1., with the autographs of all the leading men of the time. Mr. Rhode. 32/. I Is. —From the collection of Sir Julius Caesar, and purchased at his sale by Mr. Walpole. MADAME DIP DEFFAND.—The whole of the manuscripts bequeathed to the Hon. Horace Walpole, by the celebrated Marie de Vichy, afterwards Madame du Deffand, who died in 1780. In this collection there are upwards of 800 letters by her to Horace Walpole. The whole have been carefully pre served in the same state as they were left by Lord Orford, and are contained in a -large cedar wood chest. Mr. Thorpe. 167/. 10s. • Bishop Bonner's Ghost, a poem, printed at Strawberry Hill, on brown paper, rare ; -a speciMen of printing by Queen Charlotte, a specimen of American paper money and a ribbon that belonged to Cardinal Wolsey. Mr. Thorpe. M. 15s. 6d. Two autograph letters of Stanislaus Augustus, King of Po • land, and one letter of Peter the Great, Emperor of llussia, very rare. 5/. st. Pour letters of Madame de Sevigne. 41. 16s. lid. A folio tract in manuscript, called The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club, held at the Rose Tavern, first established by Sir Anthony Vandyck, wit% the autographs of all the eminent artists of the day. This 'manuscript evidently shows the first commencement of the Arts Union, ant is very curious. Mr. Narman. 91. 9s. A folio vol., bound in vellum, Sir Salkville Crowe's Rook of Accounts of the Privy Purse of the Duke of Buckingham in his different journeys into France, Spain, and the Low Coun tries, with Prince Charles. Mr. 'Thorp e. 3dl. Ist. This historical document was purc h ase d by Horace Walpole at the sale of Mr. Thoresby's Museum at Leeds. A packet containing upwards of a hundred and sixty original letters from the Rev. Wm. Cole to the Hon. Horace Walpole, on the Literature, Arts, and Antiquities of England. Mr. Colburn. 33/. Its. A curious historical document, the orio ' inAl letter written by Oliver Cromwell to hi s wife, dated 4th September. 1650, the day after the batte of Dunbar. Sir John Hare. 221. Is. A folio volume, containing upwards of 2W original letters and documents of the time of Queen Elizabeth and king Itnes 1., addreascd to Sir Julius Cmsar by most of the leadi ng nobility and g en t r y o f th a t period, and purchased at his sale by Horace Walpole, 1757, highly interesting. Mr. Thorpe, 101/. 17s. Another volume containing upwards of 2.20 original letters, orders in council, and other documents from the principal admirals, captains. &c. of the period, relative to naval affairs, all addressed to Sir Julius Caesar and purchased at his sale, ex tremely valuable and of great interest. Mr. Rhode. 161. 16s. Another volume, containing upwards of 100 original letters and documents, orders in council, &c. including several royal letters, viz., James VI., Henry Pritice of Wales, King and Queen of Bohemia, and all the leading nobility an,l gentry of Ow time. and of great interest. Mr. Thorpe. 311. 108. Another volume, containing upwards of 100 ditto. Mr. Rhode. 23/. 2s. Ditto, ditto. Mr. Rhode. 56/. 143. POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. In this joirnal we have science and meehanies combined with literature, so that it appeals to the in terests of a large and increasing class of readers. The Number for the . present month is ably. digested in point of materials ; and among the more generally 0 11 ,. tertaining articles, we find sortie particulars respect ing ",Greece as a Kingdom," the hints for which have been furnished by Mr.. Strong's recent work on the subject. The writer speaks in the most animated terms of the climate and soil of. this celebrated country, ob serving. of the latter, that it " is so rich that it pro duces in abundance the principal wants of the inhabi tants, repaying with ample interest the most trifling labour, While the crops follow each other in rapid suc cession throughout the whole year." He ?Ads, wiih reference to the climate, that • t.talthough geographi cally speaking, Greece lies within th i e ii tenmwte zones, the heat during summer is much more `oppressive that-t -in Bengal, the West Indies, or other countries situ.-1 ated between the tropics." This is a remarkable fact, and for which it must be difficnit to aceourit. Speak ing of the inhabitants, the writer says—" nature is so extremely precocious in Greece,that females attain the age of puberty at ten or ! eleven years, and m(n at fifteen or sixteen. I am acquainted with a lady of one of the.first Athenian families, who, though only twenty 7 five years of age, has already had six tem eltil.lren,. eight of them twins, of whom seven are still livin_.• It may scarcely appear credible in THE ME7 oPoL I TAN The number before us, like the majority of its pre- , decessors, consists almost exclusively of prose tales, with here and there, a slight - sprinkling of verse.. As the tales, generally speaking, are g,ood, we do .not feel much disposed to complain, though we still could have wished that therh had beenca little more variety of matter. 'The " Man without Honey," what a theme for thesdisplay of pathos !—is one of the cleverest of the stories• and turns upon the stratagems of a needy adventurer to win a prize in the matrimonial lottery. Of course he fails, for the days-of sentiment, like those of chivalry, am past -And gone, and.ladles, grown wise in their g,=!neration, -no longer throat' away their hands and hepts on fellows who have nothing but their amorous synsibilities to recommend them. Old South, .the preacher, who dearly loved a pun, once exclaimed from the pulpit, " marriage was formerly a merry age, hut matrimony is now become a matter of money." If this was true in Charles the Second's dayS, how muehtruer is it now, when habits of -busi ness have suprseded everything in the shape of natural emotion ! In - affairs of the heart we now split upon settlements, where formerly, we split upon sentiment. From " Savindroos," an agreeable story, whose scene is laid in the East, .we quote some pleasing stanzas : When the beetle's drowsy horn, Winds across the silent lea, Ere the rosy-fingePd 'Mora. Throws a bright tint o'er the sea : When the moon her orb displaying Beams upon the lonely night. And the wolf-dog loudly baying Seems to mock her silver light ; Then we soldiers; ever cheery, O'er the rugged mountain roam, Briskly dancing, never weary, To the:merry Real of the hollow drum. Now the song, the joka, the story,._ Swell around and cheat the.way ; • - Feats of hive and deeds of glory Grace the merry Roundelay. - Peals of laughter, care bi-guiling, Round their genialjnagiespread, Till the day-star sweetly smiling Tints the grey cliff's mussy head : Then we soldiers, ever cheery, O'er the rugged monntaityToarn, , • Briskly dancing, never weary, ' Tu the merry peal of the hollow drum. When the sun is fiercely beaming , • O'er the snowy tented fi e ld, , Of the morrow seldom dreaming, We to balmy slumber yield. Or, beneath the - shady bowers, In the jungle we recline'; • Strewing life's dull path with flowers, Cull'd from love and rosy-wine. Thus we soldiers, ever cheery, . 0'•i• the rugged mountain roam; Briskly lancing, never, weary, To th& merry peal of the hollow drnm. THE QUEEN'S MAGAZINE. There is too great a sameness in this Number, which, though it consists but of two or three sheets, comprises not less than three prOse tales. The tales themselves are as good 'as such things usually are in periodicals, but, as the old song says, " three at a time there's no mortal can bear.' The first, which is on the hacknied subject of " Jane Shore," is the best, and is illustrated by .somc cleverish engravings. Neglected Genius" is a quizzical account of a:silly young poetaster, who imagines himself inspired, and writes indifferent verses'On the strength of his halluci nation; Of course his poesy is ridiculed by the critics, and then he discards ,his cravat, turns down his shirt-collar, a la Byron, waxes sour and sa r d on i c , and ultimately dies in a windy back-garret, a victim to the neglect of a heartless, undiscerning public ! BRITISH MAGAZIiVE. The long-doubted existence of such an author as William of Tudela, and the alleged plagiarism from him, of the old poem on the Crusade of Simon de Montfort, are shown from a comparison of dates, and internal examination of the two writers, to . prove both points affirmatively, .as regards this ancient Navarrese poet. In a paper. upon " Papal exactions consequent on Papal dominion," the singular fact is stated, that in the year 1253 an inquiry was instituted as to the number of strangers, chiefly Italians, who, though beneficed i n E n gl an d, resided constantly at Rome, whereby it was ascertained that the ecclesias tical revenues in England, belonging to Italians, many of them boys and idiots, • amounted to 46,6661. per annum—a larger 'revenue. than that of the King. Swedenborg's adaptation of the Egyptian hiero glyphics to the modern discoveries of science finds a defender and, apparently,.able explainer in M. Portal of the .Asiatic Society of Paris. BRITISH FRIEND OF INDIA MAGAZINE. Such is the title of a periodical, the fourth number of which is now lying before us, containing. inter cilia " A view of the y Political State of India," wherein thare - is a rapid but succinct sketch of the Rise and Progress of the English. power in the East. In - some reriaarlis on " The Affairs of India," suggested by our reverses in Afghanistan,- we find the following sensible reflections : The Affghan war has already abserbed from fifteen to seventeen millions sterling ; there is now a deficit of ssveral millions in the annual revenues, and it is on this ground partly, that Sir Robert Peel justifies the imposi tion of the Income-tax. When the Income-tax comes to be paid, every one will recollect that so much of it is for England, and so much for India. We all know that India belongs to us ; we have heard it talked of all our lives, and very gratifying it is. to be told about our vast Indian empire, but now we shall know it in a very dif ferent sense to what we ever did before ; we shall have to pay fiw our vast Indian empire, and that' by means of an Income-tax, the most odious. and inquisitorial of all modes of taxation ; when this takes place, all eyes will be. directed to India ; when the tax-gatherer comes round every half-year to demand the Income-tax, we shall have something more t o d o than boast of our vast Indian empire, we shall have to pay for it, and . then it will be universally known and felt that we have a deep interest in its welfare ; it will then be our own concern, and we shall set about to see that matters arc properly conducted then?, we shall scrutinize into the proceedings of the Indian Government at home and abroad, and not take it for granted that everything is right, because men in office tell us they are satisfied:. FLANDERS AND DUTCEI MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL '2B.—The. average price of wheat, last wok, was 23f. 82c. ; that of rye, 13f. 26c. The basins of Antwerp are deserted. Several vessels have hft the port, favoured by the east wind, which delays the ar rival of others. About thirty ships, returning from very long voyages, are cruising in the Channel, waiting for a favourable wind. Some it is said, have touched at English ports. GHENT APRIL 27.—Swarms of beg g ars infest th e com munes in ;he country within these few days; they came, to the numbrr of fo-ty, to the parsonage house at Somerghan, where they demanded money and tood. . The genuarrnes. have taken the necessary precautions to prevent.the recurrence of such disorders. A dealer in potatoes having parchased a large quantity at the market of Waerschut, and loaded several waggons with them. One of the waggons was plundered on the road, by men be longing to the indigent classes.. Ilaussal.s, A rail. 29.—The Committee appointed for the purpose of commercial inquiry distributed - its wort six weeks ago, among the Members of the Chamber. The Members of the Committee having unanimously adopted the• principle of direct intercourse in commercial exchanges with distant pro ducing countries, it remains to eletermine. the manner of appli cation by a tariff of differential impost duties. The Committee publishes, in a supplement to the Mouiterr of the 23th of April, the tariff which it wishes to propose, and invites the Chamber of Commerce and the merchants and manufacturers of the country to communicate their ut.;orva dons to it before the lOth of May next. THE HAG r.:, A earl. :29.---jt.e acteowat , received from Berlin for the last three days. respe,iting his Majeity King William Frederick have been progressively more favourable. The situation of the august patient is improving in every respt ct. DUTCH FUNDS,—AitennOnm, APRIL 29. Actual DOI, 2% Per Cent .....» bionej. 8188. 5V4 Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Anisit Syndic. 4 percent:"... ........ • 93 Ditto, ditto, 3% per coat.... ..... Commercial Company, 4i4 pqr cent. Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ......... ; ltO% 1008 Loan 1837, 5 per cunt. ..................... c9* Exchange on London, One Twomonths Hamburgh, One m0nth............. 25 Twornonths - Dutch Papers, April 30. BELGIAN b.. UNES—Darsann. AntiL Zr): ,„ Actual Debt,_2% per Cent. .... ....... .... 54, Loanitoths o z h i ir ti i i e r tm all s i C 4 S p n c t r . .... . ............ I? ) % 3per 72ti ................ 01% Loan of City, 1=32, 4 per Cent ••..•.• 1 515 Society et Coaimlrce,aperCent., Bank of Itolgium , 5 per ........ w .713 National Society Exchange on Londbx (sliot t) ........ —Brussels Paters, April 29. • AUSTRIAN FUN llS.—Visnten, Apnil,2!. Five per Ccats. Metallleues .. ... poor per Cents. "t 0.... ..... ........ ......... Mk% Ihrecp..r Ceuta • ••••••••••••• ....... ....... Bi Bards Shares ••. ...... "••• .......... ••• ......... 1(555 On Thursday the Committee on the Budget elected M. Vuitry as reporter, in place of M. I. aeave-Laplagne. nattily was appointed President of the Committee, which post was also held by 11. Lacave-Laplagne. At the close of the sit ting nf the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, the report of the Committee en the Budget, which was drawn up by 111. Lacave- Laplagne, was laid on the bureau of the President by . Al. Vuitry. The last portion of this report was read to, and adopted by. the Committee, on the day that M. Humann died. The Moniteur Tarisien states that the Minister of Finance will maintain all ale *ldGris expressed by him as reporter on the Budget. A letter from Narbonne, of April 21, states that the waters of the Auds, which for some time had been much swollen, had on the preceding day reached so great a height that the embankment on the left side was swept away to a considerable extent. The vast plain reaching to the pond of Capustang was nothing but a vast lake, where the water most remain for a length of time as the inclination from that part of the country to the sea is very slight. Great damage has been done, and the loss, the letter states, will be enormous, both for, the repairs of the embankment and by the destruction of the crops, which were -in a flourishing state when the dis aster took place. ---T-- ---,-r~ STATE OF TRADE. FoREIGN WooL Tonna, LEEDS, Aeon. 29. —The trade in Foreign Wool has shown no symptoms of improvement this week ; prices, however, are pr e tty fi rm . ENOLIsH WOOL . MARKET, LEEDS, APRIL 29.—The de mand for English wool this week has been of the same character as noticed in our late reports. The tendency of prices is still downwards. CHESTERFIELD WOOL MARKET, APRIL 26.—The wool trade in this quarter scarcely furnishes any new feature. This article has been rapidly decreasing in value for some time past, and still remains in a very flat state, which may be mainly at tributed to the wretched state of trade in the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, combined with the large importations from Australia and other quarters. TRADE or• LEEDS.—There has been a little more business done at the Cloth Halls this week in low fancy cloakings and tweeds. but with this exception the demand for goods of a general description has been quite as dull as for some time past : prices are steady. , The same dull state of business con tinues in the warehnuses ; few buyers are in the market, and those who do some buy with the greatest caution, and for pre sent need only. TRADE OF HOLMFIRTH.—Never were the mills in this dis.. trict so badly employed as they have been during the past month. Many of the weavers, &c., who work in their own houses, and who for a long time hive not had half work, are now completely thrown adrift. We arc tired of alluding either to causes, consequences, or remedies for this state of things, but now the most rigid of the Tories admit that things have gone worse and worse ever since Sir Robert Peel came into office. BRADFORD MARKET, THU RSDAI . —the purchase of piece• gobds by the merchants attending our market to-day has beets of a. very cautious character, and nothing appears to be doing except to actual order. This is also met by the manufacturers, Who are only delivering a limited portion of work out to their weavers, thus preventing any increase in stock or decline in pries. There is a slight falling off in the demand for yarns since our last report ; but we do not hear that sales are effected at lower rates. Spinners have for some time past been pro ducing nothing to stock, choosing rather to curtail their pro duction than accumulate. Short-time working is quite as ge neral as during any period of last year; and without some considerable improvement, we fear the condition of the opera tives will g:ow worse instead of better. During the week there has been only a limited business doing in wool, nor can we learn there is any improved demand to.day. Prices rather on the decline. For fins noils there are more inquiries, and very little stock on hand; prices firm.—Leeds Mercury. BODY OF A WOMAN FOUND IN THE SERPENTINE.— Early on Friday morning the body of a woman—its freshness proving it had not been long in the water—was found floating lifeless on the surface of the Serpentine river. The corpse was that of a female, whose stature had been about five feet one inch, and whose visage still appeared very round and full fea tured. Her age could not have been more than forty. The dress was a brown stuff gown, and cloak of the same colour ; a bonnet, trimmed with plaid ribbon, black worsted stockings and low shoes. In order to give time for identification, Mr. Higgs will not hold the inquest on the body until Monday evening next. The Belgian journals give an account of a singular pigeon -match between the baron de W— and the Baron de H—, which came off on Thursday last, in the field between the gate and bridge of Lacken,in which the citizens of Bressels amuse themselves on Sundays and fetes in shooting with the bow. The wager was for 100 Napoleons. Baron de W. was to fire from a tilbury, and Baron de H. from on horseback, and both were to be kept constantly in motion.. The tilbury horse, being long past the frolics of youth, was supposed to be suffi ciently steady not to require any precautions. Baron de H. appeared, mounted on a coach-horse belonging to Count WO , also remarkably docile, but as he was never known to have been accustomed to firing, his eyes were bandag ed with silk hand kerchiefs, an d hi s ears fill e d w ith co t ton . The spectators wet? extremely numerous, and the bets ran very high. The pigeons were let out of the trap in couples. The old coach.horse walked about with perfect gravity, and took no more notice of the shots than if he had been a trooper throughout the revolu tionary war. The tilbury horse, however, broke into a gallop . at every report; nevertheless, out of ten pigeons in flight, the Baron de W. killed five, and the Baron de H. only three; consequently the latter lost the stakes. " TAKE CARE OF THE MINUTES."—A recent American paper narrates the following instance of the " im provement of timeJ"—" A train of cars ran off the truck at Norwich, Conn., a few days ago, which occasioned some delay. During the interim a lady and gentleman jumped out of the cars, went to the nearest justice and were married. They re turned in time for the cars and resumed their journey." A person well dressed, and having the appearance of being in a respectable class of :society, was observed walking a few days since in the Hue de V a len c i en n es at La Villette, exhibiting symptoms of great excitement , particu larly when any one seemed to observe. inn. At length, in iotnent of increased irritation frt , , this cause, he took a 17isto1 front his pocket, and discharged it at his own head, end dropped down dead. On being examined, his shirt was found to be fastened with diamond buttons, and a brilliant ring was on one of his fingers. In his pocket was a paper, on which he bad written inpencil—" I live at No. 20, Rue Grenier-Saint- Lazare;" but on sending an officer to this house with a descrip tion of the deceased's person, no' one could recognise him, nor, in fact, was any one of the inhabitants missing. His body was taken to the Morgue, and we do not learn that it has yet been claimed. Her Majesty's wish, that the guests at the fancy ball should appear in the costume of the reign oflEdward the Third, has occasioned a perplexity to the Bishop of Exeter and some of his colleagues : the Reverend Fathers have expressed great reluctance to exhibit themselves in the garb of Popish Pre lates; and to the suggestion that they might go as Lollards, they have replied, "that would be worse, for the Lollarda were Dissenters." Lord Lyndhurst fears that his appearance in the character of Chancellor to Edward the Third may give rise to bad jokes, by recalling the earnest prayer of the Commons to that Monarch, " that he would appoint no alien Chancellor." A sensation has been excited by a report that the Reverend Sydney Smith has consented to enact the part of Court Jester : Lord John Russell and the Bishop of London declare they will net go if he is to be allowed such a pretext for cracking his jokes upon them in the very presence. But a worse dilemma than any of them is that in which the Ambassadors from the various American States have found themselves. The repre sentative of the Union was annoyed simply because he had no means of knowing what was the costume of his country in the time of Edward the Third; but the Lord Chamberlain relieved his apprehension by pointing to the example of the Highland gentry, who are going ," all plaided and plumed in their tartan array," although it is notorious that this Harlequin garb was not invented or borrowed by the savages of North Scotland till some cent cries later. The American bashfully replied, that although on this side of the Atlantic, considerable credit was given to his countrymen for modest assurance, yet all the world knows that they fall short of Highlanders in that respect : ultimately, how ever, he was persuaded to defy anachronism and appear as a North American Sachem. The dubieties of the Mexican and South American Envoys have not admitted of so easy a solu • tion : all antiquarian reserch has only corroborated their fears, that the dress of their country at the period in question, must have been a great deal too simple and airy for the present occa sion. Sir Allan M'Nab, in whom the self-possession of the Yankee and Highlander may naturally be supposed to be com bined, has set them a good example by resolving to go in the character cf an Esquimaux.— Spectator. BRIGHTON ELECTION.—The writ arrived yester day, and at four o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Cordy the re turning officer, proceeded to the Town-hall, and proclaimed , from the hustings, Thursday next as the day of nomination. The polling will commence on Friday. Mr. Harford has se vrral times addressed the electors, giving them a most cheering description of the success of his canvass. - AbmiS rl fif - A=TION --7 6YefirglrdE IN RUSSIA. "Prince Trubetzkoi, of whose death some mvste lions accounts are given, h a d at, least no Iteason - ,'Con, netted with any post for destroying himself.;--.sliortlt- - after the supposed insurrection in ;:iamogritia,LiebQSA:4hl appointed military commander there, and exercised the military justevi with a severity v r hi c h occas i one d his being removed, and served as the first step for the renewal of the Konarski investigation. What the article above alluded to says of Colonel Nasimoff requires, in order to judge it properly, a deeper in sight into our administration of justice. Russi a possesses a very voluminous book of laws, but n o s?ttled jurisdiction ; courts of law, but no judges wh o have studied or been . educated for office ; an d informers, more numerous than in the times of th e Roman Emperors, take the place of public advecates. -;p?cial commissions are appointed for all the more important criminal investigations, generally under the presidency of somuinilitary person of note, and with out any Judicial control. The Russian employi who wants to rise in office has nothing better to do than set himielf to the: discovery of abuses and political offences, as all these are reported directly to the Enipceor, and often help the discoverer to extraor dinary advancement; all the more easily at the same time 13 the denunciation believed. The first denun ciatorb insinuations are made by word of mouth. 'Then, in order to make further - discoveries into the supreaed criminality, sums of money are advanced to be used on journeys, secret investigations, &c. Then follow surprises by night, seizures of papers, and arrests of the persons informed against. It is not usual certainly for the employe, from whom the first disco very proceeds, to be a member of the commission of investigation appointed forthwith, but the commission acts upon his advice. The informs have free in grew to all the secret transactions of the commission,' and receive money for their maintenance during the time, as well as for bringing up the necessary wit nesses. The system of bribery is the only one which has any chance with the witnesses for the defence, and they are consequently strict. At the same time, to preserve the informer from any tempt a ti on o f t h e kind, the law declares, that it he will hand in to the commission the bribe offered to him, he shall receive it back in full as the reward of his disin terestedness. This bribery, too, is received as evidence against the person accused as an actual proof of his criminality. Since the Polish revo lution this horrible system of denunciation has carried everything before it, espeAilly in the govern ments of Wilna, Grain°, and llialystock. A con quered people always remains a suspected enemy, and it needs only a suspicious temper in a ruler to re suscitate all the misery that Dolgorucki's humanity had scarcely assuaged. It was in consequence of de nunciations of this kitQd that the present Governor, General 3Nlirkewitz, again took up time investigation long since ended by the execution of Konarski and his associates. According to these denunciations, the traitor had passed the night in the house of such a one, andbeen long concealed in that of another. In order to give mom connexion to the whole matter, it was made to form a part with a supposed secret correspondence of certain Polish families with their relations living in France as political re fugees. Professors, physicians, civil officers, and nobles, all on a sttdchu vanished from among their family circles to he left to languish in unknown prisons. Anxiety and terror fell upon the minds of all ; the scourge of insulted legitimacy was the sceptre that ruled the land. Doubts, however, it would seem, be gan to arise in the Emperor's mind, especially as his military Governor, instead of sending him proofs, only announced to him continual arrests, and the con sequence was that he sent his Adjutant-Colonel, Xasimoff, to Willie, in order to have an eye upon the progress of tlusie investigations. This active officer and excellent man soon convinced himself of the want (Wall foundation for these denunciations. But any one who at all knows how very marked are the distinc tions of military rank in itussia, will easily compre hend how little Colonel liasimoff was able to effect in opposition to the military Governor and his judges. With straightforward openness he laid the state of things before the Emperor, and urged the necessity of sending to the spot some one still higher placed in rank. In consequence of this advice, General Kawerin, formerly tutor to the Hereditary Grand Duke, received the very honourable mission to do us ice at length to all parties according to truth. After a very short time all the prisoners were set at rtv, without any exception; and some (princi pally the civil officers) received compensations for their sufferings in money. Severe justice was exer cised upon all the members of the Commission, and a very energetic reproof given to General Mirkewitz." —Konigsberg Gazette. DISTItEss IN CIIORLEY : I— Thedistress • 1 t pre% a en in Chorley is probably'greater than in any other town in Lau eishire ; 'for one-half of the operatives have actually to upon the donations of their breth ren w h o are i n employment. A great body of the hand-loom w, avers have little or no work ; the calico-printers are aim , st wholly unemployed ; and other branches have little to do. Yesterday (Friday) week the un employed_ workmen paraded the town in procession, to obtain something for the purpose of keeping them in existence. Th e y numbered nearly 500, and obtainedfd. in money, upwards of nine cwt, of bread, one cwt. of cheese, and one cwt. of bacon. On snaking a division, it amounted. in money and goods, to about is. 2d. a heatl.—Munchester paper. A man named Gueliez, only 2.5 year,, of age, has just been found guilty by the Court of Assizes of robbery and attempt to murder, under the following circumstances :—On December 13, on passing along the Hue Coquilliere, he took up a leather trunk placed at the door of M. Legay, a dealer in such articles, who, however, caw the act, and running after the thief, overtook him at. the corner of the Rue des Vieux Augustins. A struggle ensued, during which Guehez inflicted no lees than six wounds with a knifa on the body of M. Legg, and then fled. lle was followed and captured. M. Legay was carried home in a lamentable state, but, fortunately, tune of the wounds were mortal, and he has since recovered. Tile Court sentenced Guehez to hard labour for life, and to be ex posed on the pillory. • THE LATE EARL OF MUNSTER.—(From a Cor respondent. )—The will of the late Earl of Munster has been proved in Doctors'-Commons by Lord De Lisle, General Wyndham and Mr. Cameron, the executors. 'I he will refers to vario is family settlements, and directs the residue of his Lordklup's property, after payment of debts and legacies, to be laid out. in the purchase of estates, to be entailed in his fa mily, Lady Munster taking all the rents (except 300/. for the present Earl) and to have the use of the houses and furniture at Brighton and in Belgrave-street, rent-free for her li e. The personal property wes sworn under 40,000/. The ( ;email Journals publish a circular sent by the Turkish Ministry to all the t3overnors of the provinces, allUd ing to the appointment of a commission to inquire into the complaints of ill-treatment made by some Christian subjects of the Porte at Smyrna, and ordering that, in future, the Chris tian subjects of the Porte, in all parts of its territories, shall have justice so fairly and equitably administered to them, that they may be no longer conipelled to place the:nselres under the protection of foreign ambassadors and consuls, under the im pression that justice is not otherwise to be obtained from the Turkish authorities. A land-slip has lately taken place at Villequier, near Rouen. Three or four acres of land have been removed from their former position, carrying with them trees and hedges. Large fissures appear in several places; one house has fallen down altogether, and another was so it jured as to force the owner to quit it. This land-slip was accompauied with a noise, which is described as like a strong blast of wind. The road from Villcquier to Caudebec presents several openings, and a considerable sinking has taken place in part of it. Exchequer-hills were invented in 169(i, and first circulated by the Bank in 1706. It was not anticipated two centuries ago that the subject would occupy a great portion of the time of Parliament now, and more par.icularly on such an occasion as the present. A correspondent writes from Florence, that the Mine of quicksilver, discovered last year in the environs of Pe ravezza, near Pisa, is in full work, and during the last month yielded more than 6,0001b5. ; a produce that is daily increas ing. The Grand Duke had visited them, and expressed his satisfaction at the able manner in which they had been con ducted, announcing the intended appointment of a commis sion of French, English, Italian, and German geologists and chemist!. to search for the other mines of quicksilver, which, according to tradition, exist in the Grand Duchy. The Journal dm Loiret states that the Mayor of Lorris, in the arrondissement of Montargis, had foilidden, under a penalty of from sf. to 10f., any person under his juris. diction to dance the galop. He has also prohibited the bend in the Pastourelle from being 'executed "so rapidly," as the order states, " as the ladies generally desire.". The worthy functionary, in his excess of zeal for the morals of his com• mune, has forgotten that the music must regulate the slowness or rapidity of the dancers' movements ; he .sh6ttld also, there fore, issue an order to • composers to substitute the andante for the allegro movement. REVENGEFUL RECOLLECTION OF AN ELEPHANT.— A few days since John Glascott, groom to a gentleman named Turner, was conveyed to the London Hospital with a severe fracture of the leg, near the anele. The injury was caused by an elephant, and is an additional proof that that animal is mindful (the expression is almost justifiable) of wrongs, and seldom fails to resent them. On the morning of that day on which Glascott was taken to the hospital, he had been wit nessing,' the performances of an elephant then exhibited in a booth in the Commercial-road, East; and it is stated that he took it into his head to amuse himself by teasing the animal. Nothing more happened then; but, in the after noon of the same day Glascott returned to the booth with his children, and, whilst they were intent on the feats of the animal, it suddenly wound its trunk round the man's leg, and did not uncoil it until the leg was fractured. The surgical treatment Glaseott received in the hospital at first succeeded; but a day or two back erysipelas attacked the system, and yes terday terminated fatally. The following atrocious fratricide was coimnitted a few days ago at Saint Just-la-Pendue, in the Loire. The cri minal, whose name and station are not mentioned, having been passport, but not ' e a ager to do the deed fitorithiievgltilliatnyoartthooomb,t.airne,tuasniietd:asandsump.asposseod he contemplated, th ' at he loaded his gun, and seeking his bro ther shot him dead in the presence of at least fifty persons. say ing it was better to kill than be killed. He took refuge in the house of a friend, where he was followed by the police otfice...s. They were told that he had concealed himself in the loft, and there thew went in search of him, but he was at the time in it room on the first floor, whence, with the assistance of his friend, lie made his escape to the woods, and, for the present, remains undiscovered. A \vellum, nained Cocquard, NV 11 n resided in the Rue Beaubourg, was murdered by her husband, on Saturday week, in a fit of jealousy. Cocquard having sent for his wife from the shop of a tobacconist, who employed her as a char woman, she came, and, immediately en her entering, a quarrel was heard by the neighbours. Shortly afterwards all was silent, and Cocquard came out of the room in a state of great agitation, hastened to the Commissary of Police, declared that he had murdered his wife, and surrendered himself prisoner. The Magistrate went to the room, and found the poor woman lifeless, with three desperate wounds in the breast, with a knife, which had killed her instantaneously. -' .n -,a5 If .ea 1 -4 at , of , 41 :1 1 1' le it ; ~~ • f It ii it te