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To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first HE post. INE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, October 4, 1842. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT -GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV.. 1, Will be produced a Comic Opera, called THE SECRET MAR RIAGE. Being an English version of Cimarosa's "Il Ma trimonio Sogreto." The Character of Carolina, by Miss. Adelaide Kemble ; Fidalma, Mrs. Alfred Shaw ; Llisetta, Miss Rainforth ; Signor Geronimo, Mr. Giubilei ; Count Montoai, Mr. Leffler ; Paolino; Mr. W. Harrison. After which will be repeated a New, Original, Comic Proma, written by Mr. Mark Lemon, Author of " The Ladies' Club;" &c., entitled THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Tret, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mrs. Hrmby.; Miss Warren. Miss Lee. To conclude with the Farce of COUSIN LAMBKIN. ST:ire Mulberry, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter Lacy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam, Miss Cooper • Rose Maynard, Miss Lee • :Dainty, Mrs, Humby. Private Boxes 9 to be had at the Boa-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bend-street ; Mr;Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING , NOV. 1, Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, •.Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Fauaitt, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. Wright, Wilkinson, Paul Bedford, and Mrs. H. Bever!y. After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs. Mdme. Prsche Ginbilei; " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs. H. P. Grattan. To conclude with NORMA. Polio, Mrs. H. P. Grattan ; Norma, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright. 13oxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the numerous applications for Air. T. P. Coolie to appear in a succession of his favourite Characters, and the nightly overflows to witness his inimitable acting. he will change every evening, being the last/times of their performance. THIS EVENING, NOV. I, V. ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS, supported by the best Company in London. After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or, THE WIFE OF A SAILOR.,:- Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke, whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with .most decided success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Lanerct, 111 r. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Even;le►t, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche Heriot, Airs. R. Homier. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the Box office, from cleten to Tout. • 131(111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDJE THIS D.Y. T0ng.,.... 7 minutes after 0 Evening 31 minutes after 0. 54 7 *- .V ,f - ,.. j , ,-,-.? ....-y-,; , 44 - 0 ,, 41c (-. 27 -OV 4 - •- ' h,..‘ i#2 1 , 1 1,6%. v 4144 rfir.-L.Wq: ,? 4i , .4-,, : yk;.•. , .. , :4...,,i,.--1 , —,, ,„. t 44,1,..,,;‘ , 6 ,, a -,;4. ~. ~.,..,„-, , . • ki: , -4.7._ , -,. , :v.....itiv...%v ' - Ctrit LONDON TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1842 To the over-taxed people of England the re.. cent arrival ffom- the United States brings on intn of i:Jelligence which is calculated to grievc and alarm them. Those who, being over-taxe,:, lock upon cur colonies as burdens, and grumble alread'y at the expense incurred on their ac count, may perhaps be indignant, as well a - alarmed, at the intelligence. The statement will be found amongst our extracts from the Ameri- can paper 3, and it seems only necessary to direc attention to tile subject to make the public a once aware of its hearings. The readers of The 31172 will remember, for we had occasion. recently to advert to the niti b tter, that the Colonial Customs' Act imposed, foi ( tin. first time, last session, a duty of the barrio:: American flour imported into Canada. Wit learn; however, from the Kingston Chronicle, that the English Government—that is, Sir R' PEEL, 'Lord STANLEY, and Co.—offered to the Canadian Government to repeal the Imperia. duties on Canadian corn, if the Provincial Par liament of Canada woUld. • impose a duty on imported into Canada from the "Unite by which, in 'fact, the Ininerial dot Nvill be superseded by the Colonial duty. V.l Cana.diun Provincial Administration agreed I the Offer, and proposes to levy a duty on Amer wii;2ol imported into Canada of 3s. pl Our Government executed its pa of the plan by allowing Canadian wheat to be imported at a duty of is, when and ss. when the price is 553., the price is 53 5. , thoti7h we have forgotten if it informed the per:al Legislature of what it had proposed to the Canadian Government. Upon the wheat imported from America con sumed in Canada, this duty, as the Kingstm Chronicle observes, will be levied on the Cana dians ; but upon all the American wheat which imported into England through Canada, the English consurners‘will pay that 3s: duty. To what extent the importation may take place we pretend not to say. The Kingston Chronicle sup poses that the revenue to be obtained from it may be upwards of 200,000/., but whatever may be its amount, the whole sum paid on American corn imported through Canada into England, will be levied on the people of England for the advantage of the colony, by the Executive Go vernment having made, we believe without the knowledge of the House of Commons, an under hand bargain with the colony. The Executivc Government has authorised the Provincial Par liament of Canada to tax the people of England. To the tax of 2s. a barrel on American flour imported into Canada, the House of Commons assented, h the belief, no doubt, that its produce, like the produce of other taxes levied by the Im perial- LegiSlature for the regulation of the gene ral trade of the empire, would be collected into the Imperial treasury. But it appears that Lord STANLEY has effectively bartered away the tax for the colonial tax we have mentioned. " This is the first time," says the Kingston Chronicle, " that the imperial Government has given up to a colony the duties it thinks proper to impose in England on colonial imports for the regulation of its own trade." To impose such duties is held by some persons to he unconstitutional but for the Executive o-overnment to give them up, and for a provincial administration to levy a tax at its suggestion, which is to be paid by the people of England, without the consent of Parliament, is as gross a violation of the principles of the Con stitution, as has for many Years fallen under our notice. - _ All this is done for behoof of the landed inte rest at home, whlcii seems to be so important in . the minds of statesmen that it warrants any and every departure both from the principles of justice and the constitutional practices. " One object of these regulations," says an American paper, "appears to be to compel American wheat, i n tended for the English market, to go through Canada, be ground in Canadian mill s , an d shipped is English vessels." " Unless," it adds, " our Government sbould adopt some counter vailing' measure, this object will be accom- 1 plislied." The measure, therefore, as we have already said in regard to the new tax levied by the Colonial Customs' Act, is regarded as an I attack on American commerce, which invites, if it cannot justify, these rc3trictions w: ich the United States, following Sir RonEa7 PEEL'S example, and acting on his princi2les, are heaping on our trade. General satisfaction will be experienced at the result yesterday of Lord FRANKFORT'S pro secution of ALICE LOWE. He was defeated, and she was acquitted. We have abstained through out from making any remarks on this case, be cause we were led to suppose the Noble Lord to be completely insane. To cherish that supposi tion still seems charitable to him, and the least discreditable case to the body of which he is a member. Were we obliged to treat him as a responsible agent, we must speak of his conduct in terms which we should be loath to apply to any individual. COURT CIRCULAR. Wilmson, MoNnay.—Her Majesty and her Illus trious Consort enjoyed in the forenoon their usual •::arly walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal ware taken their accustomed His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing in the Great Park, near the Royal Lodge, at tended by Sir Edward Bowater and Col. Arbuthnot. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, rollowed by a pony carriage and four, in which were the Countess of Dunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. , Francis DeverFux, and Viscount Hawarden and Col. Arbuthnot, on horseback. Earl Spencer arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. Sir Henry Wheatley also arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn tookleave to-day. The Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Countess of Dunmore, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Lady Caroline Cocks, lion. Frances Devereux, Hon. Anson, Lord Charles Wellesley, Earl Spencer, Sir H.Wheat ley, Viscount Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Robert Otway, Colonel Arbuthnot, Sir E. Bowater, and Dr. Prcetorius. Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in White hall-gardens last evening, from his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Sir James Graham also arrived in town yesterday evening, f;orn a visit to the Right Hon. Baronet at Drayton Manor. The 'Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday norning, from the residence of Lord Haddo, at St. Leonard's, near Windsor. Lord Stanley arrived at his residence in St. James's ,quare last evening, from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. Lord Wharnclitfe, Lord President of the Council, arrived at his residence in Curzon-street yesterday evening, from his seat, Belmont Castle. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town last evening from Ryde, Isle of Wight. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon for their seat Broadlands, Hants. Dispatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor cf Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches for the Governor of Ceylon were sent off last evening from the Colonial-once. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Mrs. Honey made her first appearance here for these four years last evening, in the farce of Match Her Who Can. In this farce she has ample opportu nity for exhibiting the versatility of her talents, as she susiains no less than five characters, exhibiting every . variety, from the wild Irish girl, with no fortune but her beauty, her mirth, and her melody, to the staid,, quiet, st? , ady dun-coloured quaker, who flys from beauty as from temptation, to whom mirth is an abo mination, and whose ideas of melody e:ztend not be yond the nasal twang in which the orthodox give vent to the movin , :s of the spirit. It is needless to add that she acted excellently and sung deliciously. We hail her re-appearance as an acquisition to this theatre. A lady who can sing has long been wanted at this theatre, and that want could not have been more efficiently supplied than it has been by the en- gagemnit of that most fascinating of ballad-singers, Mrs. Honey. The farce was preceded by Mark Leman's beautiful drama of Grandfather Whitehead, which still continues to draw good houses. This drama is certainly more true to nature than any that has been prodnced of late years, and it is powerfully acted throughout. Having repeatedly seen both Bouffe and Farren in the character of the Grandfather, we, on the whole, unhesitatingly award the palm to Farren. Beautiful as is the Grand papa Guerin of Bouffe, it is certainly surpassed by the Grandfather Whitehead "of Farren. In order I,roperly to appreciate the beautifully artistical man 7 ner in which Farren developes this character, it is ne cessary to soc him more than once. " Ars est celare artern ;" and this, the highcst triumph of art, has been accomplished by Farr 2 n in his inimitable deline ation of this most interesting character. RIGHT OF SEARCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM. _ . Sra,--1 entirely concur in the justice of the obser vations you have lately made, regarding:Abe impress- Ment of seamen, and our right to search neutral vessels lurine a time of war. Thope you will againand again reiterate these observations, which are so true, that they only 'require . impartial attention to meet with universal assent. We are as capable of forming cor rect opinions as the older writers on international law, and no authority can supersede common sense, '.11;1 Strict justice. We cannot possibly have the right to search any neutral vessel, during the time of war,. except by the consent of both parties, and the sooner ..ve gracefully relinquish an unjust claim the better. The right can Only be that of superior power, but even if it were aelcnoWdedged, what would be the use of it? rilre should merely be able to compel a few unwilling sailors to serge on our ships of war, a compulsion that never will be required if they be only treated with eo4nraon justice and humanity. • lihese re marl: may also be applied to slave treaties. Irmo French he dis'atisfied with theirtreaty, let them have n new one, for no benefit can be derived from any treat_}' - that is unwillingly executed. Your most obedient servant, PLi‘...YF AIR. 0-rx'9 13-12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—l t n the report of the Coroner's Inquest on the body (')f the unfortunate Joseph Johnson, in your paper of 'riday evening , last, it was stated that the sum of money found upon the deceased's person was 2281., instead of which it was only 1281. 16s. If, therefore, ybiu would be so good as to correct the statement in your next paper, you would oblige those persons connected with the melancholy event, and who still posF;ess the property, under the Coroner's seal ; and as you are aware of the necsosity for par ticularity on such occasions, I feel convinced von will ohlirr R e. 'Yours, &c. THOS. STOUD. Spread' Eagle Tap, Oct. 30. 1842. The leading 11":ashington papers, strange to say, have not yet published the. Ashburton tr ea t y , ' and they allege, that its publication in the other papers of the Union is surrept itio u s, a co py of the treaty having been stolen from the files of the Sen te - . They allege further (which we believe to be true) that, annexed to the treaty,.there is an agreement, regula ting all matters of detail, and explaining several things in the treaty itself, which without such ex planation appears ambiguous. They therefore call upon the people of the United States, not to pro nounce any opinion upon the treaty, until it is ratified by the British Government, when it will be published complete, and can be understood in all its parts.— . _ Nova Scotian. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE ON THE RIVER.—A few days since the Ruby Gravesend steamer, Captain Gann, was on her passage down the river, when a black man, a sailor belonging to a sloop astern of the Ruby, fell overboard off Woolwich. Captain Gann immediately gave orders for his vessel to be stopped, and two young watermen belonging to his crew got into the boat, which being lowered rather too hastily heeled over, and the two watermen were precipitated into the water. They both, however, gallantly swam to the rescue of the black sailor, and soon put him on board the sloop's boat, and proceeded to swim back to their own, which by this time had righted. One reached her in safety, and the other had nearly done so, when exhausted by his efforts the poor fellow sunk, and never rose a g ai n , to the unspeakable regret of the crew and pesseneem on board the Ruby. The de ceased was a single man, the chief support of an aged mother, and was the nephew of Captain Yonwin, master of the Gem steamer, one of the oldest and most respected Captains on the river. • MEXICAN Does.—Mr. Kendall, in the account of his Santa Fe expedition, speaks of some remarkable dogs used by Mexicans to guard their sheep. He says—" There are very few men along with this im mense herd of sheep ; but in their stead was a large number of noble dogs, who appeared to be peculiarly gifted with the faculty of keeping them together. There was no running about, no barking nor biting in their system of tactics • but on the contrary, they walked gently up to any sheep that happened to stray from the fold, took it carefully by the ear, and led it back to the flock. Not the, least fear did the cheep m anifest at the appr o a ch of these dogs;- and there was no necessity for it. They appeared to me to be a cross of the Newfoundland and St. Bernard species; of a ver large size, and with frank open countenances, y an.d, from what I could learn, e24reziely s,agasiolis," THE SUN, LONDON) TUI47,SDAY EVENING NOVEMBER, 1, [842. MAGAZINE DAY. —after the flishion of most Irish fictions—on the extravagant; its chief defect is its length. " Richard Savage" is unusually spirited this month. The quarrel between the hero and Lord Tyrconnell is described with a truthful earnest ness worthy of Boz. " The Philosophy of Fighting" is principally to be commended for its illustrations, which are ingenious and fanciful enough. We quote from the "Traitor's Dooin" an account of the execution of a native Indian officer who had betrayed an English regiment with which he professed to be in alliance : The Deputy Judge-Advocate was desired to read an account of the proceedings of the general Court martial held at C— on the prisoner, Dewallah Surhat, lately commanding the Auxiliary Native Field Force, charged with having on the night of the 15th of October, 181—, willingly and treacherously betrayed the British forces, with whom he was appa rently acting as an ally, and thereby, &c. While the proceedings were being read, the prisoner was much agitated whenever the treason he had been guilty of was alluded to. He evidently was much pained. The convulsive movements of his countenance showed how acutely he felt his pcsition ; but when the whole trial had been recited, when the verdict of " Guilty" was pronounced, he seemed suddenly to recover his immobility. When the sentence of death was read out he did not quail in the slightest degree; and finally, when the sentence of the Court condemned him to be blown from a gun," he looked with an almost triumphant glance on his late friends, who stood horror-stricken around him. The General was perfectly overcome. His former friends and brother officers shuddered with dread at his coming fate ; for though the sentence was strictly just, yet many who had never seen this mode of execution drew back with terror and disgust. Surhat was the calmest man on that field as we wheeled back into line preparatory to the dreadful scene. We took open order, and the prisoner marched along the line, and up again be tween the ranks. He was then taken to a spot some hundred yards in front of our centre. No coffin was there to receive his remains, as I had previously seen at military executions—no friends to take his body away after his doom had been completed—so clearly was it foreseen that his annihilation would be complete, , his whole frame scattered to the winds, the morsels left in all directions for the beasts and birds of prey. The troops were now "told off" in three divisions, the wings wheeled up, the artillery brought into the centre; thus, as it were, re-forming a hollow square, except on the side on which the prisoner Oood. A single gun was now brought up, turned round, and unlinked. The drivers willingly trotted away to the rear. The prisoner was desired to advance ; he did so within a pace of the muzzle. The deputy Provost Marshal produced a cord with which to bind him to the gun. For the first time Surhat seemed shaken. He made a special request that he might not be tied down. The General was solicited, and consented that it should be so. The prisoner turned upon him a look of the sincerest and heartfelt gratitude, shook hands after the European manner with the Provost-Marshal, and after receiving his directions, agitatedly given, walked boldly up to the cannon, and pressing his body up to the muzzle, threw his arms round the gun itself, gave one last glance, and stooped his head down to the piece. At the same instant a signal was given, the ready-lighted match was .applied to the touch-hole, a flash of fire, a volume of smoke, a roar ing sound re-echoed from the neighbouring hills, and all was over. A few drops of blood, a few scattered remnants, scarcely recognisable as ever having be • longed to humanity, were all that nowremained of the once proud, the generous, the brave chieftain, who, by thus choosing a doom which brought total earthly annihilation, seemed determined to leave behind him no record of the basely-fallen chief, the hated name of traitor ! BLACK WOOD'S MAGAZINE. The "Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela"—a Jewish traveller who is supposed to have lived in the thirteenth century—forms the subject of the first article in the present Number. Several cu rious extracts are given from this " Itinerary," and among them, is a brief sketch of the far famed city of Bagdad, which, at the period when Benjamin visited it, was celebrated throughout the East for its vast population, its abundant wealth, and magnificent public buildings; the circuit of the Caliph's Palace alon e was three miles, and comprised within i tsinclosure, parks, pleasure grounds, and reservoirs! " How are the mighty fallen !" This once splendid and powerful city, where the royal hero of the " Arabian Nights" held his Court, is now in the last stage of hope less decay. - War, pestilence, and famine have successively devastated it, and the recent inunda tions of the Tigris have all but completed the work of destruction. " A Passage in the Life of a Maitre d'Armes" is an animated account of an interview which a French fencing-master had with the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, who, after witnessing his professional skill, gave him a letter of recommendation to his Imperial brother, Alexander. We quote the concluding portion of the writer's narrative : At ten o'clock the following morning, I started for the Emperor's present abode, the Palace of Tzarsko Selo, determined to walk in the gardens until I met him, and to risk the penalty of imprison ment, incurred by all who ventured to present a pe tition to his Imperial Majesty. My stock of patiepce however, was very nearly exhausted, when I haci waited and wandered more than four hours in the Palace-gardens, which contain in their vast inclosures, slopes, levels, lakes, and forests; grottoes, pyramids, and statues. All these I had visited, without per ceiving any one but the sentries and a few loungers; and I was beginning to despair of meeting him whom I came to seek, when the avenue I had just entered was crossed by an officer in undress uniform, who sa luted me and continued his promenade. I asked a gardener's boy at work near me who that very polite officer was. " The Emperor, " answered . he. I immediately darted down an alley which I calcu lated would traverse the path Alexander was follow ing. I had scarcely gone a hundred yards, before I found myself so near his Majesty that I paused in some alarm. The Emperor halted for an instant; then seeing that respect prevented me from approach ing him, he advanced towards me, and I awaited his coming, standing uncovered on the side of the foot path. The Emperor limped slightly, owing to the re opening of an accidental wound in the leg, received in one of his journeys to the banks of the Don. As he slowly advanced, I had leisure to observe the great change which had taken place in his appearance since I had seen him in Paris. His countenance, formerly so open and cheerful, had now a sickly and mournful expression, and he was evidently a prey to the deepest melancholy. Notwithstanding this, his looks were se benevolent that I felt re-assured, and as he passed near me, I ventured to address him. " Sire !" " Put on your hat, sir," replied he. "It is too cold to remain bareheaded." Seeing that 'hesitated, from respect, to obey him, he seized my hat, clapped it on my head, holding my arm the while to prevent my taking it off again. When he found that I made no further resistance, he said— " Well, sir, what have you to say to me ?" " Sire—this supplication," and I drew the petition from my pocket. The Emperor's countenance fell. " Are you aware, sir," said he, " you who pursue me even here, that I absent myself from St. Peters burgh to avoid petitions and petitioners ?" " I know it, sire; but my , petition has, perhaps, more than most others a claim on your Majesty's gracious consideration, It is countersigned by your Majesty's august brother—by his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine.' " Ah, ah !" exclaimed the Emperor, holding out his hand, but immediately withdrawing it. " So that I ventured to hope," I continued, " that your Majesty would, in this instance, deign to deviate from the rule established." " No, sir," replied the Emperor . quickly. " No, sir, - .I will not take it, because if I did, I should to morrow be pestered with a thousand such papers; and I should be compelled to abandon these gardens, where at present I find solitude and quiet. But," added he, observing my disappointment at this refusal, and ex tending his hand in the direction of the city," put your petition into the post-office. I - shall receive it to-iiighe,. and the day after to-morrow you will have my answer." " Sire, I know not how to express fny gratitude." " Prove it, .then," he replied, " by telling no one that you have presented a petition, and escaped punishment. Good-day to you, sir." With these words, and a gracious but melancholy smile, the Emperor pursued his walk. I did not fail to follow his advice, and put my letter into the post. The Emperor was true to his promise, and two days afterwards I received his reply. It, was my commis sion as fencing-master to the imperial corps of engineers, with the rank of captain. The "Poems and Ballads of Schiller," form a very delightful poetical Melange. "Cassandra," in particular, is a truly - impressive and energetic lyric, in which Schillee's teeming fancy is scea to great - advantage. ".An Ancient Dandy" is a .- iii - lively tale, written a spirit of arch and ghod humoured raillery.i The sketch of the old Beau at his toilette reminds us, in its minuteness and particularity, of that well-known scene in the " Clandestine Mara-lege," where Lord Ogleby is representCd 44 elaborately figging him self out for ths i. day. "Marquis Welles ley"-'---as the ;Ole implies—is a biogra phical sketch of this eminent statesman. The sketch is. eulogists but not too much so; but the writer, whose Style is his chief recommenda tion, is exceedinglir i hasty and reckless in some of his assertions, &.4 4 for instance, where he re-. Marks that "no transaction of European king doms within memory so nearly justified the name of miracle, as the Spanish insurrection of 1808.7? What was there . Miraculous in a proud, jea lous nation, oppreAed and trampled on as Spain was by France at the period in question, having reaturie to arms in order to emancipate 'itself fro& its degrading servitude? We can recognise no supernatural agency in this instance of resistancereto tyranny. Again, still alluding 'to the Peninsula, the writer says, " Spain, which had known nothing of popue lar government from • the fall of the Ro man 'empire, becamb• suddenly a hive of popularl governments."- This observation ex- hibits great ignorance' of Spanish history. Castile and Aragon were remarkable from an early period--esay the thirteenth century—for their system of popular administration ; indeed, so fee were these two kingdoms, the most influ ential in the PeninsUla, from knowing " nothing •of popular governinent,". =.that they verged on absolute democracy in. their political institutions! " Caleb Stukely " contains some clever writing, but the story, as a Whole, is too elaborately worked out, which gives it An air of stiffness and formality that detracts not:a little from its inter est. " A Lay of the League" is a humorous poetical squib. " Thomson's Seasons" is a most entertaining notice of the late splendidly embel ished edition of this fine poem. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Hood leads off this Number with a highly diverting article headed " News from China,' which consists of a correspondence between a Mrs. Jemima Budge and. her son, who had gone out to China on a commercial speculation. The chief epistolary characteristic of the mother is a remarkable indifference to orthography ; that of her son, a strong tendency to be too poetical in his prose—in other words, to lie as fast as a horse can gallop. These two Peculiarities are turned to most amusing account in the correspondence of the amiable couple. Here is one of the young man's yarns; the incident is supposed to have occurred while he was the Chinese seas :—" We came across a st rikin g p roof of the deleterious effects of opium, namely, a man-of war's launch with a midshipman and twelve hands in her, all as fast as to p s, and as hard to be waked up as Doctor Watts's sluggard. Luckily, there was oceans of cold pies at hand, and did'nt we give it them with the gravy? which at last brought the to their senses, when it appeared that hearing so much talk about opium, and finding a pacicage of it adrift, they had chewed a little out of curiosity, which being an overdose had - sent them all into the land of Nod. Poor fellows, it was lucky we picked them up, before falling into the power of the pigtails, instead of the ninetails; for they had two dozen apiece on rejoining their ship, but one of them, a _ deep old file, took another dose of the opium beforehand, and so was flogged in his sleep, they say, without feeling it." We subjoin another specimen of the young traveller's powers of mendacity, which is as compact' a collection of circumstantial lies as any perpetrated by the notorious Baron Mun chau4en : The Chinese towns are very populous, so much so that there isn't room for half the inhabitants on dry land, and accordingly hundreds and thousands of families live, whore you wouldint, namely, on the water, in regular swimming houses, with no ground floors. This arrangement of course prevents the rising gene ration from playing as ours does about the streets, so they play :shalt the deck instead, which being wet and slippery, it often happens that some of them, especially what you call the little toddles, plump overboard, and would be drowned but for a great empty calibash that their mothers tie to their backs, and which acting like a cork jacket keeps the dear little ducklings afloat, till theia industrious parents are at leisure to haul them out with a long boat hook. An operation they never hurry themselves about, knowing the darlings are perfectly safe, as well as doing their own washing, while the young uns .from the same sense of security are far from particular about their footing, but drop in and float as if they were paid for doing it, like the aquatic actors. at Sadler's Wells. Well, you. see when the mandarin boats bore down on the gun-brig she began to fire away like blazes, right and left, and one or two of the random balls falling among the floating houses, the proprietors considered it as a notice to quit, and away they went helter skelter—sove qui pet, which is the French for devil take the hindermost, some up the river and some into the canals—whole Water-lanes and River terraces moving off in double quick, with such screaming and howling, they say, as never was heard. In such a skurry the juveniles got knocked over board, poor things, like fun, some of the unpleasant or snubbed children in large families perhaps getting a kick on purpose ; however in they went, plump after plump, like frogs, frightened into a pond—the brig all the while kicking up a regular smother. and chattering away like thunder as long as she could get an answer, and rather longer. At last she st o pp ed firing, and the smoke clearing off 10 - end behold there was not a mandarin boat in sight—the swimming town had gone into the country, and all round the ship the sea was alive with little Chineses brought down by the ebb tide, all floating about with their life-preservers, and screaming like sea-gulls for their absent fathers and mothers. As common humanity required they were all picked up and taken aboard the brig, one hundred and sixty four in all, from a year upwards, and after a little warm grog apiece, which some took naturally and others quite the reverse, the captain sent them all off in a gig and a cutter, with a white ensign to each boat. Not that the Chinese would mind firing on a flag of truce, which they did so unmercifully, that the officer in charge, out of humanity, gave orders to pull round, and brought all the little innocents on board again, as well as some six or seven more which they had picked up in their passage. Well, when Captain saw them all come back on his hands, he looked at them, they say, likean ogre, for he thought the bar barians had contrived it on purpose, to prevent his fighting his ship, and he s wore, so soon as the flood made, he would heave the brats overboard, every cherub, and let them tide back again. But when the time come, being a family man himself, his heart always misgaVe, — So the childre n remained aboard,— and there was her Majesty's gunbrig the turned into a regular Foundling - H o se - ital. By good luck our commandentook me with him on a visit to the brig, and sure enough she was literally swarming with little flat-faced Chinese, some put to bed three and four in a hainmock, and the rest sprawl ing about the decks, each looked after by ! - t strapping he-nursemaid six foot high,—the carpenters nurseling excepted, which, being called off to a sob, he had tied by the leg to a ring bolt. And oh, thinks I, if my dear motherly mother, could but see the boatswain ! a great, red-faced monster, and almost as hairy as the beast that suckled Romulus and Romus, a sitting on a carronade, with a brown foundling on each knee, one getting up a squall and the other sick, from being tried with a soft quid of tobacco, be cause it couldn't manage hard biscuit ! And than the noise !—for at least half of the children were screeching like para keets, I don't think for want of toys, for one had a marlinspike, and another the tar-brush, and another an old swab, but by degrees the whole kit of inno cents on deck had set up their pipes as if King Herod had got among them—and nobody knew why. Some thought it was at the black cook, and others BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. This periodical has reached us at such a late whole, t hour, that w e mus t perforce content ourselves with a e a e nc t e e r t a a t i n i i t n s g c o N n u t e m n b t s e . r, i o n g n an pleasantly from grave to gay. The first article is an account of an unsophisticated Coe' ne K y fortunes and misfortunes at P • aris, and of the droll practical jokes played off on him by a scampish adventurer, one Jack Johnson. There are several whimsical incidents iu this article, and no lack of broad huineur, which • is one of the most popular qualifications that a periodical writer can possess. Some clever Illustrations by Leech add greatly to the effect of the different sketches and descriptions. The " Life and Songs of Anacreon" is an agreeable: essay, interspersed •with scraps of criticism and poetical translations. We do not, however, agree with the author in his remark that " it would be difficult to find any two poets between whom so great, a simi larity of genius and disposition existed as that between Horace and Anacreon." Both certainly were social and festive in ,their temperament, and sang the joys of love and wine with equal grace and freedom, and so far they resemble each other; but Horace was a thorough man of the world, which we have no proof, in his writings at least, that Anacreon was; again, Horace when he pleased, lyas alternately a good , humoured and caustic satirist, whereas Anacreon does not appear to have had the slightest idea of 'satire; moreover, Horace. was an elegant and judicious critic, and imbued with all the lighter literature of the age ; occasionally, too, though not often, lie evinced in . his .more serious lyrics a moral dignity and elevation of sentiment ap proaching.to the sublime; in Anacreon none of these qualities are visible; he displays no lofti ness of thought, no acquaintance with even the literature of his own country, but is simply a. lazy, laughing Epicurean, whose range of ideas is limited to a degree„and whose sense of enjoy ment is purely animal, however gracefully it is expressed. The " Haunted Mine" is a passable story from the pen ',Of Mr. Peake. " A Cam paign with the • Christinos " furnishes us with some entertaining and animated details respect-, ing, the late civil war in the Peninsula. " Ttie Dying Child" is a pathetic little poem which we regret that our limits will not permit us to extract, "The piper" is an Irish story, verging said the Newfoundland dog—however, the secret came out at last. "Forward, there ! " sings out the first leftenant, " what is that noise ?" " Why then if you please, sir," says the coxon, " it's all along of the ship's monkey. He's got so infarnal jealous of our nussin and fondlin the Chinese babbles that he's crept round on the sly and give 'em all a bite a piece!" In the present chapter of the " Barnabys in America," the scene of action is removed from New Orleans to Philadelphia. Major Allan Barnaby has been unfortunate enough to make a slight mistake at cards, by which accidental blunder he has contrived _to win three or four thousand dollars. Being a modest man, he is naturally overwhelmed with confusion ,at the idea of having committed such an inadvertence, so packs up and packs off from New Or leans with the greatest possible expedition, and on reaching Philadelphia endeavours, through the agency of his clever, scheming wife, to ingratiate himself with the broad-brimmed, drab-breeched natives. These incidents are hit off in Mrs. Trollope's liveliest and most caustic manner. " Reminiscences of a Medical Stu dent" consist of a love-story, told with feeling and simplicity. " The Five Incumbents" is amusing, but there is too much of it. It might have been curtailed with advantage. The re mainder of the articles are neither better nor worse than usual. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Fraser is not quite so good as usual this month, though containing one or two • articles of more than average ,merit. The first, entitled'" Aff ghanistan; is one of these ; it is a notice of Mr. Masson's admirable volumes of travels in this remote quarter of India, and discusses the pro priety of the late expedition to Caubill in a temperate and rational spirit. The cursory sketch of Dest Mahomed's adventurous career is cleverly drawn up, and will interest all who have the slight est acquaintance with East Indian politics. For the subkance of the sketch, which is necessarily much abridged, the Reviewer is indebted to Mr. Mason. " Midway" is a rambling, desultory essay —or, rather, an unconnected series of para graphs on a variety of themes, scarce one of which is of the slightest interest, The Only good remark we have been able to discover in it Is the followinc, , , which by the bye, is quoted from Madame De Stael :—" In all circumstances of life you may observe that as soon as a man per ceives you are in pressing need of his assistance, he almost invariably cools towards you." This remark is more in the spirit of itouchefoucault than of the authoress of " Corinne," who, if we remember rightly, does not often deal in such bitter, truthful sarcasm. From the "- Memoirs of Sir Murray Maxwell," which we regret to state, are chiefly. remarkable fbr their prosi ness, we quote the only two anecdotes worth reading : During this long interval there occurred but little either to the subject of this memoir, or to those most intimately connected with him, of which it is necest sary to make mention. Once, indeed, Captain Max well had well nigh lost his life in a way which would have mortified the most casual of his acquaintance; not to speak of the agony which the accident would have caused to those more deeply .interested in hint., It happened, that in the course of a ramble near the Devil's Point, at the entrance of Hamoaze, he took, on a certain occasion, a flying leap over *a loose stone wall that ran in front of him. The leap was a set rious one, as may be guessed when we state that the height of the wall was such as to hide from the view of the leaper all that lay beyond till he was actuallyin the air. And that which did lie beyond was a q uarry or pit, measuring not less than sixty fe et in depth. Captain Maxwell 'saw his danger after the spring had been taken, and, with rare presence of mind, averted it. He dropped one foot while topping the wall, so as to catch the upper part of the coping, and the stones happening to be weighty, and to hold well to gether, he succeeding in throwing himself back again upon his own ground. In speaking of this narrow escape he used not unfrequently to advert to another • instance in which his agility in leaping had come un expectedly into play. When fitting out the Ulysses, near Long Reach in the Thames, he landed; on a cer tain occasion, with his friend Captain Nourse, and strolling into the country, came suddenly on a -party of country lads who were practising at a bar. The two officers stopped to watch proceedings, upon which the countrymen entered with them into a sort of skirmish of wit, in the course of which they chal lenged the blue jackets to jump. Captain Maxwell immediately took up the gauntlet, and raising the bar about a foot and a half above the highest point which they had yet attempted, he, without any apparent exerticn, cleared it. The countrymen were quite amazed, while Captain, then Lieutenant Nourse, ex claimed in high glee, " There, .you land lubbers,— can you do anything like that ?" " Children" is a pleasing sketch, whose pre vailing tone is kindly and cordial. The writer is a great amateur of boys and girls, whence we conclude he has long since resigned all preten sions to a state of single blessedness.. • In"-Notes by a Reader of History" .we find this curious passage ;—" The following is a summary of the exploits of a Queen of Syria, Cleopatra by name :—she had been the wife of three .Kings of Syria, and the mother of four. Two of her hus bands she had been the death of, and of :her sons, one she murdered with her own hand, and would have. served another after the same fashion, only he poisoned her instead." An, amiable couple,.- this mother and son, and worthy to compare.. with Agrippina, and her respectable first-born, Nero ! " Hoaxing Histories" is a passable story; in which the manifold grievances of a fat old gen tleman in the Kent-road are related with some humour. In the observations on the " Ashburton Treaty" the writer boldly ex presses his disappointment at the result of Lord Ashburton's mission - to America, and states that his Lordship was about the most unfit individual that England could have selected to settle her dispute about the Boundary question with the United States. " Dickens's American Notes" is a very disparaging review of this sketchy and gossiping work; some of the Reviewer's stric tures are just enough, but on the whole he is too severe. We quote from the article headed " Midway" a whimsical anecdote of the present King of Prussia : His Majesty, when taking a n l iorning walk in the neigh bourhood of fotzdam shortly after his accession, ob served an old woman belabouring a donkey "with all her means." The beast would not budge an inch, and as the cart at his tail contained' the morning milk intended for the principal families in Potzdam, the old lady's perplexity pretty nearly equalled her rage. The King, after enjoying for a few moments this specimen of the " contortion of the sybil without her inspira tion," approached, and inquired whether the donkey had been seized with a sudden fit of sulkiness, or was at some of his " old lunes." "Ah ! Sir," said the disconsolate dame, " the accursed brute knows well enough what he is . at. He wants to ruin me. It being n6w nearly breakfast time, all my best mist tomers will be on the look-out for this milk-cart. I shall lose every soul of them, and all. through the obstinate malice of this malignant beast. But if," here she hesitated and looked imploringly at the King,—" if a fine gentleman like yourself, Sir, would assist a poor wo nan, we might manage the animal between us fast enough." " What would you have me do ?" inquired the King. ," Just lay hold of him by the ears, and while you tug away with all your might, I'll anoint his hind quarters with the cudgel, and off he'll start, nor stop till he has reached the town." His Majesty did as he was desired, and the donkey, seeing the odds against him, went on his way at a very tolerable pace. On returning from his stroll, the King related to his Royal Consort the co mical occurrence which had made him for once milk purveyor to the good people of Potzdain. " My dear Fritz," said the quQen, remonstratingly, " when you were Crown Prince this sort of thing was very well, and, indeed, highly amusing ; but as King —" " Nonsense, my love,' cried his Majesty, " What have I done in this more than was done over and over again by my late father ? Many an ass did he help forward during his reign. So you see I have a Royal precedent in my favour." - PRISON DISCIPLINE.--A few days since Daniel O'Neale, a prize-fighter, who has fought several battles in the ring, died in the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East, to which place be had been re moved about five weeks since, on his release from the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, where he had suffered twelve months' imprisonment and hard la bour, for an assault of an aggravated nature on a labouring coal-whipper in the district. The deceased was better known by the name of Poacher Neale, and previous to his incarceration was a remarkably tall athletic man, of great strength, and in good health. He came out greatly reduced—a mere shadow of his former self—and his wife and his friends could scarcely recognise him. When Neale was committed for trial, the Magistrate said, " You are a giant in appearance, and possess the strength of a giant, and no ordinary man can stand up against you. This description of O'Neale was correct enough; he entered the prison a hearty, strong man, in the best of health ; he gradually wasted away, and when he left his place of confine ment he was as helpless as a child. He was removed to the infirmary of the workhouse, where he lingered for a month and died. No inquest has been held on the body, or any information given to the Coroner. WHIMSICAL P.ROJECT.—A young lady advertises, in"a morning paper, for some cancelled postage-stamps to paper her dressing-room. She states that she has collected nearly 16,000, but she finds that insufficient for the purpose, and will be ;obliged to any good natured persons assisting her in her whimsical project. 7 , f, (jib and physical improvement. The decrease of the `ll;Ttr 11`t..,). , ..-,,•a § species in relation to space is so obviously the ( I : iCC ~ ..-9.00 4- -*ii, -- 7,- - -- J . ,•,,,r._77‘1: .... --••Atne source of hardships and relapse into barbarism, -,--4.-i,,,,; , -4, that our new colonies in the southern world have 1 —........ .... " r------- •"" 7 " - --- been thunded on the principle of concentration, Atlli '!‘'''' 4 % E•i gl "tA` 4 0 • in order to avoid that trl,v4 et n a q i tol I „ 4 ~ 1 ' h , ~ It are obvious and well-known facts. Th e y explain 01-A/ - • AV 1 4'' ASUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. the semi-barbarism of a large portion of the Cana dians and the inhabitants of the United St ates, and to some extent justify those !rude features in :- their character, which some travellers, ignorant of what they ought to know, notice only to con- We learn with regret that the schism betwixt the free-traders and the Chartists, or the Re formers of the middle and working classes, is not diminished. Indeed, if what occurred at Birmingham on Friday may be taken as an index to the state of feeling amongst the Char- demn. We copied a paragraph from a Morning Paper on Saturday as a curiosity from its absurdity, not suspecting for a moment that it would obtain the slightest credit. It stated that a rumour pre vailed in legal circles that Lord LYNDHURST was about to retire from the Woolsack, and. that he would be succeeded by Lord ABINGER, wino bas obtained such unenviable fame by his judicial addresses and speeches at the Special Co►mnis sions. Such an idea probably never entered the head of any human being except that of the writer, for of all the Judges of Westminster Hall, nay, of all the Courts down to the Insol , vent Debtors' Court, it would be difficult to, find one legal functionary so unfitted for the office of Lord Chancellor. He is very advanced in years, he has had little practice as an equity barrister or Judge, and certainly has not raised himself in the estimation of the public or " legal circles" since he took his seat on the Bench. Is it likely, then, that Sir R. PEEL wuuld have recourse to a manceuvre in order to get the Chief i)aron out of his present situation to provide for Sir F. PoLLocx, and that the business iu Chancery, which is already so winch in arrears, is to stand still for months, merely because an old man will not 'resign without a preMium ? We have heard of ,a Judge being tempted from the judgment-seat by the offer of a title, and of others being bought off in . a variety of ways, but no job like this has ever been practised in modern times,, and we there!' fore regard the report as 'entirely destitute of foundation. tists, which we are afraid - it may, that schism seems to have increased. To all previous causes of discontent the Chartists at Birmingham now add the accusation that the very persons who rr_ fused to allow them to meet two months ago to promote Chartist views at present call on them to assemble and agitate for the repeal 'of the Corn-laws. They reproach the Corn-law re pealers with having, as members of the middle class, contributed . to remove from amongst them the Chartist leaders, awl with having the •' audacity," supposing the Chartists to be hum bled, to call On them to aid the repeaters : It appears from this, as might have been expected, that the late turn-out, which forced the two classes into collision, has much exasperated the hostile feelings which previously existed between them. At the meeting called at Birmingham on Fri day by the Anti-Corn-law Association of that town, to receive a deputation of the Anti-Corn law League, the Chartists forestalled possessior of the hall, appointed their own Chairman; scarcely deigned to hear Mr. BRIGHT, and did not hear Mr. PAULTON, who attended from the League, and passed triumphantly their own resolution. They declared, indeed, that the Corn-law, and every other law which presses on the industry of the people, ought to be abolished; but they exhibited a complete hostile disposition to the League, and required that the Charter should become the law of the land. That they are moved by Tory emissaries, we will not assert; but if the Chartists meant to sustain the Tory cause—which is the cause of oppression and coercion—which is enabled by the dissensions of its opponents to preserve its mischievous mono polies—they could adopt no better method than thus to interfere with meetings called for other objects than to promote the success of the Charter, and thus to exhibit a determination to thwart the middle classes in the attainment of an end which they admit will be beneficial to them selves. If they do not choose to support the League let them abstain from supporting it, but let them not continue to interrupt its proceedings, and in crease the which has already been enen- dered by the O'CoNNon policy, of perverting a. public meetings to their own purposes. At present the League is fiercely and daily I assailed by the monopolists, and those who op pose it will scarcely escape the suspicion ofbeing willing to aid the monopolists, who have always relied on spies and hired tools to attain their ends, in their endeavours to put down the League. Such a suspicion will be strengthened by the fact that the arguments of the real or pretended Chartists are drawn from Tory sources. A Mr. SAUNDERS, at Birmingham, for example, u3ed an argument which had appeared a day or two before in the Morning Post, and which has in it a fallacy, and an inaccuracy, which an inhabitant of machine-making Bir- Mingham must instantly detect. In 1797 23,000,0001b5. of cotton were manufactured in this country, and then the rate of wages, it is said, in the cotton trade was 265. Bd. per week; in 1840 up wards of 460,000,00011)s. were manufactured, and the rate of wages is said to be only 4s. 6d. per week. But these amounts apply only to the wages of actually working up the cotton, and all the wages paid for making the machinery by which the cotton is worked up, and by which the country has been enabled to augment the manufacture twenty-fold, giving a good living to thousands of intelligent and skilful artisans, who have thriven and even made fortunes by trades which our forefathers never dreamed of, are •put aside and wholly forgotten. When an artisan uses such an erroneous one-sided Tory argument, so unjust and injurious to his own pursuits, he must give us leave to say, that he subjects him self grievously . to -the suspicion of willingly serv ' ing the Tov cause, and willingly exerting him self to perpetuate the landlords' monopoly. In truth, the Chartists themselves are aware that this monopoly is the great cause of the re duction of wages which we all deplore, and it is both impolitic and exasperating for the Chartists to thwart the middle-classes in their righteous endeavours to get rid of this monopoly. Let us all aid, in the first instance, to abolish the landlords' monopoly as the most mischievous, and let us then see what is the next gigantic abuse against which we can level the greatest power of public opinion, and so gradually extirpate all the politi cal abuses which, under the pretence of promot ing the happiness of society, render all classes alike, in their dealings with each other, vicious • and miserable. In Mr. DICKENS' "Notes on. America," he mentions, that during an election dispute at Toronto, one person was deliberately fired at out of a window. We are reminded of that circum stance by the last arrival from the Western Con tinent, which brings some intelligence of a serious election riot at Hastings, in Upper Canada, at which as much, or indeed far more, violence was displayed than ever occurs at elections in the United States. Such occurrences in Canada may be quoted as a match for many of the violent acts with which the inhabitants of the United States are reproached. We notice them together, not to excuse either patty, but to remind our readers of the peculiar circumstances on which much of the violence of men's dispositions de pends. Had Mr. DICKENS been acquainted with it, he would have abstained, we think, from making several implied censures. _ _ When a man lives nearly alone, he has many enemies. He must be on his guard against other men, and against wild beasts. His prin cipal pursuit is war; his food is obtained by a kind of war; he seldom lays aside the rude arms he has learnt to manufacture ; and his passions are ferocious. He is a savage, from the circum stances of his condition. Throughout the whole extent of the great inland frontier of the United States, men of European descent live in a compara tively isolated and semi-savage state. Many of them consortwitli the Indians and adopt their manners; others live in hostility with them; and thus are the borderers, by being placed in circumstances somewhat similar to those of the Indians, trained into their violent and savage dispositions. Be twixt this extreme border and the civilized towns of Boston and New York, there must be tints, as it were, or successive waves of these savage dispositions, affecting the whole population, but being deeper at the border than on these foci of European-American civilization. A semi-savage ness is the natural and necessary consequence of their circumstances—scattered, bordering on the wilderness, and exposed to danger and hostility. To institute a comparison between them and the people of Europe, exposed now to no such circumstances, is not less unjust in principle, though it is in degree, than to institute a com parison between civilised Europeans and Indians. As well might the vices of the Savage be as cribed to the institutions which grow from his condition, as the vices of the Americans be as cribed to the republican form of Government under which they live. But this is continually done, and European writers, overlooking all the natural circumstances in their condition which tend to savageness, commit injustice both on the institutions and the inhabitants of the United States. The great physical element and mean; of civilization is the increase of people in relation to space. That continually begets a necessity for new arts and new inventions, That continu ally increases the dependence of each individual on society. That continually lessens or annihi lates the sense of self-importance and arrogance, and continually tends to make man peace-loving and humble-minded. The increase of the species in relation to space is the parent of both moral Accounts from Madrid of the 23d ult. Od e. that the Cortes will be opened on the 14th i ll 4. without a speech. The QUEEN had subscribe d considerable sum for the relief of the sufferers IV the great hurricane at Ceuta. The official Gazette of the same date contains a decree authorising the import of all timber for naval purposes, by ships of all nations, under the conditions specified in the tariff. Don RAMON MARIA CALATRAVA had beea re elected Senator for Segovia. The Paris papers have arrived, but their con tents possess little interest. The Journal des Debuts in an article on the Administration of M. GUIZOT, points out the difficulties that Milli s ' ters had to contend with since 1840, and the great measures he has, in spite of these difficultie s, carried through the Chambers, among othe rs the Bill for fortifying Paris. We are much deceived if the inhabitants view this expensi v f q undertaking with the same complacency. ' t is now," says that journal, " two years sincethe'. present Ministry accepted office under very' critical circumstances, and no Ministry sin ce the Revolution of 1830 has had so long an existence without either any modification or any internal dissension. They had much 'to do; first, to reconstitute a majority in the Chamber, next to restore confidence to the friends Of or der • ;t in the country—and abroad they had to institute ss;,a a course of policy if not of alliance, at leas t ' i i ciis of peace ° and reciprocal good feeling,' earaii- Never had any Adminiatration to contend w it. ;Lhii llt. an Opposition more formidable from its un a r • , ' hers—from the exasperation that pervaded i t ' s . by its talent; but, notwithstanding - the prog n ,„ tications of its speedy overthrow, it is stil l ia" ; istence, after having passed through two se r'°`l, crises—that of the elections, and that of th e death of the Prince Royal. It has attached its n anle a to tvro great laws—that of the fortifications of Paris, and that of the Regency. It has o btaine a fb Ade the construction of railroads. deferred after from the Chambers the vote so long having re-established our re l a tions with E uro p e ' • on an honourable footin g , it has produce d at home a degree of tranquillity and 'Security 1111.- known for the last twelve years.. . A e inoirast the .. t , . , causes which have sustained the Cabinet again' so many enemies, the firA to be 'mentioned is tb e ,. perfect accord which has never ceaSed to eatisi amongst its members. It is the only 'M in ' istry which has existed two years without hay' ing experienced the slightest internal alissgr e .:" . , 4 ment or change in its composition. The charit . able - efforts of the Opposition to dest ro y t ' unanimity have completely failed. ft Was' therefore, in the Chambers, before the pu blic; ~, , that the adversaries of the Cabinet hav e heel' :. compelled to make their attack; and. the cas e ' quence has been that the Ministry has con sider ably gained in public estimation. Their eneelies' by the desperation of their . repeated at tael have elevated the Ministerse in a word, ah °\ ., themselves. They have been.forced to a disph'; -. of courage, talent, and argument, w dg• hich e''' j . ceeded even the expectation of their frien „, There are persons who detestthe present gin is, ,.. , ters, but there is,not one who, will, not ackno.. ;, ledge that they have shown extraordinary talen " L ',,, We have seen Ministers in themselves extreme 2, talented, and still they have been worn out bit the length of their existence, but the Pre ie Ministers are, even by the. admission of a i t ' e r ., antagonists, stronger than they were t wo Ye ' sr Thence." ' the Presse has a long article relative to the decision of the Belgian Government to retai ,05 on the United States for the additiona l ehar ee levied on the British Queen steam.ship jailer port of New York, and praises the act for rati l b it a selfish reason. The result of the goa rre '. -t * " i a anticipates, will be, that , French bottoms , l 4 e 1 become the carriers between Belgium and aer s , United States. Writers in French newsP i : y ti ic a . a,( l , generally display very erroneous vie ws ' is - ~; they touch on affairs of trade and connnercen'ttie ' A . it likely that Belgium will injure her mere o rse navy, small as it is, by breaking- off inter'i. re with a good customer from a petty spirit ° a ece , venue ? The following article in the ,-I`.aea , ct iti o a* regret t ( o say, contains ,much truth re e f the • the inefficacy of treaties for suppressing th at slave trade. We are not aware, ho d any English journal bas asserted howeVer, that Engoe ° t would support her pretensions for th e Iolal.o, saar. of the treaties of 1831 and 1833 by deela r " '" .tog vi That would indeed be a stran g e way' °Le slio her humanity. , de n°B " The liberty of the. seas, the absolute indel?sa' ralie of flags, is the principle and the right of kee n power of reciprocal search, which has been conceded zia es" by certain powers for a determinate objeet,d." this e . a ception to this right and this principle ;a n larati a . ception has been established on the formal de . e hor rid that no other.means existed for abolishingst_tnd'eciara- ~-, traffic in slaves. Now, however, when fles h ree entif - 0 that ' 0 lions of the . British Government, and a treatyhat concluded; with America, have established :__i rig , • traffic can be attached, .without this recirr e c a o , she ; of search, on what right, on what authorit! a 183 3 refuse the revision ot the treaties of 1831 the •The English journals have declared that tli . e .b on 31 ... sur e) part : cannot be annulled without an act of bad I . t re ) part of France, and. that England would eveL', ed , and her pretensions . hy war ; but we have a 1 .55 , e 1- :',, raa for we can prove that England could not deela., e _ a , eon; a subject, which, far from forming m atter „. 17__,, a nne e , ,i tinental coalition, would rather raise the n . o !u t l eet , b ~ of Europe in favour of France. Let 'a b , f A , n verle' s deterred by a vain menace. declare, 1---‘ a s i t " This right of search has, been . la st as long or in suppressing the trade, which will 11 colonies _±. ~,,,/ there are markets for them in the Span this r i g ht ° ' 4 in Brazil. If one flag be exempt from will e ,, , , p ro; . I search, it is under that flag that the trad (the j" .l ' no flag ther s 'i secuted, and the fact that there is o 1 for ° • ht of search rican) exempt renders the rig as nugatory.' a eg. k OCTO ° ' . • Las' BOURSE—PARIS, SAVIIDAvo Lo „ c st rrice , "1:8 treaties First Highest price. . 18 50 Price. Price. .10 50... lot French Five per Cents. 118 60... 118 60..• 1 101 •'" 79 9° Four per Cents. 101 ... 10 1 n •• 9 90. , ,„. i .t, 3 per Cents 80 5... SO 1' .5 .270 .* 3 ,(1 , 57 5 0 '' Bank of France 3270 ...3275 •••,,, 5 7 b0.....-: - . ) Lallitte Bank I,ooof 1057 50 ..1057 50... 5 1 ' 0 ' 7:3 ~.sit ; l o :i 5,000 f 5075 ...507 5 ''' 895 •** 103 it Belgian Bank Belgian Fives 103,1 ... 104 •.- 1 04 3 ... 1 , , ,! ',. 3 1840 IO4A ... 10.4 ••• 2.2 4 ... Spanish Active.. ..... '' .ir