The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-01 00:00:00

„ s IF 6A,Dync-- -„t tie J° r 2V or the DA and b of c osooe Clarke p? t ha y° D r A t 0 1 d k e ~~~d tb e I• J 5" the be 0 be 1 1, 6 % t to IN- l i e rj• • the te4 :42:_gyllNING SU N _ . rs ln T huShand w a s lir* g but she - did not know where he was, .`-.0 And sh e had two children. The p r i soner said nothing in her defence. - ; 'Me RECORDER in summing up, said the Jury must not look to the effect of the verdict, but consider the evic!er.ce. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the pri soner Not Guilty. The RECORDER addressed the prisoner, and said the Jury had acquitted her of the charge, and he was • gl(1 they h a d done so consistently with the ellde nce. They had entertained a doubt and had, accordingly, gi ven t h e pr i soner the benefit of that dou t. As to punishment, it would have made no difference whatever as to the verdict of the jury. The prisoner must be taken back to the union and taken • care of. NEW COURT. . NO ease of interest came before the Court this morn- In. l fb, t ne cases b e i ng chiefly confined to crimes consisting 0 petty thefts. L!.O YI:'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEn. I.—Wind this day at noon W.N.W. oTA NDGATE CREEK, JAN. 31.—Arrd. t Hotspur, Wil -44, Calcutta ; Mersey, Marseilles. 1;A:118GATE, JAN. 31.—Arrd. Glenturret, Shields for e Mediterranean, leaky. Arrived off—Commodore Napi er , Islw castle, Havannah ; Catherine, Havannah, Bremen. 1)14 11 JAN. 31.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Dominica, Niielits for Jamaica ; Eagle, N. for westward. Put back Osbert,•for Dominica. - t LI V/ 1 11POOL, JAN. 31.—Wind S S.W.—Arrd. Clai )rne, Burg ess , an d D es d emona, N ew O r l eans; Aurora, ,„nnah; Success, Demerara; Leonora, Sierra Leone. 4th ult., and put back, Jackson, for Sierra Leone, Z i "g been as h ore on B ur i es. Th e f o ll ow i ng vessels J no t bail yesterday, as reported :—Pur su it, S avanna h ; oa en triark, New Orleans ; Burlington, Mobile ; J enn y es Constantinople. a ,lwEs, JAN. 31.—Arrd. Majestic, London for Born 'eakY, with loss of bulwarks,boatsts stove, &c., having n struck by a sea, and must come in to repair. st PLYMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Shann on , 7 4111 er, for London, received on freight at Fal mou th °°,ooo dollars. wi t e h ° ,l l x, JAN. 28.—Arrd.Vietoria,Shields for Havannah, th,;,."" of mainmast, cargo shifted, &c., having been 1,4"" on her beam ends in a gale, 25th inst. Leslie, ~wfonndland, with foremast sprung, and cargo sup to be damaged. having been on her beam ends, in , inst. Brigand, Jones, ditto. 1 341;' 1 ' , JAN. 31.—The Echo, Evans, arrived here from S pirit' Picked up - off the Wight, 21st inst., a cask of Ak tn ,„, or turpentine; marked F. &C. A galliot, under of th e colours, from Dunkirk to this port, was spoken ILtet!)udgeon, 26th inst., very leaky, by the Echo. toad ' IN Ica, JAN. 31.—The Jane, from Newcastle . to s ° l l, got on the Shipwash Sands this morning, but in 6 4 , 3 S k sted off, and into this port, with six feet water "Id, and loss of anchor and chain. 1 -- :44 1: - 'tiE MARKETS.---(THIS DAY.) 4 1 , T h COLONIAL MARKET. i i . 'Public ' sa l es o f C o l on i a l pro d uce were l arge; t h ey ent off . fun Prices quietly, and at rather lower rates for Sugar, but for Coffee. The imports were light. w There TEA MARKET. Veratin as little activity a t the public sales, the trade and k w ith much caution, but holders were firm, 1 3. "ou g ght in large parcels at full rates. Low Congou, lid. cash, and Twankey Is. 10d." TALLOT. The market was firm W but the de KE and was limited. lire t Caudle on the spot at 48s. 3d. and 48s. 9d. for de -17 in the next two months. The stock is heavy. WOOL MARKET. r itt l' e ll e Wool saleslQent off with briskness, at fullyformer 3 ) atid nearly all offered has been sold. W HITECHAPEL HAY-MARKET. ‘ th e T de Mark e t was well supplied with Hay and Clover ; I n c e nand for fine qualities was good, but middling and w rior sorts were heavy of sale. The supply of Straw , .eita_l2B. to 1/. middling, an d t h e tra d e good', at former prices. pu,Yer, los. 6s. to 5/. Bs. ; Hay, 2/. to 4/. 6s. ; St raw , .. LORD ASHBURTON. Th e • FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) a ppointment of Lord Ashburton, and the s um to reference made to it in the daily papers, would iTnoto indicate a great reliance on the success of the ' i t 88 . 1 n, and most certainly betokens a wish to magnify u 4 _,s IMportance. How far the ends attainable by a rented man may be accomplished by Lord Ashburton, of course, in the future, and it is difficult to calculate oL u pon the p ro b a bl e resu l t ; b ut there is one question ch, i n t h e mout h s o f many, has not yet had , the ad antage of publication, and i s f ar f rom easy of solution. tics Lord Ashburton received his appointment for pri- Vate interest, or those of his country ? Does his connec • tio n with the house of Baring and Co. not render jt more than possible that he will not neglect to super 94end the trading affairs of that house ? And do not the htaense cotton dealings of the Barings almost exclud e : .. e hope that any time can be found by the Voble Lord ',..transact public business in America? . Assuredly in this 1 ,7 1 , 0 Personal is the most profitable to attend to. Let the Ni le, then, know why we have determined h as tily on fre k l a Special Minister to America ; and although; the h o '" vast American speculations in cotton, &c., of Iltagi,r ) of Baring and Co., it i s a l mos t a d e l us i on t o ," 4 44,1, 4 4 , 1 Y event of public benefit can occur, yet there —lt Y a ..,,"Z ie , the conseqnt paucity of blAnders that 'Pated from he Plenipotentiary. • CO RONER'S --- - . i T ''°I2.ONER'S , )2 . ., , Two - I) —Late on Satur- INQUEST. Coy'cl ~i CLATIIB. FROM SUFFOCATION. . nto before Mr. 4 t•Rl 0. t el t vi a s l cmg investigation was at „„ C'en i , e ,, , Coroner for the Southern I Division of the a maiden lady, - °n`ili e j b o crtl ssex, at the Horse and Wells Inn, Woodford, tigQd ,panes of Elizabeth Ann 7 , 1: ,d Sarah Ashauld, her Friday, neice aged 11. th., '1? circumstance excited a most painful interest in ' vill a • ' (Slr s : c ge: 111 consequence of the landlady of the house " the erstion. a „, ) where the parties lived having a . ls o. o h d e i e e n d 'ein e i 8- --".e night through fri ht • but she avin b Ilter e w in e an an ill-state of health , Coroner thought . . e l _ 'lei - -43 no occasion for an inquest to be held upon bider , J o b 'e first witness called was _p -(l ';_rd, a carpenter its the employ of Mr.. Gershon, Lttethe ti,„,"tinniatie's--row, near Woodfood, who saainddtiiivaed in 40,Persotis were tenants of his master, uallet.-4„iing house. On Wednesday morning lasrat make ally caned with the bread, and, not being able,to no• °ll th e hear, went away. The deceased child 1 1 4 4111„•-e habit of coming into his master's house ; I lhi .. ,tA . an as usual his master became alarmed, and a dermtrection, between three and four o'cock, he plac?d ,_he tw o against their window, and looked thr . ougl l i . it. "asst - , 13 deceased persons were lying on the bed in a ife d With ttttl‘e• Raving informed his master, he, bhis order an br oke e assistance of a fellow-workman, named , Brooks,.rt cle *Qr, 7.r t t he door. On opening the deceased's bed-r9O vi tPou e Y were nearly suffocated from some noxious the y -I ' which escaped. The air becoming more pure act f ntered, and . found the eldest deceased quite dead, 1 414 r , ) , 4 1 the distorted state of the features she must sid e, ` a n is e ... d in great agony. .The child . was lying by her °F it xt ",,dead, her cap was torn to pieces, and a portion :qat e b tl n ued into her mouth. Her face was covered with .4) . 1. kr`bs• When he recovered himself a little he went "led , Mee, a surgeon, who promptly attended, and s ew ed to restore animation, but without success. On centeiltig Ice room he discovered a brasier, which had ty iltiect harcoal fire, about four feet from the bedstead. t Ij i the the Ju rY---I think the poor child, who was the pe an d , vill age ti U as 10 0 ' . , must have suffered mure n t h h e a r n f h ae er e aunt, tin e b , gee dying. The scratches o . remnantserslf whilst suffering ; and I think she put the f fluv °I her nightcap into her mouth to prevent the IN :In of the charcoal going down her throat. There . t hat tL fl ",e Place in the room. Mr. Bunce gave his opinion, Se r ' oeeeased persons had been dead 12 or 14 hours. ''it-Retnt hitp, of the K division, the summoning th at i ' In answer to questions from the Coroner, said, that 4-I°4l inquiries he bad instituted, he had ascertained th at n e f• Y "ngest deceased had purchased three penny the` •,--"` t,harcoal on the afternoon of Tuesday, sat% , iy g e,V i u - ('t3nsequence of the room being cold . and aaFlp r , .(3 4 h,,-„,'ero going to light it liq. -`lrlot been able to ascertain when they (the charcoal) in a bras c r. to . tuns a.l: Th e last time the deceased child was seen alive t ` 4 IL, (.:;!t' eight 'clock on Tuesday night, when she . _ a - (t o - o pitt lli rse and Wells for half Wili.t, „se had been some time unwell.. Lii5,.(11441 Brook s corroborated the testimony of Bird, aunct*,ll-"n addition, that on telling his mistress of the -.``'' siii-e,lireutrtstance it had such an effect upon her , Aft e ,, -- "L'ed in a few hours after. e nolx, - snale remarks from the Coroner on the mela.nt "Th.jharacter of the case, the Jury returned a . verdic , ' tile deceased persons' were accidentally su tlocated.' -Th e Joi nt s , great increase of late in the number of 14 1 -t°ek Companies, and particularly of those estab led c tit bi'ev Assuran •of Lives has given rise to consi- N e a ces , t kailt f apprehensions as to the consequences likely to I:::,ttitbrll'ianrliiattn. It will be remembered, that during the n tld nlnier, the subject was taken up by the Legislature, inquiry instituted upon it. The ever, which it was anticipated would result 1 1. ' 41 4 h uh ve So serousefailure of these undertakings are not likely to se So Us many have apprehended, a remedy pre ;nett. R itself in the facility with which a Company not of i t :tl i g with the success which it expected can dispose eo ur l'usiness to others more fortunate than itselfi - This latel 3e .has been resorted to by many of the life assurances • ..-I 04; Yi Instituted. Thus the Active, the British and Co ke'''. Trust, the Standard, and the New Equitable have bu s l ig h e d into others ; the last having just transferred its abi e ZBS to the Protector, a well established and respect aP • f't qa"Y• By these arrangements the loss and dis- P°" which otherw is e • • av,i d olent must occur a re wholly oru t e , d ':! l ,ile a greater degree of stability necessarily e . tne office into which these undertakings merge, 41:41 t11 8 ta t] e PrnsPerity of which they naturally serve to aug ylt-- Stand 1 es. an . te e ,, Lerday Emma Couldery, a girl utseven,, ilt,t)ers of age . , the daughter of Mr. James Couldery, to 1,..._ her ' in Church-street, Greenwich, put a period A r 7 ( r_ b . existence by hanging herself from the hams 14,__ t the second floor- of her father's house. - It ap ini .r e s r d that for a long timo past she had been labouring getuitle de fora Her parents-had consulted the medical ilo_ v iae li of the neighbourhood without success. She had, pr o Bye r' been recommended to apply to some skilful to tiknioners in London, one of whom pledged himself in to wn 2 t a perfect cure. She attended him severaltimes bea with her mother and fully expected to have her eanlu.ll..ge Perfectly restored. Being disappointed she be di, ' t %; v 3: unhappy, and had been heard to say that she vell'isn..st wish to live a burde n to herself and family. She n ri Fevered by one of the family resting on her knees c ,Te t,ted by a silk handkerchief tied loosely under her b‘4,..Vvitheut a noose, and had been dead about half an d ',`_i z r, . Ihe whole of the family, of whom there are many 1;1_4, dough married to respeetable ,tradesmen in Green ' ll, are inconsolable. DEATH OF MR. DAVIDGE OF THE SURREY TBEATRE. This well-known actor, and enterprising lessee, expired last . night, ,after many years of bad health, and, occasionally, of great suffering. George Baldwell Davidge was one of that class of men whose death the middle and lower classes of the community cannot but regret. Twenty years, without interruption, he toiled to administer to their gratification, as manager ,of the Coburg, and Surrey. an d Li verpoo l t h eatres, by setting before them the wonders of theatrical art, and we rejoice to say that, notwithstanding many disappointments and losses, belaboured suc cessfully in obtaining at last a considerable fortune. Forty-eight years ago, namely, in the year 1794, Mr. Davidge was born in the town of Bristol. Tired of an apprenticeship to printing, and being smitten with the stage, be made hislirst essay in the histronie art at Bath in a private 'line. Shortly after he came to London, and while he worked as a compositor by day, played at night in a small theatre which was then situated in the Strand, between Burleigh and Southampton-streets. After performing at the Adelphi, then known as the Sans Pareil, and the Haymarket, he, in 1818, engaged at the Co burg, and after being many years an actor there, became in part a proprietor, his coadju tors being Messrs. Bengough and Le Clerc, till the death of the former and the retirement of the latter left him sole lessee. Mr. Davidge, on becoming lessee ofthe Coburg, in March, 1826, immediately gave notice to the public of his intention to enlarge, re-decorate, and beautify the interior and exterior of the theatre. The pit was widened, the proscenium embellished with new allegorical figures, the frontal decorations of the dress-circles made to abound with fanciful and tasty devices, and the roof of the theatre had a new range of lustres, a fresh sky-painted centre, while rich gold borderings and mouldings added novel brilliancy to the whole. It opened with fresh vigour ; its corps dramatique was good, and Mr. Davidge began gradually to reap the rewards of his enterprise and labour. During his five years' management of the Coburg, it is surprising that, with Mr. Davidge's known enterprise in getting up wonders to feast the public eye, he should never have renewed, while at this theatre, the splendid novelty of the " Looking-glass curtain," as it was termed, which was displayed on the Coburg stage_ in 1822. This looking-glass was thirty-six feet in height, and thirty-two in breadth, and consisted of 63 divisions of looking-glass, set in a massive richly-gilt carved frame, and which after each exhibition, was drawn up to the roof of the building. We cannot, having mentioned it, resist the temptation of giving the further history of this splendid toy. After its attrac tion had in sonic measure subsided, an incumbrancer on the Theatre (for truth to say it has been generally in difficulties), applied for an injunction to restrain the sale; but the weight of the glass and its settings having been proved to be dangerous to the rbof of the Theatre, the Lord Chancellor dismissed the application, and the greater part of the glass has since been used in decorating, and otherwise ornamenting the Saloon. Mr. Davidge, during his management of the Coburg, introduced the " shilling order sys tem," first adopted by Mr. Thomas Dibdin, and realised by it 6,000/. This sum, however, he subsequently lost, and had no resource but an annuity of 2001. per annum, which, in his fortu nate days, he had settled on Mrs. Davidge. In 1831 he failed as manager at Liverpool, and was arrested at the suit of Randle Jackson, and passed through the Bankruptcy Court. After this he was engaged by Mr. Osbaldiston, and sub sequently by Ducrow, at whose theatre he took a benefit. Shortly after this he entered upon a lease of the Surrey Theatre, which eventually proved to him a most profitable speculation. Spacious as is the theatre for a second-rate, with a pit mea suring 36 feet 6 inches, and capable of holding about 900 persons —a gallery able to contain above I,ooo—with the tiers of the full-circle, side, and private boxes, Mr. Davidge, dur ing his able management, night after night, by the extraordinary nature of the entertain ments he set betbre the public ' and the excellent acting in minor dram as w hi c h he himself and his coadjutors displayed, generally filled every nook and corner, and drew down great and deserved applause upon his exertions. By one piece alone, namely, My Poll and my Partner Joe, Mr. Da vidge cleared 4,000/. in one season. The rent at which Mr. Davidge held the Surrey Theatre was, we believe, about 1,200/. per annum. The taxes upon the theatre alone are 3001., and the cost of annual insurance 2001. yearly. The receipts of the louse; under former managers, amounted on successful nights to about 3001., but during the proprietorship of Mr. Davidge they have frequently been much greater. Mr. Davidge's own characters were chiefly in the line of imbecile and antiquated old men, and his performance of the Veteran, or 102, was a master-piece : by his first wife he had a daughter, who is now dead; by his present wife, Miss Parker, he has left no children. Ile took a glass of sherry and a jelly half an hour before his death, and died in the presence of his wife and Mr. Lawrence, his Treasurer. Mr. Davidge was highly respected by all who knew him, and his death is very generally regretted. THE LATE MR. DUCROW.—On Friday even ing as eminent artist requested permission of Mrs. Ducrow to take a cast of Mr. Ducrow's face. The wish was complied with, and the modeller stated that a head and face so finely proportioned he had never met with before. The funeral arrangements, under the direction of Messrs. Serle, of Lambeth, Anderton, and Oscar Byrne (his executors), will be conducted according to his own directions some months previous to his decease, and will take place next Saturday, on the arrival in London of Mr. W. D. Broadfoot (Mr. Ducrow's brother in-law), and Signor Hillier, the managers of the esta blishment in Liverpool. SAVINGS BAN xs.—The following short notice of the annual report of the Provident Institution Savings Bank, St. Martin's=lane, was presented to a public meet ing of managers, a few days since by the auditors. Tho total amount of present deposits is one million one hun dred and fifteen thousand four hundred and forty-six pounds, arising from 31,514 accounts, which are classed as follow :-14,713 accounts not exceeding 201. each ; 9,432 not exceeding 50/. ; 4,627 not exceed ing lOC/. ; 1,745 not exceeding 150/. ; 869 not exceeding 2001. ; 62 upwards of 200/. ; which, with 66 Benefit So cieties' accounts, makes a total of 31,514 accounts, and an accumulated capital of 1,115,4461. Seven hundred and ninety new accounts were opened during the past year ; the amount of deposits during the same period was 331,922/. 2s. 4d., and the re-payment to depositors during the year (including interest), was 306,4801. Bs. 3d., leaving an increase to the capital of the institution of 24,5411. 14s. ld. After all the expenses of the current year had been provided for, a considerable sum was added to:the surplus fund. This institution was amongst the first '(if not the very first) of savings banks, and perhaps possesses the largest amount of deposits of any 'similar institution in the kingdom, or in the world. The receipts and re-payments, in small sums, average 12,000/. weekly. HAWKCHURCH.—On the 17th inst. a fire, attended with a considerable destruction of property, took place on the premises of Farmer Walbridge, at Hawkchurch. Ten acres of wheat, between 30 and 40 sacks of potatoes, a great quantity of fuel, with ma chines, presses, cart, household goods, &c., were con sumed. There is but too much reason to believe that it was the act of an incendiary, and a considerable reward has been offered, in the hope that the perpetrators of this atrocious deed will be discovered and punished.—Somer set County Gazette. COLLISION AT SEA AND LOSS OF LIVES.— In a preceding number we stated that a vessel belonging to Southampton had been run down by the brig Commo dore Napier, off Coquet Island, when all on board ex cept the mate perished. The mate, who is a native of Southampton, has furnished us with the following par ticulars :—On the night of Sunday, the 9th inst., the Camilla, Captain Peirce, bound for Southampton, from Leith, laden with coal, was run down by the brig Com modore Napier, Captain W. Clark, bound to Shields to load for the Havannah. The collision took place off Coquet Island, and the Camilla sank instantly. Captain Clark immediately laid the topsails aback, and threw out ropes to the unfortunate crew, but, as we have said, only the mate was saved. One man, named John Harris, climbed up the side, and the mate had his hand on the poor fellow's collar, when the gear of the sinking vessel caught the lower studding-sail boom of the brig and knocked him off, when he sank to rise no more. The Captain and two other hands were asleep in their berths at the time. Captain Clark lowered his boats immedi ately, but nut a spar of the ill-fated Camilla could be anywhere seen. The weather was hazy, and the wind blowing fresh at the time. Both Captain Peirce and Harris have left wives and families.—Hampshire.Adver. MOTHERLY ADVICE.—An irritable divine, on the south coast of Devon, struck a boy on the head with a Bible and cut his ear. His mother, an old schooler, expressed her belief that, being done with the Holy Bible, the wound would soon heal. She told the boy " never to mind but to larn his book and be a good boy, and ! hen ,. if the p arson hit 'tin again he was to pitch into un. —Somerset Gazette. CHRISTENING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sun day, the 23d instant, a lady, 65 years of age, was chris tened in the vill age church of Keddington, near Louth. —L A in c s ol om n e A w le h rc a u t ry. novel scene occurred here last week, a woman of bad character was placed in the stocks. We did not witness it, but understand a PB that i it was a source of attraction to some hundreds. —Hampshire Advertiser. The Duke of N ort h umberlan d the estate called the Magdalene Fields ut s sid p e , Berwick-upon-T wee d , from Lord Lisburne, for purchased the ram parts, Anti-C orn-law petition was 28,000/.—Newcastle Journ a l The ts, Edin burgh closed on Friday, with 28,500 signatures. • THE SUN, LO MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. in an article under the head of "Ten Years of the Whigs," which is continued from last month, and here brought to a close, the writergives vent to all that reckless party spirit, so characteristic of this high Tory periodical. He tells us, for in stance, that the Whigs, as a body, are wholly extinct—an absurd idea, as the events of the next month will show. "Whiogisrn did not ne cessarily expire with Lord Melbourne's Cabinet, but still lives, associated with the great prin ciples of free trade, national education, and liberty of conscience. These are reforms which it has yet to carry, and will most assuredly carry in the long run, notwithstanding all the oppo sition that Toryism may bring to bear against them. The Whigs can only seriously injure themselves by coalescing with the Tories. So long as they keep aloof from these insidious tempters, and boldly advocate such an enlight ened principle as that of unshackled commerce, they need never dread extinction, for they will be sure to rally round them a large and influen tial portion of the community. In another part of this political diatribe, the writer observes of Ireland, that "it must be Protestant, or it will cease to be prosperous; religious error must be swept from the soil, before it can be peaceable; the jungle mustbe cleared, before the vapours of the marsh can cease to poison the land." The meaning of this is, that the Irish Catholics must all be either converted or exterminated; other wise there will be no chalice of prosperity for the country. It is a strange method of tranquil lising a nation, to make hypocrites of its people, and, in case of their aversion to this process, to massacre them ! Yet such is the scheme for improving Ireland, gravely propounded by a Tory in the nineteenth century, when Catholicism is making inroads even on the established Protestant religion itself! "Things of the Day" contains some ju dicious remarks on the present Law of Libel, which the author justly scouts as a most ridicu lous and unintelligible law, adding, " we are con-: vinced that the Conservative Government could not signalize its accession by, any act at once wiser, more ratifying to the country, and more essential to justice, than a revisal of the entire system of libel." We cordially agree in these observations; for, as the law now stands, it is next to impossible for a Journalist, or indeed any other writer, to know, whether, in speaking of public characters, he is, or is not, perpetrating a libel. The late Judge Bolland, who was perfectly aware of the defects of the existing law, laid it down as an axiom, that libel lurked in every co lumn, even in the advertising sheet of a news paper ! " Roadside Sketches" are just what they purport to be, short, off-hand sketches collected on the road-side. " Protestantism in Geneva" is a dull, tedious article, whose very title will ope rate as a scare-crow to warn off the majority of readers. The " World of London" is continued with unabated spirit. The theme is a fertile and comprehensive one, and it will be long ere the writer exhausts it—if indeed it be not inexhaus tible. Perhaps the cursory observations on " Club People" may amuse our readers. We subjoin them accordingly : It is truly astonishing how the contagion of fashion, the ape-like imitation of our betters, swells the full tide of the homeless in London : there is not a man who, with or without pretensions to the title, calls himself a gen tleman, who would not be ashamed to confess himself, by card or word of mouth, a tenant of Lambeth, Pad dington, Pimlico, or Pentonville : a gentleman must be supposed, at least, to live at the West-end ; and as every gentleman cannot possibly live in that enviable quarter, gentlemen club together for a common presentable ad dress—hence the ;wise and benevolent institution of clubs. In the centre of the most fashionable and expen sive part of the town, these societies of communists pur chase or erect a splendid palace, and establish themselves en masse : here they lounge in the drawing-rooms, flatten their noses against the windows, write their letters on club paper, seal them with club wax, impressed with the club seal ; dine, if they have the wherewithal, on the one-and-ninepenny joint of the day, sip a pint of port in solitary dignity, then, lighting their cigar, wend their way home to a three-pair-back in some part of the town never named to ears polite, where they can be accommodated for seven shillings a-week, attendance inclusive. If you ask where they live ?—at the Club : how they live ?—by the carte of the Club : what are their ow nions ?—the opinions of the Club : who are the best fel lows in the world?—Tom, Dick, and Roger, of the Club: where is the best wine in London to be had ?—at the Club: who have the whitest cravats and the reddest plush breeches in town?—waiters at the Club: where is the best letter-paper to be had for the pocketing? —at the Club: the best society?—at the Club! what is the most probable mode of obtaining terrestrial felicity ?—become a member of the Club ! All this, however, is to be taken cam gruno: the Club is a very good place—no better for members of the wine committee, the dinner committee, the library committee, and the other committees these people, who are usually old soldiers, in the economical sense of the term, make their own of the Club : the waiters understand them, the tradesmen understand them, the secretary understands them ; they do whatever they please, and no ordinary member can downy thing, eat any thing, or drink any thing, but how and as they please. To the committee the Club is a home—to all others it is only a place where they are tolerated : the committee are masters, the members guests : the committee are the decemvirs, the rest the populace ; and although there are in every club one or two brawling tribunes of the people, we never could find out that they made anything by . their grumbling agitation. There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that, by being ballotted for and admitted, you get into the society of a club; whatever society there may be in the sparkling fights, the cheering fire, and the waiters in red plush breeches and white cra vats, your subscription gives you the undoubted privilege to enjoy; if you are friendless out of doors, you are equally friendless in a club, where, in truth, you are re garded exactly in the ratio of the number of your friends; there is no worse place for making up to or scraping ac quaintance with your fellow clubmen; there is a pride of repulsion among gentlemen in these societies,. as if they should tell you by their looks, " If you have no friends, myl have--if you want a c qu a i n t a n c e, I du , come here to f asten yourself upon me, your don't—if good if y fellow, ou membership is no letter o f recommendation. Alluding to what he calls " utterly homeless people," the writer makes the following remarks, in which, we fear, painful as they are, there is too much truth :—" Nobody who has not lived among the poor, has any idea of the extortions and frauds practised on them by all classes of little dealers. The poor man can afford but a single room, and for this he pays two hundred per cent. more than he who can pay for the rent of a house. He gets in his coals in pounds weight, and for these, the worst of their kind, he pays a higher price than the Duke of Devon shire ! It is the same with his groceries—his meat—everything. The poor man pays more than the price charged to the rich, simply be cause he is poor." The " Northern Circuit"— a promising title—is the commencement of a series of personal sketches, apparently from life, which, judging from the present specimens, bid fair to be attractive. Here and there, however, the author deals a little too much in exaggera tion, as in• his sketch of the exterior of Samuel Hogginbuck. "De Cresci . " is a poem by_ no means deficient in vigour of thought, and grace of ,imagery. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY This Number opens spiritedly enough with one of Ingoldby's amusing legends. The sub ject is the " Dead Drummer," who once upon a time was seen by two benighted sailors beating his drum on Salisbury Plain, at the foot of a sign-post. One of the sailors, who saw the dead man thus livelily engaged, unfortunately recog nised in him the ghost of a drummer whom he had knocked on the head many years before; and in an agony of remorse and apprehension at the sight of such an unexpected apparition, he makes a confession of the crime to his com- panion, who, while .listening to the horrid tale, frequently gives vent to his astonishment and disgust by uttering "an exclamation that ended in eyes,' "as the chronicler o f t h e l egen d as sures us. Strange to say, the ablest portions of this legend are the more serious and unimpas sioned, wherein Ingoldsby strikes a deep chord of feeling quite unusual with him. The descrip tion of the murderer's remorse and horror after the commission of the crime will not suffer, even by comparison with Hood's " Dream of Eugene Aram,' or Crabbe's " Sir Eustace Grey." The " Sultan Mahmoud and the Georgian Slave," is a love-story by Miss Isabella Romer, who dis- . creetly halts on this side extravagance in her glowing and impassioned narrative. Adile, the heroine, is a Mahotnetan slave, who is secretly beloved by a young Greek. On one occasion, while attending on her mistress, Asme Sultana, she is seen without a ve il b y S ultan Mahmoud, who instantly falls in love with her, but, finding that he can make no impression on her heart, he appoints a spy to watch her conduct, and disco vering but too soon that he has a rival, he deter mines, after the most approved Turkish fashion, to stitch them both up in a sack, and so consign them to the tender mercies of the fish of the Bosphorus. Before this can be accomplished, however, the Imperial lover relents, and by par doning both parties, succeeds in winning the gratitude, and ultimately the love, of Adile. The " Redbreast of Aq u i tan i a " is a fanciful poem by that quaint scholar, Father Prout—as he delights to intitule himself. The versification is smooth and sprightly enough, but we do not ex ac to whom understand it, how i ad it dr ce d ssapplies to Mr. Ains worth,. The "Philo sophy of Drinking" is chiefly amusing by reason of the grotesque illustrations with which it is embellished. The sketch of th e s hOi t-gaitered dustman, with his fly-away hat, hi s b e ll and DON, TUESDAY,' 'I4::I6RIJARY 1, 1842 shovel, and the glass of gin in his hand, is ca pital. 'We must have seen the original in the street, standing beside his cart at the door of a public.house, a hundred times. The wooden legged street-sweeper, too, is not amiss; his hat is just what it should be, passing all description —like an Irish hodman's castor—but his counte nance is too grave and thoughtful, as if he were revolving some great truth in political economy, instead of devising by what means he might raise the wind for a supper in St. Giles's. The " February Saint" is a lively lyric in honour of St. Valentine —the most sentimental saint in the Calendar, but who, despite his sanctity, is uni versally detested by postmen. In the " Standard Footmen" we have one of Albany Poyntz's amusing sketches of character. He thus de scribes the fashionable London Footman :—" The appropriate place for footmen is the pavement, whence they meet in parliament on the coach box, over the opposite corners of whose ham mercloth the twin Mercuries swing their legs and canes on either side of Coachee, like genii perched on the marble angles of a monument in Westminster Abbey. There they talk of the state of the nati o n, the state of their lords and ladies, the state of ladies who love their lords, and of lords who love their ladies. They know everything—they say everything. With them no delicate hints —no slight insinuations—no shirking a question, or diplomatizing an answer. They are in everybody's secrets. My lady can only surmise the mysteries of my lord, or my lord those of my lady. Their footmen are at the bottom of both." " Richard Savage," gives an account of the hero's first introduction to literary life, and of his acquaintance with a broken-down author. Some of the ..dialogues are cleverly dashed off. From the " Legend of the Dead Drummer," we quote the sailor's confession of his murder, and his rude, blunt companion's com ments on his narrative : " 'Twas done !—the deed that damns me—done I know not how—l never knew ; And Here I stood—but not alone, — The prostrate Boy my madness slew, Was by my side—limb, feature, name, 'Twas HE I—a no ther—y e t the same. " Away ! away ! in frantic haste Throughout that live-long night I flew— Away ! away ! acro3s the waste, — I know not how—l never knew, — My mind was one wild blank —and I Had but one thought,— one hope—to fly. " And still the lightning ploughed the ground, The thunder roared—and there would come Amid its loudest bursts a sound Familiar onee—it was—a drum ! Then came the morn,—and light,—and then Streets, houses, spires—the hum of men. " And Ocean rolled before• me —fain Would I have whelm'd me in its tide, At once beneath the billowy main My shame, my guilt, my crime to hide ; But HE was there !—HE crossed my track, — I dared not pass—HE .waved me back ! " And then rude hands detained me—sure Justice had grasp'd her victim—no ! Though powerless, hopeless, bound, secure, A captive thrall, it was not so ; They cry, The Frenchman's on the wave !' The press was hot—and I a slave. " They dragg'd me o'er the vessel's side ; The world of waters roll'd below ; The gallant ship, in all her pride Of dreadful beauty, sought her foe ; Thou saw'st me, William in the strife— Alack ! I bore a charmed life ; " In vain the bullets round me fly, In vain mine eager breast I bare ; Death shuns the wretch who longs to die, And every sword falls edgeless there ! Still HE is near, and seems to cry, Not here, nor thus, may Mateham die Thou saw'st me on that fearful day, When, fruitless all attempts to save, Our pinnace foundering in the bay, The boat's-crew met a watery grave,— All, all save ONE—the ravenous sea That swallows all rejected ME " And now, when fifteen suns have each Fulfilled in turn its circling year, Thrown back again on England's beach, Our barque paid off— HE drives me Here ! I could not die in flood or fight— HE drives me HERE ! !" " And sarve you right " What! bilk your Commander!—desart—and then rob? And go scuttling a poor little Drummer-boys nob ! Why, my precious eyes ! what a bloodthirsty, swab I Thefe's old Davy Jones, . • Who cracks Sailors' bones For his jaw -work, would never, I'm sure, s'elp me Bob, Have come for to go for to do sich a job ! Hark 3 e, Waters, or Matehom,—wiiiehever's your pur- ser-name, —T'other, your own, is, I'm sartain, the worser name, — Twelve years have we lived on like brother and brother ! Now your course lays one way, and mine lays another !" " Yes, for six more months," answered the giant. " Well, then, I have a most liberal offer to make you. Never mind the engagement—break it—a giant like you can break anything—and I offer you five pounds a week, with unlimited length and breadth of bed, and—" " Stop," cried the giant ; " I believe Mr. Noah, the gentleman as is now calling on the steps, returned you your twopence." " I can't deny it—he did," answered Duckweed. " And yet for all that, you'd come and basely inveigle away the crack article of the van. Here, Mr. Noah," roared the giant, " stand aside !" Bajazet Gag, fearing from the "fine frenzy" of the giant's eye that he meditated some sudden act of violence, made his escape into the street. It was well he did so ; for in a second, Duckweed was fluty , in a very ball from th e van, and descended upon an apple-woman's barrow. Never did the giant at once more triumphantly illustrate the strength of his arms and the integrity of his principles. The apple-woman screamed as Duckweed, descend ing, demolished her paper-lantern, and scattered her pip pins in the road. " Are you hurt—are you hurt ?" cried Gag to his man of business. " The savage ! My back's broken ! Hadn't we better call the police ?" said Duckweed. " I'll call something much better," answered the ma nager. He called a cab. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This Number reached us, as usual, at so late an hour, that we are compelled to glance briefly at its contents. There is no lack of variety, and some of the articles are of a very superior character —such, for instance,' as Mr. Poole's " Phineas Quiddy," which brings out the complex nature of its hero in a masterly manner. Phineas is no mere fancy sketch, but is the result of that quickness of observation which constant inter . course with society begets. A secluded student, however lively his imaginative powers, could never have conceived, much less executed such a portrait. This story, as i t i s t h e mos t con tinuous in point o f i nterest, so i s it also the cleverest that its aut h or has yet produced: It is shrewd, but n o t cyn i cal; an d wor ldly in its tone, without being deficient, w hen occasion serves, in quick and generous feeling. The " Tower of Lahneck "...Is one of those stirring legends which are to be picked up by scores along the banks of th e Rhi ne . The editor, Mr. Hood, has not marred its effect by any attempt at fine writing, which i s gre atly to his credit. " A School for Sc o ld s " i s a l earne d and inge nious commentary on the personal qualities of that paragon of wives, Xantippe, whose tongue, as her philosophic husband, Socrates, found to his cost, realised the idea of perpetual motion. " Foreign Sporting" is entertaining in its way, but we have rather too much of it. Four or five .pages would have been quite enough on such a subject. " Recollections of Eton " are clearly the productions of a genuine Etonian. The description of the cricket-match Eton cricket-matches are proverbial for their spirit —is cleverly hit off. «On the Usefulness of Inutilities" is an ingenious paradox treated with corresponding ingenuity. " Graduates and Under-Graduates" gives a lively account of a young student of Oxford, Charles Famington, who tried hard for University honours, and gained in his third year, the Newdigate English prize poem--" the most popular of all prizes." " Christmas-day in Norway," is sufficiently ex,• plained by its title. It is a richly coloured de scription, but apparently not over-charged. "Short Rides in an - Author's Omnibus " are a collection of aphoristical remarks from the fer tile pen of Horace Smith. There is much justice, in these remarks on prejudice :—"A cat - has nine lives, but a prejudice has nine times nine; It dies by inches, and at the rate of an inch a.cen tury. If it assume the form of religious intoler ance, it never dies entirely, though its virulence may be modified by public opinion, and the pro gress of time. Long and dreary is the interval between the first religious roasting of a fellow creature, and the last Test, Corporation, and Ex clusion Act. The last ! We have not yet reached that era, for the Jews still labour under civil and other disabilities. W e • have still many worthy b successors of the ortho dox old lady, who died she would not swall ow a dose of bark, o f it Bajazet Gag," we extract or anything else that came from those horrid Jesuits." From Mr. Douglas Jerrold's piquant an account of this great theatrical manager's at temptwith the conscienceof • to tamper a giant, satirical sketch who was exhibiting himself in a twopentj- r.show van : were silently Gag and Duckweed contemplating the marvels before them, when the proprietor of the van re turned from the steps into the body of the vehicle, and smiling upon Duckweed, proffered to him the expended twopence. " I beg you pardon, Sir, I didn't recollect you at first, hut you're quite free, you and your friend ; I never think, Sir, of charging a brother of the prof ess i on ." And with this li e ral sentiment, the proprietor forced the two penny pieces into the hand of Duckweed, and re sumed his place on the steps, there to exhort the enlight ened British public tohless their eyes with a s i g h t of wonders hitherto unknown, unseen. " Now's the time," said Gag i n a whisper, " now, while the fellow's talking;. offer the giant five pounds a week for a month, and a bed under the stage.' "Really, you are a magnificent specimen —a very mag nificent specimen," said Duckweed, Opening the negotia tion with the Colossus. • " The tallest, the strongest, and the handsomest man on the earth," said the modest giant. " No doubt ; but what a pity all such noble advantages should be buried in the obscurity of a van. You require a larger stage," said Duckweed. " Why, I am devilish cramped here sotnetimes j. but I can't complain—l've been shown in smaller places ; and so as.l get plenty to eat and to drink, and my nice re freshing walk in Copenhagen-fields at midnight, what more should a man wish for ? God help me I might have been one of them Albinoes, or that there Spotted Boy ; ,or worse than all, that heathen Las car th a t' s doing duty for a Chinese—and, see, on the contrary, what 1 am," and-the giant showed the muscular vanities of bis leg and arm. ". Now, listen to me," said Duekweed,.“ f or we haven't Much time to lose, and your master overhear -us. I suppose you are under an engagement to him" -• ' AINS WORTH'S MAGAZINE. So far as we can form a judgment from a first Number, this Magazine promises well, and we are the more inclined to augur favour ably of it, from the singular circumstance of the Editor indulging in no lavish pro fessions in his " Preliminary Address." He is, in truth, modest and reserved to a degree very unusual in the editorial character, winch is cer tainly by no means remarkable for any uneasy and oppressive sense of bashfulness. He hints, however, that he may possibly at times be meta physical—that is to say, " as occasion serves, he may institute bold and original inquiries into the great ends for which books were written, and into the mind which they feed and fashion." Now there is no earthly use in instituting metaphysical in quiries into a question of this sort, for it is an swered and explained in a word. Books, what ever might have been the case formerly, are now written for no other purpose than to ensure the writer a handsome sum from his publisher. As for " feeding and fashioning" the reader's mind, they are—with a few exceptions—intended only to enable him to pass away an hour or two that might otherwise hang heavily on his hands. The majority of us no longer read to be instructed, but to be amused; and a periodical, to be suc cessful, must deal almost exclusively in matters of entertainment. With these few preliminary remarks, we pass to a consideration of the Maga zine before us. It opens with a tale entitled the " Miser's Daughter," which is from the pen of the Editor. The incidents of the narrative are supposed to have occurred towards the close of the last century, and they are entered on at once without any formal note of preparation being sounded. The sketch of the Miser's house, or rather den, is marked by many of Mr. Ains worth's minute, graphic touches, which give the force of reality to his narratives—in fact, are their redeeming excellence, for, generally speaking, lie is not happy in his attempts at discriminating character. Yet we must confess that Jacob Post bids fair to be an exception; and we suspect that pretty, plump, little Thomasine, the mercer's daughter will become a favourite with novel readers. " A Flight upon Flying," is a fanciful, rambling prose essay " upon everything and no thing," by Mr. Martin. Tupper, who exhibits no mean powers of thought, though he is apt occa sionally to be vague and crotchety in his ideas. As there is nothing , new on earth—lie should have made a reservation in favour of new taxes, with which we are threatened—he tells us that he will take a flight into the air; and at the word, he is off among the clouds, where he dreams and speculates in a manner very suitable to his locality. " Sultan Stork" is a lively Eastern story, of a bustling and comic character, and concerns the fortunes of a Persian King and his Premier, who, from some neglect of duty, were transformed into storks, and compelled to hop through life on one leg in a truly grotesque fashion. The metamorphosis of a Prime Minister into an ass or a rat is nothing remarkable; modern English history abounds in instances of such transformations; but the present ingenious me tamorphosis is new to us. The " Snow Storm" is a simple, well-narrated domestic story by the author of " Ferrers." The " Tour of Love and Time" is art elegant little poetic allegory ; and the lines to an "Andalusian Beauty" contain some graceful thoughts and images neatly and pointedly expressed. A word now on Cruik shank's Illustrations. The serious ones have much less stiffness than is usual with him, and there is both vigour and character in the sketch of the old Miser—especially in his earnest atti tude of inquiry. " Rosamond's Pond," too, is a pleasing picture, not wanting in picturesque effect. The grouping of various figures in the Mall ar rest attention by their ease and propriety. But the three dancing •Storks is our favourite illus tration. With what a coquettish, languishing air the female stork eyes her partner in the waltz ! And how vigorously he pirouettes oil his left foot, by way of showing off before his feathered sweetheart ! By way of quotation we select a passage from the " Miser's Daughter" descriptive of a fashionable pedestrian lounger in St. James's Park, in the year 1774 : Having passed through the Gate House, they entered the Park by a small door at the end of Prince's-court. It was now noon, and a warm and genial day. The paths between the avenues of trees then extending between this point and Rosamond's Pond were crowded with per sons of both sex, and of all ranks, summoned forth by the fineness of the weather. Randulph was greatly amused by all he saw, and gazed with much curiosity at all presented to his view. Pass . ing by the Decoy, the party skirted the great canal, and, leaving Rosamond's Pond on the left, proceeded towards Buckingham House. Just at this juncture, Uncle Trussell caught sight of a gay party approaching, and exclaimed, in a joyful tone, to his nephew, " As I live, we are most fortunate. There is the leader of the fashion, Beau Villiers, coming to , wards us. You shall know him, nephew—you shall know him. The ladies he is walking with are Lady Brabazon and the Hon. Clementina Brabazon : a fine girl, Clemen tina---a remarkably fine girl; perfect in style and man • ners—quite a toast among the sparks. The old fellow at her side, Sir Singleton Spinke, was a great beau in his time, though never equal to Villiers, who far surpasses even his prototype, Beau Fielding, in style and taste. You shall know them all." " And nice acquaintances you will make," remarked Uncle Abel, sneeringly. " Never mind him, Randulph," whispered Uncle Trus sell. "If you know this set, and they like you, you may know whom you please. Beau Villiers commands all society, from the highest down to—to" " Mr. Trussell Beechcroft," replied Uncle AbeL " Well, down to me if you please," rejoined Uncle Trussell, "and that shows it does not extend too low. But, Randulph, J beg you to look at the beau. Did you ever see a finer matt?' , " He is very handsowlet certainly," replied Randulph, " and remarkably well dreS,sed.” "He is a great coxcomb, a jreat rake, and a great gamester, Randulph," said Uncle " beware of him." " Tush, never mind what he sap rejoined Uncle Trussell, who really wished to have the ,-clat of intro ducing his handsome nephew to the great be, " Come along!" So saying, he took his nephew's arm, and hurriCd him forward. Pushing their way through the throng, sr hen near the sentry box opposite Buckingham House, the.," encountered the party m question. Beau- Villiers, who was, indeed, a remarkably handsome man s and dressed in the extremity of the mode, wore a light-blue embossed velvet coat, embroidered with silver, with broad cuffs similarly ornamented; 2 white waistcoat, of the richest silk, likewise laced with silver; tawny velvet breeches, partly covered with pearl-coloured silk hose, drawn above the knee,.and secured with silver garters. His dress was completed by shoes of black Spanish leather, fastened by large diamond buckles, and a superb Ra inillie of the lightest flaxen hair, which sot off his brilliant' complexion, and fine eyes, to admiration. He carried a three-cornered hat, fringed with feathers, and a clouded cane, mounted with a valuable pebble. Near the beau walked Lady Brabazon, a gorgeous dame of about five-and-forty, and still possessed of great per sonal attractions, which she omitted no means ofdisplaying. She wore a hoop, and a white and silver satin sack. Struck by,Randulph's figure at a distance, she had pointed him out, to the beau, who thereupon vouchsafed to look to wards him. Behind Lady Brabazon came her daughter Clementina, a very pretty and very affected blonde of two and twenty, with an excessively delicate complexion, fair hair, summer blue eyes, and a very mincing gait. She was exquisitely dressed in the last new mode, with a small escaloped lace cap, her hair curled at her sides, a triple row of pearls round her neck, and a diamond cross attached to the chain; and though she pretended to be interested in the discourse of the old Knight, it was evident her regards were attracted by the handsome young stranger. As to the old beau, he was, indeed, supremely ridiculous. He was attired in a richly em broidered cinnamon-coloured velvetcoat, with fur cuffs of preposterous size, each as large as a modern muff. Hi s pantaloon legs were covered with pink silk hose; his wrinked features were rouged and bepatched; and his wig was tied with a large bow, and had such an immense cue to it, that it looked as if a great dragon fly had perched on the back of his neck. Lady Brabazon was attended by a little black page, in a turban and eastern dress, who had charge of her favourite lap-dog. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. d to meet with Captain S i ibertash We are gilt again, whose lively essay "On Manners, Fashion, and Things in General' —a comprehensive range of subjects—is one of the most agreeable papers in the present Number. The Captain is spe cially minute and copious in his remarks on Courtship and Love-making, and indulges in divers sage reflections on the good old custom of ‘ shaking hands,".which he assures us, is " now declining even in England. how much of dm ratter," he adds, " is evinced by the manner of shaking hands! First and foremost, there is the good, honest shake of the hand, that displays a free and open nature, wishing you well from the inmost of the heart. Then there is the cold, phlegmatic shake, that tells you plainly, ' I don't care a straw for you.' Then you have the pre tended squeeze, which would make you believe that you are the dearest of mortals to a selfish fellow who would not walk across the street to save you from being drowned. Next, you have the vulgar-minded man, who shakes hands with you in a friendly manner, wishing you to under stand, however, that you owe such extreme kindness to his great condescension only. There are so many modes of displaying vulgarity in the world, that it is not easy to determine which is entitled to take precedence of the others, though vulgar condescension is, perhaps, the most offensive." Not so, it is simply the most ridiculous. In remarking on marriage, the author observes, " fortune-hunters, men of low and second-rate character, make love for money only, and marry for money; but no gentleman, no man of gallant feeling ever sold himself for mere cash." We like much the tone of this re mark, though it is not in accordance with the money -getting propensities of the age. "A - Letter from Barney Brallaghan to Oliver Yorke" is the composition of one who has taken prodi gious pains to be dull and tiresome in his almost unintelligible pros e . W e must do him the jus tice, however, to say, that in buniourous verse he shows to great advantage, and his version of the song of Brian O'Linn in Greek, Latin, and English is ingenious in no ordinary degree. " My Life and Times" is a continuation of Nim rod's Autobiography. We subjoin his sketch of his mother, which conveys a vivid idea of the peculiarities of the lady of the old school, who is now seldom to be met with, except in the come dies and novels of the last century : Her sense of female propriety was a little too strict for the advancing spirit of the age, even, in its then young days. Not only would some of her broad hints be con sidered as unreasonable, if not uncalled-for checks to youthful mirth and gaiety , but she would, in her ;egatd for female propriety, and, perhaps, for the benefit of her daughters, occasionally have recourse to somewhat of the authoritative in her manner. For example, if she saw flirtation going on between a young couple, at a ball or elsewhere, pressed, as she considered it to be, a little too far, one of her " hems (!)" would act like elec tricity upon the happy swains,—at least, prove a damper for the moment. Then, upon another point associated with female propriety, she firmly resisted what I have termed the advancing spirit of the age. I allude to ladies calling their husbands by their Christian names, a practice only coming into use •in my younger days. " How horrible is it," she would say, " how like any state but the married state, to hear the woman call the man whom she is bound to look up and respect, by the fami liar and vulgar appellation of Tom, or Joe!" And she was fond of enforcing her argument by an anecdote, on record, of a Duke of Somerset, of days long since gone by, who was remarkable for his observance of punctilio in the marriage state, as well as throughout his entire doniestic economy. His second Duchess, on some occa sion, in public, familiarly tapped him on the shoulder with her fan • when he turned round, and, with a look of marked displeasure, said, "My first Duchess was a Percy, and she never took such a liberty." In her own deportment—l mean in the carriage of her person—there was a stiffness and formality observ able in the lady I speak of, which would attract notice at the present day, but which, I conclude, was in .cha racter with those to which lam alluding. I believe, un less in illness, she was never seen in w hat i s called a lounging position in her chair, neither did she ever touch the back of her carriage with her back, — , a striking con trast this to the lolling, I was near saying indelicate, position in which some of our modern ladies present themselves in their carriages to the admiring spectators of the present age—on a warm summer-day especially. But it was not only to the daughters of her wealthy and aristocratic neighbours that my good mother would occasionally offer her advice, as to the propriety of their conduct; she would occasionally •lecture the poor, who might apply to her in their distress. One scene of this description which I witnessed furnishes me with a point true to our frail nature. A poor married woman was telling her of some domestic troubles, which she in great part attributed to the irregularities of her husband. " Well," said my mother, "you have brought these troubles on yourself ; I told you not to marry him. I was sure he would not make you a good husband." "He is not a good one, to be sure, Madam," replied the woman ; " but lie is a power better than none." The " History of a Wet Afternoon" gives the au thor, who seems well versed in English literature, an opportunity ofindulgingin much pertinent poe tical criticism. He overrates, however, Tickell's ,Elegy on the Death of Addison, which is a very common-place, prosaic affair, notwithstanding it has been honoured with the approbation of Goldsmith and Johnson. Tickell was a shrewd, lively man of the world, who could toss off a hu- mourous poem—as we have seen in his once ce lebrated political satire "An ticipation"—as well as the best of his contemporaries; but he had not a spark of genuine poetry in his composition. He was a passable humourist—nothing more. " A Day and Night among the Mountains" is a tale told with feeling and simplicity. z TAlrs MAGAZINE. This Magazine never reached us last month, and we missed it not a little, for it is pretty sure to contain some shrewd,vigorouspolitical wri ting,and not unfrequently some pleasing snatches of verse, by way of contrast and relief. The Number now lying on our table opens with some speculations on the " Next Move of the Reformers," who are strenuously exhorted to union, as the only means whereby they can make an impression on the vast Tory force banded against them. Speaking of the Corn-laws, "if ever public opinion," says the writer, " was decidedly expressed on any one point, it is at this juncture against the Corn-laws, and for their instant repeal. The array of moral force, the justice and wisdom of the measure, and the urgent necessity of allaying the alarming dis contents of the famishing millions, must have some influence even with the Monopolists; and yet we greatly fear that the prayers of the Peo ple will be, if not openly scouted, then eluded, and finally refused. The aspect of the people of Britain at this moment more resembles that of the Americans at the breaking out of the Revo lutionary war than anything in the recent history of political movements in this country. There was great enthusiasm—hearty, honest enthusiasm —for the Reform Bill ; but that movement, if intense, was much less comprehensive than the present agitation." There is but too much truth in these remarks, howeVer unpalatable they may be to the Tories. " Thoughts on Anniversaries" sets out with some truisms respecting the natural, but scarcely confessed disinclination which mid dle-aged gentlemen have to keep anniversaries, and their tendency to look ou them as " imperti nent reminiscences." In this essay, the writer alluding incidentally to the immortal Don Quix otte, speaks of him as being " the most respecta ble fool on record." It is not in this light that the generality of readers re g ard the chivalrous Knight of La Mancha; and sure we are that Cervantes never intended that his finest charac ter should be that of " a fool." "He shall be a Soldier" is a tale whose scene is laid in Prussia. It is penned with spirit and even elegance. " Catlin's North American Indians" is a review that does justice to the merits of a very entertain ing publication. From the " Songs of the Months" we select a fanciful little poem, entitled " The Song of February :" • Weave, weave me a chaplet that's meet for my tears. Woe is me—woe is me—woe is me ! Weave, weave me a chaplet. The Vernal sprite hears : t j _"'te snow-drop, the crocus, the starwort appears ; The .liellebore waited to see me and die, • And .sweet polyanthus peeps up at the sky ; So weave me a chaplet :—Uut why should I wear The emblems of gladness ? My 'heart is all bare To the sleet: - and the tempest, and cold as the moor Where shivers and shakes the poor child of the boor. .. Submerged are the pastures,—the shepherds complain,. Clouds cover the mountains,—fast patters the ra in,— am wayward and weary, what can I• but mourn ? W oe i s me — wo o is me--woe is me I - Bleak demt,Nas possess me, They hoo:( round my walls ; No festivals biless me, • No mirth in WY halls : i)aste to the bourne,— My days will be skortened, I. Woe is me—woe is me—w.kx' is me I What so painful as pleasure to hes,'ts that bewail ? Woe is me—woe is me—woe is itie! In the sky there is splendour—moths s yangle the vale There is song in the woodlands, and joy in the gale ; There is life in the waters—there's warmth' on the hill ; The robin forsakes me—the tit's at the rill ; The noisy rook waketh the hoary-faced morn The plover returneth—the sheep leave The corn:. But wherefore this rapture ? My wet weeds will bring Back the wild winds of winter; thou mockest me, Spr: , og% Though thy voice fills the air in the tardy noon-shine, Dun morning and evening still echo but mine. If I breathe, thy fair blossoms are icy and dead, — Woe is me—woe is me—woe is me ! They pass from the meadows Like hope that deceives, Ere dance to their shadows The merry green leaves. Fit emblems to furnish my premature bed. Woe is me—woe is me-woe is me ! PARLIAMEN7'44ItV AND NEWSPAPER LIST. Clarke and Lewis, of . Crown-court, Thread needle-street, have published a very useful work with this title. It is in one large sheet, and con tains the following lists :—Members of the House of CoMmons in the second Parliament of Queen Victoria, diStinguishing the politics of the Mem bers, by printing, the names of the Conservatives in blue, and the Liberals in red ; an analysis of m i the House of Co mons, n which are given the numbers of the respective parties for the coun ties and boroughs, with the total number of each in the House; a complete list of the newspapers published in the United Kingdom, distinguishing PVIINING- SUN their political character by the same colours, and marking those of a neutral character in black; together with a statement of the num ber of stamps issued to each, and the amount of advertisement-duty paid during the year ending the Ist of J anuary, 1841. This table is well printed, and, owing to the variety of colours, presents a very beautiful appeara n ce. It will be found very convenient for reference, as the in formation under the different heads may be ascer tained at once with the utmost facility. The new feature in the present edition is.the * division of the newspapers into their several co u nties, and the total amount of advertisement-duty p a id by the different publications for twelve months. This information, added to that which at first characterised this publication, renders this edi tion a perfect guide to the Newspaper Press of the - United Kingdom. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE CORN-LAWS. - - - - CHRONICLE.—It was impossible to mistake the portentous . look of Sir James Graham yesterday when he entered the Court of Chancery, and by his hurried and mysterious communication so disturbed the equani mity of the Noble Lord who was presiding. Then the anxious conversation between the Attorney and Solicitor- General—there was no longer a doubt. The Duke of Buckingham had resigned. The fact is even so. The Duke of Buckingham has resigned. This is the first prac tical application of the sliding scale—one of its most im portant members has slid out of "The United Cabinet." Although the Noble Duke's resignation was generally known in town last evening, and talked of in the clubs, yet a day or two must elapse before it is possible to estimate accurately its effect. As Sir Robert Peel's colleagues hive begun to slide away, there is no saying how far they may . carry it, or how many may slide off, one by one, in imitation of the Duke, until the Premier is left like a solitary pivot by himself. One word to the farmers. Do not just yet give your "friend" too much credit for disinterestedness. The Ministerial journals announced yesterday that "the Duke of Buckingham was to have the vacant blue riband." If Sir Robert Peel is going to make such a change in the Corn-laws as compels the Duke of Buckingham to resign, and if upon the very same day his Grace accepts the blue riband, it will be very difficult, we suspect, to convince the farmers that their self-styled friend has not " sold" them. Where is Knatchbull ? Will Lord March still move the address ? POST. —The most valuable and important classes of the British people will participate - in the regret with which we perform the painful duty of announcing that the Duke of Buckingham has virtually ceased to be a Member of her Majesty's Government. It was only yesterday that this termination took place of a discus sion which, we believe, had endured for eight or ten days, between the Noble Duke and the First Lord of the Treasury, in whose proposed measure upon the subject of the Corn-law ever member of the Cabinet is under stood to concur, with the single exception of his Grace. This occurrence will be hailed by the opponents_of the present Administration, both in public hfe and in the humbler sphere of general society, as eminently propi tious to their views ; and, perhaps, the greatest evil con nected with it is its tendency to infuse courage, energy, and unity of , action and purpose, into a political faction, few of the members of which propose to themselves any higher object than the recovery of place. It is our happiness to be enabled to dispel some of the illusions to which this event, unaccompanied by any explanations, might have given rise. The Duke of Buckingham secedes from the Cabinet, not because his late colleagues are less convinced than his Grace of the importance of upholding the interests of British agri culture, but because his Grace is not so fully convinced as they are that certain proposed alterations, supposed to be favourable to British commerce, may be effected without injury, or the risk of injury, to the agricultural classes. That no question of principle is involved in this change of the personnel of her Majesty's Govern ment will be evident, when we state that the Duke of Buckingham, in ceasing to be a member of the present Administration, continues to be its friend ; and that no Parliamentary opposition on the part of his Grace is to be anticipated, except on the specific points of the spe cific measure, with respect to which it has been the mis fortune of the Cabinet to differ from his Grace. It was generally supposed yesterday that the Duke of Buc cleuch would succeed to the vacant Cabinet office of Lord Privy Seal. TIMES.—It was generally rumoured yesterday, in political circles, that the Duke of Buckingham had ceased to be connected with the Administration. It will probably suggest itself to many of our readers that the retirement of his Grace from office may be attributed, in some degree, s to the contemplated alterations in the Corn-laws, to the present system of which his Grace is warmly attached ; but on this point it will not be pos sible to pronounce positively until the measures to be brought forward in the ensuing Session are disclosed. That there exists no want of cordiality or sympathy be tween the Duke of Buckingham and the members of her Majesty's Government, may be readily inferred from the circumstance that one of the two vacant ribands has been offered to, and accepted by, his Grace. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSU RANCE SOCIETY. (From the Second Edition of the Norwich Times.) We had made arrangements to bring out in a Second Edition, the proceedings taken at the great meeting of the members of this Society, held yesterday at the As sembly Rooms, but the length to which they extended, compels us to defer our report of them till next week ; we, however, feel that it is due to our readers to be immediately put in possession of the result of the meet ing, and this is evidenced by the resolutions adopted, which we insert in another part of our paper. It is im possible adequately to convey an impression, of the ardent determination exhibited by the members, to uphold and extend this great and important Society, or the feeling of pride of citizenship, at its originating in our own old Norwich. To thi s f ee li ng is probably to be attributed the total rejection of the bye-laws, and the resolution to stand on the Constitution of 1808, with the condition (to which the assent of the Directors was most cheerfully given) that an annual general meeting of the members should be held in the month of June, to exhi bit the state of the cash accounts. Looking at the high standing of the Directots of this Society, and the intelli gence of its executive officers, we think the determina tion come to, to avoid perpetual strife andagitation about altering the laws, a most wise and judicious resolve. Although we must defer till next week our Report in detail, we cannot omit at once putting before the Society and the public the remarks which fell from the talented. Secretary, Samuel Bignold, Esq., in acknowledging the unanimous vote of thanks to him for his services to the Society. Mr. Bignold observed At this stage of the meeting, I beg permission to make a few observations, assuring the members now assem bled, how deeply I am sensible of their kindness, in the honourable testimony this day borne to my character and integrity, by the flattering vote of thanks now passed. Engaged in the first formation of this Society, and con nected as I have been with its whole history, I claim an acquaintance with its affairs, snore intimate than per haps can be possessed by any other inditvidual; that tho rough acquaintance enables "me to assure this meeting, that of the stability of the Society there can be no ques tion, and of its prosperous progress in future there is the strongest grounds for confidence. Where is its fel low in the provincial Institutions of this country, that can hold out the security of a fund in hand of 1,700,000 L ? Of a connection for extent and influence so powerful as that possessed by this Society ? Of a direction of higher character and probity.? Of officers and agents more devoted to its best interests ? These are points on which this Society may bear com parison with any in the kingdom. Some persons Allege, notwithstanding the gratifying fact of 445,0001. already assigned as bonus, the fund now to assign of upwards of 220,0001., and the fund retained to meet prospective expenses of 175,0001., altogether a realization of profit exceeding 800,0001. in 33 years, that more gains still should have resulted from this adventure. On this point I must beg think lightly of our prosperity But then it is asked, are leave respectfully to differ from those o . there not one or two Societies that have done better than the Norwich ? To that question my reply will be, that there is no Society whose legitimate gains can have exceeded ours, although by a process of calculation, larger apparent profits may be shown. Would you wish for perfect stability in all your important trans actions, or a sickly prosperity ? An instance occurred in our own county, of the injury resulting from over strained calculations of the value of life. 1 allude to the Rik culla m Provident Society, which at one period allowed its annuitants on a scale far too liberal for their funds to maintain. Facts might justify our assuming a ratio of mortality, which would place us in a more elevated posi tion, but it would be dangerous to the future interests of the members that we should do so. The points to be borne in mind as to the Society, are, first its great and accumulating find, tested in every imaginable way by able and disinterested parties, and pronounced to be perfectly safe. No society has undergone the sifting that this has in every branch of its affairs. The integrity of its capital— the moderation displayed in computing its profits — the perfect order and method introduced into its book keeping—time curtailment of every expense not abso lutely indispensable fimr working the institution, and the enlisting of able and honourable men as Directors, who independently govern its atfitirs. It is intended to hold annual general meetings—to exhibit to distant members, through the Boards of Management and agents in large towns, periodical accounts showing the exact state of the Society, and, in fine, to afford the, strongest grounds for confidence in the institution, by treating with confidence all who have an interest in its affairs. I confess I know of no similar Society that can lay equal claim to pub lic support, nor have we cause to complain of the ,‘upport extended to us; for in time last five years all the K ips in our business, created by deaths, policies sold in, and policies discontinued, have been supplied, and an incre.tise on the ;previous great total of premiums has been secured—those premiums at June, 1836, amounted to 181,1411.; but at June, 1841, they stood at 184, 5494 The only other feature to call for comment, is our low rates of preolinms. On the mass of our business we grant, fOr 90/., that lilt- which most other offices require paid 100 L—thus enabling persons to securef m first, a larger reversionary payment, or the nd • o ntage of a saving of 10/. per cent. during their lives. ot the MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE•.-- Last week and fell William Richards, a carpenter, w orking nt Black. caught his clothes, wet Tor rington, returning to his locl*ings. late in the . evening, and cold, wits refused admission for the night, whereupon of his he went into the buildings where he was accustomed to tri c on u;fi th o a ti t it h ia t te di ly ed work, lighting a fire with chips and shavings, e . sensible und.he was so touch burned (before he became ,r(l,,:iiiieonustshietuafi —Somerset County Gazette. - , the following day. ,ort 8 " 27th Pr °- to 0 ,o loll ' 0 ti' c ba r of °'