The Sun. — London, England, 1831-10-24 00:00:00

THEIR MA.TESTIES. INDsciKta „ 't u cT. 2 2.--At s e v e n o' c lo c k last evening ea, stn:tdilescoantirteQdul;'' in their travelling carriage and a party of Life Guards, returned to rinee GE I . l .tst.r, i ciaGE of Cambridge, the Marchioness of (as Lady It Waiting to the QuEEN), Lord .our Ita oL, Lady E RSKINE , Mi ss E DEN (Maid of dr or t ," t ," QuEEN), and Miss WILSON, arrived at the t 4 at ey 'nls to t h e i r MAJESTIES. 'al suiP re ' e nt unde rs t oo d to b e t h e i ntent i on o f th e r etrite to leave the C ast l e f or B r i g h ton , e ith er th e h eir ° l ' next, o r the beginning of the following week. Y'n ent l r tsT lts, we are happy to state, are in the w eath good healthowing to the dampness of the y d not leave the Castle this day. l a y !CI r the' gall very, i ; an° DOVER, OcT. 23' krri ved o, t , d l ‘lajesty's packet Spitfire, Capt. Smilhett,. 41 E11 ,At her departure from that port, it was d rtnin:o' believed that the Belgian Government had nee L n r ejecting the terms propose:l by the . con mediate i maledi a °ll don, and there was great apprehensio le r enewal of hostilities with Holland. PPIN G IN TELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY.) ' t AL, 0 FROM LLOYD'S. 'Yal) fr. cl ' 23. --Wind S.W.—Arrive , ; the Camden, D olt 61-tre Hudson's Bay. Nil 1 1 ,4 i'')„c?'LL, OCT. 22 AND 23.—Windm a . h,ajesty's ship Falcon, j't.;:'''' Asia, Store], from Quebec. from Jamaica and Ber- Ilen' t °l4,l , Om 21 AND 22.—Wind S. V Arrived N lii . r — li. Ter.:o4.traosport, Friend, from St. Pe '°.p 4 . 1 1 ; 111 , Our. 21 AND 22.—Arrived:e re ) the g Hermes h ,, , fib t ro " , from Corfu, sailed the 2d inst., Malta the i 'fAir Q4 - ', the 15th, and Cadiz the 16th. 1.„,e from t,,, T. 23 Arrived the Woodman, Wooffen- Low John' s N. B. 1 .4 "ir 0. " Is ' esc T. 2 3. --Arrived Arrived the Laura, Mahy, from tip ° , 411 SL I, Om 22.—Arrived the Antigua, Wilson, 11, Iv I. ri ll t 1 akefield, from Liverpool to the Brazils, a t q: ' , ' l 4 °n shore in Holyhead on Saturday, during 611,e from BNV and bilged. 7,Nrll.4aeree, Vine bound to Youghal, was driven on ib t '`);11 corning out of Cork on Friday. . . was Prt114,1441, Sharon from Cork to Limerick, 4r,i the 17th inst. On Dorgey Island ; crew saved. as. It, I , red n f f and A 4 orp a . -- .,, 1 be Start, the Creole, from Matanz ' ll 'ired -1 ` ii °n, from St. Thomas's. .. 1 off the NVi6t, the Triton, from Virgini, . v. t, 111— F UNDS. —(THIS DAY.) CL 0 CK. ' Pr ICZ"' TW" " O' CL of Marshal ' 4ll '',C l 'S , 'opera state that one division ' n ea a th rn). i° to proceed to Brittany. l 'si tl, ' , 4l cs was received at Toulon f the taking of two frigates, 'brig 'nednuins, two ships of the line, 114 ei ' ' 4 " a bomb, immediately sailed with four bat i'll ' b oard c e 4 - .or Algiers. k a t. Part whi, . A cev,i 4e} co prevailed at Berlin of the assassination , te, 1un,,,,.' un the 9th is not credited. , 41 '4'n '' `rurn Alexandria of the 6th Septembe . r, th ar a e t 1 41 ', k - a rab , le in regard to , the cholera morbirs in I for : 1 ,7 't n'as hoped would soon be got under. k ' :" ft 'arn Hayti, of the 4th Septernhrdr, there,states b4,` consternation and distress It s hy. the Was a, r avages of the late burricar p ie r . eva' T e he Presi !ife b"jerelnie when it took place, and was near losing L 1 30% ' e Was fortunately dragged from his bed tt• et4 frotn the Government-house. Soon af i t ' e y r e th n e e A k destroyed i, v et is ", , , '`, thi a I A 4 prevalent in a village in Spain, called '„t l of p I 'lage is surrounded by sonic of the coin i'l and s , e ra : l t :e h ,. hut it it is not the cholera, although it E te Ntt 'n g . .41 S ' fr ° l ll Bayonne of the 15th October state d .the garrisons - of reinforced. The Vittori!,. and SThe present military of s„ ai ° being 11 of th v e i t,' Ste the Royal Guards 16,486 men, the . 1 of tnililin:as2,l3o ; to wh a ich may be added 42 rep. corps of 80,000 wen, Qe'‘e o °l. war, t e l e le rn ro g a n l g Volunteers may be calculatedwill tf(:°° B hould y a war take place the clergy Lir rd with 36,000,000 of money. t.hia;teer n s o fresh . r a ii rriv r a u ls ND w S ith the exception of a al , ir, Which sailed_ on the 6th October. . hav e been received from Rio Janeiro of the 4t'.oe4gust, the vessel sailed on the 20tb. I;,'' fell °f the arrival of the above vessel Braz n ilian "e h av e Per cent. k's h ii , ii, i - ot e ,, .°4 a letter of the 19th of August, which E y tY ti W al tailt any political information, but .f t s o orh a e c u e o r : 14 °4 44 L'oe stock would not have receded . i 'r ' ii " bo a : 1 (1 ' 11 s had not arrived, which . mighthave been 6,, ~,e ex„ tue vessel on the 20th, the day of sailing... s I ` l 4,:."teir ljr Z m ns f .rorn Paris is of importance, as it bring apical late , iderably higher, were in that 14. sli • h'etter from Paris, stating they . which may be attributed s ilt :„ I tis i n.,.: w i gl: lgdke, and no doubt tr w e - a as ty e . ntertained that Report says ptticorilita h o ld accept of the r‘. it• h4ve reached London that they have ac -'4l°l lits' 4 °lle B) llt W d b iell left off on Saturday at 82- 4 1 - for the Ac le 4 a t 8 2i i, went up to S2i, and are at pre 'be p or , elgri Market nothing doing. v (t - r otti HALF-PAST ONE. tatttl'ltthe M assager des Chambres of Saturday.) 1 l'r 'IC)c ' have very o il , i , Irti, area • 8.--V efine weather, and , ,14p, entertained that the cholera , morbus will It ' ' tei t %' ell se — ,Z," .. It is expected . that the Emperor will ,Ilia ' l Pit 4 i '" 4 in the middle of October and return , t 'Po rt . ' 44 \ . 4 1 1 of war has nearly ceased, and we are assured : 144vi ti e: l' l , l l ' er of troops forming the cordon sanitaire 4 Th :.,-" Silesia will he immediately reduced. I.' a fe; e l : 4 ° 4 1 Lisbon that a sort of sickness prevails ht'l4llc, 0 - ' Wbich carries off the sick in ftve t d a b y as . been ' 0 4 4 41 1 ;J.' j.' The following docu os.. ' e Alinister of Justice to the General of k he k• t ,'l4t o i' t; t ,Nh ill t g ,' "r master, orders and recomcnds as to_th i e , 'li t ,4"vity N__," 'l4loy the strictest surveillance, execution of ' i t ,4e '44-' erlergY, in the adoption of the t krttttittili:ttl4tortilegtihecatt to in r t e er p e r s im t a t n h d e security of the public, 1 . ,, 4 tth oe the e i ourg good s tl p l i e rit i which criminal_ sia, i •,er,iiwicked,but support the b Y end Y Mongst the inhabitants. You must. pea.% It 44h oes e4 , v6 ur to discover and to bring to punishment the 4 lttott,°. alormin r e orts " lil t 4 4, " that there g ha l : , be . en two meetings . of Peer d s It : 4 4l l4' st - t a L t the r esidence e of the Duke de Choiseul, an ' fi ' ti - '' ,l l,l a t residence of the Duke de Crillon. Those h l : l ,4l i s i 'm at the former were of opinion that the (pa , rtettll44t ri,(;:ligibility should be admitted, and at the . ‘l , eque Eligibility be rejected. The Government will ico Z e ki,,,„ tlol a hy a creation of new Peers. informa lt.ll.:4'. t etij j ' a t at!, with some correctness, rthil t ritly ne 'ro, by letters of the - . 0 0th of August. the h a ed tk Part o f ( ti t ' t laar t : r a t the morning a stock jobbing front „,vierY u nfavourable news had arrived oen . report , I :elt ~Ze tha't"''ich caused Brazil stock , to I t al i l le 2 o p to 48 50 t ; L roe iLL 'O the t he "cek at Rio Janei . ro ias l 'ke 'nt vver e t "'. t ' left all was quiet there, and the Go- P 'Y tll l4 "titi g'ining more strength ; they . were selling It' fromt ' li vid " ''' f coffee to remit specie to this country to () li t i ds, therefore upon the whole, the news is 111,1r11,, t,,,ing unfavourable'. b ' t. l4' 4l4 g 4 are not so good as in the early part of . the - ' l. k t i' t 14 :11 1'" th ey erere 821 for the Account, since r-0n,,, „ are receded to 82i i, at present they are 82i i, , 14' )Q2l' ‘4ill'in44N-tetekitilitini:, abreutan x iou al,' Waiting for further accounts i , n e ,-. e ter rni , the rgeneral idea is, that the Congress , lneh r - o , ei ,._ ~„ 0 t he treaty. . . • e th e ari d tit6.°! :market the chief business doing is in the , t's latt e 'tzllian Funds, the former have improved, 1 ant 4 t , r declined ; the price of Brazil Stock is at 1 13, \V, .0-, t arr e 4 h re just i — tl i t F- PAS T TWO O' CL 0 CK, "' t . kit i ta °Nned that a letter has been received by °f th e the citY, by the Ostend boat. On t e I I th at theetter is written " 'We have just received the 41 4 '4 1( log of Rolland has accepted of the treaty." • 'i, leclue tlee cf th l e above, Consols have improved to -tstA l ti de 't . g2i i. s o -,,0, , ht l b , •-______'••••.................... . P Y ° : l' ,t ll : io t ll d t , lf6 ,, etli k' t olfSbioli". S.—lt—a—ppears to us a question I t, . 00 ,5 , , rd Pt *in ution, whether, twelvemonths hence, the Mats ik, that° se le ePetrnitted to take their seats in the House of ,/,a. ( I. L ,. a gialators! The unanimous wish of the people roo t i D •mAr..ley 41 ,_ , 0 0 0 Kernt.. shy i.rouid be disfranchised, and placed side by B 4 C o , erti ier. u 'e A With the rotten boroughs.—MorAiny 35 gIf C A ch 0 4 per - a n " • ° )4,, iiotlis > a lan informs us that a number ri:ge3 "'II . :4i titiet:ettilotiet.hde Deighliourhood of Ash, having refused to .ia P. 6-'4l'll / eiLlvete l'aintn °ried before a Magistrate, and very to a thfferent line of conduct. Compulsion V' 00 Y ninted at.--Zent Herald. A., lost or I silepd Sber l6l e cboi ce Je R i g ° f Allier' as Larj co pfolif I declare Kitt 14 )(T 1 ,.'i k 04 hear):" Autle a e ..-- j OU an f re tbfeeirt , a d b ee ; spa t . 1, wt , '. c 'first 11'' reo eye Ile °4l re 1 ° ile lol l ' ee e l ; 511: 1 ° 1 '1! e'O nL jO Id at r ice top r •••• P 1) 1; 11 6 8 I j ► l ki ~. -• e i I . 1 o J THREE O'CLOCK OLD DAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Mary Wiseman was indicted for stealing a snuffbox and other articles, the property of Mr. Branch, her master. The prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutor, who resided in Pleasant-row, Pentonrille. In conse quence of several articles being missed. the prisoner was dismissed from her situation, and after that 'Mrs. Branch examined the house, anti missed a great many other arti cles, amongst which which were a book, a shirt pin, a tortoiseshell snuff-box, &e. The prisoner went to reside with her mother, who shortly afterwards was distrained upon for rent, and the broker found many of the articles in the prisoner's box. Mrs. Branch and another person gave the prisoner a most excellent character up to the period of the robbery ; and a former mistress expressed her readiness to take her into her service again, and to watch her conduct very narrowly. The Jury found her Guilty, and strongly recommended her to mercy. The Learned Judge after advising the prisoner (who was but fifteen years of age), to be more circumspect in her conduct in future, ordered her to be delivered over to her friends. Thomas Applebee, a boy only 12 years of age, was indicted fur feloniously stabbing with intent to murder John Caiman on the 27th of August. Another count charged the offence as being committed with intent to disable or to do some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor, a boy about the same age as the pri soner, deposed that he lived at No. 18, George-street, Grosvenor-square, and got a living by selling baked pota toes in the street ; Le slept in the bakehouse. On Tues day morning, Sept. 27, when he got up he missed four pence-halfpenny from his pocket. The prisoner was in the habit of coining to the bakehouse to bake his potatoes ; he also sold baked potatoes in the street. A boy named William Hewitt gave him some information about the money he had missed. On the following day he saw the prisoner in High-street, when the prisoner was going to beat Hewitt for telling of him. He, Calman, accused the prisoner of stealing his money, and the prisoner called him very bad names. The prisoner struck Hewitt, upon which the prosecutor struck the prisoner, and the prisoner struck him ; the prosecutor returned the blow, and then the prisoner stabbed him in the side with a knife. Lord TENTERDEN here stopped the case by stating, that from the evidence, if death had ensued, it would only have been manslaughter, and as the laN upon which this indictment was framed presumed it to be murder in the event of death occurring, the prisoner mustbe acquitted. The Jury accordingly acquitted the prisoner. His Lordship stated that the prisoner would still be in dicted :or the misdemeanour. Isaac Isaacs was indicted for stealing on the 19th of September, two Amsterdam bank-notes for 600 guilders, the property of Michael Hart. The prosecutor (who was examined through the me dium of an interpreter) stated that he belonged to Am sterdam, and came from thence nine or ten weeks ago, and took lodgings in Cox's-square. Ile knew the prisoner, to whose sister he was paying his addresses. O❑ the morning of the 19th Sept. be met the prisoner and accompanied him to a public house in Whitechapel where they had two qoarterns of gin ; afterwards, by the prisoner's requ-st, he accompanied him home to the prisoner's lodgings in a street leading out of Whitecbapel ; on the road the pri soner talked of the two Dutch notes which the prosecutor had about him, one fur 300 guilders, and the other for 200 guilders, and blamed him for nut getting them ex. ci4anged for English money. When they g , t into the prisoner's room, in which were the prisoner's wife and sister, (the prosecutor's sweetheart) and a person named Cohen and his wife, the prisoner asked to look at the notes, and upon the prosecutor taking them out of his pocket the prisoner snatched them from him, and struck him a blow and ran down stairs. At two o'clock the prisoner was brought home by two men in a state of drunkenness, and insensible. lie was laid on the bed, and when he had par- tidily recovered the prosecutior asked him for his money, and the prisoner stated that he knew nothing of it, for he had been robbed of it; the prosecutor then went to a police station, and getting a policeman gave the prisoner into custody. The prosecutor had never since seen or heard of his money ; the notes were equal to 41/. 13s. 4'. at the rate of 20d. English per guilder. The prosecutor was cross-examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS, but nothing material was elicited. Hart Cohen stated that he was in the prisoner's room, and saw the prisoner snatch the notes from the prose— cutor, and give him a blow as he ran down staires. In cross-examination the witness stated, that the rea son why he did not run after the prisoner and call our " stop thief" was, that as the prosecutor was going to be the prisoner's brother.in-law, there would be no harm done. The blow that the prosecutor received was not in his opinion of any consequence. A police officer named Walsh, who took the prisoner into custody, stated that he searched him, and found only a shilling, a sixpence, and a few halfpence upon him ; the prisoner had evidently been drinking. Mary Isaacs, a child about ten years of age, was called, and stated that she was a servant to the prisoner, and was in the room when she saw the prosecutor give the pri soner the notes. She swore that the prosecutor then sat dow❑ and wrote on paper how much English money the guilders came to. The prisoner then went down stairs. The prisoner's sister was not in the room at the time. The prisoner was afterwards brought home drunk, and the prosecutor assisted him up stairs. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. The prosecutor was recalled, and stated that he did not see the girl, Mary Imo, in the room when the prisouer took the notes. When he went into the room the second time he saw her. Hart Cohen was also recalled, and stated that be did not believe Mary Isaacs was in the room. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. NEW COURT. John Middleton was indicted for stealing a carding ma chine and other articles belonging to it, the property of Joseph Millingea his master, and Marco Stultz was put to the bar, charged with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. The case was stated to the Jury by Mr. PHILLIPS, with whom were Mr. CLARKSOI4, and Mr. BonKIN. The prosecutor deposed that be had a wadding manu factory in Spitalfields, of which the prisoner Middleton had been a manager for three years. In July last he missed the machine in question, and when he spoke to the prisoner about it, he told him that he had sold it to a man named Snape for 3/. 10s., but as he had not got paid for it, he had not yet entered it in the books. In the meantime, the prosecutor got further information on the subject, and on the Ist of August went to the pri soner Stultz's house in Spicer-street, Spitalfields, where he saw his machine in full work. He then took both pri soners into custody. Stultz told him that ke had given Snape 10/. fur the machine. Cross-examined by Mr. Anonpuus—ls a diamond mer chant as well as a wadding merchant; never said to any one that Middleton was a partner : on his oath he never said so to any one. Had been in three places in the three years; bad to leave because his machinery had taken fire. --(This witness and Mr. Adolphus quarrelled several times so that the Court bad to interfere.) _ Jeremiah Leonard proved that he, Snape, and others, removed the machine by orders front Middleton. After wards saw and recognized it at tvork at Stultz's. Burrel was clerk tc Mr. Millingeu. When Mid dleton sold the machine he ought to have told him of it, in order to get it entered in the books; he did not do so till the day after Mr. islillingen spoke about the machine being away. William Snape—ln May last Middleton gave him the machine to repair, for which he was to give him ss. In a few days after he called, and told MC; he should book it to me as if I had bought it for 3/. 10s. ; when it was finished I was ordered to take it to Stultz's house, which I did. Remembered the day on which the prisoners were taken into custody. Saw Stoltz on that day, but could nut recollect whether be said any thing about the machine. The witnetil, was here much pressed on this question, and after being threatened with being sent into Newgate, he said that he remembered Stultz said " Be sure I gave y o❑ 101. for the machine." The CO3IMON SEHJEANT here interfered and put it to the Jury whether they wished the case to go any further, Mr. PitiLLirs said that after so strong an opinion from the bench against him, lie would offer no more evidence ; but his Lordship hail the depositions taken before the Ma gistrate, and would see what sort of witness this was. The JUDGE then directed an acquittal, and told Snape that he left the Court completely disgraced. ------- , CONJUGAL AFFECTION. --A worthy citizen residing near Sheffield, after straying one morning two miles from home, in consequence of the fineness of the weather was struck on the sudden at the thought of the awful distance between him and his cara sposa. He was fast returning home when he was overtaken by a friend in a gig, who asked him if he would ride. " No, I thank you, (said Mr. A.) but you will do me a great kindness if you will just step over to Mrs. A. and tell her that you have seen me, and that I am quite well." Tie affectionate message was, it is almost needless to add, delivered with all due punctuality, and in a few minutes after friend A. returned home satisfied with his pedestrian achievement. LITERATURE. EDINBURGH .RE iV.—No. CVII. EDINBUB.GII, 1831. If this number possessed no other article than the Review of " Croker's Edition of Boswell's John son," it would still be entitled to very considerable praise. In this merciless but just critique we recog nize the brilliant pen of Macauley, as much by the energy and eloquence of its style, as by the bold assumptions in which it abounds. Mr. Croker will, doubtless, be of opinion that it is but a very indif ferent sample of critical justice or perspicacity, for it makes sad work of his pretensions as a literary character. It floors him with a fact ; demolishes him with a date. Nay, it not only punishes; it ab solutely annihilates him. Stern, plain-spoken, in controvertible facts are the implements of destruc tion which Mr. Macauley wields with such unrelent ing energy. He proves that Mr. Croker is an utterly incompetent editor; that he is negligent—ignorant —indiscreet—presurriptuous,—guilty of repeated anachronisms and mis-statements,—and so wholly un acquainted with classical literature as to rush head long into blunders, for which a fourth-form boy at Eton or Reading, would he visited by no stinted allowance of birch. We have always considered Mr. Croker an over-rated man ; we have said so a hundred times in The San, and are proud to find that Mr. Macauley coincides with us in opinion, and has reduced him to his fitting level. We have never, indeed, denied Mr. Croker's possession of a certain smartness and flippancy of manner, which by many, we know, is apt tobe mistaken for wit ; still less have we accused him of being a prosing orator or a heavy writer; all we contend for is, that he is a mere showy, superficial man of the world, with just suffi cient tact and ingenuity in literary matters to enable him to keep his head above water. To ability of a higher order he has no mere pretensions than to super-eminent bashfulness. He is an ingenious writer, nothing more ; the first of the third -rates; a " Triton among minnows; a wit among Lords, and a Lord among wits." He is a small poet—a small humourist (his very puns being the feeblest of the feeble)—a small critic—a small, a very small, orator. And yet this is the man who presumes to grapple with the genius of Johnson ! Assuredly, the fox who requested an introduction to the lion, never made a grosser blunder than this. But the Reviewer has done Mr. Croker justice, while he has canvassed the pretensions of Johnson, with much eloquence, certainly, tact, and sagacity, though in rather too depreciating a spirit. The Shakspearian criticisms of the great lexicographer lie considers " as wretched as if they had been written by Rymer himself." Now we must beg to enter our protest against this very sweeping judg ment. The wit, fancy, fire, arid versatility of Shakspeare, Johnson has perhaps under-rated; but to his shrewdness, his justness of observation, his intimate acquaintance with the most recondite mys teries of the human heart, he has done ample justice. Shakspeare, the poet, is misinterpreted; but Shak speare, the man of the world, receives the fairest treatment at the hands of Johnson. And after all, it is his consummate knowledge of life that still keeps the name of Shakspeare green among us. He lives in his lago, his Othello, his Falstaff, his Macbeth, his brief but matchless sketch of Master Barnardine, his Hamlet, his Benedict, and, above all, in that character of characters, Mercutio. As a poet he is surpassed by Spencer, and often equalled by Beaumont and Fletcher ; but as a painter of the passions, as an artist whose colouring, though at times extravagant, has always the freshness of truth and reality about it, he is, and we suspect will long continue to be, unrivalled. All this Johnson understood, and was fully able to appreciate, and if he fails in his criticisms on Shakspeare, it is chiefly in a point to which Hazlitt alone has done justice ; we mean in the great dramatist's various and unequalled delineations of female character. But Johnson was no relined or imaginative critic; his tastes were rough and masculine, and peculiarly worldly. Still, though blind to the poetic and fairy like beauties of the7'empest or thelllidsurnmer Night's Dream ; though unable to appreciate the character of an Ariel ; to sympathise with the archness of a Rosalind; to relish the sweet pastoral touches which lend such exquisite magic to the Cymbeline and the Winter's Tale, or even to walk through the forest of Amiens in the fitting spirit of poetic sadness ;—let it never be forgotten that Johnson has said finer things of Shakspeare than any man before or since his time. One remark alone will live as long as the language ; " The stream of thee which is continually washing the more dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." On Johnson's style Mr. Macauley is nearly equally severe. Assuredly it is not without its faults : it is vicious—formal—stiff—at times pedantic, and al ways monotonous; still it bears marks of a giant's strength, and is put forth with a giant's power. It is besides full of character, just what might have been expected from a man of Johnson's rude physi cal energy. His style rolls, as lie himself rolled in walking; is full of might and power in every sen tence. In his oriental tales it is wonderfully effec tive. ":11.asselas," or that fine moral story" Seged," would have been perfectly intolerable, if told by any other writer in any other language. It is remarkable, however, that in his later works, much of Johnson's pompous grandiloquence disappears; he descends from his stilts, becomes more easy, more familiar ; nor do we know a finer or purer specimen of ster ling writing in this or any language, than the pamphlet on the " Falkland Islands." Johnson's pomp is misplaced only when he draws from the life and manners of his day. Here he is certainly at fault. No matter whether he hits off a flirt, or a pastorally inclined Cockney; whether he repeats the conversation of an actor—a philosopher—or a country squire ; still there is the same manner—the same dialect—the same measured cadence for all. Clarinda, the flirt, speaks like Imlac the sage ; Sus pirius is as sublime as Seged. In short, " Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other." This is a fault certainly, but it is one not peculiar to Johnson alone. It is equally characteristic of Junius and Robertson, and Gibbon, and that shal low, prosing old woman, Dr. Blair. We have dwelt on this subject at more than ordinary length, because we cannot but perceive that the popular current is just now setting in strongly against the great lexicographer. We regret to perceive this unworthy spirit of depreciation. It is ungenerous, and what is more, cannot be justly maintained. With all his faults, with all his occasional verbose_ ness, • and pompous way of tricking out a common-place truism, so as almost to make it ap pear original, still the fine old fellow of Bolt court remains Lord of the ascendant in literature. Who will compete with, who will even presume to come near him, in his bold, manly turn of thought; in his shrewd, critical sagacity; in his oracular opi nions on men and books; in his solemn pathos; his caustic wit; his unerring, worldly wisdom. The new school of criticism, with its affectation of supe rior feeling and refinement, is, we know, driving the old fast out of the field; nevertheless, we will not give up one Johnson for as many sentimental cri tics as there are bigots on the Episcopal Bench. " Greek Philosophy of Taste," displays much re search, but comes to no conclusion. It is full how ever of ingenious theories, and may be perused with advantage. " Southey's Uneducated Poets" is a criticism worth nothing, on a book worth just as much. " Jones on the Theory of Rent" is ela borate and desperately heavy. It is really most formidable reading, persuasive to sleep, and redo lent, in every page, of laudanum. It is in fact, a treatise on the hacknied, humbug subject of Poli tical Economy, the whole of whose principles, to adopt the language of Squii.e Crotchet, need no lengthened exposition, as they may be comprised in a nut-shell, viz. " to take as much as one can get, and to pay no more than one can help." The ana lysis of the " Pretensions of the Evangelical Class" is conceived and executed in a most felicitous spirit. The writer does not mince matters ; he speaks out shrewdly and fearlessly, though we are not with out our misgivings that his sincerity may be con sidered offensive, and that the " children of light" may feel a disposition to look upon him as one of the " children of darkness." But saints are not immaculate either in their judgment or their con duct, whatever they may think to the contrary. There are more Dr. Cantwells in the world than is usually supposed. In politics they are,wonder fully prolific. What can be truer to life than these remarks ? " 'We have thus tracked the serious class in their quest after riches, till we find them quietly and fearlessly reposing amidst the many luxuries wire!' wealth enables them to procure. The natural effect of these on ordinary minds is to stimulate them with ambition, to excite a desire for fame, and power, and consequence among men, and thus to multiply the dangerous influences of wealth upo❑ the heart. Such effects are by no means confined to the ' worldly' class. Rank and importance are discarded by none of the serious, as unfitting the appendages of a spiri tual life. Nay, they are sometimes sought after with an avidity that, to vulgar apprehension, seems strangely at variance with the lofty religious pretensions of such men. He who shuns the theatre as a sink of corruption, may be found in the atmosphere of an electioneering contest, can vassing for votes, courting the favour of the dissolute and profane, and engaging in all the complicated scenes of in trigue and deception, by which the politics of the world are conducted. Do we allege that the principles of such men are corrupted by this course ? No. But this is not the question. It is simply whether the objects of their pur suit are of a cast calculated to corrupt them ? This is the purport of our present enquiry, and it will not answer to tell us that they may come forth pure from the trial. We are showing from unquestionable fact, that a el 1138 of per sons eminent for their reprobation of certain worldly f jDyments, on account of their sinful tendency, do actually disregard such tendencies in numerous instances; that they overlook the obvious applications even of their own inter pretation of Scripture, when it suits their purpose to do so ; that while they call on others to separate from the world, their only intelligible meaning is, that they should unite with theist ; and that, although with a rigorous ad herence to the letter of the gospel, they proclaim t the friendship of the world to he enmity with God,' they prac tically court the very objects to which that friendship alone can conduct them. The conclusion we arrive at, then, fit= these facts, is plain anti irresistible. Considering the nature and tendency of the things sought after, and enjoyed by these evangelical Christians, they are not one whit snore scrupulous than other persons in using the world so as not to abuse it.'" Of the remaining articles—and they are nume rous—we have merely left ourselves space to say that they will richly repay an attentive perusal, the review of " Moore's Life of Lord Edward Fitz gerald" in particular, which is, in every sense of the word, a superior article. TilE STANDARD NOVELS. This very popular series of novels and romances is proceeding with increased success, as each monthly volume issues from the press. We have long since recorded our high opinion of the excellence of the design of the undertaking, and the volumes already published reflect gnat credit on the judgment and discernment of Messrs. Colburn and Bentley. In this valuable work the public will now possess, in a cheap form, the most esteemed novels and ro mances of modern times. _ Already three of Cooper's most popular fictions, and two by the veteran Godwin, acknowledged to be one of the most powerful and original writers of the day, have been included in this series. " Thad deus of Warsaw," by Miss Jane Porter, and " The Scottish Chiefs," from the same fascinating pen, occupy the three remaining volumes now before the public. The present edition of the above popular fictions possesses, moreover, the great advantage of having been revised by their respective authors, who have not only corrected many inaccuracies of the former editions, but have also appended new introductions, explaining the origin of the stories, as well as nu merous notes, elucidating the events recorded in the text—thus uniting solid information with sterling amusement. In addition to this, the volumes are illustrated by plates, similar to th ose i n t h e " Wa verley Novels, to which this work will be found a worthy companion. Of the seventh and eighth volumes, containing " The Scottish Chiefs," which many temporary matters have till now prevented us from noticing, we shall say a few words :—On its first appearance this production was immediately translated into most of the continental languages, and the fair au thoress received from Vienna, Berlin, Wirtem berg, Petersburgh, Moscow, and even India, the most gratifying testimonies from persons of rank and of the first literary talent, of the high admiration which her talents elicited. It is a fact not gene rally known that this work was suppressed in Paris by the orders of Napoleon, as containing sentiments which he conceived dangerous to his power. — On his abdication, however, the interdicted tran slation of " The Scottish Chiefs" appeared. The present story, as most of our readers are aware, commemorates the career of the hero Wallace —a name of which Scotland has just reason to be proud. "To paint," says Miss Porter, " the por trait of one of the greatest heroes that ever adorned the page of history, may be a bold, though I hope not, a vain design —to place high chivalric loyalty and the spirit of patriotic freedom on just principles, whether in the breast of prince or peasant, the wri ter of this tale has studied the page of many a his too inspire r y—hasst t u li d e i errdlot:itelessoniri susceptibleperiod many a o f noble man's e a e r x t . i . T youth—with t h e p r i nc ipl es w h ic h are to is future staff—and their e ff ec t s ' hi s exceed is,itgebriec great ehish reward,' is the motive of my pen." We again repeat, that we consider this to be un questionably one of the most felicitously conceived designs of the day. It may, moreover, lay claim to still higher merit, and one which the proprietors may reflect upon with delight, namely, that while it will afford to all classes an intellectual banquet of the highest order, it cannot offend the taste of the most fastidious, for it does not, and we are assured, will not, contain any work which a father may not safely present to his family. Admiral Sir ByAm MARTIN has vacated the situation of Comptroller of the Navy, not, we believe, for absenting himself from the House of Commons on Lord EntliscToN's motion, but in consequence of a new arrange- Inn, by which th e w h ole b us i ness of the N avy O ffi ce i s toebettransacted in future by the Board of Admiralty. The Hon. Admiral DUNDA S is, for the present, to execute the duties of Co m ptroller-General, retaining his seat as a Lord of the Admiralty; and Admirals Sir PULTNEY MAL COMB, Sir FREDERICK MAITLAND, and WARREN, form a coinmission to deride what arrangements shall be made for the future discharge of the other duties of that depart ment. Sir BYAM MARTIN retires with a pension of 8301. in addition to his half-pay of 21. 2e. per diem, making 1,596/. 10s, per annum. —Hampshire Telegraph. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES, AS THEY STAND IN THE ORDER ROOK OF THE HOUSE 01' COMMONS, FOK THE NEXT SESSION. Sir JAMES WILLIAMS—To tnove for repeal or Malt Duties. Mr. WILKS—BiII to prevent the continuance of any future Parliament for a longer term than three years. Mr. RomNsow—Select Committee on the state of the Island of Newfoundland. Mr. ROBINSON—Motion on the Commercial Policy of the Country. Mr. HUGHES HUGHES—BiII for the regulating of Build ings and Party Walls, and for preventing mischiefs by Fire, and injuries to the lives and property of his M a _ jesWit subj.cts, from the injudicious construction of Buildings. Mr. BURGE-Motion respection the condition of the Fo- rein Slave Trade. Mr. 11031 E—Bill to repeal all Acts which permit (Plu ralities of Livings, or) one Clergy man to hold more than one Cure of Souls, unless where no person properly qua lified can be found to perfo!m the duties. Colonel TeEßENs—Bill to repeal all such Taxes as are paid out of the wages of labour and the profits of trade, and to substitute, in their stead, a modified Property Tax. Sr WILLIAM RAE—Bill to augment the duties of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. Mr. EwAwr—Bill for abolishing the punishment of Death, and establishing a milder punishment, in cases of Sheep-stealing, Cattle-stealing, and Stealing in Dwelling-houses, no person being put in fear therein. Mr. JAMES GORDON-Motion on Blasphemous and &di- tious Libels. Colonel EVANS—To move an Address for such informa tion (as early as pending Negociations may admit) as his Majesty and his Allies shall have obtained from the ... accredited Agents of Russia on the one hand, and of the Government of Poland on the other, concerning the War between these States ; alsa in reference to the me diation solicited by the Poles at the hands of his Majesty; and concerning the Proposition made by the French to be British Government to accede to measures of medi ation, in conjunction, for putting an end to this con test, in virtue of being parties to the Congress which guaranteed the National and Constitutional Rights of Poland. _ Mr. HENRY GRATTAN—To move that the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Dublin Election Committee be laid before the House, and printed. Sir JOHN NEwroier—The state of the First Fruit Fund of Ireland, with a view of rendering it efficaciously available for the maintenance and support of Public Worship, and for providing for the valuable purposes to which Queen Anne's Bounty allotted it. Mr. LAMBERT—SeIect Committee to inquire into the con dition and state of the Irish Yeomanry Corps, with view to ascertain whether it be advisable, under existing circumstances, to continue the same, or any part thereof. Mr. JAMES GORDON—To submit a Motion on the sub ject of Political Unions. Mr. Huyr—Bili to Repeal the Assessed Taxes, and the Duty upon Malt, and to sub,titute in its stead a modi- fled Property Tax. Mr. HENRY GRATTAN—SeIect Committee on the Peti tion of certain Protestants of Ireland (presented 31st August), relating to the Gt ants to Maynooth College. Mr. Wrucs—Address for an Account of all offices, places. situation., or employments in the Army, Navy, or Civit departments of the State, with all pensions, retired al lowauces, reversionary grants, and ecclesiastical prefer. meats, held by each of the Peers of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland 'aving a seat in Par liament, and by his family and relations ; specifying the amount of the pay, salaries, fees, and other emolument.. of each of their offices, places, situation, and employ meats, and of such pensions, retired allowances, rever sionary g , ants, and ecclesiastical preferments respectively. Mr. Wiz-Ks—Bill to amend the Act 10 Geo. 4, c. 56, tr. consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. Colonel PERCEVAL—Motion for Copies of the Correspon dence between Hatchell, Esq., and the Roman Ca tholic Priests in Ireland, in reference to the Census now taking in that Country under the direction. , of Govern ment. M;.DOMINICK BROWNE—BiII to give facility to the peace able succession of the Clergy and Dissenting Congrt- gations in Ireland to places of Worship and MenFai Tenements. Colonel SIBTIIORPE-Bill founded on the Report of the Select Committee on Steam Navigation. Mr. JAIIRS GORDON-Motion on the condition of the Protest 'tits of Inland. Mr. RUTIIVEN-Bill for the Amendment of the Law re- Idting to Roman Catholic llirriagea in helm). Mr. RUTHVEN-Bill for the mere effectual registration of all Marriage,, Baptigms, and Buriale, in Ireland. Mr. HUNT-Bill for the importation of Foreign Wheat and Wheat Flour into all the ports of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, free from the pay- ment of any Duty, and free from all restrictions whatever. Mr. SADLER—BiII for the necessary relief of the Poor of Ireland.—Bill for bettering the condition of the manu facturing Poor.—Bill for regulating the labour of Chil- dren in Factories. Mr. MORE O'FicattALL—Select Committee to inquire into the state of Turnpike Trusts in Ireland, and the state of the Roads under each Trust. Mr. JOHN CAMPBELL—BiII to establish a General Re gister of Deeds and other documents affecting Real Pro perty in England and Wales.—Bill for the amendment of the Law relating to Inheritance.—Bill to amend the Law relating to Dower.—Bill to atrend the Law re lating to the Curtesy of England.—Bill to abolish Fines and Recoveries, and to substitute other assurances in lieu thereof.—Bill to amend the Law relating to Pre scription, and the limitation of Actions. Mr. SHElL—Resolutions relating to the Established Church in Ireland. Mr. CALLAGHAN—BiII to repeal so much of the Act im posing a Duty on Soap manufactured as allows a Draw back on the export from Great Britain to Ireland of 2Ss. the hundred weight. Mr. Wass—Select Committee to consider the Laws and State of the Baptismal and other Parochial Registries in England and Wales. Mr. WlLKs—lnquiry relating to the Collection of the Pilgrim Tax and the encouragement of cruel Idolatries in British India ; and as to the forfeiture of their rights to Property by 'Endo() and Mahomedan Converts to the Christian Faith. Mr. WILES—BiII to exempt all places exclusively appro priated to Religious Worship from assessment to the Rates for the Relief of the Poor. SEAHAM HARBOUR. Total number of ships since the opening, on the 25th July, 1831 209 Total number of registered tons Total number of men navigating the same 1,310 Completed to the close of Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1831. J. W. BEAUMONT. SIR,—I shall be much obliged to you if you will insert in your widely circulated Journal, the great success of Seaham Harbour, as above stated, since its opening. I remain, &c., your obedient servant, VANE LONDONDERRY. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord and Lady Rendlesham at4 — family, at Long's Hotel, Bond-street, from Paris; R. Gurney, Esq., at ditto, from Tre vinnon House ; C. Montgomery, Esq., at ditto, from Edinburgh; Rev. C. Vivan, at ditto, from Wellingborough; the Marquis of Worcester, in Park place, from Newmarket; Captain Cheslvn, at Symmond's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Dalby Hall, Eei cestershire ; Mr. and Mrs. Sitwell, in Brook-street, from Chet. tenham ; Captain Duncan, in Regent-street, from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Coulson in Harley-street, from their seat in Norfolk. DEPARTURES. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, for their seat Putney Heath ; the Marquis of Bath, from Warren's Hotel, Regent. street, for his seat, Longleat, Somersetshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Law. ton, from ditto, for Leamington, Warwickshire; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth, from St. James's-square, for Wool. liampton, Berks, on their way to their seat, Tregothan, near Truro, Cornwall; the Earl and Countess Dunmore, from the Rutland Hotel, Bury-street, St. James's, for 'their seat in Scot land ; Lord and Lady Lilford, for their seat, Lilford Hall, Northamptonshire ; Lord and Lady Suffield, for their seat, Gunton Hall, Norfolk; R. Harrington, Esq. for Oxford; W. Bowles, Esq., for his seat in tierks ; Cot Scott, for Blandon Hall, Kent ; H. Seymour, Esq., for Wourn Abbey; Lord F. Fitz elarence, for Etell House, Northumberland ; the Earl and Countess Harrowby, from Grosvenor-square, for their seat, Sandon Hall, Staftbrdshire. It is generally supposed that the Mastership of the Rolls will be conferred on Sergeant O'LonnLEN.— Dublin Morning Register. Loss OF THE LADY SHERBROOKE.—A o p f a r t a b ga e r A p n h ,e h r i a c v a i n n g p b a e p e e n r s copied stating into this that the Journal Lady from n Sherbrooke lie r r o br 0 0 0 h e e had b een wilfully lost, and that the Captain had been tried and sentenced to death, we think it right to insert the fol lowing from the New York Gazette of the 21st ult. entirely contradicting that statement :—" There is a story going the round of the newspapers, said to be copied from the Chambersburg (P. A.) Republican, stating that Captain HENRY GAMBLES, of the Briti‘la ship Lady Sher brooke, shipwrecked near Cape Ray, by which 273 lives were lost, had been tried at Halifax for intentionally cast ing away his vessel. The whole is evidently a contemp tible fabrication, for which the author deserves the pillory.: srilllT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALSe. • It is with the greatest satisfaction that we now ;,„; state, on the best authority, that there is no founda tion for the belief in the postponement of the meet- .4* ing of Parliament to January. It will meet, at the very latest, on the lst of December, and the Bill 'lt will then be brought in. If the Ministers were to make any change, it would be to make it more de mocratical. But they will bring in the Bill.- 3forning Chronicle. The Council of the Birmingham Political Union have issued a second address to their fellow-coun trymen in the United Kingdom, enjoining them to stand by Lord Grey, to avoid discord and disunion, to remain patient, peaceful, firm, and united, and recommending the formation of Political Unions instantly in every town, in every district, and in every village, where they do not already exist.— " The influence of the oligarchy, aided by a corrupt ,: tt and degenerate Bench of Bishops (say the Council), . has obtained a momentary triumph in the House of Lords. By the power of the King and the Law,,, we will humble the oligarchy in the dust." We are ...?, glad to learn that Unions are spreading rapidly. :.5.1 One has been formed in Clerkenwell, under the l!Ils title of " The Clerkenwell Loyal and Patriotic Po- vas lit ical Union." They profess to have formed them- - ~ ` Ad ',elves on the principles of the Birmingham Union: I "'"' { A meeting of this Union takes place at the Jeru salem Tavern, St. John's-gate, St. John's-square, bq on Wednesday next, at seven o'clock in the even ing. We have before us a printed report of a Com mittee of the Delegates of Metropolitan Parishes, (in the subject of the formation of a National Poli- ("' tical Union, the objects of which are thus stated : "1. To obtain a full, free, and effectual representation dT of the people in the Commons' House of Parliament. '4l object. je "2. To unite all well-wishers to their country, from "4'? the richest to the poorest, in the pursuit of such an ims portant tiff: L a o l i r d its channelmorai weightfor collecting public broug h t to opinion , be a " in o " r 3 de . r tha t r or upon the Legislature. " 4. To preserve peace and order in the country, and to guard against any convulsion, which the enemies of the people may endeavour to bring shout. " 5. To watch over and promote the interests, and to better the condition of the industrious and work'ng classes. "6. To give opportunities, by frequent public discus sions, for eliciting the best means by which the above objects may be carried into execution." In the rules and regulations it is laid down that " The Council shall watch closely the proceedings of the Legis'ature—shall call general meetings when necessary, present Addresses and Petitions to the Crown when the interests of the people are at stake, and shall generally use every exertion in furthering the objects of the Union." " The importance of such a Union (says the Com mittee) at the present moment, has been impressed on your Committee by every fact that has come within its notice—by the casualties to which the promised rights of the people are now more than ever exposed—by the dis asters which may arise from the distress produced by stagnation of trade, and, above all, by the convulsion which !nay on a sudden be produced in the metropolis and in the country; but your Committee has conceived that the gentlemen of this meeting will be better enabled, from their local sources of information, to decide how far the !hove considerations are likely to induce the requisite num uers to come forward and join us. Woe C o mmittee, however, cannot conclude this part of its Report, without 'noting the emphatic words of the Council of the Bir mingham Union—' Let no one think that Lis pets:lai r•o -operation is not important; let every one act as though the safety of his country depended upon his single id.' " We trust no time will be lost in tic log on these recommendat ions.—llforning In the Gardener's Maga...line for Oe.ober, Mr. Loudon, in an account of a gardening tour, speak ing of the condition of the animal matt in dtlf•rent districts of the country, observes, " He appe trs to us decidedly in the lowest attire in the agricultural district between Banbury and London ; and as de videdly in the highest state in Birmingham, and the other manufacturing towns in its vicmity." One of the great arguments for an Established Church is the instruction of the people. Our readers tray suppose from this, that where there are most Clergy, -he people are the best instructed. It is just •he reverse. It will be 4),a: ft that the ignorance and degradation of the labouring classes throughout England, are uniformly greatest where there are most Clergy, and that the people are most intelligent and .ndependent where there are the fewest Cierpy. Norfolk and Suffolk, for instance, are the parson counties par excellence; Norfolk has 731 parishes, and Suffolk MO. We have been assured by gentle men intimately acquainted with the peasantry of thew two counties, that as far as instruction goes, they are almost as ignorant as Indian savages. But the rule will hold throughout. Essex has 406 parishes, Buckingham 202, Berkshire 151, Oxford 217. Let us look at the North of England, in which by universal admission the people are best instructed and intelligent, and, generally speaking, the most moral and religious. Cumberland has 104. parishes, Durham 75, Northumberland 88, Westmoreland 32, Lancashire 70, the West Riding of Yorkshire 193, Chester, 90. It appears that Norfolk alone has a great many more parsons than all those Northern counties, containing about one-third of the popula tion of the kingdom. Each of the small counties of Buckingham and Oxford has more clergy than the whole of the counties of Lancaster, Westmoreland, and Northumberland. A Lancashire common jury is considered by barristers equal to the special juries of most counties, such is the intelligence of the people, yet there are only 70 parsons for a mil lion and a half of people. An analysis of this kind is useful in various ways. It is obvious, from the extent of parishes in the north of England, compara tively few of the people can have any intercourse with the parsons. But they supply themselves with religious teachers, who succeed in making them more religious than the people who have parish clergy in abundance. This shows that in England as well as America there is no danger of a want of religion through want of an establishment. The degra dation of the people, on the other hand,where there are many clergy, would seem to prove that the Church of England does the people's business very ill. We say the people's business, because the Church's bu siness and the people's are very distinct. The bu siness of the Church is to obtain the largest pos sible share of the property of the people for the least possible toil ; the business of the people is to ob tain the most efficient, moral, and religious instruc tion. The Church of England has generally been accused of hostility to the instruction of the people. Certainly there is no Protestant Church which has so systematically neglected the lower orders. There are yet many persons who deem the diffusion of knowledge among the people a very great evil. It is natural that such people should be attached to the Church ; for it appears that the more numerous the parsons in any district the more ignorant and de graded the people, the conclusion seems inevitable, that the most effectual way to secure the dominion of ignorance is to add to the supply of the E,tablished Clergy. The recent conduct of the Bishops will provoke many inquiries of this sort. There arc many worthy individuals in the Church, but it must be owned that, as an institution, it does not work well for the people. It is high time that the Clergy were compelled to set their house in order. As the means of supplying the children of the Arise toeracy with pretexts for enjoying handsome in comes at the expence of the public, the Church is invaluable; but surely some regard ought to be paid to the people in the distribution of the ample funds of the Church. " The experience of many centuries (says Mr. Beverley in his 'Discourse on the Corruptions of the Church of Christ') of blood, rapine, extortion, and desolation, has proved that a State religion i s a d ire affliction to a nation; and if, after so long and s o painful experience, we will not profit by erecting perm a n en t'bar r i ers against this mighty evil, we deserve to be slaves, and to toil at the brick-kilns of Egypt, without straw as long as the English name shall last. Nothing can possibly be lost by the aboation of the Church Establishment, but eve'y . thing will be secular Baron-Priests, pre. gained ; piety will be gained.. bard-wirktog pa,Tors will , dancers, cock-fighters, be gained, men of zeal and diligence the Lan's work , te i rs 'dle pluralists, speculators will be gained, a primitive Church will be gained ; while fiti,ignedasetlemiayl.lodulroinvsgetsj,oc,blebcriynacgmhPe-rnde,rliayhteeusrsn,