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LITERATURE. TEE COQUETTE. 3 VoLs. LONDO N, 1834. The author of " Miserrimus "—a wild tale, which was characterized by at least as much absurdity as talent—has here ventured upon new ground. He has quitted the realms of romance for those of a more sober reality, but though the change is in one sense for the better, in another it is anything but successful. The " Coquette " has not the over-wrought, exag gerated descriptions of " Miserrimus ;" but neither has it the truth, the simpli c ity, t h e straight-forwardness of real life. It is the mean between the two. Its besetting defect is that the author views life through the spectacles of books, instead of relying on his own stores of observation, or giving us t h e resu l ts of his own practical experience. He is destitute of the faculty of discrimination. He cannot indivi dualize character, or analyze motives. All his personages, male or female, speak pretty nearly the same language, bandying repartees one with another, and throwing off' sententious aphorisms, and shrewd moral reflections, that in many in stances are somewhat whimsically misplaced. From many indications that are scattered through the tale we fancy we can perceive that the author has read Congreve with attention—that wittiest of all our dramatists, who, whenever nature stood in the way of point, never hesitated to sacrifice the former to the latter. The last volume of the " Coquette" is the best, because there a deeper vein of feeling is struck out, and the incidents grow one out of the other, with a more sequent Propriety than in the earlier portions of the tale, where, especially in the first half of the first volume, they are huddled together, without the slightest regard to consistency. People meet— part—and come together again, who could scarcely have done so under the circumstances, without the intervention of something bor dering on the marvellous. They are as incongruously associated, in fact, as the personages in a pantomime. Having said thus much in condemnation of the " Coquette," we are in duty bound to exhibit its bright sides. It is fertile in incidents and startling surprizes ; puts forth many shrewd, and some profound, reflec tions ; seldom or never flags, and, above all, is written in a style remarkable for its eloquence and simplicity. It displays also deep feeling in many places ; especially in the character of Julia de Varmont, which is the redeeming feature of the " Coquette," deepening as it becomes more and more developed, in a way calculated to rivet attention to it. The author is more happy ; more at home, in his f ema l e, than in his male, sketches. The following is a favourable speci men of the more tragic spirit of the tale. It i an interview between a husband, his wife, and a mistress whom he has seduced and deserted, but still loves : " Belton turned to Miss de Varmont. Her knees sup ported her elbows, and her hands covered her face. He gently raised her head; and he was shocked by the dread ful change her features displayed. " You see,' she cried, in a phrenzied tone, ' what I have become !—An object of shame to my fellows, and of hatred to my brother. Oh, Belton ! Belton ! little did I once think I was born to do the deed I have done. Guilt is behind me, and infamy and remorse before me ! Oh, my friend, to what am I reduced ! But think not I inculpate you. My crime is my own ; and I alone will pay the penalty. Hear me, 0 God !' she exclaimed, with an exalted fervour, as she cast herself upon her knees, hear me, while I swear that in humility and woe, in repentance and poverty, with no companion but my sor rows, and these hands for my servants, will I pass the remainder of the life allotted me !' " She rose, and continued with a deceptive calmness : Think not my resolution the transport of an impo tent contrition, which a word from you can efface. None can wade deeply in iniquity without gaining some expe rience. Mine is more extensive than you suppose. I have learned that the temptation that looked so bright in anti cipation perishes in possession. I have learned that none can continue to respect her who has failed to respect herself. I have learned, too, to speak that which you have only thought. Charles, how dearly I love you, my sacrifice will witness, but, by Heaven that hears, and will assist the contrite, I swear that to-morrow shall be the last day we meet in this world ! Now, let me quit you—and as a last reques', implore that you will not follow me.' " Hastily and anxiously, as though fearful of being in tercepted, she advanced to the door. At aat instant it flew open ; and in the recess, stood Ellen and her child. " She was pale and wan ; but on her hollow cheek was the hectic flush of feverish agitation, and her eye was dry and sunken, as though the streams that bad moistened it were exhausted. Never had mental anguish more rapidly devastated the loveliness of the female form ; she was but the living spectre of the woman she had been. " The mind of Miss de Varmont was previously wrought to a state capable of receiving the most violent and desperate excitations. At the sight of Ellen her whole frame was convulsed, and unable to support herself, she staggered to a seat, and covered her face with her hands. " ' Is this she,' cried Ellen, wildly, as she advanced to confront ? her, 'is this s h e who h as d epr i ve d me o f my husband Oh, serpent ! serpent !—Ungenerous, un grateful WOll3lll !-Could you offer no other return for the credulous affection and hospitality of the friend of your youth, but the eternal destruction of her sister's peace ? Had you slandered, insulted, bitterly reviled me, I could have consoled myself, and forgiven you. On a single object t I stak e d my all, and of that you have robbed me ! B think nut to escape the retributi on y ou d eserve . I see remors e increase. sihnenyo.ur aramour's eye—mark me, it will an d me that he Shun n ing alike you that have wronged him, land, and live andasdreronged, he will fly to some distant already withi n the in stlf.detestation. His wife has and their friendless sh a ft h that must lead her to her grave; some heartless gu„' di ' n P e lests orphan, left in the power of he ,Wweak, erring., sinful, may live to lament the day that born !--These are your deeds; and oh, may a tvife's and " At these word s , M he . m de cter's curse repay you!' and uttered a loud cry, EvevitraPint sprang to her feet, er:,,passion of Ellen's smote a respondent chord in b ee eellinbreast. Shaking, con vulsed, her dry eye fearfully _g ; her face blackened by verb of either death the conflict, she seemed to be or , ii , or insanity. ~ , Oh, I feel it!' she cried • . ' v i o lent) pressing her hands against her breast, ' it is a horrid cu - my veins, my heart, my soul !—lnfera"! It is in demons, surround me—they goad, they t ortn P "'i°n , , like fall in world, and crush me into atoms !--.}l:?thr"--011, " This frantic speec h, an d l oud and discord:ma.' wrung, by the agoni es o f a mind.- that remorse h:dlaug, tered, firma this onc e gif te d an d f em i n i ne creature, hada:h n at. it something su i .e rnatura ll y h orr ibl e. But though for moment, Ellen's mind immediately reverted to her oven 110ITOWS. it And you,' she cried, addressing her husband, ' cam you live happily?—Do you not feel that there is a God who punishes the perjur e d an d t h e deceitful ? Was I not enduring, loving, patient ? Have I not submitted, with. out a murmur, to endless indications of your grief for the loss of her, who to me was the most insidious and deadly foe that this earth can produce—and who----' " Oh, do not curse me again ! ' cried Miss de Var most, in a supplicating and infinitely pathetic tone. See —see, on my knees, at your feet, I pray, implore you not to repeat your malediction! Baser and more worthies, am I than the dust—then, oh, spare your vengeance !' "` Look —behold her !' cried Ellen, with frenzied mPet "thYa will you stand calmly by, and suffer her t,, insult me? Here, before your face, beneath your vet.) eyes, she ridicules, insults me—Can you not see her mockery ?Speak, Charles ' Surely we must hay changed sit uations --I must b. e the mistress, and she the wife !—Still sil ent ! Hard-hearted man, farewell ! Here. take this boy, I disclaim all right in him—let her you love instruct him in the ways of crime—Leave me, child less, hopeless, to perish in solitude and misery!' " She took one step towards the door—another—and then fell suddenly and heavily on the floor. Belton rushed to the spot, and raised her in his arms; but, she conti nued motionless. The blood gushed from her mouth; and the ghastliness and stillness of death were on her features. Franticly lie kissed her humid forehead, and convulsively clasped her to his heart. " ' 0, accursed Julia,' hecried,‘ see what you have caused!' " With a more than mortal quickness, Miss de Varmont sprang to her feet ; and her whole frame instantaneously assumed a towering strength ; her eyes flashed ; ,her nostrils dilated : and on every feature moral and physical energy was strikingly impressed. " ' Hear him, great God !' she exclaimed, in a clear, steady, and powerful voice; hear him, he curses me!— God is just !—By the voice of him fur whom I perpe trated my crime is my punishment awarded me !' _ _ " She rushed from the room. " Belton heard the last sound of her footsteps as she quitted the house. He saw her through the window flying across the open country towards the fells. He looked at his wife; and he then gazed on her. " In another moment Ellen was restored to sensibility ; but, her husband was gone." MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. Last night we dropped into this newly established ex hibition, at the Bazar, in Gray's Inn-!ane, near the King's Cross, and certainly we were never more enter tained. The exhibition consists of nnmerous groups of wax figures, all portraits, and as large as life ; and every attention appears to have been paid by the proprietors to cleanliness and dress. The first group represents the coronation of his Majesty—the portraits of the King and Queen, Lord Brougham, Grey, the Archbishop of Can terbury, and the Bishop of Norwich, are most excellent. The next represents the coronation of Napoleon, which is also deserving admiration. The characters however that ex cited our attention the most, were the statues of O'Connell Lord Byron, Collins (who threw the stone at the King), Hare and Burke, Lord Brougham, Mrs. Siddons, as Queen Katharine, Madame Tuasaud, and a Quaker. But we had nearly overlooked the Reverend John Wesley, whose portraiture excited general admiration. We under stand the cast was taken by Nollikens, and is certainly a great effort. To enumerate the whole of the figures would occupy too much space, suffice to say Madame Tussaud's exhibition is the most splended of the kind we ever beheld, and deserves our highest commendation. HAMBURG PAPERS. ST.PETERSBURGH, DEC. 21.—Muschir Ahmed Pacha Ambassador Extraordinary from the Sultan to this Court had (on the 17th) the honour to present his credential to his Majesty the Emperor, and afterwards to pay bis re spects to the Empress. Last Wednesday M. Von Bueb, the Prussian Secre tary of Legation, and M. Otway, attended to the English Legation ; and Prince Suzzo, one of the Greek Am bassadors at Paris, had the honour to be presented to their Imperial Majesties. By an order of the day, of the 18th inst., his Majesty has made a great number of promotions and appointments in the army. His Majesty's birthday was kept on that day (the 18th) with the usual ceremonies. BERLIN, DEC. 29.—Accounts from Paris say, that no ping less is in contemplation in the King's Council than to consolidate the Orleans dynasty by a grand warlike enterprise ala Bonaparte. It is intended very consider ably to reinforce the army in Africa, and to place the Duke of Orleans at the head of it, under the guidance of General Guilleminot. Constantine is to be first conquered, then the glory of the French arms to be extended on the whole of North Africa, when a new empire subordinate to France is to be established. Though this plan seems very extravagant, it is said to be the subject of the delibera tions of the Council, and General Guilleminot is engaged on it day and night. HAMBURG, JAN. I.—Baron Von Talleyrand, who is appointed French Minister here and to several North German Courts, has arrived from Florence in that city. Last year there arrived in our port 2,206 large and small ships, of which there were from— The East Indies 11 ; West Indies 101 ; South America 102; North America 42 ; the Azores and Canaries 9; the Mediterranean 44 ; Spain 49 ; Portugal 11 ; France 139 ; Great Britain, including the steam-boats, with those in ballast, and the small ships laden with cement, 867 ; Russia 21 ; the Baltic 60 ; Sweden and Norway 12 ; Denmark and the Coasts 87 ; Holland 33 ; B Igium 48 ; East Friesland 110 ; the Weser and Coasts 150 ; from the Whale and Seal Fishery 3. The ord►nary London steam-bolts performed 94, the Hull steam-boats 47, and the Dutch steam-boats 12 voyages. The number of ships that sailed was 2;194. BORSEN-lIALLE, JAN. 3, HALF.PAST 2 P.M.-The prices of every description of Wheat have become firmer in consequence of several purchases for exportation, which have stupified the market for the better qualities. Should we have, however, a few more days without a hard frost, several cargoes from the Upper Elt e are expected. From the 14th to the 27th ult. eight cargoes of Corn passed through the Sound ; three were bound for Eng land, and five for Norway. Wheat, Anhalt, white 94 to WO red 7B to 85 Marks BO to 85 Mecklenburg -- Holstein Lower Elbe 6O to 70 Rye, Upland 5B to 60 Mecklenburgh 52 to 56 Holstein Barley, Anhalt 5O to 52 Mecklenburgh 36 to 39 Lower Elbe 32 to 38 Oats, Mecklenburg 3O to 33 -- Lower Elbe 2O to 26 Malt, Pomeranian Pease, Upland, yellow 55 to 84 Beans 4O to 48 Tares 52 to 64 Rapeseed l4O to 148 Ditto Cakes Linseed ditto lto to 115 COFFEE.—The market has been more animated this week, and asles may he fairly estimated at 1,200 bags, at a further advance of Ftnins.—Towards the close the Stock market became heavy. Discount 3 per Cent. End of January. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 7O Anglo-Russian 9854 Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1820 92 Ditto, ditto, 1831 to. Ditto, ditto, 1832, 92 Certificates 92 Polish Bonds 126% Prussian Bonds, lEO2 Austrian Bank Shares 1236 Spanish 3 per Cent• 33K Ditto 4 per Cent 46% Dutch 2Y e per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents. 92j4 —Hamburg Reporter, Jan. 3. CRONSTADT, DEC. 21.—The navigation of this year is closed; it began on the Bth May, and continued till the 14th Dec., i. e. 221 days, being seven days longer than in 1832. Among the 1,238 ships that arrived here, 850 had cargoes, and 888 were in ballast. There were 694 English, and 55 French, ship•. Of the 1,239 ships that sailed (1,205 with cargoes, and 34 in ballast), there were 696 English, and 55 French. BERLIN, JAN. 1.-We hear that M. Ancillon will not set out fur Vienna t►ll the sth inst., the openini of the Ministerial conferences being 'put off till the middle of January. The Duke of Cumberland intends to set out on the 10th, to return to England. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 3.-13 7Ni ; two months, 13 6. CHRISTIANIA, DEC. 25.—Three months, 5 SO. BERLIN, DEC. 31.—Three months, 6 24 5 y. ST. PF.TERSBURGII, DEC. 20.-10 41-64. —Hamburg Papers, Jan. 3. It was confidently asserted yesterday that the Duke of Devonshire's resignation of his office of Lou' Chamberlain had arrived from Italy, and among his suc cessors we have heard named is the Noble Governor General of Jamaica. Not the slightest expectation is fremNainet!, ewnteirtained at the Board of Green Cloth that his Grace pr i o l ieb.e. able to resume his official duties during the ap• ~iv _ , bil g season. Levers, we understand, were re friend e'l last week by Sir Augustus Clifford the Duke's relative, from Mr. George Cavendish, dated stating that after resting there for a few days they would d Vesuvius. At elutrt for th e S u l p h ur b at h s at t h e f oot o f to meet the Lord and L a d y r j s v i aPles they w o uld m a ke some stay. Duke ers were expected to come from Rome to Engl an d i s The period of his Grace's return Mornin g P ape r Pres ent understood to be indefinite.— The Prussian Government • present endeavouring to d within its tariff line. The Belgian , it seems, is at Switzerland and Belgium VaaffnerGovernment has availed itself of the opportunity thus if the e ed F to threaten France, that the offer will be accepted, iireezetli cusPom duties publi; i h r . g es a state on Belgian produce are not reduced.--. Reporter. The He/vetie of Porentruy ment of the Swiss papers. There are sm%)eritical journals periodical within the Confederation, and the nu at least publications on religious and literary subjectsofie equal to the political. CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION INQUIRY.-(THIS DAY.) The Commissioners resumed their adjourned investiga tion this morning at the usual hour, Sir F. PALGRAVE in the chair. Mr. Woodtborpe continued his evidence.—The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, is the style of the Court of Common Council. He could not say whether they were ever designated by any other title. Unless the Lord Mayor, or his locum tenens, be in attendance, there can he no Court. The locum tenens must have passed the chair. Business has been transacted, only two Aldermen being present ; but without the presence of two it least, no business can be done. Mr. Sheriff Wilson observed that business had some times been transacted in the Court, without any Alderman it all being present. Mr. Woodthorpe denied the correctness of the observa tion, and adhered to his original assertion that there could be no Cann of Common Council without two Aldermen at least being present. Formerly 12 Aldermen formed a quorum, and they could not place a veto on the proceedings of the Court of Common Council unless that number were pre sent. The veto was not passed except by a majority of the Aldermen. The entry of the veto appeared on the journals of the Court of Common Council. Mr. Sheriff Wilson reiterated his opinion that business had been transacted in the Court of Common Council without any Aldermen being present. The Court, in deed, could not be regularly constituted unless two Alder men were first present; but they might afterwards retire, and unless an objection was taken on the ground of their absence, the business of the Court could be proceeded with. Mr. Wilson was then questioned relative to the Court of Aldermen, and stated that an instance occurred last year, where the Lord Mayor, being desirous of keeping a full Court, ordered the mace-bearer to close the doors, and not allow any of the aldermen to leave till all the business was over. Mr. Woodthorpe said it was possible that business might have been done in the Court of Common Council without the presence of an alderman; but he did not know how Mr. Sheriff Wilson could assert that such an occurrence had taken place. Business had been transacted when there were only 38 commoners and 2 aldermen present in the court, but it was usual that there should be 40 commoners and at least 2 aldermen, exclusive of the Lord Mayor. This practice was established by an order which bore date antecedent to the Revolution, and was retained by Crom well, though subsequently be issued an order to the effect that it vy's not necessary tl.e Lord Mayor or any alderman should be present ; the Court might elect its own chairman, and proceed to business ; and there was an instance in which Colonel Ireton, a Common-Councilman, was called to the chair. Indeed, the Aldermen at that time were treated in the same manner as the peers and bishops. Mr. Woodthorpe then explained the manner in which a Court of Common Council was summoned, and entered into a variety of minor details relative to the forms of the Court, of no general interest. The requisition to the Lord Mayor to call a meeting, must be signed by seven members; however, he knew requisitions, signed by less than seven, attended to by the Lord Mayor. Such requisitions were not entered on the journals, but might be considered in the nature of requests, to which the Lord Mayor might, or might not attend. With respect to the admission of strangers the practice was similar to that of the house of Commons. The Lord Mayor might refuse to bring on any particular business ; but when once it was brought on, he must either proceed with it, take the sense of the Court with regard to it, or dissolve the Court, by oic2ring the sword to be taken up, and immediately vacating the chair. A motion cannot be brought -on without previous notice, except by the special permission of the Court. INSOLVENTS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER and Commissioners BOWEN and Law.) . _ Samuel Levy Lumley, an unopposed insolvent, applied by petition to be discharged. The insolvent, in answer to the questions of Mr. Commissioner Bowen, stated that he had accepted some bills of exchange for Messrs. Sylvester and Walker, the late solicitors of Furnivals Inn, on the undertaking of Mr. Sylvester that he would provide for them when they became due. He bad been induced to accommodate Messrs. Sylvester and Walker with his ac ceptance in consequence of it being represented to him that the firm were engaged in several verb heavy Chancery suits requiring the expenditure of large sums of money. The bills on arriving at maturity were dishonoured, Mr. Sylvester having in the meantime absconded to America bow the bail he had given on a etitninal charge. In discharging the insolvent, Mr. Commissioner BOWEN strongly recommended him in future to have nothing whatever to do with accommodation bills, for if be ap peared before the Court again within a less period than five years, he might rest assured the obtaining his dis charge would be a rather difficult matter. Thomas Berhett, an insolvent who took the benefit of the Act in 1830, and who, like the former insolvent, owed all his difficulties to the benevolence of his die• position in accommodating others with his acceptances, applied for his discharge. His debts amounted to no less a sum than 1,6601., 4961. of which he had never received any consideration for, having accepted a bill of exchange to that amount to oblige a friend. The CHIEF CO3I3IISSIONEa refused to grant the insol vent's discharge un►il he had obtained the consent of three fourths of his creditors, at the same time expressing his surprise that the insolvent shouid have attempted such an expe►iment, considering the facts and circumstances of his case. The further hearing of the case was adjourned sine die. SINKING FUND. The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of the N Atonal Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10George IV., c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of Octo ber, 1833, amounted to the sum of 1,437,9331. 14s. 71d. ; . . The Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt give notice, that the sum of 359,483/. Bs. 711. (being one-fourth of the said surplus of 1,437,9331. 14s. 711.) will be applied under the provisions of the said Act between the 7th day of January, 1834, and the sth day of April, 1834, to Vie following purposes, viz.:— To repay the Bank of England, per sth George IV., c. 45, the sums advanced by the Bat k to pay'the Proprietors of 4/. per Cent. Stock, who did not assent to receive 31. 10s. per £ s. d. Cent. Stock in lieu thereof 392 15 0 To be applied to the purchase of stock 359,090 13 71 359,483 8 7 Add interest receivable on account of donations and bequests, to be applied to the purchase of stock £362,5; 1 0 2 1; S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General. National Debt-office, Jan. 3. The Austrian Government has been induced, for the benefit of the intercourse between Constantinople, the Levant, &c., and the cities of Europe concerned in it, to have a mail between Constantinople and Vienna once every week, instead of once every fortnight, as hitherto. The mail will leave Vienna every Tuesday, and Constantinople every Wednesday. The change was to commence on the 17th ult. By the advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of Si 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 8-1. ; and the exchange at Hamburg on London, at short, being 13. 71., it follows that gold is 15-32 per cent, dearer at Hamburg than in London. '1 he premium on gold at Paris is 9 per mille, which, at the English Miat price of 31. 17s. 1034. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchringe of 25. 372. and the exchange at Paris on London, at short, being 25. 25, it follows that gold is -. 1 2 - per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. On Tuesday the Marquis de Fitzjatnes was arraigned before the Court of Assizes for the Seine Infe rieure, held at Rouen, upon an indictment for attacking the order of succession to the throne, and the rights which the King holds from the nation, by chalking on a wall of a public inn at Guerbaville " Vice Henry V. !" and beneath it a large pear. The Marquis, in defending himself, maintained that the simple expression of the three words '• Vice Henry V. !" could not be made to amount either to treason or sedition ; still he, as well as many other young men who bad taken no part in the errors of the restoration, meant by the use of it to declare their hope that one day their country might enjoy happiness, liberty, independence, honour, and glory. He referred to the trial and acquittal of those who had used the words of M. de Chateaubriand, " Madame, votre fill est mon Rol," and concluded by declaring that if his devotion to the cause he had espoused should bring him to the scaffold his last prayer should be for Henry V. and France, and his last words those which bad brought him to the bar of that tribunal. He was acquitted by the jury, and imme diately discharged.— Galignani's Messenger. CHURCHMEN AND DISSENTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The attention which the press is bestowing upon the numerical proportion of Churchmen, and Diss-nters may, perhaps, render the following statement, showing their inequality in Manchester and Salford (which may be taken as a pretty correct guide for the manufacturing towns and districts), not unacceptable to the public. We have here 22 Established Churches, of which six have been erected within the last few years. The con gregation of these is in many cases exceedingly limited— some of these structures having been built apparently more for show than use. There are 33 chapels of various de nominations of Dissenters—of these 17 belong to the llethod.sts, 9 to the Wesleyan, and 8 to the Primitive Independent and New Connexion, 4 to the Unitarians, Bto the Independents, 4to the Baptists, &c. As a mode of ascertaining the comparative number of th.: Dissenters and Churchmen, the following table has been drawn up partly from Parliamentary returns, and partly from infor mation obtained by the Board of Health :—. Year. lntenn. of Church. Interm. of Dissent. Population. 1821 1822 18 0 3 ............ 1,585 1824 ............ 1,428 1825 ............ 1,3 43 1826 ............ 1,543 1827 ............ 1,604 1828 ............ 1,615 1829 ............ 1,479 1830 ............ 1,590 The above numbers must of course he taken as an ap proximation to truth, rather than as truth itself—the stste of registration being so miserably defective—still they afford sufficiently correct data for judging, the ad vantage, however, being decidedly on the side of the establishment , as far as accuracy is concerned. It thus appears that the church has remained nearly stationary during the last ten years, the burials in 1821 being 1,561, and in 1830. 1,590 ; while the population has increased from 152,683 to 212,913, and the burials of Dissenter. from 1,726 to 4,383. The table is curious in other re soects, and worthy a stricter analysis than I can just now afford it. P. Manchester, Dec. 4, 1833 COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria drove and walked in Hyde park yesterday. Earl Grey entertained his colleagues at dinner last evening, at his residence in Downing street. The Mem bers of the Cabinet present were—The Earl of Ripon, the Duke of Richmond, Viscount Althorp, Mr. Secretary Stanley, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, Sir James Graham, and Lord John Russell. Lord Holland was expected to join the other Ministers in the course of the evening. Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., Mr. Aaron Chap- man, M.P., Mr. George F. Young, M.P., and Mr. Lyall, M.P., had an interview with Viscount Althorp yesterday, at the Treasury, and presented a memorial from the coalowners, shipowners, and others, of Newcastle.on- Tyne, for the repeal of the duty on coals exported to foreign parts. The momorial is addressed to the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury. Prince Talleyrand had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday. The Duke of Richmond and Sir James Kempt visited Mr. Ellice yesterday, at his office in the Horse Guards. Earl Grey had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. ARRIVALS—Prince Talleyrand, in Hanover-square, from Brighton; Viscount Palmerston, in Great Stan hope-street, from Broadlands ; Lord John Russell, at his residence at Whitehall, from 'Woburn Abbey. BRIGHTON, JAN. 7. , Yesterday morning the King gave audience to Sir James Cockburn, after which his Majesty, accompanied by the Queen, drove out in a chariot and four, with outriders, to Shoreham and Kemp Town, passing frequently along the Cliffs. In the afternoon the Princess Augusta (with the Duchess of Gloucester) made her first appearance in public since her recent indisposition. It is satisfactory to be able to state that her Royal Highness is now perfectly recovered, and she enjoyed her airing till an advanced hour in the evening. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Lady Mary Talbot, S.r Edward Sugden, the Hon. Mr. Sullivan, the Hon. Captain Paulett, Lieut.. Col. Wynyard, Mrs. H. Stackpoole, M. Dedel, and Baron Bulow, paid their respects to their Majesties. Last evening their Majesties entertained at dinner the Prince and Princess Lieven, Baron Billow., Mrs. Sullivan, Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Seymour Bathurst, M. Dedel (Dutch Special Minist,r), Sir James Cockburn, Sir Charles and Lady Rowley, Lieut.-Colonel Riddell, Mr. Calcraft, and Lord Saltoun, together with the Royal suite and household. Prince Talleyrand and the Duchess de Dino, and Prince and Princess Lieven, took leave of their M.jesties, and have returned to their respective residences in town. Their Highnesses were daily guests at the Royal table during their stay here, and experienced the most delicate and unremitting attentions from their Ruyal hosts. Yesterday the Duke of Sr. Alban's gave an entertain.. ment in falconry at Patcham, which, from its novelty to the folk of Brighton, caused a vast assemblage of anxious spectators ; nor, indeed, was the curiosity confined to those uninitiated in this ancient amusement, as all the hunt ton and people of respectability here, and of the surrounding neighbourhood, were in attendance. The road adjoining the rendezvous was crowded with carriages for a.. least a mile. His Grace was dressed in the characteristic uniform of the Grand Filconer, with a gold chain round his neck, by which was suspended a medal, be,ring the insigni► of his office. The unfavourable state of the weather, together with the timidity of the pigeons which were selected for the occasion, operated against the day's amusement, for no sooner were the conscious little victims let loose to their merciless enemy than they souht refuge under the carriages, and some of them flew for protection to the fair ones who were sitting inside. After this il!_managed fete was over, many of the fashionables who attended were invited by the Duchess to partake of a sumptuous dejeune which was prepared at St. Alban's-house on their arrival. COURT OF ALDERMEN. A Court of Allernaen was held yesterday at Guildhall, which was fully attended. The Sheriff, pre,ented reports of the state of the several gao's of the city. The Court unanimously passed a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for the prompt and able manner in which, under his Lordship's direction, the peace of the city was preserved at the Wardmute lately held in the ward of Portsoken. Several reports from Committees were presented and agreed to. Persons were sworn and allowed to be admitted brokers. Precepts were ordered to be issued to the Sheriffs to empmnel Juries to assess the amounts to be paid for pre- mises required for the approaches to London Bridge. Bills and salaries to Christmas were directed to be paid. Mr. Thomas Theobald was admitted and sworn into the office of Under Mir-bal. The Court pass,d a resolution of instructions to their officers as to their proceedings before the Commissioners for Corporation Inquiry. The Speaker has issued his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the eastern division of the county of Somerset, at the end of 14. days after the insertion of yesterday's notice in the London Gazelle. DREADFUL MURDER.---On Thursday se'n night, a dreadful murder was committed at North Nibley, near Gloucester, under the following circumstances :—A man, a carpenter by trade, was in the habit of working at a distance from home; be fancied that his wife acted improperly during his absence, and he therefore became jealous. On his return home on Thursday se'nnight he found that a quantity of hay and other property had been either destroyed or cat ried away ; he accused his wife of the theft, whereupon words ensued, and wordy produced blows ; at length the woman seized a knife and nearly severed his head from his body. Their child, who was a witness of the scene, ran out rif the house and gave an 'dam, but was quickly brought back by the mother, who whipped it for its interference. The fiendish wretch then washed herself, changed her clothes, ❑nd put a ranr in th e hand of her deceased husband, and quickly reported to the neighbourhood that her husband had destroyed himself. A coroner's jury was in due time summoned ; after investigating the circumstances, a verdict of " ful murder" was given against the woman, who has, on the coroner's warrant, been committed to take her trial for the offence at the next assizes. It may be in the recollection of our readers that a Charlotte Lung was lately executed at Gloucester, in pursuance of her sen tence, for the crime of rick-burning. The woman who has now been committed to answer the charge of murder ing her husband is one of the three who were accused with Charlotte Long.—Hereford Times, IRELAND.-DuniN, JAN. 5. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) "But the age of virtuous politics is past, And we are deep in that of cold pretence. Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, And we too wise to trust them." The new year promises fairly for Old Ireland. Those staple commodities—the only things we can call national —wretchedness, discontent, discord, and disunion, begin to appear in profusion. Agitation is as rife as usual throughout the country, notwithstanding the Coercion Rill, and strong manifestations on the part of Government of a disposition to subdue all kinds of faction. The question of repeal is sustained by some facts of local application, which to those few who have an interest in partial im provement, and to the noisy and unthinking class in gene ral, seem to he unanswerable arguments. But the advan tages which such circumstances give the Dictator and his followers, are counterbalanced by the distrust beginning to he entertained against our "sound and fury" orators and pseudo-patriots. The impression made by Mr. speech to his constituents and the numerous letters and c cone of n rnfeonutr Irish s which ith i s Members drawn are k for th, own to have votedagainst hn is—that the Coercion Bill contr ar y to th e ir conscience and judg• went. Such a dereliction o f p r inciple may be overlooked rnoretl o by the constituents of all, except the unfortunate individual who was so infelicitous as to atone for his want of moral courage by honestly advising Ministers to pass the Bill for the safety of the country. The people, however, have learned a lesson, not likely to be soon forgotten, from this instance of tergiversation ; and should it appear from the eclaircissement which must shortly take place, that many have been guilty, though in a minor degree, the discovery may have a salutary effect. It will teach our deluded countrymen that the most flippant in promises are not the most faithful in performances ; and that they were mis taken in their estimate of fit and proper representatives when they refused to send to Parliament such men as Lord Killeen and Mr. Wyse, merely because they would not pledge themselves to vote one way, while their honest principles and experience might oblige them to think an other. The approaching session will afford opportunity for diffusing through the country proper strictures on pub lic men, nor will there be wanting hieb-minded and talented individuals to expose the political delinquencies of our most le iding Repeaters. Mr. Lambert, of Wexford, has published a letter, avowing the sentimerrs ascribed to him, as delivered on a late occasion, against O'Connell, and pledging himself to vindicate his own Parliamentary con duct, while he exbibits that of his accusers in its proper light, at a proper time and place. He also disclaims any participation in the publishing of certain handbills in the neighbourhood where he resides, questioning O'Connell's sincerity and consistency of principle. A copy of these handbills has been already published in The Sun, and other London journals ; and it is cheering to know that besides Mr. Lambert, there is, as appears by this placard, at least one other shrewd and intelligent individual in the county of Wexford who can aid in destroying the delusion practised against our unfortunate countrymen by professed friends. The views entertained by the Member for the County Wexford of the state of Ireland, are those of the best informed and most respectable, though perhaps not the most numerous of his countrymen, and all that is required to develop these views frilly is au able and indepen dent leader, in opposition to the Dictator's party, to produce a complete reaction. Tie Repeal question may, never theless, continue a subject of long and distracting agita tion; more particularly if Government be not prompt and determined in carrying forward the work of Reform. The real friends to our tranquillity and welfare cannot oppose the tide of turbulence and misrule unless those grievances whose removal is pronounced by public opinion, be timely redressed. Tithes ate first on this list ; and though the Legislature has enacted several hies tending to diminish and mitigate the odium attached to them, the people are far from being contented. Doctor Doyle, who first impressed upon Parliament the necessity for abolishing or commuting tithes, is said not to be satisfied with the slow progress making on this subject,—so far short of the means which be grated cut long ago of removing this obnoxious impost in a way reconcileable with the rights and feelings of all parties. Bur, as the minister of peace and good will among men, he refrains from giving publi city to his disappointment, lest by so doing he should en danger for a moment the quiet and happiness of his be loved country. As his health is, however, now nearly re-established, we may soon hope to find him labouring in tne vineyard, at the head of those good and valourous men, who have other objects in view th in the gratification of their own personal interest and vanity. O'Connell has, as might be expected, announced his intention to dictate to the people of Dungarvan the kind of person they should elect instead of the late Mr. Lamn. This announcement was made yesterday, at a meeting of the Commercid Clerks for Repeal, when, according to the maxim of " being all things unto all men," he de clared himself one of their body, and called upon them to resolve that a Radical should he returned for Dungar van, in order to put out the wretched Whigs ! SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK SPRING MEETING, 1834. ENTRIES.-SECOND DAY. The Spring St. Leger of 25 sows tact), for three-year-olds. Mile and three quarters. Mr. R. Bower's b. c. Mr. Merryman, by Comus; Mr. Pow. lett's bl. c. Jack and All Jack, by Jack Spigot; Mr. Maxwell's ch. g. Buccaneer, by Blacklock ; Mr. S. Fox's ch. c. by Comus, dam by Blucher; Sir W. Milner's ch. c. Currency, by Veloci pede ; Lord Sligo's ch. c. Bran, by Humphrey Clinker. Sweepstakes of 20 eel's. each, for three-year-on fillies Mile and a half. Mr. Salvin's Isabella, by Lottery ; Mr. Bowes's Maid of Lune, by Whisker ; Mr. W. Crompton's b. f. Mayflower, by Jerry; Gen. Sharpe's ch. c. by Malek—Perlet's dam; Mr. Gascoigne's b. by Blaylock—Repealer's dam ; Lord Sligo's b. f. Ellen, by Starch. The Shorts of 50 sous. each, h. ft., for three-year-olds. A mile. Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Mammoth, by Leviathan, dam by Figaro; Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Amurath, by Whisker; Lord Kelburne's br. f. Sister to Retainer ; Mr. Heseltine's Warlaby Baylock, by Blacklock ; Lord Sligo's b. c. Spume, by Rolla. Two-year-old Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 10 ft. T.Y.C. Hon. T. Dundas's b. c. Weldare, by Langar ; Mr. Jacques's ch. f. by Actaeon—Comedy ; Sir E. Dodsworth's b. c. by Mu latto—St. Patrick's dam; Mr. FAlmundson's Rosamond, sister to Richmond; Mr. Walker's b. c. Demon, by Young Phantom; Mr. Walker's ch. f. Alice, by Langar ; Mr. Thompson's b. 1. Everilda, by Young Phantom; Mr. Ridsdale's gr. c. by Tramp —Flora; Mr. Dyson's b. c. Hobby, by Merlin ; Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Actreon, dam by Reveller ; Duke of Leeds's ch. f. by Malek—Rhodacantha ; Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Actreon— Gin ; Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Longwaist, dam by Walton ; Major Yarburgh's br. f. by Lottery—Belinda; Mr. Wilson's b. c. Winkley, by Velocipede; Mr. M. Foulis's br. f. Miss MIL ner, by Malek ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Giraffe—Long waist's dam; Lord Kelburne's b. c. by Jerry—Purity; Mr. Marson's ch. c. The General, by Confederate; Mr. S. Fox's b. f by Langar—Lady of the Tees ; Mr. Fox's ch. c. by Bustard, dam by Comus. YORK AUGUST MEETING, 1834. ENTRIES.-FIRST DAY. Great Yorkshire Stakes of 25 s.,vs. each, 10 ft., for three year- o!ds. Duke of Cleveland's c. by Muley—Bequest ; Mr. W. Rich ardson's b. c. Beverley, by Young Phantom; Mr. S. Fox's b. c. by Figaro—Governess; Mr. M. Marson's b. f. Miss' Potter, by Lottery; Lord Sligo's Spume. SECOND DAY. Two-year•old Stakes or 20 sovs. each. T.Y.C. Hon. T. Dundas's b. c. Weldare; Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Divan, brother to Despot; Mr. Houldsworth's hr. c. Felix, brother to Frederica; Mr. Watts's ch. f. Sister to Bubastes ; Mr. Gully's ch. c. by Langar—Lady Georgiana ; Mr. Powlett's b. c. by Langar—Giovanni's dam; Mr. Puwlett's ch. f. by Rolla —Peri; Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Longwaist, dam by Walton ; Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Actreon, dam by Thunderbolt; Duke ot Leeds's ch. c. by Actreon—Gin ; Mr. J. Mills's gr, c. Planta. genet, by Falcon; Mr. M. Foulis's br. c. De Roos, by Veloci. pede ; Duke of Cleveland's c. by Longwaist—Stratherne's dam; Lord Kelburne's ch. f. by Actwon—Georgiana; Mr. Walker's b. c. Demon ; Mr. Walker's br. f. Guerdon, by Tramp; Lord Chesterfield's ch. f. by Langar—Euphrosyne; Mr Spalden's br. c. by Lottery—Lady Neville ; Mr. Ridsdale's br. c. by Chateau Margaux—Marchesa ; Mr. J. Scott's eh, c. Pilgrim, by Langar ; Mr. Garforth's b. f. by Lottery—Laura ; Mr. Kirby's br. c. Master John, by Emilius ; Mr. Fox's b. f.—Lady of the Tees. FOURTH DAY. Sweepstakes of 30 sove. each for three-year olds. Nile and a quarter. Mr. Gully's Stapleton, by Velocipede ; Mr. Powlett's b. c Lambkin, by Young Phantom ; Major Yarburgh's b. f. by Ve locipede—Laurel's dam ; General Sharp's f.—Perlet's dam ; Duke of Cleveland's colt—Bequest ; Mr. Walker's Velocity, I_ y Velocipede; Mr. Walker's Cotillon, by Partisan ; Mr. W. Rid . ardson's b. f. by Young Phantom —Jemmy Mill's dam; Mi. Meynell's The Buccaneer; Mr. Bell's b. c. by Brutandorf— Sister to Blucher; Mr. G Crampton's b. f. Flight, by Veloci pede; Mr. Skipsey's Inheritor, by Lottery; Mr. Hethrington'i. Windham, by Chateau Margaux; 'lr. Foy's Goldbeater, b) Gaberlunzie ; Sir W. Milner's Currency; Mr. Gascoyne's f. Blacklock—Repealer's dam; Lord Sligo's Bran; Lord Sligo's Spume. The nomination of candidates to represent the borough of fludderAe:d in Parliament, took place or, Monday last in the Market-square. The candidates were Messrs. Blackburne, Sadler, and Captain Wood. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The shipowners are at it at 1 hey have had another meeting. It was held yeeterday, and Mr. G. F. Young being Chairman, little need b e said of the language and opinions of that active and able, but wrong-headed and mistaken champion of the old navigation law, now utterly inapplicable to the commerce and shipping inte rest of Great Britain. Mr. Young gave a sort of personal explanation of the publication by the Parliamentary Committee of evidence upon the shipping question, unaccompanied by a syllable of report or comment. But he retaliated on the Committee by a report of the shipowners themselves ; which we may take for granted would have been (could the Honourable Gentleman have accomplished it) word for word, nzutatis nzutandis, adopted by the Parliamentary Committee ; and, as the result of which, had Parliament been silly enough to act upon it, we should, in the course of a single twelvemonth, have seen the merchantmen of this country excluded from every port in Europe and North America. Prohibitions against foreign shipping were mighty well, so long as other nations were willing to let reciprocity be all on one side,—that is, to have British vessels ad mittPd into their ports, while she rigourously excluded theirs. But such halcyon days are over. It is row the language of every Power on the continent—" Receive me, and I will re ceive you—or exclude me, and I will do the same by you." Mr. Young has not told uu how he would manage under such a general system in Europe. Is it the fault of the British Go vernment if the value of ships, like that of all other descriptions of property, has fallen ? Times. The general annual meeting of the Ship owners' Society for receiving the report for the year 1833, was held yesterday at the City of London Tavern. Our readers will find a report of the proceedings in another column. The committee enter at some length into a detail of the various objects to which their attention has been directed. They very properly dwell on the importance of relieving commerce from all un necessary burdens ; and they particularly com plain of the " enormous amount charged on shipping for the port of London Canal and Dock Duty." In all that regards freeing the shipping from unnecessary burdens and re straints, the public will heartily go along with the shipowners. But when the committee enter on the inquiry of the Parliamentary committee of last session, it is difficult. to understand them. No one doubts that capital invested in shipping may, like capital invested in anything else, be wholly or partially lost. If ships can be built now at a much cheaper rate than fifteen years ago, the owner of ships built fifteen years ago must be content to suffer a partial loss of his capital. A house, in like manner, may now be built for much less than ten or twelve years consequence se i q n ue the nce pur chase r. is, tha ago, on account of the f a ll i n t h e pr i ce o f v materials;s ho money chase of h o use s t en or twe l ve years ago must, building that individuals except when protected by particular and favoured si.uations, be content with a much smaller price for them than what theygave. The shipowners cannot expect that they should be exempt from the casualties to which all other classes are liable. Whenever the cost of production of any commodity is lowered, all the holders of the commodity experience a ditninution in the value of their stocks. " The long continued and still existing depression of the shipping interest (say the committee)—the partial production and great aggravation of distress caused by continual changes in our navigation system—tie utter im possibility of the successful maintenance of an unrestricted competition with foreign navigation —the gross injustice of the peculiar and exclu sive burdens on maritime commerce, for pur poses purely national, while exposed to that competition—the declining quality and estima tion of British tonnage—the embarrassment, decay, and ruin of the British shipowners —may now be viewed as incontrovertible positions. A great many things are mixed up here in a way which only serves to occasion perplexity. " The utter impossibility of the successful maintenance of an unrestricted competition with foreign navigation" is a proposition, the admis sion of which would lead to conclusions which the shipowners themselves would dread to encounter. The right of the British shipowner to free himself from all the burdens which add to the difficulty of successful competition, is a propos sition which few would be disposed to deny. The Committee use a good many circumlocu tions to tnake a very simple matter unintelligible. En order to reconcile the fact of the continental building of ships with the carrying on a losing trade, they talk of a tenacity of purpose by which men will go on for ever carrying on trade without profit. This is all sheer nonsense. Tire shipowner already in possession of ships must, of course, continue to trade with them, though the return be below the average profit on the 'mount of capital originally embarked in them. But no man would build new ships were the return to be below the ordinary profits on capital. The Chairman stated " that the British ship owners had long, but vainly, complained of the great and peculiar burdens which are inflicted on them by the Registry and the Navigation Laws; and they claim, and they will not be satisfied till they obtain it, either the removal of these burdens and restrictions, or a protection equivalent to their disqualification ;" and the committee, in the report, express themselves in language equally strong, winding up their list of grievances with the determination to demand either that those peculiar burdens and re, strictions to which, for objects of national policy, and in which he has no separate or exclusive interest, the shipowner is exposed, should be removed, or that protection should be extended r continued to him, equivalent to the disquali tication created by these burdens." All unne-, cessary burdens and restrictions ought, of course, to be removed ; and their fellow-citizens will willingly make common cause with the ship owners, it they see them sincerely desirous of teeing British industry from the restrictions under which it suffers from narrow and impolitic a ws. Hitherto, however, the shipowners have shown themselves among the most determined of he supporters of monopoly ; and they have more han once factiously joined the parties in the Legislature who had for object to prevent the removal of restrictions on trade and industry. their language yet is extremely suspicious. However, repentant sinners will always be re t.e,ved with welcome. The shipowners complain of the injurious tendency of some late regulzt iuns adopted wi h regard to the China trade, and -heir remonstranceson the subject will, no doubt, ecetve due attention. Why do not the .hip .)whers hold a more decided language with re 'aid to the various monopolies whicn e‘rinarrass )ur commerce, and tend only to the encourage-