The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-03 00:00:00

THE MAGAZINES. TEE PARLIAMENTARY RE VIE W. The Thirty-fourth Number of Mr. Bucking ham's periodical, weekly during the sittings of Parliament, but monthly at present, is now be fore us. It has not so much attraction as it had during the last session of Parliament, and 'as we doubt not it will have the next. In fact, its chief source of interest arises from an actual witness of Parliamentary manoeuvres, giving us his account of them fresh and fresh as they oc cur. There are, however, one or two good papers in the present number, independently of Mr. Buckingham's reminiscences of the East. TEE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. We are glad to find that the present number o his favourite Magazine is much better than the st. It contains a greater variety of matter, and m st, therefore, we should imagine, be more interesti to the professional, as well as the general re er, than an unbroken string of dry military staAcs. The leading article is en titled " War a the War-office," and although we cannot altof.Y, er concur in the doctrines it promulgates, it mu be confessed that it is proper for the magazine in w . ch it appears. We shall be understood when we. say that it is an elabo rate article against the Whigs for their reductions of some of the expenditure connected with the army, for others that they have not made, in favour of increasing our force, and periodically making promotions, &c. &c. The two next articles fight directly one against the other. The first represents Russia as meek as a lamb, not at all to be feared by England either in Europe or Asia, unless we purposely provoke her ; whilst Major Mitchell, in the second, devotes a score of pages to proving that Russia is so dangerous an enemy that we are justified in at once seizing upon Candia and Egypt, in order to prepare means of defence for India ! We must confess that we do not exactly see the necessity or morality of the course the gallant Major recom mends, but he forms an excellent makeweight to the pro-Russian article of his fellow contribu tor. Of the other articles, the " Cruise of a Revenue Cutter" is the most entertaining ; and the account given of Prize-fighting, the most instructive. The following yarn is spun by a petty officer of the Revenue Cutter ;-- " How long ago was this ?' " Let me see; it must have been about 1804 , or 1805. We were laying -to cff Beachy Head, when about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the wind blowing strong from the son'- west, we saw two lugger privateers board a brig to wind ward, and then all three make sail for the French coast. Our mate, who was at that time commanding officer, as the Captain was ashore with a boat's-crew, said, Now, lads, we must try and recapture that 'ere brig.' We lay qu i et en ough for some time, as they were all coming down on us, until the brig was some distance from the loggers, then we made sail ; but the loggers soon spied us, and Ibe dom'd if they didn't give chase to us. My eyes !' said the mate, do you see that ? Clear away for action, or by G-- we shall be taken by those Frenchmen !' Our boarding nettings were up fore and aft in a crack, and all our guns were loaded with grape and can nist e r u p t o the muzzle. We then hauled our wind, which brought the small lugger on our lee.bow, and the large one on our weathet.quar . - ter. At this time it was about 10 o'clock, but moonlight , so that we could see the large lugger's leeks full of peo ple ; they were as thick as bees, all ready to board us : when she got near us, not farder off than that 'ere boat, our mate says, Now, lads, keep your weather eyes to windward, and stand by to fire the two double-fortified four and Old Sal ; now then, !off right across her bows, and fire when I tell you.—Let fly ! says the mate ; and so we did ; Old Sal giving them such a dose as they hadn't had for many a day ;—it would ha'e done your heart pod to have heard the chattering and jabbering among the Frenchmen. Dom the word could we understand ; but they didn't trouble us any more ; so away we went arter the small lugger, our mate swearing he'd tun her down, if he could come up with her; but we could not. We chased her until daylight, and then they run her ashore under batteries at Dieppe; but we hadn't done wi' her, for we stood close in and fired seven guns right into her.' " 4 But, Mr. Blowhard, what became of the battery all this time ?' O, I'm dom'd if I know, except they had had a drop overnight, and hadn't turned out. Howsomdever, they never fired a shot at us.' .‘ And was this all you did?' All ! and I think enough too ; but it was'nt all : for arter we stood out for some time, the man at the mast head sung out, ' A strange sail !' and presently arter, " Two strange sail !' This was the other logger with the brig in tow, making all sail for the French coast. Now, my lads, at 'em again,' said the mate ; but the Frenchman didn't want such another dose ai Old S,l had given her ; so she cast the brig off, and run for it. I went in the boat that boarded the brig, pulling the bow oar, for I wasn't an officer then; we didn't find a soul on board the brig but the owner, whom the Frenchman had half killed. Sbe was called the Paddy of Cork, bound to Lunnun. She had a great quantity of fowls on board. Wbat a blow out the Frenchmen were determined to have that day, if we hadn't disturbed them, for I'm dom'd it they hadn't cut the beads off all the fowls, and there the poor things were running about the decks cutting as many capers as a parched pea in a frying-pan.' Is this all your yarn?' ~ ' All ! and I think it enough too ; but it a'n't all ; for the mate chased the other lugger, and drove her ashore too: we lamed arterwards by the cartel that they were both lost.' " Now that is all I suppose, Mr. Blowhard?' " All ! and enough too; but it a'n't all, for the worst part is to come; for we fell in with a man-of-war cutter, who claimed our prize, and took her from us, as we had no business, being a revenue cruiser, to go in chase of privateers.' " The Commander's appearance on the deck put an end to old John's yarn." The article on " Prize Fighting" will be suffi cient to open the eyes of the few dupes whom the cant of its fostering " English spirit," and " manly courage," may still impose upon. The whole is well worth reading, and we are sure that the following extract, though long, will be read with pleasure : "We may be allowed, e passant, to narrate a fact which once occurred at ric r i rg-fight. It exhibits the extraordinary dexterity of pickpockets, and the good un derstanding existing among the n, the boxers. The celebrated Joshua Hudson was talkin g ald to another bruiser outside the ring at Moulsey Hurst be fore pitched battle to him, and commenced, when a pickpocket came a pur Hudson, here is respectfully touching his hat, s a id, , Mr. P which the your property,' presenting to him his Josh. to thief had previously picked his bre , •ches le ' of :1 , 1%7:n u, tee the Hudson smiled, thanked the thief, purserestot:ePrket. the same pocket, and walked on. In a fe g w thief again came up to him, and, touchia peated the ' Mr. Hudson, here is your propert ia , t, re. presenting to him the identical purse. The boxer c ooked and rather puzzled, but, securing his purse well in his breeches_ pocket, he walked off, saying to the thief, ' I'll be es if you get it again, if you Rhea% keep it.' Before the fight had begun, the thief came to him a third time, with his bow, and M . Hudson here is your property,' hold. ing up the fated purse. Hudson merely took the latter, and swore that his friend was too much for him. " We will now give a breviary of the morale of the prize-ring ; and its perusal will, we think, convince the most infatuated dupe of the ' Fancy that our apparently overcharged statements are strictly within the limits of sober truth. " LIST OF PRIZE-FIGHTERS. " Thurtell,—banged at Hertford for the murder of Mr. Weare, his friend and brother -gambler,—was a Fiat fighter and patron of pugilism. He seconded Martin against Randall —a cross—and got up the cross between Oliver and Painter of Norwich, by which he cheated thousands of foolish people. Thurtell kept the flash or porting hou se in Carey -street once kept by Gully, and wu the bosom friend of Spring. When under the gal lows, Thurtell turned from the exhortations of the chap lain, and inquired eagerly if news bad arrived how the fight bad gone (between Langban—the Irish Champion and Spring). Being told that Spring had won the fight he replied, l a m glad of it, for Spring is a good fellow.' These were his last words. What a complication of the ruling passion and the honesty of friendship in the ring ! What a compliment to the Champion of Enilind ! " The next murderers, convicted murderers, of the prize ring are Bishop, the murderer or Burker of the Italian boy, his accomplices Williams, and Harris, Cie attempting murderer of a woman ; —all examples of the manly spirit produced by pugilism. But let them be taken alphabe tically amon.; the mass of the fraternity. . . Adams, John. Transported for seven years for robbery, and on hi; return from the hulks fought Donovan, Richmond, &c. Adams is now a leading member of the prize-ring. Allen, Wm., alias Jack the Painter. Transported for seven years for robbery. Ayres, Dick. Twice transported for robbery. Released from the hulks, he fought Dick Curtis (a cross) and Barney Aaron. He became an utterer of base coin, and was detected ; then reverted to his old trade of picking pockets, and is now again on board of the hulks under sentence of transportation. Bishop, -. Hung at Newgate for burking the Italian boy. Belasco, John. Transported fur 14 years for a robbery at Epsom. Byrne, Simon. Killed Mackay, who was hocussed (poi soned) in the fight. Byrne was killed by Deaf Burke. Belasco, Abraham. A keeper of a notorious brothel, and I,efore the Magistrates a dozen times for assault, in that house. Fought Randall, Sampson, and others. Burke. Transpr'rted for life for a robbery in Tottenhatn Court-road. Fought Jem Belcher, the Chicken, &e. Baldwin, Edward, alias Whiteheaded Bob. A huge monster, celebrated for a friendship with a man of fashion, a patron of the ring ; committed at Bow street for robbing a shawl off a girl's shoulders in a brothel, &c. Cribb, Thomas. A coal-beaver, now a publican ; had up at Bow_street for ill-using his wife, and leaving her and her children utterly destitute, whilst he was living with another woman. Clarke, Wm. Executed at Bristol as the most desperate leader in the riots; so atrocious was his conduct, that his friends could plead nothing in his behalf but mad- ness. Carter, Jack. Transported for seven years for robbery. He fought Oliver, Molyneux, Spring, &c. ; and on his return from the hulks, he resumed his occupation as boxer and resurrection-man. Crockey, —. Sentenced to death, but transported for life for highway robbery. Fought Robinson, Harry . —. . Lancaster, Bone, and Fisher. - Cooper, Gipsy, and his brother. Two well-known thieves. Thomas Cooper, who fought young Dutch Sam, was sentenced to death at the last Chelmsford Assizes for robbery. Curtis, George. Twice transported for seven years, each time for shop-lifting. Fought P. Inglis, &c. Curtis, John (brother). Killed by Turner in a prize-fight, the unhappy victim being in a state of loathsome disease at the time of fighting. Curtis, Dick (brother). " The Pet of the Fancy." Leader of a gang of pickpockets; received 6501. for fighting the cross with Perkins. Dick, -, West Country Dick. A bully to a house in Shire-lane, and after many atrocities, transported for robbery. He fought Cooper, and was a great favourite of the Fancy. - Delay, Morris. Captain of the East•end gang of thieves. One of the most desperate of the London robbers. Imprisoned two years for robbery, and at last trans- ported for life under another name. Flynn, Paddy. Transported for life, with two minor boxers, all notorious burglars. His wife a celebrated smasher. Giblets, Charles, alias Grantham, alias White, alias &c. &c. Transported for seven years for sheep-stealing, then imprisoned for six months for body-snatching, and finally transported for 14 years for robbery, accompanied by horrible violence on a French sailor, in his (Giblet's) own - house. He fought all the leading men of the day, and fought a celebrated cross with Rough Robin. Guest, -. A notorious receiver of stolen goods. A friend and patron of the ring, with Ikey Solomons and Bill Price, who were transported. Harris, Kiddy. The most promising boxer of his day. Hung at Newgate for horrible cruelty in an attempt to murder a woman. By original profession a house- breaker. Husband, John, alias the Spr;g of Shamrock. Transported for seven years for robbery. He was an agent i❑ the duffing line—connected with certain well-known gamblers. He fought Norman and the Portsmouth champion, and was a star among the light weights. Holt, Harry. A duffer by profession origin illy, and even described in Boxiana as a duffer by trade. A star in the ring. Mendoza, --. Most celebrated in the old school. Now in a state.of destitution—his daughters on the streets and his son transported. Norton, Joe. Beaten most cruelly, and died, at the Castle Tavern. It was contrived by the Fancy at no small expense, that the case should he brought in " death from apoplexy." Oliver Tom. Once champion of England, and the best fighter of a cross tbat.was ever known. His son sen tenced to death, but transported for life for robbery. Whilst his son was under sentence of death, Tom was gaily at the Bash-housk s sporting his old tricks. Owen, Torn. A leader of a prey.-gang at Portsmouth ; a sheriff's officer, and a London crimp. Pope, Maurice. Sentenced to death, but transported for life, for robbing a woman on the highway. He fought Jonathan Bisset!. Perkins, -. Fought the celebrated cross with Curtis, and was finally transported for stealing a watch. Parish, -. Transported for life, for stealing a watch at a fight in the Borough. Fought Randall, Holt, &c. Reubens, Scilly. Transported for highway robbery. Long a celebrated thief, and leader of thieves, at the East end of the town. Brought before the Magistrate for cruelly beating his wife. Fought Brown, the Sprig of Myrtle, Smith, the Sailor-boy, &c. &c. Randall, -. His widow appeared before the Magis trates destitute, and in a horrible state of disease. Spring, Tom, alias Thomas Winer. Fought a cross of notoriety with Painter. Vide Thurtell. Savage, William. Imprisoned six months for a criminal attempt on his daughter. Fought Harry Jones. Symons, Fought Jem Belcher. A celebrated ring dropper. Scroggins, A vile character ; severely flogged in the navy, and now a beggar in the streets. Ward, Jem. Fought a cross with Abbot, and was turned out of the ring. Re-admitted, and fought another cross with Josh. Hudson. Intended to fight another cross with S. Byrne; was detected, and agai❑ turned out of the ring. Re-admitted; was matched to fight S. Byrne, and offered to sell his fight for 500/., but demanding his money beforehand, was refused, but not exposed. Several times imprisoned for deserting his wife and leaving her on the parish. Now keeps a tavern in LiverpO, , l, and is a man of property. Western, George. The captain of the Whitechapel gang of thieves. Transported for a street robbery. Fought Ab. Belasco, &c. &c. Williams,-. Hung at Newgate for burking the Italian boy. A bodysnatcher by trade, but a patron and ally of ti.e ring; a better, backer, and general agent fur pugilists. To these we may add the names of Thompson and Yandall. The former fought an Irishman, and, being able to beat his man, the Fancy, or Irish party of the Fancy, broke into the ring, and kicked Thompson so violently, and struck him such blows on the beck of the head with bludgeons, that he died. Yandell fought an Irishman at Wingfield, won the fight, and received the stake .money. A short time after he was brought home with his head beaten to pieces with bludgeons, and be could merely mutter the word fight' indistinctly before he died. There are scores of similar proofs of the manly spiri•' promoted by prize-fighting." The following are taken from the miscellaneous correspondence at the end of the number. The first is of some interest ; and the second will, we hope, have its proper effect upun the cox combs the Dragoon Officer refers to ;-- " several Englishmen h a v e been speculating in the pur chase o f lands. Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who some years ago P urc hased an estat e at Athens, on which he built a very good house, has lately sold it, with great profit, to K . ing Oth o , and has since bought the Pmtalian or Spili islands, off the south-west extremity of Egripo. They are, I believe, seven in number, and naturally fertile, though at present, from want of cultivation, not productive. A number of Maltese are going over shortly to Greece as labourers and artisans, in order to cultivate the soil, which it would appear the Greeks t hemselves are incapable of doing. This emigration will be productive of great advantage, both to Malta, which will be relieved of a por tion of its over numerous population, the greater part of I which is in great distress and poverty, and to Greece, by introducing among its klepht or robber inhabitants, the example of industry and the knowledge of agriculture." " BRITISH YEOMANRY UNIFORMS ABROAD. " MR. EDI rox,—Having attended the manoeuvres of the Austrian army in Lombardy last autumn, I was enabled to make a few remarks, one of which I wish to present to you, viz.—' the attendance in uniform of officers of our Yeomanry corp..' " It is natural to conclude that the object in presenting themselves in uniform is, that they may be supposed officers of our army ; for, in confirmation of this conclusion, they are generally (if not always) returned in their passports as majors or captains, or by whatever rank they may happen to hold in the corps to which they belong. This, how ever, the scrutinizing eye of an Austrian or Prussian would, I imagine, generally see through; but there must be some instances to the contrary, and consequently, until an explanation is entered into, it subjects the actual officers of our army to the doubt of foreign officers, as to their being really soldiers by profession. " 1 have no doubt that it has happened to other officers to meet with observations similar to the following, which arose in general conversation. I became acquainted with an Austrian officer, who asked me to what part of the service I belonged ? and on my replying ' to the dragoons,' be delicately observed, Yes; but you are really in the army, are you not?' " You will, I think, agree with me that an officer attending reviews in a foreign country represents, for the time, the part of the army to which he belongs. He goes there to improve himself in military knowledge, by view ing forces on a larger scale than he has the means of seeing them in England, and which knowledge may naturally be of service at a future time. The Yeomanry officer, how ever, can have no reason of that kind to produce, as the utmost to which his exertions can be required of him is in the county to which he belongs. Consequently, as no advantage can be gained by his appearing in his provincial uniform, and mistakes are liable to arise from it, I think you must concur with me that it would be well if such a practice were discontinued. " I am, Sir, your humble servant, " A DRAGOON OFFICER." THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. The present is a good number ; a better than we have had for some months. No. 9of " Mofussil Stations," and " the Collector of Kaareecapore" are as light and agreeable as need be ; whilst the articles on the Sanscrit Language, and Literature, are as learned as the most devoted Orientalist can desire. One of the most important papers in the magazine is, how ever, the close of Lieutenant Burnes's Memoir on the Commercial Communications of Bukhara and Central Asia. Every merchant and manu facturer ought to read it. After detailing most minutely the nature of the commerce carried on by Bokhara, Lieutenant Burnes says— " To a mercantile country like England, a demand for goods is of the highest moment, and it is to be presumed that increase of demand will generally be attended with a diminution of price, while the increased sale would still bring an adequate profit to the manufacturer. A more extended exportation of British goods into these countries, in particular of white clothe, muslins, and woollens, I am assured by the first merchants, and even by the Vizier of Bokhara, would have the immediate ef fect of driving the Russians from that branch of Com merce. The present exports of these articles from that country have been gradually declining, and the increase of the custom-house duties of Cabool affords the best evi dence of the cause, the late increase of our own exports. I have taken pains to investigate this fact in other quar ters, and we may not only throw the Russian part of this trade into the hands of our merchants, hut very materially augment the trade of Toorkistan in the whole of these articles. There are merchants in Cahoot, who would willingly push still farther their speculations, though some of them have a capital of eight or ten lacs or rupees floating in tl e Toorkistan trade. The transport of tner cbandize by the rout of Cabool costs little, and if Russia navigates the Volgs, the greatest of the European rivers, Britain can command like facilities by two more grand navigable streams, the Ganges and Indus." THE EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. We cannot say much in favour of the present number of this Magazine. It is evidently starved by the proprietor, and neglected by the editor, if there be one, which some of the articles before us would justify our doubting. THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY. The improvement which we noted as having taken place some time:ago in this Magazine, under the conduct of Mr. W. Fox, still continues to manifest itself. It is now both entertaining and instructive in a high degree. Its grave articles are as sound as those of the Westminster Re view, whilst its light contributions are as read able as anything in the Metropolitan or New Monthly. The following extract treats of a hackneyed subject, " The Setting Sail of a Man-of-war ;" but the beauty of the description will prove our justification for giving it:— " Up and down' was sung out from the forecastle ; then stopper the cable,' and pall the capstern,' from the quarter-deck ; and unship the bars,' all hands make sail,' followed, and instantly the shrouds on either side were filled with men like swarming bees; no voice was heard hut his who gave command, and a noble voice it was ; but his words were repeated in the outpoured shril ness of the silver calls of the boatswain and his mates ; and when every man bad set his foot in the rigging, with hands grasping the ratlines, Away aloft l'—away the swarm rushed with an upward rapidity, as if the life of each depended on his being first. There was another pause; then ' trice up, lay (lie) out,' and the long-out stretched naked limbs of the ship were everywhere, up mingling in the blue of the sky, and down and out over the sea, alive with creeping things, hurrying out to their extremities, between them and certain destruction was a curved, swinging, loose rope, on which they struck their feet: this was all that held them from plunging into the sea, or cra s hi ng t o mummy on t h e d ec k. S trange as it is, reader, there is not an atom of danger in this. I never saw an accidental fall from a ship's yards in my life." • • • • " It is in vain that you will look even in the most skilfully manned merchant vessels for any thing which can glimpse a conception of a ship of war making sail from bar anchorage. In a merchantman the sails are spread and set stragglingly and partially ; portions tumble down, flap about, and slowly, creepingly spread at intervals, and from the several points ; but with the words 1 above quoted, the instant flashing effect is magical and magnificent; the minute•ago-naked masts, beams, and yards, the whole of the uptowering scaffolding and beautiful skeleton is clothed in fifteen thousand feet of graceful drapery, so perfectly fitted, and so admirably put on ; then out it swells and curves in the wind—it is beauty itself. Not a word is spoken till belay !' then the rumbling of four or five hundred stamping feet; the rattling of blocks and pulleys, the whirring of ropes, and the grinding of the massive beams which are by these adjusted in their required positions, are all at once stopped. Still the immense and splendidly compact machine lies motionless; the anchor has not yet quitted its mighty grip of the solid ground, ten fathoms beneath the surface of that glassy field on which she sits, but ready for her start. ' Ship the capstern bars,' a few more turns and the anchor is away ; Man the cat and fish' (odd things there are in a ship, reader, but I cannot stop to explain), the pond and gorgeous mass of machinery, slowly gathering progress, glides round to her destined track." THE SP 0 RTIIY G MAGAZINE. THE NEW SPORTING lIIAGAZIiVE. We almost fear to couple the old and the young dog together, inasmuch as there appears symptoms of their long snarl coming to a down right fight. The " old 'un" threaten the youngster with Chancery injunctions for pub lishing Nimrod's papers, and the latter retarts by a review, furiously cutting up the last double number of the former. Verily we see little need for this quarrelling; the field is wide enough for both. But besides this we would remind them that whatever grievances each may think he has to allege against the other, the public care not one farthing for !4tn, and that:strictures upon one anothcor's Frformances only excite the laugh• ter of by-staudt'rs. We have been induced to say this much, because we really feel that both may flourish together, to the delight and edifi cation of the sporting world. The Old Magazine boasts of the contributions of Octogenarian, with whose reminiscences this month we have been much pleased; but the New Magazine has another Nimrod, who has pleased us as much. We speak always under -correction, for we do not pretend to enter into the minutia which perhaps mark the distinguishing merits of each work, being neither horse jockeys, dog fanciers, nor cock fighters. MILLER'S GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. Th e third number of the ninth edition of this old standard work, revised and altered ac cording to the latest system of botany, has been published with the Magazines. It fulfils the promises made at the commencement of the series. TILE ANIMAL KINGDOM. No. IX. Another translation from the latest French editions of Cuvier's well-known work on Na tural History. The translation—so far as we can judge from a hasty perusal—is accurate and close, and the engravings of the different classes of animals executed with much skill. The work is cheap at a shilling. TAIT' S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. . There is one prevailing defect in this Number— a‘Chrect,-Ly the bye, of which it cannot be oftCT' accused—dulness. There is good sense in many of the articles, but not an atom of freshness, smartness or vivacity. Even the Essay "On the Miseries of Artificial Teeth," which might, in ingenious hands, have been made an amusing one, is as heavy as the National Debt, and as dull as a sermon on original sin. The two best articles in the Number are those on " Trades' Unions" and on " Jardine's Natural History of Monkeys." There is also a curious calcula tion respecting the comparative sales of our cheap and dear periodicals, the result of which has convinced Mr. Tait, that if he wishes to make a fortune by his Magazine, he must forth with reduce its price from half-a-crown to a shilling. We hope this bold reduction may answer his expections. THE LADIES' CABINET. This is a very fair sample of one of our cheap Magazines, giving us one or two light prose tales, some passable verse, a landscape engraving, and the Ladies' Fashions of the month : and all this for sixpence ! As the work has already reached its twenty-fifth Number, it has passed its noviciate, and will, we suppose, take rank among the more enduring periodicals of the day. THE FIELD NATURALIST. A periodical of a very miscellaneous character, embracing, inter alia, notices of animals, plants, minerals, the structure of the earth, and appear ances of the sky. The work is under the avowed management of Mr. James Rennie, Professor of Zoology at King's College. The little wood cuts of trees and shrubs are well executed. THE MONTHLY REVIEW. The review - s in this number are not so good , as they usually are. Of the abstracts of the books brought under notice, no complaint can be made; but the observations of the Reviewer betray occasionally a degree of shallowness, which a little caution would conceal. The fol lowing is an instance of the kind of obser vations to which we allude. Speaking of Mr. Carne's Letters from Switzerland and Italy, the Reviewer says, " Switzerland is further deficient in that refined taste in the arts which belongs to the Italians, and various others of their neighbours; but to compensate for this, there is, with a stanch independence, a congenial frankness of demeanour in the Swiss. The wreath, however, of eulogy, which is woven by Mr. Carne thus far, is stripped of many of its leaves, when he comes to consider the tone of gain which pervades every link of the Swiss population, and even is found among those who, dwelling amongst the majestic sce nery of the country, ought to have a proper contempt . for the dross of the earth beneath them." This, whether adopted from Mr. Carne or the Reviewer's own, is sheer nonsense. Mountains are very fine things to look at, but they are more prone to give an appetite for breakfasts than to furnish them. It is only by the greatest industry or " love of gain," if the Reviewer likes the term better, that the Swiss are enabled to exist. YORKSHIRE MARKETS. HALIFAL—The demand for English wool of all kinds was very brisk at this market, last Saturday, and prices were again a little higher. Stuff goods were likewise in much demand, and the business done in them was very considerable. HUDDERSFIELD. —There was not quite so much busi ness done at this market, last Tuesday, as there was on the Tuestitty preceding, but which may be attributed to the season of the year, and the storminess of the day, rather than to any declension in the state of trade. Bawnronn...—The stuff trade was still a little brisker at this marker, last Thursday, than it was on the Thursday prece lintr, and an advance in the price of both yarn and manufacture was generally obtained. In the raw material there were also very large transactions effected among the woolstaplers and spinners, and likewise among the woolstaplers themselves. LEEDS.—Very little business was transacted in the Leeds cloth balls on Tuesday last.—Halifax Express. The High Constableship of the Holbozn di vision is now vacant by the death of Mr. Smart. Four teen candidates for the vacant office are now in the field, the most popular of whom is Summersell, the principal turnkey of the House of Correction. The election will take place at the Middlesex Sessions House on Thursday next. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S MOTHER,- The first part of the forthcoming work by the Duchess of Abrantes, entitled " The Celebrated Women of all Ages," to be published on the 10th inst, will include a very curious account of Madame Letitia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon. Great expectations are entertained in the literary world of the interest and importance of this un dertaking, which is to be continued on the Ist of every succeeding month, in parts of the octavo size, at 3s. 6d. each of which is to contain four fine Portraits and Me moirs. A splendid folio edition at 103. 6d. ; each part is also to he published on the same day with Portraits four times the size. It is therefore necessary that all orders should be given to the various booksellers forthwith, to prevent disappointment, and care should be observed in stating the particular edition required, as a very limited number of the folio one will be printed off. HIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY . FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. N.N.N. Arrived and remain the Pero, Rutter, from. Mauritius. Sailed most of the outward bound. The Don Pedro, Portuguese frigate, Bertrand, from Lisbon, sailed Bid ult. PowrsmouTit, JAN. 2.—Wind N. W.—Sailed the Upton Cas tle, Duggan, and Prince George, Shaw, for Bombay ; Golden, Spring, for Fernando Po; Beeswing, Smith, for Oporto; his Majesty's ship Lynx, for Sierra Leone; Eagle, Darby, for Co lumbia River; Hannibal, Heberd, for New York; and Caesar, Bothwell, for Demerara. FALMOUTH, Jay. I.—Wind W. toW.N. W., fresh gales, with violent squalls.--Sailed the Firebrand steamer, for Oporto and Lisbon, _ . . PLYMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind W.N.W., squally.— Arrived the Bolivar, Richards, from St. John's, New Brunswick; and his Majesty's ships Plover and Racehorse, from Falmouth. HOLYHEAD. JAN. I.—Arrived the James Holmes, Weries, from Demerara. MARGATE, JAN. `.—Arrived off port the Ford, Palmer, from St. Petcrsburgh. BRISTOL, JAN. a—Arrived the Eliza, Fowler, from New foundland. GLOUCESTER, JAN. I.—Arrived the Marianne, Henry, from Prince Edward's Island. LIVERPOOL, JAN. L—Arrived the Suffolk, M'Donald, from Maranham ; Columbine, from Africa; Brilliant, Lawrence, from Jamaica ; Jane, Birkett, from Laguna; Grace, White, from Virginia; Olive Branch, Dyer, from Savannah ; and Mary, Harrison ; and Shannon, Thomson, from Richebucto. The Lady Douglas, from Sierra Leone to Liverpool, was driven on shore near Pwllhil, on the 21st ult. The Grecian, Salisbury, from Liverpool to the Cape of Good Hope, was wrecked at the entrance of the Mersey, and all on board drowned. The Ugenia, Robinson, from Liverpool to Marseilles, and the Pelican, from Liverpool to Drogheda, are on shore near the Dingle. The Hero of Carnarvon is on shore near Parkgate, but expected to be got off. The George, Westray, is totally wrecked, near Whitehaven. The Berwick-upon-Tweed; Muir, from Liverpool to Shields, is on shore on the Herd Sand, and bilged. The Auchmuty, Davison, was lost on Scroby Sand on Tues day night. The Elizabeth, Sanderson, from Maranham to Liverpool, is on shore near Milford. The John, of Inverness, Valiant, of Sunderland, Bolivar, of Aberdeen, and Argo, of Workington, were driven on shore at Sligo, 31st ult. The Atlantic, from Liverpool to New York, was on shote at Fair Rochaway, 9th ult., and bilged. - ---- ---- - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE GREAT DONCASTER ST. LEGER. York, Wednesday evening, Seven o'Clock. The nominations commenced this day, and have, as usual, excited very great interest; up to the time of closing our parcel, the following horses were named : Mr. Orde's ch. 1. Lilly of the Valley, by Syntax—Tomboy's d. Mr. Ridsdale's b. f. Marcellina, by Lottery—Marchesa. Sir J. Boswell's ch. c. Gen. Chasse, by Actaeon—Hambletonia. Mr. Nasmey's bl. c. Sir 'William, by Camel—Wedlock's dam. Mr. Allanson's b. c. Cashier, by Banker—Lady Moore Carew's d. Mr. Taylor's b. f. by Lottery—Madame de Sevigny's dam. Mr. Attwood's Ur. c. Polander, by Lottery—Gin. Mr. Arnold's br. c. Guadaloupe, by Velocipede—Spec. Mr. Gully's gr. c. Viator, by Stumps—Katherine. Mr. Watts's b. c. Bubastes, by Blacklock. Mr. Powlett's br. c. by Figaro or Lottery—Miss Fanny's dam. Mr. Armitage's b. c. by Velocipede—dam by Whisker. Mr. Armitage's ch. f. by Velocipede—Nonplus's dam. Duke of Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso by Velocipede—Juliana Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Blacklock—Mrs. Rye. Major Yarburgh's br. f, by Velocipede—Laurel's dam. General Sharpe's gr. f. Matilda, by Malek—Fair Helen. Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Muley—Bequest. Duke of Cleveland's b. c. Guardian, brother to Trustee. Duke of Cleveland'sbr. c. Shelah, by St. Patrick—Emiliana's d. Lord Kelburne's br. f. Sister to Retainer, by Jerry. . The entry does not close until twelve o'clock to-night, by which Scott's horses and many others will be named. The entries at London and Newmarket amount to twenty-two, and include Bentley, Rosale, &c. York, Thursday morning. At twelve o'clock last night the entries concluded. The following were added after our parcel left at seven o'clock : Mr. Walker's Delirium. Mr. Walker's Cotillion. Mr. Walker's Velocity. Mr. Maxwell's Buccaneer. Mr. It. Bewers's Mr. Merryman. Lord Chesterfield's Mammoth. Lord Chesterfield's Alexis. Mr. W. Richardson's b. f. by Young Phantom. Mr. W. Richardson's Lady Brownlock. Mr. W. Richardson's Beverley. Mr. French's Miranda. Mr. Bell's b. c. by Brutandorf. Mr. Marson's bl. c. Louden. Mr. E. Bower's Logic. Mr. Clegg's br. 1. Eleanor. Sir R. Bulkeley's Tom Jones. Mr. W. Chifney's c.—Scheme. Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Darius. Mr. Beardsworth's c. by Manfred. Mr. Mostyn's Ruben Bess. Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime. Mr. J. Smith's Brother to Chorister. Mr. Crompton's Mellerstein. Mr. W. Crompton's Mayflower. Mr. Skipsey's Inheritor. Mr. Heseltine's Wailably Baylock. Mr. Fox's c. by Figaro—Governess. Mr. Fox's Goldbeater. SOUTH COUNTRY ENTRY FOR THE ST. LEGER. Sir M. Wood's Charivari. Sir M. Wood's Brother to Marpessa. Mr. Nevill's Amadon. Sir J. Gerard's Billinge. Mr. Greatrex's Trulla colt. Mr. Greatrex's Lady Neville colt. Mr. Bigg's Muliana. Mr. E. Peel's Tarick. Mr. Bristow's Donald. Lord Westminster's Touchstone. Mr. Batson's Plenipo. Sir S. Graham's Zulima. Duke of Rutland's c. by St. Patrick. Colonel Peel's Rosalie. Colonel Peel's Miss Ellen. Mr. W. Edward's Royal William. Mr. Yates's Bentley. Mr. Mills's Brother to Kate. Mr. Chifney's Sister to Marcus. Mr. Chisholm's f. by Partisan. Lord Sligo's Bran. Lord Sligo's Shume. TA TTERSALL'S. THE DERBY. —i4ochange yesterday either in Bubastes or Bentley ; 12 to 1 was taken about Mr. Batson's Plenipo, and 18 to 1 about Mr. Walker's Delirium, to small sums ; 2,000 to 100 was laid against Mr. Gully's Viator, and 4,000 to 100 against Mr. Wreford's Freedom ; 20 to 1, however, can scarcely be called the current price against Viator, as no one seemed inclined to " follow suit." Co lonel Cradock's Emigrant was reported to have arrived at John Day's stables, at Danebury, near Stockbridge ; a gentleman offered to take 23 to 1, but 20 to 1 was the outside price. Colonel Peel's c. by Emilius—Bee in a Bonnet, died on Tuesday, at Newmarket; he had several engagements in the spring, and had been backed for the Derby to a considerable amount ; his complaint was a sore throat, which has latterly affected many horses in several parts of the country. THE OAKS.-7 to I taken about Mr. Walker's Cotil lion. Nothing else mentioned. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week the principal supplies consist of Barley and Flour. The Wheat trade remains dull, at Monday's terms, the samples very tender. Barley, Beans, and Peas, are unaltered. In the Oat trade there is so little doing that rather lower prices are taken to effeet sales. Flour remains as last reported. ARRIVALS. Wheat, I Barley. English 1 2,080 qrs. 1 5,340 qrs. I Irish — 1,040 2 4 , : g t ) s q . r 9. I s,l l gs l a ir c . kr Foreign I • 630 c= SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Calves, and Porkers, was indifferent, both as to numbers and quality. The trade with prime small Beef was somewhat brisk, but otherwise very dull, at Monday's quotations. Mitch Cows, though in limited supply, sold tardily at last week's prices, a useful Short-horns, with her small Calf, producing from 161. to le/. PRICES PER STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s, d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 9 0 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 tl Prime large Oxen... 3 8 4 2 Large coarse Calves 310 4 8 6Large Prime Scots, 310 4 4 Prime small ditto 52 3 4 10 4 5 6 Inferior Sheep Second quality ditto 3234 40 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 410 Suckling Calv es 10s. to2B.f.each Sou thdown W ethers 410 5 2 Quarter o ld Pi g s 12s. to 18s. ea c e l Pitergk Ho g s .... ..... 3 100 SUPPLY, AS PER Cl Beasts. Sheep. I I 430 3,130 lieS STATEMENT. Calves. pigs. 180 I ICO NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL .SIYORKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to e. d. 1 . a. d. to Beet, inferior middling - middling.. 3 0 3 5 prime large 3 2 3 6 ---- prime 3 8 4 0 -- prime small.- 3 4 3 8 Pork, large 3 2 3 6 Veal 3 8 5 2 -small 3 a 4 4 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In describing on Monday last the nature, and pointing out the extent, of the new com mercial league of Germany, we were obliged, from want of room, to postpone some remarks which we had intended on the additional politi cal influence which it would confer upon Prussia, on the effect which it would produce on the German States, and on its ultimate operation on the trade, manufactures, and shipping of Eng land. As Prussia has been the founder of this new commercial confederation, as she has ex pended much diplomacy in bringing some of her confederates to adopt it—as she has been obliged, first, to gain over the greater States to her scheme, and then to employ them as decoys for entrapping the smaller—and as she has pursued her object for years, under all varieties of circumstances, and amid many forbidding discouragements, it cannot be doubted that she expects from its establishment extensive and valuable results. Being at the head of the league, and commanding herself two-thirds of the population which it will embrace, she is entitled to expect that her voice will be. paramount in all its deliberations and proceed ings. The political Diet of Germany may still continue at Frankfort, but Its more important commercial Diet will be transferred to Berlin. The tariff will naturally, therefore, be formed to suit Prussian interests, rather than the interest of the smaller principalities, or those of fo reigners. It would have been too barefaced to have proposed that Prussian Custom House officers should collect the duties or enforce the proliihi• tions of the treaty on the frontiers of her less powerful allies. This, therefore, has not been attempted under the present convention, which assigns to each State the guardianship of its own boundaries, when they form the extreme limits of the union. Thus, Bavaria will protect the Custom House line, and collect the Custom House dues, on the side of Austria, the Tyrol, and a part of France. Wirtemberg will watch the contraband trade from Switzerland, Baden, and the Prussian provinces on the Rhine, and in Westphalia will collect the revenue on the side of Alsace, Belgium, and Holland ; and to Saxony will be intrusted the guardianship of the northern and north-eastern frontier. But in all these cases Prussian commissioners may he united with the custom-house officers of the other States ; and, in fact, may watch and con trol their movements. Prussia, being almost the only member of the Confederacy which has ports and shipping of her own, will acquire additional influence by opening her commercial towns to merchants from the other States, and conferring upon them the same advantages as on her own subjects—nay, by the stipulations of the general treaty, her Consuls will act for them in foreign ports as well as for Prussian citizens. Prussia at present raises a considerable portion of her revenue from custom-house duties. By the last financial accounts of her condition which we have seen, that portion amounted to nearly one-third of her whole income, or more than 2,500,0001. sterling. This source of taxa tion cannot easily be dispensed with in a country which already complains of the weight of its direct imposts, and which labours under the burden of a considerable foreign debt. pier great object will be, therefore, to maintain her present tariff as against importations from abroad, and to impose that tariff on all her con federates. The revenue thus levied, is, indeed, to be divided among them all, in proportion to their population, and thus again Prussia may appear to be nominally a sufferer by sharing with her poorer neighbours a fund raised chiefly on her own subjects ; but by this means she secures herself in the monopoly of a more extensive market, and pays the smaller principalities for their acquiescence in her views. She will thus stretch her power over all the Governments and people, which the league embraces—she will detach them from other nations, so far as restrictive duties form a line of separation —and will, in particular, strengthen her hold over her own Rhenish provinces, by teach ing them to look to Germany, and not to France, for their future supplies. The custom-house system of Prus s i a , t o a certain extent, is extremely judicious. In order to en courage her domestic manufactures, nearly every article which is employed as a raw material is admitted duty free. Thus, in her tariff we find that no tax is imposed upon raw silk, upon cotton, upon wool, or upon other articles used in manufactures. Even cotton-yarn, of which she receives a great quantity from this country, is subjected to only a small tax ; and cast-iron is allowed admission on equally advantageous terms. On the other hand, heavy duties are imposed on the produce of foreign manufacturing indus try. Thus, though raw silk is admitted duty free, a tax of 100 rixdollars is levied on the hundred weight of some kinds of silk fabrics. The same scale of duties will, no doubt, be imposed on the confederate States by their new tariff, and as Prussia is the chief manufac turing kingdom in the association, she will more than make up by her monopoly of manufacturing industry for the trifling loss of a part of her custom-house re venue. To the smaller principalities, whose taxes were chiefly derived from landed property or excise duties, and whose external commerce was comparatively unincumbered, this league must occasion great loss and embarrassment, if the high Prussian tariff is to be maintained. The people of Wirtemberg and Bavaria, instead of receiving their silks from France and Swit zerland or their cottons from England, will be obliged to depend for their supply on the dearer markets and worse commodities of Prussia. Nay, even the internal freedom of trade, and the removal of all obstacles to the circulation of Prussian produce among all the States, independ ently of external tariff's, is looked upon with some jealousy or alarm by some of the State Thus the corn of Prussia will come into com petition with the corn of Wirtemberg, and the iron of Silesia with the iron of the latter king dom. This drawback on the good fortune of some of the States, and even on that of soma of the Prussian manufacturers themselves, 13 honestly enough expressed in the following ex tract from one of the German Papers which ar rived yesterday; the article is dated Berlin The freedom of commerce, which has just beers so greatly extended, fills the manufacturers with joy and hope, and it is anticipated with pleasure that the trade and manufactures of Prussia will receive a favourable im pulse. This joy, however, is not wholly free front appre— hensions, for the manufactures of the neighbouring countries of Germany, especially of Saxony, may raise a dangerous competition. People are at a loss to understand how the diminution which must necessarily ensue in the receipt of taxes by the adoption of the general tariff cars be made good ; and as it is almost impossible to increase the direct taxes, it is believed that a very rigorous prohibitory system will be adopted towards foreign countries." That some of the smaller States will feel it an extreme hardship to be obliged to pay for foreign articles at the high rate of a Prussian tariff, can not for a moment be doubted. The free city