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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the .31t4sager des Chambrcs, Nov. 29. ) PARIS, NOV. 28.-Yesterday the President of the Council anr.ounced in the Chamber the arrest of eight perP,ons lying under heavy inculpations. The events at Lyons appeared to them a favour able opportunity for the execution of certain designs, but the Government was vigilant. To-day at two o'clock three chests full of cartridges were seized, and the clandestine manufactory has been discovered in which the powder was prepared. All the articles employed in the manufacture have been brought to the Prefecture of the Police. This morning, orders for arresting other persons were issued. Some of them have been arrested ; the others have absconded, but the ro:ice are in pursuit of them is compl ete ly b a ffl e d. them. The plot formed by The Government has received this morning Me graphic despatches from Dijon, Strasburg, Lille, Boldeaux, and several other great cities the most perfect tranquillity had constantly prevailed there. FRENCII FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. 28.-Five per Cents., 9Z.1. 95f. Sc. 95f. 94f. 90c. 95c. 90e. 95c. 95f. 94f. 90e. 95f. Of. V.lc. 90c. SOc. 75c. 85c. ,• Four and a Half per Cents., 86f. ,• Four per Cents., SOE; Three per Cents., 6Sf. 35c. . 25c. 20c. 25c ;30c. 40c. 30. 35c. 68f. 40c. 50c. 45c. 40c, 30k!, 30c. ; B a nk S toc k , I,Blof. I,Boof. 1,805 f. I,Blof. 1,807 f. ?irk. • Rente de Nmlec, 80f. 80f. 25c. 35c. 40c. 35c. S9f. 50c, 'M. 60C. 81f. SOf. 60e. '84:1 e ..; Rente d'Espagne, 1014 ; Royal Spanish Loan, ; R en t, Perperuelle d'Espagne, 56 % % % x 4 'A, 56% ; Haytian Loan, 2556 Exch?:,lge on London, one month, paper, 25f 20c. ; money, 25f. 2 0 " c. ; three months, money, 25r 5c.•.-. Lours AzakTtlquv. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the 211or7zing Herald.) Up to a late hour on Tuesday last the city of Lyons was still in the possession of the insurgent workmen. The Duke of Orleans and Marshal Soult arived at Trevaux on Monday last, and found there General Roguet, with whom (after giving audience to a deputation from the citizens of Lyons) they concerted measures for the reduction• of the re volted to obedience. The means of enforcing sub mission were at hand, immense bodies of troops having arrived from all quarters; but the Minister of War would not have recourse to them until per suasion had failed to recall the unhappy insurgents to a sense of duty. Confident hopes were, in con sequence, entertained at Paris that no further blood would be shed. Some attempts wero made by the disaffected to get up an entente at Paris on y Monday last, but were instantt'aeously defeated. Additional arrests had take place that day, but nothing has transpired to r:;ove that they were more than precautionary l'neasures. A report prevailed on the Bourse of Paris on Tuesday that the French Government was about to treat for a new loan of 115,000,000 francs, 4,600,000/. Our correspondent, in a letter dated Tuesday, Nov. 29, says that several additional arrests had taken place in Paris on Sunday and Monday, of persons having been implicated in a Republican con spiracy. Other individuals said to be compromised had fled, a circumstance which gave to the ru moured plot an appearance of reality. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. '29.-Five per Cents., 95f. 25c. nor. 25c. 30e. 25c. 20c. 23c. 30c. 25c. 93f. 20c. 25c. 30c. 2 0 c. 10c. 95f. 95f. 10c. 95f. 95f. sc. 95E 95f. sc. 95f. 94f. 90c. 95f. ; Four and a Half per Cents 86f. 51 , c. ; Four per Cents. 80f. ; Three per Cents. 6Sf. 75c. 70c. 60c. 45c. 5Pc. 55c. 50c. 55c. 60c. 68f. 70c. 60c. 63c. 70c. 50c. 45c. ; Rente de Naples, Blf. 23c. Slf. 81f. 10c. ; Rente d'Espagne, ; Royal Spanish Loan, 74 73N ; Rente Per petuelle d'Espagne, 57 56% 57 57 1 A 14 57 563 i 57 57 1 ,4 57 56 3 4 ; Ilaytian Loan, '255f. 250 f. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 2.5 f. 20c.; money, 25f. 2.0 c.; three months, money, 25f. 5c.-Cours Authentique. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Times.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. I beg to subjoin the translation of a letter which I have just received from Lyons under the date of Friday, the 25th inst. You will see that it is from a person who warmly espouses the interests of the working classes as opposed to those of the master manufacturers and the merchants, and to the con duct of the military and the National Guard. " LYONS, NOV. 25. " You are no doubt aware that the workmen of Lyons, after three days' bloody fighting, have made themselves masters of the town. The National Guard, by their arrogant bearing towards the work wards these disasters. General Ordonneau was made prisoner, and General Roguet at the head of the garrison was driven out of the town. All the important posts—the arsenal, the gunpowder maga zine, the Hotel de Ville, and the barracks—are in the hands of the conquerors. Public and private property has been respected, with the exception of a few houses, the furniture of which has been de stroyed. Nothing positive is yet known as to the eember of the victims; they are variously estimated at from 1,000 to 1,200 killed and wounded. As to developments, let me begin by assuring you that in this insurrection there has been nothing of a political nature. In the beginning some manufacturers' fore men, and a few old soldiers, took the lead, having ex clusively for their object the execution of the tariff, which bad been stipulated between the manufac turers, the authorities of the town, and the foremen of the workshops. Some mobbing had taken place be fore the period of the principal insurrection. The last was not of a more alarming character than those which preceded it, and might have been dissipated if the repeated promises made to the workmen had been ratified. But several imprudent charges of c avalry and vollies of infantry, made without due n otification on the inoffensive groups, carried the ir ritation which prevailed to extremity. Several platoons of the National Guard were beaten and dis t. emed during the night. Preparations for resist tepee were made by the civil and military autho rities, and on their side the workmen procured arms, cast musket-bullets, and carried two guns which they had taken to one of the neighbouring heights. On the following day, cannon and musketry con tinued to thunder in all quarters of the town. The workmen were every where victorious; and at length, in the following night, or rather at one o'clock next morning-, General Roguet left the town at the head of the garrison, assailed by a dreadful fusillade, to which the regular troops replied in close column, the drums beating the charge. Time will not allow me to tell you of the bitter complaints which are raised against the greater part of the ma nufacturers. Severe and destitute of bowels of mercy for these poor people, on whose sweat they have been fattening for a century and a half, their, only answer to the complaints of the work-people has been by sarcasms and vollies of musketry. " Ten centimes additional per yard on the wages of the silk-weaver, and torrents cf blood would have been spared. An arrangement had been made among the masters not to pay the silk-weavers at a higher rate than from 15 to 18 sous per day for the lines! goods. Nose I beg to ask you whether it is possible for the head of a family to maintain himself on such wages in - a town where living is not less ex pensive than at Paris. Thus they were dying of hunger by the hundted. For a long time the nu merous hospitals of this great city were not sufficient for them, The waters of the Rhone served to stifle the sighs of the victims of this odious cupidity. I am not afraid to assert that there is not a city in Europe where industry is more ingenious, or m ore wort h y of interest, than Lyons. There is not one where the people are more laborious or more patient, and, allow me to add, where they are worse paid. It i s, I repeat, the borrow of want which had driven the people to extremity, aggravated by cruel sarcasms and insolent railleries at their misery; and at last it was the vollies of musketry so infamously fired upon them, which drove them to revolt and depair. " I shall never forget the heart-rending spectacle of which I was witness, of those long lines of men with hollow eyes and sickly aspect, the greater part of them without shoes and in rags, exposing them selves without arms to the devouring fire of grape shot and musketry. These workmen, led on by able and intrepid chiefs, have proved a second time to Europe, that even the poorest part of the French population have nothing in common with the popu lace of Bristol. Bold in combat, and moderate after victory, they immediately remember that those who had starved them were also Frenchmen. They instantly forgot their injuries, and thought only of the safety of the town. Security and good order prevail throughout the town, patrols traverse it in directions, thieves do not venture to show them selves, and an attempt to throw open the prisons has been repelled, but not without further bloodshed. " I have already told you that no notification or summons was made by the National Guard. Their cruelty has only been equalled by that of General Roguet, who has doubtless been willing to pay for the robes of his new dignity. He is one of the late batch of Veers. He has evinced a most blood• thirsty disposition, and declared, it is said, that he would rather break his sword than surrender the town : the traces he has left behind him will be long before they are effaced. " Several cries of ' Vive la Republique I' and ' A bas Perier were heard after the fighting, but have not been attended with any Consequences. The apathy of Paris has disgusted the provinces. I can not foresee the future, but I do not believe that Perier can survive the batch of Peers, or the catas trophe of Lyons. Pardon the haste with which I write, and the errors and inaccuracies arising from it." The telegraphic dispatch, of which the commence ment is given in the Moniteur of this morning, is hourly expected. If it arrives before nightfall, you will find it subjoined; in the mean time I annex the article in which the commencement appears : " The Government has received this morning (Sunday, the 27th) by the ordinary courier from Lyons, which reached Paris at the usual hour, a des patch from the Prefect of the Rhone, dated on the 24th, at midnight. This is the first which has been received from that functionary since the events of which that city has been the theatre. "At the departure of the courier, tranquillity continued to prevail throughout the town. The Prefect was still at .the hotel of the Prefecture. The commtinications from without were completely re-established. Incendiary placards, which had ap peared for a moment on the walls, were disavowed even by those whose names were attached to them. " The despatch of the Prefect, after a circumstan tial recital of the events of which the details are now known, concludes with these words—' A pub lic notice will tc-morrow invite the merchants to open their warehouses, the workmen to return to their labour, and all the citizens to resume their customary habits.' " During the 24th instant an attempt was made to spread new alarms as to certain projects which were said to be in reserve for the following night. A second communication, dated the 25th, which reached the President of the Council by an extra ordinary despatch, announces that the night had been perfectly tranquil, and that good order continued to re-establish itself. The shops were re-opened, and the workmen still in arms were already testify ing their impatience to return to their labour. " We learn from all sides that the surrounding population discovers the most decided disposition to oppose themselves to a spirit of anarchy and disor der. Town and country is on this point unanimous. The National Guards offer every where to march if necessary to re-establish the authority of the laws. It is to be hoped there will be no need of patting their devotion to trial. " The brave General Roguet continues to concen trate the forces which arrive to him from all points. Those which ascend the Rhone are to be placed in front of the suburb La Guillotiere, while those which come from the sixth military division will occupy the heights of Fourvieres. Thus every position around the town will be secured, and the prudence of the General in making his resources subservient to the action of the Government, will doubtless thereby contribute to make them superfluous. It can scarcely be doubted that a misguided population will come themselves to claim the protection of the laws, the violation of which has already cost them so dear. " On the t".:6th, at two o'clock, the Prince Royal was at Chissey with the Minister at War. His Royal Highness expected to arrive at Macon to wards midnight, and to join General Roguet on the morning of the 27th. " The journey of the Prince continued every where to awaken the most expressive sentiments of devo t;ms ~dcr, and or horror for anarchy. " The Government has this morning received te legraphic intelligence from Dijon, Strasburg, Lille, Bordeaux, and several other great cities. The most perfect tranquillity had not been interrupted in any of them. " The Prefect of the Rhone has this day forwarded a telegraphic despatch to the President of the Coun cil, dated the 27th, beginning with these words : " Toujours meme tranquillite, j'esptlre que —." This despatch has been interrupted by the approach of night. " Such is now, on the 27th, at midnight, the pre sent state of things, and a summary of the reports which have reached the Government. " It will be seen that every thing is ripe for a so lution, which cannot fail to follow promptly the ar rival of his Royal Highness the Doke of Orleans and of the Marshal, Minister at War." PROCLAMATIONS PUBLISHED AT LYONS ON THE 24th of NOVEMBER. " UNION, FRATERNITY, OBLIVION OF THE PAST. " Men of Lyons !—Our city has been afflicted with too many misfortunes. Let us no longer rejoice the hearts of the enemies of our industry. Citizens, rally round your magistrates, who are, and always will be, at their post, `or the maintenance of public order and tranquillity. " Henceforth and for ever, let our motto be union, fraternity, and complete oblivion of the past.' " The chiefs of workshops are requested to bring im mediately to the office of the Mayor, lists of the workmen employed under them, that means may be taken for the instant distribution of some relief to the necessitous. " The Presidents of the Sections of the workmen are invited to assemble immediately at the Hotel de Ville. " The Mayor of LYONS. " BOISSET, Adjoint. " Men of Lyons !—A few unsteady [individuals have evinced a desire to usurp a power apart from the protect ing authority of the Magistrates, or rather to destroy that authority. Men of Lyons, will you suffer this? Do you wish to sink again into anarchy? Will you submit to the yoke of a handful of factious individuals? No, you will surround me to give me strength to re-establish order and tranquillity. Your city has experienced enough of mis fortune, let us arrest its course. No attack need be feared from without : I answer for it with my bead. " Brave workmen, who have called me your father, , assist me in saving the town from the misfortunes with which it is still threatened. You will not abandon the c tuse of good order, it is your own ; for without order there can be no work. Our enemies within and without rej ice at our misfortunes, and are ready to profit by them. " ' I have given orders for the following arrangements : " Art. I. As the right of giving the pass-word be longs exclusively to superior authority, the posts will recognize that only which shall be sent to them under seal from the Prefecture. ' 6 ' Art. 2. Every individual who shall distribute orders of the day not coming from the Prefecture shall be ar rested, and brought before me to account for his intentions. " Art. 3. For the safety of the town, I require all good citizens to take arms in order to ensure the execution of the measures which I may find it necessary to take for the preservation of public order. " I invite all good citizens capable of performing the duties of staff-officers to offer me their services. " The Councillor of State, " Prefet of the Rhone, DU MOLART. " Lyons, Nov. 24." R NOTICE. " We, Mayor of the town of Croix Rousse, on the well founded complaints of several inhabitants of this town, who have been in danger of being wounded by the shots which are constantly fired from the windows of various houses of the commune, and seeing that the public tran quillity is liabl e to be disturbed by this firing, which has the tendency besides to increase the alarm of the citizens, we invite the inhabitants of the town to cease firing in the streets, courts, gardens, or from the windows of houses, suggesting to them the serious accidents which may arise, and reminding them of the 471st and 473 d articles of the Penal Code. " The Mayor of La Croix Rousse, " RICHAN." " Nov. 24. TO THE INHABITANTS OF LA CROIX ROUSSE. " On the complaint which has been made to us by Mesons. Charpentier and La Chapelle, alai, that certain ill-disposed persons had abused their names by affixing them to a placard, tending to misrepresent and injure the authority of the Magistrates, and to ascribe sentiments to the inhabitants of this town which they have never enter tained, we publish the following : " Men of Lyons,—We, Charpentier and La Chapelle, aine, declares that we protest against an address to the in habitants of Lyons, dated the 23d of November, 1831, commencing with the words Perfidious Magistrates,' and ending with let not its lustre be obscured.' " As this address expresses sentiments which have never been ours, and which, we venture to say, are not those of our comrades, it is due to our honour and our patriotism, to protest against an act which is so much the more base that we never put our names to it. " Done at the Hotel de Ville of Lyons, this 23d of No vember, 1831. " CHARPENTIER and LA CHAPELLE. " The Mayor of La Croix Rousse, fIICIIAN." " Men of Lyons!—Circumstances which we all deplore have caused a suspension of labour. The good spirit of the population has. secured us from the distressing conse quences which might have resulted from it. Public order prevails, tranquillity exists among us, and already the g e . neral wish is, that the workshops should be re-opened. ".Manufacturers, chiefs of workships, and artisans, l e t each of you have confidence ; obliterate the past, and the city shall soon present again the picture of its former har mony, and of its happy activity. " In consequence, I invite all the inhabitants to re-ope n their warehouses and workshops, and to resume the course of their daily occupations. " Hotel de Ville, Nov. 21. " The Mayor of LYONS. " BOISSET, Adjoint. " Approved by the Prefet of the Rhone, " DU MOLART." " TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRECURSECR. " Lyons, Nov. 2 t. " is our duty to explain to you, that in the course of the events which have just taken place at Lyons, no political or seditious insinuations have had any influ ence. We are entirely devoted to Louis Philip, King of the French, and to the constitutional charter. We are animated by sentiments the purest and most fervent for the prosperity of France and for public lihrrty, and every fac tion which would attempt to injure them meets with our cordial detestation. 'We pray you to insert this solemn declaration in your next number. " The Chiefs of Sections of the Silk Weavers of Lyons, " BOUVERY, " SIGAUD, fill aine, " BRET, " CHARMER, " L A BORY, " MASSON-SIBUT, " BIOLLAY, " L. BONARD, • "CH. BOFFERDING, "TARGET, " FALCONNET, " JOUANARD, " BLANCHET, " BROSSE." " B. JACOB, " Lyons, Nov. 24." Five o'clock p. m. It is now two late and too dark to work the tele graph. No despatch of that kind has reached Paris from Lyons to-day. At least none has been suffered to transpire, and with the Minister's professions of frankness, this silence may be regarded as a negative. The Government has adopted the most energetic measures for preventing a similar explosion in other great towns to that which has broken out at Lyons. Marshal Mortier, Duke of Treviso, has received orders to set out for Strasburg, to assume the com mand of the military division of which that great town is the capital. Molitor is under similar orders for Marseilles ; Soult is by this time at Lyons ; Gerard is with army of the north at Maubeuge ; and here in Paris, the military staff being complete, the absence of the Marshal gives rise to no apprehen sion. Thus the armies of France will be formed into so many distinct corps under the orders of the Marshals I have named, for the purpose of simpli fying the administrative duties of the war depart ment, and rendering it unnecessary to maintain a di rect correspondence between the chiefs of a great number of small detachments scattered over the provinces and the head of the War-office in Paris. The Marshals in command of separate corps d'armee will be intrusted with a large discretion, and they alone will now communicate with the Government, receiving communications in their turn from their nu :nerous subordinates. The tranquillity of the capital remains undisturbed. The guards, however, have been doubled, and other measures have been taken for anticipating the effects of any sudden commotion. I have just seen a letter from Rouen, bearing the date of the 27th of November, in which it is said, "We are here quite tranquil. In the workshops we hear commentaries on the events of Lyons, but up to tut. moment nothing like a spirit ul disturbance has shown itelf. This tranquillity certainly does not proceed from the absence of very serious suffer ing among the weavers and the dyers, particularly the former. The spinners, who are the only class employed in great numbers together in large manu factories, although not on high wages, are tolerably well off, and there is no probability of their com mitting themselves by any excess. At the great theatre to-night, the piece announced for represen tation was Napoleon, or Schoenbrunn and St. Helena. In the excess of their prudence the autho rities of the town have given orders for its suppres sion. It is to be replaced by an opera. The accounts from Lyons, of every shade of po litical opinion, are unanimous in their praise of the moderation displayed by the working classes. The troops, before leaving the town, succeeded in throwing the contents of the powder magazine into the Rhone. As a proof of their moderation, an advertisement recommending the convocation of the primary assemblies has been disavowed by the work men. You are aware that such a convocation has for some time been the cue of the Carlist party; and on this occasion it is said to have been sug gested by one of the most active of its organs, the Gazette de Lyons. At the weekly reunion at the Tuileries on Sun day evening, the character of the operations con templated by the Government was spoken of in a way which may best, perhaps, be expressed by the single term " energy." About M. Casimir Perier there is, no doubt, a certain degree of harshness; and as to Soult, it is to be feared that no com punctious visiting of nature would restrain him from the cold and unimpassioned exercise of what he conceives to be his duty. The qualities which seem to be necessary for the discharge of the delicate and important duties which now devolve on them, ap pear to me to bear a singular and striking analogy to those which a surgeon requires for the most delicate of all operations—the Calsarean,—prudence, gentle ness, delicacy, tact, and the savoir faire. For my part, I am disposed to place a very high degree of confidence in the councils of the French Cabinet on this great emergency, and to entertain the most san guine hopes that they will succeed in carrying the country happily and successfully through the serious dangers with which it is now threatened. From the bulletin of this day's Stock-market, which accompanied this communication, you will see that there is little or no movement either way. This can only be regarded as the result of the un certainty in which matters are left by the want of any definitive intelligence from the scene of the late disturbances. In the course of the day I have seen one of the Members of the deputation from the British Board, who assures me that the proclamation for opening of the Session of Parliament has not yet been followed by any order for their recall. L. The great Reform meeting of the county of Tipperary took place last week. Upwards of 10,000 persons were present. THE GHOST-SEER.—This singular romance, which is now published in the Standard Novels, was written in Dresden, in which town Scutu.Ertbecanle ena moured of a beautiful lady, who has been designated by some of his biographers as " FRAULEIN A ," and who, for a time, not only held exclusive possession of his heart, but also influenced his writings. She was the ori ginal of the Princess Eboli, in the play of Don Carlos ; and it is probable that his passion for her might have suggested that important part of the " Ghost Seer," which delineates the mad love entertained by the Prince for the lady whose fascinations first enthralled him, as he saw her under the rays o f t h e se tting sun, praying in the evening solitude of the church in Venice. The " Ghost-Seer," is indeed, just such a story as we can imagine SCIIILLER telling—picturesque, mysterious, worthy of the Venice in which its scenes are laid. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKW 0 OD' S MAGAZINE. " Sotheby's Homer" is an eloquent and acute specimen of criticism ; full of feeling and a nice apprehension of the beautiful. Of course Pro fessor Wilson is the author ; the bantling is his undoubted legitimate offspring ; eyes, mouth, lips, nose, brow, figure, all are as like the father as they can possibly be. The Professor, however, in his notice of the different Homeric trans lations, lays too great a stress on the merits of Cowper, and the demerits of old Chapman. The evangelical writer of the Task—exquisite as that poem is in its way,—has nothing in common with Homer ; we wonder he was not frightened out of his wits by 'merely reading, much less translating him. Chapman, though quaint, old fashioned, and occasionally repulsive, had much of the true Homeric spirit in his composition : in his happier moments his verses have a sonorous grandeur and energy of expres sion, that no other translator of the Iliad has yet attained. " Parliamentary Reform and the French Revolution," though eloquently and forcibly penned, should take for its motto the words of the Litany " Battle, murder, and sudden death." It is the production of an alarmist of the wholesale school. " Narrative of an Imprisonment in France during the Reign of Terror" is one of the most stirring, effective narratives we have ever read. It cannot be read without a heart-thrill. " Fragments from the History of John Bull," is a weak imitation of Arbuthot's delightful allegory. We say weak, for it lacks every thing that it should possess, to render its resemblance to the original complete ; it has neither wit, lightness, nor simplicity ; nei ther continuousness of allegory, nor propriety of diction. " Curliana" is just readable, nothing more. 'We have no space for extracts. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. A discreet, sober, agreeable number, judi ciously varied in the matter, as well as the manner of its contents. " England at the Close of 1831" is a readable paper, though the writer deals too much in speculations. " Rhymes of the Times" are • sprightly and well contrasted, embracing the opinions of an Anti-Reformer and a staunch Reformer. "My First Duel" is a pleasingly told tale, or rather anecdote. " Spa nish Highways and Byeways," full of varied interest and matter for reflection. " Notes of the Month" are less fortunate than usual. MONTHLY REVIEW. V,Te have read with considerable attention the leading criticism in this number, on the absurdity of the arguments of the Millenarians, and more especially of those advanced by Irving, in proof of the true spiritual character of his miracles of the Unknown Tongues—as if any miracle were requisite to prevail on a woman to talk nonsense, as if the greater miracle were not rather to make her hold her tongue ! This review, which is as elaborate as it is sound and judicious in doctrine, should be read by all who desire to see quackery and fanaticism exposed, stark naked, in all their deformity. The reviewer attributes the fana ticism so generally prevalent from the time of the Reformation to the present day, to the right of private judgment, so stoutly insisted on by Lu thcr, and u,auy other Ecclesiastical Reformers. How this may be, we know not, but at any rate the reviewer speaks with caution, and will carry the judgment of his readers along with him. This article is one of the best we ever have seen in the Monthly Review. The remainder are neither above nor below par. NEW 310 A THLY MAGAZINE. Bating a few affectations of style, and much Parliamentary pedantry, this number may be pro nounced an excellent one. The topics discussed, with the exception of the long prosing wire drawn account of Mr. Wyndham, of whom the world of 1831 knows little and cares less, who dying in 1808, was scarcely known by name in 1809 ; who, in short, is as much forgotten as if he had never existed—with this solitary excep tion, the subjects discussed are happily suited to the taste and temper of the times; so much is this the case, that in order to cater duly for the season, Mr. Bulwer has not thought it beneath him to insert a straggling, incoherent story about " Burking," of which the less said the better, both, we conceive, for author and editor. " A Foreigner in England" is a slight but piquant notice of Prince Puckler Muskau's late most inaccurate but most amusing volume of travels. " The Man of the Times, Lord Brougham," is well hit off by the artist not less than by the writer. Both seem to have worked con anrnre. " The Knowledge of the World in Men and Books" is passable, though meant to be pro found. The author quotes with praise a com pliment paid by Sir J. Suckling to a lady, to the effect that he would pronounce her name " to save a ship from perishing sometimes." What hyperbolical trash ! In the very worst spirit of Euphuism ! " Margaret Sunderland," —the word " Sunderland" is just now provoca tive of any thing but pleasing pathos--is a pretty sentimental story, short and readable. " Romance and Reality" takes a favourable, an uncommonly favourable, view of Miss Lan. don's lately published romance. We know not which is the most impassioned —the novelist or her critic. " Poem ;by the Author of the Corn Law Rhymes," is full of vigour and mean ing, though the latter is somewhat recondite. Mr. Elliott has the true materiel of a poet about him ; but he should practice the bard's most difficult lesson, humility. We do not like to se e the memory of Byron aspersed by a professed imitator. The following allusion to Napoleon is tersely poetic : " Like Phidian marble he endured." Unluckily it is at variance with Barry O'Meara's narrative. " Reminiscences of Wyndham" are of the good old school of twaddle. Why not reminiscences of old Banker ? He is much more modern, and stands out far more promi nently on the forehead of the age. " The Monthly Commentary" is desult ory , anecdotical, but not sufficiently pungent, save in the allusion to Fraser's Magazine. FRASER' S MAGZINE. A capital number, though abounding as usual too much in personalities. " The Letter to Mr. Bulwer"—we say nothing of its spirit, which we strongly deprecate—is so far as style goes, a model of sly, easy, familiar, cutting sarcasm, " On the Separate Existence of the Soul"—what a title for a tale—is from the pen of the Ettrick Shepherd. We eschew all Hogg's prose stories. The worthy Shepherd perpetually mistakes coarseness for strength, and caricature for humour. " The Poet's Aspiration" concludes with the author's wish to he a Pindar, —a natural and laudable desire, but as hopeless, we fear, as Mr. Croker's chance of immorta- lity, as an author and orator. A magazine minstrel should content himself with being a Haynes Bayley. " German Poetry" is an ably penned article, from the pen of an experienced German scholar. " Dan in Ireland" is worth reading, if only from the account it gives of the present state of the Irish Church : " You ask respecting the present state of the Established Church. I can only say, it is just as Dan could wish it to be. Nothing can be more deplorable. In five counties in the south and west of Ireland, tithes are almost entirely withheld. Such is the strength of the combination that has been formed against them, that even those who aie well disposed to pay are deterred from so doing, lest they should incur the vengeance of the insurgents. Their plan is sufficiently simple and effective. Tithes are demanded ; they are refused. An appeal is had to law, which of course determines the matter in favour of the clergyman, A de cree issues ; perhaps no one can be found to execute it : if it be executed, and cattle and corn are distrained, no body will be found to buy them. The people are all in league against the law, which is thus rendered a dead letter. The remedy of the clergy is perfect, if it could be enforced ; but when they come to employ it for the protection of their property, they find themselves like the gentleman who was roused to defend himself against an attack of robbers, and found that his servant had watered his pistols. " Indeed, my dear friend, your heart would bleed if you knew the condition to which good and learned men are reduced by this outrageous system—men, many of them, who, when they were in the receipt of their legal incomes were the best friends of the poor in their respect tive neighbourhoods. You know our friend Peter Roe; you know how he always employed his income ; how he went about doing good, and counted not any thing that he possessed his own, as long as there existed within his reach human wretchedness that could be relieved by it. lie would be this moment without the means of providing for his family if he had not friends who have ministered to his necessities ! There is a large sum owing to him—not less than about ,2,000/. !—and yet he cannot con trive to collect as much as would pay his curates ! Many others are in similar circumstances, with large nominal preferments, from which they cannot obtain a single six pence; and yet with families to support, with children co educate, and with an appearance to maintain in the world. Some of them have sold their stock, some their libraries ! and some of them, alas ! educated, Christian gentlemen, are driven to solicit pecuniary contributions! Am I not right, therefore, in saying that the Church of Ireland is just as Dan could wish it to be ?" METROPOLITAN. Decidedly one of the most improving publi cations of the day, written without exaggeration or an undue eye to effect, but solely to please and to edify on legitimate principles. One great recommendation this magazine possesses is its perfect freedom from cant and fine writing. By fine writing we mean nonsense, such as abound in some of the huge, ambitious poems that the last few years have given birth to. " How will the Question be Settled ?" is a spirited article, penned in the right vein, and coming to the only correct conclusion. " A View of Modern English Literature" is by James Montgomery, the celebrated author of that enchanting poem, " The World before the Flood." It proves that he is no less able as a prose-writer than as a poet. The subjoined remarks on the Scotch novels strike us as being eminently appropriate:— " I alluded to Sir Walter Scott as the author of the Waverley Novels,' as they are now significantly called, the Great Unknown' having disappeared in the person of 'the Mighty Minstrel of the North,' as the worthy Baronet had been previously called in his character of poet. These, as the productions of one mind, exuberant beyond example in this cold climate, are undoubtedly the most extraordi nary works of the age; and it might perhaps be added, the most faulty that i❑ any age have exercised despotic do minion over readers of every kind, in such various ways, and for so long a time. A higher tribute cannot be paid to the sovereignty of genius, than is implied in this cen sure; for what must that excellence be which can afford such a foil, or endure such a drawback ! It is no small merit in these to have so quickened the cloyed appetites of circulating-library readers for purer entertainment, that the dullness, froth, and sentimentality which were pre viously the staple ware of Leadenhall-street, and other wholesale manufacturers of novels for the spring and fall f►shions, are no longer tolerable, and fictions of far nobler and more intellectual character are substituted, though, of course, the mass is not wholly purified, and the million are the vulgar still. " The principal literary objections to these inimitable tales (for I meddle not with their morality) in after-times will be, that the author, in his best performances, has blended fact and fiction both in incidents and characters so frequently, and made his pictures at once so natural to life, yet often so contrary to historical verity, that hence forward it will be difficult to distinguish the imagery from the real with regard to one or the other ; thus the credulity of ages to come will be abused in the estimate of men, and the identity of events by the glowing illusion of his pages, in which the details are so minute and exquisite, that the truth of painting will bring the author credit for truth of every other kind, and most, it may be, where he least deserves it." THE LITERARY GUARDIAN. The second part of this amusing little miscel lany is now before us, and on a hasty inspection of its contents, we feel justified in asserting that the topics discussed have at least the merit of seasonableness and variety. The criticisms, though necessarily brief, are full of pith and mat ter, and an air of bold, reckless independence seems to pervade the work, which in these days, when literature is a matter of sect and party, can not be too highly praised. The work is besides remarkably cheap, and supplies us with the sub stance of a thick octavo volume, for the com paratively insignificant price of eightpence Wonders will never cease. SPORTING MAGAZINE. This periodical will interest a numerous and, we believe, an increasing class of readers. It possesses the recommendation of having all th e earliest intelligence on the various sports of the field, &c., and is liberally embellished with four appropriate engravings. GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. A valuable work in its way, wholly of a prac tical character. WORLD OF FASHION-GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF FASHION. These two works, which are manufactured in the same laboratory, deserve the encouragement of all ladies and gentlemen who have any pre tensions to fashion, or fashionable pursuits, from the great pains they take to secure the most cor- THE A gentleman w, morning from Glom factory, situated abo was on fire that morn to the ground. The an incendiary. THE LATE M letter front Paris, Not this day in the cemett most respectably attei lowed it, among whi lonels DE MONTMO. Captain Dir. Lots ; th, of the Irish Colleges Mr. JAMES ROCHE,' The Marquis lately returned to E cupying Bifrons Hoi seat lately purchased rnents are making in pending on it ; from daily employed. Thy MARIA CONYNGHAM Wootton Court, with FATAL AFFR. KEN report affray took place bet, in some part of the lives were lost. Accoi was escorting some pi netted with tithes, wl soldiers fired with dread much anxiety for th, Dublin Morning 11 We are happy dication of an impro , houses in the town (luring the week, foi sides, that there is a shawls, and that wort had. During the e; considerable increase but, for the last tw( stationary. This w; rate of 22/. per day.— As a preventat. Conference drink eves THE CITY 0 years the population In 1791 it contained (pence of the siege to less than 80,000. and in 1827 the fixed hut th-re was a float. which, with 8,600, the imitates of the barr pitals, made the total population at that period fhe population of the suburbs may be stated 0. thus making, at the p e riod of the census an 187,723 ; at the prestnt period it may be gate d numbers, at 200,000. 001:,,4',.:intip98°I, .T.leat;isi : rect sketches of the prevailing dresses, &c."O month. The literary contents are innocent;:;.' e S e tzk ß .... agreeable. Altogether, the works are got pe c r er c acon d s:' very creditable style, evidently without reg 3 ited n .. t : ****** Z o lePer Ceiii . expence. _ r _era An n . r'lltednt. ise EAST INDIA MAGAZINE ~,1 141 s n , g itr . .' Is this month a magazine of facts and irs`f; i. l'51111%11o71Inte::/: tics. Much research is evident in all iii Al l: 1 t , 880 ... ticks. We hope they will be duly appre Pa , ,,,„ 1 _ 1, 4 , 4 . or TO/ THE HARMONIC 01V. taziliZ Winds , A musical melange, bearing, we undel,?,%Yres a high character among those who are N`nnb i rki?V,,,;,y, qualified than ourselves for appreciating its li:h 8 ' 24 ...... 0 ~„,0 5 ... ....... ; Vs ...... LA BELLE A S SEMB LEE. t i 4l 'ala. . .... The carefluly finished engraving Countess of Rosebery, by Thompson, kIP _rer s or miniature painting by Collen, will alone 5 to make this number a general favourite. tear mime, indeed in all respects it is a very superior i r " - -----...o_l___npao : tier, and just the work to occupy a distinge Air s Zl c cEs 4 i n place in the library of a lady of rank and 1 1 4% 8 ' Iller , N1Z.., 3 , . The critical notices are short, but nealbta.€ e w .. 7 '....1 Le, b e e rt , t. ........ unaffected. 1 Yet L • N pc Al a e mal Stoe _ rty /41 :nal Sto LITERATURE. a=at i l e Peer); NEW EDITION the GREAT PLAGUE in L O.ND ON in i P illterica., This is a very opportune republication 00 44,11;•x, work of gradt interest, and can hardly 1 1 C 4Za n gen meet with an extensive sale. The pie 1 tz.": l ,ers . . draws of the situation of this great mete' a 'aet c rl e :;*: when suffering under so awful a visitatO .ent'°}l wA• 1. 38 . Providence, is truly terrific and appalling• scenes it delineates are such as imagination' ANT hardly embody, for the most vivid fang ll-N, i ni l i ti not pourtray to the mind half the horror / . 1; t . Three -, miseries that the reality served to pro— n,l ye i . , 7 i Indeed, the history of this astounding O f : k i e l t t ° 11; Z i I , is without its parallel in the whole range v.' b . eco rrie world's records, unless the siege of Jere " 4 ki o ft ° ' ce under the Roman General Titus, can f' ; --- ' A EA.] another. We can therefore recommell- '' tia 4 if Y Wa Hs] book to the attention of our readers, in tti I :•••u A J. ,-„ beau • confidence that the reading will not be ' ,aki Sing '" • in vain. t) ng 11l THE CHAMELEON. LONDON, 1 89 ,1 1 )th r o ti le SLE A truly appropriate name for an Anna' ittil i a / 41 d the we suppose from its appearance, and the eel °,1,-,'Elt• its contents, we must entitle it—full of llt t a o ins 11 ) 1 ' ' Cak t , and light sparkling readings. Mr. A) l i it, Th Will of Glasgow, is the editor, and, as we under) % :' 7l :et s ,l ) ,'„'' the sole contributor ; in this twofold capaq w•st, N at, 3 o f 4 ~,, ... has displayed great versatility of talent, Rea * • t i t en I T Col 6 tug us quaint mixtures of the grave a° • of tales, essays, poems, criticisms, and ele ° inatic compositions. Most of these are I, written ; but we should have preferred to git seen more than one mind engaged on the work. The volume is remarkably elegant!, bound in green silk, and embellished Ni 111Intsco pretty steel engraving of an exquisite lan th r , Ltßi u on the banks of the Rhine. COITi EARL GREY and Mr. HENRY DRUMg ° DAI We arc requested by the Duke of Richni ° lay the following correspondenc e before the PutAt i ,, i. " Albury-park, Not . i f WCZI,„ at la " MY Loao,—l regret to learn from the Duke °,.j - ...... moml, that some expressions in my letter to the P i g: el the Times of this day's date are construed by Yl f r t ;4 ea . "'"'". ship to imply an attack upon your motives, i_ ro a, - ...... ' being, as I intended, an opinion upon your li%€'`....2lernai measures. As nothing was farther from Inrriiptit er4 wish, than to impute any thin g to yo u r Lordstl i k tqke con , dually, while I reserve the ri g ht of declaring my l l' L . t h OM on your Lordship's public measures, I have onlY i '4 44 press the sincere regret I feel at any expressions °, , NI I , having given unintentional pain to your Lordship . lt 4, 1 the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient servao,,,t' o h t - to " To Earl Grey. " HENRY DRUIVO` .1 141 1 Y p a il osi hr ,„ " Downing-street, Nog' pre z i d - , 4, " sra,—l have had the honour of receiving You L f f or et4to n of yesterday, which has been brought to me by t ' e t i p ro Per of Richmond, and beg leave to express my s atisfic t' rtlbli t your assurance that ' nothing was further fril i '4l o ,. °FE object or wish than to impute to me individua/ 1 40 4 . G em thin g improper ; and that while you reserve to o f; 'Y dire the right (which it never could be my wish or d t 4 ll eelf t-ntion to dispute) of declaring yourself freely oa ° II tea„ we tri lic measures, you felt sincere r egre t at a ny e I' th v er ead having given me unintentional pain.' :, tit tle 4, I shall feel it necessary, as was und e rstood 0 111 i i, • Ilt h you and the Duke of Richmond, to g ive publiciti o . 41 ° 1 4t o th letter which I have received from you, and h s j n eth o & honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ti ',. `at to' of 4, Or' th ilator, 4 r i kat h ere i A gentleman who arrived in town on M o o s 'ttit t - morning from Gloucester, states that a large laeg,,,'tlt e ) wh y ( factory, situated about four miles from High WI bitrk o f the was on fire that morning at four o'clock, and nearl o rl l lt D i to the ground. The fire was supposed to be the rttat.4 vet an incendiary. r ell 11 : 4 'vt l e n t ! THE LATE MR. CONWAY.—(Extra- 1 00 Aid 11 , 111 --b letter from Paris, Nov. 25. )—" Poor CoawAv 0 0 1 4 , tt e ,, t hat a this day in the cemetery of Montmartre. The fon g o t th , 4 re, i f most respectably attended. About thirty g entle ' , V \. v•isi t , t a lowed it, am o n g whom were General DavEaau_, % :o oP 'l s , e " W iOneis DE MONTMORENCY, ALLEN, and 111.04", 1 1 ,„:"'ts. B, Captain Dir,Lon ; the Rev. Dr. MacswEENv (r,,,, it ke - of the Irish College); Dr. BOWRING ; Dr. HA I.' Yt t . cote , s ~• Mr. JAMES ROCHE," &c. f 44 Sinc e 10 ow e a The Marquis CONYNGHANI and familicoo NI ,i . sat lately returned to England from Italy, and are l ',„ ( li, ° tt l .„ t ‘' thro e cupying Bifrons House, near Canterbury, a iit'erf:,„'"dfic h' seat lately purchased of Mr. TAYLOR. Great i° l ' f r sq o h "'al naents are making in the place, and much mooel, 0 1 1 ;;Ilti d ,erVat, pending on it ; from fifty to one hundred labor c i mi °et ° , daily employed. The Marquis, Marchioness, an 1 N 1 4,, ..,..,- MARIA CONYNGHAM honoured Sir JOHN 80P",,,e' 1 %, .-. rt. Wootton Court, with their company at dinner last , ;1 4 , , ' Ut ie JO li s X FATAL AFFRAY IN THE COUNTY bi llOr tk The; KENNY.—A report prevailed in town yesterday t o , t h "t A m : affray took place between the military and then,,,,', ,' t,,„ --. in some part of the county Kilkenny, in which ~rf,f t litvi,, -38 a lives were lost. Accordin g to this rumour a ruilita r l co r i j e i ,.'eS." was escorting some prisoners, arrested for an otre P o rli i t +he fi soldiersinu netted e h awn firedixtil with tith es, ty with for nts W f e rorn sha k l i; se°.lllll 4 Ve , b ' :e ll t i , Dublin Morning Register. the w hen ,Ireandefx a utl r es eaffe c ec u co e tu. was attempted/ i l r i , p vvb -41 e irt. otii,h i We are happy to state that there is so° / ,;00 - ; th ae n i dication of an improvement in the trade of P a islel' ;e 1111 11,1 1 ." 48 e houses in th e town have engaged a num b er o f 9 0 ,!liti t , l ell ti l durin g th e week , for zebra dresses : an d we WO), f ed t o I sides, th at t h ere i s a slight i mprovement i n el, eff ait k sh„ . shawls, and t h at wor k i n t h at li ne i s rat h er Wit edit k - wn had. During the earlier part of the week, ther i ;,lif l p h lltwl e considerable increase in the numbers on the 5011,',11 'Ned ; - but, for the last two days, they have remained 0 at 1.1 . i n stationary. This week the expenditure has been il l nited rate of 22/. per day.— Glasgow Chronicle. a Itra 1.,0 0 ' 14 " 11 ' As a preventative of the cholera the - ar a N Pe 1.8 01 1 w Conference drink every day champagne-tisan.---F i g R at er of THE CITY OF LYONS.—WitII ill tile se r 4 tlt ' NV,„ I years the population of Lyons has considerably if' e PieOu tit - In 1791 it contained 121,000 inhabitants; but 1° 0 0" a nt l uence of the siege of 1793, the numbers wer e 0&011 ) ,„' for to less than 80,000. In 1802 the numbers Wer e -/ri .44 C' Ind in 1827 the fixed population had increased to 4,3 ,se o lt totn " pr; but th-re was a floatin g population, estimated at,,elt e , o'er which, with 8,600, the inmates of the barrack , 7 s 9,A' 1 0i t i pitals, made the total population at that period 1 5 0,f; , , -4 th he fhe population of the suburbs may be stated at JrA u i r r inc :bus making, at the period of the c e nsus in t or 1, e lOn 187,723 ;at the present period it may be stated' d er to