The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-07 00:00:00

PRICES OF STOCKS THU Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons 4 034% per Cent shut Ditto lied. Rem , 3!4 per Cent. C 4 per Cent. I Assento,l D i s s e n t e d shut Rank Long A nnuities to expire Jan. 3, 18riJ shut (let. 14/ 1959 shutJan. 5 , 1861 , l7 3-16 Jan. 5, WO — April 5, 1880 — Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 1G 3 ,4 Belgian Bonds lOl Ditto Account 10 0 ,4 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 771 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 3rli Milian Bonds 32!4 Ditto Account 32!.$ 2 Columbian Bonds 27,, Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 32 i 4 Ditto Account t'2l4 Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds - Ditto Bonds, 1923 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2.9!.4 Ditto Account 3O Ditto, ti per cent. 4l Ditto Account 4:14 I Neaolitan 9314, DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alien Mining Company £9 11N Anglo Mexican Mining Company (iss. at 51. pin.) 100 - 8 7 % Ditto Subscription ito!anos Mining Company l5O 120 Brazilian Imperial Miffing Co. (issued at 5/. pm.) 20 3! '4 Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 10 Ditto Scrip lO 107.4 Ditto St. John del Rey Cata Bran a Mining Company 4% 5 , ..; British Iron Company • 50 29 British Copper Comp .ny Columbian Mining Company (issued at 51. pm.! 534 II English Mining Company. 12% 23 Hibernian 51;ning Company lO 2 Mexican Mining Company 49y4 3!4 Re .1 del Monte Mining Co.. Registered -1/ . IN. 6d. 33 Ditto Uniegistered 29% United Mexican (issued at 2/. pm.) Ditto Subscription Ditto New Scrip . Union Gold f 1 Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company lOO I.ondon and Birmingham Railway Company l5 London and Greenwich Railway Company 7 Australasia Bank l7 Australian Company 204 Canada Company IS General Steam Navigation Company l3 London and Westminster Bank 5 National Provincial Bank of England Provincial Bank of Ireland Rio Doce Company 2 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l5 PRICES OF SHARES THI 8% 0 34 pm. 193 1474 11% 17% 164 1!4 12 41 2q 74 MAILS. Arrives!. Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 U (quern. &Jersey 0 0 Malta 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 ll Mexico .. 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 I Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 50 minutes after 5. I Evening.... ..... 18 minutes after 6 • HAMBURG, OCT. 1. HEINE, BROTHERS, beg to inform the Pub lic, that the nine last days of drawing of the 64th Great tottery will be the 3d, sth, 10th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 24th of next month. The Wheels of these nine days contain 9,000 Tickets, and 1,200 Prizes of various amounts ; amongst which is the largest Capital Prize of 150,000 Marks. Tickets, warranted undrawn;will be on sale between the 7th and 25th inst., at 136 Marks Banco, or 101. Sterling, say Ten Pounds. Direct for Tickets, but only for whole Tickets, to the above-named Contractors, HEINE, BROTHERS, in HAMBURG, who will attend to any order accompanied with remittances, reach ing them before the 24th inst. Their foreign customers are always furnished with any requisite information, if even not inquired for ; therefore those desirous to purchase have only to write a line or dering the Ticket or Tickets, inclosing the amount of 101. per Ticket in Bank Notes, Bank Post Bills, or any Bankers' Draft, and giving their full and plain direction. Those who favour them by purchasing may confidently rely upon the strictest secresy as to their taking a chance or getting a prize, such being the undeviat ing rule of their old-established and most lucky office, which for more than thirty years stands unrivalled for the continual sale of Grand Prizes, and that to a larger extent than any Lottery Office in the world. P. S.—lf, on receipt of any order, the Tickets should be cleared off, the money will be returned immediately, free of any expense whatever. There is no risk in sending Bank Notes, the Hamburg Mails being conveyed by capital steamers. No letter from Great Britain to Hamburg will be forwarded unless the postage be paid when the letter is put into the post, otherwise the letters remain at the Post-office. MR. BULWER'S NEW ROMANCE. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo., T HE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII By th• Author of " Pelham," " Eugene Aram," " England and the English," &c. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Brulfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. e', Orders received by all respectable Booksellers. THE SUN IS NOW THE LARGEST DAILY PAPER IN LONDON. 1714 " :5 "5, , „gft,„. - - \- - , 45.." • , - 4,41.r.r 'Aka " ~unv LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1834. • We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday, but they contain no news of any importance. The KING is daily becoming more and more unpopular among the liberals on account of his arbitrary proceedings against the press ; and this spirit of unpopularity threatens to reach an alarining height, if he be so ill-advised as to persevere in the punishment of those already convicted of political offences. It is strange that knowing the feelings of his countrymen, LOUIS PHILIPPE should persevere in the only line of policy which is most likely to shake the stability of a throne which he owes more to the caprice of the multitude than to any claim of public service, which he would have ventured to plead on his accession. But so it is, whatever the world may think of such daring. There is no news from Spain of a later date than what we gave yesterday. NEW SEIZURE OF THE " NATIONAL." PARIS, OCT. 4.—A Juge D'lnstruction has taken on him the task of giving the answer of M. Gesquel to our friend M. Carrel. We could not fail to receive to-day a visit from the Justice. A Commissary, accompanied by two agents, came to our office at six o'clock, and seized our Number of this day, or rather the letter of M. Carrell, in which the gentlemen of the Pacquet have discovered the offence of insult to the person of the King, of excitement to hatred, and contempt of the Government. This new prosecution of the National is doubtless a godsend for the Pacquet, to the Police, to the Ministry, and to all our ene mies of every description. M. Thevis has been this morn ing to carry the happy news to the Court, and probably the pedant who transmits to the Journal des Debats the ac count of the marvels of Fontainbleau, will tell us to-morrow what was said of it at the Royal table. There is indeed a noble subject for joy in the return of a man who comes to give himself up to his enemies, to knock at the gate of the prison in which his friends have endured such cruel out rages ; when his honour speaks aloud against the cowards who attacked him in his absence, his justification becomes a transgression—his courage a crime. Certainly the base men who calumniated M. Carrel in the correspondence of their ignoble journals, knew that they were hastening his return ; but this was not enough for them—six months' im prisonment would not suffice for their mean vengeance—it was necessary to bring him within the reach of new prose cutions—to provoke him to the expression of the sentiments which he but lately defended so victoriously before the jus tice of the country. ELEVEN O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.--A Commissary of Police has just come to our office to arrest M. Carrel. As it is not usual for such arrests to be made at night, the friends of M. Carrel answered for him that to-morrow, at ten o'clock, he would be at the service of the Commissary of Police. TOULON, SEPT. 29.—The Eclipse brig has just received orders to put to sea, and go to Alexandria with despatches from the Government for our Consul-General. It is thought that the brig has also letters for Mesno, Lalade, and Roussin, and that from Alexandria it will go to Na poli and Constantinople. The Eclipse is to put to sea this evening. The Triton (of the line) has received, it is said, its sailing. orders. This ship is at present in the Little Road, and will probably go and take the place of the Vile de Marseille in the Levant.—Messager, Oct. 5. M. Carrel had been punctual to the rendezvous till the end of the day ; but he did not think himself obliged to wait the whole night for the result of the orders, which it seems were asked for at Fontainbleau.—National, Oct. 5. PARIS, OCT. 4.—We (the Constitutional) announced yesterday, according to a printed proof of the Sentinelle of Bayonne of the 30th, which we always receive a day be fore the journal, " that a courier of the French Legation had arrived on the 28th, with the news that all the Loans of the Cortes, with the exception of the Royal Loans of Guebhard, were recognized." To-day we receive the Sentinelle of the 30th, with the DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. Incla Stock.— t ,3 Ditto Bond , 14 11 14 pm. South Sca Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151_ _ Excite. Bills, X I,CCO 4O 38 pm. Ditto 500 • <0 18 pm. Ditto Small 4O 38 pm. Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertisel — pm. Bank Stock for Opening tLl) India Stock for Accoun• Consols for Account. 9OA THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds . 27 Dzt o Account 27% Portugueseßonds BON Ditto Account BO% Ditto New 80nd5............83 2L'% Ditto Account B3 5 27 , ,', 3 /'s4 Prussian Bonds lOl% Ditto Bonds, 1822 lOl Russian Bonds, 18:26' 105% Ditto Account lO5 Ditto Metalite 10 2 34 Epanish Bonds 62 N 2 % 114 CO % Ditto Account 62 3 234 1% 60 % Ditto Bonds, 1833 574 Ditto Account 57% French, 5 per cent. - 1. —c. Per cent 4pt .. 3 per cent. F. —c. Exchange f —c. Dutch, 2 1 :4 per cent. f 4 ti, 1 , 1 , Ditto Account 52 LA IA Ditto, 5 per cent 97% 8 Ditto Account following intelligence, printed as that given yesterday in the proof in large type "In the sitting of to-day (the 25th), the Members adopted by a great majority the first article of the law pro posed by the Government, by which are recognia‘.d as debts of the State all the Loans contracted by the Govern ment, both during the time of the Cortes, and since the year 1823, up to this day." We need not point out the contradiction between the proof and the text of the journal. It cannot be accounted for, in our opinion, except on the supposition that the proof was printed after the 'reports spread by the courier himself at Bayonne, and the letters that he may have brought, and the version of the journal itself sent back from Paris to Bayonne by the telegraph, and communicated as official to the journal by the office of the Prefecture. We invite the frank and unreserved explanation of this important fact, from the Sentinelle de Bayonne, which is most favourably situated to obtain details on this subject.—Constitutionnel, Oct. 5. Among the many reforms contemplated by the Spanish Government, we are gly.d to find that the im provement of the system of education which prevails in the public schools has attracted some degree of attention. In no nation in Europe is the education of all classes more neglected at present than in Spain. Properly speaking there is no education in that conn try, for what goes under that venerable name consists in little more than the rudiments of classical learning, with a superabundance of superstitious records of miracles, , adventures of saints, and an acquaintance with old traditionary legends. Science is all but un known, and as for political economy, or the science of government, ninety-nine out of every hundred of the people know nothing whatever about it. What we most complain of is, that in taking steps for improving the course of study in the larger schools, no plan has been introduced for establishing a system of parochial instruction for the benefit of the peasantry—a course which we were prepared to expect, from the well known love of education which prevails among the most distinguished members of the Cabinet. The liberation of Spain may be effected in three months, and the Ministry may enrich her with the freest and purest institutions in the world ; but unless her people are taught the real value and relative importance of their liberty and their privileges, one generation shall not pass away before she will be found loaded with chains at the feet of a tyrant. This most important considera tion should ever be present to Kings and Cabinets, when they prepare to break the bonds of an enslaved people. Without education no man can preserve liberty, nor enjoy its privileges. An ignorant people cannot continue free, because freedom cannot be pre served without that knowledge which is gained by reading, reflection, and an enlarged and liberal expe rience. Burst the bonds of authority, break the chains of arbitrary power, and ignorance will substitute the passions for the despot, whose sway has been abjured. Liberty becomes licentiousness where reason is uncul tivated, and hence the whole of what is gained is a worse species of tyranny for a better. To make a people permanently free, let their emancipators begin with educating them, which will constitute them the guardians of their own rights. Still the following decree is important, as it evinces a disposition to attend more fully to the subject when the state of the country will admit of it : (From the Madrid Gazette of Sept. 28.) ROYAL DECREE. With a view to the formation of a general plan of public instruction which may extend the sphere of learning and contribute to the propagation of knowledge most immedi ately useful, I deemed it proper to appoint, on the 31st of January last, a commission composed of learned men zealous for the advancement of the public welfare ; but considering that the labours of the said commission ought to have for their foundation a practical knowledge of the present state of public instruction in the kingdom, of the literary es tablishments, of the effects produced by the existing plan of study, and of the means which may be relied on for rea lizing beneficial reforms in this important department,—that these indispensable requisites are alone to be found in the Board of General Inspection for Public Instruction and its subordinate officers ; and that, without the aid of the said requisites, it would be hardly possible to form a new system of education adequate to the present wants of the nation, and calculated to exercise an influence sufficiently on the solid instruction of youth and the progress of knowledge, I have decreed, in the name of my august daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel 11., as follows 1. The Board of General Inspection for Public In struction is abolished. 2 A General Directory of Studies will be established in its stead, composed for the present of five regular and two supplementary members. The member first on the list will be named President, and in each case of vacancy his duty will devolve on the senior member according to the date of the appointments. 3. The powers of the General Directory, and the pre rogatives and emoluments of its members will be fixed by a special decree, as soon as, by the plan of studies being formed and approved, the extent of their duties can be as certained and indicated. In the meantime the General Directory will exercise the same attributes and powers which were committed to the suppressed Board by the re gulations of the 25th of November, 1825, and the 13th of March, 1826, tha Secretary and other subordinate officers of that establishment being continued on the same footing as they at present subsist. 4. The General Directory will immediately propose to me, through you, the authors whose writings, in their judg ment should be employed as text-books in the Universities, in order that the course which is to open in October next may be read according to them, following in all other re spects the system and direction of the existing plan of studies. _ _ Vv 5. The General Directory will take cognizance of the state of the Universities and other literary establishments which have been maintained at the charge of the Board of Inspection, and supported by its revenues and dues, in order that they may accurately calculate on ulterior reforms and on the possibility of carrying them into effect. From this inquiry the schools of primary instruction are for the pre sent excepted, the supervision of which is comprehended under the special commission created by my royal decree of the 31st of August last. 6. The General Directory will investigate the labours effectuated by the individuals who were charged with the formation of the system of study on the 31st of January, and, aided by the fund of knowledge and information which the existing state of education may afford them, they will form that plan which they may consider the most con venient and practicable in conformity with the rules of experience, transmitting the same to me through .you for my examination, and for the sanction of my Royal appro bation. _You will thus understand this decree, and will make the necessary provision for the execution thereof. Under the Royal sign manual, in the Pardo, Sept. 25, 1834. To Don Jose Maria Moscoso de Altamira. " Hear the other side," is an admonition as worthy the observance of political judges, as it has ever been of those occupying the judgment-seat in a civil or cri minal court ; and acting in the spirit of this impartial rule, we direct attention to a letter in another part of The Sun, repudiating our strictures on the baneful effects of flogging in the army, more especially in the recent case of Private Hutchinson. We have looked in vain over the letter of our correspondent for a single reason for the continuance of a system as degrading in its infliction, as it has been proved ruinous in its effects, and baneful in its consequences. The writer does not attempt to defend the inhuman prac tice of military torture ; no, he merely considers it " a bad sign of the times, that a soldier cannot be punished by a Court-martial of his Regiment, legally,. and according to the Mutiny Act, for a most unmili tary and insubordinate crime, the sentence of corporal punishment having been passed upon him for that crime, and because he was PROVED beyond all doubt by the Defaulter records of the Regiment to have been a decidedly bad character, without a cry being set up instantly (and especially by those who are most cla- THE BUN LoN 1.) 1- ' COIN T LIESID;A:i , OCTOEL,. ll.' 7, . morous against the army for their want of proper dis cipline !) that the man has been most inhumanly treated! and all those et cmteras of the common run of articles, headed Barbarous military inhumanity.' This, we assure him, is a very easy mode of de fending any abuse, provided it has the sanction of the law. When it was the fashion to burn witches, and when the statutes of the realm enacted such a punish ment for old women caught like so many Pacolets astride a broomstick, doubtless it would have been taken for a very " bad sign of the times," had any person insisted that there were more humane, and quite as efficient means, of restraining the moonlight meetings of hags in league with the Evil One, as by reducing them to ashes. It was likewise said to be " a bad sign of the times," portending rebellion, revo lution, and a countless number of other calamities, when the public began to be of opinion that heretics ought to be suffered to live unmolested—that Papists might be permitted to walk the streets without a fear being entertained of their cutting the throats of the passengers—that the simple theft of sixpence ought not to procure a passport to the gallows—and that rotten boroughs were blots in the constitution of England. Even Magna Charta, in the opinion of King JOHN, was a proof of the evil " signs of the times" in his day, and certainly the Barons, in demanding it, evinced a very great want of respect for the wisdom of their ancestors. In our strictures on the case of HUTCHINSON, of the Guards, our object was to expose the evils of the system, not the personal conduct of the individuals who are merely the instruments by which it is carried into effect. For this reason, and this reason only, did we abstain from making any remarks on some part of the proceedings which seemed to us unworthy of the dignity even of such a Court. But of this no more at present. The crime of HuTcurNsoN, in the first in stance, was getting drunk, and attempting to strike a serjeant; for, on his trial, two eye-witnesses swore that the serjeant did not receive the blow, and, besides, that he provoked, by a brutal aggression on his part, which exceeded human endurance. For this crime, which was not proved in evidence, except the testimony of he accuser be admitted, HuTcHiNsoN was sentenced to receive " three hundred lashes on the bare back,' in the presence of his companions in arms. The sen• tence of the Court was carried into full effect. poor fellow's back was dreadfully lacerated, and not a lash was forgiven him, although he begged for mercy in the name of the World's Redeemer I Afier coming out of the hospital, disgraced, and branded with the infamy of his punishment, he was persecuted by his former associates, and deserted in consequence. In nineteen days he surrendered himself, when he was a second time put on his trial, arraigned for deserting his regiment, and stealing a pair of old boots which were on his legs at the very moment. He protested against the trial, on the ground of the shortness of the notice The he had received, and the absence of a material witness, who would be present, if the Court would adjourn the trial for one day. This was refused, as was also a re quest that he might be permitted the assistance of a legal adviser. The Court proceeded with the trial, regardless of the want of witnesses—the prisoner was found guilty, and is now under sentence of six months' imprisonment andhardlabour ! These are the plain facts of the case—this is a fair specimen of the working of the system ; and we put it to the justice and the huma nity of the people of the United Kingdom to decide whether they will agree to: permit its continuance ? We attach no particular blame to the members of the court-martial: we know their decision was in accordance with military law ; but we cite the conduct of the Court simply to prove the despotism of the law itself, and to enter our protest against its longer existence. We maintain the law i s unworthy of England in the nineteenth century—and we blush that in a country where the brute creation are such objects of legal protection, that to strike an ass is punishable with a fine, the flogging of a fellow creature is talked of as a mere common-place occur rence I Is the bleeding back of a brother less an object of pity and compassion than an over loaded horse ? Out upon such pretensions to humanity I Our correspondent evidently does not understand us when he assumes that we would take the lead in any party, or faction, indiscriminately opposed to the Go vernment ; or that we ever took any measures to en courage men to resist the laws, however much we might feel opposed to their injustice. There is a great dif ference between advocating a change in a law which the country begins to discover to have an injurious tendency, and the incitement to a breach of it. Our correspondent has confounded both, and therefore, be cause we would not have men worse treated than the beasts of the field, he very logically concludes that we keep a subscription-box in our office, for the benefit of legal offenders—and the vic tims of provoked justice. This is altogether in- We know nothing of persons, and when we can avoid it leave personalities to others. We seldom blame even bad men—we only seek to expose the sys tem by which they have been made pests instead of ornaments to society. correct. The Marquis of Waterford, accompanied by Lord Glenlyon, Lord Alford, &c., arrived at Liverpool on Friday, from Scotland. The young Marchioness of Ailesbury, whose pros pects previous to her marriage were any thing but flattering, has since come into possession of a handsome fortune, with a much larger in reversion. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland have arrived at Raby Castle from Newton House. Sir William Gossett arrived at the Imperial Clarence Hotel yesterday, on his way, we understand, to Killarney. Sir William does not leave town until Monday or Tuesday. — Cork Reporter. We were sorry to announce, in our last, the illness of the Hon. Col. O'Grady, M. P. We now feel happy in stating that the attack - (a violent and dangerous inflammation of the throat) has been subdued by the skill of his medical attendants, and that the Hon. Colonel is in the course of re covery.—Limerick Paper. Lord Stowell is now at his seat in the country, gra dually declining in health, and with very little chance of again visiting the metropolis. His Lordship was born during the rebellion in October, 1745, so that at the end of the present month he will be in his 90th year. By the death of the Bishop of Bristol a prebendal stall of Durham has become vacant. Archbishop Butler, the Master of the Shrewsbury Grammar School is spoken of as the probable new bishop. BATH, Oct. 4.—Amongst our arrivals are Lord Carrington, Viscount and Viscountess Eastnor, Lady Foley, Sir Wm. Clinton, Sir Wm. Digby, Sir J. W. and Lady Smith, Lady Murray, &c. GROSVENOR HOUSE.—It was supposed that this edifice must have come down, after all the time and expense devoted to it, in consequence of the walls not being strong enough to sustain the new roof. Happily no accident arose, and the aid of Sir Robert Smirke's judgment has tranquillized the fears of the Marquis of Westminster. Madame Pasta arrived at Bologna on the 19th ult., where she is to sing for the season. The rehearsals have al ready commenced. The police has forbidden the preparation of two grand ballets, The Fall of Missolonghi and Imelsa and Bonefazi ; the latter founded on a historical fact connected with Bologna in the middle ages. On the 27th ult., in the forenoon, died, at Freyen walde, the Princess Eliza Radzewill, daughter of her Royal Highness Princess Louisa of Prussia, widow of his Highness Prince Antony Radzewill, late Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen. THE ANNUALS. THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL FOR 1835. , Jennings. London. The subject of the illustrations of this Annual is Granada, and a more fascinating one could not have been selected. The very mention of the word " Gra nada" acts like a spell on the imagination, conjuring up a thOusand vivid, romantic reminiscences. It bids us think of the old glories of the Abencerrages, and their disastrous end ; of the Fplendours of the Alham bra, and the Hall of Lions, with its one delicious foun tain, bordered by hedges of roses, and glittering with golden fish, where the young Queen of Mahommed the Magnificent loved at evening to resort and listen to the songs of the gay Moorish courtiers ; of the mountain fortress, like an eagle's eyrie, wherein the last King of Granada made his memorable stand against the Christian forces of Ferdinand ; of the Mosque and the Minaret ; of the myrtle garden of the Lindaraxa, and the " Rio Verde" of the Darro, famed for its golden sands and the buildings that adorned its banks ;—in a word, of all the pomp, wealth, and power, of one of the most chivalrous, intellectual, and accomplished people that modern Europe has ever seen. The Moors, in every respect, were worthy of the terres trial Paradise they inhabited. At a period when lick darkness brooded over the rest of Spain, they basked in the meridian light of intellect. Granada still bears triumphant testimony to their skill and taste as architects ; the fragments of Moorish songs that still survive, show what they were as pets : and Gibbon has assured us that, as mathematicians and philosophers, they were the instructors of Europe. To write worthily of such a nation, requires not only learning, but fancy also, and feeling. The mind should kindle with the theme, for imagination has full as much to do with it as history. Has Mr. Roscoe conceived and executed it in this spirit ? He has, combining in his task the fancy of the poet, with the learned lore of the antiquarian. Nothing can be more apt or felicitotis than his tales— historiettes we should rather call them—illustrative of the domestic manners of the Moors of Granada in their " palmy days." His details too of the fall of the Abencerrages, and the last siege of the Queen of Cities— for which Washington Irving has supplied him with many useful hints—►stir with life and spirit. Mr. Roberts the artist has brought equal enthusiasm to his task. His sketch of the " Alhambra from the Albacim" with its broad marble terraces, richly foliaged hills, from which rise up the many domes and pinnacles of the Moorish palace, backed in distance by the dim, silent, mountains, whose cloudy summits, here precipitous, there gradual and undulating, stretch away as if to infinity, is a triumph of the very difficult art of per spective. " Palace of Generaliffe " looks like a scene of enchantment conjured up by the wand of a magician. In splendour and richness of effect, it may vie with the palace of Aladdin. The gardens however in the back-ground might have been improved ; they are stiffly and harshly handled, though this is the engraver's, rather than the painter's, fault. " Descent into the Plain of Granada" displays an infinite variety of landscape. Rocks and moun tains,—level plains and deep-sunk glens—here a patch of richly cultivated soil, there a bleak and frowning moor—are mingled, not inharmoniously, to gether : while the scene is hallowed by the solitary cross reared up on a broken crag ; and its still-life broken by a band of muleteers who are winding along one of the defiles in front. The artful disposition of this group is admirable. In the " Court of the Alberta," the chief merit is the crystal transparency of the fountain, in which the carved pillars are reflected as in a mirror. " Ronda" is a landscape partaking of the Swiss character. It is not engraved in Mr. Cousen's best style, for the different objects are huddled together, so that it is almost impossible to de fine them ; nevertheless, it displays skill in fore shortening. On the whole the Landscape Annual is the best we have seen this year. LITERATURE. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Parbury and Allen, London. The very marrow of the Asiatic for this month is in the biography,—if we may call it biography,—of Paupiah Brahminy the Dubash of Madras, and ac cordingly we shall devote to him the greatest share of our attention. Paupiah, though of a different kind, is not less singular and original than the celebrated Ras Michael, and, without allowing to the writer the genius of Bruce, there is in this vigorous and charac teristic sketch much that reminds us of his powerful delineations. A portion of this praise might perhaps be better given to the marked features of the individual thus pourtrayed ; and, though the idea has something ungracious in it as towards the present writer, yet we cannot help imagininghow the deep and peculiar linea ments of the Brahmin would have come out under the pencil of Scott ere sickness had enfeebled him. " Avadanum Paupiah Brahminy," says our author, was-- " A character which, from the vehement contrasts embodied in it, would require the colours of Rembrandt to depicture. Supple, submissive, patient of affront and even injury—but with the love of revenge—the odium in longum jacens—deeply lurking in the recesses of a mind capacious of every project that hate can devise or meditate. But the domineering pas sion was litigiousness. To the lawyers, as they were then called by courtesy, he was -a treasure—a Peter Peebles, though not reduced to indigence (for his resources were ample), whose name for years alternately figured in the Mayor's Court as plaintiff and defendant. He was almost a fixture in his lawyer's chamber ; squatting down on a mat in some dark corner of the room, patiently waiting till his papers could be attended to. . At Mr. Samuel's. he might be seen sitting, ex cept during the short interval of a brief meal, which, consist ing of nothing more than a handful of rice, he would ' with haste despatch and come again;' occasionally ejaculating, as the attorney turned over the bundles of his other clients— ' Mll papers, master 1 Paupiah Brahminy, plaintiff, versus Vencatachellum Chitty.' On one occasion his lawyer fell into a short slumber ; but, when he awoke, could not help smiling to find that the papers before him had been silently removed, and those indorsed Paupiah Brahminy' placed directly under his nose. But not a murmur of complaint or dissatisfaction escaped his lips on account of any real or imagined delay." • • • • , c Where any thing that shunned the light was to be trans acted, he was the most efficient and useful of negotiators. Yet there were shades of character in the man, upon which it is pleasing to dwell. With hands dipped in the feculence of his time—a mind never reposing from stratagem—disdaining the tranquillity of virtue for the restlessness of intrigue. he was faithful where he conceived an attachment, beyond all exa mple—passive and enduring in the cause he espoused even unto death. Where he was made a confident to some defalca tion, into which a young civilian, for instance, had been be trayed by indiscretion or extravagance, he not only supplied i out of his own means—but no tortures could have wrung from him the guilty secret." Amongst the faults or virtues of Paupiah, we know not by which name to call it, was a heedless confi dence in the integrity of others. Upon this quality, unusual every where, and particularly so amongst the natives of the East, hinges a tale of patient revenge, ending in ruin to its object, and only prevented from assuming a deep tragic character by the vulgar means adopted for effecting it. The story is briefly this. In pursuance of a religious vow, the Dubash was about to set forth on a distant pilgrimage, when either to win the favour of an European high in office, or from a super stitious ordinance that inhibited usury at such a period, he deposited, without interest, twelve thousand pounds with a certain treasurer. Unweaned from his confiding habits even by the repeated frauds practised upon him, he took no receipt or acknowledgment whatever, and the result was such as might have been expected—the loan was denied. Persisting in his demand, he was ignominiously thrust forth, and, in the scuffle which ensued upon it, the turban was torn from his head, the greatest of all indignities that could have been offered to an Indian. But did no suspicion of dishonesty fall upon the treasurer ? by no means ; he was a rich man, and therefore a good man, whose re- putation was without a blemish ; and the Court,—how could it do otherwise ?—decided in his favour. " For months after this discomfiture in the Mayor's Court, Paupiah might be seen seated in the outward saloon of the col lector's office, with a shawl thrown over his head in place of a turban, the only change of garb that denotes affliction among the higher castes of Hindils. He said nothing, but his little green eyes darted now and then an expressive flash upon P— as he passed into the interior apartment, which, though impos sible to define, he knew and felt the meaning of. Some affected to pity the poor Brahminy, from a secret misgiving, probably, that foul injustice had been done to him. There was no appeal. It was of no use to excite the sympathies of the public. In India there is no public. As for the authors of that injustice, the infamy was divided amongst too many to be felt by any one. The moral deformity was like the physical one of the Alps, where goitre keeps goitre in countenance. But there was a vow registered in the soul of the man who had been thus' wronged." It was the custom of the . treasurer to secure the public money in an iron chest, so massive, as to be nearly irremovable ; this was unlocked by four keys in succession, the masterpiece of the most skilful artist in London, and so contrived 4, That the first and second keys should be entirely at the discretion of the party in whose custody they were placed. These were changed each successive day, or as often as he who was master of the combination might think fit. But if the wrong keys were begun with, a bar shot suddenly and irre vocably into a deep grove. It is plain, therefore, that, in the hands of a mere novice, the chances of hitting upon that which was in the open sesame of the chest, were as four to one—and if by accident the first should be the right one, they were three to one against the right selection of the second key." To make assurance doubly sure, it was his custom to examine the contents of the chest every evening, and then take the keys home with him. A day arrived.when, from various causes, the chest was overgorged with coin and bullion, and the treasurer, in consequence, went through his precautions with more vigilance than ever. As usual, Paupiah squatted in the outer room, watch ing every motion with a mournful expression, a custom he had never failed in since the day of his legal de feat ; but now, when he made his wonted salam, the treasurer observed that the small piercing eyes were eagerly fixed upon him with a glance that had some thing in it of a far different meaning. He took no farther notice of it at the time, but he had afterwards ample occasion to recollect it. In the morning when the treasurer came to his of fice, there sat Paupiah in his wonted niche, but with a total change both of dress and manner. The mourning habiliments, which he had constantly worn, as if to commemorate his „dishonour, were now ex changed for a tunic of the finest muslin, and his green serpent-like eyes were sparkling with satisfaction. The treasurer passed on, and found—his chest nearly empty. At first he was more pitied than suspected, but in a few hours strange rumours got afloat, and, though they began in whispers only, these whispers soon swelled into an open and loud report that a sum, of the same amount, and in the same coin, abstracted from the chest, had been deposited in the Carnatic bank, in the name of the defaulter. Inquiries were made in consequence—when the result proved these rumours to be correct. The exact money was found there, and under the circumstances - described. But the story, as it goes on, becomes yet more compli cated. At a later period two of Paupiah's agents, being dismissed from his service for fraud, accused their mas- ter of the theft upon the treasurer's chest, though they could give no information as to the manner in which it had been managed. Paupiah was sought for in vain, till two years afterwards he was apprehended on ac count of this transaction, sitting openly and without any desire of concealment at his own door. Strange to say, the agent, who had been confined in jail all this time, upon being confronted with his master, threw himself at his feet, acknowledged that he had accused him falsely, and implored his forgiveness. But— " The secret history of the robbery has never been revealed. By what means Paupiah entered the office, or made himself master of the mysterious process of the keys, remains in im penetrable darkness. It is supposed that, by long observa tion, he had so studied every speck of rust upon the two which Mr. P- had separated from the others as he pro ceeded every evening to the chest, leaving the rest on the ring as it were unemployed, as to discern the two keys which it was requisite to employ first ; it being probably a mere mat ter of accident that he hit upon them in their right order. That it was revenge for the indignity of the turban, there was no doubt. Had it been merely the pecuniary wrong, those who well knew the habits and character of that singular man, have often maintained that so elaborate a scheme of vengeance would never have entered his mind." The review of Klaproth's " Letter to the Baron de Humboldt upon the invention of the Compass," is in teresting more from the subject reviewed, than front any light the critic has brought to bear upon the learn ing of the German. He stumbles even at the thresh hold in an unfortunate encounter with Alb2rtus Magnus, whom he converts into Albert the Great, with about as much propriety as if he had called him Alexander the Coppersmith. It required, we should have thought, no particular degree of scholarship to know that Albertus Magnus is neither more nor less than a translation of plain Albert Groot, or Albert Great, according to the custom of those days when it was usual to Latinize oz Grecize the quality expressed by the names of individuals, who were at all celebrated in the learned world. The Mag nus has as little reference to the mental, as to the cor poreal greatness of the Dutchman ; had his name been Albert Schwarts, or Albert Black, he would in the same way have been dubbed Albertus Niger, without; the slightest idea of insinuating that he had the com plexion of a negro, or otherwise entitling him to be called Albert the Black. A hundred similar instances might be given ;—the celebrated reformer Melancthon, among them—if we may suppose any one required information on so common-place a topic. There are some curious facts in this paper, which we shall give, as we find them, without comment : " The Italian name for the magnet is calamita, the origin of which has hitherto been unsatisfactorily traced. The only reasonable explanation is that given by Father Fournier, who states that the old French mariners called the compass cala mite, which signifies a green frog,' because, prior to the in vention of suspending the magnetic needle, it was made to float on the water, in a glass vessel, like a frog. The term is of Greek origin : ' ea rana quani Graci calamitem vocant,' says Pliny, quoniam inter arundines fruticesque vivat, minima omnium est et viridissima.' One fact is remarkable, namely, that almost all the European denominations of the loadstone, or the senses of them, are also found in Asia. The French term aimant is little more than a translation of the Chinese tsze-shili, which is the vulgar name of the loadstone, and sig nifies loving.stone.' The celebrated naturalist Le-she-chin, who completed his Pen-thsaou-hang-muh about the year 1580, has a remark to this effect : ' if this stone had not a love for iron, it would not make it come to it.' Eight centuries and a half before his time (about A.D. 727), the same observa tion was made by Chin-tsang-khe, the author of the Pen thaou-shill-e : the loadstone attracts iron as a tender mother draws her children to her, and hence it received its name.' " " The first European author, who makes distinct mention of the magnetic needle, is Guyot de Provins, who, in a sati rical poem, termed La Bible, directed against the Court of Rome, dated about 1190, says that the Pope should be the polar star of the Faithful : De nostre pore l'apostoile Vousisse qu'il semblat l'estoile Qui ne se meut ; moot bien la voient, Le marinier qui se navoient. * „ Quant la mers est obscure et brune, Qu'on ne voit estoile ne lune, Dont font a l'aiguille alumer ; Puis, n'ont-il garde d'esgarer." " The use of the magnet in navigation, on account of its polarity, we find mentioned for the first time, under the year 1242, by Baylak Kibjaki, in his treatise entitled Treasure of Merchants for the knowledge of Stones,' which he published A. H. 651 ( A.B. 1282). The passage is as follows : " Amongst the properties of the magnet, it may be re marked, that the captains who navigate the sea of Syria, when the night is so dark that they can perceive no star to guide them according to the four cardinal points, take a vessel filled with water, which they place out of the wind, in the interior of the ship ; they then fasten a needle to a wooden peg, or a straw, so that it forms a kind of cross; they put this on the water contained in the vessel, and there it swims. •1 uul t ;- Le s take a piece of loadstone, large enough to fill t he palm 0 1 .", e _ hand, or less ; they bring it to the surface of th e water, gi, their hand a rotatory motion towards the righ t, so that tae. needle turns upon the surface of the water, they draw the hand suddenly, and the needle, by its points, facs the south - and north. I have seen them with my own eY . O3 do Syria, to this, daring our voyage by from Tripoli, in sea Ids, Alex—idr;" in t: he —, .. e year 640 ( A.D. 1242).' The writer a' the that those who na:yigated the sca of India, icedof iron , wooden pes• or straw, lubstituted a piece of magne hollowed in the shape of a fish, which swam on the water,: and indicated by its head,and tail the south and north points. then with * 41F nn et, " Many other discoveries, besides the polarity of the inic, d were known to the Chinese long before they were disco diet by or communicated to us. For example ; they were faini!ar, from remote antiquity, with the attractive property of atn. l ' er d which is found in their empire, and of which they obtaintehe large quantities from the Roman empire (Ta Tishn), 3S e history of the Han dynasty expressly states. The attractiivter quality of amber is distinctly mentioned by K wo- p ho, a wr .who died in 324. The Chinese were acquainted with the calls, of the flux and reflux of the sea long before the discoveryis: Kepler.. The encyclopaedia entitled Tang-hy-hap , which st, written under the Tang dynasty, consequently, at the lat i e, s/a , Na before the close of the 9th century, cites a treatise " on t he , t he ture of Things," wherein it is said " that the moon, sma ll purest principle of water, influences the tides, which are .„ or great, according to the diminution or increas e of the now o f In the Preface to the " Picture of the Tides," by an he the 12th century, it is thus stated : " The ca use of the 1 ,11 nomenon (the rising or falling of the sea) is owing to then rSig nifty of the moon, for the waters go and come ae er c i t he to the period of the day ; the moon turns to the right, an te sky at its rotation to the left ; each day there is a cemPiieval revolution, in which this luminary approaches the four catuino points. Thus, when the moon is in the vicini t y of th e P ° e to of the compass named east and west, the wat ers incre r the east and west, and when it approaches the nort,h or south points, the tide retires tranquilly toward s the n°"_4(ls south. This flux and reflux, in endless succession, declott entirely on the moon, and not at all on the sun.' T he hest author adds :--‘ When the moon, in its course, gets fat the from the sun, the tides are high ; but towards th e end o f rev new moon, they begin gradually to decrease, and for this son we cannot then know their force (or measure). • Chi' In " The Sketches of Remarkable Li vin g • owe ratters In India" is much that we think mus t, la 5 other shape, have met the eye of Sir Walter Sc°t. The strange account of those singular characters, ere lonel Gardiner and the Begum Sumroo, r eminds us • a litr every step of the " Surgeon's Daughter." It is rary curiosity, well worth appending to the new edition' of the novels. u o vd ' t We pass over the account of " Hugh r of which there is much talk as to the real mi tt ': t hi Junius," and no information ; " The Tales of or Jungles," which might be very easily much bette oia much worse ; " Greece," which offers no new facts „,a no fresh inferences from those already know' el' sundry other articles, which, as Lord Dubeol. i l ed gantly phrases it, " are too numerous to be Li• - ,in this here advertisement." BRUSSELS AND GERMAN ?APO' i° ll BERLIN, SEPT. 30.—The 20th number of the ea" ec , of the laws, published to-day, contains the co nvent r ie f„ht vl ir Saxe-Coburg for the cession of the principality of 1 '; tile berg to Prussia, and the royal letters patent, relative „• e ie to taking possession of that principality. The prearnl 19 the Convention is as follows :—" According to Ar tlc ' e of the Act of the Congress of Vienna of 9th Of t i oi Ll e n ti; 181.5,a portion of territory in the former French deP a i r to tb e of the Soare, with:2s.ooo inhabitants was to be eetic u t,..; tb Duke of Saxe Coburg, which was accordingly dote ` 7 b e t. King of Prussia, by a convention of the 9th of SeP ten' 're e 1816. This territory, with 25,000 inhabitants, 05;rio' of th e Ar been possessed by the Duke, under the name 4t i, cipality of Lichtenberg. t bo title by eof the Act of Congress, given their IN/a.icti%o Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, th e Great Britain, and the King of Prussia, that they vc, e , -- , 1 ,ke tt their good offices to enable his highness the exchange the promised territory have remained 111ito effect, his Highness not having met with an opP° rtull bo l make such an exchange as he wished, so that tile; Oce s mentioned Powers were obliged to declare their goo - ° exhausted. ta n His Highness, however, considering the iacc' ece. ; l ach e ' l arising in the administration of a remote district dr Ger from the ancient territory of the Duchy, as well Ut e ri a l f vernment itself as to the subjects concerned, ha d t v % e ng ready induced ti enter into a negociation with the for Prussia for the cession of this principality to his a complete indemnity. i • :I, by The negotiations have terminated in a consid4o sll4 which the Duke cedes Lichtenberg to the King' of ° f who, on his part, engages to give to the Duke " rev' Coburg Gotha an indemnity, which shall not on l y 5 .01, his Highness a clear annual revenue of SO,O OO . `c11,0) 31 rix dollars, but enable him partly by the ac uisitioa e . to domains, partly by the purchase of estates, to acq uire : t34 , ritorial possession." The Convention in the 7th article is dated 311st l al or t A lje e The Royal letters patent for taking possess ° to principality, dated 15th August, 1834, annou rice Vr inhabitants that they are again to become -11 f t' a subjects. : „ e The interval that elapsed after the official nci t- i - s . t ect ' , cession of the Principalities to Prussia was erlaP e l 7 t ifr W e ndel ' a t , making the necessary preparations at St. ceremony of taking possession, and of doing bon s l :P e terv i° Prussian Crown, which took place on the 22d of isn to the great joy of the inhabitants BRUSSELS.—OCT. 4.—Baron inhabitants. the l r t hire" t Minister, has given up the hotel which be I ' 3 ' Brussels, and has had his horses and furniture selt 15' r usg e therefore, certain, that be will not come backsf )°° '; The following resolution of the Minister of 6° s ' cos that the French offi cers serv i ng in our aril*" on _e point of returning t o th e i r ow n country LEOPOLD, &c.—Our Mi n i s t er of War is au tiu°rl cer' lie e° 4; grant to all the French officers, who shall qui t the tiC s of Belgium, to return to their country, one full ra° as an indemnity." 6, DP" C 0 Brussels , Sept. ( 2 S B i , g l n B e 3 d 4 ) ." 0111:3bs uses The cholera is abating at Ghent, but sever cP S. occurred in the neighbourhood. the a rs► The King is absent from B russe l s inspecting, is p a y s The Queen will not leave Laeken.—B rusj Oct. 5. sport—but inhabitedp rp r t were l o nl t oi l it i T i ecbr h hy e dhaaa s i y n i : h i rbafd:b fora t t ara a ah n il inhabitants trained yfto period,interestingAt h n e t ' —..._..................... , s HAWKING EXTRAORDIN AP " ;. d the the cathedral. For years past two hawks, a 0,. e f il l i e f o r la), amateurs a pa t rwe regular k r ; nnagkt s i no e seasons. o at n rht s e . u male, t. have built their nests near the very stiol'ii°,lbecietbe b ut exhibition ib ey ha o i l g: i i l i e a d t i o ' oci ll ,e iti f .l : oe,r gan tic steeple, generally remaining in their a ri 3 ,og N an a much fill':ei,iigil. t three or four months, departing from and ret u h rl itaut s ' 00 malema e b urs especially, were highly gratified 11 u sci t hesc evolutionsl:a tshte•eperkueystu.haei vi i , n i.t ha c ne f s l ll ! p i r L b l s e i ur A pi,, ,, con was soon discovered to be the ()", pl a ce , 2 es q4 hie ,- i suit, and a crowd quickly assembled on th e : , o . thei r ,; s it , spectators of the sport, many anxiously to f o r the re'jed to the clear blue sky, in breathless interest , s ucee e cif , After making a series of spiral movements, till:till' the / dg in t getting itself into a direct perpendicular so a u poll 0 A we, the hawk, with one rapid swooP , Peuillecate sllleol' prey, and was bearing it off in triumph to int eres t u ' ' til e t e loud i and terrific shout, which testified the that it le be ftude took in the scene, so startled the havv k d i a tel do its hold of its bleeding victim, whose boa,' i relli t c o saY . ' - nr e, gan to descend to the ground. But, strange o n ce ° t ile' darted upon the fluttering pigeon ; a nd less bird had fallen to within a few hawk,_ instantly recovering its self-possession T' ha lf: i o f Of the tot oit 3, yards of s t h ei e ze s d o i:; l t :h o e i the steeple, the victorious hawk had agai n bearing it off in his talons, flew rapidly awa,Y o f bear l Scheldt, and was soon lost to the sight, a nd 0 111 : of the shoutsand huzzas of the assembled C l/5 T 0 $ or' REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS FOR 1 11 b ei tte s l OF WESTMINSTER.—In consequence of the Gul a mag io, ot i, cupied this morning by the Court Lee en w g/ ° Messrs. Tamlyn and Thompson postponed their s 1 14 to-morrow. the Ass el 'a 1 4 BLANDFORD, Oct. 4.--The Ball at „,, c e e , 0 1 Rooms last night (on the occasion of our r aces) pal koili.oo the attendance of many of the nobility and prince and fobt)ets the county, and presented such a display of beauty , ' is f t et, ow as is rarely witnessed. Dancing commenced s hortly Lor ia ctr , o'clock to the music of Weippart's band, fro a m , til, er , Amongst the company were of IlchestT- _flu,„, J 3 0. 1, dell Elizabeth dale. Ladies Theresa Strangways, Arun . , • t , E. Baker, • Orford, G. Murray ; Hon. W. Irby, Sir multitude. , 1% e Pedlar and Cleaveland, &C. ..--• . 0 understand that this county will he probably t!t e?illiato Sbi with great keenness. The present member, Sir. h anticipated sc• ° REPRESENTATION OF BERIVICKSIIII:t;a 11'04 Parves, has turned out more of a Tory than was ..anks,, was married the other day to Miss Robertson of f die oid is the brother 0 . 1 c o , heiress of 10,0001. a year, and who , 0 s o , tr , member, and an eminent stockbroker in Lona ot, he svilL many ; and it is expected that Mr. David Mar Lriaudyrsirl,ii.o We augur tha P forward in the Liberal interest. o ti successful. —Edinburgh Chronicle. • tin cti • 0 broidered with gold, &c., would, according t ' value of money, be now 71. 10s. a pair. Gloves; such as were worn by persons of a: l, s ° (ciao` COUI IN TA A mee , m'olniricy. 1 of op en `3,..„ arid petit readers a Prlvat e, C OURT THE c BR IPPI QI N . °thy r•es s I li _ fr on sp e _, e only to ,eo of th e c c l u s oust Itt:Neet t te o , :nt iany ui 4tkoled t state it h e ea e'itable.Pl te °4 the c p'4l r epc a)1 ' with i rov et s:.POS.,terd Z .e e l last ed a: , 00V e S N at e ma n La s b we ar e A ee a e ~r( as ?ve PL L as th e — glgue °Nois 13,, ; gas -- lig b t th e e en I t i fle early pa iz . ha eat ll( ' al 4rlie , a Qe'a tool: 11 4 A e ref, o tkal as e 8 aro