The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-20 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS. -(THIS DAY.) This CHI N , CON.—JONES V . THONIPSON. action Was brought to recover compensation in damages for in,' inal conversati on alleged to have taken place between . , 0 aef 0001, en dant and plaintiff's wife. The damages were laid al . • Mr. sergeant WILDE stated the case. From his statement it aPpeared that the widow Plaintiff had been in the coal trade, and was dau g h te e re f s hen he married his present wife, who was the of v er Y r e 0 n :enr at torney named Anderson. She was a lady ab le accomplishments She, having lost her t l'a he rent s , w as placed i n a P l aintiff boarding school, and there it . was that placbecame acuainted with her. The marriage too a nd e i: n 18 when the plaintiff' was thirty-two years of age, t sc was he ° f Pure affection—they lived together on the lausegin- a“ectionate terms. The plaintiff was unfortunate in his Ula n ess ' a nd Was in consequence compelled to accept a situa t.he Mauritius, which he obtained through the house to b e eri n° and Co. He was not in good enough circumstances ran enabled to take his wife along with him, and it was a i r h _ bi tn B s ed eif between them that he should go out and establish ees tb al%d his wife should follow. Under these circums d ., tend,u e i t r- " h tifr %vent out in a ship, commanded by the e_ t littee th n d proceeded to his situation. Before defendant "lan on his return, the plaintiff 'found that he t 0 rt ibe e nabled to send for his wife immediately, and he ac_ when h g : arr anged with the defendant that heshould bring her ofotio-h.cfrae out. She embarked with . 11 , im in 1831,in the month . the ut te - `` , and on her arrival was received by her husband with serv ed : hat a ffection. A strange alteration, however, was o.b quir"'n her conduct, which induced him to make some in set:a, and then the circumstances which caused the present the'r' were discovered. Some delay took place before bet eridenee could b made complete, but the plaintiff hp, 4° tittle in bringing his action. It appeared, that Pretm.hthe plaintiff quitted England, Mrs. Jones . .was the 4 ' a nd a few months after her arrival in the Mauritius, th e Igoe birth to a child The cabin which was fitted up for Wit s V a y la the vessel was ' next to that of the defendant; there bet it:.°°' b etween the two, leading from the one to the other, They h"..., 4 fastened up, and a chest of drawers placed against rs . te,,,;;.1 not long sailed before the defendant had the drawers kit e ." nn the ground, because they were insecure from the sergeant Me ship. It was supposed (continued the Learned cooti7 i t ) that the intercourse had then began, and was „_ al letlL " suc cessively throughout the whole of the voyage. He ne of t he Jury to give exemplary damages, as it was a wilt atrocity. 44 ) . W was called to prove the marriage, who said . the t. thr h ; °t 'it the quite 2.1 years of age. The plaini 4 004 With di rathertime barrassed circumstances, and expected .he , his Wife. the Priv ate of the defendant's ship (the Royal Sovereign) was and W itness,and proved that he had seen the defendant 11.,_j"es in bed together on more occasions than one oe.pork mtntanno said, when the defendant returned to . England erita ina e l e t°llll ' ll of the matter, when he admitted to him that a let nnversation had taken place. 4 1 . 8. j ° o 4ler - "ow the affection that subsisted, a letter from I fing wi n ; . 4 her husband was put in and read. He was . ten : h er de n—b : a _ u nd at Shoreham, and in it she addressed him . as "' a d ov a e res- C dl 4," and regretted that she had not the wings tnn a once%, t the Might fly to him and embrace him in her s er ''°re before he quitted the shores of England. t geant 444 'Opt AnDy addressed the Jury for the defe . ndan , the Parties nded that the evidence showed that the marriage of a bLutb lea was not one of affection, but had been brought fort un the pi a i ntim n, for the purpose of renovating his broken , ith "„," by Means of the five hundred pounds he expected t „ i ne , "ok .`adY. It was in proof alzo that' the intercourse thatch .e in the defendant's own cabin, which clearly showed note was a consenting party. He (Mr. Sergeant Taddy) did i h t:l,Pear there as the advocate of immorality, but certainly 4014. 1 . ea5e ther e was some excuse to be made for the defendant, w as `ne Peculiar ci rcumstances in which he was placed. There 14 4.- the „ l ady, the only on e on board, sleeping in the next ca. ohthe 7 b arrier of the d rawers was removed by some means, de blY he fou n d hi mself in bed with the beautiful Mrs. he t No doubt it was his duty, when the lady presented 1,44 self of rave said, "Be off, you must not come here, this is 't j „Lb you ;" but, unfortunately, he had not the courage b—he fell into the temptation which he could not nit th' e bnPed he would behave himself better in future . ; " a t h ~- „ e ac t had been done, no doubt, he must suffer for it, 'ase he put it to the Jury that the present was not a ''ett eaalled for heavy damages. Th e "„ CHIEF JUSTICE having summed up, . plaiheiffdUry almost immediately returned a verdict for the Damages, 4001. tXE r , ‘4l-ITION of PATRICK MARTIN and AIARIA CANNING. I,l,Pri,oln the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.) si , ..Z.' e nduct of the wretched culprits s i nce b they received 0-"r.7.noe:ofn Friday last, has been unmark e e a d troc y d a y ny strong ex_ of the crime 0t.."41e4:, inontrition or remorse fur tbhearing of Martin was firm th rou n e Y were convicted. The , ghotn, and, the gaol, : immediately after t ; .. upon reaching Which': pas of sentence, he called for a pint r o ed f . porter, The male e d . n k °f? as coolly as if nothing had occur . feeling as upon the trial, and the ,iaY, ciircunastance which appeared to give her any e u s n e e f as w in e3 es r s . ins a t r h e e l r a s n i tt s t e t tr should not obtain whatever.abrticl She made itthuereur i zained in heHrilog heg application, throfuen'h S riff in attend ance, Sir D. J. Dickenson, wn'ht: them g tly made the neces. sary inquiries upon the sublect, and ordered her wishes to be ta rried into effect. I-1. -- v'stted her in her cell, and inquired if the was anxious to have the assistance of any particular clergy. rn an ? She replied that she was, ti klan , i wh o , upon being written to, was found unfortunately and c named a Reverend gen_ ouinwell, and unable to attend, ilis place was, however, sup ; Leti.Y the. Rev. Mr. Doran, Roman Catholic Chaplain to th and O'Fahy, of A 7:, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. M 4 " 'street chapel, who, from the interval relaxed in their ' 4 ' 4 11 never attentheir c onviction and execution, al lis wliich elapsed be guiit—with Martin theranee upon the two prisoners, o f r t i h n e t ir heir efforts to awaken . their!! a sense of the enormity e cessful i he devoted himself to pr.:iertions were apparently . Prep a during the short perio s t u l c allowed him by the law for ftei ar ol l with seeming earnestness, i y il e n t e di s d ttu n g o g t le a . ppe , : i r ot t io o Cann7'ntelY the terrors of the approac ~, 1 . 6,1 44 8, on the other hand, was more alive t o o bs t t h r e act lat b t t e ,t r tho'nei but could not be prevailed upon th e 4 Ptit from the vain hopes which the recom . mendation of ex,UrY had excited, and up to a recent period before her PtiZ i ", she was under the impression that she . would bere t ed• Neither of them, however, made a direct confession " illtilt and the only admission which can at all strengthen "he e rt ' • tl e .,_ es t tainty of a crime which has . been . established by the eve r ' . rod and .most connected chain ot circumstantial evidence lil a ._ P need in a court of justice, is a conversation which took appointed for thesse about five minutes before 12, the son:rXecution,_between Sir Drury ~, That gentleman, after representing to Martin the near Dickenson . ttheied.victim. . rn a m le . p x r e i- , ,t each of his d ti t nom, entreated of him, by 4 , 0 and forgiven l wich he was mot h s or the dreadful crime for . his hopes of salva th about to suffer, to say tep% Was administered to their unfortunate Martin u ch tifo o r f t. th . e a m te the poison 4,', and said, in answer to this, " that he had notemnplacea, h e 1 .7. 4 When pressed to state was it his wret o c . h t ed itio a n c that the gheriTsed to answer, except upon the c be advantageous t° her Would assure him that his reply would deceased must hav e • Bir Drury casually observed, that the the arsenic, ttrm suffered dreadfully from the effects of h did not suf fer at jartin eliietly replied, " Oh no, sir, ' e lock, the pri kner l an," A few minutes after twelve o c across the yard l each, : eft the condemned cell, and proceeded. between 144 to thestairs of thepress-room. Martin walkedi.his hand, Neati ? ? an and Mills, holding a prayer-book responses to the li st ing In a loud and firm tone of voice the isstep was , teki, ' ktited by the Reverend Gentlemen. H bearing as. ' and treed ---, th e same erect . vh hi . -asured, and he preserve.. above the middle h e i ght 1 trial. In he was a little ,person, w his light ei. ;4 4 " hi* features were common and unexpressive, ; his s- --- Y e ?e sw • in rheum of habitual intoxication .. -6e 6,,,.._ Miming the and from his carriage styl e of -,-,`+ned to be about fifty, and, army. The 44( 41 ' 41 % he a ppeared to have served in the h 5 pri aor„ than fifteen years younger . , er t.„. 't seemed to be ten or ad protruding -.srisht "'t 'vas extre 1 forbidding, her forehe . erablyove me y nose while her na u t ral corn- I'l au nt saii _ r a small turned uP She 11 tly her fears. Was ohyßed'uW, Was rendered still more gas by O'Fahy, and, ac as Pa i f,„,7, t°l ean for support on the Rev. Mr. thus proceeded stun n , "s' ul, s everal of the Sisters of Charity, she repeating as he "e re ached the Martin entered first,r, saute wer it _,_ pressroom . in the t: foil 4.ng, The Lord . have mercy on me .t, he walked unhesi "ngly t44 e and firm voice as before ~ . *top ped ° the the drop, and n, steps which led immediate') to for death are in acle. ' I '"e spot where the awful preparations with thei r fh At each side of it stood the two executioners; calling the altent:es enveloped in masks. We cannot avoid such Art a io n °r those whose province it is to . superintendme fitted for a harleq‘ai"S t ll the fact of those masks being of the law upon "l x , t e ll a soieTh4 or bufibon, than the instruments 0 supported by she 01' C,,4°eoasion. Maria Canning followed, . 0 _ O ne - " e Woul a d },'" W ho was obliged to sustain her with his arm, r seemingly oasoli,„ "ave fallen ; she tottered mechanically on, lips were closed, 5 " 55, of what was Passing around her ; hes Then she arriv ed 4! she did not appear to join in prayer* w to her conductor -4 hiartal, she was obliged to cling for support After ternaloin and reclined her head upon his shoulder. d calmly to ti. ta feW smut `s in pr a yer, Martin turned round vti h' le h e w,._ execUtioner Ls • se lf i n his . in th e act _and . placed h h . im he said, pointing to the t hat, uwsniell lay untooDinl°nlng im i , „ When you take uP a c h, a .... it quieki.. the groum , then secured, and he whi c Z e ed . to th e u i : H . is arms were firm and confident step . to th e tae ohservabl With th the same som Some delay ensued, owing four tirnZ e Prisoner having rougi fainted; ont she groaned three r e gaoler, sh 4 —nt ' , -co knn - water aving been procured her by Neither of th -vered a little, and took her place upon the drop. maThey were iw,E74 aktessed observations to the popu .... nner in whr!ediately turned yotr ' and, owing to the bung i g 'the knot having tur 'eh the exec • r di d their duty, . st ned fro, . utione s Martin struggled for son ; 14 original position to the chin, After haogiu a seeps and delivered of for half an hour, the bodies were cut down, Th e line of their friends. thesethronged fro streets leading t owards t h e gao l was densely t; in an earlY hour in the morning. / nderstand anti- a mem • 1w s addressed on Sunday to Jury 14 Lieuten-Dresza iwhea recommendation of the dale C2"tt4v k c e 4r If Cannin g --- hY Ar. Joseph Hamilton, of Anna tions j a tail—, w.O has ever distir ti . ished himself by his exer- I C 44 ,0 of hurnauity a'ngtl benevolence. COURT CIRCULAR. 'lhe Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drove in Hyde Park yesterday for some time. Sir John Campbell. the Solicitor-General, had an interview yesterday with Earl Gres, at the Treasury, to present a memo rial signed by many thousands of the inhabitants of Dudley, praying that measures may be introduced into Parliament to remedy the grievances of the Dissenters. It is understood that his Lordship professed his attachment to the Established Church, and expressed great anxiety that all the real grievances of the Dissenters sLoold be speedily removed. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria have ap pointed Mr. Curtis, the Surgeon of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, Aurist to their '.:o)al Highnesses. The Chevalier de Vial, the Spanish Minister, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Hanse Towns Minister transacted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. A deputation, accompanied by Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Hill, M.P., and Mr. Beilby Thompson, M.P., had an interview yes terday with Viscount Althorp, at the Treasury. Mr. Burge, the agent for Jamaica, and Mr. Marryat, the agent for Grenada, transacted business yesterday at the Colo nial-office. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. BRIGHTON, FEB. 19. Yesterday afternoon his Majesty, accompanied by Miss D'Este, drove out as far as Shoreham. The Queen did not leave the Palace during the day. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge took their departure this morning for town. Lady Burdett and family quitted West Cliff House yesterday afternoon. The following distinguished personages had the honour of dining with their Majesties, yesterday evening, by invitation : The Princess Augusta. Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Belfast, Lady Clinton, Lord George and Miss Quin, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Campbell, Sir George and Lady Shiff ner and the Suite and Household. Most of the Nobility and Gentry at present here paid their respects to their Majesties yesterday. The last " Almack's Ball," for the season, will take place this evening. A good deal of gossip has been afforded to the elite of the " West-end" here, by a split amongst the managers of these assemblies within the last few days. The cause of the break-up in this Lady Cabinet, is said to be some unkind re marks made by the Countess de s—, on one of her colleagues. To the infinite regret of the visiters and inhabitants of this place, their Majesties, and their Royal relatives, will take their departure to-morrow (this) morning for St. James's Palace, after a residence of nearly four months at the Pavilion. The advantages derived to Brighton by the residence of the Court here, are so obvious as not to require any comment. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Ormelie, at Breadalbane-house, Park-lane, from Taymouth Castle, N. 8.; the Hon. W. F. J. and Lady Pon sonby, in St. James's-square, from Canford-house, Dorset; the Dowager Countess of Guilford and the Ladies North, in Pic. cadilly, from Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire; Lord Charles Fitzroy, at Burlington.house; Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison and family, in Great Stanhope-street, from Oakley Park, Suf folk ; H. G. Ward, Esq., M.P., in Cadegan-place, from Gil. ston Park, Herts ; H. Halford, Esq., M.P., in Curzon-street, from Leicestershire; Hedworth Lambton, Esq., M.P., in Dover-street, from Lambton Castle; Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P., in Trafalgar-square, from his seat in Cornwall; Sir John and Lady Julia Hobhouse, in Berkeley-square, from Basildon Park, Reading; John Warr( nder, Esq., at Sir George Warrender's, in Albemarle-street, from the North; J. Bennet, Esq., M.P., in Grosvenor-street, from Pyt-house, Wilts; the Hon. Capt. Watson, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place; Vis count and Viscountess Milton, in Halkin-street; from Milton. park ; the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings and the Ladies Hastings, in Burlington-streeet, from the Continent; the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, in St. James's-square, from Shug horough, Staffordshire ; Lord Albert and Lady Conyngham, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, from Denbries, Surrey ; George Morgan, Esq., in Pall.mall, from his seat in Herts; Roche, Esq., M.P., from Ireland; F. Duffield, Esq., and son, at Batt's Hotel, Duver-street, from Bradford, Yorkshire; Bathurst, Esq., at ditto; Mr., Mrs , and the Misses Round, at Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat in Essex ; R. S. Gas. coyne, Esq , at ditto, from Yorkshire; Miss Worland, at Haw kins's Hotel, Dover and Albemarle-streets, from her seat in Kent; Sir L. Greenville, Bart., at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar_ square, from Chatham; Sir R. Baker, High Sheriff of Dublin, at ditto ; W. D Fleetwood, Esq., at ditto, from Manchester ; J. Voules, Esq., at ditto, from Windsor ; Cap tain and Mr. Brown, at Hitchcock's St. George's Hotel, Albe marle-street, from Brighton ; Mrs. Erskine and family, at ditto, from Kent ; Capt. and Mrs. Hawkins, at ditto, from Berks ; Capt. Garth, R.N., at ditto, from Haines.hill, Berks ; Mr. and Mrs. Dorien Magens, in Hertford.street, May-fair, from Sus sex ; the Marquis and March!oness of Winchester, in Caven. dish.square, from Amport House, Hants; Lord George and Lady Cecilia Paulet, in ditto, from Yorkshire; Earl and Countess Howe, at Curzon House, from Gopsall, Atherstone ; Sir Dan. Bayley, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-strcet, from his seat, Bute House, Leamington; Wilson France, Esq., at d tto, from ditto ; Admiral Gosselin and family, at ditto, from their seat, Benges Hall, Hertford; Sampson Hanbury, Esq., and Mrs. Hanbury, at ditto, from their seat, Poles Fark, Hertford ; Colonel Harris, Mrs. Harris, and Miss Bulled!, at ditto, from Devon; the Rev. G. Osborne and Mrs. Osborne, at ditto, from Stamford. DEPARTURES. Earl Onslow, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for his seat at Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Brown, from ditto, for their seat, near Gloucester; Mr. and Mrs. J. Austin, from Hawkins's Hotel, Dover arid Albemarle streets, for their seat in Kent ; the Hon. Thomas Grenville, for his seat, Dropmore; Sir R. Nagle, Bart., M.P., and N. Fitzimon, Esq., from Mor. ley's Hotel, Trafalgar square, for Ireland ; Colonel Vaughan, from ditto; the Rev. J. Bull, from ditto, for Harwich; W. Hallett, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton ; Captain Gunton, from ditto, on a tour; Captain and Mrs. Bulkeley, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Ipswich ; Captain and Mrs. Platt, from ditto, for Denne Park, Sussex ; Thos. Legge, Esq., from the SaAville Hotel, Sackyille-street, for his seat in Cheshire ; Major Watkins, from ditto, for Bristol ; Duff, Esq., and family, from ditto, for Reading ; the Rev. Mr. Cox, from ditto, for Wales; Mr. and Mrs. Strainge and family, from ditto, for the Continent . ; Lutwyche, Esq., P. Payler, Esq., Capt. Belmore, R.N., and Lieut. Harvey, from ditto, for Dublin ; Mrs. and Miss Harvey, from ditto, for ditto. VICTORIA THEATRE. Last night Mr. Knowles's play of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green was brought out at this theatre. The same subject has already been handled by Mr. Knowles, and had, some time since, a trial, which, w tether through defects in its treatment, want of zeal in its performance, or the influence of certain delicate impalpable causes which we call fortune, was not successful. A very different result has followed the present effort, and may be ascribed to the alterations made throughout the revived piece. On the whole, we deem this comedy one of the author's most successful productions. Mr. KNOWLES himself appeared as Wilford. His first entry was met with the most enthusiastic greetings from a full house, those in the pit for the most part waving their hats, and this was in some degree repeated every time he made his appearance. He had to appear before the Curtain, after the conclusion of the piece, and announce it for repetition. After having done so once, he seemed to misun derstand the cheering of the whole house, and said very feel ingly, " When the heart is full we can't speak up." He then repeated the announcement, and retired amid the reiterated applause. Miss JARMAN performed the daughter gracefully, and Mr. WYNNE the Beggar in the most mouthing horrible manner, with some unrequiting touches of coarse nature. ABBOTT had an excellent part in Young Small, and made the most of it, and WILLIAMS we have never seen to more advantage than in the old one. THE ARMY. The Grcnadier Guards will march from Brighton, we under stand, next WednesJay, on their return to the metropolis.— Brighton Gazette. A private of the Ist Dragoon Guards has been apprehended here, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Joseph Snarr, alias Joseph Appleby, on the 11th October last, at South. wark. A description of the suspected murderer has been published in the Police Gazette, and the appearance of the sol dier answers to that description. He underwent a private examination at the Town-Hall on Monday, and was afterwards conveyed to Lewes House of Correction, to await the arrival of some Bow-street officers. We are informed that the prisoner enlisted in the regiment two days after the murder was corn mitted.—Brignton Gazette. IRISH SPRING ASSIZES, 1834. HOME CI Trim Mullingar Phillipstown CU IT. February 25 I Maryborough March 13 March 1 Carlow 6 I Naas Baron Sir Wm. C. Smith and Justice Torrens. LEINSTER CIRCUIT. Wicklow Wexford — 27 Clonmel Waterford March 1 Chief Baron Joy and Justice Johnson, CONNAU('HT CIRCUIT. Itoscommon February 25 Castlebar March 14 Carrick-on-Shannon, March 3 Galway Sligo - 7 Justice Burton and Justice Vande:eur. NORTH-WEST CIRCUIT. Longford Cavan March 1 Lifford Enniskillen 6 Londonderry Justi , e Jebb and Baron Pennefather. NORTH.EAST CIRCUIT. Drogheda February 24 I Armagh March 8 Dundalk Monaghan March 3 Downpatrick Chief Justice Bushe and Justice Moore. MUNSTER CIRCUIT. Ennis February 25 Tralee March 8 Limerick March 1 Cork Chief Justice Dehert: and Baron rotor, LITERATURE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE.-1834. The conception of this tale is in the purest and most refined spirit of poetry. Though it is wholly deficient in that highest order of genius, a severe, lofty, and ambitious imagina tion, yet it is bestrewed all over with the rich, golden lights of fancy. Its prevailing charac ter is that of grace and tenderness. The inci dents of the narrative may be summed up in a few words. Mr. Bulwer supposes a young heroine of romance, just touched with the first frost of consumption, traversing the banks of the Rhine in company with her lover, who is de. scribed as a contemplative and somewhat way ward enthusiast, every faculty of whose soul is absorbed in adoration of the predestined girl. They trace the river through all its long course of mingled wildness and beauty, halting as they proceed, to admire and meditate among, its most classic and picturesque spots. The journey over, Gertrude's life also ends, and Trevelyan, distracted with the loss, under circumstances cal culated to leave an indelible impression on his mind, of the first and only being he had ever truly loved, returns abruptly to England, and there, in the hurry and bustle of society, and all sorts of public occupation, strives, but in vain, to drown the recollection of the past. We should add that the Pilgrims of the Rhine contains a sort of legendary episode, being the wanderings of a troop of English fairies along the banks of the river, whom Mr. Bulwer has transported thither, evidently for the purpose of giving a harmony and propriety to the nume rous fairy traditions that he introduces. But this portion of the tale, however gracefully and airily touched, strikes us as being calculated only to cumber .and perplex its machinery. There was no earthly occasion for such an episode. It is at best but an elegant superfluity, and disturbs the painful sense of reality which it is the author's object to awaken in our minds. Besides, beautiful as are all fairy legends, still they derive their beauty solely from their accordance with national belief. Now the fairies have been dead in England for upwards of two hundred years. Even as far back as the 16th century Bishop Corbet lamented that no poet could have any thing more to do with them, and we scarcely think that even Mr. Bulwer's genius can " sound the trumpet of their resurrection." Another fault we find with the Pilgrims of the Rhine, is the melancholy—we might perhaps add, maudlin, but we are reluctant to speak disrespectfully of a highly gifted author—cast of the narrative. We would have the It visited and dwelt on, in a sunny, buoyant spirit of joyousness—not of gloom and hypochondriasm, however grace fully and soothingly this distempered mood may exhibit itself. Having said thus much in disparagement of Mr. Bulwer's tale, we are bound to right the balance, and add, that for grace, ease, ani exquisite richness of diction, " without o'er flowing, full," we have met with nothing like it, since he last ceased to write. Subtle thoughts and graceful images abound in every page. Still, in point of invention and bold analysis of character, it is not to be compared with his earlier effort—" Paul Clifford." The single sketch of Lawyer Brandon is, in point of masculine intellect, worth the whole 'volume. It is but justice to add, that our opinion of the Pilgrims of the Rhine is founded on a very hasty perusal. We subjoin a few specimens of felicitous thought and expression that have struck us while skimming along the pages : " One of the common disappointments of the heart is, that women have so rarely a sympathy in our better and higher aspirings. Their ambition is not for great things: they cannot understand that desire which scorns thlight, and loves laborious days.' If they love us, they usually exact too much. They are jealous of the ambition to which we sacrifice so largely, and which divides us from them ; and they leave the stern passion of great minds to the only solitude which affection cannot share. To aspire is to be alone." Truer words than these were never spoken. Surely we ought to have met with the sentiment in Shakspeare ! " Below, in green curves and mimic bays covered with herbage, the gradual banks mingled with the water ; and just %%here the bridge c►osed, a solitary group of tree-, standing thick and dark in the thickest shadow, gave that melancholy feature to the seer e, which resembles the one dark thought that oft:n forces itstlf into our sunniest hours." The word " gradual" gives extraordinary ani mation and identity to this description. It is a fine sample of the pictorial epithet. " Action is that Letbe in which we alone forget our former dreams, and the mind that, too stern not to wrestle with its emotions, seeks to conquer regret, must leave itself no leisure to look behind. Who knows what benefits to the word may have sprung from the sorrows of the bene factor? As the harvest that gladdens mankind in the suns of autumn was called forth by the rains of spring, 13,) the griefs of youth may make the fine of maturity." "To revi . •it the scenes of our youth, is to commune with the ghost of ourselves." " The history of the heat is not easily translated into language, and the world will not readily pause from its business to watch the alternations in the cheek of a dying girl." r • • • • " Here too lived the maligned hero of the greatest drama of modern genius, the traditionary Faust, illustrat ing in himself the fate of his successors in dispensing knowledge.—held a monster Er his wisdom, and coo signed to the penalties of hell as a recuaipense fur the benefits he had conferred on earth." Gibbon, if we recollect rightly, in contrasting the slow progress of knowledge with the sudden spread of gunpowder, has a remark of this sort in his unequalled History. One word more, and we close our hasty notice. If, as Mr. Bulwer inclines to think, " Childe Harold, seemingly so profound, owes its profundity to its style," why does he condescend to borrow its thoughts, in his prefatory poem to the Ideal? The passage beginning with— " In vain we yearn, we pine, on earth to win The being of the heart, our boyliood'b dream," is all but a literal, though unacknowledged, transcript from that fine stanza in Lord Byron's fourth Canto, which commences (we quote from memory) as follows • We wither from our youth, we gasp away, si c k—sick, unfound the prir,.." ALLAN BR.ECK. 3 Vora. Lowno.v, 1834 This tale is by no means devoid of talent, but in no one instance does it arrive at first rate excellence. It is full of bustle, incident, and character, but without the slightest pre 'ensions to originality. Still it will amuse, for Mr. Gleig is a practised author, and can scarcely put pen to paper without pro ducing something that shall be worth at tention. In the tale before us, his more im passioned scenes are his best ; his descriptions of landscapes among his worst, though most pains-taking. There is a coldness—a minute ness—a monotony in these portions of his work, that wholly deprive them of effect. He does not paint, but catalogues his scenic descriptions ; item, one rock—item, one loch, a mile and a half wide—item, one cottage—as if an inventory like this was all that was necessary to place a landscape in its full picturesque beauty before us. Scott does not paint in this mechanical style. A few bold, vivid touches, and the scene he would pourtray, starts up vividly before us. We have said that the more impassioned parts of "Allan Breck" are the best. We allude here to those scenes with which the hero is mixed up, some of which have a stern depth of feeling that approaches to tragedy. The gradual development of Allan Breck's character is finely shown, especially in that scene where he meets with Hatfield in a gaming-house at Edinburgh. A portion of this we subjoin, and with it we must close our hasty notice : " It so happened that throughout the evening's enter tainment Hatfield had uniformly backed Allan in all his wagers. Allan now challenged Hatfield with reference to a hand which he was himself about to deal, and the other accepted the challenge, to the amount of all his adversary's winnings. The deal proceeded. The players had secured each his two cards—the third was in the act of distribu tion—indeed all, except Hatfield and Allan himself, had been supplied, when the former leaning towards the dealer, said in a low whisper, Beware!' Allan shook in his chair. He cast a hurried glance towards the speaker, whose eagle-eye watched him with an acuteness not to be deceived; and after a vain effort to recover his self com mand, went on with the game. Hatfield's card was high —it was the ace of clubs—decidedly the best that bad been thrown ; and, as was usual on the occurrence of such a piece of good luck, a murmur, expressive of different passions, burst from the lookers or'. Again Hatfield took advantage of the momentary confusion. 'lt won't d,, with me, throw away your hoarded diamond, or 1 will expose you !' This was uttered in a suppressed tone, yet it penetrated the brain of the listener like an arrow. He did drop his hoarded diamond, and turning up a five of hearts, saw his gains pass on the instant into the posses sion of his former creditor. Allan's senses became con fused. He gasped for breath, and leaning back in his chair, remained for the space of three seconds totally un conscious of all that was passing around him. " Perhaps there is not, throughout the compass of what is called civilivd society, a spectacle more humiliating than that of a company of persons engeged in deep play. Not only is each regardless of the feelings of his neighbour, but, as it would seem, blind to their very existence ; for gestures the most extravagant, and exclamations harrow ing to common ears, pass in such cases absolutely un heeded. Overwhelming as Allan's dismay and confusion were, they escaped all eyes in that excited assembly, save those alcine beneath whose petrifying glance he found it impossible to hold up. Yet it was to no purpose that he roused himself to appear calm. His forehead burned as he gaud elsewhere round the table, and it became deadly cold again, when be observed the hellish leer with which Hatfield watched his very looks. His skill totally f.rsnok him. He played on, therefore, but it was absolutely a, random, without ingenuity, almost without an aim. He accepted every bet that was offered, and we need scarcely add, that nine out of ten proved unfavourable. Allan's brain reeled, his throat was parched and dry—he called for ',randy, and drank it off in despair. Bit the meisure to which lie had recourse as an immediate relief froth misery, served only to increase the fever that boiled in his blood. He could not succeed in steeping his senses in forgetfulness, so as to become callous even to the events that passed around ; and hence, though rendered fierce and dangerous to any who might inadvertently thwart him, he was still responsible for his actions, and liable to be treated as one that was so." SACRED CLASSICS. Vol. 11. LONDON, 1834. A valuable monthly publication, which has our sincerest wishes for its success. The pre. sent volume consists of " Cave's Lives of the Apostles," with an introductory Essay from the joint, we suppose, pens of the editors, the Rev. Messrs. Cattermole and &ebbing. THE WATER-WITCH. I VoL. LoNnox,lB34. As we reviewed Mr. Cooper's tale of the Water-Witch at some length on its first ap pearance, it is scarcely necessary to say more on the present occasion, than that it has received the last finishing touches of the author, is illus trated with two cleverish engravings, and forms the thirty-sixth number of the Standard Novels. HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. VOL. 1. LONDON, 1834. A valuable republication by Mr. Valpy, to whom we are already indebted for our com pletest edition of Shakspeare. It is well printed, and, i❑ point of price, accommodates itself to the most ill-furnished pocket. The engravings of our earlier Kings, beginning with William the Norman, are very skilfully finished. The countenances of some of these odd sam ples of royalty strike us as being singularly characteristic of their actions. Henry the Se cond, for instance, has just the imbecile, drawl ing expression of face, that one would expect to meet with in a monarch who could for years suf fer his authority to be set at nought, and himself to be laughed at, bullied, and led by the nose by a bluster►ng, factious ecclesiastic. All the Norman fierceness and hardihood, dashed by a sort of rough good humour, speak in the coun tenance of William the Conqueror. The iron broad-sword is in his hand, and the iron crown on his brow, quite as a matter of course. Any thing else would be out of keeping. The minute, subtle features, sharp as the blade of a pen knife, the compressed thin lips, hanging brows, and restless eye of the first Harry, bespeak the wily and accomplished Statesman, fitter to pre side at Cabinet Councils than councils of war. The profile of this lace is as perfectly Grecian, as that of Pericles, to which it is not unlike. We would have noticed this volume earlier, had we not been prevented doing so by the press of Parliamentary and other 'natter. THE RECESS: A TOUR IN THE HIGH LANDS AND LOWLANDS. LONGMAN AND CO LONDON, 1834. There is a certain degree of cleverness in this volume which, with those who are readily pleased, will make it a favourite. The author has great tact, infinite good humour, and occasionally ex hibits a graphic power of description. It is not a little to his credit that he has given the fresh ness of novelty even to such a hackneyed subject as the Highlands. One charge, however, lucki)t not a very serious one, we have to bring against him. In page 83, in his account of a Caledo nian Sabbath, he has thought fit to adopt as his own, a trifling squib of ours, entitled a " Hymn to Sir Andrew Agnew," which appeared in The Sun some months since, and was afterwards copied into the Times. Now we have no ob jection to this sort of thing—indeed we are rather flattered than o herkvise by the compli ment he has paid us by in erti•liz our trifle in his volume—but we would just whiTer ill his ear that fair play is a jewel, and that when a gentleman publishes a book, it is perhapi as well that he should state distinctly what part of it is his own, and what, the property of others. Verbum sap. THE YOUTHS' DRA W OK. La:ti:at, 1834. An ingenious idea well executed, and worth a hundred long, elaborate treatises on design, grouping, fore-shortening, perspective, and so forth. Affixed to the volume are a few brief and pertinent observations on the different specimens of landscape, &c., introduced; by which, without the aid of a master, the young student may, if he pay but ordinary attention, make himself a tolerable proficient in the art of drawing, whether in pencil, Indian ink, or water-colours. It is gratifying to see how all these elementary treatises have been simplified of late. His Majesty holds a levee on the 21st inst., and on every succeeding Wednesday till further notice. The same regulations as to sending in cards and addresses as were adopted last year are to be observed. The draw ing-room of the 24th is to be a collar day. - • His Majesty is expected to honour the Master of the Horse 1t ith his company at dinner on the 10th March, at the Royal Stud-house, Hampron Court Palace. The Noble Earl, it is expected, will invite a select circle to meet the Sovereign. Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta is expected to arrive this day in the Stable Yard, St. James's, from Brighton. The Duke of Richmond gave a grand Ca binet dinner yesterday, at his house in Cavendish-square. Sir Robert Peel has been among the nume rous visiters to view the library of Mr. Hartrott, the sale of a third portion of which has now commenced. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are expected to arrive to day at Northumberland House, from Alnwick Castle. The rumour is revived that his Grace's heir presumptive, Lord Prudhoe, formerly Lord Algernon Percy, by the advice of his brother, is going to take to himself a wife. His Lordship has been making great improvements at his beautiful ,eat in Yorkshire ; called Stanwick Park, near D Arlington. The report is current amongst the electors of Marylebone that Sir William Horne has, on second thoughts, declined the offer made him of the vacant seat on the Bench in the Exchequer, and that there will be for the present no election for that borough. We believe, however, that this will make no difference in the other arrangements, which are understood to be definitively settled ; and that Sir J. Campbell has received his ap pointment as Attorney, and Mr. Pepys as Suicitor General. We do not know whether Sir J. Campbell's writ has been moved (if it has, it must have escaped our reporter), but we believe he has announced his' promotion to his constituents at Dudley. Of course, therefore, if Sir William Horne is not the new Baron of the Exchequer, he will retire to his practice at the Bar, or to private life. —Morning Paper. The Solicitor-General it was stated last night at the House, had been appointed Attorney-General in the room of Sir W. Horne, now named to be a Baron in the Exchequer, in the room of Baron Bayley. This pro motion of Sir J. Campbell, was mentioned as the reason for his not bringing forward the motion for a Bill to abo lish imprisonment for debt. The notices of Mr. Hume and others. fixed for last night, were tes,) postponed, and without any reason being assigned, The House was con sequently up at an uni.xpectedly early hour. It was generally circulated yesterday in the lez , ll circles that Mr. Pepys will be presented to his Ma jesty to-morrow at the levee, on his appointment as Soli citor-General. The Rinourable and Learned Gentleman will, as a matter of Court etiquette, receive the honour of Knighthood, as Sir Charles Pepys. The new Solicitor- General is second son of the late, and brother to the pre sent, S.r Wm. Weller Pepys, Bart., and nephew to the late Sir Lucas Prays, Physician General to the Army. The Lady of the Hon. Member is a daughter of W. Wingfield, Esq., the Master in Chancery, and grand niece maternally of E rl Digby. There was much hustle yesterday in the poli tical club houses in St. James's•street, on the su' j-ct of the small majority in favour of Ministers, on Mr. Whittle Harvey's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the pension list, which is considered the precui stir to their being le t in a minority, when the subject comes to be discussed in the Gimmons after a call of the House. Loa' Durham was under the gallery, during the whole of the debate in the House of Gimmons on Mr. D. W. Harvey's motion respecting the Civil List Pensions, and evinced the most anxious attention. THE DUNGARVAN ELECTION.—Mr. Jacob has been nominally reurned by a majority of 30, but new• has arrived that the election has in fact and in law a very d.ff•rent result. It is stated that Ebenezer Jacob and his p rty carried on the system of bribery so openly tint Mr. Barron's party resolved to give up the contest and petition against Mr. Jacob'• return. To complete his discomfiture th , y proposed Philip C. Crampton, Eqq., Solicitor-Ge neral, as a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Dungarvan in Parliament. Seven persons voted for bun, nil the election closed. Everything depends now on the petition an I the proofs it can embody. Meetings are at present being held in various parts of Norfolk for the purpose of petitioning for the repeal of the malt tax. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.-011 Monday the workmen employed in preparing the ground for laying the foundation of t. e English Opera-house refused to con tinue at work without an advance of wages. One of the chef objects of some of the workmen is to procure an equalisation of their wages from the 'motets, besides an advance. The masters object to the first proposition, on the ground of the superiority of some of the workmen, compared with others. 13ut, as the increase has not yet been complied with, they have not yet returned to their work ; and yesterday several of them assembled in the pa•sa.te leading from the Strand to the ground, to see who remained on the premises, but they observed strict order and decorum. GLASGOW COUNCIL.-A rumour is current in town that there i* a good deal of hole-and corner work going on in the new Council, and that the first-fruits of it will be seen in a grant of ten thou*snd pounds to be voted away on Thursday. Th;s is surely apocryphal. At all event•,we won't credit it till we find it actually realised.— Scots Times. NAVAL AND MILITARY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, SCOTLAND YARD (3,740 MEMBERS). ••••• The Council of Management beg to acquaint the Member. , of this Institution, that the Third Anniversary Meetine will be held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's street, on Saturday, the I.t of March.—Toe Chair wilt be t.lten at Two o'clock ; Lieut -General the Right Hon. Sir John Byng, G.O B. G.C.H. will preside. C. STODDART, Secretary. Confirmed HENRY Dowerts, Coin. R N., Director. ARRIVAL OF THE ROMNEY, JUPITER, AND ATIIOL.-Ye.terday his Majesty's ships Romney, of 50, Jupiter, 50, and Athol, 28 L una, arrived in our har bour. The first named vessel brcnight over the depots of the 51st and 94-h regiments, the latter of which were landed at Spike Is this morning, to replace the de tachment of three officers and 70 men of the 96th from Kinsale, that art ived at Spike, to replace the Royal Ma nines under orders for embaik ition. To-morrow morn ing the Slat will land in this city, and immediately marsh for Buttevant ; and on the same day detachments of ih.- 36th, 67th, and 69th Regiments will proceed to Cove in one of the steamers, and rail> irk on board the Athel, to jtnn the service companies at Barbadoes. On Wednesday 401 Thursday the 92d R-gitnent will be conveyed from Billinacurra to the Jupiter, which will proceed to Gibral tar, and v,e 64th will embark in the Romney for Jamaica. We are aware of other army movements of interest, but must reserve them fur the present. The 18th Royal hist) expect to pr , .ceed t Quebec, ti relieve the 79th WO tuent. Tue 89 h Regiment, now in this city, it is expect to proceed to Canada.— Cork Evening Herald. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 18 Sales to. ay 3,000 bags, a good business f o r T ues d ay ; 1,500 are on speculation and 200 lor export; remain 'e. 200 Bahia., 9.1. to 9,d. ; 100 Maranhatn., a , 1041. ; ,n. 50 Peroanis, at 10f.t., at !miner pikes. N 'thing mate vial tram Manchester, and we conclude no important change has occurred. l'efa il t j - i r Y om . JOURNAL ./4/4 ; We have already stated t h at. Miri stern pp to have resisted, for technical reasons Hai vey's motion for a Parliamentary inquiry into the grounds on which each pension in the vo lumnious list laid before the House of Commons in the course of last session, had been granted by the Crown and its advisers. We also stated that the present Ministers would have had nothing to fear from the results of such an In quiry, not having been responsible for any one of those corrupt and odious grants, for the sake of exposing and recalling which the inquiry was to have been instituted. It is not, however, a full justification of Ministers, that their conduct in this instance, so far as related to past trans actions, was void of all selfish motives. They had before them the discharge of a public duty, and the redress of a grievous public wrong. We regret, therefore, that they did not lay aside all considerations suggested by mere generosity towards their predecessors, and did not aspire to higher praise than that of being purely disin terested. We must premise, that the term "lawful" when applied, as it was frequently in the course of the debate, to the title by which the holders of pensions during pleasure may henceforth claim an exemption from any inquiry or interference by Parliament, seems to us ex tremely vague. It is true that the Crown has not exceeded in its grants the aggregate sum to which the whole pension list is limited by statute. In that sense, therefore, the body of pen sioners may be said to have a "legal" title. So, it cannot be denied that in the grant of each individual pension, the Crown has exercised a prerogative which is, strictly speaking, " legal ;" but is not the manner of exercising every Royal prerogative under the advice of responsible Ministers, a recognized subject for the control of Parliament ? If the Royal bounty be grossly misplaced, and that portion of the public treasure of which the Sovereign (or rather his Minister) is a trustee, be iniquitously or im providently squandered, shall there be no revision, no redress, because, forsooth, the power exercised was according to Act of Parliament, although every power, without exception, is given, subject to the regular constitutional guarantees against abuse ' The Act of 1832, so repeatedly appealed to, latticed at the disposal of the King's Minivers an aggregate sum of so many thousand pounds per annum; but he who insists that it applied a sponge to the delin quencies of former Ministers for the abuse of the Royal confidence, is little skilled in the construction of legislative acts. It is evident that Lord Althorp could not have meant a serious, much less a final re sistance to inquiry upon this important subject; and that he could not have employed the word legal otherwise than in an opposite sense to " constitu tional," when he affirmed that all these pensioners without exception held their pensions by a " legal title," while he admitted in the same breath that there were many names upon the list which ought not to have been there,—that there were many pen sions which it would be impossible to vindicate, —that there were many bestowed for no merit or public service whatsoever,—that he (Lord Althorp) would have felt serry to be the p rty who enjoyed, or the party who had advised, the giant of them; it is, indeed, evident that the Noble Lord, entertaining these sentiments of the pro fligate and unprincipled nature of such pen s or,s, nzust have intended to convey an ad mission that the advice under which they were given ought to be condemned, and char each unwarrantable pension, which in itself constituted the corpus delicti, ought to be rescinded on sn ad dress from the House of Commons. But it is clear hat neither one nor the other could be safely ac complished without a previous inquiry into the facts and merits of each individual case. The only fit method, therefore, of carrying to their natural conclusions Lord Althorp's own explicit premises (however ostensibly contrasted wiih the amendment moved by his Lordship) was, us it seems to us, the appointment of a Committee to inquire—for the Noble Lord would not surely wish the H lose to act upon his impressions, or on Mr. StaWey's, of the offensive and guilty details comprehended in the pension list, without arty investigation whatsoever Upon the whole of this question we are deeply con cerned at the course which his Majesty's Muds.ers have thought themselves on this occasion compelled to follow. To us it appears, though a well-int ent.oned, yet a most erroneous course. It is not the fiat time Ministers have had the misfortune to c:tuse regret, not altogether unmixed with astonishment, a: their extreme and gratuitous subserviency to re quests which ought not to have been complied with, or commands a hick ought to have been decidedly, though most respectfully, disobeyed. The Cow tis an appendage to the monarchy ; but neither a reFpon. s;bie Minister nor a great nation can or ought to be an appendage to the Court. .13. r that as it may, nothing was ever more hum:Hating than to see a well inearmig and in many points an estimable Adminis tration ignorant of its own intrinsic strength, arid acting as if it were conscious that it lived by suffer, mice only. It mortifies the true friends and steady supporters of a Reform Government to see its direcs lion vacillating and its footsteps tortering—crutching itself up, oue day by Radicals, the next by Tories, hat it may at last be derided by both, and possibly smashed between them. In one short week an alternate tr , umph has been achieved for It ish anarchy awl Ultra Tory corruption. They have voted an inquiry jut°, the conduct of a Judge, in spite of acknowledgments from all sides of the House, that even if every charge against that learned person could be es:ablished ii would form no justifiable ground for his dismissal, Tney have voted for no itiqtrry into the pension I.st, in the teeth of their own asseverations that there was much of it which they could nor, and were ashamed to, defend. Is it not, then, deplorable t tat a Government for which both principles arid circumstances have done so much, should thus in, vest itself with all this adventitious weal.oes*, when, give it but head erect and straightforward movement, arid there is no power in this country, oumerical or moral, from which it need for one mite ment shrink ? One secret fur obtaining the confi dence of others is to show that we are confident in our own integri:y and resources— SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC " Above all things to thine own self be true, And then it follows as the day the night, Thou canst not then be false to any man," —Times. The division on Mr. Harvey's motion, on Tues day, gives rise to many reflections on the present sate of parties, and the general tone of feeling and opinion in the reformed House of Commons, 'lice Government eviden ly were dragg,ed most tut, willingly into the discussion, and supported wi h equal reluctance and a most chivalrous integrity !heir understood contract with the Crown, and thr:, iiireiest of their enemies on the pension list. The large, and we may add tliump!tant minority, did their duty by the people. In saying this we are id fficung to make every allowance for the delicate and lt pion of the Ministers. They could scarcely obtain the consent of the Crown to the t e o ol p d ro a t i e ni ct i , le t l o v tandeheurtemnorsst of o of tthheeicr Court great measure of teform, un f ettere d b y some en gd g a v e o m u e r n s s t h —the Tories of the reign of George 111. --the pandrrers to the profligacy of that of his successor, or he probably less ohjec.ionable dep n.lants of the new reign, who figure in the pension list, and !oust otherwise have expected to be its first victims. On striking the bargain, also, for the civil list, a more specific contract appears to have been made ; and we admit that the consideration of the redu - !ion of the pension fund, on the accession of Wit liam the Fourth, to one-half its former amount, w is accepted from the Crown as the condition on which Ministers undertook t,) defend existing iiacresfs miser former grants. So far, we hive no :et•••rc. tz) t,perich the purity of the grounds upon v, vernment considered themselves bound in honour to