The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-10 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS. —. a .-- Nelle°,,usrwritcoPLE, Ace. 15.—The news that Ibrahim had 4r k „,," great advantages over the insurgents is not only con /4414a , but accounts are received of other more important ad troes, which will probably put a speedy termination to the prof, es in Syria. The Porte continues to observe the most mod. ice, d silence, but it knows very well how matters in Syria 14-'ee: Alehemet Ali, who came in person to his son's assist itukr ker ns to have chiefly contributed to the defeat of the thtugents, which must have been decisive, as almost all of and b t a hr ew , tnemselves on the generosity of the conqueror, a few 8 „," all delivered up their arms with the exception of e b a s n t o r u n g . 11 0 , 01 '"all bands that have retreated into the highest part of e o iss Z te n t li f i :th e The Porte seems to be disconcerted at the gle, which is inferred partly from the . gloomy Partly eces of some of the inmates of the Seraglio, and i n the -° \ , 11.1 the order given to suspend the armament . senibletl ' 4 - a'al Arsenal. Most of the troops that were (° be on the other side of the Channel are now vie t ,, . Put hack to their garrisons or be disbanded. The ..,r i .., to 19f Ibrahim seem, therefore, to have caused the Sultan l roe kne e ills desire to go to war, and he will now see how we th e ,, ‘.,were the counsels of the foreign Ambassadors when Will atwi sed him not to meddle in the affairs of Syria. Al! 1111 411 1" return into its old channel as soon as Mehemet Ali tee d t retu r . Is .. to Egypt, and the Sultan will have leisure .. to nt- Irbicatue reforms and improvements in the administration Nor tn " e r h ad began. Namik Pacha, who is gone as Ambas tett, 44ondorl, must by this time have reached the Laza- V: t Sernlin, 'lpt.i.t, AUG. 30. Per Cent. Metalliques, 98 13-16 ; c'Pt. 4 ent • 88i; Bank Shares, I,237l.—Allgemeine Zeitung, ilt L; ~R~ 'ERS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 7. The Independant an nounces th at t h e Mi t & 6 and Queen will leave Ostend on Thursday next, the 11th of September, and will arrive at Brussels on Saturday. pAmong the numerous speculators who are said to have sus ed en ormous losses on our Exchange, a Foreign Minister, ni potentiary to our Government, is mentioned, whose suc cessive losses are estimated at above 500,000 francs. re To judge of the discernment of some of our legislators in r quiring a new import duty on foreign linens we need but ,cad the following extract of a letter from Verviers to the Inde Pendant : _:` The new duty on the importation of linen, which is equi- T_lipit to a prohibition, is by no means favourable to the ma !ufacturers of Belgium ; offers are made in Prussia to smuggle themc into our country for 6 per cent. of their value, so that the thuntry will be inundated with them without any advantage to Icree treas ury, and the Prussian manufacturers will have no _s reason to complain of this new duty." mr Th . e So Kephia D orot h ea brig, Capt. Stappers, belonging to , of Ap, will certai sail at end o fart We e k for Singaporentwer with a cargo nl o y f Belgian the manufac fes of great value. reis" Jose old c onvent of the Chartreux, suppressed under the 41 0 of ph 11., was afterwards sold and converted into a ju:ai.ll°use• This vast building, situated in the street of St. u, at Antwerp, was lately advertised for sale, and it has prf, bee bought for the Capuchin Nuns, who, on their sup livesciTi, retired to a private house, where they have since th e el l l n common. Workmen are now employed in fitting up wei ; l rell, which is very handsome and in good preservation, d nati _ las the several parts of the building for their new esti of E n Traveller s who have lately visited the ancient Abbey eilgin.verboden, near Deist, say that workmen are very actively te rt 2 e d ill putting the building in a condition to receve . a sh e i n /lumber of monks, and that the establishment s will Cell r s tY be restored to its original destination. Part of the tic% 1 7 e re adY, and all the formalities for the legal reconstitu ehtiro the Society have been fulfilled. The very handsome jtirj ll , llo W used as the French church, has not been at all in pCra°Y those who demolished the convent.—Brussels Pa ' Sept. 8. LISBON PAPERS. OP THE PALACE OF AJUDA, Ace. 30. oltia c 111IPerial Majesty the Duke of . Braganza, in the con -. 4% of ta in e cure (tratamento), experiencs some, but cer , uv 'tent " c .„, 0 , °7 the 10 C1( it was announced that the deputation named Jett y, r,..e.sident of the Chamber of Peers to receive his Ma -4.1.°0111. 1 111 Waiting to accompany his Majesty to the Throne. : " l ' ea lltime, their Majesties went to the places prepared 04errn with their suite. htkei i the h a ll o f t h e Th rone , hi s M a j esty , h av i ng kilted h seat, th e P res i dent of the Chamber of Peers pre ,ql samee q th e im the N ew T estament, and h i s Majesty, receiving th time the autograph of the oath, repeate it uistitle,,,°r3ll prescribed by the Chamber in a loud and very . tion Fi.teee, and with the energy inspired by the Fonvic il4f4....alri,n.g always observed it, independently of this reli c A t. ,u'ality. esatinu,'"l.----His Imperial Majesty, the Duke of Braganza, s•mits manifestly to improve. Lis Imperial M a j es ty, th e D u k e o f B raganza , lstoes slow, 2,Y, but progressively, to improve every day. i the O EPT. 2. The Gazette contains the official pro- g !pio n o r or . the law passed by the Cortes, and sanctioned by S en eY t t e n Braganza), by which he is continued in the Re e Pt. 1 411 the min or i ty o f t h e Q ueen .—Li s b on G azette , d 2' the Lora Fitzr oy list o f visitors yesterday korei„ Somerset's ha g. ' at the Horse Guards, were—Sir Charles Pratt, Sir N '• Lillie, Colonel Delamain, Colonel Colebrooke, Major l's:iettnlari, Major Cruse, Major Law, Major Crowe, Colonel ~ end about thirty other officers. Lad do h Y Gardener, an English lady, fell with her horse ~ntler It P r ecipic e o f 200 feet ; the horse was killed, but the a'ok P ea Ped with merely a leg brok e n.—E x t rac t o f a letter I t , 4 PIeS in th e Augsburg Gazette. *ill c , lB said that Sir James Scarlett's fees in the great 44:101,Z, which has occupied so much time at Lancaster, so _ have e since its commencement to little short of , 00 -••th. 1 , !Ni el , tl 0 S EP II HUNIE.—The name by which this prop • -- an is kno • • the naval service appears a very k tiate one, the " 1 Cutter. r , Revenue tit4l 3' i' ° thY Hunter and his daughter are expected . liett lite edon from Paris ; they accompanied the Marquis Mkt: rd and Captain Aleynell to the latter capital. jIerabe,,MINSTER —Mr. Godson, our repected ,'"`t,t l e rr ; i vied in this borough from Cheltenham on Friday k r t -e < v—t his constituents • and he has continued here a wee 4 -r o e l pi ug gltkn2_re,turning the calls . of his friends. On Monday } N i le ' wer .4ll° feast was given . to the ladies. Sixty-five ti, eliral, l Opened on the occasion, at the expense of the 4 and 'e Gentleman and nearly 3,000 ladies partook of 80,,,eke•--- Worcester Herald. t'ittetil-'e unnecessary alarm has been occasioned by the It ent 1, 0,4 wh en Lat the sight of the Duke of Sussex is worse than tiLts.,`lhe,uniitsirt,,callnefitghtonwesns., This was expected by Mr. Alex s oculist; but no operation will take k ilyt t i ttfe ty all ', cataracts are sufficiently ripe to be extracted to It b uite s 4 without mtili . Thegeneral health of the ~Pres erl good, and this ir th in e . great to be attended t .,2he ~ seile ' e POTt of er, „„_ Richard Griffith, Esq., Government t(31:4:44 ,-zetoraotibde. improvement of Crown lands in Ireland, 4,, t h . 'nary circumstance, that . the only difficulty 14 11 „71 kide„,llnProvem nts of those tracts in Cork, Limerick, vi - 's ueroi_,_4iPPerary e counties, is the want of a sufficient te"-Pet,,, ennurers at the periods of the year most required, A t li Ptl4.,yy to April, and July to September, the peasantry ontha. 14:1•44;3ecipied in agriculture during those m th , 14 Post. Iley sg - , rs, w ' 44 1 • e ner l d e have heard, are in town from the ,. Attor te 4ti N ~ statin his i . e . fusal of the vacant judicial seat, 441 0 r 4"11 R th g 1 , otj ud e probability of I , lr. Crampton's being the lla i l it / 1 ge Jebb. —Freeman s Journal. ! 4„ilere we . 11 4 SE OF PROTESTANTS.—III the year the Itio7alty.."`t! More than 5,000 . Protestants in the county '.% titZ, 4 ,00 0 .:;icre than a century has elapsed, .and there are ' PA ",..e11). tiorrotestants in that county, notwithstanding all C at h el d lands, church lands, and offices in Chu T rc h h e , I tlytittL i i it, e , l :, out 1 sively to its professors. for peh-Allt‘:'3l, Were exe u 44,300 ; they are now 165,000, d ch; s eca . ti; all the penalties, insults, outrages, plunder,. A 3 a/c / e• ` 0 Which they have been exposed.— Watet - itt li . e elle „ 0 tsea ° ,"ttesd: quell gaity occurred at h S n e o a u h r a e i d n b H y athre -14.d a—ttileheYlVrt' tbe place having e b n e e e s n s c, f Londonderry, , i i ,,,, ad,. ins and Marchioness "artl e 7,_ and rY Fitzclarence, and the Earl . and_ . Countess of fit hreo), 4 ,ily. Lord Durham came in bisyachtfrom trrive Loresie..elPattied by Lady Londonderry, who returned the e ktt us .or th e drip. The most deafening cheers greeted 4 Ye 've wstulgoishedparty, who visited the various and . e st eni irks 1,, CPect, - our s Lie ships in the harbour ukle tin .d to , se l the occasion. Lady Durham and . family are TO se asOn cl " r n some tinie at Seaham Hall during the at r ,' e ab --burham Advertiser. q._ mro r ., , . lil t fr ml o f %l o ,:" 13orealts, or northern lights, were visible • 4 111 au north evening for about two hours, extend- Di' 44 l./p 4 to nearly north-west.—Boston Herald. 4 l II NEk ~, 4 ; N O , . ,--, _SpEENDID l 'ellclia "! Co t O VA OCOTIA, A UG.ri • fo°lo/41111111er w°IIa:.BRORE.—On Thursday, the 31st . ult., a Pee s • rak e , given by the officers of the_ his Majesty's to t „. 11 th• , late (4, aft` i ght , 18 coin ar ter-Master-General of h IN -- "'its ° clock tnand• Seventy-eight gentlemen sat down r.teuil'rer Wit nessed ,' r '• Id to one of the most elegant and select . the A 'e tt n o c y theLiein Halifax. Of the company were his ev % ~r rneb,.,,e Utenant- Governor, the Hon. T. N. Jeffer, st ß ) po i . " • 1 . ,:, h1 ` - ' neral, the Hon. Samuel Cunard, and the . 13 ,'s Nis i te(l o nthl,* Colonel Broke was placed in the Chair, "ae s t th e right by his Excellency, and on the left by terd,,.aad eoi "'Administrator of the Government. Colonel tenloaeill:xitlialeiltaGttrieve did the honours of the table. Yes e Provi u PreN ia s yresented an Address to the gallant ce. g thew regret at his intended departure from tr • Bp °ll/ , Eying h. NG zeter Is li etter s XTRAORDINARY.—A gentleman was Yard fr ' whei i on °lle day last week in a potatoe-field near Re nt' otri hi s e of the dogs came to a point and about a it u el.nan, k i j ie s.e was a large black snake coiled ' up ; the it t' i e his i i rleg the species to be quite harmless, took whic,e obs, rv _l c l i n, and found it to measure about three feet ; t itv g he pr es ; . , a Protuberance in the middle of the snake, riti te % . kiad, whyrebto_wards its throat, when out hopped a full " went off apparently uninjured.-- Western COURT-MARTIAL ON LORD JOHN HAY, THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP CASTOR. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. . . PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 8, On the opening of the Court this morning, Mr. George Charles Desport, clerk of the Castor, presented to the Court a list of the crew on board at the time of the melancholy oc currence of the loss of his Majesty's revenue cutter Cameicon, and immediately after Lord John Hay entered upon his de fence, which his Lordship read from a written statement, ela borately prepared for the purpose. His Lordship presented to the Court copies of his letter to the officer of the watch, Lieu tenant M'Cleverty, requesting a statement of the attendant circumstances, and a copy of Lieutenant M'Clevcrty's com munication in reply. His Lordship applied to the Court for its determination, whether to proceed with the evidence on the part of the defence as for each individually, or to be taken as for himself and the officers of the watch collectively. The Court was cleared, and on being again opened, the officiating Judge-Advocate stated that the Court would take the evidence as on behalf of Lord John first, and afterwards for the officers and men in rotation. The First Lieutenant, John Pyke, was then examined at great length. The next witness was the Hon. Frederick Thomas Pelham, the Second Lieutenant ; then followed Mr. Edward Mark Power, mate ; and after wards Lieutenant Pyke was recalled by the Court. These were all the witnesses called by Lord John. Lord John called on the President, Captain Lockyer, Captain Fanshawe. and Captain Richards for character, each of whom stated verbally their high opinions of the discipline of the Castor, and the ability and attention of his Lordship. Lieutenant James Johnstone M'Cleverty then entered upon his defence, and read a long statement of the transaction to the Court. In addition to so much of the evidence taken on the part of Lord John, as applied to his case, James Draver, quartermaster, Charles Casse, seaman, and Thomas Down, boatswain, were examined on the part of Lieutenant M'Cleverty, and Lord John and Lieutenant Pyke spoke to his general character for discipline and ability. Mr. Alexander Weir, master, read a short and manly defence to the Court, and adduced letters from several Captains with whom he had served, testifying their high opi nion of his ability and character. Lord John was called on behalf of Mr. Weir, and gave ample testimony of his qualifi cations. Mr. Marcus Knox, mate, read his defence and called as witnesses David Porter, captain of the forecastle, and Lieu tenant Pelham, who was re-examined at great length on the subject of the look-out, and a difficulty in point of form taking place, the Court was cleared. On our re-admission Lieut. Pel ham's evidence was read over to him and a long re-examina tion and cross-examination on the signal-officers' and men's duty was gone into by the Court and Lord John. Robert Hopkins, midshipman on the quarter-deck ; Thomas Carmichael, signal midshipman, and Joseph Hopkins, yeoman of the signals, all on duty at the time of the accident, severally made short de fences, and received good characters from their Commander. This closed the evidence on the part of the prisoners. The Court then called Jonathan Smith, captain of the main top, and Lieutenant Pyke was again recalled by request of Lord John, both which witnesses were examined rigorously on the subject of the look-out. The Court was again cleared, and not re-opened for an hour and a-half. On being re-opened, the officiating Judge-Adv oca t e , rea d a m i nu te of the order of the proceedings, and delivered the judgment of the Court, which was, that a proper look-out from the Castor had not existed at the time of the accident ; that Lieut. M'Cleverty be dismissed the service, and that Captain Lord Hay, the other officers and the crew, were acquitted. The sentence was re ceived in silence, and the President declared the Court dis solved. The finding of the Court was fully anticipated by some, whilst others were disappointed, conceiving the whole affair one of shear accident. Not a few, however, conceived that an example was necessary. The public may be satisfied that a strict and impartial investigation has been had, and on the publication of the evidence it will probably appreciate, from the nature of the regulations of the service, that the chief officer on duty was responsible for the want of precaution which has led to so melancholy a catastrophe. SPAIN. e ight xhithe. le evi- isoners ;her in n their tnesses to the s found put her L nd had nended ht now ner en d for th e iffering , n iy tell he girl. ar from by the i a y the mont hs 1d to be e place ideace 24th of f John t 00 the ird ; I trace" nithfield descrip- I found Is o f the , with a ut eig bt ;e fe ce ,„ s e d the. - saw two lot seen Uni °ll ‘ be there •s. D vembe t t here ; r e ti er to' • two At Hoeg' ep tforcl' vita h e an d to s e' loviog Id food ;s• be sai d t b eer birth' He er. e f t ge 1 Ye°' ninat i°° ' ated bis TAO red st the ft e l e .. 0 lel ecte: clece A ,'":4 me nd" OP • / 1 . Stel tbs t of w ife be oie b n , ;0 he itte r bo lsl o f ft o g y 0 t o be g' of Vie . ! ajo is. s ister g o led , D vb Ac e r ge r- • THE CORTES. ESTATE OF THE PROCURADORES.-SITTING OF THE 29TH OF AUGUST. After some preliminary business of little importance, the following petition, praying for the erection of a monument in commemoration of the 24th of July, the anniversary of the opening of the Cortes, was presented : " Senora,—The 24th of July will be celebrated in history. Its memory is engraven on the hearts of Spaniards, and should be also committed to marble, to record its glory to future generations. " Maria Christina de Bourbon, Regent of the throne of her daughter Isabella 11., came to open that sanctuary of the laws which fanaticism and violence had closed, and in the midst of the Proceres and Procuradores of the kingdom a national alliance was formed, a perpetual bulwark against tyranny and ignorance. This day is the more glorious, inasmuch as the Queen Regent of Spain then traversed her metropolis, afflicted with a desolating plague, amidst the dead and the dying. " This Queen-like act, joined to that national event which is due to her munificence, has induced the undersigned Procu radores, in Cortes assembled, to present to the President of the Estate, conformably to the standing orders, a petition, by which we express our wishes to the Government of her Ma jesty, that they may determine upon a national inscription, which may be placed in the most suitable, honourable, and im posing situation, as a monument to record to the Spanish people the auspicious 24th of July, 1834, and the assembling of the Legislature in the face of dangers and death. " DIEGO GONZALEZ ALONSO. PABLO SANTA FE. RUFINO GARCIA CARRASCO. " FRANCISCO CRESPO DE TEJADA. . 1 FRANCISCO VILLALA. MATA BELMONTE. JOAQUIM CACERES. " JOSE SOMOSA. " MANUEL MORENO RESEJO. " VICENTE CANO MANUEL. " ANTONIO MARTI. " CAYETANO GARCIA DE LA AIAZA." The President appointed the following Tuesday for the discussion of this petition. The order of the day for the discussion of the petition praying for the adoption of a general sanatory law, which should serve as an uniform guide in cases of epidemic, was then put, and a long debate on the subject of the cholera morbus ensued, which elicited little of interest beside the exposition by the Minister of the Interior of the mea sures adopted by the Government to prevent the spread of disease. The petition was ultimately agreed to. No further business was transacted at this sitting. HOME DEPARTMENT. " I have submitted to her Majesty the Queen Regent the representation your Excellency made me in your despatch the day before yesterday on the bad effects caused that morning by the circulation o f th e paper h aw k e d about by th blind men, and entitled " The flight of the Pretender and entrance into Spain of thirty thousand French ;" notwithstanding that in the afternoon of the same day few persons were ignorant of the fact that this false report was due to the invention of the said blind men. Her Majesty has in consequence been pleased to determine that your Excellency should direct the vigilance of the police not only towards the above-mentioned paper, but also towards all others which the blind men hawk in this capital, some of which being as prejudicial to the public tranquillity by the alarm and errors they create, as the others are to morality by the obscenity and the extravagant ideas they engender ; and in either view the supineness and tolerance of the police authorities is equally reprehen sible. Her Majesty, desirous that this scandal should be put an end to, prohibits from henceforward the publication of such papers, whether printed or in manuscript, unless duly authorized by all the formalities of the law, directs that the blind men or persons who hawk such publications be arrested and instantly expelled the metropolis as vaga bonds, and transferred to the places of their birth, under the especial superintendence of their respective Magi strates, and that the printers or persons facilitating the multiplication of the copies of such publications be sub jected forthwith to the penalties imposed on offenders by the laws of the press, the judgment being published in the 2liadrid Gazette and the Administrative Annals. Her Majesty also directs the police to draw up without de lay a list or census of all the mendicants in the capital, dis- tinguishing those whose business is the distribution of printed publications, which species of employment will in future only be permitted to be prosecuted by those who shall obtain a special license from the subdelegate of this department. The police are further directed to exercise their vigilance with regard to advertisements, handbills, and every description of paper affixed on public places, whether printed or in manuscript, except such as are authorized by some authority, and to allow the affixing of none in any case whatever, without the previous sanction of the proper sub delegate, expressed by his signature on the paper itself: " By Royal order, I communicate this to you for your information, and in order that the necessary measures for its execution may be taken. " God preserve, &c. " Madrid, A ugust 26. " koscoso. " To the Superintendent-General of Police." On Monday Admiral Rodd entertained the Lord Mayor and a party at dinner, to celebrate the anniversary of thoir Majesties coronation. A railroad is in contemplation to run from the town and port of Maldon, along the valley of the Blackwater, to or near the towns of Witham, Kelvedon, Coggeshall, Bock ing, and Braintree, and to communicate with the great railway about to be made from London to Norwich, with a branch to Cambridge. It is also proposed to take advantage of this line of railway to convey gas for lighting the above named towns. It is calculated that upwards of 500,000 acres of land will be under the influence of this railway. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 8. There has been a pretty general demand for Cotton to-day. About 4,000 bales have been sold at last week's extreme prices (1,000 of which have been taken on speculation) ; viz., 250 Pernans, 12:kl. to 130. ; 200 Maranhams, 11/d. to 12d. • 100 Paras, 100:; 400 Bahias, 10id. to I Id. ; 300 Surats, ; remainder American, from 71d. to 90., andOrleans,lod. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTELBER 10, 1834. shadowy and indefinite, sr ipplies more food for the imagination. There is sc , mething very touching and graceful in Van Arte void( ;'s brief allusion to his child hood : These hands are spot' less yet—. Yes, white as when i a infancy they strayed Un consious o'er my mother's face, or closed With that small grasp which mothers love to feel." Fatalism, as we see ins the cases of Cromwell and Napoleon, has generally been the creed of men who from comparative obscurity have raised themselves to power and sovereignty ; - it flatters their self-love, and suggests a convenient ap, ology for their crimes ; hence Mr. Taylor with marke 1 propriety has put this re mark into the mouth of . Van Artevelde ;-- " Ambition hath its use -s in the scheme Of Providence, whose- ;.instrument I am To work some changes in the world or die." The dialogue in the frourth act between Van Arte velde and Elena, wher t the former is speaking of his deceased wife, is pens t.d in the purest spirit of poetic " Sire was one made up Of feminine affectio trs, and her life Was one full stream, of love from fount to sea. Such was her inw ar d being, which to fit With answerable ;race of outward favour, Nature bestowed o rporeal beauty bright, Formed in such r ac , od of passionate conception As when the Goedlead, from a dream of love Awaking, with r of tic rapture seized, Substantiates the - vision, and the form His dreaming far le: y feigned, creates alive. These are but w Grids. ELENA. My lord, they're full of meaning. ARTEVELDE. No, they mean mo thing—that which th ey wou ld spea k Sinks into silen( e —'tis what none can know That knew not laer—the silence of the grave— Whence could I .call her radiant beauty back It could not con se more savouring of Heaven Than it went lion ce—the tomb received her charms In their perfecta( in, with nor trace of time Nor stain of sin - .upon them ; only death Had turned the m pale. I would that you had seen her Alive or dead. ELENA. I wish I had, my lord ; I should have loved to look upon her much ; For I can gaze or I beauty all day long, And think the all. .day-long is but too short. ARTEVELDE. She was so fair t hat in the angelic choir She will not need put on another shape Than that she bore on earth. Well, well,—she's gone, And I have tam, x 1 my sorrow. Pain and grief Are transitory tl tirigs no less than joy, And though they leave us not the men we were, Yet they do leave: us. You behold me here A man bereaved, with something of a blight Upon the early b'lo ssoms of his life And its first verdure, having not the less A living root, and: drawing from the earth Its vital juices, fr ()In the air its powers : And surely as ma n's health and strength are whole His appetites regnrininate, his heart He-opens, and his, , objects and desires Shoot up renewed." The following ohs ervations have a sagacity about them worthy almost of Shakspeare : " Success will couch the blind, The wise by speculation know to trade, And give their wits long credit and they thrive ; A scrambling wit mttst lice front hand to mouth On issues and ere)its. Prosperity Is warranty of wisdom with the world; Failure is foolishness." There is much appropriate buoyancy of sentiment in this dialogue, which takes place between two of the French leaders, who, flushed with victory, are in hot pursuit of the troops of Van Artevelde SANXERE. " Halt ye a space, my lords, ye cannot pass, The bridge has broken down beneath the weight Of them that fly. DUKE OF BURGUNDY. A ➢ath should bear up us, We are so light of he trt, so light of heel ! It was the leaden spirit of defeat That broke the bridge. Shoot me a plank across, And see if /shall strain it." Few we suspect will deny the sound philosophy of these observations, which though we have met with them, or something like them, before, prove that Mr, Taylor is a subtle thinker who pierces below the sur face of things. " He was one Of many thousand such that die betimes, Whose story is a fragment, known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course • a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few, Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will and keep the peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men." We are mistaken if the last line in this noble passage, which adapts itself to so many tastes, and is so adroitly calculated to soothe wounded vanity, and almost reconcile ambition to disappointment, do not come often before the world in the shape of quotation. How exquisitely is the serene beauty of woman depicted in this passage !- 4‘ Philosophy might look her i n th e f ace, And, like a hermit stooping to the well That yields him soft refreshment, might therein See but his own serenity reflected With a more heavenly tenderness of love !" Mark too the shrewd insight into the inmost heart of woman, which the subjoined reflections develope, when her affection for the lover is mixed up with re verence for the statesman, and a sort of meek distrust of her power over him whose every thought she would fain have wholly hers ! " When he is absent, I am full of thought, And fruitful in expression inwardly, And fresh, and free, and cordial is the flow Of my ideal and unheard' discourse, Calling him in my heart endearing names Familiarly fearless. But alas ! No sooner IS he present, than my thoughts Are breathless and bewitched, and stunted so In force and freedom, that I ask myself Whether I think at all, or feel, or live, So senseless am I !" A sprightly female temperament is thus gracefully described,— " The laughing fount Of gay imaginations 91 , 7 , bright, fantasies. A n d sparkling But by • far the truest and most pathetic burst of nature in the whole drama is where Elena is repre sented weeping over the dead body of Van Artevelde. The scene is the field of battle. VAN ItYK. " Bring her away. Hark ! hark ! PAGE. She will not stir. Either she does not hear me when I 'peak, Or will not seem to hear. VAN RYK. Leave her to me. Fly, if thou lov'st thy life, and make for Ghent. [Exit PAGE. Madam, arouse yourself ; the French come fast : Arouse yourself, sweet lady ; fly with me. I pray you hear : it was his last command That I should take you hence to Ghent by Olsen. I cannot go on foot. ELENA. VAN AYE. No, la dy, no, You sh a ll not nee d ; horses are close at hand. Let me but take you hence. I pray you, come. ELENA. Take him then too. VAN RYK. The enemy is near In hot pursuit; we cannot take the body. ELENA. The body ! Oh !" Any one who has stood beside the bed of death, and caught the last sigh, the last conscious look, or, it may be, the last smile, of some beloved father, mother, friend wife, or child, w ill remem b er th e reso l u t e perver sitieywith which at that moment he clung to hope, when hope was at an end—and when the truth first flashed on his reluctant senses, the stunning shock it gave him to know and feel that but a few short hours had sufficed to make all the difference between life and death— between the being and the thing ;—any one who has felt this —and alas who has not ?—will at once feel the intense, the concentrated pathos of the above passage. Shakspea re ' s L ear. To fi n d it s equa l, we must go back to Besides the passages we have quoted, there are a myriad of minor beauties to be met with in every page of this drama. Mr. Taylor is a master of poetic imagery. His epithets have sometimes all the rich, lustrous effect of painting. They are not general, but particu lar ; not culled from a poetic vocabulary, and applicable to a thousand subjects, but appropriate to the one. We subjoin a few specimens of this pictorial faculty. " They but seldom leave Shy midnight uninvaded."- " The night is far advanced upon the morrow, And, but for that conglomerated mass Of cloud with ragged edges, like a mound, Or black pine -forest on the mountain's top, Wherein the light lies ambushed, dawn were near."- " He had from nature a most mounting heart, And revelled formerly in joys to him, As native and as unsolicited As to the lark her sona." " Mixing its small beginnings with - the dregs Of the pale moonshine and a few faint stars, The cold, uncomfortable day-light dawned, And the white tents topping a low ground-fog, Showed like a fleet becalmed."—_— " Once in my sad and philosophic youth, Once at this cock-crow of philosophy," &c. " Delighted was she at the fall Of evening mild, when shadows tall Cross-barred the mound and cottage wall, To linger there alone."- We regret that in an able, but somewhat strained and sophistical preface, Mr. Taylor has not thought it beneath him to sneer at the genius of Byron. He talks of his " puerile creations"—just as if there were no thought—no grandeur of conception--no consum mate skill of execution, in Sardanapalus—in Cain— in Anah—in Manfred—and, above all, in Childe Harold, as he is fully developed in the Fourth Canto! The Conrads and Laras we give up, though with hesi tation, to his censure ; but let not Mr. Taylor speak irreverently of the matured intellect of Byron, espe cially when his own notions of character seem to be that it should be " ideal"—a theory which, if once ac knowledged, must have the effect of damning the pre tensions of Burns, Crabbe, and all who, like them, have made truth the basis of their descriptions. For ourselves, we must confess we have little taste for ideal" humanity. It looks like a begging of the ques tion—an ingenious trick to evade a difficult task. Give us, instead, characters with whom we can sympathise —creatures of the world about us, made up of smiles and tears, of strengths and weaknesses, with warm hearts beating in their bosoms. Such is the Jean of Burns—such the Richard Munday of Crabbe—such the Sardanapalus of Byron—but such is not the 'Van Artevelde of Mr. Taylor. Here and there, indeed, there is a show of vigour, and the right sort of appre hension ; still, as a whole, the character is languid and inoperative, for the reasons we have already stated. LITERATURE. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE. A Dramatic Romance. 2 Vols. London, 1834. 2loxon. The close of the 14th century was distinguished beyond almost any other period of which modern his tory makes mention, by a fierce, revolutionary spirit, which spread like wild-fire through a considerable por tion of Europe. In France, the army with Mallets-- in England, Wat Tyler and his mob—in the Nether lands, Van Artevelde and his White-hoods—for a time menaced the privileged classes, and indeed the whole fabric of the feudal system, with annihilation. But it was in Flanders that the democratic influenza raged with the greatest virulence. And the reason is obvious. The principal Flemish towns had come from small degrees, and after many years of assiduous per severance, to monopolize a great portion of the com merce of Europe ; but so far from reaping the full benefits of such enterprise, found themselves thwarted at every step of their progress, by the oppressive exac tions of the Earl who claimed the sovereignty over them. The consequences were, first, distrust, then remonstrance, and then a war between the two parties, which, though carried on for many years with unceas ing energy on both sides, led to no decided results, until, at length, a stern, intelligent, intrepid spirit rose in the person of Philip Van Artevelde, who, putting himself at the head of the Flemish democrats, then banded together under the name of " White-hoods," overthrew the feudal power of the Earl, achieved the independence of Flanders, and in return was raised to the Regency. It is of this tempestuous epoch, and more especially of its presiding genius, Van Artevelde, on whose slightest movement the eyes of all Europe were riveted, that the play before us professes to treat. A more impressive subject could scarcely have been se lected. The materiel of tragedy--its sternness and its pathos—its strange alternations of p ass i on —i ts fit- Cul gleams of light and shade—its varieties of charac er, incident, and description—all may here be found n profusion. But, then, just in proportion to the ex . cellence of the theme, is the genius required to do it justice. Now Mr. Taylor, we fear, has not brought the right order of intellect to it. Neither by nature, nor the habits of education, is he fitted to be the chronicler of a stern, revolutionary period —to exhibit its " age and body, its form and pressure" —or the characters that are drawn forth and moulded by it. His intellect is calm and meditative, not stirring or im passioned. It does not come out enough into, or mix familiarly with the world, but for the most part keeps itself at home, nursing its ease in the quiet realms of fancy and philosophy. Thus of Van Artevelde as the ambitious, successful—and therefore, to• a consider able degree, practical man of the world, who " wielded at will the fierce democracy" of Flanders, we have but a few vague glimpses, though this was the portion of his character that should have been most insisted on; while of Van Artevelde as the lover, the sentimentalist—and more especially as the dreamy philosopher—we have a full-length —just as if these were the qualities by which he is best known in history, or which raised him to—and kept him in— the Regency of Flanders. In a word, Mr. Taylor has pourtrayed him, as Coleridge pourtrayed Alvar in the " Remorse," as a being almost wholly made up of the ideal and the sentimental. When we look for the practical, he puts us off with the abstract ; and for action and decision, substitutes sentiment and me ditation. We will give an instance of what we mean. In the Fifth Act, when the affairs of Van Artevelde are fast. hurrying to a crisis.---when disaffection has crept in among his Flemish subjects_when his French foes are on the Lis in overwhelming masses—when, in fact, there is not a moment to be lost—Mr. Taylor introduces his hero talking to his mistress in this fashion : " My meditations in their outset wore The braveries of ignorance and youth, But cast them, and were innocent thenceforth; For they were followed with a humble heart, Though an inquisitive ; and humbler still In spirit waxed they as they further went. The elements I left to contemplate. Then I considered life in all its forme, Of vegetables first, next zoophytes, The tribe that dwells u pon the confine strange Twixt plants and fish : some are there from their mouth Spit out their progeny, and some that breed By suckers from their base or tubercles, Sea-hedgehog, madrepore, sea-ruff, or pad, Fungus, or sponge, or that gelatinous fish That taken from its element at once Stinks, melts, and dies a fluid; so from these Through many a tribe of less equivocal life, Dividual or insect, up I ranged, From sentient to precipient—small advance— Next to intelligent—to rational next, So to half-spiritual human-kind, And what is more, is more than man may know. Last came the troublesome question—what am I ? A blade, a seedling of this growth of life Wherewith the outside of the earth is covered ; A comprehensive atom, all the world In act of thought embracing; in the world A grain scarce filling a particular place ! Thus travelled I the region up and down Wherein the soul is circumscribed below." Now, can it be supposed that at a moment like this, when life or death hung on the issue of an hour, a statesman like Van Artevelde, made up of energy, and whose life, from his entering on the Regency, must necessarily have been all action, could find time or inclination to bandy metaphysics with his mistress, or indulge her with speculations about vegetables and zoophytes ? The idea is absurd, and jars with all we know and feel of the truth of character. With reluctance then we must pronounce Van Artevelde a failure : first, because he is rather an idealism than a dramatic creation ; secondly, because, though he holds the destinies of kingdoms in his hands, he does not move under a sufficient consciousness of the peculiarities of his position. His intellect is retrospective, not prospective, and had such been really the case with him,he never would have come down to us as one of the first statesmen and warriors of his time. To attain eminence in either of these capacities a man should be all action— all energy—all decision,, and such requisites arc sel dom found in company with a musing, metaphysical turn of mind. We repeat, therefore, that " Van Ar tevelde" is a failure, because he is at variance with the twill of history, which Mr. Taylor professes to illus trate. Yet he has evidently taken great pains with the character—we see, indeed, that it is quite a pet with him—and in the development of its gentler traits has been successful. Of the remaining personages little need be said, for, with the exception of " Elena,"—an impressive day dream of the imagination, but somewhat incoherent and fragmentary, as such dreams are apt to be—they are but so many distinctions without a difference. The poetry of the play, however, is exquisite—full of richness and melody, and studded with sunny, grace ful images, like Cleopatra's tiara with gems. Mr. Taylor is invariably the most successful when he con fines himself to depicting the tenderer emotions of our nature. He turns too watchful and trembling an ear to " the still, sad music of humanity," to be at home on a theme so stern and im passioned as that which he has here selected. The boldest passage in his drama is the personification of Danger Make fast the doors ; heap wood upon the fire ; Draw in your stools and pass the goblet round, And be the prattling voice of children heard. Now let us make good cheer —but what is this? Do I not see, or do I dream I see A form that midmost in the circle sits Half visible, his face deformed with scars, And foul with blood—Oh yes—l know it—there Sits Danger with his feet upon the hearth." We prefer this to Collins's Fuseli-like personification : " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould, What mortal eye can fixed behold ? Who throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose, hanging rock to sleep ;" for it has equal force and earnestness, and, being more FROM LAST NIGHTS GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 9, 1834. The King has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel William Macbean George Colebrooke to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Bahama Islands. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN VINEY, carpenter, Crouch End, Hornsey. BANKRUPTS. HENRY WILLIAM RICH, wine -merchant, Joiners'-hall buildings, to surrender Sept. 22, at one, and Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bennett, Scott's-yard, Bush-lane, Cannon -street; Lackington, Basinghall-stre e t, o ffi c i a l assignee. JAMES WATSON, baker, Milton-terrace, Southwark Bridge road, Sept. 16, at ten, and Oct. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Rogers, Manchester-buildings, Westminster ; Whit more, Basing,hall-street, official assignee. EDWARD LAW, salt-merchant, Lower Thames -street, Sept. 16, at half-past one, and Oct. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Walton and Co., Warnford-eourt. JAMES GALLAWAY, cheesemonger, Bronti-place, East street, Walworth, Sept. 17, at ten, and Oct. 21, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard. JONATHAN TANNER, silk-throwster, Reading, Sept. 13, at ten, and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the George Inn, Reading. Compigne, Reading. THOMAS SARTAIN, cattle-salesman, Holt, Wiltshire, Sept, 24 and Oct. 21, at twelve, at the White Lion, Inn, Bath. King Whitaker, Gray's Inn, London. JOHN ADDY, table-knife-manufacturer, Sheffield, Sept. 24 and Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Town Hall, Sheffield. Walter, Symond's Inn, London ; Turner, Campo-lane, Sheffield. GEORGE ROWLAND, innkeeper, Old Town-street, Ply mouth, Sept. 23 and Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Commercial Inn, Plymouth. Bennet, George-street, and Curgenven, Plymouth; Sole, Aldermanbury, London. WILLIAM HOUSE, grocer, Bridgwater, Sept. 23, and Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Hare and Little, Bristol, and Bridges and Mason, Red Lion-square, London. JOHN M`GREGOR, calico-printer, Clayton-vale, Manches ter, Sept. 18, and Oct. 21, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms. Manchester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London ; Coates, Manchester. JAMES EWER CUTTEN, coach-maker, St. Pancras, Chi chester, Sept. 19, and Oct. 21, at eleven at the Swan Inn, Sowton, Great James-street, Bedford-row ; Price, Freeland, and Raper, Chichester. ROBET TRONSON, merchant, Liverpool, Sept. 20 and Oct. 21, at one, at the Clarendon R00m , ,. Dean, Palsgrave place, Temple-bar, London ; Kaye and Andrade, Liverpool. WILLIAM WATSON, cattle-dealer, Great Easby, Cumber land, Sept. 23 and Oct. 21, at eleven, at the Crown and Mitre Inn, Carlisle. Mounsey and Gray, Staple Inn, London ; Ewart, Carlisle. DIVIDENDS. J. E. Watson, merchant, Bucklesbury, October 1, at one, at' the Court of Bankrupty—S. Harris and D. Reeve, linen-drapers, Minories, October 1, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. C. Davies, grocer, Wrexham, Denbighshire, October 4, at one, at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Wrexham—C. Buckle, grocer, Barnard Castle, Durham, October 6, at three, at the Rose and Crown Inn, Barnard Castle—W. Pinnell, farmer, Up Lamborne, Berkshire, October 3, at eleven, at the Bear Inn, Hungerford, Berkshire— D. Steber, watchmaker, Dover, Kent, October 27, at two, at the Bell Inn, Sandwich—J. Perry, innkeeper, New Sarum, October 6, at one, at the Cross Keys Inn New Saru m —M. Th orpe , mer chant, Spalding, Lincolnshire, Inn, 3, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn Spalding—E. Jacob, ca ttl e -d ea l er, L lantrissent, Gla morganshire, October 9, at eleven, at the Three Salmons Inn, Usk, Monmouthshire--J. Davies, dealer in coals, Llandiloes, Mont gomeryshire, October 1, at twelve, at the Herbert Arms Inn, Kerry, Montgomeryshire —J. Williams, builder, Liverpool, Octo ber 2, atone, at the Clarend on R ooms , Liverpool—J. Law, farmer, Lloyd, Staffordshire, October 2, at twelve, at Radenhurst' s N ew Royal Hotel, Birmingham—J. B. Brockbank, slate-dealer, Man chester, October 2, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES—SEPT. 30. N. Davis, wine -merchant, St. Mary Axe—J. J. Evans, sur geon, Saint Neots—F. Fletcher—W. Hooper, carver and gilder, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Bettington and Co., merchants, Bank Chambers (so far as regards J. Bettington, J. B. Bettington, and J. H. Bettington)_ M. Heriot and G. L. Olding, Bishopsgate-street Within—R. Wat son and F. Broughton, Falcon-square, attorneys—G. and H. Wheeler, London—J. Howard and Co., woollen merchants, Dub lin—W. R. Briggs and H. W. Tomkins, wine and spirit merchants, Liverpool—R. Bussell and D. Ball, auctioneers, Taunton—T. Da niell and Co., copper smelters, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire--J. Best and E. Hunter, linen-drapers, South Shields, Durham--H. Wat keys and Lettice Rees, wine merchants, Swansea, Glamorganshire —W. H. Fenn and J. Cooper, tea-dealers, Charlotte-row, Man sion-House—J. Dunn and Co., tea-dealers, York—Sir J. Wil liam• and Co., stationers, West Smithfield—J. Bland and Co., comb manufacturers, Bradford, Yorkshire—C. and J. Fossett, mil liners, Regent-street—J. Hubbard and W. Crockford, cabinet makers, Ramsgate--J. Smith and J. Clark, woollen-drapers, Holy well, Flintshire—J. Everett and J. Thompson, letter-press printers, Manchester—H. Hewett and W. Gough, corn merchants, Portsea —H. D. Broughton and Co., salt manufacturers, Anderton, Che shire—H. and S. Hindley, hearth-rug manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS ROBERT ALLAN and SON , and ROBERT ALLAN and ALEXANDER WIGHT, bankers, Edinburgh, Sept. 11 and 26, at twelve, at the Royal Exchange C o ff ee -h ouse , Edi n b urg h. THOMAS HARVEY, Jun., merchant, Glasgow, Sept. 10 and 25, at twelve, at the Eagle Inn, Glasgow. THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC MEETlNG.—Strangers are arriving-daily in great numbers. • The hotels and lodging houses are filling, and the markets for butcher meat, poultry, game, &c., are evincing the usual symptoms which an in creased demand produces. Among other sources of amuse ment and recreation for the strangers, the College Museum is to be opened to them. This has been done on the suggestion of Professor Jameson.— Scotsman. We last week alluded to the meeting of the poets Wordsworth, Southey, and Rogers at the hospitable mansion of the Earl of Lonsdale. In their journey Wordsworth and Rogers stopped at the inn at Patterdale, and there it seems one of them penned a joke which would be valuable to any collector of such literary curiosities. Being requested to write their names in the visitors' book, merry Sam Rogers must give a spice of his quality, and accordingly the mad wag wrote as follows " August 14, 1834. Two poets—one Wordsworth, The other Sam Rogers, Stopped here to-day— Two very queer codgers." The Bruce coach was upset while entering Shardlow on Friday evening, by which several females of this neigh bourhood received some severe bruises. The accident is attri buted to the coachman, who had drunk more than he ought to have done, having whipped his horses while passing a cart coming on the wrong side of the road, instead of pulling up, or avoiding it by going to the other side. In the concussion with the cart, the horses broke away from the coach, and ran direct to their stables. The coach went over immediately afterwards, when the guard was thrown beneath it and nar rowly escaped with his life.—Leicester Chronicle. Last week a swarm of bees alighted on the head of a large wolf-dog of Mr. Holloway, of Chickwell, near Norton St. Phillips, and stung it so severely that the poor animal died from its agonies before the- bees left it. The same week a swarm of bees pitched on a man named Bevan, when at work on Road-common, who, probably, would have shared the same dreadful fate but for his having the presence of mind to fall down on his face and continue in that position until a neigh bour.procured a hive, which the bees entered, leaving the man uninjured.—Bath Journal. COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne and Viscount Palmerston returned to town'yesterday, from a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle. Mr. Secretary Rice, after dining with their Majesties on Monday evening at Windsor Castle, proceeded to South -hill park, Bracknell, Berks, on a visit to the Earl of Limerick. The Right Hon. Secretary was expected to return to his resi dence at Petersham last evening. Sir E. C. Disbrowe, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Sweden, paid visits yesterday to Viscount Mel bourne at the Treasury, and to Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign-office. The Right Hon. C. Grant had an interview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne. WINDSOR, SEPT. 9. The morning of yesterday (the anniversary of their Majes ties' coronation) was ushered in with ringing of bells, and at one o'clock a royal salute was fired from the small guns on the eastern terrace, under which, in the Home-park, the regiment of Foot-guards stationed here were drawn up, who, immediately , after the salute, fired a feu de joie, and, after another salute from the cannon, the Royal Party (who had come upon the Terrace just before the firing commenced), consisting of their Majesties, the Princess Augusta, Prince George of Cambridge, the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Denbigh, and the other gentlemen and ladies of the Court, retired. Colonel Sir Charles Thornton commanded the Artillery, and Colonel Bowater the Foot-guards. These salutes were answered by similar ones from the fort at Belvidere and the corporation guns. At an earlier part of the morning his Majesty rode into the lower ward of the Castle to inspect the chapel called " Wolsey's Chapel." Sir Benjamin ' Stevenson (one of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests) and Sir Jeffery Wyatt 'dile were in attendance upon his Majesty. It is stated to be in contemplation to make the Chapel a robing-room for the Knights of the Garter. The Duke and Duchess - of Gloucester arrived at the Castle from Bagshot-park, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmerston from town, Mr. Secretary Rice. from Petersham, and joined the grand dinner party in St. George's-hall, which included the Princess Augusta, Prince George of Cambridge, the ladies and officers of their Majesties' household, and a number of the nobility resident in the vicinity of Windsor. ' After dinner four or five salutes were fired from the Terrace, between 8 and 9 o'clock, after the toasts of " The King," " The Queen," &c. In the evening the Castle was thronged by 300 or 400 guests, consisting of the gentry of the neighbourhood, visiters, and residents. The Naval and 'Military Knights of Windsor• had the honour of being present by invitation, The party did not separate till a late hour. To-day the Royal party rode out on horseback and in car riages to the Great Park, and it is expected their Majesties will go to-morrow to town, when the Queen will receive the addresses of congratulation from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,: and Court of Common Council of the City of London. Their Majesties are also expected to visit Kew. The Ministers have left the Castle for their respective res'- dences. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. Last night the Mountain Sylph was followed by a new comic operatta, in two acts, called My Own Twin Brother.' The leading incidents in the story may be told in a few words. Captain Romulus Fetch (Mr. Wrench), of the Lancers, falls violently in love with Lucia (Miss Lee), daughter of General Tracy, commanding the garrison at Colchester ; but the latter discountenances the addresses of the Captain to his daughter, and refuses in the most decided terms to consent to her giving him her hand, even though he knew that she was passionately attached to him. Sir Lionel Heirton (Mr. Oxberry), a young man of very distant and unceremonious manners, also becomes, to please his mother, Lady Heirton (Miss Barry), the suitor of Lucia. His deportment, however, disgusts her with him at once, and consequently there is soon an end of the affair, so far as he is concerned. Determined to adopt every expedient which could promise the least chance of success in his endeavours to obtain the hand of Lucia, which she only refused because she could not get her father's consent, Ro mulus, assisted by his Irish servant (Mr. Benson Hill), who was a man of great ingenuity, devises several schemes with that view. The most successful scheme which the Captain adopted was that of doffing his uniform and attiring himself in a suit of black, and, so attired, representing himself as a twin brother of Romulus. The General, for a long time, is convinced that there is some trick, and that the brother and the Captain must be one and the same person ; but at length the repeated and warm pro testations of Romulus, coupled with the plausible stories he tells about the personal likeness, in features, and person, and voice, of the two brothers, persuade him that the representa tions of Romulus is true. His appearance in the several cha racters of himself and the pretended brother was remarkably happy. The transition from the one to the other was uncom monly quick, and the success of the piece in a great measure depended on the facility with which this transition was made. Romulus, as the Capt a i n , a t l ast offends the General and th e latter orders him to be arrested preparatory to being tried be fore a Court-martial on a charge of insubordination. In his assumed character of Hs brother, he repeatedly succeeded in getting into the company of Lucia, and so far gratified his wishes, and to a certain extent promoted his suit with her. His arrest, he was afraid, if it should end in a Court-martial, would dishonour himself and defeat his object ; and therefore he applied himself to the consideration of the most probable means of averting the threatened consequences. His twin brother was again impressed into his service. He appears in the presence of the General, deeply affected at the fate of Romulus, and prayed he might be released. The General informs him that he had the presumption to solicit the hand of his daughter. The twin brother admitted, that yesterday it would have been presumption in Romulus to aspire to the hand of the General's daughter; but that having received that having received that morning a bequest, amounting to 7,0001. a year, he might v en t ure t o covet t h e h onour. Th i s removes the General's objection ; Romulus is released, and gets the General's consent to marry Lucia. The piece contains many good points, though it might be somewhat pruned. It was favourably received. Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., arrived at Birdhohne on Tuesday last, from abroad. The worthy Baronet is to be one of the Stewards of Chesterfield races. Lord John Russell has resided at Ensleigh, the seat of his father, near Tavistock, since Wednesday the 28th last. His friend, Viscount Elarington, visited him on Friday, and retutled to Castle Hill on Tuesday. EARL GREY.—Our readers will observe, that ad dresses from various parts of the country are showering on this distinguished statesman in unexampled numbers. Public honours were never better bestowed.—Scotsman. The Duke of Beaufort and family have been de tained in town in consequence of the indisposition of his Grace who, we are happy to hear, is now convalescent. —Gloucester shire Chronicle. The family of the Marquis of Westminster are still in Grosvenor -street, and, we are sorry to add, likely to remain. The Marchioness's health has become so delicate that the idea entertained of leaving town for Moor Park has been abandoned; and the Marquis does not go to Doncaster. The Countess of Pembroke, who has been staying at Malvern, proceeded on Friday last to 'Jewell Park, on a visit to the Hon. R. H. Clive, to join the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, and other distinguished guests now as sembled there. The Lord Chancellor is expected hero on Saturday next, in order to spend a day among the scientific men of the British Association.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. An invitation was some time since forwarded to Lord Althorp, requesting his presence at the dinner to be given to Earl Grey, at Edinburgh, this day week • a similar invitation has been given to Lord Melbourne and the other Cabinet Ministers. Lord Melbourne cannot, we learn, be present ; and Lord Althorp, however anxious he may be to testify his respect for Earl Grey, cannot withdraw from an engagement contracted long before the entertainment to that • ilhistiious statesman could possibly have been contemplated. The fact is, that for years Lord Althorp has been in the habit of entertaining a large party of the patrons and admirers of the amusements of the turf at his house, near Doncaster, dur ing the races. Among his accustomed guests is the Duke of Richmond. Mr. Stanley will also join the party. . . . MO NEY-MA R E T.—An op i n i on ls beg inning to prevail in the city that the Bank is gradually coming into a safer position, and that the present demands upon them for gold may be expected gradually to diminish. This view of the case is borne out by many different circumstances. The supply for Lisbon seems either to have reached its full extent, or to have been checked for a time by the difficulties thrown in the way by the Bank Directors themselves. In the United States the rise in the rate of exchange indicates that it can no longer be a profitable speculation to transmit bullion thither ; while to the Continent, particularly to the north of Europe. the approach of winter and increased risk of conveyance will cause of necessity a decrease in the exportations, even though the demand on the spot should still be kept up. On the other hand, at the time when the motives for exporting bullion are either ceasing or acting with diminished force, there are signs of an increase in the supply both from Mexico and South America, which have within the last 12 months sent us much less than the usual proportion. But though the Bank is thus once more made secure, the monied interest suffer, and the in convenience to which they have been put is taken into little account, and every individual feels that the same men who may be expected to pursue the same measures, will infallibly bring on at intervals, so long as the charter exists, a repetition of the same evils. In fact the actual scarcity of money in the city is not as yet at all alleviated, though, e for the reas ons b just adduced, that may shortly expected to the case. One of the effects o f it h a s been acting, of the within g ,itseems, t h t es e e r f a e t w e days on the B an k itself. Of the dissented 4 per C ents, which became, in the early part , year, when h of interest w a s low, a good investm ent for oamters, an amount not less than 2,000,0001. has been claimed payment upon, and the allowance at the rate of 3 per cent. made in the terms of the Bank offer about two monthsback, but to t o a f k w e h t i h e e h no o money e d : • was then as taken Now an operation that th e rate of interest has y b o expected The mer ofe risen,vant age it be as it was in the first in stance to B o ld the a stock. a ddition thus made to the circula ti on may itself, in a few days, materially to relieve the pressure for money.—Mor4ing Paper.