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a confession of triganly in detail ! " Sketches from the North" is a smart article on an interest- ing topic—the leading political characters in Edinburgh. " Poland" is an admirable, and, at the present juncture,an instructive historical sketch of one of the finest and most foully-wronged countries on the face of God's earth. " Speak ers and Speeches in Parliament" is a sprightly and seasonable sketch ; but surely the writer is severe overmuch on Lord Grey and Sir J. Graham ! Altogether the number is a capital one ; judicious in variety, and seasonable in the character of its information. The engraving alone is a gem worth theprice of the whole book. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. By its own account, and we have no reason to dispute the fact, this magazine runs on its course rejoicing, that is to say, increases greatly in circulation. We are glad to hear this, the periodical is a spirited one, though its early numbers were too much tainted with a reckless spirit of personality which, wholly unintelligible to country readers, could have inspired in them no other emotions than those of disgust. In the more recent numbers, especially the present one, personality has been almost lost sight of, and consequently the No. is much the gainer. " \Val len stein's Camp" is a spirited but free translation from Schiller—compared with Lord Levison Gower's dilution it is admirable, but might be much better without attaining any super-eminent excellence. "On the Punishment of Death" is a well-condensed digest of the opinions of Hazlitt and Basil Montagu on this important subject. " Narrative of the French Revolution" is a review of the late publications illustrative of this event. A Mr. Turnbull's history, entitled " The French Revolution of 1830," is treated with marked derision, as a work beneath con tempt, and justice is awarded to the clear, powerful, and argumentative details of Mr. Colton. " Dr. Phillpotts, the Bishop,"—we hurry from this subject with a strong feel ing of loathing, and turn for consolation to the smart little sketch which accompanies the portrait of our tetnporate and esti mable friend Ensign O'Doherty, the standard bearer and pride of Blackwood. The face is one of a religious caste ; and is thrown into agreeable shadow by:a huge puritanical bronze wig, such as beseems the dignity of this Ad jutant, who has lately, we understand, turned methodist, and now holds forth at the new Jerusalem Tabernacle in the Waterloo road. " L'Envoy" is a lively, satirical piece of egotism, and " Some Passages front the Diary of Mr. John St. John Long"—that most immeasurable and unparalleled quack—full of humour. En . . VOICI :-- bOAIF. PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF TIIE LATE ma. JOHN ST. JOHN LONG. Aye—there's the rntb."—llainlet. " 'Tie all one !" said I, laying down the newspaper on the breakfast table, after reading an erroneous represeuta• tins of myself and the Marquis of Sligo : ' I am resolved to remove this stain front my character, and, if hard-rub- Ling can do it, I may hope to succeed.' I had scarcely pronounced these words, when my servant entered the room to inform me that a person had arrived in breathless haste, imploring my assistance for a gentleman in a dying con dition. Heedful, as I ever am to attend to the sufferings of others—a pursuit in which I have found ample fee licity—l drew on my boots and followed the applicant to rise house of the suffering gentleman. This was situated in a picturesque part of the metropolis, and, on knocking, the door was opened to me by a man who might be six and forty years of age—there. or thereabout. Guessing the purport of my visit, he said nothing, but led me up to his master's room, when a spectacle of the most ap palling character met my eyes. A gentleman in the prime of life lay extended on a bed—his hair dishevelled, his dress disordered, andhis complexion a midway hue between the tints of chalk and Cheshire cheese. His tongue hung out of his mouth, loaded with evidence of internal strife. I naturally believed that the present was a confirmed case of phthisis pulmonalis, and I accotdingly had recourse to my well known, and, with-few-exceptions, always-success ful remedy of inhaling. In this instanee, however, it did not answer my expectations. Instead of benefitting the trachea, it produced a sympathetic affection of the stomach and diaphragm, and the ecsophagus farmed the medium of continunication between the patient and myself. Having taken a pinch of snuff, I was about to give my other in fallible remedy a fair trial, when the patient opened his eyes. But, gracious heaven ! what eyes ! The visual orb was swoln, blood-shot, troubled, and intolerably dull. At the same moment, some incoherent expressions fell from the unfortunate gentleman. After a reference to the kid neys, he seemed to wish for something to be found in the coal-hole, or the cider-cellar ; but the search of the servant below stairs was unavailing. I now began to apprehend delirium. To be sure of tine state of his mind, I inquired if there were any clergyman whom he would wish to see : . 3 He exclaimed, 0 venerable old Offley !' But when I ex pressed to the servants a wish that this reverend gentle -( man might be sent for, they assured me they had never N g heard of him ! The patient then muttered some inarticu -7" late sounds, and turned on his side. This position being favourable for my original operation of rubbing, I slit up the back of his coat, waistcoat, and all other vestmental impediments, and smartly applied a solution of tartarised antimony along the course of the spine. The effect was instantaneous on the alimentary canal, and a griping iu the transverse arch of the colon well nigh put a full atop to the patient's sufferings. The ductus communis choir dochus again deluged the stomach, and with the customary consequences. The scene now became almost insupport able. An aged nurse, who bad, from the infancy of the Be patient, been his domestic, declared that she could hold out no longer. Poor creature ! the tear of affection glistened in her eye; while her canvul,ed features be trayed uncontrollable sensations. It was a struggle be tween the heart and the stomach : the heart remained true, but the stomach turned. At this the patient com menced cursing, swearing, and blaspheming, in a way which will be found fully detailed with all due dashes—! —! --! Sac, &c. in the last number of a northern magazine. Zounds !' cried be, starting up on his scant—' Who arc you ? who sent for you ? May the fiends catch you and cleave to you for ever! Give us the hips ! a small glass of brandy !ah!ah!ah ! 0 my back ! D—n all doc tors! Here am I stung and tortured with gastritis, Ire patens, splenitis, nephritis, epistaxis, odontalgia, car - dialgia, diarrhcca, and a whole legion of devils with Latin names ! D—n all doctors, again, say I.' And with this exclamation, he hurled curious crown of crockery at my head, which fitted on so tightly, that only by breaking it, could I disengage myself from the delfic dia dem. I hastily ran down stairs, and meeting the man of six-and -forty in the passage, I inquired of him very mi nutely concerning the state of his master. He answered all my questions with perfect candour, and not without a certain archness of hick and manner rather unusual among men of six-and-forty in his rank of life. From all I elicited, and also from certain corroborative proofs, which I do not think it necessary now to specify, I have no hesi tation in declaring, for the information of the profession to which I do not belong, and of the public generally, that in this case my abstruse remedies had not a fair trial, in asmuch as the patient's state was vulgarly simple. He had be-n drunk the night before ! J. ST. J. 1.," '1 - 11)„....... 4..4. tom',f4 1,..,4 . ~:::: : l , . :. , :: ... 1 •:‘,,, . 1 ( l 1 : 1 N:J. 1 11 r i. ' '.. • I t $. . . i i,r 2 e , • ) :', ' 7 4 11.4, 4 ill:4 1:-I ,:::;!,, )14:' I 4 Pl. '':'.: 4 l .....:-. ! , . • , c': . , • ,; t 'e.:•• i , 0,, , , 114—, ~ r i -I i t. 4 . 4 V• r.i;, .‘ : i. 1 : 1 , -',•• 'l - ..i ~ A• • , f ,, • 1 *I It. ' t 14 ,*, -„ Ni ,ti . i ge • ~4 ''.. 4 : I . - ' • El i'L 44 7 'it '), ...4 • ~. - , 4.• 1 k• 0 : "i . , t t , ' !' I 4 0 ,R^ .1, i . a 4 • ' . 1 I • : I 4 ' 1 . ~: A, '•'1 1 ; .1.1 1 -A .". ti ~,, e 4 i , .. 1 , ) ~.,,, e . 4 1 ;,. 'A- , _ LA BELLE ASSEMBLE E. Admirable as are usually the embellishments to this periodical, we have seen few finer, if so fine, as the portrait of the Princess Esterhazy, which adorns the number for this month. It is all that an engraving should be—all that a high-born beauty could desire. Exquisitely finished in detail ; faithful, so we are informed, as a likeness ; this splendid engraving may legiti- mately take a proud rank among the works of art of the present day. The literary contents of the number are light, various, and amusing. ASIATIC JOURNAL. The information contained in the present number relative to Oriental matters, will afford much entertainment to those who are conver sant with the East, and its historical and geo graphical peculiarities. THE WORLD OF FASHION. Precisely what it pretends to be, a record of a world omnipotent in London, and we believe we may add throughout the kingdom. The plates are good, and the work cheap. ROYAL LADY'S MAGAZINE. This is a first number, and, like most first numbers, gives promise of ability, both literary and pictorial, which we hope subsequent expe rience will confirm. LADY'S MAGAZINE. A very entertaining number, embellished with a picturesque view of Kensington gardens, taken from the most picturesque point ; and enlivened by some attractive tales and essays. GEMS OF BEAUTY. We have seen two parts of this agreeable collection of studies from nature, comprising fruits, flowers, &c. ; which are well coloured, and, as works of art, deserving of praise. HARMONICON. A monthly journal of music, of a light miscellaneous, and unpretending character. The reviews of new music are drawn up with taste and judgment, and considerable discrimination. MALTA, DEC. 4. On the 25th ult. his Majesty's frigate Madagascar arrived, under the command of Lieutenant Geary, from Napoli di Romania, with the remains of her late Captain, the Hon. Sir Robert Spencer, who died at Alexandria on the 4th November. On the 3d of November the .A.fadargascar arrived at Alexandria, with Lord Clare and suite; at four o'clock Captain Spencer, in good health and spirits, sat down to dinner with his party ; at six he was taken ill, and died the next morning at nine o'clock. By the death of Captain Spencer, so suddenly cut off in the prime of life, the service has lost one of it+ brightest ornaments. Though a strict disciplinarian, Sir Robert was next to adored by every man and officer under his com mand ; several hours of the day he devoted to the educa tion and improvement of the young gentlemen committed to his care, and the comforts of his people had his most considerate attention. After the frigate takes pratique, we understand Captain Spencer's remains will be depo sited in one of our bastions, and a monument erected to his memory by his relative, our worthy Governor. By the death of Captain Spencer, the following changes take place in the squadron :—Captain Lions removes from the Blonde into the Madagascar ; Sir 1. Paisley into the Blonde ; Captain Graham into the Rattlesnake; and Lieut. Burners into the Phdome/. Our latest accounts from Greece were brought on the 2d instant, by his Majesty's ship Philow!, which arrived from Napoli in twelve days. Sir P. Malcolm was there in the Britannia, with the Blonde, Scylla, and Hind cutter. The Blonde war being despatched to Alexandria, to await the arrival of Sir John Malcolm, from Bombay. There was at Napoli a French frigate and brig ; Admiral Ricord and a squadron were at Poros. The President had arrived at the seat of Government from Western Greece; and M. Ribeaupierre, Ex-Rt.ssian Ambassador at the Porte, in a frigate, from Constantinople. This morning the same frigate, with the Ambassador on board, has ar rived here, where we understand he will perform his qua rantine, and proceed to Napoli. Mr. Seymour and suite arrived here on the 25th tilt., and is performing quarantine, on his way to his embassy at Florence. The bbip sent fron► France to Alexandria, to carry off Cleopatra's Needle, we understand, has returned without her intended cargo. BRIGHTON, DEC. 31. His MAJESTY gave audience yesterday to Mr. SANC TUARY, Sheriff of Sussex. Owing to the unfavourable atite of the weather, their MAJESTIES did not leave the Palace. The QuEEN has had a slight cold, but is quite recovered. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, accompanied by Mademoiselle D'ESTE, drove fur some time in a carriage. Their "MAJESTIES entertained a select party in the even. ing. The Queen's band played for sever& hours. Lord and Lady CLINTON, Lieutenant-General Sir WILLIAM and Lady HousToN, Miss LONG, Sir GEORGE ANSON, and Lord BYRON, had the honour of dining with their MA JESTIES. The Italian Opera .11 Fanatico per la lilvsica, for the benefit of Signor DE liEctizs, was performed list night by the Italian company at the Theatre. The performance having been under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, the King's box was crowded with company from the Palace. The house was fashionably at tended : the Duke and Duchess of ST. ALBAN'S and a large party were present. The Marquis of BRISTOL, Mr. PEEL, Mr. M'SwrNEY, and Mr. LoNG WELLESLEY, hare purchased lou.es in Kemp-town. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has retailed to Kemp-town. Races have been got up for this day, on the course. Should the weather prove favourable, their MAxEstlxx are expected to honour them with their presence. COURT CIRCULAR. Prince LEOPOLD went from town yesterday on a vilit to the Earl and Countess of Cowran, at Pausanger, Huts, to meet the Russian Ambassador, the Princess LIEN, and a select part of the Nobility and Gentry. The Duchess of KENT visited the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND on Thuredly, at their residence in the King's Palace, St. Jamrs's. Earl GREY left town yesterday on a visit to the Eatl and Countess of Cowpett, at Pansanger. Viscount PAL. MERSTON also left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess, The Swedish Minister sent off despatches lust evening to his Government. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands; from the Lieutenant-Gover nor of Malta; and also from the Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. The livery servants of Prince LEOPOLD appeared on Thursday, for the first time, in new liveries of scarlet and gold, similar to those of his 111.1JEsrv's servants. KOTZEBUE'S NEW VOYAGE ROUND . THE WORLD.-Few things in Literature are more f iseint,ting than accounts of voyages of discovery ; and none of these, not even Captain Cooz's, is superior in variety of scene and incident to the recently-published volumes of Capt tin KOTZEBUE. His adventures at Rio Janeiro and at Chili —.his descriptions of society in the South Sea Islands— his visits to Kaintscliatka, New Archangel, and California, and his discoveries in unfrequen•ed parts of the Pacific, invest his book with a romantic charm which seldom belongs to statements so strictly true as his, and W hich mere fiction, in her most invective moods, could never hope to emulate. ADDRESSES OF " CONDOLENCE AND CON GRATCLATIoN.'*-These addresses to a KING who has suc ceeder) to his Crown in consequence of the death of the late Mosincit, have generally been thought to involve a great absurdity ; they are Janus-faced, and of a must motley character. The absurdity has, perhaps, never been placed in a stronger light than in the address which the supple Parliament of JAMES the Second voted to that cruel and bloo ly KING when be came to the throne by the death of his brother :—" The death of that our excellent AIoNA RCII," says the address, "is lamented by us to all the deyrees of yriff that are consistent with our great joy for the succession of your sacred .111.4.7E5rr, who has not only continued but secured the happiness which his wisdom, his justice, and clemency (!) procured to us." Fox's Life of James the Second. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1831. An Extraordinary Express from Paris states that it is reported that M. LAFITTE will retire from the Ministry, to be succeeded in the Fi nance Department by M. HUMANN, and that Marshal So ULT ‘vill be President of the Council. The same Express contains extracts from the Project of Law on the Election of the Chamber of Deputies. DOVER, DEC. 31.—Mr. SYLVAIN VAN DERWEYER, with another member of the Pro visional Belgian Government, and two Secretaries, has just landed from Calais on a special and important mission to London, and they proceed immediately. These are the first arrivals under passports from the Provisional Government. The Al lgemeinc Zcitung, in an article dated from Berlin, says the report gains ground that the King of PRUSSIA has at length resolved on presenting his subjects with a Constitution, and that the Minister, VON HUMBOLDT, is fixed upon to prepare the important Charter. His MA JESTY deserves little thanks for this concession it has been the result not of kindness, but of fear. He has not granted it (if he yet do so) of his own free will ; it has been wrung from him by the bayonet—a practical argument, .and the only convincing one that despots can be made to understand. According to accounts from St. Petersburgh, the EMPEROR is resolved to put down the insurrection in Poland by arms. His Im perial MAJESTY will do well to use despatch on this occasion, or he may find his old enemies, the Turks and Persians, rather troublesome to him : BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The report that a Constitution is preparing for Prussia, and that the Minister, Baron Von Humboldt is entrusted with the impottaut task, is so generally spread, even among the lower classes, that we might be almost tempted to think it had not originated in mere chance, but had been necessarily circulated. The name of the meritorious and able Statesman connected with it is certainly well chosen to excite confidence in a project, which, however, as far as the present moment is concerned, is circulated without any foundation. We besides very much doubt whether the want of a Constitution, such as is now meant, is at all felt by the people. On the contrary, we see many judicious persons alarmed at the thought that in stead of experienced men accustomed to strict jus tice and liberal in the administration of the law, inexperi enced popular representatives, aiming at popular savour, and actuated by confined views, might obtain the greatest influence in public affairs. The Provincial Assemblies, which may be considered as the preparatory schools for the future estates of the kingdom, require a more perfect organization, and this, us we hear, is seriously contem plated. Jr. the preface to the Second Part of Niebuhr's Roman History we find the following passage :—" The madness of the French Court h is broken the talisman which bc,ind the demon of the Revolution." This severe sentence hat excited touch surprise here. Our finances continue in the most flourishing condition, and the considerable ex perces of the necessary increase of our troops are amply co v ered by the surplus of the indirect taxes of the last half }'ear._ According- to accounts from St. Petersburg!), the Em peror is resolved to put down the insurrection in Poland by arms. The way of negotiation seems, however, not to be ;ut off; and the restoration of tranquillity might be effect-1 by amnesty and submission on the other, without further effusion of blood. (From the Courrier de Sinyrne.) Aimvss, OCT. 20.—The Tucks are selling their estates in Attic', and the prices for which they part with them must net:essarily give the purchasers hopes of considerable profit. It is surprising that European capitalists do not think of employing their money in the putehase of all kinds of real property here: it would be the most pro fitable mole of investing it. The Acropolis is still in the hands of the Mussultnen, and will probably remain so the whole winter. The cannon and balls were embarked on board a Turkish ;trig of war. The Captain who is here, and has already fulfilled a similar mission at Negro pont, caused the fort to lie occupied by regular troops whom he I.rought with him. Several companies of Albanians disbanded, and but a few of their troops remait, who receive merely their rations without pay. Athens itself presents nothing but ruins ; there is not a single glass vindow in the whole city ; those are lucky that have son .e ind frerent shutters, which afford some protection against the cold, which begins already to be felt. Provisions are bad, scarce, and excessively dear. We do not know how the affairs of the country go on ; th only thing certain is that the Mahometan inhabitants, obedient to the command of their Sovereign, resign them selves to the nee,ssity of leaving it. v iEN NA, Dec. 20.—Four per Cent. Mctalliques, 781- ; Bank Shares 1012. We are extremely glad to hear that the pro jected Reform Bill has received his MAJESTY's sanction. Without assuming to be conversant with its details, we hope we may assert that it is sufficiently thoroughgoing to be satisfactory to the bulk of the nation. The great towns will, we trust, by its operation, soon find that they are in a situation to protect themselves against the injustice of an oligarchical aristocracy on the one hand, or an equally oligarchical sys tem of commercial monopoly on the other. In a country like Great Britain, two-thirds of whose inhabitants reside in towns and are engaged in trade or handicraft, it may well be a scandal to the world that there should be at this moment between thirty and forty towns with a population of more than ten thousand each, deprived of all share in the Legislature. According to the census of 1521, the following places in England and Wales, most of them of commercial impor tance, containing upwards of 10,000 people each, are without Representatives:— BIRMINGHAM, BLACKBURN. BOLTON'. MACCLESFIELD. MANCHESTER. OLDHAM. BRADFORD (YORK.) ROCHDALE. BRIGHTON. SHEFFIELD. BURY (LANCASHIRE.) SHIELDS, NORTH AND CHATHAM. SOUTH. CHELTENHAM. STOCKPORT. DEPTFORD. SUNDERLAND. DUDLEY. WAKEFIELD. FRuME. WALSALL. GREENWICH. WARRINGTON. HALIFAX. WHITEHAVEN. HANLEY (STAFFORD.) WO LVERHA KIDDERMINSTER. WOOLWICH. LEEDS. HOLYWELL (FLINT.) making in all thirty-two, besides several others whose population in 1821 approximated to 10,000, and by this time probably exceeds it. We do not now speak of Scotland, because the representation of that country is a mock repre sentation—a constitutional fiction—in Coto, but confining our notice to the southern part cf this island, we rejoice in catching now for the first time a bright gleam of hope fur the admis sion of the towns named to their civil rights. It is manifest, that without a corresponding reduction of the seats of the Boroughmongers, the admission of Members for the great towns increase the numbers of the House of Com mons to a most inconvenient exent. And it is perhaps doubtful whether the suppression of these Borough-voters would not be in itself a greater good even than the admission of the town Members. The abolition of the borough trade must, as a matter of necessity, fOrm a part of any substantial Reform. As to compensa tion to the Boroughmongers, the idea is too absurd to be entertained for a moment in earnest. For the only claim to compensation in consequence of a new law, must rest upon a right of property acquired under the faith of an old law. Now the influence of the Boroughmongers in their warrens has never been recognized by any law, common or sta tute, or by any decision of an►y Court of.lnstice. The elective franchise is not a matter of pro perty, but a trust to be exercised for the public benefit. If, then, the Legislature thinks fit to relieve the electors of Old Sarum of such a trust, and to repose it in the inhabitants of Man chester, is it not monstrous to contend that the individual who may have acquired an influence over the will of the Old Sarum electors would th ere by be molested in the enjoyment of his pro perty ? The supposition is perfectly ridicu lous ; nor is there any analogy, as some appeal to suppose, between the case of the Borough• mongers and that of the slave-owners ; for- the latter certainly possess their slaves as real pro perty, under the faith of existing laws, and have, therefore, a ground for maintaining a " vested interest" upon (however abominable that vested interest may be), which cannot be participated in by the dealers in the elective franchise. Com pensation, indeed ! for being no longer permitted to violate the law, and subvert the liberties of t h e peo ple ! Truly, we live in an age of brass, that such a thing should be publicly mentioned without shame. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0C K. With the exception of the express from Paris, our arri vals this morning are so scanty that we have nothing to eport. In the Stock Exchange it is positively said ihat the prices of the Three per Cent. Rentes, quoted in the Herald at 63f. 60c. is an error, and that they are only 62f. 60e. It appears, according to the Paris information, that every thing is going Gil favourably, and that, in future, the Ministers are determined to act with vigour against al' attacks from the opposite party. Still there appears to be a hidden danger ; tic republican p rrty are numerous and powerful and Will watch every opportunity tr. bring about a Republican Government. It w ill be a difficult task on the part of the King of France to please both parti, s. Cons , ,ls, which left off yesterday at far the ac• c ,, u nt, opened at ; present they are 62,i- b, with little or nothing doing. In the Fireign Market Spanish Bonds have improved I per cent. HALF-PAST ONE. This being New Yeat's day, there is but a thin attend ance at the Stock Exchange and Foreign Markets, with scarce any bu,iness doing. Consols have continued during the morning at 8,2 - for the Account. The calling cut of the pensioners to serve as constables his caused some surprise in the City, as it is imagined that Govern vernment arc is possession of some information which the public are not aware of at pi esent. Another supposition is, that troops will be wanted to go to Ireland, while the pensioners are to aid in keeping the peace at home_ We understand that a new loan of one million has been contracted for the young Queen of Portugal. The Foreign ket is in the satne state of stagnation as that of the I3ritish. THREE 0 1 CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, S 2 i. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Danish 58 Grtek, 1825.... Mexican, 1825. 2.1 Pernviln ........ Russiin OO Spanish l6 Consols — Ditto for Account 82i Brazilian Bond,. 52,1 Buenos res. Civilian Ditto Columbian, ALEXANDER'S TRAVELS TO THE SEAT of WAR in THE EAST.-The author of these v&urnes has given the only exact account extant of the present con ditiem Of the Russian military power and resources, which wi I h e read with the greater interest on account of the struggle now going on in Poland. Captain ALExANDEtt had unwonted facilities for observation dining the late Russian campaign in Turkey, and, indeed, was honoured by several private interviews with the Emperor Nrcirous. POLAND. (From the rines.) Divesting ourselves for a moment of the ideas winch the politica geography of the preen day exhibits to us on the most casual inspection of the map of Europe, let consider what would be the probable effect of the re-establishment c f Poland as a free, independent, and constitu tional monarchy ? We see a country which is in extent on a par with Germany, France, and Spain, and ‘,-.hich only requires liberty, and the unshackled development of her resources, to take her place eventually among the first-rate Powers of the continent. Possessed, as formerly, and as she ought to be again, of a debouche both towards the Baltic and the Mediterranean, she possesses greater natural facilities for commerce than either Rus sia or Germany. It should be known, that the produce which feeds the rich markets of Odessa, Dantzic, and Koenigsberg, is the produce of Poland ; Odessa especially is almost exclusively a Polish colony, and has become a place of great resort to the nobles of the southern palatinates. No Russians but the army and agents of Go vernment frequent it. The frontiers of Poland. as they were before power and injustice had vio lated them, were sufficiently natural to be de• fended by a strong Government, had it existed. The fertility of the south-eastern palatinates in quantity, and of the western in the quality of corn produced, is equal to that of any part of Europe. The wool-trade, which has gradually supplanted that in corn, since our market has been more difficult of access, has flourished ex ceedingly, and it should be known that great part of the wool sold at the fair of Breslau, which comes here under the name of Prussian wool, is the produce of Poland. This branch of industry is much indebted to the care and exertions of Prince Michael Radziwill, whose merinos are, I believe, much superior to any we have here. Their timber, oak and fir, hemp, salt, and honey, are of the first quality, and known in every market. 'There are mines of various metals in the neighbourhood of Olkusz, which want only capital to be productive. The Prince Lubecki, Minister of Finance under the Russian Government, has been forced by the ruling power to enforce a prohibitory system, much against the interests of Poland, in order to drain that country of money for the support of the infant manufactories of Rti , .sia,—a sys tem which te whole country is sensible must be injurious. They had free trade while they were free, and they wish for it again : not pretending to manufacture but on a very limited scale. Now imagine what would be the effect of a strong Government and a free people in such a position. separating the three great northern Powers, and preventing their collision. Such a country, peo pled as it is by a race whose elders were brought op in a state of the wildest liberty,—faulty, in deed, as to the system, but pure, and held b‘ right, and not by charter,—inspired with pa triotism the most sincere and disinterested, (for in the whole history of the dismemberments, however bloody their intestine dissensions were, we scarcely know the name of one traitor), — would not such a country become a focus of liberality and civilization, from which the hitherto enslaved countries of that part of Europe might eventually derive the greatest advantage ? In a commercial point of view, it would be a market most acceptable to the industry, not only of this, but every country i❑ Europe : its situa tion would naturally make it rather a good friend than a dangerous enemy. If, as the liberal part of Europe hopes at this moment, France and England be at last destined to act nobly in con cert with each other, instead of being set one against the other to waste their strength while distant autocrats reap the profit, what finer field for the display of lattional friendship than the neglected country of Poland ? — Before concluding, I must not forget to men tion one of the latest acts of pat►iotic self-devo, :ion which occurred at Warsaw two years ago, an d was only cursorily noticed in your paper at that time, which caused seine disappointment, for those that can get them, eagerly read the English papers, and an allusion to Poland now and then in Parliament was hailed as a sign they were not forgotten. After the death of the Emperor Alexander, many of the persons arrested, being military, ,vere tried, by a sort of irregular court. martial, from which much favour was not to be expected ; yet the Grand Duke was obliged to dissolve the courts, and change the judges four times, before he could get a verdict against the prisoners. They were then confired in the fortress of Zamosc, whither the Grand Duke frequently went to be present at further interrogatories he was pleased to order. Every traveller at that -ime was compared at the frontier with a long list of the proscribed, and, on his arrival at Warsaw, was forced to drive straight up to the Palace to be examined. This was frequently done by the Grand Duke in person, if at home : otherwise, by the officer in waiting. No one, native or foreign lady or gentleman, was excused this tiresome usage. 'When the other prisoners, not militat y, were to be tried, their case was sent backwards and for wards, from the Senate to a special commission, in a manner totally at variance with any law of the country ; and after many tedious delays, was submitted to a court chosen from the Se nators ad hoc. The Government selected fbr the President the Palatine Bielinski, a man of unimpeachable integrity, but who had not been in any way conspicuous ill the affairs of the country. From his great age, and time obscu rity in which lie lived, the Grand Duke expected he would either let many objectionable points pass as matters of courl,e, or from illness be obliged to resign. 13ielinski, aware th a t in th e latter case his duties would devolve on tile Vice- President, a creature of the Government, was carried daily to the court to prevent that hap pening, and resisted the effects of age and disease till the conclusion of the trial, when, after having seen impartial justice awarded to the prisoners, he died overcome by his exertions. The Poles certainly have shown that an in. born love of country is indestructible ; many are the instances of men, weak, imprudent, connected )\,' various ties with foreign nations,—men, in .port, whose whole character was suspicious till some conjuncture occurred in which they could show their duty to their country ; and who have, :is it were, prceter spenz, done her signal service. Let us hope the dirty work of Congress of Vienna is about to be mlone for ever. The Russian seizurc o; Poland was the source of all evil done there. That obliged Prussia to pay herself out of Saxony, and Austria out of Italy ; as the seizure of Finland ‘vas paid by Norway. in the mean time our 11Iinisters were amused by promises of abolishing the slave trade, never meant to be fulfilled, of assistance in mediating between Spain and her colonies, which IN e did not want, and of creating a new kingdom of the 11A 1' M A It K ETS.—(,. t per Load of 36 Trusses.) CU MliE dLAND ,LATE ST. JA .' , IES'S ) C,arse heavy iAJW W., AIt4I:IUW I LAy t2 U to X , 2 I o \ew Meadow Pay Useful Oid Ditto 2 10 3 15 Fine Upland Mea,!ow and Kye-irks Day 4 5 5 0 Clover Hay 2 15 5 5 Oat 5tr , .... E 1 1 to .C 1 14 ! Wheat Str,iw.., 1 14 lIS A good supply, and a dull trade; price, stationary. SMITHFIELD. C ,arse Leaily Lowl3,:id Meadow Hey £2 5 t 0 £2 I:, New Meadow Hay 0 0 (. 0 Us,fil Old Pitto . 3 ti 4 tine Upland Meadow and Itye. ,, raski [lay 4 ll 4 10 Clover hay (extra 0ne)....4.75 57..Generall; oat Straw .ZI Bto 1:1 10 I Wheat Straw I 12 I Ili A tolerably god g upply. aul a dull trade; prices statio..ary DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, PRICES OT STOCKS THIS flank - .'4..0e..k 3 per Cert. Red. 9 1 3 ,i3i 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 3 ;: , 4 , r Cvs , I hat, Red. ----' ) 0 i New 3% per cent. 4 per Cent. 18'26 Bank 1.. Ann. - I:litto 30 ears IWO 30 years - i India Stock 1.1'.' , r3onds S pen. South Sea Stock fild Anpuitie.A - New Ditto . - (Ditto Bills, .1.;1,1..1‘.2.1. 17 IS pm. 'Ditto lid. 17 18 pm. Ditto si - tr' 2,1. 17 IS pm. 'Ditt0............. Id. 17 18 pm. Ditto ,mall , Ditto lid. 17 18 pm. 111ank for Account - India for Account - Cons. for Jan N .........82% Y.i% YRIcES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds THIS DLT AT ONE C'CL'! - CX. Neapolitan L'onds, 5 43i Buenos Ayres Bonds Bonds ... Peruvian Bonds ... . Portuguese Ban ds Pruwan, 011 roloiniiian Bonds -Mtta, New Ditto, 1&M o,:niiti (ircek Bonds - ---- :Si (7 , itto, 1825 i.3l.n.tonala Ntex 'cam Bonds - 3 per cent. hrei — Exchange PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pin.) .£'2o Ditto Cocaes I.Tott,il Mex. 'llin. Co. (iss. at '2/. :an.) £3)l Alliance Marine Insurance Comp 5 Van Dieman'i Land Agricultural Co II PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock Consols, 3 tier cent. Gov. Stock, 3 per cent Ditto, New 4 per Cent (;ov. Deb..T,i percent B4 Royal Canal Stock ...... Grand Canal Stock 24% City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Per Share. 2Sli 'ICS, LUBLIN, 1)17.C. 29. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditte Patriotic Litt - Hibernian I3ank Provincial Ditte Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings NG E FST RDAY. COURSE OF EXCI-1.4 , Insterdaret C.F. 19 1 Ditto, at sight I I IS Rotterdam 9 U 12 I Antwerp 0 0 Hamburg M.B. 13 13 Altona l3 131 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 30 Ditto 2 U. 2.5 60 Bordoaux os 6 5 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M,1521 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective II 2 M. 10 9 Trieste d0............... 10 10 Madrid 3614 Cadiz 36!4 Bilboa Barcelona 36 Seville 3 6 14 Gibraltar 4714 A r rived, Leghorn 47 Genoa 25 80 Venice 46 Malta Naples . 3 BNt Palermo per oz. 118 Lisbon Oporto 4514 Rio .laneiro Bahia 25 IBtienos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork BULLION, PER OZ 8. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver bars. standard 0 4:111 Due. )Arrived. Due. ...__. . 0 Amcric , 0 0 Hamburg 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena. 0 0 Leeward Islands I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 O France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey&Jersey.. 0 0 Waterford LANDMARKS OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. THE ANATOMY of the HOUSE of COMMONS, in THIS DAY'S SPECTATOR, is not a mere re-publication. The whole has been re modelled and enlarged, to admit an immense mass of new information, exhibiting, by individual cases, the precise state of the Representation of the United Kingdom—its vices, its anomalies—the connection between the Con stituent, the Patron, and the Representative—with Notes of nearly 100 Places, remarkable for their electioneering Characteristics. Publishing Office, 4, Welington-street, Strand. r i. ec f„. 4l , *) -,4 114 "44. Netherlands, doomed to Lst but a tidy to plea3e us. I envy France the possibility which she has certainly of being the first to stretch a helping hand to Poland. As a military and continental power she can do it with more ease and even more effect than we could. Let us not, how ever, be wanting, should opportunity offer. Po land restored would be our most useful conti nental ally, and equally so to France ; while the Poles, resembling the French in military genius as they do, and the English in solid constau tional patriotism, would benefit more than any other nation by increased and friendly comma• nication with both. London, Dec. 17. POLONIUS. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Wight, the England, Reay, from Bengal, nailed 23d July. PLYMOUTH, DEC. SO.—Wind S.E.—Artive.l his Majesty's ship Windsor, from the . lkfediterraLean ; :and Ow Alta, Smith, from Charente. FALMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind S.S.E. to E.S.E. fre , th ;;ales and squilly.—Arrived the Elizahret, Large, from Prince Edward's Nand ; and the Caroline, ChuichwarO, from Newfoundland. TORBAY, DEC. Sl.—Arrived the Queen, Fox, fitai Seville, with loss of bowsprit. PENZANCE, DEC. SO.—Arrived the Jamieson, front _ . Trieite. LIVER PoOL, DEC. SO.—Arrived the Peru, frum Phila delphia ; the Cyrus, Davisou,', from Miramichi ; and t! Messenger, Mortimer, from Lisbon. The Albion, Brown, from London to Berbice, ran on shore to the eastward of Ramsgata harbour yesterday, after being on shore near Kingsduwn ; cargo discharging, and the vessel expected to be got off, but not without Hutch damage. The William, Jarrard, from Yarmouth to Neweamth., was on shore on Got.listen brach yesterday, and it was, feared would he wrecked. THE MARKETS.---(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GAR There was a tolerably good st. but the trade was dull. at little of this day Ee'nnight. . . DEN MARKET. Ipply at this morning's market, it any variation from the price., d. e.d Potatoes (cwt.) 3 0106 0 CP',laages (12 heads).— 0 9 2 0 Ditto Red 1 3 2 6 Radieb(oundle) 6 0 12 (0 Celery Turnip; 12 bar ches) 2 0 3 0 Carrots 3 6 7 0 Coleworts or Greens— I 9 3 0 Leeks I 3 1 9 New Oranges (100) 3 0 10 0 Lemons 8 0 14 En4lish Walnuts sd. s. d. S:,inage (halt,ieve) 0 6too 9 Apples '2 6 5 0 Pears :1 0 7 0 Large Onions 3(l 5 0 Span. Chesnut,' ~peck) 6 0 10 0 French ditto Spantsli isarlenuts krench \V.lnuts Eng. Grap,..s (per lb.; 1 0 3 0 Foreign 0 8 1 0 Pine Apples (lb.) Fllli,r s (l 1 1 ~ ) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OX FORD, JAN. I.—On Tivirithiy last the following gentlemen were elected students of Christ Church, in ti.is Uuiversity, (the first four haring been elected EOM West minster in May last), viz. :—Mr. George Day, Mr. \l'd. liam Cother, Mr. George Barnes, Mr. LO is Francis Bigot, Mr. Henry Liddell, Mr. Frederick Anson, Mt. George Thomas Marsh, Mr. Henry M. Villiers, Mr. Arthur Edward Somerset, and Mr. Robert Scott. The following persons were ordained by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, at Farnham Castle, on Sun lay se'nnight:— DEACONS. Mr. Powell, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Curate of Kingstot.. Mr. Glyn, B.A. St. Jolm's College, Cambridge, Curate of Ewell. Mr. I:,sayth, 13. A. Trinity College, Lambridge, Curate of Me onstoke. Mr. Pearson, B. A. Oriel College, Oxford, Curate of Chiddingfold. Mr. shepherd, by letters dimissory from the Bishop of Exeter. PRIESTS. Rev. L Bigg Wither, M.A. Oriel College, Oxford, Curate of Berriard. Rev. J. Woods, M.A. Emnianuel College, Cambridge, Curate of Ashmansworth. Rev. J. Grittia, M.A. QUeeleti College, Oxford, Curate of St. Lawrence. Rev. T. Payne, Literati, Curate of St. Mary's, Jers, % Rev. Mr. Jackson, Iby letters din:Lis:my from the Bishop of Rev. Mr. Williamson, 5 Norwich. ECCLESIASTIC L PKEIL:tiNIENTS. The Rev. Charles Henry Watling, B.D. Fellow (,f Je Coll-ge, to ttlis University, has been licenetil by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester to the Perpetual Cur,.ey ut Ch,,rltoil Regis, vulyQ Chalton Kings, upon the nomination of the Principal, Fellows, end Schol rs of the said Society. The Rev. Robert Crockett, M.A. cf brasehose Col lege, and Rector of Nuilstune teal Normantun, shire, is appointed Domestic Chaplain to the R:gh: Lord Lilford. The Rev. Chalks Tookey. 31. A. of 31a:;dalen curl It,etor of Oddingiey, Wore.sttrshire, hAs been eleet,i Head Master of Wolverlsy Free Grammar School. On the 17th ult. the Rev. John Resly, M.A. late FtPow of Balliol Cull-ge, was inducted to the Vicarage of I.uu Benton, Northumberland, on the presonration of the ter and Fellows of Bdliol. 'I he Rev. T. S. Evans, ALA. formely of St. Alban -11.411 has been elected Head Master of tlse Grammar School, in connexion with King's College, L ,n.lon, The Rev. Hobert Tomes, B.A. of Magdalen Hall. to the Vicarage of Coughton, in the county of Warwick ; patron, Thomas Bowles, Esq. of Milton Hill, Berk.. The Rev. 'l'. D. Fosbroke, M.A. to the Living of Wolford, Herefordshire, and Perpetual Curacy of Huai - den, Gloucestershire, in the room of the late It v. T. T. A. Reid ; patron, the Rev. T. lluntingford, Pre— centor of Hereford, &c. The Rev. R. IL Chap:ran to the Rectory of Kirby Wiske, void by the translation of Dr. Bethel to the See of Bangor. The Rev.:. Hare to the liv:ng of Newport Pagnell ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. T. P. Wiight to the Vicarage of Roydon, Essex. The Rev. D. Daviet, ii.A. Master of Rock Grammar School, to the Perpetual Curacy of Mirston Hall Grorn, near Birtningham, on the presentation of Major Grvs wohle 40d the other Trubteir. The King h►s been pleased to recommend to the Chapter of Hereford Cathedral the Hon. and Rev. Edward Grey, M.A. to be chosen Dean of that Cathedral, i❑ the. room of the Rev. Edward Mellish, deceased, The Rev. Mr. Evans to the Living of Newton Kyfre, nearTadeaster, vacant by the death of. the Rev. J. ChAioner. The Rev. J. W. D. Merest to the Perpetual Curacy of Darlington ; patron, the Marquis of Cleveland. The Rev. It A, .Arnold to the Rectory of El4iti d ,lt, SuiLlk ; uatrc.n, Earl Gomford. The ti ety Rev. T. Turtoa, AD., to the Deanery vf Peterborough. The Rev. J. Stantoa, 11. A , on Lis own petitio!;,, to Cie Vicarage of Moulton, Northamptonshire, vacant by the , !eath of his father, the Rev. W. Stanton. The Rev. Jelin Christopher Whalley, B.A„ on hi• own petition, to the Rectory of Exton, Ncl•thatnittt.m.hire, v.tcant by the death of his father, the Rev. T. Wtl.ley. The Rev. T. K. Arnold, M.A. late Fellow of Ttinitt• C‘llege, Cambridge, to the Rve/ory of Lyndon, Itntlatat . . s! ire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Rocke. The Rev, George gall, lI A. Vicar of Teniinry, War ce,tcrshire, and 'Rector of Rocidord, Ifcretordbhire, been appoi4tea one of the Domestic Clap.lains to the Rigbt lion. the Lora Chancellor, The Rev. John Lloyd Luber, to th e Rectory of St. in the borough of Tregony, with Vicarage of Cuby annexed, in the cotulty of Cornwall and Diceese aExerer ; patron, J. A.. harden, Esq., M.P., Recorder for the boroughs 4,d High Sheriff of Somerset. Tho Rev. J. Clementben to the Vicarage of Wolvey. Warwickshire. JOURNAL OF A NOBLENIAN.—This work so long announced has at length appeared, and presents an interesting account of travels through different countries, from Moscow to Vienna, and a lively picture of the scenes at Vienna during the celebrated Congress held in that capital. Th e m o st r e m ar k a ble personages of Europe figure : in its p :ge l , and a n immense variety of anee . ote, respect ing them are r e lated, which give a closer insight into their characters than has been hitherto obtai n e d through the midium of any other publication. The celebrated Prince DE LIUNE figures prominently in the second volume, and liis4 opinions respecting Policia in particular Nviil b it au with high interest at the present moment.