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-- -- . ?AWES or STOCKS THIS DAT AT OHS O'CLOCK. It ink stc t , . 3 per Cenr.Cons. .91 90% 91 'Ditto Bonds • *OO em • 'lt. t 4 per Cent................,-. s h ut South Sea Stock 12% bitto Red.— .......... shut Old Anntifetx ....-... New 3% per Ce. .. Cent, l/85% New Vito .... ... .. 11 ver Cent. Ann. 17 - 25 .... —....11 per Cent. Ann. 1751 ... --- 4 per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann. to expire Ditto.... ...- 4 00. 52 53 pm. Jan. 5,183 P. s h ut Ditto fh;;;.n . " st? 5 3 pm. Oct. 10, 1859. shut IDittb Carnmercial • •53 pm. lan. 5, ;MO l?% ;Ditto Advertised ..».".”. ca. , pm . Jan. 5, 1880..., --.Rank' P./ .6teount . 2lB April 5, 1880 ..... Jan. 5, 1870 ..... .......... —=—)Cons. for Account PRICES OP FOREIGN li•uNktt THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. A tstriaZ Ronda ."...,..." 102 Peruvian Bonds .034 Jllehrzln Bonds 9934 Ditto Account 21% Ditto Account 994 Portuguese Bonds ..........64% Brazilian non - : A s ............73% 4 Ditto Account - '61% Ditto .mss 74 3% ' Ditto New BOnds ..... ..,.6514 r 33 ,,,, ,01 ^ - s Ayres Bonds 23% I Ditto Account - 6534%4 '..,itto Account 26 Prussian Bonds .... ... . . 1034 3 Uhilian Bonds .. 23% Ditto Bonds, 1822 . ICri Ditto Accotnit 26 Russian Bonds, 1822 IT4 COkinibian Bonds Ditto Acc0unt........ Ditto Bonds, 1824 2434% ( Spanish Bonds, 1821 304 % Ditto Account Ditto Accrunt....... ........ 73 , ,i I)itto Account 2B Greek Bonds...—. ........... French Rentes, sp. c. .—f --c. Ditto Bonds, 1525 .." ..... 29% '-- Exchange ..«,. ---f —e. Ditto Account ---8 Per cent...". i.....f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 31% ---- Fixthangt ...... f. Ditto Account, — Dutch,49% ; on• o, 6 per cent 39 Ditto Attoutit...49% 50 411 y, Ditto Account. '39 14 Ditto, 5p c. 9314 Nevolitam....... ....... TRICKS OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Tte4l del Monte Min tm unree.) S 6 c0....f Paid. perlmre, if National Provlr.;;lal Bank of England 15 161,4 HIGH WATER AT LONDON DRIDGE TO MORROW. ling ...42 minutes after 7. I Evening...l4 minutes after 8. This day was published, in S vols. mist Syn., RECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE. By CAPTAIN JAMES SCOTT, R.N. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington street, Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin burgh ; for Ireland. Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. To he had of ' ll resP'..-ctable Booksellers in the United Kingdom. o ,n the Bth inst, in 3 vols., post five., FUSTACE CONWAY or, THE BROTHER and SISTER. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington -street. (Successor to Henry Colburn.) Agent: for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin. burgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. ert rtr '- s t r 4 • * l llll. - • LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1834. If Lord P- ALMERSTON and the Government do not bestir themselves and take a more de cided course in the management of our foreign relations they will afford the Tories the only chance they have of a return to power. The Tories, with all their selfish love of pension and place, all their disregard of the people, all their reckless expenditure, and their attachment to rotten boroughs and obsequious parliaments, nevertheless showed a true English spirit in the 25 years' war which they waged with France and occasionally with every power in Europ e . Though they implicated England in the conti nental war without cause, they made amends for their error in the eyes of the people by energy, by unconquerable fortitude, and by a just regard, not, we will admit, for the com forts and liberty of the people, but for the ho nour and independence of the country. In the crisis which is evidently approaching, let not ministers forget the lesson taught them by their enemies. They may be forgiven for a rash act committed, with true John Bull spirit, but nothing can save them from the effects of moral cowardice, or a disregard of the high station which this country holds among nations. The country is oppressed with taxes, and labouring under many deprivations, caused by lavish expenditure, and the grossest neglect in the management of our financial affairs ; but the Government are sadly mistaken if they sup pose that these burdens will make the people submit, for one moment, either to foreign dic tation, or to the aggrandisement, at our expense, of a foreign Power hostile to their liberties, and bent on their humiliation. A few days ago, we called attention to the restless encroaching and unprincipled policy of Russia—her insidious designs on Turkey—her hatred of the Whig Ministry—her artful designs to disunite the two Powers that stand in the way of her ambition, and further reflection only confirms us in the opinion, and in the belief, that nothing but a determined and declared opposition to her encroachments can put a stop to her am bitious projects. The great Powers of Eu rope are at present ranged in two parties, —England and France on one side—Rus sia, Austria, and Prussia on the other. If France could be detached, or Louts PHILIP SO blinded by the cajoling flattery of the wily Cor sican at his court as to barter his popularity and the liberty of his subjects for the hollow pro mise of a prince that mortally hates his dynasty, then she would consider her point gained, and make little scruple in commencing openly her hostile designs in the East. She evidently has made some progress in her insidious plans, in that quarter. The strong measures lately adopted against the press and free discussion are all suitable to the views of Russia ; they are totally opposed to the spirit of the constitution by which the Duke of ORLEANS was placed on the throne, and if carried into effect will, by raising one party in the State against the other, neutralise the power of France abroad. The Prussian Government, naturally imbued with the same hatred of the free institutions of France and England, has formed a commercial league which she hopes to wield against this country, Austria is probably bribed by a pro mise of booty, and the King of HOLLAND, whose son has just returned from his lessons at St. Petersburgh, is so elated with his new pros pect of success against Belgium as' to make an indiscreet and premature display of his forces on the frontier. With all these combinations against us, we have only one safe course to pursue—to resist the aggressions of a power whose ambition is unbounded—whom no concessions will conciliate, and which, if not checked, will force us, at some more unseasonable period, to fight for our pos sessions in the east. CANNING is gone, but his spirit still animates one _statesman to whom much is now intrusted, and who, we con fidently hope, will show that he is as anxious for the honour and independence of the country abroad, as he has ever been for the libirkifmcblimo interests of the people at home. • \ - The Paris paperS of Sunday have been re ceived. They state that Earl GRANVILLE and , -' Earl DURHAM had a long interview with Louis Purim , on Saturday, and that Count Pozzo BORGO, the Ittissiaii Anibassador, was in constant communication with the Ministers Of Austria, nussia, and Holland. Th e Miiirnal des Debats, a demi-official paper, states that 'the reports of a coolness on import int matters between the governments of France and England, are unfounded. This seems to imply that they are not agreed on minor points. The Editor of the Gatette de France was acquitted on Saturday on a charge of alleged seditious libel. The French King does not seem to learn wisdom from experience by, these cnittinted defeats. The news from Spain is not important. The Archbishop of TOLEDO renewed his oath of al legiance to the young QUEEN ; but we do not hear any tidings of the convocation of the Cortes. New York Papers to the Bth March . are chiefly occupied with the details of petitions presented to Congress from the different States of the Union in reference to the President's conduct towards the United States' Bank. They all urge the impolicy of this measure upon the notice of the Congress, and implore the return of the public deposits to the Bank. The Committee of Ways and Means at Congress, on the 4th of March, had made two reports. The majority report approves of the removal of the deposits ; declares that the Bank of the United States ought not to be rechartered, and orders the Committee to inquire more minutely into the concerns of that institution. The minority report assumes that the reasons assigned by the Secretary for the removal of the deposits are unsatisfactory. The private letters concur in stating that trade was extremely stagnant, and it was feared that, with every arrival of produce, it would increase. Money con tinued very scarce, and difficulties continued to occur, though not to the previous alarming de gree. A general feeling prevailed that the popular opinion would eventually overwhelm the posi tive conduct of the President and his sup porters. The transactions at New York on the Bth of March in foreign bills for the Liverpool packet were very limited, at the following rates for cash to 14,- per cent. dis count on England ; sf. 65c. on France ; 38 a 382 cents on Hollands ; 33 cents on Hamburg ; and 74 cents on Bremen, with few buyers of bills for the Continent, as the Havre packet was postponed, till the 16th of March. The amount of silver coin entered outwards from hence to New York on the 29th instant, amounted to 412,000 ounces. Frankfort Papers of the 27th of March in form us, that the once Liberal King of BA VARIA is busily employed in organizing a Po lice department, to which all the police autho rities in the kingdom will be subordinate, and which will " chiefly have the direction of the measures to be taken on political grounds." This savours pretty strongly of Russian dicta tion ; and we shall not be surprised before long to hear of a similar system being adopted throughout the several petty States of Germany. The Hamburg Reporter, and other papers of the 28th of March, have been received. They contain ail article under date of Copenhagen, in which the Danish Government is said to repel with indignation the report of an English officer, that the slave trade was encouraged on the coast of Guinea by the Danes. This feeling is highly honourable to our Danish friends, who seem to take so lively an interest in the practical and total abolition of that most revolting traffic. The King of DENMARK, like all his subjects, is said to hold the perpetuation of a trade in slaves as involving a point of national honour. This is, as it should be, highly gratifying to all friends of humanity. HAMBURG, MARCH 28. —BORSEN- HALLE. —The Wheat brought into the market this week has been chiefly of a mediocre quality ; the greater part, how ever, having been taken at the quotations, the market has become firmer. Rye, Barley, and Oats are salea ble at the market prices below. From the 15th to the 22d inst. seven cargoes of Corn passed the Sound, two were bound for British, and two for Norwegian ports. One was bound for Holland, one for Portugal, and of one the destination was not known. Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white -- red 78 to 80 -- Marks 77 to 81 -- Mecklenburg - Holstein - Lower Elbe 6O to 65 Rye, Upland 6O to 62 -- Mecklenburgh 5B to 60 - Holstein Barley, Anhalt 55 to 58 Mecklenburgh 3B to 42 - Lower Elbe 3O to 38 Oats, Mecklenburg 3l to 35 -- Lower Elbe 23 to 27 Pease, Upland, yellow 5O to 75 Beans 4O to 48 Tares 4B to 55 Rapeseed l6O to 165 Ditto Cakes Linseed ditto 9O to 95 During the week 485 lasts of Wheat have been imported, 181 exported, and there remain on hand 6,000 lasts. FUNDS.—Every kind of Stock has been looking up this week. In the new Portuguese Bonds much business has lately been done. _ _ End of March. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent. 7lg Anglo-Russian lOO% Russian 1 nscription, 5 per cent., 1820 936 __ _. Ditto, ditto, 1831 Ditto, ditto, 1832. Certificates Paq 93' s Polish Bonds Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1256 Ditto Metalliqu es 98% Ditto 4 per Cent..... Spanish 3 per Cents. Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and t:ons) 31►,% Ditto 4 per Cent 46% Dutch 23 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents. 93 Portuguese Regency 62% —Hamburg Reporter. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 28.-13 8% ; two months, 13 7IA. BREMEN, MARCH 25.—Two months, 609. STOCKHOLM. MARCH 21.—Two months, 12 41. CHRISTIANIA. MARCH 19.—Three months, 5 70. ST. PETEItSBURGH, MARCH 14.—Three months, 10%. BERLIN, MARCH 25.—Three months, 6 25%. —.Hamburg Papers. March 28. The chief feature in the Brussels Papers of the 30th March, received this morning, is the adoption of the Chambers of the plan of an iron rail-road on a general scale for all Belgium, and to be under the direction of the Government. The affair is to be entirely national, and nothing, in our opinion, will tend more truly to benefit the country, commercially as well as politically, than such an undertaking. Facility of inter course, by saving time, labour, and expense, is certain to multiply the comforts of society, while it promotes the great ends of public and private ambition, independence, and prosperity. The only wonder is that such self-evident improve ments should meet with such cold-blooded and stupid opposition, in a country which prides itself on being the patron of arts, manufactures, and useful inventions. But th e B e lgians are wiser •in their generation. The following are extracts : BRUSSELS, MARCH 29.—M. Serruys will set out to day for Lisbon, as Charge d'Affaires from our govern ment to Donna Maria. Dr. Mofeaux, who came from Paris to attend the Prince Royal, left Brussels two days ago. General d'Hane yesterday reviewed the regiment of the Guides. It is said to be in contemplation to form a camp on the road between Brussels and Cortenburg, which will be occupied chiefly by cavalry, and the park of artil lery of the reserve. General Hurel left Antwerp yesterday to visit the forts and outports, the flotilla, and the left bank of the Scheldt. To-day he will review all the troops . of the garrison. The battalion of the 2d Regiment of Chasseurs, instead of going to the frontier, as has been stated, will remain at Antwerp, where other corps are expected. Preparations are making in the camp of Scheldt to receive immediately part of the corps, which is at this moment on its way to the province of Antwerp. The following is the project of law for the iron rail-road, as it was adopted yesterday, the 28th, by the Chamber of Representatives : " Art. 1. There shall be in the kingdom a system of iron rail-roads, of which the central point shall be Malines ; it shall extend eastwards, towards the frontiers of Prussia, by way of Louvain, Liege, and Verviers, northwards to Antwerp, west wards to Ostend, by way of Tormond, Ghent, and Bruges, and southwards to Brussels and the frontiers of France, through Hainault. Art. 2. It shall be executed at the expense of the public treasury, and under the directions of the govern ment, to be provided for by a loan, which shall be definitively regulated by a law. " Art. 4. Previously to the negotiation of the loan, a credit of ten millions of francs is given to the govern ment, which shall be provided for, either wholly or in part, by treasury bonds, issued conformably to the terms of the law of 10th February, 1833. The same ad vance on the Treasury bonds shall be repaid out of the first produce of the loan. " Art. 5. The receipt of the road arising from the tolls, which are to be annually regulated by a law, shall serve to cover the interest, and the repayment of the loan, as well as the annual expense of keeping the road in repair, and the expense of management. " Art. 6. Every year before July 1, when the works are entirely completed, a detached report shall be laid before the Chambers, of all the operations autho rized by the present law. " Additional Article—As soon as the railroad between Liege and Antwerp is opened, the toll on the canals of Hainault shall be reduced to the same amount as that on the east road, by the ton and kelometer.— Brussels Papers, March 30. HOUSE OF'LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR, the Bishop of HEREFORD, and Lord PRUDHOE sat this morning to hear Scotch appeals. WEIR V. GLENNY. The appellant and respondent in this appeal are both of them paper-manufacturers, having mills on the banks of a canal on the river Carron. The respon dent having asserted a right to the unlimited use of the water in the canal, at different periods raised the dam sluices, by which the water of the canal was kept from the appellant, and his property was overflowed. The respondent had also taken upon himself to use a road, which was asserted by the appellant to be his and his tenants' exclusive property. In consequence of this an action was brought be fore the Sheriff in Scotland, to prevent the re spondent from pursuing the course he had adopted. That action was decided against the appellant ; the case was taken before the Lord Ordinary, who con firmed the decision of the Sheriff, and that judgment was afterwards adopted by the Court of Sessions, against whose judgment the present appeal was pre sented. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, and the LORD ADVOCATE appeared as counsel for the appellant, and Dr. LUSII INGTON and Mr. MURRAY for the respondents. The LORD ADVOCATE, who was part heard yester day (the Attorney-General giving way under protest), resumed his arguments this morning on behalf of the appellant, and was followed by The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who stated that the spot in question was the place celebrated by the heroic actions of Wallace and Douglas, and probably one of the oaks on the property in question was that under which young Douglas had fought. The learned counsel had not concluded his address when our reporter left. LORD DENMAN'S INTRODUCTION. Lord Denman arrived at the house this morning shortly before ten o'clock, for the purpose of being introduced, and taking the oaths and his seat, but in consequence of the difficulty in obtaining two Barons, his Lordship's introduction was considerably delayed. Shortly, however, after twelve o'clock, the noble lord, supported by Lords Melbourne and Prudhoe, and pre ceded by the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, Gar ter King at Arms, and the Lord Chamberlain, en tered the house at the great doors, and immediately proceeded to the Woolsack, where he delivered his writ of summons to the Lord Chancellor, who imme diately returned it. The noble lord, accompanied as before, then pro ceeded to the table where the patent creating him Baron Denman, of Dovedale, in the county of Derby was read, together with the writ of summons. The oaths were then administered by Mr. Courtenay, the principle clerk of the house, after which the noble lord was conducted to the parson's seat. The noble lord then shook hands with the Lord Chancellor, and received the congratulations of the peers present, after which he took his seat at the table to assist the Lord Chancellor in hearing appeals. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Montreal Papers to the 2d March, Quebec to the same date, and Singapore to the 15th November, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the Montreal Papers.) The council are rapidly getting through the bills which have been sent to them ; of the forty-nine which they have received they have passed thirty three. Amongst the measures yet undecided is that of St. Lawrence Canal. The question of retrenchment has been disposed of in the council in rather a summary way, but the report is not to be made public. The council are on Satur day to enter into the consideration of the state of the province; the nature of the resolutions to be proposed has not yet transpired. ( From the Quebec Papers.) The House of Assembly of Upper Canada have refused to grant 12,5001. for a penitentiary in that province. The house, in committee on the Supply Bill, voted the salary of the government officers same as last year ; a sum of 350,0001. for the improvement of the River St. Lawrence, and 25,0001. for the roads. It is understood that the Upper Canada Legislature will be prorogued about the Ist of March. From the Singapore papers we learn, by letters from Canton, that the Chinese Courier newspaper has ceased to exist. The annual statement of the trade of Singapore for the year ending Ist May, 1833, has been completed, and we give the comparative statement of the trade between the years 1831, 1832, and 1833, of the imports and exports. The total value of imports amounts to dis.'9-101-17 9 , including the trade with Malacca and Penang, while the exports amount to dis. 7-593-190. ( From the New York Commercial List.) We have still to deplore embarrassments resulting from the deranged state of the currency. At no time within the last six months has a want of confidence been more severely felt. The express from Paris this morning is of_little im portance, and does not communicate any event of con sequence from Spain. Consols opened this morning at the price they left off yesterday-91 for the Account, buyers. Spanish, 301 ; Portuguese 65 1 4 . As yet we do not hear of any fresh arrivals from Portugal, although the Lightning or the Pantaloon is hourly expected. HALF-PAST ONE. We have had a very dull morning in respect to operations in the Foreign Securities, and the fluctua tions in Portuguese and Spanish Stocks have been on a less scale than for several days past. We are also in the same state in respect to political news and reports. To the present hour we have no arrivals from Portugal. Consols have been, during the morning, at the opening price, 91 to for the Account. It is still the prevailing opinion that Spanish troops will enter Portugal. Spanish Stock 301 ; Portuguese 65 THREE 0' CL CK. Consols for the Account, 91 to I. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. We had hoped the case of Baron Smith was settled for the season, but here we have it again, a lively full-length. The article is a most com bustible one, full of cutting sarcasms and un savoury similes. If hard words could break a man's bones, O'Connell would be pummelled to a jelly—Stanley smashed to atoms, and poor Lord Althorp utterly annihilated. " A Story without a Tail" is capital, in the very broadest style of the broadest humour of Rabelais. It must be the standard-bearer's, without a doubt —aut 0' Doherty, aut Diabolus. Jack Ginger's regrets for his vanished honesty, and lamenta tions that the force of circumstances should have compelled a gentleman of such stern integrity as he was, when a pirate in the Mediteranean, to become a rogue in his new capacity of lawyer, are irresistibly pathetic, not to say edifying. We subjoin an extract from this jovial extrava ganza : • "ROW WE DINED AT JACK GINGER'S. " The history of that cod's head and shoulders would occupy but little space to write. Its flakes, like the snow flakes on a river, were for one moment bright, then gone for ever; it perished unpitiably. Bring hither,' said Jack, with a firm voice, the leg of pork.' It appeared, but soon to disappear again. Not a man of the company but showed his abhorrence of the Ju daical practice of abstaining from the flesh of swine. Equally clear in a few moments was it that we were truly British in our devotion to beef. The sirloin was impartially destroyed on both sides, upper and under. Dire was the clatter of the knives, but deep the silence of the guests. Jerry Gallagher, Jack's valet-de-chambre, footman, cook, clerk, shoeblack, aide-de-camp, scout, confidant, dun-chaser, bum-defyer, and many other offices in commendam, toiled like a hero. He covered himself with glory and gravy every moment. In a short time a vociferation arose for fluid, and the half and-half—Whitbread quartered upon Chamyton--beau tiful heraldry !—was inhaled with the most savage sa tisfaction. " ' The pleasure of a glass of wine with you, Bob Burke,' said Joe Macgillicuddy, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. 66 With pleasure, Joe,' replied Bob. What wine do you choose ? You may as well say port, for there is no other ; but attention to manners always becomes a gentleman.' • 1 " Port, then, if you please,' cried Joe, ' as the ladies of Limerick say, when a man looks at them across the table.' " 6 Hobnobbing wastes time,' said Jack Ginger, laying down the pot out of which he had been drinking for the last few minutes ; and, besides, it is not custo mary now in genteel society—so pass the bottle about." " [I here pause in my narrative to state, on more ac curate recollection, that we had not decanters ' - we drank from the black bottle, which J ac k d ec l are d was according to the fashion of the Continent.] " So the port was passed round, and declared to be superb. Antony Harrison received the unanimous ap plause of the company ; and, if he did not blush at all the fine things that were said in his favour, it was be cause his countenance was of that peculiar hue that no addition of red could be visible upon it. A blush on Antony's face would be like gilding refined gold. " Whether cheese is prohibited or not in the higher circles of the West End, I cannot tell ; but I know it was not prohibited in the very highest chambers of the Temple. " ' It's double Gloucester,' said Jack Ginger; ' prime, bought at the corner—Heaven pay the cheesemonger, for I shan't--but, as he is a gentleman, I give you his health.' " ' I don't think,' said Joe Macgillicuddy, ' that I ought to demean myself to drink the health of a cheese monger ; but I'll not stop the bottle.' " And, to do Joe justice, he did not. Then we at tacked the cheese, and in an incredibly short period we battered in a breach of an angle of 45 degrees, in a manner that would have done honour to any engineer that directed the guns at San Sebastian." " The Cruise of the Midge" is a coarse, rough, graphic sketch like Tom Cringle's log, and looks as if it had been scrawled by a Jack tar's paint-brush dipped in pitch. There are some piquant tit-bits of description in it. " Fa mily Poetry" is quaint and humorous. The rhythm itself is full of fun and eccentricity. We suspect it is by the same author who parodied " Catherine of Cleves" so admirably in this Magazine some few months since. " Edmund Burke" is beginning to grow prosy ; though we are glad to find the Reverend Critic fervent in his praise of the " Letter to two Noble Lords," which, though it have not the elaborate com pleteness of the " Reflections," yet, as respects humour, sarcasm, eloquence, fancy, and an in exhaustible variety of all that constitutes the perfection of writing, is, by many degrees, the finest thing that Burke ever penned. We re member going through it at a sitting, under the shade of a walnut-tree, in the Isle of Wight, and never was morning so delightfully spent. " Lords Brougham, Lyndhurst, and Local Courts," sets out and ends in a prodigious pas sion. The Chancellor is, of course, everything that is abominable ; Lord Lyndhurst just the reverse. These wholsesale indiscriminate at tacks only weaken the cause they would strengthen. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Theodore Hook is the literary embellish ment of this number. This portrait, however, though a full-length, is by no means a full breadth ; for the author of " Sayings and Doings" is a man of extensive dimensions—a very alderman in point of rotundity ; and in the matter of chin is, we understand, a three decker, instead of a two-decker. The slight memoir attached to the portrait is, as usually, smartly written. " Church Matters" is a lusty Io Nan in laud of holy Mother Church and her two dozen Episcopal children. There is a grievous attempt at the poetic in this diatribe, which those who can " read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest," must have the swallow of an ostrich. " Cunning ham's Life of Burns" points out the defects of this work in a very candid, temperate spirit. " Lays of the Unspoken" had better also have been unwritten, for they are very dreary com mon-place. " Sartor Resartus" is what old Dennis used to call " a heap of clotted non sense," mixed, however, here and there, with passages marked by thought and striking poetic vigour. But what does the writer mean by Baphometic fire-baptism ?" Why, cannot he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible ? " A Dozen of Novels " is a cleverish notice of some recent publications, from which we learn that Mr. Reynolds is the perpetrator of Miserrimus. We quote by way of curiosity a sentence from the Sartor Resartus ; which may be read either backwards or forwards, for it is equally intelligi ble either way. Indeed by beginning at the tail, and so- working up to the head, we think the reader will stand the fairest chance of getting . • at its meaning : " The fire-baptized soul, long so scathed and thunder-riven, here feels its own freedom, which feel ing is its B a ph omet i c b apt i sm : t h e citadel of its whole kingdom it has thus gained by assault, and will keep inexpugnable ; outwards from which the remaining dominions, not indeed without hard battering, will doubtless by degrees be conquered and pacificated." Here is a bray worthy of the most sonorous animal that ever chewed the thistle. It reminds us of another equally lucid passage, which we remember meeting with in the works of an emi nent transcendental philosopher of the day, who observed (we forget on what occasion, but that is not material), that " there were some people who supposed that an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of ideas, imme diately suggested the notion of an antiperistatical paradoxology." These two scribes should be harnessed together in a donkey cart. They have both an equal length of ear. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. There is a very agreeable, well-intentioned article in this number from the pen of Miss Martineau, which is entitled " A Letter to the Deaf." Those who do not labour under this infirmity will of course pass it by as matter of no account ; those who do (and we must rank ourself among the number) will devour it with avidity, so important is anything that touches self—that great point on which all interes turns. Swift has described this with his usua shrewd and caustic felicity : " But should some neighbour feel a pain Just in the part where I complain, How many a message will he send, What careful prayers that I should mend! Inquire what regimen I kept, And how I walked, and how I slept! And more lament when I am dead Than all the snivellers round my bed." The notice of " Crabbe" throws no new light on a subject hackneyed beyond redemption. -" Autobiography of an English Opium Eater" is heavy ; but contains a graphic sketch of the last sitting of the last Irish Parliament " Gradually the house filled : beautiful women sate intermingled amongst the peers ; and, in one party of these, surrounded by a bevy of admirers, we saw our fair but frail enchantress of the packet. Then came a stir within the house, and an uproar resounding from without, which announced the arrival of his Excellency. Entering the house, he also, like the other peers wheeled round to the throne, and made to the vacant seat a profound homage. Then commenced the public business, in which, if I recollect, the Chancellor played the most conspicuous part,—that Chancellor, of whom it was affirmed in those days by a political opponent, that he might swim in the innocent blood which he had caused to be shed. Then were summoned to the bar -summoned for the last time—the gentlemen of the House of Commons ; in the van of whom, and drawing all eyes upon himself, stood Lord Castlereagh. Then came the recitation of many acts passed during the ses sion. At which point in the order of succession came the royal assent to the Union Bill, I do not distinctly recollect. But this Ido recollect--that no audible ex pression, no buzz even, testified the feelings which, doubtless, lay concealed and rankling in many bosoms. Setting apart all public or patriotic considerations, even then I said to myself, as I surveyed the whole assem blage of ermined peers—How is it, and by what unac countable magic, that William Pitt can have prevailed on all these hereditary legislators and heads of patri cian houses, to renounce so easily, with nothing worth the name of a struggle, and with no indemnificati on , the very brightest jewel in their coronets ? This morn ing they all rose from their couches peers of parlia ment, individual pillars of the realm, indispensable ' parties to every law that is passed. To-morrow they will be nobody—men of straw—terrce filii. What madness has persuaded them to part with their birth right, and to cashier themselves and their children for ever into mere titular lords ? Thus much lam sure of,—that had such a measure been proposed by a poli tical speculator previous to Queen Anne's reign, he would have been scouted as a dreamer and a visionary, who calculated upon men being generally somewhat worse than Esau, viz., giving up their birthrights, and without the mess of pottage. However, on this me morable day, the Union was ratified ; the bill received the royal assent, without a murmur or a whisper one way or other. Perhaps there might be a little pause, —a silence like that which follows an earthquake ; but there was no plain-spoken Lord Belhaven, as on the corresponding occasion in Edinburgh, to fill up the silence with, " So, there's an end of an auld sang !" All was, or looked courtly, and free from vulgar emo tion. One person only I remarked whose features were suddenly illuminated by a smile, a sarcastic smile, as I felt it. It was Lord Castlereagh; who, at the moment when the irrevocable words were pronounced, looked earnestly, and with a penetrating glance among a party of ladies. His own wife was one of the party ; but I did not discover the particular object on whom his smile had settled. After this I had no leisure to be interested in any thing which followed. " You are all," thought I to myself, " a pack of vagabonds henceforward, and interlopers, with no more right to be here than myself." Apparently they thought so themselves ; for soon after this solemn fiat of Jove had gone forth, their lordships, having no further title to their robes, (for which I could not help wishing that a party of Jewish old clothesmen would at this moment have appeared, to bid a shum of moneysh,) made what haste they could to lay them aside for ever. The house dispersed much more rapidly than it had assembled." MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There are several good papers in this number, among the best of which we may mention one by Mr. Jerrold, in which an incident, frivolous in the hands of one who does not think, is made to point a very impressive moral. " The Bloomsbury Christening" is also a clever tale, though the author is too ambitious of saying smart things—is too much on the strain. A little more practice, which will bring ease with it, will make him a very excellent Magazine writer. " The Operatives' Parliament" is well- timed, and gives sound advice to the misguided leaders of the Trades' Union. We do not de sire to be gloomy prophets, but we fancy we can trace in these significant unions the first symp toms of a break-up of the great social confederacy. They are fraught with hazard, under any cir cumstances ; and when we find them ramifying so generally throughout the continent, we cannot but augur the worst results. It is madness to attempt to make light of their progress. They are signs of the times, as full fraught with meaning as ever were the Parisian clubs that ushered in the first French revolution. On the whole, the present number is a good one, espe cially the " Leaves from a Log," which, though brief, is full of interesting matter. We have no space for extracts. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Miss Landon figures among the contributors to this number. Her " Calendar of the Sea sons," with rather too much attempt at effect, contains many poetic passages, and some few shrewd observations. The Improvisatrice avows herself an ardent admirer of London, and says she never wishes to go further from it than a hackney-coach can take her. Of a raw Ja nuary morning she observes, " it requires to be well aired before it is ventured into." This is well said. The prattle about spring and St. Valentine's Day is lively and arch en oug too palpably an i m it a ti on of Leigh Hunt must protest, however, against her enco d h e is es ta i i t lor a ; t tt o e aLsghoeannddtyolensmiidanensouafibntemhueetrs.ttreewlentt he s l a s s e hs ri sure o r e u v v s a t dry in der. An au t umna l a ft e rnoon is we ll quartern l oa f, or dropping down port par The touch a b ou t th e German story in i t f h h e e h ve a n za tu rd res ef ol h i ethlheg sun ny s baked lights lb i i i s aer,., capital o ubuhrjHi therto - my Lorraine views • there are darker s hades. A' November towards the more densely populated d tude is like winding through a German story. N °6l well be more gloomy than a November evening city ; and yet it has a strange, though saddening ment. The air is heavy, as if that fine and sub ment were, by some strange process, becoming London sketches have been its, together ; there is neither rest nor quiet; you and hear not your own voice. There seem! thin g as sympathy or relaxation in the w orld g ir. Pleasure labour of life oppress you with their visible pr( is weighed down The crowd jostle on ; the reck not of each ofi t 0 metaphor, there seems no place for the the careworn 1 are a ways the careless. The gre rent leo of life flows through those restless streets, by toil i n g dra;Tasch;n hardships a rT a dh n se x i l i a l : us ing ; bledt and unresting. There are no flowers on it: passes pea vchcwtehesha asonthal es ° lyeko P dsent - o l ganun i t . . unknown dkuvssesneeu:ohni; wfilsere business. roach. d dana i r m eds t , ; r andailaghs passengers gycanrp; met waters,—n o sunshine on its banks ; --or t' gen tler i ns, graces, and sentiments of existence. r' upon you, and around you. You t u rn to s,„ . enl e t street ; you seek to escape the tumult and the et You find yourself on one of the bridges. let rays on each side, and the vapoury la in fi' i faint and unnatural light on the dark arches w -c u j hung in air. Below is the river, g loomY , se l ° - 1 —a river of smoke.. No purer element ever ro such "darkness visible." The dense mass °f ings lifts its shadowy outline on either side, ere confused, and heavy. Crime and m isery r's , , ci v i most on the mind. You feel what a w eary v"; 0 is that whose moaning thunder comes perpetual ear. The black river is as Avernus, with hell i ll i l?, banks. I know not how it may affect o thers, s .h % the impression upon myself. I felt a fraid, ever% and oppressed to the last degree of sadness. 0 in after-life scarcely for fog, night, and November." as full of facts as Maculloch's Theory His slice' and about as dr Poor Kean ! y. The Early Days of Edmund Keoafn; repaid 's ea bitter humiliations he underwent in in ignor days. Even by the members of his ow" a fession he was either wantonly or misunderstood and mi esented. who could appreciate his genius envl a the 1 11 and did their best to keep him down ; hin who could not, des • d and laughed pise i.• like scorn. After all, there is nothing r bly th r° common-place to get a man com fo rtably di • • al Aa srepr T . e l f the world. " Confessions of a Politic 'd him for the ri ,i 44 Geri turer" are tame and wire-drawn ; 911" n to 1 1 Duelling," a t a l e , barely respeeta ble-- more. _ ------- JOHNSTON'S EDINBURGH 111116' White'sZlNE. t 0 01 There is very little room for comet of f number, for it consists for the most part 0 01 tracts—well selected, and which form verY 3 ,f j able reading. Miss Edgeworth's " Helen ; Lockhart's " Reginald Dalton," --a, cap, life-like, though now half-forgotten/ 11°;-] a ua Mr. Leih Hunt's ~ Indicator; prose and verse, are all pressed into the se of the number, and constitute its chief att tion. We should not, however, omit to il l ' t an original ballad, entitled " Sir W a i "Church and School," grave and s which is conceived in a generous, man des e rtl worked out with much skill, and paYs 0 homag e t o th e memory of the greatest terEngland has known since the Sh X s akspeare. COBBETT'S MAGAZINE The most useful article is the one on ipc cation, Physical and Intellectual ; the d A s diverting, that " On Suicide Considerehe he e Matter of Taste." Between these two, and tail of the maga z i ne , li e a variety:f° intermediate ones, none o f w hich O P particular notice. A° ALEXANDER'S EAST INDL- A ZINE. f CO I " Some Passages from the Dia r Y but t h are sprightly, and drawn from life; ono tis' number, as a whole, is heavy a nd rion°t thewhose r most ve p frantic fe s o b enthusiasm asro o a less lovely mistress. The literary contend agreeable and miscellaneous. A i _,,p$011:111 GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZIN-DV" cs 01 l Its chief merit consists in a lik elle— f shi°!: for Queen of Prussia. As for the ine ils a i a s oali t _ ii '' on n r April, we leave their merits to b e pti ptly' by the loungers of Bond-street and DR. LINDLEY'S LINDLEY'S BOTANI CAL GISTER ; DO; 1 $11 ; OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN AND, S ae lill al:_l d e No. 2of Vol. VI., New Series. Eight ee' ° ble d The splendid novelties of the vegets o f til'' om, introduced through the inediun'odleir, most beautiful work by Profess°. oollfri: t oarfkAsbtaeriainrgcl. maa o f° almost exceed belief. Month passe s u s prese °ts or i f 6 and still each succeeding one new subjects, undiminished in hrilh erw ir l e terest. In the present number w e ha w bite',,, d Californian eep_yell ow a b n u d l bulbous u p s a plants, e_y et ow which, with some other plants hictria c ci e ltcherdslli e 'i6l the Horticultural Society fro m t rt ieni t 4 country, form quite a new class of - reso lv e ( objects of great i n terest ; re P tune I ,e at Midsummer, which is th eir s of , s # .4 flowering, the fritillaries and toliP s har dy ey Spring. They are probably quite unless tliof tulips, like which they are tre ated ; a ble should prove that their bulbs are c3 1 1' ,0 0 , 1 ; of living all the year round in the oPe l o ;de 0 : a property we can hardly anticipate, ° C alif(l t he how dry and mild a climate is that' of compared with England. i n the 01 11 0 llb' Y Horticultural Society, we are told2i,abtla'4ll,ll, been planted in the open border , in a, Pt "witli cc : l e soil, in a cold frame, where they gr e " o lg" * From the Greek, in allusion to the c" pression from which the petals distil hood'