The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-04 00:00:00

l'erted the general att en ti on f rom that which, after all, ' ‘ . t tar b est d e f ence. Brave as our soldiers have shown t hemselv es , r,, an d talented as have been their leaders, we never can hope, from our numerical inferiority, to be a gres i t military n a ti on . W e may aga i n success f u lly con tend, Provided our means b e proper l y cu l t i va t e d, with ne ver combined fl eets o f E urope, b ut we cannot , an d we nitri could, meet any fi rs t- ra te European people of ern times on land without the assistance of one or mo u gre allies. We say no t thi s i n d e preciation of our ifteano'dr'agniotariroz exploits,orwitli ;an imperfect estimate of its great but we do say, and with little 4 of contr a di ct i on f rom any rat i ona l an d un p re j u diced d tha t our proper arm of war is the navy ;it is not 'l s nY the b est b u l wark of defence to an i s l an d, b ut it i s a °that secies of armamen t f or which our insular si tels p Q ati°ll supplies th e b es t an d readiest materials. ll • 1, a( 3r, therefore, do we hail this attempt to recall the Publi c attention to our maritime affairs, and to those Provements most calculated to meet the advance of the rival nations. The time was when a set o f b rave t 'gnorant men laughed at the idea of naval tactics d be ' e necessary to vi c t or y. According to them a stout 4 411 and a sound ship were- the only requisites in the °I . battle ; but after the experience of the last At ne • 'eau war, when English stubborness was so often defeatedoust he 1 )V superior strategy, we presume, this error ti : st he pretty well exploded. Above all, our atten -14:1 ought to be turned to the application of steam to Itit 'P a of war. If ever any other nation should get the tio tt of us in this respect, and can bring its tremen t•us energies to bear upon the present system, a few hours might wrest from our hands the sceptre of the of fi rst-rate and blot out Great Britain from the list of f a ,, powers. The present system of naval war fare' dependent as it is for results on the winds and ti des , would be all too. unequal in the 'strife against an Ther e that can set both one and the other at defiance. are, of course, difficulties in the way of apply ° steam to such a purpose ; but who will venture to affirm th at such difficulties are insuperable ? That this tremendous No ag en t can b e more widely and usefully em • Yed than it has been, is evident from the " Voyage • Steam from Bombay to Suez." In this document, er ha ving given a rapid sketch of the scheme to "Fact so desi ra bl e an o bj ec t, the various difficulties it met With in its progress, and an outline of the vo y a g e of th e Hugh Lindsay, the writer concludes by saying— ueE that a steamer can .ply between Bomhayla 10th Ju ng roughout th e year—the months of May from the ‘ll end July, and part of August, excepted ; and these only e ' O e rlse of the difficulty of carrying an adequate supply of a l• t . ° , gain Socotra, 1,150 miles; as the wind in these b r t " . 1 3 1. IS also strong, a steamer's rate would be reduced the . r l e- s a•cl ay. , a , n average of 24 miles per hour, or sixty-five miles t i e Th e 'Leaves from my Log Book" offer nothing par- Illttrl Y worthy of notice. They are not bad certain l y , but neither are they goo 4, or not so good as to induce t o make any extracts. We must needs say of them, t he sagacious Bishop said ol Gulliver, there are torn c _ .q t hings in the book that we cannot quite believe. `` The Devil's Rock," if it be a fiction, is marvel hh, J like truth ; .and, if it be truth, is marvelously fiction. The description of the tempest and the dan ger of the vessel is exceedingly powerful, and hr ii) g a the whole scene before the mind's eve with un ent: M I on vivid ness : kid was, I think, the third or fourth day of a new moon, ti n g b e ° °,gh, consequently, her beams were weak and her set marly, yet she lengthened the twil i ght an h our or two , ade the actua l d ar k ness of the night much shorter. I i iis ` i v r e ther e is not a man upon earth, who at some period of th e rn e ' has not f e l t t h e str on g est admiration at the beauty of her a ee n , or been war m ed into some glow of thankfulness for aetts se but even they who have experienced her greatest tie icyland. have little idea of the service she does the assn er °f the deep. As her pale rays dance over the waves, I , l le ter n rn e less terrific appearance—and amid the roar of tight. P,p i t i , there is something inexpressibly cheering in her i " th e e lonely mariner looks up to her as a friend—and Wit a dangers and distress, she seems to gaze on him taf et . and sympathizing look, as though she promised 3 and consolation. o f Ought to apologize for this digression, but recollection ele .'e danger from which we were that night rescued is suffi at excuse for this tribute of acknowledgment. o f 0 W e had supped, taken our nightly glass of grog, and some teti ," society had already turned in. The capta i in had a s e o t kir a' to his state room, having left orders to t he . ca 1 d • and I went upon deck to take merely a slight peep at th . weat her before going. to bed ; but , struck with i, t ` grand eu r of the scene, I whiled away more time than I had ended. It was ten o'clock, and the gale refreshing fast, nd , t. now and then the top of a wave rushing over the main the- L as the ship yawed a little on either side, gave warning at th e sea was getting heavier. The top-gallant sail was Lak en . ees in, and the mate observed . that it would be soon ne :i3elsharoyritzoone,lose-reef the topsails. The moon, by this time ti Pt astern in the W estern quarter, and about six degrees above was begit:ning to be obscured at intervals by dark li r : f lan masses of cloud, which, thus exhibited in strong re itati assumed a singularly sublime, though awful appearance ; 4 0 at times, a wa s e rearing itself higher than its fellows , Ar wed like a huge wall overhanging the stern, and seemed to otaten instant destruction to the vessel ; but as it came closer Nv l. ?se majestically upon its huge top, and was- borne along tirn irresistible velocity. I had walked the deck for some Isate;,..Watching the deceptive and varying appearance of the at, ad ` s, now relieved by the moonlight, now darkened by the e ak :ws of th e p ass i ng c l o uds—and my thoughts, though ter 2Y intent on t h e scene , occ asionally turned towards the , "nation of ou r v oyage, whither we were now so rapidly Zrio4ressing, a n d to t h e a nticipation of the joys and comfort l ati ,„ l4 England, and the delights of meeting friends a nd re ta:" unseen f or ma ny a year. Whilst thus engaged , once or I th ou "lit I saw an unusually white wave far a-head ; but as st e t ° ,, ulcl not fix e rtn - t i • j oo ta . ke :' wo or in my gaze, it did not particularly excite my tnund to walk forwi:_ 'hrce minutes more elapsed, when onturn- t vd, the form of a wave, which could no , met our gliince. In a moment the cry the elil th ee and peace which had reignet: board for some d hours, a ol - ged to the cry of terror and distracts.,_ Everybody was d tr s , 4B ,,.tr—non e knew what to do,—so sudden, unexpecthe Par a jr. danger, that before our minds could recove7 fromwteree ih' e s ing effect of the first shock produced by terror, we O ur ih r Pldst of d es t r uction. Hope of safety there was none. th an T I P was flying through the water, —the breakers not more poi„, Iwo cables' length from us, not only a-head, but several on each bow. ,ne captain had rushed upon deck at the first alarm, and W lze w`ready standing on the bowsprit, looking round with the to r e e b f. one who sees instant and unavoidable destruction be- N.st, -Ir n- Too surely did he recognise in that view the - ea of one of those mysterious reefs which had been the pies of our scepticism and ridicule a few hours before. His t ‘'' e a of mind, however, did not forsake him : with out 1 ‘) t h4 e his eye from the spot, he ordered the startled sailors braces. t bi The idea of evading the danger by hauling the l ate, °l ' a wind, for an instant presented itself, but it was too w Already were we in the midst of the dashing and foai.-n -airsaVers, with eyes whose owers were sharpened by despair th ey Y could we o bserve the black tops of a reef of rocks, as were occasionally bared by the reflux of the boiling surf; de ck eddy b a d one or two mighty surges rushed over the Pro g .„ Sweepin g away everything loose, and giving awful lib ah °stic of the fate awaiting us,—whilst the vessel was lifted Of Wile bro w of the tremendous billows,—at the subsidence Til e : 4 we expected to feel her grind on the subjacent crags. this zp -e tnams of the passengers, now fully awakened to their the — , r a - the silent horror imprinted on the countenances of a letel s- ren,—the roaring of the mighty element rendering tap t 3 . naudible the orders shouted out by our still energetic Awe -n r - the mysterious un certainty'of the danger,--even the 4 a0 ,,-Y Which we believed it to be designated, and which th e ,: 4to throw a superstitious horror over the scene, altoge ley ni '. l3 e r ° 4 l:..to u r eel an impression which can never be erased from 4.ftp, y. . "aving been wrought up to the highest pitch by his taPPallitay description, we are a lmost inclined to quar r, r e vvith the w aiter for escaping with life, and thus tig Ohs that all our' anxiety has been thrown away, mu c h we had 5. 13 —. a s if be one of 11 Alr. Rad lirghosts, end in terrifying ourselves with that uniformly °t hin ei s drowned L• g. Could he not mainaninz,ouslY ition story self h • ,lolphin to tell h• having first deputed some friendly' , d have . is v ery obli • ?—they are gentlemen of taste .° 4 Arlo ging withal, as is proved by their civility to the natal a n d m i l i tary ed i tor to wage war as h e d oes , in another place, with their cousins German, the por- Pois es and, 8 , of th ese h e proposes to h ar p oon en ti re shoals, r each Should th e y prove too war y t o come within the 0 1 hi s P 0 1%01,. trident, he then suggests the propriety of a n , *devil s th b a. tJe sea with lime, and catching the poor t w ay. This is doing things on a grand a nd d remind s us of an incident in Schiller 's G host S eer, b y the ,wh ere t h e A rmen i an qu i ets a ragi ng sea p 1 e expedient of throwing overboard a few barrels of whale oil. The project, however,—that is of killing the porpoises, not of stilling the waves,—is by no means to visionary as at first sight it may appear to be. These fish supply a moderate quantity of oil; and arc abundant in the Atlantic. The other matters of this number, though all inte resting in their way, are not sufficiently prominent to farther notice. [uire any THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. We have had occasion to notice more than once, and it may be naso adunco, the furious Toryism of the " Dublin Magazine," even while we have been giving due praise to its many merits. To our i n fi n i te surprise, this at length has roused the ire of our con temporary, and in his present number he favours us with a flat denial of the premises, which denial he re quests us to make public in our columns. There are some signs of grace in this, however ; few are the Tories, who would not consider that we had done them the greatest possible honour by the accusation. We haste, then, to record his plea of " not guilty," and put him on his defence before his country : " We commence our extracts from our tablets of this month, by a reference to a subject to which nothing but a sense of duty could induce us to allude ; we mean some comments upon the last number of this periodical, which appeared in The Sun, London newspaper. It is always painful to be obliged to speak of ourselves, and to fair criticism we cannot, almost under any circumstances, conceive a writer called on to reply. When, however, a charge is brought against a political writer, of entertaining political opinions and feelings which he can utterly, and indignantly, disclaim, there is no rule, either of courtesy or etiquette, that requires him to submit to the im putation. This is, precisely, the position in which we are placed : a most respectable and justly influential journal has attempted to fasten on us sentiments which we hold in the most unmitigated abhorrence, and has taken two separate opportu nities of repeating the charge. In their review of our number for August, they'distinctly charged us with advocating the ex termination of the Roman Catholics !! and now they appear to have no way altered their opinion of our sentiments. From The Sun of September the second, we take the following " THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITy MAGAZINE.—The Toryism of I'tlaga and Regina is rank radicalism compared with the blood-red orange conservatism of this official bulletin' from the head-quarters of the Irish Church militant. From the style of some of these articles before us, we should not be at all surprised at shortly hearing of a proposal for erecting a Roden rostrum in Dublin, something after the style of that from which the Pater Patrice of Rome harangued the people, with the trifling difference of substituting Papists' heads for the beaks of ships in its erection. This antichristian bigotry is the more to be regretted, as this periodical may boast of an abun dance of literary talent of a very high order.' " And so our contemporary continues in a strain very compli mentary to our merits, and, we confess, very gratifying to our feelings ; but it is not with his opinion as to our literary pre tensions, that we have to do ; it is with his, either wilful mis representation, or gross misapprehension of our policy, that we are now concerned. We put the case in its double point of view, although we feel quite satisfied that the latter branch of the alternative is the true one. " Grievous as is the imputation which is contained in the paragraph we have quoted, and calculated as it is to lower the character, and injure the circulation of our periodical, with all who value the principles of religious charity, we would pass it by unnoticed, or leave its refutation to the spirit of the articles which we publish, were it not that it appears part and parcel of a systematic effort which is now making, to neutralise the effect which the exertions of the Irish Protestant party are un questionably producing with the people of Britain, by repre senting them in a character of all others the most odious to a Christian people, that of religious persecutors and religious ex terminators. The truth is, that the case is precisely the re verse ; we are the objects, not the agents of a bitter and relentless persecution, and, so far from ever thinking of op , pressing others, we feel our own lives and liberties insecure. We are not vain enough to believe that our individual opinions are of importance enough to deserve the misrepresentation of ,17,- .7 Sun? the very language of the paragraph proves that he oiler game, and assails, through us , the great an d iliniflesueanttiliaipaf:'y with which we are connected, and whose con fidence, we are pr(;:',(1 to say, we possess. It is then, in jus tice to that party, that 17' reply to the observations of The Sun, and, in the name of tha:,.` party do we solemnly deny that, as far as our knowledge of ihed extends, they entertain any other feeling towards their Roman Ca:./'.olic brethren than that of a deep concern for their welfare, and an 1171xious desire to ameliorate their condition. One thing we can pOgYIYPIY state, that the unchristian bigotry' with which our contempo rary charges us, is as much opposed to the obligations of an Orangeman, as it is to the spirit of Protesta ntism and the geniu - s of Christianity. " And having thus given to the charge a denial as strong and as positive as the courtesies of language will permit, may we venture to put two questions to the conductors of The Sun. Will they insert this, our strong, but, we trust, temperate, denial in the columns of their paper, and thus afford to our defence a circulation co-extensive with that which they have already given to the accusation ?—and may we also presume to inquire upon what passages in our pages they have grounded their charge? That we are Tory, we confess; not that we are pledged to uphold the opinions or defend the con duct of any particular set of men; but we arc Tory, in as far as Tory ism consists in maintaining the principles of the Bri tish constitution, the sanctions of religion, and the authority of the word of God. That we have not scrupled to express our honest opinions against Popery, as essentially an ungodly and an•unscriptural system—as a system false in a religious, and dangerous in a political view—we are ready to admit; but that ever an expression has escaped from our pen that justifies, in ever so remote a degree, the imputation that we passed the line that separates religious principle from religious animosity, and distinguishes zeal from sectarianism—that we ever trans ferred our hatred of a system to individuals, or our detestation of falsehood to its dupes, we utterly and totally deny. " We are aware that it may not be usual for the conductors of a periodical such as ours at all to enter into controversy with the daily press :in many ways it is inconvenient—as a habit it would be impracticable. We have deviated from our own usage, because we conceive the matter to which we have alluded of importance. We are very sure that these upon whose conduct we have commented, will receive our remarks as they are intended ; we are under many obligations to them for the good opinion they have been more than once pleased to express for our literary labours ; perhaps we could not give a more substantial proof of the value we set upon that good opinion, than by the pains we have taken to refute the ac cusation." Such is the whole of the defence set up by our con temporary, without the omission of a single syllable, and we hope it may prove as conclusive with the pub lic as it certainly is able. On our side we shall offer nothing to weaken its effect ; let his own words con- demn or acquit him. 'We regret that the space thus occupied should have left us no opportunity for extracts from the many amus ing papers of this number. There is one article which we would willingly have given entire, had that been coninatible with the other mare important claims upon our columns. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The magazines, as they lie piled upon the table before us, through every possible shade of blue, green, brown, and yellow, all As opposite in their tastes as in their colours, make no indifferent representatives of the va rious classes into which society is divided. " Black wood" represents the more intellectual part of the Tories ; the " Old Monthly" appears for the middling class of liberals, gentlemen by birth and education, but who find it expedient to dine economically, lest the ex travagance of a day should starve the week ; the United Service Journal," of course, speaks for the blue and red uniforms ; " La Belle Assemblee" is de puted by the ladies, who somehow or another have contrived to find their way into the literary senate, and most heartily are the dear creatures welcome, for their nonsense is worth all the wisdom of the seven sages of Greece ;' the " Ladies' Magazine," falsely so called, should be the " Lady's-maids' Magazine ;" and, omitt ing half a score others for the sake of brevity, the " New Monthly" indubitably represents that portion which, in Cockney language, calls itself the world, and in the absence of which London is always said to be empty, even though it may be a work of difficulty to elbow your way through the crowded streets. Talk, indeed, of nine tailors making one man 1 why it re quires a hundred commoners to make a lord, and ten thousand vulgars, more or less, to outweigh a single man of wealth—but then gold is so heavy a metal 1 The editor opens his sessions with " Drunkenness," wit. _l l head h e scourges poor Mr. Buckingham ... :0 's'onmdeerwhat More roughly than the goodness of his in tentions hi s l eg i s l at i ve w i s d om is but folly . 11v,e merited, fear that the "WM will answer the advo cate for temperance much as Sir Toby 9.nslvered Mal volio,—" What ! though you be virtuous, shall we have no cakes or ale ? Aye, by the Mass will -making we." Of all the cacoethes that plague poor mor tals, the cacoetlos of I4W is the most pre valent as well as the 14104 T?Scl}levous, It pieked up hip is to be presumed that Mr , DgekirOam li u niform l y ing, and op. one of the , kind ; and no s imple )Od title is its numb" 100 k i s aP; It is , i " td n o right of tourists, s hall 1 11° ‘ icursiog to 56 I"' the ;st e to ,ave u s. vi f e P a P er ; bere TliolP s • c ' Sp, tre e ras sc , t hre . 00 . ,ed ,1 1 of P. ' io“ s for e b led co v treo l hic to re , unaAo ti , 6o t i ? to ed, cilt S C , l That ' S !air Wer‘ li sh :11 We O r' Of the Ai the u r' a r Y 'corP s c vde " tl;n the co og . ers I:! eve rel , t her ae sia cr, otol n h ` , ce ▪ of • tbe ilac e°, beil l g n ifL :er, 3 n or i i ttf e wil l re , t heP vie ° `117,51101Y serfficer the ° hill' froe-al °h ached den I rJ . af , ey e IrOPP i e m iffO t 0 10 ith s'' c leCO r the in j, 010° 'ol l ' .11 a , c l5 l ict ; h e e; ev a c in it s ole Lo ther S'l ' 1 0 , Lau D °ll o r d EmP t er r o' l s by j3 .411 1 ' .- Stiort-scril geeit 0 )cnns , thin mite as or w ore i te• 1 ..13-V&T ; th e )tiv ate' v ie " j;i' i , t r 3 f the °lll ' I° . ) 0 year' TV ate le , co ot peTs s 1 ;: o e they 3 r it. ~` ~; y4#, PRE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1834. s ater-bibbing propensities among the Brahmins dur-, ing his long residence in the East, but we can assure him that the system which may work very we'd under the glowing Indian skies; would be exceedingly c.)ld and comfortless in the sullen atmosphere of Eng land. What right either have the wealthy and the high in place to complain that the multitude inquire too narrowly into their conduct, while they are con stantly interfering with the habits of the mob ? —we hollow the word from them with no admiration of its propriety. They even grudge the poor man the prac tice of those vices in which they are themselves habi tually indulging, and while they get intoxicated with champagne and claret, have all their virtuous feelings roused into indignation at the drunkenness of gin and brandy. This pharisaical disposition to amend others, and leave our own faults unquestioned, is the besetting :in of the day, and, though we perfectly acquit- Mr. Buckingham of all hypocrisy or uncharitableness, we cannot so easily absolve him from the charge of the grossest folly. It is difficult to believe that a man of his acknowledged talents can be serious when we read the conclusion which he, and his select committee of Solons have come to, prohibiting the importation or the distilling of ardent spirits : " 46. The absolute prohibition of all distillation of ardent spirits from any foreign country, or from our new colonies, of distilled spirits in any shape. " 47. The equally absolute prohibition of all distillation of ardent spirits from grain, the most important part of the food of man, in our own country. " 48. The restriction of distillation from other materials, to the purposes of the arts, m anufacturers, and medicine, and the confining the wholesale and retail dealing in such articles, to chemists, druggists, and dispensaries alone." Certainly, if the scheme were only practicable, it might go far to put an end to drunkenness, and by a parity of reasoning it would be well to forbid any rights of property, as the most effectual means of weaning pickpockets from, their little amiable weaknesses ; it is proverbially said that rats will leave an empty larder, and hence we may infer, with some probability of truth, that these ingenious gentlemen would give up their vocation if, by a community of goods, there was nothing left for them to pilfer. Where spirits are to be bad, men will drink; where there is property, men will steal; remove the cause, and you remove the effect—Q. E. D. If another committee is not started upon the strength of this happy suggestion, we shall think ourselves ex tremely ill-used by the two honourable houses. The " Nights in the Gallery " are somewhat long and dreary, and this, perhaps, is the more sensibly felt from coming upon them so immediately after the fun and frolic of the " Steam Excursion." This last is a piece of broad, rich farce, that would tickle the lean ribs of Envy herself into laughter. If Grimaldi, of clownish memory, could write, this is just the sort of thing we should expect from him ; and never did the genius of pantomime grin more delectably—no, not even when he called up the spirit of Sancho, and set him before our eyes as he lives and breathes in the im mortal pages of Cervantes. Of course, it is hardly necessary to say that we do not mean to compare this article, amusing as it is, with the unimitated and inimi table Don Quixotte. A single page will serve to show its quality— " Did you ever hear a tom-tom, Sir? sternly inquired the captain, who lost no opportunity of showing off his travels, real or pretended. " A what ?" asked Hardy, rather taken back. " A tom-tom." " Never 1" " Nor a gum-gum ?" " Never 1" " What is a gum-gum ?" eagerly inquired several young ladies. " When I was in the East Indies," replied the captain, (here was a discovery—he had been in the East Indies?)—" when I was in the East Indies, I was once stopping several thousand miles up the country, on a visit at the house of a very parti cular friend of mine, Ram Chowder Doss Azuph Al Bowlar— a devilish pleasant fellow. As we were enjoying our hookahs one evening in the cool verandah, in front of his villa, we were rather surprised by the sudden appearance of thirty-four of his kit r ma-gars (for he had rather a large establishment there), accompanied by an equal number of Consumers, approaching the house with a threatening aspect, and beating a tom-tom The Ram started up—" • " The who ?" inquired the bald gentleman, intensely in wrested. " The Ram—Ram Chowdar—" " Oh 1" said the old gentleman , really didn't occur to me ; pray go on." Started up, and drew a pistol. Helves , ' said he my boy'—he always called me, my boy—'Helves,' said h e , do you hear that tom-tom I do,' said I. His counte• nance, which before was pale assumed a most frightful appear b ance ; his whole visage was distorted, and his frame shaken ; violent emotions. 'Do you see that gum - gum ?' said he. - No,' said I, staring about me. ' You don't ? ' said he No, I'll be damned if I do,' said I ; and what's more, don't know what a gum-gum is,' said I. really thought the man would have dropped. He drew me aside , and wit h an ex pression of agony I shall never forget, said in a low whisper"._ " Dinners on the table, ladies," interrupted the steward's . I beg your pardon ; the Belgian Government to the amount of 270,000 florins, being three years' pay as Field-marshal of Belgium and In spector-General of fortifications.' These appointments were made in the good times of Dutch rule, and if the Dnke wants his money he had better apply to his old friend the Dutch King ; but he is aware that at the Dutch territory pickled herrings are more plentiful than piastres, so he is trying to " come the old soldier " over the "brave Bulges." It happens, however, most unluckily, that the Duke's appointment has not been recognized by the pre sent Belgian Government, so that his Grace might as well apply to the King of the Sandwich Islands, as far as hope of coin is concerned, and with about as much right." THE METROPOLITAN. " Jacob Faithful" has concluded his adventures on the " Deep Deep Sea," an announcement which we should have received with sorrow, did he not give us a parting pledgc that he is only changing one element for another. Jacob was, from the first, a favourite with us, and we trust it will be long before he ceases to pay us his monthly visit. His " Last Yarn" is a beautiful sketch, full of nature, and feelings deep and true to naturei " Novels and Novel-writing" evinces a sound judgment and a cultivated taste, but it is much too general, and so far falls short of the great ex cellence which ought to be the principal " end and aim" of such an essay. " Wallace to his Army" is sad stuff—common -place in thought and in the expres sion, taken at second-hand. Very different, however, are the lines " My Home is by the Sea," some stanzas of which are beautiful, and the whole strikingly full of feeling. The following lines struck us as very natural, simple, and touching I bear with me an ocean shell, It's sounds to me are dear— Oh ! like an old familiar spell It murmurs in my year; Even in exile I rejoice In some still spot to be, And greet its low mysterious voice, The language of the sea." " The Life of a Sub-Editor" appears to be written by a man who has not passed through life without noting the working of our worst passions. His paper of this month is very interesting. " Physiognomies at Paris," by Caleb Caustic, is a marina account of the Hells and Hell-hunters of that celebrated capital. wile. " Will you allow me ?" said the Captain, immediately suit ing the action to the word, and escorting Miss Julia Briggs to the cabin, with as much ease as if he had finished the story. " What an extraordinary circumstance !" ejaculated the same old gentleman, preserving his listening attitude. " What a traveller 1" said the young ladies. " What a singular name 1" exclaimed the gentlemen, rather confused by the coolness of the affair. " I wish he had finished the story," said an old lady. wonTheder what a gum-gum really is ?" " Sketches in Portugal" have fairly brought us to a nonplus. Is it intended that we should receive them as the bond fide adventures of the writer ? We ask only as to the intent, for of the fact we shall take the li berty of judging for ourselves. At all events they are highly amusing, and not a little characteristic, showing plainly that the author knew well what might either from his own e xperience, or the borrowed know ledge of others. It will be difficult to give a just idea of it by any extracts, the great merit of the picture being in the whole combined, and not in the details ; but we must try n otwithstanding.— " That horse belongs to me," said I, addressing the grumb ling soldier, who was already casting him adrift ; and replac ing the bridle, I led him out of the yard, to seek for other quarters, as I originally intended. The door of a house, or rather hovel, being open on the other side of the way, I quickly introduced myself and my horse into the naked apartment, and found it occupied by two or three officers and their horses ; the former sitting in a circle on the plastered floor, and enjoy ing themselves with a jorum of port wine, which they invited nie to share with them. But the bit of candle which was stuck in the neck of an empty bottle, being in the act of ex piring, and threatening to drop through every moment, we were at our wits' ends how to obtain another ; till, recollecting the one in the lantern at the foot of the staircase, I volunteered my services to go and fetch it. This it was less easy to do than to say ; for, on crossing over, I found two sentinels were posted there, which, of course, rendered the attempt altogether impracticable. Thinking, however, I might perhaps procure one from one of the Emperor's attendants, I mounted the stairs ; but, on reaching the door at the entrance of a passage, hesitated to proceed further, as all within was total darkness ; and though I beard the sound of voices in distant apartments I should certainly have descended, and thus have missed one of the many opportunities I have had of estimating the amiable qualities of Don Pedro (for whatever may be his bad ones, nulla virtute redentptum a vitiis cannot be said of him), had not the rays from a torch in the street shot through a window directly in front of me, and enabled me to discover a room with folding doors open at the end of the passage in which I stood. Stepping as lightly as if I had been treading on a flower-bed, I advanced towards the room, and by the time I entered it, the.torch having passed on, all was again in darkness. At this moment a door was thrown back on my left, and two ser vants came in, one carrying lights, the other a pilau for the Emperor's supper. As I was well known to every one about him, they expressed no surprise at seeing me there, and telling me they would furnish me with what I wanted as soon as they came back, passed into a room on the right, and as they neg lected to close the door, I had a full view of an inner apart ment, in which were the Emperor, Villa Flor, Padre Marcus, Almeida, Jos6 da Silva Cavalho, and Ayostinho Jose Freire. The house, like all the others, having been deserted, was completely destitute of furniture, and his Majesty was raising himself when I caught sight of him from a reclining posture on a couch formed of cloaks, and elevated a little from the floor, and before him was an old wooden box, on which the servants placed his frugal meal. With the exception of the padre, who Tins extended on a hp4p of c l 9 o q 1,4 feet,t, the persons I have nained4ere spnle olki ng 04 ; E lowil, Others standing still. I have frequently ol3sei•fed' ion Pedro con ceal a feeling of despondency (when I knew, Crow what had transpired, he must have been greatly depressed), and affect to be in the highest spirits, in order that his example might infuse courarr fortitude into the hearts of those around him, whom tie e tiVcaYi liked to goo Cheerful anti bitpic, When the door opene d I heard him, as he r aise d himself, say (in re ference to what I could not tell)— " I'll stake this ring against your head, Padre, that you don't," pulling. it off his finger and laying it on the box. " The risk is rather disproportioned," replied the old gen- The sketch of Coulton, the sharper, is particularly good. Altogether the Metropolitan for this month is above m ediocrity, though by no means comparable to what we have seen it. We give the following short sketch of the, Rothschild family from an article headed the " Wondrous Five," as an encouragement to those who are studying to rise in the world The father, and founder of the ' House of Rothschild,' was christened—l mean named—Mayer Anselmo, and Frankfort had the honour of his birth, which auspicious event occurred in Anno Domini 1743. At eleven years of age the future father of the Five had the misfortune to lose both his parents. After serving as an usher's helper at a public school, lie instinctively turned his thoughts to business, and commenced a little com merce of the following order. Every body knows that the nu mismatic gout is extremely prevalent with the rich, especially in Germany, and that an intelligent trafficker in medals is sure to make handsome profits. Mayer Anselmo, therefore, gave up his pedlaring profession, and confined himself solely to the collecting and selling of medals. Another advantage accrued to him from his new calling, as it enabled him to become, in a certain manner, acquainted with several distinguished person ages, who were of considerable use to him in the end, and by whose patronage he continued to make out a suitable sort of existence. He now began to exercise his ready talent in the sciences of the counter and money-changing. In the capacity of a banker's clerk at Hamburg, he acquired a creditable re putation by his assiduity and tact ; and, after several years, he left his first master's house, with a good character, and a toler able capital, the fruits of his careful economy. On his return to Frankfort, he married a cousin of the tribe of Judah, and boldly set up a banking concern in a small way, the nucleus of the great house which now fills all Europe with its fame. By dint of probity, activity, and native aptitude for money-making, the father of the present firm gained more and more ground in public confidence; his credit extended, and his clients in creased. In 1801 his former illustrious numismatic patron, the Landgrave of Hesse, appointed Mr. Rothschild agent to his Court. This was the first princely connexion of the con cern, although they have since had dealings with, and in sove reigns to a pretty considerable amount, as the New York bard says. It was in this quality that Rothschild rendered very im portant services to the successor of the above-named Prince, especially when, in 1808,, the latter, obliged to retire from his hereditary states at the approach of' the French army, could only carry off with him a comparatively inconsiderable sum in gold, to which his whole fortune was then reduced. By his presence of mind, address, and ability, Mr. Rothschild con trived to save from the grasu czf tu ila , A the greatest part of the il,ndgraveis property, lAit not without a few hair-breadth 'sca pes! from the lynx-eyes, and drum-head justice of the Gal licintruders. The property so preserved from the plundering heroes, was conscientiowly administered 1?y , Rothschild for his patron the Prince. " About this period the financial business a ill?, house of Rothschild began to assume impsAaric.e, in consequence of its first Wan, ten InilliOns of florins, to the Court of Denmark. In 1812, Mayer Anselmo Rothschild, the father, was attacked by a mortal illness. Aware of his approaching end, he had L his ten children called to his bedside, gave them his dying benediction, and made them promise never to change, their re ligion, and always to remain unite 4 ambrie themselves on "6^ - " - - 00- ' 4 " .. ' -.; :M. i .- . ~.,~ ...............,T0M.....T,-- _ These e f e broths 's • ...._ the your,, Virgin ally, lly , at ' hC amply _ e in , 'Change. n v g h a . s thel.,_ , e romises have been religiously kept, and Mary)ole of the bundle of sticks been verified by l '.portance, all the united brethren invoke the me ss. Whenever they are about to undertake an , n Y d , , (meaning if f h e s r b e e for is e I'll beg leave to decline the the bet ;" and taking up the ring, ff t I e in , an 0h,•,1 of ' e'hebliu,t, persuadedN Nr i inters tht i i h i e n ehde that.l h p i sl o fsmhoaau Majesty, s L ; t y a a d , he slipt it on his finger again, amidst a most uneourtly roar of their father, which is venerated by them in a manner mor i o f ii . h Y ) ° ig laughter. - - ./ honourable to their filial feelings. Their great political ' s'•tothe battle which is os • n B u t," said the Padre, "in regard expected will be fought to - morrow , I predict t h a t if we ar 0 is computed their h o u se h as negot i ate d , i n l oans, su b s idi es, v ictorious, ' I shall see our gracious Queen in Lisbon . " c., upwards of 160.000 milli ons sterling, pri:ecipally for the " I trust your prop hec y will be verified, m y g ood friend," different Monarchs of Europe ; their profits have, of course, the Emperor exclaimed. been immense. Their long and uninterrupted success was "If it depends on the result of to-m o r ro w's o perations," oh- owing to their unanimity and community of interests. Every served Villa Flor, " I think it will be ; for I have a very strong proposition is decided by mutual deliberation. Each opera presentiment that we shall beat them." tion, of major or minor importance, is conducted upon a con- " Your Excellency's declaration is very cheering," replied certed and common plan ; and all their individual and corn the Emperor, and added—" Come, gen tl eme n, will you not bined energies are employed to command success. Although partake with me ?" The courteous invitation was, however, for several years they have resided at a distance from each declined by all but the confessor, whom his Majesty assisted other, that circumstance has by no means caused a distance, himself. During the common-place remarks which were now or discord amongst them ; on the contrary, it has proved a made, his Majesty appeared quite lost in abstraction, and I great advantage, in contributing towards the prosperity of should certainly have supposed he was merely pondering on their immense undertakings, by thus making them nu courant the toughness of the fowl's leg, whi c h he held in both hands, of the state of the principal money-markets of Europe, and gnawed with laudable perseverence, had he not suddenly through a c ontinual exchan g e of courier s , which generally looked up and said, precede the Government messengers ; in this manner, each of " However ridiculous it may seem, I cannot divest myself of the five brothers, from the point where he is placed, possesses a strange fancy that I have before been in precisely the same a great facility for preparing and negotiating different affairs situation lamin at this moment, The very scene is impressed for the central establishment. It is but very recently that the as it were on my mind from a former recollection of it ; but tide of fortune has seemed to run less smooth for the house of as this is not only improbable, but actually impossible, I must Rothschild. The avidity with which they caught at the doubtless have witnessed it in a d re am, or my imagination has Spanish bonds, their calculating, and ever-grasping ambition pictured it at some time or other, when in one o f he r wi l dest to become the financiers-in-chief of the Queen's Government, have caught the wary brothers at last, not in a petty mouse moods." is trap, but in a prodigious money-trap, baited with seals, which The Portuguese monarch not the only man who , alasl are likely to turn up unreal m ockeries. losses has entertained the singular fancy expressed in the last have been estimated at fi om 1,200,0001, sterling to 2,000,0001. few lines. Sir Walter Scott, too, has alluded to the But it is not easy to fix the sum, for the following reasons. The Rothschilds business at the Bourse is done by different same thing, though we cannot at the moment lay our agents, in such a way, that oach is ignorant of the other's hands upon the passage, and it has frequently hap- employer, consequently the losses and gains cannot be fairly pened that—but it will not do to give wa y to this averaged by the public at large ; except upon some great or , \N T d , particular purpose the on rousFive choose not to al , - ? ear dreamy mood. on the great gambling stage, and publish their transactions • • • A , in The " Notes for the Month" have as usual much P l f rumour might be relied - ropria personii. . upon, a private pique had something to do with this so , and last, or rather hard hitting—harder at times than there is any occa- latest reverse of the late golden re- , srveyors of Kings. A ces sion for—and the blows are dealt out, as it appears to min formerly Proscribed Co',nt, an d new , "'b y the vicissitudes . . of fate," a Minister oc_ a very critical department of the Spanish us, somewhat too much at random. The following is State, was refused by Rothschild . a loan of 25,000/. upon his a knock-down specimen, though we must be permitted sequestrated property in Spain, when the Peninsula was un der the sway of the to question whether it was worth while for so stout Ferdinand Beloved. The Count de T was then a liberal in Paris. Baron Rothschild was and able a man as the editor to try his brawny knuckles then the sterling sheet anchor of the ' blessed Bourbons,' and on the soft head of poor Yates ; it is something like had never been tainted with liberal notions in word or in deed. The quintupal firm. backed by the accredited Don A killing flies with a sledge hammer : had arranged a most magnifique bargain for themselves bien , " FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.—We are happy to find that entendu ; it was on the point of being legally validated, when, the exclusiveness of fashionable life is beginning to be aban - most unlucky contre-temps, the erst banished Count, on a car doned—a more liberal feeling is taking its place ; and talent taro fine morning, stepped into the national Spanish counting and station are now sharing the distinction heretofore monopo- house at Madrid, as chief comptroller of finances. His first, lized by rank. The Court Circular people will have some- best step, was to annul the hopes of the Rothschilds, and, in thing else to do besides recording the movements of mere so doing, there is no occasion to attribute personal malice, as lords and ladies; they must keep a watchful eye upon the the unlegalized contract was most unfair and disadvantageous li errant peculiarities of the aristocracy of talent, and they will to his country. not have such an idle time of it. We found the following " The statistique of the Wondrous .Five is as follows : announcement a short time since in one of the Evening Papers, " Anischa or Anselmo, resides at Frankfort-sur-le-Maine. after the intelligence of the arrival of the Marquis of Hertford He is the senior, and chief of the family, aged sixty-one and suite : years. At his house the general inventory is made out, from " 4 We understand that the talented comedian, Mr. Frede- the private inventories furnished by the o th er f our b an k s . It rick Yates, with his amiable and accomplished lady, are still is there, also, that the congresses of the fraternity are gene enjoying the gaieties of the French capital. They may be rally held. seen every evening, joining the company on the Boulevards,' " Solomon, the second brother, September 9th, 1774, has " This is an amiable condescension indeed, and liberal too ; passed his professional time, the last eighteen years, between for we cannot obtain a sight of them in London of an evening Berlin, and Vienna, chiefly at the latter. for less than a shilling a piece. Doubtless there must have " Nathan, the third brother, is in his fifty-seventh year. He been a great rush of Parisians to see the ' distinguished is the London Rothschild. foreigners.' " " Charles, the fourth of the five bankers, is forty-six years One more brief quotation, and we have done with old. He has been established at Naples since 1821. " Jacob, the youngest in years, was born May sth, 1792. our friend for this month g-- His consort, the Baroness, is the daughter of his second bro " MAGNANIMITY OF WARRIORS.—SOMC years since, the ther, the Baron Solomon. Jacob has carried on his business British Government granted honorary rank in the army to the since Anno Domini 1812, at Paris." Prince of Orange, intended, no doubt, by the pliant indivi- Has private vicque, then, any thing to do with the duals of power in those days as ;abut compliment to the heir-ap- threatened insolvency of Spain ? We ask the ques parent of the throne of Holland ti . his brevet than he, with the thrifty spirit of his illustrious tion in ignorance of the correctness of the fact above father, inquired into the proceeds, and not understanding empty stated, and we leave it to be answ ere d a t leisure by compliments, regularly from that moment touched his " com pensation " with the precision of a gazetted and garretted half- those politicians who take an interest in the subject. pay. Nothing like Royal example ; witness the following : " ' The Courier Beige, of the 17th inst., states that the il lustrious hero, the Duke of Wellington, has made a claim of _ . THE BRITISH FARMERS' MAGAZINE. No. XXXIII. Published Quarterly. Ridgway, Piccadilly. This is a strange medley of all sorts of sayings, on all manner of things. We have strictures on the Reformed Parliament, and essays on the growth of potatoes ; tirades against the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, and discoveries of the causes of the decay of larches in this country. Lectures on Corn Laws, and letters on the crochles in cattle. We, of course, do not ob ject to the variety, but to the incongruousness of such variety. The articles, however, are well written ; and, did the writers confine themselves to agricultural sub jects, this periodical would be a most valuable acqui sition to the useful literature of the country. AN ENCYCLOPJEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY. PART VIII. By HUGH MußnAr, F.R. S.E. Longman and Co. We have had so many occasions of bearing our testimony to the great merits of this work, and have so repeatedly availed ourselves of it, that nothing new remains to be said on the subject. Whether we regard the quantity of letter-press, the excellence and number of the engravings, .or the subject-matter of the, work, we pronounce it the cheapest, as well as first, among the most useful publications of the day. MUSICAL LIBRARY. Part VIII. C. Knight, Ludgate-hill. As the music of this number consists chiefly of se lections from the works of Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Purcell, and other such rare " Masters of song ) " it is superfluous to say more in its favour ths.l that the extracts are well chosen. The work is remarkably cheap, considering that it is 'a handsome quarto, and full of matter. The ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. No. VIII. CONDUCTED Br J. C. LOUDON'. _Longman 8f co. An improving little periodical, of which the present is an excellent number. No architect ought to be without it, and with such as wish to acquire a correct taste in archi tectural works, it must be a great favourite. The articles in the present number are less " professionally" written than those which preceded, which we are inclined to think a great improvement. LADY'S MAGAZINE• AND MUSEUM. J. Page, Fetter-lane. The chief embellishment of this graceful periodical is a full-length portrait of Diana of Poictiers, which is tawdrily coloured, and as stiff and unbending as if the fair original had swallowed a poker. The Memoir prefixed, however, is pleasingly written. " Address to a Lady who ivcpt on giving her little girl her first Cor rection"—what a theme for a poem !—" by Mrs. Cockle"—what a name for a poetess !—is worthy of its subject. " The Cartel" is a spirited tale, exhibit ing not a little dramatic skill ; and " Matrimony" somewhat dull and prosy. How unlike the State of which it treats I SPORTING MAGAZINE. M. A. Pittman, Warwick-square. We cannot vouch for the likeness of Mr. John Clark, of Newmarket, which forms the frontispiece to this number, but as an engraving it deserves praise, though the lines of the countenance, especially the fur rows under the eyes, are somewhat too harshly and strongly marked. " Eel-fishing near Maintenon," is skilfully and picturesqUely treated; the eel with a hook in his gullet wriggles at the end of the angler's line in the fore-ground, with a vivacity and consciousness of the peculiar delicacy of his position, that would have gladdened the humane heart of Isaac Walton. The li terary contents of the number are cleverish, though too restricted in their nature. The best article is the " Lion Hunting at the Cape." THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY. No. XCIV. Edited by 1. J. Fox. This number is less political than any we have seen of this very useful and, occasionally, very able maga zine. Still the improvement is by no means equal to our expectations when we recommended such a course to its talented and eloquent editor. " Experiments in education, by a Lady," might as well have been kept in her note-book. She would lose nothing by being sent to school a second time herself, The world may be very ignorant, and raothers may be the worst possible teachez, of their _offspring, but both rewire other in structors, " Notes on Plato's Dialogues' is an instruc tive, interestiN articio l though we §hould think rather -~;~ .. , „ , fir , . ~~ ..... The other long for the pages of this periodical. papers are in general good, and there is a greater va riety than we are wont to meet IN ith. The lines " The: ' Lives of Flowers," are written in the very spirit of the editor, though we know not who may be the author of them. THE ANALYST. No. 111. Simpkin and Marshall. This periodical begins to promise well ; and we have no doubt will yet find its way into better society than it has yet had the good fortune to meet with. The Editor is evidently a person of taste, but he lacks boldness, humour, and originality, in his Wes. When we say his tales are not .oriinal; we smak of them as developing no new views of Shuman nature — no unmarked traits of individual character. But this may be remedied and we trust will. The critical no tices are very numerous, and very respectably written. THE HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL AND FLORIST'S MAGAZINE. No; 7C171. Chapman and Hall. This is the first Number of this " Journal" with which we have been favoured, ccrusequently we cannot express any decided opinion of its general merits. We have here, however, a Most pleasing embellishment in a single rose, caked the Village Maid, with all the lovely red. white, and green, of the sweet original. The tower is, in itself, nearly worth the shilling at which the Number may be purchased. We shall, in future, look to it more carefully, if regularly -forwarded to us, and of course do every justice of which we are capable. THE ANNUALS. From the unusual pressure of literary and other matters, we are unable to do more than acknowledge the receipt of the Picturesque, the Landscape, and the Oriental, Annuals. So far as we can judge from a hasty glance over the contents of these splendid vo lumes—for they are all as richly emblazoned as Gar ter King-at-Arms, on a coronation day—they are full of interesting matters. The embellishments, in parti cular, are of a very superior order of excellence. MANSION-HOUSE-(THIS DAY.) DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING.— Thomas Mitchell, a cab driver of diminutive form, was placed at the bar before Alder man WINCHESTER, Mayor elect, in the custody of John Fisher, 68, city policeman, charged with having attempted the life of Charles Bradfield. Mary Steadman, servant at the Bull, Dunning-alley, Bishops gate Without, deposed that about half-past nine this morning, Bradfield was in the tap taking his breakfast, when the pri soner came in and ordered his breakfast. They knew each other, and sat in separate boxes. After the prisoner had been there a few minutes, he accused Bradfield with being the cause of him (the prisoner) losing his situation. From one word and another they began to fight, and witness left the tap.. room. Sbe returned in two minutes, when she found Brad field on the floor, and a flow of blood coming from his chest on the left side. He was assisted to Mr. Porter's, a surgeon in Bishopsgate-street. A letter was read from Mr. Porter, which stated that Brad field was stabbed in two places on the left side of the chest, besides having a cut on his right thumb. He was ordered to bed by him, and he now lies at the Bull in a very precarious state. Mr. James Saunders, horse-dealer, Sweeting's-court, said that Bradfield was in his employ, that he had just left him at the Bull, where he then appeared as if he were dead. One of the wounds on the chest is nearly large enough to admit a child's fist. The knife was produced, which was a good-sized clasp knife, and which must have received some violence to have forced its way in. Charles Bannister, a hackney coachman, heard the causo of the quarrel. Bradfield struck the prisoner first. He tried to persuade them not to fight, as Bradfield was the bigger man. After two or three scuffles, the prisoner took up the knife and made a straight-forward blow at the prosecutor. Blood in stantly flowed from the wound, and Bradfield exclaimed " I am stabbed." The prisoner, in his defence, said that Bradfield had got him turned out of a situation, and that he did not strike him inten tionally. The blow was quite accidental. The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. SWAN RIVER.--A curious discovery has been made at Swan River, of a number of wild cattle, supposed to be some of those which went astray from Colonel Latour's herd about three years ago, and which had wandered to a beautiful tract of rich pasturage on the banks of the Murray, and had in.. creased considerably. The country is said to be very fertile and of considerable extent. A new channel into Cockburn Sound had been dis covered. The potatoe crop at Swan River has been very abundant ; they were selling at 2d per lb. by the bag. A commissariat store is building at Pertb, at a contract price of 2,930/. The natives at Swan River were still in a very disturbed state. (From the PJ!.:per of May 16.) By the recent arrivals the long gap of English intelligence is at last filled up to the first week in February. The above paper is filled wi!:n London news. Hobart Town Papers to May 17, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. (From the above Papers.) His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, in his visit to Port Arthur last week, landed at Norfolk Bay on Wednesday, and walked to the settlement, about a mile beyond, and in the afternoon visited the stores and buildings, and also inspected the prisoners ; after which he visited the coal mine. Flour has risen to the enormous price of 30s. per cwt. ; also butchers' meat. St. John's (New Brunswick) papers, to the 24th August, have been received at the North and South American Coffee house. (From the Paper of the 23d August.) It is our painful duty to announce the death of the I-lon. John Murray Bliss, Senior Judge of his Majesty's Supreme Court for this province. THE FUNDS. The express from Paris does not bring any news of import ance from the theatre of war in Spain. It chiefly relates to the finance operations in the Cortes respecting the debts of Spain, of which another telegraphic despatch has been re ceived, stating that the 3d Article, which divides the debt into active and passive, was rejected by a majority in the Cortes of 58 to 44, and was sent back to the Committee. It is expected the whole will be made into an active debt. By the Lisbon mail we have now the (Alicia' account of the death of Don Pedro on the 24th ult., no as the Times stated, on the 22d ult. All was tranquil at Lisbon. The new Mi nistry are the same as we stated in our City article the day be fore yesterday. Consols opened at soi for the Account. Spanish 55, and Portuguese 81ii. HALF-PAST-ONE. We have just received the Hamburg Reporter of the 80th of September. BORSEN;-lIALLE.—The Funds continue to improve ; a good deal lias been done in Spanish Securities to-day, at the close there was much animation in that description of paper. The Six per Cents. Portuguese has been as high as 92. ; to-day they were 92 9U. VIENNA, SEPT. 23.—Metalliques, 99 11-32 ; Bank Shares, 1257 In the early part of the day it was reported that an express had arrived from Madrid, but on inquiry we could not trace it to any authentic source ; still the Spanish and Portuguese Stocks have improved, the former to 55k, the latter to 82y. This being a strict holiday with the Hebrews, their New Year, few have made their appearance on 'Change. Consols are at present 90+ a for the Account. THRER 0' CLOCA. Consols for the Account, 904 i. LEITH RAI LW A y.—This branch railway, which is calculated to open up new facilities of commerce, and im prove the trade of the port generally, is now in a state of great forwardness. The levels arc all taken, and the rails laid as far as the Seafield Baths. It may shortly be expected to be opened to the public. IMPORTANT DECISION.—The Appeal Sheriffs here, after full argument and deliberation, have decided that the nonpayment of assessed taxes forms no valid objection to a registered vote being continued on the roll. This judgment, we understand, had been anticipated by the legal profession. The question was raised in the Leith district; for in the City, parties were so satisfied upon the point, that no such ob j ectio n was taken in any ease.—Edinburgh Courant. GRECIAN NET TRADE.—Fearful of a further reduction on this valuable fancy net article, which is conside re d unnecessary by the owners of pusher machines, they have come to the unanimous determination of lessening the supply by limiting the working hours. The last month they ha ve b een working only daylight, which has had its effect. The next month they will work twelve hours per day.—Nuttinghans Review. The proposed Railroad from London to Yarraouth, b y wa y of Cambridge , Thetford, and Norwich, appears already to have excited considerable attention. The me sting held at Thetford on Friday last, was attended by se': eral gentlemen residing in the neighbourhood ; among the rest Wyrley Birch, E sq ., of Wretham Hall, expressed b:' 3 entire approbation of the measure, stating hi s w i s h t h, :t the Railroad might pass through his estate, an d that f'7, r all the land required he wou l d take the yaltie ilt $ ll4l l 5 -:*---Norwich Mercury.