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B %,„, T'S PAT ENT Big,ND T.—The unparal :Aed and still increasing sale of this favourite beverage, has been attended by its natural constsqueuce—the excitement of envy in every branch of the Spirit trade. Hence, each suc ceeding year brings to notice competitors, whose announce ments, under fallacious pretences and high sounding titles, urge upon the public notice articles, whose only distinguishing fert ti.ra k their vast inferiority to the Patent Brandy. 1. ;s to guard purchasers against the consequences of such and-for that reason only, that J. T. Betts and Co. are ag,in induced to state, that the Patent Brandy is manufactured only at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-latirs, leading to St. John-street ; where it mar be obtained, pale orEi~ir coloured, at ; , , , n Shillings per Gallon, of the highest legal strength. E NEXT DISTRIBUTION of MONEY -11 L DIVIDENDS, AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by Ills MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, contains Alt )N EY DIVIDENDS of £5O, £6O, £7O, £BO, £9O, £lOO, Hu. £l2O, £l5O, £2OO. £4OO, £6OO, £BOO, £l,OOO, .600, £5,000, and £25,000 Sterling. Amounting together to ,:-.:72.17E) sterling. I)in—t for PROSPECTUS with full particulars, WITH OUT DELAY, to - HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH, Or, to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK. - Tri':LNE BROTHERS having remitted during a _IL very short time very large amounts of Money Divi dends to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland; Dividends of 25,000/. ' 18,0001., 9,0001., 5,00 01 ., and 3,6001. to London ; 3,600/., 800/., and 7001. to Edinburgh ; 3,600/. to Dublin; 3,600/. to Beverley ; 3,6001. to Halifax ; 1,200/. to Por!lileaven Harbour ; 900/. ' 7001., and 6001. to Liver pool ; 90 9 /. to Hull ; 9001. to Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 900 /. and kioo/. anchester ; 7001 . to East Retford , Nottingham shire.; 7(X//. f'Colne, Lancashire; 6001. to Cork; and 600/. ioii adford, &c.. &c., they beg to call the attention of those desi:pus to obtain large Money_ Dividends to the approaching EIGHTEENTH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, gua ranteed by the Government. This Distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than ‘25,0001. upon One Share. 2,400 of the Shares obtain Money Dividends of 11. and upwards. One Share, IL ; two Shares, 2/. ; three Shares, 3L ; four Share, 41. ; five Shares, 5/. ' • six Shares, 61.; s even Shares, 71. ; eight Shares, 8/. ; nine Sh ar es, 91. ; ten Shares, 101. Direcefor Shares, without delay, to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubecir. The full Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had gratis, up - u addiessing a line to Heine Brothers. TifEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, DEC. 13, Will be repeated the English Version of Rossini's Grand Opera of ,SEMIRAMIDE.—The Character of Semiramide by Miss Adelaide Kemble; Arsace, Mrs. Alfred Shaw (from the principal Theatres in Italy) ; Assur, Mr. Giubilei ; Oroe, Mr. Leffler ; Idreno, Mr. Travers ; Shade of Ninus, Mr. J. Bland. After which THE TURF. Captain Flatooker, Mr. Walter Lacy; Clovis Culpepper, Mr. Bartley; Gallop, Mr. Meadows ; Aaron Trot, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Culpepper, Mr , . Humby ; Miss Warren, Miss Lee. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances corn-' coerce at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 3d. ; First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s; Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit low, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had. Private Boxes to be had at the Box-office ; of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Bond-street; Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street ; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. THIS EVENING, DEC. 13, Will be repeated the Comedietta of A CURE FOR LOVE. Felix Trimmer, Esq., Mr. W. Farren ; Richard Sadgrove, Esq., Mr..Buckstone. Mrs. Felix Trimmer, Mrs. Malone Raymond; Mrs. Major Browne, Mrs. W. Clifford; Miss Bitterton, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which, THE DOWAGER. Lord Alfred Lyndsay, Mr. Charles Mathews; Dowager Countess of Tresilian, Madame Vestris. To be followed by the Burletta of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Captain A mersfort, Mr. Howe; Peter Spyk, Mr. Charls Mathews ; Swyzel, r. Tilbury. Gertrude, Madame Vestri e s, with the Song of M " I'd Marry him To-morrow." Ernestine, Miss C. Connor. To which will be added THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster ; Margot, Madame Celeste. To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, called A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Buckstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Mary, Miss Mattley ; The Unknown Female, Miss Connor ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, DEC. 13, Will be produced a new Burletta, entitled THE MER CHANT AND HIS CLERKS. The principal characters by Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford. Wright, Maynard, Wieland, Miss Chaplin, Miss Brooks, and Mrs. P. Grattan. After which a New Drama, in Two Acts, called YOU KNOW WHAT. The principal Characters by r. 0. Smith, Mr. Wright, Mr. Maynard, Miss Faucit, and Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche Giubilei. To conclude with a Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-past six. commence at seven o'clock. MAP OF CHINA. THE NEW CHINA SUN IS NOW ON SALE, CONTAINING VERYTHING INTERESTING WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE ;VE FREE TRADE PORTS OF C_tlTON, AMOY, FOO-CHOW-FOO l'Nl 1 N GPO, AND SHANGHAE ; WITH ALL THE LATEST NEWS O:•flers received at the SUN-OFFICE, 112, Strand, and of all News-Agents. o• ATER AT LONDON BRIDGF. THIS DAY. ...... 5 minutes after 9 I Evening 26 minutes after 10. LONDON : fFESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 13, 1842. (le Quarterly Review, just published, con . a long article abusing the Anti-Corn-law _•::27 - ae. That a sixth of the space of this journal, a three months' gestation, should be de v,;:,_(l to that body, is such a profound homage to itF i:nportance, that it might cheerfully have aLepted it, though accompanied by many more vi .:;orous prOtests than the Quarterly can corn- The grand Review, the great ambas ,or of the landlords, has made the Kou-tou o:; their behalf, not to the Celestial Emperor, ;-7)rother of the Sun and Moon, but to a knot I::.nchester manufacturers; and it tries to hide ::;IJ;c:ousness of what it regards as a degrad ii,:sabmission, and hopes to recover its dignity by turning up its nose at the object which has c:::tnned and fixed its gaze. inatift. Tlle Quarterly Reriew, vomiting forth Mus t r a,k) d vituperation, now after the League has principles triumph in Parliament, mid when it sees them triumph -in the country, is like, an arrogant, blubbering school-boy, who, Laringinsulted and challenged another, and been ,sonodly thrashed, bawls out most lustily that his (yponent has hit too hard. That is the sum of tlp. Quarterly's complaint. The League has monopolists in the bread bag, and so they roar out, by the panting Quarterly, that it does not light fair. Like a blubbering, passionate, foolish boy, the IQ Itaxterly tells fibs in its anger, as fast nearly as it can utter words. It says, for example, that the Lague had two seconders, the old Republicans and the Chartists, and that the latter, to aid their Tr rircipal, struck a heavy and foul blow—the turn.o'lt in the autumn, which though not till now acknowledged, seems to have been a floorer tbr the mol3oPolists. But to drop metaphor, and speak plainly / we will quote the Quarterly : But this motive (the hope of getting into Parlia ment) powerful as it probably is with a few leading members of the Leagt:e, can be of very limited opera- V; n ; the more gener il incentives are the hope on the part of th e maste r - marm f ac i L irers ofloweraig wages,and the zeal o f t h e old Republican , iarty and the Chartists, wla have co a l esce d with the L e a - rue to pull down the aristocracy * * * As th e insurrecifOrl in Wales was a , ractica commentary on the appointii'etit„_ of i -Fr a o n st i i so was the capture of Vancheste , Stogy - V °r " .Tiolton, by an wzresisted - molr a ' striking ie propriety of Lord John Russell's unilateral ' ' - cation -i; of the nom of Anti- Corn-law Magistrates in these three toss. 116 * The two reckless accusations, that the memb. c !rs of the League strove after political influence,'i an,. hoped to beat down w ages, referrin g t o t h e i r un - i seen motives, we will pass by with one remark on each, leaving the reader to admire the charity - , of the Reviewer. If the members of the League .: had sought political influence, they would have • allied themselves to the Whigs; whereas from; the first they totally repudiated such an alliance, • opposed the Whig nostrums, and on. two or, three occasions put forward, in spite of the re monstrances and solicitations of the Whigs—as at Walsall, on the resignation of Mr. FINCH — candidates of their own. If the League had pro posed to lower wages, they took the most suicidal way to murder their own design that ever men adopted ; for nothing is more certain than that an increased supply of food increases the compe tition amongst capitalists as again i st the work men, and raises wages. We cannot pretend to vindicate the motives of any men but by their conduct, and the conduct of the League flatly contradicts the charges of the Reviewer. We will venture to contradict, most positively, the assertion of the Reviewer, that the old Re publican party and the Chartists have coalesced with the League to pull down the aristocracy. It is known personally to us, and is, we be lieve, known to the public generally, that indi viduals and public journals not connected with the League did, at the commencement of the Anti-Corn-law struggle in 1838, and frequently since, recommend and labour to promote a union between these bodies, which has never to this day been effected. The Chartists and the Re publicans were expressly told that they could not more certainly accomplish their own ends than to unite with the League; that if they put an end to the Corn-laws they would go a long way to convert the landowners to their opinions; that they would be certain to sow a death quar rel between the owners of rent and the owners of tithes; and that they would be sure to have the aid of the disappointed and discontented landowners in opposing the power of the capi talists generally, and particularly of the monied capitalists, the objects at all times of the aver sion of the landed interest. To all these, and a great number of similar arguments, the Chartists and the Republicans turned a deaf ear. They spurned the idea of obtaining freedom by means of filling the bellies of the people. Their leaders expressly said that all their hopes would be at an end the instant the people be came fat and contented ; they wanted hungry instruments, not well-fed slaves; and they not only refused to join the League, or even go for a repeal of the Corn-laws, but they from that time did all in their power at Birmingham, Manchester, London, &c., to interrupt the public meetings and proceedings of the League, and of all the friends to Corn-law repeal. So great was their hostility, that at neither of the great cities mentioned were the League able to hold a public meeting till within a very short time, and the hostility of the Chartists to the League was for the Tory jour nals a continua subject of rejoicing. The first symptoms we have noticed, not of the alliance of the Republicans and the Chartists with the League, but of the relaxation of their hostility, is the cessation of the interruption of Anti-Corn- law meetings, and a formal resolution, only an nounced to be proposed, but not yet moved, at the Chartist Hall of the Old Bailey, that the Chartists do no longer oppose the Anti-Corn-law agitation. All these are perfectly well known facts, and the only excuse for the three-monthly journalist, who fully asserts that the zeal of the Chartists and Republicans gave power to the League, which we can find, we have already made. The blubbering, passionate, beaten booby, knows not what he says, and his anger throws fibs to his pen as fast as words. The Reviewer also refers the capture of Man- chester, Stockport, and Bolton to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S unilateral nomination of Anti-Corn , law Magistrates. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was no a friend - to Corn-law agitation; the pursuit of a total repeal was as little pleasing s to him and the Whigs as to the Tories. It might have been that the majority of the Magistrates of those towns favoured the repeal of the Corn-laws be cause they were manufacturers, but it is false in fact to assert that Lord JOHN RUSSELL made a unilateral nomination of Anti-Corn-law Magis- trates, and a false inference that the appointment of such Magistrates.led to the capture of Man chester. Mr. MAUDE, the Stipendiary Magis trate, was the person in command of the civil power in Manchester at the time ; he is not a member of the League; he is not a manufac turer, and, we believe, was not appointed by the Whigs. Coupling the false assertion of the first paragraph with the false assertion of the second, and with the false inference, it is plain that the anger of the beaten booby is founded in malice, and he seeks to wound a Whig statesman by accusing him of being the author of evils which spring from the starvation-laws. Our opinion and judgment are worth something on this point, for the Whigs and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who we think have lately sadly and shamefully neglected their duties to the people, are no favourites of ours, and our testimony is borne, not from love of them, but from a love of truth and justice. Another similarity between the Quarterly and a beaten boy is to be found in its calls for the strong arm of the law. When the youngster has got his " belly full" he will threaten to com plain to the master; so the Quarterly, as the organ of the monopolists, defeated in argument, seeing their system overturned by facts, and knowing that they must give in, is extremely desirous to get his conqueror punished for thrashing him. " It is not our province," it says, " to pronounce whether this levying money for the avowed purpose of forcing the Legislature to alter the law of the land be not, per se, criminally punishable; but we will take upon ourselves to say that, considered in connection with all the previous proceedings of those associations, it is illegal and in the highest degree unconstitu tional." That is the last resource of the mono polist champion; be runs from the field to im plore the help of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. To one other point, extensive as are already our remarks on this much elaborated article of abuse, we must callattention. The Reviewer is greatly indignant at the League for making the repeal of the Corn-laws a religious question. Our readers will h ave o b served (he LBscear re - ra Y ig s pau n t ei t d r h Nev a e t ; this fiann dd throughout all the pro cee di ngs o f t h e last extract is pref ace d b y a text from frequent similar instances of the pr o f ane hypo critical abuse of sacred texts and topics. We luetant to allude to such matters, but the history a the League woul d be incom p lete if we did not notice, as a prominent fea ture in their proceedings, the religious laboured to is questi on ," an d attempt to make the rep eal of the Corn- laws—to use a tl n i n e o ir rdi o n w gl n y tlahieigua Leaguege—" havea re i l l antly make religious feelings subservient to their politic a l agitation against the Corn-law. - The law itself has been declared to be "ii practical blasphemy," sus tained by" satanic agency ;' and its supporters have been denounced, in fierce and unmeasured language, as " impious and irreligious" men; "men to be ab horred and cursed." Scriptural quotations and allu sions, in prose and verse, with this object and ten dency, abound in their publications. Why is the Reviewer angry with the League for quoting Scripture, when the whose of his party think it cannot be too frequently quoted if the text .serves to enjoin respect, honour, and obedience, even towards those who inflict a painful and lingering death on the people ? The party of the Reviewer takes into pay, and pays most enormously, a great body of priests, for the very purpose of connecting politics with religion —the legislation of man with the laws of God. But when other men imitate that example, and seek to overturn an iniquitous enactment by the same agency that the Tories use to support it, then the use of those meansbecomes hypocritical and profane. If it be profane to quote a text of Scripture against the Corn-laws, the union of the Church and State to support laws is the greatest profanity that Christian men ever consecrated. The Reviewer is not serious, and earnest in this objection ; he only wishes, by an appeal to a somewhat antiquated prejudice, to throw from a distance a little dirt on the boy who has de feated him. On similar grounds the R • eviewer should have been silent about " sata • nic agency." The body o f priests whom the State pays continually, teach us all that the " Devil" is • here amongst us, go ing "about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour." They represent all men as con tinually "tempted of the Devil." They do not, and cannot dare to exempt, flatteringly, from this general law of all mankind the lawgivers who maintain them in possession of their emo luments—who are, in truth just as much exposed to temppttion, and to become the prey of the Devil, as meaner men. It is only charitable in us and the League to attribute the law, which crushes the energies and the lives of the people, to the agency of his Satanic Majesty, and not to states men. It is clear that the Corn-laws are not Gon ALMIGHTY'S laws, for they starve his creatures. It is equally clear that they are not the laws of Nature, for they must be main tained by force, and would cease to , morrow, so opposed are they to the laws of Nature, were they not upheld by punishments and penalties. Being neither the laws ot GOD nor the laws of Nature, by what agency can they have been enacted but that which the Reviewer says ought not to be mentioned? Through all time and through all nations there has been a struggle between good and evil, and all men at every period have ascribe I the evil to a wicked spirit. Without saying that the League, and th?se who go with the League, are all good—for evil and good are mixed in every individual—we may say, so great, so enormous are the evils of the Corn-laws, that they can only be referred to the wicked spirit that has ever been troubling mankind. The Quarterly Review and party have never hesitated to seek his alliance and aid when it suited their pur poses; in fact, they live by assuring the people that they are always exposed to his ma chinations; but, directly the same doctrine is applied to themselves and their acts, they lift up their hands with the air of injured saints, and cry out in the manner we have seen against the wicked League. We should be slow to make such remarks, but when we find the Quarterly Re viewer deliberately uttering such falsehoods as we have exposed, and using such hypocritical arguments as we have just pointed out, no lan guage we can use can inflict on him and his party an adequate castigatiOn. "'" ce f • 4 . 4 1 ,4 Vic;'',olWir rOit ,§un. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1842.- COURT CIRCULAR. IVINDSOR, MONDAY.— MS Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback this morning, attended by Sir Edward Bowater. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken an airing to-day, ac companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. In the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustrious Consort rode out in a pony phaeton, the Prince driv ing, attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey and Sir E. Bowater. Sir Robert Peel and the Venerable Archdeacon Wilberforce took their departure from the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Fanny Howard, took a carriage airing this morning. The Royal dinner party at the Castle is expected to include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lady Fanny Howard, the Lord in Waiting, the two Maids of Honour, the Groom and the Equerry in Waiting on the Queen, and the Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge spent the day yesterday shooting in Coombe Wood. His Royal Highness afterwards went to town. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday morning from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Earl of lladdington and Sir James Graham paid visits to the Right Hon. Baronet in the afternoon, at his official residence in Downing-street. Messrs. William Watson, James Philips, and Charles Whitehead, as a Deputation from the Mexican and South American Association of Liver pool, accompanied by Messrs. J. D. Powles and Robert M'Calmont, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office, with respect to the claims of British merchants against the Mexican Government. The Postmaster-General and Colonel Maberly had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday evening for his seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. Mr. Dean, Chairman to the Customs, had an inter view, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The French Ambassador and the Russian Minister, transacted business, yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judges of the Admiralty Court. Mr. Jackson, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Charles Buller, and Mr. Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel, were heard on an appeal from Bombay, " Jewagee and others v. Trembukjee," part heard at a former fitdog. Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, was heard in reply. Lord Campbell, on the part of their Lordships, then gave judgment, remitting the same to the Sudder Court, with instructions for the division of the property. NEW ZEALAND. The advices from Kororareka of the 26th of May give particulars of a public meeting, held at the Ex change Hotel, Auckland, about the beginning of that month, James Coates, Esq., high sheriff; in the chair, for the purpose of adopting a petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying for representative institutions, which they assert that " this rapidly rising colony is justly entitled to." The petitions to the Queen and to the Imperial Parliament were read and unanimously adopted, set ting forth— " That many of the British colonies are in the en joyment of Legislative Assemblies, without possessing the population, wealth, revenue, or commercial im portance of New Zealand, which, although it has vir tually been a British colony for three years only, has still been inhabited and partly occupied by a large body of British subjects for upwards of thirty years. " That the expenditure of the government of this colony has, during the last two years, amounted to upwards of 130,0001., and is likely to increase consi derably. " That the petitioners cannot, however, exercise the slightest control over the appropriation of the revenue of the colony, which is entirely under the control of his Excellency the Governor, three executive mem bers of Council, and two non-official members, chosen by the Governor and irresponsible to the people. " The petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that Par liament will be pleased to adopt such measures as may seem proper for extending to the colony of New Zea land that form of representative legislation to which it is constitutionally entitled, and which it is now fully qualified to exercise," EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE. An attempt to commit murder, under rather singu lar circumstances, occurred at the Auction Mart Tavern, this morning, that is, about half an hour after midnight. A young man, about twenty-one years of age, who had been in ie capacity of potboy for some considerable time, and who had been most re spectably recommended, had, it appears, conceived a passion for Elizabeth Magnus, who had been about four years employed at the tavern as barmaid. She being nearly forty years old, gave the youth no en couragement, but still he persevered in his unwelcome attentions. Last evening Mr Baker, the proprietor of the tavern, with some e friends , b . had gone to the Haymarket Theatre, to th at t e h n o efit of Mr. Archer, and only Mrs. Baker was left ; Elizabeth Magnus see m a t n h o e s house went h c i l s o se t shut up at the usual hour in below to lock the cellar door, and the potboy snhaeme remarkedu'e cou somethingl d not ascertain ) strange y(ihvhose expressionher— she of countenance, and asked him why he stared her? He immediately discharged a pistol at s her, at She called out "Murder," and the alarm brought Mrs. Baker down, and the police constable was soon on the spot. The woman was bleeding, and her clothes were on fire. When Mrs. Baker first seized the pot boy by the arm, she discovered that his throat was cut. The policeman took the knife out of his hand, and found a razor in his pocket, and'a number of per cussion caps. The pistol was one of the cheap Bir mingham manufacture. The youth was sent to St. Thomas's Hospital, where it was found the incision in his throat was not very deep, nor considered dangerous. The unfortunate female was taken to her bed-room, and when she was undressed, the bullet fell from her clothes. It would appear, from the fact of her clothes having caught fire, that the young man had been very close behind her. The bullet passed entirely through her body on her right side, perfbrating her stays, and had been caught in her woollen underclothes. She was able to detail all the circumstances, and was placed under the best medical advice that could be procured, so that the most sanguine hopes are enter tained of the safety of her life, although, perhaps, it may be attended with a tedious recovery. Major Malcolm, of the 3d (the King's Own) Light Dragoons, who brought the important dis patches from our plenipotentiaries in China, after transacting business at the Foreign Office, left the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, on a visit- to his mother, Lady Malcolm, at Warfield Park, Berks ; and yesterday the Gallant Officer returned to town, ac companied by her Ladyship, and again had an inter view with Lord Aberdeen. It is understood that the Major, who is son of the late Sir J. Malcolm, formerly Governor of Bombay, will not remain in town more than a fortnight, when he will return to China with dispatches from the Foreign-office, LITERATURE. HISTORY of the MANNERS and CUSTOMS of ANCIEIV 7' GREECE. 3 Vols. Bentley, London. 1843. In a beautiful and affecting dedication to his son, which it is impossible to peruse without emotion, Mr. St. John, to whom we are indebted for these volumes, gives us to understand that the subject of them has more or less occupied his attention for upwards of eighteen years; and, notwithstanding the vast labour expended on it, and the various and extensive research it has re quired, that it has been throughout a delightful occupation, which he takes leave of with un feignettregret, as being associated with some of the happiest hours of his life. We can readily believe that the work has been a labour of love ; indeed, the proofs of this are visible in every page; and we know not which most to admire, the profound learning of the author, and the wide range of his inquiries, or the fine classical enthusiasm that imparts interest to his abstrusest speculations. Perhaps there is no other scholar of the day, with the sole excep tion of Bishop Thirlwall, so every way qualified to do justice to a work like the present, as Mr. St. John. In addition to his familiar acquaint ance with the most glorious language in the world, and his uncommon powers of patient and continuous application, he has been a thoughtful and observant traveller through every part of Greece ; he has mused on the plain of Marathon; he has read the " Iliad" on the site of ancient Troy, and the " Odyssey," while wandering, like its hero—" qui mores hominum nnultorum vidit, et urbes "—among the islands of the Archipe lago; he has been a resident in the famed vale of Tempe; has diligently explored the spot where the oracular grove of • Dodona once stood watched many a summer and autumn sun set behind Parnassus; and, passing into Egypt, with Hero dotus in his hand, has journeyed along the valley of the Nile, investigated the g i gant i c ru i ns o f Thebes and Memphis, and stood on the shores of that singular sheet of water which the old Greek historian has described with such minute ness. With his literary stores thus enriched, enlarged, and pointed—if we may use such a term—by personal acquaintance with the scenes most celebrated in Greek tradition, history, and mythological fable, Mr. St. John has, at a mature age, when the intellectual faculties are all in full vigour, embodied the results of his extensive reading and experience in the vo lumes before us, which—though they may not circulate with the rapidity of the " last new no vel "—will most assuredly win the author a foremost rank amongst the scholars of the age. Mr. St. John commences his work by some general reflections on the subject of the ancient Greek character as modified by the institutions of the country, in the course of which, alluding cursorily to Athens, he describes her as " the wisest and noblest of Grecian States," and adds, " she was the great preceptress of mankind. The spirit of her laws, transmitted through those of Rome, still pervades the whole civilized world. Her wisdom and her arts form, in all polished communities, a principal object of study, and to comprehend and enjoy them, is to be a gentle man." This is justly and forcibly urged. The study of Greek literature and Greek art is in deed one of the chief intellectual requisites of the gentleman, for it is a pursuit which—more than any other with which we are acquainted— refines the taste, strengthens the judgment, en riches the fancy, purifies the feelings, and im parts an elevated tone to thought. The most perfect specimens of almost every species of excellence are to be found among the orators, dramatists, poets, philosophers, so phists, and historians of ancient Greece ; as regards their sculpture and architecture, we are content to follow in their footsteps at an hum ble d.stance, frankly acknowledging our own vast inferiority, and admitting them to be the greatest masters of the arts of design. that the world has ever seen. This, howev er, is viewing the question in an unworldly light. Regarding it in a more business-like spirit—with an eye to pounds, shillings, and pence—we should say that the study of the arts and literature of Greece is one that should never be taken up, except by him who is perfectly independent in circumstan ces ; for it is, in a great degree, a thankless and profitless pursuit—a mental luxury, not a necessity—and, by the refinement of thought and feeling that it tends to beget, Inca pacitatesa man for the rough wear and tear of life, and disables him from coping, except at a manifest disadvan tage,busin business with amongtho se whomhar his lot may chance t o be dry, matter-of-fact men of cast, and who have no other notion of intellect roct—l bad-o l and ilo whosley es timate a tailor values than . that it is something. by which to m a k e money, a ccording . to its market-price. In the earlier chapters Of his work, Mr. St. John discusses at con s:derabie length the " Cha racter of the Greeks' —their " Theory of Edu cation"—their Nursery Tales"—th e i r " T oys , Sports, and Pastimes ~ —their" Elementary In struction"—and the Exercises of their Youth." He then proceeds to speak of th e i r " S c h oo l s o f Philosophers and infinite acuteness and cogency of reasoning. .. The mode of teaching among the Greeks,' he truly observes, " differed very materially front Ours. It s.!arcely seemed an object with them to devour la rge quan titi es o f learning, but going leisurely again and again over the same ground, they appeared to give the les sons they received time to sink like gentle rain into their minds." How different, and how far inferior is the system of tuiti on a t p resen t i n vogue among us ! It is now the fashion to give our youth a little of everything, and enough of nothing. They bolt all languages and all sciences, and digest none! They are taught a little botany — a little m athematics—a little political economy —a little classics-- . -- a little history—a little music —and a little philosophy. They go—this is the case in more than one school we could mention— from the classical master direct to the singing master, and from him to the ma thematical mas ter, and the drawing.-master; and all this within the space of a few hours! With heads full of crotchets and quavers, they are set to solve a problem in Euclid, or study the laws of Perspec tive ; and theSe lessons got through—God knows how !—their attention is next directed to the best mode of turning out their toes, and attitudiniz ing in the waltz or the gall o p a d e ! The conse quence of all this is that their brain is a perfect chaos; they become disqualified for habits of sound, continuous study ; arid, having got their fill of " cheap knowledge," are sent forth into the world Universal Geniuses—that is, pert, presumptuous stnatterers, fit only to contribute to " Penny Gazettes". and " Cyclopredias." We have no notion of a short cut to knowledge, and have an utter contempt fur the Hamiltonian system, and the other educational systems of the day. If a language or a science be worth know ing, it is worth knowing well A little learning is a dangerous thing— Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." ln his chapter on Hellemic Literature," which is written throughout with uncommon care and spirit, Mr. St. John evinces a critical perspicacity which shows how thoroughly lie appreciates the peculiarities of the great writers of whom he treats. Of Greek literature generally, he says, " there is no excellence of thought or language of wh ich, even in its present fragmentary state, it does not offer us some example. There is. a predominance, doubtless, of stern grandeur and colossal elevation of thought; but, besides these, we discover t . requently modifications of light and a iry beauty, infautine purity of sentiment, ease, grace, felicitous language, and a dreamy luxury of speculation not to be outdone by the most subtle and fanciful literature existing. If the re be a deficiency of anything, it is of spirituality." Speaking of the Greek writers as a body, we should be inclined to agree with Mr. St. John that their genius is wanting in "spi rituality," by which, we presume, he means that their thoughts, images, descriptions, &c., are mostly of a material character, like the love songs of Sappho,* or the palpable, flesh-and blood portraits of' Homer, w h e re nothing is vague ideal,or or left to be shaped by the reader's imagination. There is however, a magnificent exception to this rule in the " a , ;'dipus Colo- Deus" of Sophoeles, where, amid the solemn depths of the consecrated grove, the awful voice of Destiny is heard summoning the old man to his doom, from the presence of his bewildered daughters. The imagination evinced in this sub lime passage is of the most spiritual character possible, and the horrors of the scene just darkly hinted at, instead of being shown in detail, are left unassisted to work their legitimate effect on the reader's fancy. We are glad to perceive that our author strenuously insists on the unity of Homer, in opposition to the ingenious but false ** We have always thought the famous frag ment of Sappho, datvE•rat L u.ot xr,voc tcroc OEOO'l%. grea tly overrated as a l ove - so ng. It has no deli cacy—no depth of sen ti m ent—noth;ng of ideal beauty about it ; but is thr oug h o ut grossly material in the genius ; in fact, character of its little more than a minute catalogue of s y m p t oms, su ch as a patient might d ra w up for the guidance of a physi cian, whom she wished to acquaint with the exact state of her case. We have the throbbing of the bosom—the faltering of the voice—the flutter of the pulse—the rush of strange noises in the ear —the sleeplessness—and the sense of sudden faintness ; but of the sentiment of the passion of Love, we have not even a glimpse. How strikingly con trasted with this forcible but material ode, is Cole ridge's fine poem of " Genevieve," where the voluptuous is blended with. the spiritual in the nicest and most deli cate proportions : I theories of those who maintain that he was not one, but Legion. How any scholar could come to such a conclusion, after attentively perusing the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," we cannot for the life of us imagine ! The internal evidences of unity in Milton are not stronger than those in Homer, and we would just as readily believe that a dozen poets clubbed their wits together to build up " the lofty line" of " Paradise Lost," as that they combined to produce an Iliad. We quote Mr. St. John's elegant and impassioned criticisms on the genius of Homer and tEschylus : The object of poetry is to keep alive in the human breast the love of whatever is noble and beautiful, to dazzle the worldling from the worship of gold by showing him something more glorious than anything that gold can purchase, to 'accomplish the apotheosis of pure affection, of virtue, of disinterestedness, of great passions, of patriotism,—and in Homer all this is effected with a spontaneous energy, which like the ocean appears equal to bear the whole weight of hu manity clothed with all its attributes upon its breast. Greece has no poet worthy to be compared with our Shakspeare and our Milton but Homer, who pos sesses some advantages over them both. Shakspeare, buoyant and full of life as was his spirit, felt evidently the waves of his imagination lapse at times from about him and leave his mind stranded and bare on the shores of the immeasurable universe. Melancholy creeps over him, like a black vapour, concealing the Titanian head wont to tower above the region of the clouds. Even over Milton's soul, serene in its fiery brightness as it usually is, I think I discover some thing which at times obscures his faith in himself and . human nature, and produces a flagging of the fancy. But in Homer this never appears. Cheerfully and joyously he pursues his course with eternal sunshine on his brow, and a heart beating full and true, as if the life of all the world were within him. There is no end of his vitality. He seems as if he could never grow old. His strength is inexhaustible. Equal to whatever may happen, he nowhere seems to be hur ried by his subject, or compelled to strain a nerve to accomplish what he desires. In himself he appears happy as a god, and only to sympathise in human suf fering from the boundlessness of his charity. He comes forth as the sun in the morning, full of bright ness, showing all the tears that sprinkle the earth and drying them too, but shedding none. We call him old, though in reality he is all youthfulness and loie. Every function of life goes en harmoniously in his frame. He enjoys whatever nature brings within the circle of his experience. He drinks in with rapture the freshness of dawn,—basks smilingly in the blaze of noon,—welcomes the stillness of evening—the so lemn grandeur of night. Sleep, too, has for him in expressible charms, and on the pleasures we taste among its bowers he has bestowed every grateful, every endearing epithet. Milton is far more spiritual, and careers in a course nearer the stars. Shakspeare, in his metaphysical subtlety and yearning to pierce beyond the grave, suggests stranger thoughts, and calls up a wilder world of fancies. But Homer, as if admitted behind the veil, never doubts for a moment. Habitually, too, his thoughts are of action, of man as he is, of the virtue of the citizen, of the soldier, of the husband,-of the father, of the son, of the wife. He loved the world• and all ttat it contains. His eye could detect beauty where the atrabilious sceptic be holds nothing but deformity. Hence the universal fame and admiration of his writings. For, wherever a well-spring of delight exists, the world will discover it and have recourse to it for ever. The tragic poets who took up his mantle differed widely from him both in temper and charac ter. The experiment of 'civilisation had been tried, and been the cause of less happiness than at the outset it seemed to promise. A spirit of dissatisfaction had consequently grown up in society, which, shaken by convulsions within and assaulted from without by storms, appeared to be fast resolving into its original elements. Upon the minds of the tragic poets there accordingly fell a gloomy shadow. They looked back wards and around them, and were saddened by the view of terrible pictures which the dark pencil of'Fate was constantly filling up. The inexplicable influence of events upon the inner organiSation of man had caused them too, and their contemporaries equally, to delight in gloom, in slaughter, in revenge, in exhibi tions of suffering, analogous in many cases to what they beheld their countrymen inflict upon each other. Observe the creations of Eschylus : in them, preg nant all with Miltonic haughtiness, energy, grandeur, we already discover symptoms of profound discontent with the character of actual existence, and an invin cible yearning towards the past. He seemed desirous to haunt the imaginations of his contemporaries with gigantic phantoms, quarried out of the wrecks of a vanished ethical system, in which such greatness found congeniality and sympathy. His - ideas seemed to clothe themselves spontaneously in language of massive structure, like a Cyclopean wall, such as be fore or since no man ever used. He projected him self by the force of meditation into the heroic spheres, conversed there with mighty shades, acquired among them stern principles of action, of thought, of belief, of composition; and with these he sought to inspire the men of his own time. His object seems less to delight than to overawe, to persuade than to com•• mand. His ideas move along the highest arch of imagination which spans the universe from pole to pole, or 'rise out of a sea of darkness which they illuminate for a moment like lightning flashes in their passage. The characters of Sophocles and Euripides are drawn with equal animation ; but to Aristophanes —whose inventive facilities were surely of a high order !—we hardly think our author does justice. True, he speaks highly of his genius, but we cannot help fancying that his praises are wrung from him, from a mere cold sense of duty. He evidently cannot forgive the great- comic dra matist his attack on ,Socrates. We have been struck with the truth of this reflection, which occurs incidentally in the criticism on Aris tophanes :—" There is a load of small malignity and mischief in most mental constitutions, which, if not expelled, might obstruct the healthful play of the faculties. Mirth is the form it assumes in its exit, and comedy is one of the means pro vided by nature for promoting its discharge." Our author's estimate of Herodotus differs from that entertained by most scholars ; but lie has given reasons for the faith that is in him, and these reasons are many of them cogent, if not convincing. We cannot, however, coincide with the remark that the Greek historian " narrates like a prophet." To our thinking, he wants the fervour, the earnestness, the austerity, and lofty grandeur of the prophetic nature, and we agree in opinion with Quinctilian, who describes him as being an easy, flowing, frank, and plea surable writer. The criticism on Thucydides is true to the letter; and that on Xenophon is scarcely less discriminating; of Isocrates—whom Cicero so warmly admired—wehave but a glimpse, in the shape of a brief, panegyrical sentence; but Demosthenes is canvassed in detail, and his claims to the possession of first-rate powers of argument and eloquence insisted on with infinite emphasis "He is neither draped, nor painted," observes Mr. St. John, "nor adorned; but a inaked colossus whose sublimity springs from the greatness and perfection of its proportions. Other orators persuade, Demosthenes enforces convic tion. They who listen to him, have no choice— they must believe. The spirit of the old demo cratic constitution breathes through all his pe riods." With the criticism on this unrivalled orator our author concludes his chapter on " Hel lenic Literature ;" but we could have wished' that he had given Lucian a niche in his Gallery of Worthies ; for though he lived in the days of Marcus Antoninus, when Greece had long since sunk into insignificance, yet he was a perfect Greek in his elastic animal spirits, though a Sy rian by birth ; full of racy wit, or rather humour; pungent and sarcastic when lie pleased; fertile in invention; and master of a neat, lucid, suc cinct style, that at times displays an elega nce not unworthy of the best days of Greece. The chapters devoted to the consideration of the domestic life and manners of the Greeks— of the modes of farming in use among them—of their trades and tradesmen —of their household slaves--poor-law sy-stetii—foreign commerce— marriage and funeral ceremonies— theatrical entertainments, &c.—furnish a world of curious and interesting information; and still more en tertaining are those portions of the work which relate to the social poSition and influence of mar ried and unmarried women. Having thus briefly glanced at some of the leading excellencies of the volumes, we proceed, as in duty bound, to point out what appears to us to be their defects. In the first place, then, Mr. St. John lays far too much stress on the authority of Mitthrd, who, though a painstaking, was a prejudiced historian, and wrote upon the Grecian democracies in the spirit of an English Tory aristocrat. We do not forget this gentleman's character of Demosthe. nes, one of the most unfair and invidious ever penned; and we think that our author's usual saga city is at fault when he styles him " a very dis tinguished historian." In the next place, the original terminations of os, instead of us, which Mr. St. John invariably gives to his Greek sir names, wear somewhat of a pedantic appearance, more especially when—as in the case of the word " Phcebos"—he translates the first syllable, and leaves the second just as it stands in the ori ginal. We scarcely recognise our old familiar friend, Telemaehus, under his new cognomen of " Telemachos;" and feel inclined to ask what crime King Admetus has been guilty of; that lie should be disguised under the alias of " Ad metos." Thirdly, our author's style is occasionally some what florid, and his reasoning, in one or two critical places, is encumbered, rather than as sisted, by his exuberant metaphors. 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Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 62 BAROMETER, 30.1. WIND, S.W. 4.ce, fliSb ":•ItrontiMlittion SUN OFFICE Three o'Cloch. Another meeting of the Noblemen, Gentle men, and Magistrates of. the county of Renfrew was held on Friday last, at which more alarm ing facts were brought to light relative to the state of that country than have as yet fallen under our notice. A correspondence was read between the Chairman and Sir- JAMES GRAHAM, who, while he condoled with the dis tress of the country, recommended as the remedy increased local contributions, and positively de clined, on the score of the Government having no funds, to give any relief. If it were for any purposes of coercion, Government would find funds enough; for purposes of benevolence, which are not in truth its business, it has none. This refusal of the Government was met by a resolu tion, unanimously agreed to, expressing sym pathy, with the suffering people, provid ing something for their immediate relief, sending a deputation Ito London to insure that their representations shall 'not be further neglected, and throwing on the Government the responsibility, should the people continue to want food and employment. The remarks of the Glasgow Saturday Post are apposite, and ought to be laid before the public:— The great leading feature in these repeated meet ings (it says), is the increasing and unmanageable nature of the distress ; the means of preserving the lives of the starving thousands, and the peace of the country. The single consideration is merely how life can be preserved, and whether or not all law, and all order, are to be thrown aside, and the people left to shift as they best may for themselves. Such a state of things has not existed for the last three centuries. From the statements of many of the speakers, as well as from several memorials of the unemployed laid on the table of the meeting—even in the resolu tions moved by. Colonel Mure, and unanimously agreed to—but one spirit is breathed forth through out, and that spirit is, that the county of Renfrew is on the verge of anarchy; that if the starving people are not helped by others, they will put forth their hands and help themselves, throwing aside all law, order, and the right of property, which has hitherto been so religiously preserved. The resolutions of Colonel Mure, adopted by the meeting, unhesitatingly declare that things have now arrived at such a pitch that the Government must step forward, and, with the national revenue, miti gate the distress of the working population in this great manufacturing district. And, in the most plain and forcible language which it is possible to use, the resolutions and the meeting have also declared, that if the Government do not step forward, after this due and formal intimation, the landed proprietors and the magistracy of the county have nothing to look forward to but unlicensed plunder—the people (as some of the memorialists stated), "applying to their natural resources ;" that is to say, the strongest helping themselves ; and the county. magistracy for mally, unanimously, and decidedly declare that, after this last intimation given to the Ministers of State, they will "disclaim all legal responsibility for the consequences." Anarchy naturally follows on the heels of starvation, and it seems just approaching in every part of the empire. What with agragrian mur ders in Ireland, incendiarism and beggary in England, and 'men applying to " their natural resources" in Scotland, we may well . say with the Glasgow Post, such a state of things has not existed for the last three centuries. At the meeting the Provost of Greenock said that on Wednesday last the number receiving relief amounted to 932 families with 4,017 de pendents. This number did not exhibit the full amount of destitution. He said in the census that had been taken they included none of the ordinary poor at all. He had ascertained from proprietors of fbundries and ship-building yards, that in thirteen establishments 1,920 men had been discharged out of 3,288 workmen. Nearly two-thirds of the workmenwere out ofemployment, and their funds exhausted ! What can become of the poor wretches ? Provost HENDERSON, of Paisley, stated what is feared would ensue : He might mention one case of a woman and eight children who had applied to him•for relief, who stated that for twenty-four hours she had tasted no food. No later than last night a deputation of the unem ployed applied to him in the street—they were accom panied by hundreds of the population, and he believed, if it had not been for the hop e afforded them by this meeting, and to which he had directed them to look, an instantaneous breach of the peace would have been the consequence. Such was the urgency of the case, that if an immediate vote was not come to at this meeting, the unemployed weavers and others of this vast population would be out of bread by to-morrow ; and the consequence would be that they would either require peaceably to starve for want, or have recourse to public begging and taking by force what they could not otherwise obtain. That was the reason the Relief Committee were alarmed, and the Presbytery were alarmed, along with other public bodies. • The Provost of Paisley and the Baillies, in a memorial dated Dec. 5, tell Sir J. GRAHAM, one of her MAJESTY'S Principal' Secretaries of State —but whether he holds that office for his own personal advantage or the benefit of the public we will not decide—that After Friday first, the day w hen the provisions served out for the week, beginning on Wednesday next, will be exhausted, the destitute people here, am ounting to nearly 10 , 000 persons, will have no al ternative but either to commence public begging en mane.—to take food where they can find it, or to die quietly of starvation in their houses. If they remain peaceably in their houses they must of necessity perish from want—if they go out soliciting food, either by begging or otherwise, then they commit a direct breach of the law. What a condition for the people, who must either starve or set the law and their neighbours at defiance 1 What a conclusion to fine spun theories about reduced tariffs and altered Corn laws; What a comment :pa the opulent gentle-' men of England haggling for an additional shilling duty on a quarter of corn and head of cattle ! What apregnant illustration of the value and vvisdo:-.1- of the six months' speechifying, which ended in August last ! The sum of all is, that thousands of the people already reduced to want, and des titute of employment, must starve or break the law. That is the hard condition, the dreadful alternative, to which they have been reduced by a year's administration of Sir R. PEEL. Well may the Magistrates of Renfrewshire, and well may all men in authority, seek to throw back 011 him the . awful responsibility of such a vast ca lamity. We trust that he, too, is preparing to shake it off him by. abolishing the laws which make the State responsible for the subsistenc of the people. Each man must be told to pro vide for himself, but lie must be free to do so. A Morning Contemporary, speaking of the Income-tax appeals in the City of London, says : " Yesterday there was a very full attendance, and many were the remarks against this tax. A notice was put up, that it having been represented to the Board that one of the appellants had ill conducted himself by making insolent obserVa tions, the Commissioners would not bear his case until the close of the Commission, and that the same rule will be enforced towards all others who may thus misconduct themselves. The conse quence is, that respectable citizens and house keepers of the free City of London, who con sider themselves unjustly over-assessed, must keep as quiet as school-boys, when present ing themselves at the Property and Inclncome' tax office, 36, Basinghall-street, if w ithin the hearing of the worthy Commissioners, or their underlings." It would appear from the. above passage that the Income-tax is n ot at all likely to lose any of its tyrannical and vexation: character, in consequence of the temperate and. conciliatory demeanour of those who h ave to il k § indicate upon it. On the contrary, these J ac in office seem resolved, by their arbitrary bear ing, to render this detestable impost able as possible. What can be more insolent than their official declaration that an appellant is ey Is guilty of " misconduct," if he happens press a natural sense of dissatisfaction at his bei.liff over-assessed? Is he first to be treated wits gross injustice, and then to be bullied because he resents such injustice.? We are, however, by I . l° . as unbent.; means sorry that the City of London Conlin:s f as hion. sioners are acting in this domineering and earnestly hope that their example may .be contagious, and that the epidemic of official ! r1 solence may be general among their fraternity throughout the kingdom. It is the last load that breaks the camel's hack, and the blustering be haviour of the Income-tax Commissioners, mpo thet very thing most wanting to render this perfectly unendurable by John Bull, an d to 10 " duce him, by one vigorous effort, to fling off the burden. The French papers, falsely called Liherali abound almost daily with abuse of England. 1f ~j they have no facts to which they can hang their calumnies and vituperations, they publish reports and fictions in order to place this country and he r l , Government in the most odious light, and if a the French nation were animated by the sant spirit, the peace of Europe could not be Pr'-- served for six months. War evidently i s the (Ai d; d ject of these men. Justice, honour, the g on their country, and the progress of civilization they cast to the winds in a paroxysm of rage a At" the late successes and growing power of Einglan" But before they stir up their countrymen to ill! r they ought to reckon the cost, and ascent whether the gain would he equal to the loss they imagine, isolated as France is, that till: could accomplish what NAPOLEON, i n the Zen of his power, with all his skilful Marshals allo.ll the most powerful army in the world, ha d the courage to attempt? Steam has abollsoe the use of flat-bottomed boats, and were 4 5 such mad projectas an invasion of England tt l 'i we could cover the Channel with a bul ld r .ave men-of-war and a thousand steam-ships , i Antic they any force to meet such a power? Our steamers could blockade eve'', port of France, make ruinous inroads 12 P °- their fleets in harbour, destroy their - their chant . ships, and with them the suPP I Y men for their navy. And what would hector': of Algeria, with an English fleet on the coasii and Arabs in the rear; th e on e cu tting off. 3 the razzias and ravages of supplies from France, and the other avenging_ These very journals tell they hav e not an ally in Europe, an d u nless Are e d " ed, assists them, they must fight sing le -hall ith But America, even if she had a quarrel , this country, which, thanks to the late tr.ealteiss is not probable, has tew ships of war, 1 1 . ed don money, and, we believe, still less Me lina the; the French ar.rny_e to attack her best customer to Ple ase , ce d• French. These plain truths have been Jo ie _ from us by the wild and the uni% i y. ful conduct of a party which Engl anu - '3 , or ported in opposition to all them ouarchle.,iie Europe. Let us hope that the good sense 01,n, firebl e ' rs French nation will judge of these according to their merits, and not followlea but who, without any cause or any cert ain obj.lized mischief, would plunge the two most co ws, ' r. nations of the world into all the horrors of 50 1 The accounts from Barcelona are to the 'able inst. The bombardment had done consid el hi Dir t , damage to the city, and fires had broke n several places. On entering the place i ,i e : el l 3 ; VAN HALUN issued a proclamation, in v ".' - r i l l g 00 declared Barcelona in a state of siege 25 j °- pia• ti circumstances ona Guard , a n d shall a ith r o e u q n u c i r e e d , t h a dissolve d t th e i, e t r h p e oentoo. ti: tutedtot.s ot. authorities. crim es shall It pwroassectubtoedugbhyt the r . t he that the General would in addition to this Porl i9 , ll , o f inhabitants by levying a war contrktte,of 2,000,000 of piasters ( 400,0001. ). The 115- ‘," in g still remained outside the walls. The 01 , 1° ' ~g e account of the bombardment, and the dent of dent done to the city, is given by a Corresron the Post, dated Barcelona, Dec. 6:— , steamer I send you a few hurried lines by the first' leaving for France, to give you a few details .° „ a er bombardment of Barcelona. The town can n 0 0 :4,7 be recognised, it is destroyed in eral a the p its, an , `rut sev buildings are still burning. The French to P rendering every assistance with their eng:ln es u h a ve out the fire, and assist the inhabitants, wl io ers• . undergone f • a rihtful bombardment of t we'v e ° a the The Captain -G e neral of Catalonia cominenbaciflast fire from the fort of Montjuich yesterday' r ed this eleven, until past midnight. The firing' one d the morning, and a parlimentaire again saw n " to f re sailors town to surrender at discretion, or in the even at foe fe , sal, the bombardment was to recornn3e ne d e the d is o clock. The hard terms were accepted, an A w hite armament of the corpus francos has began. flag is waving on all the buildings to tlelnncierfl arrangement. The troops, with the CaPtairi- e The Van Halen and his staff have just entered., an d house of the French Consul received three sh el ' s f or t of a cannon-ball, as the artillerymen from the ~a Montjuich aimed at the disma ntlin g of thetri-eel°lli' flag which waved over the ouse I have just been going h over . the town to svit,7,e3 the extent of the disasters it has experienced fre 3l ' an d bombardment. The damage done is immense, ar:4 nearly all the houses have more or less suffered. ; great many buildings are destroyed, amongst whict is that of a deputy of the Cortes, Senor Velasegi tiro valued at 2,0001. Some notion may be forma extent of the damage done by the shelling, wh orl mention that 817 bombs were thrown from the fort of Montjuich. The Barcelonese w ill have it that the ene the ineers and artillerymen of the E n g lish, as well as their ammunition, did all the m ischief, although t crews of the ships of war remained on board speet2" tors of the work of devastation. The Captain-General, by a decree dated yester'• day, has dissolved the National Guards, and every in iividual who does not give up his arms will bP2 e e nished with death. A forced contribution of 400,000/. is imposed upon the population of Barcelona, and th state of seige is maintained. The Regent has not yet ent e red here, but the Captain -General and Zurbano are seen in the streets. It is im p ossible to describe the melancholy aspect of the pop ulation. The Englis,h ships of war saluted this mornin g , and the Queen s troops replied from the fort of the Atarazanas. The Paris papers contain little new of in terest. The KING, after presiding at a Cabinet Council on Saturday, went to Fontainebleau, an' was expected to return on Monday. The affa i r / of Barcelona still form topics of discussi on Ir t h e se journals, and the letter o f the E 1 1 0 5 6 : Consul is commented on with kio little hitt'