The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-01 00:00:00

-~ _ ~.~ COURT OF CHACERY.-(THIS DAY.) NEW FEES.—BROOKE V. TURNER. Mr. PICOT applied for an order from his Lordship to c ompel Master Trower to deliver out his report in thi. ca use, upon p a y men t b e in g made to Lim of the fees that were due under the old system. The draft of the report vl 'e , made in August last. Several attendances took place bt•fore the Master prior to the long vacation, but in conse guenee of the offices closing, it was postponed till after the r ecess. The parties then p the Master's clerk the „ -B tralfee of 61. on each folio for the copy. The report was a " Settled till after the new orders came out, and the Al tees complaint now was that refusal was made in the Alaster's offic e to deliver out the report, unless the fees Were pail according to the new scale. Under the old syst e mthey would be 81. 3s. 101., and under the new , S:%d. The question arose upon the 37th section, :ea of the 3.1 and 4th of the present King. .' 6 ! Loan CHANCELLOR could not make the order Without consulting with their Honours the Master of the Rolla and the Vice-Chancellor, which he would do as well u p o n this as upon another question that had been sub etted to hi m a f e w days ago ; also upon the re system of charging. It was imperative that "Y order of this sort should be made by the Chan cellor, with the concurrence of at least one of their timours. It was right, however, that suitors should "le that both their Honours had entirely concurred in e very on e step t h at b a d b een t a k en , and in every thing at had been done with respect to the new orders. None of the Judg es cou ld, o f co urse, be answerable :or any tarttcular ch arge —p ro f ess ional gentleman had been con ad upon th e m a ll, an d it was only the ultimately finished tih, statet of the sc h e d u l es t h at had been brought befo-e them (the Judges), and of which they had expressed their un qualified approbation. RE LORD WARD. The LORD CHANCELLOR was for a considerable time ? ec uPied, in hi s p r i va t e room , with C o un se l and parties le this matter. APPEALS. nil Lordship proceeded!, as appointed, to bear appeals ICE CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-C HANCEL L O R sa t a t Li n c o l n 's Inn, and took rnotions to-day. BEtinveT U. BROOK AND OTHE R S . E. Sir MICIDEN.. With whom was Mr. HEATIIFIELD, fen app dant lied s from upon notic e for an inj unction to restrain the de- Pr°ceedin g with an action at law to recover the amount of certain bills of exchang a given by a person of the n ame o f M olyneux, who was a partner with the plaintiff for a debt due from ahlyneux to them. The short fact s o f t h e ease appeared to be these :—ln the year 1832 the plaintiff entered into partnership with Molyneaux as tea dealers in Mincing -lane. Previous to that partnership Molyneaux was indebted to the defen dants, who are tea-brokers residing in the city, to a large amount, and upon his represen'ing to the plaintiff that he required money to carry on his business as a tea-dealer, he consented to enter into partnership with him if he Was satisfied of his credit and integrity. For the pur- Pose of satisfying the plaintiff on this point, Moly neux referred him to Messrs. Brooks, the defendants, who Spoke so highly of Molyneaux, that the plaintiff was Induced to enter into a partnership with him. At the time of the interview with Messrs. Brooks, however, it Was alleged by the plaintiff that these gentlemen never in timated to him that the defendant was indebted to them, tad the plaintiff discovering after the partnership began t hat Molyneaux was drawing bills in the partnership name, and handing them over to the defendant, for the payment of th e debts previously due from him, the plaintiff filed Lis bill, praying for the dissolution o f the p artnership, and f t , 4 injunction in the meantime, restraining fr om negotiating the bills which wer e the defendants n then due. In August l ast t h e i n j unc ti o n was applie d for, and obtained ex P a rte, but the hill not praying for an injunction to re strain the defendants from proceeding at w, they brought in action to recover the amount of the bills which were 11 "? over due, to r e str a in the proceedings in which a suPplemental bill had been filed, anti the present applica tion made. Mr. GlanLEsTortn, jun., in the absence of the ktorney- General, opposed the application on the ground of the statements in the defendants' answer, from which it ap- Peared that the defendants had fully apprised the plaintiff that Molyneaux was indebted to them previous to the partnership With him, His HONOUR granted the injunction. KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF...JUSTICE and a Com mon J ury.) THE KING V. BYERS AND ANOTHER. This was an indic•ment charging the defendants, Byers, the notorious informer, and Stapleton, who has often officiated as his witness, with a conspiracy to extort money from Mr. Wilson, a stage-coach proprietor, by laying information against him for allowing a greater number of passengers to be carried by his coaches than the law allowed. Sir JAMES SCARLETT, with whom was Mr. RICHARDS, stated the case for the prosecution. Mr. Mallet, the chief-clerk at Hatton-garden Police-office, aced on the 17th April last Byers laid an i n form ation at hat o ffi ce against the prosecutor, charging him w ith h a -f 14 1, on the 12th of that month, had a greater number o i ,P a alrogers by his Holloway he 24th, stage-coach, No. 3,404, than ds license allowed. The case was beard on t and dismissed by the magistrate. The prosecutor state d t h at b e was ow ner of the coach 4 ". 3 ,404, whi c h passed the Wh i te Li on at I s li ngton at five minutes past five on the evening of the 12th of April. He attended the hearing of the information laid by Byers, and it was dismissed. Cross-examined by Mr. Anotrnus—Was a member of the Coach Proprietors' Society. Did not understand it was established for the express purpose of suppressing common informers. C. Stock, who drove the coach on that day, proved he had only the nunakeer of passengers that the license permitted, and he mentioned the names of nearly all of them. He heard the evidence given by the de'enclant Stapleton, before the M, gistrate, in which Stapleton swore that there was a greater number, and Byers also said he could have proved the case himself, as he had seen the coach at the corner of White Lion-street, with an extra number of Passengers. 3W3 01, Painted ver y mu ch like that numbeted 3,404. He Cross -examined--The prosecut o r had a coach No. 01, 3tness) had been before a Magistrate on a former !ecaaion, and fined N. for furious driving. The defendant -Byers had also laid another information against him, but It was dismissed. Simuel Taylor was clerk to Mr. Tomlins, an attorney. lie attended the examination before the magistrate for the Prosecutor, and heard Byers say that he could have con tradicted the prosecutor's defence, as he bad seen the extra number of passengers at the corner of White Lion street. Charles Thorogood, a time-keeper at the Royal Ex. change, proved the tim e that the prosecutor's coach started from thence to go to Holloway. Mr, R. Harland, a passenger by the coach at the Per i o d inassen question, prov e d t h ere was only the legal num r pg!rs.. Cross-examined—Had been a coach.P tol"l • Lid b een su m mone d severa l ti mes, and twice co e n t :v o r i ' v e e t e d a — n d once at Byers' suit. He had also p a id B yers a t o compromise a c ase although he was q u i te innocent:eign Other witnesses were called, whose evidence corrobo. rated the preceding testimony. Mr. ADOLPHUS, in his address to the Jury, contended that no case of fraud and conspiracy had been estal,lisbed, And that if any mistake had occurred, it was with regard to the numb ers o f t h e two coac hes, that of 3,404 b e i ng t aken for 3,401. The L ORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the evidence, an d the Jury found both defendants Guilty. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) Siirn 13 at Nisi Prius after Hilary Terni, before Chief Justice TINDAL and a Middlesex Jury.) ETTOIN V. DES VEAUY, BART. was an a c ti on on t h e covenant, aga i nst th e M e dical an ' l Cleri cal Assuranc e C om p an y, b r ou g ht to recover th e atu ount of a Policy of lif e i nsuran ce, which bad been Captain een :ift°an bolbell. t e t , d %vita' the Company upon the life of a ' Sergeant WILDE and Mr. Sergeant Bo2lll.A.Swaipt , ptv7kortd for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant SPAls e ' t f.:lE, .eh fe r ° watt Air. Sergeant COLERIDGE, cOIVIICt the a.n • w hey : e t :Z :l kb was that the party insured had indulged habits of drunkenness and intemperance, a fact thi ii .e ." had been suppressed trona the insurers, and upon It 1"e was joi ne d. inst;W aPpea red from t h e evidence of a host of witnesses edee called on behalf of the plaintiff, that the party 1 4; i .rr i t : i a o e tl a man of most irritable disposition, and th.At was much inct eased from pecuniary dif fi • btintlea under which he laboured ; but that so far from rie /4.44110 f intemp erate habits, the reverse was rather uod 14raa"teristic. It was proved also that he was Lir tomititted to the Whiterose prison on the 6th July, 1830, where he remained until the 2d Decem ber, 1831. This confinement to a man of the deceased's temperament, was calculated to produce dyspepsia and indigestion, and in fact such was the result, for, in January, 1831, it was proved that the deceased la boured severely from dyspepsia, and r hortly after wards under severe symptoms of a pulmonary complaint, which gradually increasing up to the time of his discharge, and be was reduced from being a remarkably fine robur man, to so weak a condition as to be scarcely able to walk out of the prison. Mr. Wadd, the surgeon of the Whitecross-prison, Dr. Leigh, Lecturer at the Webb-street School of Anatomy, and several other medical gentlemen, were examined, and concurred in a•tributing the increased pulmonary symp toms to his confinement, coll: , 1 ii with the natural irrita bility of his temper being acted upon by great mental anxiety. The case for the plaintiff had not closed when we went to press, and the investigation was likely to occupy the Court to a late period of the day. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 31.—Wird S.W., moderate.—Arriced the Jahn Woodall, Henderson, from Batavia ; Superior, Salmon, from London, for Jamaica ; Justine, Young, from London, for Granada. The Julian, Smith, for Boston, remains. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 31.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W., fresh.—Arrived from London the Bengal, for Bengal; Earl Bathure, Smith, for Cape of Good Hope ; Duke of Roxburgh, Petrie, for Bombay, and many others outward bound. Put back the Triumph, Green, for Bombay, and Seppings, Freeman, for Ceylon. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind W.S.W., moderate. FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Wind S.W. to W., fresh.— Arrived the Mary Ann, Mallort, from London, for the Cape of Good Hope. The Bardaster, Chalmers, from Liverpool to Sydney, New South Wales, which sailed hence yesterday brought up again, the crew having re fused to do duty, and 13 of them have been committed to prison. DOVER, JAN. 31.—Arrived off port the Voyager, Anderson, from the Mauritius—sailed Oct. 24; Cleo patra, Jones, from Lisbon. MARGATE, JAN. 31.—Arrived off port the Medora, Coward, from Jamaica. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Llama, Dixon,from Lima ; Rachel, Potter, from New Orleans ; Columbia, Abbott, from S,vannah ; Eliza and Susan, Wilmington, and Newton, Hathway, from Charleston ; Halifax, Finlay, from Halifax ; Hunter, from Stettin. Off port the William Brown, Taylor, from New Orleans. Coats, JAN. 28.—Arrived the Matilda, Stafford, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; and John Fulton, Neil, from Boston, bound to Newfoundland. The Dumbarton Castle, from Norway to Bally Shannon was wrecked near Sligo on the 28th ult. The Fernax, Bill, from Gottenburg 'o New Bedford, has been condemned at Falmouth. The Brothers, from Banff to London, was near the former port on the 2801 ult. and it was feared would be wrecked. The Anna Sophia, Butcher, from Liverpool to Trieste, put into Kinsale leaky, and part of the cargo thrown overboard. The United Kingdom, Robinson, from Galway to Lon don, knocked off her rudder and filled with water at the mouth of the Shannon on the 25th ult.—a small part of the cargo landed. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GAR. There was a great supply at trade was rather dull, at about )EN MARKET. this morning's market, and the last week's prices. s.d. s.d. Potatoes (cwt.) 3 0 to 5 0 Ca.,bages,Savoy(l2) 1 6 3 0 Ditto White 1 6 2 6 Ditto Red 20 50 Brocoli Endive 1 0 2 0 Horse Hadish(bundle) 3 0 5 0 Celery 0 6 1 0 Carrots il2bunches) 4 0 7 0 Turnips 2 0 4 0 Coleworts or Greens 1 6 3 0 Leeks 0 6 1 0 For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 8 2 6 Filberts Pine Apples (lb.) Sea Kail (punnet) Small Salad (punnet) 0 4 0 5 s. d, s. d. Spinach (half-sieve) 0 6too 8 Apples 2 0 7 0 Pears 4 0 8 0 Quinces 3 0 5 0 Onions 2 0 3 6 SevilleOranges(loo) 8 0 14 0 Sweet Oranges 5 0 10 0 Lemons 7 0 13 0 Walnuts 1 0 2 0 Asparagus l5 0 20 0 Span. Chesnuts (peek) 4 6 6 0 French ditto 3 6 6 0 French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Spanish Hazlenuts Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0 Turnip Greens (bush )0 7 0 9 Brocoli Sprouts 0 9 1 0 HAY M A RKETS.--, At per Load of 3d Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. A moderate supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 10 to £3 15 Kew Meadow Hay il 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 0 4 4 Fine Upland Meadow and 11ye-grass Hay 4 6 4 10 Clover Hay 4 5 5 0 Oat Straw X 1 Bto .t.l 10 1 %/V heat Straw ... 1 10 1 13 SMITHFIELD. Meadow Hay from 2s. to 55., Straw from Is. to 2s. per load higher than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. Co.se ueav y Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 0000000 •. 00000000 •••••••••••..••• 00000000 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 10 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow anti Rye-grass Hay ..... 4 2 4 6 Clover Hay (extra fine).....t5 o... Generally 3 10 4 15 Oat Straw ... £1 Bto X 1 121 Wheat straw 1 12 1 14 HUN GERFORD. A short supply, and a sluggish trade. Coarse Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay - 3 10 4 5 Useful Old Ditto __ 3 15 4 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay 4 2 4 6 Clover Hay 1 0 5 0 Oat Straw ... £1 6to X 1 8 ► Wheat Straw 1 10 1 13 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Halifax papers to the 7th of January, New Brunswick to the 3d of January, and B)ston to the 10th of Janurtry, have been received at the North and South American Coffee- house. (From the Halifax Papers.) Owing to the great quantity of Nova Scotia notes at pre.ent in circuLtion in this city, and the difficulty of obtaining specie for them when remitted to Halifax, they have of late become quite a drug in our market; at pre sent they can only be passed at a discount of from ten to twelve per cent. (From the Boston Papers.) SPECIE. —The ship Congress, arrived at this port from Mexico, hid about two thousand dollars on board, and the Paragon, which sailed the day before for Philadelphia, is supposed to have a still larger sum. The New Bi unswick papers do not contain anything of consequence. THE FUNDS. The only arrival this morning of any consequence, is the express from Paris, by which it appears that a duel has been fought in the above capital, between General Bugeaud and M. Duling, both members of the Chamber of Deputies. The latter received a ball on his forehead, which lodged in his br tins, and survived until Tnursday morning. The accounts from Madrid are to the 19th inclusive. At that date the Spanish capital was tranquil. All the household officers of the Queen had been dismissed. Gen. Zabala was, on the 22d ult., still threatening Bilbao, and.the insurgents continued to increase. French Funds 75f. 40c. Console, which left off yesterday at 88k, 89, for the Account, opened at the same price this morning. Spa nish Stock has itnproved, 251 26. HALF-PAST ONE. We have no fresh arrivals to the present hour, conse quently no political news to communicate. We understand that the thousand Belgians who have sailed to join Dan Pedro's forces, are, in the first in. stance, to call off Oporto, to learn if their assistance is retired. The steamers which convey them have on board nearly 200,0001. in silver bare and bills of " on Lisbon. We also hear that the on authoritiesthe appearance of ascertain w C h o e i n m s la h r e a have written to Don Pedro, that, :. . Consols vessel of his troops, they will join them. A 1 i in the Downs from Lisbon, but as yet we can notdo'', and done at 88i fo r b e quoted at 88i -I tor t i ll . e Account. since the early part of the Money. At present they may Spanish 2bi i f ; Portulguese 60-a t, ; Dutch 491 t. We are infoimed that Minister of S ain, ep ke ttuers are in tow n f rom t h e ne w friends that he p e is determined th tdoed devote himself to the ROS3 g informing his interest of his country, an d will, in th e course o f time, remodel that cou n t ry , as well a s t h e unfortunate state of its finances, and the Carlist chiefs continue in the same positions as per the former accounts, and refu s e to fight a general battle with the THREEQueen's foie O'CLOCK. 0 CK. Consols just done at 88i i. • Consuls for Account 88i i. According to the supplement to Bent's li terory Advertiser, which contains a list of the new books and principil engravings published in London during the year 1833, it appears that the number of new books is about 1,160, exclusive of new editions, pam p hl ets, or periodicals, being twenty less than in 1832. The number of engravings is 74 (including 34 portraits) 13 of which are engraved in the line manner, 48 in nuzzotinto , and 13 in chalk, aquatint, &e. The number of engraving s published in 1832, was 99 (including 40 portraits), viz. 15 in line, 57 in mzzotinto, and 27 in chalk, aquatiut, &c MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKTV 0 OD'S MAGAZINE. The noble criticisms on Homer are renewed in this number, and we may safely say, whether looking to their eloquence—their information— their feeling—or their subtle and delicate ap prehension of the beautiful—that we know of nothing like them in the language. The word criticism" usually implies something cold, precise, and even repulsive, but Professor Wilson has shown that it may be a synonym for genius and sensibility. He has read Homer, not merely to understand, but to feel him ; not in the carping, dogmatic spirit of a Parr or a Hermann, but with the congenial relish of a poet. Of all the translations introduced into his present criti cism—if we except one by Leigh Hunt—we infinitely prefer his own literal prose versions. The very rudeness of their simplicity is in their favour. It is a singular pecultatity with Pro fessor Wilson, that whatever literary occupation he may happen to be engaged in, engrosses for the time being his whole soul. He brings his undivided energies to bear upon it, just as if it were the only thing in the world worth writing about. Homer is just now his pet, as once were our old English dramatists and the poets of the Lake school. He can see—think—feel--dream of nothing but the Iliad and the Odyssey, and so long as he continues to ride this darling hobby with his present grace and spirit, we care not how long he keeps it on the full gallop. Those who expect to meet with a dull, elaborate disser tation on certain verbal meanings in Homer, had better throw aside Wilson and take up Clarke. They will neither find an accent rectified—a point fixed—nor a doubtful digammated word settled. The Professor knows better than to waste his time on such dull frivolities— " Oh, think not, mistress, more true dulness lies 'Neat!' folly's mask, than wisdom's grave disguise"— but comes at once to the right point of inquiry, a consideration of the intellectual character of one of the greatest poets the world ever saw. With what exquisite feeling Wilson comments on Ulysses's yearnings, as shown by Homer, after his own home ! " The love of home is the concentrated love of life, and were Ulysses to bleed to death, the rocks of Ithaca would reel before his dying eyes, and the last image that seemed steadfast before their last dim ghze, would be the faded or unfaded face of his Penelope bent down to kiss him—the sound sweetest to him in death, the Spartan accent still hanging on her lips, as she bade an everlasting farewell to her Ulysses." " The Sketcher" contains some good sylvan paintings of scenes on the northern coast of Devon, with a few pleasant fragments of verse introduced. " The Brothers" is a forcibly-told tale, of the " intense" school. The incidents are trite enough, but they are made the most of. The author has evidently taken the " Diary of a late Physician" as his model ; but he had better trust to himself, fur it is far better to be an in different original than a first-rate imitator. " The Irish Union" is capital. Those who read it should take the precaution of having their sides bound with an iron hoop, like a ruin puncheon, or they will assuredly split. The old Earl of Kilkenny having, it seems, been long harassed by law-suits, in which, though justice was usually on his side, law invariably made a point of being against him, at length adopted the bril liant resolution of calling out every barrister and attorney who might chance to be engaged on the opposite side ! "Finding the law generally unfavourable, his Lordship was not dispirited, but had recourse to that system of settling contested rights which came before law; from The_ mis be appealed to Be llons. The fashien was national, yet he distinguished his performances by a flight above nationality. Even his pistolling was ultra-Irish. This produced some most extraordinary scenes. Perceiving himself foiled, he determined to take another course, quite out of the usual line, namely, to fight it out, muzzle to muzzle, with the attorney and all the counsel on the other side." We look upon the late Earl of Kilkenny and his family as among the greatest public benefac tors Ireland ever produced. Between them, they shot not less than a dozen attorneys, to say no thing of some three or four barristers ! When the good Earl happened to be winged, then his eld est son took the field ; and in this manner it went in rotation through the family ; each son bring big down his brace or two brace of lawyers, until the old gentleman got well, when he re sumed his sporting. The result is obvious. No lawyer could be found to undertake a cause against any of the Kilkenny family, who conse quently won back all their rights. We think this method of exterminating the legal breed ►night be happily acted on in England. Con ceive a client harassed by a vexatious Chancery suit, bringing down the Counsel opposed to him at a long shot ! We know of no suggestion that deserves so much public encouragement. " Pro gress of Social Disorganization" attributes the spread of crime to the spread of knowledge, and expatiates in a pleasant spirit of exaggeration on the wondrous morality of the higher classes ! Now if the lower orders are sinful in proportion to their knowledge, it is but reasonable to con clude that the higher are moral in proportion to their ignorance, which at once accounts for their unquestionable morality. The essay is a curious one, and deserves a perusal. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is one of the best numbers of the New Monthly we have seen for some time. All its articles appeal to the generality of readers, not to the fastidious literary few. " The Gauchos, a Tale of the Pampas," though un usually long, is replete with strange, romantic incident. We have murders by wholesale, a little bit of a love affair, and a very aggravated parricide. " Scenes from the Alcestis of Alfieri" is a criticism on a very over-rated Italian dra matist, from the classic pen of Mrs. Hemans, who, like Goldsmith, touches nothing that she does not adorn. " The Penny Press" pursues an important inquiry, in which the literature of the country is involved, in an honest, uncompromising spirit. Whoever is the writer, he is turning his abilities to a very useful account. " A Chapter on Duns" will amuse, though the subject is enough to give a gentleman the head-ache. Panurge is the only illustrious debtor we ever heard of, who knew how to dispose effectually of these horrid crea tures. I enever he had an oppttunity, he always hanged them. " Two summers ago," says the author of this lively jeux d'esprit, " Two summers ago I was strolling on the Steyne, a' Brighton, with an officer in a dragoon regiment quartered there, when we suddenly encountered his tailor, up m whose book his name had occupied a conspicuous psac for more than three years. A lovely female was hanging on the tailor's arm, upon whom be was evidently endea vouring to pass himself off for what be really was not ; she, perk Ts, in return, was likewise playing the same game. Such scenes are of daily occurrence at watering places, though it must be confessed that— " Corsaire contre Corsaire Font de Bien mauvaises affaires." The major, with a tactical eye, saw that he bad the ad vantaga of ground, and skilfully made the most of it. Extending his hand to the schneider, he exclaimed, " H--n, how are you? Happy to sea you ! Let tilt see you at the barracks ;" and so forth. To be so no ticed by an officer of a crack regiment, and at so parti cular a moment, so flattered the vanity of the artiste tail. leer, that his bill was not sent in for nearly eighteen months after. However, when you are not in the clutches of these reptiles, mortify their vanity on every occasion. In the year 1829, I was standing, with another military friend, at the door of the Hotel de Treves at Coblentz. Presently, claque, claque, went the whip, and up galloped an avant courier,— " Chapeau bas, chapeau bas : Place au Marquis de Carabas !" followed soon afterwards by a handsome English travel ling chariot and a light German waggon. The former contained Der `loch Voldgeboren Baron Von S—tz. Out rushed our host Herr Mars, at the head of a host of obsequ:ous kellners,to usher the illustrious stranger into the house, who, as be ascended the steps, was addressed by my companion, doubtless to his infinite mortification, with a —" Halloa, S—iz, what the devil brings you here ?" Mons. Le Baron made no stay at Coblentz." On the necessity of giving an - Opera to the English," is plausible ; but the scheme will never answer. John Bull has no ear for music. The chink of the coppers is his only favourite melody. He affects the operatic, it ;s true ; and is conversant with flats and sharps ; but this is the extent of his musical taste and know ledge. See him at the King's Theatre, puz zled at, yet afraid not to admire, one of Ros sini's most finished airs ! See him at the Adelphi, grinning from ear to ear, without an atom of affectation, at one of Jack Reeve's drollest cantatas I No, no, John has no harmony in his composition. He has ears ; but they are not musical ones. " Chapters from the Note Book of a Deceased Lawyer" is a first-rate magazine article, containing an account of the most extraordinary trial for murder on record. " A Singing in my Head" is foolish : " Inhabitants of a Country-town," agreeable, but with too much of the Nlitford monotony about it. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. One of the most improving periodicals of the day, got up with much tact and diligence. The editor says, " In addition to our late arrange ments, we have further the pleasure of stating, that an agreement is on foot that may secure to us the possession of certain documents which will furnish a series of papers of the most unique and extraordinary description. These documents, V (deuce take these ifs, they are always in an editor's way), we succeed in procuring them, will obtain for our publica tion a vivid and increasing interest.', Nve love a mystery, and here is a thumping one. What documents can the editor be alluding to ? Pray, Heaven, they be not Lord Palmerston's Protocols! Anything short of these we are prepared to take interest in. But the Protocols would be our death. We should not survive the perusal an hour. " The Ministry and the Parliament" is a temperate, well-digested article. " The Night-walk, a Ballad," contains some forcible description ; but what does the author mean by this stanza ? " For still I saw his clenched hands, His moonlit, ghastly eyes, His grinding teed), and black, dry lips— Ah me ! it called forth sighs." Absurd ! A sigh is about the very last thing that a spectacle like this would call forth. No man sighs at a sight of horror. He may be silent—convulsed—but the gentle, the plaintive, or the melancholy, make up no portion of his emo tions. If indeed he did chance to heave up a sigh, the very wind of his respiration would be enough to sink a seventy four. But the whole passage is false to nature. " The Wives - of the Caesars" is not devoid of information, but it is t oo prolix. The less said about the Caesars' wives the better. 'With the sole exception of Calphurnia, there was scarcely one who did not richly deserve a month at the tread mill. Messalina—a genius in her way—was by no means the worst of these she-scamps. " Ho ratio Sparkins" is clever. " The Burial of St. Joseph" is a very dull, solemn affair, as Mr. Galt's verse is apt to be. This clever novelist never yet penned a stanza that approached nearer to poetry than " Thirty Days hath September," which is a fine sample of Utilitarian imagination. FRASER' S MAGAZINE. The portrait of Sir Egerton Brydges, to whom the public is indebted for many a clever tale and essay, and who now figures full-length in Fraser's Literary Gallery, must either be an outrageous caricature, or else the gifted Baronet, both in phiz and figure, must approximate closely to an old clothes-man. He looks, indeed, as if he had just stepped out from Rag Fair; his beard and mustaches are of Israelitish luxuriance ; the ex pression of his eye indicates a fit of the horrors— just as if he had been cheated in a bargain— and his loose, shapeless garments look exactly as if they were flung, at one random throw, upon an upright mop-stick. But, of course, the pic ture must be a quiz. " The Case of the Church of England" is clever and seasonable, but penned in a jaundiced spirit. " Dulce Dotnum" is a broad Irish story, full of brogue and bluster. " Sartor Resartus," we suppose, is meant as a solemn, learned piece of irony. We say " suppose," for we are by no means sure on the point ; the irony is so very recondite and perplexing. We regret our inability to give anything like an analysis of this mysterious production ; but the truth is, we cannot under stand it, and are by no means desirous of being enlightened. " Allan Cunningham's Fifty Years" is a most delightful notice of a series of papers that appeared lately in that clever and rising periodical, the Athenaeum. Allan is quizzed in fine style, and Alaric Attila Watts by no means treated with the reverence due to the author of " Lyrics of the Heart"—a volume with which he has been in the pangs of partu rition for upwards of seven years, and of which we hope he is now about to be safely deli vered. We subjoin a glod-humoured attack on Rogers : " What can Mr. Cunningham possibly mean by stating that Rogers was thirty years old when his first poen was published ; when his second appeared, he was fifty ? This is really insufferable. Mr. Rogers was one hundred and thirty when the Pleasure'? of Memory appeared. Talk of thirty ! why, what has a man of thirty to remenz Ger? The business of such a youngster is to forget a* much as possible ; and the few things that will hold a seat in the distracted brain are rarely the pleasures a:I memory. They are, for the most part, recollections of fooleries of all kinds, burst bubbles, such as calf-love, booby friendships, and every conceivable botheration. But a man of a hundred and thirty is in a very different situation. He looks back on a considerable portion of existence with the self-complacency of one who knows that, come what may, he has had his fun for his money ; and when, as in the case of Rogers, the money has been abundant, we may presume that the fun cannot have been small. Wherefore such a man is entitled to write of the pleasures of memory ; and Rogers of all men, be cause he can afford to print and illustrate an unsaleable book at his individual expense. Before we quit the subject of this distinguished banker's hooks, we will jus. quote a quaint and pregnant passage in Cunninghaii.'s criticism :—' Concerning the composition of the Pleasures of Memory, it is related that be corrected, transposed, and changed, till he exhausted his own patience ; and then turning to his friends, he demanded their opinions, listening to every remark, and weighing every objection.' Thanks to the immortal Jove ! we are not far enough advanced in years to have been one of his friends. Fancy, good reader ! a mighty dealer in namby-pamby, having first bored himself to death, or near it, proceeding delibe rately to the destruction of the peace and happiness of his friends ! It is ' too bad;' as, indeed, Lord Liverpool told Rogers at the time." TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Our friend Tait has grown taller and thinner since his late reduction in price ; he has added " six cubits" to his outward Adam, though his inner remains pretty much where it was. The present number is one of average excellence ; containing, however, one or two very superior articles. Among them we may notice " Sketches of Life and Manners," from the pen, we pre sume, of De Quincy—a writer who mixes up humour with learning in a very piquant manner; and the " Decline and Fall of the Empire of Fashion," a spirited diatribe, which is likely to do some service. The character of " Lord Althorp" is well portrayed, though in rather an inimical spirit. We subjoin a specimen, descriptive of the Noble Lord's first speech on the Irish Coercion Bill The grand field-day arrived ;—the Bill was brought from the Lords, and the Commons were in great excite ment and expectation. At length Lord Altborp rose to move that the Bill be read : and it was plain the members on the ministerial benches, and the Tories also, were like the women who went to see Mrs. Siddons,—prepared for floods of tears. The gentlemen settled themselves omi nously. It was evident to any one who knew anything of human nature, that a scene had been prepared, and was just about to be enacted. The Noble Lord began in his usual hesitating, unimpressive, common-place manner. The pocket•bandkerchiefs were evidently ready ; but as yet there was no excuse for crying. The Noble Lord pro ceeded, and at last began his endeavours at horror creating. They who caine to cry began to feel awkward. There was evidently no case for tears. The Noble Lord tried his hand at rhetoric—it would not do :—as a last resource, he remembered he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that figures were consequently his weapons, not figures of speech, mind, good reader, but units and tens,—so he opened his official box, and drew from thence a statement. Instead of horrifying the House with vivid decriptions of atrocities, he coolly ran over the number of murders, &c.— murders, so many,—ditto, in the day-time so many,—so many burglaries,—so many ravishings, and so on. The House came to cry ; they now were inclined to laugh. The official people below the bar were terror-stricken ; they shrugged their shoulders, and turned up their eyes. Mr. O'Connell crowed again,—his eyes sparkled with pleasure, and his cheer became triumphant and deafening. Poor Mr. Stanley ! he was as pale as a ghost be bit his lips, put his heels, like a Yankee, on the table, close by his Noble Colleague ; and at last, in his rage, fairly snatched the box of papers out of his hands, shut it with a loud bang, and locked it ; as much as to say, " You shall not spoil excellent materials ; you are ruining us. " The noble Lord seemed startled by this angry proceeding, and hastened to the close of his speech. When he sat down, the House was a dead blank ; there was a painful silence among the great majority, who wanted an excuse of horrors for their intended votes, and who felt that this afforded none. During the whole night the debate laboured on against this painful disappointment ; and not t►ll both Mr. Stanley and Sir R. Peel had properly dished up the horrors, could the House forget the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." ME TR 0 P OLI TAN. " Jacob Faithful" is here again in all his glory—garrulous, yet by no means tedious, and giving us a shrewd insight into the character of a pedantic Dominic.. Captain Marryat has the pen of a ready writer, and, considering this, it is surprising what little need there is for blotting in his pages. We always read him with interest, his style and sentiments are so straight• forward and unaffected. " Sicilian Facts" con tain a fine melodramatic mystery, that would make the fortune of the Surrey. " Turkey and its Relations" is treated eloquently, and with much acuteness and discrimination. It is far superior to the general run of such Magazine essays. The sketch of the Sultan's character as a reformer, tallies with all the accounts we have read of him in Madden, Macfarlane, and some others of our travellers in the East : " Dreadful indeed has been the past history of Mah , mood's reign. The annals of the seraglio contain a rapid succession of public massacres and private assassinations. In contemplating the monarch's character, we shudder at the man who could, day after day, sign the firman of death. He evinced some sympathy with human feelings towards his dethroned brother, but that sympathy was checked the moment it crossed his personal ambition. Not in the madness of passion, but prompted by cool calcula tion, be sealed the fate of the imbecile Mustapba. With a perseverance unparalleled in history, he hunted down the family of Ali Pacha. Even to the infant nephew, he punished the rebellion of the Albanian chief. All the services of Halet Effendi could not arrest his master's hand, when his death became an act of policy. Yet it is from the blood-stained Mahmoud, fratricide and destroyer as he is, that we must expect the regeneration of Turkey. His remorseless disposition, unhesitating firmness, and singleness of view, are the requisites of a successful re novator. Not wanton cruelty, but un undeviating line of policy, has filled the niches of the seraglio with disse. vered heads. Poison, the bowstring, the executioner's axe, and the assassin's dagger, have been unsparingly em ployed ; but not in rsne of the hundred cases where these means have been adopted, was personal malice the motive of the imperial mandate. Mahmoud has never acted from caprice; he corresponds little with the vulgar idea of an eastern despot. It is not from fits of jealousy, or in the recklessness of dissipation, that the bloody warrant is issued. He neither wars to crowd his harem with cap five beauty, nor pilfers his subjects to surround his throne with luxury. His court is unostentatious, and his habits s imple. One great but distant object is ever in his view, and to attain it, be cares little in what path he treads. To this firmness of purpose he adds an indifference to public opinion. His personal reputation does not influ• ence his actions. Renown, be it for good or evil—the pomp of a mighty monarch—or the fame of a national benefactor—are not the unsubstantial rewards his vanity thirsts for. He neither seeks to win golden opinions from all sorts of people, nor to engrave for himself a fair name on the pages of history. He toils in silence, and secrecy is one of the characteristics of his disposition. Proud, but not vain, he consents to imitate, and has successfully f 'flowed, the example of :even a subject. Judging from the features which the regal purple allows us but lover tly to discriminate, we consider Mahmoud's charac'e' s well calculated for ti < aiduous task he has undertaken. " Sir Goodly Clumsy" is a clever caricature. " Chit-Chat" is sprightly gossipping, and con tains one amusing anecdote, which we subjoin : " Ed. Is it true that the Literary Union Club is going o be dissolved ? " Vol. I believe so—but a new club will start into life with new claims to approbation. We are now in an age of reform and improvement. By the bye, t dicing of clubs, the Garrick goes on capital!y—is it not 83, ? " Don. Certainly, thanks to a set cf clever fellows, such as myself. " Ed. Well said. I suppose you'll allow James Smith to be one of those same clever fellows : have you beard his last jeu d'esprit? " Don. No—what was it ? " Ed. Why, Poole was reading from the police re ports in the Morning Chronicle, an account of a youth, named Richard Zachery, who was imprisoned for en assault. Whereupon Smith embodied the narrative thus A boy, called Dick, ever fighting, get hand cuffed in jail, kicking lustily, minding nobody—oh pray quit rebellion ! surely to use violence w.m't xtricate you, Zachery !' and by way of elucidation, exclaimed, when he had finished— " ' There, alphabet, thou wayward wizzard, " ' I have thee fast, from A to Izzard.' " COURT MAGAZINE. Is embellished with a very lovely portrait of the Hon. Mrs. Stafford Jerningham. " Women" is a prettily told anecdote, by Haynes Bailey—a writer of ability, whom we should be glad to see leave " Butterflies," and grapple with more manly themes. " Getting into Society" is an amusing bit of gossip; but we pass on to some " Particulars of the Death of the well known Monk Lewis," who, in concert with the late Mrs. Ratcliffe, had the rare merit of fright ening a generation into fits. We ourselves have read the romance of the " Monk" alone, in a school-room, at midnight, till absolutely we have been afraid to snuff the candles. " It was erroneously ass-rted, many years back, that ti late Matthew George Lewis (otherwise known by the title of Monk Lewis) died of sea-sickness on his passage to England from the island of Jamaica,—but the malady that carried him of was off a far more awful description. It was yellow fever, which had been raging for a long time at Black River, where he embarked the Ist of May, in the year 1818, on board the ship Sir Godfrey Webster, commanded by Captain —, who now trades to India with the Coromandel. For some days previous to Mr. Lewis's decease, the weather had been blowing a strong gale, which subsiding all at once into a dead calm, left the vessel as it were spell-bound in the dog latitudes. Here the heat became intolerable; and the change in the atmo , pbere visibly affected Mr. Lewis's general health and spirits. He grew restless and impatient, continually pacing up and down the deck, and spouting forth Italian and German poetry in a wild and impassioned tone of voice, accompanied by violent gestures. On the 13th of May, these serious symptoms rapidly increased on him. and becoming every hour worse and worse, at six o'clock the following morning he expired in the greatest bodily and even mental agony; for such was his delirium, that loud and bitter groans and fearful imprecations burst from his lips whilst suffering the last pangs. Captain then proceeded to read over the burial ser vice, several of the passengers and most of the crew being present; after which, in obedience to his commands, the deceased was committed to the deep. At the first plunge the coffin disappeared entirely; but rising again, the sheet that had been fastened round it became ,par tially disarranged, and the air introducing itself between its folds, inflated them, and buoyed the coffin up, so that it floated on the surface of the waters, just like a boat with its sails full set. It was first observed by a few of the passengers from a window in the front cabin, where suddenly to their surprise and terror, they beheld this novel and spectre-like obj , ct borne up by the swell of the sea almost on a level with themstives. Never shall I forget the thrilling sensation caused by so appalling an apparition—imagination can scarcely picture any thing more horrible—coming as it did so unexpectedly. I was at that time a mere child, almost an infant, but such im pressions pass not away ! Around the vessel that coffin • bark danced like a fearful mockery ; then heaving heavily over the surf, as if unwilling still to part from the living world, it bent ifs course towards the shores of Havanna!, ; and was soon lost to the straining sight of the awe-struck spectators; whether it ever arrived at those shores, or was swallowed up in the whelming waves, we have never been able to ascertain." [The remainder of the Magazines we must give at some future opportunity.] The General Steam Navigation Company's mail-packet the Sir Edward Banks, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house early yesterday morning. The Lord Melville, from Ostend, arrived at 10 a.m. COMPETITION.—At the door of the Com mercial Coach-office, Manchester, there is a large placard, thus inscribed :—" Beat this who can: inside or outsida to Sheffield, what you please !" AN HEIR EXPECTANT.—A paper of Fri, day contained an advertisement from " a gentleman of good education, affable manner, and pleasing address," who offers to inh"rit the property of any affluent nobleman or gentleman who has no issue ! Being, be says, "disgusted at some family differences," he " wishes to relinquish his connections," and having no objection to change his name, will, therefore, most considerately, accept the appellation. and fortune of any rich landed proprietor who wishes to transmit his name to posterity. The advertiser is not particular as to title. _ _ Many of the most curious and interesting particulars in the Countess of Blessington's new novel of " Grace Cassidy, or the Repealers," are understood to have been derived from the personal observations of the noble authoress during ber residence in Ireland, so that some portions of the story assume the character of autc biography. As the scene shifts to London, and the reader. is introduced into the circles of the elite, the same spirit of keen observation has evidently furnished forth the inci, dents, and *lc Ached the personages of the drama. A key to the latter has lately been published, and curiosity bas thus been in a measure gratified by ascertaining the ori ginals of the parvenu family, the political intriguer, the roue lord, the titled and married coquette, the gastrono mic baronet, &c. &c. THE NUMBER FIVE.—The Chinese ha e a great regard for this number. According to them there are five elements—water, fire, metals, wood, and earth five perpetual virtues—goodness, justice, honesty, science; and truth ; five tastes—sourness, sweetness, bitterness; acidity, and silt ; five colours —azure, yellow, flesh colour, white, and black ; they say there are five viscera—the liver, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, and the stomach. They count five organs of the senses--ears, eyes, moutb, nose, and eye-brows. A Chinese author has written a curious dialogue between these organs:—The mouth com plains that the nose is not only too near, but above her; the nose in reply defends its rsition, by stating that but for it the mouth would eat tainted meats. The nose in turn complains of being below the eyes ; they reply that., but for them men would often break their noses. NECESSITY OF MAKING A Goon \AB PEA RANCE. —ln the spring of 1796, my brother not being in good health, we hired a small store ; havingsaved about a hundred dollars we laid it out in small hardware, and got fifty dollars' worth more on credit, consisting of pins, needles, scissors, knives, &c. My brother was to attend the store, while I was to mike nails, to support us both. When I began to place our hundred and flay dollar's worth of goods on the shelves, I found they would make a very poor appearance; and I was just beginning to find out that appearance went a great way in this world. I pro cured a number of brick hats and round sticks of wood : the wood I sawed in lengths and covered it with ironmon ger'sabsox:ws,o jduoszteans realthe s'orteletsligshot on n e paper, having one shaving-box or snuff-box attached to one end. Thes., when laid on the shelves, occupied the space, .and appeared to be six, twelve, or twent scissors,t. i ck batl Bc lu e s . l covered, the having a knife and fork outside, looked as well on tLe shells ; wi a th b shelves were decently filed, and the store made a respects b' ,e appearance. I procured a glass case to stand on the counter, in which I kept four, six, or eight of a sort for retailing; and as they sold off I procured hallo dozen more by wholesale, so that I had no occasion to discompose my brickbats nor wood blocks. By mistake I had tied a round shaving-box on a brick ; a sleekie old Seorchman, ,, who used to step in for a crack, observed it. " Aye, man, says he, "but ye hae unto queer things here; wha ever saw a square shaving box?" I let him into the secret—we bad a good laugh. Says he, " Ye're an auld fa!ratit chap ; Os doubt but ye'll do vary well in this country."— Grunt Thorburn.