The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-24 00:00:00

LITERATURE. NE v nSIONS in NEW SOUTH WALES' 4 S TERN A USTRALIA, and VAN DIE- S LAND. T he chi e f va l ue of th i s wor k ar i ses f rom t h e oh 4 lcY of the v i ew t h e aut h or h as ta k en o f t h e .• lies which were the scenes of his excursions. Ntenant Breton, _ of the Royal Navy, is the b ~~; and as hi s notes were ma d e i n the years ' 1) , 1 831, 1832 and 1833, they are really as as possible. Hi s fi rst c h a pt er r elates to Swan ; I° ert and as his personal observations upon 11 colony were made some years back ; they ~4 °t ) of cour se , compete i n i n terest or value ilthe recently published journals of Captain ;lStirling. He appears to think that the ate a many of the first settlers who went !, r t ° that co l ony i s su ffi c i ent l y to b e accounte d 11 1 : 11t he false no ti ons th e y had started with, 0 their course of life, as settlers, one person, I t Wilolll he a ll u d es , h av i ng ac t ua lly proposed , tke cut a p ac k o f f ox h oun d s I Respecting °lde r colony on the eastern coast, his account q°re satisfactory. The only fault we have C red With it is th a t it is occasionally to much ' tl l ,, ted ' This d e f e ct, with the want of a map, 41 , 1 ' "II the whole of his second chapter vague, ' except to t h ose muc h i ntereste d i n h av i ng a (1 w k l edge of th e co l ony , un i n t eres ting. There kt:t' °w ever, some hints in it with respect to 4j ,which the settler may profit by. The re chapters w ill b e f oun d hi g hly useful. , It e ,„ llten ant Breton's account of the flourishing L- of Syd ne y, t h e A ustra li an ca pit a l, quite con ►s all that previous travellers have said respect- Houses are built as fast as possible, but io~nOt fast enough for the increasing popula l'h) as they are taken even before finished. tlii n e : °° sequence is, that house rent is the only Pike at Sydney that can be called dear. The liters provisions in January of this year he iti r ues as very low. Beef', by the quarter, ? i t Z 4 three half-pence to two pence per pound . e inint it is a penny more. A couple of 1 1. 8 cost is. 9d., and wheat was only at from krib l a d. t ° 4 s. per bushel. Potatoes are de e- as dear, and not very good at any price, rowh'tmported from New Zealand or Hobart It is cur i ous th a t w hil e provisions are Iti:7"able at Syd ne y they should be compa 4oten. high at Hobart Town. Lieutenant Ot er -ri . s ays, l in December, 1832, beef at the P lac gh ee 'e was from Bd. to 10d. per lb. and t hings in proportion, except, we should 0414°e, pot a t oes . Th e average o f t h e year 1, 6 8 to give even a higher price for every de- I lt ion of meat than that quoted for December. lie ut author says, that notwithstanding the low -043.,(1f prices at Sydney, the farm ers ma k e a I °4 Profit, and when we take into considera the facts that they pay neither tithes nor t l at ki hardly any taxes, the circumstance need 01140.rn:au li c y h wondered at. To embark at once respectable farm," Lieutenant Bre ths a r ea in the statement of former writers 4 14 11 0, 4'C" 2 ,000/. are requisite ; that with even le ss a settler may get on, but that it will it o , ll s°lll k e Years before he derives much profit til ta " 18 farm. To labouring men and media ea) A ustrali a appe a rs as much of an el Dorado 15 r er it Was. Good mechanics will not work le was. than eight shillings per day, and inferior trot less than three and sixpence to five -n gs; but by pi ec e work they can earn twice thr ee tim es t h ose sums . A carpenter then, it: avet age qualifications, by industry, can earn t.on t ) (3t 61 . per week, double what many in tl . ll c° o are f orce d to k eep up t h e a pp e arance of 14 men with. O ne wou ld suppose that with ‘lci, z) .llt e of wages, and the cheapness of pro tti l il a abov e ment i one d , i nstances wou ld o f ten Pti Et t a mechanics rising to be wealthy pro titie°rta but such, we understand, is not the It o ,: k t "ir enormous wages being all spent in tO 4 l , eoo ess. We must reserve to another day 11 01 ; q servations we had intended to make h II IA. ' h i ° Government regulations for selling the 1 4tI o le la q% Lieut. Breton has pointed out r he - the hardships to which they expose tiler, but not all. Of the passages 11 ( 1 4 ' a marked for extract, we can only ' ° °m for the following almost incredible ptt~Oi lt ir ,"e time theplan was tried of giving a prisoner lilt 4 C 4 to go out p and join the bush-rangers, that he 't aiti et r i t i r .aY . them into the hands of the police. The man Ttth th lions left town secretly, and, on falling in 4 4 it ' m arauders , t ded lie had escaped from gaol. ' s r u s c ' ee p e r d e et e l n once or twice, but the bush ii7l,ooon b-csme aware of the scheme, and acted aca *h. Take. A e e c,:nvict bad been guilty of some crime ,he was sent to prison to await his trial. Not i7nttitilis curtailment of his d won u t d e d d e e u xe d r e c v is e e i , up o n r .er h .t i , s tit ! et 011 ; es having . expeiie h of the prison and made . off. It was not long met with Brady's g an g . which he wished forth kh tO • i '°tl,„. I rv in ; but as they naturally supposed him to he .I' kty ' '' y in spite of his protestations to the con tl.4' ti ) , 4 ; e W " 3 - er 'ad'ud g ed to suffer heath . The sentence i t tts i s ntiM i ated to him, and, at the same time, he .4 " e 4 °‘"ed five minutes to make any arrangeinents for Brady seems to have thought tie of n small n t't tn . ay film an opalion from his want o o f !the- Niel& ' e n granting it to those so ho rt quire(' it more than j'los e tt t ime being expired, the gang forced himt i l 0 1'14 44 whol e b ott l e o f l au d anum, o f w h ic h they had I ,l 'th e i Y . bY them in case of being appreheruied; for . it t,,fero,ovretatentisn, in the event of thi . s happenin t g, to bu T d e s th e s a quietus rather than rece]ve one at f d ti,liew:leeutioner;l,e they lelt bitn, as they rt 'ae sa ' ved Nat The quantity, perhaps the . i tern t I!, just after the gang had qu itte g d u h a h i l m y u , m ' which kthOder tetsei e 'ately, his stomach rejec , ed the law an ta , ke th a e meets of which merely caused him to It° arid P,than lie bad been accustomed to. On awak -4:441te himself still in the land of the living, he fell in ell on ; but, after wandering about for .m s r ome li teh n 4 second t i me , w i t h B ra dy an d his my ' might naturally be expected, were not a 4 ` 4 1?) , -41 ahed at seein him. " Iloilo! what, ar'n't you :i W „! at tll a e it h Was the , greeting . ; " we'll do for you 4 :4 0 bs_ events! It is to be presumed be had_ five ain %;eertoitn°r! granted him for preparation, but doubtful. 1, 0 pi„ tn , °I this, the point must still remainou took L ,d et ,were discharged at him, one of which to e „ id b ark, and passed round the surface of his 4:ht,oittide. the..other inflicted a flesh wound of no great M it t that of fell, and was left lor dead, which would p, t) let (pn-s`ttoe aforesaid myrmidons had not taken a v h ery: p olv till h oe sraortem) examination of the body, or they e d y s 'l, e %er a end i a e v a ed l,oth themselvesscare, scarce ttbtitc•riestrLu the as , w ßush t' 1 :11 01°1; obstinately bent ovi not quitting the woild in lo rt Y. again rallied, dressed his wounds as well as tt it t i c h ials e ir n d ° nee more set off with the intention of gist. Witb P at the . first place he canoe to. Here he ! , t. orh, o °at his host, Istir once more be met his evil of t h En4 t have believed he possessed more lives than t dly e ,.. 4 feline race. In this last rencontre he could "Peet flag usual law of five minutes, and, accord ingiy, it does not appear to have been conceded. A pistol was fired at his head, but instead of entering the skull (most likely one of considerable density), the bullet glanced and went nearly round it, causing a severe wound, and striking him senseless to the ground. The supposed corpse was cast into a creek that was nearly dry, and a few branches were thrown over it. This man is now in the colony, alive and well, and tells the story himself, having recovered from his wounds, neither of which was of a d ingerous nature. The fact was also corroborated by Brady, when examined by the gentlem an from whom I got the account, and, strange as the relation may appear, it is perfectly correct. Brady was finally disabled, like Achilles, in the he-I, and his career was terminated upon a scaf fold." THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. This is a compilation by a Barrister of Gray's Inn. It will be useless to those who possess the works which have been already published relating to this colony ; but those who have not already gone to the expense of purchasing Wentworth, Cunningham, Evans, &c., will find in this volume a fair digest of their contents, as far as relates to Van Diemen's Land. The com piler's professional talents appear to have greatly assisted him in sifting the corn from the chaff. GREAT BRITAIN in 1833. By BARON D' HA USSEZ. We must take some shame to ourselves for having left this book so long upon our table unno:iced, for of a truth, Charles the Tenth's ex• Minister of Marine has produced a work which, on this side of the channel at least, cannot fail to be interesting. Next to talk about oneself, or one's relations individually, there is, perhaps, none more interesting than talk about one's country, and one's countrymen generally. In fact, our personal vanity is un dermined when a foreigner praises national customs, attacked when he blames them ; but in either case our feelings are interested. If, upon the whole, the judgment has been favour able, we like the book, and praise it ; if un favourable, we dislike it, and blame it, both without much examination of the soundness or unsoundness of' the opinions pronounced, for, as before observed, we are parties in the cause. Although critics, we do not pretend that we can be altogether free from the national, or rather personal biases, which we have described as actuating all who read the opinions of a foreigner upon England ; but after endea vouring to abstract ourselves as much as possible, we have fancied the following to be a fair account of the Baron's opinions. The writer is evidently a man of information and good feeling, and every where we see an anxiety to be impartial, but no where is he profound, and in many places he shows that he has only examined the surface of our society. His mistakes, however, with respect to our manners and customs, are rarely so gross as most foreigners fall into. Indeed, those he has made are chiefly in descriptions which are not con nected with matters touching the higher classes, and there they must have been unavoidable, for he cannot speak English. Among the classes where his native language was familiarly spoken he was more at home, and, setting aside some occasional exaggerations, his account of them is tolerably accurate. As might be expected, a strong conservative tinge is visible through out, but the situation of the writer ren ders it excusable and even harmless, whilst the tedium described as characterising an English man's life, whether in town or country, may excite pity as a fair reflex of the feelings of the writer, arising out of that situation. An exile can hardly be expected to feel himself gay either in a town rout or a country ramble. In reading the two volumes before us, we marked some passages with which we were pleased, and others which we could controvert, but both have be come too numerous to be all dealt with within our limits. The first, however, predominate, and we must pick out one for the benefit of such of our readers as may chance to have been captivated with the idea either of a foreign wife or a foreign husband. Under the head " Mar riage," the Baron says— " Elsewhere, marriage is a tie which joins if it does not completely unite, two beings who have agreed to piss their lives together. In England it is a chain which hinds one's movements, one's wishes, even one's thoughts. There is no country in the world where more attention is bestowed on the subject of marriage, with more satisfac tory results. " Youth is already passed before people in England think of entering into this state. Few men think of marrying before thirty, and few women before twenty-two or twenty-four. This is the most suitable age, because the heyday of the passions is over, and the character is formed without the habits having become fixed. Marriage is not, as in France, an affair of convenience, of condition and fortune, of love and etourderie. The parties study e,ch other's character, and scrutinize each other's tastes. Should this first scrutiny prove favourable, an intimacy com mences, and it is after this only that formal overtures ate made. These overtures once accepted by the fam.ly, the intended is already considered as united to the person whom he is to marry. He sees her on all occasions, and .11tine ; he goes out with her, while sh, pre sides over the at raneement of their projected household, and occupies herself with a future w.tich is not yet guaranteed by any ii revocable engagement. " This state of things, which permits no shade o f e b a _ ratter, no quality, no detect, to escip. the observation of either party, lasts several months, and the engagement is only rendered binding when the certainty of a reciprocal good understanding is no longer a matter of doubt. " The happiest experience of its effects attest the advan tages of a proceedine chalked out by the plainest reason and good sense. Enelish marriage:, notwithstanding the restrictions they carry alone with them, the privation. they impose, the rigorous duties which they exact as a law, are in general productive of happiness. Husbands may dispense with the necessity of exhibiting themselves as jealous, tyrannical, or exacting, in all that relates to their honour and dignity. Custom has in this case provided against every contingency; and custom exhib is a greater severity than husbands themselves could decently do. As the men command without tyranny, the women obey without reluctance. On the part of the one and the other, it is an affair of custom and manners. The rule is uniform; that which happens in one house happens in all others. In none is therefire found any lively pleasure; but as the parties did not count on this, it is not a matter of chagrin. They live without emotions, it is true, but this very calm is in itself a happiness. " When the question has been well examined, it may be asserted, thanks to the influence of customs and man ners in England, that the marriage is a happier one in th it country than it is in any other.' The author is a gallant man, and in his chap ter on ,‘ English women," which contains some trivial mistakes as to manners, which a stranger might be expected to fall into, he sums up with the following compliment to our fair country women, which, we trust, contains no mistake : " In conclusion, it must be admitted that the English are among the moat remarkable women in Europe. They combine in their persons not only beauty, but all that renders beauty valuable, devotion to their duties, varied accomplishments, cultivated minds; the union, ins word, of ail that col,&:titutes the happiness of their domestic circle and the charm of society." Before taking leave of the Baron, there is one mistake into which he has fallen that has surprised us. He speaks continually of the cowardice of the lower classes, and " the common people." He must have for gotten that our armies, whose prowess he ac knowledges, are composed entirely of " the common people." If a mob flies from a posse of constables, it is not from the want of physical courage, but habitual respect for the power of the law. Pick out any dozen men from any flying crowd, make them constables, and they, being armed by the law, will, in their turn, be able to keep a mob of a thousand at bay. VALP Y'S SHAKSPEARE.—Vor.. XIL LONDON, 1533. We have often had occasion to speak in terms of praise of this edition, as one of the completest we know of; well printed, well arranged, well embellished, and just sufficiently illustrated with explanatory notes ; suffice it, therefore, to say, that the present volume, which consists of " Anthony and Cleopatra," and that noble play " Cymbeline," in which Dr. Johnson, strange to tell, could find nothing to commend, is embel lished with a variety of pertinent illustrations from the pen of that veteran in his art, Westall. FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. No. XLIV. LONDON, 1833. The popularity of these volumes is not greater than they deserre. They comprise the best translations, by the best scholars, of the best classics, with every objectionable phrase, and equivocal allusion carefully omitted, so that the work may be safely admitted into the libraries of private families. The volume before us con tains " Cicero," as translated by Duncan, Cockman, and Melrrtoth. The last, in parti cular, is well known, and highly esteemed for the general elegance and accuracy of his translation of " Cicero on Old Age." THE ANNUALS. THE COMIC OFFERING. LONDON, 1834. Seymour's grotesque embellishments are the redeeming features of this volume. The letter press portion, though here and there it betrays a gleam of humour, is so disfigured by bad puns, thread-bare conceits, and regular Joe Millers, that it is impossible, with any respect for truth, to speak a word in its praise. But Seymour, as usual, is capital. His " Going Out, a Singing Face," is as comic and original a con ception as is to be met with, even among the earliest and best of Cruickshank's. FRIEND SHIP'S OFFERING. Los D0N,1834 " Another and another still succeeds." This is the fourth Annual that has come under our notice. It is elegant and showy, like all its brethren, but by no means of first-rate excel lence. Richter contributes two fancy por traits of two very lovely women, in both which there is a striking family likeness. Both make too lavish a display of teeth, which, how ever, we can forgive, in consideration of their dark, expressive eyes ; long, silky, clustering ringlets ; and the ripe, rich fulness of their rounded, alabaster bosoms. " Innocence" is gracefully designed, but is rather of an insipid character, A pretty girl is sitting on the floor, watching a petted dove, with as rapt, spiritualized an air as a devotee looks up to the cross that hangs before him in his cell. The fault we find with the fair creature is, that she looks too much like an angel, and too little like a woman. If she represent the purity, s h e represents also the coldness of sculpture. A touch or two of humanity would have improved, and brought, her within the pale of our sympa thies. 44 Venus and .2Eneas on the Shores of Carthage" is an engraving by Wallis—in his most efficient style—from one of Martin's com prehensive designs. The painter, however, has fallen into an error. He has made Carthage, like Nineveh, a city illimitable in its range of magnificent temples, palaces, colonades, and columns ; whereas, when iEueas visited it, it was but in its infancy, thriving under the reign of its first lovely young Queen. We refer Mr. Martin to the earlier books of the "Eneid for the truth of our statement. In the literary department we have an animated prose tale, entitled " First Love," by Leitch Ritchie, and some pathetic stanzas on the " Forgotten Tryst," from the pen of Mrs. Norton. ILLUSTRATIONS OF LITERARY SOU- VENIR We have just been favoured with a sight of the illustrations of the forthcoming Literary Souvenir. They are ten in number ; some are very carefully finished ; others bear marks of haste and slovenliness ; but as a whole, they may vie with any of their predeeelsors. One of the trust spirited is an engraving by Thomas, of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, from an original design by Bentley. The vessels tossing on a stormy sea in front, and those behind hacked by a L4 locmy, lurid sky, are so disposed as to produce a very striking effect. The swell of the foatn-created waves—a difficult thing to manage in engraving—is easy and natural : they are too often stiffly handled by even our best artists. " The Contrast is but a so so illustration. The clouds are dead, flat masses of blackness without spirit or character ; and the draperies of the two females, the blonde and the brunette, who form the Contrast, labour tinder the same defect. A " Portrait "is full of feminine sweetness and delicacy. The name of the lovely original, however, should have been affixed. Beauty should never be anonymous. FRANKFORT, OCT. 15.—De Frassinous, Bishop of Hermopolis, has passed two days in our city, on his way to Prague, where he is going to direct the education of the Duke of Bordeaux. He was accompa nied by Baron Chalet, formerly Secretary to the Duchess of Angooleme. There was no difficulty in their departure from Prague, but among the pretty considerable number of French who have not been able to proceed to that place is the Marquis d'Hautpoult, who has been appointed sub tutor to the Duke of Bordeaux, and whom obstac:es, ori ginating in a diplomatic quarter, hinder from proceeding on his journ e y. Th e D u k e d e G u i c h e , t h e P r i nce and Princess de Beaufremont, have just arrived at Frankfort. Charles X. has left Prague ; his little Court has resolved to return to France, and does not seem to intend to go back to Prague. THE CASE OF THOMAS COX SAVORY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. RESPECTED FRIEND,-The verdict of a Jury having refuted the accusation brought against me, without the necessity of hearing all the evidence in my defence, I owe it to myself to make a few observations on the difficulties which were studiously thrown in the way of my excul pation, and which nothing but the consciousness of innocence could have led me to hope that, by meeting them boldly, I should be able to surmount. It was this consciousness of innocence which prevented me from taking any notice of the injurious statements made by interested individuals during the prejudiced hearing which my case received at the Mansion House, and which were reported in most or all of the newspapers. With the evidence published on that cecasion, the calumnious insinuations of parties who were not witnesses were mixed up : even the Caief Magistrate allowed hi s mind to be influenced by the clamour which some of my fellow tradesmen had raised against me, and made ob servations which were highly calculated to prejudice me on my trial. The bitterness of feeling which assailed me at the Mansion House was soon circulated through the kingdom. I was represented as one who had snld at prices which could not give me a profit without the evasion of the duty. Advertisements were published, and handbills posted in the streets, which, though said to be for the purpose of procuring evidence, li id the effect of keeping up the excitement against me till the day of trial ; and by these means, before my case was heard by a regular tribunal, I was spoken of as one condemned. Under these circumstances a committee, consisting of members of the Society of Friends, was appointed to investigate my case, as the moral delinquency of the act with which I was charged, independently of any le.eal consequences, would, if not disproved, have insured my expulsion from that Society, to which my family have belonged for 110 years, 80 of which they have car ried on the business of silversmiths in London, with) un sullied reputations. The decision of the committ e was, that 1 was clear of all knowledge of the articles being forged, the sale of which was the ostensible ground of toe proceediigs against me. Yet, though the publieation of that decisioaa might. have had some aiffetit in mitigating the preju ice lithich some of my fellow tradesmen had excited, it was not published, with all the disadvantages under which I laboured, with a powerful body as my prosecu tors, and many of the shopkeepers in my own trade anxious for my ruin. I trusted that the investiga'ion of my case in the ordinary course of justice would be my vindication, and 1 have not been disappointed. _ • • It appears that out of the 690 ounces of silver plate taken from my shop, by the officers of the Goldsoiiths' Company, only 43 ounces were retained having forged marks. It is now admitted that the Offic,r4 seized spoons as forged, which had rtgul irly paid the duty, and been marked by themselves at the Hall ; for out of the twenty articles seized, it was drawr from the witnotses for the prosecution, on cross-examination, that 10 articles, though they have never yet been returned to me, had genuine stamps. If the marks in question were so well executed that even the officers of the Goldsmiths' Company confounded the forged marks with the genuine ones, it easily accounted for my being imposed upon by the maker of those articles, whose conduct, while he manufactured and sold to me, I had no reason to suspect. For reasons unconnected with any suspicion of forgery, I declined to have any snore dealings with him some time before this charge was made against me, which it is not likely I should have done, if, by being in collusion with him to forge the stamps, I must put my character, my liberty, all that was dear to me in the world, in his power. At my wholesale house, conducted by Richard Ilillarr, akout 1,500 ounces of plate were examined, and not an ounce of it was charged to have forged marks. All my je,vellery was found to be correct. Not an ounce of silver, made at my own manufactory, nor by any (save the one in question) of the small masters of whom I pur chased, was alleged to have false marks. As to Treen, I proved my payment to him of the duty invariably, both by his own receipted invoices, and by the evidence of my shopmen, who examined his bills, and saw the amounts discharged. Yet an attempt was made by a leg 1 quibble to exclude the evidence altogether. The question whether I could sell at the prices which I did while paying the duty, and yet receive a profit, shall be de cided by my continuing to sell exactly at the same prices as before. I have only to add that though my gratitude is first due to the Power that protects innocence, I cannot but the this opportunity of warmly acknowb , dging the obli gation I am under to tile members of the Society of Friends for their unchanging good opinion, and for the endeavour to afford me an opportunity of vindicating my prin ciples and my character while assailed by prejudice and detraction. To Sir James Scarlet, Sergeant Andrews, Sydney Taylor, and J. Adolphus, for their talent and zeal as my Counsel on the trial, my acknoadedginents are also due. The foregoing remarks being called for by the mk-state ments, which have appeared in the newspapers, I trust thou wilt do me the justice to give them insertion. Remaining, thine respectfully, THOMAS COX SAVORY. 54, Cornhill, 2311 of 10th Month, 1833. EXTRAORDINARY SOICIDE.—An inquest was on Monday last held before Mr. W. Adye, on the body of Thomas Godwin, a boy, only 10 years of age, who was found hanging by the neck to the branch of an oak tree, in the parish of Kingswood, a day or two pre viously. It appeared by the evidence of a little boy, five years old, that he accompanied the deceased into the fields to collect firewood and mushrooms, and that the deceased took a amall cord with bins. After they had been out some time, the deceased said that if he could not find another mushroom he wouhl hang himself; and being unsuccessful, he got upon the child's shoulders, fastened the cord round his neck, and, tying it to the branch of a tree, swung himself off. The child ran for assistance ; but before any arrived, Godwin was a corpse. Verdict— " That he hung himself, not expecting it wouhl kill Ilitn."—liampsh ire Advertiser. VERA CRuz, AUG. 30. The cho!era morbus has unfortunately spread itself over the country ; ;t has existed in the capital since the Ist of this month. It is reported that more than 16,000 persons have dii.d in that city of this epidemic ; on some days the deaths were from 1,200 to 1,400 persons. The disease has attacked principally the lower class of people. By the last mail the accounts were more favourable—the disease was on the decline, and it was hoped that it would soon disappear. In o;:.eretaro and Guanaxuala, that is, in the belligerent armies, the cholera has in ule great havoc among both parties, and put a stop to offensive operations. Within eight or ten days we have also the cholera in Vera Cruz, but till now the mortality is nor considerable. Another letter from Vera Cruz, of the same date, says— cholera has been with us 12 days, but the deaths out of the hospital have not exceeded SO or 40. No merchant has yet died." M ET ROPOLITAN POLICE.—Last night a ver y n umerous and respectable meeting of the rate payers of the parish of S , . James, Westminster, was held in Willis's Assembly-room, Brewer-street, for the purpose of takimz into consideration the present constitution of the metropolitan p dice force, and to adopt such mea sures as mieht be deemed necessary. Mr. ATeeket, having been called to the chair, stated that the meeting hail been convened in compliance with a resolution unani• mously a opted at a public vestry. Letters were read f r om the churchwardens, declining to interfere in the tneetmg,---not that they were opposed to its object, but they thought their engagement in political meetings would be incatnpatiOle with the office they filled. Se • veral resolutions were adopted, condemnatory of the power exercised by the Government in the appointment anti control of the p o li ct ., and of the amount of the exp,as which the in s tit ut i on occasioned. A resolution was car ried for the formation of a committee to cu-operate with the other metropolitan parishes, for the attainment of the object of the meeting. On a resolution being passed, ca lling on the represen t at i ves o f W estm i nster to su pp ort the proposed alterations in the police system, Col. Evans c ame forw ar d an d a dd resse d t h e meeting :it considerable l e ngth. Th e H on . G ent l eman concurre d i n th e o bj ect i ons to the police enterta i ne d b y t h e meet i ng , an d conc l u d e d b y declaring that he would be at all times ready to support the views of his constituents on this subject. THE KIIAN OF TUE CALMUCK TARTARS A ND MS ENGLISH CARRIAGE.-In the early part of the last century, P, ince Alewz:koff, the favourite of Peter the Great, sent from St. Peters,urgh a handsome Eng lish coach, as a present to the Khan of the Ca'mucks. Some time afterwards an Ainbnisador from the Khan rived at the Court of the Czar, to make a representation that one of the whe&s of the carriage had been broken, a nd to desire the Prince to let him have another wheel. The courtiers were curious to know what use had been made of the carriage. The Ambassador told them that bis master gave audience to the Envoys of the neighbour ing Khans in the said carriage ; and that on solemn days he dined in it. Toe pole he had looked upon as super fluous; and had caused it to be cut off. rMES. he meeting the, lair of stating e the san' e lent of the nd which I trerae pees: to carry it e will Wee 5r seeing the hom I per' bject, Wor e years 4°' ech be tlien, acorporatO 'vant, tCEICT. ►IAGIS• ing of Mid' )n$ House confirms' Ind, includ i Esq., wet. ) called the 'ark and the Mr. Ciarict portation ‘ ed that, 111 , I to doter' , r lite ; tb ss were lulu', as term' vas entity Iragistrltte i ' from Alf: would apr the accoun t ' order of 0 8 ; Should bi ‘lftbiAl 4 tie. 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'reel ofhtir# BerV iCe° theta• to, when 011 'tru9tc",j F ice 0812' EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN ROSS. Admiralty, Oct. 22. Slr,---I am commanded by my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty to transmit you tin. copy of a letter addressed to their Secretary by Captain Ross, containing an outline of the proceedings of that gallant officer and his brave companions, and their providential deliverance from a situation of peril unequalled in the annals of navigation, and I am to express their Lordships' wishes that n docu ment so honourable to the parties, and to the naval service of the cowry, may, through the commit tee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, be made public. I am, Sir, your very humble Servant, Mr. Bennett, Lloyd's. J. BARROW, On board the Isabella, of Hul', Baffin's Bay, Sept., 1833. Sir,—Knowing how deeply my Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty are interested in tie ad. vancement of nautical knowledge, and particularly in the improvement of geography, I have to ac quaint you, for the information of their Lordships, that the expedition, the main object of which is to solve, if possible, the question of a north-west pas sage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, parti cularly by Prince Regent's Inlet, and which sailed from England in May, 1829, notwithstanding the loss of the foremast and other untoward circum stances, which obliged the vessel to refit in Green land, reached the beach on which his Majesty's late ship Fury's stores were landed on the 13th of August. We found the boats, provisions, &c., in excellent c rn lition, Our no vestige of the wreck. After corn pletine in fuel and other necessaries, we sailed on the 14 h, and on the following morning rounded Cape Garry, where our new discoveries commenced, and, keeping the western shore close on board, ran down the coast in a S.W. and W. course, in from 10 to 20 fathoms, until we had passed the latitude of 72 north in longitude 94. west ; here we found a considerable inlet leading to the westward, the ex amination of which occupied two days; at th;s place we were first seriously obstructed by ice, which was now seen to extend from the south cape of the inlet, in a solid mass, round by S. and E. to E.N.E. owing to this circumstance, the shallowness of the water, the rapidity of the tides, the tempestuous weather, the irregularity of the coast, and the nu merous inlets and rocks for which it is remarkable, our progress was no less dangerous than tedious, yet we succeeded in penetrating below the latitude of 70. north in longitude 92. west, where the land after having carried us as far east as 90., took a de cided westerly direction, while land at the distance of 40 miles to southward was seen extending east and west. At this extreme point our progress was arrested on the Ist of October by an impenetrable barrier of ice. We, however, found an excellent wintering port, which we named Felix Harbour. Early in January, 1830, we had the good fortune to establish a friendly intercourse with a most inte resting consociation of natives, who, being insulated by nature, had never before communicated with strangers; from them we gradually obtained the important information that we had already seen the continent of America, that about 40 miles to the S.W. there were two great seas, one to the west, which was divided from that to the east by a narrow strait or neck of land. The verification of this in telligence either way, on which our future operations so materially depended, devolved on Commander Ross, who volunteered this service early in April, and, accompanied by one of the mates, and guided by two of the natives, proceeded to the spot, and found that the north land was connected to the south by two ridges of high land, fifteen miles ie breadth, but taking into account a chain of fresh water lakes, which occupied the valleys between, the dry land which actually separates the two oceans is only five miles. This extraordinary isthmus was sub sequently visited by myself, when Commander Ross proceeded minutely to survey the sea-coast, to the southward of the isthmus leading to the westward, which he succeeded in tracing to the 99th deg. or to 150 miles of Cape Turnagain of Franklin, to which point the land, after leading him into the 70th degree of north latitude, trended directly: during the same journey he also surveyed 30 miles of the adjacent coast, or that to the north of the isthmus, which, by also taking a westerly direction, formed the ter mination of the western sea into a gulf. The rest of this season was employed in tracing the sea-coast south of the isthmus leading to the eastward, which was done so as to leave no doubt that it joined, as the natives had previously informed us, to Oektille , , and the land forming Repulse Bay. It was also determined that there was no passage to the west ward for 30 miles to the northward of our position. This summer, like that of 1818, was beautifully fine, but extremely unfavourable for navigation, and our object being now to try a more northern lati• mile, we waited with anxiety for the disruption of the ice, but in vain, and our utmost endeavours did not succeed in retracing our steps more than four miles, and it was not until the middle of November that we succeeded in cotrieg the vessel into a place of security, which we named " Sheriff's Harbour." I may here mention that we named the newly-dis covered continent, to the southward, " Boothia," as also the isthmus, the peninsula to the north, and the eastern sea, after my worthy friend Felix Booth, E , q., the truly patriotic citizen of London, who, in the most disinterested manner, enabled me to equip this expedition in a superior style. The last winter was in temperature nearly equal to the means of what had been experienced on the four preceding voyages, but the winters of 1830 and 1831 set in with a degree of violence hitherto beyond record, the thermometer sunk to 92 degrees below the freezing point, and the average of the year was 10 degrees below the preceding; but, not withstanding the severity of the summer, we tra velled across the country to the west sea by a chain of lakes, 31) miles north of the isthmus, when Com mander Ross succeeded in surveying 50 miles more of the coast leading to the N.W., and, by tracing the shore to the northward of our position, it was also fully proved that there could be eo passage be low the 71st degree. This autumn we *succeeded in getting the vessel only 14 miles to the northward, and as we had not doubled the Eastern Cape, all hope of saving the • ship was at an end, arid put quite beyond possiblity by another eery severe winter; and having only provisions to last us to the Ist of June, 1833, dis positions were accordingly made to leave the ship 111 her present port, which (after her) was narrieki Victory Harbour. Provisions and furl being tar ried forward in the spring, we left the ship on the 29 h of May, 1832, for Fury Beach, being the only chance left of saving our lives : owing to the very rugged nature of the ice, we were obliged to keep either upon or close to the land, making the circu t of every bay, thus increasing our distance of 200 miles by nearly one-half; and it was not until the Ist of July that we reached the beach, completely exhausted by hunger and fatigue. A but was speedily construc;ed, and the boats, three of which had been washed off the beach, but providentially driven on shore again, were repaired during this month ; but the unusual heavy appear ance of the ice afforded us no cheering prospect until the Ist of August, when in three boats we reached the ill fated spot where the Fury was first thrived on shore, and it wfa not until the Ist of September we reached Leopold South Island, now e'tabl shed to be the N.E. point of America, le la titude 73. 56., and longitude 90. west. From the summit of the lofty mountain on tho promontory we could aril L a s n e e c a Prince s ter so u Regent's nd,‘vh Inlet,ich B presented a. Sra nip t en i e t : rrable mass of ice, just as I had seen it in 1818. Here we remained in a state of anxiety and suspense which may be easier imagined than described. All our attempts to push through were in vain; at length, being forced by want of provisions and the approach of a very severe winter to return to Fury Beach, where alone there remained wherewith to sustain life, there we ar rived on the 7th of October, after a most fa tiguing and laborious match, haviog been obliged 7o leave our boats at Batty Bay. Our habita ion, which consisted of a frame of spars, 32 feet by sixteen feet, covered with canvass, was during the month of November enclosed, and the roof covered with snow, from four feet to seven feet thick which being saturated with water when the tern perature was fifteen degrees below zero, immediately took the consistency of ice, and thus we actually became the inhabitants of an iceberg during one of the most severe winters hitherto recorded ; our suf ferings, aggravated by want of bidding, clothing, and animal food, need not be dwelt upon. Mr. C. Thomas, the carpenter, was the only man who pe rished at this be.lch, but three others, besides one who had lost his foot, were reduced to the last stage of debility, and only thirteen of our number were able to carry provisions in seven journeys of 62 miles each to Batty Bay. We left Fury Beach on the Bth of July, carrying with us three sick men, who were unable to walk, and in six days we reached the boats, where the sick daily recovered. Although the spring was mild, it was not until the 15th of August that we had any cheering prospect. A gale from the west ward having suddenly opened a lane of water along shore, in two days we reached our former position, and from the mountain we had the satisfaction of seeing clear water almost directly across Prince Re gent's Inlet, which we crossed on the 17th, and took shelter from a worm 12 miles to the eastward of Cape York. The next day, when the gale abated, we crossed Admiralty Inlet, and were de tained six days on the coast by a strong north-east wind. On the 25 hwe crossed Navy Board Inlet, and on the following morning, to our inexpressible joy, we descried a ship in the offing, becalmed, which proved to be the .tabella, of Hull, the same ship which I commanded in 1818. At noon we reached her, when her enterprising commander, who had in vain searchel for us in Prince Regent's Inlet, after giving us three cheers, received us with every demonstration of kindness and hospitality which humanity could dictate. I ought to mention also that Mr. Humphreys, by landing me at Possession Bay, and subsequently on the west coast of Baffin's Bay, afforded me an excellent opportunity of con cluding my survey, and of verifying my former chart of that coast. I now have the pleasing duty of calling the a'ten tion of their Lordships to the merits of Commander Ross, who was second in the d'rection of this expe dition. Tlyt labours of this officer, who had the departments of astrolomy, natural history, and sur. veying, will speak for themselves in language be yond the ability of my pen; but they will be duly appreciated by their Lordships, and the learned bodies of which he is a member, and who are already acquainted with his acquirements. My steady and faithful friend, Mr. Wm. Thom, of the Royal Navy, who was formerly with me in the Isabella, bes.des his duty as third in command, took charge of the meteorologicil journal, the di,tri bution and economy of provisions, and to his judi cious plans and suggestions must be attributed the uncommon degree of health which our crew en joyed; and ai two out of the three who died in the four years and a half were cut off early in the voy age, by diseases not peculiar to the clima'e, onlc one man can be said to have perished. Mr. /1111- armid, the surgeon, who had been several voyages o these regions, did justice to the high recommen dation I received of him ; he was successful in every amputation and operation which he performed, and wonderfully so in his treatment of the sick; and have no hesitation in adding, that he would be an ornament to his Majesty's service. Commander Ross, Mr. Thom, and myself, have, indeed, been serving without pay ; but, in common with the crew, have lost our all, which I regret the more, because it puts it totally out of my power ade quately to remunerate my fdlow-sufferers, whose vase I cannot but recommend for their Lordships' recommendation. We have, however, the con solation, that the results of this expedition have been conclusive, and to science highly important, and may be briefly comprehended in the following words :—The discovery of the Gulf of Boothia, the continent and isthmus of Boothia Felix, and a vast number of islands, rivers, ;Ind lakes; the undeniable establishment that the north-east point of America extends to the 74th degree of north latitude; valuable observations of e very kind, but particularly on the magnet ; and, to crown all, have had the honour of placing the illus trious name of our most gracious Sovereign William IV., on the true position of the magnetic pole. I cannot conclude this letter, Sir, without ac knowledging the important advantages we obtained from the valu..ble publi ca ti ons o f Sir Edward Parry and Sir John Franklin, and the communications kindly made to US by those distinguished officers before our departure from England. But the glory of this enterprise is entirely due to Him, whose di vine favour has been most especially manifested to wards us—who guided and directed all our steps; ‘vho mercifully provided, in what we had deemed a calamity, his effectual means of our preservation ; arid who, even after the devices and inventions of man had utterly failed, crowned our humble endea vours with complete success. I have, &c. JOHN ROSS, Captain 11,N. To Captain the lion. George Elliot, &c. Secretary, Admiralty. Father Marie Joseph de Geramb, a monk o f La Trappe, has just arrived at Marseilles, on hoard a t , English brig the Rapid, having completed his travels t o Jerusalem, Mount Sinai, and Thebais, which have occupied him three years. This religionist is known to the world as the Ex. General Baron Ferdinand de Gerarnl4, Own b rlain to the Emperor of Austria. A German paper, speaking of the swiftness of various birds, says, " A vulture can fly at the rate of 150 miles an hour." Observations made on the coast of Librador convinced Major Cartwright that wild geese could travel at the rate of 90 miles an hour. The common erow cot fly 25 mile, and swallows, according to Spallan aain, 92 miles an hour. It is said that a falcon was discovered at Malta 24 hours after the departure of lionry IV. from Fontainebleau. If true, this bird mu,t have flown for 24 hours at the rate of 57 miles an hour, not allowing him to rest a moment during the whole time. The public will be glad to hear that a new novel, Lire, t n ,y , t l h s e .. a n dni a p r p e e d a r a . u t I T ) of "A Marriage The name a men fthe for, in co t H n High tale is " Trevelyaii," the subject of which i., like 'hat of the form-r work, connected with those infelicities woich t.o often arise from Alliances wherein aggrandisement (.11 fortunes, rather than the sympathy of hearts, i. consulted. It has been universally allowed by the first authorities in literature, that this affecting thigne was never so i'npres. a vely and deli adely touched as by the writer of "A Mar, riage in Hith Life." A RARA Avis.—At the Quarter Sessions on Friday, the Court wits visited by one of the phenomena of the present day,-1 gentleman wearing large red kers and a long plaited tail, quite two feet long, of his own natural hair. Being dressed in black, the effect was curious an d challenged much observation. The eccentric is, as we hear, Mr. John Bridger of Mayfield, yeoman. lie was the prosecutor in a case of assauo, whien wa,, how ,ver, happily arranged without the assistance of toe Court. —Brighton Guardian. Lieutenant Breton's " Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Diemen's Land," give a description of the condition of these colonies SO late as the present year. His narrative forms not only a most amusing book of travels, but must prove of rate value to such as propose to locate in so remote a region. Oo this subject he observes, "I believe no persona have written on the colonies, who have not been in some way connected, it may be said identified, with one or other of them. The only obj-et I have in view is to convey as accurate an idea as pos,iiile of the nat ure an d resource s of the different settlements ; an th a t, i n t h e event of the emigrant nndertaking a, voyage of nea r ly 16,000 miles , he may not find on his arrival a t hi s d est i na tion that he has been rni,led by overdraw n accoun ts, or acinal s t e a r t s e arly e nts acknowledgedT he value while of thisite r well, l" d r o reader fo merit will have his a tt e ntion excited by the visit tions of country —hy the strang e anecdotes of the aholi. metauttv' he uni emus, gines and tho stranger facts connected with the coneic's and the white settlers, and by toe inures ing arc .on s of the animals of Australia and Tasmania, awl other state. ments illustrative of Natural History in genera!, and the History of Alan in 'Articular.