The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-06 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR Or THE SUN. Sta,—l find in the Morning Post of yesterday the fol lowing paragraph : " We have reason to believe that rather a lengthy cor respondence has taken place between the Premier and Mr. Tennyson, respecting the Peerage promised to Mr. Russell, late M.P. for the county of Durham. It is understood the patent was actually prepared, but Earl Grey, on being pressed to pass it, declined, for reasons doubtless best known to himself.—Newcastle Journal." I feel myself called upon to state, that I have had no correspondence whatever with Earl Grey, or any other party, on the subject referred to, and that a Peerage was never solicited for my relation, Mr. Russell, either by himself or me. I have seen Mr. Russell tkis morning, who authorizes me to make this statement, on his part as well as my own. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the story of a Peer age having been " promised" to Mr. Russell, and that the patent "was actually prepared," but afterwards abandoned, is altogether without foundation. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES TENNYSON. 4, Park-street, Westminster, April 5. CANADA-THE RIDEAU CANAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. arrived in town a few days ago from Canada, for the purpose of making the usual selection of goods for a mercantile house in that country—a custom, which you are aware, the Canada merchant, engaged to any extent in business, is obliged to observe annually. Although that part of the duty across the Atlantic does not every season fall to my lots 1 am not the less interested in, nor altogether stranget to, the passing events in old England. We oc casionally receive a good supply of English papers, in which titat interest is evinced, and much notice often taken of thur local concerns, and opinions paved on our political temper, not unfrtquently very foreign to the real state of things in that country. Allow me in a word to say, that I believe a greater insult could not possibly be offered to nine teen-twentieths of the inhabitants of that country than to observe they are inimicable to the British Government, or at all near a crisis, which will eventually result in changing their taste for the British Constitution—a Constitution, whose sound and salutary bles.ing is daily made, in ev,-ry thinking mind, more and more apparent; and if any thing else was wanting to convince them that no Constitution but the one founded on a limited monarchy will wear well for the peace and safety of the well disposed, the present alarming state of excited feeling among our republican neighbours, would be sufficient to remove all doubts on that point. Our song in Canada is, and I believe it to be front otir hearts, a " Limited Monarchy, but no Mob Go ,vertrnent." 'Some of the speeches of late years in the House of Com mons, and individual remarks out of it, produced a good deal of alarm in Canada, ay it gave rise to the opinion that the Home Government was on the eve of throwing the reins about our own necks, and altogether forsaking us, on the plea that we are a discontented people. Such a step would ruin us in Canada, and lay the foundation of a hatred against England, and English policy, as lasting as our attachment has heretofore been true and sincere. Let our governors be well instructed, firm, determined, and of humane disposition, and let the Home Government firmly support them i the due execution of their duty, and not listen to every flying report, nor the intrigue of cunning men, who, by their art, deceive public officers, and gather around them to support their evil designs, thousands who have nothing to loose, but every thing to gain, by the overthrow of all that is great and good. Let every just means be used to improve the country and im plant British feeling, and in a very few years Canada will be declared a blessing instead of " a curse" to England, and held out as a model to other colonies. The spirit of improvement manifested by the home Go vernment of late years towards Canada, in tbe very face of turmoils at home, has, in a great degree, if not entirely, removed all fear of their intention to abandon the Ca nadal. The Rideau Canal commenced and completed under the able management of Colonel By, Royal Engineers, and the advantages already visible from that important work, even in a commercial point of view, has cheered every mind, and removed every doubt as to the intention of the British Government to abandon that country. Such its the spirit now awake in Canada, that I may safely assert, that every five years to come will equal in improvement every 15 years preceding ; and to give you an idea of the advantages promised from the completion of the Rideau Canal, and of the rapid growth of Upper Caned t in parti cular, I beg leave to enclose you a eopy of the Lieutenant-. Governor's speech, on opening the House of Assembly there last October ; also an extract of the reply of the Housra touching the Rideau Canal, together with the editor of the New York 4-llbion's remarks on that sub ject—a paper much esteemed in Canada. Until my arrival here, I had no notice that such erro neous ideas were afloat respecting Canada, and more espy ciilly the Rideau Canal. It was by mere chance I pre served these papers, which I brought to amuse me on the voyage to England ; but I feel happy that they were iu my possession, to enable me, through the merhurn of your valuable journal, to male known our opinions in Canada respecting that vast work, the Rideau Canal—a canal completed through a wilderness of 130 miles, near which, at the commencement, there were neither houses, supplies, nor proper means of procuring them ; and that within a space of time, and for a sum, which, when we consider the extent, magnitude, and situation of the works, is unparalleled for expedition, cheapness, and grandeur. I say cheapness, because the prices for building and ex cavating were, on an average, lower by at least fifteen par cent., and, in some instances, to my own knowledge, 25 per cent., than that on canals in other parts of the country, where the advantages were, on the other hand, greater by 15 per cent., being in a well-settled neighbourhood, where supplies and men could be easily had ; and I have known supplies for the Rdeau Canal go from Kingston, Upper Canada, down the St. Lawrence, and up the Ottawn or Grand River, making a circuitous route of 320 miles. When the canal was opened, there was not a steam-boat ready to ply, but by the Ist of May next there will he seven steamers on that line—a strong proof of the opinion entertained there of the advantages of such acanal, as well as of the unexpected expedition with which it was carried through, by an officer of whom I have heard it said that none but Colonel By would have been able to accompliala such a mighty deed. 'What surprises me most is, meeting with people in this country who doubt the works being finished, and even indulge in invectives against that officer; but it affords me great pleasure in having it in ray power to say, that few, if any, in Canada, net imme diately connected with the Royal Engineers Officer, had a better opportunity of knowing what was going on than myself ; and trorn what I have heard since my arrival in this country I should consider it an act of cruel injustice towards that officer, were I to conceal from the public what I know personally on that subject. I lived in the neighbourhood of the canal ; I witnessed its progress ; I witnt ssed Colonel By passing to and fro by day and by night ; and, what some of you John Bulls at home would hardly believe, I have frequently known him to steep on the bare ground, without anything but his wet canoe turned on edge to cover him from the stormy blasts of the night ; and cold and inhospitable as it was, if the hour of laying down was 10, 11, or 12, at night, he, to the astonishment, and very great annoyance of his canoe men, was the first up in the morning. The prevailing opinion in Canada is, that such was his anxiety about the works (periculosa plenum opus alive), that he was not aware of the dangers and privations to which he exposed himself on these occasions ; even the hardy woodmen have been known often to say, that they never met the like of Colonel By for travelling through woods and lakes, and carrying on business, as they termed it. The canal was open on the lot of May last, but no steam-boat was ready to ply until the 22d of the same month, when the Pumper, a steam-boat, used by Mr. Drummond, one of the canal contractors, for pumping water out of the locks while building, was got ready, and started on that day, with C.ilonel By and his amiable family ou board, accotnpanied by many friends and a num ber of inhabitants, of whom I had the honour to be one. This boat drew about four and a half to five feet water, and passed along the whole line without any interruption, and, you may easily conceive, to the astonishment of the surrounding neighbours, who flocked to the shore as she passed through these heretofore unnavigable waters. The reiterated shouts of the thunder-sthck inhabitants rent the air, and the kindly feeling displayed by the Indians can hardly he described ; it was such as might at the mo ment be considered a sufficient reward, even if his country were disposed to deny hitt, the honour of that pebli: acknowledgment and prai se , w hi c h i s so j ust l y d ue to the indefatigable exertions of such an officer. These natives of the forest were living on .the banks of Indian Lake, distance 40 miles in the interior, and on the boat entering that lake, they formed themselves in front of their camp_ number about 40 cr 50 men, women, and children, with an Indian chief at their head—with two Union Jacks floating in the air, shaded with the dark green foliage of the clustering pines; they gave three cheers, and fired a feu-de joie that would not discredit a regularly organized corps. The boat, by order of Colone l By, sheered from her course for about half a mile, and took these 80115 of the woods on board—their canoes, about 12 or 15, towed a-stern. They planted their colours, as they came on board, one astern and the other, a-bead of the boat, oh serving to Colonel By, th it he had no Englsh colours flying—that he must keep them until he entered By Town, like a captain who had fought and won his battle. Going along, they stationed themselves on the wings of the boat, and kept firing until we passed through two other lakes. Suffice it to say, that the gratification felt in every breast on board at the time, was such as to induce any one to wish to be Colonel By for one half-hour. A friend has this moment put a Canada paper into my hands, containing an address from the Board of Trade of Montreal, to Lieutenant-Colonel By, on his leaving Canada. You will there find the high estimation in which that officer's services were held in that country'.; although I have repeatedly heard it remarked, that Colonel By's real value would not be known nor publicly acknowledged until after his death. Such has often happened to many meritorious individuals; but I should hope, for the sake of his country and the present enlight ened Government, that such will not be his fate, nor that of any deserving character in the present day. Your insertion of this, and such of the accompanying extracts as you may find convenient, will oblige many Canada friends, as well as your obedient servant, &c., AN INHABITANT OF CANADA. London, April 4, 1833. " To Lieut. Colonel By, Royal Engineers, commanding on the Rideau Canal, &e. " Sir,—The undersigned, the chairman and members of the committee of trade and other inhabitants of Mon treal, on the occasion of your approaching departure from Canada, with which you Dave been so long and so honour ably connected; beg leave to assure you, of the high opinion they entertain of your public integrity and private worth. " The arduous public services in which you have been for some years engaged, characterised by the most ardent zeal, ability, and perseverance, have long since attracted our special and particular observation, connected as they have been with the superintendence of one of the most magnificent and stupendous works in modern days, the Rideau Canal, the completion of which cannot fail of greatly advancing the commercial prosperity of these pro vinces in peace, and of materially contributing to their security in war. " We cannot refrain from expressing our gratitude for the foresight and patriotic views of that distinguished Ad ministration, under whose auspices the Rideau Canal was commenced, and for having selected an officer of such talents and experience as yourself, to plan and execute an undertaking of so great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of and un estimable difficulties and impediments, which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness, where malignant fevers and diseases of various natures enervated the energies, and prostrated the minds and bodies of officers, contractors, and men ; evinced on your part a moral courage, an undaunted spirit, and a combination of science and management, equally exciting our admiration and deserving of our praise. " The work itself will be an imperishable monument, as well of the glory of that great nation to which we be long, as to your name and fame. "In taking leave of you, we wish'Mrs. By, yourself and family, a prosperous voyage to your native land, and whatever envy, jealousy, disappointment or ignorance of facts and circumstances may have done, to detract from the merit of your services, we have such confidence in the justice and knowledge of the present head of your depart men►, Sir James Kempt, who himself was a witness of your indefatigable exertions, that we venture to express a well grounded hope, they will be so represented to his Ma jesty's Government, as to induce his Majesty to confer upon you some special mark of his Royal favour and appro bation. " Montreal, Sept. 26, 1832." LAW NOTICES. CHANCERY EASTER TERM PAPER. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR at Westminster.) Monday, April 15, motions.—Tuesday, April 16—pe. itions. Wednesday, April 17, Thursday 18, Friday 19, Satur day 20, Monday 22, Tuesday 23, and Wednesday 24 rebe irings and appeals. Thursday, April 25—motions. Friday, April 26, Siturday, 27, Monday 29, Tuesday 30, and Wednesday, May I—rehearings and appeals. Thursday, May 2—motions. Friday, May 3, Saturday 4, Monday 6, and Tuesday 7—rehearings and appeals. Wednesday, May B—motions. (Before the VICE-CHAtscst.tort at Westminster.) Monday, April 15, motions.—Tuesday, April 16— petitions. Wednesday, April 17, Thursday 18, Friday 19, Sa turday 20, Monday 22, Tuesday 23, and Wednesday 24 —pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further di rections. Thursday, April 25—motions. Friday, April 26, Saturday 27, Monday 29, Tuesday 30, and Wednesday, May I—pleas, demurrers, exceptions, causes, and further directions. Thursday, May 2—motions. Friday, May 3, Saturday 4, and Monday 6—pleas, demurrer., exceptions, causes, and further directions. Tuesday, May 7—short causes and ditto.—Wednesday, May B—motions. PARTIALITY OF THE HOUSE TAX. The following tables were produced at the last Court of Common Council by Mr. Jones, as unequivocal evidence of the gross partiality with which the house•tax is levied upon the metropolis and its vicinity. It will be seen by the statement, which Mr. Jones said he had received from a source of unquestionable veracity, that London is charged 60 per cent. upon the total number of house•, while most of the provincial towns are not paying more than 33 per cent., and some are assessed as low as 15 per cent.--viz., Dover and Rochester. As the law now stands, the corn- missioners, one of whom is the gentleman who t the tables, cannot relieve those who appeal and ai him, and who are not only obliged to continue larger rent than their premises are actually worth, compelled to pay the enormous amount of taxes :• exhibited re under to pay a 1, but are CENSUS OF 1831. Houses Houses Places. Popula- Total assessed worthlo/. Assessed tion. Houses. atlol. and and Taxes. upwards. upwards. Liverpool ...... .. 165,175 27,466 8,789 14,127 £59,086 Manchester Greenwich 24,553 I 4,000 1,858 2,310 Rochester 9,891 I 1,858 156 991 2,356 Finsbury Bor 224,839 29,605 23,266 281,017 City of London 122,395 17,315 13,600 198,101 Marylebone Bor 234,294 , 27,888 21,630 282,201 '1 ower Hamlets 302,519 , 66,777 23,187 93,151 Westminster 202,1''0, 21,893 17,681 Lambeth Bor 154,613 ; 29,079 16,405 Southwark 134,117' 22,482 9,923 Evesham; 4,000 I 847 178 330 1,300 Worcester 27,000 ! 5,000 1,000 2,000 6,900 Scarborough 8,752 i 2,016 387 508 2,500 York Dover 11,922 2,177 '273 1,488 3,340 Leeds 123,393 26,787 2,492 6,683 18,800 01dham...... 23,381 6,192 379 1,128 1,990 We are glad to be able to announce that Lord ALTHORP was deemed considerably better yesttrilay. • PAGANINI.—• We are certainly to be honoured by another visit from Signor PAGANINI after Easter, though the French papers, and of course the English, stated positively that he had resolved to appear in public no more, hut bad " determined to retire, and enjoy vaunt cum dignitate " It is a matter of certainty, demonstra ble upon moral principles, that while anything is to be got in this country, the hero of one string will be drawn to our shores by metallic attraction.—Harmonicon. REMARKABLE DEATHS.--It has been re marked as a singular fact that the principal heads of the printing establishment of BALLANTYNE and Co., have died during the last twelve months. First, Sir W. SCOTT, who may be said to have created the company, departed. Mr. BALLANTYNE shortly followed his illustrious patron ; Mr. HUGHES, who had superintended the press depart ment for many years, died almost at the same time; and within the last week Mr. M'CoaxiNDALE has been car ried to the tomb. The last named individual must have been known to all the literary characters who have had occasion to visit the Paul's Work Printing Office during the last twenty years. His funeral, which took place on Thursday last, was attended by upwards of 500 persons of respectability.—Edinburgh Evening Post. By the death of Colonel FANE, a sinecure clerkship of the Privy Seal has become vacant. As the appointment is one of the useless ones, it is presumed it not he filled up. It will be recollected that some differences arose between Colonel FANE and Lord, now Earl DURHAM, on the subject of the Lord Privy Seal re fusing to permit the Gallant Officer's deputy to act, which ltd to an application on the part of the Colonel to the Court of King's Bench for a mandamus to compel his Lordship to receive the gentleman whom he had appointed. Colonel PANE represented the borough of Lyme Regis in Several in the lonian Islands n nts , an.He d served was in his a sa n 4 Inspector y ea year, Mi and only son of the late Hon. THOMAS FANE, brother to the present Earl of WEs - rstowansoi n . He has left a widow and one sou. LIfERATURE. DON Q UIXOTTE. -- CRUICKSHANK'S ILLUSTRATIONS, VoL.lL—Lorrpopr, 1832. George Cruickshank's Illustrations to Don Quixotte—who does not know George, and is not the better for such knowledge ? remind us of those by Hayman, which were *ttached to the earlier editions of Smollett's translation. Hayman was an artist of the Hogarth school, and flourished somewhere about the middle of the last century. As a carica turist, his powers were of a high order. No thing could surpass the richness and variety of his comic conceptions. He literally overflowed with humour. Yet his career was anything but fortunate. Few, we believe, except the cog. noscenti, knew aught of his existence, for he was not of the number of those who are fond of trumpeting their own deserts. He left his works to speak for themselves. If they suc ceeded, good ; he would be later at the tavern in consequence. If they failed, no matter ;i t was but trying his hand at some more attractive subject. Hayman, from all we can learn of him,—which " ail," by the bye, amounts to just little or nothing—was a man who took things coolly. He had not an atom of the " irritable genus"about him. He was neither to be put down by a sneer ; paralysed by a frown ; paragraphed out of his night's rest, nor squibbed into an indigestion. His sensibilities were, for the most part, pecuniary, and the pocket was the barometer by which he regulated them. A few shillings, more or less, made all the dif ference with him in the way of content or in- quietude. The works by which Hayman is most gene rally known, are the " Illustrations to Don Quixotte." Many of these—so far as humour and truth of character are concerned—are as admi rable as it is possible for such things to be. Hayman had read the achievements of the Don and his squire with a learned eye. He entered into and hooked every whimsical trait that be longed to them. He understood Rozinante, too, and had a just appreciation of Dapple. We would give something to have been by when he first cut into the pages of " Don Quixotte." What a treat his first laugh must have been ! What a hurricane of cachinnation the scenes in the " Enchanted Castle," must have set brewing in his midriff! Then, too, the " Yan guesian carriers," with the episode of Rozinante's skittishness ! How Hayman got through these tit bits, without choking, is to us, considering the man, perfectly unaccountable. A Bishop once died of seeing an ass eat figs ; our artist would have made a far more justifiable exit in dying of Don Quixotte. It would have been as hand some an apology for dissolution, as even Cla rence's Malmsey butt. What has seduced us into these reflections, is the circumstance of both Hayman's and Cruickshank's illustrations now lying before us. We wish to do justice to both ; but in our admiration of the " quick," we must not forget the " dead." To Hayman, then, we accord the preference. He has more rich and various humour. He does not fight shy of the Don or back out of the Squire, but boldly grapples with both phenomena. Thus we have Sancho bel ligerent—Sancho sentimental—Sancho senato rial—Sancho smitten with a delicate affection for Camacho's flesh-pots—Sancho in as many moods of mind, and varieties of circumstance as there are angles in a hackney-coach horse. Then, too, the Don. We see him in his first out-break of chivalry when kneeling to be knighted by the sly innkeeper—when returning home, drubbed to his heart's content, after his first exploit—when casting amorous glances at the fair Marcelia, oblivious for the moment of the still fairer Dulcinea—when submitting his jaws to the inspection of Sancho, after his adventure with the flock of sheep, when the shepherds have forcibly hurried his three front teeth down his throat—when exulting in the capture of Mam brino's helmet, while Sancho, with a face superior to I.iston's, stands slily grinning beside him-- when fighting a night duel with the wine -skins, which he has mistaken for a giant—when un horsing the Knight of the Mirrors, and unhorsed himself while " doing" the polite to the Duchess-- when capering about the Brown Mountains in a state closely approximating to that of unfigleafed Adam—when impressing on Sancho by a pro cess of logic peculiar to himself, the propriety of submitting to a liberal self-flagellation ;—in all these characteristic traits and varieties, which are ever uppermost in the mind of a reader of Cervantes, Hayman has presented us with the Don at full length. But Cruickshank has done the same ! Not exactly. Neither his Knight, nor his Squire stand sufficiently out in the fore ground. We should say rather, neither of them have sufficient " mark and likelihood." They . are not the beings we read of in Cervantes. They lack humour and character. As for Sancho, he is not our—every body's Sancho ; he is a sham Sancho. Cruickshank has given us an Adelphi copy of him—has modelled him on John Reeve. Hayman's Sancho, on the other hand, has a face to dream of. He has muscles, t oo, of infinite flexibility, and a grin whose name i s Legion. We have been convulsed more times t han we choose to confess, by Hayman's match less sketch of him while boxing with the afflicted Duenna. Then, as respects Dapple. Our friend George has made him a very common-place ass ; whereas, it we know any thing about the matter, he was a genius, and so Hayman has depicted him. His Rozinante is better. One would swear, on a first glance at his periphery, that he be longed either to a poet or a knight-errant. In this instance George has the advantage of Hayman. To sum up the merits of the two artists. Hayman's illustrations are the more humorous ; C uic k xshcaltui k s v s the more grotesque. Hayman sticks elyto chara c t er ; Cruickshank has re an eye to the picturesque. Hayman gives us only the Don and Squire, with now and then a full-length of Rozinante, and a delicious glimpse of Dapple ; Cruickshank e k es ou t his sketches, by the aid of droll superfluities, Hayman's selection of subject is more felicitous ; Cruick shank's more common-place. The latter's two frontispieces of the Knight and Squire are, we think, failures. Sancho, to be sure, has a huge face of his own, worthy to grin in Brobdignag ; but then it has no expression. He is doing nothing with it. He is turn ing it to no account. Now he should have been either licking his lips at the recollection of the " flesh-pots," chuckling at his master's ab• surdities, or developing some rich conceits of his own. Instead of this, his face is vacant, like a house to let. But we should observe, by way of extenuation, that George has only yet com pleted two volumes of his " Don." Possibly he may improve as he proceeds, and enact marvels when he comes to the island of Barataria. There is a fine Duenna for him in the third volume, and a scene of enchantment in the fourth, that might convulse even a barber's block. As regards the literary department, the editor has done wisely in giving Smollett's translation the preference. It is incomparably the best we have. Jarvis's, though more careful, is not to be mentioned in the same breath. It is through out a poor apology for humour. In his anxiety to be correct, Jarvis has forgotten to be humo rous. Now Smollett was imbued with much of the true Cervantic spirit—witness his inimitable " Feast after the manner of the Ancients." He was also indebted to the illustrious Spaniard for many of his way-side adventures, particularly in the inn scenes in the earlier portions of Roderick Random. Moreover his translation was a con amore task, and labours of love seldom fail to succeed. It is not often that one finds (as in this instance) the first-rate novelist of one country, translated by the first-rate novelist of another. We would give worlds to see an English version of Quevedo by Lockhart—of Le Sage by Galt—of Rabelais (abridged of course) by Peacock or Maginn. Since the above was written, w e have seen the third and concluding volume of George's Don Quixotte. As we anticipated, he has indulged us with a glimpse of the Duenna, when in the act of making an irruption into the Don's bed chamber ; and of Sancho metamorphosed into a gastronomist in the banquet-hall of Barataria. There is certainly an improvement in this volume ; but the illustrations are still far inferior to Hay man's. In the dinner scene, where both artists come into direct competition, the one is not fit to hold a rushlight to the other. Cruickshank'a Sancho is a mere round-faced city glutton (an Alderman, for aught we know, for cer tainly we have no warrant to the contrary in the expression of his face), and the Doctor, who forbids him his favourite edibles, is a Cambridge pedant—a Dominie Sampson —a Salamanca student with a fish-hook nose, or anything else one may please to call him. Hayman's Doctor, there is no mistaking. He could have been a professor in no other island than Barataria, a physician to no other Governor than Sancho. He is just what he should be, a hoax personified. Independently of the peculiar humour of this medical anomaly, there is a spirit and freedom in his attitude—a character in the fine outline of his figure, amount ing almost to the dignified. Sancho is inimitable. The perplexed Governor—the indignant and disappointed gastronomist speak in his every lineament. The Doctor has just laid down the law of the island ; Sancho is about to lay down a law of his own. He is going to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act—to violate the liberty of the subject, in the person of the officious man of medicine. What a mock would be majesty, combined with how fine an apprehension of the ridiculous, in his look ! Nature and art struggle for the mastery in him. Nature prompts him to break out with an oath or a proverb, or even to discuss matters pugilistically with the Doctor : art keeps down the indecorous ebullition, by bidding him remember that he is a governor—a real governor, large as life, the very fountain of honour in Barataria ! It is this rich admixture of the grave and the ridiculous—this oil-and-vine gar amalgamation of the patrician with the plebeian, that give such an irresistible, character istic bewilderment to Hayman's Sancho. Sure we are that Cervantes would be proud to own him as a genuine chip of the old block. In the Don's interviex with the Duenna, where Cruickshank and Hayman again meet on the same field, we must in justice give George's Knight the preference. The sketch is Cruick shank's best, and Hayman's worst. George's Don looks as thin and shadowy, as if he had long since dispensed with flesh—as if he was the mere ghost—the shadow of himself—as if the very weight of his blanket would bear him down. He is here a worthy comment on the text of Cervantes. As a whole, however, we look on Cruickshank's Don Quixotte as a failure. It is a mere make-up from, a reiteration of, his former illus trations. There is little of the Don or the Squire about it but the names. George has adapted English countenances to Spanish cha racters. But this he could not help, for his genius is essentially English, and should never cross the Channel. It should cultivate the or gan of stay-at-home-ativeness. Wherever two or three aspiring Cocknies, or pugnacious Irish•. men, or pedantic Sawnies are gathered together, there should Cruickshank be in the midst of them. In such company his genius is sure to be at home—sure to be irresistible. But in Spain it is perplexed and paralysed, as if a Hottentot or an Esquimaux were suddenly to be se t down at St. James's on a court-day. TOURS IN UPPER INDIA. 2 Vois. LONDON. 1833. Those who have been resident in the East will be glad to have their recollections revived by a work like the present, which enters with spirit and vivacity into descriptions of many of the most imposing scenes and ruins of Upper India. The various field-sports of the East are also dwelt on in a con-amore spirit. Major Archer is the author of the work, and proves himself to have been no inattentive observer of men and manners in the various countries which he professes to describe. FINE ARTS. WORKS OF H. LIVERSEGE.....PABT IV. The death of young Liversege, like that of ' Harlowe and Bonnington, was a sad blow to modern art. He was a painter of as sterling promise as had appeared among us for years past. His conceptions wera. remarkable for their spirit and simplicity. He caught at a glance all the striking points of a subject, and had the rare tact to .avoid that besetting sin of many young artists, crowding and overlaying his canvass with irrelevant matter. He was not ambitious beyond his capacity. He knew the secret of his own strength, and made the most of it. He never thrust more characters into a picture than he had occasion for. All were busy doing something, and helped to work out the main effect. These remarks are peculiarly applicable to the " Recruit," an engraving from which, skil fully finished by Giller, is now lying before us. The scene of this admirable picture is laid in the parlour of a homely way-side inn. The fore ground is occupied by the recruit, his sweet ' heart, and two sergeants, who are all seated at a deal table discussing a jug of home-brewed. Nothing can be finer in their way than the countenances of these several personages. They startle you by their strict, positive reality : you feel convinced that, at one time or other, you yourself must have met with the same party, under -precisely the same circumstances. The up-turned face of the young girl, who is imploring the Recruit to have nothing more to do with those " horrid frights" of soldiers : the cold, inflexible, half-scornful look which they in return cast upon her, the one coolly resting with his arm on the table, the other smoking his pipe and fingering his gilt rattan, and both saying (or we know nothing of physiognomy), "What should women know of such matters? Leave the young fellow alone, can't you ?"—these points of the tale, together with the irresolute look of the Recruit himself, who is willing, but half afraid, to give up glory for love, and is just undecided enough to be miserable, are as skil fully worked out, as if Wilkie himself had been the artist. By way of episode, we have an old pensioner seated in the back ground, over a tumbler of swipes, whose wooden leg, and subdued, thoughtful look form the moral of the tale. And a fine mora it is. Tenpence a-day, and a wooden leg ! Here's glory for you ! Who would not be a soldier ? The adjuncts to the story are all in equal keeping—all equally necessary. The bas ket and bonnet which the young girl has flung down in her zeal to make a convert of the Re cruit ; the tin lanthorn stuck against the wall ; the cuckoo clock behind the door ; the hooks for ham or bacon fixed in the ceiling; the wicker bird-cage placed against the half-open window, behind the veteran, in order that the little cap tive may snatch a mouthful of fresh air—a fine idea, which shows that Liversege had a heart tremblingly alive to the " still sad music of humanity ;"—not one of these mi nutia, could have been omitted without detriment to the main effect. The " Recruit" is by far the best we have yet seen of Liversege's paint ings. There is a mingled archness and senti ment, a bland repose, a sweet, heart-felt rusticity about it, which remind us of Miss Mitford's Village Sketches." Of the remaining en gravings, the best is " Little Red Riding-hood." The wolf is just the sly, wheedling logician that ave read of in our infantine days—an accom plished ventriloquist, who would whine "grand mamma" to the life. Liversege had a fine, feel ing conception of a nursery tale—and we think the better of him for it. None but a blockhead despises anything that gave him pleasure when a child. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND left town on Thursday, for his residence at Hastings. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA at tended divine service yesterday (Good Friday) at the King's Palace at Kensington. The service was performed by the Dean of CHESTER. _ _ - Viscount ALTHORP was much better yesterday, and paid a visit to Earl GREY. Mr. Secretary STANLEY and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, had interviews with his Lordship yester day. Despatches for Lord AYLMER, the Governor of Lower Canada, and for Sir JOHN COLBORN, the Lieutenant• Go ♦ernor of Upper Canada, were sent off from the Colonial office on Thursday evening. Sir J. GRAHAM was indisposed yesterday and was unable to leave his room. _ _ Viscount MELBOURNE left town on Thursday for the seat of Earl SEFTON, Stoke Farm, near Windsor, on a visit to the Noble Earl. _ Mr. JOHN G. S. LEFEVILE, appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, in the room of Viscount HOWICK, attended at the Colonial-office on Thursday, for the first time since his appointment. It is said that PANTON CORBETT, Esq., formerly M.P. for Shrewsbury, will be the opponent of Colonel EDWARDS in the approaching struggle for the representation of the Montgomeryshire boroughs. Ru mour has also pointed to a gentleman resident near Os westry.—Salopian Journal. Lieutenant-Colonel GREY voted in the mi nority on Wednesday night, against Mr. WILSON Rummell motion. A Knight Commandership of the Bath has become vacant by the death of Admiral Sir W. FAHIE. SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—The following is a statement of the close of the poll :—Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, 574; Mr. DAVID BARCLAY, 556.—Majority for Alderman THosrPsorr t 18. • The Chancery Commissioners are now sitting in Lincoln, receiving evidence of the state of the Fosdyke navigation, during the last twenty or thirty years.— Lincoln Mercury. COUNTY OF GALWAY.—OII Sunday a dis pute arose between some countrymen after mass, near New Inn. The parties fought with stones, and an old man of 60, named DWYER, was stoned to death on the spot. On the 24th ult. the quail, tetrao coturnix, was heard calling near Carrickfergus, being about six weeks earlier than it had been formerly in that neighbour hood.—Belfast News Letter. On Thursday evening the Marquis MOSCATI gave a lecture on Italian literature, at the Western Institu r t compass andd decline a ine per. feet of t ion, Leicester-square. It is our duty to sa y , t hat on this occasion the Marquis almost surpassed himself, for h e rapit , i i l e y sc a r n il d ni e ,n l,egdonftltyhepre infancy,stnte(l in manhood, a short the literature of his country. What most surprises the English auditors, is the astonishing memory of the Marquis; his quotations and dates are vary numerous, and he nev e r hesitates for an ins tant in his delivery. We know that persons of practice have taken on purpose, notes, and have found that the Marquis was always correct. The M aquis is well knonvn as a universal scientific and literary man, and can lecture extemporaneously on any given subject. This we assert from what has been related to us by several members of a literary and scientific extemporaneous de bating club, of which the Marquis has been elected an honorary member; anti we are informed that since his admission, he has display e d so grea t eru diti on and learning, that be is become the admiration of all the members.. HAMBURG PAPERS. its BORSEN HA LLF, APRIL 5.--Our Corn Dit Br te bt prices somewhat _ ° %;llle quotations, there seem to be buy•rs of t vliest a l_lor holders do not seem disposed to consent to f .'',., eiffnetnutseddwepirtehsosteidt,diaffinednoltfy.noAktind of grain are 51",... duction. oo ' 'of lie From the 16th to the 22d, sixteen calg.fook passed through the Sound ; six were bound for p, PAII finir for Sweden and Norway , one for Antwer '', five the destination was not known. lt•d° 6 RI to if Wheat, Anhalt, white .............................. g - ' O 2 to I', red ............................. .. ..... ~ to . Marks .. ......................................... „*,.: to 8 ,. 5, Mecklenburg ............................ ... Z, to E Holstein ....................................... !..,', 07 , Lower Elbe .................................... !I' to ~,„ Rye, Dantzic ............................................ O, ti, -- Mecklenburgh .................................. !•i to Holstein .......................................... ‘''' , 7.2 ,o .i. Petersburgh and Riga. .......... .. ........... ,„ to :. Barley, Anhalt .......................................... t„' t o ,! Mecklenburgh ............................... V, to f, Lower Elbe ... ................................ ',,y, to F., Oats, Mecklenburg ................................... .?`.! P, Danish ............................................. it;po,,, Rapeseed ................................................... I , ' ...0 1 ' The following table shows the quantity of V' vi ported and exported during the week :-- ..., t4 pe t/4 L as t s Imported. i-''' - 910 Wheat Rye ll2 .................. Ili Barley Cats. Malt 0 .................. Buckwheat 1 .................. 3 Pease 1 . .... " ....... .... 0 • tr Beans Rapeseed l5 ................. sirket There has been little animation in our stock t ri si o ito day, owing to the non-arrival of any news. 1111 %l a , has partially revived from the late fall ; SPe fl a l- ne rrtr per Cents. were )esterdsy at 42-4-; and discoun t ' l iiard` E n d of i oyi Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent. .................... lot Anglo-Russian .......... ... ............ " ........... .. ..... 91 Russian Inscription, 5 ............ 1821 ..... . ........... Ditto, ditto, 1831 ................................... .. ........... 56* Ditto, ditto, 1832... ......................................... 05 , Polish Bonds ... ..... . ............................. ~ 0), Prussian Bonds, 1832 ............. ................................ ......,00 Austrian Bank Shares ........ .. ........................ , ' 0 Ditto Metalliques ............................................. New Austrian Four per Cents .... ....................... 79"" Spanish 3 per Cents. ............................... " ...... .. "- -Hamburg Reporter, March 30. . (From the Journal de St. Petersburghireel jodi'• ST. PETE RSBURG H, MARCH 23.--We bs",tintiel:‘ by way of Odessa, direct accounts from C° s Thr which have come in an uncommonly short time; 0 1 accounts, which are to the 10th of March, eeir,,•:is 4 by the new steam boat. The Turkish capita.' c jilebe l , most perfect tranquillity. The negotiations ultl'i, Addy Ali were continued, and the squadron of f te ! li kdetei,,, Las trieff was still at anchor in the Road of 13 0 4 4 pen On the 25th Feb. the High Admiral, ll' Adol i c went in state to Bujukdere to pay a visit ted big? Lazarieff. After lie bad reviewed the shift , j Ade; commended all the arrangements, he in 0 0 e t t Lazarieff to visit the Turkish A as dm hi it s •al g i u y ia • et o r :2 ,, twenty-sixth the Russian Admiral visited , oblit e w pi a ta n n ner l:a n eh ot a, co w n h te o nt r e e d ce v% iy it e h d a h nt i i m ng in the 11101- 1 , 0 11 13° ing him everything worthy of attention. l'ab ir m eatel hourpared of the thhoen night,our of a h n sited Admiral Llzarieff to a splendid entertain . n . 11 met with from Tahir Pacha, en this occasion, liti . i guished by frankness, and the greatest ughbifts•tte. proposal several appropriate toasts. Sortie dare d by 0; Admiral Lazareff visited the mint, accon , Pe nie •eiog inn whieh °_, e ti , dil rd. of his officers. The Sultan bad resolved tot h. O 'lf this visit by an act of polite attention, quite Oe ( l i vi. key. Gold and silver medals were presence sa d j tt!, Lazareff, which were struck in his presence, 30 f uel intended to commemorate the presence of the nero gi o squadron in the Bosphorus. Other rather O a 00 4 ; 9th March, the Austrian Internuncio bad were given to the officers who accompanied hir n %, s re I l ir•theTrbeceepdinner lasted ti,;00.0, dience of the Sultan. He was received with i' fl r ' i. e l ed g : el' iri; attention, and the insignia of our orders enric' ef o ' i 4 i tell diamonds, such as is worn by the L.D - ' ,i l ,l i Porte, was presented to him as a er- Will') of the Sultan's regard. M. Von thenfellsors6 a few days, embark on board the Austrian Or Pr, bonza, to return to Vienna by way of Tri e l t : i bse Stunner will remain, during his absence, as ' t " 1 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. beeo 91 The late G rand Vizier, R,dschid Pach a, has I, of liberty by Ibrahim I'acha, and arrived i on the o i rt ; eo Ile March at Constantinople : there he received mat'(, to his country house, and remain therefor the P d e , t j of couriers between Berlin, Vienna, BERLIN, MARCH 30.—T0-day, on the Pa ra Or d The merous list of promotions was publisbe • ,4 Prince received the rank of General of C e , " 1 2 eft For some days past there has b e en a 'r e q .— b ' bably relative to the affairs of Turkey. EXCHANGES ON LOND ON ' fil IL HAMBURG, APRIL 2.-13 12% ; two niontos,,,-- CHRISTIANA, MARCH 23.—Three months. .'"' BERLIN. MARCH 35.—Three months. 6 ..."',._ 1 / 4 'n 610 PETERSBURGH, MARCH 19.—Three month s, 1,, —Hamburg Papers, April 2. ___..... and Peter3blag P LISBON PAPERS• cl des et as LISBON t, MARCH 24.—0 n the 16th, 1 03- ; be - and wrecks of boats, which had perished in were seen in the vicinity of Cabadello- OFFICIAL.—MARCH 25• t h e eti' l Sir,—l have the honour to transmi t y ou • despatch from the commander of the 3d Di si°° vi Head-quarters, March 18. _ _ vrsatbomwsttimp lin] ihbhaer, c, ee:ealaocel ooT,S, S iom:nr,uvi 1, ,d,blnaFio . e.i. es,eitrebei,l:)sia(,), ,p, 1 l d,stiya:tidzotihpi l nti;npnix.ni a t;ooeigeecidstronls t t srio, oruie)etcs t te.mfiih,oc e , alia.eio,,ao, d leaensl rwilfon, dt e v,ottnohcsedtveeeut / kiiperree l al( rtaile a :essvr,terd;t:e:tetae l eeciui eblora t rr. t, LOlll° ol r b .tY. ,„ e llea e 'iij 'l m i de t i : lfsoe t l:r e ps asn a m t it rm tn o , a th i v i ; p uA. : a wia )ric. ( C,ti gb.iecano s e tcdruros n ih C ( eptn, t j iuswo r g . nr riiutvnt,iff.nderfld.o)skrt)reryien,m,vi.aeeniedrnaa,gyeterssh(oeitteiliuS:,vterb.::::::::ri3eBo,3o:3,l_,c,:_,. osici:lift3,obb4oo,,oieed)l leo, el scivoti:(0),.:1,00: I their fire, and obliged it tr cbt sedito bring on shore Pr p ri o ck ° tor sustained much dama rh g e e th . :rel T : l : :es ' e viAj v i e ct s he se le l w s veetnntrtecrie:,.l o: llj:te:itai:'' enemy's boats broke from iptsurminogorthi'negsfirai:dg 1-116:11:1' hands. (Here follow commendations of th e C 11. „ tt itc li t gti, " HEAD-QUARTERS, VILLA VOW , ' - j' „,lo - ' To the Conde di S. Lourenco, Santo d'Aze'r" Commanding the 3d Division/ hell OFFICIAL.-11Aucit 27. s%re, " Sta,--I have the honour to acqoaitit you r W I , that having been informed this mi.irning tb i ti t e Yr/ had erected a redoubt in the mountain of, r ' t 01e, 1 ,.'i thought proper to order the works to l'o ae'-r a trdV, ploying for this purpose the moveable colutrol' et siti of and 4th brigades of the 4th division, the 1 0(42 ;,.1 0 ,, I , in front of their encampments; in fact, thoo ' p i,1 (7 0 , themselves masters of that position %O h r :ll t h i f o iE To the Viscount de Santa yr p t l ke e re t sp e , l t y su.p d A e a s ifi t a r r m o i y n i g ng of aninud,subettirrynainhogn,-00.1 when I ordered them back to their encamp°,elifl" ti et c" Their Royal Highnesses the ' Infants D °— sort co . Don Sebastian,with T ree h md e a C d o a nd l e n f t: s e t 3 5 , . 3 1 ;: i r eb earl4o' their august farnilie', ui.eheresy her Highness the Princess Donna M a rta ''', io, ! '' Madrid on the 16th, and arrived on the "2;1 3 '', 4 health, at Elvas, when they were received svi„delle'd honours due to their rank. The illustrious two,' I that city on the 23d for Villa Vicoo, I Ol e continue thrir journey to Lisbon. : p the , LISBON, MARCH 28• —We have receiv e d f, t$ / :ttl ' letter, dated the 22d, from S. Mamede da “e mu s " r.- if , . O ur works on the right of the line coot o b i, greatest activity, and it is very rarelY th a r t to de o r, landed on the coast I luring the day. Th e A ,', or ! of c ! ) .i , has on its summit a tedoubt with four p.ev'siddle l b‘osliern,olgeer:kno workmen ei ern w mn , 4 h i i ita c ina l r i teai i n s of large calibre. In th e vn o f ill side towards the sea there is another ha 3 t er Y ci t he ° , 1 ,41 pounders, three turned towards the coast ao .., of lO,) with four heavy La Luz ; from this battery there is a trench, '" to the principal redubt there is a more elevated o'',,1010!) a b ts of ' t r e l two t welve- pounders. l'he re d ou bts ~ _,,,,e 0 / a battery to fire on the Luwzblitcnhd twhieillaPnr;ibiagaliPl)ie:et.erf7lll Castro are connected by a strong intreno,'" tbili middle of which there is a redoubt toil sstree_l:alll!, w hich those hills form, the Monte de Evh:f",`,o,o9'l W e have also received from Vallongo the I° ll efo f t teresting letter, dated the 24ith inst. brig b e f " This morning we perceived that the r ~ e o . 4 the Pr or, yzg n i : g w .aur t l i e . h: n e Pi r C ° :a e e s d a n s ' ee d ' t v e i l : e (i r cl e la'r i r ,: eT i oe . sii e d o ivos- be efirerd t: on the Monte dos Antas a strong battery, try I N might greatly annoy the encampments of ti r for ol o r i , Ariosa. The General, as soon as he was I , u cie elt t i T ,J ordered an attack to be made about nine ° ,,eo v re ' O ,I (corning, and the battery was taken in a ro Gu h t ii , ' destruction of the works required ro ue eo e ol labour, it was necessary to pursue the A.