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.!A e• 4 • after dinner in Prado, in a magnificent state rarrlit - 4 , , surmounted with a crown. T, eir Majesties were accom panie, hy a numerous and hi illiant retinue. After riding up and down several times, they returned to the Palace. There was a long concourse of inhabitants at the Prado, but the R.yal Family were not greeted•by a single vivat. Madrid is perfectly tranquil. • The King, wishing to give his'artny a proof of his 11 ,, yal solicitude, has instituted, by a Royal Decree of the 19 h inst., a special order in its favour. The decoration, sus pended from a sliyblueribar . d, bearing the name of Mails 1-abel,Louisa, is to be conferred on 96 men oat of every battalion of the army: FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JUNE 29.—The. Augiburg Gazelle of the 25th inst., contains the.following :—" Prince Esterhazy, our Ambassador at the Court of London, will return to his post. 'very shortly, in order• to take'a part in the c ,n -ferenets, which are to be resumed in that capital, for il:e definitive settlement of the Dutch and Belgian question. Hopes are en eitained here that ti Taostion will soon be entirely determined. As peace is r.JW also restored in the Eastohere remains but the affairs of Portugal to set tle. These ate asstunis , g a serious character, and trill naturally attract the attention of the grest Powers. We ledrn by the last accounts from Turkey, that Ibrahim Pacha has been indisposed for some weeks past, and that his state was of a nature that excited alarm amongst his friends. 5h0...141 tesi-: news be correct, Egypt would pos• sees its new dynasty hut a short time longer, as Mehemet Ali is far advanced in age. The Sultan might avail himself then of the circumstance to recover his authority over every part of the Ottoman empire." 0:s Wefts:esti dee:araeion „vas made h..fore • the Tribunal du Commerce of the suspension of payments by the proprietors of the celebrated iron works du Creusht, originally founded by Messrs. Manby and Wil son, Englishmen ; the company were therefore declared in a teate of bankruptcy. This occurrence, the immediate cause of which was an execution, levied by M. Aquado, Jot a sum of 500,000 f , due to him, will throw snore s thin 2,000 artisans out of employ. It is said that Go vernment has ordered military precautions to be taken against any disturbances cc, urring at the works. We learn from Lucerne that the Federal Compact has been adopted in the Grand Council of that canton by a majority of 71 to 3 ; but it is referred to the sanction of . the Primary Assemblies of the people, which are convoked for Joy 7. We understand that the Spanish and French Govern ments have come oe a specific arrangement selz.tive to the boundaries of the too kmgdorns as respects the rights of pasturage, wisiCh it is hoped will prevent the recurrence of the sanguinary I....tiflicts so frequently taking place be tween the Spanish and Fiench peasants on the Pyrenean frontier. The Augsburg Gazette, of the 23d instant, contains the following, stated frontiers of Servia, June 10: " Commercial letters from Constantinople mention that the Rintsi in Captain Lieven, whom Count 01 tuff had sent to the Head quarters of Ibrahim Paella, in order to ascer tain the retreat of the Egyptian army, has returned to the capital, corroborating the evacuation of Natolia. In consequence of this, the Russian troops were already em barking No serious obstacles appear now to exist to prevent the final sAtlement of the Eqptian question. G eat excitement continues to prevail in Servia Prince Alilosch has called out the general levy, and driven away the Turkish authorities from those districts which by the treaty of Adrianople, were to be incorporated with S rvia. He appears to avail himself of the embarrassments of the Porte, to take possession of the provkces which, indeed, were awarded to Servia, but the frontiers of which re• mained to be stttled. The oppressive conduct it the Turkish collectors of taxes and tenths app-ars to have excited the Servians against the Ottoman Government." (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) PARIS, SATURDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M. There is reason to fear that the 14th of July (the anni versary of the fall of 'he Bistile) may not pass off as quietly this year us it did the list. You are aware of the unpo pularity of the plan, fixed upon by Ministers at the sug gestion of Marshal Soult, of fortifying Paris by means of a set of fortresses which sheula ....mind the city as well as the points from which it is practicalde for an external enemy to make his approach. The execution et this plan, arrange to say, was commenced before any application was made to the Chamber of Deputies fur the necessary funds, and before any trouble was taken to ascertain what :night he the feeling of the Chambers and of the coun'ry -especting it. You are also aware that the Chamb rof -tputies refused to grant supplies for that objeet - Onsit a bad been proposed and passed, defining and making lute,tk:e mode of fortifying the capital, and that, not ,- -tandi,ng this refusal, the works were continued :‘t aton and Epine. If you have read the re y published I, tter of M. Clermont Tonnere to vies the Tenth, on the expediency of fortifying .. t i t t, pal would easily understand why the pre cant Government, under the inspirations of Mar shal Soult, has persisted in the strange course which it had thought proper to adopt. It will not be surprising, ti err fore, that the tranquillity which the country has enjoyed for the last few months should undergo serious interruption, and things be brought again to the " topsy turvy" condition in which you saw them in June, last y e ,r. It is said that the people of Paris intend celebrating the 14th of July by proceeding en masse to Charenton and Epine, and demolishing the works of the fortresses, as far as they have gone. The Government will, of course, station strong bodies of military near the fortresses to oppose the popular scheme, and a collision may take place of which it is hardly possible to foresee the consequences. The people are advised by the independent press to take a snore quiet and leg .1 mode of opposing the execution of ;he Ministerial plan of fortification, but the voice of the pretax will not avail on such a point. The people wih act on this occasion - as they have done on so many timer ones. They will either remain apparently inaiff,a-tnt to what is going on, or rise spontaneously to avenge the at tempt made against the it liberties by a Government which -tl:tsy alone have raised out of the barricades. Tl.e French funds have gone on declining, in spite of the exertions of the speculators for the rise to keep them up, Th e real cause of this tendency in the prices of the fun's fur the last few days is a temporary scarcity of money. To morrow is the day called jour d'echeance roinmerciale—that is, the day on which the hills of trade aragi others rue made due; and there having been a greater demand for cash than usual, the highest discount has been offered, and sums have been withdrawn from the funds to he so empl , yed. Hence the sales of the stock, and the effect they necessarily produced. The accounts from Constantinople to the 7th instant, received here through various quarters, are such as to make many persons believe that the Russians have by this time entirely evacuated that capital. But the accounts 4 u pot say that the evacuation hid been already, cum penned, and it may be as well to wait until we learn that hot a single Russian soldier remains within the Bosphorus before we make up our minds that the intention to evacu ate was sincere. According to the last accounts from the Grand Duchy of f4 e ,i 4 m, th e re was reason to fear that a new diesolution a t h e e leatiie Chamber wilt take place. The opposition Pet up by the majority in the late Chamber against some of the views of the Government brought about its disso lution ; bat it appears di it the result of the appeal thus made to the electors has not at alt satisfied the wi3O,es of the Coutt. Many of the late members have been returned, and the new ones are not disposed to act as the tools of the Government and the Germanic Diet. The new Chamber appears disposed to insist on the entire liherty of the press. It might as well vote for a republic in f .rm of government. The former had as much chance as the latter of being maintained where the bayonets at the dis posal of the Germanic Diet are able to reach. The 3 per Cents. opened to day, for the end of the month, at 77f. 45c., and after being done at 771. 50c., piosed at '77f. 35c. to 40c. The 5 her Cents. ci , -ed at 10,3 f, 70c., also for time. Z. FRENCH FUNDS.—PAats, JUNE '27. Five per Cents., 11431. 80c. 95c. 90c. Four and a Half pe; Cents., 1011 15c. Four per Centi., 94f. 50c. - Three per Cents., 77f. 45c. 55c. 65c. National Loan, 113 f. 75c. Bank Actions, 1,750 f. Rente de Naples, 91f 40c. 50c. Roman Five per Cents., 91!i. , . Bente d'Espagnc, Five per Cents., 16 , ,f, 11, Rente al:spume. Three per Cents., 46% ', 7 i, :)..i - Royal Spanish Loan, 911. Rente Perpet. d'Evagne, Five per Cents., - .a LA ~' ~,, Beige Loan, 1831, 93% • ' klaytian Loan, 260 f. t.'6l2f. 50c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, -1 —c.; mon,y, 25f. 60c. Three months, paper, —f..—c.; 11,..iin,y, 251: Yc. —Coors Authentique. FRENCH FUNDS.—PAats, JUNE ...3. Five per Cents., 10 if. 103 f. 95c. 10 If. _--- -Three per Cents., 77f. 50c. 55c. 60e. 1-lii sirl s i . " al l a n cis it3f. Sept. , - :-.-• ......; ons, 1',750f. —c. :''''C\.:::;-27.(-I.littelhalllte illeigi e :a Pi : les n r e 9e l :n i f. % t,4 e s()" p c9 e . r l (2 4 e l' iits., 16 4 V"'_, p ',\ • ..4.- -..:.lterttf - er Kepagne, Three per Cents., 46 4 % )4, l' , ' ' ''.'. ' Relys! f4pa,msgn Loan, 91%, (....) - 0 :7. ,.. ;. . ,!,,,,,,,.. -' ,74,l R e er g t ic..k,u 'd - Pli'lt. lB d : ' 3 .Ei i :pa w gi B le, Five per Cents, 78% IA % Ova Y___.- V., ~,••?.. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. ' , 2.V. ''' V.... , lVatlit, paper, —t'. —c. ; money, 9.5 f. 6 'c. "...:-,-,.......__ . e1e. - Itostlis, paper, f. —c. ; money, •251. L Oci. ' ' ,?...* a• ne e, rierrEkthentilac. ~....e.....L_____l::::.., 11 AGAZINE NE W MONTHLY MA OA ZINE. Mr. Bulwer has, this month, availed himself of the services of the celebrated hitorian Sis mondi, who furnishes an essay on the " Eman cipation of Slaves," in which occurs the follow- ing just and striking remark : " Nothing is r , o fatal in politics as an unsuccessful expe riment. If the people have been deceived in a noble hope, --if their enthusiasm Las been chitled,—they soon learn to distrust their feelings and imagination ; they become in- sensible to the language which used to rouse them ; tl . ey believe themselves dupes to their own magnanimity ; and, yielding to a sordid sentiment of selfishness, they resit every future attempt at amelioration as a tribute of respect to the experiment which has failed." - • There is as much philosophical sagacity in this observation as ever yet fell from the lips of Burke. Our readers may be desirous to know what so observant a writer thinks of Mr. Stan- ley's plan. Here it is : " It is some time since I have written the preceding pages, and I have now read the speech of Mr. Stanley, and the project which he has submitted to Parlitm , nt. His sentiments—the sacrifices he proposes to the English nation—surpass my most sanguine hopes. But are sent:- ments and sacrifices sufficient to accomplish the object which the Ministry must have in view ? I am obliged to doubt it. All the objections which I have advanced against the system of culture by workmen without inte ,t iu Inc soli filar til.y cuiuvcte, Emu driven to struggle with masters already irritated against them, I find in the plan of Mr. Stanley. Two classes of men, who nourish, the one against the other, a spirit of jealousy, of defiance, of resentment approaching even to hate, are to come into contact every day upon those physical details of existence, which often suffice to embroil members of most united families among the poor. The master is to find nourish went, clothing, medicine, for his ci-devant slave. But who shall be the judge to decide, three times a day, if the por tion be sufficient at each repa't—if the aliment for the slave be nut provided, by the spirit of aversion or revenge, from among the most unwholesome or unpalatable viands? While the negroes were slaves, remember, the master had an actual interest in their lives and health; that interest ceases now, and himself or his subalterns may now vent their rancour and their spite—whether to prove to the slaves that they were ben, r off in their slavery, or to coun teract the new system of which they disapprove." " The Bank Charter" is skilfully argued, but despairs of a successful issue to Lord Althorp's plan. "O❑ the Thugs" contains sonic extra ordinary details respecting an organized confede racy of robbers and assassins which has existed for ages unmolested, because undiscovered, in the heart of India. These black rascals are unrivalled proficients in the art of murder, com biningthe scientific tact of a Burke with the steady determination of a Thurtell. Their favourite mode of transacting business is by strangulation—for they are very conscientious, and abhor shedding blood—though some of them, who are more enlarged in their ideas, will not object to cut a throat now and then, if only for variety's sake. When they meet with tra vellers who seem likely to prove ugly customers, their plan is to accompany them as a sort of escort, till they reach a favourable spot, when they persuade their victims to halt, feast them like princes, and amuse them by a thousand sprightly sallies. Having thus thrown them off their guard, they next proceed to stupify them with drink (a fact which convinces us that the art of hoeussing, like the doctrine of the Tri mourti or Trinity, is of Eastern origin), after which they murder, rob, and bury them, without allowing the poor devils an instant's Leisor* to reflect on the peculiar delicacy of their position. It is said ibat these scamps have been known to put as many men to death in one year as the most accomplished physician that ever swelled the bills of mortality in town or country. But, as Lord Eldon would say, we " doubt" this. One fact, however, is certain, namely, that the Thugs are remaikably agree able and gentleman-like in their manners, full of fun and anecdote, and would be perfect pat terns of gentility, could they but divest themselves of their vulgar habit of clutching strangers by the throat. But all men have their little weaknesses ! "On the Progress of Music, from the Com mencement of the Present Century" is a very elaborate treatise, in which due respect is paid to the genius of Bishop. " The Late London Hurricane" quizzes the embellished style of newspaper accident-mongers in a very happy vein of irony. " Conversations with Lord Byron" are more readable than they have yet been. The reflections on avarice are quaint and ingenious. BLACKW 0 OD'S MAGAZINE. We have rarely read a more enchanting bio graphical sketch than the " Memoir of Sir Henry Blackwood," which heads the present number. It is replete with incident, and con tains some piquant epistolary fragments of the hero of the Nile and Trafalgar. Blackwood was one of Nelson's bravest captains ; formed and matured in his school, under his own spe cial , ii . ve ill aa , :c . He was brave, which all sailors are—humane, which many of them are— shrewd, sagacious, and considerate, which but few are. His courage was equalled only by his tact, and his tact by his steady enthusiasm for his profession, and his generosity towards all who belonged to it. Such names as Hotham Blackwood, and Collingwood—names without spot or stain—are among the most illustrious that England has ever produced. In the notice of " Edmund Burke," we trace the pen of the author of " Salathiel." As Burke is the writer on whom Mr. Croly has chiefly formed his style, it was, of course, to be expected that he should speak well of him. But he has done more. He has made him out an idol, and put forth himself as an iconoclast. We hold with his admiration of Burke's style—which, so far from being ornate, as is generally supposed, is in reality simple, severe, and straight-forward. He abounds in imagery, it is true, but it is no t mere cumbrous verbage, but the essence of pro found, subtle thought. His words are more like ideas than those of any author (Shak,peare eAmpred) in the language. But of his principles or nothing f a vourable c an be said. Not withstanding Mr. Croly's lavish panegyric (which, by the bye, is stuck as full of meta phors as a twelfth-cake of figures), the truth must out—Burke was an apostate ! Who can say otherwise of the man who in his man hood's prime was the reviler of Kings, and in his age, their pensioned advocate ; who justified rebellion in the American, and held it up t o execration in the French, re volution ; whose brilliant speech on " Economical Reform" i s only surpassed by his brilliant " Reflections" against it ;—in a word, who commeny,:d career as an Ultra-Whig and closed it as an Ultra-Tory ? " Nights at Mess" is a bol.d, dashing caricature, broad as the nether end of a Dutchman, or one of Bunbury's best prints. " Tom Cringle's Log" is something of the same character, though in parts it rises to the dig nity of passion, and blends fancy with descrip tion with truly picturesque effect. The subjoined is a good prose imitation of Crabbe's best manner : "we weighed again about two in the morning. As the day dawned the dull grey streamy clouds settled down on us once more, while the rain fell in a regular water• spout. It was anything hut a cheering prospect to Icok along the dreary vistas of the dull Lethe-like stream, with nothing to be seen but the heavy lowering sky above, the red swollen water beneath, and the gigantic trees high towering overhead, and growing close to the water's edge, laced together with black snake like withcs, while the jungle was thick and impervious, and actually grew down into the water—for beach or shore, or cleared bank there was none,—all water and underwood, except where a heavy soft slimy steaming black bank of mud hove its shining hack from out the dead waters near the shore, with one or more monstrous alligators sleeping on it , like dirty, rotten lags of wood, scarcely deigning to lift aid' abominable long snouts to look at us as we passed , or to raise their long scaly tails, with the black mud sticking to the scales in great lumps—oh—hors ible—most horrible ! But the creatures, although no beauti s certainly, are harmless after all.' " Greek Anthology" is as eloquent and heart felt a criticism as we ever read. The author is a scholar but no pedant ; imbued with classic lore, yet not to the exclusion of a generous love of literature. He gives us specimens of transla tions of some of the choicest Greek epigram matists by our most finished English scholars. Hay's are usually the best ; but it is astonishing what dull, prosaic rubbish the Bishop of London's paraphrases are. He spins verse as an old woman spins flax, or a penny-a-liner spins a " shocking accident" for a newspaper. Though a man may be a very respectable Bishop, it by no means follows he should be an equally respectable poet. Dr. Bloomfield is not even a versifier. FRAZER'S MAGAZINE. " The whole West Indian Question !" What a frightful announcement to a reader who has been dosed with tle Parliamentary debates on the subject for the last four weeks! The very title induces a yawn, like Hogarth's print of the sleepy congregation. Has Mr. John Galt, the perpetrator of this narcotic nostrum, no bowels ? Have the reading public offended him beyond forgiveness ? Surely the popularity of his last novel deserved some better return ! Had he announced only " half " the West Indian Ques tion, we might have borne with him ; but the " whole"—it is really beyond endurance. Yet we have perused the infliction, and when we say that it commences with the history of the sugar cane as " used in Arabia, nine hundred years before its introduction into Europe," we have said enough, we conceive, to sicken our readers of sugar for at least a year to come. " Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir R. Cecil" is a very skilful historiette, whose avowed object is to expose the cx.tc.-ger.lted cologiums of Mr. Tytkr, in his late memoirs of Raleigh. " Count Ca gliostro" is an article that seems to have been put together for the express purpose of showing how, by ingenuity little short of miraculous, an ra;..l of nonsense may be packed up in a' nut 1-- shell. " Your true rneaMtig puzalea n - wie than wit.' Will any one undertake to explain the fol lowing ? " So magnificent a thing is Will (incarnated in a crew- ture of like fashion with ourselves), we run to witness all manifestations thereof: what man soever has marked out a peculiar path of life for himself (let it lead this way or that way), and successfully travelled the same, of him we specially inquire, How he travelled; What befel him on the journey ? Though the man were a knave of the first water, this hinders not the question, How he man iged his knaveiy ? Nay, it rather e ncourages such question ; far nothing properly is wholly despicable, at once detestable and forgettable, but your half-knave, he who is ,neither true nor false ; who never in his existence once spoke or did any true thing (for indeed his mind lives in twilight, with cat-vision, incapable of discerning truth); and yet had not the manfulness to speak or act any decided lie ; but spent his who'e life in plastering together the True and the False, and therefrom manufacturing the Plausible. Such a one our Transeendentals have defined a s a moral H ) lnid and chimera; therefore, under the moral point of view, as an Impossibility, and mere deceptive Nonentity,—put to gether for commercial purposes. Of which sort, never theless, how many millions, through all manner of grada tions, from the wielder of king's sceptres to the vender of brimstone matches, at tea-tables, council-tables, behind shop. counters, in priests' pulpits, incessantly and every where, do now, in this world of ours, in this isle of ours, offer themselves to view ! From such, at least from this intolerable over-proportion of such, might the merciful Heavens one ehty deliver us. Glorious, heroic, fruitful for his own Time, and for ail Time (and all Eternity) is the constant Speaker and Doer of Truth ! If no such again, in the present generation, is to be vouchsafed us, let us have at least the melancholy pleasure of beholding a de cided Liar. Wretched mortal, that with a single eye to be `respectable,' for ever sittrst cobbling together two In consistencies, which stick not for an hour, but require ever new gluten and labour,—will it, by no length of ex perience, no bounty of Time or Chance, be revealed to thee that Truth is of Heaven, and Falsehood is of Hell ; that if thou cast not from thee the one or the other, thy exist ence is wholly an Llusion and optical and tutu,' Phan. tasm ; that properly thou existest not at all ?" This must surely be a specimen of Cbeskian or Magyar prose. I Perhaps Dr. Bowring, who can speak and digest all languages, written or unwritten, past, present, or to come; or Mr. Irving, who is an adept at " unknown tongues," will help us to a translation of it. The words, we perceive, are English, but the construction is unquestionably foreign. " The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are those of Esau." Pope has aptly defined this sort of metaphysical torn-foolery : " Ah, think not, mistress, more true dullness lies " 'Neath folly's cap, than wisdom's grave disguise." The " Northern Political Union" is a tempting subject thrown away. " New Edition of Re jected Addresses" is from the practised pen of O'Doherty. There is no mistaking his Roman hand. Yet, why should he wax so wroth with Horace &ilia! ? Why strive so hard to under rate the merits of the cleverest .and most success ful jeu d'esprit ever published ? The close of the illustrious Baronet's review is amusing. The last sentence puts its paternity beyond a question : " Justice to James Smith makes us add, that he has been for some years converted to Toryism, chiefly by the preaching of Theodore Hook, and the conipotations cf John alairay. He is now a good, j vial, port-tubbing, gout beinartyred believer in the Tory faith ; and those who think his present countenance and appearance any thing like what they are in the frontispiece will be mistaken. The link of the man is no doubt retained, and the likeness once was good. Perhaps, however, to a book of parodies, a parody on the author's face is the most appropriate title page. But why, in the name of all that is disgu s ting, why not t h e ? It looks as if the Smiths were in the habit of putting on rouge ; and we venture to i•ay, th the only die used by James (of Horace we know nothing) for colouring his cheeks has been applied f rom w i t hi n . If the bo , )1. reaches a nineteenth edition, James ought to insist on having his face washed.' " The Shepherd's Noctes is , a broad, quizzi cal account of some of Hogg 's late pranks and adventures in London. The poet went, it seems, one night to the Beef-Steak Club, and was hor rified at finding Campbell of Islay (a mighty name in the Highlands), officiating " as Boots to the Club"—electrified at hearing " a member fined <ind rebuked for his face growing red ;" and fairly thrown into convulsions when the Lord Chancellor adjudged another, for some misde meanour, to " walk three times round the corn pany with a white sheet about him, and helmeted with a particular chamber utensil !" The lite rary sketch of " Coleridge" is neatly written ; but the portrait is not that of an inspired poet, but of an elderly gentleman under the influence of a brisk cathartic. " The Triumph of Hum bug" is a broad, dashing extravaganza, that sets fact at defiance, and holds truth at arm's-length. It's ultra absurdity is it's one redeeming feature. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. Tait is full of spirit, meaning, and variety this month. Politics are not unduly prominent, but move sociably hand in hand with literature. The first article, the " Crisis," is penned in the stern, straight-forward spirit of Swift. The allusion to the " haughty, unsocial insulation," _ _ __ of the House of Lords reminds us of the Eli- citous and emphatic phraseology of the editor of the Examiner, who has adopted St. Patrick's Dean as his model. But we must give the entire passage. It is too good to be lost : " Power without qualification is in any case objection able ; to leave the qualification to chance were a monstrous folly ; Lut in the instance of the Lords it is worse than trusting to the chance that the qualification may exist where the authority devolves. The chances are many, that where power is hereditary and irresponsible qualifica tion will not co-exist. The very idea of irresponsibility seems to dispense with any necessity for qualification. A man who is accountable in no quarter for the uses he may make of his power, has no external inducements to train himself for the just exercise of it. If his condition be one of ease and luxury, if be be surrounded by flatterers and sycophants, who tell him he is all-accomplished, while the natural dispositions plead for the luxury at his com mand rather than study and the discipline of the under standing, and the world requires of him no other claim to its homage and respect than his title, can we wonder, in this posi , ion, if be be unfurnished with all the properties of a legislator, except the power? An unqualified Member of Parliament may to chosen ; but he has strong induce ments to make the best use of his capacities, and not to disgrace himself in the opinion of those who have chosen him, and to whom he is responsible for the discharge of his trust, and upon whom he depends for his re-election. No such motives act upon the Peer. Whether qualified or unqualified, whether fool or sage, whether just or wil fully tyrannic, his power remains unalienable, unremove• a bl e , In all conditions there is such hardiness in human virtue, that some will be found to rise superior to evil seductions, and to flourish on the rock, or in the rankest corruptions; but though the presence of these is to be reckoned on, not so their preponderance. It is not snore certain that some such honours to humanity will be found, than that they will be found in a small minority. For the whole body of the House of Peers, standing as it does in haughty unsocial insulation,—accountable in no quarter fur the use of its power,—unrestrained by any real check, —and not reminded of fallibility by any nominal one, it must, according to the nature of things, prefer its own narrow interests, with an audacity anti contemptuous dis regard to the opinions of the nation, which can be hazard ed in no other branch of the state. How are these pro pensities, the natural fruit of the constitution of the he reditary Legislature, to be corrected ? We know not ; for though temporarily subdued, they will be reproduced if !ha some C.;',l'Ci b..: left free to operate ; and if not, the House, losin 4 its independence, becomes a mockery, a false pretence, and nothing else—answering no purpose but that of a deceit." " Extract from the Diary of an M.P." is de sultory and anecdotical. The author is no idolater of tho-manners of the Reformed House. He entertains a notion—in which lie is far from singular—that it is by no means full, to a ple thora, of Chesterfields. It is, indeed, a profi cient in the art of braying, but, considering the number of Ultras that still infest it, this peat- liurity is not to be wondered at. There is a smart hit in the " Diary," which we must not omit to notice. The writer is alluding to the presence of certain female intriguantes in the House of Lords on the night when the Local Courts Bill was expected to be thrown out : " It was evi•lent that something remarkable was ex pected, from the remarkable collection of women. When any ini.chief is brewing, they are always on the qui vive." " The Wishing-Cap" is less amusing than usual. It is too didactic and metaphysical. Mr. Hunt makes an indifferent lecturer. He is more at home by the fire-side in the quality of a social companion. " Horace Walpole's Letters," by the same hand, we suspect, is far superior, both as regards style and matter. The author of the " Mysterious Mother" is drawn with a master-hand ; though Mr. Hunt insists rather too much on his bon hommie. Ho race Walpole was smart—witty—brilliant — sarcastic—a master of many, and a judge of most, literary accomplishments, but he had no more soul than a flint. His conduct to Chatterton puts this beyond a question. " Ju nius Redivivus on the House of Commons" is a grave, skilful, truth-telling essay. Alluding to the politics of the day, the writer well observes, Vaa dream of bruto for;: has vAM3l,ed I:kt.t a baselet,,- shadow, the Irish Bill notwithstanding—but now comes the contest of chicanery. The gate of freedom is open before us, but there are many pit-falls in the pathway to it." True, there are pit-falls (Tory pit-falls), but they are dug in the Whig cross-road, not in the broad high-way, to freedom. If, therefore, the people keep the open causeway, they need have no fear of tumbling into them. It is for the Whigs to be on the watch, who, instead of fill ling up the holes with solid earth, have merely covered them over with loose leaves and branches. " Spring Thoughts on Wooing" is a graceful essay ; but how comes the author to call it a " gentle science ?" Whoever yet kissed on scientific principles—sighed by algebra—or e xpostulated by hydrostatics ? Science may build a steam-engine, but it will never make a lover. " Alison's French Revolution" is- a dispassionate, intelligent notice of a clever book, and pays deserved homage to the public virtues of the Girondists. The few remaining articles we have left ourselves no space to particularize. MON TIILY MAGAZINE. From the grave, meditative countenance of John Milton, which is prefixed by way of an il lustrative frontispiece to this Magazine, ore would be apt to imagine that it was wholly of a learned, poetic, and philosophical character, in stead of which it is full of "quips and cranks," odd stories, brief sententious essays, scraps of queer verse, in many instances of the flood ge ,,ius—in fact, about as decidedly anti-Miltonic as it is possible to conceive. The proper pic torial prefix should have been a death's head grinning through a horse-collar, etched for the occasion by Cruickshank or Seymour. But the head of the sublime Milton, the poet, the theolo• gist I— Pshaw, the bare idea is a joke, and pos sibly was meant as such. One of the mos► amusing bits of gossip in the Number is the " Old Actors." The following (which, by the bye, is not altogether new) will convey an idea of its character : " Macklin, who in his century played many Inas, was, when they happened to be in the same theatre, logo to Quin's Othello ; but the resemblance between them was too complete to make their agreement cordial. Quin, whose excellence lay in keen, biting sarcasm, upon some occasion is recorded to have said, Mr. Macklin, by the lines—l bee your pardon, I should say by the cordage in your face—if Nature writes a legible hand, you must be a consummate villain.' To this Macklin, who knew the inferiority of his own powers, in what was the great ex cellence of his opponent, made up by the pungency of his fist for the ace,-bicy of his opponent's tongue, and knocked Othello down. The hero started like Anteus upon his lees, and they had a regular set to a la mode deßroughton (the fistic hero of that time), in which Charley would have been victorious, if Manager Rich had not separated and fixed them in different pieceivhere each could have every thing his own way." " Coursing in Greece" is a broad, graphic sketch, whose only fault—a rare one—is, its brevity. " Anecdotes of a Detenu" repeat some of the best jokes of that venerable wag, Prince Talleyrand, whose recorded witticisms would go far to finish a new Encyclopaedia of Wit—a work much wanted. The anecdote of David, the painter, notorious for his connexion with the Robespierre administration, will amuse: " I had frequent opportunities of visiting David during his residence at Brussels. A friend of mine, Mr. P—, had requested him to paint the full length portrait of his mother—a lady near eighty years of ege ; who, however, wished to he represented in the splendid attire she wore when first presented at the Court of Louis XV. It is well known that David had the greatest aversion to paint persons in the costume of modern times. I have beard him say, that he had once intended to have exhibited Na- poleon, in his painting of "fhe crossing of the Alps,' without a cocked hat, which might, be observed, b:• sup posed to have been blown off by a gust of wind ; then, said he, the fine bead of the hero would have been seen to much greater advantage. I will not prostilt amy pencil in drawing falbalas, hoops, and powdered per:wigs,' exclaimed David with violent rage, when my friend re quested him to humour the whim of the old lady ;—' Sir, und' r somewhat similar circumstances I once gave great offence to N,poleon, to the Pope, to Talleyrand, and to Cardinal Caprara; but notwithstanding solieitation., and even menaces, I carried the point. These are the facts : At the period of Napoleon's coronation, while the Pope was in Paris, I received an order from the Emperor to paint a large picture of the coronation. 1 represented Cardinal Caprara, the Pope's minister, bareheaded. It was, in the opinion of every one, a striking resemblance ; but the Cardinal, only anxious about his vile perruque, begged of me, in the most pressing terms, to paint him wearing it. I will never consent to do so,' said Ito the Cardinal. I have depicted your head as God made ir, and I will not spoil his work.' The Cardinal applied to Talleyrand, who was then minister for foreign affairs, and several diplomatic notes passed between them on the oc casion. The f,rmer insisted upon appearing with his wig, and he assured the Minister that to him it was a matter of great political importance. The Pope alone does not wear a wig ; and it might appear that, in the event of the papal chair becoming vacant, he had some pretensions to fill it. Talleyrand sent for me, and told me that it was the Emperor's wish that I should represent the Cardinal with his wig. Ido not care,' said 4 who requests me to put on his wig : he is without one, and without one he shall remain.' In order to conciliate all parties, Talleyrand sent for another painter, and ordered him to adapt a periwig to the head of the Cardinal. This was accordingly done. Napoleon, the Pope, and Caprara, were all satisfied ; but no sooner had his Holiness left Paris than the wig disappem.ed—having only been painted in colours it la gouache, which a little water easily effaced.", " Percy Bysshe Shelley" is an extravagant eulogium on a poet who now bids fair to be as much over-rated as he once was under-rated. His very incomprehensibilities are now discovered to be but so many sublimities in disguise. Such is public caprice ! " Military Organization of Prussia" is a clever digest of what the Journals have been repeating for the last ten or twelve months. The force that Prussia can bring into the field, or, as the author quaintly says, " mo bilise," without detriment to her home service, is estimated at three hundred thousand men. " Goethe's Songs" are pleasant reading: the majority, however, have already appeared in an English dress. " The Three Presidents" con sists of a slight notice of the works now exhi biting in Pall-Mall, of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West. The criticism on Sir Joshua is sound, and even erudite, but we do not oee why Lawrence should be made to act as his foil. If the one was a loftier painter, the other was a more accomplished one : if Lawrence had not Reynolds's power, neither had Reynolds Law rence's elegance. Let each, then, stand on his own deserts—the ground is quite solid enough to uphold him. COURT MAGAZINE. The embellishments to this number are—a portrait of Lady Howard de Walden, and a sketch of Arundel Castle. We give the fair lady the preference. The literary department is choice and select, Leigh Hunt, of course, figuring conspicuously among the contributors. His " Year of Honeymoons" is sprightly and colloquial, with one or two delicate touches of description ; as for instance : " July is a dumb, dreaming, hot, lazy, ►uxurious, de lightful month, for those who can do as they please, and are pleased with what they do. The birds are silent ;we have no more cuckoo, no more nightingale ; nature is basking in repose; the cattle stand in the water; shade is loved, and rest atter dinner. We understand in July, what the Spaniard means by this siesta." In this neatly-finished sketch, we object only to the word " dumb." It is not characteristic of a season when the grasshopper chirps more shrilly than ever in the mown fields, and the king-fisher give out his sharp tones from among the sedges. " The Haunted Wood of Amesoy " is a skilful and beautiful specimen of the tra ditional ballad. It is from the pen of Mrs. Norton, who writes verse with remarkable grace and, we should suppose, facility. We close our hasty notice of this number, with the cha racter of " Tne late Earl Dudley" : Who's son is he, or is he his own—as people say ?' was the question a young lady at Alinack's asked for partner, who quoted a joke of Lord Dudley's, last Wed nesday. It is scarcely a year since the world was wild to be admitted in the Dudley Arms. Those who suffered under the lash of the eccentric lord, washed down his wit with his champ:toe, and consoled themselves for his impertinences in their presence by retailing his oddities in his absence. Even to the last !—One fine evening that the usual guests were all assembled, lords, ladies, Igetnbers of Parliament, wits, parasites, and prelates—where was tnin, host?--.A slight excuse sufficed, and down to dinner they all sit. The wine went round, the host was praised, the Lord laughed at. Nobody but the butler and Bashaw (B.shaw was the name of Lord Dudley's favourite dog) looked aid. They all separated, anxiously rushing forth fur who should be first to tell this latest and last freak of Lord Dudley's, and in loud laughter was passed the eve of that morning which dawned upon the scholar, the wit, the statesman—no, the secretary—the scoffer, the railer, a driveller and a show.' Well ! and why should he be remembered ? Not for his own sake, but for human nature' , Perhaps no one ever started for life so brilliantly as Sir John William Ward. The heir to rank and fortune, be possessed talents that might have procured either, and graced both, Through his life be never enjoyed either ; at his death be made both contemptible ; he acqu;red an Earldom to become extinct with hint ; he left money 0 lower the character of those he pretendea to love, and none to those who were his real friends. His style or , peaking (if we were to write his character as he used °,, do pleasantly enou4h that of others, after the manner e l , Clarendon) was concise and pointed, too studied alg, epigrammaiic may-be for debate, but at the same tints 16 polished, that no man c ,ul.l forbear to listen to it. Ilk, indecision was as remarkable in political as private life. He could never decide upon a wife or a party. He WO generous also by fits and stirts ; gave magnificent dons' tints, and refused small pittances—full of whim and foil, even in his friendships—one who had dined with bins the day before, would scarcely be accosted on the next ; 1 01 1 with all these inequalities, and ev e n without his rank 80: riches, he could not be denied to be a most acre-abl e companion. So fond of classical lore—so rich in allusio 6 and imagination—so bitter upon those he did not like An d lived with (always an acceptable ingredient in companiv where so much latent hatred prevails as in those that me in the squares of London), he succeeded much in what fel, can attempt, and almost all fail, a short narrative, either of history or anecdote. Here his language was perfect', and eloquence remalkable." LADY'S MAGAZINE. A well compiled number, with one or tvi tolerable original contributions, and a colours full length' engraving of Anne of Brittany, Quei of France. COBBETT'S MAGAZINE. A very respectable number, whose best orti cie is the one on Marlowe. Yet even this migl be better ; for we find no mention made of th dramatist's poem of " Hero and Leander which contains one of the most picturesque de, scriptions—though disfigured with the usual ,o-a,;...its of the day—of 1 sudden sun-rise with which are sequains 4 We quote from memory, and -therefore u ncle correction : " Now had Aurora spied her lover's steeds, Whereat she starts, puts on her purple weeds ; And red for anger that he stayed so long, All headlong throws herself the clouds among." The last line is a perfect picture. " ism" is a spirited essay, replete with touches ust and generous feeling. BRITISH MAGAZINE, Possesses the recommendation of a very grace' ful, lithographic embellishment of Windiest°. Cathedral, with an illustrative sketch affixed, I r . which the fine old city of William of Wykeha° is dwelt on in terms of the most rapturous pane gyric. " Meditations Poetiques," is a brief noti°, of some of the poems of the French versify;, La►nartine. " Vindication of the Eaily Paris's. Greek Press," reminds us of the quaint, dr , style of verbal, controversial discussion so mtle l in fashion about twenty or thirty years ago, whe t , the Payne Knights, and the Sumners, and el t i Dobrees, &c., were alive and flourishing in 11 , their glory. " Church Reform" is of colt° argued on the Episcopal side of the question• l Trati has fc Ti Ti intere neral great Close Huss trust distir and a no e: Mt 19th with Ar levy ( the sr be 3,1 etair Neub Druz office oath)! .Rave retur will 1 of th mis& of th, chari horn t the impel moot Fatal to 17 Part! , hei m to be Willi that aahc skier THE ASIATIC JOURNAL Is not of so abstruse a character this moo P t , as it sometimes is, and therefore to us who t i not profess to understand all the languages it Asia, has afforded more than the usual 50 of amusement we derive from this magaZt It is not, however, destitute of matter of soli information ; as witness its notice of M. 0 , Overmeer Fisscher'a work on Japan, which OA ii tains many instructive particulars. The artici f in which amusement h as b ee n the p r i nc ip a l obj aimed at by the contributors are th e " Sketc i of Indian Society, No. V." and the specifilei given of the popular tales of Hindostan. _ . legit nant Prit will of tl Cub lent be I cant Jun THE SP O 1 TI.AI G MAGAZINE. : opwmitheaile.in?iuhitmaicdbaeimr opinions this very 00, i h ni b o e n t s ter h b er e e. W -11 there e e r t e e This % p v e o e irs p k.a out Sca , out of sight. The writers of a Sporting I‘l , gazine should adopt one '4 ti , ---I.c. 4-_, fi Royal Irish - Yacht Ciptit o :nit, not to i* j , polities. By the .. , :t) we much wished to $ l ., e:.l. r. a d ers . sr ,ne account of the Royal V I Yacht Club, which has suddenly started VI such vigorous existence, and should b t,. availed ourselves of the description given in (11 1 ( number of its foundation in 1831, and pre= e i flourishing condition, but found it ran too l 0 F for our space. The only extract we can ill'j is from a letter of an old and excellent conk butor to the Magazine (Quartogenarian) ll l gives some hints on the subject of the grouse g',l l which are made in the month of August, vib l f we would recommend all lovers of that spe d i of game to place this month in the hands of tb' sporting friends. The writer says— " I never see an August pass, but the papers evetl, full of complaints of the state in which grouse arrive? indeed, considering the weather at that period, le t' what it may, this, all things taken into view, is little tl wondered at. That it might be rendered of mucb,l .„ frequent occurrence by a little more care , it will g at e i n very difficult to show. A third part and more of i v r n „ birds which fall to the gar, in August, are young one° , i l we: generally at such distances that they get the body of ! , mo char g e. In this state they are rammed (generally) i cos game bags hiegledy piegledy, until it is cram loll+ wa are half crushed and putrefied before they can get l''':4. e. ,,, Then they must be sent off a l'instant i there is no ti t- — a 2 and they are crammed into a box to take their fate' ; } sportsman has done his work, and fulfilled his prof) it shows n hat he has ,tone, and in many cases ansoreri he cares for ; while the expectant gourmand is left IV the horrors of nausea and bitter disappointment. ~f , 1 this is not fair, more especially as the latter genera - - tne to pay extensive carriage ; and I am serious when ' - . ten that the sender ought to think of something more Or ero crack shooting, and manage his birds right, before he • pet flu them off, which will do more than anything else to their keeping, far more than all the careful packing 1 " w l world. up " How then are birds to be managed, so as tog i/, s ) fl a iil sender a fair chance of putting them down the red' I "I' ti l By giving them a little more time before you fire next, not carrying them in game bags of any descrif i d P, l Two pieces of broad girth web, which will reach 0 i 4 _l 1 : man's shoulders to his waistband before and behindl ) common braces, should be joined by pieces across t he ' ex, and chest at top, and the loins and stomach belo° fro these pieces of twine should be fastened at regula r pee tances, and your attendant, having these bandoleers out on him, should fasten each bird by the legs. M net my more, as can be crammed into any game NIP aid thus be Lett unbruised to the action of air and sun, i°l ' c d ui 0 i r of bein g made into a youn g dunghill, and already me 0 les by the time you get home. Even here they are li s 'ol we fly-blows ; but a plentiful peppering is the best preveo, of, against that, though, if there is time, such sbol l ot col carefully brushed off. Hops are no doubt the best 1 wa to pick in ; next clean white paper." 0 1 for The articles with which we have been the sea pleased are " Remarks on Steeple Cha ses utt Practised in England and Ireland;" " ki`j ver and Minor Matters Relating to Ang l ' to , " Angling in the Lake of Geneva and itg, t i ro, i butaries ;" " Extracts from an Old Jowl'', g and gas 0 Firelock ;" and " Traits of English Fo%'' ate ing." If we may be permitted to say W 1 0 and have least liked, we can have no hesita tie I, at: i naming the article on, the " Decline of t he t„. Cra Doi wic Gec prr fro rift Sc ree Sh wil Ar,