The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-01 00:00:00

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AND , which Y r Mve COO e of th°' Mowed e t you 11 ' a few 0 1 in will's i ns titutl , memory much q i° , therefor' b$ iturity ble anl, four the sr: ital in at lave WO' leaving d ry man be n cies, e' 2 they 11 e extreo Ling fto!, n stitu to, 500,00 S ing, my :0 encoo l , he cont , ". bility tY i 'hich r)ers, all; its p r , as to pr:i reasons, on WV or aPr ution Pr i e ty on (I in piles frers p: to ty "be $, hat cO O to ac e ' )rosperil above nu rner°; pence, 1, en s Lny? the 0 1 ? tie cr d " t) the tr d ispen ob : b Lin of ,a but 1, o ounec n use,," v tt nu Q . the el !laments and appendages of their appointment—they can have little else to engage their attention, removed at such a distance from the theatre of action, than the common routine of duty incident to the transactions of every banking -house having numerous county connexions, un less it be receiving the periodical returns from the different branches, committing those to the care of an accountant, and preparing the annual report—all of which, I need hardly say, would much more legitimately belong to the locality of Ireland, and without incurring the expence of an executive government, such as I have described, in England ; a much less number being amply sufficient for ' that purpose, when it is recollected that every distinct branch has its set of Directors also ! It may be alleged, and probably with truth, that as this Company originated in London, and may have procured the principal part of its capital from that source, it became a necessary consequence that its government should be esta blished there also, and to this I have nothing to object, except what I have already stated, as drawbacks on the chances of its ultimate prosperity, more especially as it leads to the conclusion that Ireland must have had the pro ject, with all its faults, or be satisfied to remain as she was ; and this naturally suggests another question, in relation to its capital, of much more importance than those I have been already discussing. Has Ireland then received all the benefit she had a right to expect from this Company ? Have they, in fact, per formed their compact with Ireland, on its original for•ma ' tion, by the transfer of two millions of capital for the benefit of her trade, her manufactures, and agriculture, as it Was pompously and, indeed, confidently, announced she must do, through the medium of the Press, and indus triously propagated in every quarter of that country. To this it must be answered that she has not, nor probably to the extent of one-fifth of that sum, for, as yet, no more than 25 per cent., or one fourth of the nominal capital of two millions, has been actually paid up ; and it is clearly Intended to adopt this limit, as well from the long interval of time since its commencement, as from the language of the Chairman in eulogizing the strength and solidity of its funds I Let us however analyze this question a little farther, in order to disclose some additional facts curiously bearing out the conclusions I have ventured to adopt. London, we may confidently assume, to be the principal repository of the capital already paid up, and it cannot be any violent presumption to suppose that, as the seat of Govern ment, the Directors have retained in their own possession at least one-fourth of the entire amount, which would leave for allocation in Ireland no more than the sum of 375,0001. instead of the magnificent patriotic donation of two millions? —then giving to Dublin, the next point of importance, a deposit of 100,000/., to meet the numerous demands to which it must be liable in a country so noto riously destitute of capital, and we have 275,0001. to di vide equally among the fifteen branches, of which, I be lieve, this Company is formed; each branch having a dis tinct local Government must consequently be entitled to the use of a separate capital, yet according to this probable distribution could command no more than about 20,0001., a sum so perfectly insignificant as to bear no comparison to the capital of many private bankers in Ireland, and a vast majority of those residing in the provincial towns of England !—a great proportion of which are greatly in ferior in population to those with which they are thus contrasted. I know it may be alleged that in eventual security the solidity of this Company is undoubted, all the subscribers being personally liable for the engagements of the bank ; but while I admit this, and wish them all the benefit they can hope to derive from their responsibility-, I must deny that either Ireland or the public have any right to be satisfied with so palpable a violation of the original corn pact as to make the sum of 500,000/. a substitute for that of two millions, whatever benefit the establishment of this Company has actually conferred upon that country. Every practical man must know that the most undoubted collateral security, whether in landed or personal property, h" in a thousand instances been incapable of averting the ruin of a banking house, even for a single day, and the best proof of this is to be found in the number of firms, con stituting five-sixths of the entire who were unable to re sist the storm which overwhelmed England in 1825, yet have since then paid off the whole amount of their en gagements; nor is it less certain, referring to the question of security, that a call upon a body of subscribers, in the . midst or on the approach of danger, would be equally fruitless, so that on either ground these collateral props are so little available in case of need, as to afford no satis factory foundation for the repose of public confidence. In fact, every thing nominal or fictitious is utterly incon sistent with the policy of banking, and ought therefore to be carefully excluded from the constitution of all such un dertakings, but more especially those on which so much of the property, and consequently the prosperity, of a whole kingdom must depend l It is to be hoped, therefoe, that the new Bill for the relief and improvement of this Company will contain • a clause, making it imperative on them and all other companies similarly constituted, to pay up and consoli date the whole amount of their nominal capitals, taking away the personal liability, by which correction alone of the blunders hitherto committed in this important Branch - of our financial economy the country will be most essentially benefited, and the syst:•na of banking on this principle most indispensably improved. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, MENTOR. THE KING'S HEALTH. (From the Court Circular.) The KING, we are happy to state, passed yesterday in a comparatively comfortable state. The symptoms of the Complaint under which his MAJESTY 18 suffering were alle viated, His MAJESTY received visits yesterday from the Duke Of CLARENCE, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the DUCHESS of GLOUCESTER, who had all interviews with the KING. The Duke of CLARENCE remained four hours at the Palace, and took his departure at four o'clock on his return to Bushy Park. The Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER left together some time previous to the Royal Duke. The Duke of CUMBERLAND visited his MAJESTY on Sunday afternoon, and spent some time in company with the KING. His Royal Highness returned in the afternoon to his residence at Kew. Sir HENRY HALFORD was in attendance yesterday. Sir MATTHEW TIERNEY and Mr. BRODIE left the Palace Yesterday morning, and were expected to return to the Palace last right. The Bulletin was as follows : " Windsor Castle, May 31. a The KING has passed a good night, and his MAJESTY'S respiration is rather less embarrassed. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY." The Bulletin was shown, as usual, at the KING's Palace, St. James's, by the Earl of FIFE (Lord) and Colonel WHATLEY - (Groom) in Waiting. Among the inquirers were— The Lord Registrar of Scotland, the Lord Chief Baron. Ambassadors and Ministers.—Russian, French, American, Prussian, Danish, Netherlands, Hanse Towns, Wirtemberg. Charge d'Alßires.—Swedish. Dukes.—Rutland, Richmond, Leeds, Portland, St. Alban's. Duchesses.—Dowager Richmond, St. Alban's. Marquises.—Tar istock, Douro. March ioness.—Tav istock. Earls.—Hardwicke, Mansfield, Errol, Moray, Howe, Denbigh, Belfast, Aboyne, Jersey, Wilton. eountesses.—Moray, Jersey, Harrowby, Howe, Denbigh, saelfast, Mansfield, Mingden. Dowa ger. —Morton. Viscounts.—Sidmouth, Hood, Ennismore, Sandon. Visco untess.—Sidmouth. Lords. —R, Manners, Carrington, Dundas, Kenyon, Clinton, F arnborough, Tullamore, A. Lenox, Louth, Skelmersdale, Lo thian Forrester, C. Wellesley Decies. Ladies,—(2) Stuart, Martin , Wetherell, W. Gordon, Kirby, Clinton, Tallarnore, S. Lenox, Dalrymple, Whaley, Lothian,W Walpole, N) Murray. DOwageis:—C;l2 ' O'r, C. Poyelet,Sornwall, Hippisley Honoiirables.—Lady Borough, 'Lloyd, ienyo - n, John Stuart, Mrs. Burton, G. Forrester, Baron Bolland. Count —Munster. Sirs.—H. Peyton, C. Wetherell, S. Whalley, J. Shelley. AdmiraL—Sir G. Martin. Captain.—Ryder Burton, R.N. Rev. Messrs.—lrving, A. Sterkey, S. M. Bathgate, F. Piers. Messieurs.—F. Pollock, Wilkin, Pulman, Brande, Tisdale, Brent. Mistresses—Storer, Gibbons. Misses. —(2) Rees, (2) Snape, Storer, Mash, :11. Mash, Gibbon, Hawkins, Hippisley. The Duke of SUSSEX paid a visit to his si-ter, the Du chess of GLOUCESTER, yesterday evening, at Gloucester house, on the rgtarn of her Royal Highness from visiting his MAJESTY at Windsor., The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND came to town yesterday from their residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon. The Duchess of CLARENCE attended Divine Service on Scn(l4 - rnoruing in the Hall at the King's Palace at Hampton -court. The Cathedral Service was performed by Mr. liawEs and other Gentlemen of his Maissry's Chap e l R oyal. A C abinet Cou nc il was h e ld at t h ree o ' c l oc k y es terday i.t.fternoon, at th e F oreign -office, which was attended b y t h e LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke cf WELLINGTON, Earls BATHURST, S S T.,.. • • B3ROUGH, an d ABERDEEN ; Lord ELLEN' Sir normal , PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANcELLon. of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. HERRIES. The Council remained is deliberation till past five o'clock, MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. A very spirited and intelligent number, re plete with variety. " The Christian 'Year" is an eloquent notice of a volume of Poems of that name, by Mr. Keeble, an Oxonian, in the course of which occur some just remarks re specting the canting trash (just now exceedingly popular) which arrogates to itself the proud title of " religions poetry :" " At this particular juncture or crisis, the disease would fain assume the symptoms of religious inspiration. The poetasters are all pious—all smitten with sanctity—Chris tian all over—and crossing and jostling on the course of Time—as they think, on the high road to Heaven and Immortality. Never was seen before such a shameless set of hypocrites. Down on their knees they fall in book sellers' shops, and, crowned with foolscap, repeat to Blue stockings, prayers addressed in doggerel to the Deity ! They bandy about the Bible as if it were an Album. They forget that the poorest sinner has a Soul to be saved, as well as a set of verses to be damned ; they look forward to the First of the Month with more fear and trembling than to the Last Day ; and beseech a critic to be merciful upon them with far more earnestness than they ever beseeched their Maker. They pray through the press—vainly striving to give some publicity to what must be private for evermore ; and are seen wiping away, at tea-parties, the tears of contrition and repentance for capital crimes per. petrated but on paper, and perpetrated thereon so paltrily, that so far from being worthy of hell-fire, such delinquents, it is felt, would be more suitably punished by being singed like plucked fowls with their own unsaleable sheets. They are frequently so singed; yet singeing has not the effect upon them for which singeing is designed; and like chickens in a shower, that have got the pip, they keep still gasping and shooting out their tongues, and walking on tip-toe with their tails down, till finally they go to roost in some obscure corner, and are no more seen among bipeds." " The Silent Member" has, as usual, many good political points about it. The remarks throughout are strong and forcibly put ; but there is much, particularly as regards the Duke of 'Wellington, that must be objected to. " Heat and Thirst, a Scene in Jamaica," is an impressive account of an adventure that the writer met with while lying at anchor in Blufield's Bay. There are many rough vigorous touches of painting 'in his description of the incident. " To my Babe, by Delta," is pretty much like all other poems written t o babes ; that is to say, very harmless milk-and-water reading. We have abundance of " soft •blue eyes," an exu berant variety of " lilies of the brook," two " living flowers," " a storvnless sea," and " a glass drugged with woe." These form the staple of Delta's address to his babe—an ad dress, the amiable spirit of which is more to be commended than its ability. " On the Punish ment of Death" is an elaborate essay, penned in an earnest and philosophic spirit. We re commend it seriously to the notice of our readers. " The Reigning Vice" is a satire dis tinguished by no little thought ; the versifica tion is somewhat rough, but full of muscle and energy. " Some remarkable Passages in the Life of the Baron St. Gio" is a Towerfully written tale of murder, from the pen of the Ettrick Shepherd. The " Noctes" are less brilliant and amusing than usual. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is a clever instructive number, but not quite so entertaining as it might be, or as it has been. The " Royal Address to the King of the Beggars" is lively and epigrammatic. " Lord Mountcashel and the Church" is an article re markable for the surpassing absurdity of its observation, that " the clergy are ill-paid." It is not devoid of research, but that research is brought from the wrong side of the question. How can a church be called ill paid, which ranks among her chosen sons such expensive ornaments as a Bishop of Derry, a Prince Bishop of Durham, a Bishop of Winchester, or even a Bishop of London ? " Anecdotes of Brazil" is amusing, and will serve to while away an idle hour. " Naval Administration of Great Bri tain" is a sound, temperate, practical essay on a popular and important subject. " Newfound land Adventures" displays vigorous graphic talent, of no ordinary quality. " Notes of the Month" are smart, caustic, anti agreeably varied—en voici. " We wish that some philanthropist a little more honest than Mr. Hume and a little less prosing than Mr. Goul burn would make a memoir on the number of people an nu Illy drowned in the metropolis and its environs by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. Not that we charge little Lord Lowther with any direct activity in this whole sale havoc, nor believe that a man of his pleasantry would wish to stop any other man's jest by cold allusion in a canal. But if the maxim gut Tacit per alium facit per se is good law, little Lord Lowther is the culprit as much as if he stood and plunged the unwitting into any of the hun dred and one contrivances for drowning, which he suffers to exist in full convenience and in the face of day. " A young man employed by the Commissioners for watering Hyde Park was nearly drowned a few days ago, in the Serpentine River, the horse having got out of his depth while he was giving it some water. It was impos sible to save the horse, which was valued at forty guineas. " This is the very tenderest case on the subject. And no doubt the lamentation at the office would be that the scales of fate were not changed, and that the horse was the substitute for the man. But there is actually so singular a neglect of life in those matters, that we shall be doing Lord Lowther and his well-paid board a kindness in re minding them that the Serpentine River does not exhibit the most trivial prevention to any one's running headlong into twenty-fathom water; whether the individual he blind, or a child, or an idiot, or drunk, or benighted. A great thoroughfare from Oxford-street to Knightsbridge runs along the edge of a slope, down which if a man tumbles, and a mere trip of the feet will do it, he has no alternative but to roll until he rests at the bottom of the river, when he will probably roll no more. To scramble up against the side wall is out of the question. There is nothing more for him, but to lie quiet and wait the coro ner's inquest to be held after the first fishing party on the river. " The reservoir in the Green Park is in preci.ely the same condition. The banks are walls ten feet high, as smooth as the chisel can make them. The bed provided for the patient is a slope of forty-five degrees, beginning with seven feet of spring water, and ending in a central channel of twenty feet of slough. There a slip is as cer tain a quietus as if the individual had slipped off the tem porary stage in sight of St. Sepulchre's. " The chief mortality of the park ponds is, we will ad mit, reserved for Christmas, if we happen to have a frost luckily followed by a rapid thaw ; for then gather the skaters, and down they go. Why those ponds should be twenty feet or fathom deep,'instead of as many inches, is to be of course accounted for on the Malthusian principle. that the population is surcharged, and the fewer mouths the more bread. But we have a capital exit at all seasons of the year in the canals. London is fairly surrounded with them ; and no citizen can visit a tea-house out of the smoke of Aloorfields, no milliner's maid take a walk with her admirer, and no disappointed candidate for the Com mon Council can love along their smooth and slippery banks, without finding a single step...-a step from the sub lime to the ridiculous--enough to set him at his ease in all matters respecting this world for the next thousand years. We call Lord Lowther's attention to the subject, and we rely on his humanity to his own character." AIONTHLY REVIEW. If a little more spirit and frankness were in fused into the pages of this Review, it would be wonderfully to its advantage, The present number is full of information, and that of no confined character, but is - sadly deficient in life. Its knowledge is a caplet modicum. Still, even with this drawback, it will be found worthy' the reader's attention, from the justness, soundness, and general impartiality of its critical opinions. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " Fashionable Eclogues," from the pen, we should suppose from internal evidence, of one of the Smiths, is a lively jeu d'esprit. The subject is the petition of a Mrs. Long and her daughter to Mr. Long, to request that he will take them for the ensuing spring to London.— " The Land of Cakes" gives some amusing details respecting the college and neighbourhood of Aberdeen. A singular anecdote is told re specting the porter of that University, which we have neither space nor time to extract. " Common Places" is an ingenious paradox, not unlike Mr. Hazlitt's style of writing. "De Lindsay" is a well told impassioned tale, full of incident and energy. Altogether the number is an excellent one. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The talent of this Magazine is of a more limited character than we had at first been led to suppose. The whole merit of the present number lies in its clever but coarse power of abuse. From first to last it is one tissue of personal scurrility, as if the Editor (or whoever else may be responsible for the diatribes in ques tion) were a cross between Zoilus and Thersites. We dislike this bullying vulgarity—this literary bush-fighting. It is neither manly nor-generous. If an Italian bravo were to turn contributor to a Magazine, he would write precisely in the same fashion. The first contribution is avowedly an analysis of Mr. Bulwer's novels. It is, however, distinguished by nothing but a pedantic affecta tion of learning. The writer makes use of the names of Aristotle, l i pcke, Reid, Kant, Schel ling, Stewart, and Coleridge, in order to prove, what ?—that Mr. Bulwer is no novelist ! From an industrious perusal—and the task has been one of no ordinary difficulty—of this wholesale invective, we have come to the conclusion that the author of " Pelham" is a greater novelist, and more essentially a man of talent, than we had ever before supposed him to be. If his sketches of vulgar life were not true to nature, they would not have given such deadly offence as they here appear to have done. From this rancorous criticism we must, however, except one passage. Pity it is that the man who can write so sensibly, and with such natural vigour, should condescend to enter the lists of ribaldry with Hunt, Cobbett, and the rest of that accomplished, disinterested, and patriotic fra— ternity ! "Poets and philosophers have heretofore described, and wise men have recognised, the wisdom and happiness of the golden mean.' In the state intended by this ex pression, very many of the middle classes are placed. It is to the advantage of their character, as it is confessedly of their conduct, that they are circumscribed on this hand and on that, within the limits in which the law best exerts its influence. The man under subjection to law, is by that very subjection rendered nobler and capable of nobler things than he who scorns it as beneath him, and, most assuredly, than he who deems it, like the heavens, too far ab:we him to be attained unto. It generates the very first of virtues—the greatest and the ground of all the rest— that of self denial. It calls for continual sacrifices, and expects no other reward than that of conscience, and con science takes a nian brave—and such sacrifices are in themselves heroic. And, accordingly, in these despised ranks, how frequent ate the instances of generous devo tion, and of ardent enterprise, of which the enervate can didates for place and patronage are utterly incapable !" . _ _ " The Young Dragon," by Mr. Southey, is in that gentleman's most easy and flowing style. Like Horace, as comprehensively described in one pertinent half line by Pope—this amusing legend " charms by graceful negligence." " Literary Characters, by Pierce Pungent," is a rambling tissue of unmeaning abuse of Mr. Thomas Campbell. The great fault the critic finds with this first-rate poet is his genti lity. All but this he can excuse—for all but this there is " balm in Gilead." In the article headed " Comparative Anatomy of O'Connell and Cobbett," there is vigour, undoubted vigour —much soundness of observation, much force of expression, much knowledge of character, but still the same leaven of coarse scurrility. Toujours perdrix should apply to any thing rather than the articles in a periodical which wishes to gain popularity. " Mr. Thomas B. Macauley and Mr. Southey," is a communication from the pen of the same critic, who hugs himself in the idea that he has demolished Mr. Bulwer. We are led to this opinion from the pedantic use of the quaint word " predicate," which occurs usque ad nauseam in both articles. Mr. Nlacauley, a gentleman who gained the highest honours that the first University in the world can bestow, to whom we are indebted for one of the finest articles that ever appeared in the Edinburgh Review, the Essay on Macchi avelli, is elegantly styled a quack, an ignoramus, a compound of " sophism, charlatanism, and im pertinence. " In this same classical and truly gentlemanlike diatribe, Sir Robert Peel is called a " low upstart and turncoat," " a dog in the manger," a man of " malignant feelings" and " paltry temper." We leave all this absurd Billingsgate to find its own level : it will, if we mistake not, exhibit a speedy and wonderful alacrity in the art of sinking. " The Gallery of Illustrious Literary Portraits" professes to be a biography of Mr. Jerdan. Whether, however, the memoir he in jest or earnest, we confess we have been unable to discover, with such exqui site felicity has the cunning scribe disguised his intentions. Luckily the article is short, which is its sole redeeming merit. We have spoken of this periodical at greater length than our very contracted limits would strictly warrant, because we regret to see so much talent as it displays, so hopelessly and uniformly perverted. To expose quackery, whatever shape the Hydra headed monster may assume, is a laudable, not to say an imperative task, and one which Fraser has hitherto executed in a bold and uncompro mising spirit. But it is one thing to denounce humbug, and another to slander sterling merit. The invective which applies with peculiar pro priety to our modern poetic sa i n t s an d me di ca l empirics, is repulsive and inappropriate when launched against such an author as Campbell— an autlitn who? whatever be his late sin gu l a r eccen tricities or conduct, will live in the memory of his countrymen, when all that his present tra ducer ever has written, and ever will write, has gone to line the trunkmaker's portmanteaus, or serve some useful purpose, as a covering for cheese and butter. Who now remembers one sentence, nay, even one word, of the best article n the last number of Fraser's Magazine ? Yet the bantling is only thirty-one days old ! FAMILY MAGAZINE. An incomparably superior number to the last, as regards both the quality and quantity of its articles. It is headed by a correct likeness of the King, the engraving of which does the artist great credit. Among the literary contributions the best is decidedly the one entitled " The As trologer," which possesses considerable fire and vigour." ASIATIC JOURNAL. On all points of Oriental interest this Jour nal is quite at home, and must be a welcome present to any one connected with India. The following extract (not however original) from Sir W. Jones's biography is worth reading : " At last Mr. Jones attained the long-expected object of his ambition. On this occasion he was knighted, and married soon afterwards Miss Shipley, the daughter of his friend, the Bishop of St. Asaph. He embarked for India in April, 1783, and on the voyage addressed a letter to Lord Ashburton, to whom he conceived that he was chiefly indebted for his promotion. 'As to you, my dear Lord,' he says, we consider you as the spring and fountain of our happiness, as the author and parent (a Roman would have added, what the coldness of our northern language will hardly admit) the God of our fortunes.' Sir William Jones was now in his 37th year, and in the most flourishing period of health and intellect. To those who consider a long sea voyage a tedious chasm in their exist ence, we would recommend the plan of labours which he chalked out dining his voyage. But his attention was chiefly directed to those studies, by means of which he might enlarge his stock of juridical learning. He landed in Calcutta in September, 1783, and in December delivered his first charge to the Grand Jury at the Sessions held in that month. ' The public,' says Lord Teignmouth, had formed a high estimate of his oratorical powers, nor were they disappointed. His address was elegant, concise, and appropriate; the exposition of his sentiments and principles were equally manly and conciliatory, and calcu lated to inspire general satisfaction, as the known sincerity of his character was a test of his adherence to his pro fessions. In glancing- at dissentions, which at no remote period had unfortunately prevailed between the civil and judicial powers in Bengal, he showed that they might and ought to he avoided ; that the functions of both were dis tinct, and could be exercised without danger of collision in promoting what should be the objects of both—the, public good.' " The judicial life of Sir William Jones, in India, affirds very few materials to the biographer. The time which was not occupied by his official duty he devoted to his oriental pursuits. In order to encourage a more general taste for eastern literature, he projuted the scheme of the Asiatic Society, of which he was the first President." UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The most interesting article in the present number, and the one that will be most generally looked to, is entitled a " Letter from Toulon," and gives many curious particulars respecting the present appearance of that crowded sea -port• On the subject of the Expedition to Algiers' the author furnishes some hints which are worth noticing : " The who'e northern coast of Africa; Morocco ex cepted, is a conquered country, like India in our hands, and ruled by a race foreign to its indigenous inhabitants. If, though comparing great things to small, with 30,000 British we govern one hundred millions in India, so do 10,000 Turks (or Osmanli, fur the former incorrect ex pression ought to sink into oblivion) at Algiers rule a con siderable less comparative population of Berebers and Arabs ; only they have one connecting link, we cannot boast, that of religion. . The different tribes, on one side extending to Tunis, and on the other to the frontier of Morocco, and inland to Mount Atlas, are bound to furnish troops in case of war, and though the extent of their obe dience generally depends on circumstances, it is likely, to oppose the Giaour, they will, in large numbers rally round the standard of the D-y, From 60 to 80000 men may be thus assembled, about one-third of which will be cavalry, but without or&r, discipline, or even controul. These can have no effect (their mode of attack being that of singly riding up at speed, firing, and retiring) against well formed and steady infantry, and there being no cavalry with whom they can break a lance, they will be worse than nugatory. _ . _ " These troops are as uncertain in their set vice as the old feudal armies in the middle ages, and if the French are detained any length of time, the patience of these men of the desert will be completely lost, and their numbers will gradually diminish by desertion, until the Dey has not an ally without the walls but those who stay to plunder and murder the stragglers. The forts and city will have that portion of the 10,000 Osmanli, and four ta 5,000 Kou lorgis, (slaves) that can be spared from Oran and other garrisons, for their defence, who will evince much indi vidual bravery and desperation. But being met with an equal proportion of the first, aided by knowledge and skill, in which they arc so deficient, in an operation of science, which is what a siege presents, they must cede the victory. " The Dey is fully aware of the preparations making against him, and told the Captain of an English frigate within the last three weeks, with true oriental apathy, that ' God was great and good, and the sea uncertain and dangerous ;' and he is right, for they are his only re sources, as nothing but a hurricane brought express from the West Indies, or some occurrence similar to the acci dent that destroyed the host of Senacherib, when his army awoke and found they were dead men, can prevent their landing or ultimate success." New Zealand in 1829" is a very impres sive article, detailing the particulars of the mas sacre of a whole ship's crew by the natives of this savage region. It reminds us not a little of Mr. Mariner's account of the Tonga Islands, where a similar catastrophe is described. There are numerous other articles which, however, at present we have no space to analyse. LEIGH'S GUIDE TO THE LAKES.-LONDON, 1830. A brief but pertinent description of the local peculiarities of the Highlands of Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancashire, &c., with remarks— which will be found extremely serviceable to the tourist—on the best method of accomplishing the tour of the Lakes. Maps of the different Lakes are added, and display infinite neatness and correctness. The volume is of a convenient portable size and very Opp? LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS. -LONDON, IS3O. The long series of the Waverley Novels have never been illustrated—so far at least as their unrivalled scenic descriptions are concerned— than in the present series of landscape engravings, which are now, we learn, running a career of de. served popularity. Each picture evinces marks of infinite care, even i n it s minutest points ; the ,4 Waste of Cumberland," in particular, is n master-piece of finished elegance, FAMILY LIBRARY.—LONDON, 1830. The present number contains the second volume of Beloe's Translation of Herodotus, of which we made due mention in our 1 ,4 notice,. It is a happy idea that of reducing bulky volumes, like many of our old translations from to 'Classics to the convenient size of neat and elegaptly primed duodecimos, and, on this score &one, the " Family Library" richly deserves the extensive circulation it has met with, • ; MISS PATON: (From the Morning Herald.) The proceedings of Saturday week between Lord Wm. Lennox and his wife, known at the theatre as " Miss Paton," according to his Lordship's statement at Bow street a few weeks ago, took plitee after the play. His Lordship was attended by Colon e l Berksley (the claimant of a barony,'hy the tenure of Berkeley Castle); and, after the solicitations to the lady, all which, however, were vain, to return with Lord W. Lennox, Mr. Wood, the singer, was espostal to some strong accusatory remarks. He con tradicted them firmly, expressing mo-t decidedly that he was innocent of what was laid to his charge. This, how ever, is represented to have by no means satisfied the Noble Lord; on the contrary, it is added that the Noble Lord so tar forgot himself as to give something like a challenge. Mr. Wood, it is stated, replied to this •—" You are warm, my Lord : think of what you say, and, if you are of the same opinion to-morrow, I hope I shall be able to reply to you satisfactorily." It is added—and all that is here stated is on the authority of a spectator of the scenes--that a compa nion of the Noble Lord then asked—" But couht you get a gentleman to attend you r A distinguishei performer, and one who has no trifling interest in the theatre, there upon remarked that " an actor would be ready to attend a brother performer, and would endeavour, in any way that might be required, to sustain the character of a gentleman." Words between Lord W. Lennox and Miss Paton ran rather high ; and, in reply to some remark of his Lordship, insinuating that the lady was somewhat indebted to him for '' rank," the lady, stung by the observation, and recollect ing what she had done fur his Lordship, warmly replied, when I first knew you, you had not a decent coat to your back." When Miss Paton left the theatre, it was with Mr. Bartley, the stage manager ; and Mr. B. saw her home to her residence in Bond-street. She has had three children by her unfortunate marriage; and some mention that there may be an addition to the family at no distant day—a circumstance that, under existing affairs, it is to be hoped may be spared the lady. The ' reports as to his Lordship's conduct are of a very striking character; — nor are they very flattering as to his liberality : of both these matters, however, more, perhaps, hereafter. THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE. YOUNG'S 'benefit, last night, was, as might have been expected, fully and fashionably attended. The play was Virginias, and YOUNG himself the hero of the tragedy. We prefer his performance of this character to MACREADY'S. It has less fire perhaps, but is infinitely chaste and true to nature. It has more too of the old Roman about it, than MA CREADY'S, whose style of acting is any thing but graceful or classical. Mr. YOUNG was received with unbounded applause, which marked the deli very of almost all his emphatic speeches. At the close of the tragedy lie was loudly called for by the house, on which he came forward and spoke to the following effect : " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—These tokens of your approbation, dear to me at all times, are peculiarly so at the present moment. This is one of the latest occasions on which I shall have the honour of appearing before you. After the provincial tour which it is usua' to take on such occasions, I shall return and take my final leave. Judge, then, if the applauses with which you have honoured me are not under the circumstances especially grateful. I heartily thank you for them." The afterpiece of Blue Devils followed, in which YOUNG played the part of James Megrim to per fection. COVENT-GARDEN. Miss PATON last night rather unexpectedly made her appearance at this theatre as Cinderella, in the late popular opera of that name. She was received with bursts of applause, by a house unusually crowded. Mr. WOOD was equally well received ; and both the lady and gentleman went through their parts with all their wonted ability. The Duke of Devonshire was in the stage box. COBURG. The well-known Scotch romance of Old Mor tality, or the Battle of Bothwell Brigg, .was brought out here for the first time last night, and received with considerable applause, by a house crowded to the very slips. The melo-drame of Paul Jones, the Pirate, followed, and was termi nated, after divers stirring scenes and incidents, by what the bills aptly call " a grand explosion." It is likely, we think, to make a hit. SURREY. The Whit-Monday novelty here was a new piece, entitled Progress of a Law Suit, or the Travels (if a Sailor, in which Mr. T. P. COOKE made his first appearance for the season. The piece was favourably received on the whole; and followed by Black-Eyed Susan, of which the public must, by this time, we should conceive, be beginning to tire. ASTLEY'S. The entertainments at this theatre were as inte resting as they were diversified. The Battle of Waterloo was revived with, if possible, still greater effect than heretofore, and DUCROW, in the Circle, outdid his former feats. The Death of Tom Moody, or harlequin's Sporting Kalendar, notwithstanding its title, kept the house in continued laughter; the Ascot Heath Races, by real horses, was a capital re presentation of the neck-or-nothing affair of the real turf; it was almost impossible to manage it better, and the best proof of this was the enthusiastic ap plause bestowed on it by all parts of the house; in deed, the performances altogether were so well got up, that none but the most fastidious could find fault. Mr. MASSINGHAM, we perceive, takes his benefit to-morrow evening at Drury-lane Theatre. An attractive bill of fare is put forth, and will, no doubt, attract a crowded house. Greenwich was yesterday a scene of great ani mation and gaiety. The fair attracted much company, who enjoyed the amusements until a late hour. Every arrangement was made to preserve order, ar,4 the frolics of the fair presented a succession of 9ntertainments, not being the less acceptable from being highly grotesque and ludicrous. Two hays were exhibited, said to be united like the Siamese twins, between whom a quarrel was ex cited by one of the spectators, when in the height of the passion they broke their band, and proceeded to fight each other, but were soon separated by tae police. A rough fellow, who represented hirnulf superior to the Fire King, swallowed a table-spcon full of what he called arsenic, and after writhing and twisting for some time, commenced dancing a hornpipe, but soon desisted, as the dose began to operate, being composed of anagoesia and jalap, admi nister, d by one of his colleagues in the character of a physician. The Park had its usual attraction, in which the ladies rolling down One-tree-hill displayed their charms to the greatest advantage. The sports are repeated this day and to-morrow. The popular author of the " English in Italy," it appears, is *ant to produce a pendant to that work under thg thin of the " English at Home." One of the tales (for there are several) is understood to be con. tinted with the fortunes of the son of an English Earl. Singular as this narrative is said to be, 4 has been affirmed that there is more of truth in it than of faction. Mr. D'lsßAq.i, it► the concluding volumes of his " IW,einuirs of CHARLES the First," has thrown an cntire}y new light on the private life of that Monarch, and on the influence which the QUEEN gad on the KING'S conduct. This, together with the curious and valuable details relative to slc PzEcir family, particularly as re gards th? Countess of CARLISLE, invest the present volumes with all the attraction of secret hiAktor.y.. By the recent arrivals from Calcutta, it ap pears that only a single Puisne Judge, Sir EDWARD RyAti, remains to discharge the functions of the Supreme Court. Sir JOHN FRANKS has been obliged to go to tbi. Cape of Good Hope for his health ; and the Chief Justice, Sir CHARLES GREY, has departed ca a tour with the GOVERNOR GENERAL. Thi,s iil-timedset;ession from his judicial duties on tile part. of . the CHIEF J - os:ricE, has occasioned grea t i nco nvenien.ce, and Li severely animatt ‘.erted 1 ,T`:41 by the loi;41 Journals. From private ad st , minsiderable previous discontent with prevailed among a portion of the ' i vS a ii h cre lrta %*v ti he ts Llze o l f rllG C: : l r c u y tt a , and that an address praying his removal from the Bench was actually, soing short time since, in contemplition. S;r CHARLES GREY is an ac complished person and a man of letters; but said to be infected with that iudo/enue which too often belongs t, the merely literary character. As a lawyer he ;ever Naked high.—iiiorniny Chronick, SIR W. JONES The extensive and dangerous riots which oc curred in London in the year 1780, and in which, as we have seen, the valuable collections of Lord Mansfield perished, induced Mr. Jones to inquire into the methods provided by law for the suppression or such tumultuous assemblies; a;ld the result of his researches was communicated to the world in a small pamphlet, entitled, " An Inquiry into the legal Mode of suppressing Riots, with a constitutional Plan of future De fence." He also took occasion, in the autumn of this year, to address the freeholders of Middle. sex, and he subsequently drew up a discourse, containing the purport of what he would have spoken, had an opportunity of so doing occurred. This speech is mentioned for the purpose of in troducing the animated protest against slavery contained in it. " I pass with haste by the coast of Africa, whence my mind turns with in dignation at the abominable traffic in the human species, from which a part of our countrymen dare to derive their most inauspicious wealth. Sugar, it is said, would be dear, if it were not worked by blacks in the western islands ; as if the most laborious, the most dangerous works were not carried on in every country, but chiefly in England, by freemen ; in fact, they are so carried on with infinitely more advantage ; for there is a❑ alacrity in a consciousness of free dom, and a gloomy sullen indolence in a con sciousness of slavery: but let sugar be as dear as it may, it is better to eat none, to eat honey, if sweetness only be palatable ; better to eat aloes or coloquintida than violate a primary law of nature, impressed on every heart not imbruted, by avarice, than rob one human creature of those eternal rights of which no law upon earth can justly deprive him." Some idea of the acquirements of Mr. Jones, at this period of his life, and of the resolute in dustry with which he pursued his studies, may be formed from the following memorandum : " Resolved to learn • no more rudiments of any kind, bu t to perfect myself in ;‘ First, twelve languages, as the means of acquiring ac curate knowledge of I. History. 1. Man. 2. Nature. 11. Arts. I. Rhetoric. 2. Poetry. 3. Painting. 4. Music. 111. Sciences. I. Law. 2. Mathematics. 3. Dialectics. " N.8.--Every species of human knowledge may be re duced to one or other of these divisions. Even law be longs partly to the history of man, partly as a science to diabetics. " The twelve languages are, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Ger►nan, English.-1780."—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol. VI. LORD ERSKINE. Talents so extraordinary, and eloquence so powerful as Mr. Erskine's, are, in this country, speedily engaged in the public service. His political predilecti ons h a d a l rea d y l ed him to associate himself with those celebrated men, who, during the administration of Lord North, headed the Opposition, and whose characters and genius were then in their highest meridian. Fox, Burke, and Sheridan, the three most splen did names in the modern political history of 'England, had hitherto preserved unblemished the fair and brilliant reputation with which they entered into public life. The « coalition" had not yet dimmed the splendour of Fox's name; the purity of Burke's principles had not yet de parted from him ; nor had the fatal web of pe cuniary embarrassment been wound round the soul of Sheridan. To associate with men like these was worthy of Erskine ; but it was not until after the formation of the coalition Ministry that he became the public coadjutor of this distin guished phalanx. When the ill-judged and unfortunate measure of the India Bill had been introduced, it became evident that Ministers would require every assistance to carry it, op posed as it was by so many and such various in terests. The fame and the genius of Erskine at once pointed him out as an invaluable ally ; and it was determined to bring him without delay into the House of Commons. Sir William Gordon, the M ember for Portsmouth, was there fore prevailed upon, for an adequate considera tion, to resign his seat, to which Mr. Erskine immediately succeeded.—Dr. Lardner's Ca binet Cydopcedia, Vol. VI. The Lords of the Treasury, on the memorial of the merchants of London engaged in the wine and spirit trade, praying relief upon certain points connected with the principle on which these articles are charged with duty on the delivery from the warehouses, have ordered, that all spirits warehoused in warehouses of special security, be taken out for home consumption, on payment of duty according to the actual quantity and strength (and not according to the quantity' and strength warehoused as heretofore); and that wines in bond may be filled up, fined, and racked, and the lees destroyed, without payment of duty. By this regulation, many hardships muoh complained of by the trade are removed, particularly as regards foreign spirits, which, when old and in finest condition, were nearly excluded from consump tion by th e d u ti es requ i re d on t h e i r d e ficiencies. This concession has been obtained from Government by the committee of merchants of London engaged in the wine and spirit trade. FILIAL AFFECTION.—HEYWOOD in his ac count of certain persons who suffered in Scotland, on a charge of witchcraft, says, that one of them, a woman, when fastened to the stake, cried to her sun for water. ' 6 Helpe me to any drink, be it never so little, for I am most extremely drie," to which the hopeful youth replied, " By no means, deere mother, will I do you that wrung, for the drier you are, no doubt you will burn the better." SINGULAR CIRGUAISTANCL—A few days since a woman, aged 108 years, residing in the neigh bourhood of the Brown Moor, was seen engaged in driving horns peaty in a wheel-barrow from an adjacent moss, without either shoes or stockings ea her feet. So much for the salubrity of the climate of Elginshire, and the har. dihood of its inhabitants.—Elgin Courier. Last week, the fishermen of one of the stations off Lord GREY'S fishings, caught at one haul forty-five full grown salmon. Nothing similar to this has happened for some years past. The time indeed was when such hauls were so frequent, as not to be regarded as any thing very extraordinary, lout now they are like angels' visits, " few and far between."—Perth Advertiser. _ - LENDING JEwLs.---A lady, viewing a few days since the magnifi cen t di sp l ay o f p l ate and jewellery appertaining to, on e o f our principal metropolitan Jew e ll erF , observed,, amongst other splendid articles, a diamond neck ! l ace worth 75,000/. On inquiring whether a purchaser was likely to be found for this expensive trinket, the person who showed the jewellery replied, " No, Madam ; we cannot hope for such a thing ; but our money is returned to us, and with interest too, by merely letting out articles like those, which the first nobility cannot be ashamed to. :tire, because their psrcAase would employ a fq,7tune!"—Cqurt Journ4, Haymakil - ig has commenced in the neigh bourhea4 of the metropolis: much fins grass was cut on Saturday at Camden-hill, in Lord HOLLA ND'S grounds, Kensington, &c. The heavy rains of Sunday, and the dull weather of yesterday, have somewhat impeded the Illy harvest's progress but the quantity of grass is very pro- The banns for the marriage of no fewer than a hundred " happy couples" were published for the third time in the Collegiate Church on Staulay last! These candidates for bliss will, no doubt, enter the holy state of matrirc.ony in the course of the ensuing week. Upwards of a hundred couples more were " asked" on the same occasion, in the less advanced stages of the banns.—lllan cheater Courier,