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MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. PART I. We have a double number this month, " Like to a double cherry seeming parted, And yet a union in partition," for in both numbers we trace the lively, prac tised, and discriminating pen of Professor Wilson. The Review of the " Fall of Nineveh" is decidedly his. It abounds in vivacity, force, and vigour of reasoning, and unerring sense of the beautiful - in nature and art ; in ftct, in all those qualities—to say nothing of the minor ones of style—in which the author of Lights and Shadows" shines pre 7 eminent. But Mr. Atherstone is too hardly dealt with. He is sacrificed to a point: offered up a martyr to a theory. Professor Wilson has made the most of his weaknesses of thought and expres sion—and pray what writer, either of. the past or present day, in the course of a long poem, in God knows how many books, has not plenty of them ?—while he has undervalued, or passed over in disdainful silence, his frequent energy and kichness of imagery, his lavish descriptions and his (occasionally) spirited battles. Mr. Adler- Eton ; thotigh neither a Homer, nor a Milton, nor h 13,YtiOn, is yet not a ninny. He has good tOta within him, though we will allow he has now and then a strange way of showing it. His "Fall of Nineveh" is what we should style a clever poem : this is certainly no very high praise, but is yet better and juster than calling it a blundering sample of absurdity. "On the Art of Dressing the Human Body" is a lively paper, with an amusing vein of exaggeration running through it. It contains one or two good anecdotes of a very Peter-Pindaric character. \Ve present the reader with a specimen, just pre mising, by the way, that the hint has been mani festly derived from the modern Pythagorean's very grotesque incident of . the "Red Man." " Fathers have odd fancies, and dress their family inure in accordance with their own taste than their daughters' appearances. We called, when we were last in Suffolk, on no old friend of ours, whom we had not seen for many years. He was a humorist in his way, and was blessed with the most complete credulity, mixed with the least quantity of shrewdness, of any matter-of fset individual we ever knew. Old Simon's reception if us was kind, his invitation to stay with him was pressing, and we stayed. The room in which we saw him was remeekahly well furnished ; but the sun was shining height--it was the middle of summer—and the whole - apartment was one blaze of light. The curtains of the windows were of the most dazzling yellow—the carpet was yellow, with here and there a blue spot on it—the walls were yellow—the grate was yellow—the chairs and sofas all of the same hue—and all the pictures round the room were enshrined in bright yellow frames. Our old fiend Itiinstif, from the reflection of the colour, was as yellow iii the face as a jaundiced man, or a new brass bottom ; and our eyes began to be affected by gazing on the same changeless, unmitigated tint. We asked him for a snuff, and a yeller box containing Lundifoot wss immediately put into our hands. We drew from our peeket a handkerchief, which unfortunately was of the feted hue. ' Beautiful handkerchief!' exclaimed our friend ; such a very lovely colour ! Pray, Sir, let the see. Ave, 'real Bandana; and such a bright glowing yellow! Yes,' we replied, resolving to play a little on the simplicity of our friend ; it is a good handker chief; and it is sometimes right to run a little risk, though a cloth of any other shade would do just as well, and not be at all dangerous.'—' Dangerous! risk !' ex claimed our yellow friend, with a slight tinge of blue spreading over his features—' What can you be talking -of? Yellow is the very best colour of them all. My gig is yellow—my carriage is yellow —I keep no birds but canaries—and what do you talk about risks and dans.ess for?'—' Then you haven't heard the discovery made by the German metaphysicians, that our thoughts take the colour of what is presented to the senses?'—Yellow is a most dangerous colour—yellow thoughts make people misers, pickpockets, and murderers.'—' God have mercy upon us all ! if that's the case ; for I'm sure my thoughts must be yellow, beyond the power of man to &Inge theta: My wife's thoughts must he yellow as this sofa. And Mary, poor dear yellow-thoughted Mary ! what shall 140 to dye thetn?'—' Give them a slight infusion,' we said, as solemnly as possible, of blue damask furniture; and let Mary be feasted on a green silk pelisse.'—' Ali now,' said our friend, I know you're only joking. Curse me- taphysics! I never could understand a word of them in my life. Feast on a green silk pelisse! Ha, ha! I'll tell Mary what a supper you propose.'—' No, Sir--serious NG a judge—even in the time we have been here, we feel as if ill of the yellow fever.'—' Fever!' cried Simon, wo fully alarmed; is it infsctious? How pale you look': Shall I ring the hell, Sir? Mary, Mary, do leave the room ; the yellow fever is raging here already ; and all front these confounded yellow curtains! The gentleman Isso swsiloored a sofa-cover!—How do yen feel now, Sir?' A few yards, properly applied, of adm k green crumb cloth, would be very advantageous. A black coal-scuttle ifould also be a great relief.' We looked at Mary as we said this, and saw a very pretty little girl of seventeen or eighteen, dressed all in the everlasting colour—yellow from top to toe, her very hair being slightly golden, and her sandals of yellow silk. Her mother also came in, and was closely followed by a servant in yellow livery. All seemed fixed in the utmost astonishment. We ourself sat quetly on the sofa, after having bowed to the ladies ; while Simon went on with a string of questions and ex tdemations, which were totally unintellieible to them; and ended at last with a d e nu nc iati on o f ' his favourite fur niture, which seemed to give great satisfaction to his wife and daughter. We were remarking to Mr. Yellowly, when you came in, madam,' we said to the lady, in our usual bland and insinuating manner, that we thought this room would be somewhat improved by the addition of some furniture of a different colour, and he seems now to agree with us in opinion.'—' God bless me!' cried Simon, stopping short in his walk— ' I understood you to say you had been infected by the furniture with the yellow fever; that the fever had made you mad, and you wished to swallow a crumb cloth, and sup on the coal-scuttle. Mary was to eat a green pelisse, and you, my dear, were to be treated with an infusion of a chest of drawers.' We immediately ex plained ; arid the ladies, who seemed accustomed to Simon's absurdities, were easily satisfied of his mistake; more especially as he promised them dresses of the colours they themselves should prefer; and we saw the pretty Mary, before our departure, in a gown of the purest white, a deep blue ribbon round her waist, with white silk stockings and Week shoes ; which, to the young, the simple, and the unaffected, is the handsomest and most in teresting dress they can possibly put on." The Headsman, a Tale of Doom," is a well-told and even impressive story, by a writer who has no deficiency of power in his compo sition. " The Last Stork," by the Ettriek Shepherd, is a prettyish poem, though not worthy the poet of the " Queen's Wake." " The British Colonies, Letter III.," is a violent reply, from the avowed pen of Mr. James M'Queen, to an article that appeared On the same subject in a late number of the Westminster. It warmly advocates the anti-emancipation side of the ques tion. "On the Decay of the Picturesque" is an eloquent " Lament" for the progress of the march of mind, by the same gentleman to whom we were last month indebted for an admirable analysis of Miss O'Neill's tragic powers. The article is a rare union of eloquence and sound sense. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, PART This, as well as the former one, is an excellent number. It contains, in addition to the numerous other articles, all of a respectable, some of a superior nature, two lengthened reviews ; one of Bowles's Banwell Hill," the other of" Moorc's Life of Byron" which are of themselves sufficient to redeem the character of the Magazine, were all its other literary communications intolerable, There is also an Oriental tale written with much spirit and power of invention, entitled " The Fate of the Caliph Motasser." From the de lightful notice of " Moore's Life of Byron," we quote the following just estimate of his Lord ,,hip's character : " We have now followed the progress of Byron's life till his departure from England. In another number we must meet him on his glorious return—and be with him till once more, heart-stricken, but not heart-broken, he left— never to return—the shores where liberty has long fixed her chorea reign, to restore it, by his gen-rosity, his ge nius, and his valour, to that land where of old she had her most glorious seat. Enough of him and of his cha racter we have seen to enable us to judge it—morally and intellectually—in the light of truth. And blind and base must they be who feel not—that with all his faults and frailties—Byron was throughout t hildhood—boyhood— youth—and up to manhood's spring-prime,—a noble being. Let him be tried by what he thought—felt—and did, and he will stand even a fiery ordeal- A more affec tionate heart than his never beat in a human bosom. His friendships were indeed passions ; but though he sometimes accuses himself of fickleness, we see no proofs of that in his conduct. His longings for the love of brotherhood were intense and incessant ; and, till they were satisfied by a. return of affection, he knew no happiness. All his chosen companions were above the common stamp; and all his chosen friends seem either to have been youths who, had they lived—too many of them were cut off by un timely death—would have been distinguished men, or youths who did grow up to distinguished manhood, and have made a figure in the world: of life or letters. All meanness—unmanliness—hypocrisy, or guile, he despised or abhorred; and real worth secured his esteem in what ever rank of life it shone, whatever aspect it assumed, provided only it hel l up au open front to the daylight. Though, says Mr. Moore, as a child, occasionally pas sionate and headstrong, his docility and kindness towards those who were themselves kin,!, is acknowledged by all ; and " playful," and " Scala:sate," are invariably the epithets by which those who knew him in his childhood convey their expressions of his character. When a mere child, he did not let his faithful nurse, May Gray, return to Scotland without giving her, as a keepsake, his own gold watch. At Southwell, when a boy, we have seen him purchasing a Bible fur a pauper ; and at all times with a " band open as day to melting charity." A little later on, when Le was child or boy no longer, but a man indeed, we learn from the gratitude of an accomplished scholar, who did not desire to conceal from the world the merit of such a noble benefaction, that he thought little of a thousand- pound free gift to a fiiend who needed it. The price of his first great work he handed over to Mr. Dallas; and to one creature—who afterwards, in malignant idiocy, accused him of avarice—be gave the means of transport from England to Italy, with wife and children, a house to live in rent free, furniture, and a hundred pounds or two for pocket-money, to change sickness and starvation into health and comfort. At al times generous—on many occasions he was munificent. Nor did he ever wish gra titude to take any other shape—to breathe any other spirit —but love." MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This very rising Magazine is this month un usually good. It abounds in lively, argumenta tive, declamatory, and satirical articles ; some in prose and some in verse, and all excellent. The year 1830, though we cannot approve of its spirit, has some judicious remarks, and in point of style is eloquently and vigorously penned. " A Christmas Dinner" is an agreeable article, though rather too highly worked up ; and " Walks in Ireland," a contribution that would do honour to the best Magazine of the day. But the reader shall judge for himself in the fol lowing extract, which forms an introduction to a series of legends and old Irish historiettes:— " I leave the county,of Niohlow, with its ever-chang ing.alternation of sunshine and shade; its sparkling ribs and cheerful lawns, on the cast ; its solemn valleys and unpeopled mountains,.on the west 'the March of Mind' has brought the Spirit of Improvement' to my pleasant haunts, and, like poor General Boone, I must retire into the interior. What with piety and planting, Methodism and Scotch firs, there is no such thing as taking a stretch of half-a dozen tulles in any direction now-a-days : on one side you are Yost with, No person permitted to walk in this demesne without a ticket from Mr. or Mrs. Pop kins ;' on the other, Alderman Perriwig allows no one to cross this plantation ;' or, ' Take notice, Mr. Ferret has closed the road over this Hemmed in on the right and left, you endeavour to advance in front ; but you are stopped by, ' Any person found on this mountain will be persecuted according to law. Determined to (fleet a emely retreat, you face about ; but a great white post, like an Austrian r:entry, stares you in the face. with 'No pass tee this way.' Powerscourt is shut up ; the Dargle is forbidden ground on Sundays ;—nay, no later than yes terday, I was greeted, at the fr:A of Bray-head, with No person allowed to wal on these grounds,' marvel lously ill-painted on a dirty board. How often have I lain on the rocky crown of Bray-head, in the dreamy sun shine of a livelong summer day, while a thousand gay and glittering fancies floated through my mind, like a half-seen brook sparkling through flowers,' as one of the pretty writers in the Annuals might say, or as I would say myself, if I had the luck to be a poet ; or, again, in thoughtful autumn, watching the evening mists as they stddened around• the Pirate's Rock, in the uncertain dis tance ; or the nstless wavk s, as they raved and tossed be neath my feet, like the guilty in a troubled sleep. But those days are gone by, and Bray-head is now possessed by 'the Spirit of Improvement,' and stack all over with a legion of little starveling larches; so that, until exorcised by the wood-cutter some fifty years hence, it is, I suppose, to be held sacred from intrusion. _ . " It is strange enough that, in many instances, Religion is made the stalking-horse for the system of exclusion of which I complain, and you are denounced as little better than an idolater if you think of a country excursion on a Sunday ; as if religious feeling, and abstract love of the Creator, are not as likely to take possession of one's mind when listening amidst sunshine, and flowers, and all sweet and pleasant sights and sounds, to the innocent creatures of God, the blackbird or the lark, singing their unpremedi tated hymns of natural inspiration, as when seated beneath the loftiest roof that ever ascended at the bidding of man, unravelling the mazy intricacies of the profoundest dis course ever delivered on either side of the question by the Reverend Doctor Philpotts, or lulled by the sweetest organ ever built by Flight and Robson. " Let us away, then, to the south : the wildest moun tains of Cork anti Kerry are as familiar to me as the Burlington Arcade to Pea-green Hayne, or Regent-street to a Half•p iy ; and although I have not the honour to be a sworn Whiteboy, yet I can count amongst my acquaint ances many distingui-hed members of that respectable fra ternity. Moreover, I ant very sufficiently versed in tra ditional lore; so that I flatter myself I am not unequal to the task of guiding you into the heart of that region of m•, story and adventure, where George the Fourth and Captain Rock hold divided sway. Let us go then—but not to-day—not to-day. " To-day, while the dull rain is falling, and the lagging wind is moaning through the trees, and the drift creeps heavily along the sullen waters, let us sit by the fire, and tell old tales--spin yarns, as we say at sea—for, amongst my other accomplishments, I ant an amateur sailor. I will call ❑p, from the depths of my meroory, some of the countless wild and gloomy legends, which in Ireland cling to every hill and glen, every rock and ruin—from the Causeway to Cape Clear—and you shall half believe in spirits before I have done. 1 promise you that I have not the least intention of using either order, method, or con nected system in my narratien. I intend to follow the vagrant ignis fatuns of my own fancy, skipping from one county to another, just as said fancy shall think proper to bid me. My mind is, at this present moment, too full of restless indolence either to remain quiet on the one hand, or to choose its own course on the other. Dim recollec tions of bygone scenes and shadowy tales of diablerie, and chivalric, and ancient wars, and fiPree baronial feuds, are flitting slowly before me, in orderly disorder, like phan toms in a magic glass ; and all I C:01 do at present is to catch and embody a few of them for you. So pray bend down your stately reason for a while, like a tall lawyer I know of, when he puts himself on a civil equality with a stunted client, and looks, as he bends to lend a sympathetic ear to the wrongs of the pigmy litigant, his white wig curling round his solemn face, and his long black gown drooping around hint, like an aged giantess condoling with a wayward dwarf. Do now, like a kind reader as you ire, resign yourself to that species of voluntary illusion which legmlary lore requires ; and let us tall,: or gltests, and prophecies, and haunted ruins." LONDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. " On the Decline and Fall of Roman Litera ture," which forms the first article in this able number, is well written, so far as manner is concerned ; and not deficient in point of matter, though, as Horne Tooke said of Junius, " ma terient superat,opus." The article is in fact a chapter of generalities, a sort of preliminary dis course to a series of dissertations on the subject of Roman Literature. We hope the writer, when he enters fully on his subject; will have re gard to condensation of matter ; at present his remarks, though ingenious and tenable, are rambling and ill-assorted. We cordially enter into the spirit of his observations on Ovid ; he was beyond all comparison the " writer of the Augustan age, that possesses the most original genius and greatest intellect," He drew more rom himself, relied more securely on his own fancy, invention, eloquence, and feeling, than all his cotemporaries put together. His chief defect was his excessive exuberance ; he never knew when to stop—a dangerous fault, second only to sterility of matter. " The Eve of Wal purgis" is a romantic German story, full of love, and with lots of diableric to recommend it. It can scarcely fail to attract the million ; though German devilries, we are glad to find, are on the wane, and even the arch-fiend himself, with his numerous joint-stock-companies, is getting below par on the Exchange of literature. "On the Troubadours" is a pleasant, showy essay, replete with agreeable knowledge. We subjoin a spcci- men : " The Troubadours, whose origin can be traced to a re mote district in the kingdom of Arles, were neither like the ftbliers, mercenary performers, who exhibited their art for tlietnere purpose of acquiring profit, nor like the ro manciers, hired attendants of some proud feudal house. Being themselves for the most part members of the no bility. they resided on their own domains; which they never deserted, except with the intention of visiting some adjacent castle, whose possessor might require their en livening company, or effici,ting at the gay rites of tourna ment. On these occasions they were treated as the equals of the circle which they strove to amuse, and their guerdon was proportionate to the respect entertained, as well for their rank as their ability ; the Lords presented them with rich carpets, or generous steeds, after the oriental fashion, which had become prevalent during the Crusades ; the ladies vouchsafed a smiling meed of approbation, or as Fontenelle has it, y t more distinguishing marks of favour —' Les princesses et les plus grandes dames y joignoient souvent leur feveurs, cites etoient fort foibles contre les beaux esprits,' ; and the dread of satire from those who might in some degree be considered as the voices of public opinion, contributed its due share to the ready wel come which they received in every hall. Even in official enactments they were distinguished from their ignoble rivals, the jongleurs, or histriones."fhe state of Bo logna, when it forbade its domain to all wandering min strels, excepted by a special clause the honourable fra ternity of Troubadours ; and although Philip Augustus does not mention them as exempted from the gentral act of exile passed against players, yet he does not seem to have withdrawn his countenance, since they remained in undisturbed possession of their ancient privileges. It cannot, however, be denied, that the lives of many were stained with duplicity and profligacy, in lieu of that pure devotion and frank manliness which figure in the books of chivalry as the peculiar characteristic of the singular order of knighthood, whose brightest ornaments they professed to be. The virtues of Piers de Cabestaing, and Geer frog de Rutid, meet with a striking contrast in the wanton fe rocity of Bertrand de Born, and the cold-blooded treachery of the eminent ecclesiast Folquet, Archbishop of Toulouse." The last sentences of this extract do not suf ficiently qualify the laudatory spirit of its pre decessor. The " Troubadours," we believe, in nine cases out of ten were sad vagabonds—dis solute to a man in their conduct to the fair sex; knowing little of love beyond the animal excite ment ; self-willed, ferothous, and only half tamed. The remaining articles in this number, which we have not space to enumerate, are each good in its own particular department. The London University may well be proud of this her first and favourite foster child ! Though an infant, it shows the Hercules in its cradle. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, AND UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The " New Monthly Magazine," and the " United Service Journal," have reached us at so late an hour, (a very unusual thing with these works) that we must defer our notice of them till to-morrow. BRITISH MAGAZINE. The articles in the present number are most of them above the usual calibre. " My Last Night's Dream," by Miss Jewsbury—an amiable and accomplished lady, anal the friend of Wordsworth—is the best, and next to this Mrs. Opie's tale of " Pere la Chaise." The reviewing department of the work is creditably executed. Altogether, the Magazine bids fair to do well ; it is yet, we understand, but a suck ling, but it is a remarkably healthy one. DOMESTIC GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. A work which, when completed, as proposed in twelve parts, will prove useful to Gardeners and Agriculturists. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF FASHIONS. The embellishments to this periodical are as usual, considering its exceeding cheapness, ex cellent, particularly the one illustrative of the King on the Throne, which has a rich and im posing air. The contributions too are this month much superior to what they were the last. ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR. A very useful and intelligent publication, neatly printed, and well arranged. EDWARDS'S BOTANICAL REGISTER; OIL ORNAMENTAL FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. Continue'l by Professor LINDLEY, F.R.S. Sze. No. 12, Vol. 11. New Series. Mr. Lindley is eminently successful in pre senting the gardening and botanical communities with a succession of desirable plants and shrubs. We have repeatedly of late expressed our appro bation and admiration of his exertions, and feel pleasure in saying his labours continue to call forth similar sentiments. The present number finishes the second volume, and concludes also Mr. Bemtham's valuable article on the genera Labiate. Another instance of the liberality of the Court of Directors of the East India Company is shewn by Dr. Wallich's introduc tion from Nissal of Dendrobium chrysan thum, to the Horticultural Society. « It is difficult to conceive a plant," says Mr. Lindley, at once more graceful and beautiful than this; its pendulous stems, which hang from the trunks of rugged, deep brown, moss-clad trees, are clothed with lucid leaves of the most lively green, and its flowers are of the richest and deepest yellow." The method of managing orchidious plants, as detailed in this article, will render the future cultivation of them more certain and pros perous. A very beautiful species of Bignonia cherere is fi:;ured from Lord Grenville's esta blishment at Dropmore. It is a conservatory climber, pre-eminently beautiful among the lovely race to which it belongs ; propagated readily by cuttings, and requiring no particular management beyond that of giving it plenty of room to run. The natives of French Guiana, where it was discovered by Aublet, manufacture the flexible shoots into baskets and broad brimmed hats, which act as umbrellas, keeping off both the sun and the rain ; they also use the shoots as cord. A very distinct species of Phlomis, communicated by A. B. Lambert, Esq. and five others of various beauty and in terest, and all calculated to thrive in the open ground of this country, form the contents of the present number. The evident attention given to the execution both of the engraving and colouring of the plates, places this work above all praise. PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDIAN ARMY. (From tha Asiatic Journal for February.) COMMANDERS-IN-CHIMP. BENG/it—His Exc. General the Right Hon. Lord Combermere, G.C.8.. &c. MADRAS—His Exc. Lieut.-General Sir G. T. Walker, G.C.B. &c. BomaAY —His Exc. Lieut... General Sir Thomas Baird, K.C.B. BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT. RING'S TROtiPS. COMPANY'S TROOCH. Rcgts. Stations. Regts. Stations. 11th Lt. Drags. Cawnvoro 29th do Meerut 16th do - Meerut 36th do Mirzapore 3d Foot llhaugulpore 31st do Secrora 13th do Dinapore 32d do Meerut 14th do Berhampore 33d do Cawnpore 16th do Fort William 34th do Saugor 31st do Meerut 35th do Barrackpore 34th do Ghazeepore 36th do Allyghur 44th do Cawnpore 37th do Kurnaul 49th do Fort William 38th do Barrackpore 39th do Gurraverra and liussingabad 40th do ?dhow 41st do Neemuch 42d do Neemuch 43d do Benares 41th do Cawnpore 45th do Baitool 46th do bluttra 47th do Arracan 48th do Allahabad 49th do Lucknow 511th do Gorruckporo 51st 52d do Pertaubgurgh (Oude) 539 do Barrackpore 51. th do ltungporo (As sam) 55th do Benares 56th do Lucknow 57th do Mhow 58th do Almorah and Moradabad 59th do Barrackpore 60th do Bareilly 61st do Shajelianpore & Etawah 62d do Seetapere 63d do Berhamporo 64th do Dacca 65th do Agra 66th do Cuttack 67th do Mhow 68th do Dinapore 69th do Neemuch 70th do Futtehgurh 71st do Saugor 729 do Mullye '3d do Jubbulpore 74th do Chittagong Artillery Dram t)um (head quarters) Engineers Fort William(hd. quarters) Barrackpore, Dinapore, Ber- COMPANY'S TROOPS. Ist Lt. Car. Muttra 2d de Kurnaul 3d Cawnpere 4th do Meerut sth do Kurnaul 6th do Sultanpore (Benares) 7th do Keitah tith do Nusseerabad 13th do Neemuch 10th do ... Mhow Ist Eur.llgt. Agra 2d do Agra Ist Nat. Inf Muttra 'id do Barrackpore Loodhiana 4th do Sooltanpore (Oude) sth do Delhi 6th do A gra 7th do Midnapore Eth do Banda 11th do Neerouch 10th do Kurnaul 11th do Barrackpore 12th do Nusseerabad lath do Dinapore 11th do Delhii 15th do Flansi 16th do Saeger rith do Delhi 19th do Agra 19th do Bareilly 20th do Keitah 21st do Nusseerabad 22d do Keitah 28d do l.oodianah .24th do Cawnpore 25th d 0.... Titalyah 26th do Nusseerabad .27th do Benares 28th do Allahabad and Juanpore N.B.—The half-batta stations hampore, and Dum-Dum. ABLISHMENT. COMPANY'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. 17th Nat. Inf. Cannar.ore 18th do Darw•ar 19th do Tenasserim 20th do Quilon 21st do Kulladghec 22d do ‘;alanicottah 23d do Palaveram 24th do Kolapoor 25th 26th do Trichinopoly zith do Bellary :Bth do Jaulnali 29th do Bangalore 30th do Masulipatam 31st do Jaulnah 39d do Tavoy 33d do 'l'enasserim 34th do Chicacole 35th do Penang 36th do Amherst Town 37th do tiagpoor 38th do Berhampore 39th do Bangalore 40th do Trichinopoly 41st do 'cancer 420 do Gooty 43d do Secunderabad 44th do Cannanore 45th do Kolapoor 46th do Palaveram 47th do Nagpoor 48th do Vellore 49th do Masulipatam 50th do Belgaum 51st do Quilon 520 do Secunderabad Artillery Mount (11d..Qu.) Engineers (lltl.-Qu.) 'ABLISH M ENT. COMPANY'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. oth Nat. Inf Ith do Poonah 2th do Poonah 6th do Poonah 4th do Vingorlah ah do Baroda 6th do Baroda ith do Bhewndy Sth do 9th do Rajcote 20th do Hursolo 21st do Deesa 22d do Bhooj 23d do Asseerghur 24th do Bhooj 25th do Sattara 46th do Ahmednuggur Artillery Quarters) Engineers Quarters). MADRAS EST. XINO'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. 13th I,t. Drags. Bangalore Ist Foot (2d) Bangalore With do 41st do A rnee 4.'",th do Moa!mein .kith do Seeundarabad 48th do Bellary 51th do Cannanore Stith do FortSt.George COMPAN 'S TROOPS. Ist Lt. Cay. Kulladghee 2,1 do Jaulnah 3d do Nagpoor 4th do Trichinopoly sth do Secundarabad fth do Arcot 7th do Pangalore Bth do Arcot Ist Masulipatani 2d do Nagpoor Ist Nat. la Trinchinopoly 2d do Presidency Can- tonment 3d do Pallamcottah 4th do Presidency Can- tonment sth do Bellary 6th do Quilon 7th do Nagpoor Bth do Secunderabad 9th do St. Thomas's Mount iota do_ I Ith do Bellary 12th do Vizianagram 13th do Palaveram 14th do Mangalore 15th do llangalere 16th do Jaulnah BOMBAY BSI KING'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. 4th Lt. Drags. Kirkee 2d Foot Peonah flth do Colobah 2oth d r 40th do Presideney,&c. COMPANY'S TROOPS. Ist lA. Car Sholaporo 2d do 3d do Deesa Ist Eur.Rgt Presidency 2d do Doesa Ist Nat. Inf Ahmedabad 2d do Presidency ::',d do Surat 4th do Dapolce sth do l3 nioda 6th do hialligaum 7th do Presidency Bth do 9th do Mulligaum The NEW MONTHLY AND LONDON MA GAZINE for FEBRUARY', 1830, contains—The Last Night of the Last Year—lreland as it is, by Lady Moatlax— The Marquis of ANGLESEA-Trucknall Torkard--BYROWS Last Rest—Characteristics of Rossm's Compositions— Sketches and Recollections, No. lll—Metropolitan Me tamorphoses—Sir Harry H;gllyer—A Suicide's Last Carouse—Anecdotes of Russia : Crimes : Infliction of the Knout : Russian Laws Interesting Story of an Exile— Annoyances of Travellers—Travelling . Troubles, No. 111. —ltalian Voyage; Switzerland; Rome—Recollections of a Gottingen Student, No. llL—Professor BLUMENBACH —l.ondoniana; Smoke ; Pestilence and Localities—The British Empire in 1829 : The National Debt—Recollec tions of Brazil, No. lll.—Sao Luis DE MARANHAM : A Ball—The Land of Cskes ; St. Andrews, or the aged City concluded—Oriental Literature—The Gondola—The 13acclitinaliaus ; a Fact—ROUSSEAU'S Dream—lnvocation to the Clifton Waters—Political Events—Critical Notices of Ne•.' Publications; The Drama, Fine Arts, Varieties Domestic and Foreign, Biographical Memoirs of Persons lately deceased ; Sir THOS. LAWRENCE ; Sir M. NIGHT INGALE-Provincial Occurrences, &c. &c. ----- AFFAIR IN HIGH LIFE.—An event, neither very novel nor very unprecedented in a certain class of so ciety, but mo't extraordinary and most unlooked for, when we consider the present public and private condition of the parties, has formed the chief subject of conversation the List two days, among the fashionable circles at the West End of the town. That which had been hinted at, or vaguely insinuated for a day or two, assumed a shape tangible enough for relation,, and it was p re tty b roa dly s t a ted that an Illustrious Personage, whose attentions for some time excited suspicion, had been detected in a most unequivocal situation in the dressing-room of the lady of a Nobleman holding a situation in the Royal Household. The lady alluded to is the sister of a distinguished Peer, and the mother of eight or nine children. We give the story as we received it, without attempting further to de signate the individuals alluded to. We may, however, add, that the wife of the principal offender is excited to an unusual degree of violence ; and that one of his rela tives, iu whom the nation is much intereste4, has becii more agitated by the discovery of this criminal indulgence than might have been expected.— Morning PePer• P.oczs OF STOCW:n TillS, OAT AT ONE ('CLUCK. ft ink , toe k 3 poi C.:at. !led. ... 9"%% 'Old Annuities — 3 per Cent. Cons. 9211, , % New Ditto — •-l q per Cent. — Ex. Bills, .f.1,00' 2d. 76 7 t pm. Ditto Pad. 100 1 / 4 993'-f ; lDitto lid. 76 '74 pm. t per Cent. Ann. D tto, 1826 Bank 1.. Ann. 19% 11-16 Ditto cimall Ditto no years Ditto 50 years In.tia stuck —llndia for Arro‘int Ditto Bonds '72 13 pm. t Cons. for Ftb 25...92% :OA', '2,4 FRICFS OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONZ O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapo'; tan . s Brazilian Bowls 71 % 1,4 I s ', Peruvial Bonds l9ll BuellGs Ayres Bonds — -Portugucfe Bonds Chilian Bonds ... — Prussian, Old Colornliian Bonds — 'Ditto, New — Ditto, 1924 ."% Russian Danish Greek Bonds 351 6 1823. Ditto, iF:2S 3;51i 71A% 7 French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala _ _ 7 -... , Exchange —f. •,-. Mexican Bonds 3 per cent....... —t. —r. L;itto, 1825 25 Exchange —f. TRICES OF SHARKS THIS DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK. Paid. Pe•r Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (igs. at 51. pm.) £lOO Brazilian Mining Company 5 Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £31 1 ,4 United Mex. Min. Co. {is& at 2/. prg.) £391,4 FOF.EIGN EXCHANGES or: LONDON. HAMBURG, JAN. 26.-13. 14.—Two months, 13. 12 1 ,x. 135:17,MF.N, JAN. 22.—Two months, 622 023. litutt.(N, JAN. 23.—Three months, 7. Sr. PErErtsut:R(in, JAN. a—Three months, 10 21-32. AM,,TERDAM, JAN. 2J.-1 . 2. 25. Two months-12. 20. nIGH IVATF.R AT LONDON' BRIDGE TO-lIORROW. Morning ... 59 minutes after 10. I Evening...27minutes after 11. ... 3__ •-.X-1. ~e :—.., i'e. , '. :-i:1 ; '.1 , 1....,;74 , 4: , 41j, 4i* --'('''''•ic.):e' ...›,* VII ..: - .7. 7 ^•.2.;? 2 ,1- , i,, , ::. - ',`:, 0 liklP-4. LONDON. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1830. St. Petersburgh Journals to the 6th January have been received. They announce the impor tant fact, that the EMPEROR has issued a mani festo for reducing the interest on money one per cent. This corroborates the opinion we stated some time ago, that there is an understanding between the great Powers of Europe for reducing the rate of interest : ET. rETERSBURCII, JAN. I, An Imperial manifesto, published this morning, an nounces the important measure of a reduction of the in terests of sums borrowed from the b inks of the empire, or placed in those establishments. The interest on both is reduced one per cent. so that the debtors of these banks will pay to them henceforth only five par cent. instead of six, and the bank will have to pay only four per cent. instead of five on the stuns deposited in them. Of course the proprietors of the latter will be at full liberty to with draw them whenever they please. The repayment of these sums will not experience any delay whatever. The Journal of St. Peteraburgh of the 2d of Jan. gives two columns of observations on this measure, and that of the 4th, the imperial manifesto, and the first three chapters of the regulations in twenty-nine sections, which fill four columns of the Journal, the sequel to be given in the following numbers. TIFLIS, DEC. 17. Professor Parrott, and fellow travellers, have arrived here from Mount Ararat, and set out on the 15th for line retia and the coasts of the Black Sea, to continue their researches. They will then return to Tiflis, and travel through the Mussulman provinces to the coast of the Cas pian Sea. The following are extracts from the Hamburg Reporter of the 26th of January. It appears that the Elector of Hesie is determined to put down the practice of duelling if possible. The war estate of the Duchy of Brunswick is only 4,105 men, and yet the Duke would quarrel with Hanover ! HAMBURG, JAN. 26. The Elector of Hesse has published a severe ordonnaace against duelling. No officer in his army is to he allowed to send or accept a challenge, but when insulted must submit his complaint to a military tribunal of honour. Whoever sends a challenge is liable to imprisonment in a fortress for not less than three, nor mere than six years ; and whoever accepts a challenge is to be liable to imprison ment fer not more than three nor less than one yt ar. If a duel is really fought, and one of the parties killed, the sur vivor is to be punished as guilty of murder ; if neither is killed, both are to be expelled the service, to be deprived of their letters of nobility, and to be imprisoned in .i fortress for not less than ten years. A variety of other regulations follow, of the severity of which an opinion may be formed from the preceding. The great fault of all laws hitherto vsed against duelling is the too great degree of punishment annexed to their vio lation. The consequence is an excitement of universal sympathy in favour of the offending party, which frequently acts as an inducement even with the Judges called upon to put the laws in force, to connive at every expedient that may favour the escape of the delinquent. A severe law will never have the effect of suppressing duelling, because a severer punishment, contempt, is inflicted on those who violate the laws of society. Ti!. C. Niedmann, the Editor of the Mitternaclits Blatt, published in Brunswick, was arrested a few days ago at the Theatre in that city, in consequence of a sentence pro nounced against him by the tribunal of Wolfenbuttle. Acording to the laws of the land, M. Niedmann was en titled to an appeal before the sentence could be executed ; his arrest therefore has excited a very strong sensation. It was also thought surprising that he should not have been permitted to give bail till three days after his arrest. _ _ HAMBURG, TAN. 26. BORSRN-HALLE, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.—The approaching liquidation for the end of January, has forced a number o sales, which together with an evident scarcity of money, operate unfavourably upon our Stock-market. End of January. Anslo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent Anglo-Russian Loan 1(8 Hamburg-Russian Loan lO4 Polish Bonds l2l Austrian Bank Shares 1282 Austrian Metalliques lOl% New Austrian 4 per Cents: Anglo Neapolitan Falconets The Paris Papers of Friday, and the Gazette (le France dated Saturday, have been received this morning, from which we make the following extracts : . The Official Part contains the following Royal Ordi, nanees I.—Art. 1. There shall be created in the Department of the Minister of War a Consultative Committee, for the administration of that department. Art. 2. The Commit tee shall consist of five members. A►t. 3. To he called Intendant in Chief, with an annual salary of 10,000 francs. 11. Barons de Joinville, Berger de Castellan, Denniee, Regnault and Volland, are appointed Intendants in Chief. • 111. There shall be created in the War Department spe cial Consultative Committees of Infantry and Cavalry, each consisting of five Lieutenant-Generals, one of them to be President, and four Major-Generals. IV. Appoints the Members of these two Committees. (These Ordinances arc dated 27th Dec. and 3d Jan.) PARIS, JAN. 28. —By an Ordinance of the 27th inst., his Majesty has been pleased to raise to the dignity of Peers of the Kingdom, Messrs. the Duke de Cereste, the Marquis de Tourzel, the Marysis de Puivert, Count de la Baurdon naye, the Baron de Vitrolles, Count Bugnot, and Lieut.- General Count Vallee. (From the Gazette de France.) PARIS, JAN. 29.—The IVisremburg Correspondent affirms that proposals for the cession of Palestine have already been made to the Porte; that the English Ambas sador has undertaken the negociatton, in the name of the Jewish house in question; and that the Ottoman Ministry is not indisposed to enter into an arrangement. (From the Message, - des Chambres.) MADRID, JAN. I9.—The cold, the intensity of which increases in a manner hitherto unknown, continues to cause ciseases to spread to a most alarming degree. Hap. pity but few persons have died. Death, however, has cot spared the Duchess de Fria. The King has lately had an attack of the gout, which prevented the levee at Court the day before yesterday ; hut it is hoped that his Majesty will soon recover. It seems certain that the King of Naples has claimed the balance of the dowry that was due to him as heir of , the first wife of our Sovereign, when he was only Prince of A►turi,+s, an►l tl►at t Maj , sty has ordered that the profits of the lottery shill he employed in this sun►. (From the Journal des Debuts.) Lrtterg from Bordeaux of the 25th say.—lhis Clay the Court Royal has given its decision respecting the In dicateur and the Breton Subscription. The Editor of that Journal is condemned to one rn , mth's imprisonment and 1,000 francs fine. . The Duchess de Frias died at Madrid on the 17th inst. of a dropsy. (From the Journal do Commerce.) Letters from Toulon of the 24•1 t st.te, that several houses at Alarseides have received orders from M. Eynard - to send funds to Greece. A!ieady have several hearers of .pecie appeared here for that destination, and-the pack iges containing the cash have th. following directions on thew, " Money sent by the Emperor of Russia to the President of Greece ;" and upon others, " Money sent by M. Eynartit to be specially etnpl..yed in agriculture." PA P.IS STOCK Excit.aNcr, Jaw. 29.—Five per Cents• 103 f. 30c. 25c. 30e. 35e. 30c. 23e. ; Three per C e nts. S4f. 85f. Isc. 20c. 15e. ; Bank Stock, 1,865 f. ; Renter de Naples, 92f. 90c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 8 5 ' 821. ; Haytian Loan, 435f—Exchange on Lon don, one month, 25f. 60e. ; three months, 251. 45e. The change that has lately taken place, in the relations of political parties to the Government and to each other, is one of the most remarkable features by which the approaching session of Parliament will be distinguished. Ever since the latter part of Lord LIVERPOOL'S adminis tration, from which may be dated the period when the British Ministry first began to act upon liberal principles ; or, in other words, to study the welfare of the people, the forces of the old Whig oppositio❑ have been diminishing in pro portion to the gradual adoption of the measures they had so long been ineffectually advocating ; and when the Whig party joined Mr. CAN NING, it was strictly true of it, as a body, that • its principles did not differ from those of the Ministry, 01°11,0 there were various shades of opinion among its members, just as there also were among the old supporters of 'Govern ment. The most violent of the Tories and of the Radicals then stood aloof, or annoyed Mr. CANNING as much as they could, until the changes took place, which terminated in placing the Duke of WELLINGTON at the head of hie MAJEsr Y'S Councils. At that moment there . was a sort of pause, in which most men doubted whether the policy of the new Cabinet would be of the old or the new system,—whether, in fact, its working would be for good or for evil- Two memorable sessions have, however, effec tually removed all such doubts:—the relief of the Dissenters and the emancipation of the Ca" tholics have removed from us the stigma of reli gious intolerance ; and the Government have stood firm to that free commercial policy which is the application of the principles first developed by ADAM SMITH, in his " Wealth of Na' tions," and the only means of establishing the national industry on a secure and imperishable basis. The Ministry has evinced its sense of its duty to withstand the attempts of interested per sons—of monopolists—of jobbers—to make their claims take precedence of the publie,gootl; it has proved itself deserving of the support of all" those who have the happiness of their country more at heart than the keeping alive of a faction. That the Government will continue to have the confidence of the most virtuous, irtelligent► and influential members of both Houses of Par' liament, and that, whilst its present spirit ani' mates it, it will constantly command majorities, a 3 it has for the two last Sessions, there can be little risk in affirming. Such an heterogeneous opposition as there are symptoms of, will 0.4 expose its own insignificance, composed, as it probably will be, of the inveterate Ultra-Tories —of the remnant:, of the revolutionary Radicals . —and of, here and there, a stupid Landlord, or West India Slave Dealer, who cannot see the folly of attempting to force the Government to act contrary to public opinion. It is impos sible to reason with gentlemen of any of these descriptions, nor is it very necessary. The Go vernment has only to set them at defiance, and to say to them, as Monk LEWIS to the imps of darkness,— " Black spirits and white, red spirits and grey, " Mingle, mingle, mingle, ye that mingle may Those country gentlemen who petition from county Meetings, as they have a right to do, and we hope will continue to do when occasion re quires, should consider well what it is in the power of the Legislature to do for their relief, and whether the present bad times with the agricul turists do not, in a great degree, arise from causes over which Parliament has no controul,—such, for instance, as the bad harvests of the last two years. In pressing for a reduction of taxation, they cannot be ignorant that (except as to such taxes as the Malt duty and others, the allevia tion of which would most probably be followed by a proportionate increase of consumption) the state of our finances is such, that any diminu- tion in the Revenue, to an extent that would be felt by the country, must inevitably lead to a reduction in the interest of the national debt. This is the dilemma in which the country stands. It must either go on bearing its burthens, press they ever so heavily, or it must compound with its creditors, and submit to the reproach of having broken the engagements made for it by its former rulers. That the distress at present complained of is of a lasting kind, will hardly be asserted by any one who has been accustomed to watch the fluc tuations of prices, and the ups and downs of the world. But where any distress does exist, there is always an abundance of inflammatory orators and writers, who with sepulchral voices, and gloomy countenances, labour hard in their vocation to persuade people they arc ten thou sand times worse off than they really are. The-. pathetic a( 1 , P r epare f&) Ile may re "°llB 3 to Magazine things is a Our county and " that the case, 1 08 e no tit they, have It to some will still lip behind, NO the amoun i s England. Oespatc My ) our HARLE 4t the For LAW I V His tioxi Posed of a fi Who atilt co the Court ci at half-p; at In thi s ; calling upon caus e why t Ininpnae of Thia moi opinion that almolute, it The Loa in this ca se 4 3 7 a rector, answer of t to tithe s in l 'eNit enterer before the tainable. an agrerme and ordit,at eau)! u mew de e d was e onaiderabl being tunl, rnent of tit efficient tc lands in qu "n of a of Charle t hree claw , in which * toms in lie thing in t 1 strinnent 1 / 1 4 n}' easu rents fror h imself coi 1 10 tithes p ti me of till aio n that tl entirely fai tot the du gative of a opinion, ti fitrour of Mr. Si why the aside, and a:derable ii the defend The pa our Paper, Counsel. The 0 Until they New y morning brought b' 4th Jan. containing Mexico, v were in tl Republic, •gain." The P Montreal vicinity fo again in With inte boats rnig laid up. Commi to the 31 delphia 9 Sloop. Genera dition, ar l and, and the Firm Ship i n Letters his were Virginia for New Muir& to the 3 and Soutl state tha' Malacca, instead o Collector to each o It is re the King. Fro m are go i ng Per cent, Th e i r reY has re id ea of a of artillet and it is 9 °f 1 ; 1 , 6 nay ID 'he ortngaft. 1 ' 4 " het given t giventot 'cs atu Conlot rd a 4 " i ng • SPbultud' eteli