The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 27.—Wind S. by \V.—Arrived the D ryad, Killeck, from the Mauritius; Apollo, Ran , from Berlin; Orbit, Fish, from Virginia ; and Cynthia, from Palermo. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 27.—Wind S. by W.—Ar rived the Scoulbie, Thomas, from Cephalonia. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 26.—Arrived out at Buenos Ayres, the David Campbell. Arrived the Julius Cesar, M'M u ll en , f rom S avann ah. Off Port—the u, Tv illiam Penn, from Savannah ; New York, from New York ; and Nimrod, from Charleston. COWES, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Beta, Pratt, from Savannah. DOVER, JAN. 27.—Arrived the Leda, Piggot, 'torn Boston. PAL3IOUTH, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Allerton, Gill, f rom Jamaica, sailed Nov. 27. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). COURT OF KING'S BENCH. The Court this morning heard arguments in special ," 1 , none of which possessed the least public interest, re 'Sting entirely to dry questions of law. COURT OF COMNION PLEAS. The CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice GAZELEE, and Mr. ' ll4s tine PARK, took their seats on the Bench at a quarter after ten o'clock ; we were glad to see Mr. Justice Park 10 far recovered from his late accident, as enabled him to tebume his official duties. If we were to judge from his appearance, he seemed to have suffered much during hi■ short confinement. XEY AND OTHER ASSIGNEES OF SHERWIN U. COOWWIN. Mr. Serjeant TADDY said, that this ease was tried be fore the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Gazelee, it Was a bankrupt case, and there was a verdict found for the defendant. He now moved for a rule to show cause Why there should not be a new trial, the act of bank ruptcy was proved. He proposed to read the depositions at evidence, first by the authority of the clause in the new Bankrupt Act of the 6th of George IV., sectio n 92 , his Learned Friend opposed to him ex pressed great surprise at his snaking this attempt, because, he said, that the point was decided before by this Court. -"is Learned Friend, he believed, had taken some note of t he ease, he (Serjeant Taddy) merely spoke from his re collection, but he had then been furnished with a note of What really occurred at the former case, which his Learned riend alluded to. This report was then in course of be ing printed. By it he (Serjeant Taddy) found that his re collection was quite correct, which was, that instead of it b eing the unanimous decision of this Court that the depo sitions could not be admitted as evidence, the fact was that the Judges refused to give any opinion whatever I nt the subject. The case was tried in Hilary Term, 1829 . The question between them was this, he wished to prove his case by the reading of the depositions, which Were disputed as evidence. The CHIEF Jusztee said, he recollected that it was by as serted , the Court on the 9th of February, 1829, that t he 92d section of the 6th of George IV. was held to be P r ospective, and not retrospective. Mr. Serjeant TAnDY said, that the Learned Judge did not really express himself so, but that he altogether de clined to give any opinion on the subject whatever. The Act alluded to was passed in 1825, arid took effect from the Ist September.—(Here the Learned Serjeant read the Act, which he maintained was quite favourable to the ad missal of such evidence, and that the Act of the sth of Georg e H. was repealed from the passing of that Act of Georg e IV.)—This last Act obliged a bankrupt to ~give a notice within two months after adjudication, if "e intended to dispute the commission of bankruptcy, sod that the deposition would be allowable as evidence. This Act applied to all actions in law and suits in equity brought by assignees of bankrupts ; and he maintained that there was nothing to prevent its application to suits actually pending at the tine this Act was passed, as was the fact in the present case—for the commission was is sued in 1822, but the Act was not passed until 1825. It was not necessary for him to contend that the Act had a retrospective observation; he merely contended that the Act regarded actually existing commissions. If the Court would connect the 92d section of Geo, IV. with the pre ceding sections, 91 and 90, he thought it would throw a light and additional information upon the present subject ; they applied to actions brought against assignees, to coin. missions generally, and to suits in equity generally. The Principal argument against him was from the circum stance of the bankrupt not having given notice within the two calendar months after the adjudication that be in tended to dispute it; but in the present case, as the com mission issued in 1822, and the Act requiring such notice was not proposed until 1825, there was nothing to oblige him to give that notice within the two months. This was an action brought by the assignees against a thi r d person : there was.. ges a n t e mthe o r f t pl' e bankrupts of his a rgument contained in a clause ofilintltie in sth favour of George 11., 41st se c . chap. 30, which stated that such' depositions would be allowable, as evidence in s ase of the death of the principal witness ; now they had proved the death of such witness, and he therefore was acting accord ing to the meaning of such statute in offering such depo sitions as evidence. He (Serjeant Taddy) also moved on a second point, and upon the grounds that the case had not been submitted to the Jury in the manner which it ought, and he contended that the finding of the Jury was directly contrary to evidence in one respect, namely, that there was decided and undisputed proof that there were two acts of bankrupt c y comm itt e d, (h ere t h e L earne d Serjeant recapitulated such evidence as was necessary to sustain this last argument), he thought his Lordship did not explain this fact to the Jury among the mass of other Matter which he went through. Mr. Justice Parts—Why, Mr. Serjeant Taddy, sure Your reply then ought to have been sufficient to convince the Jury. Mr. Serjeant TADDY-011, my Lord, I wished that every person thought as much of what I said as your Lordship. The CHIEF JUSTICE said that this case stood in a very Peculiar situation, there were two trials had, and the verdict of one of them was fur the defendant. It was quite manife s t t h at t h ere mus t b e a new t r i a l, f or h e 4ntt: e u ght that t h e b an k ruptcy h a d not b een exact l y prove d . 41 parties must now enter into a rule, and to save ex rites thei r argument must b e con fi ne d to t h e po i nt o f ; and the decision on that shall decide all. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. TUE BANKRUPT LAWS V. THE INSOLVENT LAWS. George and Jeremiah Graves, father and son, late in copartnership at Norwich, came up to be discharged, no person opposing their application. It appeared that both the insolvents were declared bank "'Pt' In May last, at which time they owed between 11,000/. and 7 0001. ; they had passed their last examina tion, and given up all their property, amounting to 1 ,400/. ; they hail not, however, obtained their certificate, and as their creditors had not proved under the commis sion, they were afterwards arrested, and were obliged to Come up to this Court to seek to be discharged from all their debts, including those which hail been proved under the commission. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER declared the petitioners en titled to the relief they sought for, arid then adverted to t he contrast between the Bankrupt Laws and the Insolvent 4 et. It frequently happened, that notwithstanding a per !co had been a baekrept, he was still (if he had not got certificate) liable to be arrested, and upon his coming to tins Court it then appeared that all the bankrupt's property had been given up to the assignees, arid a dividend declared, so that there could be no assets when he came before this " o Zrrt. It was then said that an insolvent h a d no asse t s th e he came before this Court, with ou t a d ver ti ng to `"e fact th a t a ll th e p ro p er ty was un d er the commission, Slid of which they might have had their share, had they Proved their debts. AIL Coo (the insolvent's Counsel) quite agreed with t " Learned Commissioner's observations, and also that up' it was often complained of that no assets w ere g iv en up to the Court by insolvent debtors, the public W ere not aware of the extent of dividends made nut of the °states after the debtors had been discharged by the Court. The unfavourable reports and anxious inqui ries that pervaded all ranks here at the beginning of last w e e k, induced us to communicate the information we re ceived as we were going to press, on the subject of his 11 AJEsTv' s health. The statement we then made neither dtnied nor affirmed any previous indisposition of his 31A ji'STr. We have now the happiness of repeat that the King, thank God ! ,is well.—Briyhton Gazette. A Cabinet Council was held at four o'clock YElterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, which was at t'llded by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLING -1", Earls 13Aniunsr, ROSSLYN, and ABERDEEN, Via ;;lNlat MELVIL LE , L or d E LLENBOROUGH , Mr . Secretary t el., Sir G. MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex "Rwuß, and Mr. lixitaiEs. IMPORTED. 1 EXPORTED. ~..---A-----, . Same pc- I Previo- This riod last ly th.s year. year. I year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 8,290 29,354 ' 1,64.7 London Glasgow 1,260 87 G lasgow Total expo! Same pet ioc - 760 1,260 ted in 1S ;:n i 1929 2,129. 312. MPORTANT ADMINISTRATION OF THE POOR LAWS. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) When energizing objects men pursue,l 18 hat are the prodigies they cannot do? . . . This distich of Dr. 13u01's was never more exemplified than in the perseverance shown by Wm. Clarkson, Esq., of Baldoch, who has for seven years pursued a remedy to improve the equitable collection of the Poor Rates, and the general management of that parish against a host of oppo sition arising, as is now candidly acknowledged, from a misconception of the good contemplated. The decisions of the Quarter Sessions respecting the rates, and that of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, relating to the illega lity of the Overseers' accounts, have been repot ted. It will, perhaps, surprise many of our readers to hear of the fa vourable results to the parishioners; for previous to Mr. Clarkson commencing, in 1823, this Herculean work, made so by the injudicious and intemperate opposition given to it, there were thirteen and fourteen rates yearly at one shilling in the pound, both unequally and informally made, and which lie has for some time past re duced to ten at eightpence ; and what is still more gratify ing to the parishioners is, that be has just now negotiated an ageeement, so as to give employment to able paupers, and fix the maximum of the expenditure, which will only require ten rates at sixpence, or twelve at fivepence in the pound, instead of as formerly, thirteen at one shilling. This parish is still capable of some farther improvement by a snore accurate equalization, which will, no doubt, be cheer fully acceded to, since the parties have already saved consi derably, and will hereafter Reap greater benefit, not only in a pecuniary point, but also by safety and comfort. We state these facts, to shew the practicability of other parishes reaping similar benefit by an equal levying of the rates, which stimulates to industry the influential, and by a frugal appropriation of the funds to those only who are really in want. We, therefore, conclude, by saying, "Go and do likewise." FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. LITERATURE. LIVES OF BRITISH PAINTERS.—VoL. 11. Mr. Allan Cunningham will do himself more credit by these admirable biographical sketches of many of our most eminent painters, than by all the imaginative romances that he has ever written, or probably ever will write. In his fic tions, fancy is so mixed up with absurdity, and is so utterly without keeping or consistency,— the tamest probabilities being mixed up with the wildest and most perplexing impossibilities—that the reader's judgment is perpetually outraged. In his Memoirs of the Painters Mr. Cunning ham nobly redeems his character as a literary To the good taste and healthy judg ment of a professed connoisseur, he adds ;he fine impassioned apprehension of the poet. His style too is so easy, so full of strength and muscle, and vitality—resembling in its natural flow the familiar but delightful eloquence of Southey—that it is impossible to peruse it without interest. But in addition to the charm of style, the present volume abounds in anecdote and criticism, and is altogether one of the most attractive specimens of biography we have ever read. We have given extracts in another column, and shall give more from time to time, as circumstances may permit. The plates alone are worth double the price of the volume : they are admirable. man. DODDRIDGE'S CORRESPONDENCE. Two VoLs LONDON, 1829. This book well deserves the success, we un derstand, it has met with. It comprises the memoirs, the literary and religious opinions, accounts of some few of the cotemporaries, to gether with a vast number of letters--many of them on the subject of that delicate department of the fine arts, love—of one of the most zea lous, accomplished, and persuasive non-con formist Divines that England has ever known. Dr. Doddridge, though he died at the compa ratively early age of forty-nine, had already done enough to keep his name alive in the grateful recollection of posterity. Lively and affable in disposition, rich in accumulated stores of infor mation, a warm-hearted friend, an eloquent, charitable, and comprehensive inculcator of reli gious truth, he drew towards him all hearts, and extorted the resper:t of even that fastidious and, but too often, intolerant moralist, Dr. Johnson— the Coryphceus of the high church laity. Such was Philip Doddridge, whose memoirs, as penned by his great grandson, the editor of the inte resting and instructive volumes before us—can not be too often or too attentively perused. ~: ,~ Cevt l±s, 62i; don, 0 " it:B Aid. le 21st Europe roldavia plague of the o be of several 11 into he pro ated by his re. er for a LW. 7. inication rnely fa last four and the towi. of Hos 7awn up, rtly take ernes is ;et one of e ad van ver, that n former itions of nt most Prim: i- northern be more he pre- Giesmar, Great ,n of our st-bousei wilt, and indeed be inereaved Wing the s of en s soon s, ur which mploye 4l * ur insti- &It, ii! eh, since he chiefe, le Porte , his ow" acted on lint and l' ted to te as lost. le arrests ;filar sys ty. The to give tely died tuilitarY Ts left to atsures to but keeps bead- to Adria - I then go I Semlin, be going x. IS. s not yet v, but We to Italy , vley gory 6; Four +N. 21. inhabite d )uis 1O according ►nked the ) improve the otber ;he cantor od than of roerdo to extend. e we are lat Lord been ap' ) resume o an at- ,Ordship e a g ood d attack guese io FAN. 4. lelles, an' due to to° Adrianopl e ty pre vailo rue Poch" I Scres, the e has been e Porte i 3 e Catholic urrna and is w holly: efeated and the united glow, and A mbass 3 ' the 18th of Jussu ,nei in the JAN-. 6. plied to bt ommand of to be made he Matqui l us, has al e an eror 1802. , AN. 24. t is still le Membe r. t of more an" behlt bef o re !navigatioo JAN. 25. lAIxiCo t ° i 3 city With ithin this, one ptr9o o ,j ' )ONA LI) ao ed 2Slbs.' The THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Jan. 2.2, 1630, made up:from the Returns of the Inspectors in the dilrerent Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat— 565. 2d.1 Oats --21 s. ld.l Beans-- 31s. 3d. Barley-- 20s. 4(1.1 Rye --- 365. 9d.j 2it IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVER-WES OF TUE six WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat......-565. 3d.1 Oats -21 s. 5d.I Beans-- 325. 30. Barley 295. 6d.1 Rye 325. 10d Pease...—... 355. Ild. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat---. 305. dd. 1 Oats ]ss. 3d.1 3.1. Ids. 411 Rye -21 s. 3d.1 Pease SMITHFIELD MARKET. This d-►y's supply having been limited throughout, and the buyers in attendance tolerably numerous, advanced prices were in the first of the morning pretty generally aimed at, and perhaps obtained in a few instances to the amount of U. per stone ; but, as early as ten o'clock, the trade became very dull at Monday's prices. PRICES FEB, STONE OF BLBS. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d, s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 9 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 Prime largo Oxen 3 4 3 Prime Scots, &c , 3 8 4 0 Inferior Sheep 2 6 2 8' Second quality ditto 3 0 3: 6 Coarse-woolledditto 3 10 4 2 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 6 Large Lambs Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 0 Prime small ditto 5 8 6 0 Large flogs Small Porkers 4 2 4 6 Stickling Cats' es 12s. to 30s. each. Quarter old Pigs Its. to 18s. each. SUPPLY, AS PEK CLEItli'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 465 1?,599 129 140 Ali!eh Cows, which were tolerably numerous, sold with some degree of briskness at about last week's prices, an useful short horns, with her small calf, producing from 191. to 201. There are seldom any offering for sale on Mondays. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d.tos. d. s. d.tos. d. Beef 2 2 3 4I Veal 3 4 5 4 Mutton .... 2 6 4 0 Pork HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusies.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 4 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 2 17 3 10 Fine Upland Meaalow and ltye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0 Clover Hay 3 IQ 5 5 Oat Straw £2 oto .C 2 2 I Wheat Straw... 2 4 2 8 Straw from 2s. to 3s. per load higher than last quoted ; in prices of Hay no alteration. Supply good, and trade somewhat brisk. HULL MARKET.—Jan. 26. There is again a very slender attendance of buyers to this day's market, in consequence of the communication with the interior being closed, and the business done in all articles of the trade has been very limited at the prices of last week. Wheat, Old —s. 58s 60s. Now —s. 50s. 565. Foreign —s. 595. 633. ......In bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 24s Old —s. —s. 265. Smaller Feed.... —s. 12s. ISs. Foreign —s. ISs. 225. Barley, Norf. & Sut. ... —s 2Ss. 30s. Line. & Weld —s. 265. 28s. Foreign Beans 28s. 30s. :Pis. Foreign —s. 295. 34s Pease, White —s. 30s. 31s. Grey Tares —s 20s. 265. Foreign —s. 21s. 265. Rapeseed, in b0nd......n0ne. Free, per last —l. 261. 291. COTTON WOOL, LIST OF IMPORTS AND Ex p, 'WITS. ♦RRIYAL3. Lord and Lady King and family, at their house in Dover_ street, from their scat, Ockham, near Ripley, Surrey; the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, in St. Stephen's-court, New Palace.yard, from Mistley Hall, Essex ; the Countess of Mansfield, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-streets, from Hastings ; Sir Thomas Simpson, in Brook-street, from the Continent; Davies Davenport, Esq. M.P. and family, in Brook street, from their seat, Capesthorne, Cheshire; Mrs. Nesbitt, at her house in Upper Brook-street, from Hampshire; Captain and Mrs. Russell, in Wimpole-street, from Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. J. Gladstone, at Hw.vkins's Hotel, Dover and Albemarle-streets from Liverpool ; Mr. and Mrs. Ewait, at ditto, from ditto ; Cap_ tain Lewis, at ditto, from a tour; J. APCall, Esq. at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, from Dublin ; L. Thornhill, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; Colonel Smelt, at ditto, from Dover; Mr. and Mrs. W. Morris, in Regent-street, from the Continent. DEPARTURES. The Earl and Countess of Jersey, from their house in Berke ley-square, for their seat, Osterley Park ; Captain and Mrs. Robinson, from Albemar:e-street, for Norfolk ; Henry Moss, Esq. and son, from the Burlington Hotel, for Liverpool ; the Rev. W. Williams, from Hawkins's Hotel, Dover and Albe marle-streets, for Kent; Colonel INPBean, from Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, for Hampshire; - Mortimer, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; Captain Butler, from ditto, for ditto; Mr. and Mrs. C. Moore, from Grosvenor-street, for Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, from Albemarle-street, for their seat in Ox fordshire. The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Council about half an hour after it had assembled ; the other Minis ters remained in deliberation till half-past five o'clock. In the evening the Loan CrIANcELLou. gave a grand dinner at his residence, in George-street, Hanover-square, for the Lord President of the Council (who was prevented from giving it, owing to having but recently moved into the re sidence belonging to the first Lord of time Treasury, in Downing-street), to the Members of the grand Cabinet, composed of the great Officers of State, and the Cabinet Ministers. At this meeting the list of persons nominated to serve the office of Sheriff in the different counties of England for the present year, was arranged, previous to its being pricked by his MAJESTY in Council. The party consisted of the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord President of time Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the President of the Board of Controul. The French and Russian Ambassadors had a conference, which lasted near two hours, with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign office, yesterday. Viscount MELVILLE held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty, which was nunaeronsly attended by naval officers. FIRE.—On Sunday evening last, about eight o'clock, the house of Mr. BRADLEY, straw bonnet maker, in the Royal Colonnade, was discovered to he on fire. The flames, which were first seen in an attic, rapidly commu nicated to other parts of the building ; and in a short time assumed a very alarming appearance. Most of the police, with the town engines, were in a few minutes on the spot; and water being obtained after a short delay, the fire was luckily got under.—Brighton Gazette. On Tuesday the body of the late Mr. TIER'. NEY was opened, when it was &umd that a quantity of water had accumulated in his heart, and, as is usual in such complaints, he expired suddenly, without the slightest indication of approaching death. Mr. TIERNEY has left ,two daughters and a son. The latter is Charge d'Affaires at Munich. MEMOIRS OF BOLIVAR, 2 Voi.s.—LoNnoN, 1830. So far as information, and a full acquaintance with the very interesting and extraordinary topic he discusses, viz., the- revolution in South America, with which, of course, Bolivar's name and actions are inseparably mixed up—so far as these recommendations will tend to make a work popular, the volumes before us, deserve, and will no doubt obtain, a proportionate circulation. But—what an extraordinary qualifying power, by the way, this little influential monosyllable possesses !—the Memoirs have one drawback ; they are penned in a spirit adverse to the great Liberator. Every now and then we perceive indi cations of a feeling inimical to Bolivar, and in opposition to the opinion of the world, and the recorded testimonies of his fellow patriots. At the close of the second volume these feelings deepen into an hostility, or rather rancour, the justice of which we are little disposed to concede. According to the author, in the summing up of his character, Bolivar is a man of very inferior pretensions as a warrior, and beneath contempt as a statesman. Of his personal appearance we have tile following in sidious description : " General Bolivar, in his exterior, in his physiognomy in his whole deportment, has nothing which would he noticed as characteristic or imposing . . His manners, hi s conversation, his behaviour in society, have nothing ex traordinary in them, nothing which would attract the at tention of any one who did not know him ; on the con trary,• his exterior is against him. He is five feet four inches in height, his visage is loug, his cheeks hollow, his complexion a livid brown ; his eyes are of middle size, and sunk deep in his head, which is covered thinly with hair; and his whole body is thin and meagre. He has the ap pearance of a man sixty-fire years old. In walking, his arms are in perpetual motion. He cannot walk long, but soon becomes fatigued. Wherever he goes his stay is short, seldom mote than half an hour, and as soon as he returns his hammock is fixed, in which he sits or lies, and swings upon it after the manner of his countrymen. Large mus tachios and whiskers cover a part of his face, and he is very particular in ordering each of his officers to wear them, saying that they give a martial air. This gives him a dark and wild aspect, particularly when he is in a passion. His eyes the❑ become animated, and he gesti culates and speaks like a madman, threatens to shoot those with whom he is angry, steps quickly across his chamber, or flings himself upon his hantmock ; then jumps out of it, orders people out of his presence, and frequently- arrests them. When be wishes to persuade, or bring any one to his purpose, he employs the most seducing promises, taking a man by the arm, and walking and speaking with him at with his most intimate friend. As soon as his purpose is attained, he becomes cool, haughty, and often sarcastic ; but he never ridicules a man of high character, or a brave man, except in his absence. This practise of abusing people in their absence, is characteristic of the Caraguiut generally." While on the subject we may just venture to allude to a report which is very prevalent through out Colombia, that Bolivar has of late evinced a disposition to change the present form of his government to that of a monarchy. W e hope this is untrue ; it is but a sorry ambition ; Boli var is already as high in station and character as it is possible for him to be. Why then does he affect a crown ? Bolivar, the King, is incom parably inferior to Bolivar, the Liberator. LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. PART H., Vor.s. 3, 4 —LONDON, 1830. We are glad to find that this meritorious mis cellany runs on its course rejoicing ; in other words, that it is rapidly acquiring that influence and circulation to which its varied merits en title it. The plan on which it set out, and in which it has since steadily persevered, is admirably adapted to the wants and wishes of the community—Nye mean the plan of simplifying, so far as may be consistent with propriety, the mysteries of knowledge, and rendering them familiar to the most ordinary capacities. The style of the " Library of Interesting Knowledge" is every where pertinent and colloquial ; and the matter, divested of all cumbrous and unneces sary technicalities z put forward in the most easy and intelligible shape. The present volumes con ,ist (,f" Insect Architecture," and the " Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties," both which subjects, we need scarcely add, are very delightfully treated. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CLASS-BOOK. LONDON. 1 830. We do not usually notice Second Editions— the perusal of one, in nine cases out of ten, being quite sufficient for any reader of ordinary diges tion—but the one before us has been so mate rially enlarged and simplified (consequently im proved) in its plan, that for once we depart from our usual habit, and bear this brief testimony to its deserts. THE FINE ARTS. THE SPIRIT OF THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE. Mr. Frank Howard has here presented us with Illustrations of two more of Shakspeare's Plays—the matchless Othello and the extravagant, ill-judged Titus ifndronicus, which last, as its spirit is wholly at variance with the humane and benevolent character of Shakspeare's acknow ledged dramas, we feel convinced was not written by him, notwithstanding that here and there the trace of a master-hand is visible. Of Mr. Howard's Illustrations we shall content ourselves with stating, having so often noticed his works before, that they are replete with his usual beauties, and that his figure of Desdemona, in particular, is the very spirit of grace and femi nine sensibility. His Illustrations of Andronicus are naturally and vividly executed. The present number completes the second volume of a work which should adorn the library of every gentle man who takes a delight in patronising the fine arts—but more especially when those arts are devoted by admiring genius to do honour to the glowing and varied creations of our immortal bard. Mr. Howard's perseverance is second only to his merit—and the union of both cannot fail :0 ensure success. ANECDOTES OF FUSELI. In a pecuniary point of view Fuseli's pictures of the Milton Gallery were unproductive; but the praise which the attempt and much of the execution obtained gratified the painter, nor was he unwilling to believe, that, like the poem which they embellished, they would have but an agc, of oblivion and many centuries of light. They were all visible, he said, to his fancy before he painted them. He pondered over the (poet till he was fully possessed with the character of the scene; the figures which belonged to it appeared as it were in a vision : but he nevertheless complained of the splendour in which his fancy invested them, and declared that lie could not paint up to his ima gination. In comparing those splendid fictions with living nature, he was struck, he often said, with the lamentable deficiencies of the latter; yet conscious that by nature he must be tried and judged, he was heard to exclaim is a fit of peevishness, " Nature !—she always puts me out." He had sometimes the cu: iosity to walk into the Milton Gallery after it was opened to the public, and as it was never very crowded, he could look at his works without much fear of interruption. One day a visitor ac co'ted him, mistaking him for the keeper. " Those paintings, Sir, are from Paradise Lost I hear, and Para dise Lost was written by Milton—l have never read the poem, but I shall read it now." " I would not advise you, Sir," said the sarcastic artist, " you will find it an exceedingly tough job." In the original sketch of the guardian angels forsaking our first parents after the fall, they were represented rising on wings He looked earnestly at his sketch, and exclaimed—for he generally thought aloud—" They shall rise without wings." He tried and succeeded. Fuseli was, on the whole, liked as Keeper of the Royal Academy. It ; was true that he was often satiric and severe on the students—that he defaced their drawings by correction which, compared to their weak and trembling lines, seemed traced by a tar-mop, and that he called them tailors and bakers, and vowed that there was more genius in the claw of one of Michael Angelo's eagles than in all the heads with which the Academy was swarming. The youths on whom this tempest of invective fell smiled—and the Keeper, pleased by submission, walked up to each easel—whispered a word of advice confidentially, and re tired in peace to enjoy the company of his Homer, Michael Angelo, Dante, and Milton.—Family Library, No. X. Lives of the Artists. DISTRESS OF TILE COUNTRY. REQUISITION TO THE HIGH SHERIFF 01' SUFFOLK. At our Sessions last week, the Jurors appended the fol lowing observations to their presentment : " Grand Jury Room, Bury St. Edmund's, Jan.) 9. " That we should ill discharge our duty as Grand Jurors, were we to separate without expressing our deep regret at the alarming situation of the country, but more particularly of the agricultural interest. " Such is the depression of the occupiers of the soil that, in numerous instance', they are prevented from affording employment to the labouring hands, whereby they might gain an honest livelihood, many of whom are driven in consequence to the unsatisfactory alternative of receiving aid from the parish, or of seeking a subsistence by the illegal means of poaching or depredation, if not driven to crimes of a more daring or malevolent description. " Under these circumstances, so fraught with ruin to the country at large, we trust the Magistrates here assem - bled will use their exertions to convene a Meeting of this county, in order that the state of the suffering agriculturist may be publicly considered, and laid before Parliament, under the hope of obtaining some permanent and efficient relief." At the time the presentment was handed to the Bench, a requisition to the High Sheriff, which had been previously signed by Earl Stradbroke and Lord Huntingfield, was re ceiving the signatures of the Magistrates ; and it was afterwards handed to the Grand Jury for theirs. All the Jurors signed it, save one, the agent of Lord Calthorpe.— S uffolk uld. A requisition to the High Sheriff of the county of Flilit is in course of signature to call a Public Meeting " to take into consideration the distress which so unhappily pervades all classes in the country, and to petition Parliament there upon."—The importance of this county is not to he esti mated by its extent, its minerals forming a large portion of its wealth, anr! employing a very numerous population. A requisition has been presented to the High Sheriff of Essex, requesting him to call a Meeting, to take into con sideration the distressed state of the agriculture and trade of the country, and to make such representations to the Le gislature as may induce an immediate inquiry into the causes thereof, and the means of applying some speedy and effectual relief. At Oakham market, on Saturday, a resolution was drawn up by the freeholders and occupiers of land, addressed to Sir Gerard Noel, Bart , and Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., calling upon them to adopt such measures as will give the county an opportunity of meeting at the Castle at Oakhatn, upon the subject of the distressed state of agri culturc.—A similar resolution is drawn up in Leicester shire, by parsons occupying their own estates, who state that they cannot continue to go on under existing circum stances. The r, solution is forwarded to the County Members. Monsieur BERMUDEZ, the Spanish Minister, had an interview with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. DEATH OF FusELL—He spoke with the same cheerful resignation and calmness to Lady GUILD FORD and her accompli•hed daughters, who watched over him with much solicitude, and seemed uneasy and restb ss when Sir THOMA S LAWRENCE, who admired and loved hi m , was away from his side. Early in the morning of the fifth day of his illness a fatal change in his looks was visible—he seemed aware of this—he looked anxiously round the room—said several times in a low and agitated voice, " Is LAWRENCE comp—is LAWRENCE come?" and then appeared to listen for the sound of the chariot wheels which brought his friend once a-day from London to his bed-side. Ile raised himself up a little—then sank down . and died, on the 16th o f April, 1825, in the 84th year of his ay.—Family Library, No. X. Lives of the Artists. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIG JOURNALS. The following piece of provincial history has come to our knowledge. Some time in the month of December a few Magistrates, who meet in petty sessions in the town of Derby, .determined to rouse the landowners of that county to a sense of their agricultural wrongs. With this vie.v they wrote to a select number of their brethren, requesting them to attend a meet ing at the County Hall, on the 31st December. We say a select number, because they wholly omitted to make any application to several active Magistrates in their immediate vicinity, who are also extensive landowners. The result of the meeting of the 31st December is set forth in the following extract from the Derby Mercury: At a meeting held on the 31st of December, 1529, at the County-ball, ha Derby, present—E. S. Chandos-Pole, Esq. Chairman ; Sir Roger Gresley, Bart.; Sir Henry Fitz-Herbert, Bart.; John Cave, • Esq.; Henry Wilmot, Esq.; Francis Mundy, Esq. M.P.; Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. ; Francis Hurt. ' Esq.; Robert Holden, Esq. ; Godfrey Meynell, Esq.; John Wright, Esq. " The Chairman having read the letters which he had received from some of the most considerable landed proprietors of the county, expressive of their general sentiments on the present depressed state of the agricultural interests—lt was resolved, " 1. That a memorial be presented to the First Lord of the Treasury, representing the extreme de pression of the agricultural interest. " 2. That a Committee be formed to draw up the memorial, previous to the quarter sessions. " 3. That the memorial be sent to the ensuing quarter sessions, for the signature of Magistrates, and be afterwards forwarded to the different hun dreds of the county of Derby, for the signature of freeholders and farmers. " 4. That the memorial be advertised in the Derbyshire papers. " 5. That the above resolutions also be published in the Derbyshire papers, and printed copies be sent to the Chairman of the different quarter ses sions throughout England. (Signed) "E. S. CHANDOS POLE, Chairman. " s TO HIS GRACE ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K.G., &C., FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY. " SIR,—We, the undersigned Magistrates, Clergy, freeholders, arid farmers, of the county of Derby, anxious at this alarming period to manifest the same confidence in the wisdom of his Majesty's Government which we have always reposed in it, are induced to approach your Grace with this me morial, declaratory of our sense of the great injuries which we have already sustained, and are still sus taining, and of the yet greater ones which we have reason to apprehend, from the increasing depression of the price of all agricultural produce. " In expressing these sentiments, we hope dis tinctly to be understood, as not desiring to make any complaints which are groundless, or to speak of any grievances which are unreal : and we trust that we shall be acquitted of any intention to embarrass or interfere with the designs of his Majesty's Go vernment; since, although we do not consider it as essential to the course which we are pur suing, to allude to any past measures as the source of our misfortunes, or to suggest any future care as the means of relieving them, we hold it to be our bounde►► duty, as men desirous of enjoying and of transmitting our possessions unimpaired to our pos terity, to state without disguise or delay, to those authorities to which we necessarily look for relief, our painful sense of our present sufferings, and our reasonable apprehensions of being driven by a con tinuance of them, from that sphere which we occupy amongst the loyal subjects of this empire. " Sincerely impressed with these constitutional and respectful sentiments, which we hope cannot be otherwise than satisfactory to his Majesty's Govern ment, we beg to intimate to your Grace, with me lancholy reluctance, our personal knowledge of rents greatly reduced and still in arrear,—of tenants ruined,—of labourers unemployed,—of farms thrown out of cultivation, and of sales forcibly effected,—of produce at a price infinitrly below the cost of produc tion; and to express our conviction, under the dura tion of the present severe distress, of our inability to keep up our usual demand fur articles of manufac ture, and to contribute our accustomed share, which we have always borne, arid are still ready to bear, willingly, in proportion to our means, in the collec tion of the revenue. " Having thus solemnly invited your Grace's attention to the ruin in which many of us are, and all of us fear to be involved, we rely with confidence on the justice, the humanity, and the united wisdom of his Majesty's Government, for affording us that measure of relief, without which we shall soon cease to exist together as a loyal, useful, and influential body, whose best services have always been'ren dered with alacrity, when called for by the exigen cies and interests of the State.' " Magistrates desirous of signing the Memorial are requested to be at Derby by eleven o'clock on Tuusday, January 12." It will, we think, at once occur to our rea ders, on a perusal of the above memorial, that these country justices must have taken their es timate of the Duke of Wellington's character from the letter addressed to him by the Duke of Cumberland's Chaplain, or from the representa tions of some of our contemporaries, who dis play him to their readers as a proud domineering bashaw, who exacts from his serfs more than eastern servility. The memorialists are evidently persuaded that they shall be able to propitiate his Grace by the abject manner in which they bring their sufferings to his feet, and throw themselves on his humanity. It is indeed hard that they should suffer—they who have always reposed " the same confidence in his !Majesty's Govern meut," of whatever members it might be com posed,—who are anxious " at this alarming pe riod to manifest the same confidence ;" still, they who " anxiously hope that their constitutional and respectful sentiments cannot be otherwise than satisfactory to his Majesty's Government," which they trust will acquit them " of any in tention " to embarrass or interfere with its der signs,"—they who necessarily look to those au, thorities for relief,—they who would still willingly contribute " their accustomed share in the col lection" (Qu.—towards the amount ?) of the revenue ;" and harder still would it be, if, having humbly brought these their manifold merits to his Grace's recollection, they might not with confi dence rely on his humanity. Now, if the griev ances spoken of by these justices do indeed exist, they affect every owner and every occupier of land in their county. They form a most appropriate ground for an expression of county feeling. But the truth is, that in Derb3shire a county meeting is not to be hazarded. This same batch of Justices is not to be haw:l4 This same batch of Justices, or nearly so, have tried the experiment, which has led to a fatal result. Perhaps these Justices may have heard that there has existed, at certain periods of our history, a custom—which has, moreover, been considered as very constitutional—of petitnp. , ,ng Parliament for a redress of grievances. The custom we apprehend to have - been founded on the t: following :—that the body re p resente d tothe6ody represe n ti ng ,— t h at t h e casecg theoryonsiders the s ame , and bw..ring found latter l bi l tos o d win y (in the language of the Derbyshire Justices) that the complaints aro not groundless, nor the g rievance unreal, proceeds, if the matter depends on legislative provisions, by its own direct act to remedy the evil ; or, if it arises out duct of the Executive, 'lOO - c:ise the ample powers which p..re 04ced in it 4 hands for the con troul of that body, and thereby reflectivArpt6 produce the remedy. But these Justici4Fairo` aware that a fresh state of affairs—to which, in=` '-`. deed, " in proportion to their means," they have fully contributed—has sprung up in Great Bri tain, and that now, instead of Parliament con- troulling the Executive, the Executive controuls Parliament ; and therefore, passing by the body whom they have themselves concurred in appoint ing for the care of their interests in the Govezn ment of the country, they go at once, in a course too straightforward to be misunderstood, and supplicate the Prime Minister, who ;.as been al). pointec . : by the King. So much for the manner of the memorial : we will now look a little into its matter. The memorialists tell his Grace of " the great injuries they have sustained, and are sustaining ; and of the yet greater ones which they apprehend from the increasing depression of the price of agricultural produce." But they have omitted to tell him that they are dairying and breeding agriculturalists ;—that the staple productions of their estates are cheese and cattle ; —that last year, a year 9f great produce, the former article bore more than an extravagant — even almost a famine—price ;—that it gave them 70s. per cwt.;—that this year (a produc tive year also), it gives them 455., yielding an average, on two years of great production, of 60s. per cwt. ;—that this price of 60s. will enable Derbyshire landlords to let their lands within 10 per cent., or even less, of the high war rents. They have omitted to tell his Grace that during the whole of the year 1828 cattle fetched a high price ;—that for the first four months of 1829 their price was higher than ever since the war ;—and that only for the four months preceding the date of their complaint has it experienced a material, though certainly a very severe, depression. They do not inform his Grace that they have, one with another, re duced their rents twenty nor even 10 per cent., and we doubt whether they could lay claim even to the lower per tentage. But if they have reached the higher, still are they in no respect aggrieved. Have they borrowed money at five per cent.? Their mortgagees will now thankfully receive four. Here they save the 20 per cent. They will hardly deny that they pay 20 per cent. less in taxes than at the period when their rents were raised to the highest ; and as to their butchers' and bakers' bills, the very nature of their complaint excludes them from the calculation. But, say they, we must " express our conviction of our inability to keep up our usual demand for articles of manufacture." Why really, gentlemen, you must suppose the Duke of Wellington to be possessed by more than common ignorance of the civil transactions of the country I: ho you suppose that he is not aware that while your rents have fallen 20 per cent. all manufactured articles have fallen more than 50? Do you think he does not know, in the mass if not in detail, that the furniture prints which did cost you 4s. a yard, you now buy at ls. Gd. ;—that your cotton hose are reduced from 3s. 6d. a pair to is. Bd.; and your silk from 18s. to Os. ; that Gros de Naples, fbr your ladies' dresses, from 10s. a yard has fallen to 4s. ;—and their lace from 16s. a yard to 7s. ? Do you im agine that he has utterly forgotten what depots tons from Spitalfields have told him as to the ruinous fall in the prices of silks, or the same story from Coventry respecting ribands, from Leeds and Nlelksham respecting woollen cloths, and from Bolton and Blackburn respecting cali coes? That individuals among you are in die tress, we have no doubt. Some '2O years ago it pleased Lord Bexley to establish by a v o t e o f the House of Commons, that a pound note and a shilling were equivalent to a guinea, —heavy guineas being at the moment saleable to any Jew for a pound note and eight shillings, and light guineas being openly saleable by law for a pound note and six or more shillings, according to their weight. Some of your fathers, repo s i ng then the same confidence in his MajesLyss Go vernment which you are now anxious to exhibit. and finding themselves annually in the receipt of more pound notes and shillings than the number of guineas which their rents, when paid in that coin, were wont to produce, took oceasion to imagine that they had suddenly increased in per manent wealth, and charged their estates for the benefit of their wives and younger children to the full extent which their nominal wealth ‘v0u1 , 2,, hail it been permanent, have justified. -Lord Bexley's pound turned out to be worth, alas ! but 145.: and no man can be suaprised that you groan, when you pay, in pounds of 20s. each, the tale which your fatheis charged in pounds of 14s. The Duke of Wellington, no doubt, corn passionates your case, but it is little less than puerile in yourselves to expect that he can allay the effects of such egregious folly in your ances tors. With the exception of persons so cir cumstanced, the land-owners of England, and more especially of the county of Derby, now stand in as high a position of pecuniary prospe rity, relatively to every class of their fellow countrymen but one, as they ever sustained in the days of their nominal wealth. That one class consists of persons who received fixe , !. in comes. But let not the land-owners 'oe unjust or ungenerous. Let them remember how that class was ground down when for many years they were compelled to accept in payment for pounds sterling which were named in their bond, pounds of 14s. each. One of your statements, Gentletnen Justices, we cannot pass by. You "beg to intimate to his Grace," inter alia s « your personal knowledge of farms thrown out of cultivation." This might pass in a novel founded on facts, but in a memorial pure fiction is a figure of speech which ought to be excluded. Farms thrown out of cultivation ! Why, your whole county does not adbrd such an instance. Each successive sgssiou of Parliament has pro duced one or tnore acts for the enclosure and eultivatiop of your wastes and commons, even in the vicinity of your wildest moorlands. But though not exceedingly voracious, you are, in deed, of all memorialists the most unassuming. You do not consider it necessary " to allude to any past measures as the source of your misfor tunes, cap to suggest any future ones as the means a relieving them." You leave the discovery to his Grace's sagacity;—the remedy to his hu manity. Not a word of retrenchment,—not a word of taking off of taxes. No ; you are not the class to make such a recommendation. If there be fewer taxes, there must he less army, on your n h i a a l y ld t s l7n al b ld e i l l t d d it e ce b d o , y ;and thrown bats; less iaavy, l ess establishment Henry, th e b o ld mid shipman, may wait forever for his Droinotion. You are willing to contribute Yo,Pr accustomed share in the collection of 'le revenue, and o f course you wish to ret:,,n your accustomed share in its dissipation, Some of you now riot in the luxury of r,njoyment,—others live in the sweet of expectation. All classes pay to the re -.ontie, but one only receives from it to any ma terial amount. If a less sum be collected in the. Shape of taxes., all classes will pay less, but one class only will receive less, That class of counti,