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This Journal is now fully established in public favour, as a record of Manners, Literature, Art, and Fashion, pos sessing unrivalled and exclusive sources of information and interest, and as no less adapted to the Study and the Breakfast Table than the Drawing-room and the Boudoir. The Number for SATURDAY: - December 7, will com prise, among various other original papers, Chesterfield in the Country, No. IV.—Christmas Parties--Notices of the Principal Individuals Connected with the Hostile Parties in Spain—The Tittle-Tattler, &c. The Court Journal is regularly published every Saturday Morning, and supplied by all Newsmen and Booksellers, free of postage, price Is. Published for H. Colburn, by W. Thomas, at the Office, No. 19, Catherine-street, Strand. „,t, • ch e 7 •, A e *Stit :nis '4;l _ . LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1838. The French Papers of Wednesday have been received, but they "contain no later news from Madrid than the 24th ult. They, however, fur nish copious details of the late military move ments which terminated so favourably for the cause of the QUEEN. The insurgents were daily becoming more dispirited, and were seeking safety, by returning to their homes, or proceeding to France. Sorre Carlist bands still held together in the North of Valencia, but the city itself was quite loyal and quiet! Generals SA ARSFIELD, CASTAGNON, and EL PASTOR were combining their operations so as totally to put down the rebels. In Bilboa a reaction has taken place in favour of the QUEEN, 1,500 young men of that city having volun teered their services in support of the Go vernment. FRENCH FUNDS.—Pints, Dec. 4. Five per Cents., 103 f. 10c. 20c. Three per Cents., 75f. 86c. 76f.110c. Bank Actions ~79.5 f. Rente de Naples, 92f. 20c. Roman 1 ive per Cents., 89%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 1756. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 57%. Royal Spanish Loan, 83%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 64%; Belgian Loan, MIL Five per Cent., 96%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. :30c. ; money, —f. —c. Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 20c. —Cuurs Authentique. At the Josephian Society dinner, which took place on Wednesday last at Dublin, and at which Mr. O'CONNELL attended, and delivered, as usual, a " thundering" philippic against the Union, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman took occasion to observe that the editor of the Alorning Chronicle had threatened to assassinate him. This is the second obnoxious individual it seems, that that blood• thirsty Redacteur has threatened "to dispose of." He has already thrown COBBETT into fits, and has now terrified O'CONNELL into convulsions. Was the like ever heard of ? Our readers will see with pleasure, both by remarks, dated the frontiers of Prussia, which assume to be very profound as to the feeling of England with respect to foreign interference. It seems that a French messenger was returning in great haste from St. Petersburgh with a supposed answer to some remonstrances by the French Government on the subject of the recent treaty between Russia and the Porte, and the writer of the article in question affects to know that the answer is the same as that returned by the Porte. The conduct of France, in presuming to ask the question, is deemed inconsiderate by the Prussian scribe. VIENNA, Nov. 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 93 15 32; 4 per Cent. 82A Bank Stock 1,1921 —Allge meine Zeitung, Nov. 30. We have frequently expressed our regret at the Testrictions imposed upon the commercial interauise blween France and this country by the customs' laws ()Idle two countries, and have called upon thd two Governments to establish a system more in harmony with the friendly rela tions which subsist between them in other respects. Whether our efforts have contributed towards establishing a better understanding is not for us to say, but it is evident from the state ments in the Paris Papers, and from what has reached us through a private channel, that six months will not pass over without a total revision of the customs' laws in France, and a further revision of them in this country. Whilst the old Aristocracy of the two nations have been endeavouring to embarrass and distress the middle classes in revenge for the loss of their own un fair privileges, the higher order of commercialists have been steadily and zealously labouring to improve the condition of all classes of society who are dependent on industry for support, without regard to national prejudices, whether sanctioned by long duration, or upheld by the authorities. Rapidly as we have travelled in the road of amelioration, it is still but just to say that if the French have not travelled quite so rapidly, it was not because the educated portion of the French nation had a lesser conviction of the importance of abolishing the absurd restric tions of their predecessors than ourselves. It has been usual with Englishmen of late years, when speaking of the comparatively slow move ments of the French, to say, that they do not travel by steam ; but if we mistake not, there will soon he a sharp rivalry between the two nations in every affair respecting which industry and enterprize will admit of honourable com petition. Few persons except the bigotted admirers of the rust and filth of old sys tems, will regret to see two nations who, when under the direction of ambitious or weak rulers, never entered the field of competition except in deadly strife, struggling to outvie each other in the pursuits of industry and the cultivation of science. Just as our own national honour and interests have been promoted by internal rivalry in all the arts of production and the general purposes of trade, will the honour and interests of Great Britain and France be promoted by the struggle for commercial and manufacturing superiority between themselves. Their rivalry, too, will be unattended even with the little ill feeling which we sometimes find be tween town and town, for if on one point the preference be yielded to England, on another it may be given to France, and thus they will become convinced of their respective means of produc tion and perfection, and, having established a proper reciprocity, each country will be able to command a market in every part of the world. Thank God, none now but old aristocrats, or uneducated men of the lowest grade, retain any of the prejudices which have so long prevented the existence of a reciprocity of this sort, and the day is at hand when it will be established on a basis which nothing can shake. The French Ministry, sensible of the im. portance of placing the commercial relations of the two countries on a better footing, have in vited the leading merchants and manufacturers in different parts of France, to communicate freely the objects which they desire and the views which they entertain, preparatory to the commencement of the next Sessio❑ of the Chambers; and there are at this moment in Paris several of the most able and enlightened men from the different departments, for the sole purpose of expressing to the Minister of Commerce their concurrence in the plans which he proposes for the abolition of prohibitory laws, and of restrictions which produce a similar effect. They hope, by their presence and influence, to strengthen the Minis try against that party in the Chamber which, from mistaken or corrupt views, will support an opposition based upon prejudice, and to con firm it in the right course where, but for such sanction, it would be likely to waver, and so lose the opportunity which now offers to over throw all the remaining obstacles to a permanent commercial and political alliance with Great Britain, which the united strength of all the other powers of Europe could not shake. Under the usual head will be found articles from morning papers, relating to the conduct of certain corporations which, with less discretion than such experienced hands ought to possess, have been making themselves rather notorious. To-day we have only space to refer our readers to the observations of our Contemporaries. Our readers will see with pleasure, both by the report of the proceedings of the Common Council yesterday, and the advertisement in our front page, that the Court have voted Captain Ross the freedom of the City, in a box of Bri tish oak worth 50 guineas, and his nephew their thanks. This must be as gratifying to the two gallant seamen concerned, as it is honourable to the Corporation. At the meeting which took place in the City last week, for the purpose of forming an Anti- Corn Law Society, to consist of thirty members only, Mr. HAwEs, M.P. for Lambeth in the chair, a pamphlet on the Corn Laws was read, which excited some amusement. A copy of it has since reached our hands, and we are not surprised at its affording amusement to men excited upon the subject. It is in the form of a petition to Parliament against any change in the Corn Laws, advancing the arguments in favour of a change, and then pretending to do away with them by giving the Tory answers to those arguments. There are few posi tions advanced in it with which we do not concur, but it hardly follows the course which the circumstances of the time require. The author of the pamphlet in question addresses himself more to those already convinced that the corn laws are unjust than to those who think them beneficial. We fear that as long as a man thinks a particular step advantageous to him, he will not very readily listen to argu ment showing its injustice. Now the object, we conceive, that should engage the chief atten tion of those who desire to see a free trade in food, is to show farmers and landowners that not only does not the corn laws do them good, but that they are actually injurious to them. Earl EtTzwILLIAAt, enlightened as he is, would, we imagine, have been slow to perceive the in justice of the law he once advocated, had he not been first made to feel its injury. For eighteen years have farmers and landowners had their beloved restrictions, and every year has wit nessed their increasing distress. Had the corn laws been suffered to remain in 1815 in the state they had been for years, that is, with a virtually free trade, and the same dis tress had overtaken them, they might have had a shadow, and but a shadow, of reason for saying that it was occasioned by the want of protection. But they have had pro tection in every form, and are now more dis tressed than ever. This is the time, therefore, to urge upon them the futility of the course they are pursuing ; this is the time to make them at least listen to the arguments in favour of a more liberal and honest course. But al though we should desire to see a larger propor tion of the publications which are daily issuing from the press on the subject of the corn laws apply themselves to that view of the question, any discussion of it must be useful. The fol lowing extract will give our readers some idea of the style of the pamphlet before us : " 14. That (i. e. according to the said rnalignants) a notion had for a long time obtained currency and general assent, and was acted upon by Government as an infallible axiom, that the importation from abroad of c ommodities was an evil, and that the specific advantage of foreign commerce consisted in exporting commodities from this country. " Which axiom we trust your Lordships, in your wisdom, will always hold fast." • • • • " 17. That (i. e. according to said malignant.) such doctrine, however, reduces itself to the assertion, that it is a good thing to get rid of many things, and to receive few in return. " Which assertion, however, your Lordships, in your wisdom, have always upheld. " 18. That the object - of getting rid of commodities, might be more easily obtained by the practice of burning than by exporting the same. " Which course, as your Lordships are well aware, that wise and good nation, the Dutch, have fre quently practised, and which, in times of super abundant crops, might be beneficially adopted to remedy the evils of overproduction, not guarded against by your Lordships' corn law. " 19. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the contrary principle is founded in truth and reason. " Which would he quite contrary to your Lordships' hereditary wisdom, and must therefore be false. " 20. That, in fact (i. e. according to said malignants), exports are the payment for imports, and are the disad vantages attending on national commerce, as much, as in individual purchases, the payment constitutes the disad vantage, to which we submit, because we cannot obtain the commodities which we want without such payment. " Which comparison not having been sanctioned by your Lordships, must be rejected. . " 21. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the national object and benrfit of foreign trade consists entirely in the importing and supplying ourselves with such foreign commodities as are in demand and wanted. " Which is a new doctrine, contrary to what your Lordships have ever countenanced. " 22. That (1. e. according to said malignants) if all the commodities of the world could be imported, without exporting a single thing in return,—that would be the most profitable state of foreign commerce. . :' Whereas your Lordships have clearly sanctioned the more rational principle, that we should get rich, if we could export every thing we have, and import nothing whatsoever. _ _ . " 23. That - (i. e. according to said malignants) a false notion prevailed in former times about the injury arising from the exporting of the precious metal ; but that these are, in fact, only a commodity, with which, as with any other commodity, neither an individual, nor a whole nation, would part, unless they could get something in re turn, which they value more. " Which monstrous and innovating doctrine, we are sorry to find, is now pretty generally assented to, notwithstanding your Lordships' legislative autho rity to the contrary." These extracts may be said to relate to free trade generally. The following relate more immediately to the subject matter before us : " 24. That it may e. according to said innovators) be assumed as an axiom, that those commodities, which are most readily saleable, are most wanted by the people at large, and may be considered as more useful to them than the money or other commodities which they are willing to give for the same. " Whereas your Lordships, on account of your Lordships' hereditary wisdom and virtue, ought to be considered the best judges of the people's wants. " 25. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the prohibiting the importation of food proves your Lordships' apprehension that there would be a ready sale for the same, which means, in fact, that you know that it is wanted. " Which is a way of reasoning not to be sanctioned by your Lordships. _ _ _ "26. That (i. e. according to said malignants) if there was not a peat want of foreign corn, it would not be readily saleable ; in which case none would be imported, even had we no Corn Laws, and that therefore the very existence of the Corn Laws is a proof of their injustice and absurdity. " Which, we trust, your Lordships will declare to be an untenable piece of sophistry." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) LITERATURE. SONGS OF THE LOIRE AND OTHER POEMS. LONDON, 1834. The songs contained in the present volume were--so the author assures us in his preface— " sang with delight on the banks of the bright and beautiful Loire," and he therefore hopes that they will meet with the " indulgent suffer ance of a generous and enlightened French and English public." We hope so too, more espe cially as the poet's chaunting was less a matter of choice, than of necessity. He sang, not so much to keep " the golden harmonies of creation" in countenance—though this had some weight with him—as because, had he remained " silent and songless;" he might have been considered " soulless," and it was necessary to his charac ter for sensibility that, like a sparrow on the house-tops, or a pelican in the wilderness, he should chirp and quaver away the foul imputa tion. Now though we by no means see the cogency of this reasoning (for surely gentlemen who wander along the banks of the Loire, are not bound also to sing to it !) yet as the author has evidently chaunted from a sense of what was due to his character as a man of feel ing, he deserves all the praise which such a stern consciousness of duty is calculated to inspire. We repeat, therefore, our hope that his volume may prove successful, though we cannot flatter him on this score. lie sings, not like a night ingale, but a tom-tit, and though his ditties may " delight" the Loire, we fear they will make no impression on the Thames. The bulk of his poems are made up of trite allusions to " Flora," " Zephyr," the " star of Eva," " Bacchus," " Venus," and such like common-places, which are now repudiated even by a fourth-form boy at Eton. He is also sadly addicted to the amo rous ; writes about love as if it were a sugar plum ; and tells strange tales about the covies of shepherdesses that he put up on the banks of the Loire. Among his chief favourites is a certain " Maid of Anjou," whom he implores to listen to his " evening lay"—but without ef fect, we fear, for he writes in wretched spirits, as the following specimen, with which we must close our hasty notice, will testify : Maid of Anjou ! stay, 0 stay ! Let me tell thee all my grief : Listen to my evening lay, Though it be both sad and brief. I from proud Albana's isle, Speed with hope, and full of love; Let me gaze upnn thy smile, That I may no longer rove. Wilt thou grant me my behest, Wilt thou be to me as wine? And beside me take thy rest, When we bow to will Divine? THE COMIC ANNUAL-LONDON, 1834. At the close of a preface, full, as usual, of quaint conceits and "right merrie jests," Mr. Hood says, " With this introduction I commend my fifth volume to its buyers and sellers, and throw up my literary heels, exclaiming with the Peri, " Joy, joy for ever--my task is done— The gate is passed, and Heaven is won." This conceit he illustrates by a sketch of an animal flinging up his heels in the face of a grinning clown ; but, with a singular absence of selkomplacency, makes the lively quadruped— whose face is hid behind a hedge—look uncom monly like an ass ! Luckily, Mr. Hood can afford to crack this joke upon himself, for the author of " Eugene Aram' can never be mis taken for one of the long-eared fraternity. His present Annual, if not better, is at least as good as the best of its predecessors. The cuts alone are sufficient to sustain its character. " A Legal Conveyance" is a side-splitting caricature of the very broadest nature. Four Ex-Chancelllors are• seated in an omnibus, with a fifth chancellor as the coachman, and the Devil as the conductor. Of course the passengers' destination is evident, and, to do them justice, they all seem resigned to their fate, and quite at home. As for Satan, he is a model of conductors, looking so cour teous, so obliging, and so attentive to his busi ness, that he can scarcely fail to pick up half the pedestrians on the road. " Throwing the Lasso" is another sly smile at the law. We see a Chancellor galloping with the " lasso" in his hand, after a poor scaramouch of a client, who is scampering away with all his might, while, to console him as he runs, a full-length gallows, with a man swinging underneath it, stands by the road-side, right before his eyes. " A Legal Tender" represents Jack Ketch making a very courteous offer of a rope, under a beam, to a criminal who seems in no hurry to avail himself of the polite boon. Jack's face is the beau-ideal of scampishness. " Babes in the Wood" are two wooden dolls with grown-up faces, who look very perplexed and disconsolate. " A Round of Beef" shows us a Falstaff of an ox, turning his nether-end very composedly to wards some agriculturists at a cattle show, IA ho are struck with manifest symptoms of admiration at such a miracle of obesity. One farmer looks at him, as much as to say, " what fine steaks he'll ►nake!" " Cut and Come again," is something better than a mere caricature. The figure of the drunken sailor who, with a mouth full of hic cup, an eye of irresistible gravity, a wave of the hand, minaceous of oratory, and an attitude in which a resolution to maintain the perpendicular struggles hard with the necessity of adopting the horizontal, is beseeching a tawdrily bedizened barmaid to supply him with more grog, is as true to nature as anything in Hogarth's G in- Lane. " A Lost Child, its own Crier," reminds us of the " Cherubim and Seraphim," who, we are told in Scripture, " continually do cry." The clamorous brat seems as if it would never leave off, and the astonished little cur by its side is clearly of the same opinion, for he is yelping and running away, as if the tympanum of his ear was broken. " A Monster of Iniquity," is a fi ne , practical satire on some of our over righteous officers of justice. A little child, who can scarcely have cut his last tooth, is standing at the bar of the Old Bailey between two great hulks of constables, both of whom appear far gone in horror of the babe's enormities, and are just about to give in evidence which they think will make the jury's hair stand on end. " Lawk ! how the Blacks are falling," portrays the astonish ment and perplexity of a fat, slip-shod old washer woman, at a heavy shower of" Niggers" who are pouring down right on her unprotected head. Her face is a rich development of the bewildered. But perhaps the best illustration is " Hunger ford Market." Two hungry ragamuffins, a man and a boy, are gazing with pensive interest on some fat sucking pigs which are lying exposed on a counter. The face of the man is the very poetry of starvation. He is transparent to a degree that might excite the envy of a ghost— would lick his lips, had he any thing to lick off them ; and develop his faculties of appropriation, were not a vigilant, lean, restless Cassius of a watch-dog standing in the way. The younger scamp is a perfect study for an amateur of the picturesque. His lax, yellow cheeks drop in wards, like an unstrung drum ; his shambling shanks are mere matters of grizzle : his dress is such as would astound even St. Giles's, and put all Monmouth-street to the blush. He looks, in fact, as if starvation had been both his mother and wet nurse ; rocked his cradle, and watched his daily growth. Mr. Hood must have an un commonly subtle and delicate apprehension of the hungry. The literary portion of the " Comic An nual" is quite as good as the pictorial. We have rich, full-bodied jokes—dainty conceits—spark ling puns—strange twistings and dislocations of language, worthy the genius of a Mazurier. The anecdote of the truant boy at Norwood, " which fell with its face in a fuz," is the lie plus ultra of the touching. But the best sketch is decidedly the imitation of Rabelais, which, in. its jolly extravagance, and quaint fulness of epithet, is a tale that might have been told by Pannurge to Pantagruel, after he had escaped from the kitchen spit of the Turks, who had all but " done him to a turn" for dinner. This imitation is quite as good as anything in the Rejected Addresses. We subjoin a specimen of Mr. Hood's plaintive style of ballad : " Oh ! what is that comes gliding in, And quite in middling haste? It is the picture of my Jones, And painted to the waist. " It is not painted to the life, For where's the trousers blue ? Oh Jones, my dear !—Oh dear ! my Jones, What is become of you ?" " Oh ! Sally dear, it is too true, — The half that you remark Is come to say my other half Is bit off by a shark ! " Oh ! Sally, sharks do things by halves, Yet most completely do A bite in one place seems enough, But I've been bit in two. " You know I once was all your own, But now a shark must share ! But let that pass—for now to you I'm neither here nor there. " Alas ! death has a strange divorce Effected in the sea, It has divided toe from you, And even me from me ! " Don't fear my ghost will walk o'nights To haunt, as people say ; My ghost can't walk, for, oh ! my legs Are many leagues away ! " Lord ! think when I am swimming round, And looking where the boat is, A shark just snips away a half, Without " a quarter's notice." " One half is here, the other half Is near Colombia placed ; Oh ! Sally, I have got the whole Atlantic for my waist. " I3nt now, adieu—a long adieu! I've solved death's awful riddle, And would say more, but I am doomed To break off in the middle FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. s.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—Arrived the Dolphin, Hampton, from ZAnte. The Moffatt, for New South Wiles, has put back, and remains with the outward bound. The Cloverfield, Dryad, and Hopewell, have arrived from the rivet and remain. PORTSMOUTH, DEc. s.—Wind very squally.—Arrived the Old Maid, late Cur, from Quebec, very leaky, and with loss of part of deck load, &c. FALMOUTH, DRc. s.—Wind W.S.W., strong gales, with violent squalls.—Arrived the Stanmer. packet, from Halifax, sailed o❑ the 19th ult. DOVER, DEC. s.—Arrived off port the Courier, Palmer, from the Cape of Good Hope. COWES, DEC. s.—Arrived the Hampton, Ward, from Hamburg, with damage and leaky, bound to New York. BRISTOL, DEC. s.—Arrived the Hope, from Hon- &was. LIVERPOOL, Dae. 4.—Arrived the Mariotte, Granby, from Charente. WATERFORD, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Rose M'Croom, Brown, from Quebec. CORE, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Navarino, Gilkimn, from St. Domingo. LONDONDERRY, DEC. 3.-Arrived the Bramin, Raw son, from London. SUNDERLAND, DEC. s.—Arrived the Queen Adelaide, Booth, from Miramichi ; and Birbara, Robinson, from Quebec. The Dorothea, Dickenson, from New York to Rotter dam, was driven on shore near Boulogne on th e 2d i ns t., and it was feared she would be wrecked—crew saved. The Hulan, Macaulay, from Ayr to Londonderry, was totally wrecked near Donegal, on tile 26th ult.—crew saved. The Montreal, Jackson, from Elnll to Mira►nicbi, was wrecked at Cape Breton on the 11th of October—crew saved. —.._. The Rover, Neill, from Ayr to Wexford, is on shore at Loeliendahl. The Fnme, Geddes, from Wetnyas to Spey, was totally wrecked at Portsra on the 28th ult.—crew saved. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--It is With great gratification that we find the capital of the Metro polis and the south of England at length directing itself towards railway'. Of the 10,000 shares required to carry the Bill for the two sections of the Great Western Railway (for which application .is to be made in th e approac hi ng session) through Parliament, between seven and eight thousand are already subscribed. The success of this first work of the kind amongst our southern countrym en , we hail as most important to all connected with railroads. Their capital once directed, as that of the No r th a l rea d y i s, towards such undertakings as obj-cts of investment, and their first investments being made In one of which the success is so certain, not only ma y th e extension of the thethroughout general system of railroads on every really goo d but t e directionki ngdomtlof a ebep;tear towardsside considered a Le insured, point will r a pidly an d most beneficially influence the value of thy gre at wor k s , o f which Lancashire has the pride of having been hitherto the chief support.—Liverpool Albion, Dec. 2. DILEMMAS OF PRIDE'. A novel in three volumes by the author of ,‘ First Love." The object of this work is a good one, but is pursued in too inartificial a manner, and withal, somewhat inconsistently. Various are the dilemmas of 'Aide, but that upon which the writer has thrown himself with the most acharnement, is the pride which beggars a whole family that one may be splendidly provided for. All the younger brothers introduced, are, there fore, made patterns of heroes, whilst their unlucky elder brothers, are, of course, fools, or deformed. At the same time we are bound to say that there is much in the three volumes before us that will amuse a large class of readers. The character of Aunt Dorothea, an old maid with her endless lodging-house troubles, must certainly have been drawn from nature. We give the following as a specimen of the style : 4 , We have already said it was near midnight : the day had been spent in festivities, held to celebrate the coming of age of Sir Willoughby Arden, now (his father having been sometime dead) the head of the ancient family to whom the property belonged," • • • • " In — about an hour after this all was still, save the solitary voice of a distant waterfall. Every light was quenched, and dying embers, which from time to time as they fell together lashed for an instant, were all that re mained of the scattered bonfires. The merry crowd had sought their respective homes, and the inhabitants of the mansion had retired to rest, with the exception of Lady Arden, who sat at an open window, taking leave, as it were, of familiar scenes which, when the light of morn ing next dawned upon them, would no longer be her home. " In marrying the late Sir Alfred, the then head of the family, in obedience to the wishes of her parents, she had sacrificed an early attachment to his youngest brother. " Sir Alfred had, however,. proved a very pulite hus band, and she had for years been the mistress, nay, the very princess of a princely mansion, a splendid establish ment, and a magnificent demesne ; she had possessed every luxury that art and wealth could procure, and at the same time had been surrounded by all the beauties of nature on the moat extensive scale. " All had now passed away It was to her son's, 'tis true, and he was dutiful and affectionate, and would always, she had no doubt, make her welcome, hut of course as a visiter ; and whenever her son should marry (which she certainly wished him to do), a stranger would be mistress of all; and to the courtesy of that stranger she must owe per mission to cross the threshold of her long-accustomed home. She did not tuean absolutely to murmur; but theta was something pensive, at least, if not melancholy, in such thoughts. " While her son was a minor, Arden Park had still been hers, at least the right of living there; but to-morrow she was to set out for town ; she was to take ber daughters from under the shelter of their father's roof, to become wanderers, as it were, on the world's wide wilderness. She would have a house in town, 'tis true : a short season of each year would be spent there, and the remainder in temporary and probably agreeable homes in the various watering-places. But she felt a painful consciousness, that, of the adventitious rank which the mere prejudices of society bestow, herself and daughters would now lose many steps ; and that the latter must, whenever she should die, if they were not married, lose many more ; nay, be probably reduced, at last, by the insufficiency of their portions as younger children, to the state of poor aunt Dorothea, whom she had herself often held up to them as a warning of the miseries attendant on remaining single. " Aunt Dorothea's afflictions were not always of the tragic order, and the remembrance of some of them called up, at the moment, despite her solemn reflections, a faint smile on the countenance of Lady Arden ; followed, how ever, by a sigh, for the subject now came house to her feelings in a manner it had never done before. " So absorbing had been her reflections, that she bad • ' not noticed the gathering clouds which had grada l if extinguished every star, and darkened th e h eave ns, till ' a on which she still looked out had become one black s° formless mass. At the instant, a vivid flash of lighte f gave to her view, with the most mi nute di st inctness ° outline, not only the grand features of the landscape generally, but, prominent above all, the rui ns o f the cwt' s the rocky eminence on which th e y stood, th e r i v er at 1, foot, and the trees that surrounded its base. Thunse, and violent rain followed, and the wind rose to a b urr: . cane. There existed a superstitious b e li e f a mong ! e l country people that a tremendous tempest always preco 0 or accompanied any event fatal to a memb er o f the Ar d ,l„ family. A remembrance of this cro s s e d th e m i n d of VT ( Arden at the moment, hut was of course re j ec t e d as s i '„ to a degree. Besides, she added mentally, if an ides e absurd required refutation, the present occasion being of rejoicing, would be quite sufficient to satisfy any r e .l l , sonable mind. She retired to re s t, h owever , w ith ss', dened feelings, while the castle, crowning its rocky 6 ` te ; as already describ e d, fl o at e d b e f ore h er eyes , even si:,.t, ,: their lids were closed ; and w h en s h e slept, the „ still blended with her d r eam s , as did th e forms of the baron and his two sons, described in the legend of tbi castle, and all strangely mixed up with the festivities ° the previous day, and the forms of her own hsil Y blooming • • • • • • " When Lady Arden arose in the morning all was es ° and sunshine. " The storm of the night might have seemed a dreamt I ' ll : for the still visible traces of its ravages. The river ' e ‘f greatly swollen, and several of the largest and finest 0 a range of magnificent old t rees , w hi c h h a d gro wn °- the brow of a sloping ba n k, f orm i ng a b eaut if u l festal in the landscape, now l a y on th e groun d, li tera ll y uproot', by the violence of the t e mp es t. Th e i r f a t e , h oweve r, vi3j soon forgotten in that of two young oaks, which b s t been planted besid e eac h ot h er on th e l awn , on t h e ;co d birth-day of her two sons. The lightning had shatters both : Lady Arden viewed them for the moment with shuddering sensation of superstitious dread, the influence of which it required all her good sense to resist. " Geoffery Arden, the only nephew of the late S i : Alfred, was standing on the grass, with his arms foldew and looking rather askance than directly at the rernai ris of the blasted trees, while his eyebtows were drawn s i contemptuously, and a somewh a t scorn f u l sm il e cur l e d lip, as he marked blind Lewin, the harper, his coupl e ' nance full of woe, feeling, with visibly trembling 141 3 ' 14 each shattered branch of th e u p roo t e d oa k s , w hile tb e large tears were falling from his sightless eyes. " The brothers, Willoughby and Alfred, and their thes e sisters, all seemingly attracted by the same object, iss°`; one by one from the open g l ass d oor o f t h e breakfa st I room, and gathered round th e s p o t ; eac h l oo k e d playfti l ', 7 dismal for a moment, and th e nex t ut t ere d some l au gh) remark. They were soon joi n ed by th e i r mot h e r ; the group would have formed a striking family pictur c e i Lady Arden was still a very fine woman : from her temper the sweetness of her countenance was yet unisij paired, while the expression of maternal tenderness,--- 15 this, from the late tenor of her thoughts, was uncon ; sciously mingled with s om e thi ng o f solicitude,—With which she viewed her children, h e r s o ns n o w es p e cially and Alfred in particular, her f avour it e eon , gave a ddition s ' interest to her appeal &ace. " Alfred's sparkling eye and blooming cheek did O f ' however, seem to justify much anxiety on his account; brother too, though be had always been more delicate, sea ° , at present in excellent health and spirits, while the three 116 ' ters were young, handsome, and happy looking. Geeill Arden still stood apart, as th oug h th ere were b u t little le' lowship of feeling between him and the rest of the grout' . " He was a lad of eighteen or nineteen before the 13 ,1 riage of his uncle, the late Sir Alfre I ; and from a Ch i ' had been in the habit of bearing his father and moth err and such of their particular fri e nd s a s sou ght to flat ter their secret wishes, speculate on the possibility of to uncle's never marrying, and his being consequently heir la the Arden estates, which were strictly entailed in the ma ; line. Nay, his very nursemaid's usual threat was, S h d if he cried when his face was being washed, he sh cit : never be Sir Geoffery. At school, all the boys at P„ 111 ,,' hours had somehow or other acquir e d th e h a bit of eitl? him Sir Geoffery ; and at college his companions, pa rtite cularly those who wished to flatter him into idle extr av i l; fiance, constantly joked and complimented him about great expectations. Thus had th o s e e xp ec t a tions, unju 9l., founded as they were, grown with his growth did strengthened with his strength ; till, when his unc le marry, he could scarcely help thinking himself an injured' robbed, and very ill-treated person. Hop e however revi ved . a little, on the first three children chancing to be &WV' , ters, and his mother began again to say, be might has ,. thl Arden estates yet:—stranger things had happened. '` you might marry one of the girls, you know, GeofferYt she would continue,—" it would be souse compensation to poor Sir Alfred for having no son. " Indeed I should do no such thing,' he would replY' I should please myself. It's not to oblige me, I suppo se ' that my uncle has no son.' " THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of most kinds of Grain this week are Moderri t The Wheat trade remains dull at Monday's prices Ba the r Beans, and Pease, without alteration. Oats are dull, and ra cheaper. In the Flour trade there is not much doing. t.c ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flott r •o English 3,890 qrs. 7,580 qrs. 3,090 qrs. 4,220 ,3 e Irish - - 5,370 ~.....--- Foreign B6O 970 120 I ...---0_,... SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Cal ve s, an d P or kers,_,Vil limited, and chiefly of indifferent quality. The trade withriior kind f prime meat was some w h a t b r i s k ; w ith th e ; o, t o o kinds very dull, at barely Monday's quotations. Milch were in steady demand at last week's prices, a useful Short-ll° r with her small Calf, producing from 18/. to 201. PRICES PER STONE OF SUBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL S. .d . s. d. to s. d. s. Inferior Beasts 26 2 8 Large Lambs 00 0 0 Second quality ditto 210 3 4 Prime small ditt o 0 0 4 4 Prime large Oxen... 4 2 4 4 Large c o arse C a l ves 3 2 c 4 Prime Scots, &c..... 4 4 440 Prime small ditto 410 : 3 ' io Inferior Sheep 2 6 3 0 Large Hogs ...... 3 0 4 4 Second quality ditto 3 6 4 0 Small Porkers 3lO h Coarse_woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves 10i. to 2EO•e' e c i i ; SouthdownWethers 410 5 0 Quarter oloP.gs 125.t0 SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Fig& I 440 2,460 140 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. d. s. d. to s. a. d. l ° lU Seel, inferior 222 4 I Mutton, inferior... 2 6 5 4 - middling 2 4 2 6 - middling.. 3 0 4 ri - prime large 3 2 3 6 - prime 3 8 51/ - prime small... 3 4 3 8 Pork, large .1 2 4 Veal 3 8 5 0 sma ll 4 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLO CK A Halifax mail has arrived (sailed on the 19th of vember), after a passage of only fifteen dam by orb' Halifax papers to the 19th Nov. have been received a," North and South American Coffee-house ; also r", Brunswick and Prince Edward Island papers, to the I s' Nov., but these papers chiefly contain English news, $ no local information of consequence. The only arrival this morning of any consequence express from Paris, according to which it appears that Carlist insurrection in Spaia is drawing towards an eou THE FUNDS. 9t Consols opened at the price they l e ft o ff yesterday, for the Account, since which the Market has been I ° ° animated, and they are at present 88k 89 for the J 4 '' count. We have no other arrivals, this morning, the express from Paris. Although it does not bring '- the decisive information from Spain, it is favourable to cause of the Queen. Spanish 241 ; Portuguese 561 57. HALF-PAST 010 1 , We hear that the Leeds steamer has arriv e d at Pd b'l : after a passage of four days from Oporto. The itifortli-- tion she brings has not as yet transpired. 0 , 00 There is a belief in the City that an armistice will take place in Portugal. for Consols, which were during the morning at S u3 n Account, alternately buyers and sell e rs, have, short period, been done at 88i ; Reduced, 871. e se, In the Foreign Market, Spanish, 23i ; Portug u 56i 57 ; Dutch, 49i 50e ; Brazil, 66 to THREE 0* CL 0 C% . Consols for the Account, 813 i MARCH OF BIGOTRY.—A scene----11id11t the solemnity of the occasion forbids our styling ludi er° 6l ,, but which we feel at a loss for another epithet to de ' 4 _, o , ;,)it by—occurred on Sunday at the interment of a gentle I tte of this city, (whose death was announced in oar; go. in the church-yard at Three Castles. A numb r ° d t he inm Catholics were in attendmce, but no Sooner " t h a n officiating clergyman commenced the funeral serei c , e 2o they all (with the exception of the apothecary W i eo t of tended the deceased and a steward in the emploYf° doou ~,less his brother) fled with the utmost precipitation , rd °- f conceiving it would be more heinous to hear o ne -° to ge t prayer from the lips of an heretical divine, tio fi di j, on intoxicated on the S a bb a th D a y, as m a ny of ii ' their return.—Yet thi s i s th e a g e o f liberality 1 ' le e tiny Moderator. COURT The Lox *a l OCcupi 4 )otion aris %ea direct noth ti ltitnately d t erna of the Ito This wal 4 lister's rei firmed, ant adopted by question. t o tllelllas tluraunsttay o n cei County t be cause of the poc litater ha% the presen' Air. Co, Hie Hol general, a the Alaster the order 1 The obj :s u t bs o e f q u t e h n e 14 person 11 . intries 'lstiety of *hole of except to VICE-C Williat the Pape Up by ha, th e King to the Fl dismissal Mr. C %übruitte( that the •Mr. I et preser been par that mo object of Mr. ( Learned charge t Should Worse Ili moment The Inotion the atta Mr. ration (Sitti Th ease, bankr posset elude (Sittl T 1 Man done exec' leavt bite fur deer' of a plait el - 1 Cie yo if ~~