The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-09 00:00:00

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Co. 013. at '2l. pm.) 40 p r , l, F.* 5ci1P........... ,1 . 0t...., tremlnsurance Comp 1,(,) ;4Pr ",.,, trance Comp, - rk,314 ........ 25% tal 8,1 411, 11 Y ... 14illeia`arni Nav iZo " nC . o. .. .. 13 Bank of Ireland 25 13 13 !GN iOq £1 7 0 10 50 , 4 11% 12 44 1, liA, 0 0 It 44,4,fr)ca .......„..... D i e. el u o a 4; ............... 0 ° a ..... ... 7 1 et ........ 0 ..... '" g iti:l7r.i.;:: Arrived. Due. I Hamburg 0 O Holland O Jamaica .. —"• . ...'' O Leeward Islan ds ' *** (1 0 O Lisbon 2 1 Malta 0 O Sweden 0 1 Waterford Wkrz o .• AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W . 6 min utes after 5. Evening... 24 minutes a . 1 4 1 , *Un•.„. LONDON, T4BI3 AY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1833. The 7'. ---------"--.-- --- has an article, give . 71itCS of this morning e - ei t i ll 111 another column of The Sun, upon , the 'ye ellee of the poor law commission, to 'hic t l: teljesterdaY, for the second time, called the is for t i i °4 ° I our readers. The Times artic le v. , 4 'le 11113 st part, a kind of abstract of the e to be '''e give u by the commissioners, and it is o aillr,ebgetted that it was attempted to be made 11,"Ing else, for the few opinions which are 11: ard ed in it clearly show that the writer, to:i.ever well-informed he may be upon other th pratets, lias never personally examined into ttr in tov:tical w orking of the poor laws volume lume of eli de '.'r country, or, till the present kibiet)Ce came into his hands, ever given the P Act the sl ig htest consideration. Let us : r 4114 the most definite of his propositions. i-, i Nt emporary says : %1 1,i ° th t third place, the poor laws, as at present saadve l't!p e'etl, destroy all motives in the labourer to b 0_ lut'Zil,f,o accumulate the fruits of industry, by a s to l''''‘:-..‘4,1,i; ent toy/nerd to those who are known to La l'' ,„ " i t n i e l)l l, 4 ; l 4, P a n d only granting the labourer eitimpal.,,, '" 3lr ti p " 410 is spent. " If an industrious in t„''''"ez :,rthonpeY -aking of Ticehinst parish,_ his ;i11:.;' ) ; 4 11 w i 'te th l E um n r- o e w ' t n o sP tO bw h e ave laid by any pint of n_ accumulated any would d co be 1. 1 '14 N e i: 44 '' there are parishes ‘ in which he it e r: le th at ° k . till his savings were gone, and a tlwieekunow -11644)4 , a.. thi s preventive p• Would be the case ts) 44 ,,'N i ti tth t r" . There are at least a m et o s re as than a dozen of 54 04.i_ e evidence from different ” parts of the country ""g this striking statement. °4l' friers s o good ; an d we expec t e d th a t Prope-elld conic wo uld have to the very tho:44e - 4 r tei jorntleelidision, that a man ought not out of employment, because ee°l lo been so i n d ustr i ous, pru d ent, a ~ Pl ey: lie4l ' as to save a little money, that ern l'i b e i: t °tight not to be made to depend upon te' e g de'titu te,--in short that it ought Ply or thd-P'nd upon the character and ability 4 : l e e l , '6 ; °'k'lla tt, or upon the estimate which t Ns ill ' Z er May have formed of his qualifica *ll, 12t W hat does he say ? Why, that t ,41t, be kl)nlutely destitute should, if they are able to lia.ll',4,ZPloyerl first : but the posse ssion of so a m ft e l . u eli fit,''ld not be a bar to employment, . .., , , , ar Y. lt administered to those to whom i some relief t was ne .oi o w vyi the ov e ilt Would our contemporary think of tae rseer s of th e par i s h com i ng to him and yo l " (c We understand that you have among d \vorlti °ll)Pesitors ten or twelve industrious, har 4 ve g ille n who have saved money ; now, we lut ely 4 , l 4l°ll g our paupers a dozen printers absost theteiomre:tjtute, but able to work, and you mu 41 ' 1 13k e mploy them ?" We can imagine that . 31 it f • e lli g he was not in a "t hundering" . humour, 41 tl L 1 - 1 4 d would repress his inclination to laugh d 411 le ..4ee of the weil-meaning gentlemen, an that • er `'''newhat in this style, " It is true brut th ° e 'lle ?f our workmen have saved money, ti • Y dl d so to provide themselves comforts th') : l' l',)1(1 a ge, or to put their children out into ti c4 , a fault to find with lte , , , and as we have no ti) t ,, , U 14 ut, o n the contrary, highly approve of the wetu . • l• • in them to take 4r,14 pos t decline dismiss in . e .,". 4 ily ~,,, me n You recommend even if they be t i l ' e z4rte ‘tiN ti t ti ll Y.: ' If the overseers had read the 41 44 . it would be an affront both to e 441 u contemporary the y ~ . it to , ur -°l44 e b. c:it usu ally du so, their to reply would of suppose that tneali , i, , 1 / 4 , f "° doubt, the possession of some 41etit cHivill bar to em-loy ., ajt e ,, _ should not be a . . F th ose wh o r ebel has been first administered to A Y°l4 P r esen t t el : r e it, and you can again employ ‘.., N . I ttit e 4 0 Wore when they have become as tl 'e, , a, 'ese• What our contemporary could it Proceg„i4t his, entertaining the principles t ° he s„i: ill this article, we know not. But exatniiiati::: th,e,thing will not bear the slightest i grade the w ord 1 he Principle (if we may so c e 're de stitut e •) of employing men because they , in preference to others who have saved money from their earnings, has an appear.: ance of humanity, but it is one of the SADLER fallacies, which has imposed upon men who have thought more than our contemporary upon the subject, but which, in fact, amounts to say ing in so many words that no man shall save at all. The evidence given by the Commissioners has, however, gone some way in converting the Times, for it sees that all saving is actually put - an end to by giving em ployment to the idle, the improvident, and the destitute, merely because . they are such, to the exclusion of those who have given the best of all possible proofs of industry and pro vidence. Our friend only contends now that improvidence should have the priority of em ployment, and sees no harm in providence after wards coming in for a share. The distinction is more one of words than of substance, for it is clear that the tendency of only one improvident man getting a preference over all the provident of a parish, is to make them all improvident. However, the symptom of desiring to escape, even by a verbal distinction, from the false po sition which our contemporary took up at the beginning, is encouraging, and leads us to hope that he will by and by see that it is nearly as foolish to thrust one's fist only into a furnace as the whole arm. The affairs of the East are now the engrossing subjects of speculation with the French jour nalists. The Messager des Chanibres, of Sun. day, contains a long article, headed " News from Alexandria," which, however, furnishes us with little or no fresh intelligence of moment, but merely confirms the statement, which has already appeared in The Sun, of the Pacha of EGYPT'S summary and indignant rejection of the terms offered him by the French Admi ral as the basis of a treaty between Egypt and the Porte. In another part of The Sun will be found an able article on the subject by " 0. P. Q.," to which we direct the attention of our readers. No official account has been received here of the arrival of Admiral ROUSSIN at Toulon, which is mentioned in the Message,- des Chambres ; but all the unfavourable accounts from Turkey, which have appeared in the French papers, are fully confirmed in the despatches received by the British and French Governments. These accounts ap pear to have created considerable sensation in Paris, and to have been exceedingly unwelcome to the present Ministry. Indeed we should not be surprised at their producing a material change in the Cabinet of the Tuileries ; for as Lord PALMERSTON refuses to meet the Turkish question in the way desired by the French Go vernment, and as Marshal SouLT is unwilling to grapple with the Autocrat single-handed, it will be for the Chamber of Deputies to decide whether France shall remain a quiescent spectator of the further political aggrandizement of Russia, by which in the end France must become a sufferer. We have reason to believe that Marshal SouLT has spared no effort to induce our Cabinet to concur with him in some positive demonstration towards Rus sia, provided the conduct of the Autocrat should render it necessary ; but Lord PALMERSTON does not, it seems, feel in clined to take so decided a course, and the Emperor of RUSSIA being thoroughly aware of that disinclination, does not scruple to take ad.; vantage of it in his relations with the French Government. The Paris papers, which are in the pay of the Ministry, would lead the public to believe that Marshal SOULT will vindicate the honour, and provide for the security, of France by the adoption of a firm and positive tone to wards Russia ; but we venture to assert that unless the Chamber of Deputies should insist upon such a course, he will not embroil himself with Russia on account of her encroachments on Turkey. ANECDOTE.—The late Dr. HUNTER of Edinburgh, Professor of Divinity, was solicited by a Rev. Doctor, deep in the moderate interest of the Church, for his support in a question which was coming before the Assembly. The Professor replied, " Why, Dr. B.. -DE, I will undoubtedly support you, if, after I have heard the cause pled, I find you in the right." To this the appli cant replied, " Right, Doctor !—Right !—D'ye re illy think I would have travelled seventy-two miles from D —ries to seek your support of the right ? P,'s because I'm in the wrong that I ask your vote as a favour." OPTICAL WONDERS.—PeopIe laugh at the story of Argus with a hundred eyes ; but whit was even Argus to some insects ? The cornea of insects seems cut into a number of little planes or facets, like the facets of a diamond, presenting the appearance of net-work : and each of these facets is supposed to possess the power and properties of an eye. LEWeNHOECK counted in the cornea of abeetle 3,181 of these facets ;of a horse-fly, 8,000 ; and of the grey-drone fly, 14,000 ! ! ! NArlt PACHA, who has just left England, on his return to Constantinople, was much gratified by his visit to England, and charmed with our modes and customs. He speaks French like a Parisian, and converses with ani mation and gaiety. Being questioned by a lady, if he did not consider it a hardship for Englishmen to be con fined to one wife, instead of having, as in Turkey, a plurality,—he politely replied, that as the generality of English ladies had each in her own person the attrac tions of half a drzen ladies of all others, he considered one English wife A more desirable possession than six Turkish ones. He visited all our institutions, and displayed great knowledge in medicine and surgery, as he has given much of his attention to both, in his own country, for the purpose of forwarding improvements in each branch. NA3II PACHA is a very good-looking man, of about five-and-thirty years well informed, and peculiarly well bred. He has only two wives, both of whom have given him children, since his departure from Constantinople. Of our Premier, NAMI PACHA observed, that he realized the idea he had formed of the appearanc e of our aristocracy, looking a lord Iran bead to toot ; and that he knew more of th e affairs of Turkey than the greatest part of those who were on the spot. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, APRIL S.—Wind N.N. E.—Arrived the High lander, M'Chere, from Jamaica; Alert, from Terceira; Marlborough, Middleton, from Mauritius, and sailed for the river. Arrived from the river, and sailed the Eliza, for New York ; Northumbrian, Forsyth, for Halifax; and Comscrons, Tod, for Berbice. Remain the Active, Reeves, and Alert, for Terceira. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL S.—Wind N. light.—Sailed the Waterloo, Cow, for Sydney, New South Wales. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.--Wind variable.—Arrived the Cygnet, Jones, fron► Sr. Michael's. FALMOUTH, APRIL '7. Wind N.N.W., moderate breezes.—Arrived the Fire-Fly steam-packet, from the Mediterranean; left Malta the 20th ult , Gibraltar the ;oth, and Cadiz the 31st. Sailed the Amphitrite trans port, for Lisbon; and Emma, Hudson, for Bengal. Off the port, the St. Lawrence, Hugv.up, from Odessa. Dem, Aran. S.—Arrived off the port, the Brothers, Blain, from Madeira; Ariel, from Charleston; and Courier, from the Mauritius. TORBAY, APRIL 7.—Arrived the Albion, Emmett, from Sligo. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7.—Arrived the Caravan, from New Orleans ; Ivanhoe, NPAlean, from Charleston ; Ram bler, Drew ; Talamachus, Gilden, from Savannah ; and Diana, Revell, from Genoa. Off the port, the Princess Victoria, from Bengal ; Arathusa, from Barbadoes; David, Cannon, from New Orleans ; and Arab, from Savannah. PENZANCE, APRIL 7.—Arrived off port the Mary, from Messina ; and the Gloria, Lowen, from Cadiz. COWES, APRIL B.—Arrired the Majestic, Robinson, Irom Charleston. CORK, APRIL 6.—The Voyager, Anderson, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, has been surveyed. The copper is strained and started, in consequence of getting on Mar gate sand. Her bottom must be caulked and re-coppered. ELSINEER, APRIL 2.—The Alfred, Parlow, has just put into this harbour to repair, having been run foul of by the Luna, of Dumfries. The Climax, Lough, of Newcastle, arrived this morning, with the less of fore topmast. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals this morning, with the exception of the Malta mail, which sailed on the 20th of March, and his had the quick passage from Gibraltar of six days. In all probability she has brought late intelligence from the East, but nothing as yet has transpired. They write from Paris by the mail this morning that the Russian Government is anxious .W make the affairs of Constantinople entirely to depend on her adjustment, and that no other power should interfere in the question, and she imagines that France and England will consent to it; but this will not be complied with, as we may judge by the armaments now going forward in both countries, as orders have been sent by the telegraph to Cherbourg, Brest, and Toulon, to get all the ships ready with the greatest speed. Accounts from Jassy state that four divisions of the Russians have entered that town to proceed to the assist ance of the Turks. Consols continue rather heavy at the price they left off yesterday, 87i 4 for the Account, with nothing doing. HALF-PAST ONE. We are credibly informed that Sir Stratford Canning has sent to the Spanish Government a very energetic and pressing note, demanding of Spain to join England and France to terminate the present distressed state of Portu gal, on which Zea Bermudez immediately assembled a Council, and it was expected that tho answer would be favourable. The private letters by the estafette from Paris this morning state that the affairs of Turkey would come to an amicable adjustment. The speculators in the Funds are at a stand still this morning, but Consols are a shade better, from 87i I, to 87.1 ; for next account, 878 88. In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock has advanced per cent. ; in other securities little or nothing doing. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 87.1-. CLOSING PRICES.—FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account 87 . 4 Danish 73* Greek Brazilian Bonds 61 Buenos Ayres... . Mexican Peruvian •••,•••• ••• Chilian Ditto.... Columbian 1824 181 Russian....... Spanish LlGHT.—According to Doctor BREWSTER, light moves at a velocity of 192,500 miles in a second of time. Sir J. HERSCHEL states, that a ray of light tra vels over 192,000 miles in the beating of a pendulum of a clock. Dr. THOMPSON is of opinion, that no particle of light weighs the one millionth millionth part of a grain. —Time's Telescope, for 1533. We understand a considerable improvement has taken place in the shawl trade of this city. As a proof of this, a deputation from the shawl weavers having met with the manufacturers, soliciting a rise of wages, they were not only received in the most conciliatory man. ner, but have got an advance in prices to a considerable amount. Reciprocal feeling like this is always pregnant with beneficial effects to both parties.—Scotsman. Some important light was thrown on the system of mnemonics by the examination of a witness at the late Bucks Assizes, who believed be remembered the High Cross at Wycomb, " because he bad been whipped there !" MORTALITY OF ASTRONOMERS.—Out of 85 persons who devoted themselves wholly to astronomical pursuits, five lived to between 90 and 100 years ; eighteen to between 80 and 90 ; twenty-five between 70 and 80 ; seventeen between 60 and 70 ; ten between 50 and 60 ; five between 40 and 50 ; and four between 30 and 40. A " FINE" SINGER.—How - TO " STOP" " fine" singer, after dinner, is a greater bore than a punster. He is al,vays insufferably conceited, so that it is not very easy to keep him down—but it is pos sible, nevertheless. One of the best rules is, as soon as he has sung his first verse, and while he is taking breath for the second, applaud him must vociferously, as if all were over; and say to the gentleman furthest from you at the table, that " the conclusion of the song is admirable." It is ten to one that his musical pride will take affront, and he refuse to sing any more—muttering something to himself about your want of politeness. For that, of course, you will not care three straws, baying extin guished him. If the company press him to go on, you are safe ; for he will then grow restive to show his importance, and you will escape his songs for the rest of the evening. Or, after be has really done, and is sucking in the bravoes of the people at table, stretch across to him and say—." Upon my word you sung that very well, Mr. a—a—a, very well indeed ; but did you not (laying a most decided emphasis on the word " not ")—but did you not hear Mr. Braham (or any body else whom you think most annoying to him) sing the same song in some play, or opera, or something ?" When he answers " No, " in a pert, snappish style ( which he most probably will do), resume your erect posture, and say, quite audibly, to your next neighbour— "So I thought." This twice operated is a dose. "Or may be ye might help us to adverteese him in the papers, to let his frien's ken." It is needless to add, that the clergyman advised them just to leave the suspected philoso pher to himself so long as he lived quietly and paid his bills.—Angus Anecdotes. M. 14AFF1TTE.—The:subscription suggested and set up by the independent portion of the French press for a fund wherewith to purchase M. LAFFITTE'S magnificent hotel, now on sale for the benefit of his estate, and make a present of it to its present owner in considera tion of the important services rendered by him to the cause of liberty in 1830, is going on very prosperously. The sum required for the purchase will be about 3,000,000 of francs (120,0001. sterling), and no dotibt is entertained that it will be raised in a few weeks. Persons of all par ties and descriptions throughout France hasten to contri bute to the fund. M. AGUAM has subscribed the sum of 100,000 francs (1,0001.), and another subscription an nounced, though not to be compared in amount to Ao UADO'S is not less remarkable on account of the quarter from which it comes : the sub scription of M. de CHATEAURRIAND. He states his France reason for subscribing, which is a pecuniary M obligati on to M. LAFFITTE, and it is thought there are many individuals withein who will be e amount t induceds o hundredsf of subscribe through motive. Th san t lu h dr e iets a ye u r n oi pi t . ; ihinnetttseh,:dessut:lienlnvgto hisualnd and given s i v pi e en n rciat t r o c—u r l e at l ib i t e lee v . relieve the v loans without It is highly creditable; to F rance , t h a t hi s c l a i ms to genera l g ratitude should b e so readily acknowledged as they are n ow; and the t es ti mon i es of public interest which pour on him from all qu ar t ers , can prove no small compensa tion for the severe lo sses b e h as sustained, chiefly throug h wants an staeocl the effects of the revolution, of which he himself was so a , alous a promoter. LITERATURE. QUARTERLY RE VIEW—No. 97. We have not for some years pastjtiot - indeed since the secession of the late Mr. Gifford—seen so efficient a number as the present. Out of fourteen articles, of which it consists, ten, at least, are of general interest. Their variety too is remarkable. The first, on Gifford's posthu mous edition of Shirley's Plays and Poems, is the production of an overflowing mind, and canvasses the deserts of the old dramatist—the last of a race of giants—with rare minuteness and felicity. From the ease and grace of the style, which is full and copious without being re dundant, we are tempted to attribute this essay to the practised pen of Southey. At any rate, it would do no discredit to the purest, most na tural, and most idiomatic English writer of the day. As a dramatist, Shirley affords abundant food for criticism. He was remarkable for his inventive powers, and the skilful manner in which he unravelled—that is to say, when he took pains about it, for he is sometimes abrupt and negligent to a degree—the most perplexed and entangled plots. The Reviewer indulges us with copious extracts from this fine old drama. List's plays, on perusing which we are at once struck with the resemblance between him and Beaumont and Fletcher. In his more pathetic and subdued style, this resemblance is very marked. From a vast mass of extracts we select the following little poetic titbits " We come from nothing into life, a time We measure with a short breath, and that of•en Mad. tedious too with our own cares that fill it, Which, like so many atoms in a sunbeam, But crowd and jostle one another." Those acquainted with the charming little lyrics of Fletcher, which are scattered so pro fusely through his plays, will recognize a kindred spirit in these plaintive lines : " Hark! how chimes the passing bell! There's no music like a knell ; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat the ear ; This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade." Again, the few following pathetic touches will bring to the reader's recollection Aspasia in the " Maid's Tragedy." They are put into the mouth of a female who, like her prototype, has been disappointed in her matrimonial hopes : I shall be married shortly To one, my Lord, whom you hive all heard talk of— Your fathers knew him well; one who will never Give cause I should suspect hitn to forsake me; A constant lover ; one whose lips, though cold, Distil chaste kisses; though our bridal bed Be not adorned with roses, 'twill be green ; We shall have virgin laurel, cypres4, yew, To make us garlands; though no pine do burn, Our nuptial shall have torches, and our chamber Shall be cut out of marble, where we'll sleep Free from all care for ever—Death, my Lotd, I hope shall be my husband." Though not original, the subjoined ideas are very gracefully expressed:— ---" Why should I Give any entertainment to my fears? Suspicions are but like the shapes of clouds, And idle forms i' the air, we make to fright us." No reader of the old dramatists but is well acquainted with Shirley's description of a sudden death. It is one of the most exquisitely poetical passages in the language. —" Yes, Felisarda, he is gone that in The morning. promised many years, hut death filth in few hours made him as stiff, as all The winds of winter had flung cold upon him And whispered him to marble." Of the peculiar merits of Mr. Gifford's edition of Shirley, the reviewer says but little, which is a defect, for never was there a commentator whose character was so broadly marked, yet is so little spoken of, as the author of the Baviad and Mwviad. The subject of his annotations was for the time being his idol. Thus, in his edition of Massinger, and still more of Ben Jonson, it is really almost absurd to see the coarse, intempe rate, and even vindictive way in which Mr. Gifford speaks of those who have ventured to breathe a syllable to the disparagement of his favourite (pro temp.) dramatists. Drummond of Hawthornden, Whalley, and a variety of others are literally scalped, tomohawked, and flayed alive for such heresy. Throughout his long life Mr. Gifford was a strange paradox—an incomprehensible mixture of oil and vinegar. The sourest and most envenomed of authors, was the most good- natured and benevolent of men. The affec tionate master who erected a tomb in honour of his old nurse, was the same man who, to use the emphatic language of Hazlitt, " struck at the crutches of the infirm and broken hearted Mary Robinson. " As a critic, Mr. Gifford was just suited to his time, and no more. His perceptions were wholly microscopic. He was cold, precise, mechanical, without an atom of feeling for his art. No man detected a false quantity with such acuteness—none was ever so obtruse to all the loftier faculties of the imagination. We much question whether in his heart he really admired Byron. Judging from his alterations and suggestions, as we find them in scattered notes, in Murray's late edition of the Poet's works, we should be inclined to think his Lordship in all his nobler flights soared far above the ken of his critic. We may sum up this passing notice, by saying that as a poet, Mr. Gifford has long since descended to the " tomb of all the Capulets," and that as a critic, his fame is fast following to the same capacious sepulchre. " Poems by Alfred Tennyson" is a stinging review of the productions of a young man, who, whatever may be said of his eccentricities and errors of taste—a fault by no means of unfre quent occurrence among young writers—is un questionably not devoid of the " vision and the faculty divine." Mr. Tennyson has the raw material of poetry about him ; but time, perse verance, and a familiarity with the best models, are necessary to render it available. We know of no other modern writer who could have penned the beautiful stanzas entitled " Marianna at the Moated Grange." " Memoirs of Dr. Burney" will be read with interest from its exposure of the absurdity of the well known anecdote respecting the authorship of " Eve lina." It probes it to the quick, and proves it to have been based on falsehood. Every one who has read Madame D'Arblay's tales —and who has not ?—is aware that the suc cess of her first, " Evelina," was mainly owing to the extraordinary circumstances:under which it was supposed to have been published. It was whispered in the literary circles, and soot , became the common talk of the day, that the fair authoress wrote it, by stealth, in her nursery, at the early age of seventeen ! Hence she became the miracle—the one, engrossing wonder of the age, and, as such, was brought under the notice of Burke, Johnson, and the rest of that im mortal school, and ultimately introduced to, and patronized by, the Royal Family. Pity that so in teresting an anecdote should now, at the lapse of ►early half a century, be proved an utter falsity! But truth must be spoken, let who will be the victim : we proCeed, therefore (in the words of the Reviewer), to give the solution of this miracle. It will divest Madame d'Arblay of much of her literary radiance, but it will still leave her quite enough to dazzle the eyes of posterity. Cecilia and Camilla will last so long as the language of truth and nature are recognised by the world. " The good Doctor tells us that he was ' surprised and delighted ;' and delighted and surprised he might well be, for even after his evidence and the more minute account given by Madame d'Arblay herself, we are utterly at a loss to comprehend how a girl of seventeen, slow, shy, se cluded—almost neglected—never having been, as it would seem, from under the parental roof, and having seen little or nothing of life (but her own little play-room), could . . have written such a work as ' Evelina.' • We are not blind to its faults—the plot is puerile enough—the denouement incredible—the latter part very tedious—there is much exaggeration in some of the minor characters, while that of the heroine herself is left almost a blank—but the ele gance and grace of the style, the vivacity of many of the descriptions, the natural though rather too broad humour, the combination of the minor oircumstances, the artist like contrast of the several characters, and, above all, the accurate and distinctive knowledge of life and manners of different classes of society—from what sources did this child, writing by stealth in the play-room, derive them ? If she had lived a few years in the world there would have been not much to marvel at—at five and twenty, Evelina,' though a clever work even for a writer of that age, would not have been such a wonder as the world has been accustomed to consider it ; nor would it, we are per suaded, have excited anything like the public enthusiasm which, when the author's age and situation became known, ' Evelini' produced. This is evident from the fate of her succeeding works. Her next, ' Cecilia,' published five years after, though perhaps better in every respect, main tained and only maintained her reputation—it was no longer a miracle ; the growth of years and increased know• ledge of society and the world had rendered it not even surprising ; besides ' it n'y a que le premier pas qui route.' and if genius were to be progressive with age and opportunity, the authoress of ' Evelina at seventeen might have been expected to produce even a better work than Cecilia,' at two•and-twenty. ' Camilla,' published in 1769, near twenty years after 'Evelina,' and we think not inferior to it as a literary work—though it is cer tainly below Cecilia' in every view—was almost a fai lure, and a failure chiefly by contrast with the promise given by the dawning youth of the author. "It was, therefore, not without surprise, that in the long and circumstantial account given by Madame D'Ar blay of the composition of 'Evelina,' we observed that no allusion was made to what we had always considered the must extraordinary ingredient in the story—the author's age. This induced us to look into the matter a little more closely, when we were additionally surprised to find that every little incident which could have led to an exact cal culation of the interval between ' burning the manuscripts when the author had attained her fifteenth year,' and the publication of Evelina' in 1778, and, in short,-every clue to the date of Madame d'Arblay's birth, has been most curiously obliterated. To a cursory reader, the interval between Caroline Evelyn' and Evelina' would appear certainly not to exceed two or three years; and the men tion of the.. 'disguise of the young messenger by the laughing committee' would confirm the idea of a boyish, and girlish frolic. After turning the volumes over again and again, and wasting a good deal of time in pursuit of evidence on this point, we were about to give up the hopes of any new discovery, and to acquiesce in the received opinion, when we discovered a casual hint that she was born at Lynn, and as her father left that town in 1760, it was clear that she was somewhat older than had hitherto been supposed. This induced an inquiry at Lynn, and we have found in the registry of St. Margaret's parish there, that Frances, the daughter of Charles and Esther Burney. was baptised in July 1752 ;' so that she was past twenty fire when Evelina' was pub lished ; and also that her ' disguised young messenger' (born in 1757) was sot only twenty years of age, but had, we believe, already graduated at the University. We need not repeat our observation of the vast difference between a shy, backward, neglected girl of seventeen, writing in the play-room, and a woman of five-and twenty, who had probably passed seven or eight years in general so ciety; and we are, therefore, not much surprised that Madame d'Arblay, though she may have bad no share in propagating the original error, should have shown so little anxiety to correct it. To this feeling, therefore, we are now constrained to attribute that studious omission of dates which had at first appeared quite uniccountable." " Death and Madness" is an essay in which some novel and ingenious views are taken of the characters of Hamlet and Lear. " Aims and Ends" is a sketchy notice of a late fashionable novel of that name. The great fault we find with all such tales is, that they are so conven tional as to be utterly unintelligible ten miles out of London. That which is wit and smart ness and all that, to readers within hearing of the sound of St. Paul's great bell, is sheer nonsense to those who reside in the more se (Festered provinces. The " Exclusive" or " Knife-and-fork " school of Mr. Theodore Hook and his followers, must strangely puzzle the brains of an unsophisticated country reader. Of the remaining articles, we have barely left ourselves space to say that they will richly repay perusal. TRUE ROYALTY.— When NAPOLEON started cream-coloured horses, old GEORGE the Thir.t gave his up, and sported black ones !—How great was the mind of that very respectable Hanoverian farmer ! ACCIDENT TO THE DEFIANCE COACH.— We are sorry to state that the Defiance London coach was upset on Friday afternoon week, on its way to this town, near Norbury toll-bar. It appears that, the Defiance, the Magnet, and the Red Rover, were running close upon each other at a fast, but the usual rate, the Dance leading, when the axletree broke close to the arm, and the coach of course immediately upset. When the confusion arising from this shocking event bad comparatively subsided, it was found that the leg of the coachman, SHAWCROSS, was broken; Major PAGE, of the SOth Foot, who was riding on the box with the driver, had also his leg broken ; and all the other passengers were more or less hurt. The passengers, except the coachman and Major PAGE, were conveyed on to Manchester in the Red Rover and the Magnet ; but the Major was conveyed to the Wellington Bridge Inn, Stockport, where he still lies, and is im proving daily. SHAWCROSS, the coachman, was sent by some conveyance to Oldfield-lane, and is, at present, nut going on quite so well as could be wished.—Manchester Guardian. MURDER OF TILE POLICEMAN ATDULEEK. —The policeman of the Duleek station, who was shot in endeavouring to capture the robber, was named Jour; MALONE. Ile has left a wife and children. It appears that he did not fire at the retreating robber, but over his bead, to intimidate and stop him. As soon as the car bine was discharged the robber turned, walked delibe ratelywhich kill e d him instantaneously. The names of the tip to MALONE, and fired a pistol at his brea st, robbed and wounded men, who arrived in the city yester d are KEARNEY and JONES. Their heads are dread fully battered—for it appears the robbers were amid with a mallet and a stone hammer, which it appears they used most unmercifully. JONES also received the stab of a knife through his coat, which was wet and turned aside the point. The third traveller, who effected his escape, was also named KEARNEY. lie had 501. in his possession at the time, and was more on the alert than his unfortu nate ran off the The threetra n m a i t s e sed co fi m r r e ad a e t s h . im. As he e w re ith pig th j e ob p b i e s n to , l vel e i r n s a on their way to the fair of Slane, which took place on Tuesday. Th e two robbers who are in custody are fully identified by the beaten men, and recognised as MICHAEL and NICHOLAS RU6SEL, brothers, and day labourers,— Dublin Tunes. CR. Col,V1 0 6: 1 from •be d planters, oto yesterdaff asi °r er, and s , frown", Yr etar3"f S" . at the 01 , Jr Govern, °r r d Moo; j u lster, visitv k o f g(#1 1 a t to 4 0 - " aaithis 000 3SterdaP V, APRIL 8, o . cO cK. , . 54 4 :.:. 452 E N E. O 18$ 1 " e act' • 200 '''' / :„bo D Al. " s walked over. 1 1 ` ach. gct ; five, :!•• ******* i; y "'c a ttoo , 2 . ............... rs ............. a can ter °Y Cr art, in Whicll o le distance • o p • coed),, c Br ew: l e rners Exeter's Pr, Thebaot e , _ 5 nrcv e, i' caroa ripe '. FdDg not n all*cerger f on the hitt each, for subq• dal, 3 Yr s ' ............ ...... 3sy ... h it.; lesg .ach, • 0. 1. 116° 1 3st. 4lb Sultan , bl ........... c. I .. fee s" of S" 1 , 1 :131 b 1 DI rsey,:ujoilinh Inc ,st. Ari glg t k h, ro h „ leng e ' ; b sli t* )ful .... stephelou':. ....... . .310ses , . $ ' , ........... i;i on bY ,the. WAY /416111. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—t . t per Load of 30 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. A good supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 slew Meadow Hay o 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye.grass Hay 3 15 4 0 Clover Hay 4 0 5 0 ;iat Straw £1 BtoXl 10 I Wheat :Straw ... 110 113 ..... ___ SMITHFIELD. Supply good, trade dull, and prices barely stationary. .2karsehea,y Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0 .iew Meath w Hay 0 0 0 0 Iseful r Id Ditto. 3 0 3 10 , inc [II land Meadow and Itye-grass Hay ..... lover tray (extra iine)..—£s 0 —Generally at Straw ....Li St,) £1 101 Wheat Straw 1 12 1 13 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET —April 6 We had a fair supply of Wheat from the farmers to-day, with moderate coasting arrivals during the week, and though sales were slow, we note no change in price from last Saturday. Oats were in better demand, and in some cases advanced is per quar ter. Other articles unvaried. _ . New. Old. WWhet, Northu m b er l an d 40s. 53s -8. -s.. - Norfolk and Suffblk 50s. 605....... -s. -b. Berwick and Scotch 48s. 545....... -8 -8. - Foreign a. --..a ..-8. ....E. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 32s. 39. -s. -s. Foreign 32s. 355. -s. -s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 255. 32s ...... -s. -s. Grinding and Feeding 20s. !M5...-. -s. -s. Alalt, Norfolk and Suffolk .50s. 56s -s. -s. deans, Small -hb -s 26s. 28s. Tick -5. -s. 2ss. 265. Pease, White .355. 39s -s. -s. Gray 28s, 30s -s. -s. /ats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ...l9s 21s. ....5. -,:s. Feed lss 193 -.s. -.s. Foreign -s. -s -s. -.5., lour, Fine (per sack) -s -s . 3/s Os. ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER..--- SANTEUIL, a poet of the 17th century, returning one night to the Abbey of St. Victor, at eleven o'clock was refused admittance by the porter, on the plea that the prior had absolutely forbidden the doors to be opened at s s late an hour. A good deal of altercation ensued ; at last the poet slipped a piece of gold under the door, which was quickly opened. When fairly in, be pretended he had left a book on the atone where he had been sitting during the dispute, and begged the porter to go for it. Encouraged by the generosity of the poet, the man rea dily complied. In the meanwhile SANTEUIL fastened the door, and the porter, half naked, was obliged to stand knocking in his turn. " I cannot let you in," said the poet ; " I am very sorry for it ; but the prior has given positive orders not to have the door opened at so late an hour." " I let you in," said the porter, in a very bumble tone." "So you did," replied SANTEUIL, " and I will do you the same good turn for the same price." The porter, not liking to sleep in the street, and fearful like wise of losing his place, slipped the piece of gold under the door again, saying, " I thought a poet's money would not stay long with me ;" and so gained admittance. PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN.—Never let a child be punished for an action which he does not know obe a fault. Never let the punishment be calculated to degrade him in the view of others, for it will then infal -1 bly harden hie heart. Never let a child be punished till he has offended in the setae way the third time. Never punish him without being sure he has committed the fault is question. And let the punishment you intend to in , llict be well considered, and when the proper occasion comes, rigorously inflicted.—Christian's Penny Maya• tine. FIFTY-TWO LIVES LOST.--Three boats were lost on the evening of Thursday last. The first boat contained 27 persons, workmen employed at Youghall, who were coming over to the place of their residence, and only one out of the whole number was saved. About an t qual number of persons perished in the other two boats, which foundered the same evening near Cable Hand : 52 souls perished altogether. A brig was driven on shale anti completely wrecked the same evening, near Youghall.• Cork Constitution. NAPOLEON AND SIR HUDSON LOWE.- A day never passed without his making a complaint of one kind or other. Three sentries were posted over him in the day-time : and it was our unceasing aim and endeavour to keep them out of his sight. Sir HUDSON desired us to humour his fancies in every particular consistent with his security. These are the Governor's own words ; The prisoner memorialized, petitioned, remonstrated, day by day, and hour by hour. The position of the guard was a fertile source of complaint. The sentry was placed at the top of the hill—or to o near hi s ow n door—or overlooked him from this point or from that. In fact, it was the study, or rather the misery of our lives, to con trive that, of these sentries, it should not be possible for h'm to obtain a view.— Whychcotte of St. John's. FEMALE HEROISM.—An attack was lately made by an armed party of Whitefeet on the house of a farmer of the name of RUaBOTTOM, near Termlin, de ;nanding arms and admittance. Rurrtarroat was from !come. His daughter refused to give up her father's arms or admit them. The gang, with violent menaces, at tempted to force their way into the house ; this brave gill instantly fired at them. It is not known whether any of them were killed or wounded, but they immediately !nide off. THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER.—I know some young ladies who hays been expensively educated, and who might have been agreeable, if they had acquired the rare accomplishment of a little common Fense. They were born over their father's shop, a wholes tie butcher and cattle-dealer. He left them 130,0001. ; and I see they have just put up a gorgeous hatchment upon their newly taken mansion in the purlieus of London. If you sit with them half the morning, little else will catch the ear beyond " Milady," and her " Ladyship,"—a titled tequaintance they la , ely picked up in the half-starved Iridow of a respectable tradesman, who was knighted in the reign of GEORGE 111. One of their father's eraft, a good-looking and well conducted young man—their supe rior in som-, and their equal in every other respect,— lately proposed to fulfil an old engagement with one of the girls, and he was summarily and haughtily rejected on ar c iunt of his trade ! By the by, they have discovered a similar name in the Peerage, and it is now understood they are a branch of that family.—Fraser's Magazine. Up to the 30th of March, the number of passengers that have sailed front Glasgow to Canada a►e 207, viz., from Lanarkshire 62 ; Renfrewshire 52 ; Ayr shire 32 ; Edinburgh 38 ; Stirlingshire 2 ; Perthshire 12 ; Inverness-shire 10; Ross-shire 8; Haddington 2 ; Clackmannan 1. To the United States, up to the same (late, 97, viz., Renfrewshire 17 ; Forfarshire 6 ; Edin hurghshire 13 ; (narkshire 32; Dundee 2 ; Midlothian •25 ; Linlithgow 2. The emigrants this season are of the mort respectable class.— Glasgow Paper. A meeting was held on Thursday to petition , gainst the reduction in the dockyard at Portsmouth. A deep sympathy for the distress in which those discharged will be involved was feelingly expressed, and a petition to the House of Commons resolved upon, praying that their case may be taken into consideration. In every moral point of view we rejoice at the intimation given that Go % ernment has ordered that no more convicts shall be sent here--although it must be admitted they perform a great teal of work towards the improvement of the towns, which would not be done if Government had to pay hired la hourers.—Hampshire Telegraph. A STRANGE A singular circumstance is recorded as having happened in the early part of this King's reign, or in the latter years of his father's. Some fishermen of Orford caught in their nets what the ci,ro niclers call a fish, but which they describe as " resembling in shape a wild or savage man ; he was naked, and in all his limbs and members resembling the right proportion of a man ; he had hairs also on the usual parts of his bddy, albeit that the crown of his head was bald ; his b aid was long and rugged, and his breast bai y." The fisher men presented him to Sir Bartholomew de Glanville, who had then the keeping of Orford Castle. When meat was set before him, he greedily devoured it ; and be ate fish, whether raw or boiled, only pressing in his bands those that were raw, till he'had squeezed out the mois ture. "He would get him to his couch at the !Petting of the sun, and rise again at the rising of the same. lie would not, or could not, utter any speech ; although, to try him, they hung him up by the heels, tad miserably tormented him." His after-usage must have , teen exceedingly kind, and he must have been of a most :orgiving temper not to resent this cruelty ; for it seems •hat he was well reconciled to living ashore. One day , hey took hire to the haven, and, enclosing a part of it with their strong nets, to prevent, as they thought, his escape, they let him take the water for his diversion. He ~recently dived under the nets, rose beyond them, sported ,bout as if mocking at his keepers, and then, of his own ccord, returned to them, and remained their guest ,bout two months longer : then, being weary of a land life, he took an opportunity of stealing to sea. Strange is this story is, and incredible as it will be deemed by most readers, it is inserted here, because there is complete .vidence that a similar circumstance occurred in the latter . part of the seventeenth century, on the coast of who had with this remarkable difference, that the i l ,) , ar e ys r eoscfuhphopsi supposed sueda disappearancest aot mateyub i e c b i Natal een dna w ro: a : s nl n r :H e dt c i g tstliti n o. i br s ay t pt d i m i , aoicf a i a e, the n g n E d v..v w ini ey, ' erl ea I a wn i l a ad a ms . , f.l,:vrtrerieioe,,dia,eln,dadic.olt;ht.oenbitso,mko,thgrarins hionuthe remained u, L there Vol I.