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FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger, of Jan. 30.) ti 'We are assur e d t h at , so f ar f rom i t b e i ng i n contempt:- . to recall our M ore* di v i s i on , t h e G ove rnment has given orders for the squadron about to sail for the Bos phorus to take it also in order to augment the forces of the combined squadrons. A letter from Brest states, that orders have been re ceived at that port, to get ready for sea, by the end of the present season, a considerable naval force, the destination of which is kept so profound a secret as to baffle all con jecture, though some persons pretend to say that it is des tined for an expedition against Hayti, and others for the Mediterranean, to settle the affairs of the Levant, M. Thiery, a French Cabinet Messenger, passed through Strasburgh ou the 25th, on his way from Paris to Constantinople, wiih despatches. The Sentinelle of Bayonne ) of the 23d, has the fol awing :—" A telegraphic despatch from the Minister of Var, received here on the 20th, gives orders to arrest, wherever they may be found ) several Polish refugees, who have led clandestinely from Avignon. At the departure of the despatch, it was not known what direc tion they 'aad taken, whether they travelled all together, or whether they bad separated. (From the Messager des Chambres of Wednesday, Jan. 30. ) PARIS, JAN. 29.—A Deputy, who is much connected with the Ministers, has just this moment affirmed in our presence that the Government bad decided that the em. bargo laid upon the Dutch ships should be taken off, and that the prisoners taken in the citadel of Antwerp should be immediately sent home. This could only be as a condition of a treaty agreed to by King William, and we must, therefore, wait for the official publication of such a treaty before we can give credit to this news. A report is in circulation among 'the frequenter, of the Palais de Justice which we relate without observation. They affirm that Bergeron and Benoist, who are sent before the Court of Assizes. accused of bring guilty of the attempts on the Pont Royale, have de manded to be presented to his Majesty. This de mand is said to be founded on the amnion of several of the Ministerial Journals, from which it would result that the King affirmed, on the day that the event took place, that he should recognise the assassin among a thou sand. The accused affirm, that the trial which they solicit would prove their innocence. (From the Quatidienne.) PARIS, JAW. 29.—1 t is observed, in consequence of the want of union among the Ministers, Councils are very rare. Louis Philip transacts business with each of them separately. It is affirmed, that despatches from M. de Talley rand to the Government arrive almost daily. They all relate to the affairs of the East, and very little to those of Belgium. It is said to be in contemplation to lay the foundations of a new alliance between France, England, and Austria. The difficulties came, it is said, from the Cabinet of Vienna, which has not yet given an answer to the overtures which have been made to it. Conferences between M. de Werther and M. de Broglie have been less frequent for some days past. The Minister of Prussia seems to avoid expressing himself too positively relatively to the conduct of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh on the affairs of the East. The garrison of Paris is composed of the 3d, 14th, :;Bth, 40th, 42d, and 58th regiments of the line, 20th light infantry, 2d carabineeis, the 2d and 3d dragoons, and the 11th artillery. This is about 30,000 men in the city of Paris alone, GERMAN PAPERS. ODESSA, JAN. B.—The report lately announced, from Sebastopol, that orders had been given speedily to fit out a Russian fleet, turns out to be wholly unfounded. BELGRADE, JAN. 15.—The events on the four districts of Servia appear likely to be attended with more serious consequences than was at first expected. Reprisals, o❑ the part of the Turks, are feared. All Servia has as• sumed a warlike appearance ; every one is anxious to pro vide himself with arms, to be pi epared against whatever may happen. It is just reported that a sanguinary insurrection has broken out in Bosnia, and that the Vizier and many of the officers, appointed by the Sultan, have fallen under the daggers of the rebels. Nlunatir, JAN. 25.—The Allgemeine Zeitung and other journals communicate from French journals some letters from IsLipoli, in which it is asserted that the post of President of Greece had been offered to the Russian Admiral Ricord, and that the French and English Admi rals had congratulated him upon it. The latest accounts from Greece received here do not say a syllable of such a circumstance, and it may therefore be taken for grante'l that this statement is absolutely unfounded. VIENNA, JAN. 21.—Five per Cents. Metalliques, 88 ; Four per Cents., 77; Bank Shares, 1,137i.--Allyerneine Zeitung, Jan. 26. CASSEL, JAN. 23.—1 t is affirmed that the Princes of the reigning family will not take their seats in the Diet. It is also reported that mediatised nobility in the Hessian territory, who are entitled to sit and vote in the Diet, will not appear there because the subject upon which they serve in negotiation with the Government, namely, the abolition of the patrimonial tribunals will be discussed in the next sessions. On the part of the Government three Commis sions are this time appointed, whereas, at the former Diet there was only one. These Commissions are, Counsellor Muller, Koch, and Meisterlin. Selena], Advocate at Gudensberg, whom the towns on the Schevalen chose for their deputy in the last Diet, and who, being highly respected by his con stituents, was re-elected for the next Diet, was ap pointed a few weeks ago to the post of 11•gh Bailiff at Milsenegen, by which, according to section '7O of the Constitution, he is disqualified for sitting in the Diet. This appointment to a place which has been vacant above half a year, so shortly before the opening of the Diet, has caused some sensation. The town immediately proceeded to another election, and have chosen M. Scheffer, advocate at Treysa. The opening of the Diet, as has before been stated, has been deferred from the 15th January to the 25th, because the elections had not all taken place, 'ibis, however, according to law, is the latest period ; for, in the ca , e of a dissolution of a Diet, a new one must be opened in six months, and the dissolution took place 26th July, 1832. It is, however, uncertain: whether the opening will really take place on the 25th : many elections are not yet determined, and it is to be apprehended that many of the hereditary Members will not attend, so that two-thirds of the Members will scarcely be present. The course of business may probably meet with many impediments, from the circumstance that, in the approaching Diet, there are very few Members of the preceding. FRANKFORT, JAN. 24.—M. Peiffer, Pt esident of the per manent Committee of the States of Hesse Cassel, has just published the following notice :—" The Deputies and other Members of the Assembly of the State, who have not yet produced to me the certificates of their election, are invited to produce them on 25th January, at the place fixed for their meeting, conformably to the regulations." —Frankfort Papers, Jan. 25. The Parliamentary printing of the last Ses sion of the unreformed Commons' House, owing to the voluminous illustrations of schedules A and 11, the ques tionable boroughs, the new boroughs. &c., and the bulky labours of the East and West India Committees, it is said, will he of as unprecedented a bulk as the questions were of unexampled importance. It is calculated that the Com mons' printing (exclusive of the Journals of Votes) will number forty volumes ! The Boundary Reports alone oc cupy twelve volumes. The Shareholders and Directors of the Lon don and Greenwich Railroad appe.r determined to carry that desirable measure into effect ; and contemplate the removal of all objections by the introduction of MAC DONALD'S new n,ethod of spanning the irregularities of surface on the line of road, without the necessity of em bankments, and leaving the passage ways below secure and uninterrupted. From Greenwich a continuation of the Railway may be made, by the same or other Companies, to Woolwich, and from thence to Canterbury and Dover. JACKTAYLOR'SACQUAINTANCE.,—" Every body knows JACK TAYLOR, the author of ' Records of My Life,' and everybody likes him ; he was known by the familiar diminutives of his Christian name, on ac count of his love of good fellowship and wit, and was the associate of some of the brightest men of his time, when brightness was the great study and pursuit of the day. Everybody loved JACK TAYLOR—he was thoroughly harmless, a kind and affectionate creature, with all kinds of light pleasantry fluttering before his butterfly brain. When you do an ill-natured thing,' said SHERIDAN to hi m , chaos is come again.' It would be curious to know how many funerals good-natured JACK TAYLOR had attended in the course of his long life. He saw nearly all his old friends ont. We meet iu these records with scarcely a name of living men, with the exception, perhaps, of a few such Nestorian youths as Lord &nom, and his brother, Lord Srowitu ; but TAYLOR recollected THURLOW, if not an at torney's clerk, at least a student in the Temple. These volumes abound with entertaining matter."..— Spectator. ~~~ '~ NT AOAZINE DAY. NEW it MAGAZINE. The best paper in this number is " Asmo deus at Large," whose serious we have always preferred to its humorous portions, for this rea son, that they possess more nature and feeling. The sprightliness of the writer is seldom more than mere trifling, and scarcely even elicits a smile ; his pathos springs pure from the heart, and in the present instance redeems, and even invests with an air of novelty, what would otherwise be a very common-place love tale. The papers, we see, are concluded. We are sorry for it. They have shown some little invention, much and various thought, and at times a worldly sagacity that more than counterbalances the pert, and we might even add, coxcombical trifling that here and there pervades them. We believe they are by Mr. Bulwer ; at least, we think, we can trace in them something of the mannerism of " Paul Clifford"—a tale which, in point of in vention (that rare faculty), to say nothing of its arch, racy strokes of humour, ranks among the foremost tales of the day. Augustus Tomkin son—and we know not that we can give the character higher praise—is almost worthy to vie with those Mercutios of ,petty larceny—the matchless Spanish rogues of Mendoza, Mateo Aleman, and Quevedo. One sententious apho rism of the " exemplary Augustus" is worth a thousand of the clever common-places of " Pel ham," which (though we may shock conven tional prejudices by saying so) is an infinitely more vulgar novel than " Paul Clifford." " The Politician," is slight and sketchy, with very much the air of a leading article, though not of the first order. The writer very properly argues that " Church Reform should precede every other measure in the present Session." 11iss Martineau's "Illustrations of Political Economy" is an able, astute inquiry into the merits of one of the leading spirits of her day. Mr. Elliot t and Miss Martineau are the two most marked " signs of the times" we know of. At no former period would they have been listened to, but the game is now in their own hands. From the anecdotical (it aspires to no higher praise) memoir of Ibrahim Pacha, whose name, just at present, is first on every one's lips, we extract the following interesting passages : " Ibrahim is without doubt "a man of remarkable talents. His mind is alike subtle and energetic. He is totally free from prejudice, adopts your ideas with silent rapidity, and his career demonstrates his military genus. His ambition is unbounded ; his admiration of European institutions and civilization great ; but he avoids, with dexterity, shocking the feelings and prejudices of ti e Moslemin. A mystery hangs over his birth—he is said to be only an adopted son of the present Pacha of Egypt, but this is doubtful ; at army rate, the ntmost confidenc, prevails between Ibrahim and his professed father. The Pacha of the Holy Cities is a great voluptuary; his indulgence, indeed, in every species of sensuality is u❑bounded. Although scarcely in the prime of life, his gross and immense bulk promises but a short term of existence, and indicates a man sinking under over whelming disease, and incapable of exertion. His habits are sumptuous : he delights in magnificent palaces and fanciful gardens, and is curious in the number and beauty of his Circassians ; but his manners are perfectly Euro pean. He is constantly in public, and courts the con versation of all ingenious strangers. His chief counsellor is Osman Bey, a renegade Frenchman, and an able man. Less ttan twenty years ago. Ibrahim Pacha passed his days in sitting at a window of his palace with a German rifle, and firing at the bloated skins borne on the backs of the water-carriers as they returned from the Nile. As Ibra him is an admirable marksman, the usual effect of his exertions was in general only to deprive the poor water carriers of the fruits of their daily labour : sometimes, however, his bullet brought blood, instead of the more in nocent liquid—but Egypt was then a despotic country. It is not so now. It is not known among us, that the old Paella of Egypt and his son, in their rage for European institutions, have actually presented their subjects with The Two Chambers,' called in the language of the Levant (be Alto Parliamento,' and Basso Parliamento.' These assemblies meet at Cairo ; and have been formed by the governor of every town sending up to the capital, by the order of the Pacha, two good and discreet men to assist in the administration of affairs. The members of the ' Alto Parliamento' have the power of discussing all measures ; but those of the 'Basso Parliament's' are per mitted only to petition. Their Highnesses pay very little practical attention to time debaters or the petitioners, but always treat them with great courtesy. Yet they are very proud (especially the elder Pacba) of the institutions ; and the writer of this article has heard Mehemet Ali more than once boast that he has as many Parliaments as the King of England.' In the meanwhile these extraordinary events have wrought singular revolutions in manners—n e have for the first time a Turkish Ambassador in England." " The Aigulets of Anne of Austria" is a leaf from one of the gossiping historiettes of the French memoir writers, which form such de lightful after-dinner or tea-table reading. One of the greatest luxuries we know of, is to sit sipping and reading alternately a cup of coffee and a page of that piquant mixture of shrewdness and self-conceit, old Sully. " Ixion in Heaven" is full of that absurd affectation which sickens us so in Mr. D' Israeli's "Young Duke." Has the ambitious author of Vivian Grey (as he de lighteth to entitule himself) no other idea of Olympus than that it is a sort of Burlington house ball-room ? Can he find no more suita ble or classical employment for the sedate ; Homeric Juno, than to place her at a card. table on Olympus, cutting out peacocks' wings from gilt-edged note-paper ? Why, even a lady's maid in these times would turn up her nose at such an occupation I Possibly, however, Mr. D'lsraeli intends only to be singularly sprightly and original ; but even so, he should be con• sistent in his flippancy. " Private Theatricals", is dull, and, what is worse, long. " A Disser tation on Servants" is readable and judicious " Conversations with Lord Byron" contains scarcely a thought worth remembering. But all poets have their prose sides. Lady Blessington's apologies for his Lordship will lose much of their good effect, after his scoundrelly attack on Rogers (which, it seems, after all, is genuine, though we doubted it at the time), an attack which no genius, no spleen, nothing short of absolute insanity on the part of the perpetrator, can soften or palliate. METROPOLITAN. A better number than usual. " Chit Chat" bears out its title, being lively and de sultory, without fatiguing the reader. The name is a taking one for a Magazine article, though it is difficult to write readable " chit-chat." A man might acquit himself of a novel in three voluMes - with far more facility, for " easy writing," as Sheridan quaintly said, is but too often " damned hard reading." " Catullus and Petrarch" is an elegant sample of the common- place in criticism, from the practised pen of' Mr. Moore, whose humour, after all, is his re deeming quality, and that by which he will be best known to posterity. The " Twopenny I'ost boy," still lives, and deserves to live—for ever. " Recollections of a Diplomatist" is dry, and far inferior to the former article that appeared on the same subject. " Discovery of a New Lan guage," by Dr, Bowring, is barely readable. " Portugal" is a very clever, seasonable article, and contains much useful information. "To the Memory of Sir Walter Scott" is a pleasing monody, more affectionate, however, than poe tical. "On the French Cavalry" is a valuable paper, wholly of a practical character, and drawn up with considerable ability. " How to Write a Fashionable Novel" is a lively dramatic squib. We cordially agree in the writer's opi nion of a particular passage in Eugene Aram. The " Pacha of many Tales" is an arch enter taining rhodomontade of the Munchausen school, told with a gravity worthy of Gulliver, whose adventures, says Hawksworth, took in more than one Bishop. " Amusements of the Pacha of Egypt" are, in point of intellect, of a highly aristocratic character. En voici. The only objects worth seeing in the vicinity of Cairo, though very different in their natur e, are—let. The ancient sepulchres of the caliphs, which by judges are considered as the purest specimens of Saracenic architecture ; their elegant domes, peering above the groves of cypresses, and glittering in the sun, produce a magical effect. 2d. The shabra, the favourite palace of Mohammed Ali, about three miles from Cairo, on the banks of the Nile. The palace itself is small, but the gar dens are vast and magnificent. In tie middle of an orange grove is a kiosque, one of the most elegant and fantastic creations that, even in the East, the eye can light on. As cending by a magnificent flight of marble steps, you enter a beautiful portico ; when this portico is past, a beautiful quadrangular colonnade of white marble is discovered, surrounding a piece of water, upon which there are two or three barges, gilded in the most costly manner, and at tached by silken cables to the columns. A highly orna mented balustrade surrounds the whole, from which seve ral flights of steps lead down to the water, guarded by statues of crocodiles, of colossal dimensions. Off this co lonnade are several splendid apartments, the entrance to which is concealed by purple curtains of silk and gold, that beautifully contrast with the dazzling whiteness of the marble columns. "It is here that the Pacha comes to repose from the toils of the divan, and to recreate among his women. Happy the Circassians who are admitted to the kiosque—it is considered as the highest mark of favour that their haughty master can show them. The Pacha takes great delight in rowing them about the piece of water, and, tin reaching the middle he upsets the bark, lightly clad in a calico caftan and a juba. He has no difficulty in reaching the colonnade by swimming, where he throws himself on a heap of luxurious cushions spread for his reception, and contemplates the scene with an air of mock gravity, while the black eunuchs are seen precipitating themselves from the balustrade into the water, to rescue the half-drowned Odaliskot. " How strictly in character with Turkish barbarity is this cruel diversion of the Pacha's! Mohammed's virtues, it would appear, are after all, but merely supeifi ial, for ii we only penetrate their polished exterior, we discover a core of unleavened barb iristn. Lle all his countrymen, he looks upon the loveliest pat t o the creation as the mere instruments of his brutal pleasures, as interior beings in the scale of creation, brought into this world to please him by their beauty, and to gi atify his caprice. " What a fine subject for a picture in the hands of a skilful painter the above scene would make! The splendid kiosque with its marble colonnade, the black forms of the eunuchs skimming the glassy surface of the wave, to rescue the terrified Circassians, who, in their fright, ex• pose those charms which modesty seeks to conceal ; while the haughty Pacha is seen on the luxuriant couch, feasting his eyes on their half-naked warms, and enjoying their cries. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. " Finality " is an argument on a question which needs none, namely, whether the Reform Bill can halt where it is. Of course the writer deprecates all idea of its finality, and insists on the prompt application of the ballot. Of the present Ministers, he says, " they seem to be assorted like nine-pins ;if one be impinged upon, it commonly knocks down the others. They have no common mind, no community of sentiment or opinion—no determinate princi ples of action—no recognised or coherent sys tem of policy—and hence each does precisely that which seemeth good in his own eyes, with- out regard to the position of his colleagues, or the consistency and stability of the general Government." We give this merely as our friend Tait's declaration of politi cal faith, without at all subscribing to it ourselves. We are less heterodox in our opi pions. " A Vision of the Old Year" is an elo- quent specimen of sounding versification. " Ode to John Gulley, Esq.," is quaint and irregular, like one of Peter Pindar's appeals to the Royal Academicians of his day. " Taxes on Know. ledge is a useful paper, drawn up with great skill and ability. The various embarrassments almost necessarily consequent on an author's publishing a darling epic or romance, on his own account, are dwelt on in a manner that cannot fail to put a salutary check to all such rash re solves. The evils of indirect taxation the author points out as follows : " The evil effects of indirect taxation are, indeed, great and manifold. Indirect taxation hinders trade, operating u a contraction, or partial prohibition of the sale of any taxed commodity. Indirect taxation falls most unequally upon the rich and the poor ; oppressing the poor, and allowing the rich, comparatively to escape. The propor tion of the poor man's income, or that of one of the middle classes, taken from him by indirect taxation, exceeds the proportion of the rich man's so taken, to an extent that is little suspected. We shall show this to be the case in an early number. Indirect taxation occasions always a great loss to the payer, between the sum which he pays, and that which the Exchequer receives—of which we have shown one example—without any person gaining by that loss. Indirect taxation causes a great expense in the col lection, grievous annoyance and t xpense to manufacturers, and all the evils of smuggling. Lastly, indirect taxation can easily be evaded altogether by the very classes who ought to hear the heaviest share of the national burdens, forasmuch as they and their fathers were the persons who occasioned them. A nobleman or gentleman can, when he chooses, step into the steam-boat, on his way for Brussels, Boulogne, or Paris, and wave "adieu" to taxation and to his friends on shore, at the same time. Nay, some of the rogues have-the effrontery to avow their principal object in going abroad with their families, to be, to escape the burden of the taxes and high prices of this country ; the prices being high, solely, be it recollected, on account of the indirect taxes, and the restraints thrown on trade. When all these concomitants of indirect taxation are considered, who will defend so viscious a system? There are only two reasons for maintaining the present system of indirect taxation ; not good reasons, but such as will insure that system being kept up as long as possible. First, by indirect taxation, the amount taken is concealed. The tax lurks unseen in the price of every article pur chased, and so excites no murmurs, however really op pressive. Secondly, were anything like the amount now taken from an individual in the indirect way to be de manded directly by the tax-gatherer, there would not only be serious murmurings about the amount, but inquiries into the manner in which the sums demanded were to be disposed of. Concealment would anon be impossible. John Bull would insist upon knowing the wherefore, and to what purpose, so much of his money was wanted. Con ceive John's looks while reading the following items of a tax account, which be had previously ascertained, by a glance at the bottom, to be a demand for one-third of his income. John Bull, Dr. 'co the Tax Collector General of the British Government. To Assessment for the Interest of the Debts contracted by the Government in the time of your Great Grandfather. To ditto ditto in the time of your Great Grandfather. I To ditto ditto in the time of your Grandfather. To ditto ditto in the time of your Father. To Assessment for the expenses of Monarchy, including 485,0001. to the King, and 218,8221. to the Royal Family. To Assessment for Pensions to retired Foreign Ambassa dors, poor Relations of the Nobility, &c. To Assessment for the Military , Naval, and Civil Dead Wright. To ditto for the Annual Expenses of Government. To ditto for the Expenses of Collecting the Revenue. To ditto for the Expenses of the Navy. To ditto for the Expenses of an Army of the same extent as was required in time of war, now necessary to pre serve order and insure collection of the Revenue : viz.— Infantry, to shoot and bayonet the riotous and disaf fectrd, if required. Dragoons, to sable and trample down ditto, ditto. Artillery to discharge grape and round shot on ditto, ditto. Yeomanry, chiefly required for the benefit of the Irish. How, we say, would sturdy John Bull look first at such an account, and then at the presenter of it? Perhaps the items might not be so plainly expressed as in the above account, especially as the last item ; but the purpose of them all could not be concealed. John would soon find reason to class himself among those for whose sake the last item was found necessary." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. This is a clever number, pungent and satiri cal as usual, and not devoid of personalities, though these are not carried to so outrageous an extent as they have been at times. "An Eng lishman's Remonstrance to a Whig Aristocracy," is full of false reasoning, half concealed under a showy specious manner, as if the writer were really in earnest in his speculations. " Hum bug" is a clever squib of the Beppo or Whis tlecraft school. " Discoveries of Modern Geo- logists," is a serviceable, scientific dissertation to those fond of such pursuits, but to the multitude at large, it will, we fear, be caviare. His non plebecula gaudet. The " Gallery of Literary Characters " comprises a portrait and biographical sketch of Morier the oriental no velist, who, if he at all resemble his picture, must he astonishingly like what the Duke of York was at his age. The writer briefly pro nounces Mr. Morier to be the first novelist of his day. This flagrant put!' will never do. With the exception of his first part of Hajji Baba, Mr. Mo rier never soars above the respectable. He manu factures characters,apparentlyfrom the recollection of other books; does not draw them from life, as if he himself had seen and known his ori- ginals. Hence his " Zohrab, the Hostage," with the exception of one or two bits, is as cold and •eless as the dry bones in the valley of Ado nijah. Masters and Servants," is a most valuable essay, and should be read again and again with attention by our fashionables at the West-end. The exposure of the tricks of the servants of wealthy men, and their interested alliance with their masters' tradesmen, is most complete, and ought to be the means of saving many a rich man's pocket. We extract a cha racteristic anecdote. The remainder of the articles we must dismiss with the brief remark, that the majority of them are worth reading : " This mode of obtaining business militates against the purchaser and the fair trader, as will appear from the fol lowing story :—This same fishmonger was very desirous of obtaining the custom of a very wealthy man, who was a great eater of fish, and who gave very splendid dinners, and was considered a very good judge of it ; which in duced others to purchase at the same shop as he did. Such a valuable customer was not to be lost without a struggle for it, and the battle was commenced. Another fish monger in the neighbourhood had got in (as the phrase is) ; How was he to be got out? was the question. The fishmonger sent the best of fish, and charged very fair prices; and the nobleman was very well pleased with the mode in which he was served, and was even known to be strongly prejudiced in favour of the in fishmonger. Nil desperandum,' said the out fishmonger ; I have got the cook on my side ; he is my intimate friend ; he and I have come to an understanding;—the in fishmonger shall be out in a very few weeks;' which prediction was ful filled as truly as the foretelling and coming of the last comet. The cook commenced his operations by finding fault with turbot, salmon, cod, and john dory; but it would not do. The nobleman was one of those rand aces in our nobility who trusted to his own judgment ; and was even more than once known to have ordered his coat without consulting his valet on the colour. The cook now boils, but spoils all the fish ; and was at one crisis of the warfare well-nigh receiving his full weight of chastisement, by being discharged for bad cookery. At length an expedient was hit on which succeeded. It was concerted that the out fishmonger should be apprised every day what fish was ordered of the in fishmonger for the family, and that tie should send in the same sort of fish and quantity, but of inferior quality ; not stinking fish, but a second-rate fish, which they knew would not please the nobleman. This was cooked, and substituted for the good fish, and made to appear at table as the same sent in by the regular fishmonger. The nobleman, not suspecting the trick, at length yielded the victory to the cook and his confederate, who of course was recommended to serve the family, as being the first fishmonger in Christendom ; and he now declares that he owes all his fortune to this cir cumstance, as it led to the formation of one of the finest connexions in his trade." BLACKWOOD'S _EDINBURGH MAGA. ZINE. The dumber of Blackwood for this month is excellent, and, as has often occurred, we are compelled to praise it as a literary production, whilst we condemn its politics. There are only two political articles strictly to be so called. One is a continuation of the tirade against the Whigs on the subject of Ireland, begun in the number of last month. The writer says— " It is, therefore, of incalculable importance, that it should be constantly repeated, and generally known, that it is the Whigs and the Whigs alone who hare brought Ireland to this pass ; that it is their ambition and agita tion which has for half a century distracted that unhappy country ; that it is their principles which have been dis seminated through its ruthless inhabitants; their political machinery which has been there erected with such unpa ralleled consequences, and their system of misrule which has almost extinguished every vestige of order throughout the land. For 30 years past, all that the Whigs recom mended and contended for has been done for the Emerald Isle. Ttiey recommended the relaxation of the Catholic code, and the Catholic code was relaxed ; they strenu ously contended fur Catholic emancipation, and Catholic emancipation was granted ; they incessantly inculcated a conciliatory system, and a conciliatory system was pur sued ; they boasted, if they had the government of Ire land, they would soon render it tranquil, and they obtained the government ; they contended for a wide extension of the electoral franchise to the Catholic, and the extinction of the Protestant corporations, and they have carried both these objects." The joke of this would be excellent were it not upon quite so serious a subject. A doctor advises a particular operation, sanctioned by the experience of ages, to be performed upon a patient, but his ignorant relations resist its per formance till frightened into it by the extremity to which he is reduced, and when at length it is performed, and the patient does not at once recover from the effects of their mismanagement, from his birth, they abuse this adviser. No doubt that the Whigs did suggest all the improve- tnents enumerated by Blackwood in the govern ment of Ireland, but the misfortune was that their suggestions were not adopted in sufficient time. So the Whigs advised Reform in Parliament years and years ago ; and had it then been in some degree granted, although we might now, perhaps, have attained the point at which we stand, it would have been safely and by degrees, instead of per saltum, and attended with the risk which we have undoubtedly been obliged Had the Bristol riots, and other ;0 Tllll. disturbances which took place in different parts of the kingdom, led to any general convul sion, who can doubt that the blame must have rested with the Tories ? Such writers as the con tributors to Blackwood may bawl out as lustily as they please against the Liberals, for not having in two years cured evils the growth of five centuries ; but they will not be able to convince any but men who, hiding their own heads, fancy all the world blind, that the present lamentable condition of Ireland is to be attributed to the measures taken for its pacifica- ,ion. The only other article which may be said :o have a political bearing is one upon the late disturbances in the Mauritius, which are attri buted to the conduct of the Government in attempting to place restraints upon the slave owners in granting indulgences to their slaves ! The slaves themselves are more over represented as disliking Mr. Jeremie for the measures he took, or proposed to take, in their behalf. This is rather inconsistent with the other charge, that his conduct was calculated to make them dissatisfied with their present con dition. The editor taunts the Government with not listening to the voice of the people of the Mauritius, but setting it at defiance by send ing back Mr. Jeremie. So, when seven mil lions of fellow-countrymen call aloud to have their grievances redressed, the word is, " The bayonet—down with them ;" but when a thou sand or two of slave-owners make an outcry because they Fear the irresponsible power of lashing their fellow-creatures with a cart whip is to be checked, their unjust and monstrous de mands are to be respectfully listened to, as the " voice of the people." Oh, rare Blackwoood Oh, right consistent Toryism ! But to drop politics, and come to the lighter —and in truth, best and most interesting part of the number, let us say a word upon " Toni Cringle's Log." It is lively and amusing to a de gree, only here and there a little overstrained. Som e of the better parts strongly remind us of Cooper's sea scenes, than which we imagine we cannot give greater praise. We extract a part of the description of a fight with a slave ship ; not the best, but that which will suffer least by being torn from the rest In an instant the black Spanish auxiliaries sided with Pearl, and Bang, and the negroes, and joined in charging the white Spaniards, who were speedily driven down the the main hatchway, leaving one half of their number dead, or badly wounded, on the blood-slippery deck. But they still made a desperate defence, by firing up the hatchway. I hailed them to surrender. " Zounde,' cried Jigmaree, ' there's the clink of hammers ; they are knocking off the fetters of the slaves.' If you let the blacks loose,' I sung out in Spanish, by the Heaven above us, I will blow you up, although I should go with you ! Hold your hands, Spaniards ! Mind what you do, madmen !' " ' On with the hatches, men,' shouted Tailtackle. They had been thrown overboard, or put out of the way ; they could nowhere be seen. The firing from below con tinued. " Cast loose that carronade there ; clap in a canister of grape—so—now run it forward, and fire down the hatchway.' It was done, and taking effect amongst the pent up slaves, such a yell arose—oh God !oh God— I never can forget it. Still the maniacs continued firing up the hatchway. "' Load and fire "again.' My people were now furious, and fought more like incarnate fiends broke loose from hell, than human beings. " ' Run the gun up to the hatchway once more.' They ran the carronnade so furiously forward, that the roaming, or ledge round the hatchway was split off, and down went the gun, carriage and all, with a crash, into the bold. Presently smoke appeared rising up the fore hatchway. a 4 They have set fire to the brig; overboard !—regain the schooner, or we .ball all be blown into the air like peels of onions !' " Professor Wilson's Criticism on Mrs. Jamieson's Characteristics of Women is con inued, and is as delightful as the part which receded it. ASIATIC JOURNAL. The contents of this number are very va rious. Among the best articles is an intelligent memoir of the late Sir David Baird, whose life Mr. Theodore Hook has lately written, and laid on his flattery with a trowel. " Confessions of an tEicuarla sn " notices, ia is also an though amusing brief paper. T ,displayr. much c t i l ri tact and acuteness, and altogether this is a much more entertaining number than we have seen for some time past. The most important article, however, in the number, is a reprint of the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Com mons last Session upon the affairs of India, a most valuable document at a time like the pre sent, when the subject of India is certain to be brought shortly under discussion, and when Parliamentary Papers are so cumbrous in their form and expensive in the purchase. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. We noticed in the last number of this Maga zine the absence of the continuation of one or two favourite articles. Among those which we most regretted was the " Recollections of a Sea n e u a Life, by a Midship man of the Last Centur y ." W e were little a ware of th e melancholy u s absence.thepresent mrsber by that a I t app Captain Catnpbell, to whom the public were wa indebted for that and many other excellent con tributions in the Magazine,• s at that time on casef announcement i his death-bed, and th a t he has now gone to his t long home. His friend, Captain Basil Hall, in a short Memoir of him, says , He was one of the best officers lever sailed in companionship with, and so thoroughly right-minded and right hearted in all he thought, said, and did, that he won the confidence of all whose duty it was to act over him, or with him, or under him." Many are the pleasant thoughts, many the kindly feelings, his contributions to the Ma gazine have raised in us. Peace be with him ! There is little remarkable or interest ing in the other articles of the number, unless, indeed, we may except the mistake into which the writer of that on Spain appears to have fallen, when he makes one of the cate s r : of the decline of Spain, the dec a y of her rei'' tary power. He might as well talk of the Jr o / cline of Venice being attributable to the decg,th her military power. Military power ceases s'l good overnment (which is always cornparatic:ii be it remembered), and the prosperity conseque 0 upon good government. The reversal of t h I order of events is not unnatural in a man iipa ht ihued with military prejudices, and may O H ' forgiven. LA TV MAGAZINE. O OO This work is not, as might be implie d le i g its title, a mere, dry, indigestible m ass of to quibblings and technicalities ; neither is it 5 ° confined to dull reports of still duller c 5 5; such as " Sharp v. Flat," in which Couoselid Fingerfee started a curious point , which Pt° 0 Westminster-hall, and set all the p rofession the qui vive,—it is far mo re comprehcosilew its nature, and gives able criticisms on the cil,; ratter of many of our eminent lawye rs ; t°get with essays on questions of general interest,sry as " The Suppression of Riots by terference," which last forms a compenvi: article in the present number. The Magl il o is an eminently useful work, for it a pp " general, not particular, interests. LADY'S MAGAZINE. A readable periodical, chiefly remarlou' the number and variety of its fashionable C' li•hments. The literary matters are sligh t desultory. COURT MAGAZINE. As we have already mentioned, in te' deserved praise, the clever " Portrait of Augusta Kennedy," which forms the ch , bellislunent of this number, we have 1 say at present, further than that the department is cleverly got up, and co' among other matter, a paper by the Ist` Godwin, entitled, " Shakspeare's knowle d b his own greatness," which, though cote'., somewhat feeble in style. The critical ' are agreeab'y written. FINE ARTS. FINDEN' S ILLUSTRATIONS to BY No. XI. The landscapes in this number (all a are engraved by the two Findens) are than seven, in order, we suppose, to coral for the want of a portrait. They have marked character, but are little, if at to any of their predecessors. MAJOR'S CABINET GALLERY, We have just this instant received number of this delightful work—one most attractive and valuable of the day. we have not time just now to do it Pi' shall reserve our comments for some moi day. LITERATURE. BYROIQ'S LIFE AND WORKS. yak LONDON, 1833. The present volume (the fourteenti prises the sublime and equably sustains' of Cain ; the horrid prosing stuff called " which Lord Byron mistook to be a the " Age of Bronze," a pungent, satire in his Lordship's best style; and tl ing tale of the Island founded on Captail well-known narrative of the Mutin . Bounty ; and (all things considered) - affecting verses Lord Byron ever penned , we mean, which were suggested by the lion of his thirty-sixth year. The ilk as usual, are two in number, engraved Findens, from designs by Turner. Bot gravings are good, but Turner's design Field of Waterloo, is one of the most productions we ever saw. There is ri( head nor tail of it. CHAMBERS' HISTORY OF SCO Two VOLS. LONDON. 1835. A very useful little work, the resu diligence and labour on the part of Mr. Chambers. It will make a capit. history, as it is remarkable for the cleara simplicity of its details. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLO The present (which is the thirty•nintl of this miscellany, consists wholly of.a on Heat," from the pen of the learn The treatise is an elaborate one, an( many matters of curious scientific in We give an extract or two : " HEAT AND LIGHT. " Innumerable operations of nature proceed and as effectually in the absence of light as present. The want of that sense which it is affect in the animal economy in no degree other powers of the body, nor in man does • interfere in any way with the faculties of Light is, so to speak, an article rather of lurta positive necessity. Nature supplies it, there( unlimited abundance, nor at all times and pi ther with that thrift and economy which sl observe in dispensing the objects of our pared with those which are necessary to our beat, on the contrary, she has yielded in the mosl eel plenteoutinesh. Heat is everywhere prof!' object that exists contains it in quantity wii limit. The most inert and rude masses are it. Whatever we see, bear, smell, taste, of it. To its influence is due that endless so which are spread over and beautify the globe. Land, water, air, could not for a exist as they do, in its absence; all would into one rude formless mass—solid and The air of heaven, hardening into a crust, svo' the globe, and crush within an everlasting for contains. Heat is the parent and the nurse beauties of organization ; the mineral, the animal kingdom, are its offspring. Every tore is either immediately produced by its . tamed by its influence, or intimately depencle Withdraw heat, and instantly all life, and beauty, will cease to exist, and it may be ' Chaos has come again.' " SEEK') OF TFLAVILLING. "The swiftest flight of a carrier pigeon doe , the rate of twenty-six miles an hour. It that the velocity of a high wind is at the thirty to thirty-five miles an hour. The on the Manchester and Liverpool Itailvit known to travel about six. and-thirty miles it is stated, in the evidence before a Come House of Commons, the steam-carriages, common roads at a speed exceeding forty in' Accounts reached town yesterdays informed soure •, which enab'e uR Co fine fact. that Mr. STANLEY has been rem' Secretaryship of Ireland. He is, it aPPe ar* Lord GODZAICH at the ial.office. fl e '! f t er , poor black slave 4 ! Colon Morniny Reg' ~~ L 5 . r.4 rtSra-Pct y acigat Rank of Ire] Y*. ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~~ fir' a,! 'r33:° in Cte°° d lell yt l eamilr e t . . . . .... 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