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the reserve; after which they filo:roll - to their encampments, the rebels not having ventured to quit their positions at any point. The batteries on the south of the Douro co.operated with their well directed fire, and Captain Barreiros, command ing the squadron in the Douro, not being able to approach the line of the rebels, on account of the current, landed two pieces of cannon at Pedra Salgada, whence we well seconded the attack.—(Here follow commendations of many officers, among whom is Sir John Campbell.) " I enclose copies of the despatches of the Commanders of the 2d and 4th divisions, and the moveable column in which the services of the several officers are particularised, and also the account of our loss. It is to be believed that the loss of the rebels must have been serious, though they were under cover, as our fire wee well supported, and our troops behaved with their usual bravery. " Head-quarters at St. Mamede da Infesta, March 7, 1833. " To his Faccellency the Conde de Barbacena. " Conde de SAN LOURENCO, Commander.in-Chief of the 'Army of Operations." (Here follow the copies of the despatches of the Generals commanding the divisions, and lists of the killed and wounded. Killed, 56; severely wounded, 216; slightly wounded, 126.) " LISBON, MARCH 19. " OFFICIAL. - -DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Excellency that the health of the army of operations continues to be satisfac tory, nothing new in this respect having occurred since my despatch of the 6th instant. " Yesterday I ordered our piquets in the front of Serralves to advance and dislodge those of the enemy, which they did with the greatest bravery, and established themselves in the positions before held by those of the enemy. Our people occu pied the village between Serralves and Lordello, where they demolished two water-mills, in which there was some wheat and millet, and took eight mules. " Head-quarters St. Maraede da Infesta, March lti, 1833. " To his Excellency Viscount Santarem. " Conde de SAN LOURENCO." " LISBON, MARCH 21. " OFFICIAL. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Excellency that I have just learned from the General of the 3d division, that of the three armed vessels which the rebels had In the Douro, the Liberal Is dismasted and fallen on her side, the Amelia has only her mhten-mast, and the third is dismasted. The General adds that they were full, and that the guns had been taken out. " Head-quarters, St. Mamede da InfeSta, March 17. " To the Viscount Santarem, Conde de St. Lourenco." " LISBON, MARCH 22. " OFFICIAL. " Sir,—l have the honour to inform your Excellency that the Commander of the 3d division let me know yesterday that about six in the morning a vessel without colours attempted to force the entrance of the Douro, but was obliged by the bat. teries to anchor in the bay of the Cantareira, where it after wards sunk, as well as some boats of the rebels which lay in the same bay ; and that at eleven o'clock a brig (which is known to be English) made the same attempt and met with a similar fate. The General adds, that the crews fled to the right bank and that at the time of his writing the brig was on fire. " Head-quarters, March 18. " To the Viscount Santarem, Conde de St. Lourenco."— Lisbon Gazettes, from the 18th to March, both inclusive. MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Apparently a new pen has been at work on the " Politician" this month ; which is a more showy, flighty, and discursive paper than usual. The writer sets out with a metaphor, and closes with a paradox. He commences like a Sheil and ends like a Hazlitt. He infers that the present House of Commons is likely to be " more favourable to an impassioned mode of oratory" than was the past, because it is more full of dry, practical men of business. That is to say, that Mr. Fielden, the cotton-manufacturer, the Coryphreus of mechanical details, bids fair to relish the eloquent and animated generalities of a Sheil or a Macaulay with far more gusto than Mr. Croker, the wit, the scholar, and (almost) the poet, because the leading bent of his mind is diametrically adVerse to such impassioned gene ralities,—in fact, because he understands nothing at all about the matter. This is an ingenious, but it is not an original paradox. It is a pla giarism from the old adage of onzne ignotzznz pro tnagnifico. We hazard, we think, no very outree assertion when we state our belief that the days of lettered eloquence in St. Stephen's are past. Facts have displaced, or are fast displac ing, ideas; the play of fancy has succumbed to the sobrieties of mere unlettered common sense. Zerubbabel has been gathered to his fathers, and Jehoiakim reigns in his stead. Conceive a Burke in the present House of Commons ! On the " Politician's" theory he would be listened to with enthusiasm, precisely because he would be unintelligible. Yet it was precisely for this very reason that he was the " dinner-bell" of Schedules A and B ; and in a reformed House, like the present, would be more than a dinner- bell, he would be a cholera—a riot act to dis- perse the mob in an instant. " The Bill of Belial" is an amphibious species of essay, half allegorical, half literal. The first half is an ela borate failure, as heavy as the national debt, the latter is characterised by just and notable think- ing. The Diplomatic Service" is a curious and valuable exposjof a corrupt, worn-out system. " The Genius of Moliere” is a delightful .criticism, heartfelt, and necessarily, therefore, 'well-expressed. To us, Moliere (which was a fictitious one by the by, and almost renders an alias classical) is a name—a spell of enchant ment. We could read about him for ever. He is one of those on whom a criticism is always acceptable. " The Autobiography of an Ugly Man" is neither witty nor serious—neither good nor bad " neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring." The best idea we can give of it is, that it is a shoot from the prolific stock of the " respectables." " Men and Books" is a pleasing idea pleasingly worked out. It is a subject that will improve as it goes on. The gossip about book-stalls is in the truest and kindliest spirit, and-will come home to the hearts of all authors of a poetrcal turn of pocket. " Sketches in Paris" are dull by prescriptive right. We never yet knew a Parisian sketch that was not (as Dogberry would say) " most tolerable and not to be endured." The " Veiled Picture" is a pretty tale, raised solely by force of style from the dull Isle of Ely flats of com mon-place. There is an intellectual voluptuous ness in the following description which reads like a sort of prose paraphrase of Coleridge's " Genevieve." But it is not nature. Burns and Shakspeare do not paint in this style " With a trembling hand he drew aside the curtain, and I never beheld any thing so lovely as the being before me ; the atmosphere seemed to grow bright, as if a burst of suniaine had flashed upon. the room. Heloise was designed as rising from a couch, on which she had been reclining, while her lover, kneeling at her feet, had, in the passion ite eloquence of verse, declared the eagerness of his love. Her hair was light, and of a glossy hue, parted off her fair and open forehead, and rested in luxuriant tresses upon her dazzling throat and swelling breast ; her eyes were of that deep rich blue that seem born of Heaven, from their resemblance to the fair clouds which veil it from our sight, and were filled with that deep and earnest expression of womanly tenderness that subdues the heart on which it falls. Beauty seemed to breathe in the swelling outline of her form, and passion appeared to dwell in the melting fondness of her looks. Her dress was in the picturesque costume of the twelfth century, allowing the graceful shape of the limbs to be seen beneath its folds. The room was decorated with tapestry, on which were delineated subjects from scriptural history, and the rich light which fell upon the eloquent features of Heloise came Intllowed through a window of painted glass, whereon a virgin and child were drawn in clear and fade:ess colours." BLACKTV 0 OD' S MA GA LLV.E. RT I. If this number contained no other article than that on the " Factory System," it would deserve all the praise we can possibly bestow on it. A more eloquent, feeling, and convincing treatise we never yet read. It is a noble apostrophe to charity, which he who fails to feel the full force of; " neither would he be persuaded though one rose from the dead." We request those among our readers who may chance to cast their eyes over these slight, cursory notices, to peruse the following passage with attention, and when they have done so, to make it the subject of a half hour's exclusive, and (if their feelings will per.- mit) temperate consideration : " To be billy-rollered or strapped, after perhaps having been bucketed for falling asleep, is bad to endure ; still it seems to be the insensate matter that gives the pain—wood or leather. A blow from the fist is hateful ; yet the hand being in common use, the degradation is not in such cases utter. The boy wipes his bloody nose, and he forgives the fist of the overlooker. But a font—a large, stinking, splay-foot—flung suddenly out "with a fung," ere a boy has time by crouching to elude or supplicate, savage as it is, is yet more insulting, and sends to the core of the heart the shame of slavery, that can he extinguished but by undying hatred and deadly revenge. We wonder there are no murders. But what if the kicked be—a girl ! We do not mean a little gill, eight or ten years old, for that is not the precise kind of brutality we are thinking of in a kicking to such a one as she ; the worst of a kick in her case is, that it may kill her on the spot, or make her a cripple for life. We mean a girl who, approaching to puberty, and in those heated regions they too soon read) it, has something of the pride of sex, perhaps of beauty ; and in presence of her sweetheart, she herself being chaste and not immodest, and many such there are even in factories, feels her whole being degraded beneath that of a brute beast, in her person suddenly assailed by such shameful outrage from the hoof of a fiend grinning the while like a satyr. Mr. Sadler—exhibiting some black, heavy, leathern thongs, one of them fixed in a sort of handle, the smack of which, when struck upon the table, resounded through the House—exclaimed, Sir, I should wish to propose an additional clause in this Bill, enacting, that the overseer who dares to lay the lash en the almost naked body of the child, shall be sentenced to the tre id-mill for a month; and it would be right if the master, who knowingly tolerates the infliction of this cru•lty on abused infincy, this insult on parental feeling, this disgrace on the national character, should hear him company, though he roll to the House of Correction in his chariot.' A month in the treadmill ! Why, many a .dishonest fellow gets that and more for but picking a bumpkin's fob of his watch, or the pocket of his great coat of a purse at• the door of the theatre. The man who kicks a girl must not be suffered to pollute the steps of a treadmill, or to violate the feelings of vagrants. He must be flogged privately and publicly, his raw back denied plaister, his head shaved, and his carcase clothed in some ingeniously ignominious dress, of a substance suited to be spit upon, and a board adjusted to his posteriors, that his life may not be sacrificed by the continual kicking legalized by the legislative wisdom of the State, nor yet the feet of its inflictors soiled by contact with the ' shameful parts of his constitution.' "If there be truth in the account we have thus far given of the factory system, what must be the morality—we mean the immorality of the boys and girls ! Mr. Drake, a worthy manufacturer, says, As fir as I have observed with regard to morals in the mills, there is every thing about them that is disgusting to every one conscious of correct morality. Their language is very indecent ; and both sexes take great liberties with each other in the mills, without being at all ashamed of their conduct.' Another' witness says, They are immoral in all their c induct. Going to the factories is like going to a school, but it is to learn everything that is bad.' Mr. Benjamin Bradshaw, a witness of great intelligence, and a pious man, a preacher among the Methodists, says, They are, generally speaking, ignorant and wicked, proverbially so ; to hear them in the factory, and to see their conduct, would move any body with commiseration that bad any thing like a feeling of concern for the morals of his fellow. creatures; they are, in general, bail to an extreme.'—But here the details are far more painful than of the cases of cruelty, and some of them truly horrible. Many factories are the worst of brothels. Yet has MacCulloch many times publicly avowed his belief, that females so employed are more virtuous than those who lead a rural life ! He, and others like him, shutting their leaden eyes on all other facts familiarly known to all the rest of the world, or stupidly staring at them with dogged determination to misrepresent all they see, have founded their misbelief on the comparative number of illegitimate children. The simplest persons examined before the Committee know too well the cause of that effect. True it is, that that ef fect defective comes by cause.'—' I have yet to learn,' says one witness of a different stamp, ' that the promiscuous in tercourse of the sexes is favourable to an increase of popu lation.'—Fathers wept before the Committee, thinking of their own daughters. The contagion of vice in the heated and huddled factory is dreadful, and the disease is rank among very childhood." Had Milton been living in these days, he would have had no need to draw on hisimagination for a Pandemonium; he would have found one ready made to his hands in a Cotton Factory. The very devils themselves are but tyros in the art of torture compared with some of the overseers in these mills. " Tom Cringle's Log" is, as usual, a fine, bold, broad bit of painting, the colours of which seem as if they were laid on by the rough paw of a sea-bear. The writer is no flincher. There is not an atom of squeamishness in his descriptions. He is a man who (if his physical hear any proportion to his intellectual robust ness) might round Cape Horn in a storm, and bolt bacon all the while. " The Revolution in Greece" is good, but the subject is hackneyed —worn to a thread-paper. " Characters of Intellect" is a continuation of Professor Wilson's finely-apprehended criticisms on Mrs.Jamieson's notices of Shakspeare's Women. It is one of those essays which, as Johnson said of Don Quixotte, we are sorry to come to the end of. PART 11. This extra number possesses many good ar ticles, but none of transcendent merit. The first, " On Ireland," is sufficiently explained by its title, " The Coercive Measures, Church Spoliation ; The Grand Jury System." Of course a Blackwood, or high Tory view, is taken of these several propositions. The writer glares on them with the fierce, dark, " evil eye" of Ebony, as if his very look could wither. If he be gifted with " second sight," perhaps, on applying the gift, he may find cause to see dif ferently. The " Lay Figure" is a well-told story, of more than average interest and novelty. It is a hot-spiced bit of diabolism. " Female characters in Scripture" are graceful, but mono tonous, like everything that Mrs. Hemans writes. With the single exception of Wordsworth, this lady is the greatest mannerist of the day. She is at the head of (what, for want of some better term, we may call) the " diffuse school of poetry." Some writers tell by concentration, Mrs. Hemans by amplification. She succeeds by virtue of luxuriant verbiage. It is rather the foliage than the fruit that we admire in her writings. She cannot, like Shakspeare, convey an image in a word—pack up an Iliad in a nut shell. Her ideas must have elbow-room. Mrs. Norton and Lady E. S. Wortley are followers in the same school. " Edmund Burke, Part 2," is scarcely equal to the first part. It is concluded, we presume—as there is no announcement of ,tobe tin continued"—yet, strange to tell, whilst runnin g riot praise of Burke's eloquence, patriotism, and that extraordinary prescience which all allowed he possessed, the writer makes nu mention of his speeches on Economical Re form, and the Nabob of Arcot's debts—his Letter to the Duke of Bedford (the finest and most varied specimen of eloquence in the lan guage)—or his Reflections on the French Re volution. How is this ? We can only account for it, on the supposition that the writer is get ing sick of his subject. " Motherwell's Poems" is a generous vindication of ►he genius of a most promising young versifier, whose Runic odes are worthy to be sung by a Scald in the halls of Oden, to the vigorous accompaniment of Thor's hammer. " Devonshire and Cornwall Illustrated," is by the Professor of Professors— John Wilson. It is sprightly, eloquent, criti cal, and descriptive. The passing notice of Car rington's Dartmoor is aptly introduced, and as speaking of one poet naturally leads to an allu sion to another, the Professor takes an oppor tunity of bestowing a word of praise on Mr. Webb's lately published volume. Altogether the article is a lively bit of gossip. But why does the writer say " Old Nick, we offer to bet a pound, is like old Kit, a Benedick ?" Is not the circumstance of his being always drawn with a flourishing pair of horns on his head, conclu sive evidence that Old Nick is a married man ? We have no space for extract.. FRASER S MAGAZINE. The periodicals this month are all hot, even to blood-heat, on the factory system, which one and all agree in pronouncing to be the most de vilish refinement on torture and despotism, on this side Tophet. The system has had a long start of them, but they are close on its haunches, and will run it down and worry it to death in a month more or so. Fraser, like Blackwood, i s full of " splendid bile "on the subject. He writes with his hair on end. Pray attend to the following anecdote, which is enough to make " patience " herself start up in a passion, from her " monument :" " Exactly in accordance with these facts, is an anecdote which we know to be most literally true. A young M.P., desirous of judging for hims'elf on this question, was per sonally inspecting a large factory not many months since. Struck with the sight of so great a number of girls, and so few women employed, he asked, "But what becomes of all these children when they grow up, and become unfit for your purpose ? " " Oh," said the factory-owner in an unguarded moment, " very few of them will reach 20." Attached t,) this animated diatribe is a little poem full of feeling and simplicity. We give it entire : "'Twas on a winter's morning, The weather wet and wild, Three hours before the dawning The father roused his child; Her daily morsel bringing, The darksome room he paced, And cried, The bell is ringing, My hapless darling, haste !' Father; I'm up, but weary, I scarce can reach the door, And long the way and dreary,- 0 carry me once snore ! To help us we've no mother, And you have no employ ; They killed my little brother, Like him I'll work and die!' Her wasted form seemed nothing,— The load was at his heart; The sufferer he kept soothing Till at the mill they part, The overlooker met her, As to her frame she crept, And with his thong he beat her, And cursed her as she wept. Alas! what hours of horror Made up her latest day ; In toil, and pain, and sorrow, They slowly passed away : It seemed, as she grew weaker, The threads the oftener broke, The rapid wheels ran quicker, And heavier fell the stroke. The sun had long descended, But night brought no repose; Her day began and ended As cruel tyrant's chose. At length a little neighbour Her halfpenny she paid, To take her last hour's labour, While by her frame she laid. At last, the engine ceasing, The captives homeward rushed ; She thought her strength increasing— 'Twas hope her spirits flushed: She left, but oft she tarried ; She fell and rose no more, Till, by her comrades carried, She reached her father's door. All night, with tortured feeling, He watched his speechless child ; While, close beside her kneeling, She knew him not, nor smiled, Again the Factory's ringing Her last perceptions tried ; When, from her straw bed springing, 'Tis time!' she shrieked, and died! That night a chariot passed her, While on the ground she lay ; The daughters of her master An evening visit pay; Their tender hearts were sighing As negro wrongs were told, While the white slave was dying Who gained their father's gold!" " Celebrated Trials of the Nineteenth Cen tury" is curious as a matter of research, and may afford food for some future novelist. Reformed House of Commons" is a somewhat prolix exhortation to Honourable Members, and, like most " good advice," is worth just nothing. The biographical sketch of William Dunlop (to which a portrait is affixed) smacks of Dr. Maginn in his best manner. " This remarkable biped," quoth the Doctor (meaning Dunlop), " who is now in London for a few weeks, to worry Goderich and Howick about some beastly pro ceedings of our Government, stands six feet three inches, and measures two feet eight across the shoulders ; the calf is just twenty inches in circumference ; the paw would have startled Ali Pacha; the fur is of the genuine Caledo nian redness and roughness ; and the hide, from long ex posure to Eurus and Boreas, has acquired such a firmness of texture, that he shaves wiih a brick-bat." ME TR OP OLI TAN. There is too much sameness about this num ber—too many tales of passable merit. The only really sound article is that entitled " A Chapter on Common Sense," which contains some good and ingenious thinking. The poetical contribu tions are, for the most part, sad stuff. We wonder what could have induced the editors to insert such crazy common-place, as the " Jealous Farmer's Lamentation ?" Among the tales, the liveliest and most amusing is the " Spanish Barber," from the pen of Don Trueba. It is, however, a close imitation of the lighter style of the early Spanish novelists, more particularly of Mendoza and Quevedo. Even from the present, which i s the preliminary or apologetic, chapter, we foresee that the barber will turn out an arrant rogue, not unworthy to vie with that paragon of a tonsor in the (, Arabian Nights," appropriately nick-riamed " Silence," from his inveterate love of talk. " Peter Simple," is worse this month than usual. H e is beginning to wax prosy, and should beat a retreat in time. " The South Seas," is a useful practical article, de scriptive of the Sandwich Islands, and showing to what a valuable commercial ac count they might be turned in the hands of Great Britain. The author observes, that the well-known Mrs. Boki, who, it may be remem bered, accompanied the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands to England, where they died of the mange—we beg pardon, of the measles— is still to be seen daily staggering along, on the seashore, in a picturesque state of nudity and dean drunkenness. Of the remaining articles we have merely space to say, that the " Recollec tions of a Diplomatist," is the best. NEW ANTI-JACOBIN. This is a bold, presumptuous title, and pretty sure to disappoint expectation. Yet, in the present instance, we are agreeably surprised. The writers in the New Anti-Jacobin, if they have not the attic wit—the smart repartee—the rich, racy humour of their predecessors, have at least considerable powers of drollery. Nor are they deficient in information, though they are too fond of making a parade of it, as we have seen a parvenu turned " Esquire," spread out his Sheffield !late on a side-board, by way of elec trifying his first party. " The Meeting of the Waters" is a noisy, blustering attack on the Libe rals, which the writer manifestly thinks will have the effect of frightening them into fits. He is mistaken. They will survive the shock. They are not to be scared by the rumbling of a dray-cart—by the pert chattering of a tom-tit. " Renewal of the Bank Charter" is serviceable and well-timed, but dull as one of Blackmore's epics. " A Cast of Casti" is a capital Maga zine article, such as would have told to advan tage in the New Monthly. " The Wondrous Tale of Ikey Solomons" is the best squib we have met with for some time. The false, maudlin, hermaphrodite style of D'lsraeli's " Wondrous Tale of Alroy," half prose, half poetry, is hit off in a way to make the reader's lungs " crow like chanticleer." It is the gem of the number. A few more such will soon set the " New Anti Jacobin" afloat. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. We cannot say that, upon the whole, we have been much gratified by the perusal of the present number. The principles advocated are, for the most part, good and sound, but are handled in too heavy a style, and this fault pervades, we are sorry to say, even some of the articles which are professedly intended to be light. As a running commentary on the report of last year's committee on the state of Ireland, the first article is good, and " The Vision of Sir Robert" is something more than a mere string of rhyming lines ; but two, or even three or four tolerable articles, will not raise a maga zine in Edinburgh, liberal though it be, to cope with its powerful rival. Who could have per suaded the editor that " Pandrig Dhu" was a piece of wit ? He may depend upon it, that it is not so easy to imitate Munchausen as he ima gines. This will not do, Mr. Tait. MONTHLY MA GAZINE. Contains one piquant article, entitled, " The Orangeman's Letter ;" and one clever, ingenious essay on " the Della Crusca school of paint ing." Of the remaining articles we say nothing; they are neither above nor below par. ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. A number as much on the Radical side of questions relating to India, as the Asiatic Jour nal is on the Conservative side ; but, we are sorry to say, not half so good. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. True to the cause of its patrons, the Asiatic Journal has "got up" a hasty article, full of abuse, of the Ministerial plan for depriving the East India Company of its monopoly of the China trade. " A scheme of mulcts and de gradation, which seems scarcely consonant with Old Bailey justice," are among the soft and rea soning phrases i►► which the writer has vented his indignation, and amused the opponents of exclusive privileges. The facts of the case may be stated in two words : The East India Company were granted, for a time, the monopoly of the trade to China, upon certain conditions. We do not say the conditions have not been fulfilled, but the time is out, and we do not choose to renew the lease upon the old terms. This is spoliation, robbery, a scheme of mulcts and degradatio►► ! The remaining articles are of more varied and general interest than usual. NORTBCROFT'S PARLIAMENTARY CHRONICLE. The March and April numbers of this Ses sional periodical are before us. We cannot better describe it than by saying that it is an ex ceedingly cheap Hansard, got up in the most beautiful manner. It is published three times per week, and at the end of the month all the numbers are bound up into a part. There is one thing we would suggest as an improvement to these parts which might be made _certainly at some expense of labour, but not of money ; we mean attaching a table of contents or index to each. The ti Parliamentary Chronicle" is essentially a work of r eference, and must have an index at the end o f the session. The question is, whether the proprietors cannot contrive to let their Subscr ibers have the benefit of one during the session. SP OUTING MA GAZINE. Sports by flood and field—on moor and mountain—on foot and on horseback ;—some thing of each and all, you shall be sure to find within the thick dingy covers of this periodical. Do you fancy a steeple-chace ? Turn to page 463. Do you prefer rather to bring down a wild duck on the Upper Shannon ? Lo, page 413 will show you when and how to do so. All Nimrods should take in this Magazine. It i s t he very reading to be discussed over a glass of wine in a country box. The embellishments are just what they should be, full of spirit and character. MONTHLY REVIEW. This stalwart nonagenarian—for the Monthly is now some ninety years old and upwards—ex hibits few or no symptoms of decrepitude or im becility. It is in surprising good health for its age. Its sagacity, too, and critical discernment are as sound and unclouded as ever they were. The reviews in the present number come recom mended to us by an apt and pertinent variety. There are strong dishes for the lovers of stimu lants; light, delicate viands for the fastidious ; slip-slop and water-gruel for those of weakly, in firm taste and judgment. We extract a passage from an able review of the Irish Question : " In turning over the page of history, we occasionally meet with facts which stagger our belief, not from want of confidence in the veracity of the historian, but because the facts themselves are contrary to our notions of probability --contrary to what we should have expected to take place under the circumstances of the case. Much of the painfull scepticism thus produced would be spared, if we would endeavour to divest the events which we see passing around us, of all that is adventitious or temporary in their character, and view them in the light in which they will appear to posterity. By accustoming the mind to this process of abstraction, we shall soon become convinced that many things do actually take place in the world, of which probability cannot he predicated. Who, for ex ample, in after times, will unhesitatingly believe that Sir Robert Peel, who had, during his whole previous public life, strenuously opposed the measure of Catholic Emanci pation, as unconstitutional and unjust, and who owed his political importance chiefly to that opposition, could be the man who carried that very measure triumphantly through the House of Commons, without becoming a convert to its justice—without any motive of personal ambition—against the opinion of a great class of the nation—and at the sa crifice alike of his character for consistency, and his credit with the powerful party to which he belonged. Who, five years ago, would believe this? Yet who now denies the fact ? And by what arguments, drawn from probability, will the scruples of some future profounder of historic doubts be satisfied, when he demurs to the belief, that in the epoch of 1833, the eighteenth year of profound peace, Ireland, a third part of the empire, was, without any par liamentary inquiry—without even the pretence of a single seditious movement—deprived of the benefits of the British c'institution, and laid under martial law by an Administra tion consisting of men who had all their lives been ex cluded from office, solely for their attachment to constitu tional principles, and who had uniformly denounced mea sures of severity towards Ireland, not only as arbitrary and cruel, but as the sure and certain way to increase the very evils they were intended to remedy. In vain will the anxious inquirer look for the cause of this startling phe nomenon. He will see nothing anomalous or unusual in the state of Ireland to throw light upon it, and we think his perplexity will he pretty nearly at a maximum, when lie finds it recorded, as a justification of the government, that it took this astounding leap over the barriers of ti e constitution, in order that future governments might not follow the example." " But measures merely conciliatory, though good as far as they go, will never reach the source of Ireland's evils— she wants conciliation, but she wants something more. If the patient has been blvd, and blistered, and tortured, by ignorant quacks, the regalar practitioner may very pro perly commence his operations with an anodyne draught, or an emollient ointment, to allay irritation ; but he will not trust to these alone for the cure of a deep-seated and inveterate distemper. The disease that preys upon the vitals of Ireland is poverty—ahject, unmitigated poverty ; this is the plague-spot that infects her constitution, and it is here that the remedy must be applied in order to be effectual : the people are goaded into crime by absolute misery. _ _ _ " 'there is nothing in the history of any country, an cient or modern, savage or civilized,.to match the destitu tion of the inhabitant of the Irish hovel—compared to him the meanest serf in Russia is a personification of comfort. The land is split into innumerable fragments, not into acres, but into roods; from each of these patches the peasant has to extract subsistence for at least one family, an exorbitant rent, and an iniquitous tithe. This he finds impossible— it is not to he done by the power of man or angel. He cannot supply the deficiency by the produce of his labour, however willing he may be to work, for in this commo dity it is all supply and no demand—he can find no kind " brother of the earth to give him leave to toil." In this extremity he probably sets nut on a begging expedition at home, or a summer excursion to England, where, by liv ing on potatoes, and sleeping in the open air, he outbids the English labourer, whom he sends to the workhouse, and whose place he takes in the field. When these pre • carious expedients succeed, he is able to satisfy the rapacity of his landlord, and save his naked family from absolute starvation ; but when they fail, as they often do, he o course falls into arrears; hie but is unroofed, and be is driven out to find what shelter he may, in the bog, or on the wild hill, and to moralize on the unequal distribution of good and evil in this, our lower world. He here meets with others as destitute as himself—the victims of the same accursed system—with whom he is instinctively led to unite himself. Confederacies are thus formed of men smarting under a sense of cruel treatment, thirsting for revenge, and rendered despera.e by want. Hence the murders, turnings, and other atrocities which prevail to such an extent and which are more frequent than formerly, only because the people are more numerous, and their means of subsistence less." ADELPHI THEATRE. The following address was delivered by Mr. Yates, at this theatre, on Saturday : . _ " Ladies and Gentlemen,—lt is the misfortune of managers to be compelled to leave the most difficult part of their duty till the last. In other cases they say that Ce n'est que le premier par qui coute ; with us it is the last act of the piece that costs us the most,—that of bidding farewell. It is, however, sweetened by the opportunity it affords us of returning our thanks for that patronage which has pleased our hearts, I humbly confess, by filling our pockets. We are not among those who have to complain that our drama wants patronage, and, had we such a complaint, your appearance would cure it. There is, Ladies and Gentlemen, a great deal of talk about the legitimate and illegitimate drama; our dramas are called by the world illegitimate, and we are willing enough to acknowledge them the natural children of the brains of our authors, and we trust that everything is natural about them, although we cannot but feel that like other illegitimates, they are brought up by hand. I ought to apologize for thus snaking you nurses of our dramatic bantlings, but we cannot forget that by your hands both our dramas and actors have been fostered; to merit a continuation of that patronage shall be our constant endeavour. In the name of Mr. Mathews, myself, and the Adelphi company, we respect. fully bid you farewell." OLYMPIC THEATRE. On Saturday evening Madame Vestris prorogued her house in person, and the following is the speech she delivered on the occasion : "My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—l have come to meet you for the purpose of proroguing this house. " I have such well-grounded confidence in a continuance of the steady attention you have ever given to its business, that the most pressing necessity alone could induce me to resort to so extreme a measure. " I will state to you, in a few words, what that necessity is,-- " My season is ended, and I can't help myself. " Gentlemen of the pit and galleries—l thank you for the cheerfulness with which you have furnished the supplies; and I have the highest satisfaction in informing you that they have not only been adequate to our current expenses, but that a sur plus remains. " This surplus I have directed to be funded, and it will re main applicable to the future exigencies of my management. " My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—ln looking back upon the season which we are about to close, I find many circum stances for our mutual congratulation. " If it be a blessing to have preserved domestic peace, what must it be to have preserved so many domestic pieces as we have ? " Our crop has been abundant, almost beyond precedent, and the harvest has been well housed. " Order has been maintained, while orders have been ex• eluded. " In reverting with pride to the successful results of native exertions, I am not unmindful of the assistance we have occa sionally received from our firm allies—the French authors. " I am happy to tell you that I continue to receive assurances of the most friendly description, not only from them but from all other foreign powers. " The freedom of the press has been guaranteed, and the con sequence has been its cordial support upon all critical occasions. " During the approaching recess my most anxious endeavours will be directed to providing for your future comfort and amusements. " Should the seats prove rotten, I will reform the whole house " My efforts will be zealously seconded by all the members of my mimic administration. " For them, and for myself, I sincerely and cordially thank you for all your warm-hearted support; and I have only to add, that this house stands prorogued until Monday, the 30th day of September next, then and here to meet for the despatch of pleasure. At the Salop Assizes, a Special Jury case was tried, in which the question turned entirely upon the identity of a horse valued at 201. The plaintiff obtained a verdict for that sum. The law charges are expected to amount to between 500/. and 6001. Mr. Justice Darn Tort, in addressing the Jury, congratulated the •ounty of Salop on the extraordinary wealth it possessed, which permitted it, while other parts of the country were complaining of destitution and embarrassment, to throw away vast sums in bringing a host of witnesses to decide ► matter of 20/. The horse was brought into Court, and underwent a careful examination by the Jury ! DAY A T oNO 0 New 5 per Cent. ......... India Stock ......... to. Ditto 80nd5........ 0 Sou th Sea Stock .... ....••••••'' ..•••" Ol d Annuities..... 0 N ew Ditto... ......... / 3 per Cent. AIM 1751 •::•500. E x . Bills, £l,OOO ...... 4 : 9 5 9e0 .... 4 9 Ditto Small i ............ .40 Di t t o Commercal ...... .• Ditto Advertised ......... Bank for Account India for Account ............ Conk cnr April PRICE ., Of wr9eKs 'rill' Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent Cons. '371.0,4 7 3t per Cant. shut Ditto Red.... New MA per tent `1 4%1 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 4 per Cent. 1826 ... -- Bcalk Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5,186 P shut Oct. 10, 185 0 Jan. 5, 1860 16 15-16 Jan. 5, 1880 --- April 5, 1880 -- Jan. 5, 1570 -- PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS gt;t4 irpHeIrSLAnYnAoTn 0.141E...1...°C..) Austrian Bonds ds ..... .. Belgian Bonds .......8 78 ! , 4 'Portuguese Bon" • .. , g Ditto Account 7 V .,, Ditto Account. ....... 5 . 4 44 S Brazilian Bonds ; RegencySeriP ......... 5 0.0 Ditto Account C 01 6 —% ! Ditto Account ...... ...._ .i Buenos Ayres Bonds ...... 2 4 ,-, i Prussian Bonds ... ~n. ''., IT, Ditto Account ndg 18:1 ' . ler --1 Ditto Bo • , ~w.„ Chilian Bonds 22 jßussian BondsOok- ..., ~ Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account. Ditto Bonds, 18 0 4 Ditto Account 17V, j Ditto Bond s, Danish Bonds 74 Ditto Account..... ..... Ditto Account 5 P' '74 ;French Renter, ... , (Ireck Bonds 34V, —,--. Exchange .. . ..„( "". Ditto Bonds, 19 0 5 Ditto Account —l .-- Exchange ..... :::,,, 6 ..... Ft, Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. 31 t;', Dutch, 21 p• e .......... 46Y9 . ..10 Ditto Account 3134 , Ditto Account...... .., 5 ji Ditto, 6 per cent Ditto Account N e a p ol it an PRICES OF SHAIIES I T 76 II -2 : i'II'SF D P'43I.DDa A 2)I neii'li l r tttitwct:tth:ll°° A: cAABC3C O rPe°d. CU:111 - 2..11:nn.'....LtI:.161......C.......:::... r .11.:5.:.9 c :: ;.11 : Paid. 10 4 0 Anglo Mex. MM. Co. Liss. at 51. pm.) £ lOO ,1 1 Bolanos Mining Company £ l5O t. , Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) .£2t; 0 4 Ditto National 17% I* Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 British Iron Mining Company £s o,, Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pin.) 49>4 F. English Mining Company .1234 General Mining Association l2 9lt Mexican Mining Co £46 Real del Monte Mining C 0...., — Tlalpuxahua Mining Co 330 1514 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 5 .1 4 1, Ditto New Soil, .l Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 'l O Protector Insurance Comp. 2 Australian Co. _ Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. ...... Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 ..A AO ° ' r e) / S ' DUBLIN,I,x- obs / St. Patrick Instrr.(Pg. _,„/ , Royal Irish Ditto .... '..,... , National Ditt0...... .. ..,,... Patriotic Do.. ...... ..........„ ink ..... .0.. Hibernian ....• Provincial Ditto ••"'r.,..•'''. /, ' h Mine.... .... I'l Royal Iris , .... ... ...„ Imperial Mine! .. •,..„4 ..... / Mining Co, of IreZ,"o,o Commercial flow PRICES OF IRISH STOCK Bank Stock 20 1 , /4 I Consols, 3 oer cent Gov. Stock, 3W, per cent 93% Ditto, New 93;4 1 per Cent ~ ;oy. Deb. 3 , 4 percent 874 Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock i9 City Dab. 4 per cent, 77 Ballast Office Deb. 4 v. c GEORGE AND ANGEL HOTEL, STA' -- ° f 0 1 h HORN ER has the pleasure fried* • nouncing to commercial gentlemen, i t Cll. ° , and the public generally,. that, on his qu itting t" bo is l 7 Inn, h. has purchased and at length succeeded inc°,3ofor possession of the above old established Hotel i", ° ` n yoll it4 I T . h n e i p n re th m e is t e o s ,s a m r 2 e alntedttietrissitluva.teHdotihnaen, those n' 3 101 19 c. diately to improve the bed-rooms and other tion, so that he hopes he shall deserve the aeli o°W 0 1 ;1 of those who may honour him with their suPP rt 'sod is his pride to make his house excel in c omf oo der spectahility. The convenience of Commercial Geode it will in particular be his study to prom means in his power. cir v # W. H. is unwilling to advert to the well-1021-6.0 ot i b nt e e r nt cc i° o u ied l ei n i : stances under which he has been discharge° "ith Crown Inn ; as a Tenant, he behaved 'himself 11 "„ is mission and respect : as a Master, he wished net trarily to interfere with the rights and the e°„ n • - those whom fortune had placed in his empinr%d t oc r humbly hopes that he may refer to his o°l, c° „ - gtne r4 , this occasion, with a confidence that he and .° 4 lea" ' family will be regarded by a liberal public v°norof serving than' heretofore of the suppor t an w d hich they thus respectfully solicit. hao ofte tt. It i sE o h. n o do no q ua %A. uo w 7. Jes t it : l ! i ch tition ate :t of th 1 / 4 111 0 , 114 fv c eN to c LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRI L lt 1833. The oversight oh c eb om e I tn rrei i cs t ht t i e fi d ecdh b u y toreby e : r e o illi l l Ref orm not originating Committee TITORP moving in Committee the following r .utions that it ig t h That h i e t is Lo therd Lieutenant opinion of this o f C I die ‘ i ' it l. rized to - appoint Ecclesiastical Commissio ners f o r the ke ! ed in ti , ~, of carrvin ' carry in into effect any Act that may he 1 )335 ~,, re''" oreiniainnidttestelood beers;ti sent Session of Parliament to alter end the and s tha t )' to s the Temporalities of the Churchanidnamlreland ; a n " i • tni. salary dLord Lieutenant be empowered to order and appoint= ! or other emoluments as he shall decal fi t t° • ii such Commissioners, ~ ‘). not being Bishops. , i , il_./ 15 , That it is the opinion cf this Coannitteep that V i f 1 pedient to make provision for the abolition of the r' se oto j i in Ireland, and in lieu thereof to levy an An n Upon nj" ale,l'v ' t , upon all bishoprics and archbishoprics, and ti c, th d S fices, dignitaries and other spiritual promotions 0 0 ;7a ita' . 4 , a value of . . 2001. to be applied to the building, rebo il " ' O? ' 1 • ties" o 1 a pairing of churches and other such like eccleSlas o icb f to and to the augmentation of small livings, ari a tolia, 1 as may conduce to the advancement of Unitedtelly CO P ee t purposesthe efficiency, permanency, and stability of the ji Illy of England and Ireland. thl lt .70/ " 3. That it ' is the opinion of this Coromitteel l t he ,- Iv assessments for any of the purposes to defray ton 05 °I I hha t assessment mentioned in the preceding resolution t ote , 4 plicable, should be abolished • and that anY 1311 .1 ' ecl• '' ; usage authorizing such assessment ' should be rcPe - . t' tt f at ° l'( It is impossible to say whether rhe asfr" •gly, ti party will allow these resolutions s 4111" lio t4hN.,/ to p ~c h 1' t 't, order at once to make good the time % /L'l tis t li i Ne t "' I, 4 . ',,,,, been lost, or will rather take advantage a `l-erir, ''' tt,'llt been lost to make the matter worse. If I ce : O r 41, 4 : 4' Torie s i s il t or a tNl judsze of the probable acts of the wishes we should say that the reo lu , tic'fl ot it ' tli e t sr i4li t i c small chance of passing through the bar'° rep tol "'l without a fierce c .- -1 1 . , *3 •• , 1 contest uut, on the 0 k lit h e r, although they present some " f attac ' '' eNt 44 points 0 for i 4 0ti t / 11 ( profit can be made of the circumsolice: y 4 _ ll '1 , 4 2!) e51 ,' Tories cannot have the remotest hope, E l l e r,' 3, 4 :h it ,' or T con! ri vance, to give Church Reforro 1 0 ft 44;„ vi iif: heir object is to cut it down to a 0tigi17124,1,4'1,1 boobsg4tth° opposition to the above resolutions will Pa P ;ei t ll ' 11 that object. Antici • k d Ps. di Anticipation of any a l ' or e lb, whatever may be its foundation, is both 00 1 i ttotio and dangerous, when the time for it s 4/161 1 4 i Cu_ ed d'. • Lappointment is so near at hand. it 1 %7 4 1 ) ti n. " CI , It:f!ts;') it 44 t I llao i to, tiodtool i h o 11 1 4 Pt oo :ito t , Of aNi t h i4l *i t II PN, I , t N, hi, 4 4, at 411 *ll 4l ~ ti11,..11 P0, 1 : 4 4 2'4 1 -1 of t ec kl, I, O tilt d e : 4 41 ' 1 1 7, tap !, 1 t e k t' etl4 ll , Le 4 4 I ati, e'l ld lu st er °4 411 a t i tqlo c Pi lli taintto ti e, , ap ti,e 4 tl Pre,„ i i %a Itli gh tl`n b,4 t LI ri t i e , l ud tim, Pi 1, -tk e %Not, Admiral Our w readers were forthe inform the pr — he :i r t morning.the sdmirai ea%rrvisa:io4l::_niiie;, which we alluded a twa ---..a...--- - i• obenireeotraoue:vlgiayshitviaicpvethrueferrapodtparnaorpe Among the letters fro to . w ill away and sell it for the purpose of th to v i ° ,o iil mentioned having Yw'ritten DRO to state, that unless all his crews" ere,he before the end of march, he should take ` o g of liqu idsti eo claims for which he considered himself ofmorsilYr Bible. He had also announced his intentioti e ing Captain CROSIIIE by a courtnaartial, in the ,1 of his being sent to supersede him, so ti ' i tit i, P Enno could not have been taken by su r P, r• Q e ei he saw the fleet in a state of mutiny oP pf, We have heard this morning that Admiceing,o4 RIDS had, in a communication to DoteFPth I, pressed his willingness to co-opera vi"iii; land forces for the more effectual reor Oporto, on condition of a portion onlY or arrears of wages being paid, and the p t of Don PEDRO to dismiss the two di under whose advice he had acted, a nd r e v Niarquis of PALMELLA. As the Chevilli BARB ,ZA, the Under -Secretary for Foreigeo, 1 and Captain LASTEGRIE bad previouslY i 9 Don PEDito of the great dissatisfaction rei g il i t French Cabinet at his conduct towards th e dol l ! )( PALIVIELI,A, there is reason to belie ve A t lio / i, has listened to the counsels of reason, 50",err„0 this time matters have been arranged betv i co " or and his refractor), Admiral. The appoirlin SARTORIUS, d' by the;,- ti Constitutil the R eiteni the Welk Th ement sr) should the enuld have t h e fleet, stor es and safety. Th„f f i , t o the t ali t he tire, 01 unabl e to b beep e en set t ! "hid, we Them wt . atte n d ed of j)011pe tfh t 7vt lent