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Mg. °1 ,lire w s. vas ,01., the r e ' aey wet' )een lyd tir ebsol iverf 1 ' 10 ted. ontinue4 The d r rezted inty, an AVOW,' ight for; ade, , trine I but v ett pre„ifig 1 co" insts oo ranuoP Pri°`4 ft 6Sis e cen' linrptedi Id. 141 well e% d per c'(/' :lace on' 0 cbc P o l nouns Gree r '', ditto ;n ditto oing• Y> t , of P'ryiafot ic o th ° wit+ atf in or. 'atustl4l I 1 LITERATURE. DARNLEY, 3 VOLS —LONDON, 1830. There is much vivid description, correct delinea tion of manners, and agreeable portraiture of cha racter in this very interesting tale, which pos sesses besides a fund of good sense, that will go far to redeem its character with those who profess to hold the historical romance in contempt. The scene is laid chiefly in England, during the early period of the reign of Henry VIII., but shifts for a time to the Continent, in order to give the author an opportunity of displaying his Powers in the description of the well-known " Field of the cloth of gold," where Henry and Francis the First vied with each other in the splen dour, variety, and warlike appurtenances of t heir re sPective Courts. The several interviews that took Place between those gay and gallant Monarchs are detailed with infinite spirit and splendour, and en title the author to take a high rank among the historical romancers of the day. Lord Darnley, under the assumed name of Sir Osborne Maurice, is the hero of the story ; he is represented as an en terprising, high-minded young man, of an old Patrician English family, but which has unfor tunately fallen under the displeasure of Henry th e Eighth, owing to its having favoured the claims of Perkin Warbeck, who set himself up a s the legitimate heir to the throne in opposition 1°- •the then reigning Monarch, Henry the Seventh. The estates of the family are conse quently estreated, and the chief incidents of the • present tale are the endeavours (finally successful of course) on the part of the hero, Lord Darn ley, to recover them and revenge himself on Sir l'ayan Wileton, their usurper. We have not space to enter at further length into the details of the different incidents that are lavishly scattered through the tale ; but may just mention, in general terms, that they possess much vivid interest. The characters also, especially those of a wild enthusiastic astrolOger, Sir Cesar, Sir Payne Wileton, and a fat English clothier, Jekin Groby, are drawn with a natural and skilful Pencil. The following interview, between Darnley and the usurper of his family possessions, is forcibly sketched :- 1 ' So saying, he quitted the apartment, and proceeded to the room in which Sir Osborne was still pacing up ansd down, waiting impatiently the approach of night. The key turned in the door, and with a firm step Sir Pay an entered, and stood before his captive. For a mo ment th e y p ause d, an d e y e d e a c h other an when they had first met, and it was only by a strong effort that the young Knight stayed himself from seizing the persecutor of his r ace, and dashing him to pieces on the floor of the prison. " At length Sir Payan, after having glanced his eye rou n d , the chamber, spoke, and in the deep hollow tones of his voice no agitation made itself heard. _...4 You sa id thi s morn i n g that we knew each other,' !slid t h e Knight Marne Lord Darnley, we do—l have long sought you_l have found you, and you are mine own., " Calm, cold-blooded, mean-spirited ♦illain !' an swered Darnley, what seek you with me now ? Is it not enough to hare ruined a noble house ?—ls it not enough to have destroyed your benefactor ?—ls it not enough to have swept away the happiness of me and mine, without seeking further to injure those on whose head Your detestable arts must nearly have exhausted them selies ?' "`I have done enough for my revenge, young man,' replied Sir Payan ; I have done enough for my ambi tion—buil have not done enough for my security.' " ' For your revenge !' cried - Darnley : ' what mean Yon, ruffian? My father was your friend—your benefac t°r• 'Compassionating your indigence, did he not aid to raise you with his purse and with his influence, till you could hold your bead amongst your noble kindred, of whose house you are now the opprobrium ?' ".' Your father insulted me with his services,' answered the Knight,' after your mother had insulted me with her scorn.' same not my mother, traitor !' exclaimed Darnley, hi. eyes flashing fire. 'Profane not her name with your accursed lips, lest I tear you limb from limb.' " Sir Payan laid his hand on his dagger, with a grim smile. 'We waste time, young man,' said he; To the purpose for which I came. There is yet in my redder blood some drops of that weak thing called pity.-4 would rather see you live tha n di e; b u t if you wou ld live, I must b e Lord of Chilham Castle indeed, and indeed. No stewardship of Dover and holding by tenure of good pleasure for me. Within this hour, then, sign me over for Yourself and for your father all right and interest, claim and title to the lands and Lordship, which you and yours did formerly poisess, and you are f ree as a i r —B u t if y ou w ill • 0t.,„..' " What then ?' demanded Darnley. " Why, then, I will hold by a still better tenure,' re- Plied Sir Payan—' The extinction of the race of Darnley !' " Then hold by it, if such be heaven's will,' replied the Prisoner. ' But beware yourself, for in your best laid schemes, you may chance to fail, and even here on earth fleet with that sure damnation for which you have toiled 8 ° long. Were I willing to stain myself with crimes like Yours, this hour were your last, fur yen dagger were hut a Poor defence against a man who knows his life is lost.' " Sir Payan took a step backward to the door. Will You sign ?' said he, laying his hand on the lock. " Never!' " Then farewell!' and he quitted the apartment..' " "ORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON.—VoL. I. (FURTHER EXTRACTS.) tra!Z d B y ron's Letters written on his first re much freshness and interest. TLie follo vl h remind us strongly of the vivid descrip tions i n Childe Harold:— , " An a d venture w hi c h h e me t w ith a t S ev ill e c haracteristic both of the country and of him. self, is thus d escr ib e d i n th e same l e tt e r to Mrs. Byron (his mother) : " We lodged in the house of two Spanish un married ladies, who possess six houses in Seville, and give us a curious specimen of Spanish man ners. They are women of character, and the eldest a fine woman, the youngest pretty, but not so good a figure as Donna Josepha. The freedom of manner which is general here as tonished me not a little ; and in the course of public observation I find that reserve is not the eharacteristic of the Spanish belles, who are in general very handsome, with large black eyes, and very fine forms. The eldest honoured your un teorthy son with very particular attention, em bracing him with great tenderness at parting (I 'N'as there but three days), after cutting off a • lock of his hair, and presenting him with one of her own, about three feet in length, which I send, and beg you will retain till my return. Her last words were, Adios, to harmoso, me .gust o macho.'—(Adieu, vou pretty fellow, )ou Please me much.) She offered the a share of her apartment, which my virtue induced me to de cline ; she laughed, and said I had some Eng lish ' amante' (lover), and added, that she was Ping to be married to an officer in the Spanish army. _ . Among the beauties of Cadiz, his imagina tion, dazzled by the attraction of the many, was on the point, it would appear from the following, of being fixed by one : " Cadiz, sweet Cadiz, is the most delightful town I ever beheld ; very different froui our English cities in every respect, except cleanli ness (and it is as clean as London), but still beautiful and full of the finest women in Spain, the Cadiz belles being the Lancashire witches of their land. Just as I was introduced, and be-1 ( - ran to like the grandeur, I was forced to leave it for this cursed place ; but before I return to Engla►►d I shall visit it again. " The night before I left it, I sat in the box at the Opera with Admiral . . . 's family, and aged wife and a fine daughter, Sennoretta . . The girl is very pretty in the Spanish style ; in my opinion, by no means inferior to the English in charms, and certainly superior in fascination. Long black hair, dark languishing eyes, clear olive complexions, and forms more graceful in motion than can be conceived by an Englishman used to the drowsy, listless air of his country women, added to the most becoming dress, and, at the same time, the most decent in the world, render a Spanish beauty irresistible. " Miss . . . and her little brother un derstood a little French, and after regretting my ignorance of the Spanish she proposed to be come my preceptress in that language. I could only reply by a low bow, and express my regret that I quitted Cadiz too soon to permit me to make the progress which would doubtless attend my studies under so charming a directress. I was standing at the back of the box, which re sembles our opera boxes (the theatre is large, and finely decorated, the music admirable), in the manner in which Englishmen generally adopt, for fear of incommoding the ladies in • front, when this fair Spaniard dispossessed an old woman (an aunt or a duenna) of her chair, commanded the to be seated next herself, at a tolerable distance from her mamma. At the close of the performance I withdrew, and was lounging with a party of men in the passage, whe❑ en passant the lady turned round and called me, and I had the honour of attending her to the Admiral's mansion. I have an invi tation on my return to Cadiz, which I shall ac cept, if I return through the country on my re turn from Asia." The following account of Lord Byron's private affairs on his return to England, in 1811, will be new to most of our readers : " We have seen from the letters written by him on his passage homeward, how far from cheerful or happy was the state of mind in which he returned. In truth, even for a disposition of the most sanguine cast, there was quite enough in the discomforts that now awaited him in England to sadden its hopes and .check its buoy ancy. To be happy at home (says Johnson) is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends !' But Lord Byron had na home—at least none that deserved this endearing name. A fond family circle, to accompany him with its prayers, while away, and draw round him with listening eager ness on his return, was what, unluckily, he never knew, though with a heart, as we have seen, by nature formed for it. In the absence, too, of all that might cheer and sustain, he had every thing to encounter that could distress and hu miliate. To the dreariness of a home without affection, was added the burden of an establish ment without means ; and he had thus all the embarrassments of domestic life, without its charms. His affairs had, during his absence. been suffered co fall into confusion, even greater than their inherent tendency to such a state war ranted. There had been the preceding year an execution on Newstead, for a debt 0f..1500/., owing to the M essrs . B ro th er s, upholsterers ; and a circumstance told of the veteran Joe Murray on this occasion, well deserves to be mentioned.: To this faithful old servant, jealous of the ancient honour :of the Byrons, the sight of the notice of sale, posted upon the Abbey door, could not be otherwise than an unsightly and intolerable nuisance. Having enough, however, of the fear of the' law before his eyes, not to tear the writing down, he was at last forced, as his only consolatory expedient, to paste a large piece of brown paper on it." . Lord Byron thought very little of the merits of Childe Harold, but promised himself much fame from a Paraphrase of the Art of Poetry, composed by him while abroad. " Though," says Mr. Moore, " on every thing that after his arrival at the age of manhood he produced, some mark in them of the master-hand may be traced, yet, to print the whole of his Paraphrase of Horace, which extends to nearly 800 lines, would be at the best but a questionable compli ment to his memory. That the reader, how ever, may be enabled to form some opinion of a performance, which by an error or caprice of judgment, unexampled, perhaps, in the annals of literature—its author for a time preferred to the sublime reasoninga of Childe Harold, I shall here select a few such passages from the Para phrase as may seem calculated to give an idea of its merits, and its defects _ " The opening of the Poem is, with reference to the original, ingenious : Who would mot laugh, if Lawrence, hired to grace His costly canvass with each flatter'd face, Abused his art, till Nature, with a blush, Saw cite grow centaurs underneath his brush ? Or should some limner join, for show or sale, A m4id of honour to ti mermaid's tail ? Or low Dubost (as once the world has seen) Degrade God's creatures in his graphic spleen ? Not ad that forced politeness which defends Foals in their faults, could gag his grinning friends. Believe me, INfoschus, like that picture seems The book, which, sillier than a sick man's dreams, Displays a crowd of figures incomplete, Poetic nightmares without head or feet.' " The following is pointed, and felicitously expressed Then glide down Grub-street, fasting and forgot, Laughed into Lethe by some quiiiit Review, Whose wit is never troubleionie till—true.' " Of the graver parts, the annexed is a fa fourable specimen : _ 'New words find credit in these latter days, If neatly grafted on a Gallic phrwe: - What Chaucer, Spencer, did, we scarca refuse To Dryden's, or to Pope's maturer muse. If you can add a little, say, why not, As well as William Pitt and Walter Scott— Since they, by force of rhyme, and force of lungs, Enrich'd our island's ill-united tongues ? 'Tis thine, and shall be lawful to present Reforms in writing, as in Parliament. — As forests shed their foliage by degrees, So fade expressions which in season please ; And we and outs, alas ! are due to fate, And works and words but dwindle to a date. Though, as a Monarch nods and commerce calls, Impetuous rivers stagnate in canals; Though swamps subdued, and marshes drain'd sustain The heavy ploughshare and the yellow grain ; And ri.ing ports along the briny shore Protect the vessel from old Ocean's roar— All, all must perish.—But surviving last, The love of letters half preserves the past ; True—some decay, yet not a few survive, Though those shall sink which now appear to thrive, As custom arbitrates whose shifting sway Our life and language must alike obey.' " 7 A PERSIAN COMPLIMENT.—TtIe Persian Ambassador, of Circassian notoriety, was one day intro duced to the lady of the gallant naval hero Sir S. S— (who was of " a certain age," and in common parlance, " old enough to be his mamma"), together with her fair daughter, by a former husband. His Excellency was all smiles and gallantry, as was his wont, in their presence; but as soon as they had retired he turned to Sic S. and said, " What ;or you marry that old fellow, Sir S. S--.--? Why for you net marry that young fellow, her daughter?" And, indeed, the choice had puzzled more heads than that of his Excellency. SPORTING INTELI.I<;ENCE. TATTERSALL'S. So few horses were backed outright yesterday, that with tie exception of a few of the Derby favourite:, we need only refer to our general statement of Thursday list. Mummer and Brunswieker continue close together, the former having a very Flight call. The day's business was confined to betting between horses, Mummer being hacked at 1100 to SOO, and 600 to 400 ugst Mahmoud and Zu charelli jointly, and against some others. Mouse was backed against Cressida at 450 to 400. Ihe few en gagements were made at the following prices : DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer 64 to 1 agst Mr. Petrel! Brunswieker (taken) 10 to I ngst Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt 12 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 13 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Cetus 16 to I agst Lord Cleveland's Wat Tyler (taken) 17 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud The others as before. We have great satisfaction in being enabled to contradict the rumours that have been in circulation on the subject of his MAJESTY'S health. The Knic, having suffered from cold, is now better. The severity of the weather, of course, prevents out-door exercise, but we understand that his MAJESTY has resumed his usual habits in his palace.—Morning Paper. By the death of Lord REDESDALE, his pen sion of 4,0001. a year, as a retired Lord Chancellor of Ireland, falls into the Civil List. THE OPENING OF THE WELLAND...-• (From a New York Paper.)—The commencement of navi gation between Lakes Erie and Ontario is an event of great' interest, on account of the extent of the great sheets of water thus connected, and the natural obstacle which has been overcome by the great work. Concerning its effects on the interests of the state, as very different opinions are entertained in relation to them by different persons; we shall not speak—we hope they may be advantageous to all parties. A few years ago the sight of the falls of Niagara would have discouraged every idea of ever effecting a safe channel of navigation between the two lakes; but it has already l; en accomplished. The first boat passed it on the 30th of last month, just five years after the commence ment of the undertaking. This work will hereafter pre sent new attractions to travellers visiting the vicinity of the great cataract. Yesterday afternoon an affray took place in St. Paul's-church-yard, daring the time when the funeral procession of the late President of the Royal Academy was moving into the Cathedral, which might have led to a dreadful result, but f r the fortunate discovery of the pre meditated attempt at stabbing. A young man became the jest of the surrounding crowd in consequence of his having unwittingly walked into an accumulation of snow, mud, and water. A lad, in particular, heartily laughed at the disaster, when the young man alluded to seized the boy, struck him, and threw him into the mud, which was nearly sufficient to cover him. This attack on the boy was taken up by a by-stander, who severely thrashed the young man. The crowd was about separating when the beaten pirty returned, and said he would have another round; his opponent complied with his wish, and prepara tions were made accordingly. In the act of setting-to, a looker-on discovered the end of a knife in the young man's hand who bad received the thrashine:, and seized his arm and took the knife from him. The persons assembled were loud in their expressions against this cowardly at tempt, and the general cry was " Souse him well in the mire." In a second the young man measured his length in the mud, which was sufficiently deep to cover him, amidst the cheers of all who saw the transaction. The noise brought the police, and the young man was taken into custody by one of the city officers. —Morning Paper. A DREAM REALIZED.—(From the Jour nal of an officer engaged in the action off Minorca, in 1756, when the British fleet was commanded by Admiral Bv Nc.)—" On the morning of the fatal 20th of May, - Capt. ANnuews (whose courage was indisputable, hav ing given signal proofs of it in several actions) appeared at his breskfast table uncommonly thoughtful. His friend Captain Haavev took the kind liberty to remark it to him, as something unseasonable. 'My dear ANDREWS,' said he to hint, 1 know that you meet your duty with all your heart ; but 1 am vexed to see you in a solemn reve rie at this time ; it may have a discouraging effect on those about you!" Captain Haßvay,' replied ANDREWS, my heart thanks you for this seasonable admonition, I will shake off this discreditable melancholy, but you will par don it, perhaps, on account of its extraordinary cause; I never was a superstitious man, though I never was such a vulgar fool as to despise religion ; but last right I was prodigiously impressed with a dream, of which I have not time to tell you the particulars ; and it has assured me, without leaving a doubt on my part, that I shall meet my death in this day's action ; yet depend upon it, Ilan.vey, I will die like a man—l hope with credit to myself, to my friends, and to my country.' He took a most affectionate leave of IlaaveY, when they were parting to their respec tive stations. He gave me a friendly and ardent kiss,' etid HARVEY', but with cold lips.' His attack of the French (for the Mfiance began the engagement) was vigorous in the highest degree. He indeed, nobly ful filled his promise though he was killed by a cannon ball in the first quarter of an hour of the fight." THE WEATIIER.—The effects of the sudden thaw on the River Thames were not only very curious, but picturesque. The frosts and thaws that have occurred during the recent singular season led to the formation of unusually numerous little " icebergs" along the banks of ! the Thames, and around the islands in the Thames above Hammersmith Bridge; and by noon on Wednesday many of these masses of ice, tipped to a tolerably good height with snow, thereby' increasing the curious beauty of the scene, were loosened from their holds, and seen floating in the middle of the river's current. As evening approached, the river was literally thronged with these ice islands; of course the limited passage of the river, above bridges, to the few craft that plied, was rendered, except the vessel were large, somewhat dangerous. It was also a labour of some extent to take adequate care of the different craft moored along shore, to obtain protection against the sonse quences of the afore-mentioned " icebergs" (and many of them were no trifling matters) drifting against the said craft. To effect such object of protection, in many instances, pieces of timber fastened to rope., and annexed to the barges, beats, &c. were thrown into the river, thus pre venting the " bilgings" that might have resulted from the floating masses of ice coming abruptly against such craft. The coaches also experienced considerable inconvenience. Many of the West-country coaches did not arrive in town on Wednesday morning till long after the usual hour of arrival ; several of tke coachmen and guards stated that they severely felt the snow-storm as they approached the Metropolis. So decidedly did the snow-storm, followed by the rapid thaw, affect the roads, the great Western road in particular, that the Hammersmith and some other Omnibuses found it requisite to have au extra horse, mounted by a postilion, to lead them through the difficulty of their ways. ANECDOTE.-Upwards of fifty years ago, the present Dr. , of London, a highly respected clergyman, and his sister, Mrs. , (at that time about 17 and 13 years of age respectively) were travelling in Devonshire with their father, and arrived elite day at a small inn on the road, at which they stopped to dine, but the afternoon becoming very wet and stormy, they resolved to remain all night ; and having intimated this to the landlord, he retired to make the necessary ar rangements. Shortly after, he returned to the room in which the party were seated, and making his obei sance, remarked, with a very complacent and self-satis fied smile, that, as the afternoon was so wet, and ne cessarily prevented any out-door excursion, if the young lady would find any amusement in looking over a port folio of original drawings, he would desire his son to wait upon them, and exhibit his attainments in the fine arts. This intimation was of course joyfully received, especially by the young lady, who was a considerable proficient in drawing, and in a few minutes a tall, raw boned lad ofvabout seventeen years of ageentered the room, with a pore' lio under his arm, which he proceeded to open, and unfold to their view a considerable number of original pencil and chalk drawings, which he seerneJ very proud of, but which appeared to the party to he any thing rather than beautiful specimens of this de lightful art. After this examination had closed, the young artist, conscious, we presume, of his powers, requested the young lady to sit for her portrait in chalk, which, for her amusement, she consented to ; the artist commenced his task, and in the progress of it, so often turned his large expressive eyes in eager gazings on the interesting coup• tenance of the fair sister, that she felt much difficulty in restraining herself from a burst of laughter.-- The portrait was finished in about half an hour, and presented to the original, who, although at that time she could not help smiling at the rude attempt, still has it in her possession, and would not now part with it for money, this sketch being produced by the late highly gifted and now deeply lamented, Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, President of the Royal Academy, and Portrait Painter to his MAJESTY....- Scotsman. FUNERAL 0C SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE. Yesterday wAs the day appointed for paying the last obsequies to the remains of the late President of the Royal Academy ; and, in consequence, the whole line of way between the Royal Academy (where the body lay in state) and St. Paul's Cathedral (where it was finally to be deposited) was crowded with numerous parties, anxious to behold the funeral pro cession. As early as ten in the morning the friends, &c. of the deceased, who were invited to attend as mourners, began to assemble at Somerset-house, and numerous carriages, belonging to persons who were desirous of doing honour to the talents of the President, drove into the great square in Somerset house, where they were marshalled, so as to fall into the rear of the funeral procession. Pursuant to the arrangements originally agreed upon between the Council of the Royal Academy and the acting executor of the will of Sir Thomas, the remains of the President were removed, in a hearse and four, from his house in Russell-square to Somerset-house, attended by the Rev. Mr. Bloxham (his brother-in-law), the two Mr. Bloxhams, and Mr. Keightley, his solicitor and executor. They arrived at the Academy a little before nine o'clock on Wednesday night, and were received by the Council and a number of the Students. The bier was placed in the Model-room, which had been fitted up for the purpose, hung with black, and the armorial bearing of the deceased placed at the -head of the room. During the morning several persons of distinction were admitted to the room in which the body lay, and shortly after twelve o'clock, all the arrangements for the funeral procession having been completed, the coffin was placed in the hearse. At half after twelve the procession began to move towards the Cathedral, and at that time it assumed the following order : Twelve Police Inspectors to clear the way. Mr. Thomas, Superintendent of Police, with black silk hatband and scarf. Two City Marshals. The Lord Mayor's carriage empty, The Sheriffs, Messrs. Ward and Richardson, in their car- riages. The Under Sheriffs. The Undertaker (Mr. Thornton, jun.) on horseback. Four Mutes on horseback, in gowns, two by two. Six Horsemen in cloaks, two by two. A Plume of Feathers, with Two Pages. THE HEARSE, Drawn by Six Horses, with Sixteen Pages—Eight on each side. The Pall-bearers; in Mourning Coaches. The following mourning coaches then followed with the family of the deceased : The old Servant of Sir Thomas Lawrence. The Executor. The Rector of St. George, Bloomsbury. Sir Henry Halford, the Physician of Sir Thomas. The Chaplain to the Academy. The Keeper of the Royal Academy. The Secretary to the Royal Academy. The Treasurer to the Royal Academy. The Academicians and Associates, two in each.. The Students, two by two, in each of the following Mourn- ing Coaches. Private Mourners, two by two, in each of the succeeding 111aurning Coaches. The Officers, &c. of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, two by two. _ _ _ The Officers of the Society of British Artists, two by two. The Officers, of the Artists' General Benevolent In- stitution. Forming in the whole a procession of forty-three mourning coaches, each drawn by two horses, ca parisoned with plumes and velvet. Next followed— The carriage of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence. Carriages of the Pall-bearers. The Carriages of the Nobility and Gentry. Amongst the private carriages, amounting to seventy-live in number, that brought up the rear of the procession, were those belonging to— The Dukes of Wellington, Bedford, St. Albans, and Devonshire. Earls—Radnor, Aberdeen, Spencer, Essex, and Amherst. Lords—Lyudhurst, Holland, Dudley and Ward, Bexley, Melbourne, and Farnborough. Marquisses—Stafford, Cleveland, and Salisbury. The Countess of Guildford, and the Bishop of London, INTERIOR ORDER OF PROCESSION AT ST. PAUL'S. On arriving at the Western Gate the pro Cession was received by the Dean, Chapter, and the whole of the Choir, and proceeded as follows :-- 'The two junior Vergers. The Marshals. The young Gentlemen of the Choir, two by two. Their Almoner or Master. The Vicars Choral, two by two. The junior Minor Canons, two by two. The Feathers, with attendant Mutes and Pages, two by two, The senior Verger. The Prebends, two by two. The junior Residentiaries, two by two. The senior Residentiaries, two by two. The Dean's Verger. The Dean. THE COFFIN. Chief Mourner. Mourners, two by two. The Old Servants. The Family Trustees and Executor. The Rector and Medical Attendants. The Chaplain to the Royal Academy. The Secretary, &e. to the Royal Academy. ARRANGEMENT IN THE CHOIR. Pall-bearers. Pall-bearers, The Corpse, on each side of which were the Pall Bearers. The Members of the Royal Academy ranged outside on each side. Chief Mourner. Old Servants, standing. The Executors. Old Servants, standing. The Rect6r. Medical Attendant. The Marshals, with constables and undertaker's men, formed a line proceeding to the vault door.— The Chief Mourner proceeded to the dome, and the other mourners formed a circle round. The Acade means lined off to the right, and the mourners to the left. An outer ring was formed, within which the other mourners surrounded the clergy, choir, and chief mourner. A strong body of Police linc►i the whole road, and a Guard of Honour was mounted at the Royal Academy. The funeral service was performed by the Dean in a very impressive manner; and, at its conclusion, the coffin WAS borne with the usual ceremonies to the vault, wi:ere it was finally deposited. During the period occupied by the procession, almost the whole of the shops embraced within the line of march were closed. The procession quitted Somerset House at about half after twelve, and reached St. Paul's shortly after two. The ceremony then occupied about an hour. SHEEP DROWNED.—Last week, a flock of sheep, thirty-four in number, belonging to Mr. J. HEs nox, of Appleton-le-street, having, from some cause, taken their stand upon the ice, which covered a deep pond in the field where they were grazing, the ice gave way, and the whole of them were drowned.—Doncaster• Gazette. At the Haymarket Theatre on Monday night last, (the benefit of Mr. Isaacs and his family), long before the doors were thrown open, the crowd reached across the road opposite the theatre. Mr. GEORGE STANSBURY, the chorus-master of Covent-garden, had kindly volunteered his services to lead the band at the Haymarket, and on his way to the stage-door, for the purpose of commencing his labour, he bad occasion to pass through a portion of the crowd; lie had not, how euer, proceeded far, before he was attacked by a gang of pickpockets, one or two of whom struck him on the head, whilst the others unbuttoned his coat and waistcoat, and rolibed him of a valuable gold watch, gold twisted chain, keeper, and three gold seals, upon one of which :were en graved his initials, with which they escaped through the mob. At the opening of the doors the crush was so tre mendous, and the cries and shrieks of the women so vehement, that great apprehension was entertained for their safety, and tho confusion consequent upon such a scene of commotion afforded the thieves an irresistible opportunity for the exercise of their nefarious propensities. Ladies' shawls and reticules were torn from their shoulders and arms ; and several gentlemen were soon " eased" of such " moveables" as watches, purses, &c. A gentleman residing at No. 11, Rood-lane, in the city, had a valuable diamond pin taken from his bosom while escorting som e ladies to the boxes. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The meetings and resolutions, and petitions of the landed gentlemen are going on. The Magistrates of Sussex, with Lords Chichester and Gage at their head, have followed the ex ample (whether wise or constitutional is another question) of the county of Kent, by appealing to the Duke of Wellington on " the distresses which exist in every part of the country, com mercial as well as agricultural." Why do these Magistrates address the Duke of Wellington on • such a subject ? His Grace is not Secretary for the Home Department, with whom it is the ' official duty or privilege of inferior justices throughout the realm to communicate on mat ters affecting the general interest of the state. Nor is the Duke Lord Lieutenant of the county of Sussex. We are therefore somewhat at a loss to ascertain why these magisterial pitiers of the poor have bestowed their tediousness on tint First Lord of the Treasury. But the Sussex Magistrates busy themselves about " commer cial" distress.. The " commercial" distress arises, like all other distress, from the high taxes upon the necessaries of life, under which those who carry on English commerce, directly or indirectly, labour. Low as are the wages paid by merchants and manufacturers, compared with the price of articles of subsistence throughout this country, such wages are still high enough in many cases to create very formidable barriers to the growth of our commercial and manufacturing industry. Instead of calling for a repeal of the Malt Tax merely, repeal the law which enhances the price of bread, give the people bread on easy terms, and our competition with foreigners in the pro duction of every article requiring skill, capital, and mechanical power, as well as in the trans ' port of such articles all over the world, will speedily remove from us every vestige of " com mercial distress." Again, the Magistracy of Sussex deplores the " agricultural" distress of the country, and recommends to the protection of Government, the " occupiers of land, and the labouring population" im mediately dependent on them. It appears to us, that Government might well return the compliment, and earnestly recommend both the occupiers of land and their labourers to the mercy and humanity of these milky-hearted ma gistrates. The occupiers of land would find relief in other expedients besides a remission of the Malt-tax. What think you, my lords and gentlemen, of a reduction of their rents ? So the dependent labourers may properly beseech the Magistrates of Sussex not to confine their solici tude to a diminution of the tax on manufac tured barley ; for what would be the conse quence of a redaction of the tax alone ? Why, that the fall of price occasioned by such dimi nution of duty would be met very shortly by a rise qf rent, which would open a fresh battery of suffering upon the " dependent labourers." Barley, made more accessible by the liberality of the Legislature, would thus be made as difficult as ever of access, by the rapacity of many who have seats in the Legislature, and of many of their brethren who have not. No ;if you wish to secure cheap malt and home-brewed ale to the people, take off the oppressive tax on fo reign barley, and make the poor man's malt independent of the rich man's cupidity. A pro position like this, from the landlords to the Go vernment, would show some touch of real and unfeigned compassion towards the general dis tress. The wants of the people may be com prehended in the scantiness of bread and beer ; for, if these were abundant, clothing would soon keep pace with them. Abolish, therefore, the tax which cuts off the supply of wheat, and that which prohibits the raw material of malt, and the difficulty is at once got rid of; and the hearts of Honourable Gentlemen, which now bleed with painful sympathy, will overflow with grati tude and joyous exultation. As for any opera tion upon the Malt-tax but that of its entire overthrow, we are of opinion that it would pro duce but a mutilated and imperfect good. The army of excisemen would still remain to torment and prey upon us, on pretence of guarding a tax of 2d. on the bushel, just as pertinaciously as one of 20s.—Times. We call public attention to the meeting and resolutions of the magistracy of the metropoli tan county, on the subject of gin-shops. The subject was brought forward by Mr. Serjeant Pell, and though that Learned Gentleman him self and his respectable colleagues could not tell us more than we knew of the dreadful evil by them unanimously denounced, yet still, from their official situation, they added the seal of authority to our previous representations and re monstrances. It is proper to notice also, that the principal Police Magistrates of the Metro polis—Sir Richard Birnie, of Bow -street, Mr. Chambers, of Union-hall, and Mr. Rawlinson, of Maryiebone, men best acquainted with the state of crime, and the incitements to it—were present, and gave their warmest support to the resolutions,—their fullest coufirmation of the mischief described. Ministers, we have no doubt, will attend, so well as they are able, to representations coming from such a quarter : but it is difficult to say what can be done. If the price of the spirit be raised by taxation, smug gling would ensue ; yet still this seems the most obvious and feasible method. Smuggling, which is only a partial and local evil, is 'more tolerable than general demoralization of the lower orders. By a late Act of Parliament, which we believe has turned out wholly nugatory, it was allowed to retail beer at a low price, on condition that the parties drinking it were not admitted into the house to sit down, and brought their own pots. Suppose it were prohibited to sell gin (at least in less quantities than a gallon) at any other place than the shop-windows, the drinkers not being admitted to enter the house—decent people might thus be prevented from indulging in the dreadful propensity ; and the police might take charge of those who were getting drunk, and disperse crowds.—/hid. In the 83d number of the Quarterly Review, published yesterday, there is a most ominous article on the internal state of the country, which, from its seeming candour, and the plausibility of some of the statements, is calculated to produce a considerable impression at the present moment. The conclusion at which a single-minded reader can hardly fail to arrive is, that the best thing the Duke of Wellington could do, after the as sembling of Parliament, would be to proceed with a body of the New Police to the House if Commons, and purge that body somewhat in the manner in which Cromwell purged it. The Reviewer endeavours to show that accident alone could not give such an assemblage of imbecility and dullness as we have in the House of Com mons, because the House of Lords, which con tainsit s amongt only the share of given n stupidity number erof n which e nature ,i ds rHcoaiulseo,nlaynbdet ac counted g o r l e e at d ly iff s e u re p t e lc ri e or ag to ain t st e t h L e how lat e t latter for from the mode of election having a peculiar tendency to favour the discovery and return of the most worthless men of the commu nity. We were horrified when we read the de scription given of the popular part of our Legis lature, bearing in mind, as we do, the laws against bringing either House of Parliament into contempt, and some late proceedings in the Court of King's Bench. "We cannot," says the Reviewer, " refrain at the outset flora intimating it as our firm persuasion, that who ever listens attentively to the tone of language which is now heard in the unrestrained inter course of the higher as well as the lower classes of society, will be constrained to admit that the resoluticns and proceedings of the Legislature, and especially of the house of Commons, no longer command that respeet and submission with which they were wont to be regarded. So long as the representatives of a free people, in whatever manner they may be selected, continue to discharge their duty with wisdom and firm ness, no class of men can be named who re. ceive a larger share of the love and veneration of their countrymen ; but there is none whose dereliction of duty is visited with more mor tifying alienation and neglect. Whet! a po pular body begins to degenerate, it - affects it, deprecate all injudicious harshness and austerity, when the end can be equally attained by being more measured both in their language and reso lutions. The people perceive the change, and after a while an evident abatement ensues of the expectations which are formed of their delibera tions. After this they become so idle and in attentive, that they stiffer the business which comes before them to pass too much as a matter of course; and this in its turn causes their proceed ings to be treated with carelessness, and some= times with disrespect. In the last stage of decay they serve merely as a pageant, and are despised as only serving to register the Decrees of the Executive Government, which they have neither the virtue to modify nor to resist. . . . That a proportion of that Assembly now consists of gentlemen of great capacity and acquirements there can be no dispute. Neither is it assumed that the House of Commons Ms, at any former period, composed wholly or principally of per sons of extraordinary endowments, any more than in the present day. But whether it be that the House has sunk, or that the well-educated part of the community has risen, it would be difficult to maintain that, as a body, they now constitute the chosen of the Commons of the realm, in the same sense in which they did some time ago. Let any person listen to their ordinary conversation or reasoning, or sit down to the perusal of the thoughts they may have comrrotted to writing, and they are not only found inferior to private individuals among their contempori ries, but one seldom recognizes the gray et mind and Statesman-like qualities which the re-' presentatives of a free and enlightened country might be supposed to possess." What! and is this a true and faithful description of the Col lective Wisdom of the nation? Alas! alas! and is it come to this ? Is this the Trib,mal which arrogates to itself little less than Omnis cience—which sits in judgment on, or at least brings before it the affairs of every country and people, in every part of the world—for which nothing is too exalted, nothing too low —which has energies for controuling the conduct of the Brahmins in India, Slave-drivers in our Sugar-colonies, and Parish Vestries at home— which boasts that its doors are open to the oppress ed under every Government—that it is the Grand Tribunal, before which the Kings and subjects of every European nation must equally appear ; is this the Tribunal which the Quarterlg Re view describes as the elite of the imbeciles of the nation ? But how is it that the House of Commons is so constituted ? This the Re viewer endeavours also to account for. " One of the surest ways (he observes) of making and keeping a representative independent in his con duct, is to keep him independent in his circum stances. When the heat of the moment has evaporated, a member too often finds himself involved in expense, which he could neither fore see nor calculate, and for which no honour or credit he may obtain by his services can prove a sufficient compensation. There is no work, therefore, which would better befit the House of Commons than seriously to set about the reduc tion of the cost of eleetions, both in towns and shires. In large counties it is perfectly intole rable, and secures a monopoly of the reprc- sentation in the heads of a fevr of the wealthiest families, whe►her they deserve it or not, either from their character, conduct, or opinions. In proof of this it is said, that at the last general election for Yorkshire, Mr. Bethel! and his sup porters were willing to have advanced a sum of 20 or 30,0001. on the contest; but it was found that this enormous fund was utterly inadequate for the purpose, although that gentleman was almost unanimously alloTved to nave been the fittest of all the candidates for the representa tion. The present Solicitor-General, on being re-elected for Weymouth, after receiving his appointment, told the Electors, on being in sulted by the rabble for not discharging certain claims brought before his Committee, with a degree of courage infinitely to his honour, that the costs of the Election had already amounted to no less than 6,0001., which he had hardly earned by his professional exertions ; that in justice to his family he could not advance more ; and that if they persevered in such a system of extravagance and extortion, no honest or independent man either would or could come forward as a candidate for their suffrages." In short, the system of election in this country pre vents all from offering themselves as candidates, but those who, of all others, are the least fit for business—that is men of overgrown fortunes. The County Members, as is well observed by the Reviewer, are necessarily the worst. It has indeed long been notorious, that with very few exceptions, the only men who preserve to the House of Commons any remnant of character for ability, are the nominees of Borough-holders. The very idea of throwing away a fortune in a contested election either in county or town, supposes an unusual combination of vanity and imbecility. After all, however, it does net ap pear so clear to us that the House of Lords is so superior to the House of Commons in abilities. The debate in the Lords is,with a few exceptions, engrossed by the men who have been raised to the Peerage on account of known qualifications. file body of the Peers are not so eager to expose their ignorance and imbecility as the body of the Commons ; and this, we think, is to be ac counted for from the Peers possessing merely the ordinary average of vanity, whereas a man must be vain enough to conceive himself highly ta lented, as the Irish phrase it, before he pur chases au opportunity for display at the price of an inroad into his fortune. However this may be, it is clear that without a change in the System of Election the House of Commons must sink lower and lower in the general estimation. It has been often remarked, that before the people were brought forward by the Reformation, the