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MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " Mexican Banditti"—as its title imports— is interesting, and will amply reward the reader's attention. The same may be said of the gos siping and too brief article, entitled " Parlia mentary Anecdotes," from which we select the following anecdotes:— " The late Mr. William Woodfall may he regarded as the father of newspaper Parliamentary reporting in a full and satisfactory manner. Mr. Woodall did not take a note. He relied entirely upon memory, the retentive ' power of which, as evinced by the fidelity of his reports, obtain e d fur him the character of a very extraordinary man. So jealous was the House at that time of a prac tice now not merely tolerated but encouraged, Mr. "Wiwi/Ilan, when lie•visited.the . gallery, was obliged rto study concealment, under the apprehension of being turned out if seen by the Speaker, or any Member particularly adverse to his purpose, and zealous to maintain the rules of the House. It was his practice, upon such occasions, to smuggle himself into the gallery, under cover of one or two friends, and to take his station on the front row, im mediately behind the clock, whete he remained out of the sight of the body of the House. The newspaper re ports of Parliamentary debate since Mr. Woodfal!'s time, afford a tolerably fair account of what has been spoken in 'Parliament ; indeed, at the present time, that portion of a daily journal is executed with surprising fidelity, but the .representation is imperfect in a very important point : the great variety of matter taken in at the eye is wanting; the drapery, the embellishment, the action of the &Tile, so interesting a feature in oratory, are absent from the re port. We hear the thunder, but see not the lightning,. whether it plans in a lambent, harmless flame. or, flashiY;l4 furiously, marks its fiery course with destruction. ',AG.' deficiency will be explained in ti scenes laetKrta;inkirle scribed, in which a few of the light autValmitile:patia are represented with the respective pesfotPaelistf but rejecting all grave and serious matter. • ," Of alt tile orators in tbst, s..f Commons within the interval mentioned id:tit-most excelled in ex citing merriment, and'thus felieving the sombre character of grave and *serious Vt:h.tre..., He sought to amuse with as snitch avidity as tis co . /Nina; he never rose in the House without produCing laughter by some stroke of wit before he sat don it and the audience would have been disap pointed i.t is, speech; however eloquent, had he. concluded wititotit making the attempt. With all the resources a fruitful genius and brilliant-fancy could supply, he did not disdain to resort to even a practical joke to effect this pur pose. An instance of this kind °centred in a debate upon' .he Dog Tax, in which he either had, or made oecasiont.t' pass on the floor between Mr. Pitt and the table. rtli. Pitt was sitting in his usual seat on the Treasury-liettch, and in his usual attitude, with his head thrown heel his hgs projecting, which not being withdrawn, Me. f;iihe_ ridau, as he approached, stooped down, 'With iistsist as it were to nip theni,, accompanying the action With the ap. propriate canine bark of ' bow, wow, wow of.tuols imitated, and loud enough to be lieSrd in Pvlitv , part-of the House. This sally, so aptly a4ociateti with the debate, had the desised etfeut. The House way convulsed with laughter. Mr. Sheridan's wit, lo,never, both in and out of the House, Lao been so commonasto.ject of conver satiou,at,tnae be a necess4suto p s us it - by without farther atoticeotpd p•tactq t tittitaxter of inferior merit and quality, but ,;birds us sv beattoreraecttptable, as being less known to vir V4A3et4kelient and the Bedouins," from the pen “ipe'-gilitioso 'Of Mr. Came, abounds in all the •. , 7iiteliness of detail, and richness and force of colouring, for which this eminent traveller is remarkable. We much regret that we, cannot gratify our readers with a specimen or two: " Letters from New York" are characteristic and amusing : the subject, however, is becoming, somewhat " stale," and what is worse, " un profitable." " Recollections of a Gottingen Student" is an improvement on the style and quality of the former papers on this subject. The remaining articles we must dismiss with the remark that they are light and pleasant reading. MONTHLY, REVIEW, . From the singular. circumstance of this Re view corning to -hand' in decent time - for perusal, we:have been enabled to glance our eyes on its pages, and convince ourselves that it is a very good number, , We will confess, however, that the article to which we have mainly' directed our attention, is a Review of a 111 r. John Saint Long John, or Saint John's Discoveries--,aut peocunque alio nomine gaudet—whose theory of acrid matter, by the removal of which 'from the human frame this modern Galen professes to cure—no, not to cure, but actually to annihi late AI-nail-pox, measles, consumption, and a thousand .and one other disorders of the same calibre, is handled with severity, but, as appears to us, with great powers of judgment and dis crimination. We had always heard—and we beg leave to say it with deference and hesitation, not being of the medical profession----that a cer tain quantity of acrid matter, like a certain quantity of bile, was necessary for the proper regulation of the animal functions. If this be the fact, upon what principle, save the ambitious one of. setting himself up in opposition to i the immutable laws and dictates of nature, and proving that he ,is far superior, does Mr. St. John Long pretend, at this the eleventh hour, to assert that the removal of, acrid matter is necessary to the well-being of the physical constitution ? Surely, by removing this acrid matter, he removes that which is in dispensable to life, and so far succeeds, it must' be confessed, in removing small-pox, measles, or his pet disease, consumption ; for, when once life is removed, it is pretty evident, even to a gentleman of' Mr. St. John Long's intelligence, that disease is removed also, unless indeed it be pestilence! We have neither space nor inclina tion to .enter further into detail respecting this monstrous. humbug ; so shall content ourselves with quoting the Reviewer's observations on the property and province of quackery. They are stamped with truth and earnestness:— " From St. John Long's history of h is own pretensions, we turn :o the catalogue of his pet formances, as they ate described in sundry epistles, familiar and otherwise, all of them the spontaneous effusions, be tells us, of his grateful patients. There was a Lord Girdle tone once, who was induced from pecoliar reasons to undertake the difficult and tedious task of investigating, personally, alleged vases of wonderful cures, the supposed patients themselves being the attesting witnesses. Tio,record of this anecdote adds, that his Lordship found during the inquiry, that upwards of two-thirds of the persons asserted to have been cured, had died almost immediately after they experienced the isenefit of the genitive process! We do not memi to in isiatuate that Sir John Long has established any thing like the same rate of mortality amongst his confiding acquaint.. once. W 5 will indulge the gentleman as far as even his nsodosty may &lose to draw upon us. litf - e yield obedient credit to his appendix dew - respondence ; we raise no objection to the documentary testimony which he has adduced; alt,lt.ough there is, occasionally, we confess, an intermission of dates and places of :Ahem, which exceedingly scrupulous people might make matter of grave observation, bast which We are willing to believe, mayte satisfactorily explained. We take it, then, for granted,` ltat M G Rt. John Long has cured an abundance of patients, not, howevee, any thing near the number which has been effected by Pr. Judy, Or the Messrs. Jordan, or any of the thousand empiries, that lift theinselves for a time into profitable fume amongst the signortsti." - 7 The success of a quack is not a thing of yes terday from the beginning of the world impudent pie tensiod, has !leen the (Teeter of unbounded confidence, and the instances ate AMA. few in which, after the appliances of rational physic lia.ve failed, the mummeries of a merry Andrew have been attendesl with a oignal triumph. It is impossible, for inexperienced persons to believe the vast agency which the imagination exercises over the animal frame. John Hunter has cured an epidemic by adminis tering pills which the patients were assured would infal !ably cure them. The wonderful remedy consisted of nothing but crumbs of bread ! We believe that the London lady is not yet extinct who removes every description of disease merely by wagging her thumb over the patient. She absolutely has netted a thousand a-year. When we con sider the state of hope or rather of confidence to which a young, and, from long suffering, a very excitable female, for instance, is wrought by the presence of en imposing and disciplined cure-monger, it will not be difficult to ex plain the cases, of apparently wonderful cures which it is always the care - ' ;n credul:' gate. Then ht empiric is called of health Lis ju , the patienes fr But, however w of quackery, th thing can, ough fully sensible o comes it, that description of n, time, and at mai rent character. trums, essential] effects, have bee, same disorder. stage, has been quacks can pro' by acids, by alin this patient lire it has been t.024 . ‘„, which put 7 o . lo - stiffTer into a charming sleep; and now we me.. , -;V:4, th:it the discharge of acrid matter from the alone effect a cure ! Instead, then, of believing it is by any mysterious agency of medicine that all .tliese quacks have been able to restore health, seeing how different their respective remedies are for the same dis temper, how much more reasonable is it to suppose that their success depends on that description of influence which is common to them all, namely, the influence ari-ing front an assumption of superior knowledge and of so it.railie' power 'of dissipating disease." The remaining articles in thisnionherarc dur.- anguished, each more or,k hy . :( l .nlity and good sense—in which list crialiLy; we Serve, the Monthly lif.view deficirnt., In 0-oyd steriino. , tione En !t. h SeiiSe / - 0 t, it is titil)o4t . tiny: . I.(tNitoti t - NIVEIV 4 ITY Arikt.AZINE. . A vAi .4)l:mlisii,.llantous matters, which h a v e e 1-o,vded hea\-ily , on' us in consequence of the Life heavy .PaAiathentary Debates, must be 06r ex;.. 4 . 1 1k, 1i r:4bridging within the compass of a lec'y 4ntences our,notice of this really excel leuf Magazine, which were it only for the spirit and interest of its goblin tale, " The Eve of Walpurgis," would deserve high commendation. But it has other merits as well, to ensure its de cided success. It has more than the usual average of intelligence, and a judicious variety, alternating fitly from the " grave to the gay," is kept up throughout its pages. throughout heavy, and fitter for a scientific En cyclopdia than the pages of a light, sparkling and popular Magazine. c , The Corsican Ban dit" is a tale well conceived and as well executed. We have no space for extracts. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The second notice of Moore's matchless life of Byron, which fronts the last page' of Mr. „ Blaekwood's advertisements, in this- itninber, is distinguished by the usual.- . Ntre»gt t of feeling 4. .. who knows the eccentricities of a them to their proper of Byron's favourite rod, are as true to life and most heart-stirring well expressed. .To another " with all his :tit," is gratifying.--if ~ Of the remaining i ns in this t?. ult l 4,:tour . present . thcv a 1...! ably per - 4.6.1, - 4 .11 respect: ; a' . lit „ li ft, one. But the M. , — eis (Ichfivitt - 111' strong masculine ability. , find —, •ft, now alive, he would ha;.%: l ii.z :in whnirable prose contributor (not poc.,t) to Blackwood. — We give. the. f...)flo:,:nig :::witple of its ability. It it; by: Mrc ~Ileu t aus Itri4MM Or, GENIUS. ••x :-.*though light be from us gone radiance, bright, yet restless one! No tears for thee! Thcrib,A - iffive loved an exile must not mourn • Tu ? tOilm parting for his native bourne, O'er the dark sea. ..All the high music of thy spirit here. Breathed but the language of another sphere, Unechoed round; And strange, though sweet, as midst our weeping skies,. Some halt-remember'd song of Paradise Might sadly sound. Hast thou been answer'd P Thou that from the night, And from the voices of the tempest's might, And from the past, Wert seeking still some oracle's reply, To pour the secrets of Man's destiny Forth on the blast. }last thou been answer'd ?—thou that through the gloom, And shadow, and stern silence of the tomb, A cry didst send, So passionate and deep, to pierce, to move, To win back token of unburied love From buried friend. And hast thou found where living waters burst P Thou that didst pine amidst us in the thirst Of fever-dreams ! Are the true fountains thine for evermore ? Oh ! lured so long by shining mists that wore The light of streams 1 Speak !is it well with thee ? We call as thou, With thy lit eye, deep voice, and kindled brow, Wert wont to call On the departed ! Art thou blest and free ? Alas ! the lips earth covers, ev'n to thee, Were silent all ! Yet shall our hope rise, fann'd by quenchless faith, As a flame foster'd by some warm wind's breath, In light upaprings, Freed soul of song ! Yes! thou hast found the sought, Borne to thy home of beauty and of thought, On morning's wings. And we will deem it is thy voice we hear, When life's young music, ringing far and clear, O'erflows the sky : No tears for thee! the lingering gloom is ours— Thou art for converse with all glorious powers, Never to die! I tustniguiEneu Dy the USIla of these traffickers in credul:ty to promul- low many instances are there, in which the ! and thought of Profeki9l' - .: el in at that critical moment when the germ h , 4 - .. , o . w t? syrrt_ e pat.4lF , _ , e:, , with t List sprung into imperceptible existence in 'name, the result of the former treatment. 'mind 14c - tri , itids,_ affif jay l aeCisi : 4:Lt' - 144i[stintlication i NT may account for those apparent victories 'ere is one feature of its history which, if any L ~,,•!?:-,,-, ht to open the eyes of those who are yet not. ;!?,, ; , cr,„ 4 a ti thiring boylim of the wickedness of euthiring it: II ftsr,,Viii`ol:ll96fSliakspeare's best a the self same disease has yielded tc,t ij r ti**l - 4' ie:lttiinents, and nearly as 1 applioation in the bands of a ntii,atitt': 'other time, to a remedy of a- r uvt „. _ s.e one great poet praising a Nothing is more certaiti4tki: ' l l !.° ll- } soul and with a ll his strengi Ily opposite in their InittrAWstitifis, and I only for its extreme novelty, !en attncted to prisii4;s 2 t,tfi;4'4444;ll of the Consumption; Iff:ioiioplt, in the like articles, and they are numerot proved eofn'elth4 compurgators of the contracted limits we soy otitigl'fir !Live been cured in turns unusually {tali's, 1 4:01.45hie., by stimulants, by making from saying more than that e bi e .. r,- dqtl waking that patient live low ; and that the number is iii 3 ncieftly removed by animal magnetism, one. Rid. ft., ra.„ ,7;,,A MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The present is in almost every respect a supe rior number, possessing spirit, energy, sarcasm, research, and variety. " The Opening of the Session of Parliament," which stands at the head of the articles, is very, powerfully written : in the justice of not a few of the observations we cor dially coincide, though we think they are pushed to the extreme verge of judgment. " The Fourteenth, or the Ugly Man," is a whimsical extravaganza, descriptive of the sufferings of a man who has the misfortune to be ugly. When we come to consider how many men are in the same predicament we are surprised at the writer laying such stress on the miseries of personal— not deformity—but ugliness. On a handsome average, strictly, impartially, and mathematically calculated, six out of every ten men are ugly dogs, and the seventh is a perfect fright ; yet here we have a man lamenting through eight closely-printed pages the disadvantages attending his having an exuberant nose of the snub species. As an exercise of ingenuity this article presents claims to public favour : the author can spin like a silk-worm, and reversing the old proverb ex nihilo nil ft, make a strong something out of an unpromising nothing.' " The Existing Disabilities of the Jews" argues very liberally and sensibly in favour of the removal of such disabilities : " But we can discover no sufficient reason why the Jew, if a natural-born subject of Great Britain, should not possess every privilege attached to so fortunate a distinc tion. He already exercises one office, which perhaps, more important to society than any other that England contemplates; he sits on juries, and thus decides on life and fortune. We are not aware that he has exhibited any unfitness for this important trust ; and the chief qualities which it demands are satisfactory evidences of his fitness for the other genenil trusts of the Commonwealth. 'We unhesitatingly lay down the principle, that religious opi nions are not justifiable obstructions to puLlic employ ments or national privileges, except where out of those r e ligious opinions political prejudices or hostilities grow.— To such exceptions the papist is as obviously exposed as the Jew is not ; and on this ground we say, that the exclu sion of the Jew is not less an act of injustice to himself than a wrong to the country which is deprived of the public services of a portion of its people. As to any fear that the public councils may be perverted by the overflow of Jews into the Legislature, the idea is chimerical. The Jews are a small community ; in general a very poor one; and in general a very secluded and unambitious one. They have no party stimulant to urge them to faction, and the strong probability is, that if half a dozen of them became Members of Parliament, it would be the full number, and that of those the attention would be much more turned to commercial than political details. The whole population of Ike Jews in England is estimated under 30,000. The religious maxim of the Jews is also directly adverse to public disturbance, 5e4 ye the peace of the city where ye dwell, and pray for it, foe in the peace thereof ye shall have peace I' The Jew looks upon himself as tot r4stinct, and perhaps of too superior a race, to make the s t rugg 4,l f or popular rank in other nations of much in terest to hito hp retains a good deal of the original irn pression of the pstriarplial age of sojourning and pil grimage ; and, looking, like his great forefather, to a glo rious consummation in his original land, feels bpt few of the stings that rouse other men to force their way to emi nence #p the perilous path of human passions. The Jew has been often a ,victim to popular violence or to regal ra • pacity ; but it is ronsrlcahlet that during the long period of their residence in the British Ampfre, there has been no Jewish insurrection. Mr. Goldsmid irs.sertv 7 that there ha pot been even a single instance of a Jew being,—f he does not jai guilty, but even suspected, of any offence against the state/ " If the wealth of the .Jena he a subject of alarm to those who naturally desire to see Cbribh4PY take the lead in a Christian Legislature, the answer is, that thp 41: a body, are, perhaps, next to the gipsies, the poorest bod y ' ;n England. A few of their community are always men of great wealth. Yet even that wealth is liable to strange fluctuations, an 4 there seems to be something in the nature of Jewish opulence tb, - ,:t r e .lways and in all corm tries prohibits it from taking the shape Usolid ga4pyblicly irs4,2ntial property. But if alarms still exist, the Jew is ready tp gger the strongest declaration that British law can require, as his ,Issprance against disturbing the Reli gion or Constitution of Epgr:and • . He is ready substan tially t„take all the oaths demanded of the piFsenters— his ,coily objecti,47! being to the phrase, the faith of Christian' —a clause whirl; must be altogether saltier); its to spy security in his instance, if he were to adopt it; but wloch 44 national belief prohibits hips to a4ept." " Tiw Progress of Physieo Piscoyery," as its sQbject would import displays traces of iio slight research it is also p;n,cli4ly and ,in (me or two instances very eloluently written—r.-but is UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. This is the best number we have yet seen of this Miscellany, it is full of stirring incident, description, and animation, and is characterised by an easy unambitious vein of writing. We subjoin as a favourable sample of the number the description of a frigate reposing, as the late Mr. Canning eloquently observed, " on its own shadow :" • "Being detained on leaving the Tulloch Castle. in examining other ships of the convoy, we. did not reach the frigate until near midnight. On mounting the quarter deck of this superb ship, I could not help being struck by the coup which even then I snatched previous to being ordered below for the night. An unclouded autum nal moon rendered the effect snore striking, and - while its dubious light left a range for the imagination, produced an impression not readily to be effaced. In spite of the fatigues of the day, the novelty of my situation and tone of feeling, to which might be added the position, not one which invited to soft repose,' of my couch, on the bare deck, squeezed pell well with sundry other ' strange bedfellows" with which, according to the old adage, ad versity made us acquainted,' among chests and bedding, left me little disposition to court that first of Nature's kind restorers, balmy sleep ;' and I well remember, that with a curiosity excited by the cursory glance I had just snatched, when all was hushed, I arose, and stole on deck to examine, more at leisure, the theatre to which chance had so unexpectedly transferred me. ' 6 'Twas past midnight; the moon neatly at the full, was still shining brightly. Not a breath of air rippl e d the translucent wave which reflected her beams, and not a sound was heard save the rippling of the tide against the bows of the ship, or at intervals the ' all's well' of the sentinels of some distant vessel. All was repose above and below. Our sentries, as will now and then be the ease in harbour in the best regulated ships, appeared to be nodding on their posts, and the officers and mids of the watch had either stolen below to solace themselves with the customary refreshment of a middle watcher, or were tranquilly coiled between the carronades stealing a nap, or listlessly lounging over the gangway or hammock 'settings, absorbed in those waking dreams which the hour and the scene wrs so calculated to engender. With emotions strongly excited by the events of the last twenty-four hours, I contemplated with admiration the arrangement which characterized the ' tout ensemble'—the' white and amp'e decks ; those proudly towering colossal masts, the trimness of the rigging, the symmetrical files of those ponderous en gines of destruction, bristling forth from her varnished sides;—and, when to all this was associated the halo which gave the magic gilding and secret charm to the whole,—the proud pre-eminence and well-earned fame of the British Navy,—a thrill of enthusiasm made me forget the humble part I was filling in the scene, and dissipated for the mo ment the depression which my present circumstances were so well calculated to occasion. The M— was a crack frigate, and one of the largest in the service,—she was in .full cruising trim, and a perfect model of her classl.need I say that the effect upon me was proportionate."•. •. ASIATIC JOURNAL The improvement which took place. in - this old established Journal has never once been suffered to flag : in the two last numbers of the new series, there has been a very marked and beneficial alteration, which the present number keeps up with undiminished force. The grow ing importance of the East India Question must render this publication more interesting than ever, for it possesses from its tong and natural connexion with our Indian Empire many sotircez; of information inaccessible to rival works. Its tendency we must, at the same time remark, is decidedly favourable to the Corn? pany, as the following extract will show : 's•Thia que.;tion ; which has so long agitated the public mind, has now been put into a course of salisractory in vestigation, by the appointment of a Select Cpuimittee of Inquiry in each House of Parliament. As to the result of the investigation, we may venture to predict, that it will be somewhat at variance with the conclusions of those win) haze expeditiously and compendiously framed their opinion, respecting this itiot important question, without any evidence at all. " In after time 9, or even when the tumult of excited passions shall have been allayed 11 a decision of the Legis lat!sre 4pon this subject, it will become matter of astonish ment that any considerable portion of the people of England should live been such egregious dupes to imposture ; that rp nof common understanding, the nineteenth century, .§1300(1 enrol themselves in a wild crusade, at the preaching of a Peter the Hermit or a Walter the Penniless ; and that a British public, claiming the title of enlightened,' g young ladies we ; f i fteen years of ag e fo to r le ie r .:t t 4 e, rifi amongst other quackin g ex p e di eu t s , pro 'plos. hoiti ... nto an abhorrence" of the East-India Company at a charge of one shilling a head ! " One of our essayists (Dr. Goldsmith) has facetiously imputed to the English nation the weakness of being always the voluntary victim of some prevailing apprehension : sometimes it has been a French invasion, sometimes mad dogs, and sometimes ghosts. The delirium of the present day seems tit be a phobia of the East-India Company, which is prolonged beyond the term of existence usuaLy allotted to the ephemeral delusions, by the artifices and for the purposes of a party. " The career of this party is, however, now verging to a close. Deliberate inquiry is fatal to every species of quackery ; anl it is, therefore, not to be wondered at, that tEe partizans of the free-traders, even in Parliament, now deprecate inquiry, and seriously call for legislation without it ! We find, from the reports in the newspapers, that, in the debate in the Commons, on the 9th of February, one of the Members. for Bristol protested against the course pursued, in the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry, and proposed that the House should consider of the mea sures proper to be adopted at once, and prior to any in quiry whatever ! " The temperate and judicious remarks which fell from the members .0 his Majesty's Government, when the motions were - mmle, do them infinite el , :dit, and will tend t••.: cairn the apprritenmiong of insny, .who, without the sat3lest interett in. the issue of. the question beyond that width belongs to every in lividual in the empire, were iti:/vined iit the qrpgrent preponderance which popular fzeling, set•tned to have acquired in respect to it. For our sc-ivlki, - we never had any such apprehensions: the ides of -1-.+74 , 43 2 0ty without inquiry never certainly occurred to us, r-1 .43 4 IT:d *4 had. no sort of fear that inquiry would not - trally expose the fallacies and falsehoods which have I 'een circulated throughout the country." FRASER'S AIAGAZINE. The Editor of this Magazine promised in his first number, if we remember rightly, that his second should be glorious, his third miraculous, and his fourth perfection, if not something bet ter. Now we cannot find any traces of superla tive ability in the present number; it is clever, very clever, but so is every sixth man one meets now-a-days--so is every other number of Black wood's Magazine, or ocany other Magazine, Review, or Journal, weekly, monthly, quarterly annual, or otherwise. The best article in the number is decidedly the one on Byron, in which a spirited, but somewhat harsh estimate, is formed of the poet's private character, while an ample and eloquent meed of justice is rendered to his poetic abilities. When, however, the writer prefers Manfred to Satan (we mean Mil ton's, of course), we cannot but think that there is something of affectation or insincerity in his praise. " Poetry of the Magyars" is a review in imitation of Prolessor Wilson's rambling style of criticism—half serious, half sarcastic, an amusing medley of broad humour, and acute criticism— in Blackwood. Its eloquence, however, as also its powers of discrimination, are inferior to the Professor's ; though in a certain broad vulgar humour, akin to buflbonery, it is greatly supe rior. We subjoin an instance of this extrava gant spirit of facetiousness : it is an anecdote in vented respecting Moore, the poet, the idea of which is excessively humorous, and worthy of Peter Pindar. The writer must have been far advanced in potheen when he wrote it ; we should like to have seen his MSS.,—it must be a ricketty curiosity : "The only time Tommy Moore pleased us was when, after quaffing sixteen glasses of gin and water, he sung the ' Adventures of Paddy Holloway' as many times. (Gentle reader, you may conceive in what a condition the wee bit monster must have been.) We remember laugh ing till our sides were ready to split. He was us drunk as an owl in an ivy-bush when he first volunteered to sing. James Mackintosh was there, and he. tipped us the wink: the party was drunk, and the national bard of Erin struck up in fine style ' Paddy Holloway.' When he ended, ap plause followed ; and when that ceased; the shrimp of a fellow again perked himself up in his chair, and volun teered another song. We had had enough of his cater wauling, and wanted to drink our liquor in quietness ; but Jem Mackintosh tipped us another wink, and the remonstrance on the tip of our tongue retired and laid down behind the Epco; 0 ,1 ;or. - c.e'v like a growling . Cer berus. God bless your noble hearts !' drawled out the bit of a man, with a lisp, a slow stutter, and a drunken laugh,—' God Lim your noble and worthy hearts !' I can sing: who says I can't? Botheration to those who do ! But, Lord love ye ! that isn't my best song—though I sink that very well—Hi ! ha ! ha! hi! hi ! I have a hundred others, as you know, and good ones too, for I write 'em all with this identical little fist of mine. But did you "ever hear me sing Paddy Holloway ?'--a devilish good song : I do it better than any other, and I—sing devilish well, though I say it, that phouldn't—Otal bless us all r —and he struck up again Paddy Holloway !' " The same thing was repeated after each tumbler; of which there being sixteen, ' Paddy Holloway' was re peated sixteen times by the national bard of Erin—' upon our veracity.' "Perhaps, our delectable reader, thou wouldat fain know something of this most pleasant ditty. Thou shalt have every word of it, fur it demonstrates the folly of fight ing duels, metaphysically considered. Matters of duelling have been rife, of late, in this our land, in consequence of the example shown by our thrice-llorious first Lord of the Treasury, immortal Wellington ; seconded, as that ex ample was, by the efforts of Sir Skipjack Sugden and our own: dear Tom Tough of ultra Tories, Sir Charles Wetherell. Here, our worthy gentleman or lady, is the song. It was given us by pigmy Moore himself, after his sixteenth tumbler as aforesaid For when he had warbled it sixteen 'times, without being conscious that he was giv it more than once, we all burst out into a horse-laugh at the drollery of the circumstance ; and the little hero began to wax wrathful, and to splutter like a fish in a frying-pan, or a roasting chestnut. We appeased him by protesting that we bad just heard him 'for the first time, and that it was the choicest of earthly melodies. Thomas / grinned like a green-tailed monkey, and insisted on giving each of the company a copy of the song. He called for pen, ink, and paper, and began scribbling odd, queerish figures, which were afterwards found to be meant fur old English. He had, however, only time to transcribe it once (we are the owner of that precious holograph), when away slipped the chair from under him, and whack he came on the floor. PADDY HOLLOWAY. 0! what a big nose had the brave Captain Norogan! Paddy Holloway he pulled it, until he made it snore again. Whack. fol de riddle! Shoot him through the middle; Whack ! fol de riddle, well..a.day-1 Whack ! fol de riddle! Shoot him through the middle, Kill Paddy Holloway ! Let us meet by the:duck-pond,' said the brave Captain Norogan ; Paddy Holloway shall smoke for it—he never shall snore again.' Whack ! fol de riddle ! &c. So tley chose me for their second, which was odd, I think, in troth, of 'ern ; For t.e who's second man to two men is no more than third man to the both of 'em. Whack ! fol de riddle! &c. So the Captain he fired first, but his was not a lucky shot; Paddy Holloway he fired afterward, and a most beautiful duck he shot. Whack! fol de riddle! &c. Aud then 'twas 1 that forward came, and said, Come let us shake it up ; For, after all, what i, a duel hut fire a couple of shots, and then join fists, and make it up?' • W lock ; fol de riddle! Igo more shooting through the middle. Whack ! fol de riddle, well-a,day ! Whack! fol de riddle ! A bowl of punch, you diva,— Get drunk with Paddy Holloway !' " Sir CHARLES WETtrERxr,L, we understand, has been appointed Counsel to the University of Oxford, vacant by the elevation of Ur. Serjeant BOSA NQU ET to the Bench. The state of trade in the manufacturing vii 14gcs of Ileckmondwike, Mirfiehi, C'leekheaton, High town, Littletown, sirstai , and Pstley, continues very bad, and has even changed for the worse within the last three weeks. Great numbers of the poor weavers are nearly unemployed, and consequently the pres.ure upon the town whips for parochial relief is severely felt. In Dewsbury the state of things is mob better, the long-continued Severe weather having given curisiderable impulse to the blanket trade. If people live in these chilly days and nights, they must have blankets, if they have little else.... 1F a Ichester .advertiser. r FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France of Feb. 27.) PARIS, FEB. 26.—His Eminence Cardinal de Clermont-Tonnerre died on Sunday afternoon, after three days' illness. The Viscount Paultre Delamotte, the Dukes de Maill6, d'Escars, and De Gazes, have just made a complaint before the King's Attorney-General for the Department of the Seine, against Messrs. St. Clair, the authors, and Barbier, the printer, of a pamphlet, entitled To the Chambers: Revelations respecting the Assassination of the Duke de Berri, in which they are pointed out as the instigators and accoinplices of the crime of Louvel. The affair ,will soon be brought before the tribunal. Messrs. Hennequin, Bonnet, jun. and Dupin, sen. will be counsel for the plaintiffs. The day before yesterday, in the morning, a com missary of police and some officers went, by virtue of a judicial circler, to the house of the Baron de St. Clair; Where they seized the pamphlets relative to the assassination of the Duke de Berri. M. de St. Claii 7 ,vyas ,Conveyed to the Prefecture of Police, and put into solitary confinement. (Pim the Monitcur of Friday.) (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) MADRID, FEB. 15.—Ilis Majesty has just created a Supreme Board of Admiralty, under the deno mination of " Consultative Junta of the Depart ment of the Marine." The hero, ship of the line, which has just been repaired at Ferrol, has lately sailed for Cadiz, hav ing on board some hundred infantry, who are to be sent to the Philippine Islands. It is affirmed that a Royal decree is going to be published, which is to restore not only to liberty, but to their rank and employments, about 300 individuals implicated in the insurrection in Catalonia, who are nt present in 'the presidios in Africa. • (From the Messager des Chambres of Friday 7 -2d Edit.) VIENNA, FEB 16.--Metalliques, 103-; Four per Cents., 97i ; Bank Stares, 1,301 1,300. FRENCH FUNDS.—PABIS, FEB. 26.—Five per Cents. 109 f. 20c. 10c. 35e. ; Three per Cents. 83f. 80e. 75c. 80e. ; Rentes de Naples, 92f." 10c. ; Corks Bonds, 12 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 87-if. ; Rentes Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 69k; Haytia■ Loan, 550 E—Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 70e. ; money, 25f. 65c ; three months, paper, 25f. 55c. ; money, 25f. 50c.—Cours • Authentique. MATRICIDE AND SUICIDE. (From the Bents Mercury.) On Tuesday morning the body of a female was found in the New River, at Cheshunt, which appa renty had been but a short time in the water. A white handkerchief was tied over her face and bon net ; and on Wednesday morning a Jury assembled at Cheshunt, to inquire into tire facts of the case. Upon searching the pockets of the deceased, an old pocket-book, a bodkin-case, two keys, a pair of spec tacles, and 11 id. in money, were found; and upon examination of the contents of the pocket-book, it appeared that the body was that of Mrs. Mary Worrill, a widow lady, residing at Hoddesdon, 72 years of age. A messenger was despatched to the residence of the deceased, and the female servant soon afterwards attended, and being sworn stated, that she lived with the deceased and her daughter, Mary Hatton Kimpton, about six months ; that the deceased had been ill for some time, and confined up stairs. On Monday evening Mrs. Kimpton said to witness, upon a return from an errand iuto the town, that herself and mother were obliged to go up the London-road, to meet a person who was afraid to come to the house, to receive some money of him. Witness let them out at the door, arid Mrs. Kimpton desired her to take care of the house, and if any thing happened to them, to drown the cat. This -observation, the witness stated, excited some sur prise in her mind, and she said to Mrs. Kimpton, that she hoped nothing was the matter. Mrs. Worrill said to her daughter that she thought it would be the death of her going out in such a night, and Mrs Kimpton desired her to wrap herself up warm. At the time she went out she had a white handkerchief round her neck, and had her muff. Witness stated that she was much surprised that they did not return home, and sat_ up till four o'clock, but thought they might have gone to Lon don, arid would return in the morning, Heard no thing of either of them till sent for by the Corner. She stated that the deceased and her daughter had been in much trouble lately, about the daughter's husband ; and the daughter was very low and de jected the whole of Monday. Witness identified the body, and all the things found in the pocket of Mrs. Worrill ; and the handkerchief. The muff wag found some distance from the body. The CORONER summed up the facts, and in the absence of any evidence, the Jury returned a ver dict of " Found drowned." Upon its being known that the daughter was also missing, some gentlemen at Hoddesdou commenced dtagging the New River from Broxbourne church, when the drag stopped a g ainst something, which proved to be the body of Mro. Kitupton. It was immediately conveyed to the White Horse, Worm ley, and at four o'clock the Coroner and another Jury proceeded to hold an inquest upon it. The same evidence was given as upon the case of the mother, and the Jury returned a similar verdict of " Found drowned." Nothing was found upon the deceased to elucidate the dreadful tragedy, 'and it was generally supposed that they had both agreed to commit suicide, in consequence of their domestic troubles, but there were circumstances which in duced an opinion that the daughter had first drowned her mother, and afterwards herself. Since the inquests were held, two scrape of paper have been found in the house, in the daughter's hand-writing, which confirm the dreadful imp-es sion that she did drown her mother and herself; and from the position of the arms of the daughter, when found. it would seem that she push ed against her mother; and went into the water with her. An umbrella has also since been found near the Iron-bridge, leading from Hoddesdon to Broxbourne church. The body of the mother had floated nearly seven miles, and that of the daughter two. The following are copies of the scraps of paper above alluded to, which lead to the opinion that the daughter's mind was in a state of aberration : " - I beguiled my beloved parent out to die with me, for I found - had - and made me, without knowing it. - Let all be sold to pay my mother's debts, and a grave large enough for me and my mother. I long * * " M. H. K." " My father waits for us. " I beguiled my mother. I shall a • * because I found the • out he denied our marriage, though I gave 101. to have it private. The man died a year after. To Caine Cheffins.—After all are paid, keep the rest. Pray kill my cat easy. Angels wait us together." We understand that the New Police will be speedily introduced in the city, upon the proposition of Alderman Woon, seconded by Mderman THOMPSON. BRADFORD.—There is perhaps no town in the West Riding of Yorkshire that bears such decided marks of increase and improvement as Bradford, the me tropolis of stuff and worsted trade.—Manchester Advert. HUDDERSFIELD.—The manufacturers of Huddersfie:4 are looking forward to more trade and a greteer price. We understand that foreign wools of a low and middling description have advanced materially in Lon 7 don, in the course of the last few days; English wo. ls have also risen shout 10s. per pack ; and there 'e'-'6 . 41-.4 tolerable demand for low c:oths. We -wish Vil! CdUkl add that wages were likewise advancing...--,Anotl.‘x - account says that at Huddersfield mar! et, on rather less business WAS done than on the two previous market days. The demand for coarse wools, however, continues steady ; they have experienced a considerable advance in price, whilst the finer wools are in like demand at low prices Th, priccipal i woollen mills in the town and neighbourhood are in full work, though profits and wages are still most inadequate. In the fancy trade, in ;he neighbourhood of the town, no improvement can be noted. The whole po pulation continues in a state of abject misery and want ; and, at present, there is certainly no prospect of any improvement in their painful condition.--Nanchester Advertiser. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald.) PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27,—His Majesty's ship Cordelia, 10, Commander C. E. W. Boyle, arrived here on.TuesdsY morning from the Mediterranean, having sailed from Smyrna on the 2d, Paros on the sth, and Malta on the 20th of January, and from Gibraltar on the 11th instant. She left at Smyrna his Majesty's ships Windsor Castle, 76, Captain Hon. P. D. Bouverie ; Wellesley, 74, Cap tain F. L. Maitland ; Favourite, 18, Commander Joseph Harrison ; and Weazle, 10, Commander Charles Modell ; and a Russhn frigate, with Count Ribeaupierre, the Rus sian Ambassador, on his way to Constantinople. At Paros she left his Majesty's ships Asia, 84, Captain W. H. Johnstone, witl► the flag of Vice 'Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm ; Melville, 74, Captain A. W. Schoenberg; Gloucester, 74, Capt. H. Stuart; Rapid, 10, Commander C. H. Swinburne ; Ferret, 10, Commander T. Hastings ; and Mastiff, 6, surveying vessel ; Commander W. .1; Cool ing. The Rapid had arrived at Malta from Plymouth on the 20th of December ; had brought despatches - tote Admiral from Malta, and was to sail for Smyrna in a day or two. His Majesty's ship Procriv, 10, Commander Sir T. Pasley, Bart:, had sailed two days before for Smyrna. His Majesty's ship Philomel (10), Commander Charles Graham, and Meteor bomb, Commander R; Copeland, were expected at Paros from Napoli di Romania: The Cordelia left at Malta his Majesty's ship Britannia (120), Captain George Burdett ; Ocean (80), Commodore Pat. Campbell, C. B. ; Spartiate (76), Captain Fred. Warren ; Revenge (76), Captain N. Thompson; Rattlesnake (28)► Captain the Hon. C. B. Bridgman ; Rifleman (18,) Com mander:- Frederick Thomas Mitchell ; Camelion (10), Commander A. Luckcraft ; Wasp (18), Commander Thomas E. poste; arid Infernal booth, Commander B. Popham, and a Russian line-of-battle ship refitting. The Wasp had arrived from Syra on the 6th of January, and the Infernal from Napoli di Romania on the 18th. His Ma jesty's bomb Erebus, Commander P. Broke, had sailed on the 16th or 17th of January, with the t inail for the'Admiral in the Archipelago. At Gibraltar she left his Majesty's ship Dartmouth (42), Captain Sir Thomas Fellowee, C.B , and the Lord Suffield transport, both of which were to sail immediately for England. His Majesty'tship Isis (50), Captain Sir Thomas Staines, k.C.8., was gone to Port Mahon to receive the officers and crew of his Majesty's ship Pelorus (18), Commander Michael Quin, which vessel had struck on a rock at the entrance of that port on the 21st of December, and was bilged. When the Cordelia left the Mediterranean, his Majesty's ship Blond (46), Captain Edmund Lyons, was at Con stantinople; his Majesty's ship Alusquito (10), Com mander Charles Bentham, was on the Corfu station ; his Majesty's ship Pelican (18), Commander F. D. Hutcheson, was at Corfu, and had received orders to come home. The squadron was healthy, and:there was no political news• The Russian squadron were at Paros, except those above mentioned. The Cordelia sailed for Sheerness on .Thurs day evening, to be paid off. His Majesty's ship Dartmouth (42), Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, C. 8., arrived here on Friday morning from Gibraltar, which place she left on the 11th inst. at night. She touched at Cadiz on the 13th, and arrived in the channel on Monday last, but owing to the thickness of the weather, she was compelled to lie to, or she would in all probability, have been here earlier. She has brought as passengers Major-General Pilkington, the commanding officer of engineers at Gibraltar, his lady and their daugh ters; also Mrs. Sweetland, the lady of Captain Sweet land ; and Mr. Ward, Assistant-Surgeon of the 94th Regiment. The Dartmouth brings no news; all was well at Gibraltar. She has been in commission upwards of three years, and will, it is supposed, be immediately paid off. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The North Star, 28, Captain Lord William Paget, M.P., is ordered to take Charles Mackenzie, Esq. to the West Indies, as a Commissioner for the adjudication of slaVequestidus.. His Majesty's ship Blanche, 46, is ordered to be fitted at Plymouth for foreign service, her destination, accord ing to tumour, b e i ng th e coast of - Africa, or North Ame rica, to relieve the Sybil!e or the Hussar, whose periods of service are now near a close. Captains Fanshawe and the Hon. Robt. Dundas, are reported as likely to be Captain of the Blanche. Lieuts. J. G. D'Urban (late Pylades), Sydney Usher, and Henry Stroud, are appointed to her. The Galatea, 42, Captain Charles Napier, c.. 13. was towed out of harbour yesterday, by the Echo steam-vessel, assisted by her own propelling machine. To-day the Com mander-in-Chief paid an official visit to this frigate, !Li well as to the Dartmouth, when both ships fired at a target, which after a few rounds, each succeeded in striking. The Lord William Bentinck transport, is loading stores at Deptford for the Island of Ascension. She will take out some moorings, and one of the Master Attendants, who will lay them down. The Ann and Amelia and Amity transports are gone to Deptford to discharge tkeir cargoes. The Hope transport will Le here in a few days, with artificers for this Dock-yard. She will then take •the depot of the 95th Regiment to Guernsey. The Amphitrite transport has landed the 74th Regiment at Plymouth from Cork. Ships in Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Ganges, North Star. Remain at Spitheati—Dartmouth and. Galatea. Second Lieutenants Thomas Stockwell and Edward Augustus Parker, are promoted to the rank of First Lieutenants, and appointed to this division of Royal Marines, vice First Lieutenants Ward and Alexander, •re tired on half-pay. Mr. Davies, Purser of his Majesty's ship Shannon, has been invalided home. The Scylla, 18, was taken out of Dock on Monday hot, and the Brisk 10-gun brig taken into Dock on the following day. Sailed on Wednesday, the Iris, Rampe, and Continencia, Wyberg, for Norway. Passed by on Tuesday, the Thomas Pearson, Jones, from Singapore for London. Sailed the Heron, Hjoot, for Bergen. Arrived yesterday, the In dustry, Lucas, from Guernsey. Sailed the Lavinia. Hicks, for Cork. Passed by the Elphinstone, from. the Mauritius for London. Several small craft have come in this week with casks, containing white wine, apparently Sicilian, branded H. F. T., and some spirits of turpentine, in cased casks, marked K. G. ; part of the cargo of the Diand, from Bourdeaux to Antwerp, wrecked at the back of the Wight. More of the cargo has been saved, but not yet landed.' The Britomart, 10, Commander E. J. Johnson, sailed yesterday to the westward. The Ariadne, 28, went into the Sound on Tuesday, where she awaits orders in readiness for sea. • (From the Devonport Telegraph.) DE VO N PORT, FEn. 27.—His Majesty's ship Undaunted, Capt. A. W. Clifford, C. 8., returned from a cruise in the Western Ocean, on Thursday, having sailed over a space of some thousands of miles in search of piratical vessels, but without success. She called at St. Michael's on the 10th inst. Lieutenant George Poetry is appointed to the Talavera, 74, at Deal. The Clio, 18, and Nightingale packet, are ordered to be brought forward for commission. The Scylla, 10, is also expected to be commissioned shortly, The Dryad, 4?,, has been taken into dock The Caledonia, 120, will go etkt of dock on the 24th of March, having been widened 12 inche., to increase her capacity for carrying heavy metal, and been otherwise improved throughout., Remaining in Ilatnoaze.—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid 4. Blanche, Royalist, and Reindeer Packet. In Barnpool—Undaunted.. At the Island—Bramble. Lieut. Jeremiah Seavers, (1794) to ,be sureranuated Commander, vice Hoy, deceased. Commander William Bohun Bowyer, of H.M. sloop Dispatch, is promoted to the rank of Captain. Com- mander E. A. Frankland, is appointed to the Dispatch, vice Bowyer. Mr. William Baildon, AsSistant-Surgeon of Woolwich dock-yard, has retired upon superannuation. Mr. John Brown, Assistant-Surgeon of Pembroke dock yard, is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of Woolwich yard, vice Baildon ; and Mr. William Anderson is appointe I Assistant-Surgeon of Pembroke-yard, Vice Blown.. Mr. J. Kirk, supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon to the St. Vincent, is appointed to the Sheldrake packet, vice Mr. Osborn, moved to the St. Vincent. G. Smith, Esq. Secretary to the Navy Board, is, d 4 expected here from London. On Saturday the despatches for St. Heleni , Prince of Wales's Island, and China, by tile ship Mar, , o 4 Camden, Captain Tnosias LAurnis, were closed 'at the East India House, and delivered to the purser of that ship• A kind of protest and petition to Parliament is at present in course of signature at York,. originating , not in a public meeting, but in some " hale and corner; in which the 'distress of the country is described as.'f uuir versa!, unabated, and appalling." Every - body.who knotVs any thing of the matter, knows that such a document is undiscriminating and injudicious, and is likely to prove unavailing. Why not meet the subject fairly at once, anti go to a county meeting in Yorkshire, as well .as in other counties? We do not mind how loud and how incessant the demand for economy and retrenchment is, the more loud and persevering the better, but let it be open - and without exaggeration.—Leeds Mercury. - ; to 0