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Morning... 16 minutes after !O Very nearly ready, in 2 vo l s . sma ll S vo., T HREE YEARS IN NORTH AMR RI CA. By JAMES STUART, Esq. Printing for Robert Carlell, Edinburgh ; iind Whittaker and Co., London. Published every Saturday Morning, printed on a large Sheet, in Sixteen Quarto Pages, containing Forty• Eight closely-printed Columns, and comprisinz 4 A GREAT VARIETY OF NOVEL AND • INTERESTING MATTER, IMO LONDON LITERARY GA ZETTE, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, lences, &C. A Summary of the Contents of the Volume for 1532 will show how much must be done in order to furnish its annual panorama ; Above 920 Volumes are fairly and candidly Reviewed, viz., 19 Quartos, 299 Octavos, and 609 Duodecimos and smaller Publications, which, averaging each Volume at little more than 300 Pages, will give the enormous amount of nearly 300,000 Pages examined within One Year, to supply the REVIEW DEPARTMENT aloP.e. Add to this the FINE ARTS, i❑ which no fewer than 240 New Publications have been criticized, besides de tailed Accounts of EXHIBITIONS, and numerous Mis cellaneous Notices; REPORTS of Proceedings of the Learned and Scientific Bodies, with Abstracts of Papers, to the number of 150 ; Expeditions of Discovery; New Inventions; New Mu sical Publications and Concerts ; Original POETRY, by L, E. L., C. Swain, R. Howitt, &c., &C. BIOGRAPIIY of distinguished individuals—Munden, Miss Porter, Sir W. Scott, Hogg, Cuvier, Goethe, &c. ; Sketches of Society ; Critical Notices of the Drama ; Statistical Notices ; Weekly List of all New Works in Progress ; Notices of all Scientific Novelties; &c. &c. A Stamped Edition is also published, for Circulation by Post. London : W. A. Scripps, 7, Wellington-street, Strand. Cbt - t „te-, ts, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 183:L _ expressed trtaintnent The year 1832—the year of r egenera ti on di sian Am- rectly to this country, and indirectly, we believe, his C ourt ' fir rather hope we m a y sa y, to a ll Europe— excepting 1 flaying just expired, it may not be amiss, per wever, re -, . 'aps, if we indulge, for a brief space, in a cur :Elder alone : . my retrospect. It opened amid gloom and e. has been ncertainty, when even the sanguine were de assador ". ,ner by the 7 P; Pending, th e ti m id h a d cast away h ope , an d letely sec - ' bigot and the oppressor were buckling on sh;ps ha.-' their armour for the fight. All classes of men, the important Peer in his palace, and the peasant in his hut, the inter- 'the placeman at Court, and the workman at the be Sultan loom, felt equally the excitement of the season ; lons here ,-, Ansa and pelt equally that the time was at hand when each inted wit:t i'Ould be up and stirring. Our readers' recol whence ti , Is of such ections will fully bear us out in this assertion ; s also, that the Rational ex c it emen t h a d o b ta i ne d ay be ex- , ',s climax in the never to be for go tt en mont h o f morroa., .t the Go- ` lay--at which epoch--we shudde r while we revert , !,000,000 O it—the Powers of Light and Darkness, sick to which the . . agary , 1,,,,, ti , 1 P.ath of moving:like two parallel lines, constantly e Govern- i thrtetening, yet never approaching closer to each i n "'in" 'other, had at length, bid adieu to all further al rescript : - anceuvring, and, drawn up in battle array, guns ke, and V. relative td ' anted, bayonets bristling, swords flashing, duction of ready, as it seeme d at t h e t i me , f or i nstant uchies of ncounter. W e a ll u d e , o f course , to t h ose ten V s n id u er p a lit n s d t ' li Csys in M a y, w h en f ree d om an d oppress i on h ung e duchiesi. rembling in the balance, and every rising sun utnstances, t 'ew n o t b ut i t m i g h t set on a t h ousan d battle s and ti: T, id ised are to ' e " Fortunately for all parties this season of and thew' fe and horror passed away; the thunder cloud thus the ~ s scattered ere it could launch a single nt mattei reason to - , lt, and all was peace and sunshine where, but [sjesty be- moment before, all had been gloom and tem consiclera. it. To drop further metaphor, the Reform !' lill achieved a full and perfect triumph, and e words " liberty" and " people" were ad , itted as orthodox and intelligible English, even to the vocabularies of the Ultras. This great vent closed the chief interest of the year, qch will henceforth be sung by poets, .!orded by historians, and dwelt upon by phi ,., ,:ophers, as the great year of regeneration, in ,13 111, 1 , nich the ground-work was laid for the liberties ALr-PAST ; England, and consequently of Europe, and emely Still ye advocates of freedom and despotism came variation. 'r the first time to an understanding in 1832, * e ach ,347 o n . , other's powers. But if the year o An swer . at has passed b e one o f regeneration, what p all we s a y of the infant stranger that has but of stock. s t come of L among Us ? Say ? Why, that he is le 'lope, the Hercules in the cradle, fit even 1 this state to T grappl e w i t h monsters an d su bd ue hem. he Year 1833 • will, we doubt not, go far complete the building, the foundation of which i s predecessor has laid. He will not falter or daily id: his :Ph, but go straight through with it in work m anlike fashion. We have vast and , n fident expectations from this year- It may 4 ve• o —, 5 Storttla and tempests, but assuredly it w ill tki if , peace and sunshine, Society just now s ill $ chrysalis s t a t e , t h at i s to say, i n a chan ge tate o f and transition ; and as it cannot trog rade , it must of necessity advance. New . --- halms of tho ug h t in the world of science—of corals—ofpolit of politi cs philosophy—are on the discov ery , re Old systems have been ,roken ul3---old opinions laid aside—all change and bustle and expectation, in the bical, as well as in the political, ,iverse• Freed om of thought has attained a growth, ant'sacid will exert a giant's power. he c an no longer be chained down, like i oni ethens to his rock, by the interested, - com bed factions of ignorance and oppression. Re m has freed her from all such trammels. euceforth she will ro am f ree l y a b roa d t h roug h out grope, whispering every where comfort to the and th un d ering retribution in the ear ..i:P t zsetl , oppressor. Much as the despotic Powers turope may detest the memory of 1832, ',), w ill yet have far more cause to execrate successor , for th e f ormer was a t b est the 1833 ear of h o p e , while the latter will be t of fu fihneat. the great L..ry season ant to pay? ouses and yn made ; lved to do cons, and ig will be; kkeboved, ssr light) I of Dec. 6734 97 873.6 87 11434 100►% 864 75'4 3034 D LET and time the ato-mille, from the c front of we. We structure, ground. avetilly o 1 of the e !ht. A extent of he ton. sinned by oldiert in heir. the hr pat tiVy ftern 111- rile n- er di c be 10,.0f retimLed he fist a Leal um, El —prof " alt re gotg mil al It .;oinindt ~ciy; art elitier ! pasting fellow. I take to ?'' The 'We understand that it is the intention of the lish an d French Gov ernments to a ll ow t h e . 1: I : . gtans to deduct, from th e i r port i on o f t h e n ational debt, the amount of expenditure Gould b to which they haze been put by the necessity of maintaining the army upon the war footing, in the event of the King of HOLLAND continuing to refuse to treat with LEoPoLD on the bases laid down by the Conference. We understand from an official source, that our informant was in error when he stated yesterday that the troops which were taken at the surrender of the citadel of Antwerp had been released on parole. The offer was made on cer tain conditions, but at the date of the last ac counts it had not been accepted. No direct accounts have been received at the Portuguese Embassy from Oporto, of a later date than those which have already appeared in the English papers. They have, however, by way of Paris, letters from that city to the 18th ultimo, which were brought by Captain LASTEYRIE, the grandson of LAFAYETTE, who is Aide-de-Camp to Don PEDRO. It ap pears from them that a successful sortie had been made on the side of Villa Nova, but the communication by the river was not yet open. Several of the daily papers have fallen into an error respecting the Count VILLA FLOE, now Duke of TERCEIRA. They have stated that he is in England, and that he has had seve ral interviews with Lord PALMERSTON on the subject of the application made by Don PEDRO for a recognition of the Regency of Portugal. The Person alluded to is probably the Count VILLA REAL, but even that Nobleman is entirely a stranger to any of the negotiations between the representatives of Don PEDRO and our Ministry. The French Papers of Sunday contain no news of interest. Public attention was directed to the return of the French army after their brief but brilliant campaign at Antwerp. We refer with great pleasure to the report our front page, of the nomination of the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT for the representation of Inverness-shire. The profession of his liberal opinions was, it will be seen, received with general approbation, notwithstanding a weak attempt of his Conservative opponent to raise a prejudice against him, as having injured the kelp trade, by concurring in lowering the duties of barilla. This, the letting in of foreign wool, and the supposed liberal inclinations of Mi nisters, with respect to the admission of foreign corn, were such popular topics, that we rather wonder at Mr. MACLEOD having only one or two hands held up for him. The Con- • servatives, however, afterwards made it up to him by bringing him within thirty-six of his opponent, who, since our account went to press, we learn has been elected by a majority of that amount. Deeply indeed would the county of • Inverness have been disgraced had one of the Ministers who had given it legislative exist ence, who had freed it from the thraldom to which it bad hitherto been subject, who had cast away his own power over it, been rejected. Its electors would have presented the only in stance of ingratitude to the Government,by turning the power placed in their hands against it, which the elections have given an opportunity of mani festing. They and the other electors of the United Kingdom have reposed confidence where confidence has been earned, a confidence which, we trust and hope, future as well as past conduct will call for the continuance of. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) _ . CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The past year was one continual storm of politics, which threatened a general war in Europe, and ended by the capture of the Citadel of Antwerp, which proved the chief obstacle in bringing the King of Holland to a final adjustment with King Leopold. This is now removed, and the French army are on their return home, according to the convention between France and England. The new year commences with brighter prospects than the list, for we have no doubt that a negotiation will be opened with Holland for the speedy settlement of the Scheldt, which will prevent the future sacrifice of lives by enforcing that important object. Likewise, it will prove the good faith of the French King. THE FUNDS. This being New Year's Day, it is kept a strict holyday at the Bank, Stock Exchange, and Foreign Markets, al though the jobbers and brokers are assembled at the house keeper's room, where they are transacting business. Consols, which left off yesterday at 84 86 for Account, have been done this morning at 86i. In Foreign Funds nothing doing as yet. W e have no arrivals of the least importance. Great anxiety prevails for information from Oporto. HALF-PAST ONE. A vessel has arrived from Vigo, left the 22d ult. She brings a confirmation of the sortie made by the troops of Don Pedro, on the 17th in the morning, to the number of 2,000 men ; when the accounts left they were busy at Villa Nova shipping off the wine for Oporto ; it is also stated, Miguel's troops are touch discontented, and the militia are deserting to their homes; the lower part of Oporto still experiences bombardment from the Miguelites. ROYAL EXCHANGE. Since the morning several brokers and jobbers are assembled on the Exchange, and doing business in Con sols, which are at present 86k to for Account. In Foreign Securities, Dutch Stock to the amount of four hundred thousand has been sold. Still all Northern Se curities have improved. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 861. WONDERS OF PHILOSOPHY.—The polypus, like the fabled hydra, receives new life from the knife which is lifted to destroy it. The fly-spider lays an egg as large as itself. There are four thousand and forty-one muscles in a caterpillar. How discovered fourteen thou.. sand mirrors in the eye of a drone; and to effect the respi ration of a carp, thirteen thousand three hundred arteries, vessels, veins, and bones, Lee., are necessary. The body of every spider contains four little masses pierced with a multitude of imperceptible holes, each hole permitting the passage of a single thread; all the threads, to the amount of a thousand to each mass, join together, when they come out and make the single thread with which the spider spins its web; so that what we call a spider's thread consists of more than four thousand united. LENVENHOEK, by means of microscopes, observed spiders no bigger than a grain of sand, who spun threads so fine that it took four thousand of them to equal in magnitude a single hair. The following is a specimen of Irish logic : " His landlady was what was termed a general dealer,' and, among other things, sold bread and whisky. A cus tomer entered her shop and inquired if she had any thing to eat and drink ? To be sure,' she replied, I have got a thimble-full of the cratur, my darling, that comes only to twopence ; and this big little loaf you may have for the same money I' Both twopence ? Both the same, as I'm a Christian woman, and worth double the sum.' Fill the whisky, if you plase.' She did so, and he drank it; then rejoined, It comes to twopence, my jewel; Fin not hungry, take back the loaf,' tendering it. Yes, bony, but what pays for the whisky?' Why the loaf to be sure !" But you haven't paid for the loaf.' Why you weuldn't have a man pay for a thing he hasn't eat ?' A friend going by was called in by the landlady to decide the difficulty, who gave it against her ; and, from deficiency in her powers of calculation, she permitted the rogue to escape."..-Bernard's Retrospections. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKW O OD ; S MA GAZIN.E. The ability which has long distinguished this stout champion of the Tories, has not deserted it in this its hour of need, although certainly as regards politics, it is tamer than has been its wont at the close of a general election. Per haps the grand fire is to come next month, and the articles before us are mere avant couriers of what is to come. The first bears the still taking title of the " Portu guese War," but is merely written for the sake of the moral a t the end, which sets forth the wickedness of Englishmen going to fight on either side in Portugal, clearly showing that it is only committing murder for two shillings per day. We suspect we should have heard very little of the wickedness of English men fighting in Portugal " on either side," if they had not all happened to go to one side— a fact, by the way, of itself, sufficient to dis prove the calumny of the gentlemen who have gone out to assist Don PEDRO, being merely influ e nced by love of lucre. Will Blackwood venture to assert that Don Miguel could find a hundred Englishmen with sufficient brazen baseness to fight for any pay under the banners of Miguel ? The thing himself does not ex pect it, or no doubt he would have been ready enough to have bought their assistance. " Tom Cringlc's Log" is continued in this number, with as much ability as ever. There is a magnificent description of a hurricane in the West Indies, which its length only prevents us from extracting. The Reverend writer of the Ctsars has closed his romantic account of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, with an excellent dissertation on the state of corruption prevailing at Rome under the first Caesars. The only other articles we can notice in any detail are " Ireland No 1.," and the " Future Balance of Parties." The first is an old song to an old tune, " Persecute, persecute, persecute." I t is wonderful ; but Tories who are always re ferring to experience, and pretend to take their lessons from it, never read the lessons it teaches aright. See the conclusion arrived at in the article upon Ireland : " The result of experience, therefore, is complete in all its parts. Thrice during the last two hundred years have conciliatory measures been tried on the largest scale, and with the most beneficent intention ; and thrice have the concessions to the Catholics been followed by a violent and intoleralh: outbreak of savage ferocity. The two first re bellions were followed by a firm and severe system of coercive government; as long as they continued in force, Ireland was comparatively tranquil, and their relaxation was the signal for the commencement of a state of insubor dination which rapidly led to anarchy and revolt. The present revolutionary spirit has been met by a different system. Every thing has been conceded to the dema gogues ; their demands have been granted, their assemblies allowed, their advice followed, their leaders promoted ; and the country in conseqence has arrived at a state o: anarchy unparalleled in any Christian state." Good God ! what tranquillity is here praised i The tranquillity of death ; the tranquillity that results, not from good government, but from the extreme of oppression. If concession does not now produce its proper effect; if the offer of jus tice does not produce respect for the laws, it is because they come too late ;that they are distrusted. We must still do what is right, for the sake of right, and any coercive measures afterwards, should they be necessary, which, God forbid, will but be the more justifiable. The " Fu- ture Balance of Parties" is a kind of pat on the back to the good young men who have stood forward as Conservative candidates in different parts of the country, only to be beaten. It praises them, forsooth, for not running away from their colours and country, as the French Nobles did after the French revolution had made some progress, as if the cases were at all parallel. We can easily foresee the triumphant tone which will be adopted by ,he Tories, when they find in a year or that all the calamities they have prophesied from the Reform Bill have not ensued. The cry will be, "It has been our patriotism, talent, and courage which has saved the State ; we have acted as a drag on the wheels of revolution, and saved from convulsion and bloodshed the infatuated multitude which urged it on." Be it so ; there is no utility in arguing with savages, that it is not their beating a brass pan which prevents the world from being destroyed by an eclipse, for behold, is not the world preserved ? The con c l us i on i s un- answerable. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. This is the best number, in every respect, we have yet seen of this Magazine. It is not overlaid by politics, which, at this social season, we can surely dispense with. " Sir R. Peel" forms the subject of the first article, and a more keen, caustic, unsparing analysis of public character was never yet attempted. Sir Robert is laid bare as with a scalping knife, bone—muscles—nerves—arteries, and all " odd joints"—as Tristram Shandy phrases it in his celebrated excommunication—not a particle of the Right Hon. Baronet escapes the searching hand of the dissector, who inflicts on his victim a more terrible process than was inflicted by I)an Phoebus on Marsyas. " Cabin Conversazione" is a rough, Irish sketch of character, not nithout power, and still less exaggeration. " The Wishing-cap" is a conti nuation of a series of papers that appeared some years since in the Examiner. It is from the pen of Leigh Hunt, is sprightly and ingenious, and abounds in minute touches of feeling. Mr. Hunt gossips agreeably enough about his cabinet of curiosities, which consist chiefly of a collection of locks of hair cut from the sconces of illustrious defuncts, poets, prose writers, and so forth. That many of his locks are genuine, we doubt not, but h e m us t a ll ow us to be sceptical on the subject of Swift's hair, which Mr. Hunt describes in his usual vivid, picturesque style, but by which we understand a poetic definition of a horse-hair. Hazlitt's hair is unquestionably genuine, for Mr. Hunt him self was his tonsor, as was also the case with his friends Keates and Shelley. The article is a light and amusing one. " The Achievements of the Genius of Scott" is the finest compliment that has yet been paid to the memory of this illustrious author. ;As a piece of deep, thought- ful, eloquent reasoning, we have met with no thing like it in any of the Magazines for years. We subjoin a delightful specimen, but by no means the rnost favourable, in this most acute and deeply-felt essay : " Let our moral philosophers (usefully employed though they be in arranging and digesting the science, and en lightened in modifying, from time to time, the manifesta tions of its eternal principles)—let our moral philosophers declare whether they expect their digests and expositions to be eagerly listened to by the hundred thousand families, collected, after their daily avocations, under the spell of the northern enchanter ; whether they would look for thumbed copies of their writings in workshops and count ing -houses, in the saloons of palaces, and under many a pillow in boarding schools. Our Universities may purify morals, and extend their influence as far as they can ; their importance in this case runs a chance of being overlooked ; for Scott is the president of a college where nations may be numbered for individuals. Our clergy may he and di, all that an established clergy can be and do; yet they will not effect so much as the mighty lay preacher who has gone out on the highways of the world, with cheerfulness in his mien and benignity on his brow , unconscious, per haps, of the dignity of his office, but as much more powerful in comparison with a stalled priesthood as the troubadour of old—firing hearts wherever he went with the love of glory—than the vowed monk. Our dissent ing preachers may obtain a hold on the hearts of their people, and employ it to good purpose; but they cannot send their voices east and west to wake up the echoes of the world. Let all these classes unite in a missionary scheme, and encompass the globe, and still Scott will teach morals more effectually than them all. They will not find audiences at every turn who will take to heart all they say, and bear it in mind for ever; and if they attempt it now, they will find that Scott has been before them every where. He has preached truth, simplicity, benevolence, and retribution in the spicy bowers of Ceylon, and in the verandahs of Indian bungalores, and in the perfumed dwellings of Persia, and among groups of settlers at the Cape. and amidst the pinewoods and savannahs of the western world, and in the vineyards of the Peninsula, and among the ruins of Rome and the recesses of the Alps, and the hamlets of France, and the cities of Germany, and the palaces of Russian despots, and the homes of Polish patriots. And all this in addition to what has been done in his native kingdom, where he has exalted the tastes, ameliorated the tempers, enriched the associations, and exercised the intellects of millions. This is already done in the short space of eighteen years ; a mere span in comparison with the time that it is to be hoped our language and literature will last. We may assume the influence of Scott, as we have described it, to be just be ginning its course of a thousand years ; and now, what class of moral teachers (except politicians, who are not too ready to regard themselves in this light) will venture to bring their influence into comparison with that of this great lay preacher ?" MONTHL Y MAGAZINE. There are some pleasant papers in this num ber, though it has a miserably consumptive look, and is so lean, in point of exterior, that one might suppose it edited by an epic poet. The proprietor, we fear, has lessened his number by at least a sheet, thinking possibly that quality is more to be regarded than quantity. We deny not the possession of the one requisite in the present number, but should be well pleased to see a❑ average proportion of the other. " The Prophetic Almanack" is a clever jell d'esprit, an improvement on the one that ushered in the year 1832 (now about to draw its last breath within an hour) in the same Magazine. " The Ghost of Christmas" is a lively, fanciful article, which will be read at this season with delight. " The Corn Law Rhymer" is a brief, spirited notice of this fine, uncouth poet, who flourishes his pen with the energy of a sledge-hammer, as if he could knock down a critic with the butt- end of it. He is placed in happy contradistinc tion to what the writer calls the " carraway comfit school," by which we presume, he implies our half-cockney, half-Italian versifyers, who rave of " divine Italy," dating from a back attic in the Hampstead-road, or a first floor in Chelsea. We have left ourselves no room to speak of the remaining articles ; so must content ourselves with saying that each is good " after its kind," like the tribes that entered Noah's Ark. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. If Oliver Yorke, the nom de guerre of the Editor of this Magazine, would show himself less desirous to wear, as his Sunday best, the coat which old Christopher North has already wore threadbare, we think the interest of his publication would be materially benefited. Bu at present he deals too profusely in the second hand flippancy of Blackwood, whi c h w i t h amaz ing powe r of assurance, he boldly sports as his _ . own. This is a pity, for friend Oliver is by no means devoid of wit, sarcasm, and even literary research, and if he would trust more to his own resources, and ape less the peculiarities of others, he would make a much more decided hit. " Address to Contributors and Readers" is in the old Blackwood style—a mass of ego tism and would-be brilliancy, and until the writer can do something better himself, we cannot allow him to speak in contemptuous terms of men so incomparably his superiors, as Moore, Buiwer, and Campbell. When he can give us a Two penny Post-bag, a Pelham, or a Hohenlinden, then indeed he may speak out. But as suredly not till then. Medwin's Translation of the " Persians" of }Eschylus is very ele gantly, and, considering its eloquence, mar vellously correct. On comparing, last night, the opening chorus with the original, we found it faithful enough, with the exception of' a single ne respecting the Nile. Altogether, the trans lation is magnificent, by far the best we are acquainted with. "My Contemporaries, from the Note Book of a Retired Barrister," is replete with agreeable legal anecdote:-- " The forbearance shown by Lord Ellenborough to the repeated insults of Lord Kenyon, was always a matter of great surprise to the bar, as he was wanting neither in firmness nor in spirit; and as at the same time he held a high office, that made them more pointed, and more keenly felt. But it was found, that he subdued his resent ment from a proud feeling for the dignity of the Court, which he thought would be lowered in the eyes of the people by a personal altercation taking place between a Judge on the bench and a member of the Bar. " But that he was not insensible of them, may be col lected from the following anecdote, which, though I am aware that it is not new in the world, is too nearly con nected with my present subject to pass it over without notice. The opportunity presented itself, and he availed himself of it, to convey, in an elegant classical quotation, the truth of those feelings which he had so long unwil lingly suppressed. He was opposed to Erskine in a case before the Court, ha which the latter deeply interested himself, and spoke with considerable warmth, in language not wholly free from personal allusion. Erskine was al ways favourably heard by Lord Kenyon, and on this oc casion even with partiality. By two happy lines from Virgil, he showed bow little he dreaded the power of his adversary, and how much the hostility of the Judge. Turning to Erskine, he broke out in his usual manly tone,— " Non me tua fervida terrent Dicta, ferox Dii me terrent et Jupiter hostis." He paused at the word ferox, with his eyes fixed on Lord Kenyon, and his right hand stretched towards the bench. He pronounced with the strongest emphasis Dii me terrent et Jupiter hostis." The Sketch of Talleyrand " is capital, and ,he device by which Oliver Yorke has enabled himself to give the Prince a niche in his Litere , , Gallery of Busts and Portraits, :as a celebrated author, is ingenious enough, namely, by repre senting him as the author of " Palmerston, a farce in two acts." Of Lord Byron's " Un published Poem on Mr. Rogers," all we shall say is, that we wholly disbelieve its authenticity, not because his Lordship was not fully able to satirize his nearest and dearest associates, but because internal evidence is strongly against its genuineness. Byron was a satirist—not a mere vulgar, brawling, personal libeller —and nothing else. He was libellous, undoubtedly, and per sonal, and at times gross—but then as a set-off against these imbecilities (for they are nothin g better); he had more than the strength of Churchill, and almost as much biting power of sarcasm as Junius himself, the most stinging satirist that ever existed. " Asinarii Scenici is a lively, desultory article, detailing, in a spi rited manner, the monstrous humbug of Ireland's Shakspeare forgeries. " Song of the Shirtless" is a clever /jet/ d'esprit by Morgan O'Doherty. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. " Evidence before the Committee on the Silk Trade " is one of those dry, technical papers, which the experienced in such matters only will read with attention. It has all the appearance— but we speak with all the humility becoming profoundest ignorance —of having been drawn up with care and labour by a literary workman well versed in the nature of the tools he handles. " Letter from Paris "is more to our taste. It is very sagacious and spirited, and among other equally ingenious observations, containing sonic on the nature of aristocratic and democratic parties. " The fact is, that none but aristocratic parties endure. They are like rivers, that sweep in a continued course, more rapid and violent at first, and more large and calm at last, but increasing ever, until they reach the great ocean, where they are destined to disappear. Democratic party, on the contrary, resembles now a huge lake, inun dating and overwhelming the whole land ; whilst the next season it dries up, disappear., and leaves not even the trace of its channel behind. Look through history. You will tee York and Lancaster, Orleans and Burgundy, spill blood, and alternately monopolize influence for centuries; whilst the popular party breaks forth but in momentary insurrec tion, quenched soon by the sword and the scaffold. More lately the Puritans were a popular party. They rose in 1640, and were irresistibly triumphant; they placed their chief upon the Stuart's throne. Yet in a short twenty years they were no more. It is said, that the wits and poets of the Restoration put Puritanism to flight by the arrows of their ridicule ; but these were spent upon a body already extinct. In 1660, the English people had sent in their resignation, to use a phrase of their neighbours, and Charles the Second trod down the upper classes, merely because the lower ones were indifferent. As to Whigs and Tories, those were merely aristocratic parties. A popular one—where is it to be found throughout the last century of our history, except in applauding Sacheverel, and hissing Lord Bute? In 1790, indeed, our people began to awaken to political feeling. Yet bow soon were they frightened or lulled. In 1830 they awoke again ; and are atill awake. But how long will they remain so? Not till 1835, that I venture to prophesy. Radicals, look to it; and although now afloat, look for the time as possibly near, when the tide will ebb, and leave you on the dry sand." The above cursory reflections are full of in genuity, and are equally remarkable for their strict accuracy. But the whole of the article is penned in the same keen, searching spirit of in vestigation. " The Fifth Estate " is a very so-so affair, referring, of course, to the press, though with no great point or vivacity. " The Newspapers " is an elaborate pains-taking ar ticle, telling many truths, and indulging in some few exaggerations. The writer is evidently a man perfectly familiar with his subject, but who has been at more pains to show his knowledge than his powers of entertainment. " A Day with Sir Walter Scott " is lively and anec dotical. The remaining articles are of the usual average. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This magazine has come to us (as usual), at so late a period, that we can merely say we have glanced at its contents, and that, as there are one or two things in it deserving particular notice, we shall reserve all comment till to-morrow. Want of space compels us to postpone our notices of the other Magazines till to-morrow. CITY THEATRE. The greatest city in the world had no theatre within ......... its precincts until about three years since, when Citar- MAN established one in Milton-street. It has re-opened beneath his management, and under good auspices. The company (from the Strand Theatre) is a good one, com bining, amid others, HOOPER, REDE, and MANDERS, Misses POOLE, COOKE, M. GLOVER, WESTON, and Mrs. MANDERS. The performances of last night were a farcical burletta, entitled Captain Stevens, in which Miss COOKE, MANDERS, and HOOPER, were highly amusing; a sombre, Freischutzean drama, called The Death Fetch, which, despite some good acting by the hero, Tresham (W. L. REDE), and a pretty song by Maria (Miss WESTON), we confess to be too full of terrors to suit our taste. These pieces are better adapted for the Coburg, where the vi- Niters come prepared to "sup full with horrors." The entertainments wound up (at 11 o'clock) with our old acquaintance The Loves of the Devils, re-christened The Gentleman in Black, of which we spoke favourably on its production at the Strand; it has lost little by trans. plantation. MARY GLovea. is an interesting Zaraph, Alre. MANDERS a merry Mercury, and 111Abroan.'et Cupid has the merit of being his own. The house has been decorated anew, and a handsome portico adds to its ex ternal attraction. We heartily wish the company the success they merit, agreeing with our contemporary, the Times, that the public have only to go once to be tempted to repeat their visits. With a good company, good pieces, and good scenery,—let the manager adhere also to good hours,—and success is certain. Viscount PALNIERSTON has sent a donation of 1001. in aid of the funds of the County Hospital, which are in a very depressed state. By this act of liberality his Lordship has shown the best disposition to repair and up. hold our long established institutions, as well as to extend relief to the diseases and sufferings of the poorer classes.— Hampshire Telegraph. One of the newly returned M.P.s for Col chester, whose age is verging towards 50, will shortly be married to the lovely daughter of the Right Hon. CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON. The young lady, we be lieve, is not yet 18. Mr. SAUNDERSON, the fortunate bridegroom, has acquired enormous wealth as a bill broker. His advance in life is curious. He was originally a Quaker, and when he first came to London was placed with his relative, a wholesale tea-dealer, from whence he was transferred, as clerk, to the great money brokers RICHARDSON, OVEREND, and Co., now SAMUEL GURNEY and Co., where he stipulated that he should be permitted to attend the Friendly Meeting-house once a week. During the war, and towards its close, he com menced business, aasociated with another friend, on their own account, and they have been very deservedly and emi nently successful. Mr. SAUNDERSON is a Member of the Conservative Club on Carbon-terrace, to which his vast wealth would enable him to give peculiar facilities during the late elections, if he bad the inclination. Chron. ~ Why don't you wheel that barrow of coals, NED ?" quoth a learned vender of black diamonds to his man ; " it is not a very bard job : there is an inclined plane to relieve you." " Ay, Master," replied Nan, who bad snore relish for wit than work, " the plane ?nay be inclined, maybap, but bang me if 1 ans." SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNAL:73.. :It is vain to blink the matter ; the question of ballot, or no ballot, must be set at rest, and speedily ; but we have reason to suspect that a decision in the negative will be most in accord ance with the feelings of a vast majority of Eng ►ishmen, in spite of the cla•nour which has been got up on the subject,—Mat is our serious be lief'. Often, perhaps too often, we have lately felt called upon to state our impressions with re gard to the vote by ballot, and once more we are bound to declare the continued bias of our judgment against that plausible, but inefficient and disgraceful, and if not inefficient, most dan gerous and immoral measure. Those who ap oeal to the late elections as an argument in favour of introducing the secret vote, ap oear to us to have little respect for facts, or less capacity for the most obvious reasoning. Attempts at intimidating voters have been com plained of in four or five dozen places ; and in half that number of instances they may have been successful. But look at the bulk of the new Parlia ment. Has its complexion or character, as a whole, been much affected by the influence of Tory landlords in counties, or of Ultra-Radical combinations over the town voters ? Why, the popular returns are in the proportion of five to one. Our firm persuasion is, that no sensible mischief will ever be wrought by the threats or denunciations of unconstitutional power against any large portion of the constituents of this country. If there be any virtue in Parliameit• tary Reform, it is the faculty imparted by it to the Government, and to the great body of pro prietors and employers, as well as of other classes, to co-operate for and in favour of the public interests, as naturally involving their own. In such a state of general feeling, we would ask, is it reasonable to conclude, that co ercion need or would be exercised to any extent worth calculating, over the free will of the consti tuency ? Cui Bono any such perversion of power ? Unless we suppose something near a moiety both of landed property and moneyed capital to be opposed to the interests of the nation ai large, it is certain that no sinister exertion of power by landlords or other affluent individuals could divert the prevalent course of the repre sentation into a vicious channel. Under the reign of public opinion, secured by a measure which admits such vast numbers and various de scriptions of Englishmen to the elective fran chise as the Reform Bill has done, we are at a loss to comprehend why, generally, the tenant should have different views from the landlord, or the journeyman or tradesman from his employer, so as to create any motive or inducement to the exercise of an unworthy influence by the latter over them. If Reform be good for anything, his for the full direction it affords to the mass of public sentiment towards any given end. That. an effectual resistance could be offered under the Reform Bill by a particular faction, or by scattered individuals, through the utmost con ceivable extravagance of threats or seductions, to the main current of the national feeling, it is per feet madness to suppose. Nor, even admitting the first class of proprietors composing what is termed " the oligarchy," to entertain views at variance with those of the rest of the nation, would their utmost efforts, in opposition to such an adversary, be worth a single straw ? The body of property in the hands of independent, though not affluent, gentlemen, exceeds at least twenty fold the total of that possessed by the high aris tocracy and their immediate connexions. The independent gentry, as contrasted with the aris tocracy, are dispersed through the nation and identified with it. Of the merchants, too, the men of independent, but moderate means, have amongst them a far greater mass of wealth than can be found concentrated in the coffers of the " moneyed oligarchy." Theo possibility, therefore, of this kingdom falling under the dominion of a few great proprietors or capitalists, we hold to be for all future time absurd. What remains is neither more nor less than the nation, constituted of its several trades, classes, professions, and pursuits, the predo. minant sense of which, now that the Reform Bill has cleared away obstructions, will be sure to show itself in a corresponding majority of the House of Commons, without resorting to any irregular and odious expedients for the creation of such a majority, now that incomparably the larger portion of the national will is free. We have applied a phrase to the ballot which to some may appear uncouth. We have called it " odious. This expression is employed by us deliberately. It is not enough to say that the performance of an honourable duty, the dis charge of a solemn trust, and the enjoyment of a valued privilege, ought, according to the whole spirit and context of our Constitution, to be open to the public view: but the introduction of the ballot would be hateful -Ist, to all ranks of voters throughout the king dom, who feel conscious of their honest and in dependent principles, and exult in the open vin dication of them. 2d. And this fact, if new to many of our readers, is equally striking and unquestionable, the notion of the ballot is most odious to the very extensive and growing body of the non-electors in many parts of England. This vast numerical majority of our countrymen regard with jealous vigilance the conduct of those in whom has been vested the political power from which themselves (though on well considered grounds) are excluded. They look upon the elective franchise, like the representa tive office, to be a " trust," created for the benefit not of electors only, but of the whole people, and by consequence for that of non-electors, the undisputed majority of the people. They have begun therefore to declare their anxiety that the elective trust shall be per formed in such a manner as to fix an alit:- tive responsibility upon the trustees—that responsibility which nothing short of abso lute openness and publicity can produce! They are not acute enough to see the enormous difference insisted on by the balloteers between the cases of the representative and constituent. But as the elector has a right to ascertain how the representative does his duty on a division, so the non-elector has (in his own judgment) an equal title to be satisfied that the constituent does his duty at the poll, and conceives that the ballot out of doors would be as gross a viola. tion of the national right of superintendence over the exercise of the elective franchise, as the ballot within the walls of Parliament would be an outrage upon the constituency of the realm. We have good authority for asserting, that this language h as b een use d i n one of the largest counties, and o p en l y an d extens i ve l y i n an im portant town, w hi c h conta i ns t h e l argest con stituency in Gre a t B r i ta i n . I t may h ere b e stated, that Mr. Sp r i ng Ri ce ' s a rgument aga i nst the ballot, at C am b r id ge , was receiv e d w i t h great approb a ti on by a body of el ec t ors, many be supposed from ct lon i circumstances, u the erc is e 0 f their f ot r of ai v‘r ic e'llo I g ii u s ini e r . ernigp ‘ r V oh e tte, again publish sundry lets