The Sun. — London, England, 1839-07-01 00:00:00

- A NIN G FD IT lON. COURT CIRCULAR. • Fir Majesty and her august inather, her Majesty., tie Queen iliovager, and the Princess - Augus!a; - •rit!end(..l Divine Scri , ;ce yesterday moiliing in tlci Chapel ilesal, St. Jlmes's. The Sermon was reacla-d 11, , n. and Rev. N. Grenville, from Si. Mark, chap, 9, cin , l part ot' the-s!h verse The lessons were read by the Res. Ali-. D.kins, the Prayers by the Rev, Dr. Vivian ; and the Communion Service was read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian r , nd the Rev. Mr. Dakins. The Chant was Hawes ; the Te Deum and Jubilate, Burrows's in F; the Sanctus and Reponses, Gibbons, in F. The Anthem, " The 1.,,rd is my shepherd,"( Kent) was sung by Messrs. Hobbs and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. Her Kijesty was attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, theCi.runtess of Burlington, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscountess Forbes. Lord Gardner, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. W. Cowper, and Co'.onel Wernyss. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Hon. Miss Boyle, and Earl Howe. The Princess Augusta was attended by Miss Wynyard. Her Maj,sty and the - Duchess of Kent returned , O Buckingham Palace after the Service. The. Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesseei Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Queen yesterday. The Royal Duchess and the Princesses also visited the Duchess of Kent. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty on day. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen, and' attended by the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscountess Forbes, Lord Gardner, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, and Colonel Wemyss, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. The Waterloo Shield was submitted to the Queen on Wednesday previous to the Levee, and her Ma j esty vas pleasedito express her approbation. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of Hohenlohe, attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in Westminster Abbey. The Queen Dowager, attended by her Suite, rode out on horseback on Saturday. The Queen;Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of Holenhole, visited the - Princess Augusta yesterday at Cla rence House, St. James's. to take leave of her Royal High ness on her departure for Frogmore Lodge. The Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess of Gloucester dined with the Princess Augusta last evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel ; Miss Kerr was in waiting on the Royal Duchess. The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta on Saturday. The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Viscountess Valletors with their company at the concert given by her Ladyship, at her residence in Dover-street. His Excellency the American Minister entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and a distinguished party at dinner in Portland-place, on Friday evening. A Cabinet Council was held on S tturday afternoon at the official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing steeet. It was attended by all the Ministers. Tire Council sat two hours. William Allen, and the Military Secretary to the Com mar,der of the Forces, had interviews with Lord John Rus sell on Saturday at the Home Office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office from Earl Grenville, Ambassador at Paris. Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. J. Montague, and Mr. S. Re vans, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby on Sa turday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Bryden, of Liverpool, and Mr. Hibble, of London, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. in Downing-street, upon the subject of the Beer Acts' Amendment Bill. The Lords. of the Admiralty dined with Sir Thomas Hardy on Saturday at Greenwich Hospital. Despatches from Sir Lionel Smith, Governor of Ja maica, from Sir Juhn Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and from Major General Napier, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office The Chancellor of the Exchequer left, town on Satur day- for Tonbridge Wells. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir E. East and .Sir A. Johnston sat as Privy Councillors. The Bora. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. • An appeal. from Bengal ( Waselant case) came on for hearink. Rajundernarain Rai v. Bijai Govind Singh "second appeal). Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. John St wart were heard by their Lordships. The latter gen tled. 'an had not concluded his address when thc Court rose. Th • e French Charge d'AfTtires transacted busiucss on Saturn: 1Y at the Foreign Office. Mr. S.'haw' of the Scottish bar, has been ap pointed - Pre, nentor of Signatures in - Scotland, in the pface of the late Si. - J. Montgomery. On Saturday, at the Court of Excise, Samuel h Ellis, of the Kink, •'s Arms, Roupel street, Lambeth, was fined 3001 for aduqteeating, and for attempting to bribe penalty for the adulteration officers who detected .C. m• The was 1001_, and the further r fine of 200/. was imposed for the attempt to bribe. At the last audit Of ill e Earl of Coventry's rents, the increase of from 10 to 2e2 per cent., which his Lord ship some time wince gave notice of to his tenants, was de mended and obtained under t;te threat that notice to quit wa t tle f o llow the refusal. Tl.is fully explains the Noble Earl's anxiety to uphold the Corn-laws.— Woreestrr Chronicle. . Captain Symonds, of her INritannic Majesty's ship Rove; has-planted the British stet, dard on, and taken possession of, the island of Ruatan. Gua tetna'a. us: Br: ish property. MUTINY 1W THE TORY CAMP. -__ The follow ing mutinous allusion in the , Times is to tahe Duke oF Wellington :—" Rumours have got abroad— e ve' trust twl are persuaded false rumours, put in motion for . similar ends that some repugnance has been manifested in. guar -1 ' ters which have heretofore commanded the most implicit respect and confidence from the people. to take any s.'•ront! or decided course against this [Post s'.espirahle of all ..qo vernmetos that ever were inflicted on the British empire.' C ti URCH-RATES.-oil Saturday, in the Arches . Court, the case of Hawes and Vicat v. Pellatt was called. It is a suit for subtraction of church-rate, promoted by Messrs. Hawes (the brother of the !VI - ember fur Lambeth) and Vicat, the churchwardens of Cheist Church, Surrey, against Mr. Apsley Pellatt, a clissenting inhabitant of the parish, and brought by letters of request from the Commis sary Court of the diocese. Mr. Pellatt, who had entered a protest against.the citation, appeared in Person, and, in support of it, remarked on the injustice of' subjecting Dis senters to the payment of church-rates. On this point he . was interrupted by the Court and Dr. Addams, the opposing Counsel, it being irrelevant to the sub ject at issue. Mr. Pellatt then argued that it was most unfair to take the case from. the inferior Court of the COmmissary of the diocese into this Court, thereby in creasing the expense to which he must necessarily be sub jected; that the talents of the Proctors and Advocates here were of no service to him ; and that he ought not to suffe r for the incapacity of the Commissary. Dr. Addams, eoeire, said that the law had settled the liability of every Parishioner to church-rates. The mode of proceeding in other eases was similar to the present, and therefore the protest must be over-ruled. The Court agreed in this view oe-the-caste it was its duty to act upon the law as it stood, and not to speculate on what it ou g ht to be. The for m of •prozeeding had been similar in other cases, and it was found the most convenient for the purposes of j ustice. It, had been established in the case of t" Daw ts. Williams ;" no ,doubt could be entertained as to the jurisdiction of the Coma ; the protest must be accordingly oversruled, and with e. osts. SALE-IN THE ISLE of ELY.—A sale of land and house and property took place by Mr. Beadel, at the .3 riffiti tun, March, on the 7th of June instant. The property comprised about 700 acres of land, several resi dences, cattages, .'c., situated in the towns of Match and Wiathlington, or in their immediate vicinities. The pro- Petty, chiefly enclosed land, waves divided into lots, of which. 34 lots were under lot acres, and seven lots ouly exceeded 20 acres, thew hole being equal to freehold, but subject to land tax, quit rents, drainage, river, Eaubrink, 1 corporation, and other dues slid taxes, with the customary ten ou shilli ngs tgoin per of the country, acre; countr the i y,in soma ini ,er instances b tane paidces am for. rntinF Theto whole of the auction duty was les , led upon the purchasers. This deviation from the sseneral rule in respect to the duty, the prope r ty having realized upwar Is of 35,0001. was more I than 5001. in favour of the vent 'ors. No room in the I;sense was sufficiently spacious to „contain the company. Ti, ii circumstance suggested the idea of cha r g in g each per son_ ( Sseb - - shillings and sixpence on admission to the sale roo t s , . which was cheerfully complit d with by those who intended- ta-become purchasers, and it se ill afford some cri terion of the-pressure when it is stated -.that the money so ooldeettrdantounsed to 141. The sale c timmeneed at two o'clock,"and the cOole of the lots were t Disposed of before six, when it apreared that there were no less than thirty eight distinct purchasers. The particulars announced that the estates were " for peremptory sale," ,of which some jealousy was, at first entertained, but after a: Sew lots had been sold, and the names of the eaurchasers pia telitimed, Mr. Wattlel established the fullest confidence in the company present. As is customary at salesiw auction in the Isle of Ely, wine and punch were liberal)y supplied, of which those present, it will appear, ca me fully prepare( I to par take, wh e n it is stated, that there were drank s, sventeen bottles of wine and about forty crowrr howls of out ich, he sides a little of the g enuine spirit, which some pr, 'ferred Unadulterated. Four barrels of beer were given tt. ' the \ labourers after the sale. It was generally admitted th, at a sale of such magnitude had never before taken place in .the Isle, or such high prices obtained for land there.. — Cambridge Chronicle. --In the nursery oi" BOTANICAL C URIOS ITY. merr y other 'beautiful spe- Mr. Page, of this town, amongchasms of the rarest productions of nature, is one which • claims more than ordinary notice. .tt is the :ni g ht-blowin g cereus,--a species of the cactus, and . exhibits the peculiar quality of unfolding its short-lived beauties in the dark. iness and solitariness of night, and ca sting ita ri- eh p erfume iq seeming waste, upon dank And su aless air. Bat some raciptent, capable of its enjoyment, is nt ) doubt p rovided, though the vigilance of the botanist has ',hitherto able to d Neon un discover it. Nothing has been created iri " in ' The 'sea' is some weeks in arriving at tha t period of d,e4 ht, ;e -toPernent, and that invariably opens at o r near inidnig after which it takes about three hours b efore it reaches full matuiity. It then unfolds leaves of delicate w hiteness, beautifully tinted with yellow, and sends , 'Orth unrivalled odour ; but its beauty must be then F.' , rt and i ' s scent then inhaled. if at all, for both are so ,h -- oral that their state of P erf, ction almost imnr.diat ( e P ly c p i l, 'W S away. \ Hampshir e Independent. ~~~ MAGAZINE Ofi.Y. .B 1: A Ca' (..) OD'. 11 :4 GA ZIN E. Christopher handles his eruteh this month in a ery determined and masterly etyle, mate, we suspect, to Dr. M'llenry's edification, than his satistiacOon, whose re cently publi, , hed epic poem, the"Antedilaviaus," he turns into remorseless ridicule. The humour and sarcasm of this critical notice, which is not without a touch or two Of good-nature, despite its severity, are exceedingly reli hing, and cannot fail to extract a hearty laugh from all but the unfortunate victim. If Dr. 111.• Henry be as wise as an epic hard should be, he will laugh too, instead of flying into an unavailing rage, fJr his " Antediluvians," though no great shakes, is by no means so had a poem as the quizzical Kit makes it out to be. We have read in our time much more vap'd, inflated, pot-bellied blank verse, especially on sacred themes. " French Litera of the Eighteenth Century" gives a brief, sketchy ac count of the principal authors who flourished in France during that period. Incidentally alluding to Bayle, the writer observes that " his multifarious researches af forded to his successors, at an easy rate, a store-house of learning." This is justly remarked. The notorious Encyclopaedists all pillaged Biayle's ample store-house— Voltaire, in particular, who drew from the " Dictionary" most of the specious objections that he urged against Christianity. Gibbon was also a plagiarist from Baele, who furnished him with in any of those grave, ingenious quibbles which the reader finds amplified in the text, or condensed in the notes, to the " Decline and Fall of Rome." During the eighteenth century, the " Dic tionary" was the fashionable work in France, its terse, elegant style recommending it to the wits, and its tales of gallantry to the ladies. It is now nearly forgotten— undeservedly so, for it is a prodigious " store-house" of learning ; is full of curious disquisitions on the subject of love ; and was praised by Johnson ..-aa consummate judge—for the excellence of its biographical sketches. " Notes of a Traveller," are amusing, and will serve well enough to wile away a half hour. In " Legal Dietetics" there is some smart ness, if not humour. The description:of the old pawn broker, who was so rich that he was " compelled to bring his money to the Bank in a coal-scuttle," would create a roar, if delivered with due emphasis by Bob Keeley in a farce. Perhaps the subjoined detail of a Lincoln's Inn dinner may amuse ;--- " In his respective hall, the youthful aspirant for btu ris - terial honours eats, year after year, his impatient way. to the bar, exactly as an active rat fixes his persevering tusks in one side of an old Cheshire, and never leaves off until he gees right through it, poking his proboscis through the rind on the other side. In their respective halls, barris ters, in like manner, eat their tedious way to a colonial judgeship, or attorney-generalship of the Cannibal Islands, a revising barristership, a commissionership of any thing__ or secretaryship, or under secretaryship of any thing else, cr in short, whatever they can by any possibility lay their hands on. In their respective halls, too, of which they may, be considered the licensed victuallers, and whose treasurer for the time being is a sort of principal waiter, the veneral benchers, 'defended by a screen from the intrusive gaze of the inferior cormorants, devour their rations of victuals and wine in all the dignity of learned leisure and professional elevation. While the students eat heartily, and the b:lrri,:ters hopefully, the benchers, more experienced in the vanity of human wishes, handle their napkins with the gravity that becomes their tears and station ; while through the body of the hall resounds the professional badinage, the execrable pun, or the fitty times told joke, from the table of the benchers not a sound more articulate is heard than a low and pleasing murmur of conflicting glasses, and a silver sound of forks harmo niously jingling in the plate basket." The " Picture Gallery" furnishes us with some sketches of the landscape scenery in the neighbourhood of Reading, introduced through the medium of a tale. A " Family Continental Tour, and its Results," points a useful moral. An honest, unsophisticated English country gentleman is seduced, by his wife and 'daughter, to make the grand tour, which has the effect—as is too of_en the case—of confounding aL their notions of pro priety, and accomplishing their ruin. The daughter runs off with a scoundrel French adventurer ; the mo ther dies, a martyr to her new-fangled notions of gen tility ; and the father marries agaie, in order that his runaway child and her vagabond husband may not conic into possession of his estate. The incidents of this serviceable tale are hit off with a spirit and buoyancy, that even O'Doherty has not often surpassed. In the hasty narrative of an " Excursion over the Mountains to Aberyetwith," there is some vigorous painting ; but the writer has not taken pains enough ,with his details. His manner is so rambling .and confused, that it is next to impossible to gather a distinct idea of his localities, His observation—" The Welsh must be a powerful lan guage ; we imagined it to be in sound between Greek and German," is correct. We have ourselves been struck with the similarity in sound between. Welch and 'Greek ; and once heard a field-preacher declaiming in the open air near Criekhowel, who forcibly reminded us of the late Mr. Taylor declaiming the sonorous hexa meters of the Iliad. " The Bower of Peace" is an ele gant poem, from the pen of Delta. TAE 7:SIT,N . ,'' LO/kTbON':'"YI.ONT)A:r;.sri,y.:I.,-'_lf3S9.l:; for „ BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. We are glad to find -Washington trying among the eontriautors to this Miscellany ; and still more pleased that in his " Crayon Parrs" he has resumed those admirable sketches of early American manners that formed the principl (thane of-his Sketch. book. In his details of English life and scenery there was always something tame and timid, as if he felt that he were not treading on safe ground ; he imitated also with rather too much- servility, the quiet manner of Addison and Goldsmith ; but it was different with his transatlantic tales and sketches ; here he felt himself at'lome ; and accordingly, of all his various -works, the quaint, racy " History of New York," and the story of " Dolph Heyliger," are those by which he will be longest re membered. His " Woolfores Roost" in the present numb. , r, is not unworthy to vie with these clever produc tions. Indeed, in point of style, it is an improvement on them, fur it is less dres:;y—if we may be permitted to use such an expression-1 's* made up for the drawing-room. Washington Irving now writes pure easy, flowing, idioma tic English—the same that Addison wrote, and that iaduthey still lives to write. '6 Jack Sheppard," as uswal, contains some stirring incident. The burglary at Dollis Hill is detailed with singular enfl.gy ; but the chapter that followe, where Jonathan Wild quarrels with Jack Sheppard, is strained and unnatural throughout. Tire former's character is here wholly out of leeping—for surely a cold, calculating scoundrel, such as he has been hitherto drawn, would never been frank awl chival rous enough to allow Ja , :k an hour's start, before he ar rested him for burglary ! The idea is absurd. With this exception, the chapters are clever and interesting. Mr, Ainsworth, too, mellows, as he proceeds, in his dialogues, which have lost much oft hat cast-iron stiffness and rigidity which formerly characterised them. There is room for improvement even yet. " The Adventures of th , Cannon Family" are by no means the great gun—this is a villainous pun, but we cannot make a better—of the Miscellany. Nevertheless, there is some little fun in rcbem- " Old Morgan at Panama " is a rough, vigo rot,s- poem,.whose versification is as disson ant as the grating of a file on a hand-saw. We can imagine it written upon deck in a hurricane, to the music of an Atlantic north-wester. " Veterans of Chelsea Hospi tal "is somewhat . prosy, as veterans are apt to be. " A Nautical Tale " sprightly, and will create a smile, if not a laugh. In the " Lay of St. Dunstan" we recog nise the pen of that sterling humourist, Thomas In goldsby. In the quaint, mock-ballad -style, this writer has no superior, scarcely an equal, among his contem poraries. His humour is not only rich and unctuous, but it is also picturesque, and developes much of the fancy of the poet. May he write a hundred more " Lava," and may we live to read them ! " Cohn Clink" maintains its interest unimpaired, which is saying a great deal far it. From - the " Thames and his Tri butaries" we quote an anecdote illustrative of the last days of poor Kean. The scene is Twickenham : " But to return again to Eel-pie Island. The place was the favourite resort of Kean for a few months befare his death. The boatman we were fortunate enough to hire was the boatman generally employed by the great actGr, and from him we learned, that after the fatigues of the aight were over at the theatre. he often caused him self to be rowed to Eel pie Nand, and there left to wandcr about by moonlight till two or three o'clock in morn• ing. The tavern used at . that time to be frequented by a poetical sawyer of Twickenham, whose poetry Kean greatly admired. The first time he heart the sawyer's rhymes, he was so delighted that he made him a present of two sovereigns, and urged him to venture upon the dangerous seas of a uthotsbp. By his advice the sawyer rushed into print, and published a twopenny volume upon the beauties of Eel-hie Island, the delights of pie-eating, and various other m atters of local and general interest. Kean at this time was so weak, that it was necessary to lift him in and out of the wherry—a circumstance which excited the boatman's curiosity to go and see him in Richard the Third at the I Richmond Theatre. ' tel w a s some difference then, reckon,' said the honest fel-. low ; so much, that I was almost frightened at him. He seemed on the stage to be as strong as a giant, and strutted about so bravely, that I could scarcely believe it was the sam e man. Next morning he would come into my boat with a bottle of brandy in his coat-pocket, as weak as a child, until he had drunk about half the brandy, when he' plucked up a little. One morning became on hoard—l shall never forget him—be was crying like a child, and sobbing as if his heart was breaking.—'twas the morning when his lady' ran away from him, and 11: , told me all about it as well as he could for his tears. He had a bottle of brandy with him then, He gave me a quartern of it, and drank all the rest before we got to Twickenham, and then be was much better. But he was never the same aferwards ; he said hts heart was broken ; and I be liesve it t was, for he never held up bis head again, poor tellosv " NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. , The first article in this .Number is from the pen of 1 its editor, and is entitled " Publie Amusements." Its object is to give a sketch of the various places of public resort that have been Libionable during the last cen tury. Among these, the theatres of course occupy a foremost place, though, in Mr. Hook's opinion, they are now all but in extremis. We fear there is but too much I i rush in this opinion. Late dinner hours, elutes, con " c erts, and novel-reading have been the ruin of the dr,ml. We have no longer a taste for tragedy. The relish for it waned with Kean, and was extinguished by seven Q'clock, Macready has striven nobly to revive it, but who can Stand up against fate? We fully exl ,- .et to Eul Covent-Garden, in a few years turned into a conventicle. Among the placeS most in repute atn , ,ng our ancestors-, half a ecntory ago, were the fol -I,,win, qhose very names in t short time will be utterly tt :•--- S,renty years ago, a fashionable public place Marybone Gardens,' existed, where now stand Wey mouth, street, Upper Harley -street, and that of the sur- - rounding buildings; nothing remains to mark this once favourite spot but a small public- house, still extant in High-street. The entrance to the gardens having been the site of a!arge dwelling, once a ladies'seminary, and now in the occupation of Mr. Tilbury. Ranelagh, sixty years since was the very acme of fashion—it was the indispen sable comfort and support of society—its amusements con sisted of walking round the rotunda, like a horse in a mill, amidst the fumes of tea and coffee, which wore made from kettles of eater, killing on fires in the centre of the room, and dank by the gallon, in little. I , iicte - r-hole boxes, by the most ex-,lted and distin guished persons in the realm, whose conversation was just sufficiently mystified by the music of a particularly bad orchestra to make it safe—hut Rinelpgh was fel- years all in all ; the carriages have been known to reach from the top or St. Jrnws's-street in one continuous line to its do.;rs ; and a ithiu these very few years, the road now ceded Rrieelagh.street, I believe, was divided down the centre with posts and rails, to keep the "trains" going and returning on their resreive, lines. Ranclagh has vanished from the face of the earth ; another ladies' semi nary occupies part of its site, a steam-engine puffs forth its noisome smoke, where in other days the sighs of lovers filed the air, and a thing called a dolphin, constructed for the purpose of pumping up pure water from the embou chure of the common sewer of Westminster, rears its heal, where formerly a splendid flight of stairs invied the an xious guests who preferred visiting the terrestrial paradise by water, to the perils of the crowd of carriages by land." " A Day to One's-self," is written in a light, airy style. There is one remark in it, however, to which we must demur. " Tom Browns" says the author, " has ob served that the most melancholy time of a man's life is when the reckoning is called. Mr. Raymond is here incorrect. It is not . Tom Brown, but Rabelais, who makes this remark, and puts . it - into the mouth of the incomparable Panurge. " A Dish of White Bait" does no more than justice to these piscine dainties, so delight ful to people of elegant appetites. Mr. Hook, how ever, in a note appended to the article, protests against all praise of whi:e bait, which ho compares to silk worms—fwd certainly, in one respect, they are silk worms, for they are spinning a fortune for Love grove. " WidoW l3arnaby" runs her course rojoicing. Her adventures at the Custom House are detailed with remarkable humour, in parts, perhaps a little too much exag4erated. " Westminster of Old" is rather dry and prolix. In the "c Life and Times of Peter Priggins," we have a whimsical portrait of an offended College Bursar at Oxford. The " Morality of the Stomach" contains some lively and ingenious writing. It might, however, have been abridged with advantage. " A Summer in Bavaria" is passable. Of the " Phantom Ship" we have already spoken, when it came before us in the shape of three volumes. In the " Literature of the Month" the reviews of new publica tions are neatly written. . . FRASAR'S MAGAZINE. Fraser is clever this month, but by no means op. pressive in his brilliancy. Soave few of his articles are as heavy as lead, and the '' Trinity of the Gentiles" is one of these. Nor can we speak much more favourably of the " Ruling Vice of Modern Politics," in which diatribe the writer gravely proposes to turn the House of Commons into a Church or Conventicle, where Hon. Members may preach sermons, instead of perpetrate speeches. "No good reason," he tells us, " can be given why men should wish to suppress theological discussions" in Stephens. This observation is more to be com mended for its ori';,in:ility than its discretion. Conceive Joseph Hume !lolling forth on the doctrine of Trans• substantiation ; Tom Duncombe on the Mosaic Dis pensation ; and Colonel Sihthorp on the Wisdom of Solomon ! Why, one half hour of such discussions would clear the House as effectually as Peter Borth• wick cleared the Surrey Theatre when he played Othello there a few years since ; or as the Episcopal Bench . was cleared the other evening when the clock struck seven, their Lordships' dinner-hour. " A Case of Clairvoyance" is a capital tale, whose object is to I quiz the long-eared tribe of antiquarians and animal magnetizers. A gentleman under the magnetic influence of a couple of bottles of old port, imagines himself trans kirted to London in the year 3838, where he meets with a party of Jonathan Oldbucks, who entertain him with prosy dissertations on the habits and customs of the Cocknies in the olderi time—that is, the present day inforMing him, among other equally sage and tie- irate matters7of4aet, that Field-Marshal - Wel lington was a celebrated field-preacher in his 'day, who bruised the.head of Apollyon, alias Napoleon ; and that Billingsgate was the principal law-court of the metropolis, " where the chief pleaders of the time studied elocution !" This last is a pungent touch of irony, worthy almost of Swift. " A Chapter on Sor cerers," &c., contains some curious information, for much of which the author is indebted to Godwin's " Lives of the Necromancers." Perhaps a few of our readers may be desirous, from motives of laudable curiosity, to raise the Devil ; and if so, we will tell them bow to set about it. Tney must first " baptize a toad," and " then dress him up in livery," after which Beelzebub will be sure to make his appearance, either in the shape of a " black dog," or else in that of " a very. pale man, with obnoxious breath, dressed in black, and with feet like cow !" Some of the Sorcerers were, it seem, endowed with almost unlimited poWers ; and one who lived at Cyprus is recorded , on t he g rave author i ty of the Archbishop of Tyre, to " hav'e turned an English soldier into an ass"—which, by the by e, is no very miracu lous metamorphosis, for these is a certain Conservative Colonel in the House of Commons, now living, who is labouring under precisely the same transformation, having " been turned into an ass"—doubtless by some wicked 'Fury conjuror—ever since we can remember. We quote the following description of the.mal-practices of a notorious witch, who was convicted of so rcery, In e ear 1527, but prordsed a pardon, on conditi o n iat she would make a display of her necromantic obi- titles : " Tao Commissioner . Iving desirous of ascertaining the truth of these statements by his own evidence, promised pardoi to one of the witehes, on condition of her perform ing some act of witchcraft in his presence, and allowing her to avail herself of the means of escaping, if they 'off.!red in the course of her performances. The old woman, having accepted the proposal, asked for a certain box of ointment which had been found on har person, and mounted a high tower, accompanied by the Commissioner, whom she stationed by her side at a window. In the presence of a great number of persons, she then anointed the palm of her left band, her wrist, the point of her elbow, her arm pits, and her left side, awl afterwards cried cut with a loud voice, Art, thou there?' and all the spectators beard a loud voice in the air r,ply, Yes, lam here !' The old woman then crept out of the window, and began to descend the wall of • the tower head foremost, using her feet and hands in the same manner as a lizard. When she had descended Shout half way, she suddenly flew up into the air, and continued to be seen by the people until she had sailed beyond the horzon. - In the midst of the astonishment into which every body was thrown by this prodigy, the Commissioner de clared he would give a considerable sum of money to any One aho could bring back the sorceress. At the end cf two days she was found by some shepherds ; and the Com missioner inquired why sh. bad not' flown beyond their reach, when she replied that her master would not carry tier more than three leagues, and had left her in the field wh - Je the shepherds found her." " Ruins on the Banks of the Ganges" is picturesque in is descriptions, and striking in its incidents. The pisode, in particular, of the river pirates, teems with animation. " Whigs and Tories" is sad stuff. "Oa the Sinking of the "Vengeur" is an exposure of a false hood which has passed current for upwards of forty years, and was fist pointed out by Admiral Griffiths in a letter which he sent to this Journal for insertion, about six moutbs ago. The falsehood is to this effect —namely, that the crew of' the Vengeur, when that vessel lounder.ll at' the moment of Lord Howe's vic tory of the Ist of *lime, went to the bottom, shouting " Vice la Republique !" Barrere first propagated this "enormous he' in tile French National Convention, and of course all the Paris Journals adopted it. From their ct:umns it was copied by our own historians, Alison and Carlyle ; and is now, for the first time, contradicted by Admiral Griffiths, who was present at the battle in question, and declares that " the whole story is a ridi culous piece of nonsense." The " Eastern Question" is not devoid of shrewd and ingenious suggestions, but is too much tainted with party spirit to be implicitly relied on. Iu " Bunyan's Life and Times" some pleasant ex tracts are given from Mr. Philip's Memoir . of the great Puritan. The writer concludes by saying, " a life of Bunyan, in all respects satisfactory to us, has hot yet appeared. Southey had not till the materials ; Philip has not the talent ; and WE have not the time." This is modisst TATI"S MAGAZINE. 1 Parliamentary Repo rts are not, g enerall y s p eaking, remarkable for their sprightly, entertaining, or anecdo tical character ; but now and then there occurs an exception ; and the Report of the Commissioners for establishing a Constabulary Force in England and Wales, is one of them. This curious document fur nishes the theme of the first article in Tait's present Number,—and a most agreeable article it is, whether v iewed in regard to its original matter, or its extracts. The writer is opposed to the institution of a constabulary force which he calls " a system of State espionage," and threatens to return to the subject, when he will of course I prop in every thirty-one is sure to be a that is to say, as regards the nuMber of its rogues—but ' s is pe a ak no o te u r t io in us tl s i c e am us p u t al ii manly, verpo s o t l ra is ig,, r h a t t -lo e r r wa m r o d re fa m sh o io ra n t that characterizes Tait's Magazine. Meantime he gives us some furious criminal statistics, by which we learn that in Bristol, one rogue ; and that in Newctotle, one in every twenty-seven then what it wants in quantity it males up in quality, for i its thieves arc among the eigst de*terons end hest:. e,luealed in the profession, many of o. F p l . having gri,t -i duated at the best London seminaries, under the pieN) ! I super,inlendence of the most accomplishe d erackstntru. I To Lto •" A town-bred thief "is naturally considered a • Y~~ 1 i~ W r high honour among thcsc, arti-sts, who take a 'singular pride in their vocation, " the love of ame," observes Tait," forming no small proportion of their c omposition." Nevertheless, we quite agree with our Radical friend, who is quite pathetic on the subject, that the art of thieving—the most ancient in the world, the God Mer cury being the first known prig on record—is sail:y degenerated, the wost illustrious roasters, the shining lights of the profession, having long since earned their last promotion on the gallows. We have no Jack Sheppards now-a-days ; no Claude Du Valsa who rob on the high-way in such a gentleman-like style that it is quite an honour to be robbed by them ; no Dick Tur pins who ride to York at a hand-gallop, and think no thing of it ;—all these brilliant geniuses are gone, a race of tame burglars and area , sneaks has succeeded, and " the glory" of the high-way " is extinguished for ever." But never mind, friend Tait. If the race of highwaymen is extinct that of small attornies is still flourishing among us ; and while these exist, we need never complain that the art of taking a purse is at a discount. A pettifogging lawyer is only a high wayman domesticated. Having concluded his " La- Ment"—which, though brief, is singularly touching in its pathos—Tait goes on to describe, in their own words, the a dventures of two promising young " town-bred" family men, who set off about a twelve-month since on a professional. tour to _Kidderminster. These adroit thieves built a dog -cart, with a false bottom filled with bad money, stole two dogs from Smithfield, bought seventeen shillings' worth of brooms, hardware, &c., which they paid for of course with spurious coin, and while they were engaged in making this purchase, two others of the profession stole for them, in the same s hop, upwards of twenty-seven shillings' worth of mis ullaneous articles ! Thus equipped, the two young scamps quitted London by way of Wandsworth, and robbed their way direct to Kidderminster, " living very well on the road, never condescending to eat broken victuals, having meat breakfasts, good dinners, good suppers, and frequently going to bed very drunk." They were remarkably punctual, it seems, in their at tendance at Church, where they eased many a devout gentleman of his 'watch ; and on one occasion disein harassed a very fat man, who was on his knees in the aisle, of almost all his moveables. Once, however, one of them had the ill luck to be ducked in a horse pond, whereupon his companion, who appears to have been of a quiet, philosophic turn of temperament, quietly waited for him in a field a few miles off the scene of action, till the process of ablution was ended. On the whole, their expedition was singularly produc tive, for they robbed both going and returning, and when they again reached London they were received with acclamations, and pronounced by their seniors in the profession to be a " credit to the family !". Tait gives many more extracts of this sort from the Com miss;oners' Report, out of which he has contrived to fabricate a most amusing, and, if rightly interpreted, a most instructive article. " Perils and Escapes of a Covenanter" reminds us, " as with a difference," of Dean Swift's truthful details of the adventures of Captain Crichton. " Pedestrian Tour of a Scottish Emigrant" is a concise narrative of an excursion in the middle States of America. The account of Baltimore is spiritedly written. In the " Lake Reminiscences of Wordsworth and Southey" Mr. De Quincey is far too unreserved in his communications. His details of his Republican conversations with these two poets—the date of which is clearly e rroneous—where he represents them as expressing an ardent wish to have. Geiarge the Third shipped off to Botany Bay, might, we think, have been omitted with advantage ; nor need he have said that Wordsworth was the " man whom of all since the Flood I most yearned to behold," for such en thusiasm is absolutely ridiculous, the more especially when it is remembered that such men as Shakspeare, Milton, Bacon, and Newton have been among us. Mr. Wordsworth, who, with all his imagination, is a tho rough man of the world, must laugh at this panegyrical METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. There are several light, sketchy, and entertaining ar ticlesin this Number, which is of more than average merit. Mr. Addison, the traveller, figures among the chief contributors, and supplies a most minute, and we have no doubt, accurate account of Jerusalem, as the Holy City now exists. He spent, it seems, some time there, and exa mined all the localities alluded to in Scripture. The spot where Joseph of Ai imathea and Nicodemus placed the body of our Saviour, particularly struck his fancy, and accordingly he enters into very minute details re specting it. We subjoin his sketch of the sanctuary wherein the corpse of Jesus was placed : *6 We now took off our shoes, and prepared to enter the second sanctuary, which, it is altrred, is the very chamber hewn in the rock, but cased with marble, in which the body of our Saviour was placed ! A curtain was drawn aside, and, on stooping to enter a low door way, the scene ;hat presented itself was imposing to a degree. The interior of the sanctuary was clouded with the wreathing smoke of. burning incense, and the air was loaded with perfume. Forty lamps of massive gold, or of silver gilt, the presents of as many different Euro pean Potentates, suspended by chains of like material from the ceiling, diffused a briliiant but softened light through out the marble chamber, and around a marble sarcophagus placed at the side of the sanctuary. Oa the right of the doorway extended a row of lighted wax candles, placed in richly chased candlesticks, and leaning against the oppo site marble wall was seen a tall, motionless figure, .babited in a long black robe ; his hands were folded across his breast, and he held within them a long white wand. The pealing organ was still faintly heard, and the voices of the choir dying away in the distance. The orcimonk knelt by the aide of the marble tomb, and, influenced by a thousand varied emotions, I placed myself by his side. What matters it that I did not believe that the tomb before me was that of our Saviour, or that the marble sanctuary was the sepulchre in which he was lard. I was in a Christian church in the heart of Jeru salem, and at all events but a little way removed from the spot where Jesus Christ suffered on the cross, and offered himself as a sacrifice for mankind." The " Mariners of the Pollen" is a curious account of a suburb adjoining the town of Dieppe, in Normandy, which, says Mrs. Gore, " though divided from it by the estuary of a river scarcely half the width of the Thames, differs as completely from the parent town in manners and customs, dialect and costume, as the capital of England front that of Spain." The " Fog Gut," is a terse and energetic lyric, modelled on the style of Camp bell. In the " Curiosities of Legal Experience" we have a tale told with no slight skill and power. " Na tional Sonnets" are by William Howitt. They are not amiss, but the author has written much better poems. The best in the present series is the sonnet on Izaac Walton, in which he talks of " The April shower on bush and tree Pattering with silver footing pleasantly." 6' The Pirate" is but aso so tale. " Saturday Night' . is an essay containing some dainty bits of description. ‘4 Charming Roselle" is a song written in the Della- Crusca style. " M.'ms in the Mediterranean" are lively and anecdotical ; and the " Notices of New Books," which conclude the Number, penned, so far as we can see, in a calm, impartial spirit. CHRISTIAN REFORMER. Sherwood and Co. The most important article in this number is the Report of the Solicitor-General's Speech before the House of Lords, on the celebrated Lady Hewley case, w hi c r a i s given at full t'ngth from Mr. Gurney's short hand notei., and bears internal evidence of correctness. The speech is highly creditable to Sir M. Rolfe, as a lawyer and a pleader. He shows, we think, that the judgment of his Honour, the Vice-Chancellor, affirmed by Lord Lyndhurst, cannot stand without affecting the whole law of charitable trusts, and shaking number less foundations throughout the land ; so that this is a question, not merely between Independents and English Presbyterians—though we have good reason to believe that the former respectable denomination are far from approving generally the conduct of the relators in this suit—whether this body or that shall have certain an cient endowments, but whether the supposed private opinions of the Founder of a Charity, not expressed in #se . D „,i_e-rrastratrattirer-. oened.and a tchtboth for trustees and bervficiares for ever. The paper on. Samaria, by Dr. Bowriog , i s interesting i n no ordinary degree. It contains an account of the Doctor's late visit to that place, together with a description of the ter FE b c oli e f lesiastieal F orger i es ," we e service state of its inh abitant ' , and carries the reader back to the tim es, and makes him at home in forms of be i Sc r o v l ic a e n s d ' of the Church the scenes, of sacred s tor y . " Thoughts on the Recital of Creeds in Publi c Worship," is a judicious defence of e th t e plan a r t !lef of e n the t na i C have a full exposurethe fabulous l egen d re l a ti ng t o Of Elena. " The Evange our Savour and the King lical Clergy v. Dr. Pye Smith," in th e ma tt er o f cer t a i n lectures of this divine on geology, is a proof not quite con firmatory of boasted " march of intellect." These are, it is clear, now, as in the days of Galileo, thole who would not scruple to sacrifice science to human formu laries of theological faith, and would erect inquisitions to prevent the world moving on. Poor fools! JUNE 23.—This morn ing, einni understand, schooner, of Guernsey, d s erstand, was Cleal, and B about half-past s F t s ilD is i ,t Alt this :part of th e coast was v i s ited a tremendous storm o f hail and rain, of about a q uarter It blew ano hour's duration. a perfect hurricane from S. S. W, and the sea raged and foamed tremendously. off Bcachy Head, and sW th B e eto c r nt, e ps g ,t r a e wi t iel t ,n o tv ‘ s ,dh t o a ow t s e en , t h na a ba t mo t ue h t, e i ; 1 -I , e one of the crew named Griffiths, perished. Three men were taken from a spar in an exhausted state, by a Deal lugger and a Brighton fishing boat, and conveyed to Brighton. The vessel, which was laden with a cargo of wheat in bulk, was bound from London to Gloucester; and the unfortunate s ailor who perished with the captain was a London man, who was taken on board in London the day before. It was his watch on d ec k, an d it is sup posed that he was s wept off in the squall. The capta in was in his hammock , s od so sudden was the accident, that the crew had not time to apprise him of his danger. MONUMENT TO BOILDIEU TIIE COMPOSER• /, . t . c., ,„ 7. , e sta t ue of the late eminent composer Boildieu, by Wantan, jun., wes ilisugurafed at Rouen, of which niipc , be vra a patVe, on T4tirsclay bist, in the presence 6. ; i p pr io p o au thorities. The statue is erected in thp middle of ate pig Iv 41; 14 9.49)94F.§ POP! LITERATURE. ENCY CL P 2E' DIA BRIT ANN ICA. Vez:• XIX . PART L Black, Edinbuzvh. 1839. There are three admirable articles in this Part—we say nothing of the elaborate one on " Railroads," be cause it is wholly made up of minute practical details, on the correctness of which we cannot venture to offer an opinion —and these. three are, the essays on Ro mance and on Rhetoric, and the brief critical Memoir of Rabelais. This last is penned in a sententious style, pregnant with matter, and gives evidence of a familiar accraintance with the works of the first humourist of the modern world. " Rabelais," observes the writer, " is essentially good-natured even in his severest moods ; and this is apparent even in the very form of his satire. Its most caustic strokes are given with a merry voice and laughing eye ; and yet, while apparently revelling in the most unrestrained ebullitions of mere animal spirits and licentious fancy, he is covertly stripping sensualism of its enticements, and enforcing the strongest lessons of humility." Certainly nothing is more calculated to strip sensualism of its enticements than the sarcasm of Rabelais, for he lays it bare in all its naked deformity, as if for the purpose of exciting disgust. Passages, indeed, of the most horrid filth and obscenity abound in the earlier chapters of Pantagruel—thev are more rare in the Voyage of' the Holy Bottle—and this is one of the reasons why this sterling satire must ever remain, comparatively speaking, a scaled book. Swift, who should have known better, did not think it derogatory to the character of a clergyman to imitate Rabelais in this respect, though he in vain attempted to equal him in imagination and invention. As regards the good-nature of the French satirist, of which his bio grapher speaks in terms of deserved praise, Friar John of the Funnels is a matchless illustration of this genial quality, the most attractive that any writer can possibly possess. The Essay on " Romance" is, we understand, from the pen of Mr. Moir—the well-known " Delta" of Blackwood's Magazine. It is carefully written, and takes a comprehensive view of the subject. The writer's criticisms on our English writers of fiction are, in gene ral, just ; and we heartily coincide with him in his opi nion that Richardson's character of Lovelace, in Cla rissa Harlowe, is " the most finished picture of the self possessed and insinuating libertine that ever was drawn." The ease, and grace, and wit of this remarkable portrait are indeed superlative—the very salt of the novel. As for Clarissa, we cannot say we have any particular sym pathy with this paragon of excellence, notwithstanding Mr. Moir's eulogiums. She seems to us to be, like all Richardson's heroines, a very prosy, cold, strait-laced young gentlewoman, and when she eventually " gets into trouble," through the intrigues of Lovelace, she dies off after a fashion that reminds us of the last mo thents of one of the she-saints in the Evangelical Ma gazine. In discussing Fielding's works, Mr. Moir talks Of his " flaw of animal spirits, and healthy vivacity of manner." Now we must demur to this opinion. " Animal spirits" are by no means the characteristics of Fielding's manner, which, on the contrary, is grave, subdued , and full of repose. The writer's comments on Sterne and D foe are capital ; to Goldsmith, he scarcely, we think, does justice ; and speaking of Mackenzie, he makes no mention of his two cleverest and most finished tales, " Louisa Venoni," and Laroche," while he con siderably overrates his maudlin " Man of Feeling." On the whole, however, Mr. Moir has done every jus tice to his task of which it was susceptible. The ar ticle entitled " Roman History" is indebted for many of its facts to Dr. Arnold's valuable work on this subject. It is penned in a condensed and familiar style. The Plates affixed to the part are, as usual, executed in a superior style of excellence. HEMAN S' P OEM VOL. 11. Blackwood, London, 1839. This volume contains some of the earliest and most popular poems of Mrs. Hemans, and is embellished with a likeness of her favourite residence at St. Asaph, in North Wales, to which allusion is so often made in her Letters, and in the Memoir by her sister, which forms the first volume of this elegant edition. THE iORESTER. 3 Vor.s. Longman, London, 1839. The period of this tale is well chosen, for the year 1688—the time at which its principal incidents are sup posed to have occurred—is one of the most exciting in English history, not merely as regards public affairs, but as it influenced the private relations of society. Scarcely a day passed but was marked by some stir ring event which came home to the hearts, and affected the interests, of the lowest as well as the highest classes. The leading actors, too, on the political stage—the Churchills, Godolphins, &c.,—were all men of first-rate capacity, admirably fitted for the difficult parts they undertook. Miss Boyle, the authoress of the tale before us, has, in her sketches of many of these prominent personages, adhered with tole rable fidelity to history, especially in her portrait of Lord Churchill, afterwards the famous Duke of Marl borough, whose cautious speech, contrasted with his courteous, and apparently frank bearing, are delineated with much adroitness. The interview that takes place betwei.'n this accomplished statesman and Mary Saville at a woodman's cottage in the Royal forest of Savernake, has a freshness and vigour and lifelike spirit about it, far superior to what we are usually in the habit of meeting with in those modern fictions which profess to be historical. Nor is the account of the quarrel be tween Walter Fleming and Philip Dudley, where the one accidentally shoots the other, less graphic and ener getic ; but the subsequent detail of Jane Dudley's conduct, as she vows revenge beside her brother's - corpse, is too much exaggerated, the passion of the scene being torn to tatters, and producing, consequently, a ludicrous, rather than a Magic, effect. Miss Boyle should beware of this sort of exaggeration, which is ss mptomatic, not so much of strength, as of weakness. The character of Mary of Modena, the young Italian bride of James the Second, and whose life was one long, uninterrupted series of disasters, is sketched with a firm, but delicate pencil, and the language put into her mouth, is just such as she might have been supposed to utter, under the trying circumstances in which she was placed. We have been pleased with the following reflections which she addresses to her faithful companion, Mary Saville, at a time when her best friends are daily falling off, and James's cause is all but lost :—" The word change is inscribed in mournful letters upon the book of life, and every moment bears a sad testimony to the truth of the inscription. One by one, the companions of our youth fall before our eyes, tarry and loiter by the way, or strike off in a new direction, to join some other pilgrim in a distant road. The flowers that we cherished in our bosom fade and wither there ; the bird that warbled in our bearing droops and dies ; morning glows into day— day mellows into evening —and sinks into night. The eye grows weary of looking for the last time ; the lip, of bidding farewell ; till at length impressed with the transitory nature of all around us, a holy change is wrought within our bosoms; and beckoned forward by the hand of God himself, we love to strain our eyes in the direction of that lasting world, where there is • neither sorrow nor disappointment ; where there is no monotony in sameness, no satiety in pleasure." Miss Boyle has not succeeded in drawing the portrait of James ; but in the character of Lord Fleming, she has ably limned the high-minded English aristocrat, resolute to pursue the path of honour, no matter what be the difficulties that beset him, or his temptations to deviate from the path. Her tale_ is one that will meet with an average popularity, for the incidents are ingeniously con rived, and the dialogues easy and natural. TILE MANOR 0 E.G LENM 0 RE, 3 VoLs. Bell, London, 1839 The introductory chapter of this tale, which describes the manor of Glenmore and the beautiful sylvan scenery in its immediate neighbourhood, is one of the most ef fective in the whole work, particularly those portions of it which are intended to give the reader an insight into the social condition of Ireland in the memorable year 182 S, when the Catholic Association was in all its glory, and the " simultaneous meetings," which had such an effect on the nerves of the English Government, had been just carried into execution throughout the sister country. It is to this stormy period that the present tale refers, but the author has not made so much of his materials as he might have done, for, in general—with the exception perhaps of a striking scene, where an Irish peasant is prevented from committing murder by the opportune arrival of his priest—his incidents want energy and character, and the plot of his story moves on at a slow, heavy, and languid pace. Of his dramatis persona), the best is the portrait of John Glennon, which could have been drawn by no one who was not thoroughly acquainted with the pecu liar idiosyncrasy of the Irish peasant. The language of the story is flowing and animated ; but we must enter our protest acainst the use of such words as " know ledgeable"—" convulsingly"—" fatiguedly"—aud the like, which are neither English nor Irish, but sheer gibberish. EXTORT OF TIMBER FROM THE HIGH LANDS.—The progress of the railroads in England and Scotland has lately caused a great demand for fir wood in this part of the country. The sound of the ax , !.. and the saw mill are heard in the loneliest and most remote parts of the Highlands. We have heard of one proprietor sell ing his fir wood for 10.0001., and another for 5,300/. Within the last eight or ten years, a vast number of sales of this kind have been effected, ranging from eight or ten thousand to as many hundreds each. A considerable amount of shipping is engaged in this trade; and the vessels that carry out the timber in the shape of railroad-sleepers, pit-props, &c., generally return with cargoes of coals, lime, and other commodities. The number of men employed in felling the trees, sawing them up, and exporting them, is also a source of advantage to the country. A great trade has thus sprung up, the avatar, we trust of extended commerce in our northern region. When the Duke of Gordon, about fifty years ago, sold his mighty forest of Glenmore for 10,000/., the sum was considered unprecedented; yet the same timber would now, from superior management, as well as superior value in the market, be worih more than treble the amount. Previously to this period, the Laird of Grant, it is said, sold his timber at the rate of Is. Bd. for what one man would cut and manufacture in a year Thus, our fine forests have been thinned and destroyed, and the country dentided of one of its noblest ornaments and most valuable Products.—lnverneaq Courier. BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As you are one of the great advocates of railway , transit, you will do a public service by inducing the Direc tors of the above establishment, who, I believe, arc liberal men, to cause their second class carriages to be inclosed. 1 came by the 12 o'clock train from Birmingham yesterday, Ind many of the passengers were literally drenched, and parcels under the seats were saturated. Their partial coveting is worse than none at all ; for the people trusting to the top and end covers, go unprovided against the rain ; the velocity of the train will always cause an ingress of rain, in an op: t-sided vehicle, in whatever direction the wind may be. Twenty shillings is no mean fare, and moreover, the lives of people ought not to be exposed because they cannot afford to pay thirty shillings for cushions and plate. glass. A fellow-traveler, of the fair sex, asked me why the car riages were not covered as those of the Manchest'r train by Welt she had the stifle morning been travelling. It a Birmingham and Manchester Company can afford the it customers covers, surely a London and Birmingham Company can and ought to offer such an accommodation. You, Mr. Editor, are a friend to the public, and I trust you will not lay down your pen Cll you have done them the acceptable service of preserving their lives. YOUR CONSTANT READER 29th dune; 1839. [We think there is great justice in the remarks of our Corp spondent, and we have little doubt that the Directors will speedily remedy the grievance complained of.— En. Sun.l TAGLIONI. LOWER DIVISION. c Prize and Ist Certificate G. F. Degex , of London, S. Newth, of Coward Co JUNIOR CLASS, HIGHER DIVISION, Ist Prize and Ist Certificate J. E. Ashby, of London. 2d Prize and 2d Certificate... C. Gifford,of Exmouth, Devon. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.—Professor SYLVESTER EXTRA SENIOR CLASS. Ist Prize and Ist Certificate Chas, James Hargreave. 2d Prize and 2d Certificate J. G. Greenwood. Prize and let Cer. (Senior) J. Griffiths. Prize and Ist Cer. (Junior) J. W. fleby. Prize k Cer.( Matriculation) J. E. Ashby. BOTANY (JUNIOR CLASS).—Professor LINDLEY. Prize and Ist Certificate Edward Ballard, of London. ENGLISH LAW —Professor CAREY. Ist Prize and Ist Certificate John Carr, of Trinidad. 2d Prize and 2d Certificate S. Thompson, of London. It was then stated that the Professorship of Law, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Lumley, was now filled by the appointment of Peter Stafford Kelly, Esq. ; and J. T. Greaves, Esq., of the Inner Temple, had been ap pointed to the Chair of Jurisprudence. The Profes• sorship of English Literature and Language was still vacant, and that not less than forty metropolitan school masters were attending classes calculated to improve them in the various branches of education. Lord BROUGHAM then addressed the meeting at con siderable length, and in his usual style of diversified ability and entertainment. He congratulated the Coun cil, the professors, the pupils, the proprietors, and all the friends of the Institution, upon its great increase of pros perity—a prosperity which was now advancing with ra pidly accelerating velocity.—( Loud cheers.) He was quite sure that one of the incidents that had just occurred could not have escaped their atten tion ; that was, the presentation of a prize by Professor Carey for proficiency in the study of the English Law and Constitution to a most worthy and respectable indi vidual (Mr. Carr), who was now our fellow-subject and fellow-citizen by every just title—of whom they had every reason to be proud, but in whose veins there flowed Afric in blood.—(Loud cheers.) The time was when it might have been a shame to give a person of colour in any part of this empire a work on English law, and to congratulate him upon his proficiency in learning the principles of the Constitution of this country, because it would have been like a mockery to him and his race to ask him to learn that law which was not the law of free dom, and to congratulate him on his knowledge of that Constitution to the benefits of which he and his race were denied accession. But that chain was now removed from us, that load was taken off our national conscience, that tarnish was wiped away from the name, the institution, the law, and the Constitution of England ; and there being no longer a slave in any part of our dominions, on which it had been justly said the sun never sets, an Englishman might hold up his head with confidence, and congratulate a man of colour upon his proficiency in that knowledge which they bad just seen awarded, in so deserved and meri torious manner.—(Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord then adverted with expressions of high satisfaction to the increased proficiency of the students in mathe matical knowledge, which he maintained was the foundation of all sound, practical, and useful knowledge. He next congratulated the Meeting upon the obtain ing of the first Flaherty scholarship by a ,Tew. The name of that gentleman was Mr. Waylev, an eminent indi vidual, and one whom he trusted was destined to realise even still higher hopes—(Cheers)—but un happily he (Lord B.) could not yet apply to him the language of congratulas ion he had addressed to the gen tleman of colour, towhom another prize had been awarded. As he was anxious to avoid all political topics on that occasion, he would content himself, in an assembly of Eng lishmen and freemen,in merely breathing a hope upon this subject.—(Cheers.) But he must say it was a disgrace to the English character that the generous confidence which numbers of the Jewish persuasion had always reposed in us had been repaid by us by conduct the most gross and illiberal. The Noble and Learned Lord next alluded to the graduation of the University of London—a body which, with great courtesy, they had permitted to take their name, thereby incurring a loss themselves.—(Laughter.) There the students of Uni versity College had obtained their Bachelor's degrees with triumphant success, when compared with those of King's College itself. That institution (King's Col lege) had just commenced its functions as a grauating machine—(Cheers and laughter)—and if it should dis play the great merits of such a machine—that was ac curacy in apportioning degrees—( Laughter)—he should never regret, that, whilst the labour of teaching was left to University College, the labour of graduating had been bestowed upon King's College ; and if the stu dents of University College, in conipeting for honours with those of King's College, had obtained a small num ber, he should not be discouraged ; if they had ob tained an equal number, he should have - been well pleased ; but how infinitely gratifying to him was it to find, that the great majority of the twenty-six who com peted for honours—the great majority were University College men. Out of twenty-six they had twenty, )leav ing, as Professor De Morgan, or any other.Leaisn . , sPro fessor might show them, six for Kings 151 01 e. honest boast, arising from triumpha nt success, after fair d_int (Laughter and loud cheers.) While he indulged and laudable competition, to whic h they had been chal lenged by King's College, which had first entered t he field, s e College)spoke with all he g kindness, h beg ed i t t and o be friendship, (King's goodwill toward s th e i r , rival, and he"sincerely hoped t be more lucky next time.—(Laughter a n d l ou d c h eers.) In the first class the Universitymen had eleven to one against the King's C ollegemen,— ( L oud cheers.) In philosophy Mr. W a yley, the ; and he would have taken a scholarship there, but h e would not be admitted n J a e t w u • , r a c l a i r ' r i i s e t d or o y ff an th dehonour;natural because be was a Jew. On looking over the whole of the comparative lists, he found that the University Coll m en had beat en th e Ki ng ' s C o ll ege me n t w elve to one some of th e most essent i a l c l asses , an d t we l ve to n othing in some of the others. Thus, whilst King's oetge in College kindly undertook to show them how to teach, they taught them how to be beaten,—(Laughter and cheers.) Perhaps instead of six, King's Collegemee might have sixteen successful competitors next year ; in th4,t ease the University Cullegemen might calculate (From the ObseiTer.) The performances last night, at the Italian Opera, j were Lucaria Borgia and La Gitaiia, besides which it was announced to be Taglioni's last night. The house, was, therefore, overflowing in every part. If it really be Taglioni's " last night," we can only say that we should almost wish she had never come at all. How many times she has danced we do not exactly remem ber ; but it seems to us that she has no sooner ap peared than she is gone again—not merely a star, but a shooting star—bright only for an instant, as if to show what darkness is without her. However, we must ht resigned, for though Fanny Eisler is to be in London., as we hear, on the 9th of July, she is not Taglioni. Dern°. ing was never before carried to such a pitch of perfec tion, for with Taglioni it ceases to be unmeaning motion ; there is not merely grace, but expression, in every str.fp she takes. This season Taglioni has even exceeded Taglioni, for all acknowledge that she never danced so well, nor looked so well in her life. Farewell Taglioni, " With thee, farewell delight !" At the fail of the curtain she was almost smothered with flowers, bouquets being thrown from all parts of the house. The whole audience seemed quite senti mental at the notion of parting with the object of uni• versal admiration. Her Majesty was in the Royal box, attended by the ladies of her Court, aed seemed highly grat,fied by the, performance. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 28, 1839. In Harbour—The Victory, 104, ordinary guard ship ; Excellent, gunnery ship ; Royal George, yacht ; Revenge, 74 ; Pantaloon, 10 ; Messinger, steam trans port ; Lily. 16 ; tenders, Fanny, Emerald, and Gossa mer ; and Seaflower, cutter. In Dock—Not anything in commission. In Bi.sin—The Britannia, 120, flag-ship; and Mer cury, tender. At Spithead—The Hastings, 74. ARRIVALS, SAILINGS, &C., DURING THE WEEK. On Saturday, the 29.d—Arrived the Avon, steamer, Prom Cork. On Sunday, the 3d—Arrived the Apollo troop ship, from Trincomalee, with the 58th Regiment of Foot on board. On Monday—Arrived the Gossamer tender, front Cork, with newly raised rren from the Powerful. On Tuesday—The Apollo came into Harbour, al also tne Pant4loon, 10, from Canada, On Wednesday—The 58th Regiment disembarked from the Apollo, at jiaslar. ___ On Thursday—The Cuckoo steam-packet arrived from the Eastward, and sailed the Hydra steam-vessel, %vitt' supernumeries for the Mediterranean Squadron, via Plymouth. On Friday —S.illed the Avon steam-vessel, for Cork, with a detachment of the 2d battalion of the 60th Rifles. The Britannia, 120, flag-ship, will come out of basin on Moaday next ; the Edinburgh, Hercules, and Win chester are hourly expected. To-day the ships in har bour and at Spithead fired a royal salute in commemo ration of her Majesty's coronation. The Portsmouth Regatta terminates to-day with as much wind and rain as the greatest lover of aquatic sports could wish for. Owing to this state of the weather, the attendance has been but thin indeed. The Victor and Blonde are said to be the next ships for commission at this port. CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE The objection to the vote of Patrick Hanlon, was pro ceeded with unto a quarter past two, when the, Committ e e adjourned until Monday. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDI- TURE. The actual state of the lieveuue and Expenditure is u Gross Receipts, years ended January sth : 1837. 1838. 1839. £ £ £ Customs and Excise 38,765,091 36,355,677 36,874,59 b Stamps 7,350,377 7,265 123 7,453,753 Assessed and Land Taxes Post Office..., 2,350,602 2,339,739 2,346,278 Crown Lands 361,593 419,780 388,642 Other ordinary revenues, and other resources 146,130 322,1E8 312,575 52,895,298 50,592,6::3 51,278,928 The expenditure as follows: Years ended Mb January : 1837. 1838. 1839. £ £ £ 50,819,305 41,319,113 51,720,747 The chargo of col lecting is 3,563,559 3,502,496 3,525,335 Net expenditure 47,255,746 47,816,617 48 195,412 The Chancellor, in hi; Budget speech, estimated the net revenue for the last financial year, at 47,271,000/. ; it has, in fact, amounted to 47,753,000/. ; but the expenditure has likewise exceeded the Right Hon. Gentleman's calcu lations, having amaunted, instead of 47,479,000/., at w hi c h he took it, to 48,195,412/. —Public Finance Account. SUBTERRANEAN FOREST.--.The capacious boniing pond, which is now being excavated at s out h Stockton, has led to the discovery of an extert..iive subter ranceoainforest. The timber is chi e fly oak, A yew tree, of ii_i e rable size, has been found, the wood of which is sound and good, and fit for the turna - .'s lathe. Many of a..2c1 the proprietors ex bteh issufi forest, a r b e s l fo p r r t . h l e ,o p u u n r g p , os o e f o vv f b h u i : b id ; et.roefothf them m arge di mens i ons, i tP n he g ee . tosaokms Whilst examiningil will with some friends, discovered one of the oaks to have been cut in two, which had evUently been done previous to its being covered by the earth. The Doctor supposes the forest may have been cut down by th, Roman soidiers, u they were in the habit of laying timber on the low swampy grounds, for the purpose of making roads. Be this, how, ever, as it may, it is certain the hand of man has been exerted on the timber, and it may 'orrn a fertile subject for the lover of ancient history and the geoicgist to speeu. ate on. . LOltD MOIIPETII S I , ETE.---LOrd Morpeth's grand dejeurner ala pure/late, given en Saturday at the villa of the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick, to upwards of 700 persons, many of whom were of the highest rank and included all parties of the State, was the most bril liant fete of the season. Tents had been erected on the fine lawn sufficiently capacious to enable the entire as. semblv to be entertained at once. The viands were of the most costly and choice description ; and although nce an that a the weather was unfavourable in the early part of the da7, the afternoon exhibited gleams of sunshine. Theelge tents were so constructed as to prevent a n y incorlvtnie tly lined, arising a from the boarded rain ; understand well known canvasser of the public, Mr. Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwats, and 203. Piccadilly, had the erection of them.—Clorrn;cle, June 21., 1839. 1 A whirlwilid accompanied by a s orm did im mense damage in the communes of Mere, Bru s _lt •m, and Humbeek ! several horses, balls, Liti stables weir) partly thrown down awl partly , &zed to the foundatica ig the tallest *..ees were broken cr torn up wherever a. ... ,- . 5 a1.. • '... 111 .- d passed. The stom lasted only ten minutes. I UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. On Saturday. the annual distribution of prizes to the Students in the Faculty of Arts took place at the above Institution. The theatre of the College was crowded with students and visitors, and much interest was evi dently felt as to whom tie successful candidates were. Amongst those pres,2nt were Mr. Hume, M.P.; Mr. Pendarves, M.P. ; Mr. Weymouth, Mr. Goldsmid, Members of the Council ; Mr. Jonathan Brundrett, and many other gentlemen of distinction. Lord Brougham, President of the College, had been announced to take the chair, but as his Lordship had not arrived at half-past two, and as the company were anxious that the business should proceed, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham was called upon to preside. His Lordship had apologised to the 'company, and was in the act of passing :high encomium upon the Noble President, when Lord Brougham made his appearance, and was received with thunders of applause. The Bishop of Durham at once vacated the chair, and after some mutual civilities and mutual entreaties, The Right Hon. Lord BROUGHAM consented to preside. He was exceedingly sorry to have dethroned the Right Rev. Prelate ; he should rather he would have consented to preside. He bad heard of other persons being dethroned, but never before of a Bishop. As he had been culpable in detaining the meeting, he should not now obtrude upon them any remarks. Mr. MELDEN, Professor of the Greek Language, and Dean of the Faculty, then read the Report of the In stitution for the past year. That Report was in all respects satisfactory. In the various departments of Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Italian, German, Chi nese, Ment4 and Moral Philosophy, Mathematics, Logic, and English Jurisprudence, the proficiency made was highly creditable. The moral conduct of the ge neral habits of the students had been uniformly good. The number of students for the past year had been 149, a great increase upon that of the preceding year. Three gentlemen had attended the Chinese Professor, and had been sent by the London Missionary Society as missionaries to that country. The names of the gentlemen who had matriculated, and to whom certifi cates had been granted, were then read. The NO➢LE LORD then called upon the Learned Pro fessors to declare in their several departments the per sons to whom the prizes bad been awarded. The fol lowing is the list of names with the several classes in which the prizes were taken : G RE EK.—Professor MALDEN. SENIOR CLASS. Ist Prize and Ist Certificate..J. Greenwood, of Petersfield. 2d Prize and 2d Do. equal Barrow H. Ellis, of London J P. Martineau, of London JUNIOR CLASS. Tst - Prize and Ist Certificate.. A. Tidman, of London. 2d Prize and 21 Certificate.. J. Sugden, of London. L AT IN.—Professor KEY. SENIOR CLASS. Ist Prize and Ist Certificate..J. G. Greenwood. 21 Prize and 2d Certificate...W. Ridley, of Felsted, Essex Prizes iriE x. Sen. Class, ,, qual. J. Greenwood and W. Ridley. Justoa CLASS. Ist Prize and Ist C , rtificate. J. T. Clark, of London. 2d Prize and 2d Certificate... R A. Vaughan of London HEBREW.—Professor HURWITZ. Prize and Ist Certif. ( Sen. )...Robert Gibson, of London. Prize and Ist Certif. (Jun. )...J. Griffiths, of Coward Col. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. Professor ROGERS. Ist Prize and Ist Certificate . .W. Ridley. ( W. Sheen, of Hatfield Pe -2d Prize and 2d Certificate veril. (J. W. Hoby, Birmingham. GERMAN LANGUAGE.—Mr. WITTICIL Prize and Ist Certif. ( Sen.)...J. H. Hutton, of London. Ist Prize end Isteertif. (Jun. )...P. Smith, of Coward Coll. 2d Price and 2d Certif. (Jun. )... M. Montgomery, Brentford PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND LOGIC. Professor HOPPCS. Price and let Certificate J. Smedmore, Coward Coll. MATHEMATICS.—Professor DE MORGAN. SENIOR CLASS, HIGHER DI, ISION. C. J. Hargrave, of Wortley Prize and Ist Certificate... near Leeds. _s _ 1 _ ~.* FVEVIVC ED I f A. • - upon sixty.—(Cheers.) They lad the mo7e grottnl: to exult, as while King's College had had the patronage of the Crown, hating been granted 30,000/. for btalioir ground, and the patronage of the Church and the State, they of University College had been obliged to do every thing themselves. They had been obliged to give 28,000/. for the ground on which the University and the Hospi tal stood, and they would not have been able to purchase it if three worthy members of the Council, of whom his friend, Mr, Goldsmid, was one, had not advanced the 28,000/. for them.—(Che2rs.) It should be remem bered that his late Majesty was a subscriber to King's College. Her present Majesty also subscribed to it, acting, no doubt, under the advice of her Ministers. He hoped a similar favour would be extended to this insti tution.—(Hisses and cheers.) He should have great pleasure if he could add that her Majesty, under the , advice of her Ministers, did as much for this Institution. but at present he spoke the language, not of gratitude, but of hope. Under these circumstances, the influence of the Crown, the Church, and the State, being against them, and in favour of King's College, and they having had only to rely upon themselves, he was happy in being able to congratulate them on having this year beaten King's College twelve to one, and he trusted that next year he should be able to congratulate them in having at least equalled King's College in point of funds.—(Loud cheers.) The meeting then broke up. ~. P ;:r „,