The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

EV.I4:N ING EDIT lON. . now were new tri us. We had no idea that old Giles Fletcb-er was so sterling a poet as he is here ! 1 l i h _7 l „ t o ' ne. " Some Re co ll ec t ions o f J ames Hogg" ..tve a curious insight into the peculi ar i t i es o f this er .c:ntric and highly-gifted man. The" Church'. s vAtl, prosy twaddle, and seems written, not with 11)‘ 4, but with laudanum. " Dr. Farmer's Essay" is I mercilessly cut tip by Dr. Maginn, who entertains a very mean o pi n i on o f t h e l earne d Cambridge dig nitary's criti ca l persp i cac i ty an d scholarsh i p ; vet i▪ s just and liberal enough—vt hich is not always the case with those who take on themselves the office of censors—to give reasons for the faith that is in him. • " The Youth of Julia Howard" is an jute resting narrative, b u t th ere i s too li tt l e di a l ogue i n i▪ t, which is the life—the essence—of all fiction. What would Boz be as a story-teller without his dialogues ? Absolutely 'oeneath contempt. The 1 ' Last Eve of St. J(1 1- .n" is an amusing qu;z on the late Eglinton 'fournament. The " Spanlsh Question'' is dis'eussed in the most perverse and jaundiced spire of party faction. There is not an opinion nor an argument worth a moment's con sideratiop , From the " Recollections of James . 11° 0 1) g" we quote this anecdote : • " 'H'aving removed from St. Ann-street to a sky-parlour In 'f..cither old place called Gabricl's-road, he very uncere- TTAniouslv addressed a note to Mr. John Wilson, assuring that gentleman (with whom he had no previous inter -1 course), that he had been greatly pleased with his Isle of Palms, rind would be glad if Mr. W. would take a chop with l''.ni same day, as he wished to have the pleasure of his acquaintance. Delighted with the naivete of this Vtallet, and diverted with the joke, Mr. Wilson, punctual to an appointment which bad been made, clambered up tke common stair, and at the top was introduced into a teat and cheerful apartment, where he found the poet and his best friend, Mr. John Grieve (a well known manufae ' turer of hats on the North bridge) ; the former receiving his guest as if he had been a brother shepherd (Arcades Ambo .0, with a cordiality and kin lness worthy of a great mind. Possibly, Hogg's leading notion was to afford his visitor (as a much younger man, hut whose " Palms" were buds of promise) some critical hints which might be of service to him ; for whilst quite above taking advice in literary matters, he had an ultra Tory spirit, and expected that others would receive it submissively from him. The perpetual Scotch dinner of " braudered skate, and minced collops," which may bo had in every lodging, however humble, was as usual excellent, and the whisky punch ini mitable. The author of the Isle of Palms, who had never in his lire either seen or expected to see such an original, was highly entertained. Topics for conversation were inexhaustible, and the time flew unperceived till eleven, when Wilson, recollecting that he was engaged to an ovening party at his own residence, took the Shepherd thither along with him, who, bring in high glee, sang his best songs, and played his best tunes on the fiddle, to the great amusement e,, the company there assembled ; and, as usual at Edin',urgh, day broke ere they separated." TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The 3 .ast Number of this Magazine never reached us art the twentieth of the month, which we trust v'' : :11 convince our sturdy Radical friend Tait, that if we neglected to notice it at the usual period, it was from no lukewarmness on our part, for we ever expect his periodical with eagerness, and recur to its pages with pleasure ; differing, as we do, from many of his opinions, both literary and political, and un versed as we are, and desire to continue, in the cold, idle crotchets of--what for want of a better term is called—Utilitarianism. The present Tait is an excellent one, if only for its admirable digest of that singular work, the " Reminiscences of a Religious Maniac." This is, it appears, the pro- duction of Mr. Perceval, younger son of the late Prime Minister, who, after being for years an en thusiast o f t h e most rigid, Calvinistic character, became unquestionably insane ; was confined in a mad-house ; eventually recovered possession of his senses ; and has now published his confessions and experiences, during the period when his mind was most off its balance. Such a work is not only Cll riouic but valuable ; and as such, we shall take an opportunity of procuring it, and giving our readers a taste of its contents. We suspect that it will go far to confirm the world, in the opinion now be ginning to be pretty generally entertained, that mad doctors are among the most heartless, ignorant, and mischievous of the faculty. Imagine one of this tribe, saying to Mr. Perceval, while about to quit the asylum in a state of all but complete restora tion to sanity, " Good bye, Sir ; I wish I could give you hopes of your recovery to say the least of it, was the speech of a vulgar brute, ignorant of the very first rudiments of his profes sion. " The Queen's Comfit maker" is a legen dary tale, told with her usual animation, by Mrs. Gore. It this lady would but condescend to take more pains with her fictions, and rely less on un aided genius to carry her handsomely through, she would be a far more popular author than she no w is, or is ever likely to be. But first impressions, though the most vivid, are not always the best. The best thoughts and feelings do not uniformly lie on the surface. They must be due deep for, and drawn forth with skill and labour; and knight's Pictorial Edition of Shakspeare, has con vinced us more than ever of the justice of this opi nion. " Mary Stuart's Farewell to France" is pleasantly translated from the French of De Be ranger. In the " Lockhart and Ballantyne Con troversy" the writer deals out some hard blows to Mr. Lockhart ; who, he thinks, has been trium phantly answered in all main points, by the trus tees of the late Mr. Ballantyne. " The Abbe Godard" is a curious episode in the history of the French Revolution, told with feeling and simplicity. CHURCH OF ENGLAND Q UARTERLY REVIEW. There is a strong spirit of clerical partizanship in this periodical, which we would gladly see mode rated, the more especially as in every other respect it is so ably conducted as to entitle it to general patronage. The most entertaining article in the Number before us, is that which gives an account of the rise and progress of periodical literature in this country. " ;Memoirs of Literature" was, it seems, one of the earliest Magazines ever published in England, having been commenced, in the folio form, in the year 1712 ; and among " the most re markable things to be found in this Journal," says the Reviewer, " there is an account given of a pa d ir of silk stockings, spun from the webs of spiders, and presented to the Duchess of Burgundy by M. Bon, a member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Montpellier, who had ascertained, not only the superiority of spiders over silk-worms, in spinning a finer thread, but that they afforded a water which was a cure for the gravel and pulmonary complaints, and equal to the Carmelite water in cases of apo plexy." In the course of this article the Reviewer seizes the opportunity of sneering at Clarke's Ho rner, observing that " it is a work now nearly for gotten." Now so far is this from being the case, that it is just in as high repute as ever it was among scholars, if only for its Notes, which are full of matters of useful and pertinent information. Bentley , prai se d i t as b e in g th e " b est o f a ll t h e e diti ons ," and " above the reach of envy ;" and—whatever the Reviewer may insinuate to the contrary—this illustrious scholar was not a man prone to indulge in " hyperbolical praise." Of the rise of the " Edin- - : burgh Review" we have numerous gossiprng de tails, none of which, however, possess the merit of absolute n ove lty ; an d with reference to its great rival the Quarterly, we are told that " with the ex ception of a caustic article on Sidney Smith, and on Miss Owenson, afterwards Lady Morgan, whom Croker has persecuted with all the hate of a rejected lover, this Journal adopted, originally at the sug gestion of Scott, a gentlemanly tone." Those who remember its savage attack s on Hazlitt, Shelley, Hunt, and many others, will hardly coincide in this opinion. The " Evangelical Party" is dull, pro lix twaddle, and the " Rule of Faith" not much better. THE MONTHLY CHRONICLE Lord Normanby's Admini s t rat i on in Ireland, which has recently occupied so much • of the time and attention of the House of Lords, is the subject of one of the cleverest political articles whi c h has for some time appeared in the pages of the << M onthly Chronicle." It must be admitted that the defence of a Government which has been the first for a period of seven centuries to inspire the majority of the 1 1 Irish people with confidence in the impartial admi nistration of the laws, and with an enthusiastic at tachment to the Sovereign, imposes no serious diffi culty, so far as relates to that branch of the admi nistration ; but there is great in:rit in steering clear 1 of those declamatory laudations which, unsupported by facts, are employed indiscriminately by the hack advocates o f every party in power ; and this merit the article before us possesses. The evidence taken before the Lords' Committee is minutely examined, and carefully sifted and analyzed ; the effect of every successiv e measure upon the morality of the country is tested by the increase or dimi nution of thenecessity, no less than the s ound crime ; an d Policy ' of adapting the executive forms of a Go vernment to theenius of the p p people over presid es is clearl y and succinctly which it y pointed out and enf orced. We pass over the writer's severe, but well• merited castigation of that crazed fanatic Lord Roden, who in this instance is proved to have committed the Tory faction without the previous knowledge of any of its distinguished leaders. His Lordship's peculiar idiosyneracy marks him out as the incorrigible dupe of his own delusions, and of the ignorance or cunning of all who approach him under the mask of proselytizing orthodoxy. In the following conclusion arrived at by the writer, after a careful examination of all that has been published on the subject of Lord Normanby's Government in Ireland, we are confi- dent nineteen•twzntieths of the people of Ireland heartily concur :—" Had Lord Normanby's Admi nistration been distinguished by appeals to the gibbet and the bayonet ; had it deluged Ireland with blood, forced the wretched and oppressed po pulation into rebellion, and then taken advantage of its own criminality to wreak a sanguinary ven geance upon its victims ; had it substituted fraud for justice, force for reason, and allowed a rampant faction to continue paramount over the people ; had it endeavoured to stifle the operation of the law, and to rob the Catholics of the rights they had acquired under it ; had it encouraged conspira cies against the British connection for the purpose of creating a pretext for a military despotism ; had it revived religious animosities, corrupted the tribu nals, and overrun the country with fire and sword ; had Lord Normanby's Administration been digni- fied by such exploits as these, not a murmur of censure would have been breathed against it in the House of Lords, and the world would never have heard;•one word about Lord Roden's Com mittee of Inquiry." Well does this solve the prob lem of the immense influence of Mr. O'Connell and the facility of agitating the Repeal of the Union in Ireland ! The article on the " Practicability of civilizing Aboriginal Populations" is curious and in teresting, but we fear that at the present moment it is not likely to meet with much attention. The " State and Prospects of Spain" is in a great mea snrc a recapitulation of newspaper intelligence for the last five years, well-known to every reader who has paid the slightest regard to the events passing in the Peninsula. We ought, perhaps, to except the the sentimental description of the lachrymose cm bracings of Generals Espartero and Maroto, which is only calculated to make a deep impression upon the fair frequenters of circulating libraries. The " Church and the Army" is a clever dialogue in blank verse, suggested by the late correspondence between the Clergy of Thirsk and the Marquis of Londonderry. We have been particularly struck with the concluding lines which the author puts into the mouth of the temporal Peer, but they cannot he extracted from the context without injury to the whole. The character of M.Thiers in the'' Political studies on the Foreign Statesmen of our time," is too wiredrawn. It is " Timon's" inimitable sketch which appeared several months ago in The Sun and other London Journals, spun out, and to a great extent caricatured. The review of new books is exceedingly limited—a circumstance which upon the whole, we do not regret, as we question whether the casual enumeration, with now and then a word of qua lified approbation of new books at the end of a Magazine, is not more injurious than beneficial to the fame of the authors and the early circulation of their works. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZLVE. This is one of the most varied numbers of the Dublin University Magazine that has appeared for several months. In addition to four Tales, of more than the average merit which is supposed to form the standard of Magazine excellence in such pro ductions, the first number of a Portrait Gallery is superadded, adorned with an etching of the Reverend CTsar Otwav, author of a Tour in Connaught. This is a valuable improvement, and may do much in the way of extending the cir culation of the Magazine in this country. Were the politics of this periodical as unobjectionable as its literary articles arc excellent, there would be few indeed so deserving of a favourable notice. THE MONTHLY LAW MA GA ZINE. There is not a single article in this number which can, by any possibility interest any, save members of the legal profession. We were about to except a tirade against the Government, under the popular title " House of Commons," but in looking into it, we were prevented by its excessive dullness. It is replete, however, with legal information, and de serves a place in every lawyer's library. THE FREEMASON'S Q UARTERLY RE. VIEW There is one article in this Number which will not fail to attract the attention of the curious. It is entitled " Female Freemasons," and is embel lished with a portrait of a very demure looking sister of the craft, the Hon. Mrs. Aldwo►th. We are strangers to the mysteries of masonry, and therefore knew not before casting our eves over this article that there is nothing in the constitution of the Masonic body, to prevent the fair tex participating in all its secrets. Now, if this be so we are for the admission of the ladies by all means. That they cannot keep secrets, is one of those exploded libels upon the sex, which the veriest woman-hater would be ashamed to utter. In fact, if secrecy be a virtue, women possess it in fifty times greater perfection than men. Most of the other articles in this periodical, are devoted to subjects connected with the Masonic body, and therefore, though clever and ‘vell written, are of little interest, save to the initiated. We except the " Vampire" and the " Rosicrucian," which belong to the German school of tales of terror and mystery. Altogether, the Freemasons' Quarterly Review is conducted with much ability, discretion, and great good humour. THE METROPOLITAN. " Italy, by an Exile," is one of the best articles in the " Metropolitan" for October, and yet it is strangely desultory and rambling for such a subject. The writer wants force, and the power of condens ing and defining within some fixed limits views just in themselves, and well worthy of being ren dered familiar to the people of this country. If we must have declamation, let us have plenty of au thenticated facts to enable us to estimate it at its proper value. The continuation of the " Pil grimage from Fontainbleau to Scotland," is spirited, but we are rarely able to remember the connection of a fragment of a present with that of a bygone story, and therefore cannot speak of it as a whole. " Delaval O'Dorney" is not at all to our taste. Besides, the world is drugged with sen timental twaddle about the remorse of grey-haired seducers, and the certainty with which repentance dodges the heels of sin. The " Trip to Killar ney" is amusing, and abounds in really humor ous anecdotes. We never before heard of the Poet O'Kelly, and we never had greater cause to lament our obscurity, if we merely restrict our ad miration of the immortal bard's abilities to his own modest estimate of them : 'Mould take al Byron and a Scott, I tell ye, With Pope and Moore, to male the:Bard U' Kelly " Othello" from the German of Hauff is a very interesting tale, with the rare merit of being exceed. ingly probable. The notices of new books are not numerous this month, but they arc more carefully written than usual. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. In the spirit and ability of some of the things in this repertory of all kinds of sporting intelligence, we think we recognise an old friend with a new and fresher face. But what we mainly admire in this " New Sporting" vehicle, is its wide range. On almost every subject interesting to the fly-fisher, the racing man, and the lover of field sports, there is something that combines the utite and the duke. And the imagination, too, is carried from Broxbourn, in Hertfordshire, to Calcutta, in India. Apropos to Broxbourn, we may mention that a gleam of this piscatorial paradise is afforded to us by a highly-finished engraving of the well-known " Want's Inn. Another plate puts us in possession of a beautiful landscape, in which e a ox r f e ttlyi s t, e ing e n a castellated mansion on t he summit of a l well-wooded hill. The pheasant h as " mounted on triumphant wings," but judging from the appearance of a gentleman with gun in hand ready primed and cocked, the golden breasted, purple-crested bird is doomed to death. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. Our hale, hearty old friend is this month full of the spirit which animated those well-informed pages that years ago earned for his publication so high a character in the sportin g world, and made him " first favourite" with all the more knowing and judicious of the betting and the batting men, the rowing and the racing genus , as well as the fishing and the shooting population. The present Num ber is really a capital one, and proceeds, as one of Hooke's heroes would say, " straight Tilt! SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1839. along, smack smooth—and no mistake !" The plates, as usual, are first-rate—that wherein the two gentlemen are resting from the labour of " pheasant shooting" is finished with a fidelity to nature and an attention to details, that may be sought for in vain in works of more pre tension. " The Starting for the Cup" is not so great a favourite with us, although an elaborate and excellent engraving. With respect to the various topics treated, those which eve like best are the following :—" Condition of Hacks, Gip ping, &c. ;" Whiz's Birmingham " Back Par lour ;" Phenix on " Jockey Training ;" the "Rambler in Wales ;" the " Devon and Somerset shire Staghounda ;" and " the Disputed Sussex Country." ;ye had hoped to have seen Miss Tree. Mr Phelps performed the part of Antonio with much propriety and prepossessing manner. Mr. Walter Lacy took the Bassanio, and, but for a certain consciousness of his art, which he has ever about him, might be said to be a fair representative of that fortunate gallant. Strickland also did justice to the part of Old Gab°. Miss P. Horton played 'Jessica, and sang very neatly. Buck stone played Launcelot Gobbo, and to give the idea of the contrary promptings of the devil and his con science, introduced the put by running backwards and forwards on the stage, and making all sorts of conical gestures More he spoke a word. The' whole of the character he performed with the manifeit desire of mak ing his audience laugh at any expense, and he suc ceeded. Q UEEN'S. The Iron Chest was performed at this little theatre la t night. The principal part was sustained by Mr. Grattan, who looked the melancholy and sensitive Mor timer well. Mr. J. Parry's Wi/ford, and Mr. Hollings worth's Adam Winterton had some good points, which, in the latter case, would have been more numerous it' Mr. Hollingsworth paid more attention to the fact that old Adam had numbered fourscore. The enter tainments concluded with the farce of Perfection. ASTLEY'S. The Tournament, and the wonderful performances of the Elephant in the circle, and the Fire Fiend, con tinue to attract crowded audiences. A novelty intro duced last night, called the Bazaar of Wonders, was eminently successful. Mr. Ducrow has made an en gagement with Mr. Carter, the American Lion King, of the Bowery 'near°, New York, and a splendid drama wilt shortly be produced, in which he will appear with the whole of his wild animals. SOUT HWARK REGISTRATION. (THIS DAY.) The Revising Barristers, Mr. Bullock and Sir Wal ter Buchanan Riddell, sat to-day at the Town Hall, Southwark, for the purpose of revising the list of voters for the borough. None of the cases possessed any point of peculiar interest. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, SEPT. 30. --Wind E.—Sailed the outward-bound. Arrived the Haverick, Henekin, from the South Seas. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 30.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the De laware, from New Orleans ; Cyrus, Nicholson, St. Peters burgh ; Paul Frederick, Fenger, Wismar; Dantzic packet, Sanner, Dantzic ; and Lady Emily, Wilson, Alexandria. Sailed the Ann, Brown, for Berbice; David, Adair, La Guayra: Spinster, Colquhoun, Vera Cruz; Providence, Murray, Gulf of Mexico ; Shakspeare, Henderson, New Orleans; Southener, Tibbitt!, New York; Earl War wick, Davies, and Vandalier, Saule, ditto; Comet, Davis, Newfoundland ; Satisfaction, Gibson, Africa ; Margaret, Lowther, Sierra Leone; Divonia, Long, Algiers; Gem, M`Kenzie, Messina ; and Adelaide, Granby, Oporto. PORTSNIOUTII, SECT. 30. —Wind, E. S. E.—Arrived the Montreal, Griffin, from New York—s.tileci the 11th ins•. ; Jane, Young, from Dantzic. Sailed the Wilmot, Miller, for Sydney. Off port, the 13raganza, Gray, front Oporto. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 29.--Wind, S. to S.E.—Sailed the Liverpool, Flint, fur New South Wales ; Lucille, Clark, Port-au. Prince; Justitia, Clark, Newfoundland ; .Petrel, Malaga. FALNIOUTH, SEPT. 29,—Wind, S. to W., fresh breezes. Arrived the Hope packet, from Tampico sailed 25th July, Vera Cruz 2d ult., Havannah 24th; Liverpool (steamer), Burney, Gibraltar, left 19th inst., Cadiz 20th, Lisbon 23d, and Vigo 25th. Sailed St. Andrew's, Goger, for Havannah ; Leander, Genoa. Off port, the Pilot, Roberts, Demerara ; Wilberforce, Harrison, Maranham. LITERArURE. EMAN S' S POEM S—VoL 3. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1639. The present volume contains the " Sceptic"— the poem which first introduced Mrs. Hemans to the favourable notice of old Gifford, of the " Quar terly Review"—the spirited, but somewhat too de clamatory, drama of " The Siege of Valencia," which, we believe, was originally intended to have bee❑ represented at Covent Garden, but for some reason or other was withdrawn ; and several minor poems, chiefly on classical subjects, in which the authoress always took deep interest. The volume is got up with remarkable neatness ; is embellished with an elegant engraving, by Kernot, of " Our Lady's Well, near St. Asaph ;" and indeed the edi- tion altogether is by far the handsomest, cheapest, and completest that has yet been published of the works of this sterling poet. LITTLE PEDLINGTON. —2 VoLs. Colburn, London, 1839. This is a republication of a series of lively sketches under the title of " Little Pcdliugton" that have aheady appeared from time to time in the pages of the " New Monthly Magazine," and been duly noticed, as they were published, in The Sun. The author is Mr. Poole, well known for his popular drama, " Paul Pry." THE GERMAN SELF TEACHER. By HEzcßr MEIDINGER. London, Whittaker and Co., 1839. This book is intended as a self instructor, chiefly for English Tourists, and contains lists of words and phrases in common use, which, with the help of a pocket dictionary, would soon enable the student to acquire a moderate knowledge of the language. It has one advantage over many books of this de scription, in not frightening the beginner with an infinity of rules and exceptions to rules at the outset, The author leads him on gradually, and like a good teacher, tries to secure the good will of the scholars before he gives them a heavy task. " They will acquire," he says, "by its aid, in a short time, a knowledge of German sufficient to understand and to be understood by the people of Germany, with out troubling themselves with grammatical rules, often very intricate, and only requisite for those who wish to be as per Let as possible in the language." THEATRES. CO VENT-GARDEN This theatre opened last night for the season. Long before the time of admission—at least an hour— the crowds at all the chief entrances were greater than we ever remember to have seen them—even in the palmy days of the drama, when Kean was in the full flush of his popularity. With considerable difficulty, at half-past six o'clock, we obtained entrance into the theatre ; and with still greater difficulty, elbowed our course through a perspiring and excited crowd, to the free list box ; thence we had to force our way, step by step, at the slow pace of a funeral, up the grand en trance ; and thence, successively up every stair-case, from the dress circle to the slips, when our progress was at once summarily put a stop to by the interposi tion of the roof. At each of these cire!es the crowd —or rather the crush —was, we verily believe, with out parallel. It was not merely that the boxes were thronged to suffocation ; but the halls—the lobbies—the stair-cases—in short, all the immediate and remote approaches to them, exhibited such a dense, close-wedged mass of human beings---some complaining of the heat, others of their ribs, and others of the loss of their money, in tones of the most touching pathos— that there was actually no jostling through them, ex cept at a snail's pace. On reaching the slips, where we were so peculiarly and delicately situated, that we could neither see nor hear, we learned from the tumultuous uproar that burst forth from all parts of the theatre, and which was pretty equally made up of applauses, hisses, and emphatic cries of " Give us back our money,"—we learned, we say, from these significant demonstrations that Madame Vestris was on the stage, delivering an address ; of which we particularly remarked, that the parts which were the most inaudible were precisely those which were most applauded. After continuing her address amid all sorts of vociferous interruptions, especially from that portion of the audience who now stand proxy for the gallery, the fair manager was compelled to withdraw, and was instantly succeeded by Mr. Charles Mathews, whose speech was just as in audible as Madame Vestris's, with the sole ex ception of the words .‘ three thousand pounds," which he delivered with prodigious gusto. During the continuance of his address, he was often interrupted by shouts of " the play, the play ;" and was ultimately compelled to withdraw, when the curtain drew up, at nearly eight o'clock, and the business of the evening commenced. We understood from a neighbour, who was fortunate enough to get standing-room in the slips, that the purport of both the addresses was—that the respectability of the audience should be as strictly maintained as during the last management ; that sterling dramas, especially. Shakspeare's, should have every justice done them ; and that every effort should be made to secure the assistance of the ablest dramatic authors of the day. When we quitted the theatre, which was at the rising of the curtain, hundreds were going away, so that our difficulty was almost as great in getting out, as in getting in. From the ap pearance, and disposition of the house at the title we left, it was pretty evident that all would be dumb-show throughout the evening. ADEL PHI. Mr. Yates commenced his campaign for the winter season last evening, with the popular drama of the Kentuckian, which re-introduced to us two old fa vourites from " t'other side the pond"—Mr. Hackett and Mr. T. D. Rice. Mr. Hackett was the Nimrod Wildfire, a rich specimen of Kentuck from Far West, half horse half alligator, with a touch of the arthquake, and a sprinkling of the steam boat, who only dances to music of three hundred horse power, and lik es every t hin g a f ter t h e t h un d er an d lightning order. But Mr. Hackett is more than a mere deline a t or o f nat i ona l pecu li ar i t i es , h e is a genuine comic actor of a high order ; and as the Americans have robbed us of so many of our sterling actors, we hope they will spare us Mr. Hackett for at least the remainder of the season. He was exceedingly well received. Rice, as the Nig gur Ciesar, was himself, and that is saying every thing. He did not jump Jim Crow, but instead, sung two new songs, and a duett with Miss E. ilonner, who is engaged at this Theatre, and is likely to prove an acqui;- salon. He likewise gave some Niggur readings of Shak speare, which were admirable, and some imitations of Kean, quite as good as those of poor Jack Reeve. A new mclodramc, entitled Mount St. Bernard, followed the plot_ of which tuins upon the endeavours of Count Philip de Maurepas (Mr. Lyon) to deprive Alice (Miss Allison) the orphan daughter of the Duke de Brisac, who is under the guardian ship of Tlbault, a goldsmith, (Cullingford) of her estates, to which, in the event of her death he is the heir. He murders Tibault—manages is to. get Theodore (J. F. Saville), the husband of Alice, con demned as the murderer ; who, however, rescued by the peasants. After running through the usual routine of melodramatic adventure, he dies on the plateau of Mount St. Bernard, having previously restored the title-deeds of the property to Alice and Theodore. The sceaery of this piece is really most magnificent. There is a view of the cathedral and grand square at Grenoble, by Pitt, which is very splendid; hut the gem of the piece is the Plateau of the Great St. Bernard, by Telbin. It is of greater extent than anything hitherto attempted at this theatre ; and, as a work of art, is deserving of the highest commendation. We congratulate Mr. Yates for having secured the services of Telbin—he will one day be what Stanfield is. We cannot conclude without noticing the acting of Mr. Wright, as Dirk Schuyler, it was a rich piece of h umour. The p i ece was given out for repetition every eve n i ng , w i t h very s li g h t opposition. Mons i eur Morbleu closed the evening's entertainments, Hackett sustaining the character of the Frenchman. HAYMARKET. The attraction here last night was the revival of the Merchant of Venice, in which Macready played Shy lock. How far he succeeded in this character, new to him, we believe, we are not disposed dogmatically to determine. His reading of Shakspeare's Sky/ock was not only new, but very unlike Kean's. Some persons will think Macready suffers in comparison with Edmund Kean, while many will think that the former's adherence to the text of his author is closer, if the performance be not quite so striking. Be this as it may. the applause w as very warm on the retirement of Shylock, and at the conclusion of the play a general call was made for Mr. Macready, but he had already left the theatre. Portia was well performed by Miss Faucit, especially in the trial scene. The part, however, was one in which COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—After the Council at the Castle this afternoon, which continued about half an hour, her Majesty and nearly the whole of the party rode out on horseback, in the direction of the Great Park, through the Long Walk. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, took an air,ng this morn ing in a carriage and four. It is st ited that hear Abjesty the Queen Dowager is coming shortly to the Castle. The Lord Chancellor came this morning from his residence at Copse-hill to attend the Council; Sir John Hobhouse came from town ; and Mr. Labouchere from the seat of Lord Ashburton, the Grange, Her Majesty has a dinner party this evening at the Castle, and the following are the company expected—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lord Chan cellor, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Right Hon. Francis 'l'. &ring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Lahouchere, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Hon. Wm. Bathurst, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Paget. Hon. Miss Pitt, lion. Miss Spring Rice, lion. Mrs. George CamphA, Baroness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Earl of Surrey, Hon. Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemyss. The Queen held a Privy Council yesterday after noon at Windsor Castle. It was attended by the Lord Chancel:or, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre taries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Depart ments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the India Board, the President of the Board of Trade, the Master of the H'rse, and the Lord Chain berlain. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Esq., was, by com mand of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council, and took ha place at the Board. Mr. Macaulay had also the honour to kiss hands on being appointed Secretary at War. The Honourable William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Duke of Sussex left Kensington Palace yester day morning, and paid a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness remained at the Castle two hours and a half, and left at four o'clock on his return. - _ „.. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from Governor Doherty, at Sierra Leone. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATERSALL'S—YEsTERDAy. In consequenbe of severnl departures for the Newmarket races the room was ve-y thinly attended ; the only Derby bets we heard were COO to 100 agst Lord Jersey's lot, :575 to 25 agst Bro. to Euclid, and 25 to 1, in ponies, agst St. Andrew, offers to bet 15 and take 16 to 1 about. Maley Ishmael. For the Newmarket St. Leger 40 to 10 was laid agst Flambeau, and a small sum betted at even on him agst Epidaurus. NEWMARKET—MoNDAY AFTERNOON. The following horses have arrived since our last : —From John Day's stables at Stockbridge—Crucifix, Sal Volatile, Ca pate, &c., by Glencoe, out of Alargellina. From Scott's—Epirus and Epidaurus. Forth has seven here. GRAND ROWING MATCH. The Great Oars Wager between Coombes and Phelps and Pocock and Doubledee came off splendidly yesterday after noon. The distance was nearly six miles, namely, from West minster to Putney. Five o'clock had been appointed for the hour of starting, and as that hour drew near, the Leander and several club cutters came out from the different causeways. At a quarter-past five the men neared Westminster-bridge, on which was a large concourse oT speators to witness the start. Pocock and his partner won the choice of station, and went to the centre pier. On the signal being given they went off like lightning. Pocock and Double lee had the start, anti after the first dozan strokes were half a length ahead, but they were des tined not to hold this long. As they neared the Horseferry their opponents came abreast of them, and disputed the claim to the lead in a style never surpassed. The combatants strained every nerve. It was too fierce a conflict to last long, and, amidst cheers from boats' crews and the hundreds assembled on shore, Coombes and his partner, after rowing , oar and oar with their opponents f or some minutes, passed them off Chand ler's, and went up the point a length ahead. Pocock and his partner, as long as nature would hold out, tried their utmost to overhaul them, but without effect, and Coombes and Phelps arrived at Putney-bridge thirty-seven seconds in advance. Mr. Bishop, of the Leander Club, was umpire. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (MONDAY EVENING.) POST.—The demand for money has been much less sensibly felt to-day than it was last week. The price of Consnls for the next Account-day advanced in the morning from 90a to 90t, but at the termination of business the former were again the nearest quotations. For the transfer to-morrow the price receded this after noon from to 90i. The continuation from the Oc tober to the November account has not diminished—it is still from I- to 9-16 per cent. For the opening Re duced Annuities have been sold to-day at 91. The market for Exchequer Bills has been still further de pressed. Sales have been made at a discount of 6s. per 100!. bill. India Bonds, after having been reduced to 45., rallied to 2s. discount. India Stock has been in demand today at an improvement from 248 to 2481 F. The settlement of the half- monthly account in ,the Foreign Stock Market has passed off with much more ease than had been anticipated. We did not hear of any defaulters, although the differences in Spanish and Portuguese Stocks were especially heavy. Money, too, was less scarce than had been expected. Spanish Stock fluctuated between 091 and 31, the Deferred between 141 and 14i-, the Passive between 7i and 8 ; the Portuguese Five per Cents. between 35 and 35k, and the Three per Cents. between 23 and 23 The market for the bonds just quoted left off rather under the highest prices of the day. There were some heavy sales of Spanish Stock by one of the menibcrs of the, market in the afternoon, which reduced the continuation to the middle of next month to about i per cent. Mexican Stock advanced to 31i 32 for Account, - 'lra nian 76, and Cuba Bonds to 83. zt.. The Share Market has remained in a very-heavy state to-day. Great Western Railway rallied to- 4 discount in the morning, but left off at 4 discount. .The London and Brighton Shares, upon which 301. have now b een paid, have declined to 131 discount. South-Eastern and Dover at 121 discount, and Eastern Counties Railway to 101- discount per share. TIMES.—Among the consequences of the pressure for money to-day is to be noted the fall of Exchequer hills to such a discount as makes it worth while . topur chase them for payment into the customs and excise for duties, by which the revenue may suffer materially if some step is not taken to counteract it. While money maintains its present value, nothing but an advance in the rate of interest on Exchequer bills is likely to an swer the purpose. So far from any symptoms of alleviation in the pressure, the prevalent opinion is that it is more likely to increase than other wise. The holders consequently look with some con fidence for a notice from the Treasury to that effect. Of all the classes of the monied inte rest they complain the most, as they adopted these securities for temporary investment, under the faith that they would receive the continued support from the Bank and the Government which was given to them up to t h e en d of last year, and indeed in all former periods. They alike took for granted that the Bank would never refuse advances upon them in time of need, and that the Government would keep the rate of interest something near to the current value of money. They are now alike deserted by both, after keeping up the delusion till all the issues of the year from the Ex chequer bad been disposed of. They may be held still by parties who have absolute payments to make, and have no other safe alternative, but as an instrument of banking, in which they always maintained the first rank for providing new funds at pleasure, they have become nearly useless. AGFICULTURA L MEETINGS.—The country gentlemen continue their public dinners, which of course in most instances arc media for the outpouring not only of wine, but of that wisdom which consists in clap-trap speeches in support of the Corn-laws. On Friday evening, amongst other places wherein these jubilees of " the predominant interest," and their sim ple and tricked tenants, took place, were Shaftesbury and Cambridge, Wokingham, i n t h e county o f Berks, and Bury St. Edmonds, in Suffolk. The meetings, though not of precisely the same sort, have all pretty much the same end in view, that end being the advan tage of a few, and the injury of the many. PORTUGUESE SLAVE-TRADE. The following four notes. during the Administration of the Viscount de Sada Bandeira, marked " private and confidential," were annexed to a very long official note addressed by Baron:de Ribiera de Sabroza to Lord Howard de Walden, on the 11th ult., and published in the Diario do Governo of the 19th, justifying the refu sal of the Portuguse Governments to sign the treaty for the total abolition of the slave-trade, now almost exclu• sivcly carried on under the Portuguese flag. The ex• cuse set up for this apparent breach of confidence is, that a similar measure has been recently observed in England on the part of his Lordship. (Private.) " My dear Sir,—lmmediately on my arrival at theiLe gation I pointed out the remarks you had made to Lord Howard and I find that the treaty had been agreed upon as it stands, with the exception in Article 7, where the words coasting boat' are not to exist,l the expres sion any vessel whatever' being considered sufficient. In Article 13 the word colonial' was not agreed to be left out. In Article 14 the words on giving six months' notice of a desire to make such revision" are out, and the last part of the paragraph commencing six months,' &c., to the end, is kept. " All the other alterations suggested, and affecting- in no way the efficacy of the Treaty, including the alt(a-a tion in the placing of the paragraph following in Artiiele 14, cannot be adopted at this late hour without entail ing a delay which would render the conclusion of the negotiations impossible before Lord Howard's depar ture, irrevocably fixed for the next packet. Any ulterior arrangements with regard to a third commission or a guarantee, must be made the subject of future con sideration, either in the shape of ,an additional ar ticle or otherwise, but cannot interfere with the treaty as it now stands, and which Lord Howard considers as concluded with the Viscount de Sa. It remains, then, with you, my dear Sir, to press your scribes a little, and hasten the manual labour which is to terminate a ne gotiation of which you seemed to feel the necessity your self when I:had the pleasure of seeing you this morning, and which I will engage to finish my share of, if you will go on sending me article by article the Portu guese translation. " Yours very truly, `• AUGUSTUS CRAVEN. " The paragraph lately inserted in — Article 1-f runs thus :—‘ It shall come into operation on the cast coast of Africa in six months, and on the west coast of Africa in four months from the above date.' " P.S.—I will send you the English translation of French and Swedish paragraph early to-morrow." (Superscription.) " SENHOR GOMES DE OLIVEIRA, &C., SECRETARIA DOS VEGOCIOS ESTICANGEIROS. " LISBON, SUNDAY NIGHT. " My dear Viscount,—Not having seen you at the Palace to-night, I write a line to tell you that I have been at work all day at our treaty, and that I think I have succeeded in adapting all your amendments very well to the different articles. I herewith send you also the annexes A and B with the grammatical cor rections rendered evident on consideration, and the addition of the substance of your amendment in the body of the treaty. 1 think you can at once put the two annexes in question in course of copying. The third clause I must look over again with you. If yen like to give me half an hour to-morrow afternoon, I will come down with you at your time. I am sure that half an hour will he enough to set your people at work, and I should be extremely glad to he able to re p or t something positive by this mail, as Parliament may again take up the slave-trade question with renewed vigour, after the holidays which they have been enjoying. " I am, &c. • " HOWARD DE WALDEN. " I am satisfied with the news from EnP.land." " SUNDAY. "My dear Viscount,—l return you herewith the translation, or rather the Portuguese. of our treaty ; I hare desired Craven to make the alterations of domi nions in possessions. There are still some sheets of Portuguese to be sent me. " I remain, &c. " HOWARD. " I inclose a letter I have received from Gibraltar, respecting the Miguelite agents." (MOST CONFIDENTIAL.) __ . " My dear Viscount,—Here is a note upon which to hang your delaration as to piracy. You will pro bably state-1, your objections and difficulties, if.insur mountable ; 2, the fact of having established a penal law inflicting a secondary punishment for (illegible) con cerned .in the slave trade ; 3, remark on no European Power besides England having actually declared slave trade piracy ; and 4, conclude with a delaration of the readiness of Portugal either simultaneously or jointly to unite with other Powers of Europe in any resolution to the (fEl:ct of declaring slave trade piracy, although, circumstanced as the Government is now, you cannot venture to take the initiative. This, in short, strikes me as the outline of the best case to make out, wording the conclusion as strongly as you can in a general sense, denouncing the slave trade. Believe me, &c., "HOWARD DE WALDEN. " Saturday night." HAMBURG MAIL. HANOVER, SErr. 23.—The King is expected to-day or to-morrow from his journey, but will soon set out on a more extensive tour. In the interval it is intended to return an answer to the citizens respecting their re peated petitions for the re-instalment of M. Rubman. The Queen is not yet recovered from the indisposition under which she has so long suffered. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 2 valuable cargoes of the two American ships, the John Marshal, and the Orinoco, lately wrecked off Skagen, are to be sold by auction at the end of this month, and the beginning of October. On the 9th of next month, the real pro perty of the Asiatic Company, consisting of warehouses, dockyards, dwelling-houses, workshops, &c., v a lu e d a t 150,000 Sollars'are to be sold. STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 17.—The Swanka Mincrva mentions a report in circulation, which, to many persons, appears absurd, that a treaty has been concluded be tween Russia, Sweden, and England, by which, in caw of a war, Sweden and Norway are, by agreement with the two other contracting parties, to be neuter, and it is conjectured that Prussia will accede to this treaty. HANOVER, SEPT. 17.—The Corporations, it must be confessed, are placed in a very unpleasant situation by the decision of the Diet, if it is not followed by the dissolution of the present Assembly of the Estates, and the convocation of a new one. If they elect, they only assist in their own defeat ; if they do not elect, the Government will have the Constitution settled with the present AssemblyZconsisting of thirty-eight members, and will proclaim it, while the Corporations can do no thing but continue to protest, Perhaps, however, some better means than mere protests may be found, because the Diet by no means obliges the Corporations to give np their rights, but only seeks to facilitate an actual and substantial arrangement. HAMBURG, SEPT. 27.—A letter from Carsruhe, in the Leipsic Allgemeine Zcilung says—" We learn from pretty good authority that, in the autumn of 1840, there will a grand review of the whole of the Bth corps of the army. and Heelbronn is spoken of as the central point of evolutions to be executed." It seems that the construction of a new federal fortress in the Upper Rhine is likely to be seriously proceeded with. We learn from the intimate friends of Prince Puckler Muskau that he certainly intends to sell his fine estate in Lausatia, and had entered into negociations with several rich individuals. With the proceeds he thought to purchase the possessions of the late Lady Esther Stanhope in Syria, and there establish a princi pality according to his own ideas. The heirs of Lady Stanhope, however, are said not to be inclined to sell the land left to them ; and Prince Puckler will there fore keep his estate of Muskau.--Hamburi; Papers, Sept. 27. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Papers from the Cape of Good Hope to July 13 have come to hand, but the intelligence they bring is unim portant. The following is an instance of zeal in sup plying instruction outrunning the demand, which may be easily matched at home : " We are sorry to hear that the South African Col lege is in difficulties—not for want of money, but of professors and pupils. We fear its course was too far in advance of the present generation. When the new schools have been in operation for two or three years, it will probably revive in the natural course of things, and then flourish permatiently."—Cape of Good Hope Commercial Advertiser. According to the annexed paragraph, military service at the Cape is not reduced to the safety and security enjoyed by the feather-bed soldiery at home :-- " ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF CAPT. M'LEAN, 75TH REGT.—On Friday last, Captain M'Lean, 75th Regiment, who is stationed at Howse's Post, on the Kat River, having some military business to transact with an officer of the same corps, at a neighbouring out post, was riding thither across the country. He was without an attendant, but was luckily armed with a double-barrelled gun, when, on passing a thicket, within a few y ar of the road, I.'.e v. , cs fired at by a concealed assassin. The aim appears to have been well taken, but at the flash of the prime the horse on which he rode slightly shied, and thus instead of the rider, the poor animal was struck, the ball passing through the flesh near the hip, and inflicting a severe but not mortal wound. Tile horse on being hit sank upon his haunches, but instantly made a violent plunge, and came to the ground with great force head foremost. Fortunately Captain M'Lean was unhurt, and he sprang upon his feet and instantly returned the fire of his assailant. He then retreated a little distance, reloaded both barrels, and again fired towards the spot from whence the shot had been aimed at him ; he next very gallantly plunged into the thicket, but the marauders had either fled or concealed themselves. Returning to his wounded steed he endeavoured to catch him, but as he could not succeed in this, he was compelled to drive him before him, bleeding profusely, to his post, a distance of five miles. On arriving there, a party of mounted rifles were imme diately despatched to the spot, Capt. M' Lean return ing with them. On a careful inspection of the ground the traces of three horses and two men were distinctly observed, and were followed for some distance, but near the ruins of a burnt house the spoor was entirely lost. The horses appear to have been at full gallop, although down a steep hill. One of the two men seems by the foot-marks to have worn " veld-schoen," (shoes manufactured of raw hide), the feet of the others were bare. There were also observed the marks of blood on the track, from which it is inferred that one of the marauders must have been wounded. " On being made acquainted with this occurrence, his Honour the Acting Lieutenant-Governor, who hap pened to be at Fort Beaufort, proceeded himself to the spot, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Greaves and a party of military and Kafir police. Nothing, however, was discovered except the spoor of the marau ders, leading directly towards Bothma's Kafirs. We have heard that his Honour has requested that Chief to attend him at Fort Beaufort on the subject, but of the result we are not informed."—Graham's Town Jour nal, early part of July. LINES ON SUDDEN BLINDNESS. FROM A POEM ENTITLED " BLINDNEES ; OR, THE SECOND SENSE." BY ANDREW PARK. So, waking from a dream, I gazed around, And felt mine eye-balls seal'd in gloom profound. It cannot be, I cried, that ebon night Has with his sable fingers quench'd their light I Yet did I lift mine e)e-lids all in vain; No light swept through their portals to the brain, Though well I knew it was the glorious morn ; I heard the blackbird whistle on the thorn, And all the vocal throng ascend in air, To pour at Heaven's gates their matin prayer I I beard the woodman in the echoing glade, And long'd to walk each sweet piazza -shade, Which the great Artist rear'd in midway air, Like vast cathedrals, twining fresh and fair ! Soft whispering echoes stole upon mine ear, That said—the sun illumed our dmdal sphere : Yet in my lone apartment, though 'twas morn— Silence and darkness sat in hideous scorn ; Held out their cheerless sceptres o'er my soul— Banisled my hopes, and prov'd their dread control ! Oh, is it so? my God I I wept and cried, And am I thus thy living light denied ? Oh, is it so ? I tried mine eyes again ; My swelling boson,, bursting with its pain— Oh 1 why was I a moment blest with sight, My soul exclaim'd, to lose thy charms-0 Light? My strength was spent —my spirit on the wing— My heart dissolv'd, touch'd by the fiery sting Of anguish—my desponding bosom sprung Its silver cords, and language fled my tongue. I swoon'd upon my couch, oppress'd, and lay Lost in oblivion's arms, like lifeless clay. Ministers have in their gift one of the Judge ships, and the Lord Lieutenancy of Cornwall. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, M.P., for Newark, has given the sum of 1001. towards liquidating the debt in curred by the erection of Christ Church, in that b'.l - ; and although the b►:ilding and endo►rment cost the sum of 5,3001. the whole of that amount has been raised) with the exception of 68!. the debt now due) by voluntary subscription.— Nottingham Journal. PROTESTANT MEETING.—The county meet ing -of the Protestants of South Lancashire and 'Cheshire, under the direction of the Liverpool, Man chester, Wigan, Warrington, and Northwich Commit tees of the Protestant Association of the two counties, was held on Thursday in the Theatre Royal, Manches ter. It is said between 3,000 and 4,000 persons were present. The box, pit, and gallery were filled. The stage was crowded by clergymen. Among them wer: Dr. Cooke, of Belfast ; the Rev. Dr. Mortimer O'Sul livan, the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, and the Rev. Hugh Stowell. The Boroughreeve of Manchester was called to the chair. THE NEW POLICE ACT AND THE GAMING• HOUSES.—On Saturday evening printed bills, of which the following is a copy, were circulated throughout the various divisions of police :--" Notice.—•-Gaming houses,—The Commissioners of Police may authorize the superintendents to enter any house or room kept or accounted as a common gaming -house, and, if necessary, to use force for the purpose of effecting such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise, and to take into custody all persons who shall be found therein, and to seize and destroy all tables and instruments of gaming found in such premises, and also to seize all moneys and securities for moneys found therein. And the owner or keeper of such gaming-house or room, or other person having the care and management thereof, or who shall act in any manner in conducting the same, is liable to a penalty of 100/., or to be committed to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for six months, and every person found in such premises without lawful excuse is liable to a penalty of 5/." The. American ladies, as Mrs. Troliope has so graphically explained, are exceedingly delicate as regards the utterance of such words as " shirt," &c. The follow ing is ne bad specimen of this really mauraise honk : " Pray, Miss Sophia, what are you making ?" sail Dr. R. to a young American lady, who was at work upon a garment of a certain description. " A Sophy cover, Doctor," was the reply. WIRE-SEWN BOOTS AND SHOES.-411 the Bulletin d'Encourt, Sept. 1839, it is announced M. Seller, of Paris, had secured a patent for the right of using brass wires for attaching the upper leather to the welt of boots and shoes. This metallic thread, he asserts, allows neither mixture nor dust to enter the shoe, nor does it rip. The sewing is performed with as much ease as with waxed thread, nor is the work more costly. BERLIN, SEPT. 25.—The Emperor of Russia has made short work with the Bishop of Augustowo (Poland), who, in his•late charge to his clergy, prohi bited them to sanction any mixed marriage, though both parties should consent to educate their children in the Catholic religion. The Bishop has at once been o.e. posed and deprived of his income. • ROBERT HYDE GREG, ESQ. ) M.P. FOR MANcitt:snm.—This gentleman has issued an address to the electors of Manchester, on the result of the late contest, and although he regrets for many reasons that the choice has fallen upon him, says—" I am, however, deeply sensible of the honour you have done me—an honour the more distinguished and gratifying from being conferred unsought, and in my absence, and from being conferred under the unusual and discouraging circum stance of a double election. Under those circumstances I should be wanting in my duty both to you and to my self, were I to permit any private feelings or interests to prevent me from a cce p t i ng th e t rus t ich you have ; imposed upon me, though I feel it to be so onerous that, under any other circumstances, I should have undoubt edly declined it." The following is the concluding para graph of the address :—" I am at present detained abroad by the illness of one of my family ; but I hope in the course of a few weeks to be able to repeat my acknowledgments in person." The Moniteur announces that King Denys, a Negro chief of the coast of Guinea, who has renderedmany services to French commerce , has been made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. A brother of his Maj esty was a non-commissioned officer in Napoleon's Impe rial Guard. THE RIVAL 10 TIIE DAGUERROTYPE.— The King of Prussia has honoured Liepmann'with the following communication onthat ingenious artist submit ting to his Majesty a specimen of his invention for the copying of oil paintings :—" I have not only heard:for some time past of your invention for the printing of oil 1 paintings, but have also convinced myself of its import- I ance by the copy of Rembrandt's portrait, which you have submitted to me. I expect a more circumstantial report upon your invention from the Minister of Public Instruction ; but in the meantime, I have ordered two hundred dollars to be presented to you, in acknow ledgment of your merit, and shall with pleasure keep the copy you have submitted to my inspection. (Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIAM. " Berlin, Sept. 10, 1839." r tIVEN Na _EDITION 2.„ r, o A VISIT TO A.PAUPER SCh UL.) r-e ser There is no part of the worel'in,en. unqualified tuhaelioednew app which has ca ll ed forth more - tele % e even from those who object to i ts . leading p Wu . - s p!es, than the iMprovemeut, or rate, !de,, leldren are 4 zation, of the schools where pauper e , it obser red, cated. This is a part of the system, e er entire . re-or, nortant due which is quite in its infancy ; the many ine_ recen ties confided to the Commission have, utetifee.Th s prevented that close attention being paid tot , t 3 t r : : jest whi c h i s f oun d essent i a ll y necessary as e t k, 4 4 : sweep away the o ld a b uses , as t o r e pl a c e th e m by b methods ; and the powers granted by the lawyers e ict yet insufficient to allow the necessary interferenc • many cases. er It is quite unnecessary to describe the paui schools under the operation of the old law—if scoot they could be called, in any other sense than places t instruction in vice and pauperism ; where the unharty ; inmates were left without more; or industrial instruc tion whatever ; and what they din' learn was coramunie cated by pauper teachers little wi s er than themselves. We do not mean to say that this was the case in every instance ; but we affirm, without the se, ellest danger of contradiction, that it was so in the vast loajority of in stances, and that it still remains so except in a few cases • where circumstances have rendered the introeliction of i a better system practicable. These are chiefly' found in the neghbourhood of the metropolis ; ar.d we race ntle• alluded to one of them in an article on the operazi em of the New Poor-law during the last year, and int ie mated an intention of referring again to the subject, ► when relieved from more immediately pressing topics. We have since visited the school in question, in which the intended improvements have made the greatest progress, and enter upon a description of the system employed, not only for the purpose of showing what has been and may be done for the benefit of the class of society who inhabit those places, but as affording an inducement for the introduction of improved plans of tuition in schools of a superior character. The establishment we have referred to is situated at Norwood ; it contains nearly 1,100 children of both sexes, described as " chiefly orphano, or deserted by pauper parents, or illegitimate, and sprung - from the most wretched, ignorant, and demoralised portico of the me tropolitan population." In this school an imPre:n: ed e method of teachin g , suc h as i s i n t en d e d t o be caene'a into effect in all pauper schools, has been introduced .n of quite a twelvemonth, and consequently all the anti' le pated benefit cannot yet be expected to be maniieete.* Enough has, however, been done to show what tsar ." hoped for. The children are rapidly losing the sinistet • stamp which the vice and misery of their parentS bad impressed upon them, and the features, which in - chug dren of a similar class under the old system are wont tee 1 1i be marked by suspicion, obstinacy, and gloom, rarely' illumined by a gleam of intelligence, have in these a cheerful, and in several of them an intellectual expres sion. Their time is occupied in a succession of instruc tion, recreation, work, and domestic and religious duty. fi Petty thieving, the prevailing vice of the school in , time 1 past, has nearly disappeared ; the children are clean in their persons and kind in their conduct toward each other ; they are acquiring the habit of telling the truth, and punishment is rendered unnecessary by the stimu lus to good conduct inspired by encouragement and reward. We visited the school during school hours. The routine of the house from two o'clock until five was gone through in our presence. The boys are marched to and from school in military order, as being more decorous than the tumultuous way of tumbling and scraobling over each other. They are divided into classes 0," 40 or .50 in each, separated by thick green baize curtaics each class is superintended by a teacher, assisted by monitors, and, when t practicable, by a pupil teacher. • The monitors are selected from the children, and they aid in assembling the class, in keeping silence, in distri buting the books, slates, pens, &e., and in teaching writing and arithmetic. From among the monitors those most distinguished by industry, ability, and good temper, arc selected and apprenticed as teachers ; these are the pupil teachers ; they wear a uniform dress, and sleap and take recreation in a part of the house separate from the other children, and they receive instruction in the art and duties of teaching every evening. From the short time in which the system has been in operation, much cannot be reasonably expected from this class but they justify the hope that from them a useful bot.'Y of assistants is forming, which, when complete, will much lessen the difficulty and expense of introducing the, reformed method of teaching into all the pauper schools of the kingdom. As we could attend only one class at a time, we chiefly directed our attention to what is called " the gal lery," where upwards of one hundred boys sit to receive by turns miscellaneous instruction. The subject on that day was "pottery." A couple of earthen jugs were placed upon a table in vie!” of all the boys, with the bits of clay and flint which enter into their composition. Questions were asked the boys relative to the art of pottery ; the use of clay ; the decomposition of rocks ; the grinding of flint, and its mixture with the clay to form the ware, and the manner of moulding and glazing it. To all these questions accurate replies were re turned, not in a formal set of words, learned by'rote, but in a familiar way, which showed that the subject was understood by. them. Some of theh:lys describe& the vessels which are used by nations in less advanced. states of civilization, such as shells, skins, calas bashes, cocoa nuts, and folded leaves, and in many instances a more correct acquaintance with the subject was evinced than _weidd be. found in seine higher schools. At the conclusion of the les son we were conducted to the workshops. The first was the tailor's shop, where the boys were employed sewing and cutting ; they were singing.cheerfully, and plied the shears and the needle with an alacrity which showed that they worked with right goodwill. We ware informed that all the clothes worn by the inmates were manufactured by the boys who are training for that trade. \Ve also visited the shoemaker's shop ; the boys in which, .thOugh not so, far advanced as those in the tailor's, are able to make almost all the shoes required. \Ve then saw the tiaman's shop and forge, athere the boys-were busily employed under the superintendence of a mao,to prevent accidents from fire. These' boys not onlyalitike all the tinware used so the house, i)ut several articles for sale also. From this -part of the : establiAuntnt we went to the girl; school, where instruction is communicated in the' same way .as in the boys' ;• but, instead of workshops, we inspected the_ kitchen, wash-house, and bedrooms. In these, female children are eagagedin_dornestic: duties ; and the neatness, order, and management of the place formed a striking contrast to what is often vi sible even in houses of a class superior to that of the - se poor girls. Some were engaged it: making beds, others scouring r3oms, some making and mending linen, or washing, ironing, and mangling, others in cookery , all were busy in occupations which are sure to be useful to them in alter-life, and obviously far better than sorting bristles, picking paper, or winding cotton into balls for tallow chandlers or other trades, which could be of no ultimate use in preparing them for domestic servitude, but served to make labour disgusting. After inspecting this part of the house, we went out or doors, where we saw the mast of a ship regularly rigged, with four six-pounder guns, and a number of little hardy fellows, some of them not more than eight years old, climbing the rigging, manning the yards, and doing the duties of seamen when aloft. Four little fellows, who stood very little higher than the guns they served, fired the great six pounders without Winking, althOugh•we could hardly refrain from putting our fingers in our ears which was done by more than one tall man who stood-Ay., After the firing, the boys on the mat sang " Rule Alitanuia,'' in good style, and then descended the rigging With great rapidity. One little fellow, a yard high, _slid boldly from the top gallant mast down the' backstdy, Without the help of the shrouds. To prevent accidents, a stout netting is stretched a few feet from the ground, to catch any unlucky fellow who might miss his hold. From the ship we returned to the school, where we were in time to hear the prayer and hymn previous to the dismissal of the children. We could not but be struck with their fine style of singing they sang in regular score, and although their voices might not b, of superior quality, they harmonised well. This branch of education has been unfortunately almost entirely ne glected in England, whereby a rational source of plea sure has been lest, and a good singer has been unfre qtiently led into bad habits by being sought after as a rare acquisition at convivial meetings. We have not room to enter more fully into the de tails of this school ; much more was done than we have stated, and much more in process of introduction. Among other things we may mention a dairy, to be superintended by the girls, some of whom are now em ployed in milking the cows of the establislutent. A field has also been hired for out-door labour, Which will be cultivated wholly by the boys. We were much gratified by what we saw, and can not conclude better than in the words of Dr. Kay's report on the moral instruction imparted :—" The moral training pervades every hour of the day, from the period when the children are marched from their bed rooms to the wash-house in the morning, to that when they march back to their bedrooms at night. By the constant presence of some teacher as a companion dur ing the hours of recreation, they arc taught to amuse . themselves without mutual encroachment; they are trained in the practice of mutual forbearance and kind ness ; they are taught to respect property not their own, to avoid faults of language and manner, to treat their superiors with respectful confidence ; they learn to show the affection they bear their teachers without fear of rebuke ; to approach strangers with a simplicity of manner to which servility and audacity are alike foreign ; they are trained in the practice of their re ligious duties, in a reverential observance of the Sun day, and in deference to the instructions of their authorised religious teachers.—Dally Paper. The Western Times states that the Chartists jai Exeter, never very numerous there, hare now ceased to exist. Mr. W. H. Macnaghten has been appointed Envoy at the Court of Shah Shoojah.