The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

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At this Meeting three Directors, viz.:— Lord William Robert Keith Douglas P. M. Stewart, Esq. Frederick Burmester, Esq., retire by rotation, but being eligible for Re-election offer them selves accordingly. the high and lofty tone of his sarcasm. To those who may be led astray by Clarcndon's account of the " Rebellion; we would recommend, by way of antidote, Mrs. Hutchin son's Memoirs of her husband, which is the most graceful, animated, sincere, and even chivalrous, work ever penned by an avowed Puritan and Republican. Throughout this deeply interesting memoir, one feels at every page that one may pin one's faith on the author's statements, for she writes as scrupulously as if she were on oath; and draws no characters—and some of them are quite equal to Claren don's, particularly those of Chadwick, Captain White, and Colonel Thornagh—but such as she herself was well acquainted with. A curious trait in Mrs. Hut chiason's memoir is, that though she professes to be a zealous Republican, her aristocratic predilections are con stantly peeping out, whenever she has occasion, to speak of any individual belonging to the lower classes of society. In the notice of " Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain," the Reviewer shows no slight ac quaintance with the times of which he treats. When, however, he gives these Sovereigns the credit of having patronized Columbus, and s 4 brought about the discovery of the new world, he should have remembered that for a WITH WHIM' THE "TRUE SUN" IS NOW V-%CORPORATED. By order of the Board. .JAS;. W. GILBART, General Manager. Lothborv, Jan. `3l, 1339. The Boas r.i!l be closed to prepare for the Dividend from the frith of February to ti.e 11th of March. LONDON, WEDND`SDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1839. No. 14,470. PRICE sd. s sold ac erage of ths; yet of day ) market rrHE UNION BANK OF LONDON Cai:ital 3,000,000/ 2 in Shares of 50/. each. 14 0NDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY. Her Majesty's Postmaster-General having; directed an EARLIER DESPATCH of the MORNING MAILS TO andFROM LAN CASHIRE has rendered a Change in the Hours of Departure of several of the Trains to and from Birmingham necessary, and the Public are informed that on and after the '2oth ins'ant the follow. ing will be the Hours of Departure of the several Trains from the Company's Stations in London and Birmingham:— a. at. FROM EUSTON STATION, LONDON. • 7 30 a.rn,,Mixed Train, calling at all the Stations. * 9 30 a. m.—First Class Mail. *ll 0 a.m.—First Class mixed, calling only at First Class Stations. 2 0 p.m.—Mixed, calling at all the Stations. 4 0 p.m.—First Class, calling only at First Class Stations. 5 0 p.m.—Mixed, to Wolverton, calling at all the Stations. • 8 30 p.m.--Mail mixed, calling only at First Class Stations. 7 0 a.m.—Mixed, from Wolverton to Birmingham. ON. SUNDAYS DOWN. 7 30 a.m.—Mixed, calling at all the Stations. * 9 30 a.m.—Mail, calling at First. Class Stations. 5 0 p.m.—Mixed, to Wolverton. 4 8 30 p.m.—Mail mixed, calling only at First Class Stations. FROM BIRMINGHAM. 7 0 a.m.—Mixed, calling at all the Stations. * 8 30 a.m.—First Class Mail. • 1 0 p.m.—Mixed, calling at all the Stations. * 3 0 p.m.—First Class. 4 0 p.m.—First Class. 5 30 p.m.—Mixed, to Wolverton. *ll 30 p.m.—Mail mixed, calling only at First Class Stations. 6 45 a.m.—From Wolverton to London. ON SUNDAYS UP. * 8 30 a.m.—Mail, calling at First Class Stations. * 1 30 p.m.—Mixed, calling at all the Stations. *ll 20 p.-stsr—Mail, mixed, calling at First Class Stations. THE GRAND HOTEL, IIAZZA and KING STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, affords superior accom modation for Families and Gentlemen on reasonable Terms. Bed and Breakfast, by the week, One Guinea. Evans's Convivial Ordinary every Wednesday at half-past Five o'clock. Tickets 33. etch. The Harmonic Meeting every Evening, as usual. Entranee to tin Supper 'nom!, under the Piazz s ; to the Ho tel, in King-street. PUBLICATIONS. LITERATURE. Deposit 5/. per Share. DIRECTORS. Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman. Thomas Meux, Esq. Andr ew S pott i swoo d e. E sq. A . Cockburn, Esq. G , o,.ge Wr , b , •!rr. Esq. David Skaiffe, Esq. John Barnes, Fsq- Benjamin Boyd, Esq. J. W. Sutherland, Esq. Peter Laurie, Esq. W. M. Nurse, F.sq. James Farquhar, Esq. Major -Gen. Archibald Robert- W. P. Craufurd, Esq. son, lion. E.I. C. S. John Connell, Esq. • This -Bank Bank is established on the principles of the Joint Stock Ranks in Scotland, the complete•suevess of which is demonstrated 14 the following, extract from the official Share List of 25th De *ember, 1838, showing the state of Five Banks of this description, carrying on business in Edinburgh. BANKS. Paid up Dividend Original Paid Present Capit 1 Share. lip. Value. Bank of Scotland £l,o. 0,1.00 ti per cent. £1 o £lOO £19:1 0 Royal Bank of Scotland 2, 4 ,40; 00 :1 per cent. 100 100 162 0 British Linen Company bOO,OOO 8 per cent. ha) ;OP 210 0 Commercial Bank of _Scotland CIT,OOO 6 per cent Nation a l Bank of Scot land 500,000 6 per cent. 100 10 16 S THE CORN LAWS, On WEDNESDAY slici;:infith EDITION of No. CI. o THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, containing au Article on the CORN-LAWS. aotwith .try low , in buyers transan s dull is John Murray, Albemarle-street. On Friday next. price Js., THE MAINTENANCE of the CORN-LAWS ESSENTIAL to the PROSPERITY of the EMPIRE. TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. COMMERCIAL BOARDING HOUSE, No. 12, CASTLE-STREET, HOLBORN, London, opposite FUrnival's Inn, in the heart of town, quiet, and respectable, and close to the leadinz thoroughfare for Omnibuses to all parts of London every minute. MRS. LEACH solicits the Patronage of Com mercial Gentlemen, and other respectable Persons who visit London on Business or otherwise, and assures them they will find at this House domestic comfort combined with economy. N.B.—Good Stabling near. Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. long time they treated the proposals of the celebrated Genoese with indifference, and even at the last, awarded him but a niggardly share of patronage, though on his triumphant return from San Salvador, they received him In state upon their thrones. Patrons such as these, scarcely merit the name. We subjoin the sketch of Isa bella, which is accurate and spirited : uantitie% ►ve been TIIE CORN-LAWS.—Now ready, price 35., LIN AUTHENTIC RE ORT of the PRO CEEDINGS of the MANCHESTER CHAMBER of COMMERCE on the CORN-LAWS; with Notes illustrative of the subject, and Observations Explanatory of the Position of some of the Members attending the Meetings. _ Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. kithough D e at su MUCh " Isabella was handsome, and her manners were gracious and pleasing. She was of a cheerful, but sedate, disposition ; modest in her attire, and frugal in her expenditure, although she was never accused, like her husband, of parsimony. For the age in which she lived, she may be said to have been pos sessed of considerable learning; she could read and writo Latin and Italian, and use her native language with the greatest propriety and elegance. Indefatigable in her appli cation to public business, she devoted to it the greatest part of the day, and not unfrequently many hours of night. The warm supporter of her friends, she never abandoned those in whom she had placed her confidence ; she was magnanimous in her views, and in no instance of her He did she betray the le tst selfishness in thought or action. Prompted to plans of re form by the natural impulse of t.er or by the advice of tlmse counsellors on whom she relied, all the acts of her ad ministration were either the effusions of a warm heart, or the result of innocent and disinterested views. She was endowed t h, ex like sta can for i n grey' t limited Y buyer iven wag DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. CHOICE OF A SERVANT. THE Public are respectfully inforrneJ that the PREMISES lately cccapied by Mr. WRIGHT was RE-OPENED this day ; and as the proprietors have no connec tion whatever with the late occupant, the business will be conducted on a different principle. _ _ . Now ready, price Is. 6d., QPAIN ; . its GOVERNMENT and POLICY, k--1 its LOANS and its RESOURCES CONSIDERED, with REFERENCE to the CLAIMS of its FOREIGN CREDITORS. too 100 176 0 By.M. D. Ridgway, Piccadilly, And all Booksellers. i s not, doing in Fee for obtaining one servant, 2s. 61 ; as many as may be re quired in a family per annum 14s. A sitting-room is fitted up for the accommodation of Ladies wish ing to hire servants. Address, if by letter post paid to J. Godfree, No. 4, Hemming's row, Charing-cross. This day was published, price 10s: 6d. boards, Seventh Edition, of BOOTE'S HISTORICAL TREATISE of a SUIT at LAW, with Notes. By GEORGE THOMAS WHITE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. London: Shaw and Sous, Fetter-lane. the years yid some it slack s during )ncerned curtailed 5n trade. on the sav ers 01e 6 45 Lro 7 _Mixed, ffrmWolverton to Lond,in. YORK AND LONDON 40 , BRITISH and FOREIGN ASSURANCE COMPANY, King William-street, London, and High Ousegate, York. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Assurances, whether in Great Bri tain or abroad, are effected on reasonable terms. This day were published, in 1 vol. Svo., is. 6d. MITHE COMPUTATION TABLES, showing the value of Tithe Rent-charges under every variation in the Price of Corn. By HENRY PYNE, Esq. Of the Tithe Commission-office, London. Shaw and Sons, Fetter-lane, Printers and Publishers of the Books and Papers of the Tithe Commission (by Authority), and Knight and Co., Ludgate-street, with a greats share of fortitude and moral courage than na ture had granted to most men. During the war of Granada she often appeared completely armed at the head of the troops, and shared with the soldier the hardships of a dangerous and long pretrdeted oar. But the principal feature in Isabella's character was, undoubtedly, piety; it was mixed with all her entiments; it influenced all the acts of her life; and it made her temper, otherwise resolute and strong, acquire that &xi bility—that humility—that devotion—towards her spiritual advisers, which led to the establishment of the Inquisition, and the exile of the Jews—acts which have impressed a deep blemish on her character." though at gieves rice, and LIFE A SgURANCE.—A present Bonus by a moderate scale of premiums. The Assured may proceed to any part of Europe without extra charge. The Company will buy their own Policies, advance money thereon, convert the same into Annuities ! - or the remainder of life, or, in consideration of the premiums received, undertake the payment of reduced sums after death. Persons sub ject to any disease not attended by immediate danger assured on equitable terms. Prospeztuses may be had at the Offices in London and York, or any of the Agents. in one volume, 255. vely than (re sold• The PRACTICE of COUNTRY ATTORNIES and THEIR AGENTS in the SUPERIOR COURTS of LAW at WEST MINSTER, with the Alteration made by the Act for the Aboli tion of Imprisonment for Debt. By J. F. ARCHBOLD, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. V.E;Et:„. regSe• 9. to - 4s 48 s. d. ° A 0 0 " 0 0 0 0 t 0 0 or 4 00 0 r 0 0 e 0 0 ° 7 6 ij 0 6 9° 9 0 U (jaiusvio, 40 [a LI 47 , ..... 4v • Bean , 155 0: 1 Od 4f, 0,24. 0 0 25 0 5 24 6 0 1( ni4. 3 „ D L) 70 V. to t. St $ • ° 7 • • O 0 0 wt. ` V 0 r sf. a. VORY es of the The (1 Coffee mttern either ' N. 43. 12 ft ?, 7 10 r 5 10 .15 0 Cr -- 40 0 0 may b e article of phlets of osite the o rnhill , the Pub- GOLD ,S snob• aughter , lady of llrs. W. Eel %card Esq., of ards, of inghamt laughter of James ornser F. Dar- . third 'kilts, of the late Kinsey, r of J. Xll, Mr. second )MMOn o 3erbice, , Esq., ackney, Grove- Bea n , 17 , id 12 0 Lmmer, limber- of the orsmith le, the ae late wife of Lchere, r atson, iw ick- year( Esq. Piid-up Capital .£4,60 .000 Most of these Banks have besides paid large Bonuses to their 144 ?prieta.ry, and all of them have allowed Interest n Deposits. The remaining seventeen Joint-stock Banks in Scotland are in the same flourishing condition, and such, indeed, has been the pro tress of the system that of the many private Banks formerly carrying an business in Edinburgh only one exists at prent. There are only three Joint Stock Banks in London, with a paid trp capital of 1,000,0001., the Shares of all of which are at a high Premium. ' It is the intention of the Directors to allow interest on deposit aecounts, under proper rniewind regulations, which, with other details as to the transaction — of business with the Bank, will be hereafter announced. As a sufficient capital has already been subscribed to enable the Directors to commence business immediately, they have resolved, in order to avoid the inconvenience which has been found to arise in other undertakings from au unrestricted application for shares, and to induce only those to apply w ho wi s h to become berm. . fel iproprieters, will not entertain 'any application unless made in the printed forms provided by them for that purpose, and accom panied by a payment of 2/. upon each share applied for, the Di rectors reserving to themselves at the time of appropriation the right to reject or comply with such application either in whole or in Part; th e money to be returned without deduction, if the appii. cation be rejected, and if accepted to be placed to the credit of the Party in respect to the shares allotted to him. It is not in contemplation to call up more than 101. per share for the next two years. Deposits, in accordance with the printed forms, may be paid, and prospectuses obtained, as under : London—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings. Liverpool—Liverpool Commercial Bank. Birmingham—Birmingham and Midland Bank. Edinburgh —National Bank of Scotland. Glasgow —Western Bank of Scotland. Dundee—Eastern Bank of Scotland. Aberdeen—North of Scotland Bank. Dumfries—Southern Bank of Scotland. London, January, 1839. BASTENNE BITUMEN COMPANY. This Company is prepared to undertake every description of WORK to which Bitumen is adapted, or to SELL the manu factured Mastic ready for use, with the necessary instructions for its application. Bitumen has been known and applied as a Cement for many cen turies, but recent discoveries, and the experience of new combina tions with the mineral tar, have incalculably enhanced its value for a great variety of purposes. , This Comp an y h ave an exc l us i ve right to the best and most pro ductive known mines of this valuable material—a value, the supe riority of which is tacitly admitted by the other Asphalte Com r'anies, Cl ar id ge ' s , t h e Li verpoo l S eysse l, an d the Val de Travers, a °, 41 ,2' purchased supplies from the Bastenne Company is England, and the sales of the material on the Continent are to a large and raPidly increasing extent. The Bitumen compound being impervious to humidity, its con tinuity and elasticity leaves no joints or openings through which the water can :penetrate, and gives it a superiority for pavement over every description of stone. It has stood the test of several winters (the last a very severe one), in many places in France and Belgium, which leave not the slightest doubt of its durability, and Power to resist the extremes of atmospheric temperature. Speci mens of foot-pavement laid down by the Bastenne Company, may he seen opposite Northumberland House, Blackfriars-bridge, the Government Works at Woolwich, and the Rotunda of the Bank of England, where, contrasted with the best Yorkshire stone, the advantages will be found manifest. The great desideratum in street-paving is a waterproof surface, with the mass so solid and compact as prevent friction at the bot tom, where experience has proved that the wear and tear is much greatest when the squares or blocks are loosened. The Company feel assured they have accomplished this object in their experiment on the carriage-way in Oxford-street ; and they are also satisfied that it would prove the practicability of, in a great measure, reliev ing the public from the annoyance of mud in winter, and dust in summer were the loose materials not transferred from the stone paving and Macadamized roads in the vicinity. A Scale of Prices, together with all necessary information rela tive to the application of the material to all the various purposes, may be obtained at the Of f ice of the Company. 2 8,1loorgate-street. R. FOULERTON, See. TO RAILWAY COMPANIES, ENGINEERS, SUR VEYORS, &c. &c. H E BASTENNE BITUMEN COM PANY request the attention of all persons interested in the 0 9struction of Railways, Bridges, and Docks, to the advantages itwhich the will derive from the use of their BITUMEN. As a Ce uirot in binding arches it is incontestibly superior to any known an ce , and, being impervious to damp, it is of equal utility for avi ngs, Stations, Waiting Places, and where dryness and an unin errupted equality of surface is so desirable. The origi nal cost of Znstruction may be in a small degree enhanced by th e substitution the Bitumen : but, from its ascertained resistance to all changes of weather, the Company feel the most perfect confidence that the a dditional outlay in the first instance will in the end b e com p ensated fourfold by its durability. e. All necess ar y i n formation may be obtained at the Office , with a kb ea:e of Prices, which is graduated according to the quantity of work. R. FOULERTON, Secretary. Afiorgate-street. 1 11 ' ETT'S PATENT BRANDY.—To guard the Public against being misled by the numerous i mitators of t he Paterd £-andy, and to assure them of the utter futility of all att er ,- t s p to rival that celebrated article, the Patentees need only slate that the pecu liarly wholesome properties of their Brandy— attested by many eminent Chemists, and frequently published since its introduction in 1829—are secured by Patent Right, which, in '" If, forms a sufficient guarantee, if purchasers be car e f ul to esta blish the identity of the article. Th e only Establishment of J. T. Betts and Co. is the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-bars, leading to St. John-street, where the Pa tent Brandy may be had, either pale or coloured, in quantities not less tha n two Gallons, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, fog Cash on delivery. No. 36, OLD BOND-STREET EYESIGHT and DEFECTIVE HEARING. The success of Mr. ELIA SOLOMONS' PATENT S PECTACLES, and a similarity of names favouring the decep tion, has induced parties to offer publicly as a new invention, profess !'" to relie ve simultancous!v vision and deafness, common glasses . many year' standin, grolina on the principle of the periscopic ns (the men s iscus em l g o ed for Specteles 40 years ago), and which although • nable at most respe t .table opticians, are set aside by ;hemattainable as decidedly objectionable. These quack and absurd misre 'presentations, unsupported by weight or author it y , mi g ht have beenee r n safely allowed pass unnoticed before the eyes of a discern public ; but as the names of some medical gentlemen are used, nt behoves one to inqure by what means, or on what grounds, their TXtiatures have been obtained (if obtained at all) as sanctioning a ttrect untruth by proclaiming such as " Newly - in vented S p ectacle tenses," which are unanswerably nothing more than common f,ses, of a pink or purple tint, to be purchased at the above esta blishment, at Is. per pair. E's. VOICE CONDUCTORS for DEAFNESS, which are worn unperceived, without requiring to be held, enable the individual using them to participate in all the various enjoyments to which the sense of hearing is subservient. TESTIMONIALS on the PATENT SPECTALES of Mr. ELIA SOLOMONS, 36, Old Bond-street, nearly opposite the Western Exchange. from Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R. S., President of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons, and Senior Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, &c. Solomons' Spectacle Lenses seem to me likely to afford 04:tit:mai aids to imperfect vision, and because of their superior l ' efr ak'ting powers to glass or other dense materials, they promise to afford n ew resources for the construction of Spectacles.anghma-plaee. A N T HONY CARLISLE, F.R . S., Langham-place. Pro m D r . J. Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to the late King, &c. I have been using and am still using Mr. Elia Solomons' Amber Spectacles,., and find them more pleasant to the Eye than any other glasses which I have tried. JAMES JOHNSON, M.D., 8, Suffolk-place. Prom BraLlsby Cooper, Esq., F.R. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hos pital, &c. From the I lse I have made of an Amber Lens, and comparing it to with those ordinary glasses, I have no h esitation in saying that, my sight, the former is infinitely pr eferable, in being less trying to the Eye. , MIANSBy" B. COOPER , 2, N ew - s t r eet, Spring -gardens. l am much pleas( with Mr. Elio. Solomons' Amber Lenses, and ak9entleman who m.vietrial of them fo r several days, says t that "eY relieve the Eye waiseh more than any Glasses lie has before MARTIN WARE, New Bridge-street. I have examined the Amber Spectacles made by Mr. Elia Solo mons, and I am of opinioi that they are calculated to answer every Purpose for which they ar e intended—that they soften the light to re a l, • • and irritable Eyes, w hose sight is thus affected—b an, are likely to be useful to persons J. CO P L AND, M. D., F. R... 1-, eing preferable to Glass or Pebbles. , From an examination of the Am Aier .Lenses, an,Bulstrode-st., Manchester-sq. to conclude that they possess many I have every reason 4 ded advantages over the ordinary Glass Spectacles. J. T. CONQUEST, Ai . D., 13, rinsbury-square. They are also recommended by the: follsoing, apd many other practitioners : Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Rut I Rh. S. I"' C. Aston Key, Esq., St. I lelen's-pldee. J. Scott, Esq., New Broad.-street. C. J. B. Aldis, Esq., M.J.). Sir James E. Anderson, - O.D. ' Eye. Alarshall Hall, Esq., M.D., F.ll. S. W. Coulson, Esq., Old .Jewry. - , John Stephenson, Esq., .Oculist to the late King. . , R. Keate, Esq., 15, All; emarle-street. N.B.—Those Trains marked nigh an asterisk (*) are in con nection with Trains to and from Lancashire, time being allowed for refreshment at the respective stations :it Birmingham. The public are informed that none of the Company's porters or servants. in attendance are permitted to receive any gratuity, and that a book is kept at every station where passengers are requested to note Lny act of incivility or inattention of any of the servants (stating the number-of their collar), and immediate attention will be given to the complaint by the Directors. Females arc in attendance on Ladies at the London, Watford, Wolverton, and Birmingham stations. The times of the Trains for conveying the Mails are fixed by the Postmaster-General under the provisions of the Act 1 and 2 Vic., cap. 93. By Order, R. CREED, Secretaries. Jan. 11, 1839. C. R. MOORSONI, rrAFF VALE RAILWAY, J.. from MERTHYR TYDVIL to the Port of CARDIFF. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Proprietors of this Company having resolved to take up on Loan the sum of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, which they are authorized by their Act to do, now that half their Capital is paid up, Notice is hereby given, that the Directors will receive proposals for the Loan of Money on Debentures, for a term of not less than five years. Interest at 5 per cent. will be paid half yearly at Cardiff or in London. Proposols to be addressed to the undersigned at the Railway office, Cardiff; or to Messrs. Swain, Stevens, and Co., Solicitors, 10, Whitehall ; or London and Westa.inster Bank, London • or to the West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol. JOSEPH BALL, Secretary. TA ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. CONTRACTS FOR WORKS. Notice is hereby given, that the DIRECTORS will MEET at their Office, No. 10, Angel-court, Throgutorton-street, London, at One o'clock, on THURSDAY, the 14th day of March, 1839, to RECEIVE TENDERS for the EXECUTION of the WORKS for CONTRACTS Nos. 15, 16. and 18. P4TCHAM_ CONTRACT, No. 15. To make and maintain the railway, with the excavations, em bankments, brickwork. masonry, bridges, culverts, drains, fences, gates, lodges, and other works complete, including the laying and ballasting of the permanent way and sidings, and supplying all the requisite and necessary materials (except the stone blocks, wooden sleepers, er bearers, rails, chairs and fastcnings) of that portion of the railway commencing at the south end of the Clayton 'funnel, in a field. No. 28, in the parish of Piecombe, and terminating in a field, No. 20, in the parish of Patcham, all within the county of Sus sex, being a distance of about two miles and 19 chains. PRESTON CONTRACT, No. 16. . . To make and maintain the railway with all its works complete, in like manner of that portion of the railway commencing at the south end of the last-named,contract, in a field, No. 20, in the parish of Patcham, and terminating at the northern side of the road leading from the Dairy House to New England Farm, in the parish of Preston, all within the county of Sussex, - being in length about two miles and 22 chains. BRIGIITON CONTRACT, No. 18. To make and maintain the railway with all its works complete, in like manner of that portion of the railway commencing at the northern side of the road leading from the Dairy House to New England Farm (including the bridge over the same), and termi nating in Trafalgar-street. Brighton. Also, the remaining por tion of the Shoreham Branch Railway, commencing at the east end of the Shoreham Branch Contract, in a field near New Eng land Farm, and terminating in Trafalgar-street, Brighton, afore said, being a length of about 63 chains. The above contract include the forming and levelling of the station at Brighton. Drafts of the contracts, with plans, sections, drawings, and speci fications, with printed forms of tender, will be ready for inspection on and after the 4th day of March next, at the office of John U. Rastrick, civil engineer, 434, Charing-cross East, London. The quantities of the different descriptions of work on the several con tracts will be furnished at the same time to the contractors. The sealed tenders for the contracts must be delivered at the office of the Company, No. 10, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, London, at or before Twelve o'Clock, on Thursday morning, the 14th day of March next, 1839, and endorsed " Tender for Works on the London and Brighton Railway." No tender except the printed form furnished by the Company will be accepted. The parties tendering (or an authorised agent) must attend at the Company's office to give any explanation that may be required, and the person whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into a bond, with two sureties, fur the due performance of the contract to the extent of 10 per cent. on the amount thereof. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowest tender. The contractors will be furnished with a counterpart of the contract at their own expense, if they require it. London, Jan. 8, 1839. JOHN HARMAN, Chairman. • BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT. Q WAIN and CO., 92, Fleet-street, TAILORS, \ - 0 &c., to HER MAJESTY the QUEEN. FOR GREAT COATS. A large assortment of Waterproof Milled Beaver Cloths. FOR DRESS WAISTCQATS. _____ A splendid and rich assortment of Figured Velvets, Silks, Shawls, and Valencias, of the choicest patterns. DRESS SUITS OF THE BEST WEST OF ENGLAND CLOTHS, From 41. 10s. to 61. 6s. N.B.—Servants' Liveries, either for State or common occasions. —Dresses of every descipt ion, tast&•fully and elegantly Embroidered to any device, in Gold, Silver, or in Colours. THE NEW WATERPROOF CLOTHING. BERDOE, TAILOR, 69, CORNHILL, • was the first who publicly introduced an invaluable dis covery for rendering WATER PROOF every description of WOOLLEN CLOTH, WITHOUT IMPEDING the FREE ESCAPE of PERSPIRATION, an objection so justly urged against the unsightly and unhealthy Mackintosh. W. 8., after long and extensive practical experience in connection with the subject, and having fully ascertained the relative merits of the various systems now before the public, can confidently vouch for the superior and perfect efficiency sf the British Water-proofing Company's process, 432, West Strand. Specimens may be seen at 69, CORNIIILL, where also may be obained, at a trifling extra charge, Waterproof Pilot Coats, Great and Frock Coats, all kinds of Cloaks, Capes, Trousers, &c., Made to order of any material that may be selected. 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This work is particularly recommended at the present moment, by having our recollection revived in the publication of the 12th Volume of the 4‘ Duke of Wellington's Dispatches," and also as enabling the visitors of the ingenious Model of the Battle, now exhibiting, to increase their satisfaction by previously consulting the enlarged Plans in this work, besides the Circumstantial details, the whole beinc , from Eye-Witnesses. Sold by L'Booth, Duke-street, Portland-place ; and by all Booksellers. , on India P a p er , 51. s s . Proof Copies of the Etchings GARDENING OPERATIONS TOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's Gazelle. ) Prepare hot beds for Cucumbers; take care to let out the rank steam before the mould is put on, and as soon as it is a give a sma ll port i on o f a i r every proper heat sow seeds in pots ; day by tilting the lights in a very trifling degree for a short time. In the event of snow fallin g to any considerable extent, have it cleared away immediately from the roof of green hcuses, pits, &c. The more rare the opppttunities of giving air may be to houses and pits, the more care should be taken to reap the ad vantage of such opportunities, even if but for half an hour in the day. In other respects continue as before. The Leeds petition against the Corn-law received 9,000 signatures during the first two days. EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. 138. Longman, London, 1839. After many years of unaccountable neglect, this influen tial Journal has at length seen fit to do justice to the talenti of Mr. Peacock, the author of " Headlong Hall," and other tales—or rather philosophical satires—whose spark ling wit, and easy grace of style, are among the least of their good qualities. We do not think, however, that the Re viewer evinces much discrimination in his criticism, when he attributes to Mr. Peacock the power of delineating cha racter, as in his " Maid Marian ;" for it must be manifest to all who have read his works with attention, that his pri mary defect is the utter inability to breathe into his various sketches the breath of life. His characters are not so much real flesh and blood, as opinions personified. Like Martin, Jack, and Peter, in the " Tale of a Tub," they are mere vehicles for the promulgation of certain abstract theories and crotchets. One, however, of Mr. Peacock's sketches we should perhaps except from this objection, and that is, his Doctor Folliott—a jovial, caustic, English Divine— fond, but not immoderately so, of good eating and drinking, a gentleman and a-scholar, who is drawn with a life-like freshness and spirit quite unusual with the author, and which leads us to infer that lie is here giving us an insight into his own idiosyncracy. In the subjoined remarks we heartily concur with the Reviewer A genuine devotion to good eating and drinking, neither disguised nor excused, but studiously indulged and boldly pro fessed, as the natural occupation of a sound mind in a sound body, is a quality on which Mr. Peacock's eye pauses with an enjoyment almost akin to love. Not that he really esteems it (we know nothing of him, but imagine him a temperate man, with a thorough contempt for made dishes,) but because it is his calling and his delight thus audaciously to reverse the opinion of the world, and to make all the idols, for the worship of which men quarrel, appear hollow and ridiculous in the pre sence of that which they agree in despising. On the same principle, it may be observed that the desire of dinner is in these novels, the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin; the one thing good for man all the days of this vain life, which he spendeth as a shadow, on which all philosopher's agree—the one thing which abides with him of his labour. a b en/t/s. are A .All r c u o w n i t n r g o v il e u r s t i t e u s r , , h a o n a d • e N w • e i r d e d r i v All conflicting theories shake h an d s a t th e soun d o f th e dinner earsgunendte,r w a h s er th e e t y he pr d n i e sp ee u d t : strangely converge and meet in the common centre of the dinner. table. The sentence which we have marked in italics contains a sound and wholesome truth. All conflicting theories do indeed shake hands at the sound of the dinner-bell ; and Heaven forbid that it should ever be otherwise ; for con ceive what a heart-rending thing it would be, were a good dinner to be allowed to grow stone-cold, and " waste its sweetness on the desert air," while the guests were noisily discussing in the drawing-room the Poor-laws or the Popu lation question ! " Statistics and Philosophy of Storms" is a curious scientific treatise, in which the phenomena of hur ricanes—especially those tremendous ones which occur pe riodically in the West Indies, end along the coast of the Americas—are attempted to be explained and accounted for. In the course of his discussion, the Reviewer gives an interesting account of the hurricane which ravaged the island of St. Vincent in the year 1831 : In passing from Barbadocs to St. Vincent this hurricane moved only at the rate of ten miles an hour. Before it reached St. Vincent, Mr. Simonds observed a cloud to the north of him, so threatening in its aspect, that he had never seen any thing so alarming during his residence of forty years in the tropics ; and he informed Colonel Reid that it appeared of an olive green colour. Mr. Simonds hastened borne, and by nailing up his doors and wind o ws, saved his house from the general calamity. The water of the sea was raised to such a height in Kingston bay as to flood the streets, anrseveral buildings in Fort Charlotte were unroofed, and others blown down. The most remarkable phenomenon, however, which took place at St. Vincent was the effect of the storm on the extensive forest with which a great part of the island is covered. A large portion of the trees at its northern extremity were killed, without being blown down. These trees were frequently 'examined by Colonel Reid in 1832; and they appeared to him to have been killed, not by the wind, but by the extraordinary quantity of electric matter rendered active during the storm. During the paroxysms of the storm, two negroes at Barbadoes were greatly terrified 'by sparks of electricity passing off from one of them. This took place in the garden of Codrington College, where the but of - the negroes having just been blown down, they were supporting each other in the dark, and endea vouring to reach the main building. Another remarkable phenomenon accompanied this hurricane. In consequence of the sea breaking continually o'varthe cliff at the north ,point, a height of seventy feet, the spray was carried inland by the wind for many miles, and it rained salt water in all parts of the country The fresh water fish in the ponds of Major Leacoek were all killed, and at Bright Hall, about two miles to the south-south- east of the point, the water in the ponds continued salt for many days after the storm. In the review of " Southey's Poetical Works," the anwude honourable is made to this distinguished writer, who for years together was never mentioned in the Edin burgh Review but in terms of ridicule, softened off by a sort of supercilious and condescending expression of regret that he had so misapplied his luxuriant powers of imagi nation. And how is he spoken of now ? As one of th 3 most sterling poets of the age, worthy to be compared to Schiller, and who has written works which the world " will not willingly let die." Now we think Southey is here just as much over-rated, as before he was under rated by the Edinburgh. We grant that he has penned many passages all a-blaze with imagination, and t eem i ng with the rarest and most d e li ca t e beauties of thought and feeling, but we doubt much whether he has written one single poem which, as a whole, will find favour with posterity. His " Roderick," as beir , the most eqiiably sustained of all his works, stands the best chance, but even here there is much verbose declamation, cold and glittering as a sunned iceberg ; and a constant attempt at the stern passion, of tragedy, which is as constantly ineffective. As for " Kehama," if we except one or two of its gorgeous oriental descriptions, and its exquisite apos trophe to Love—the love of a Psyche, not of a Cyprian Venus—it is a loose, sprawling poem, the chief figures in which remind us of those grotesques ones which we see cut out and painted on paste-board, and pulled by wires. " Thalaba" is another sort of Fantoccini produc tion, whose chief recommendation is the high-toned mo rality by which it is sustained throughout. But if we demur to Southey's claims as as a first-rate poet, as a prose writer, we feel that we cannot praise him tco highly. His style is all that it should be—easy, flowing, copious, but not redundant, utterly devoid of tameness and monotony, and full of the most agreeable melody. It is evidently penned con amore—as all prose must be, to be worth anything--and is enlivened by frequet.t touches of the most relishing archness and sarcasm. Those who have read his " Life of Nelson" may con. gratulate themselves on b e i ng acqua i nte d w i t h t h e most stirring, eloquent, and picturesque biographical essay, in this or perhaps in any language ; nor can his " History of Brazil"—heavy and elaborate as it is—fail to be pe rused, always with advantage, and frequently with the deepest interest. " Southey,"says the Reviewer, Is said to have burned more verses, between his twentieth and thirtieth year, than any other living bard has written in all his clays l Were his productions confined to poetry alone, he would fill a respectable place on the shelves, even in this pro lific age ; but when to this is added the mass of prose which he has contributed to our literature, and the prodigious though desultory studies which he has gone through, in the process of reading up' the several subjects on which he has exercised his pen, his exertions border on the incredible. Those of Voltaire, and even of Scott, both of whom, comparatively speaking, drew from their own imagination and fancy the ma terials of their voluminous writings, sink to nothing in the comparison I His life has been one incessant course of literary production. The fertile field of his genius has never been left to itself for a single season, to recover strength by such abandonment. On the contrary, it has been wrought from his earliest years under a perpetual system of rotation; exhaust ing crops of history, ethics, and polemics, alternating with the lighter produce of poetry, criticism, and biography." Southey is certainly a most prolific writer, but his exer tions are by no means unparalleled, as the Reviewer would seem to imply. Cobbett wrote quite as much ; and Mr. Walter Wilkins, in his instructive account of the " Life and Times of Defoe," has given a catalogue of the produc tions of that remarkable author, which—if our memory be correct—extend to some three or four hundred volumes! " L:ster's Life of Clarendon" is less an impartial criticism on this well-digested work, than a defence of it from the attack made in a late number, of the Quarterly. The Reviewer draws the character of Clarendon quite as favourably as it deserves, and sums up with the per tinent remark, that he was " more of a penman than a statesman—much better fitted to describe events than to direct them." Truer words than these were never spoken. By his habits of thought and feeling—for his mind was of a retrospective rather than a prospective order, clinging to the past, and distrustful of the future—Clarendon was ill qualified to advance the interests, or sympathise with the feelings, of such stirring and troublous times as thos:p in whic!i he lived. But with the pen in his hand he was quite at home. We say nothing of the political spirit o'his history—for however impartial he may have supposed self, this famous work is less a history, than au elaborate vindication of Charles the First—but as a delineator of character, and a minute, eloquent chronicler of events, he has been seldom surpassed, and certainly never equalled, in As a companion-piece to the above, we add the portrait of Isabella's husband, Ferdinand—one of the wariest and most politic monarchs that ever swayed the Spanish sceptre, and whose character, in some respects, bears no slight re semblance to that of the more celebrated Charles the Fifth : " Ferdinand's character exhibits many points of contrast with that of IsabAh. His education, when young, had been much neglected. Ho was brave, but his courage seems to have been rather the effect of reason, than of natural impulse. He was of an equable temper, and seldom showed signs of passion ; his manners \sere courteous and extremely agreeable ; like Isabella, he was temperate and frugal in what concerned his private expenses ; but he is accused, not without founds._ tion . , of having carried economy, or rather parsimony, so far as to have endangered by it the fate of his armies in Italy. He seldom spent h's time in frivolous amusements; during his whole reign he directed, by means of his secretaries, the complicated concerns of his policy. Ferdinand was devout, or at least he was attached to the exterior forms of religion ; but in him religion seems to have beets a duty ; while in Isa bella it was a necessity—a law of her existence. He is ac cused cf having co-operated with his consort in the establish ment of the Inquisition; but this statement, which has only of late been made by the Castilian writers, rests on no historical foundation whatever. It is not so easy to acquit Ferdinand of the reproach of ingratitude towards those who have shed the greatest lustre on his reign. Indeed, during the course of his life, he seems to have had no other rule to direct his actions than his own interest. Friends he never bad any, and he only stirnated men in proportion to the services they could render him." " Luther and the Reformation" is a paper that deserves great praise, if only for its masterly sketches of Erasmus and Luther, and its graphic and condensed account of the fanatic John of Leyden, whom Rebertson has brought so vividly before us in his best work—the " History of Charles the Fifth." In his portrait of Erasmus, the Reviewer does every justice to the various learning of this ripe and ready scholar, observing that "in his hands the Latin language was bent to uses of which Cicero himself might have thought it incapalile. Grasping at universal excellence and immediate renown, he poured out orations, verses, essays, dialogues, aphorisms, biographies, translations, and new editions of the classical writers, with a rapidity which at once dazzled the world and exhausted himself." Yet, with all this, Erasmus was not a man of first-rate mind. Like Dr. Parr, he had a prodigious swallow—was a perfect Mira) librorma—but wanting steadiness of purpose, depth of thought (though even as a thinker he was far in advance of his age), strength and earnestness of character, he has left us no single work which is half so fertile in ideas, or affords half the intellectual nourishment that is supplied by one of Milton's prose essays. His most popular writings are those with which he took least pains, and which he professed to throw off merely as the relaxation of his leisure hours. Perhaps the best, certainly the most graphic, of these, is his " Naufraguim," wherein he describes the sudden falling of a thunder bolt cm a vessel, which, as a specimen of picturesque narrative is hardly surpassed by any of the daintiest bits in LiN V. Erasmus would have been a greater and a wiser man had he not stood in such awe of Majesty ; but the love of crowned heads was a weakness he could not over come—a fact which, in pourtraying this distinguished scholar, the Reviewer ought not to have omitted. " Foreign Relations of Great Britain," is a rapid and ani mated summary of the leaching European events of the last forty years, from whi c h th e R ev i ewer d raws inkrences for the guidance of the p resen t d ay , w hi c h evince a vigorous, inquisitive, and philosophical intellect. Some detached passages in this paper remind us of Lord Brougham —as, for instance, where Napoleon's Russian campaign and final overthrow are described, which, though only in out line, is a sketch full of force and energy. In the course of this episode the Reviewer quotes an epigram on Napoleon by Mr. Justice Williams, which, he tells us, is " now for the first time made public." We subjoin this classical little gem, as also a free and hasty translation—paraphrase rather —of it, in which, however, we have in vain attempted to imitate the neatness and conciseness of the original, which is quite worthy to vie with many of the epigrams in the Greek anthology. We should observe, that in the last line and a half, the literal meaning of which is, " place, Oh stranger, against a tomb (that is, as a set-off against a tomb) Hes peria, the Ister, the Pyramids, and Scythia," we have, for the purpose of condensation, deviated, perhaps unwarrant ; ably, from the text : 112,EEc.v/a,:0.) xyzi , ccFrda. Eya. E<C.C4lC(.l.(4Yr.ic . T)I3E NECtrOAEWY c04)12,./4 s-' as-cc4)oc rs Ert tErfa KEIII.,Z, ap,olPactr,v VEtl,2O - 11 , • 6ap.a.g.acrsE ...Pit?ecrOE slq,covot N - rvos, 6 1 ccie7o; atJavalo;* OZJEY 7:),u-Pou• fiEc 6 i ct) EEly'ar,7l 1740 v, aqaj4i6ac, I, who than Alexander greater far, And Caesar, harnessed Victory to my car— Ev'n I, Napoleon ! doomed to fate to bend, Lie on this rock—untombed—without a friend— Revenge your wrongs, mad tyrants, then, and shed Your well-earned wrath upon my vanquished head— Ye cannot check my fame's immortal spread. I need no tomb, for Europe tamed and rent, And Egypt's sands, form my best monument. 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The descriptions in this tale are all clever, but they are much too frequent—so much so indeed, as greatly to impede the progress of the narrative, espe cially the earlier portions of it. The characters are amus ingly sketched, but more might have been made of some of them—such for instance as Garrett Weasel, the hen pecked publican, in whom, " there was au air of assenta tion and reverence which perhaps grew out of the domestic discipline of his spouse, a buxom dame, and with the heart of a lioness ;" and in whose " worst outbreak of convivia lity there was a glimmering of deference and respect, rising up to a ricketty laugh, and a song sometimes, yet without violent clamor"—more, we say, should have been made of this character, whose opening is full of promise. Cockles craft, the half smuggler, half pirate, is a much more fully developed c haracter, and exhibits no little vigor of drawing. The•language of the tale is forcible and unaffected, and sometimes rises to the poetical. ;•,. 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