The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-01 00:00:00

• liryp •-•4 , E D ITION. ...____. . e _ r-L,LieUourt in these ilays preseated a Spc7ctitrie wh•ch af ail aiiretien ; hut it ives pere, everessiee, racy. Bis I° ( ed true deligh t to every person of some! judgment menner of reasonin- was manly F Pure taste. % 4 ;i' i co , ent, the ad. Later 0 long; .ealeng of .all that could be urged' hv th , 2 noll , n ie s ; and silent hearing—a dress of a rational .beitig to others ' e:f t . Jl o Z:, l sa t m o e t o . !•; ( l , e u r s ; ever ' Y p ar tY---uribrele en by single wo"d, and when the ; shin, he never exceeded a quarter l of a ; n hour li in s Pectatoe or Sire -.' • a raight sun II , illiam Grant (for he was cot ,Sate • ff a t r e is a model 5 ., ,, _ - , pose that his inied had been absent from a liess, ate or (:n a , pub lie 9 His corresponeance upon busi eene in which he took no apearent share, the ww,:is closed —the advnor can of dearness a 'svobe: lo''naisPnel"ticol that, e P . :ti e o n. u i s " g shortness '. ' decision surpass to I , - , it- and impression re in tilent tee- t ocate's hour was nesseil—the parties " any State pap 1011g5r e e . c . anon of . the eve, as resounde' tit—th e hail no 1 those of which he is believed (- t c .o '.. h .v . ' ave IT en the a,u if the thor in the earliee part of the titrieriean revoiu etair 0 , at with any voice—it seamed .. cuu t the day, forte resent,p vt , -v, - . -• • • rt was to ad'e• - • •.- a , oa -. r a ed the .fa °nary war. lii,- rnode9 of . plii:osophising wai the pur.-E;t The Jl g . 1 ". a , or to cell fill' " othe r caus ' . i '"• ' a ' P-f•j't l i tist a ea ub t -- fi e' N i I ' • e i-eanon of the Inductive principle, 20 11111 , !ellq tim'a bad now arrived, alai another ar- : Pro noun .the scene. Th. greit ~,Ligistt•-• begen to !a r s . at iintirotplo c his Jiithrinent. and every eye and ever . , ear;beenmadoanp.,:c'-:,s-.:, leis cater-., ,end i. o ,,.. - ti tt l e tfoeht it would have t h- i '' l t 1 9 ' ' ‘ t ' - ' ink!iti ' , if it had rot been unfolded st.e-es-v- -by 1 • ease it would length fixe'd unco i l the Bench. Fortis came ai he ►Baeon, tiioneft .. it is as clear ant is this ,, ea_. But strain of clear unbroken fluency, disposing* 'alike, in most ' have been expounded I far rn,c-"e 'l7`" terms.,t.,e most us "rder, of all the facts end of all - the arguments of ad this ereat man's scit etific . exce . iiencic., .i. t a lc , at ie e t ; , "-I .‘ se ; reducing into ' ' cl ' a s ar rind simp.le arrauge- i . remarkalale is the sineliness, the semi:ln:ay the greatapp eena staterreet • ' i "-. ai eem. - most entangled ma ss e s o f b ro k en ac e d con- inadelpiacy, of the_ means v . : , hicll he employed in his ex were roads with nf each •9 , ne.gteng ea, i matter, , • disposing • • eland perimental researches. His discoveries • ~_,.,,_ ti e d In succession ; settling one doubt by a parenthe- . hardly any apparatus at all ; and . if, at any time, lie LI uni ei rernart— a passing over another difficulty by a reason been led uut Y jnore decisiva that it. was eendens e e; ; an d giving nary descriptioe. He never rested sat.. -dun i til Ire ,o h . a v d . ; 'le ahnle impreaiion cf the ease, in every. material as it were, ''''', upo s b n..r vo n hthe Judge's mind, with argument e . uough to hag the piolilern with re tir9t you afterwards translated the process; ey res 1 such simple macheie _, , without iIY -c Ef) thought, and to prove bill] light, and might say 1. ; . 0 had done it wholly ene;ticid by apparatus. it ,s3 Much reasoning as to make you f'irget that The experiments by which the. iile - ntity of lialitning and b Rasajudgment vo u .• ere hearing,' by overstep a itra : - the electricitymade itla a sheet Olind s ~., .., A ‘• a silk thread, and an iron vvas demanvtrated, were .. • •- fta s+ ''"li-lt diet aguish a judgment from a speech. of brown paper, a bit o. twine, 4, 1; al ,' the perfection of judicial eloquence. ; not avoid cents lacy. ehe•hee in pub su.'ent, but confining it to suck reasoning as be- Upon the integrity of this great man, a • . o va , ~ 'al who has rather to explain the grounds of his lie or in private life, there rests no stain.. Strictly ho t t s. .s n '* .je tion, than to labour at convincing others ; nest, and even scrupulously punctual, l in t a r l e lh t i i s_ doalinas he regal ,Pity which l o s. `lecting refereece t o authority, but never betoken- preserved in the highest fortune t , la , le l l iu ,`„ l , disposition to seek shelter behind other men's he had practised as well as inciacat . e , d g in the lowest. for I , • Per so - u ' w , 2at he might fear to Pronounce in his own The phrase which he once used . wheniyerrupted in his tliore ;inet disd;;ming even ornam en t s , h ut th ose of the proceeding: upon the most arduous and . im - ortant af statli c , julst ened graces that accord veith the severe ' ecl ' s OUt the fairs, by a demand of some petty item h t i n t t a re len p o• account ci a l e ; r " of a Judge's oratory. This perfection of judi- —.9 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox t ; ae on :pence Sir Williatn Grant attained, and its effect nierit s lainl • corn"—has been cited against him as . proving the laxity I listeners was as certain and as powe l f u l as its of his dealings when in trust of i public t in t o a t t le ) , it; a in country p in plvire_r.e incoatestable and exalted. • proves the reverse ;for he weal sp eak,rs bainent he is unquestionably to be classed with " ' 9 - p. t . by reru- Was tb; if the first order. His style was peculiar :it abotnding in discussion, and . ful k i n o e f w l,..tter eesonal ani mosities, nothing could lie gained of i . tritna.it y ., d his , irt an t °f the closest and severest reascoing ever heard sing to produce his vouchers at the fitting time 65 e , rY.,l3,e'aular asseinbly ; reasoning which would have een - turing to use such language . del a n l o l th e dia`-',eitened close in the argumentation of the bar, or knew his conduct . to be reailyaboee demonstrates that lie and 'in the inter. the last, of the schools. It was; from the first , to I n domestic . life he wag faultless, Abut, iltltereatQl'oll pure reason and the triumph of course of society delightful. f was no ''','l• was sterling, all perfectly plain ; there good humour aial a r:Liy.ill twit, easy,_ and of. high- re- Ti , ere was a constant re ly o n P tn ° , lu t in the diction, no ill ustrat i on i„ th e topics, fish, without any ambition to shine, the_natur_el fruit of e " and his p • a ngu t aa a "Jtut the fancy in the accompaniments. The his lively fancy, his solid, natural . geoti poet quite el adce—perfectly clear, abundantly car- cheerful temper, that gave conversationhis l ~rseelpiatn sense, and the whi c h th eoncise, admirably suited to the matter able charm, and alike :t o , fi , : 0 word s s " !te( ever a 3 . 7 a7;t c h k ill his siring clothed and conveyed, In so far it humblest to the most elevated. i G 1 ' in-earislialdv a iny . e . o ,' t° t's , no further ; nee 9. 1 h1 it ever loin e behind n.s, so. eften solemnly c . teel., ..o . e s . _ ~,, d Bli d • i ' a Pr " ss iOu 'l r t r : ' ,-t -1, ,-if tbe ti.inea reeordi.9d it, his deeds, he ri.tenn , .9,l a tolerance for th .:.„ , •.•;, w , •9. -tic c icar.in, lc 0,.., ra w ,. _ a the onia were forgotten, for they had never who cliff-red with him which could not be surpassed in th ose 4411. attention for a moment from the things ; men whose pr:nciples hang so loosely i about them as to h oer ea P" were alone remembered. No speaker was II • I lewn when be taken up for a convenient cloas, ane . ai«. he. , s swer, ' -a "'Y list ene d t •so difficult to an- found to impede their progress. In his family wa t, O. , Th _ a ; none 'll with ue s• M. - Fox, when he was hearing everything that worth,. ; warm affections, and sound a men both useful to • view to,nialsiug that attempt., was ma- prudence could contribute, to make l ? 4 , In a ~,,, - tan - ...Y very unwonted to his sweet temper and amiable, respected I beloved. In religion, he sh oal - coa l , .... and latitudinarian ; let it is Ow r e4eano n of some near him, even to the wou'd by many be reckoned a t qatpl 3 ( , ) 8 ranic crossness, (and after an exclamation) certain that his mind was imbued w ith .. a deep sense of ; "„ 5 it ave t a a . "' " 13 ° You think it so very pleasant a thing th e Amine perfections, a constantimpression of our f future en -.°Nble - " s wer a speech like THAT r The two me- accountable nature, and a lively Zr eed to a c i asi one hope of test of both on which this great reasoner was oh- joyment. Accordingly, his death-he ' resigned '' end de sir Wil b 0 , r uo.st injured by a reply, were in thAt of faith and works, was easy and placid, 9. ,1,.,,e, - "duct er ' r e , e quoting Clirendon's remarks on the ospect of vout and indicated at once an um ine.eeg . -. .. ... r w.„of th, • nd . the ' S' • Case, when thepast, and a comfortabe assurance of thefuture. lord ti amt a , J ges in alp Money - • L 4 Mel, ~". cr ant had undertaken-to defend his friend °tti 11. fllle ; and in that of Lord Lansdowne (then l o _f th e f • l4 rY Petty), three years later, when the legality linit e ',.nions orders in council was debated. Here, a 'ter t i fts's, ',„"e speech was made en one day, and the I Alt, ' a ule and triumphant as it was, followed on the he It a ll for e ta ` 3 :, safely be said that a long time will -elapse the S i , n 'ire shall arise such a light to illuMinate either rar e exc at,e or the Bench as the eminent person whose Plate. ,V,,eriee we have just been pausing to contem ;Acre , t'at excellence was no doubt limited in its ' - elat ti 4. le r° was no imagination, no vehemence, no '1 44 in t " li l e e' r n ' n° , wit ; but the sphere was the highest, 1 , - ,erst en . d . - sighest sphere its place was lofty. The un 'lo (lilt ' n g sh ane was addressed by the understanding ; whiell the that distinguish our nature were those over 'ontr e w . u t O t rat erY of Sir William Grant asserted its Z P 'rtior i of sway over the rational and intellectual 'n 'a More4lftnkind was that of a more powerful rea lorn4n h vigorous intellect than theirs ; a sway which is e the a. cause for being ashamed of admitting, be 'atilt , a s '' t °rY was won by superior force of argue 'aiiis ii • s l va •Y which the most dignified and exalted Piiitaele li g 't hold Without stooping from its highest 'Yei or ' and whiehnsome who might not deign to use qe r to alts of persuasion could find no objection what. 1 , . exerci se t "in th's . s be not l ' Purely intellectual picture there remains bb 're th d a Pl 9 fl a want of keeping, something r , t ase n „' llt a shade. The commanding d . ' intellect, the close nya i , -"' who could over ociovm r m ot a i n . m m g en 's understanding .14die-essti!erior force of his P ovvr e i, vvas 'e t r he slave of his own pre revoiutiuu,,slich an extent, that he could see only the perils oF enee e i, ,;',le any reformation of our institutions, and never t hat an e 4 It possible that the monarchy could be safe, or ill lint • arell Y could be off, unless all things were to al eed u warded which they stood early upon the same footing or, 9- of the World." ~,4,neohghtened, and inexperienced ages . ex_ Po sed °e t he signal blunder, which Bacon long t a i g ), spe. ci es, ' ' eonfouedie -6 the youth with the age of more glaringly th an 1/3•Vas never committed by any one , i• wno urst em 14Yeetethis great reasoner. He, „t th w e as wisdom of our teesto_ne.,,well-known phrase_ innovation, tt to stop which Ile a „0 4 % and the menaced 1 l of Sir Samuel Roniilly to tsk e r i fi_ies, it, was the proposal almost imperceptibly small, of hub' step of reform, tto the payment of all their ( lebt s. "° 7 men's real earlyproperty to prejudice ; of prejudice tetr e . r ,,, Strange . force ofll .ct while yet feeble and unin feee'-'u to warp the intellect its origin . to the very error to th o "' t jt ed, and which .din o • ‘ ts e conclusions, the making errors °lla ank r i la ntl f . 3 i d u le their ignorant i and inexperienced.state the f o lli cle of their conduct at their mat ure age, an d appealing. ty tose errors as the wisdom of past times, when they e tc h the unripe.fruit of imperfect intellectual culture. FRANKLIN. 4 / 30e of the most remarkable men certainly of our time ojs politician, or of any age as a philosopher, was aaltli n ; who also stands alone in combining these two til',asraeters, the greatest that men can sustain, and in se ! . that having '. borne the first ' part in enlarging ste ns _ b ers 7 bY one of the greatest discoveries ever made, he Aires '' ,l o second part in founding one of the greatest em isri Ittih.the world. that 18 t rOY great man everything seems to concur Fuel, towards the constitution of exalted merit. in the i i e l w i as the architect of his own fortune. Born and hi e Mulest station, he raised himself by his talents h e attai n u " lis trY, first to the place in society which may a ppli catio n L e with th e help only of ordinary abilities, great "Ight s ,l' and good luck ; but next to the loftier 'tad th e 7 " i eh a daring and happy genius only can scale ; hea no Poor printer's boy, who at one period of his life nl96 t, rentvering . to shelter his head from the dews of he e d i' t° b in twain the proud dominion of England, and bs.l " e t he ambassador of a Commonwealth which °I Pra t i : rul ed, at the Court of the haughty Monarchs Th eo e i ' who had been his allies l 'era e f e "le had been tried by prosperity as well as ad ei botb rt lln e ,e , and had passed unhurt through the perils Joel liev 1.10 ordinary apprentice, no commonplace Ic ace .ina n , ever laid• the foundations of his indepen thee he habits of industry and temperance more deep I thn c (1.1(.1. whose genius was afterwards to rank him l' e' p a ; : G alileo s and the Newtons of the old world. 'eet lQ ii rteian born to shine in Courts, or assist at the st4ti otl 4 °I Monarchs, ever bore his honours in . a lofty rthere , ra „ cr e easily, or was less spoilt by the enjoyment i l , i g ee tb luan this co workman did when negociat 4eaut;-- r aYal r re m s m l u t u f or carressed by all the Asi,iancl fasbioenPof the n a l l o r s e t brilliant . Court in Europe. ntud y ll ' l l was self-taught in all he knew. His hours Z,airied by ere stolen from those of sleep and of meals, or Ile Work 3 "le ingenious contrivance for reading while °id le k ,of his dailytailing vsnt on. Assisted by none lieli, helps wbiel - di ii o e i la ,, i affluence tenders Na getier. ' t o supply the place of tutors by redoubled y -, and of • by repeated perusal. i, l , th e ee , commentaries by copy , , e R . lvh at rissession of books was to be obtained . . _ 4 lly 'tie art which he himself exercised furnished 11/4. to others b "cxt the • • ' tri a d e eircurnstinces under which others succumb cp s ct o .• • ski i Yield, and bent to his own purposes—a suc lifter ende r o r . i 4 „zp pea .. , a revolt that ended incomplete triumph Et 114 1lo s , i l ing desperate for years ; a great discoverer l w rit er f •P"Y without the ordinary helps to knowledge.; '‘cc eati e aln ecl for his chaste style without a classical Ail cane 4 ; a skilful nee . ociator, though never bred to wile ; endin ' • ' of fashion, h a th e gas a favourite, nay, a pattern 'gee in guest of frivolous Courts, the life which be had i I.,, ati ' garrets and in workshops. tn Po • Y ' eornbin • ;of • ' • in others deemed i o _ 44 ations facuities, , 'nab, ' aPPeared easy and natural in him. The phi rtlit r, dcii I, • . tl of eP t 'ase! t . -thin. Invenious reasonine• refined and subtle I°rl. lt''' '''' were Cis , • a' • b e resolu te . t . ti l d i :.firxibi , n :tin comoined wit prom . p fancy, i4..`le(lined a leer c nrmness of purpose. To a lively .n the i lt i vo geniustisetd andddeep reflection ; .his t orig.i a n n a c l e a 6 , itiii,,Pt'hlt ordinarnreudet fl o c e th i e n ceovnevreiduaen affairs lli ; I the with ti ,_ a t, soared above the clouds, and y :- . as conversant te rtiaii"ee loftiest of human contemplations, disdained not of 4h Proverbs and feigned parables for the guidance hana'sPilenticed youth s and servile maidens ; and the t4 leat -,:" s ketched a free constitution for a whole con tad ch eerful] down the lightning from heaven, easily byYtyhic-li ,a.IY lent themselves to simplify the apparatus pur sued, ‘ r utbis were to be illustrated, or discoveries is Ili ' wbol a s situp c course both in acting and in speculation s t l ‘ te last e and l'!a'n, ever preferrirg the easiest anti lie s • r cuul, .nor ever having recourse to any but 1 .,• init4 s.t His policy i ‘Jee te4 ,„ means to compass his ends. .. ta 'iv refinent t• d • lat aceornolislung ( i eurr o „.., , • en s, an aimed 4 s 4 i u -0 1 s, / 1.) t'e the most rational and obvious cape i I dienp ot ' s I nil. 'A•unge ,Wl5 ern:domed, and eSu.i ..e.- . ll'' .t9l fitltinuieatitig iiis thoughts, net ol - r.ii6aig THE PREVAILING EPIDEMIC. A correspondent of the London Medical Gazelle after htatiog that the first signs of the complaint are pains at the lower region of the stomach and the sides, adds : " In a few hours a well-marked shivering attack is observed,succeeded by feVer of a remitting chat acter,du ring which the strength is completely prostrated, and the mental powers considerably disturbed. The pulse ri , es to 120, but is very feeble ; the heat of surface •is ex treme, the pains of the side severe, and the sleep much disturbed. After continuing three or four days, the "symptoms begin to subside, generally terminating with profuse perspiration. " But the most remarkable feature in this epidemic remains to be ncticed. Although the illness has not continued more than three or four days, such has been the shock upon the nervous system that it leaves the patient completely prostrated. His countenance ex presses much debility ; the voice becomes feeble ; and when he attempts to walk, he is seized with instant vertigo, and obliged to desist. Days and weeks elapse before the strength is restored ; and where the patients are of delicate habits, and advanced in life, there is `danger of their sinking under the shock that they have sustained. " The principal point to be observed in the treatment of this disorder is to avoid the use of the lancet. Cases have come under my notice where blood-letting has been employed to combat supposed iuflammation, in which the consequences have been most deplorable. In fact, little treatment is necessary, except keeping the bowels open, and the exhibition of saline aperients In some cases, however, it is necessary to prescribe dif fusible stimulants, or tonic remedies, even from the com mencement of the attack." CITY OF WESTMIN STER LITE RARY. SCIENTIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. We are happy to find that this Institution is pro gressing very satisfactorily. A most interesting lecture on the fine arts was delivered on Thnridgy evening by • John King, Eq., in which, under the title of Raphael and his Contemporaries, the lecturer took a review of the rise and progress of the arts in Italy after their de struction in the middle -:gis ; and leading his audience on to the bright period of Da Vinci, Miclial Angelo, and Raidiml, gave some animated descriptions of their principal works. This lecture was introductory to one announced for next Thursday on the cartoons of Ra phael, which being now accessible to every one by the throwing open Hampton Court Palace, are become more then ever objects of interest ; and such explana tions of their beauties and • principles as will tend to render them generally understood, must be very useful to the public. We were pleased to find the lecturer very judicionsly.avoiding technicalities, and making his object the teaching the intellectual and 'moral use that should be made of great works of art. THE GENERAL CONVENTION. -- The following is a copy of a letter addressed to Mr. Lovett, by Messrs, Hadley, Salt, and Douglas : TO THE SECRETARY FOR THE DAY OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. SIR—We beg very respectfully to inform you, that we can no longer allow our names to remain orr the roll of the General Convention. When we consented to be placed on that roll, it was on the assured pledge, that, in prosecuting the task Iv signed to them, the General Convention would be guided by the same great rule of Peace, Law, and Or der, under which the Birmingham Union had been con stituted, and which alone had been the source of its permanence and power. That pledge, we make the statement with not small regret, has, in our humble opinion, been violated in spirit and in letter. The language made use of at the Crown and Anchor meeting, on Saturday, the 11th instant, plainly shows that the General Convention, while professing them selves the enemies of tyranny and oppression, in every form, are vet ready end anxious to peril the success of Radical Reform on an appeal to the last and *worst .weapon of the tyrant and oppressor. We are deeply convinced that our righteous and rea sonable cause is not only not to be vindicated by such means ; but that he, who would seek for its vindication by trute force, is ignorant of the principles of rational freedom, and incapable, as well as unworthy, of its en joyment. • While we express, frankly and decidedly, our opinion upon this matter, we are very far from questioning the right of others to a similar liberty ; and, least of all, do we presume to impugn the motives of those who may see fit to differ from us. In withdrawing from the General Convention, because they have sanctioned doctrines from which we conscien tiously dissent, our purpose is not to cast an evil impu tation upon any man's character—we only wish to pre serve our own. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servants, BENJ. HADLEY, T. CLUTTON SALT. R. K. DOUGLAS. Birmingham, March 28, 1839. P.S. This communication would have been sent ear lier, but one of the subscribing parties happened to be absent on private business.—Bir»zingilaw Journal. [We regret to !earn that the Journal should have been inconvenienced awl disappointed by GUI- not con tinuously reporting the proceedings of tile Convention. We always had a reporter present but on many occa sions the subjects discussed were of so little public in terest, and other subjects of great public interest made such heavy demands on our columns, that we were com pelled to omit all notice of the proceedings of the Con vention. Now that the Parliament is up, and the pro ceedings of the Convention (indicating the approaching dissolution of that body) have again become of public interest, we report their proceedings.—ED. SUN.] '~'~~= Mr. Hume, M.P., left town for Paris on the 28th inst., and will not return till the 15th of April next. TH E MAILS.—We understand that a new Mail from Leeds to Doncaster, in eonne2tion with the London and Edinburgh mail, will leave the Royal Hotel at eight o'clo c k i n th e morn i ng , an d return to Leeds at i four n the afternoon. Further—we are credibly informed that negoele.tions are in a forward state of completion for a rew Nlail to Carlisle and h way of Ilfirrog4tt - . &c.f . o'clock p. ru., on thu,tith of April .i.ecds T. 114', 4 SUN, LONDON. I‘PNDANT, APRIL 1, 1839. MA GA ZINE-DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The fir,t article in Maga this month is entitled " France and her Elections," and is penned in a spirit that cannot fail to bring delight to the hearts of all ultra-Tories. Charles the Tenth, and that precious sprig of legitimacy, the Duke of Angouleme—whcse name is a s3nonyin for incapacity of every sort—are lauded iO the most extravagant manner, and their suc cessor, Louis Philippe is spoken of in equal terms of admiration, because he evinces a disposition to carry out that system of policy which lost Charles the Tenth his throne, and compelled him to die an exile in a fo reign land. We object in Into to the spirit of this article. It is intemperate, ungenerous, and reckless of truth in almost every one of its statements. It is not true that France,as a nation,is immoral and irreligious. It is not true that she has an inveterate abhorrence of a Constitutional roc/lan:by. She is averse only to the encroseliments of an insidious despotism on popular rights, and is resolved apparently, at all hazards, to abide by the letter of the Charter, which the present King seems eqUally resolved to make a caput mortuunz. Unless Louis Philippe change the whole tenor of his domestic and foreign policy, we foresee a severe and protracted struggle, the ultimate issue of which no sane man can possibly doubt. " Desultory Dottings down upon Dogs, is a lively little essay, in which a judicious compliment is paid to Edwin Ltndseer, the finest painter of an;mals that ever existed, with the exception, perhaps, of Paul Potter, " A Week at Manchester," gives a spirited and inter esting account of this celebrated manufacturing town, and of the peculiar—for Peculiar they are-s--habits of its more industrious inhabitants. We do not altoge ther agree with the writer in his detestation of rail ways, though we must confess to a sort of sneaking prejudice against them, if only for the reason that they have driven the old social stage-coach cut of fashion ; and in Berkshire have made dreadful havoc with some of the most picturesque spots in the county. Ne vertheless, we cannot but acknowledge that the sight of a railway train in full activity, now, just visible a speck on the horizon, and now whizzing past you like a broad, startling flash of lightning, is a magnificent sight, whose superior art cannot show. "My After- Dinner Adventures, with Peter Selalemild," is a capital extravaganza, worked up with consummate tact, and with great power of humour. We know not. when we have perused a more amusing story. " Emily Von Ro senthal" is 'another clever tale, apparently by the same practised hand. " What is Poetical Deseription't" contains some sound criticism. But the gem of the Number is " Christopher in his Alcove," in which there are not a few fine thoughts thrown off at ran dom, which combine the fancy of the poet With the cairn, observant, meditative spirit of the philosopher. This desultory article contains some delightful stanzas entitled CEnone," which we would gladly quote, did time and space permit. We cannot, however, resist the temptation of extracting this striking passage. In the solemn and earnest tone of its thought, it is worthy of Sir Thomas Browne. Indeed it reads very much like a passage from his " Urn Burial," and we know not that we can pay it a higher compliment : " The ruins of Rome l The overthrow or decay of mighty human power is, of all thoughts that can cater the mind, the most affecting. The whole imaginati on i s at once stirred by the prostration of that, round which so many high associations have been collected for so many ages. Beauty seems born but to perish, and. its fragility is'con and felt to be inherent in it by a law of its being. But power gives stability, as it were, to human thought, and we forget our own -perishable nature in the spect •ele of some obiding and enduring greatness. Our own little span of years—our own confined region of space, are lust in the enduranca and far-spread dominion of some mighty State—and we fed as if we partook of its deep set and roost trinphant strength. When, therefore, a great and ancient empire falls into pieces, or who n frag7.l,nts o f its power are heard, in the sad conviction of our souls, rent asunder like column after column disporting from some . , noble edifice, we feel as if all the cities of men were built on foundations beneath which the earthquake slept. The same doom seems to be imminent over ail the other king. doms that still stand ; and in the midst of such changes, and decays, and overthrows—or, as we read of them of old—we lock, under such emotions, on all power as fowl ' dationless, and in our wide imagination embrace empires covered only with the ruins of their desolation. Yet such is the pride of the human spirit, that it often unconsciously, under the influence of such imagination, strives to hide from itself the utter nothingness of its mightiest works. And when all its.glories are visibly crumbling into dust, it creates some imagieary power to overthrow the fabrics of human greatness—and thus attempts to derive a kind of mournful triumph even in its very fall. Thus, when na tions have faded away in their sins and vices, rotten at the heart and palsied in all their limbs, we strive not to think of that sad internal decay, but imagine some mighty power smiting empires and cutting short the records of mortal m2geitiecnce. Thus, Fate and Destiny are said in our imagination to lay our glories low. Thus, even the calm and silent air of oblivion, has been thought of as an unsparing ppwer. Time, too, though in moral sadness wisely called a shadow, has been clothed with terrific at tributes, and the sweep of his scythe has, in imagination, shorn the towery diadem of cities." THE MANCHESTER AND BIR MINGHAM EXT2NSION RAILWAY COM PANY. (From the Manchester - and Saford Adcertivr.) At length the Manchester and Birmingham Extension lil , vny Bill has passed through the Committee on peti t:ries for Private Bills; and the extent and character of .the opposition which it has had to encounter therein, con, firms u.=., in the opinion exrcssed . a few weeks ago, as to the Tl'.esity for a change in the System in regard to Pri vate Mils. The Bill went into Committee on Friday the 22d Febru ary, and the inquiry terminated on Tuesday last, the Corn. mAtee having actually sat 22 days. The allegations of non-coropliince with the standing orders of Parliament arnountL‘d to upwards of 400, of which number not one fourth have been substantiated.* The rest have been either abandoned by the petitioners, cr been decided by the Committee in favour of the promoters of the Bill. As to the general character of the allegations, we are even now unabld to give our readers an intelligible ac count of them, so extremely technical are they, so totally irrespective of the merits and importance of the musure itself. The imprestion produced on our own mind, however, by a perusal of the notes of the proceedings, is decidedly favourable to the e.lse. It appears to have been got up with groat care and ability, and it is surpri,ing that where such a number of minute detailS have had to b: attended to, so few really important omtisions should have been de tected. Indeed,, we hesitate not to say that bad all the allegations brought forward, with one exception, been substantiated, the character of the 1341 and its promoters would have been as little compromised as on the first day of the inquiry ; and yet we doubt if the joint expenrs of this merely technical preliminary inquiry will be short of 10,000/. _ _ The exception to which wo allude i the following : —The standing orlers of Parliament require, iu the case of a Railway Company, that before the Parliamentary deed can be executed by the shareholders, in ether words, before the Company can be in a condition to go before Parliament for their Bill, three fourths of their shares .shall be taken up, and a sum of 10 percent. upon the amount of the shares be deposited. The fact was, that with re spect to the shares, mere than three-fourths had been taken up• before the application was made to Parliament. With respect to the subscrip:ion, a deposit of 5 per cent. was paid in the first instance, r.nd a M'ack scrip Wi:s issued to the perties prying tl;.e same. Subsequently another 5 per cent. deposit was called for, and on payment thereof a red scrip to that amount was issued in excherge for the other. It happened, however, that. in some instances the original holders of the black scrip had sold their shares before the second call was made; and when the purchasers tendered the second deposit of .5 per cent., they were re quired (in fulfilment of the standing orderin reference to the execution of the Parliamentary deed by original share . holders) to pay the whole 10 per cent., making 15 per cent, actually paid upon their respective shares, and 5 per cent. (the amount of the black scrip) was thereupon re turned to them. The allegation (keeping out of sight this formal proceeding, taken, be. it observed, with spacial and exclusive reference to the standing order)—the al legation seas, in substance, that whereas 10 • per cent. upon the shares was required to be, and alleged to have b •en paid up on three•-fourths of the shares, less than thrac fourths of the shares had been subscribed for, and upon many of these only 5 per cent. had been paid as a deposit at the time of the execution of the Parliamentary deed by the parties so executing it. In support of their objection the petitioners called a witness, who completely negatived the allegation which he had been called upon to support. fie proved that he bad purchased some of the black scrip, and that when the second call of 5 per cent. was made he paid the whole deposit of 10 per cent. (making 15 per cent. paid on his shares in all), and he then received back from the bankers, as on behalf of the original holder, five per cent. on the black serip, now given up. The s, licitor to the C , lnpany, Mr. Wheeler, then briefly explaiced th occasion of this formality, as already stated, and the Com mittee at once reported the standing order to have been complied with. There were many other allegations upon this subject, which were of course abandoned. Thus, the case of the petitioners completely broke down in one of its most formidable 'points ; and thus the ins;oultions so unscrupulously dealt out in the Railway Times, about "something very like fraud" being practised, vanish into thin air. It must be obvious, from what we have now and on a former occasion stated, that a revision of the standing or ders is loudly called fur, with a view both to the cost, and the more speedy passage of Private Bills through the forms of Parliament. It is certainly not right—it is hardly decent—that, as in the present case, parties should be allowed, in the prosecution of an opposition prompted solely by considerations of private advantage, to prefer allegations in reference, not only to their own property, but the property of others who are eventing parties to the very undertaking in respect to which they arc so pre ferred. Neither is it proper that such parties should be allowed to press objections which, even if substantiated, cannot in the slightest degree affect either public or pri vate interests, and which can therefore have no other ob ject but to harass the parties against whom they are di-' rected. For all useful purposes the Parliamentary Com mittee itself can at all times institute a sufficiently rigid examination as to points of mere technical observance ; and we are also disposed to think that where a number of allegations are brought together with the sole object of in volving opponents in expense, their negation or abrupt abandonment should be visited with the expenses attendant upon the production of evidence to rebut them. There are other points of a less important character, a revision of which is called for. We believe that the Members of Parliament best acquainted with the working of Committees on Private Bills are impressed with the necessity of a change in the system; and we trust that the whole matter will therefore undergo a speedy and attentive consideration. Since the above was written, the formal close of the in quiry has been commuicated to us. The Chairman (Mr. Aglionby), after stating that the Committee were in expec tation that they should be able to report to the 11cusc on Friday, the 12th of April, remarked at some length upon the impracticable nature of the present standing orders, and the serious amount of expense to which they subjected par ties applying for Bills. Indeed, so difficult was a compli ance therewith, on account of their intricacy and uncer tointy, that it was almost impossible, he added, for any par deg, however careful they might be, to come before Par ibment with an assurance that they had fulfilled the re quirements of the standing orders. The Chairman con -4 hided by expressing a hope that either a revision of the whole code would be effected, pr that some explicit decla ration as to the construction to be put upon certain of the orders would be made. We have in the above remarks confined our o lve s ( 4 1 ' 0 4 to the forms of Parliament; next week o:•e may probably have something to say on the merits of the BJI. The whole number of allegations was 4541. The number sus ained, 47. There are duplicated objections, making the total really 44. " In aver)* large majority of eases, the non.compliances are re. ported :,y the Committee, with special circumstances, in explana. ion of such non-compliance. In only two or three cares, and those of very slight importance, have any allegations been sustained affecting the property of the petitioners. MARYLEBONE VEsTRY. At a meeting of the Vestry on Saturday, on the re port of the committee appointed to consider the right of the rector to 'occupy three pews in the parish church, one for himself and family, another for his curates, and the third for his servants, and recommending the sides men of the parish to take forcible possession of the let ter, coming on fur confirmation, Lord KENYON rose to oppose the adoption. The RECTOR (Dr. Spry) was prepared to conciliate the feelings of the par!shioners upon this end other matters, and he hoped the Vestry would not persist in a course fraught with such disreputable consequences to themselves as the takinc , forcible possession of the rector's pew. He should ' move the non-confirmation of the minute. Mr. JACKSON seconded the motion, but in doing so expresied that he should feel that he was not bound in the vote he should give upon the question. Mr. SODEN could not see, when a rate of 2(.1. in the pound was obliged to be imposed on the parishioners for Church•rates, why the Rector should hold a pew for his servants, in addition to the others occupied by him self and curates. Mr. WILSON was happy to hear that there was some disposition, on the part of the Rector, to come to an amicable arrangement with regard to this and other questions ; undr those circumstances, he would sug gest the propriety of postponing the confirmation until a conference had been bad with Dr. Spry. If, how ever, there was no chance of such an arrangement, he would support the confirmation. Considerable discussion arose, and ultimately it was unanimously resolved—That the confirmation should be adjourned for a week." On Saturday a Coroner's Inquest• was held be fore Mr. Baker, at the Prince of Wales, Barnes-street, St. Luke's, on the body of John Chiles, a waiter, whose death was supposed to have been caused by a blow which he had received from the landlord ( Philpott) of the tap at tached to the Castle and Falcon Tavern, AlderTzte street. It appeared that on the 6th inst. the deceased and several others were in the tap, when some matteis arose with which the landlord was not pleased, whereupon he struck one of the company, took up several of the pots and glasses frorWthe tables, and walked out of the room. Pre sently, however; he returned and turned over one of the ta bles, with the pots which remained upon it. The deceased, upon this, put out the gas, which gave so much rffince to the landlord that he followed him out and struck him with a quart pot a violent blow on the kit ear. A large quan tity of blood quickly flowed. Eventually the deceased was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Ilospital ; erysipelas ensued, which produced the fatal result. The Jury re turned a verdict of Manslaughter, and the Coroner com mitted the prisoner for trial at the Central Criminal Court. ROBBERY AT THE SWAN HOTEL, WELLS. —Wednesday mornin, ' , it was discovered that Mr. J. Tay lor, of Bath, and Mr. Miller, of Shepton Mallet, who were staying at the above hotel, had been robbed, the former of a gold watch, and the Litter of a gold watch and chain and several sovereigns, which must have been taken from their bedrooms before they_ were up. Suspicion soon fell upon a genteel young man who had Leen staying at the inn since Sunday, and who went out about si lotelock in the morn ' ing, leaving a bill of upwards of 21. undischarged, stating he should return to breakfast, but he did not. He was shortly after traced on the Glastonbury road, and a con stable of Taunton took a horse and gig and proceeded thither. Upon arriving at an inn there, he found that a persbc answering the description of the supposed thief had breakfasted, ordered a post-chaise to Taunton, and bad also tAen a Mackintosh with him belonging to a gentleman wl`n WriS staying at the iiin, He was pursued and oven i : .1 ; ;; , , all the is t property v.,as found in session 113 JO METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. The character of Lord Glare, a name well known in the political annals of Ireland towards the close of the last century, forms the subjcct of the " Irish Barrister's Note-Bock" this month. His Lordship's character is carefully drawn, and some spirited extractsare given from his Parliamentary speeches, which, in point of con densed energy are not unworthy of Grattan. In a " Journey Southward from Damascus," Mr. Addison (the author) furnishes us with some animated descrip tions of the stern, solitary scenery in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Tiberias, so remarkable in Holy Writ as the " Sea of Galilee," where our Saviour performed some of his miracles, Seldom is even a fisherman's boat l i now seen on the waters of this expansive lake, " in whose harbours," we are told, " bustling fleets of boats and vessels, whether for peace or war, were once fitted out." Mr. Addison has no ordinary descriptive powers, but he is apt at times to overdo his descriptions. " Wishes" is a pleasing poem, smoothly and elegantly versified. " Habits and Opinions of the Poets" gives a few biographical particulars respecting anttie, whose tame, formal, prose essay " On Truth," in answer to Hume, is already forgotten, but whose poem entitled the " Hermit" every school-boy ha s by h eart. W e sub join an anecdote illustrative of the peculiar idiosyncrasy of the author of the " Minstrel," which is the work by which Beattie is now best known : His dread of go ng to Edinburgh, lest the metaphysical friends of Dwi i Hume should - molest his peace, and almost endanger his life, is absolutely ludicrous. Some notions of seif-importance are blended with this timidity. Beattie was not wi, hout his share of a poet's vanity. We have seen a curious manuscript, a short account of his life, drawn up by one of his friends ; it had been submitted to the poet, and his corrections and additions are amusing. His oLsrvai,ions on his own temper and disposition; the way in which he talks of his juvenile poems (miserable productions they are), as if he contemned them wore than his friends were willing to admit they deserved, and other remarks of - this kind,—betray a self complacency which his enemies would have delighted to have known. Where there is weakness, there is always intolerance; and the manner in which Beattie attacked Churchill, after the latter was in his grave, reflects a sti,iu upon his memory. Fortu nately, the verses are as poor as the spirit in which they are conceived is mean and reprehensible. By nature, the poet of " the Minstrel" was a man of quick and tender sensi bilities. A fine landscape, or music (in which he ,, s e s c a t s ri a . proficient), aff cted him even to tears. He was S° l et, ttfiiown fi , !el with - Garrick in Macbeth, that he hail a and himself over the front scat of the two•sh he set-icy:sly contends for the gr?tesql mixture soliloquy I l ' i ft g u r is e u of comedy cd y and tragedy in Shakspeale (soca a! , t in Macbeth, a mere sop to the fretit.eti-tePrsisoof the gallery. Saakspare himself must have eu'd'torsfiont a dis , dared by the great dramatist to save the ordered head or a broken heart. This is parmaceti for an .ward bruise with a vengeance, Such a physical and mental confirmation does not bid fair for happiness in this vorld, and Beattie was sorely tt led. His latter years were dark and lonely. His wife was in a madhouse; his two accomplished sons died when they had reached an age to stand in the relation of friends and companions t o t h e i r afflicted patent, and be consoled his childless solitude with the reflection—" How could I have borne to see their elegant minds mangled by madness ?" He became moping and peevish, and sought refuge in that fatal opiate, wine, till rkeated attacks of paralysis removed him from a scene in which he had ceased to take interest, and where he had become almost an alien and a s. ranger. & a ttic had very m an y excellent potnts in his cha racter ; hut he was too much addicted to flattering titled and. influential fol ks. He was one of those who can " Min sc arcely stand uprigh t in p resence of a Lord, and was never weary of boasti n g of his acquaintance wit h an English Bishop. As a p oet, though his strel" contains some passages exquisite toe in se n ti ment and melody, he stands n ot among toe first-r a t es, b ut the second-rates. " Curio si t ies of Legal Experience is an ingenious idea, and if carried on with as much skill and talent as it has been commenced, is, we think, not un likely to become popular. " A Night's Adventure is a striking incident highly wrought up ; here and there, perhaps, too much so. Altogether the ❑number is lighter and more varied than usual. FRASER'S MAGA ZI NE. The first article in th e Number before, us, whi c h i s intended to ring as a sort of alarm bell in the ears of the orthodox, is full of the m ost dismal vaticinati ons. Its object is to show that P o p er y is daily—h our l y on the increase ; and that if it p ro g resses much l onger at its present rail-road pace, Prote stantism will, in the co urse of a few years, receive its death-blow. In order to jus ' tify this lugubrious prophecy, the writer adduces the opinions of a vast number of Protestant Clergy men who speak in desponding terms of the numerous conver sions to Catholicism that have taken place within the last si x or seven years. There is clearl y much exagge ration i n man y o f the statements, for not a f ew of the writers, who s e apprehensions out-run th eir discretion, speak rather from what they have heard, than what they know from their own personal experience. But be their stateme n t s exaggerated or not, these orthodox Divines may be assured that their fears are utterly groundless. As a doMinant religion in England Popery is extinct for ever. Her teeth are drawn, her nails - are pared, and ho'neeforth she will never be able to work any very serious 1 amount of mischief. " Horse Catua.citianea" is a capital article, replete with fun, end by no means deficient in good sense. It is an account, half-serious, halr-humo rolls, of some of the most popular, modern flash ballads, and furnishes us with some amusing specimens of the St. Giles's muse. We quote the closing passage of this article, which is written in a rational and temperate spirit : Let us make - one more protest against the prevailing fashions of " the low"—the sham low, that is, which ama teurs delight to write and read, and which is altogether different from the honest, hearty vulgarity, which it pre tends to rep r esent. There is no berm in hearing of th e manners and conversation of dustmen, chirrineysweeps, thieves, and their I:ke: they are teen, and nihil humanum is alien to honest readers and critics. But we may hear too much of them. We may find them, on examination, even to be sham thieves and dustmen ; and the profit to be derived from th e s t u dy o f su ch characters ceases straight way. Here is Mr. Dickens about to blaze upon the world with a new novel may we hear no more of thieves and slang. Here is Mr. Ainsworth gathering up the ribands of Bentley's Miscellany, and driving a triumphant journey with " Jack Sheppard :" we wish it were Jack Anybody elsle. Gentlemen nod men of genius may amuse them selves with such rascals, but not live with them altogether. The public taste, to be sure, lies that way; but these men should teach the public. - At one time the literary fashion run entirely- on Grosvenor- square ; at present it has taken up its abode in St. Giles's. Both fashions are equally strained and unnatural. A novel-writer may occasionally go both to Almack's and Newgate, but such visits should should be exceptions ; and Sir Lytton Bulwer, of whose descriptions both of low life and high life scenes, with the fopperies and pleasantries of each, we may question the authenticity, but cannot deny the merit, has in this instance shown a very wise example to his younger brethren. He uses both materials, but only occasionally; the staple is human nature, which does, to be sure, sometimes form monsters, but the world is not peopled with such : nor should the world of fiction produce them, except in a very small proportion, if it would aim at copying nature. 'We cordially agree with the writer of the above paragraph, that we have had quite enough of thieves and swindlers, and house-breakers, and that it is high time - our lighter literature was devoted to other subjects There is no (a -fitly reason why it hould be always dwelling—as Ins been the case for nearly ten years past —on the two extremes of social life, on the highest and .on the lowest classes. " Rough Sketches Afloat," is an amusing enough tale of its kind, but the taste for these naval stories is fast going by ; and we are not sorry for it. 'The mine has been pretty nearly exhausted by the authors of " Tom Cringle's Log," and " Peter Simple." " Gamester's Worrof Honour" is a terse, pointed piece of versifiertion. " Alchenly" gives a curious and entertaining account of the rise and progress of the Ro sicrucian mythology, which Pope turned to such admir able account in his graceful " Rape of the Lock." In the "'Researches of a Poor Scholar," we meet with some details respecting life in Cambridge, which are manifestly the results of experience, and not drawn from the fancy. " The Paella's Vow" is a tale written with • spirit and energy. " French Parties and Prospects" discusses the present state of political affairs in France. The writer appears to entertain no very high opinion of Louis Philippe, who, - however, is a man of uncommon worldly sagacity, let his enemies say what they will to the contrary. Nevertheless, we fear he is playing a game, the ultimate result of which will be, that he wi be once again sent abroad on his -travels. THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY R. V lETV. This able and judiciously condUcted organ of the Masonic body is well worthy of the encouragement of et-cry member of that ancient and highly distinguished fraternity. Not being ourselves of the initiated, there are many of its articles to which we feel ourselves in competent to do justice ; but every reader of taste, cannot but admire the copious collection of beautiful verses with which the present Number is embellished. The 'following article, entitled "Das Vheme Gericht," is one of the most stirrin. , l in the present number : Few phenomena, either moral or political, have excited more the attention of the philosopher than the Secret Tri bunal of Germany, bettor known by its proper appellation of Das Vheme Gericbt. At this remote period of time, it is impossible clearly to decide whether its origin was of a lasenic character or otherwise ; and it is certain that many of the ceremonies and rites by which its proceedings were characterised, approached to the ritual of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order, but as that resemblance fails to identify itself with the landmarks of Freemasonry, the truth must still remain a matter,of speculation. It is far from:being our object in this sketch to justify all the proceedings of the free-judges: like all human autho rities they were subject to the influence of passions, preju dices, and feelings, which are inseparable from our nature. Our object is merely to show its mysterious power, the perfect despotism which it exercised over the actions, its members compelling the father to denounce the son—the brother to take the brother's life—if sentence were once passed by the banded judges. In forming our opinion of the Institution, much should be allowed for the peculiar state of the German Empire at the period when the \Theme flourished. Feudalism in all is anti social terrors existed; the warlike nobility of the age claimed a jurisdiction in life and property over their vassals, and were each sovereigns on their own estates. The Vheme, like most abuses, grew out of the social disor. ganizatiou of the country ; outlived the necessity which • called it into existence, and, like most phcenomena, has left nasuccessof to the world. It was on a cold stormy night, in the month of Decem ber, towards the close of the fourteenth century, that a traveller, mounted upon a jaded steed, endeavoured to trace the bridle path through the forest of Blitzfield, widch skirts the borders of Suabia. Although the minivar-lined cloak, golden chain, and gilt spurs of the horseman de noted that his rank was that of a noble, yet his o'er-soiled dress, worn steed, and look of alarm atthe least sound made by the rustling of the trees as the roused fawn bounded from its cover at the approach of his horse's steps, at once proclaimed hiro a hunted fugitive. " I cannot have mistaken tile track l" exclaimed Graf Ul rich, for such was the name and rank of the tra- yeller. " Years have elapsed sloe° I hunted in the green woods of B!itzfield, btit memory has treasured too well the scenes of my child fhw.d, to permit me to be mistaken. llh !hal" he conti. nued, as au ancient cress, half bedded in ivy and moss, met his view, " lam right ; there stands the Abbot's cross. Thank Heaven ! I are out of his jurisiietion, and .iafe in the lands of my cousin, Herman of Wolfenstein. The priest bears no great love to our house, and would scarcely have risked the ban of the empire to have afforded me shelter." Thus communing with himself, the proscribed man once more urged his half wOin steed along the narrow and pre cipitous path which led to the refuge from which he had for to many years been a wanderer. Some doubts of the kind of reception he was likely to meet with from the relative whose hospitality and protection he was about to claim, evidently oppressed hire ; fur at intervals the. following disjointed soliloquy might have been overheard from him " Will Wol&nstein protect me I" muttered Ulrich, " he bath a kind heart, and I am sure he loves me--Aid," bit terl added the unhappy man, as the recollections of the crimes and oppressions which had divided him from his ones! chosen friend, rushed upon his soul_._ , ‘ did l ove me And why not still? My hand may be red. but it bath ever been faithful to him. I may have braved the ban of the free judges, hut have never broken faith with him. Shelter . and security I may at least rely upon." Four persons were seated in the guest chamber of Wol fenstein: its young and noble owner, and three travellers, whose staid and grave demeanour, sober costume, and se ' vere countenances, would, to the eye of the physiognomists, have proclaimed them to be magistrates, or persons clothed in the terrors of authority. You have heard the will of the tribunal !" exclaimed the Elder. " Count of Welfenstein—your answer." " I cannot do it r exclaimed their young host, starting from his seat, his jewelled breast heaving with the power ful emotions by which he was distracted. " Ulrich was— is my friend, for in the hour of his danger I feel that he is dear to me as ever ; and-you ask that I should deliver him into the hands of the Vheme. I cannot do it." " lie is a murderer," drily iterated the first speaker, " under the ban of the Empire and the Most Holy Vh.:.rne." He is my friend," exclaimed Wolfenstein, "and des pite his follies—nay, crimes, if you will," added the young Noble, who saw that the stern bro:her %; as about to inter rupt him. "To rue he bath ever been a kind one. Cursed be the hour in which I became your associate—in which I bartered my liberty or your empty honours I I renounce your band of blood, and claim my liberty : Ulrich is my friend, and shall not perish." " Count of Wolfenstein I" exclaimed the elder, rising with dignity, " I can feel for the agony of the friend, but must still perform my duty. Resistance on your part were as mad as useless. Once let me proclaim my rank as Chief of the Free-Judges, not one of all your followers would raise a ' sword in your defence, even should I demand your life instead of your degenerate cousin's. My retinue, consisting of sworn brothers, are rea•ly to perform my will. Painful as our mutual position is, it is the result of circumstances over which we have no controul. Perform your duty, as lam resolute in the execution of mine." A horn sounded at the gate of the castle as the speaker concluded; the seneschal, in a few moments afterwards en- tered the apartment and announced the arrival of Count Ulrich. " Your answer," demanded the Chief•of Vherc, drawing forth the mysterious abacus, the ensign of his authority, as he spoke. " Do you as you please," murmured the Count of \Vol fenstein. "I am unable to dispute my destiny; but must it be this very night, and here, in these halls where he hath ever been a welcome, honoured guest. _ " This very hour," answered the stern Judge. "Wouldst thou that he should first break thy bread and drink of thy cup? and then --" " Not for worlds I" interrupted the Count of Wolfen stein. " Let me not add the sin of violated hospitality to blood. The chamber shall be prepared, the victim sum moned." " Herman terries long," muttered the weary Ulrich, as he strode impatiently up and down the wide hall of his cousin's castle. " I was not used to meet so slight at tendance. No matter," he added, bitterly, "I was then the courted and powerful Ulrich. The first of Suabia's Nobles. What am I? A hunted outlaw—the empire's ban upon mc." Two servitors, plainly dressed, bearing torches of the mountain pine, entered the hall, and informed him that they were commanded to attend him to the presence of his friend. " 'Tis strange," muttered Ulrich, glancing suspiciously at their habits, "such are not the liveries of Wolfenstein. Are you the born vassals of my cousin," he asked, " or merely casual servitors?" " We are the attendants of his guest, who sojourns with him." The men threw open the doors of the hall as they spoke, and Ulrich followed them from the apartment. On entering the room to which he %las conducted. Ul rich, bold as he was by nature, started. He beheld the black banner of the Vlieme planted in the centre of the room, and twelve judges, each armed with a cord ready to execute the fatal decree already pronounced. He felt that his hour was come. " Brothers of the Vheine..!" he cried, "I am prepared to die=no wish to avoid the penalty I have incurred; but I am noble—the dagger, not the cord. Be satisfied with blood—add not dishonour." " The Vheme 1" exclaimed a masked judge, who, un armed, stood before the banner, "extends not its mercy to those who fly from its justice, or at raign its authority ; for such it decrees the cord and shame." At this moment the judges seized their victim, and one placed the fatal.noose upon his neck, " Wolfenstein?" frantically exclaimed the struggling " is this thy friendship?" " Receive its gift !" exclaimed the Judge nearest to him, et the same time plunging a dagger in his heart. "It frees thee from dishonour." The speaker raised his mask es be spoke. The dying man seized the band of his executioner and friend, and pressed it to his lips. " Thanks, thanks !" he murmured. " I die no felon's death. The band of Wolfcnstein has saved my honour I" NEW 1110-V TH.4 Y 113.4GAZINE. " Odd People," by the Editor, reminds us of one of his most sparkling tales in the first series of " Sayings and Doings." The introductory remarks lipon practi cal jokes, in particular, ---a theme on which Mr. Hook is every way qualified to live an opi n i on — an d on " a N o bl e Earl not many years dead," who, it seems, was famous for this species of rough drollery, will afford the rea der abundant amusement. We wish Mr. Hook would abjure sentiment and stick to humour ; we can no more fancy him playing tle pathetic, than we can fancy Lis ton doing tragedy. " Ataraxia" is an elegant poem, from the pen of Mrs. Norton, which would have been still better, had she infused a little more terse vigor into it. " More Leaves from Mr. Keeley's Journal" might have been torn out without the slighest detriment to his " Log." They are mere threadbare common-place. Captain Marryat's " Phantom Ship" flags a little this month. The dialogue portion is too much spun out. The " Mayor of Hole-cum-Corner" is by Jerrold. It is full of life and spirit, and contains, as usual, some piquant touches of sarcasm—the mere relishing, because they appear to have escaped the author quite uncon sciously. The " P:ince of Darkness" is a sprightly trifle well worked out. We recognise in it the mate rials of a good farce. " Poor Relations" is one of those tales whose very title explains its character. The author is a gentleman named Ho7,7ard, to whom the public is already indebted for ninny spitited naval sto ries. He here shows that he is quite aimuch at home on land, as at sea. " B oar H unt i ng by the " Old Forest-ranger," who has written several spirited and sportsmanlike articles for this periodical, is worth read- ing, but it is by no means the writer's best essay of the sort. " Who can the Dear One be ?" is a humorous ttic poem, of a mock-sentimental character. In ems- ing our notice of the " New Monthly," we must not omit to mention the Critical Notices of New Publica- lions, the majority of which are ably and impartially written. The Reviewer, however, sadly overates Lewis, when, in reference to his romance of the " Monk," he says, " his first and great work was a wonder in itself, and a fertile worker of wonder in a whole nation." Now, the only thing wonderful about the " Monk" was, that with such limited genius as it displayed, it should have achieved such uncommon po pularity. It evinced no more imagination then Horace Walpole's " Castle of Otranto ;" and as for passion or sentiment, it everywhere substituted for them the grossest and most bare-faced obscenity. But the age in which it appeared, was one remarkable for its sterility, when a Hayley.was considered a superior poet, and a Pratt, a superior novelist. This, we take for granted, is the clue to the extraordinary _popularity of the " Monk.' We quote from the tale of " Poor Relations " the in troductory portions, which are bottomed on truth, though the colouring is somewhat overcharged : " Poor relations I" The vermin The unendurable misery —the worse than the worst of evils—worse than physical pain !—Poverty ! What is it ? Nothing very bad in the abstract, indeed. As a nursing mother to virtue, it is a positive, as the actual mother of invention, an absolute good. Moreover, it affords us so fine a scope for being sententious, and is such a beautiful peg whereon to hang some of our best aphorisms,---it is a valuable adjunt to poe. try, and a staple in moral essay—a very essential in homi lies and sermons. Poverty, indeed the more I consider it, the more cause I see to be enamoured with it; that is to say, when viewed at a proper distance. Contemplated in imagination only, one may entertain it as intimately connected with our own identity, for a few minutes; but, as allied to a relation, it i the very essence of all that is nauseous—the very nostrils rebel against it.. A poor relation I the frigorific—have not the whole spe cies humanity enough among them to take pity upon the race of mankind, and disappear from the face of the earth, by jumping down each other's throats? We request, we entreat, we implore them, by all that is dear to ourselves, ¶ .O thick upon some certain and expeditious method of self extirpation : have they no compassion, no commisseration, no feeling? What is a poor relation? A contradiction, and, at the same time a union of miseries,—a proud humility,—a char. tered beggar,—a supplicant robber,—an assassin that you ca , mot hang,—a reptile that you may tread upon, but which you cannot destroy. He is of your blood, and it curdles at him ; really, he is Eomething without the pale of humanity, and yet, the audacious creeping thing claims to be admitted within your family circle : he not only dares to breathe and live, but actually expects to do so under your very nose. It is too much I A poor relation is the one bitter drop in the cup of life that causes .to over. ;floss in enguish. Suicide may be justifiable, since murder. may not be legally done upon a poor relation. THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. The first article will be read wit!, more avidity-than profit, even by Roman Catholics. It is a account of . _ the conversion of the Hon. and Rev. George Spencer, to the Catholic faith, written at Rome in 1831, by the . Rev. Convert, at the request of the Bishop of Oppido, an Italian Prelate of some note. We cannot say that its perusal has tended to impress us with a very high le=t cot for the rationat:ve faculties of the Hor. and Rev. Gentleman, though it is conclusive as to the simplicityof his life, and the correctness of his motives. The article on Lord Durham's Canadian Report is replete with in formation respecting the actual condition of the habilans and the state of the Catholic rcligion,in the Lower Pro. vince. " 80-Peep" has more humour than common tense. His strictures on the Irish Poor Law Bill are only too seriously put to be exceedingly laughable. 'File reports of the proceedings at the Catholic Insti tute are of no interest save to Catholic readers. 'f his periodical is respectably conducted, but as the only monthly organ of the Catholic body in falls short of our expectations. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. The story of Hassan Banou and Bahrain Gour will excite the desire of all who read it to extend their ac quaintance with the fabulous literature of Persia. If the library of the East India Company abound in such works, translations of them should meet with na tknal encouragement, and we are confident they wou!d arrive at a high and very remunerating degree of popu larity if the experiment of their publication were fairly m,de. Apologues and Popular Tales," and the "Mackenzie Manuscripts" abound in well-selecte fragments from the 'legendary lore of the East. The account of Aden, the new British settlement midway between Bombay and Suez, is graphic and interesting, but it is too long and too minute for quotation in our columns. The mass of miscellaneous intelligence from all parts of the East is exceedingly copious and wall arranged. UNITED SERVICE JOUI , ?NAL. Among the usual articles on naval an d military affairs, there this in this number one of a different sort, entitled " The last Moments of Prince Talleyrand," by an Eye witness, drawn up evidently by one intimately acquainted with the habits and character of that illustrious states men, who for fifty years, and under every dynasty, had the fi st place among the councillors of France. The paper, short as it is, contains a great deal of information relative not only to the character of the Prl nee, but of ti6ose with whom he had intercourse, and among others 1 of the present ruler of Fra 6!. The account of the visit of the King to Talleyrand on the morning of his death, the 17th of May, 1838, will not raise him in pub lic estimation either as regards his feelings, sincerity, or gratitude. Louis Philippe proceeded according to appointment, accompanied by his sister to the hotel in the Rue St. Florentin, at an early hour. The Prince had fallen into a slumber, or rather lethargy from which he was with difficulty aroused. Oa the approach of the King he was lifted from his reclining position, and seated on the edge of the bed in his old faded dressing gown. His Majesty was the first to break silence. "It would be difficult," says the eye-witness, " to define the expression which passed across his features as be con templated what might be called the setting of his guiding star." " I am sorry, Prince, to see you suffering so much," said he, in a low tremulous voice, rendered' almost inaudible by extreme emotion. " Siro, you have come to witness the sufferings of a dying man, and those who love him can have but one wish—that of seeing them shortly at an end." " The royal visit," continues the writer, " like all royal visits of an unpleasant na ture, was of the shortest duration possible. It was evi.- dent that his Majesty felt it to be an irksome moment, and that he was at a loss what countenance to assume, and after uttering some expressions of consolation be arose to take his leave, but too visibly pleased that the self-imposed task was at an end." I must confess that I was grievously disappointed in the anticipations which I had formed of this visit. I had looked upon it as the farewell of the safely-landed voyager (landed, too, amid storm and tempest,) to the wise and careful pilot who had steered him skilfully through reek and breaker, and now pushed off, alone, amid the darkness, to be seen no more. But no : there was the hurry and impatience of one to whom the scene was painful ; and that it was painful, who can doubt? There was ; too, that evident secret self applause, in the performance of an irksome duty; but not the slightest expression of any one sentiment of friendship or attachment, such as I had imagined to have bound these two men together. A friend of mine—a man of great sense and diseernmert —to whom I made this e,b scrvatian, remarked drily, " It is plain that his Majesty has no fear to see him die ; but wait a little while, and we shall see that he will have regiet enough that he sbeuld be dead I" EVENING EDITION. I Perhaps that "little while" has elapsed. and 1_, , ),n is I Phitppe regrets the loss of a trusty councillor so fitted to extrieate him from t h e numerous diEe-.::: ~!_. in which he has, by his bead-strong and selfish poli,v, involved himself. The editor, after advertin g to th e unsatisfactory state of the Canadas, the West lodies, the dispute about the American boundary line, the Y . w. in India, &c., in rather a gloomy mood, concludes w.tn this just observation We have saii enough to show the critical situation of the affairs, both foreign and doMestic, of this country ; f.r.,:i, without bating cpartiele of our habitual confidence in the power and resources of England, we appeal to her Cc_ vernors to pat them forth without further stint or evasion ; the hour is arrived when the exigencies of the Sia',c can no longer be trifled with. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY Boa's popular tale of " Oliver Twist" is to a close this month ; but as we have already noticed the work in its republished form of three volumes, we need make no further mention of it liere than just to. olisen c, en passant, that it deserves the reception it has tr.:A with from the public. Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard' goes on snimmingly, and would be still better—tint in to say, make a more decided impression on the readers mind, were the author to take less evident pains v;i7l) some of his descriptions, and more especially his (lin lo;rufs. Too much eltlborateness is as haz;!.rdens to ti:o effect of a story, as too much carelessness. Mr. Diekena just hits the happy mean, and consequently carries all lye-fore him. " Colin Clink," a • now work of fiction by a writer who signs himself " Mask," sets out with meth spirit and liveliness. If we mistake not, it will be highly successful. for the writer appears to have got hold of some likely materials, and to be resolved to turn them to account. The sketch of Mistress Clink's bevel ;of her one "diminutive housemaid," Fanny Woodruff, who ; " presented th e m i n i ature p i cture, not of what childhood I is, a bright and jo ful outburst of fresh life into a new world of strange attractive things, but of a little pale, solemn thing; looking as though it had suddenly fallen, heart-checked, upon a world of evil ;" of the jovial, blus tering . Squire Lupton, and his_roguish steward, Lbrig staff ;—these several sketches display an acute mind vigor ous insight into character. We sejoin a portion of an interview that takes place between the Squire and leis Steward, just premising, by the way, that the form er h as ?. saddled the latt e r w ith the delicate and. difficult task of prevailing on an unmir. icd young woman, to swear her illegitimate child, of which the Squire is cvidenlly father, tQ any one rather than to him. Ur4nek.iii, for the'iStowiird, the unwedded mothe r gives hith the honors of paternity, on hearing which he rushes out of the eve:.. see's office, foaming with rage, and on his road horny, I encounters the Squire on horseback, when the following dialogue ensues : Well, Longstaff," said he, as he carelessly twirled the • lash of his whip. upon its stock like a horizontal twee':. " Low is it ended? I suppose you have given a son Ln , ii heir to somebody or other?" " It has turned out a deal worse job than I expected," _dolefully observed the steward. " Air I—a bad job is it ?" " Very, Sir, very I" sighed the unfortunate cro-betwen. " Why—what—w ou ld n 't s h e b e persuaded,'Longstaff?" I " Oh, yea," replied the steward, with ; kdeep curse on Mrs. Clink, " she took all I was authorised to give her.—" " And gave me the whelp in exchange, eh?" added the squire. " No, Sir, no,"—(he inly wished she had)—" wori.o than that, Sir—a great deal worse." " Worse I " earnestly exclaimed Mr. Lupton ; " that impossible. Have you got him, thou?" Mr. Longsti.4 cast eyes to the ground,. arranp,:ed 177 e shoe-tie of his left foot with the toe of Lis Fight ; , and v - Ith a dolorous face, drawn nearly as long as his faintly drawled out, " " I have, Sir I" Mr. Lupton bur s t i n t o - a fit o fl aug , . ,t -7o whole minutes, blew out his >reath'-in not unlike an autumn blast through an-ow:Apar' kry-hui, , ; and then dashed away, eracLieg long as he could he hoard.' •-• • - - Dang the woman "" exclaimed - t:le stcv - val‘kl, ar began to move off the ground homewards, " I It;A: and her barn out of house and home to.nigllt, or otov be Somehow or other, however, be could not screw up,sue7 cient courage to carry. him immediately home, ::_d, as it were, into the very jaws of Mrs. Xneasina Loc,hsi , ;ic: ii therefore crossed the corners of two other. welds. m g .:in, 4.0 to the high road, and walked into the Cock and 13ottie, only inn in Brarnleigh, with the intention of sircrigtherli.g, his shaken nerves with a respectable potation of braudy water. On entering he thought the landlady— wija whom he h::‘ , ? always been upon the best of terms, not only because cs his situation, but also of his excellent moral character.— looked more then usually distant with him. The lord, too, cast an eye at him, as much as to say, .6 I Mr. Langstaff, you have had something unpleasant mornrig ?" While the maid, who formerly used to smile very prtttily ahenever he appeared, actually brushed by him as be went down the passage, as though she thought he was a better men half a mile off than hest: ;can two such walls. As he passed the kitchen-door everybody wthiu turned to look at him; and, %then he got into the palL.--ur, be beheld four of the village farmers rouid the of whom were smiling, evidently at something very 'fumy. Mr. Longst,S, by that peculiar instinct which usually attends men in suspicious circumstances, knew, as well if I:e_h,:d been told, that it was at him. " Vincent Eden" gives us some highly-coloured cictails of py life in Oxford. The portrait:of the Proctor, Dr. Burnaby B:rch, is droll enough, but too much earica'- tured, In the off-hand article entitled " A 8.111 ar the Tuileries," we meet with a graphic description of the person:and . manners of Lord Byron's favourite mistress the Countess -Gait:scion. What a pity that a poet's idol slonld be " short. and thickish in form," and titat iu r hair sbotdcL he " horridly approaching to red F' T ronnct to the "Memory of the Poets" is by i\L. gent Tahburd. It is worthy of his classic pen, lieu, or the Conspiracy," is a quizzical, paraphrase of Sir Lytton Bulsver's popular drama that name. " R MONTHLY LA TV MA GA ZINE, A well-conducted periodical, appealing, boy: ever, class, rather than to the generality, of roa(I,:-s. - memoir of tl:e late Lord Stowell is pet.nA ru a St_. a _ pulously impartial spirit, and does no inore th:to to his long and arrluctis labours in the Admiralty Court, The •‘ House of Commons" is a Tory diatrib, in v..117ca the lash is laid without morey• on O'Cot;n !11. TI: are the only two remarkable articles in the Numb,,:,.. DEARDE A" S MISCELLANY. Ti:is is a provinci4l Magazine, being printc(lrncl dat Not‘iegbnm. It ccntains some :ales, en(l poems or no mean excellence. O six the " Clerk ( f Winston" is the most favourable in the Number before us. TEE SPORTSMAN. A Nagazine whone most noticeable features engravin, which arc always earefery exo.cnt. , (l. " C - therino." is a spirited portrait of. a rest.-hors::, the party of a gentleman named Barron. URE'S DICTIONARY OF ART.'''. 21"..:Xl: FACTURES, AND .2111N.L1.3. PORTS VIII., IX., X. Longman, London, 1839. _ _ - - For the practical, eve y.day ptirpos:2s of the can recommend this work as unique of its sort ; for is scarcely a subject in science, mechanics, or art, but ti. is,.'. is elucidated with ski! and clearness, in a stylo ably free from pedantic or tcchnioal allusions. Ure, as he shows in every page, is a careful editor, -wh.) spares neiticr trouble nur research in the task of ex planation ; h:s account of " Pit coal"—which is a tops of considerable interest at the present moment ; of :11c " Manufacture of Paper ;" of " Phosphorus ;" and of " Rope- ma ki ng ," may b e sa id, w i t h out muc h exaggera tion, to exhaust the subject. Each part has the aci':::%- tage of being embellished wi!li several ingenious cuts, one of tvhich, illustrative of the strain-er:iy,n,: used for the purpose of printing, is executed with sin gular neatness and accuracy. The Mork, we suppc,o c , i s now completed, and will enable the purchaser, co full and various are its contents, to dispense with any of the more bulky Encyclopaedias. MICHAEL ARMSTRONG.—No. H. This Is a far more amusing number than its prol2- cessor, and contains more than one clever, rapid, di.- logue, as fell of life as the best in Nicholas Nicklebv. But Mrs. Trollope, if she really desire to effect good, must beware of her besetting sin—exaggerating. VwTe can allow of this in a mere work of fiction, such as the " Widow Barnaby ;" but in a story meant in stib-r earnest to illustrate the evils of the factory Fystem, there must he no gross caricature --no tampering will] truth ; otherwise more harm than good will be done 16 the cause wichh the authoress prof& sscs to have so much et heart. We hear that " Michael Armstrong-" is fa=t riing in favour with the public ; we are glad of it. --- - ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE, Among the articles of general interest in- the, pr,,scit Number of this well-conducted periodical, worthy of particular notice, are " The British Connection with Idolatry in India," " Export of IndiA Labourers to the Colonies," and " Lord Auckland c.nl Sir Fleury None of them, however, are above m ediocrity either in style or matter. The Indian News, con'Pi!''ti tr , '% l Aaiitic Neivspapers and other Jottrnals, is wcil To those who have an appetite fur descriptions Of horrible in savage life, the " History of the African Chief Chaka, surnamed the Bloody," will prove a de lectable repast. SPORTING REVIEW. st,,hseelbjeosnt, failsard tnoioestonitlaa;no..:::.:;:c 1 This Magazine, which' is under the aye •,ct , ;l !:,,-; ..".. 1 intendencLo i f t :: sporting or more articles of interest to the general reader. 01! i such a sort are the " Florence, and Florentine Spolt- 1 o N f ''ln th r e cd d : : iog," the " RhaPsody on Iteticulation," and th e ~ {.rt. 1 tern of a Modern Fox-hunter." which constitute the A i chief recommendations of the Number before us. '''' • i plates, of which there are two, are well engraved, : .:, i tienlarly the one entitled the " Stricken Mallard" ‘.., 1, displays much l ife and ener gy . The artist is Archer. .1 — i THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAzEt; ' TM ho review of Mr. entgomery Martin's num .::.- works on Colonial Statistics, Iliwhich tl ' , %I_ _.ll nul.iLe:. ='-‘4k