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14:NING "VDITION MAGAZANE DAY Ct OD' .6 MAGAZINE. The S panish eir_Arriatic poet " Calderon"—por tious of whose plays Shelley has translated—forms th e subject 0( the first Paper in this Number. The crltici.sm is ?penned. in an earnes t an d l earne d sp i r i t , as be fits tlve therm!. Though scarcely known, ex ce); by name, to the majority o f E ng li s h rea d ers , Cal deg.( Jai was one of the most popular dramatists that ,c,f,ain ever produced. His fertility, too, was extrr oruirary. He wrote not l e ss than 6' one hon dre ./ mil twenty plays," and continued writing with ir ACRE-mired powers of fancy up to the period of his dmtl-:, which took plaCe in his eighty-sixth year. here is another striking proof that imagination does not necessarily decline with the progress of age, as Is so generally supposed. For our own part, we believe that, if carefully tended to, it. burns bright to the last. Sophocles wrote one of his best tragedies --the CEdipus Coloneus—when he was near eighty years old ; Rabelais was past seventy when he pennel his immortal " Voyageto the Holy Bottle;" Defoe was about the same age when he published his ilea work of fiction, Robinson Crusoe ; ditto, Voltaire, when he conceived the idea of his " L'itgenu ;" Burke's most imaginative pro ductior, his " Letter to two Noble Lords," was his lag, written but a year or two before his death ; Johnson was in his seventy-third year when he so Ably criticised the English Poets ; and we all know ;hat Dryden and Cowper were both far ad vaneec in the autumn of life, before they gave token of the poetic vigour that was in them. On mature reflection, we dare say we could add greatly to this Ist ; but the above, which have occurred torus on tie spur of the moment—and to which we may nowadd Calderon—are quite sufficient to prove that fie powers of the imagination do not necessa rily &cline with the advance of age, but, on the contras, arc independent of it. Speaking inci dentals of some of our English playwrights' im proboilities, the writer observes, " a marriage in a Inas:, which is a result not uncommon in Shad viteli, and we rather think in Dryden, is a pitch of imP%-rhability surpassing any of the dramatic pos lulttes of the Spanish stage." We know nothing of Shadwell, and therefore cannot say whether or he brings about his denouements by the means of . mask ; but we rather think that the writer's veollection has misled him, and that he means Ccigreve, instead of Shadwell, the plot of whose " teld Bachelor" is brought about by a double ma.riage in masks, in the instances of Sir Joseph W ttol and Captain :13Itiffe. "On Agriculture" somewhat dry, and even repulsive, title, but thearticle itself is fuli of fun and arch drollery. A eattious old gentleman thus expostulates with his I%lio has suddenly taken it into his head to tun farmer : You cannot surely have been delud e d b y poetry— by your reading Virgil and Theocritus and Hesiod. To] don't imagine either would have hr, n dl e d a p l oug h , i but i n verse . Eclogues and G,!orgiv s indeed! In the I tomer the very shepherds are mice' cables, all lamenta tiot and regrets, and richly deserv e the stick they con teal for ; and in the latter the P. oet does not even colo -114! his Australia with respecta' o l e people. The pastor Arstseus would disgrace any man's parish, running after etot her man's wife, and bair, g the death of her. Here *to a pretty fellow to pop. his nose into a bee-hive, and (se've him right) fio'..i his colony defunct. But tile poet was sick of his !Apprenticeship to ploughmakiug, eac was glad to plunge into episode and fable. And, in toith, the fabulous part of ancient rusticity is pleasant eomgh, when there w !as a sort of golden age, and no tases, and shepherds had nothing to do but pipe, and e3mph s to dance—tog now we must " pay the piper"— !Al who now-a-days. eve: sees Chawbacon like Alphesi kits (lancing the " satyrs ?" The only tune the Farmer !delighteth to dance to, is " Money in both pockets"— wish he may got it !--for "he danceth well to whom Fortun e pipeth.' The country pipes now-a-days are terribly fusticated with tobacco, not the bacca, hederm, Iltd Awe. And can my friend—my classical, my taste ful friend—jog 'Nall bumpkins to fairs ? Can he bear to fumigate awr ay all his better ideas in the Cacus dens of " entertd.r.ment for man and horse, his damp clothes Seekin g .1 o f stall, stable, wool, and the weed. " You 1,0 bee" reading about " the Divine Swineherd," and want to ...go the whole hog." It won't do—it is alto tether a mistake—you are not " natural born and bred 1° i i _ t :' 'lou will be cheated by your servants, laughed kt 'I y our neighbours, and, worst of all, detested by Norselif, before you have been initiated—if initiated You ever are. Your sheep will die of the rot, and your hay w ill be burned in the making—you have no Pan as the " ovium custos," and so you will be out of the frying -I!ell'into th e fi re . Y our catt l e w ill go astray, and your 'tit hbours bring actions of trespass against you. p ''' Lector on Lay Q u ibbli ng " i s j us t a passa bl e N 4 P e r. We cannot say more for it. " Colonial ,„ e glect, and Foreign Propitiation," is a statistic C„, 4 ,Y strongly tainted with the usual political pre '',4l ces of - Maga. " Queen Argenis" shows a ." dy power of versification—" Milton," thought, 4 P.d n o slight book-knowledge. The writer, ho w _ ! ver, we think, overrates Lucan, whose " Pharsalia" t % not — so far as our memory serves us— remark : ble for " an exhibition of the moral sublime." ' l ie fully agree w ith the observation that " Para- Ilse L ost " i s " su bli me b y i ts prevailing character;" ' l3ll t not that it is " continuou,ly sublime." The 11: 'alogues in Heaven where " God, the Father, Rum s a school divine," and the descriptions of the tattles there between the angelic and infernal -Cowers, are daring and elaborate, but they are not !sublime, because, instead of fillin -, or exalting the ' i magination. they impress it with a sense of the l i bet's failure. It is a thousand pities that Milton's 1 'erse has eclipsed the ,plendour of his prose. Few i, 4 0 w re a d t h e l atter wor k s, yet t h e personification of il eal, an d the glowing description of the Long Par alrient, in the " Apology for amectyil muus ;" Ili lie nobl e prayer w hi ch conc l udes, the treatise on the Reform a t ion ; an d t h e l o f t y sarcastic allusion to k i ng Charles's " Prayers ' an d Tears," in th e I konoclastes," are, in their way, fully equal to t I Y tiling in " P ara di se L ost ." " T en th ousan d a I e ar" gives a spirited s k e t c h o f c haracter i n th e I ,: er son of M t s. Squ. a ll op , an un p a id landl a dy— a e - N 4llB remarkabl,e for its ferocious properties. 1 11 ; ji nP , er, Rer.l and Reputed," blends learning with nine in a, very relishing style. IN NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, p ri net, is an excellent half-length portrait of N. 'lc'.: Albert of Saxe Cobourg-Gotha in this r 4 rnber, whose countenance evinces much intelli ce combined with goo d nature . H e wea ls no Eskers, we . perceive ; and we hope his example ."I have the effect of curtailing those preposterous masse s of hair with which our would-be fine gen ineTen garnish their faces, in order that they may ,-„, 4 n " fashionable. A moderate whisker is well R - :,"gh, but an acre of hair, such as is now worn, - a man the exact appearance of a middle-aged Vt, " Foreign Morality" is a sprightly story, lt h rath er a d o l e f u l d e nouement, introduced by 8 " l e comments on the English character, made by I Yrench w r i ter i n t h e year 1742, and which Mr. &'ook quotes, for the purpose of showing how Completely our domestic habits differ from those of our ancestors a century ago. We quote one or two of these curious comments :—" The English people," says M. Murat, "are not imbued with any blind respect for the aristocracy. Wine, women, an d gaming, const i tute their pleasures. Wine they love, and women—but not such women as are wor thi e st to be loved. They cons i der the Power of drinking to excess a great merit, in asmuch as it enables them to continue their excesses the longer; and when they have carried t hem to their full extent, they sally forth w i th a de termination to kill the first man they meet in t h e str eets, and they kill accordingly. The English wo men are remarkably susceptible, and when they fa ll .. in love, it is a very serious matter." Love , 'Y have been " a very serious matter" a hundred /ears ago , but it is a mere joke now—or rather, a Then 4n siess affair of pounds, shillings, and pence. sentiment of the passion is extinct among us, O r exists only in love tales, which, by the bye, are g o ing t fast out of date. For this we may thank the ‘.Be,"oo:master, and the heavy pressure of taxation, ""ieh leaves us no time for the cultivation of senti- Ile n t . " A Charade" is a graceful piece of versifi atint,, 1 We quote it accordingly : There kneels in holy St. Cuthbert's aisles, I ' l o 3olier father than Father Giles; Matins or vespers, it matters not which, , vile S ever there, like a saint in his niche ; ' ll °'ning and midnight, his missal he reads, Mitnight and morning he tells his beads! , so ile spread the fame of the holy man, ,v..ioerful his blessing, and potent his ban, OA the marvels his piety works, ;-, 1 4 unbelieving heathens, and infidel Turks ; .I,u: strangest of all is the power he is given, -tonne maidens' hearts to the service of heaven ! St. Llmla's prioress comes to-day, tt holy S t . C ut hb ert ' s shr i ne to pray ; , o h- com es w ith an offering — s h e comes with a prayer— • she l ea d s t o t h e s i tar the Lady Clare. --tttv, mitbrr ! lv,,w &lir a rp-i,,' To leave the world to; a clulAer's shade I 1111.— ' - he yields to. morrow her gold and lands, For the church's use—to the church's bands. She quits the world with its pleasures and wiles, And to-day she confesses to Father Giles; Slight is the penance, I ween, may atone, • For all of sin she hath ever known I Daughter ! since last thou bast kneeled for grace, Heth peace in thy heart found a dwelling-place? Frem thy heart hest thou banished each worldly thought, Save thy spirit's weal, hast thou pined tor nought ?" Moist is her kerchief, and drooped her head, But " my first" is all poor Clara said. Daughter ! thy cheek bath grown pale and thin,‘, Is thy spirit chastened and pure within? Gone from thy glance is its ancient mirth, Are thy sighs for heaven, or thy tears for earth ?" For earth are her sighs —yet pane Clara knows " My second," no more than the Spring's first rose. Why doth he tremble that holy man, At eye so sunk, and at cheek so wan ? Less bitter the tears—less burning the sighs, Heaven asks from her willing votaries ; Alas; when "my all " weeps as Clara weeps, Holy Church gaineth more than she ofttimes keeps St. Ursula's altar was dressed that day, The maiden was there, but the monk was away; St. Ursula's altar was lighted that night, There wore murmurs of sacrilege—wh spers of flight, And legends tell us that Father Giles, Was never seen more in St. Cuthbert's aisles I " Christmas" is a well-timed essay, full of social allusions to the tire-side, and the festive habits of the season. But, alas, Christmas too, like love, is going out of fashion, and the only convincing proofs we have of its arrival, are to be found in the prodi gious masses of fat yellow beef that hang up in the butchers shops. The writer discourses of the twelfth-cake, the mistletoe, and the wassail bowl, in a very lively manner ; but Washington Irving has already sa id a ll t h at i s to be sa id on this' tempting theme. " Madelina" is an agreeable prose tale from the prolific pen of the Countess of Blessington. In the biographical sketch of the Author of " Douglas," we find some entertaining anecdotes of Prince Charles Ed ward—the hero of so many favourite Scottish bal lads--extracted from Home's H story of the Re bellion of Forty-five. Mrs. Trollope's " Widow Married" brings out Mrs. O'Donaghough's daugh ter Patty in very capital style. That precocious young lady is just about commencing her first decided flirtation, and we feel assured that her mode of con ducting it will do no discredit to her mother. We have, however, rather too much of the Widow Bar naby. She is thrust into the foreground on every occasion. " Nothing Certain in Life" is a smart, knowing, desultory essay, by Mr. Latnan Blanchard, who writes pointed prose with great ap parent readiness. The '' Life and Times of Peter Prigains" contains an amusing sketch of an absent man, who, of course, is always committing outrage ous blunders. The most absent man we ever read of, was the celebrated Dr. Adam Smith, who once took off his hat to a cow, mistaking her for a Chris tian. The stDry of Sir Isaac Newton, who seized his " sweet-heart's" hand, and instead of fervently pressing it to his lips, as she no doubt expected, thrust her fore-finger into his pipe by way of a tobacco -stopper, is well known. "An Oddity of the Seventeenth Century" is a bit of very diverting gossip. The " Story of a Dun" is light and sprightly in its tone, hut the subject is one very apt to suggest embarrassing reminiscences to the reader. The idea that a particular individual of whom the Author is speaking, " was born the heir to an old debt, and had been a Dun from his cradle," reminds us of Sidney Smith's arch style of banter. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. The present Number contains the conclusion of Dr. Maginn's remarks on Farmer's Essay on the " Learning of Shakspeare." The Doctor handles. this celebrated treatise with very little ceremony ; and shows the fallacy of its leading hypothesis, that our great dramatist was a man utterly devoid of learning. The best and surest way, however, to settle a question like this, is to take down a volume of Shakspeare--no matter which one—and give it an attentive and dispassionate perusal. Then, we think, it will be found, that he was nut merely a man of genius, but of—for his time—extensive, though perhaps desultory reading ; in proof whereof, we desire no stronger argument than may he sup plied by that striking drama, Troilus and Cressida. That his learning was underrated by Farmer, can be no matter of surpise, for the " Master of Em manuel" was one of a race of pedants with ." lois of learned lumber in their heads," who were much in vogue about the middle of the last century, and were apt to decide upon a man's knowledge, in exact proportion to the parade he made of it. An author like Shakspeare, therefore, who scattered his learn ing about in so careless and unostentatious a style, instead of perking it every moment in his reader's face, must have cruelly perplexed such a race of pompous scholars. We con ceive that Doctor Maginn has triumphantly established his case, but we should have been glad had he alluded to the main object of Fraser's essay, which was—not to prove Shakspeare's ignorance, but his own vast knowledge. We agree also with the Doctor, that there can be no question that our dramatist was acquainted with Rabelais. Those who remember Panurge's gloating chuckles over his own discretion ; his inimitable faculty of lying, on which he so much plumed himself ; and above all, his invincible love of good cheer and merry com pany, can be at no loss to discover, in some small degree, the prototype of Falstaff. "My Irish Tutorship" is a lively prose sketch, the introduc tory portion of which is the best. " On the French School of Painting" evinces much critical discern ment. The writer is no great admirer of modern French artists, and thus speaks of the painter David, who, forty years ago, was the idol of his countrymen : " I have seen, in a fine private collection at St.. Ger main, one or two admirable single figures of David, full of life, truth, and gaiety. The colour is not good, but all the rest excellent ; and one of these so much-lauded pictures is the portrait of a washer-woman. Pope Pius' at the Louvre is as bad in colour, and as remark able for its vigour and look of life. The man had a genius for painting portraits and common life, but must attempt the heroic—failed signally ; and, what is worse, carried a whole nation blundering after him. To have told a Frenchman so twenty year s ago, he would have thrown the dementi in your teeth, or at least laughed at you in scornful incredulity. They say of us, that we don't know when we are beaten : they go a step further, and swear their defeats are victories. David was a part of the glory of the empire, and one might as well have said there that Romulus' was a bad picture, as that Toulouse was a lost battle Old-fashioned people who believe in the Emperor, believe in the Tneatre Francais, and believe that Ducis improved upon Siiakspeare, have the above opinion. Still, it is curious to remark in this place how art and literature become party matters, and political sects have their favourite painters and authors. Nevertheless, Jacques Louis David is dead. He died about a year after his bodily demise in 182.5. The ro manticism killed him. Walter Scott, from his castle of Abbotsford, sent out a troop of gallant young Scotch adventurers, merry outlaws, valiant knights, and savage Highlanders, who, with trunken hoses and buff jerkins, fierce two-handed swords, and harness on their back, did challenge, combat, and overcome the heroes and demigods of Greece and Rome. Notre Dame a la Rescousse ! Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert has borne Hec tor of Troy clear out of his saddle. Andromache may weep ; but her spouse is beyond the reach of physic. See Robin Hood twangs his bow, and the heathen gods fly, howling. Mountjoie Saint Denis ! down goes Ajax under the mace of Dunois ; and yonder are Leonidas and Romulus begging their lives of Rob Roy Macgre gor. Classicism is clad." This David, be it known, was one of the most notorious Terrorists of the years 1793 and 1794. He it was who stood by Robespierre to the last, encouraging him i n all his wholesale m assacres . The " Great Cossack Epic" is a clever rhymed extravaganza. The remaining articles are of the usual calibre. this Magazine. METROPOLITAN. „ T h M e therejr is There is more pleasant reading than usual in story, in which• lar much r u t fore-castle leads off with a naval dialogue. dated " Oxford," birth-place, they • ar e and really, considering their Joys of Song" are four sonnets, feeling and fancy. Tvhe favourable to the produry cbt c .a r n e k d s itable to the writer s of the Isis are more are atnirettle we are of prize poetry than sterling poetry, though some few brilliant exceptionsare aware that there are Lite rary Notes and Jottings"aisbirteilgeo.ssi‘p‘.Bnt favourite with the g w r e ea d t is m lik an e t s l e m em sn s ee to rit b ig e anlolufallo, and we can scarcely Johnson. This ; is seldom in reuest majo rity of our periodical writers wonder at it, for there can be little sYmpathy °_.f Poetic all the bette r for be tween him and them. A giant • with pigmies. As for Sam's want senti ment, as it is called, we like him it. He had other things to do, than fall into ex . tacies at the sight of daffodils. He had to grapple with Junius ; to enforce great moral truths in ... • D Ras_ ( Ins ; to show the conFiimm a t e wnr kilv sagacity Of Shakspcare; and discourse in a manly, pregnant strain of criticism on Cowley, Dryden, and Pope. Better, far better to have dune this, than to have written a whole cart-load of sentimental poesy. We quote from these " Literary Notes"—which, by the bye, contain an interesting biographical sketch of Telford, the engineer—an anecdote relating to Lords Brougham and Melbourne : Meeting with a Scottish Baronet at Tours last summe learned the following circumstance illustra tive of the "ancient intimacy" which existed between Lords Brougham and Melbourne. Upwards of thirty years ago Sir George S. Mackenzie of Coul in Ross shire was waited upon at his house one day by a mes senger from the inn or (change-house) to tell him that two gentlemen were at the said hostelry, and:were de sirous of speaking with him. The Baronet repaired to the spot, end on entering the cottage saw to his surprise his college acquaintance, Mr. Henry Brougham, dressed in a kilt, sitting with his feet upon a pail of water, and by his side Mr. William Lamb, apparently very tired and woe-begone. After the usual congratulations, the travellers stated that they were on a pedestrian excur sion in the Highlands, and were considerably fatigued. The gentleman pressed them to go to his house, but this they declined. Some whisky was called in, and after the glass had circulated a short time, and many a pretty remark and lively sally had been made, the two strangers, little dreaming, we dare say, that one was to be Prime Minister and the other Lord Chancellor of England,islung their knapsacks on their backs and de parted. It is a pity that courts or debates should come between a friendship of so old standing, and cemented by kindly thoughts and offices thirty years since among the Highland hills. The energy and perseverance of Brougham at this time led all who knew him to predict his future greatness; and one gentleman in Glasgow, Mr. Jardine, a merchant, bet ten guineas to one that Brougham would be a Cabinet Minister. The merchant did not live to see this realized ; but so firm was his. conviction that it would take place, that he left a memorandum in his will, stating that the ten guineas were to be pa(i over to the Glasgow Infirmary. This was actually done after Lord Brougham's elevation to the woolsack. Mr. Jardine's son (who told the circumstance) was C Scottish advocate, or barrister, and is now a sheriff in Scotland. In " Italy," we have been pleased with the jus tice of the remarks on the Italian republics, which certainly helped to light the torch of freedom in Europe. The " Misunderstanding" is a story of the usual calibre. " A Journey to the Ruins of Ashkelon" is too much spun out. The writer makes as much of a stale subject, as a Vauxhall waiter makes of a ham, or as Queen Dido made of her bull-hide. He should check his propensity to expand. The " Woman-hater" has a striking, well written denouement, but conceive a gentleman who is in love with a lady, endeavouring to recommend his suit, by speaking of what he " knew of Chal damn and Egyptian lore !" No wonder she jilted him ! He should have come at once to the point, and let Egypt alone, for, as Butler tells us, promp titude is everything in courtship. MOIV TILLY LAW MAGAZINE. Under the head of " Our Lucky Ministers," this Zeview launches one of its most virulent ultra••Tor\ diatribes against Government. The Melbourne Cabinci, it seems, is fortunate in all its schemes ; therefore, it has no one good quality to recommend it, except mere luck ! Now this is very sorry logic, and such as no one would think of resorting to, who was not driven to extremities for an argument. Is it mere luck that has so lately triumphed in India ? Mere luck that has kept, and still continues to keep, the Tories on the wrong side of the Treasury Bench ? The bare idea is absurd. But granting the Ministers have been lucky, has the writer of this truculent diatribe no recollection of the old adage— founded on experience, as most such " %vise-saws" are--that "luck favours the skilful ?" We are by no means disposed to go the whole hog in behalf of Ministers ; but fair play is a jewel ; and we protest against the one-sided spirit that can be astonished at the marvellous political sagacity of the Tories, yet discover nothing but a series of lucky accidents in the cuurse of Government pursued by the Whigs T 1114: SUN, LONDON, MONPA Y, DECEMBER 2, 18;9 Eliott, the defender of Gibraltar. The following account of the family of Eliott is a fair specimen of the way in which these subjects are treated by the Scottish clergy : Of eminent characters connected with the parish (Cavern, Roxburgshire) George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield, may be mentioned first. He was the ninth son of Sir Gilbert Eliott of Stobbs and Wells, Bart., the lineal descendant of the far-famed " Gibbie an' the Gouden Garters," who, under pe culiar circumstances, married Mary Scott, a flower of Yarrow, and received along with her as dowery, in faithful fulfilment of her father's promise, " the half o' a Michelmas moon." This means what he could plunder from his enemies oa the English Border during the period emplied. The following laconic notice of Robertson is given in the account_ of the parish of Borthwick, near Edinburgh : The person whose connection with this parish will probably in all future times be corsidered as its highest honour, was the I ate learned and celebrated Principal Robertson. He was born in the present manse of Borthwick in the year 1721, and retained to his last hours an affectionate recollection of the scene of his boyish sports, and early aspirings alter fame. ' inside from the head to the tail, and of this the natives showed great anxiety to obtain possession, declaring that it was an infallible cure for all diseases. The body was hung up on the banyan -tree opposite the choultry, or inn, of the village. People flocked from all parts of the village to see the monster, and many of the natives used to try whether it was possible to cut through the monster with the blow of a sword ; but even after it was skinned no person was found who could penetrate more than half way at a single stroke." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The first article, " On National Education," is more ingeniously than soundly reasoned, and sets out with the hypothesis that Ministers, by " their Church education scheme, have burned their fin gers." Not so. They have merely given a start ling shock to Bigotry, from the effects of which. though she may rally for a time, she will new r ultimately recover. Let the Tories do what th , 'N' will, a spirit is abroad that will foster the cause of ----• liberal Cducation, in spite of them. They my grumble, and snarl, and make a show of opposition, but it is beyond their power to check the progress of mind. As for the vague phrase Christian," which is of such frequent occurrence in this Tory dissertation, it applies only to that class of men who do their utmost to ameliorate the condition of their fellow -creatures. A man may be a very ex cellent Christian, yet refuse to subscribe to tlik Thirty-nine Articles. A very excellent Christian, yet think the Bishops are sadly over-paid. A verb excellent Christian, yet refuse to adopt the Tor) principle of non-education. In a word, to be a Christian, is neither more nor less than to be a good man ; and this is the leading doctrine of the divine Sermon on the Mount. The " Portrait Gallery" gives a likeness of Mr. George Petrie, author of a dissertation on the " Round Towers of Ireland." The remarks on " Pawn-broking" contain several useful suggestions. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Three articles of eastern production, which are making much noise in'the commercial world at pre sent, and which are peculiarly within the prorince of this journal, are treated at considerable length in the present number. It is hardly necessary to state that these are opium, tea, and cotton. There is a copious and careful digest of the proceedings in . China relative to the first, which places the dispute, or rather the parties most interested in the dispute, in a different point of view, not at all agreeable, we suspect, to the East India Company. It would ap pear from this that the loss will not fall on the twenty-six different firms engaged in the trade (at the head of which stands the house of Jardine. Matheson, and Co., for 7,341 chests), but on the Company. After stating that there are three courses open for the owners of the opium—either to sit down content with their loss, or bring actions at common law against Captai❑ Elliott for the three millions sterling, or petition Parliament—the latter of which will probably be chosen—the writer adds : " It so clearly appears that the East India Company were the virtual smugglers of the opium into China--:- seeing that the drug could not have been smuggled there if had not been grown in India—that the Corn pan) Government is debtor in account with the actual smugglers, who were merely the passiv e and innocent instruments of the Company ; and after the Zemindar of Nozeed Act, there cannot be the smallest obstacle to passing a Bill for indemnifying the unoffending exporters of opium to China out of the plethoric Indian revenues." We think, however, there i, another mode of redress, and if the East India Company are to be subjected to the responsibility, they will contrive some way to make the Chinese Government also one of the party. If these different firms were merely the agents of the Company, so were the Chinese authorities at Canton agents of the Celes tial Empire, and th ere f ore t h e " B r i g h t E ye ,' who is styled " divine," and who, according to his assumed attributes, ought to have known all their deeds, must be responsible for them, Such, it appears, is the rage for opium still, notwithstanding the dreadful penalties, that opium sales were going on according to the latest accounts, all along the coast. At one place a whole cargo had been sold at 600 dollars a chest, and Manilla is now become the grand depot whence the drug will be smuggled into China with nearly as much facility as before. We have not space for any remarks on the growth of cotton and tea in Hindostan and .Assam, and can only recommend to the perusal of those interested the Report of Mr. Bruce on Assam Tea, and the Essay of General Briggs on the Cotton Trade of India. The " Review of Eastern News" at the present moment will be read with interest. THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF , SCOTLAND. No. XXIV. This Number is more interesting than several that have preceded it, chiefly on account of the particulars given of remarkable persons in the re spective parishes. The work i s necessar il y dry and uninteresting to the general reader, though as a statistical record and an his torical account of a people of peculiar habits it must be of great value. It is tedious to be reading the monotonous details about plough and horses, and schools and glebes, and swallows and swans ; and, therefore, a little . var i ety a b out heroes and poets and historians forps an agreeable relief. In the present Number We have short ac counts of some of the most remarkable men of the south of Scotland---Principal Robeitson, Thomp son the poet, Leyden, Arinsttong,' and the gallant The embellishments to this periodical are this month more numerous than they have been for some time past. There ate not less than four of them, and each displays considerable skill in the execution The best—or at least the most s t r iki ng , in point of subject—is that entitled " Shooting a Boa," which represents one of these gigantic In dian serpents in the act of crushing a dog whom he folds ; has just entangled in his slimywhile in the distance is seen a sportsman preparing to take a steady aim with his gun at the huge monster. Th e aspect of the boa is very impressive. Among the literary contents we find some diverting recollections of the late Ettrick Shep herd. We quote the ac count of the death of the b oa : l\ t i lie following aiorße van,inhis ' Thirty Years in I n di a ,' re lates ac count of the destruction of a boa constrictor :—On his return from Bombay, Lieutenant C— had a still more singular adventure near the same place. He entered the jungle in search of game, pre ceded by a favourite powerful dog that had courage to seize anything. The dog ran a little a-head, and sud denly m a d e a no i se as if choking. ' Run, ma s t er , a cheeta ha s caug h t yo ur dog,' said the native. Li eut . ndgliding C— advan ce d caut i ou sly, and saw a large heap, j ust the colo ur o f a roya l tiger, black and orange. I n a the o th er a few seconds h e b e h e ld the head and neck of an enor mousboa r . him. o waited slowly untiluncoiling h ai f o i t f , se t lhfe snake was , out of th e co il or l um p, and then fired both b arre l s . a O b n o e ut ba fo ll ur entered itlebes im fro m m cd t ia h t e ely he b a e d. ihindtleeye, The whol e co il in stantly fell, and revealed the poor dog crushed to death within th e f o ld s. I n the meantime all Lieutena nt C—' s followe rs h a d fl e d, an d he was forced to go t o a v ill age for assist ance . H av ing with some difficulty mustered a little band, he returned, and brought out the snake, the dog, an d a spo tted deer that the snake had kill e d , the scent of w hi c h had probably tempted the unfortu nate dog. The carcase of the deer was so bruised, that eve n th e l owes t c:ste in the village refused to touch it, declaring it was full of zakar, or venom, of the ashgur, as they called the snake. The boa was twenty-three feet eight inches long, and about six feet in circumference. There teas a large cake of fat all the way MONTHLY CHRONICLE. In an article on the subject of the " Foreign Policy of England," which heads the present Num ber, the writer briefly enumerates the mistakes committed by the Duke of Wellington's Govern ment in this important branch of their Administra tion ; and then proceeds to comment in just and pertinent terms, on the system pursued by the Whigs from the p er i o d o f t h e access i on o f E ar l Grey to office. Th e i r I n di an policy, in particular, he speaks o f w ith hi g h pra i se—and d eserve dl y so , for there is little doubt that the restoration of the ;ingdom of Cahoot has made our empire in the East safe for many years to come, for—we quote be writer's words—" independently of its direct influence in establishing a barrier between India and the Powers of the \Vest, the moral effect has hcen immense, which the decision of the Eritish Government has had upon all the Princes of the East." The essay on the " Extinction of the Human Races" is so curious and so interesting hat we could have wished it had been discussed it greater length, and in a closer spirit of investi gation. In the remote parts of Northern and Eastern Asia, we are told— " Remains have been discovered which prove that nearly the whole of that great continent was )nee ,)ccupicd by hu:nan races, whose very names have perished. Some of these nations appear to have trade some progress in arts and civilization. Their tombs are found spread over the countries eastward of Jenisey. In those remote countries such remains are in great num- iers, and of magnificent construction ; they contain or naments and various implements of silver, gold, and copper ; there are girdles of the precious metals, braze 'cis decked with pearls; in the same tombs are fragineits of earthen manufactory or porcelain. I shall not at .resent detail the arguments which have satisfied tile earned academicians of St. Petersburgh that such reFcs relonged to races of people long ago extinct, who must nave disappeared before the light of history dawned open these countries, but shall hasten to remark, that discoveries leading to a similar result have been traced through the New World, from the countries bordering on the Mississippi and the Ohio, where tombs are found containing skeletons of a different confer .nation from that of the present native tribes, to the high table land of Tetecaca, in the Peru vian cordillera, where those strangely formed skulls are ;een which deviate so widely from the usual form of uman heads. Eves in the islands of Polynesia, vesti. ;as are discovered which have been referred to a former ;•ace of inhabitants ; and to conclude this series of ob iervations, there are facts which indicate that extensive countries in Europe were occupied by races of a diffe rent physical character from the present natives, in times which preceded the arrival of Celts and Goths, and other Indo-Germanic nations from the East." " Fragments from Goethe," are flowing and musi ad enough, so far as mere versification is concerned, but we cannot vouch for their accuracy, not having he good fortune to be acquainted with the original. " Sketches of Spanish Generals" furnish us with some characteristic portraits of the most celebrated Carlist and Christino commanders in the late san- , t ninary war in the Peninsula. We subjoin a sketch the well-known priest, Merino, who, it seems, tas rendered more substantial service to the cause 4 Don Carlos, than any General since the days of Z umalacarreguv : " Merino is about sixty-eight years old. In size he considerably baneath the middle stature, his height oot being more than about five feet four inches. Ap parently, his frame is of the must fragile and delicate texture ; yet, under this appearance of physical weak ness, his health is of the most robust and enduring kind. His features are sharp and strongly marked, and convey in expression of a strong and determined character. His eyes are large and deeply set, and are shaded by large and overhanging brows. His habits are of the simplest and most abstemious kind, even for a Spaniard. Contrary to the universal custom of his countrymen, including even ecclesiastic', he never makes use of tobacco in any shape. Ile drinks neither wine nor any strong spirit, and may be said to make but one repast in the day ; a small cup of chocolate, a glass of pure cold water, and a morsel of dry toast, form his morning refreshment, and his evening meal is almost of in equally slight nature. It is said that his power of dispensing with the necessity of repose is wonderful ; sod it is asserted that about one hour, or one hour and a half in the twenty-four, is all the time that he spends in sleep. He seldom enters a house by night, and he never passes the period between twilight and dawn in the same place with his followers. The few moments of repose which ha allows himself, whilst on the field, are snatched either on horseback, or on the ground, with his head reclining on the saddle, or buried in the mane of his charger. As soon as the hour of sunset approaches, he halts his troop, and orders them to encamp on the spot which he points out. Followed by a single attendant, who performs the duties of secretary, or ser vant, as the occasion may require, be retires within the recesses of the forest, at two or three leagues distant, and only re-appears in the same place at sunrise the fol lowing morning. Merino despises the elegance or splen dour of military uniform, and his followers are as re gardless as their chief in the article of dress." The character of the Spanish General, Cordova, is hit off' with spirit by one who appears to be inti mately acquainted with him. The details of his sudden rise are curious ; but we have not space for extracts. In the " Secret Anecdotes of the French Police" occurs a strange story of the Duke of Buckingham's flirtation with the Queen of France, Anne of Austria. This Duke, it may be remem bered, was sent over on a particular embassy to the French Court by Charles the First, but instead of attending to his political duties, he took it into his head to make love to the Queen. She re jected his overtures, and he was in consequence speedily compelled to - decamp from Paris. The whole circumstances of the case are here given with a most piquant particularity. Anne of Austria must have been a personable woman, for Richelieu also made overtures to her, and because she dismissed him, as well as the Duke, he persecuted her throug: i . out his political career. Of the remaining articles, the best is that on National Education. SPORTING MAGAZINE. SPORTING REVIEW. There are two engravings in this Number. One is a sketch entitled " The Hack Stable," and the other a portrait of the well-known race-horse " De fence." The literary contents refer, of course, chiefly, to sporting subjects, and perhaps the most generally readable of the articles is the account of " A Day with the Prince of Wagram's Stag hounds," which is from the pen of a writer who styles himself " Vagrant." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Her Majesty attended Divine Service this morning in St. George's Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Musgrave (Canon in residence) preached the sermon from St. Luke, chap. 19, ver. 41. The Rev. C. Knyvett read the prayers, and the Rev. Mr. Mus grave, and the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Moore, officiated at the Communion. The Te Deum and Jubilate was Travers in F, the Sanctus, Kyrie Elieson, and Creed, arranged from one of Haydn's Masses in C. The An them " Lord for thy tender mercy's sake," Farr nt. The Duke of Devonshire, the Marchioness of Clan ricarde, Earl of Errol, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Dungannon, Earl of Surrey, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Misses Paget and Anson, Lady Gardi ner, Lord Lilford, Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Arm strong, and Lord Alfred Paget, attended the service. Her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton in the Park for an hour yesterday, attended by Lady Barham. Her Majesty is daily sitting to Mr. Ross for a minia ture to be enclosed in the case of a superbly mounted watch, which will be worn by his Serene Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg.Gotha. The Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Dun cannon, and Lord Hill, arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies Eleonora and Constance Paget, left the Castle this morning for Cumberland Lodge. Lord Hill also took his departure. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge and the Ladies Paget are expected to join the Royal Dinner party at the Castle this evening. On Friday evening the baud of the Rifles attended at the Castle, and played the following pieces :—March, Sonnambu!a (Wichels) ; Overture, Egmont (Beeth oven) ; Pas de Trois, et Chaus Tyrolien, William Tell (Rossini) ; Walzer, Robert de Teufel (Strauss), Quad rille, " Le Bouquet du Bal sur les motifs de Dejazet ; Parisina Walzer ; Polonaise, Chaperons Blanes (Mohr); Minuet (Bressant). Sir James Clark attended at the Castle yesterday. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite in three carriages, arrived at Marlborough House at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from the seat of the Earl of Denbigh, Newnham Paddocks, Warwick shire. Her Majesty's suite consisted of Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Mitchell, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, Sir Horace Seymour, Rev. J. R. Wood, and the Hon. Captain Curzon. The Princess Augusta visited her Majesty in the evening. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta attended Divine Ser vice yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Wesley, D.D., who took his text from St. Matthew's Gospel, chap. iii. verses 1 and 2. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Dakins, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. Mr. Dakins. The Anthem (full) was " 0 clap your hands together, all ye people" (Child). Sir George Smart presided at the organ. Her Majesty's Suite included Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Mitchell, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl Howe, Earl of Denbigh, Rev. J. R. Wood, and the Hon. Captain Curzon. Miss Vyse was in Waiting on the Princess Augusts. The Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge came to Cambridge House on Saturday morning. Their Royal Highnesses, attended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, returned to their residence at Kew in the afternoon. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta on Saturday. Viscount Melbourne left town on Saturday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, The Commander of the Forces, Mr. John Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. T. Dunconabe, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Alston and Mr. Charles Buller had interviews with Lord John Russell at the Colonial Office on Sa turday. Sir John Hobhouse has left town for his residence Erlestoke Park, Wilts. Despatches from the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thom son, Governor of the Canadas, and from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, brought by the Great Western, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were also received from Colc.nel Reid, Governor of Bermuda. Lord Hill left town on Saturday for Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, previ ous to visiting Lord Dinorben at Kinmel Park, will pass a few days with the Earl and Countess of Lichfield at Ranton Abbey, Staffordshire, and Colonel Wildman at Ncwstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire. His RoNal Highness Prince George of Cam bridge is expected to leave Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, to-morrow, for town, when his Royal Highness will accompany the Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge to Badmington, on Thursday next, to visit the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, who have invited a distinguished party to meet their Royal Highnesses. The Duke of Newcastle and Lady Pelham Clin ton, who have been visiting Sir Robert and Lady Peel at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, have returned to Clumber Park, where his Grace and family will pass the approaching Christmas. Lord and Lady Hatherton will receive a great number of visiters at Teddesley Park during the present month. HAREWOOD HOUSE, THURSDAY.—The Earl and Countess of threwood are entertaining a distin guished party at this elegant seat. The Archbishop of York, Sir John and Lady Rinson, and Miss Ver non Harcourt arrived yesterday from Bishopthorpe. AsKE HA LL.--The visitors who met his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex on his recent visit to the Earl and Countess of Zetland were, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, Earl and Countess of Tyrconnel, Colonel and Lady Arabella Arden, Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke, Colonel Cradock, Sir J. B. Simp lon, &c. The splendid festivities at Belvoir Castle con clude at the close of the present week, and will not be resumed until the 4th of the ensuing month, the Noble Duke's birth-day, when the usual rejoicings will take place at the Castle in celebration of that happy . event. The Extra Gazette of Saturday conta ns an Order by her Majesty in - Council that Gisburn shall be added to the present polling places in the West Riding of the county of York. HORNBYCASTLE, NEA R CA TTERA ICK,YORIC , SHIRE.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and Lady C. Underwood were expected to arrive on Tues day evening on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, from Aske Hall, the spat of Earl Zetland. Great gaiety will prevail during his Royal Highness's stay, and an entertainment will be given to the tenantry. —Newcastle Chronicle. His Excellency Viscount Ebrington will leave for Dublin Castle in a few days. The Noble Viscount is expected to visit the Earl and Countess Fortescue, at Castle-hill, previous to embarking at Bristol for Kingstown.—Wcstern Times. _ _ Earl Fitzwilliam arrived in this city on Friday week by the railway. His Lordship had come on horse back on Friday morning from Wentworth House to Milford, where the Noble Lord took his seat in the train.— Yorkshirenzan. SPIORTEST DAY.—It is now just three weeks to the shortest day. When it has passed, the mere idea imparts cheerfulness to those in health, which gradually increases as the seasons advance and the harsh weather diminishes. The seasons have a great influence on our mental affections. Died, on the 30th ult., at the house of his niece, Mri!ll.WynneWllliams, in H a tton-garden,Williann Ack royd, Esq., of the Royal Marines, in his 84th year. Mr. Ackroyd was one of the few surviving veterans who had served under Rodney, Hood, Keppel, and Biron. He was a Li e utenant on board the F or t unee frigate when his late Majesty joined that ship in the year 1782, but retired from the service on hi s marr i age in the peace of 1783. The King and Mr. Ackroyd did not meet for many years, but in the year 1834 his Majesty met with Mr. Ackroyd, and recognised him in the true spirit of a British sailor, and was graciously pleased to write him a letter, " That he well recollected him to be an a ctive and zealous officer, whose corps was always in the highest order." Mr. Ackroyd was a bright example of unaffected Christian piety and bene volence, and died beloved and regretted by all who knew him. We perceive by Friday's Gazette that the ser vices of Lieutenant Basil Gray, of the 45th regiment, on the occasion of the attack on Newport by the Char tists, have been appreciated and rewarded by her Ma jesty's Government ; Lieutenant Gray has been pro moted to a company unattached. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS DF SATURDAY. (From the Globe.) The Standard is well aware—nobody better—that pat Wesleyans arc becoming extensively awake to the hecsequences which would follow were the High Church onrty, whose efforts they greatly aided in getting up the formidable opposition to the Government plan of education, to gain the ascendancy. Our Con temporary is therefore only serving the political party ot which he is an organ in endeavouring to represent the attacks recently made on the Wesleyan body as con fined to a few Clergymen, and to publications not recognised by any considerable portion of Churchmen. He is well aware of the imprudence of telling the Wesleyans just now what the High Churchmen think of them—in what light they regard them, as respects their relation to the Church of Christ on earth, and, of consequence, their future con dition. W e agree with our Contemporary, that the course taken by these zealous Churchmen is not well timed for the political objects they are desirous of pro moting, and in furtherin g which they have no objection to have the aid of the Wesleyan societies. He cannot, how ever, blame us for exhibiting to the Wesleyans the light in which they are regarded by those who stoop to ask their aid, and the manner in which they will, and must, be rewarded for their labours, if ever that party ob tains the ascendancy it incessantly strives to acquire. Instead of attempting to depreciate the character of the Church Magazine, or the character of the late Lord Mayor's Chaplain for preaching and publishing the sermon from which we have given extracts, it would have been more satisfactory had the Standard shown that the opinions advanced by both respecting the Wesleyans and other separatists from the Church, are at variance with the exclusive claims to apostolical succession which the High Church clergy contend for, and which the Standard dares not contravene or deny. Has the Church Magazine published anything against the Wesleyans which . has not been asserted of that body by eminent Prelates of the Church, living and dead? The most effectual way to convince the Wesleyans th..t the articles in the Church May azine do not express the opinions of Tory Churchmen respecting them, when such choose to speak out, will he to show that the Bishops and dignitaries of that party have employed a different language when they have had occasion to allude to them and to their societies. (From the Courier.) It is impossible not to feel at once the force of the position taken by the Times this morning in reference to an Established Church, which, in this country, is and must be, as elsewhere, a necessity arising out of our social institutions, and coexistent with the Monarchy. It is well observed that," anything appproaching to per fect equality among the religious communities of this country never can be attained, or if attained, never could continue, any more than a perfect equality among indi viduals. A dominant and powerful Church there always will be, and always ought to be. Dissent is too divided ever to occupy such a position. Abolish the Protestant ascendancy, and very shortly a Popish one will reign in it's stead." The last sen tence, which we have placed in italics, is well worthy the serious reflection of all conscientious Dissenters. The overthrow of the Church, even were that practicable, against the will of a vast majority of the people of Great Britain, could not serve the cause of Protestant Dissent in the religious acceptation, nor could it advance the selfish views of those turbulent leaders of sectarianism, whose bile is embittered not so much by Episcopalian ascendancy as by those secular temporalities with which an Establishment must neces sarily be endowed. Those temporalities, grossly as they have been magnified, and enviously coveted as they arc, form but a moderate item in the account of that monstrous aggregate clutched and in the holding of the Romish Church before the Reformation. Nor, on the return of that Popish supremacy which Dis senting demagogues labour so zealously, in conjunc tion with Popish allies, to invest with the authority and the forms of Constitutional law ; as if it were not now in less pretentious guise sufficiently rampant in high places, would the thirst of aggrandisement and the en croaching spirit of usurpation inherent in the see of Rome, and ever directing the course as inculcated in the education of the subordinate officials, from the Archbishop downwards to the monk and parish priest, whose holdings and station direct and indirectly derive from it, be stayed and quenched on it's advent to power with the succession and possession of temporalities as they are. (From the Standard.) When threatened by the Ministerial journals with retorts of our complaint of the improper persons who have been thrust or who have thrust themselves upon the Queen's household, and her Majesty's "private and social circle," we marked the just distinction, first, between those whose misconduct was proved and those who were only the objects of suspicion, and who might be the vic tims of calumny ; secondly, a distinction that needed not to be marked except in dealing with the shufifers against whernwe have to contend—the distinction between persons forced in the Queen's " House hold," and her Majesty's " private and social circle," and men merely employed in the official business of Government. Every reasonable man must see the neces sity of carefully observing these distinctions. The man who is only the object of suspicion, or of evil report, has no opportunity of defence ; if condemned at all, he is condemned unheard, and therefore no just person will condemn him ; we do not think less un favourably of the imputed guilt, but we think, as in such a case we are bound to think, that the party sought to be inculpated is free from it. Next the Crown has, practically, little choice in the selection of its merely official servants. There is no apparent necessity for any sympathy between the Sovereign and the political Minister in anything that regards private morals. The immorality of a Minister, therefore, while he observes the distance of a Minister, can never reflect injuriou,ly upon the occupant of the throne, whether that occu pant is a man of mature age, or an innocent and inexperienced, and therefore confiding, woman of twenty. We think that every sensible and right-minded man will understand these distinctions and agree with us. Upon such terms we accepted the challenge of the Glebe to produce from the Household " or private and social circle," of Queen Charlotte or Queen Adelaide persons as improper as some who have forced themselves into the Household, and into the private and social circle of our maiden Queen ;" and how has the challenge been maintained ? First, it was boldly asserted that one of the improper persons who were the subjects of complaint was a member of Queen Adelaide's Household. We proved the assertion to be a gross falsehood, and the author of the falsehood acknowledges that it is such, plead ing in excuse his ignorance of the Court Guide— that is, ignorance of what ought to have been his authority. Next, we hear of a lady most unjustly and most cruelly dragged from her happy privacy, who, we are told, having been excluded from all previous drawing-rooms, was admitted to the drawing-room . of Queen Adelaide in 1835 upon a most disgraceful bargain. We showed that the lady referred to had been received at the drawing-rooms of George the Fourth, which rendered her subsequent admissions a matter of right, and that from the moment when, according to the routine rule of such things, she could think it desirable to appear at Court, the Court was opened to her. This exposure of a mean and venomous falsehood has not been contradicted, be cause it could not be contradicted. We owe an apology to the lady referred to for it ; but in order to show the shuffling which we have to encounter, it is necessary to remark, that the presentation of Ladies or Gentlemen at Levees, or Drawing-rooms, was not the matter of the Ministerial challenge, but the intrusion of improner persons into the Queen's " Household," and into her Majesty's " private and social circle." The article headed " Romance in Real Life,' which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, was taken from the Wiltshire Independent. HAPPINESS OP ANIMALS.—It is impossible to view the cheerfulness and happiness of animals and birds without pleasure, and it is astonishing how much man might do to lessen the misery of those creatures which are given to him for either food, use, or plea sure, if he were so inclined ; instead of which he often exercises a degree of wanton tyranny and cruelty over them which cannot be too much deprecated, and for which, no doubt, he will one day be held accountable. Animals are so capable of showing gratitude and affec tion to those who are kind to them, that I never see them subjected to ill-treatment without feeling the utmost abhorrence of those who are inflicting it. I know many persons Ile myself who take a pleasure in seeing all the animals about them appear happy and con tented ; my old nag, when he sees me coming, always expects the accustomed piece of bread or apple, and I seldom disappoint him. A poor horse continually whipped, at first steps out quicker, but soon flags under the constant impulse, and to make him stir requires constant beating. How different from the horse who, fed with wholesome food, is allowed to go his own steady pace, and who, not driven beyond his nature,' performs his journey well and freshly. Loss OF LIFE.—The apprehensions which we last week stated, hare been too palpably realized to admit of any doubt as to the loss of the lives of Wilson and son ; for on Saturday last his coble was taken up at U (Tang a mile to the north of Whitby, quite perfect, but having nothing in her but her seats. The probabi lity is, that after the ballast had washed out she had then righted. Mr. William Wilson was for many years master of the Lively, Greenland ship, which sailed out of this port. He on those occasions would be exposed to innumerable dangers, but his life has been taken when those accustomed to the life of a pilot had nothing to apprehend , —York Courant. DISCOVERY OF COINS.—Th e workmen em ployed by Messrs. Tanner, brother, in excavating the bed of the river, at their paper mills, Cheddar, So merset, have latey discovered a considerable numter of ancilnt (Yins, (.li,fl ) Roman, LO.II , of the Emperor i Constantine. EVENING EDITION. THE POLISH MEETING. TO 771 E EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—l am directed by the Polish Committee to re-. 1 quest the insertion in your valuable Paper of the fol lowing Resolutions, which were passed at their meet- ing, held on Saturday, Nov. 80, 1839 . :- 1. That the Polish Committee, who represent a great majority of the Poles resident in London, and who ori ginated the meeting held at Exeter Hall in commemo ration of the Polish Revolution of 1800, have perceived,, with much concern, that the friends of some of the Poles, who thought proper to hold a separate meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, thought proper also t to characterize their own assembly as a . " real demo cratical demonstration," sze., and to stigmatize the meeting held at Exeter Hall as " Aristocratical," and as " composed of indirect enemies of Poland," a calumny sufficiently refuted by a mere reference to the nnmes the English friends, who there supported General Dwer nicki and the Committee. 2. That the Polish Committee, having always eftlea voured to promote union and harmony amongst the Poles, and to support the common cause of all, but having failed on this occasion to prevent any division of opinions and conduct., nevertheless resolved to abstain, at Exeter Hall, from anything that could possibly be construed into any hostility to the meeting held at the Crown and Anchor, whilst the annexed resolutions, which would have been moved by General Dwernicki-- but for the unseemly disturbance which took place, and which would unquestionably have been adopted by all the Poles then present—would also have proved to the people of Great Britain that there is in reality and sub stance no difference amongst the Poles as regards their attachment to their cause, and their views of the rights and prospects of the Polish people. 3. That, however, from the moment they perceived that their meeting was endeavoured to be converted, from its sole and legitimate purpose of celebrating their glorious national revolution of 1830, into an arena for the discussion of English polities, they resolved to draw from all participation in what they had neither proposed, nor conceived it. their dutyto be actors. 4. That whatevor may:be . their opinions as to the political and social re -construction of. Fioland—an opi nion which may be easily ptliered from the annexed resolutions—they will never allow their cause to become a question of partie s e r o f individuals; but that inviting all, excluding no one, from the great work of the re storation of their unfortunate country, they will ever strive, by all means in their power, to rest their clams to British sympathy upon the broadest basis of national 'independence, freedom, and justice. 5. That notwithstanding the disgracef u l di stur b ance which disappointed their best expectations of the above mentioned meeting, they feel it their duty to return their heartfelt thanks to G. A. Young, Esq., the Chair man, and to those Gentlemen who were to move and second the resolutions as originally proposed, viz.— Colonel Stanhope, Mr. Birkbeck, Mr. Edmond Beates, Mr. Pritchard, and others. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, S. GAIE\VSKI, Secretary to the Polish Committee. The Resolutions which were to be moved by General Dwernicki That the Revolution of the 29th of November was undertaken for the restoration of the whole of Poland, as it existed before its first nefarious pavition in 1772, and fur the emancipation of the people oppressed by the preponderance of the privileged class, and pining in a state of slavery. That it was not undertaken for the maintenance of the mutilated Polish kingdom, consti tuted by the Treaty of Vienna, without the sanction of the Poles themselves, and merely by the arbitrary will of the three partitioning powers with the concurrence of other nations, as reekiestly:inattenti%e to the rights of that unfortunate country as careless of their own in terests. _ _ That although the object of that revolution, and the labours of the Poles, have been frustrated by art and treason, that struggle remains only in abeyance, and Rill on the first opportunity, be renewed and continued until the national independence of Poland and the emancipation of the twenty millions of her people are achieved. That the Poles, taught by experience, that a reliance upon the intervention of foreign Courts and Cabi— nets, has been always most injurious to them, now see the means of their security and restoration only in their own exertions, assisted however, by the friendly and powerful aid of the people of all those free nations who feel sympathy and admiration for the exiled chil dren of Poland, and who perceive in her emancipation the surest means of defeating the most odious despotisit that ever threatened the liberty of Europe. That, lastly, after the restoration of Poland to her ancient limits, the Poles are decided upon a complete reform of her political institutions and her social state, upon the entire abolition of serfsbip and all obdoxious distinctions and privileges, and upon the union of all her inhabitants, without any exception, under the safe guard of fraternity, justice, and equality, in the enjoy ment of all civil and political rights, and just share in the property of the sail, which they render fertile by their labour. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE DERBY. 17 to 1 agst Warden—taken 17 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael 15 to 1 agst Angelica colt 18 to 1 agst Brother to Euclid 20 to 1 agst Bokhara 20 to 1 agst Launcelot 30 to 1 agst St. Andrew COURSING MEETINGS. HAREWOOD, NON. 22, The Cup was won by Mr. Harrison's r and w b Myrtle beat ing Mr. Cockcroft's f d Todder, &c. The All-Aged Stakes were won by Mr. T. Gascoigne's f d Frank beating Mr. Bingley's br b Venus, &c. The Sweepstakes of 2 sows each were won by Mr. Brooke's h d Nimrod beating Sir J. Johnstone's Bittern. FLEETWOOD AETUMN, Nov. 23 and 26. The Fleetwood Cup was won by Mr. Easterby's Rough Robin beating:Mr. Rowley's Emperor, &c. The Preston Puppy Cup, by Mr. Rowley's Scratoble beating Mr. Coup's Clayton Lass, &c. The Rossall Stakes, by Mr. Heyes's Spot beating Mr. Row ley's Earl. The Churchtown Stakes, by Mr. Rowley's Earl beating Mr. Fellowes's Forester. The Southport Stakes, by Mr. Hinde's Fickperket. The Crosslands Puppy Stakes by'Mr. Craven's Castle Carey. SOUTH LANCASHIRE CLUE (SOUTIIIHRT), Nov. 27 and 26. The Fleetwood Cup, for all ages, was woe. by Mr. Baker's r d Skimmer, beating Mr. Robinson's w and y b Fly, &s. the Hesketh Puppy Stakes were won by Mr. Rowley's f Rebecca beating Mr. Robinson's bl d William, &c. The Churchtown Stakes, by Mr. Edwards's bk b. Maiden Queen beating Mr. Tunstall's r d Chasse. LETCOMB BOWERS Nov. 243 and 29. The Cup was won by Mr. BOWERS, b b Gratilla beating Mr Warman's y b Wreath, &c. The First Class of the Ashdown Park Sweepstakes was w0;11 by Mr. Rowles's bk d Black Dwarf beating Mr. Spooner's t b Shamrock; and the Second Class by Mr. Goodlake's y attd w b Graceful beating Mr. Warman's y b Weapon. The First Class of the Letcomb Bowers Sweepstakes was won by Mr. Spooner's bk b Splendour beating Mr. Morell's b d Mountain-pecker ; and the Second Class by Mr. Flasher's b b Elastic beating Mr. Williams's bl d Whalebone. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Duke of Beaufort's hounds will meet on Wednesday at Wick Rocks ; Thursday, at Newark Park ; Saturday, at Grittleton—at eleven. Lord Moreton's hounds Wednesday, at Cold Harbour ; Saturday, at Ampney Park—at half-past ten. The Wynyard and Durham foxhounds, Tuesday, at Thorp; • Friday, at Cassop—at half-past ten. 1/131r. Tudway's hounds Tuesday, at Berkeley-lodge, Stander wiek ; Friday, at Batcombe Lodge. Essex Union foxhounds Wednesday, at Bradwell-street ; Saturday, at Runwell Church—at half-past ten. The Tickham hounds Thursday, at Lynsted-street; Satur day, at the Half-way House—at half-past ten. The Findon foxhounds Tuesday, at Ashurst ; Frlday, at the Kennel—at eleven. Mr. .Mure's foxhounds Tuesday, at:Hicket Heath ; friday, at Stotehworth Park—at half-past ten. Mr. It. Cockburn's hounds Tuesda, at Brooadelist ; Friday, at the Kennel. The Cambridgeshire hounds Friday, at the Hardwick Arms —at half-past ten. The M. H. Tuesday, at Steepleton Winterborn; Friday, at Wintrith. The B. V. H. Wednesday, at Wallbridge ; Saturday, at Milborne Newtown—at ten.' Mr. Webb's harriers Thursday, at New Inn, Salford ; Saturday, at Binton Bridge—at eleven. The U. P. Tuesday, at the Reveries; Thursday, a t Main. stone Wood—at nine. The Warwickshire hounds Tuesda y , at Mitford B r id ge; Thursday, mbpestorne eleven. e Br e id o. ge ; Saturday, at "%oaten li ter Mr. Farquharson'fo s hounds Tuesday, at Meleornbe Park ; Thursday, at Grim stone Turn p ike Gate. Abbey--at at go ‘ a i r ' Lord Portman's hounds Friday, at Shillingston Cliff. 31r. Morgan's hounds Wednesday, at Haxter Lodge, fcr Persham. Mr. Foljambe's hounds Tuesday, at Darlton ; Wednesday, at Grinley ; Friday, at Barnby Moor; Saturday, at Apley Head —at half-past ten. The Vine hounds Wednesday, at Hurstbourn Park ; Friday, at Bramley---ateleven._ Mr. IL:flock's hounds Tuesday, at Bradford Wcod ; Satur day, at New Park. _ Mr. A. Smith's hounds Tuesday, at Kempton Woad ; Thursday, at Lower Wick FatEa ; Friday, at South Grove— at eleven. Mr. Giles's hounds Thursday, at Corse Grove—at half-past ten. The Essex and Suffolk hounds Tuesday, at Bradfield street ; Friday, at Tattingstone White Horse—at half-past ten. Baron Rothschild's staghounds Thursday, at Seagrave Marsh —at eleven. Mr. 11. Villebois's staglaounds Thursday, at Swaffham Race course—at eleven. The Norfolk foxhounds Wednesday, at Mitcham; Friday, at Crayfish, Thursford—at half-past ten. Mr. Musters's hounds Tuesday, at Holme Pierrepoint ; Castle ; Airdrie ; Thursday, at Thursday, at Lowdham Mill ; Saturday, at the Seventh M stone, Ore tonroad—at eleven. The Hevthrop hounds Tuesday, at Bla a d t on K G in a f t a e u ; ns Thursday, at llradwell Grove ; Friday, at Gawcomb. S a T ' t i o h h r e e da e N P ', if e : e t s t i D l : i r s u l : houndsr c i e , r o a u b n — ds at T h a u l e f 7 s 2 d u p a a es ; d t:t y a e t ' n . Glenduckiet ; Saturday, at Scotscraig—at half -past ten. The Puckeridge hounds Wednesday, at Woodside Green - ; Saturday, at Aston Bury—at half-past ten. The Western Hunt Friday, at Badger's Cross, Gulval—at ten. The Atherstone hounds Wednesday, at Shuttington Bridge; Thursday, at Hints ; Saturday, at Churchover—at a quarter to eleven. Sir C. Constable's staghounds 'Wednesday, at Ridgemont Fr.day.:at Wyton Toll-bar—at eleven.