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EVENING EDIT ION. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " RANDOM RECOL LECTIONS of the LORDS and COMMONS." On Tluipiday next, the 10th inst., will be published, in 2 vols. post Svo., handsomely bound in cloth, WALKS AND WANDERINGS IN THE WORLD OF LITERATURE. By the Author of " Random Recollections," " The Great Me tropolis," " Travels in Town," &c. &c. Saunders and Otley, Publishers, Conduit -street. Orders received by all Booksellers. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF ECI.6AME YESTRIS. 'rifts EVENING, FRIDAY, CCT. 4, 1839, Will be repeated Shakspere's Comedy of LOVE'S LABOURS LOST. The Scenery entirely new, painted by Mr. Grieve, Mr. T Grieve, and :Mr. W. Grieve, Ferdinand, King of Navarre, Mr. Cooper v ; Biron, Mr. An ,!eron, Lon,gaville, Mr. Fitzjames, Domain, Mr. J. Vining, Loris, attending on the King ; Boyet, Mr. F. Matthews, Mercatie, Mr. W. Payn e , Lords, - attending on the Princess of 17. ; Dun Adrian° de Armado, (a fantastical Spaniard,) Mr. Harley ; Sir N a th an i e l, ( a Curate, ) Mr. Meadows; Holofernes, (a Schooinuster,) Mr. Bartley ; Dull, (a Consia ble,) Mr. Granby; Custard, (a (lown,) Mr. Keeley; Moth, (Page to Armalo,) Miss Lee ; Forester, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Princess of France. Mrs. Nisbet; Rosaline, Madame Vestris, Maria, Miss E. Phillips, Katharine, Miss Charles, Ladies at tending on the Princess; Jaquenetta, (a Country Wench) Mrs. HumbY ; Vor, or Spring, Miss Rainforth ; Hiems, or Winter, Mr. S. Jones. Officers and others, Attendants on the King and Princess, Messrs. Brace, Butler, Collett, Connell, Charles, Davis, Furness, Horton, Hodges, Hughes, Fredericks, Ker ridge, Williamson, Young, Gibson, Ireland, Ridgway. Mes dames Baden, A. Bolen, Beresford, Cummins, Charlton, Col lett, Bailey, Emden, Goward, Jackson, A. Jackson, Lane, Fairbrother, Gibson, Ryals, Charlton, Fenton, Kendall, E. Kendall, A. Lee, "Wassail, Platt, Paris. To conclude with, fifth time, a New Farce, in Two Acts, called ALIVE A.ND MERRY. Mr. *mantel Perkins, 3lr. \‘'. Farrell. Frank Saunders, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Luke Sharp, Mr. Bartley. Patrick Day, Mr. Brougham. Waiter, Mr. W. 11. Payue. Servant, Mr. Kerridge. Miss P,nclope Perkins, Mrs. Orger. Bella, Mrs. Humby. Landlady, Mrs. Emden. air The Theatre will be Open Every Evening. To-morrow (the First Olympic Night), Sum. and Systems, Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady, Patter versus Clatter, and The Loan of a Lover. Shakspere's Comedy of Love's Labour Lest will be repeated on Slonday, Wednesday, Thursda2, and Friday next. The New Farce of Alive and Merry will he performed every evening till further notice (the Olympic Nights excepted). The Theatre has been re-embellished by Mr. W. Bradwell, and the following - new arrangements have been made for the ensuing season A separate Entrance and Corridor have been appropriated ! the rose Circle, in which chairs have been placed in lieu of benc h e s, and Ladies and Gentlemen taking Tickets for this part of the Theatre, will have their seats reserved for the whole i of the evening . , Corresponding attention will be found to have been paid to , 1 the +landed and accommodation of the Public in the other tCircles of Boxes, from the elrin.!eliers of which the gas has been entirely removed, and wax candles substituted. In compliance with the suggestions of many of her patrons, 1 1 Madame VESTRIS has the honour to announce, that it is her . • .• inten .ton to appropriate ONE EVENING IN EACH WEEK to the performance of those Entertainments. which for so many 3 , :ttrA have constituted the attraction of the OLYMPIC Tta:ATRE. THE FIRST OLYMPIC NIGHT Will be TO.M.ORROW, October sth.: ►; i • es; Boxes, is; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second i Cn, les, ss. ; Second Price, '2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to t e'onr•rence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. :Totter, at t! Bax-otlice, from Ten till Four, where Season 'rickets • aa . - be had upon application. Pr:vate Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-strvet. Alaiiager, Mr. Bartley ; Composer and Musical Di- R. Bishop, plus Bac. ; Ballet _Master, Mr. t) , car t'vroe ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Hughes ; Chorus ter, tlfr. - Tully ; Prompter, Mr. W. S. Emden; the Scenery • 5 Grieve, Mr. I'. Grieve, and Mr. W. Grieve ; Mecha , 1!;,,t atiit Decorator, Mr. W. Bradwell ; the Machinery bp Mr. :-..itotuan; Master of the Wardrobe, Mr, Head; Mistresses ,of the Wardrobe, Mrs. Stroud and Mrs. Brown. ROYA L SUHIIEY THEATRE. THIS EVENING, OCT. 4. be presented an entirely new and original Nautical Drama, in Three Acts, entitled • ARMSTRONG, THE SHIPWRIGHT. IleuLen Armstrong, Mr. T. P. Cooke ; Abel Armstrong, _tir. E. F. Saville ; Annis Mildred, Mrs. H. Vining; Bona, Miss Martin. Alter which (41st time) the successful Nautical Drama of LLN BOATSWAIN ; Or, SAILOR'S SWEETHEARTS, Ben Bowling, Mr. T. P. Cooke. To conclude with the Old English Drama of 'TIE LAD YE OF LAMBYTHE. Eva, Mrs. Vining. Katherine Miss Grant. Lucie, Miss Martin. Willer More Mr. E. F. Saville. Wilbert, Mr. Dale. John the Jester, Mr. Smith. t HIGH WATER Kr LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. 20 minutes atter 0. Evening ... 42 minutes alter 0. LY... 444,,,. , .. -4 ) y, 4 ~ . .A-i . ,:- _,...----- ..-, - -.k-ve —;., ,tc , 4,;'-i=y--114.1; Zb,'c 111. x. LONDON: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1839. W e very often hear it said that man is a bundle of contradictions. Whether that be true of the whole race we will not aver, but it is eminemtly tro,:, of that particular species—the legislator. He has lately passed an Act, which betrays the ten- e.cst care of the lives and limbs of little boys. They must not bathe, lest they should be drowned; they must not run or ride behind carriages, lest they 6ilould be crippled. He is almost as careful of the brute creation as of inrsants, and dogs must no longer drag trucks, because that is not an occupa tion suitable to their frames ; and neither horses nor asscs must be corrected by the sti;..k. At the same time, slowly, and by means of the ' pangs of hunger, and of lingering disease, arising from insufficient food, this humane legislator starves annuall ,, j a multitude of persons out of existence. When the whim seizes him, he drags away men by ti:ousands from their wives and families, and semis theLt to perish in crowded ships in a pestilential i climate, or to he slaughtered by wholesale. He lobjects to whipping a horse, but he resists all at , tealpts to abolish the whipping of men. He will net tolerat3 an ass being cudgelled, but he shuts no hundreds and even thousands of human beings in noisome gaols, or banishes them to drag out a long and lingering existence, pinioned to gether in chain-gangs. To the one he can t not be too merciful, and to the other he cannot be too cruel ; and he studies and contrives, he coolly plans in his Cabinet and in the Legislature, how he may most effectually torment some of his fellow ; creatures. He shudders at allowing a little boy to iun the risk of breaking his leg, and he ruthlessly consigns grown men and women, in the full vigour of life, and in the full capacity of enjoyment, to a sudden and a painful death. Throughout these apparent inconsistencies there is one consistent t undeviating thought. The legislator, in common wi;l1 all other individuals, never dreams that he can he wrong; whatever he ordains, therefore, whe ther it concerns little boys jumping behind car riages, or grown men whom he dooms to death, he supposes that it is and must be well or dained, and whatever he does not ordain he as naturally concludes must be ill ordered and neglected. \Ve are decidedly not of his opinion, and think that he is more likely to cripple than invigorate society by his superabundant care. As a specimen of the state of helplessness to which children may be re duced, by being prevented from exercising their limhs, whether in swimming, climbing trees, or running behind carriages, the following is worth mAice At Marylebonc, about two years ago, the writer of these pages saw a lad of fifteen years of age, of who had d never but once b een out o f t h e h ouse f rom th e time hi birth ; h e was well-gro w n, but, as may be easily supposed, deficient i n intelligence. ft is not more than two years ago since the children were taken out of the workhouse for and a walk for the fir st time ; and a person who saw them ( who has been greatly instrumental in introducing an improved treatment of the children in that workhouse) stated that it was a most affecti ng sight to witness the de light and surpris e w i th which they first beheld the green fields near Primrose hill. They rolled upon the grass, and appeared incapable of being satiated, so great was their joy. The poor fellow before alluded to fell into every drain and ditch ; he had never before experienced such holes in the earth, and a jump or a long step were motions unknown to him, for he had never walked upon anything but the flags of the workhouse." —Central So ciety of Education third publication. If Messrs. FIAWES, WAKLaY, and C o , arc to continue their legislative exertions on the' subject of Police another Session or two, they bid f air to reduce all our youngsters to die condition o f t h e lad who had never walked on anything but the ..aa s of the workhouse. We admire humanity as much as they, but when it overflows in restraints it totally changes its character. To save the lives of one or a score of weakly children, whom nature perhaps, on account of some imperfection in her workmanship, destines for a short life, such legislators would en feeble the whole human race. The misfortunes of youthful sufferers, which the legislator would prevent, almost prove that they are less fitted to struggle with the world than those who are spared ; and it is short-sighted policy, and dreadfully incon sistent, to be careful to preserve the life which the lecriclator is afterwards to make miserable, in a chain gang, or cut short at the gallows, or by the more paltddi ptocess of starvation. Such obervations require now to be impressed I on the Legislature and on the public, because there is an increasing disposition in the former to extend the sphere of legislation, and because the ever-in creasing use of machinery tends of itself to lessen the necessity for the employment of our limbs. In stead of repressing games and bodily exercises in the young, policy should rather encourage them as giving accomplishments, while they preserve the animal frame in vigour. We may on this occasion notice as a proof both of the inconsistency of the legislator and his conviction that whatever he does is right, that while lie is thus limiting the exercise of the so-called free and inde pendent population, he is carefully providing— warned by such examples as that we have quoted— for the healthful and vigorous education of pauper children. The Reports lately laid before the Poor law Commissioners by Dr. KAY and Mr. TUFF NEL, may be called elaborate essays on the best means of improving the body and mind of infant paupers. To that the power of the State is di. rected. Already they are taught to climb, to run, to garden, and to work at various businesses. They are to have boats to row, and masts to get up, with sailors to teach them to climb, and nice plots of ground to dig. What is now done for them is but a tithe of what is proposed ; and as we have read and pondered over the wisely laid schemes, w e have wished for our offspring the benefit of such an education as is now to be bestowed on the youthful paupers. We have heard that accomplishments of the mast refined kind are not to be neglected. In some of the schools, practical instruction i s g iv e n in singing ; music will follow, and doubtless those child ren who evince a capacity for drawing will have opportunities of study provided for them. It would be cruel to take charge of them and blight their talents. The, mathematics, we understand, are already cultivated to no inconsiderable extent, and soon those schools will turn out the children into finished men and women. Should our Universities ever become what they ought to be—schools to prepare young men for the duties of life, through these new pauper schools will be found the fittest, path to their highest honours. We do not advert to these circumstances in any censorious spirit ; we rejoice to see the attempts that are made to improve the education and condition of pauper children, but we claim for those who do not ask the State for support, who are called free and independent, the privilege of exercising their limbs and their minds, without being punished by our lay, and denounced by our spiritual law-makers. By the weekly corn averages published yesterday it appears that the price of the week was 71s. ld.. while the price of the six weeks was 70s. 10d The duty therefore is now 10s. Bd., and from the large quantity taken out of bond the day before yesterday, it may be presumed that the dealers ex pect that the duty will not again fall for some weeks, if at all. There can be no doubt, as the averages are determined by all the wheat sold, that the quantity of bad corn which has of late been brought to market has contributed to lower the price and raise the duty. The facility of communication between different parts of England, assures us that it is more the different qualities of the grain which make the great difference of price we notice in the returns, than the difficulty of sending corn from Westmor land to Carmarthen. In the last place, how ever, the average price of 36 quarters sold was 895.; in the former the average price of 73 quarters sold was 61S. 10d. Now that difference in price, great as it is, 275. 2d. per quarter, must be caused by the different quality of the corn, more than by the cost of sending it from Westmorland to Carmarthen. Our present scale of duties,- therefore, is so nicely contrived as to im pose a duty on importation, great in proportion as the wheat is damaged, rotten, and unfit for food. Certainly that tends to give a protecting price to the farmer, whatever may be his crops ; it shields him against the consequences of the seasons; and while it stints and starves the people tends to make him careless how his crops are ga thered in. As the bulk of the people seem in love with short commons and bad bread, for they will not move to obtain redress for themselves, the pre sent state of the law will probably be continued till a higher power than man stifles the iniquity. Ever since Mr. `NYSE was appointed to the Treasury, the Tory journals have been howling against him as if the end of Protestantism was at hand. At the same time they continue their how- ling against the Privy Council, which has received the power to control the application of the money granted by Parliament for education. The prin cipal source of their complaint against Mr. WYSE is that he is a Papist, and an en thusiast on the subject of national education, and the great source of their complaint against the Privy Council Board is that it relieves the Treasury from the labour of looking after the money voted for education. Why, puppies that frisk after their own tails are not more the victims of their own mere blind animal spirits than thes3 writers. Had the Privy Council Board not been entrusted with this money it would have been placed very much at the disposal of the Papist Mr. WYsE,as a Lord of the Treasury. By constitut ing that Board, therefore, the Ministers have re moved the money from the control ofa Roman Cathos lic, without at the same time outraging seven million of her MAJESTY'S subjects, who only owe her al legiance in return for protection, and they have placed it under the control of persons who, being especially appointed for the purpose, will never, till the people become tolerant and wise, belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The Tories howl at the Roman Catholic, and they also howl at a renulation which removes the funds for education from under his management. Their inconsistent complaints are worthy of the factious cause they espouse. The Second Report of tl►e Committee on Rail ways, which will be found in another part of the Paper, relates chiefly to the financial situation of the Companies, the powers given them by the Le gislature, and the system under which railways are taxed. The Commissioners, in the summary they have g;ven of the causes which have led to the great excess of expenditure over the Parliamentary estimates, have omitted two very important items— the vast sums expended on competing lines, anti in neutralizing the opposition of landholders, possibly Members of the House, through whose property the lines had to pass. If we may judge from the sums bargained for by some landed proprietors on the Eastern Counties Railway line, the latter item must have been not the least important in swelling the account. On the second head, the observations of the Committee deserve the earnest attention of the Legislature and the public. After diligent and minute inquiry, they come to the important con clusion, that " it is clear the general interests of the community must be at variame with the interests of Railway Proprietors, and that in such cases the combination of capitalists held together by common advantage, and guided by able Directors, will pro bably prevail against the disunited efforts and ca sual resistance of the public." As a remedy against this evil, they recommend the appointment of a Board, to be connected with the Board of Trade, to control the vast powers given to many Companies, and to revise and alter, as may be ex pedient, by-laws made even under the sanction of Parliament. The reasons given for this interfer ence have been repeatedly urged in this Journal, and are so consonant with justice and common sense, and the remedy is so loudly called for by the public voice, that no serious objections to its adoption can be anticipated. The Committee, after adverting to arrangements which have re ceived the sanction of Parliament, express their be lief that the Legislature having conferred these large powers on Private Companies, and having secured to them the possession of important mono polies, " no just complaint can be made against any interference with these establishments, which may be deemed necessary either for the security or for the convenience of the public." With regard to the system of taxation, the Com mittee are not prepared to recommend any imme, diate change, especially when they consider that railroad s are placed on a more favourable footing than other modes of travelling by land. Indepen dent of th ese t h ree principal topics, there are others which possess general interest, and which " 11 de serve the attention of the public. A letter, which appears in another part of The Sul, furnishes ou r readers with some rather inte resting particulars r es p ect i ng the Reverend ED-- VASOUTH THURLOW, Rect or o f Hough ton-le-Spring, in the county of D ur h am, whose Church-rate pranks we h a d occ a s i on to notice some tune ago. What we knew of this worthy at that time was, that he was a swoln, stall-fed pluralist, who had been fattening upon ecclesiastical plunder for the last fifty years ; that from various sources, and in various ways, he had contrived, during that time, to grab little short of two hundred thousand pounds of the national pro perty ; and that such was the voraciousness of his I holy maw, that, notwithstandingiall that had al ready gone into it, it was still yearning after the shillings and pence of the poor Dissenters of Houghton-le-Spring, - under the pretence of glorify ing GOD. We now learn that he is indebted for his spiritual (!) advancement to his relationship to Lord Chancellor THURLOW, one of the most un principled time-servers that ever held the Great Seal. Every body knows that Chancellors and Bishops regard the patronage which their office puts into their power as expressly ordained for the purpose of providing for the members of their families. It is in the usual course of things—the regular working of the aristocratic system, and was no worse in THURLOW than in the MOORS, the SPARKES, and the PRETTYMANS, Clan muftis aliis. We are further informed of the manner in which this Reverend person discharges his clerical duties in one of his numerous parishes. He is Rector of Estyn, in Flintshire, and although he had not visited his parish for forty years before, he found his way thither at the last county election to give his vote for the Tory candidate ! This is honour able to the character of a Minister of the Gospel, and creditable to the Church to which he belongs. Madrid Journals of the 25th ult. have been re ceived. The Committee on the fueros had con cluded its Report, which it was about to present to the Chamber of Deputies. The Report upon the project of law for a general amnesty was also ready. The majority of the Committee recommend the fueros to be confirmed without limitation, but the Exaltados or Ultra-Liberals have given notice that they will move that for the Report of the ma jority the following Resolutions shall be substi tuted, to which it was supposed Ministers would offer no objection : " Art. 1. That thefueros shall be maintained, but upon the express understanding that the said fueros must be compatible with the Constitution. " Art. 2. That the Government is authorised to confirm those fueros, but without losing sight of the spirit and letter of the Constitution." The Madrid Gazette of the 24th, publishes a decree ordering the authorities to use all the means in their power to bring about a complete reconcilia tion, without reserving or molesting any persons on account of their anterior opinions. At the same time a salutary energy is recommended to be used against such persons as may endeavour to disturb the public tranquillity. The news f rom Spain continues to be highly satisfactory. In the official columns of the Mold teur of Wednesday, which we have received, along with the other Paris Journals of the same date, we find the following telegraphic despatch BAYONNE, OCT. 1. " THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVI SION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR AND OF FOREIGN AFEAMS. " The division of Aicala arrived at Tudela on the 25th. Three other divisions of the army of the north are expected there. Espartero was to enter the 2d of October into Sa ragossa, marching against Cabrera, with 33 battalions and 18 squadrons. Navarre enjoys the most perfect tranquillity. All the country has submitted, and desires peace." We trust that before the setting in of winter hostilities shall have terminated in every part of Spain. CABRERA'S object is not, we are assured, to uphold a cause which he knows to be lost, but to amass as much treasure as possible before quitting the Spanish soil. He employs the name of Don CA RLOS merely as an authority for plunderin g the people of their property. The Journal des Debats devotes an article four columns in length to the subject of Spain. As there are few more important, now that the civil war is over, and that measures are about to be taken to place the institutions of the country on a permanent footing, we shall take an early oppor tunity of stating our views regarding it. Notwith standing the ob s ti nacy w i t h which France, during a period of six years, opposed all intervention for. the purpose of putting an end to the civil war in the Peninsula, she is quite prepared to monopolize, if possible, all advantages accruing from peace. She objected to touch the plough, but outstrips the patient husbandman in her eagerness to grasp the scythe and the sickle. There is very little domestic news in the French Journals. The Revue des Deu.v illondes intimates that the KING is no longer on the best terms with his Ministers, and that Count MOLE is once more in high favour at Court. The ex-President of the Council is strongly in favour of the claims of MEHEMET ALI, whom he represents as the na tural ally of France against the designs of Russia at Constantinople, and as a counterpoise to the power of England in the Mediterranean. Besides, in requital for the support of France, the PACHA would aid, by every means in his power, the suc cess of the designs of the French Cabinet in Africa. It will be a lamentable circumstance truly, if England, abandoned by France, be compelled to accept the proffered alliance with Russia. And yet to this deplorable pass are French statesmen, by a series of tergiversations, endeavouring to drive the British Cabinet.- The Commission appointed to examine the Railway projects continues its useful inquiries. The majority of the members are agreed that the line between Paris and Belgium should be under taken by the Government, both that it may be the sooner finished, and that it may stimulate private individuals to greater exertions. The affairs of the United States' Bank were much talked off on the Bourse, and the timid had not failed to point out the simultaneous decline of American credit in London, Paris, and Amster dam. The return of Mr. JAMES ROTHSCHILD from Frankfort had, however, produced, in spite of the whispers of the timid, considerable activity on the Bourse on Tuesday evening. By the submission of the fort of Guevara, all organized resistance ceases in Navarre and in Biscay, but there are still bands of plunderers. The following is a letter from Irun, dated 27th September :—" On Sunday last some officers belonging to the Carlist army came in the evening to the house inhabited by Itur'ce, at Azpeytia. The General being absent, they were hospitably received by his mother ; but during the night they entered the chamber of that lady, and required her to give them a hundred ounces of gold, as the price, they said, of the treason of her son, who bad aided Maroto to ruin the country by obtaining peace. The mother protested in vain ; she was obliged to deliver the hundred ounces of gold. The ofpi ee►s then left, but not till they had broken to pi,Tes the household furniture, and done all sort of mischief. They then went to join the band commanded by Zavala, who has under his command about 150 men, with whom he intends to ravage Guipuscoa." A letter from Galicia ( Austria) of the 15th of Septem ber, says :—" Fur some years past an underhand warfare has existed in our frontier between the Russian and Aus trian Governments, because the Cabinet of Vienna has learnt with the greatest astonishment that all imaginable efforts were making to extend even to the subjects of Austria, professing the Greek religion, the dissolution of the union of a part of the Greek Church with the Roman Catholic Church. The Cabinet of Vienna had the same leason to direct its attention to the subject, as it was sen sible that there was something else even besides the attain ment of a religious object. Let it be borne in mind that four millions of Austrian subjects of the not united Greek Church (we mean, not united with the Church of Rome) now include in their prayers the Czar as the head of the Church."—La Gazette de France. The Cure Merino arrived on the 29th September at Bordeaux, where Generals Villareal and Gomez are ex pected. It seems that the political amnesty which the Queen of Spain means to grant will not be published till the 10th of October, the birthday of Isabella IL, who will then complete her ninth year.—Constitutionne/. Extract of a letter from Constantinople, 12th ult., in the Augsburg Gazette:—" Two English men-of-war and two French, together with an Austrian frigate, have been sent from Basika Bay to Alexandria, where they are to be stationed off the port. Mehemet Ali is said to have ordered Ibrahim to march on Constantinople without further delay at the head of 100,000 men. Reschid Khosrew Pacha, and Halil Paella are understood to agree in their views, and form a strong ministerial trium virate. We learn from Salonica that half of that town has ' been destroyed by fire. The houses of the European Consuls have either been burnt or much injured. The French Consul could only save the archives, and was wounded by the fall of a beam." The Bordeaux Journals stuto the horses of Don Carlos, which have arrived, are considerable in number, :and very fine animals; but several were stolen before they crossed the frontier. The horses of Don Sebastian are also in Bordeaux, and are regularly exercised by the grooms in a , stree t s . Two of them ere said to be intended as pre sents to the ging of Naples. Immediately after th e rece i pt of the news of The Leipsic Gazette contains th e f o ll owing from th 'i e en a n rr a i . ;i7l of " Don Carlos in Franc e , t h e F rench Ambas. iie class;dldGr had a long conference with B aron d'O ttenfeldt, at or" which r courier was despatched to Paris front the French Embassy. it ,s tho;ight that the settle ment of this quest ion will be left to the : British an d French reside here in great n um b ers, are unanirnouz ;n thinking that nothin g more f ortunate could and Cchhr Cabinets.istinos, lt is worthy of remark th a t t h e Carlists who THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, P. 139 occur to Spaniards of all opinions than to be relieved of the presence of this Prince." BOURSE. —PARIS, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2. iz int Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 1:0 75 ... 110 95 ... HO 75 ... 1 0 120 3 ner Cents Bl 23 ... 81 45 ... 81 23 ... SI 45 Bank of France 2795 ...2797 CO _093 ...2797 50 Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 1065 ...1065 ~.1065 ..,1065 5,000 f. .) 5220 ...520 ...5220 • ...5220 Belgian 5 per Cents 103 .74 ... 103% ... 103% ... 103;4 Bank 777 5 0 ... 777 50.,. 777 50 ... 777 50 Cmpon. .. 45 45 45 ... 45 ... , ... Spanish Active 31% ... 22 .., 31% • .., 31& Passive 8 „.. 8 l, „, 71 New Iv fcrre.l Old Deferred 8 ... 8% ... 8% ... 8% Portuguese 3 per Cents Neapolitan Roman ll3 ~. 103 ... 103 ... 103 RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R. B 530 ... 530 ... 520 ... 530 LB 307 50 ... 207 ;Al ... 304 50 ... 302 50 Havre Strasburg to 8a1e... ......... Montpellier to Cette 3BO ..8U ... 380 ... 3820 Nlulhausen to Thann 3BO ... 355 ... 380 ... 385 ISELtiIAN I , UNDS—BaussEts, OCT . 2. Actual Debt, 2.!,'. per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lO l4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per'Cent. 3 per Cent. Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 95 Society of Commerce, 4 •,i per Cer t lO9 Batik of Belgium, 5 per Cent ............. ... National Society . ....................... . . —Brussels Papers, Oct. 2. .......... DUTCH FUNDS.—ASISTEUDAII, Om I. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent M0ney..................53 53% Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. .. .............. .. ...... 101% 1 1, 11,', A inort SYnclic, 4% per cent .................... 95% 95' Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. ................... .. 80 W%, Cominer,ial Company, 4', per cent .......... 174 174% Ditto (leB'2 and 1433) 5 per cent. ........ .... 100% 101%. Ditto W;l7, b per cent. ........................... 10144 101!;, D itto 1837, 5 rer cent. ...................... ...... 9614 99LA Exchange on London, One month .......... .. 1 t 9N Two months ........ 11 8 5 —Dutch Papers, Oct. I. lIA 11 BURG- BORSEN HALLE, SErr. 28. , Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. ..... ............................ 10ili 10:,54 Bank shares ...................................... 1510 1515 An 10-Russian Loan ........................ 1 1 .6% 106 , 4', Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certific ate...... . . 101 s 10: Inscription, Ist Series... ................................. Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th Sed.s ..................................... .. ........... 97q 97!,i Ditto in Certificates .................................... 97 Dutch actual Debt, 2 yr,i pe Cent ................... 52Y6 52;‘ ; Ditto 5 per Cent ................... 101 Polish Bondi ........................................... .. 1355 ticket ................................................ 151% Anglo- ranish Loan, 3 per Cent. .................... 71% 71 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent. lOl% AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VituNa, Seer 24 Five per Cents. Metalliques • 107% Four per Cents. — Three per Cents. Hank Shares 1533 —4l l ge7neine Zeitung, Sept. 2..1. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Braua, Seer. io. St. Schuld, Sch., 4 , per cent. l3l s. Money. 03 (5-6 103!,i Prussian Engiish Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102;ii 1t12% kxchange on London, three months 6 20% —Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 19. MONEYAND COMMERCIALNEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The Cotton market continues dull and inactive ; prices on the whole are rather in favour of the buyer. The sales about 2,500 bags to the trade. By the Colonist, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, from Sydney, we have received Sydney Papers to the 7th May, from which the following are extracts : PonT LINCOLN —The settlement of this important harbour proceeds with great rapidity. The Abeona sailed on Monday with a large party of gentlemen, interested in the enterprise. The Porter and the Dor set follow during the course of next week, both fully loaded. Mr. Porter, G. Smith, and Dr. Imlay have contracted to land stock there on the same rate as at Glenelg ; and, not least in importance, a new paper, the Part Lincoln Herald, is to be published on Monday week. The Hero of Malown was released from her quaran tine ground on Wednesday evening with all her emi grants, 211, including children ; two adults and twenty children died during the passage, there were ten births at sea, and three since arriving at this port. The vessel left Liverpool on the 20th November. Clean Wheat at the mills.—None on sale. Prices quoted per bushel, colonial, 15s. ; Van Diemen's Land, 17s. Grain.-Oat (seed), 9s. per bushel ; barley, Bs. to 9s. ; Cape (seed), 12s. Hay and straw-Oaten hay, 15/. to 181. per ton ; straw, 61. to 61. 10s. per ton. Fresh butter, 3s. to 4s. per lb. ; salt, 2s. to 3s. 6d, per lb.; cheese, Is. to Is, 6d. per lb. ; barn, Is. per lb. ; ba. eon, Is. to Is. 2d. per lb ; pickled pork, Bd. to 9d. per lb. ; eggs, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per dozen ; lard, Is. per. lb. Butchers' Meat.-Beef per lb. by the carcase, 21d. to 3d ; by the joint, 4id ; salt beef, 4d. ; mutton by carcase, 21d. per lb. ; by the joint, 4d. ; veal per lb., joint, Bd. to 9d. ; pork per joint Sd. to 9d. ; Irish Bd. ; roasting pigs, ss. 6d. to Bs. each. Within these few days upwards of eighty thousand quarters of wheat have arrived in the port of London. We observe that the duty of Gs. Bd. per quarter has been paid on the above quantity direct from the ship. TILE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yestesdaY 90 i 1 buyers for the Account, and 90! for Money, opened at 90-a3 for Money, and 90-a• a for the A ccount . Thi s b uoyant appearance of the 4 Market may be attributed to Mr. Jaudon having overcome the great difficulties be la boured under in respect to the United States Bank. This happy result also (rives great s a ti s f act i on to t h e American merch an t s; and those persons who are con nected with the United States. Exchequer Bills, ra ther improved, 2 dis., 1 prem ; in India Bonds nothing done ; Bank Stock for the opening, 186 187 ; India Stock, 247 248. Spanish Active 30i i ; Portuguese, 351 36 ; Three per Cents., 241 ; Brazilian, 73 74 ; Colombian, 31i ; Mexican, 31i ; Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cents., .53i i ; Five per Cents., 1001 101. Stock ßo nds . ....... .... par. ads. 3er Cent. Cons. RICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK, Bank 5t0ck......... S p ec Cent. Red. = Ditto 90_____%% SN O oeI duwt Annuities Ditto -- ta',„ 13% per C e nt Ditto Red. .. . ......... 97_ 3 4 % DD3Expiitteettrooh ........................................................... — pdrn,.. New 3( per Cent New 5 per Cent Et.i j i o ik n. Lo s 7 l / 8 1 ( 1 0 11 . 1 . i . i . i . t . i . e . .... .to . e .. x . p i re_ 13 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 - Ditto Commercial — dis .Ln. 5, 1860 14;1-16 Ditto Advertised ..... —.— pm. Jan. 5, 1880 - Bank Stock for Account ... April 5, iSSO _ India Stock for Account ... Jan. 5. 187(1 — Comm for Account,,,... 90%14 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds _ Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds an Bonds 1) tto Accou t — Russian Bonds, 1822 - Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account ..... ... Ditto Account — Ditto M e t a l l i c ...... .......... ...... Columbian Bonds, 1824. Ditto Account 315, i 4 Ditto Accoury..... :.!0%%N.-?li Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Def,rred ................... 14% kse Greek Bonds — ' French, 5 per cent. t: —c. Ditto Bonds, 180. 5 , ___. 4 per cent. —f. —c. Ditto Account — I -- 3 per cent. f. —e. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent 26% -- Exchange. —f. —r. Ditto Account Ditto Account 31%% Ditto, 5 per cent lOO% Neapolitan. — Ditto Acc0unt......... rttlCEs OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. root Western Railway C0mpany................., 65 6014 1 Brighton Railway HALF -PAST ONE. Although Consols are not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, we may state that things 'have a•better appearance than for these few days past on the Stock ,Exchange. Money is more easy, and can be obtained' at 6 per cent. Business is reviving in the Colonial Market, and a good deal has been done this morning in thel various produce. There is also a 'better feeling in the operations of the Bank parlour ; the weekly meeting broke up yesterday without any notice of the advance of the rate of discount ; and the reports of the issuing of one and two pound notes have entirely vanished. Consols, which reached 90h for the Account may at present be quoted 90i for Account and 904 for Money ; they were 904 : Exchequer Bills, 3, 1 discount ; India Bonds, par, 3 discount ; in India Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues steady at 30a owing to their coming higher from Paris this morning ; Colombian, 31 i - 1 ,-, rather lower ; Danish, - 13,1 ; Mexican, 314 1 ; Portuguese, 35 -1 i ; Three per Cents 241 ; D u t c h T wo • an d-H a lt per Cents. 5:3' ; Five per. Cents 1001; Spanish Passive 7, 1; Deferred 141. Ilamburgh mail not received. CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS Bank Stock 1 India Stack 3 per Cent Red ; Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Crais. «„.„••****** I)o4 's Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Bed ......... .. ..... Ditto New Annuities New 3% per Cent ............... 97X Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d....... I dig. New 5 per Cent ........ .. ..... Ditto 504 i cis. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 4 dis. Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Opg .- - Oct. 1859 India Stock for Opg Jan 1860 14 % Consols for Act ..... .......... 9034' FOREIG N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent,........... P ortugue se Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent.. ............. lON Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds ..... .. ........... Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent R uss ian Bonds, 5 per cent.... 1 11 Chilian, 6 per cent —. Ditto, Metallic Colomb,an, 6 per cent ....... .. .-- Spanish, 5 per cent... ...... Ditto, 1824.......... .. ......... 31 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent ..... , ...... .... 7:IA French, 5 per cent. ......... —f. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct. Exchange ..................... —II —c Mexican, 5 per cent......... 28 , 4 French, 3 per cenL ......... —r. —c. Ditto, Ii per cent., 1825. .... ~.. 31 Dutch, 3% per cent. S3N Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent.... Ditto, 5 per cent. lOO% Great Western R ai l way SHARES 61 Ditto New Shares ....._ _4 q ..... ................................ Gosport Junction Railway to London and Brighton Railway ...................... ....... 17 London and Birmingham Railway ........................ Si, Ditto New Shares .......................................... London Grand Junction ltailway .......................... IgSS 56 Midland Counties Ratiway North Midland Railway....,,, ................. ...... STEAMER RACING UPON THE RIVER THAMES.—May, Commander of the Bridegroom, and Bacot, Commander of the Jessamine, steam-boats, op peared before the Lord Mayor, on summonses taken out against them by Ch a ll enor O g l e , Esq., Be!grave square, for having unlawfully raced on the river Thames between Chelsea and Vauxhall bridges, on Monday, the 2ad of September, and thereby endangered the lives of her Majesty's subjects. Under all the circumstances, the Lord Mayor thought Mr. Ogle's end would be an swered by ordering the defendants to pay the costs. This was, his Lordship said, the first case that bad beep beard for racing above bridge. Should a second be brought forward and proved, he should in all pro bability refer it to the City Solicitor for prosecution, when a more severe punishment would be inflicted by the Court than he could summarily impose. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) There has been a good return of English Wheat this week ; little of other Grain ; and a considerable quantity of Foreign Wheat and Oats. Good parcels of Wheat were firm, at a small advance on Monday's prices ; for other descriptions the trade was dull. Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats unvaried from Monday. The Flour trade has been very heavy this week. On Wednesday last, 340,000 quarters of Foreign 'Wheat paid duty.. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Earley. I Oate. Fl on! English ( 1 ,6504r5. 2, , )50 yrs. I,rlVirl 4,135 acks Irish Foreign ..... 40,960 20,950 - brls. 25)03 SMITHFIELD. The trade was very dull, although the supply was but an average one, and prices in general have undergone a decline on last Friday, .varying from 2d. to 4d. per stone. Beef sold heavily, and Veal found hut few buyers at from 4s. to 4s. Bd. For Mutton there is more demand, but many sheep remain unsold. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Vel, 4s. Bd. ; Pork, 4s. 6d. to :is. 6d. Beasts, 619, Sheep, 5,160 ; Pigs, 483 ; Calves, 232. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. The supplies were tolerably good, except of Turbot, Salmon, and Lobstets. Trade was lively and prices stationary. '1 ur bot, 103. to 30s. ; Salmon, Is. 6d. to 2s. per lb., and very scarce ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. 6d. ; Whitings, 6d. to Is. ; Haddocks, Is. to 2s. Gd. ; Soles, 10d. to 3s. Gd. per pair Oysters, 12s. to 40s. per bushel. pL COLONIAL MARKET. There has been a tolerable amount of business done, and mostly iu the primary commodities of Sugar, Coffee, and Rice, at last quotations. Tea quiet but firm. A tolerable business in spices at previous rates. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. --- DEAL, OCT. 3. —Wind S. S.E.—Sailed the outward bound. LIVERPOOL. OCT. 3.--Wind W. to S.W.—Arrived the Colonist, Cowman, from Sydney, New South Wales— sailed March 7, and Bahia Aug. 11 ; Harriet, M'Caul, Kertch ; Oceander, Luabs, Pillau. Sailed the Henry Bresscr, Hart, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Freeland, Souter, Rio Janeiro; Powhattan, Briggs, Philadelphia ; Ellen Highfield, Doughty, Newfoundland. PonTsmouTri, OCT. 3. —Wind S. S. E.—Sailed the Walmer Castle, Close, for Calcutta; Union, Webster, Launceston. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Wind variable. FALMOUTH, OCT. 2.—Wind N. W. to W. S. W. HOLYHEAD, OCT. 3.—Off port the Margaret Bogle, from Queboc. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 3.--Arrived the William Gray, from Oporto. COWES, OCT. 3.—Arrived the Isabella, Dunning, from Batavia. OFF THE WIGHT, OCT. 3 . —Palembang, Herdit, Batavia SCILLY, SEPT. 30.—Sailed the Azores packet, Gibson, for Figneira, &c. I3LISTGL, OCT. 3.—Arrived the X°lus, Behreling, and Columbus, from Memel. MILFORD, OCT. I.—Sailed the Triton, Beattie, for the Gape of Gool Hope ; George, Prout, St. John's, New Brunswick; Ann, Crossman, St. John's, New Brunswick; Traitor, Wilson, Odessa. DUBLIN, OCT. 2 .. —Arrived the William Rogers, M' Quick, from Archangel. SHIELDS, OCT. I.—Arrived Amander, from Danzic. HULL, Ocr, 3 —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the Argo, Schroeder, and Thetis, Maas, from Memel ; James, Asman, Faro ; Frederick, Bartels, Dantzic. INSOLVENTDEBTORS' COURT. [Before Mr. Chief Commissioner REYNOLDS and Mr. Commissioner BOWEN.] IN THE MATTER OF JOHN WOOLFORD. On Thursday the insolvent was opposed by Mr. WOODROFFE, for a tailor of the name of Cooper, his debt and costs being only 11/. ; the schedule contained no other claim. The Court said the insolvent had already suffered enough for a debt of 51., although it must be admitted that he brought it all upon himself. He was then ordered to be discharged forthwith. IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT HUGH FRANKS. The case of this insolvent has recently been reported in our paper, and on Thursday Mr. NixHoLLs applied on his behalf to set aside the nomination of James Henry Garnett, who was appointed one of his assignees at the last hearing ; the application was made upon the ground that he had improperly in fluenced a boy of the name of Henry Benham, who was examined as a witness before the Court, t o give evi dence as to the removal of a valuable glass and a large quantity of hats from his shop in Finsbury-square to the house No. 6, Duke -street, whereas in point of fact no such removal had taken place, and the boy had since ad mitted the falsehood he then stated, alleging that he was directed to do so by Mr. Garnett, who held out to him as a reward, that "he would make a hatter of him, and stand his friend through life." Affidavits stating these admissions on the part of the boy were put in and read, and were made by Ann Ben ham, his mother, to whom he first communicated his mis-statement ; from three other persons of credibility ; and also from Thomas Winch, a policeman, who was called in at the request of the insolvent to hear the ad missions made. Mr. COOKE opposed the application of a creditor named Jackson, and co n t en d e d t h at t h e " appoint ment" havin g been made pursuant to the 44th section of the new Act, could not be now altered. Mr. Nrciror.r.s contended that the "appointment" was not perfect, as the " acceptance" was not filed in Court. The Officer of the Court said it was filed on the 25th September last, the hearing having been the day before. The COURT docided that there were not sufficient grounds to rescind the appointment of Mr. Garnett. MANSION-HOUSE. -(THIS DAY.) WEARING THE BREECHES.—EIiza Davis," fat and forty-seven," was brought before the LORD MAYOR by a policeman under the following circumstances ; The policeman stated that about five o'clock this morning he saw the prisoner in Harp-lane, dressed in men's clothes.--(Laughter.) He understood that her husband had locked up her own clothes, to prevent her going out to get more drink, and that she had, during the time he was " napping," taken the opportunity of dressing herself in his. The-LORD MAYOR —Did she put on his hreeehes ? Policeman—Yes, she has them on now under her petti coats.—(Loud laughter.). She had also on her person her husband's fustian coat, and presented altogether a most ludicrous ap pearance.—Discharged after a caw ion as to her future conduct. MEXICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—By the Wilberforce, Captain Harrison, which arrived yesterday aft ernoon from Maranham, the following highly interesting letter was received by a commercial house in this t own " MARANIIANI, AUG. 21.—The interior of this pro vince is in a blaze of rebellion. Caxias, a city in the interior, embracing half or more of the trade of this city, has been taken and sacked by the rebels, and the loss estimated at some 200,000/. or 3 00,0001. All com munication is entirely cut off with th e i nterior, conse quently no produce is arriving, and there i s no busi ness doing, nor is there any rice coming in. The pre sent is planting time, and the disturbances will prevent the planters from doing anything, and th us t h ere will be no crop next year. In this city peace an d qu i etness, and union o f p ar ti es , prevail, and every one seems en thusiastic in determination to defend this city. Some thousands of Portuguese volunteers are in drilling under an officer who has served in Portugal ; large numbers of troops have arrived from Pernambuco and Para, and munitions in abundance. A battle took place within twenty.four hours' sail of this city on the 9th instant, in which the Government lost 14 killed and 108 wounded, among the former were one captain and one ensign. We shall remain in a miserable plight until this state of anarchy is put a stop to. Nothing can be done in any way. The Rival left this in ballast for Quebec, the Wilberforce is not full, and the Sherbrooke will leave in a day or two with less than a third of a cargo." We learn from Vera Cruz papers to the 26th of July that General Santa Anna had retired to his country house at Manga de Clavo, near Vera Cruz. Before he withdrew from the Presidency, he addressed a long pro clamation to the Mexican people. He is said to have been desirous of retaining the Presidency, by keeping Bustamente away at the head of an army of invasion against Texas, but his scheme did not succeed. On the 13th the High Court of Justice of Mexico condemned to death Colonel Don Juan Yanez, and his accomplices, who had been guilty of several assassinations and acts o f pill age . The Swiss Consul was among their victims. On learning his condemnation to death, Don Juan Yanez cut his throat in prison, but his body was con veyed to the scaffold on which his accomplices were executed. General Urrea, the former chief of the Federal party, who had at first been included in the general amnesty, had received orders to embark at Vera Cruz, and not to return to Mexico for six years. Several of his principal officers had also been exiled for different periods. Twelve regiments of permanent in fantry and eight of cavalry have been re-organized, but the Government still kept up the coast-guard and other temporary corps. General Don Antonio Gaono, who commanded the fortress of St. Juan d'Ulloa when it was taken by Admiral Baudin, had been tried by a council of war, acquitted, and restored to his functions. The English packet, the Hope, from Falmouth, arrived at Vera Cruz on the 18th, having called as usual at Ha vannah and Belise. The greater part of the crew had the yellow fever, and the captain and several sailors had died. The Government had decided on laying out 383,000 piastres for the repairs of the mole of Vera Cruz, which was in a state of ruin, and very dangerous for shipping. It appears from these papers that since the conclusion of the treaty between France and Mexico all insults and acts of violence against foreigners bad entirely ceased.—Galignani. VIENNA, SEPT. 24.--Her Majesty Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma, arrived here at the end of last week from Ischel. Dr. Neuner, who was lately chief physician to the Sultan Malimoud, has arrived here from Constantinople. Prince Pucklcr Att! ; s l P4 daily expected. LITERA.TURE. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. Chapman and Hall, London, 1839. Nicholas Niekleby is here brought to a close, maintaining to the last the life and freshness that marked the earlier Numbers. 'We have seldom failed to give a short account of each Part as it appeared, but now that the work is completed, we shall take the opportunity of saying a few words of it as a whole, and also of what we conceive to be the great secret of its author's unrivalled popu larity. •As an artistical production, we are not prepared to rate Nicholas Nickleby very high. It shows no indications of the constructive faculty— that is to say, of that faculty which Fieldin g e. Ifas developed with such extraordi nar y s kill in Tom Jones, and with success, not much inferior, in Joseph Andrews, where the incidents rise natu rally, and almost necessarily, one out of the other, assisting, not encumbering, the progress of the plot ; and where all parts of the narrative cohere, and are neatly dovetailed together, so as to form one compact and consistent whole :—Nicholas Nickleby, we say, exhibits few or no proofs of this rare fa culty ; but is merely a striking collection of de tached scenes, characters and incidents, drawn with infinite truth and spirit, but strung so loosely together, that any one might be omitted without the slightest detriment to the conduct of the story. In what way, for instance, does the divert ing family of the Kenwigses, who occupy so large a portion of the tale, assist its progress, or tend to its consummation ? We should be sorry to lose them, for they are admirably painted, and full of strongly defined traits of individuality ; still it is impossible not to see that they are episodical—in fact, mere superfluities. To enjoy and appreciate Fielding's master-pieces thoroughly, you should begin with the beginning, and go regularly through them, taking care not to omit a page, lest you should lose the clue to something of moment, that follows ; but the works of Dickens demand no such close atten tion. You may commence them where you please, in the middle or towards the close ; or even begin with the last chapter, and so work your way back, crab-fashion, towards the first. You will lose little by such an irregular process, for any one Number will serve nearly as well as another, to give you an insight into the author's peculiarities; but read Fielding in this way, and you will be apt to think him a dull, prosy fellow, instead of the most artisti cal writer of fiction that ever existed. The main secret of Boz's popularity we take to be this. He has presented us, in his favourite sketches, with all the most obvious points—all that lies on the surface—of every-day character ; all that we ourselves have observed a thousand times, but have never thought worth remembering. Hence he is perpetually flattering our self-love ; for lie arro gates no superiority ; developes no profound or ori ginal views of humanity ; but has the tact to persuade us—and our vanity confirms the de lusion—that he is one with us, and that what has most struck him, has struck us also. In the ener getic and poetical creations of Scott, all taking human nature as their ground-work, but elevating, and refining it by the power of a fancy of the highest and rarest order ; in the impassioned and profound workings of character developed by Hope ; in the subtle and philosophical analysis exhibited by God win, the reader is constantly impressed with a sense of his own inferiority ; but with Boz he is hand and glove ; he imagines he recognizes in him precisely his own faculty of observation, and esteems him for precisely the same reason that he esteems himself. But let Dickens plume his wings for a higher flight—and we feel assured that he is capable of it—and, we apprehend the case will be materially altered: and that he will find his popularity di minish with the majority, in the same proportion that it rises with the select few. Having so long viewed humanity from the same level as our selves, his viewing it from a higher elevation will, we fear, be resented as presumption, and that he will be considered as going beyond his mark. Another cause of our author's popularity, is the fine sense of humanity that pervades all his writ ings. There is nothing exclusive or conventional about him, at least where feeling is concerned. He is, like Scott, an advocate -for fair play between rich and poor, the peer and the plebeian. He cares little for the suffrages of Almack's ; and writes with a manly and diligent forgetfulness of the West-end. The coronet has no glitter for him. lie is not awe-struck by the chink of gold in the pocket. He is a Cosmopolite in the best sense of the term—in that healthy, bracing sense which prompted Burns's happiest lyrics. As a proof of his quick sense of humanity, we may instance the last words which he puts into the mouth of his Yorkshire schoolmaster, Squeers. This wretch, it may be remembered, is represented as grovelling—avaricious —crafty—sycophantic— and tyrannical—to a degree that inspires our ut most disgust ; yet, on taking leave of him, we are compelled to blend pity with abhorrence, when we find him saying, in his cheerless prison, "The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Week ford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me I" Here, in our sympathy with the husband and the father, we lose sight for the moment of the despot and the hypocrite. Again, Ralph Nickleby, the usurer—the miser —heartless, sceptical, and un principled —possesses no one feeling from which we do not shrink with horror; yet how are the harsher points of his character softened down, so as to bring him within the pale of homanity, just previous to his suicide ! In his solitary walk home, whence he is never to come forth alive, we are told, " Ralph Nickleby now began to think that his son's supposed death and his wife's flight had had some share in making him the morose, hard man lie was. He seemed to re member a time when he was not quite so rough and obdurate ; and almost thought he had first hated Nicholas because he was young and gallant, and perhaps like the stripling who had brought disho nour and loss of fortune on his head." These re flections are exquisitely true to nature, for no man ever yet was so hopelessly depraved, as that some better sense of humanity did not at times stir, how ever faintly, in his breast. The divine image within us may be sadly blurred and marred, but it is never wholly blotted out. In calling to mind those every-day portraits of the Dutch and Flemish school, to which Boz originally owed his fame, and by which he is still best known—his Sam Wellers— Mrs. Raddles—Pickwicks—Kenwigses, and the like—we are struck with the sagacity and quick insight into the public taste that timed them so hap pily. From his connection with the daily press, Mr. Dickens must have seen how popular were those Police Reports in the Morning Herald which placed the every-day follies and eccentricities of humble London life in so diverting a light bef ore us ; and accordingly i n hi s fi rs t work of fiction, he did little more than present us with a Variorum edi• tion of these ; for though new as the hero of a novel, Sam 'Weller was no stranger to those who bad been in the habit of reading " 'Wight's Morn ings in Bow-street ;" but was merely a dexterous combination of some of the low Cockney oddities therein described. And here we are reminded that it has often been brought forward as a charge against Boz that he is a vulgar writer. Now, there is not the semblance of truth in this accusation. There is nothing vulgar in humanity, but there is much that is so in affectation and assumption ; hence, we can detect more vulgarity in one fashionable novel, whose scene is laid in the West-end, among the great exclusives of society, than in the very lowest sketches that our author has yet penned. But if Boz be vulgar, what are Hogarth, Fielding, Foote, Cobbett, and many other noted names in Art and Literature that we could mention ? Above all, what is Crabbe, who has gone to the work-house and the squalid haunts of vice and beggary, for some of his _ most admired s k e t c h e s ? For our own part, w e had rather be vulgar with Dickens than g en t ee l with D'lsraeli ; far rather be the author of " Ni cholas Nickleby," than of that lively impertinence " Vivian Grey. " We cannot compliment Boz on the sentimental tone which he is sometimes pleased to adopt, in deference, we presume, to the tastes of the circulating library. When he affects this, he generally fails and becomes maudlin, as In his account of the death of Smike, which is wholly made up of pensive prattle about flowers, angels, and similar childishness. His I R ose 'Wadies, KateNi c kl e b ys, and Madeline Brays, are failures in nearly an equ a l d egree ; but whe4 he collies to draw such characters as Mr 4, Niel;telly, Mrs. John Brodie, and the schoohw.ster's daughter, With her outrageous pa5,(.,1,0* fox the genteel, then his quick talent and microscopic observation co 7;3,c4. into, pray, and he exhibits to the greatest ad vantage. In the preface to his last novel, he ex- , pressly states, we see, that the brothers Cheeryhie I:VENIN" be drawn direct from the life. This may be so, but we nevertheless think them far from successful sketches. Their unrivalled benevolence is too much insisted on. We are not permitted to lose sight of it for an instant. It is tinmpeted forth on every occa,ion, till at length we almost turn for re lief to the quaint, but cordial and simple goodness of a John Brodie and a N ewman N oggs. Besides, in reading of the Cheerybles we are reminded in every page of Fielding's Al!worthy, whose attri butes were precisely the same. We come now to the question which has been so frequently asked of late, is Mr. Dickens's fame merely ephemeral, or will it survive him ? Unhe sitatingly we reply, it will. There are scenes of stern, homely tragedy in Oliver Twist—though we will acknowledge at the same time that there is much in that novel that we could have wished un written ; of broad, vigorous colouring in Pickwick; and of more chaste and careful finish in Nicholas Nickleby--that must ever be recognised as genuine by the mass of the community ; for though tastes, opinions, and fashions change, humanity is ever the same. Besides, it is not to be supposed for an instant that an author could rivet the public atten tion for four years together, without possessing qualities calculated to wear well and long. FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Contains this month two passable engravings, and several articles on agricultural subjects, written with spirit and perspicuity. 211ONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBL.EE. The prose tales in the present Number cater cle verly for the tastes of the drawing-room,. but they are too numerous. Of the poetry, the less said the better. The reviews of new publications are, so far as we can see, written in a spirit of moderation and impartiality. THOMAS'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON. This Part, which is the fifth, of the life of the French Emperor, commences with Moreau's great victory of Hohenlinden, which Campbell has im mortalised in one of the most stirring odes in the language ; and concludes with the Coronation of Napoleon, as Emperor of France. It is embellished with clever, characteristic plates. THE ANAL YB7'. There is an article i►► the present Number of this Journal, " On the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold," with relation to problems of political eco nomy, which will be read with interest at the present juncture, when the precious metal is said to be so scarce. The author is Von Humboldt, who dates his essay from Berlin. Among the notices of new works, we find a criticism on " Festus"—a most extraordinary dramatic poem, abounding nearly equally in faults and bear,ties— which we noticed at some length many months ago in The Sun. The criticism, on the whole, is such as must satisfy the author, whoever he may be. . _ POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. A useful periodical, chiefly devoted to science, in which the proceedings of the various metropoli tan and provincial scientific societies are recorded from month to month with all due diligence. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The first article iu the Number before us is a translation of the first portion of Grotius' Latin play, " Adamus Exul," which the translator, Mr. Francis Barham, thinks was the prototype of Mil ton's " Paradise Lost." We have read it with some curiosity, and have been struck with the similarity of the thoughts and images that kith poets have put into the mouth of Satan. The in troductory prose character of the " learned Giotins" —the ancestor, as we have heard, of th.. Member for London—is very well written. 1 ‘ Census of Foreign Literature" contains a biographical sketch of a German poet, Ferdinand Friligrath ; the sub ject is to be continued in a future Number. " Grandier, or the Victim of Richelieu," is a tale of average merit. THE HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. The first volume of this entertaining work is now concluded, and the editor appropriately observes in the preface,— From such a work, it is obvious, that the student of human nature may derive the best of lore ; the mere idling reader become at once amused and instructed ; whilst even to the social antiquarian, who regards the feelings and ha. bits of men more as a thing of time, a barren matter of aano domini, than as the throbbings of the human heart and the index of the national mind, the volume abounds with facts of the greatest and most enduring interest. The following passage ought to be as widely circulated as the press can carry it, as long as there is any hope that by holding the mirror up to the national foibles they may be corrected : John Bull has too long rested in the comfortable self. complacency that he, above all other persons of the earth, enshrines in his own mind all the wisdom and the mag nanimity vouchsafed to mortal man; that in his customs he is the most knowing, the least artificial, the most cot dial, and the most exemplary of persons ; and that in all the decencies of life, he, and he alone, knows an?, does that which is " Wisest, discreetest, virtuousest, best;" • that he has no prejudices —none ; or, if indeed he have any, that they exist and have been nurtured ma very near his virtues, that it he cannot detect the slightest differ ence between them, it is not likely that any vagabond foreigner can make so tremendous a discovery. And then John boasts, in no monosyllabic phrase, of his great integ rity, of his unbending spirit to the merely external advan tages of worldly follies: he looks to the man, and not the man's pocket I He—he pays court to no man : no, he cries out in the market-place, that. *. honesty is the best policy," grasps his cudgel, looks loftily about him, swel. ling with the magnificence of the apothegm, and strides away to his beef and ale, with an almost overwhelming sense of all his many virtues. Now, let the truth be told. John Bull likes a bit of petty larceny as well as any body in the world : he likes it, however, with this difference ; the iniquity must be made legal. Only solemnise a wrong by an Act of Par liament, and John Bull will stickle lustily for the abuse; will trade upon it, turn the market -peaky with it, cocker it, fondle it, love it, say pretty words to it; yea, hug it to his bosom, and cry out, " rape and rn'obery," if sought to be deprived of it. Next, John has no slavish regard for wealth : to be sure not ; and yet though his back is as broad a table, it is as lithe as a cane; and he will pucker his big cheeks into a reverential grin, and stoop anti kiss the very hoofs of the golden calf; wherever it shnll be set up before him. John will do this, and blush not ; and having done it, he straighten himself, wipe his lips with his cuff of broad cloth, look magnanimous, and " damn the fellow that re gards money." And then for titles. Does aolin value titles ? Hear the contemptuous roar with %licit, in the parlour of " The King's Head," he talks of Viem. " What's a title ?" he will ask ; " it's the man, el'.?" And next week Lord Bub blebrain puts up for the c'dunty ; and, condescending to ask John Bull for his vote, 'John stands almost awe•struck at his porch, smooths his hair, smiles, smirks, bows, and feels that there is a sort of white magic in the looks and words of a Lord. He stammers out a promise of a plumper, bows his Lordship to the gate, and then declares to his neigh• boors that " It warn't for the title he gave his vote--be should hope not ; no, he wouldn't sell his country in that way. But Lord Bubblebrain is a gentleman, and knows what's right for the people." And then John's wife re marks, bow affable his Lordship was to the children, and espotirilly to the sick baby; which John receives a 3 a matter of course ; shortly observing, that "no gentleman could d' less ; not that he gave his vote for any such doings." _ A;-id has John no virtues ? A thousand ! So many, that he can afford to be told of his weakness, his folly—yea, of the wrongs he does, the wrongs he suffers. The ridiculous part of John's character is his love of an absurdity, an injustice-Ht may be, an acute inconvenience —from its very antiquity. " \Vhy, what's the matter ? „, asked last week of an old acquaintance, limping and pushing . himself along, not unlike a kangaroo with the rheumatism ; " What's the matter ?" " Matter ! 7 corns — corns." And why d on ' t you have 'em cut ?" Cut ' cried our friend w i t h a look of surprise and inqw.ry. Cut ! why, it is now fifteen years that I have bad these corns." There spoke John Bull: though he s}.,all be almost at a stand-still, lame with corns, yet what v. roaring does he make if you attempt to cut them—and . w'ny ? 11e if has had th em so many years. A wen upon his, neck, a wen of fifty year's growth, though it bent him doable, would " be to him as a daughter." The editor announces another volume. If it be like the one concluded it will deserve success. ORCESTER HOPS, OCT. 2.—. Saturday morn ng was very wet, and we have no doubt that it pre vented many planters sending their hops to market on that day ; as it was, nearly 2,000 pockets were pitched for sale, of which 1,3°4 were sold. Trade was brisk througho u t th e day, and fine samples were much sought after. Hops of a middling description were a drug, arid would not command pure:lasers at any price ; they w i ere the only article left unsold at the close. Twenty-.eight pockets of old were also weighed. The business trans acted during the week has been very trifling, twenty three pockets only having been weighed. Yearlings and old hop are scarcely saleable, and prices of such are n0n1:,.4 - i.ally as last week. The duty is rather lower, 1,000/. being now the estimate. The fine days of this week have enabled the planters to proceed rapidly with their picking, an:,l many fine samples will be soured hitherto the vieather has been very unfavourabile, and many hops 'Drought to market will not be in such prima conditie,n as was expected. Upon the whole the crop is al/ondant, and the sample good. Prices may be quoted at, about °s. per cwt, in advance for the best description —New hops, 465. to 645. and 70s. ; yearlings, ,403„. to 565. ; 1837'5, 355. to 545. per ewt. 1.41 ~,.►~ • • J