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COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday, the let of November, 1832, Resolved unanimously—That the labours of the Com- mittee appointed in relation to the disease called Cholera Morhus having ceased, this Court considers it an act of justice to express the high sense it entertains of the great and valuable services rendered by the said Committee to the citizens of London, and the country at large, by the indefatigable exertions and judicious arrangements made by them for mitigating and arresting the ravages of the malignant disease with which this country was unhappily visited ; and this Court therefore hereby offers its grateful acknowledgments to all the Members of the said Commit- (No. 12,526.) LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1832 (PRICE 7D.) tee, and especially to Charles Pearson, Esq., its Chair man, for the unremitted and talented labours bestowed by him to the arduous duties of that situation ; and also to John Francis de Grave, Esq., the Honorary Medicil Se cretary, for his great professional skill and devotion of time to the service of that Committee. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN ROSS, &c. MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. WOODTHORPE. FOR EDINBURGH. THE Splendid New STEAM-SHIPS, the ROYAL ADELAIDE, Captain MILL, and ROYAL WILLIAM, Captain CH APLIN, each 200 horse power, will start from St. Katharine Dock Steam-wharf, near the Tower, as follow : ROYAL A ELA IDE, on Saturday Evening, Nov. 3, at Ten ROYAL WILLIAM, on Saturday Evening, Nov. 10, at Ten. ROYAL A DELA IDE, on Saturday Evening, Nov. 17, at Ten. ROYAL WILLIAM, on Wednesday Evening, Nov. 21, at Ten. These Vessels will be found of the very first class in point of speed and accommodations, and are the only ones that afford to passengers the advantage of embarking at the commodious Steam-wharf, London, and landing in the Harbour at Leith. Horses and carriages can thue be shipped and landed with the greatest ease and safety. Fares, including provisions, Chief Cabin, 41. 4s. ; Second Cabin, 21. 108. The accommodations in the Second Ca bins are very superior, with separate apartments for females. Information obtained, berths secured, and goods re ceived for shipment, at Leith and Glasgow Wharf. Also, by T. Robertson, 164, Strand ; H. Underwood, 56, 1-13ymarket ; M. Sanderson, Boar and Castle Inn, Ox ford-street; Mr. Slarke, Old White Horse Cellar, Pic cadilly; and Mr. Gilbert, Blossoms Inn, Lawrence lane, Cheapside, where light goods are received, and for warded to the Wharf till Five o'clock on the days of starting. JOSEPH ADAMS, Agent, Leith an4l Glasgow Whar, A Spacious Sail Loft to Let. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Svo. OTTERB O U R N E, OR, THE EARLY DAYS OF HOTSPUR. By the Author of " Derwentwater." It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Earl of Douglas rode Into England, to catch a prey." SCOTT'S MINSTRELSY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. (Late Colburn and Bentley.) NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of " HAJJI BABA." In 3 vols. post Bvo. • ZOHRAB, THE HOSTAGE. By the Author of " Hajji Baba." " A most delightful picture of Persia and its manners."— Literary Gazette. " The Prince Fatteh Ali, who is supposed to be the present King of Persia, the Vizir Hajji Ibrahim, an d th e Sl ave S s d e k, belong to history; but the humpbacked Barber, the ardent Zalma, the officious Shir Khan, Zaul Khan, and the A stera. baths, and Turcomans, and others, have been created to serve the purposes of the tale."—Globe. " Superior to any work descriptive of oriental life."—Atlas. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. (Late Colburn and Bentley.) In morocco, 21s ; large paper, with I n di a P roo f s , 21. 10 s . HEATH'S PICTURESQUE ANNUAL for 1833. Containing 26 Plates, executed by the First Engravers, from Drawings by CLARKSON STANFIELD, Esq. With Travelling Sketches by LEITCH RITCHIE, Esq. Also, THE KEEPSAKE for 1833. Crimson silk, 21s. ; large paper, with India Proofs, 21. 125.. 6d. Londo n : Longman, R-es, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co. Just published, in Bvo., with nutnerous Plates and Wood cuts, price 12s. hoards, MEMOIR on SUSPENSION BRIDGES, comprising their History, &c., with Descriptions of some of the most important of them. Also, an Account of Experiments on the Strength of Iron Bars and Wires, and Rules for facilitating Computations relating to Suspension Bridges. By CHARLES STEWART DREWRY, Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co. WINDSOR CASTLE, finely engraved from a Drawing by W. Daniell, Esq., R.A. ; a beautiful PORTRAIT of LADY SOPHIA SIDNEY; and Two coloured Plates from Drawings by Mr. Parris; embellish No. V., for NOVEMBER, of THE COURT MAGAZINE Edited by the Hon, LITERA R Y I. Memoir of Lady Sophia Sid ney, eldest Daughter of his Majesty; by J. Burke, Esq. w. On the Death of Sir Walter Scott • by Mrs. Norton. Prince Too Loo. 4. Settlers in Van Diemen's Land. 5. The Ycung Heir's Death . Bed ;by Mrs. Norton. %. Loneliness ; by Dr. Bowring. 4 . Deer-stalking in the High. . lands. • An Histo:ical and Descrip tive Account of Windsor Castle. Published by Edward Bull, . Mrs. NORTON. CONTENTS. 9. Rossini ; by G. H. Cann ter, Esq. 10. The Condemned; by the Rev. Hobart Caunter. 11. The Fairy Spell. 12. Little Felstead ; by Gibbon Redi✓ivus. 13. Disappointment. 14. The Brigand. 15. The Mourner. Literature of the Month ; Events at Home and Abroad ; Fashions of the Month, com municated by Maradou Car. son. 26, Holles.street, London. CROWN LIFE-ASSURANCE COMPANY, 33 , BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON. DIRECTORS. JOHN WELLS, Esq. Chairman. GEORGE H. HOOPER, Esq. Deputy Chairman. Sir Wm. Richard Cosway William P. Litt, Esq. James Colquhoun, Esq. Colonel Moody James Colvin, Esq. Sir F. Ommanney Capt. J. W. D. Dundas, R.N. A. Stewart, Esq. James Farquhar, Esq. John Wilson, Esq. Thomas Harrison, Esq. William Whitmore, Esq. John Kirkland, Esq. William Wilson, Esq. Au ncrons.—Jameson Hunter, Esq., H. Stock, Esq., Isaac Solly, jun., Esq. Pl iVstclaN.—Dr. James Johnson, Physician Extraordinary to the King. SURGEON.—James Wardrop, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL.—Charles Ellis, Esq. SOLICITOR.—J. Haddan, Esq. ,AN KERs.--Messrs. Whitmore, Wells, and Whitmore, Lom bard-street. ACTUARY.-,1. M. Rainbow, Esq. THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS OFFICE, among n ther s , are : Pr 1 . A participation septennially in two-thirds of the fits, which may be applied either in reduction of the t'elnium or to augment the sum assured. On a division of Profits for the seven years terminating on the 25th of March, 1832, Bonuses, amounting from 18s. to 21. 12s. per cent. per annum on the sums assured, varying with the age, were assigned to all Policies for the whole continuance of life effected previously to the 16th of May, 1829. rt 2 . Premiums may he paid in a limited number of an -451 sums instead of by annual Payments for the whole of th e Policy continuing to participate in profits after th e payment of such premiums has ceased. 3 . The Assurance or Premium Fund is not subject to 4 bY charge for Interest to Proprietors. I. Per m i ss i on t o pass to C ont i nenta l P orts b etween B rest and the Elbe inclusive. 6. P ar ti es (including Officers of the Army, Navy, East l ', n dja Company and Merchant Service) may be Assured to side in or proceed to all parts of the world, at premiums 'alculated on real data. 6 . Claims to be paid within three months. 0 : 7 . The Assured may dispose of their Policies to the 8 . No charge but for Policy Stamps. i ) The Proscectus, Tables of Rates, & ' c., to be had at the ffice in London, or of the Companys Agents. T. G. CONYERS, Secretary. " Sir," said an impertinent and in ordinately : Ic eited young lordling, in a quarrel] with a gentleman hc) had raised hitnself from the humble station of a ser ,ktit to the highest opulence and respectability by honest successful speculation, " I would have you to know t 'itt I can remember when you cleaned my father's boots." 4 ' ,, 1-1 41 I not do them well ?" was the calm and magna -41 °us reply.—Sunderland Herald. NEGLECT OF MEN OF GENIUS.—Poor 4141JA BARNES, when in prison, complained to the Earl ORFORD, that, although he had done as much in the of learning as any living author, yet he had expe :4ced no encouragement. When the Bishop of LONDON ,l t ed an I r i s h P re l ate if h e knew th e aut h or o f a work L i ed " Deism Unveiled," the latter said, " Yes, he has k e n a in d' • these 20 • arc , " " Then the k curate my dioceseye " ° je shame f or y our L o rdship," sa id t h e E ng li s h Bi shlp, ° l et a person of his merit be so long without a living. A highly respectable meeting of the friends and promo ters of the above intended expedition was yesterday held in the Geological Society's rooms in Regent-street, to re ceive a report of the subscriptions received, and to adopt further measures to facilitate the execution of this highly interesting and benevolent object. The Right Hon. Sir GEORGE COCXBURN, G.C.8., took the Chair at 1 o'clock, and was supported by R. W. HAY, Esq. (in the absence of Lord Goderich), Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, Admirals Sir Richard Keats, Sir T. Ilyam Martin, Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir Robert W. Otway, Sir Charles Ogle, and John E. Douglas, Esq., Captain Beechey, and numerous other distinguished naval officers and scientific gentlemen. The GALLANT ADMIRAL having taken the chair, pro ceeded to address the meeting to the following effect : He stated that having been requested to preside at the present meeting, he would endeavour at once to state, to the best of hie ability, what he considered to be the object for their consideration. It was generally known upon what principles individuals were at first ad mitted into the navy, to qualify themselves to take the command of a vessel, in order to navigate with surety and safety those general tracts of the expansive ocean, which, from the extensive commerce and peculiar in sular situation of this country had become familiarised to all nautical men. The arduous duties they had, in this preliminary step to their profession, to execute, exceeded those of, perhaps, any other profession. Long, and very great experience, however, was necessary to qualify them to explore unknown regions, where the ordinary rules of navigation became almost a dead letter. With these diffi culties to encounter in the outset, it could not be viewed but with the greatest admiration to see our countrymen afterwards volunteer their cervices to undergo new pri vations, hardships, and dangers of the most formidable description, from motives purely devoid of personal interest, and only actuated by an ardent desire to promote the bene fit of science. They derived no advantage, nor expected to derive any other than the approbation and the protec tion of their country.—(Hear.) The lead which this country had taken in nautical and geographical research within the last half century had set an example to, and ex cited a similar feeling of enterprise throughout the whole civilized community. The names of Parry and Franklin had acquired an honourable rank in the history of this country, and it became a duty to hold up to their successors encouragement for future enterprises, to convince them, at all events, that they should not be forgotten in the course of their perilous undertakings.—(Cheers.) It was this feeling of sympathy arid protection on the part of their country that would encourage and lead them on to success under the most trying circumstances, and, at the last ex tremity, they would indulge in—hope. He would now come to the more particular purposes of their meeting to gether. Captain Ross, of the Royal Navy, being an officer of great experience, and in every way qualified, was selected by the Admiralty Board, in 1817, to be intrusted with the command of an expedition to explore Baffin's Bay, and endeavour to discover a North West Passage. This important undertaking he had fulfilled with great ability; and all competent persons were ready to admit the skill with which he had navigated his vessels. On his return down the western coast, land, and a supposed pas sage were seen, which, from some cause or other, he de clined to penetrate. This circumstance created an un pleasant feeling, and a second and subsequent expedition were sent out at Government's expense, which proved the error. From these numerous expeditions the boun dary of the North American Continent was pretty clearly defined. Captain Ross feeling acutely, like all sensitive men, under similar circumstances, that an important duty had been taken out of his hands, wished to relieve himself from the real or imaginary stigma which bad attached itself to his enterprise. He considered that a ray of hope displayed itself from the subsequent researches made, and he thought if he could complete the survey it would re-establish his fame, or rattler reconcile himself to himself.—(Loud cheers.) He therefore pressed his friends to second him in his undertaking, and they, with a liberality which reflected the highest honour on teem, furnished the pecu niary means for fitting out a ship and steam-vessel, to en able Captain Ross to make further researches. As it mis fortune had lodged itself upon this brave officer's head, no sooner had the vessels put to sea than the ship left him, the crew having mutinied. Prudence would have dictated to an ordinary person the propriety of putting back with his steam-vessel until another ship was procured, but not so with Captain Ross, who 4eterinined to push on with his single steam-vessel. His object was, in the first instance, to make towards the point at which the Fury was lying a wreck ; but this very circumstance of the loss of the Fury ought to have convinced Captain Ross of the necessity for having two vessels to sail in company. He (the Gallant Chairman) took for granted that Captain Ross reached that position, and, therefore, from the frail construction of his vessel compared with th it of the Fury, it must inevitably, from the fatal effect of the great body of ice, have met the same fate, or probably have been dashed to pieces. Captain Rose and his brave little crew of 19 men, would, no doubt, adhere to this spot : although it afforded little possibility of escape, it was satisfactory to know that they could find means in an eminent degree of supporting themselves.__ (Hear.) It was probable that these devoted individuals would have sought some rising eminence or promon tory in those dreary regions, whence a distant view might be obtained, to which they repaired every morning, in anxious hope of some means of preservation being sent them.—(Hear.) What must then be their feelings, (lay after day, spent in fruitless watching, to find that no aid was afforded them—and to retire disappointed, in a state of wretched hopelessness, to pass another and another long and dreary night?—(Hear, hear.) They, no doubt, would, to the last, indulge in the fervent expectation that they should not be allowed to perish without a helping hand being held out by their country to save them. Was it therefore that a stigma should be cast upon the whole nation, whilst other countries had set us so noble an example, because the small burn of three thousand pounds was required to ascertain the fate of, perhaps to rescue, these brave Englishmen ? He (the Gallant Chair man) could not believe it possible, in this metropolis, which boasted of so many benevolent charities, to which such munificent sums were annually contributed, that such would be the case. There were also large and opu lent companies and bodies of individuals whose interests and feelings were so closely allied with the maritime affairs of the country, that he could not credit for a moment, but this pittance, as he would call it, would be immedi ately raised.—(Hear.) There were the East India Com pany, the Trinity House, the Ship owners, who undoubt edly would afford their powerful aid. The expedition was under the immediate sanction of Government. An able and gallant officer (Captain Back) had volunteered to conduct it, and the Secretary of State for the colonies (Lord Goderich) had recommended a grant of 2,0001 towards it, so soon as the remaining 3,000/.should be raised by the public.—(Hear.) He could not, therefore, think, under such circumstances, that their brave countrymen should he allowed to perish unheeded for want of so small a sum. The Gallant Chairman here bore testimony to the talents, experience, and benevolent conduct of Captain Back, who had already undergone many perils in traversing the frozen regions, and he felt assured no man was more capable of undertaking the humane task than he was, and which he had voluntarily imposed upon himself, and at all events, of ascertaining if Captain Ross and his brave crew were still existing.—(Hear.) If he should not succeed in that, the voyage would not be lost, for another object contemplated by it was, to complete the survey of the north-eastern extremity of North America; and it would be a disgrace to this country if the task so ably begun by it was to be left finished by another nation. The Gallant Chairman concluded by expressing his gratification at the encouragement given to the undertaking by Lord Goderich, and also the gentleman on his left (Mr. Hay), who felt equally with his Lordship in the success of the expedition. —(Cheers.) R. W. HAY, Esq. (Under Secretary of State), apolo gised for the absence of Lord Goderich, who had commis sioned him to express the deep interest he took in the pre sent under taking. A Gentleman, whose name we did not hear, suggested the propriety of applying to the Hudson Bay Company for assistance, who, through the medium of their officers, and the native Esquimau:, might afford great assistance by sup plying provisions for the expedition. The CAIAIRMAN observed that the suggestion had al ready been acted upon. -- SMITH, Esq. (of the Hudson Bay Company), stated that every member of that body felt most willingly inclined to lend every assistance in their power, so long as a shadow of Imp retrained of learning the fate of their brave countrymen ; it was a debt which the Company considered was due to the British Navy at large.— (Cheers.) They bad, therefore, voted a sum cf 5001. to be expended in a way which was considered to be most beneficial to the expedition, that was, by forming depots of ut °visions in the line which the expedition would take. One half of the quantity of provisions, which was neces sarily considerable, had already arrived at the nearest depot and was ready for use. As regarded the more dis tant depots, it required more time for the preserving of the meat. The Hudson Bay Company did this, and con sidered it no more than a duty they ought to perform ; but they wished it to be understood that they offered no opinion as to the result of the undertaking, so that in case of the expedition not succeeding the public might not ac cuse them of misleading them. The CHAIRMAN then submitted several resolutions, ap proving of the expedition, appointing a committee, and for raising subscriptions to defray the expenses ; also of thanks to the Hudson Bay Company, Dr. Richardson, and Captain Back. The CHAIRMAN observed that if they were not able to raise the required pittance, which he trusted would not be the case, the amounts would be returned to the subscribers. He bad also to acknowledge a letter from Sir James Shaw, who was prevented attending, enclosing his subscription of 2001.—(Cheers.) Captain BEECHEY said that he regretted that, owing to his absence from town, he had only learned the previous night of this meeting, in the object of which he had for a long time taken the deepest interest.—(Hear.) He bad some time ago offered his services to the Admiralty to go in search of Captain Ross, and he knew other officers had done the same.—(Cheers.) It was their and his confi-1 deuce in the great experience, talents, and abilities of Captain Back that had prevented their taking a more pro minent part, and he hoped the country would not think that any officer of the British Navy had kept behind in an enterprise so interesting, and coupled with so much humanity.—(Hear.) He did not consider the fate of Captain Ross at all hopeless. As regarded the danger from starvation he (Captain Beechey) could bear testimony from his own knowledge, that no part of those frozen re gions was more amply supplied with fish and other re sources for human sustenance than the spot where the Fury lay, in addition to which he hoped that a supply of clothing might be obtained out of the wreck. He assured the meeting he most heartily subscribed to the views and objects of the meeting.—(Cheers.) The Gallant CHAIRMAN also passed a high encomium on Captain Back, whose greatest reward, ❑o doubt, would be to have the happiness of being the first to shake by the hand his old friend Captain Ross.—(Cheers.) Captain BACK, in a neat and appropriate speech, re turned thanks for the high approval expressed of his qua lifications for the conducting of the expedition, and de clared it would be the noblest object he ever felt ambitious of achieving, if he should succeed in accomplishing its ob ject.—(Cheers.) Sir GEORGE COCKBURN having left the chair, Mr. HAY moved the thanks of the meeting to the Gal lant Admiral for presiding on the occasion. Sir GEonGE COCKBURN returned thanks, and said that he felt on this, as on every other occasion, desirous of se curing the honour of his country, and not allowing his fellow -creatures to perish without an effort to preserve them.—(Cheers. ) The thanks of the meeting were subsequently voted to Lord Goderich and Mr. Hay, for their powerful assistance. It was understood that another meeting should be called in a few days to nominate a Committee of Management from the list of the subscribers, who were as yet imper fectly known. A subscription was then entered into, to which most of the gentlemen present subscribed. Amongst others we noticed Lord Goderich's name fur 501. The Meeting then separated. The following are the resolutions agreed to :- 1. That in the opinion of this meeting an expedition to seek out, and, if needful, rescue, Captain Ross and his crew, is due both to the character and feelings of the country; and the meeting pledges itself, collectively and individually, to promote such an enterprise by every means in its power. 2. That subscriptions for the purpose be therefore opened, under its authority, and with its full countenance, in every part of the kingdom ; and as it appears from the documents produced, that the Right lion. Viscount Goderich, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has recommended to his Majesty's Government to contribute 0,0001. towards the undertaking, provided that other 3,000/. are collected by private sub_ scription, and whereas this sum is calculated only to enable the Expedition to remain two seasons in the country, whilst it may be extremely important to add to those a third, that the subscriptions be, if possible, carried to the extent of 5,000/. 3. That a Committee of Management to superintend the collection and approbation of the Fund be elected at a future meeting of subscribers, to be held with the least possible delay. 4. That upon such a sum being obtained (say 2,0001.) as may afford a reasonable hope of at least the smaller of the two sums already mentioned being collected, the said Committee be au_ thorised and requested to proceed immediately with the neces- sary preparations for the expedition. 5. That the thanks of the meeting be gratefully tendered to the Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Committee of the Hud_ son's Bay Company, for the liberality and promptitude with which, entering into the views of the promoters of the expedi tion, they consented gratuitously to furnish a certain portion of the supplies necessary for it. Also to Dr. Richardson, who sketched the plan of a similar expedition, on which the present _ _ • • one is founded, volunteered to conduct it, and still favours this enterprise with his assistance and advice. And to Captain Back, who, with equal spirit and disinterestedness, will head it and devote two, perhaps three, years of his life to seek out his friends and achieve some part of what they aimed at, 6. That the thanks of this: meeting be also gratefully ten_ . dered to the Right Hon. Viscount Goderich, Principal Secre tary of State for the Colonies, and to Robert W. Hay, Esq., Under Secretary for the same, for the interest which they have uniformly evinced for the undertaking, and for the important assistance which they have rendered in bringing it to its pre sent advanced state of maturity. 7. That these resolutions be advertised in such newspapers as the committee of subscribers shall think proper to direct, and be otherwise circulated at their discretion. GEO. ROSS, Hen. Sec. Subscriptions for " The Arctic Land Expedition" are re ceived by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Drum monds, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Lombard-street ; and Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London ; as also by Sir W. Forbes and Co., Edinburgh ; and Messrs. J. D. Latouche and Co., Dublin. And further information may be procured by applying at the office of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 21, Regent_street, St. James's. CHEVY CHASE.—The battle of OtterbOUrne, which is generally supposed to have given rise to this famous old ballad, forms the basis of the forthcoming new romance. The borderers of England and Scotland were, it is well known, a sturdy and ungovernable race, per petually engaged in making inroads upon each other, and were, during national times, perpetrating deeds as wild as the hilly region they inhabited. Among the powerful houses which furnished chieftains for these perennial war riors, we may reckon the PERCYS and the NEVILLES, on the one side ; and the DOUCLASES and the DUNBARS, on the other. Much expectation is excited respecting this work, as the author, a Northumbrian, is well acquainted with the wild legends and traditions of this singularly romantic country. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNES. DAY, OCT. 31.—The transactions in the cotton-market to day amount to about 2,000 bales, of which 600 are Bra zils, in Pernams at 9N. to 9V. ; Bahias, 7V. to 81d. ; Illaranhams, at 9d. ; and 1,200 in American descriptions, from 6-ad. to 7id. The little stingy Dean, the friend and protege of GIFFORD, whom he describes, in that "biting satire," The Buviad, as wearing. A thread-bare coat, and forty pounds a year," is quite in a rage at the appointment of the Ecclesiastical Commission for inquiring into the amount of the revenues of the Church, the pluralities of livings, and the income arising from each. Tbis Very Reverend Dean, who would have remained in obscurity but for the incessant applications of his school-fellow, GIFFORD, to Lord LIVER POOL and to CANNING, was, we understand, promised a Bishopric by the former. The See proposed to him was St. Asaph but the cunning Dean refused the situation unless the Deanry of St. Paul's and a large living in the neighbourhood of Oxford were appended to it. In the midst of these clerical negotiations, Lord LivEaroor. was struck with the palsy, and GIFFORD died : so that the pious Dean must remain where he is, with his pluralities, and many thousand pounds a year resulting from them, until Parliament terminates these foul abuses. The Dean continues to roll about in his carriage, with, it is said, fifty or sixty thousand pounds in the Bank of England. The opening paper " On preserving the A►to nymous in Periodicals," however plausible it may appear in theory, would, we fear, turn out on application to be something like Mr. Owen's " Labour Exchange System," wholly impractica ble. And this, for reasons which must be ob vious to every one who is at all acquainted with the nature of periodicals, and the peculiar delicacy, so far as personal strictures are concerned, of many of the topics which they are, perforce, as it were, called on to handle. Had there been no such thing as ano nymity in literature, we should have lost the finest specimen of prose satire extant—we mean the Letters of Junius. Hazlitt, too, would never have committed himself in some of those delightful sketches of character (especially that masterly, but, in some respects, cutting one of Wordsworth) which threw such a charm over the pages of the London Magazine. Besides, would Mr. Bulwer himself have ventured on " The Con• versations ofanA mbitions Student," if he had been required personally to avow many of their quaint, far-fetched, though in the majority of instances, poetic and finely-conceived thoughts ? We ap prehend not. " The Politician" is a clever essay on Reform, and Church Reform in parti cular, which, to give it greater point and viva city, is thrown into the form of a dialogue be tween an apoplectic pluralist, and a young, intelligent parishioner. Of course the poor parson has the worst of it. We like much the energy and downright plain speaking of the subjoined remarks:— " But let us now speak boldly. Now, while the Mi nisterial project is yet unconcluded—now, while we are not forced to accept nothing but the Bill '—now let us, from one corner of the kingdom to the other, in every periodical, in every public meeting —now, let us declare that a Church Reform, which merely exchanges tithes for an equal payment to the same amount, which alters the mode of collecting, but leaves the total to be collected of the same number of figures, is not Reform enough. Re form in the Church has this principle of life—Reduction. Without reduction it is a mere caput mortuum. I insist on this, the more especially, because I apprehend, though not bleat with the same lights as Mr. Pelham, that the Minister ial project is only to do away with the ugly sound tithes,' and that the handsome word dignity' is to be supported by the same extortion and the same injustice as at present. The resuscitation of the Ballot, the favour it receives throughout the whole kingdom, the certainty that it will be carried in the next Parliament, is, I repeat, a warning to all legislators—that they cannot effectually silence one demand by granting another. A mere alteration in the tithe system will only give additional power to the existent cry for alterations in the whole establishment; a little water curbs the fire for a moment, but we all know with what effect. Better put it out at once-1 mean the fire—not the Church Establishment ! It is a notable fact that the ministers of the Church are now the most odious part of the whole people—they are the oligarchy of the oligarchy—the hated of the hateful. By their teazing, and worrying, and fretting, and bump ing about on their bits of blood in election matters—by their imprudent recklessness of that reputation which ought to be so dear to a Christian pastor—the reputation of respect, founded upon love—which has led them to take part with the Newcastle persecutors, and to consider that to have served the people is sufficient crime in a can didate to arouse all their fiercest opposition—by their sup. porting men of the most worthless private character, solely because their principles are opposed to the popular interest, they have concentrated against them a resentment equally just and universal. The aristocracy will be forgiven easier than the priesthood. An aristocracy was meant to be a barrier to the desires of the subordinate classes, but the priesthood of Cl(rist were meant to take part with the poor ; their mission was to exterminate the Pharisees —it is the Pharisees they have succeeded. .'dais le bon temps reindra. The public feeling now effervesces; it is a wholesom e liquor, but it will not heep long." " The Doctrinnaires in Office" is a very meagre, common-place affair, wholly made up of 0. P. Q.'s letters in the Morning Chronicle. The most superficial reader can see, at a glance, that the writer leans on others, not on himself, For support. "On the Difference between Au :hors and the Impression conveyed of them by ;heir Works," is as true to life, though in a different style of excellence, as one of Cobbett's landscapes. In this well-digested paper, we find an observation which we quote for its point and sagacity—" It requires a more muscular mind than ordinary to recover the shock of finding a great man simple." Equally delighted are we with the writer's graphic sketch of our late King, whose notions of gentility are now only to be found at the east end of the town, on a Lord Mayor's Day. On the 9th of next November, at least four George the Fourths will ride or strut in the procession. 44 Asmodeus at Large," has, as usual, some smart sarcasm, and truth of description. The Apostrophe to Ox- Lord -street, " The street ythe middle classes, busy without uproar, wealthy without ostentation," with the " odd country-cousin bonnets that peer into thy windows, which are lined with cheap, yel low Shawls, price 1/. 4s. marked in the corner," is penned in a happy spirit of grave banter. " Pro posals for a Literary Union" is mere humbug ; luckily, however, it is unintelligible. The " Nymph of the Lurlei Berg" is a tale neither better nor worse than the usual run of Magazine fictions. " Young Napoleon" contains more ;han one passage marked by eloquence and ust sensibility., THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is not, perhaps, any one article in the present number exhibiting first-rate ability ; but, on the other hand, there are few that fall much below mediocrity. The articles entitled " De- Idle at the Cadran-Bleu," and " Lives of the Polish Heroes," are the best. The " Letter to the Editor of the Examiner" is written with ' some spirit, but surely it must be by an error of the press that it is subscribed as from a " Radical Parson," for a more thorough-going Morning Post tirade we never met with ! The writer says, for instance, "Be for once con vinced, against your wishes, that in all country squabbling about tithes (I know nothing of the London clergy) the parsons are the considerate and self-denying gentlemen, the tithe payers, the unreasonable and bullying knaves." There are other expressions which equally prove the subscrip- tion to be a mistake. In some of the other articles the Toryism is purely absurd, but as it is here amusing it may pass. " The Margate Hoy" might just as well have borne any other name, for although containing some just observations, it is no more a description of a Margate hoy than an account of a night cellar in St. Giles's would be. The article ou Crimping again might more properly have been called " Reasons for military men not joining Don Pedro." We shall close our notice of the Monthly by humbly suggesting to the editor forthwith to send to his studies the gentleman who advises "an early and unlimited extension of the paper circulation," and not to suffer his medical contributor to have two long articles next month. One dose of physic is quite enough for one number. FRASER' S MAGAZINE Contains a double part, both of which are of more than average merit. " Fragments by Goethe" is a wild dreamy allegory, of which we can make neither head nor tail. As a spe cimen of German fancy it is curious, but we fear will find little favour in the eyes of maga zine readers. " Vincenzo Monti" is an intelli gent notice of some of the best productions of this sterling Italian poet. "On National Economy" is saturated with laudanum. The very title is pro vocative of a nap. We suppose the "seven sleepers" had been reading some such article when their eyes so miraculously closed in the " holy" cave, " Love's Idolatry" is a pleasing snatch of verse, " My Contemporaries," recalls some lively remi niscences of the first Lord Kenyon, Mr. Justice Heath, and other renowned lawyers. The fol lowing may serve to amuse : " He had no favourite at the Bar, but dealt offence around him with the most indiscriminate impartiality, with the exception of the late Lord Ellenborough, then Sir Edward Law. He seemed to have selected him for the purpose of indignity, and to raise in his person an object en which to vent his spleen, which was frequently redundant. At the period to which I allude, Sir Edward Law was Attorney General of England, and a man of no common attainments. He possessed a compass of mind fat beyond Lord Kenyon ; talents to which his bore no pro portion, and learning to which he had no pretensions. These, as well as the office which he filled, gave him a claim to the highest respect, and entitled hies to the highest attention. To him Lord Kenyon was uniformly assuming, arrogant, and overbearing. The Bar saw with astonish. ment the indignities which were daily heaped on him by the Chief Justice. He was accustomed to affect a total indifference to any thing addressed to the Court by the Attorney-General, or if he noticed it, it was to bestow on it a more explicit mark of contempt. The language in I which he address e d hi m w as not t h at o f a J udge to a member of the Bar, but delivered in the chiding or man datory tone of a pedagogue to his pupil. He wished by a sneer to convey the impression that he considered him as unworthy of attention, and by that means to lower him in general estimation and in public opinion. " The motives which actuated Lord Kenyon to adopt this steady course of persevering offence, I never heard ac counted for : the object wholly failed. It produced no other effect than to show the importance of rank and situa tion to crush the energies of talent, or impede the legiti• mate progress of abilities to the attainment of high sta tion. The profession did that justice to the Attorney• General's merits which Lord Kenyon had denied to him. They looked with anxiety to they due appreciation of them from that quarter with whom alone it rests to confer re ward, and to raise merit to distinction. The appointment of Sir Edward Law, with the title of Lord Ellenborough, to be successor to Lord Kenyon, was hailed with proud satisfaction by the Bar ; and the taking of his seat on the bench of that Court, from whence he had so often re ceived indignity, was greeted by every member who be longed to it." " Ewan M‘Gabhar," is told in the Ettrick Shepherd's best manner. It abounds in de lightful incidents. " The Schoolmaster's Expe rience in Newgate," is a valuable document, drawn up by an experienced man, who sees and feels the abuses which he deprecates. A Home Secretary might read these papers with conside rable advantage. " A Dishoiwholesome Pro verbs" contains some light, miscellaneous read. ing. In the second part we find Captain Med win's translation of 'Echylus's noble drama, the Clioiphori. We hope this effort will be popu lar, for the translator has adhered with far more than the ordinary fidelity to the spirit of his un equalled original. One or two of the sternest tragic touches, particularly where Clytemnestra is concerned, are rendered with amazing vigour. The address of Orestes to his guilty mother— " 'Tis thou lost kill thyself, not i," Almost equals the original in its solemn ear. nestness and pointed brevity. " Miss Edg worth's Tales and Novels" is a just and do quent analysis of the works of one of the first of English novelists. We have lately (after a long interval) re-perused the productions of this gifted lady, and are glad to find, even with the recollections of Scott in our minds, that we relish her works as much, and even more than ever. We respect her for her truth and sincerity, and because her eloquence is the eloquence o: nature. " Wordsworth's Poetical Works" is a discriminating notice of a true poet (if ever t►ue poet there were) who is now fast finding his level, and whose sonnets are the finest things of the sort in this or any language. We wish we could say as much for his " Excursion," but it is simply a sonorous sermon, whose style, like honest Dogberry's dignity, is " most tolerable and not to be endured." THE METROPOLITAN. There are some good scraps of criticism, thrown out, as if accidentally, in the article which stands at the head of this number, " On Novels and Novel Reading." The estimate of Gil Bias and Cervantes, though brief and sketchy, is finely felt. " Scraps from the Diary of a Traveller," are in Moore's most marked style, full of studied prettinesses. The humour ous portions are the best, for here the author of Little's Poems is always at home. His wit is full of fire and feeling—the brilliant emanation of a frank an d cor di a l sp i r i t. As a serious writer he looks too much to effect ; thinks too much of what " the world will say;" languishes in dreams of sophisticated vo luptuousness, and dies away in elaborate extacies. One Twopenny Post Bag is worthy whole libraries of Lalla Rookhs. " Naval Architecture" is a dry practical treatise, with divers awful, arithmetical calculation s thrust into the middle of it. " The Union Repealed" is a clever jeux d'esprit. The idea is ingenious, 'though it i s t oo muc h o f an i mitat i on of a clever peep into futurity, entitled " Epitaphs in the Primrose-hill Cemetery," which appeared some years since in (we believe) the British Maga zine. We subjoin an extract : " Methought, then, that the Repeal Act had been passed, in virtue of agitation, and the distracted state of the country ; or rather, to mention its more immediate cause, in virtue of sundry speeches of a certain Irish Member, which were such insufferable bores, that they nightly emptied the house, put the Speaker to sleep, and so brought the public business to a dead stand-still. I do not exactly remember what length of time bad elapsed since this bad happened ; but at the epoch of my dream, the Commons were assembled in College-green, (the bank having failed) the Lords from the first being voted a nuisance (not, by-the-bye, without some show of reason) the Lower House had of its own authority, cut the painter," and declared war with England, on some dis agreement concerning Irish tot:amerce. They were at th moment engaged in mooting the point, whether an em bassy should be sent to Aineric., or to the liberal Em peror of Russia, to beg an alliance offensive and defensive with the infant republic. On some emergency, when the Dublin garrison had been weakened by numerous detach mental, the Viceroy had been driven from the castle, the Secretary had been voted a slave-beggar and a traitor, and the city was in the hands of the separatists. The hero of repeal, however, was unfortunately no more. From the passing of that measure, his popularity had declined, owing to inveterate habits of ingratitude, in which the populace of Dublin had long been taught to indulge towards their beat friends: and rejoicing conservatives declared, neque cam lezjustier calla quam neeis artifices arte petite sus. This and other circumstances had in due. d him to accept of the office of Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer (as Sir Francis 'Wronghead says), " if it be only to begin with." He was thus compelled to op pose the further spread of the revolution, and had conse quently been one day hanged by " de boys" opposite the place where the statue of King William formerly stood. Mr. Sh—.. had emigrated early in the revolt, as yet no one exactly knew where. Mr. B—t..--n hail thrown off his cassock, and represented a conservative borough in the north, advocating the most ultra republican measures, for the purpose (as hie friends averred) of establishing a Protestant theocracy, of which he was to be himself the Samuel, or (as his enemies asserted) for pushing the Papists into excesses which would bring on a counter revolution. Honest Jack was engaged in conducting a Parliament jour nal, and had a seat in the House, where he headed a small knot of determined patriots, who stood out for the legisla tive independence of the four provinces, and a revival of the throne of Brien Boru. This project was a universal favourite. A meeting of Munster delegates had already assembled at Cork to carry it into partial execution, in spite of the Dublin Parliament. Lords L. and R., de prived, with the rest of the Peerage, of their privilege, and stripped of their fortunes, had turned fifth monarchy men, and were wandering about the country preaching the nillenniutn, while their friend, L------t G. had become a Catholic, and had entered the monastery of the Trappists. Mr. W. bad returned to Waterford, after a vain attempt to give a better direction to affairs, and was preparing to anticipate the sentence of banishment, which, in reward for former services, was maturing against him, in the tri bunal of public safety. N. P. L., Esq., was Chairman of the Committee of Finance and Commerce, assembled to recommend prohibitive duties, on foreign tea, Coffee, sugar, and nutmegs, and to encourage the home growth ; Ind also to carry on absolute exclusion of all foreign ma nufactures, except gunpowder. Mr. S r , though a swadler and an Englishman, had been invited over and naturalized for his pamphlet, recommending an universal psor law for supporting every citizen of Ireland at the public expense, and for his treatise called " Labour inde- pendent of Capital." Doctor D. had undergone many cissitudes. On the agitator's taking office, the Doctor had inherited his forfeited popularity, and had been prose. cuted for a seditious libel, narrowly escaping a conviction, through the obstinacy of a mad Protestant tailor, who had been smuggled into the Jury-box by the ultra-Liberals, And was pre-determined to acquit the defendant in order to annoy the Government. In consequence of this prose cution, it was proposed to elect him Vice-Pope of Ireland; but through the jealousy of the parochial clergy, this scheme was delayed till his popularity faded before his ♦ote against provincial Parliaments; when he was stripped of his pallium by an order of the House, and was then living in great obscurity, the editor of a penny magazine." " Chit-chat" is smart and desultory." " Letter from Paris" is full of useful information, by a man whose wits are hourly on the look out. The Doctrinnaire system" is analyzed in a fine searching spirit. " Peter Simple" is passable ; its great defect is, that it lacks character. " News- laper Reporting" contains some good sugges., ions, but they are neutralized by the splenetic, intemperate spirit, that hangs, like a foul cloud, on the writer's mind. " Speechifying" is sadly puerile ; if, however, the writer be young, there is hope for him. We take for granted he has not yet swung clear of his teens. THE BRITISH FARMER'S MAGAZINE. The twenty-fifth number of this quarterly publication has just made its appearance. It is professedly conducted on the principle of allowing both sides to be heard on the great disputed questions in agricultural policy, but there is evidently a leaning in the mind of the conductor to the side of the corn monopolists,— to the side of those who contend that the people should eat no more corn than this country can grow. Perhaps it is hardly time to expect otherwise at present ; and it is certainly an ac knowledgment that the good cause has found advocates even among farmers, to give, or even profess to give, both sides of the question. With respect to the articles in this par ticular they arc all such as must be of the highest interest to the class of readers to whom they are addressed. Mr. 'Webb Hall contributes a paper, or rather the commence% went of a paper, in the shape of a letter to Lord Milton, on the subject of that Noble Lord's pamphlet on the Corn Laws. We have read it with regret ; for there does not appear in it any trace of a willingness to yield to the community the same liberty of disposing of its labour and money as it pleases, which the farmers claim on their own account. 'We say we regret it ; for we are satisfied that the time is approaching, when if an alteration be not made with the concur rence of the landed interest, it will be made in spite of it. This subject is one of such im portance, that we shall notice Mr. Webb's article on a future day. The following is the best article, in the way of extract, which we can find to present to our readers. It will be found interesting to all having even the slightest ac quaintance with rural matters : " GAMA GRASS. " The following coinMunrca - tion, extracted from the Southern Agriculturist, published at Charleston, in the Unitedit to attention ; more particularly as the conductor, by the kilidnes, S , otaftesth,epAossmesersiecsansuEffidciiteonrt interest ,expects tosoorencotorairnieenidn possession of some seed of this highly commend e d grass. Of course, a careful trial will be given it, an d an account of its produce, in the soil and clim a t e o f G reat Britain laid before the public at the earliest possible p er i o d : " '' read in the Washington City, and some other public Gazette lr. li,aEn Editor , —Some yearn say f our or fi ve , I valuable properties of a grass, found in the south-west, and principally through the provinces of South America, called by the Spaniards the ' gama•gra!s.' I think, wime time ago, a min i your R gieter iin th e subject communication grass, ,or ap a p n ear e e x d tr in act from the e ommunication of some Spanish gentlemen. O n readin,s in the Washing ten Cat/ tiverl, however. a erim,n,..,; . , , ,t;,.n frarn a di._