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tinguished citizen of Maryland to the Agricultural So ciety, I determined to.pmrure,; if, postiblea thesseed- of it,. and to ascertain whether or not it would be found to ex hibit in Alabama, and its,climate and soil, the same valu able qualities. " From the communication before-mentiond, a Dr. Hardeman, of Missouri, was state d as the gentleman to whom the country was indebted for bringing into notice and usefulness this valuable vegetable acquisition. The Doctor was not unknown to me as one of those few minds who can blend together a fair and manly pursuit after this good things of this life, with that happy degree of philan thropy which cannot be satisfied without adding some thing to the general stock of human comfort and happi ness—and the antipode of those who can wrap themselves up in the sleazy web of self, and contemplate everything through that (to them) delightful medium. I learned that his patriotism was equalled by his liberality, and I wrote him my desire to give to this section of the Union the advantages, if possible, attributed to this valuable plant. On the receipt of my letter, he immediately forwarded me, by mail, the remaining few seeds he had left, and which, on receiving:, I quickly planted, and I now view it as a remaining duty to the public, to put them in posses-ion of the result, which fixes, in my opinion, the character of this plant, to this section of the Union, as almost invalu able. To the citizens of your town and vicinity, lam assured its value can hardly be calculated. " On receiving the seeds, say in March, early, I planted them in a small hed, by drilling, placing the seeds about six inches apart. They came up in a few days, and appeared in the form of young oats. On getting about six inches high, I took them up, after a rain, and set them, agreeably to the Doctor's directions, in rows, two feet apart, and eighteen inches from plant to plant, in sandy pine land, slightly manured. The rapidity of their growth astonished me, and I found by September—each plant a bunch of fine blades, and the ground completely covered, and the spaces filled up—the grass three and a half to four feet high ! I kept the ground loose and clean between the plants. Early in September it was cut, and in taste re sembled young corn blades—a taste. of all others, the most agreeable to animals. I found every thing was prodigi ously fond of it, especially horses and cattle, and that it was a dry grass, with little succulence in it. " The following spring, early, the ground was stirred between the plants, the roots of which were now about four inches in diameter, resembling the root of a sugar cane. A small quantity of manure (cow) was sprinkled over the ground in December following, and by the first day of May it was four feet in height : a mass of blades, rising from the roots, and standing almost perpendiculv . , exhibiting a most beautiful appearance of vegetable luxu riance. It was cut on the first day of the month, and re gularly on the first day of every month till November, ranging from three and a half to four and a half feet in height. Single roots produced from twelve to thirteen and a half pounds of grass at a cutting, and which, when fully cured, produced from five to five and a half pounds of the most highly-flavoured hay I have ever found, and rea dily cured. The last year gave a most decisive proof that it is hardly affected by drought, its production being equal to the previous year ; and the last winter, that our severest cold does not affect the roots, now about six inches dia meter, penetrating the earth perpendicularly to a great depth. " ' A most accurate cutting and weighing has deter. mined, that an acre will yield (of pine land manured) from two hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of green grass during the summer, or from seventy-five to ninety tons of hay, and of the most nutritious kirolsknown upon the earth. By a reference to the Washington City papers two or three years back, it will be seen that a dis tinguished farmer and iron-master states, in a public com munication on the subject of this grass, that he found, on trial, such was its nutritive qualities, that his mules per formed their work well, with plenty of this grass and salt, rendering the addition of corn unnecessary. I discover that it comes to maturity one year sooner in this section of the Union than in Maryland or Missouri. The second year I found a few seed stalks, and the third, say last year, I gathered the seed, a part of which I send you for distri bution amongst some of your enterprising citizens, who will riot forget to ' go and do likewise.' In the commu nication before referred to, it will be found the estimation was, that ' one acre was fully competent to the support of twenty bead of cattle during the summer.' That it would be admirable for the production of milk and butter, there cannot remain a doubt, and that a little attention to its cultivation would preclude the necessity of purchasing northern bay, is as plain, as that it would add to the com fort and general properiy of the whole community. Amongst the citizens of many of the South American States, it is held in estimation equal to the Guinea grass of the West Indies, but is certainly far superior in value. The duration of the roots I have not learned ; mine are putting out most vigorously this fourth year. A singu larly valuable property, different from most other grasses, is, that when the seed is ripening on the end of the seeds stalks, six to eight feet high, the mass of leaves appears not to undergo any change, and it may be cut immedi ately after the seed is all gatherel, say by the middle of June. The seed is formed, making a jointed appearance at the end of the seed stalk, ripening and falling off one seed at a rime. They must be watched and gathered daily, as different birds appear to watch for them. " Should the cultivation and possession of this plant prove a source of additional wealth, and add to the welfare of the citizens of your vicinity, I shall congratulate my self for my own good fortune in being instrumental in pro ducing so desirable a circumstance. I shall forward an additional parcel of seed this summer. " Respectfully your obedient servant, " AGRICOLA.' " BLACKW 0 OD' S MAGAZINE. A very good average number, with less o monotony than usual. " The Traditions of the Rabbins"—a tempting subject, and replete with interesting matter, is well executed. The details, in particular, respecting the Rabbinical Legends Solomon, will be read with considerable pleasure, The following is curious In those romances there is the foundation of many an Arab Tale. They 'nave all the wildness, abruptness, and high-coloured images of the Thousand and One Nights, hut minded with more trivialities. They are, however, highly curious, if they can be conceived to embody those strange traditions which seem to have made up a large portion of the ancient Asiatic memorials, hut which have long since passed away. In this point of view, the Rah bins have been the preservers of a portion of the history o. 4 the human mind , t hat p ortion which lies between oli- Olaf :evelation and autheatic narrative, the mystic pe rind, tho dark dge of Orientalism—but, dark as it was, an age which may have been as essential to the vigour of the Jumian uodgrstanding in the subsequent periods, as sleep is to the frame, winter to the future redundancy of the soil. "'The fable of the , 1 1,oves of the Argels, that ancient per persion of the passage nf Genesis which &scribes the laptiotacy of the eons of Seth, and their intercourse with the resestted family of Cain, forms a considerable share of 1 .11,e Rabbi:44a] narratives. But their lire of variety is not 'satisfied with pne instance of this offence, nor one class of its perpetrators. The giant Oo is one of the offspring of the angelic intercourae ; but the, criminal is not the good angel, but tba bad.' We aiia' thus told that Og was born before the deluge, the son of the eel! angel Schampiel, and that his mother was no less a personage than the wife of the Patriarch Shem himielf.' Sicbon, the brother giant, Kinfe of the Animonitea, was said to be born in the At k. " The Giant Og is a prodigious favourite with the Bab bins, and figures alternately as the Hercu'es and the Orii.n of the Talmud.. In thejalkut Schirizoni, M ses is repre sented as having toll the-Angel of Death, that he had peen engaged in a war against Sichon and Og, two heroes ,af Heathens, virLit; were'of so vast a stature, that they 'could cot be drowned in the Deluge, - its waters reaching nUThigher th:in their ankles.',. Of Sichon, it is told, as an ~..dence of the singular triumph of Israel, that he was ha,raiiar than a wall, and taller than any tower ; and t hat ,n o .creap_ir,, born of earth could withstand his strength.' Out his ,ciaief power was connected with the protection of .the Prince of Demons. The first act of successful Warfare teas therefore to chain np the Demon Prince, and then Israel was (et loose upon him, and tridmphed accordingly, to the infinite discomfiture of the Ammo nites. But the Rabhins sometimes grow sceptical as to the height of Og above the Deluge, and attempt to provide for him in a more comfortable mode than by thus wading or swimming for his life. • The Sevachim declares that Og, after a bold attempt to check the descent of the waters of the coming Deluge, by putting his hand apinst the windows of the firmament, and his foot against 4,e fountains of the great deep—an attempt which was and4enly frustrated by waking the waters boiling-hot, until the giant wp scalded to the bone, and obliged to give way -he mounted upon the Ark, and thus rode out the storm, He must, however, have been an inconvenient passenger if he retained his appetite, for the Treatise of the Sopherim states, as his bill of fare every day, 1,00 0 oxen, and I,ooo' head of game; and for his drink 1,000 nieasures of wine." " Tom Cringle's Log " is capital, as regards variety and graphic spirit. The series of these 'singular papers, when completed, will tell well, .6t. • • we suspect, in a volume,lilie the c l ev Diarie s of a Physician. " James's History of Charle magne" is an elaborate notice of one of the best of our modern historical sketches. Lines on the "Cholera Mount at Sheffield" are good, but scarcely worthy of the talents of James Mont gomery. But Homer sometimes nods. " He siod" is an acute, eloquent piece of criticism, worthy of the splendid notices of Homer and his translators, Pope, Cowper, and Sotheby, that preceded it. " The Working of the Bill" is, as Usual, full of high Tory truculence. " The Noctes " form an agreeable medley of gossip and banter. BRITISH MAGAZINE. A Periodical wholly devoted to the High Church party, whose interests it advocates with considerable address and ingenuity. The Reviews deserve praise for the gentlemanlike good.na tured tone of their strictures. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. This Number will prove more interesting to the general reader than the last. It is not, however, destitute of that peculiar kind of in formation which makes the Asiatic Journal so welcome to all old Indians. The " Re miniscences of an Old Indian Officer," and " The Confessions of an Eurasider," must be read with pleasure by every body. The first is a continuation of a series of articles commenced under that title in the last number, but distances it by a great way in ability and interest. The latter is certainly amusing, but we fear not written in that kindly spirit towards the unhappy half castes, of whom the hero is one. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. We have nothing but praise to bestow upon this spirited Magazine, and that is proverbially so difficult a thing to do well, that we shall hazard our reputation as little as possible by being as brief as well may be. If there be any article in the book which the general reader will last look to, it is that upon comets, which, except to astronomers, is too long by half. The visit to the Falkland Islands, and the Reminiscences of a Subaltern, are those we have read with most interest. MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. The thirty-first number of London's six times a year publication, bearing the above title, makes its appearance to-day. The dwellers in towns may have little care for a work like this, but to those who live in the country, the whole, or the part of the year, it must prove a delightful repertory of interesting matter. We remember the time when we should have thought it in valuable, and we can still sympathize with the lovers of nature, albeit our eyes are saluted on rising by the sight of dingy brick walls instead of green fields and waving woods. The present number, besides a vast mass of miscellane ous matter, contains a communication from a correspondent on the subject of the propaga tion of the eel. We never placed any faith in the common notions upon that subject and are glad to see that what was only matter of conjec ture with us, viz., that eels are propagated in the same manner as other fish, is confirmed by so accurate an observer as the writer of the article we refer to. The following particulars with re spect to cats, are not generally known, and are curious :-- " A friend of mine has twice brought cats without tails from the Isle of Man, where there is a considerable num ber, and they may he purchased for a trifle. They are the most plentiful, I believe, in that part of the bland called the Calf of Man. They are rather taller (if I may be all, , wed the expression) than the common cat, but not so broad and strong ; their colour is genet ally a lightish grey. They resemble more the hare and rabbit, in their movements, than the domestic cat ; which, perhaps, may be owing to their hind legs being so much longer than those of the common cat. I cannot speak to their quali ties as mousers ; one of those which I have seen had four kittens (by a common cat), two of which had very short thick tails (about two inches long). I saw them almost every day, and paid particular attention to them. The only work in which I have found any account of this species (variety rather) is Le K'ux's Illustrations of Natural History, vol. I. p. 356., in these words : ' There is also a hereditary variety of the cat in this country without any visible tail. It is not uncommon in Cornwall ; and Dr. Leach received one from the Isle of Wight, which, however, could not be reconciled to its new habitation.' The Isle of Wight,' I think, ought to l e the ' Isle of Man.' I have conversed with a native of the former island on the subject ; and he says he never saw or heard of one there. Le Keux gives the following anec dote from Dr. Anderson's Recreations in Agriculture. ' A cat belonging to Dr. Coventry, the ingenious pro fessor of Agriculture in Edinburgh, which had no blemish at its birth, but had lost its tail by accident when it was young, bad many litters of kittens, and in every litt,-tt there was one or more that wanted a tail.' I hope the above will prove acceptable to some of your readers. I remain, Sir, yours, &c.—illancuniettsis. Sept. 3, 1832.' SPORTING - MAGAZINE, AND NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. We hardly know how the conductors of the above rival Magazines will approve of our plac ing them side by side, but in good truth it is an arrangement which so suits our convenience, having nothing to say of one which we have not of the other, that we trust we shall be excused for persevering in it as long as that is the case. Indeed we do not see why we should even call them rival Magazines, for we should imagine that there are few sportsmen who would not be as willing to take in both as one. To speak of them together, then, the present numbers are both good, and we shall show our impartiality by giving an extract from each, only giving pre cedence to the great " original." A French duck shooter in the Pyrenees unexpectedly falls in with a bear : " Just as the heads of three fine birds, in close contact, had brought the gun half-way to his shoulder, a sudden crackling of the dry hushes, together with a deep growl, made him spring to his feet, and sent off the startled ducks, now utterly unheeded by him. Within ten yards stood a hear, one of the hugest of the huge black breed of the Pyrenees, glaring on him with all the ferociousness of hunger, and magnified by the snow to double his actual size. B tptiste was a brave man ; he had seen fire on a sharp day ; yet the blood ran back to his heart, and the mist cane over his eyes. It was but for a moment : he knew the strength and fierceness of his antagonist, and his own inadt plate means of defence; but he knew also the worse than hOpelesimess of flight, - and set himself for the mortal struggle. • Motionless the animal stood before him; but Baptiste, aware that instantly the rush would be made, and that his only chance with the long unmanageable gun, was an immediate shot,• fired. Ere the smoke cleared, the bear, maddened by an ineffectual wound, bad sprung on him with an hideous yell; the gun-stock shivered on his head. Baptiste, though already within the fearful hag, his back against a tree, bad with his lett arm griped the throat, and forcing back the head, - was for a moment untouched by the teeth. By Providential instinct he had snatched one of his sabots from the ground, - and, with des ',crate energy, be hailed blows and blows on the heal of his adversary, which, cut as ;t was by the shot, streamed thicker bloodltedvth the heavy-nailed wood. But the unequal contest cad not long continue ; Baptiste's arm, powerful though it was, grew weaker and weaker; his sides were bruised and lacerated ; his breath became faint and flurried ; dropping the sabot, he gdsped the throat with both hands, but their force failed him ; his arms gave gradually way, till the brute's muzzle touched and panted on his cheek ; one more strnggle ...... they dropped un nerved ; he felt the gripe on his shoulder, and sank sense less to the ground." _ . We feel bound to add " that all too late the advantage came," for Bruin died in the moment of victory. The following sketch of a gentleman well known in the sporting world, is from the New Sporting Magazine. It occurs in the article entitled " Noctes Nimrodiante." " My first acquaintance with Mr. Chute was by acci dent, for although I had heard of him and his hounds I never crossed him in my path till I went from London, in the spring of 1822, to look at the house I afterwards lived in in Hampshire, and in returning from an inspec tion of it to a post-chaise that was waiting for me in a lane, I saw a person coming tit-up•ing along on a little brown hackney, in rather a shabby surtout, with saddle, bridle, hat, and boots—all a dead match. Now, to tell the real truth, when he approached me I took him for the parish doctor; but the sight of his pig-tail, in addition to a slight how that he honoured me with en passant,' convinced me of the fact. Seeing him then open the gate that led to Beaurepaire-house, I ventured to holloa him back, when he instantly pulled up his horse. ' Pray, Sir,' said I, ' can you give me any account of this house, for there is no one here but a drunken keeper, who can tell me any thing about it?' What, Sir,' said he, have you a mind to take it?' I told him such was my wish. Are you a sportsman ?' said be, looking at my boots and breeches in which I chanced to be clad. A bit of one,' was my reply. 'Then take it Sir,' said he, emphatically ; you will be within half a mile of the best pack of fox-hounds in England.' My God !' said I, is it Mr. Ci.ute whom I have the honour of addressing, and with whom I have taken this liberty ?' 4 WILLIAM CHUTE IS THE MAN,' he replied; lam going to see two puppies that are at walk, but I will mrer• take you directly, and you must call and see my hounds.' On entering his kennel, a hound called Larkspur' first attracted my notice, and putting my stick on his back I observed that he was a clever hound. ' You are a sports man,' said he, his countenance brightening as he spoke ; and now the man appears. ' I would not take five hun dred guineas for that hound. I've just been telling Mrs. Chute, who is writing to Lady Spenser' (her sister, and a curious messase, by-the-bye, for a lady to convey), to say, that if they want the best blood in England, in Nor thamptonshire, they must send to my Larkspur.' In three weeks after this time I became a neighbour to Mr. Chute, but as hunting was concluded I saw nothing of his hounds in the field till the summer was over, and I believe that never passed too quickly for him. Nevertheless I saw a good deal of him, and he certainly was in his way a very singular character—something approaching Sir Roger de Coverley, but without his gravity. He had, however, many of the good qualities of the worthy knight—he was a good landlord and a good master. He conversed with his tenants as if they were his equals, and treated his ser vants as if they were his friends; indeed, the easy, good humoured, but rather unfashionable, manner in which he generally spoke to them, gave somewhat a license to their tongues. He told me that one day, as he was sheltering from a some under one side of a thick hedge o n his f a r m , and some of his labourers were doing the same thing on the other, he overheard a conversation in which the names of his butler, his bailiff, his huntsman, and himself, were every now and then introduced. "fhere was Mr. Chap man,' said he, my bailiff; there was Mr. Woods, my butler ; there was Mr. Nixon, my huntsman ; but when my name was introduced, I was Old Billy' ! " TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. We give this number the preference over any of its predecessors, first from its variety, secondly, from the honest, hearty tone of its feeling. It is emphatically the people's Ma gazine, and labours in the good cause with all the zeal of truth and conviction. Its first ar- tide—which is placed just where it should be— under the title of " Radical Poets," gives an ani mated analysis of the works of Ebenezer Elliot (the name Ebenezer, by-the-bye, suits Mr. Elliot better in the character of Vales a prophet, than Vales a poet) the author of the " Corn Law Rhymes," and that fine poem, whose very title conveys a sneer worthy of Junius, the " Splendid Village." The criticism on this sterling writer is marked by much discrimina tion, and his excellencies are forcibly insisted on. Judging from his terse, graphic definition of the Corn Laws, which, says he, with rude, sledge-hammer power, " speak to me from the trenchers of my ten children," we suspect that Mr. Elliot writes prose pretty nearly, if not quite as well, as poetry. In the cursory remarks on the " Splendid Village," we have been somewhat struck to find that every one of the extracts are se lected as they appeared in The Sun some months since, with the very same lines, and even epithets marked in Italics. " Life and Times of a Protocol" is a lively, allegorical bit of satire. The warlike accoutrements of the full grown Protocol deserve praise for their point and smartness. " I bore" quoth this trim, car pet-knight "in my right hand a long tin sword of extraordinary temper, and on my left, a shield covered with polished parchment, the device was a lion in an ass's skin, and under it the words Let him roar again.' My helmet, which was of brass, was surmounted by a goose in full flight, with its neck extended, and carrying in its bill a scroll sic itur ad astra.' " The Bride of Marseilles" is a graceful little poem ; and the account of the " Funeral of Sir W. Scott, by an Eye-witnes " is penned in a fine solemn vein of pathos ; in particular we have been much affected by the following passage The servants of the de ceased, resolved that no hireling should lay hands on the coffin of their master, approached the hearse. Among these, the figure of the old coachman who had driven Sir Walter for so many years, was peculiarly remarkable, reveren tially bending to receive the coffin." How strongly does this one simple fact tell in favour of the heart of our immortal novelist, who, it seems, had (and deserved to have) his Caleb Balderstone as well as the Master of Ravens wood ! We have no room for extracts. THE LATV MAGAZINE OR QUARTERLY REVIEW. OF JURISPRUDENCE. THE LEGAL EXAMINER AND MONTHLY REVIEW OF JURISPRUDENCE. We ought, perhaps, to apologize to the editor of the Law Magazine for placing even the name of his work in juxtaposition with that of the Legal Examiner; but what we have to say of the latter is so brief that he will perhaps excuse. The Legal Examiner is published weekly, but makes up a monthly number, of which we have that for October before us. We were not sorry to see the existence of such a periodical ; for, although not of the high standard character of its Quarterly rival, it could not, we thought, do harm, and might do g ood to a certain extent. We regret to find, how ever, this number, an article, inserted, we firmly believe ) merely for the purpose of pro voking an action for libel, or of attracting public attention in some other way. T article to which we allude charges the medical profession with a conspiracy against that amiable man, St. John Long, implicates Mr. Brodie in the conspiracy, and intimates that Miss Cashin was destroyed by poison. After a page or two of vituperation the writer concludes, " Thus our charge is made ; we wait for a reply !" We trust that neither Mr. Brodie nor any one else will think it worth while to bring into notice so wretched an attempt to attract public attention. The Law Magazine has now reached its eighteenth number, and is, we doubt not, long past that hazardous period in the life of a new periodical when the breath of cri ticism can seriously hurt it, if it be really a work of merit. Even were such not the case we should not be inclined either to " damn with faint praise" or vent upon it a portion of the atrabilious feelings excited in us by the conduct of the journal we have just noticed. In fact, the Law Magazine has hitherto contained more than an average portion of exceedingly good articles, evidently written by sound lawyers. Even those which do not exhibit any very pro found thought or extended observation may be depended upon for the correctness of their facts. ft was our intention to have given some extracts Ln corroboration of our remarks, but the length ;o which our Magazine Day has already ex tended must plead our excuse for not doing so• COURT MAGAZINE. This fashionable miscellany runs its course rejoicing, we are told, as was to be expected under the auspices of so accomplished a lady as Mrs. Norton. The embellishments are, as works of art, eminently beautiful. The portrait is Lady Sophia Sidney, eldest daughter of his present Majesty ; and the landscape, Windsor Castle, taken from the most picturesque point of view. This last engraving, forms the first of a series, to be entitled the " Landscape Gallery,' which is a great additional attraction to a work of this nature. The literary department is very happily diversified. LARDNER' S CY CLORXDIA,No. XXXVI. LONDON, 1832, Forms the third volume of Mr. Gleig's Me moirs of eminent Military Commanders. With his lives of Sir Ralph Abercrombie and Sir John Moore we find no fault ; they are agreea bly written, though in too laudatory a fashion, as if it were flat blasphemy to breathe a word to the disparagement of an English General ; but his account of Lord Clive is so preposterously panegyrical, as to be quite offensive. He lays on his flattery not delicately with a rouge-brush, but, like a bricklayer, with a trowel. It is high time this fulsome style of biography were put an end to. It is an affront to the living, and no compliment to the dead. ENCYCLOP4EDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. The sixth number of this work is published this month. We have already, we believe, stated, in the heads of the edition, that the ob ject of the work is to improve the dwellings of the great mass of society in the temperate regions of both hemispheres." The present number contains fundamental principles and models, and miscellaneous designs for Farm Houses and Farmeries, with four lithographic plates, and nearly 150 engravings on wood. We are hardly competent to form an opinion upon many of the almost numberless points discussed in this book ; but, as far as we are, we have no hesitation in recommending it to the attention not only of architects, but of all gentle men seeking to improve the condition of their tenantry. VALPY'S CLASSICAL LIBRARY. No. XXX V. This number forms the second volume of Potter's translation of the Supplicants, Her cules, Heraclitlm (the feeblest and least inte resting of all the dramas of Euripides), Iphi genia in Aulis, Rhesus, and the Trojan dames." The translation of these tragedies is sadly deficient in fire and poetry, but it is, we believe, the best we have. Potter's choruses are the quintesence of tame, flat prose, which, by some unccountable misnomer, has been baptized poetry. THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF ELEC. TIONS (FOR SCOTLAND). AS ALTERED BY THE REFORM ACT, By CHARLES F. F. WORDSWORTH, Esq., Of the Inner Temple. If Scotland wanted Reform in its representa tive system more than any other part of the United Kingdom, now that it has obtained it, its inhabitants want instruction in the mode of claiming and exercising the rights conferred upon them, more than those either of England or Ireland. We are told by some Scotch papers, that in parts of the country there were electors who actually were not aware that they had more than one vote. Mr. Words worth, whose works on the law of election in England we have favourably noticed, has pub lished the book named at the head of this article upon the Law of Election in Scotland, which we must, in justice to ourselves, say, would have been reviewed before, but for the pressure of im postponeable matter, which has for some time fl o wed in upon us. It is a complete election manual, and includes the practice in election pe titions. The notes referring to the authority of decided cases are numerous, and as far as we have had an opportunity of verifying them, ap pear to be very correct. On the 7th October Lord PONSONBY, the new English Ambassador to the Court of the Two Sicilies, arrived at Rome. SEED WHEAT.—A gentleman (says the Newry Teleyraph) who has himself proved the excellence "of the following steep for seed wheat, has obligingly com municated it to us for the information of our farming friends :—" To as much pickle of salt and water as will steep one barrel (20 stone) of wheat add 211bs. of blue stone; then add 111►. of bluestone, with as much additional pickle as will steep a second barrel; and continue to add bluestone and water for every additional barrel of wheat in the same proportion with a shovelful of roach Time to every third water, the lime to be put into the water before the wheat. If the weather is dry, steep the wheat 36 hours ; if wet, 24 hours; when it is to be dried with roach lime, preparatory to sowing," FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger.) An interesting discussion took place a few days ago in the Second Chamber of the. States of Hanover, on the sub ject of the responsibility of Ministers. The proposition of M. de Honstedt, that Ministers should be responsible for all their acts, was negatived ; but the following, by Dr. Kleuze, was adopted :—" Every Minister shall be respon sible for ordinances which, whether from design or from gross negligence, may contain a violation of the constitu tional charter or the rights of the subjects acknowledged by the charter." The Amide la Charte of Nantes, of the 27th October, says, " We learn from Bourbon Vendee, that on the 24th the Prefect, accompanied by the Captain. General of the gendarmerie and a strong detachment, proceeded to the chateau of the Count de Mesnars, near Qaatre Chemins, in the hope of seizing not only the Count, but the Duchess de Berri, who, from information received, was supposed to be there. The search, however, did not produce any result." Public carriages have begun to run on the iron rail road from St. Etienne to Lyons. Upwards of 500 passer). gers have traversed it daily since the Ist inst., and the passage is accomplished in three hours and a half one way, and five hours and a half the other. (From the Nouvelliste.) The treaty between France and England, which we have before alluded to, has been ratified. The ratifications were exchanged at London on Saturday by Prince Talley rand and Lord Palmerston. The treaty, which consists of five articles, was immediately communicated to the Con ference ; not, however, as requiring its assent, which could only have caused delay, but merely as an act due to the five Powers who have so faithfully concurred in main taining the general peace. On the same evening a steam boat was sent off with despatches to the Kings of Holland and Belgium, requiring them to evacuate the respective territories they hold belonging to the other of them by November 2 ; accompanied by a formal declaration, that if these measures were not completed by the 12th, the combined forces would immediately act both by sea and land. The fleets will sail on the sth, and the army will begin to move on the 15th ; but it is believed that all the ill-judged resistance hitherto displayed, and which from this moment will become ineffectual, must at once give way to the irrevocable decree of France and England. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, OCT. 30.-Five per Cents., 96f. 40c. 45c. 40c. 45c. 50c. 45c. 4i.c. 35c. 30c.-Four and a Half per Cents., 90f.-Four per Cents., 80f. 50c.-Three per Cents., tBf. 10c. sc. 10c. sc. 10c. 20c. 2.5 c. 20c. 15c.-Bank Actions, 1,670E-Rente de Naples, 81f. 25c. 35c. 30c.-Roman Five per Cents., 81 1 4 %.- Rente d'Espagne, 12%.- Royal Spanish Loan, 79 1 4 %.-Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 57% % 3 / 4 16 % 57%.-Belgian Loan, 78 1 4 78.-Haytian Loan, 200f.-Exchange on London, one month, money, 25f. 80c. ; three months, money, 20f. 65c.- Cours Amthentique. GERMAN PAPERS. ITESSE CASSEL. —The Cassel Gazette has the follow ing article:— _ _ _ " Rinteln, Oct. 10. " General interest is excited here by the decision of our Chief Tribunal in the affair of the Volksblatt (popular journal) of Schaumburg. It was intimated to the editor of the Volksblatt, by the police, that in consequence of the decision of superior authority, he was to apply for a li cense to continue his paper. A complaint which be made to the Government in Cassel was not attended to, but as the editor continued to publish his paper the printing of it was prohibited. The publisher on this brought an action, and the Chief Court has decreed as follows : " Decree in the affair of the bookseler Osterwald, in Rinteln, plaintiff, against the Magistrates of the county of Schaumburg, defendants, respecting the publication of the popular journal of Schaumburg. Considering that, ac cording to the existing laws, the permission of the Go vernment is not necessary to the publication of a journal, seeing sections 31, 36, and 113 of the Constitution, the defendants, to whom a written copy of the complaint is to be communicated, are hereby adjudged, on penalty of a fine of fifty dollars to the poor, immediately to revoke the prohibition complained of, and to indemnify plaintiff for all loss and damage accruing from it, and likewise to payment of the costs; and the 20th instant is fixed as the date before which the defendants are to bring proof of their having executed the decree. " WEPPERMAN ETIENNE, " Electoral Hessian Chief Tribunal. " Rinteln, Oct. b, 1832." —Nuremberg Correspondent, October 24. SAXE COBURG.-The Ducal Government has given notice that, according to a resolution of the Diet of the Confederation, all petitions, protests, and addresses agains t the famous resolutions, are to be considered unlawful, and the authors and distributors of Poch addresses are, there fore, to be prosecuted.— Universal Advertiser of Germany. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your Paper of last Thursday were some ob servations respecting the substitution of a small postage on newspapers for the present stamp duty; I can but remark that you left out the strongest arguments in favour of such an alteration. Admitting, as you did, an increase of 20 for 1 in the circulation of newspapers, you omitted the important fact, that supposing such increase to take place, the duty of 3d. per lb. on the additional paper consumed would amount to more than the stamp duty taken off. This alone, as a measure of finance, would he important, but it almost sinks into insignificance in comparison with the certainty that so vast an increase in the circulation o' newspapers would provide employment to at least 50,000 additional persons, as paper-makers, ink-makers, type founders, printers, &c. throughout the kingdom. The taxes on manufactured paper and on newspapers, like those on glass and on windows, operate against each other, and it is most extraordinary that such palpable in consistences have existed so long. Instead of encouraging the consumption of an article on which a tax is laid, it appears to have been the object of legislators to hedge it round with cross duties, as if it were their intention to lessen its produce. A small Excise tax on about a dozen articles of home produce in universal demand would enable the Govern ment to dispense with the Assessed Taxes, without adding to the burthens of the people; but then the article must have fair play, it must not be taxed two or three different ways, either openly or covertly.-1 remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, Ramsgate, Oct. 22. W. A. HUNT. DRURY LANE. However much blame may be attached to theatrical managers for encouraging foreigners, introducing farces and melo•drames " brent new" from France, to the dis couragement and prejudice of the legitimate English drama, the lessee of this theatre has nothing to account for on this score : and consequently may look for the support of all those who have been loud in exclaiming against what has been called the ruin of good acting. Independent of a variety of English plays which have been performed since the opening of the theatre, we have had in the course of the week the Beaux Stratagem and the Hypocrite— last evening the School for Scandal, with the uromise of Macbeth for this evening, and the Merchant of Venice for Monday. The cast of that celebrated comedy of SHERIDAN'S has been made with great judgment, and ought to ensure its frequent repetition. FARREN, DOWTON ' BRAHAM, MACREADY, COOPER, HARLEY, with M rs . GLOVER, and Mrs. NESBITT, form a strong corps, a n d would insure common success even in an ordinary piece, but something more in a play which has been so long a favourite of the public. FARREN'S acting in the character of Sir Peter Teazle is so well known, that it is necessary only to say, that his performance last night was fully equal to any thing he has yet done. DowTON appeared as Sir Oliver Surface. and met with another hearty recep tion from a much more crowded audience than that of last night, and throughout the part kept up the good opinion w hi c h they evidently entertai ned of him at first. His acting in the first interview with Charles Surface (Mr. Coorea,) and at the sale of the pictures, as well as •in the interview with Sir Peter after the screen scene, were all admirable, and excited loud applause. We never saw Mr. COOPER act better than he did last night. He was much less formal and stiff than he is on some occasions, and indeed went through the part with a degree of ease and similitude to real life which we hardly expected of him. MACREADY too, with a few ex ceptions, did great justice to that hypocritical and selfish villain Joseph Surface. Mrs. GLOVER had her favourite part as Mrs. Candour, and performed it in her usual excellent style. Mrs. NESBITT is not the best Lady Teazle we have seen, but on the whole she acted vet) , respectably, and in one or two scenes established a claim to still higher praise. Her explanation to Sir Peter, and her denunciation of Surface at the close of the screen scene, were in the best style of acting. The comedy al together was admirably performed, and was announced for repetition on Tuesday, with unanimous approbation. Mr. CoorEk, at the fall of the curtain, informed the audience that Mr. KEAN had been engaged, and would appear on Monday in the character of Shyloch. This announcement was received with loud and general applause. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE arrived al Paris on Monday. ELECTION MATTERS. WESTMINSTER REGISTRATIONS. The Revising Barristers, Messrs. &cams and Mom , sox, yesterday attended at the Guildhall, to give their final decision in those cases where the qualifications of claimants to vote had been referred for further consideration. Mr. Sutton claimed the franchise on the ground that be occupied a house, for which the landlord paid the rates, hut he paid the landlord an increased rent in consideration. —Claim disallowed, on the ground that he had not claimed to be rated of the parish. Mr. Douglas claimed, as joint occupant of a house in King-street. He admitted he was in the situation of a lodger, but he contended for his right to a vote, because he paid a portion of the rates in his rent. If he had no right to vote, be could not see upon what equitable prin ciple the franchise could be extended to the occupiers of chambers in the Inns of Court. Mr. THOMPSON stated the distinction between Inns of Court, chambers and lodgings, and concluded by reading Lord Hardwicke's opinion, which was to the effect, that a lodger could not be deemed an occupier of a house.— Claim refused. Mr. Hodge, Swallow-street, claimed as having a 21 year's lease of his house, paying all rates and taxes for the last four years. 11, Lad been informed that be was dis franchiseti because the poor rate had not been paid on the 31st of July. Now the parish in which be resided had a special Act relating to the making and collecting the poor rate, and the reason why he had not paid his poor-rate was, that the amount was demanded before it wag due. Mr. KEENE was of opinion, that as the condition im• posed by the new Act had not been complied with, he mull disallow the vote. The Court finished the lists by three o'clock. SURREY REGISTRATION. Messrs. REYNOLDS and ESPINASSE opened their respec. tive Courts in the Session-house, adjoining Horsemonger lane, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, for the despatcl of business. Mr. Reynolds reviewed and got through th( lists of voters in the parishes of Mortlake, Camberwell ; and Newington. There were no objected votes in Mort lake, about 50 in Newington, and about the same num. her in Camberwell. The names of 21 persons, who had been objected to by the overseers, were struck out of th( Newington lists. Ttventy-one objected votes were ex punged from the Camberwell lists, and nine of the objecte( votes were admitted as valid claims. All persons whose names have been objected to by tho overseers in the lists of voters in the parishes of Ber mundsey, Camberwell, Newington, and Rotherbithe must attend on Monday next, the sth instant, at the Court-house, in Horsemonger-lane, in order to substan. tiate their claims. Mr. REYNOLDS then adjourned his Court until Monday next. Mr. EsPINAssE was occupied throughout the day in re. vising the lists of those parishes he bad partly gong through, and in disposing of the objected votes in the parish of Lambeth. Three claims he admitted. The whole of the lists of voters for the eastern division of the county of Surrey are now gone through. BERKSHIRE REGISTRATION. READING, OCT. 31.—An objection was taken by Mr Gregory to the vote of James Hopkins, who claimed to vote in respect of the aggregate value of several leaseholt tenements. He contended that the Act of Parliament meant to confer a right of voting upon persons possessini the unexpired residue of one entire term of the anima value of 101., and not in respect of several distinct terms the total value of which might amount to the sun specified in the Act. In the present case there were thre distinct terms, and upon that ground the property did no confer a right of voting. The Court held the objection ti be good, and expunged the name from the lists. IVHITEHAVEN. FREDERICK ROBINSON, Esq., the Revising Barriste for the western division of the county, held his Court Aspatria, on Monday ; Cockermouth, on Tuesday an , Wednesday; at the Black Lion Inn, in this town, 0 Saturday, when he completed his labours for the count representation with the exception of one voter, which wit deterred until yesterday morning, for the want of a materiel witness. Mr. Robinson opened his Court of Revision fe the borough at the Black Lion Inn yesterday, at eleve ,'clock. We find, from the keenness with which th claims of voters objected to are scrutinized by the opposing party, that instead of Mr. Robinson being able to convict his task here in the course of two or three days, he tat not get through all the lists, at the rate at which he h' begun, in less than two or three weeks !—Cumberlas Packet. REFORM BILL-RE GIS TRATIO N. This subject being now of considerable importance, se have collected the following decisions which have bee made known, and may be useful to overseers and electors t' BOROUGHS. An elector who called at the collector's house to pay h rates on or before the 29th of July, and did not find at home, nor any one who knew the amount to receive of him, has a right to be put on the list ; the non•PaY ment not being occasioned by his default. If the receipt be dated before the 20th of July, and thi entry in the books after that day, preference will be g ilt' to the statement in the books. Jews have a right to be inserted in the lists. Persons living in extra-parochial places not having b ee , called upon for rates, but being otherwise qualified , °t entitled to be put on the lists. All persons whose names have been put on the list bl the overseers, although erroneously, yet, if unobjected will not be struck out by the Barrister. Where the poor-rates are included in the rent, and Pt ' by the landlord, the tenant must have been put on the r $ - or made claim to entitle him to be entered- on the lists. If there be several partners in a firm, and the dwell house be rated in the name of the company, but oce o l 3/ 0 by a partner whose name does not appear in the etY le o the firm in the rate-books; such partner, although 06 'd pier, cannot be admitted in the list, without having 01$ Joshua was entered Joseph in the list, on reference claim. the rate-books it was difficult to tell whether the nano Joshua or Joseph. The name was inserted. hp ti Where the Christian name and place of abode are - _ wrong it cannot be altered. Two persons occupying the same house, the rates 103: times paid by the one and sometimes by the other, °, names entered in the rate-books, neither are entitled ' vote. i nol A house rated at 9/. per annum value proved to be than 101. adulated. Errors in the lists may be altered by reference to tb rate-book, but errors in the rate-book are fatal. A person paying a yearly rent for an apartment, syb ie , he furnishes, and a separate sum for board, being c ol, ' '- occasional resident, has been admitted at Colchester. It has been decided at Exeter that the distance foga tl polling place should be determined by the crow's flight% Persons paying the rates through the landlord, b 5 been admitted. The list tendered to the barrister by the overseer, ra u be received, the responsibility of any improper alterati, resting upon the overseer.—Cumberland Pa c ke t . IMEOILTA NE DECISION. On considering the objection made to the notice sere, signed " Isaac Squibbs,” the C o urt' Brill county voter, gwAter, on Monday, decided that blank notices objection could at be signed and handed over to a th ir person to be indiscriminately used, and, consequently , °) objections where such notices have been served, will n o be gone into. This question was raised and disposed , in the manner above stated, en th e fi rst county Irt)te „ r case. The discussion lasted several hours, and did terminate until half-past three. Nearly all the notic'' d ,' objection signed by Mr. Luttrell's agents are, urL I ground, invalid. It was observed thein Court at r-d water, on Monday, th at I aac Squt • bbs had ga p e off 5P , cracker."—Taunton Courier. A NICE POINT. f the •At the registration for the Hull district 0 the se e Riding of Yorkshire on Monday, Mr. Henry, t n e e ,„ tel ter, decided that the claim of a person arriving 11.°0.00 made since the thy appointed by the Act, if wad e !f tir° diately on his landing, would be allowed ; bu t trile tb were suffered to elapse after coming on shore be"':: t b claim is preferred, the Uame could not be inserted I list. 13 ,a. The Duk e an d D uc h ess o f Riciotoc r g rived a t t h e i r res id ence i n C aven di s h -squa re il es s ° evening, from Newmarket. The Dowager Maceorso litcumoND has left Apthorp, the seat of the Earl 0' to 03' moaLaND, for Temple Newsham, on a visit ; w it)! Dowager Marchioness of HERTFORD, who is cot e : o ce select pa r ty of fashionables at her splendid re st° the North. Lieut.-General Sir WILLIAM KlEft `"- o f is now in the enjoyment of the dignity of a Be°, cod Austrian empire, which the Emperor Ft:Axe's 1t is tb ferred upon him. The dignity will be hereditarYglioste‘ family of the Gallant General, who has also been a Knight Commander of the Imperial Austrian Order of Maria Theresa.