The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-08 00:00:00

ES PRIC OF THE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . charge against Ministers is, that they have let Bank Stock 194 % New 5 per Cent. — the people's money remain in their pockets, in -3 per Cent. Red. .83 9.7 i 3% India Stock 3 per CeutCons. 8214% Ditto Bonds 1 pm. par stead of taxing them for stock-jobbing purposes, 3'4 per Cent 90%%, South Sea Stock 92!i Ditto Red 907 i% Old Annuities — and for the sake of boasting of a surplus, when New 3% per Cent 897 90 New Ditto .. .. .... ... .....-•• 3 per Ce n t. A nn. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751' .... such a surplus is in fact much more oppressive 4 per Cent. 1826 99'i 100 Ex. Bills, £1,000...11 12 10 pm. Rank Lon g Ann. to expire Ditto... .. ~....500 ll 12 pin. than an acknowledged deficit, like that of the Jan 5, 1860 l6 11-16 % Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1859 ,Di tt o Commercial —pm, present year. The people, for the past yea r, Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised ...... ... 7 pm. Jan. 5, 1880 Bank for Opening .194% know the plain truth of the case, and the reasons Aprils, 1880 lndia for Account —l4 whereb the deficiency, so much sounded in Jan. 5. 1870 Cons. for Feb. 29 82 y PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Tory mouths, has been brought about. Austrian Bonds Neapolitan :,- If there was a question, in which the argu - Belgian Scrip Brazili an bonds Portu g uese Bonds — moduli: ad hominem might have been fairly Buenos Ayres Bonds Prussian, Old CI ilian Bonds Mao, New — called in aid by Ministers, it was this, which has Colombian Bonds Dnanus itto, 1824 .......... ........... Spanish, 1821 1314 so deservedly drawn so much sarcasm upon Greek Bonds — French Renter, sp. c. —f —c. Mr. GOULBITRN. " What !" said the Vice- Ditto ? 1825 — -- Exchan g e ...... --f. '. Guatimala. , —— 3 per cent "'"f• ---c• President of the Board of Trade, "has the Mexican Bonus — Exchan g e .....i —c. Ditto. 1825 — Dutch Scrip We% Right Hon. Gentleman forgotten the thrice PRICES OT SHARES THIS DAT AT OHS O'CLOCK altered Spirit Duties—the ' unintelligible' Sugar Paid. Per Share. G ene ral Mining Association -.£lo 19 Bill—the factious opposition to the Timber Real del Monte Minin g Co. . E __, • Ditto New Shares '2 74 Duties—the eating up of the words with which, Alliance Fire Insurance Comp 5 814 under Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. CANNING, PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 4, Bank Stock 3 Der cent. Consols, G m Stock, 3% per cent BB% 'National Ditto - Trade ?" The blunderings of the Duke of Ditto, New 4 per C ent . — Hibernian Bank —l9 WELLINGTON'S colleagues are a bye-word with Gov. Deb. 3% percent.... 8414 Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock3B% (Royal Irish Mine — the country, and their tergiversations—their un- Grand Canal Stock 23 Imperial Mine __— worthy and inconsistent trucklings—were ad- City Deb. 4 per cent. 'Minin g Co of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4v.c. 'Commercial Buildings mirably exposed by Mr. THOMSON, in his COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. cutting recrimination upon the late Chancellor Anasterdant C.F.12 1 Leghorn 47% Ditto, at si g ht 11 18 Genoa 25 70 of the Exchequer. Alinisters may be assured Rotterdam 2 U 12 1 Venice 4714 Antwerp 12 li. Malta 1 ( 6) that the country is with them to a man, in re- Hamb urg M.B. 13 12 Naples . Alton a l3 121 Palermo per oz. 119 prehending that lavishment of the public money Pari s , 3 days' si g ht 25 40 Lisbon Ditto 2 U. 25 70 Oporto 4EN upon Palaces and Rideau Canals, which ought Bordeaux '25 75 Rio Janeiro Berlin Bahia to be fructifying in the pockets of the people. Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M.152i Buenos Ayres Petersb urg C. ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Dublin, 21 days' si g ht 1! We say "fructifying," in spite of Sir ROBERT Vienn a , effective .2 M. 10 4 Cork 1 Trieste' do lO 5 SULLOIN, PEE oz . PEEL'S sneers against the expression. Sir Madri d 36 £. s. d. . i ., Cadiz 361 ,4 Portu g al Gold, coin... 0 0 0 H.OBERT'S sneer argues either his entire ig /Nib*. Barcelon a 26 New Doubloons o 0 o norance of the object and principles of taxation , Sevill e 36 New Dollars Gibraltar 471 U Silver bars.standard... 0 0 0 or a degree of hypocrisy which we should be MAILS. sorry to attribute to one, of whom we have so Arrived. Due. Arrived. O America 1 1 Hamburg l7le, often had occasion to speak respectfully as we O Brazil have of Sir ROBERT PEEL. 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica. 1 O Cartha g ena 0 0 Leewardlslands ... 0 If the Anti-Reformers fancy that the country I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta o sympathises with their soreness at the firmness of O France 0 0 Sweden O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford 0 Ministers, in spite of the Charles-street and HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Change-alley reports, they deceive themselves, Mornin g ... 2 minutes after 7.1 Evening... 32 minutes after 7. _ and the truth is not in them. People have, by •,, -.L.4.. A g this time, much clearer ideas of finance than ,-- . 4 4.‹..-r : ~...., _. „5-, • ....- Mr. GOULBURN would desire, if he were still in 7 4 - Hble ' --- a a,t 4 ll . . , 4 „, 4 .-.,.. office, and are not to be confounded by the paradoxes of Mr. BARING, or the sneers of Sir LONDON, ROBERT PEEL. Ministers have certainly not been WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1832. able to do much towards a real financial Reform, There is no longer any doubt that the Austrians but it is something that they have not retro have marched to the assistance of the POPE, and graded to the VANSITTART system, and that with the consent of France. In that case we they manifest a desire to encourage the produc shall soon hear of the establishment of " order" tive energies of the population, by diminishing among the dissatisfied Italians. '1 he Austrian the taxation which oppresses industry, and checks General has issued a proclamation to the production to so grievous an extent. It is per inhabitants of Bologna ; and the French fectly ludicrous to compare the tirades of .Messrs. Cabinet excuses itself for joining the Austrians, GOULBURN and DAwsoN, with the principles on the ground that as it could not hinder of finance that are generally recognised by those the entrance of the Austrians into the Italian who have the slightest pretension to a know- States without the chance of war, it pre- ledge of the nature and object of that important ferred dividing with them the right of interven- science. tion, by sending some troops to Ancona, and We perceive by the Brighton Guardian of thereby controuling the proceedings of an absolute this day, that his MAJESTY did not arrive at Government by the presence of a liberal one.— the Pavilion till nearly two o'clock on Tuesday We confess this appears rare patchwork, and morning. That his MAJESTY was not affected will please neither the POPE nor his revolted by the fatigue of travelling to and from London subjects. in one day, is evident from his taking an airing The following are extracts from the Paris on Tuesday as far as Shoreham, in company Papers of Monday, which we have received by w i t h the QUEEN. express. The Three per Cents. on Monday were 65f. 55c. On Sunday the Police arrested THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) a number of Carlists. CORN EXCHANGE. (From the Journal des Debats of Monday. The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain continue c onsid e rab le , ) and of Flour the q uantity is lar g e. The Wheat trade is ex- BOLOGNA, JAN. 24.—Yesterday the public tranquillity tremely heavy, and hardly maintains Monday's terms. Barley, Was greatly agitated, the porters and work-people took a Beans, a n d Pe rei r i emain a s last reported. Oats are ve r y plenti risrt,erd this article is again cheaper. Flour re snenacing attitude, and accused the magistrates of the dis- mains fules as la a s ll t y repo uteri' they experienced ; they proceeded to the town.bouse ARRIVALS. W ith a n intention to massacre the Pope's authorities. We Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. b tilis' moment have received the particulars of the combat of English n amis ; our troops, to the number of 100, sustained thelrish3,sB6 Forei g n Combat for three hours, against 600 of the Pope's troops. MADRID, JAN. 30.—1 t is said that 40,000 effective CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. troops are to form the cordon on the frontiers of Portugal ; but this number is supposed to be exaggerated, and they COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY) Wi lt be only to th e n u mb e r o f 30,000 men. DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. Aucsauka, FEB. I.—The Gazette states that the free - ------- -- - , ----- sawn of Cracow is to be occupied by the Austrians, Rus- "2_.; ta • 40 4:4 1 I .j . r , and Prussians, owing to the number of Polish re- ''''4 $ l , , 1 . .`.9 ° :ItE c : § Places and Date. '7-- Er t..) , ;-; ~-1. '•'cJ t' ;-iC. , E lug.'et assembling there. 1: 1 t 7 2• gIY -4 '' ° The private accounts from Italy confirm the entrance of ... .19 '7. ,72. x r.t. F.-. ''.:, the Austrians into Romagna. (From the Quotidienne.) Sunderland, Feb. 6 1 0 0 0 1 536 202 ItkLir,T, JAN.I6.—We have positive information relative to the Congress which the Journals speak of. This Con- Newcastle, Feb. 6 l6 '2 0 5 13 921 291 rest will only be held between the Emperor of Russia , King of Prussia, an d th e Emperor of Austria, at Tongres., Gateshead, Feb. 6 0 0 0 2 0 402 144 -I!aoN, JAN. 14.—A cour i er arr i ve d yester d ay f rom North Shields &e . Feb . 6 . - f 4 9 5 10 58 217 56 , Madrid. It is said he brings the instructions and neces - Percy Main, Feb. 3&4 sary Powers to sign a convention to regulate the conditions the occupation of our territory by the Spanish army. Earsden, Jan. 23 to Feb. 40 70 7 42 21 70. 7 ~, (From the N a ti ona l o f M on d ay .) Backworth , Feb. 4 l6 17 0 429 47 2 B O LOGNA, town roadto to-morrow mornin g , by f our diff eren t ga t es . The Howden, Feb. 6 0 2 1 0 1 27 13 Tuscany is so intercepted that the patriots can- Walker, Feb. 6. not tscape. -- - -- ---- _____ Wallsend, Feb. 5& 6 7 3 0 2 8 32 3 Brussels and German Papers have been re- Elswick, &c., Feb. 6 i ceived, but they do not contain any news of im. Killin g worth, Feb. 3 3 1 2 2 0 9 5 portance. The poor Poles are bending their weary Holywcil, Feb. 5 0 7 I 0 0 7 not stated 1 steps and slow from the land of their fathers- ileum, &e., Feb. 6 l3 310 0 16 361 175 we hope yet to return the avengers of their country, Haddin g ton, Feb. 5 ...... and the regenerators of her independence. North Berwick, Feb. 4 2 2 1 0 3 11 5 Musselburgh, Feb. 5 9O 16 7 15 84 328 142 Nothing could be more obvious than the drift Hawick, Feb. 5& 6 4 3 0 1 6 14 4 of Mr. GOULBURN in making his furious at- Total 1097 158 27 108 132 , ) 3.%15 1036 tack of Monday, on the financial management Total from places where the disease has ceased, and from which no returns have been this day of Mini s t ers . A ccor di ng to t h e rumours so - - received 639 157 industriously circulated from Charles-street. the Grand Total 3924 (1193 Nothing could be more obvious than the drift of Mr. GOULBURN in making his furious at tack of Monday, on the financial management of Ministers. According to the rumours so industriously circulated from Charles-street, the Administration has been in a tottering state ever since the division on the Russian Loan, and the secession of Sir HENRY PARNELL ! The Opposition, therefore, considered it an excellent loccasion for drawing public attention to the amount of the deficiency in the finances of the ~year, and for expatiating on the different results wi nch would h ave ta k en p l ace if t h e fi nanc i ers o f t he VANSITTART School were still the managers of the national revenues. If Lord ALTHORP had attempted to conceal °t IllYstify have the 700,0001. deficiency, th ere m i g ht ay e been grounds for considering his statement Unsa tisfact ory . B ut t h ere h as b een no attempt ° d " 13 guis e t h e f act on t h e part o f G overnment , the d ate ,i tn e Opposition attempted to show that m e . m .fieit is, in any manner, the consequence of , in . L erial mismanagement. The country is ( l iti ii i . t e aware of the causes which have led to the : ( rg ofr of the revenue during the past year, to it n 's Perfectly sensible of the gratitude it owes —,°veroment for relieving it from the monstrous ,uot i rt , n ! . r' of the d e lusive sinkin g fu n d, by which it otherwi se h ave b een d ra i ne d. The main N.B. No report received from Kirkintill, (Signed) WM. MACLEAN; z h. Secretary At an ordination at Bishopthorpe, OH Thurs day, the following gentlemen were admitted into Deacon's Orders :—Strristus FOWLER RAMSEY, 8.A., of Catha rine -hall, Cambridge; CHARLES JAMES HAWKINS, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge; SAMUEL BANKS, 8.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge ; and WILLIAM W. EUBANK, 8.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge. The cholera, we are extremely sorry to state, has again appeared in Kirkintolloch, after having ceased for a day. Happily it has not hitherto appeared in this city ; and though there has not been much apparent alarm, still most people are taking precautions in one shape or another, among which flannel belts and Burgundy-pitch plasters predominate.— Glasgow Herald of Monday. CHOLERA.—We are again happy to state that both Edinburgh and Leith are still quite free from the visitation of this deadly malady.— Caled. Mercury. A gentleman of Boston has received a letter from Ireland, in which it is stared that the atrocious crime of " Burking" has been discovered to have been practised in a horrible manner in one part of that country. A fiend, in the shape of a woman, has been detected carrying off four children, one of whom she had already sacrificed, and the other three were doubtless intended for a similar fate. —Boston Gazette. How TO MAKE A SQUARE IMPORTANT. — The Duke of ST. ALBAN'S continues to add to the im portance of Regen c y- square . On Sunday his Grace en tertained at dinner nearly fifty of the /taut ton.—Brighton Paper. FINE ARTS. MARTIN'S FALL OF BABYLON. We have just seen this splendid engraving, which is evidently meant as a companion to the " Fall of Nineveh," by the same artist. In point of size it is inferior, nor is there (apparently) so much work in it : in every other respect, how ever, it is equal to its far-famed prototype. There is the same gloomy air of grandeur about it ; the same elaborate display of architectural magnificence ; the same sedulous attention to details ; the same striking and felicitous group ing ; and, above all, the same triumphant mastery over space. In this last respect, Mr. Martin is unequalled among modern artists. We do not forget his little gem, entitled " Our Saviour's Temptation in the Wilderness," where the king doms of the earth, with their vast cities, moors, mountains, lakes, and rivers, were all brought under the reader's eye as on a map, yet with the most consummate order and distinctness. In the present engraving Mr. Martin has pour trayed not one particular section, but the whole range, of the almost interminable city of Ba bylon ; more than this, he has furnished us with the wide sweep of the river Euphrates, bissecting the city, with thousands of armed war riors, cavalry and infantry, with their elephants and other military paraphernalia, combating on this side the stream ; while on the other, im mense masses of architecture, stretching for miles along the bank, blacken under a sky, here murky with thunder-clouds, there lit by fitful streams of preternatural fire. Between the fore-ground and the distance, in a sort of neutral position, stands the' celebrated bridge, and immediately behind it are long graceful piles of buildings, backed by those celebrated towers, of which Mr. Buckingham has made such eloquent mention in his instructive volumes of travels. The fore ground is well filled up by human figures, some of which are full of vigour and expression. The attitude of the supplicating Queen, who is look ing up, with outstretched arms, to the assassin with the dagger or short sword in his hand, is as true to nature and as full of pathos as any • thing we have seen for years. It has long been a subject of regret with Mr. Martin's ad mirers, among the most steadfast of whom we are proud to rank ourselves, that he should have been so invariably in the habit of sacrificing animate to inanimate objects ; that he should have made man the mere chance accessary to his illustrations, instead of giving him a fitting rank among them. This defect can no longer, with justice, be attributed to him. His human figures form prominent portions of the present work. Mr. Martin has made no attempt to elude the difficulties of his subject, but boldly met and overcome them. His female figures show great powers of close and accurate obser vation ; we recognize them at once as na tural ; while his men are full of energy, with less stiffness arid melo-dramatic character than they exhibit in the " Fall of Nineveh." We recog nize few or no incorrectnesses of drawing ; and if we have a blemish to find, it is that the female to whom we have before alluded, as in the attitude of supplication, is dressed in the tight boddice which belongs to the costume of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This, however, is a trifling anachronism that may easily be pardoned. The celebrated " Hanging Gardens of Babylon" are judiciously disposed of in shadow, and add much to the picturesqueness and stately gran deur of the scene. We must not omit to notice in this hasty account the amazing spirit of the group of assassins surrounding the King. They are impressive to a degree, and show great dra matic tact. On the whole the " Fall of Baby lon" is a noble evidence of genius, and worthy of the artist's best efforts. We should be glad to see Mr. Martin, whose imagination is of so splendid and Oriental a cast, employed in illus trating those enchanting works of fiction, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. He would find here a subject worthy of him, and to which he alone, of all our modern artists, is able to do justice. The enchanted palace of Aladdin would indeed be a work of enchantment in his hands, and again bring visibly before us all the glowing recollections of our school-boy days. LITERATURE. R OSC OE' S NOVELISTS.—Vot. VIII. The present number of this admirable collec tion, contains the first part of Fielding's " Amelia," a work which, though it does not rank among his best productions, is full of truth, of nature, of simplicity, and that shy, grave, quiet humour, in which the author of " Tom Jones" is unrivalled. We are aware that it is the fashion with many sound critics to prefer Smol lett to Fielding, on the score of the former's greater versatility of talent and range of character. Sir W. Scott has sanctioned this opinion by the weight of his high authority, but even, though thus recommended, we cannot assent to its pro priety. Smollett, it is true, has pourtrayed a greater variety of character than Fielding, but then how much of this owes its chief charm to caricature ? With the exceptions of his im mortal Captain Bowling (his most perfect, be cause his most natural character), his Lismahago, and his Tabitha Bramble, there is not -a person age, male or female, in Smollett that is not a great, though amusing, exaggeration. His con• ceptions are natural, but the effect of them is perpetually marred by his irresistible love of dis play and caricature. We have always thought Hawser Trunnion an elaborate failure, from the excessive pains its author has taken to prove otherwise. Smollett's women are intolerable. They arc either miracles of insipidity or gro tesque exaggeration. With Fielding, on the contrary, nothing appears laboured, nothing outre, nothing extravagant. He writes as if on oath, as if he were bound by a solemn obliga tion to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In this respect, there fore, we cannot but consider him as far superior to Smollett, as Smollett is superior, with the single exception of Scott, to every other nove, list in the language. Smollett, Fielding, and Scott ! Three mighty names, which in their llown peculiar, unrivalled style of genius, neithe r the ancient nor the modern world can surpass. Spain has furnished a Cervantes, and France a L e S ag e ; but it is the exclusive boast of England that she can produce three rivals to these illustrious names. We re gret that in his present selection, Mr. Roscoe has thought fit to omit Fielding's matchless piece of irony, " Jonathan Wilde." As a work of art this satire is unique, and should have been incorporated among Fielding's works as a splendid sample of his talent, exer cised, con more, on one of its most favourite points of display. We have heard this omis sion more than once alluded to, and trust Mr. Roscoe will have the good sense to remedy it. Of the present volume of " Amelia," as it is one well known to the admirers of our sterling novelists we shall merely say that the character of its heroine affords one of the most graceful and touching specimens of conjugal affection possible. The scene, in particular, where Ame lia prepares the social supper for her husband, after her little children have gone to bed, and where she sits by the window on a cold night, watching hour after hour for Mr. Booth's approach, and listening to the well known footsteps on the stair-case, is in the truest spirit of pathos and simplicity. The prison scenes and the bailiffs throughout the work are equally excellent. Fielding was at home on all these points, and did justice to his wit and practical knowledge. Of the embellish ments, it may be sufficient to say that they are by Cruickshank, and in his best manner. " Booth discovered in the hamper" is the very Phcenix of humourous illustrations. The pub lication, we are glad to learn, is as successful as it deserves to be. NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE COURTS OF RUSSIA AND SWEDEN. TWO VOLS. LONDON, 1832. There is an immense deal of assumption in these volumes, and almost as much ignorance. Captain Frankland is a traveller, for he tells us so, but he is one who has brought back to his own country about as much wisdom as he set out with. He has wandered through Sweden and Russia with his eyes shut, and his ears closed, though he would fain make us believe that he has seen and heard every thing. We subjoin one rich specimen of either his self conceit or his bad taste ; he may select which term he pleases, either will suit :—" Apropos de Bolles ! (the Captain is wonderfully anxious to impress on his readers the fact that he can read and write French) the Chamberlain told me that the body of Charles the Twelfth (of Sweden) was still in perfect preservation, and that it was occasionally exposed to public view. He wished me to see it ; but I have no desire to view des cadavres." And yet this gentleman, who, like the fop in Shakspeare, refuses to let " a slovenly unhandsome corpse come between the wind and his nobility,"—even though that corpse be Charles the Twelfth, the hero of a hundred battles, the object of admiration with Voltaire and Napo leon, and the subject of one of Johnson's finest paragraphs,--fancies himself an inquisitive traveller Really there is no accounting for the delusions of vanity. Captain Frankland is a finished specimen of the dandy tourist, who waltzes over Europe, as though he were at Almack's, and thinks himself wiser in conse quence. His volumes are sad trash, unre deemed, so far as we can detect, by a single ex cellence. BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—His MAJESTY re turned from London at ten minutes before two in the morning. Their MAJESTIES took an airing together to Shoreham and back before dinner. The Princess AUGUSTA, Princess LOUISE, and the whole microcosm of fashion, were in public. The weather was mild and charmingly serene and bright. Lord and Lady ERROL returned to town. Lady and Miss GORE bad the honour of dining with their MAJ ESTIES. —Brighton Guardian. It is said upon good authority that Govern ment are about to issue ten millions of small notes : the effect of this will undoubtedly be most beneficial to com merce, and the drooping energies of trade will be revived. —Boston Gazette. It is said Mr. GURNEY succeeds Mr. Baron Ganstow, who retires from the Exchequer on account of ill health. We can state, on unquestionable authority, that Earl GREY was engaged on Friday in making out his list of new Peers. The number is to be thirty—for which, it is said, there have been no fewer than three hun dred applications. —Dublin Morning Register. The further hearing of the appeal of the Hon. JEFFERY HART BENT, the Judge of Grenada, before the Lords of the Privy Council, noticed in our Paper yester day, was adjourned till Tuesday next. We are glad to hear that the contemplated establishment of the Commercial Rooms in this city (Exe ter) is proceeding with every prospect of success, as upwards of one hundred subscribers have already entered their names.— Western Luminary. BECKWITH, the comedian, died yesterday at East Dereham, Norfolk, of a decline. w in of his age. JOSEPH' SIIKPIIERD MONDEN was the son of R d u i s e s d e - o s g n u a M r e. o n d il a ? a a s t s the is 7 o 4 u t she year in B e r M n a r U d - N s : D r e E e t N , awapousblotrenreir. theo Br e o a o r k l s party -ln ark of e t , I 7 L 5 s e a . t p fa e t , h eHolbornfather died when h His w ; h en e he was young, and at the age of twelve young JoE was placed at an apothecary's shop, but getting tired of physic be took to the law. From an attorney's office he de scended to a law-stationer's shop, and became what is termed a " hackney-writer," to one of which fraternity in Chancery-lane he was ultimately apprenticed. He was at this time a great admirer of GARRICK, whose powers he well remembered and used to dilate upon. This gave him the first inkling to be a performer. He was for some time a clerk in the office of the Town-clerk at Liverpool ; but his first regular engagement on the stage was in the repre sentation of old men, at Leatherhead. He led the actors' customary provincial round at the theatres, and soon be came a partner in the Sheffield theatre. On the 2d of December, 1790, a few nights after INcLanoN's first ap pearance MUNDEN made his bow to the Covent-Girden audience as Sir F. Gripe, in The Bury Body, and Jemmy Jumps, in The Farmer. He was the original representa tive of Old Rapid, Caustic, Lazarilla (in Two Strings to your Bow), Islipperkin, Sir Abel Handy, and Old Dornton, besides a host not now remembered. In 1813, in consequence of a quarrel respecting the amount of his salary, he joined the Drury -Lane company, making his first appearance there in Sir Able Handy, here he re mained until the 31st of May, 1824, when he took his farewell of the public in the character of Sir Robert Bramble, in the Poor Gentleman. He was an exeellent comic actor, and in some of his parts nnrivalled—indeed, that of Old Dornton may be said to have died with him. In private life he Was generally esteemed by a numerous circle of acquaintance, not snore on account of his con vivial qualities than for others more substantial. A ten dency to parsimony has, it is true, been objected to him as a failing ; and several ludicrous anecdotes are in circula tion of the skill and tact with which he net csly contrived to evade a demand upon Lis Docket, but even to become a gainer by the atteroFt. The well-known story of the exchange of Lis old cotton umbrella for the new silk one of a friend, who requested a keepsake from him, is a case in point. In the sterling qualities which constitute the character of an honest and upright man, he was, however, by no meats deficient. WESTMINSTERELECTION-(THIS DAY.) Sir John Cam Hobhou,e, Bart., having vacated his seat by accepting the situation of Secretary at War, and a new writ having issued to supply the vacancy, the High Bailiff axed the election for this day. ..... ..,• Very capacious hustings were erected in Covent-gar den, and a strong body of special constables, under the orders of Mr. Lee, the High Constable, were stationed to preserve order. A few minutes after twelve, the High Bailiff, Arthur Morris, E.q., attended by the Committee, left Joy's hotel, and proceeded to the hustings, which were soon crowded with gentlemen, among whom we noticed Lord Ebrington, Sir F. Burdett, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Hume, Colonel Jone, &c. They were received with loud cheers. The writ, and the Act against bribery, having been read, and the usual oath administered by Mr. Halls to the High Bailiff, that officer briefly addressed the meeting, and stated the object for which he had in obedience to the writ culled them together. Mr. De Vear came forward to propose their late repre sentative the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart. The conduct of that Right Hon. Gentleman since he had been their representative had been such as fully justified him (Mr. De Vear) in coming forward for the sixth time to propose him.—(Cheers.) Sir J. C. Hobhouse for twelve years had been their faithful representative, and had now only joined the Administration because they were pledged to a measure for which the people of England, and particularly those of Westminster, had long and often petitioned.—(Cheers.) Mr. POUNSEY, in seconding the nomination, would not do so did he not firmly believe, and feel tho roughly convinced, that they could not better promote the success of that measure which had so. long excited the hopes, and which so much tended to the happiness of the people, than by the re-election of the Hon. Baronet.— (Cheers.) If he were to dwell on the constant attendance of the Hon. Baronet in the House of Commons, and the very earnest support which he had given to the great cause of Reform, he, Mr. Pounsey, would be only wasting the time of the meeting. His past conduct was known to them all, and that was of itself a pledge for the future. With respect to the circumstance which bad occasioned the present re-election, he would ask if they did not wish that every assistance should be given to that Adminis tration which stood pledged to a measure for which the people had so long yearned, and which had received the support of a King who lived only to promote the happiness of his people ? The electors of Westminster had been designated as a faction whom no Administration would satisfy ; but it was well known that they bad been long distinguished by their earnest opposition to all those mea sures which had pressed so hard upon the industry of the country, and he was confident that they would give their warmest support to those Ministers who promoted mea sures which would greatly benefit the people at large. The HIGH BAILIFF having enquired whether any elector wished to propose any other candidate, and no one answer ing, he declared Sir John Cam Hobhouse to be duly elected.—(Loud cheers.) Sir J. C. Moat-louse then addressed the meeting. It was often a mere formal and unfelt phrase, when ad dressing popular assemblies, to say that on no previous occasion did the speaker feel so truly gratified as on the present one ; but now it was from the bottom of his heart that he gave them the assurance, that although that noble and disinterested support which, on so Rlany previous occasions he had received, had bound him to them with ties of gratitude which death alone could sever, yet on no former occasion did he feel himself so truly indebted as now, when, for the sixth time, he was able to call them his constituents.—(Loud cheers.) The numerous and respectable assembly he now saw around him confirmed Min in the opinion, and they knew as well as himself, that there was nothing incompatible in being a servant of the Crown, and at the same time a true representative of the people.—(Cheers.) It was for the sake of giving an additional pledge in favour of the great cause of Reform—it was for the sake of giving whatever sanction he could add to that cause, he had accepted office under the present Administration.—(Applause.) For, proud as he was in being honoured with the King's com mands, and in holding a high and important office in the State, yet let it not be thought he could ever forget that it was to Westminster—it was to his constituents, he owed this chance of future utility.—(Cheers.) It was not so much for himself that this selection had been made; a gracious Sovereign, and a Ministry attached to the people's cause, had determined to go to the constituency of Westminster, knowing they had so long returned repre sentatives who had been always consistent, and the appeal had not been made in vain. It was but a short time since, in compliance with the request of his constituents, he placed in the hands of the King, and Earl Grey, their votes of confidence and support ; and after being so honoured with their commands it was impossible for him to suppose they would think that in accepting office he had any other object than a desire of promoting the great cause of Reform.—(Cheers.) He would now state what line of conduct he intended to adopt in future. After having with a due deliberation accepted the proposal of his gracious Sovereign and joined himself to the Administration, he resolved to act towards that Administration as he had acted towards his consti tuents, namely, to do nothing by halves.—(Hear, hear.) He was not going to quirk or cavil at any measure of the Government, which he believed in his conscience to be for the benefit of the people ; and unless he saw the Ministers hesitating about Reform, he should think it his duty to give them his most constant sup port.—(Cheers.) A Government could not be properly conducted by any other means, and he trusted the people of England would do as those of Westminster had done to-day—not to find fault with any trifling matter, but to support the Ministry in the cause of Reform ; for it was well known they accepted office under immense diffi culties.—(Hear, hear.) He would say to the people, "Be kind to their virtues, and be a little blind to some little difficulties," because it was not to the pre sent Ministers, but to their predecessors, that any fault was owing; and the people must take care and not play into the hands of their enemies, but give the Ministers their constant support, for it was to the peopl e they looked. The present Ministers had no factions in their favour—they looked only to the people ; and if the people refused that support which they had hi therto so magnanimously and wisely afforded them, then that great cause, even now nearly within their grasp, would be lost for ever.—(Loud cheers.) God forbid ! That great cause, with the help of the Sovereign and the people of England, would be brought to a con summation, which nothing but the mistakes occa sioned by blindness and timidity could frustrate. He would not further trespass on their time, but express his grateful thanks for enabling him in his own person to refute one of the great objections which had been made to the Reform Bill, v . z. that a Member returned by a popular constituency could never hold office under the Crown. He now, in his own person, was able to re fute that assertion.—(The Hon. Baronet concluded amidst loud cheers.) Mr. POUNSEY then moved a vote of thanks to the High Bailiff for his impartial conduct in the chair; which was unseinsously agreed to. _ _ The I7rcir BAILIFF returned thanks, congratulating the meeting on the choice they had made. After which he declared the business of the day concluded. Calls here resounded from all parts of the assembled multitude for Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who, on coming for ward, was received with three rounds of applause. He said he was very reluctant to trespass on the attention of the meeting, as he had little or nothing to say after the ad mirable speech which they had beard from the Right Hon. Baronet who had just addressed them. They certainly lived in extraordinary times, and it was, perhaps, not the least extraordinary symptoms of those times, that r. gentle. man holding a situation in the Government of the country should meet with the universal approbation of the electors of Westminster, It was certainly extraordi nary, too, and what he (Sir F. Burdett) never expected, to find himself upon the hustings in Covent-garden, before the independent electors of Westminster, supporting the interests of a placeman.—(Loud cheers.) The time, however, bad now arrived when the peoples bitter ene mies, the atrocious and now subked boroughmongers— (Loud cheers)—who be.d for thirty years opposed every thing he had edvocated, would, under the exertion of a patriotic Ming, assisted by able and upright Ministers, and supported by a determined public, be placed where they ought to be—under the feet of the King and his people.—(Cheers,) He felt proud of the honour of being the Arst person who had introduced the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. C. llohhouse) to the notice of the electors of Westminster, and whose promotion he felt confident WWI an additional stab to the boroughmongering faOien.—s. (Cheers.) It was also a pledge of thu f i rmness and de termination of the King, tm , d, sib s : sincerity of Mi nisters, who could r i ot f4il in carrying the measure if they had the determined support of the people. He felt Fond of the moment when his first intimacy commenced with the electors of Westminster, and in taking his leave he could not but congratulate them on re electing one who had always supported thegreat measure of Reform, and who had joined himself with the Ministry, in order that hie means of advocating that great work which the country bad so much at heart might be ex tended. The Hon. Baronet retired amidst loud cheers, and calla for Mr. Hume, but the lion. Member for Mid- . , , . dl,a.x had qultied the hustings aamstime previous. Three cheers were then given for the King, after which the High Bailiff, and the other gentlemen on the hustings, retired. A then e n r i e s o f ri, or calling ll He b himself eg a a n n b ye exp t o r r es s o i n f g W hise: t rn s r n p s r t s r e , that the High Bailiff should have quitted the hustings, be fore he had heard what an humble individual had to say on the present important occasion. He was as much a friend to the rights of the electors, as either of the Hon. Baronets who had addressed them, but he could not stand still and li , ar himself classed among those whom the Right Hon. Baronet had designated as their enemies, without repelling the accusation.—(Loud hissing.) He said that if the Hon. Baron et meant the people to believe what he said, that the rights of the people was the only source from which sprung that farce that had just been acted, he ought to support universal suffrage.— (Groans.) The Hon. Baronets only supported the pre sent measure to keep themselves and their friends in place and power. If Parliamentary Reform was to give cheap bread and increase the price of wages, flair should have told them that ; but they well knew it would have no such effect, and therefore they had slunk away without giving him an opportunity of probing them upon their opinion of the corn laws. Would they sup port their repeal? He did not mean to say these things ought to be done, but unless these honourable persons meant to support the abolition of them and the confiscation of the Church property, he would say, their only motive was to keep in that curse of the coun try a Whig Government. That Government had excited the people, and only a few days since seven men had forfeited their lives upon the scaffold in consequence of the excitement they had so produced. The trade of the country was also at a stand still. Some said that that was the fault of those real friends of their country the Opposition, but he was better informed on the subject, arid charged it upon the base tricks employed by the Go vernment. That Opposition had only opposed Reform because they saw danger in it, and the .people now present ought to thank them, for the present Bill only gave the suffrage to possessors of 101. houses. Now how many that were present could live in a 10/. house?—(Great hissing)—and by it a great many who now had the fran chise were to lose it. Would any one present support a Minister who Lad said that the insurrections at Faris and Brussels were justifiable, yet every one of the present detested Government had said so. The friends of Sir F. Burdett might clamour, but they would soon find out their mistake, and both the Hon. Baronets and their friends might tremble when they thought of the hate which would be heaped upon them by a deceived and be guiled people. [This speaker, whose name, we believe, is Mr. Esteourt, of Essex-street, Strand, was throughout received with im mense hissing, and was at last obliged to give up on ac count of it.l SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. 7.—Wind N.W. moderate.—Sailed the Thomas Coutts, Christie, for Bengal and China ; Lady Feversham, Ellerby, for the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay, and the rest of the outward bound, except the Morning Star, Adler, for Ceylon. PORTSMOUTH, FEE. 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Convivial, Hampton, from Civita Vecchia ; Brothers, Jarvis, from St. Michael's. Sailed his Majesty's ship Madagascar, for Malta, and his Majesty's ship Prothee, for Woolwich. FALMOUTH, FEB. 6.—lt blew a violent gale, with tre mendous squalls, last night from S.S.W., but moderated towards morning, and veered to W.S.W.—The Lord Melville packet, for Jamaica, &c., which sailed hence o■ the 4th inst., is now off this part. Arrived the Elizabeth, T.nkin, from Lisbon. BRISTOL, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Countess of 'Mansfield, from St. Michael's. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 6.—Arrived the United States, M'Michael, from Savannah, and Hector, —, from Copenhagen. Off port the Tagus, —, from Lisbon BRIDPORT, FEB. 7.—The stern of a long-boat, marked Samuel, of Liverpool, on the inside, Alexander Lesry, waa picked up on the beach yesterday. FALMOUTH, FEB. 6.—lt blew a violent gale with tremendous squalls from the S.S.W. last night, but moderated towards morning, and vered to W.S.W. TORBAY, FEB. 6.—Wind S. W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Childers, from Portsmouth, far Lisbon. The Ann and Catherine, Robinson, from Shields to Dundee, sunk near Dunbar, sth inst. Crew saved. The Crown of Liverpool, bound to New Brunswick, was on shore near Capore Point, coast of Wexford, sth inst. The Waterloo, Caton, from Sunderland, has arrived at Falmouth, lost bulwarks and stauncheons, bound to Bordeaux, COURT OF KING'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) THE KING V. SLANEY. This was a prosecution at the instance of Mr. Fine, M.P. for Oxford, against the defendant, for writing and publishing letters, imputing to a lady, a member of Mr. Fane's family, an improper connection with a Mr. Joddrell. The case occupied the Court the whole morning, and had not concluded when we went to press. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. The only arrival this morning is, we believe, an expre. , a from Paris, the contents of which have not as yet transpired. THE FUNDS. For this month past we have contiuually-steted in our City Article that the peace of Europe would not be dis turbed, and that the ratifications of the Dutch treaty would take place with some modifications. This is in most part confirmed by Earl Grey's speech last night, who said that it was more than probable that the ratifica tions of the Thiee Powers would be signed, as well as that the peace of Europe would be preserved on a secure and lasting foundation. Although this assurance from our Premier is very strong, it has had no effect on the Funds as yet. The Bears say, " How often have we had these as surances, and they were not realized." But the Bulls are most positive that in a very short time the whole of this long pending affair will be adjusted. Consols, which left off yesterday at 8211, opened at the same price. At present they are 821, with little doing. HALF-PAST ONE. Console are at present 82} / for account ; Belgian Scrip 1 to 11 die. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols, 821 -. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols ~, B2 Ditto for Account 82/ Brazilian Bonds 45/ Buenos Ayres — Cbilian Ditto -- Danish 65:1 Greek, 1825 — Mexican, 1825 — Peruvian Russian 99 Columbian 3824 Spanish We have tried the merits of a patent memoran dum book, with:the metallic pencil manufactured byMessrs. HAftwooD, of Fenchurch-street, and we can bear testimony to the excellent qualities of the book, as well as the supe rior durability of the pencil, which may be scraped to the finest point without breaking. Mr. F. W. MuLLnis, M.P., and Mrs. Mu r.- LINs, have arrived at their bOuse in Lower Brook-street, from Ireland, The Earl of CAWDOR has presented the Rev. Join; BazosTocxE, M.A., to the valuable Rectory of Barton, in the county of Pembroke, vacant by the death of the Rev. D. B. ALLEN. The Rev. EDWARD COOKSON, late of Leeds, has been presented to the living of Cherry Wil_ lingliani, near Lincoln, vacated by the resignation of the Rev. CHRISTOPHER COOKSON. On the 27th ult. was married, by licence, at the Priory Church, in Brecon, a man belonging to the baud of the 98th Regiment. to Miss Davis, whose mother keeps one of the new beer shops, called " The Military Arms," in Brecon. When the ceremony Was about half over, a corporal and two privates of the regiment came to the church and demanded the bridegroom. The clergy man said that, as the service had begun, he was bound to complete it. The service being performed, the bride de parted with a female friend, and the bridegroom was ruarohed away by the corporal and his party.—Mok mouthshire Merlin. THE TARANTULA SPIDER AND THE LION Km—A traveller in South America speaks of this ex traordinary animal thus :—ln passing up the Orinoco to Anostura, on the 30th, while warping our vessel along close by the bush we observed an immense flock of taran tula spiders, of a large size. Several of them crawled up the sides of the vessel, and carne on deck. It is truly 4T wonderful bow a m it eathead. noynkb o r n : k .l. e do y ef v t i r i: e s a ce t ec s dt t vo l a i ff e re s ir e oeud venomous nf nhuseins one of a. o s t. the tarantulas approaching him, he screamed, looked haul at it, and when one shoved the tarantula near !. him, 11 sprung from it, and took a rope's-eud and beat it flow Lima°