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PRICES or THE STOCKS T 1: Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. STY/, 34 3per CentXons. B2 1,4 4% per Cent. 90% D tto Red 90%34 New 334 per Cent. 8914% 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 4 per Cent. 1826 99% 100 Bank Long Ann to expire Jan. 5,186 P... 16 11-16 9-16 Oct. 10, 1859 l6 9-16 Jan. 5, 1860 l6 5-16 Jan. 5, 1880 - Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5.1971 rimers or roarIGN FUNDS A Pool;Is ilelgian Scrip 45% Luezot Ayres Bonds C it an Bends Co:ernilian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish Greek Bones 1934 Ditto, 1825 GAatimala. W.cxicao 1E U 5 35% COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F 12 1 Ditto, at sight '1 18 Rotterdam 2 U 12 11 Antwerp 12 1i Hamburg M.B. 13 12 • Altqna l3 12} Pziris, 3 days' sight 25 40 Ditto 2 U. 25 70 Bordeaux 25 75 Berlin _ _ _ Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.152 Petersburgb, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, efibetive EL 2 M. 10 4 Trieste ...... do lO 5 Madrid 3614 Cadiz :364 Bilboa '3 6 14 Barcelona 36 Seville 36 Gibraltar 4714 Ills DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds par:l pm. South Sea Stock:... .... .9I 2LA Old Annuities New Ditto. ........... —......, 1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 9 101 m, Ditto 500 9 10 pm. [Ditto Small . 9 11 pm, 'Ditto Commercial. pm, Ditto Advertised — pm. Bank for Opening — . _ [ndia fry A.ccouni Cons. for Feb 28 82 11 i % THIS DAT AT ,-, NE O'CLOCK, Neapolitan Peruvian Bonds i'ortugiterz Bends i'russian, Old )itt'. New iussian ;panish. 1321 1823. C , rench Rcntes , sp. c Exctlangc — . 3 per cent. Exchatwe —c. Dutch Scrip NC E YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Genoa 0 5 70 Venice 475 Malta 46 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 4B Rio .Taneiro Bahia ,__ Buenos A yres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork 1 BULLION, PER OZ. X. R. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 10} New Doubloons 3 15 6 'dew Dollars Silver bare. standard 0 4 Ilf CONTRACT FOR WHEAT, PEASE, BUTTER, CHEESE, WINE, AND RAISINS. VICTUALLING OFFICE, FEE. 1, 1832. - • THE Commissioners for Victualling his Illajes'y's Navy, &c., do hereby give notice that on THURSDAY, the 9th inst. they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of the following Articles, to he delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, viz. Period of ------ delivery. ---- WHEAT, RED 2,000 Quarters 1 WHEAT, WHITE l,OOO Quarters ' One-half of (weighing 601 b. to the Bushel) each by the PEASE 5OO Quarters 25th inst., BUTTER 8 Tons and the re- CHEESE l2 Tons mainder by RAISINS 2O Tons the lOth day WINE, SPANISH RED 10,000 Gallons of March WINE. MARSALA WHITE,/ next. not less than five years old 5,00 J Galloni Samples of the Wheat, Pease, Raisins, and of each de scription of Wine, of two Bottles each, must be produced by the party tending. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Articles. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and he delivered before One o'clock on the day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. 31.. WA LLER CLIFTON. THE ATHENJEUi\f, JOURNAL of LITERATURE, SCIENCE, and the FINE ARTS. SEVENTY-TWO LARGE QUARTO PAGES, [Equal to Three cotntnon Octavo Volumes], FOR SIXTEENPENCE! The MONTHLY PART for JANUARY, being the FIRST PART for 1832, is THIS DAY published. It e^ ...sins Reviews of, with copious extracts from, 'all New Books published dsring the month—Reports of Pro ceedings, and of Papers read at the Learned Societies— Notices of all Novelties at the Thew Exhibitions, &c. &c , and of all things informed and intelligent—with res, of Fine Arts, likely to interest the ORIGINAL - POEMS AND P. Allan Cunningham Edw. Herbert, of the T. Carlyle Old London Mag. The Author of the Thos. Hood `Corn Law Rhymes' I'. K. Hervey Rev. Hobart Caunter Miss Jewsbury Charles Dance J. The Author of ' The W. J. Dominie's Legacy' The Author of' Lon- ThcEttriek Shepherd don in the Olden James Everett Time' 'APERS BY Charles Lamb J. Hamilton Rey. folds Leitch Ritchie . The late W. Roscoe Thos. Roscoe Rev. H. Stebbing W. C. Taylor J. Mackay Wilson Orders should sellers may receive given immediat( ,pies with their m, &c. &c: &c. :ly e that the Book mthly parcels. • Ok. _ CI) ••; 6 , r LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1832 It is just as we stated yesterday. The Con ference of . the Five Powers met last night to exchange the long promised, yet purposely de layed ratifications of the Belgian treaty—when the representatives of France and England, acting in good faith, performed their duty by exchanging their respective ratifications with the Belgian Minister. Not so the re presentatives of Russia, Austria, and Prus sia, simply because their ratifications had not arrived. Whether these illustrious personages really expected that they would arrive in the course of the night we cannot say, but they re mained at the Foreign-office in such belief until half -past three o'clock this morning ! Lord PALMERSTON did not leave till past four. In order to afford the non-ratifying Powers the utmost latitude, we understand the protocol is to be kept open for their con venience. It is said the ratifications are hourly expected. We sincerely hope they may come but, as we have all along expressed our serious doubts of the good faith of the Northern Powers in this business, we must withhold our belief till the ratifications are actually exchanged, not only as regards Austria, Prussia, and Russia, but Holland also. The game of juggling and political expediency has been carried so far by these parties, that we cannot help suspecting them, even when they mean honestly. If the Northern Powers really mean to ratify, have they not already had ample time—and en largement of time ? If they do not mean to ratify the treaty without modification, is it acting just towards Belgium, who has been compelled to accept the terms therein contained ? Suppose th e treaty be greatly altered, in order to please Rolland, and that Belgium dissents, as in jus tice she will and ought, they will then have to go over another year of protoeolling, and to What, purpose ?—ultimately a breaking up of the present hollow compact. The result is this, that Poland has been sacrificed to Russia, who now insists that Belgium should be sacrificed to Holland ! This has been all along the secret motive for protocolling and delaying the ratifi cations—and unless the Northern Powers be deterred from their purpose by the firmness and unanimity of France and England, they will carry their iniquitous plans into effect. The House of Commons met last night, but there was no Committee on the Reform Bill. Mr. I ERCEVAL could find time to bring about a dull discussion on the subject of breach of privi lege, growing out of his late absurd motion for a general fast, and Colonel DAVIES to prose about the glove trade, of which we Jo not d ery the importance, contending only that it i 8 unimportant when compared with Reform, a question which, when once fairly settled, will be t he means of setting right all other 'matters— these two minor points were abundantly dis cussed last night—but not a word, except of disappointment, about the Reform Bill. This delay however is to be repaired by the sittings of to-night, when, we trust, the Bill will make a vigorous progress. Ministers should strain every nerve to press it forward, there should not be an instant's halting allowed, they should debate it night after night for six days in the week, or they may live to rue their supineness. Promptitude and energy —energy and promptitude ; it is to these two invaluable qualifications that Ministers must now look for success. We regret to hear that, in consequence of ill health, that most efficient public officer and true Reformer, C. TENNYsoN, Esq., has resigned his duties at the Ordnance Board. We trust, however, that the country will not be long deprived of his valuable services —for, in or out of place, no one has the interests of the people more at heart than Mr. TENNYSON, a man who is not more beloved in the domestic circle than ho noured and respected by the public at large, for his truly constitutional principles and manly in dependence of character. Sir JOHN CANI HOBHOUSE is appointed Secretary at War. It is said that Mr. KENNEDY will for the present go to the Ordnance-office. The following are extracts from Brussels and German Papers : BRUSSELS, JAN. 28.—A motion of M. Dumortier to fix the civil debt at 1,200,000 florins is to be laid before the sections to. day for examination. M. Van Meenen and other learned lawyers have been for some time engaged in revising the law on the trial by jury. They intend shortly to introduce a project of law to the Chamber. General Niellon left this city yesterday for Ghent. _ . An Austrian Cabinet messenger arrived here yesterday even. ing with despatches from Vienna, and an hour after his arrival set out for London. In the sitting of the Chamber of Representatives yesterday, a credit of 2,300,000 florins was granted to the Minister of War, for the expences of his department during the month of Fe bruary. Numerous petitions were presented or reported on. Among them was one complaining of the introduction of French Jesuits into Belgium as a body of instructors of youth, contrary to Article 6 of the Constitution. The petitioner alleges that Bel gians alone ought to be admitted to civil functions. Nobody can deny the establishment of Jesuits at Namur; if measures are not taken against the cholera of Jesuitism, it will spread all over Belgium. The Committee proposed, and the Chamber adopted, the Order of the Day, on the ground that, by the Constitution, public instruction is free. THE CHOLERA IN AUSTRIA. At Prague the disease still rages : from the 14th to the 16th, at noon, there were 11:2 new cases, 58 recoveries, and 33 deaths; and there remained 260 patients in the hospitals. In the city of Brunn there were no new cases on the 13th ; but the disorder had manifested itself in several more Moravian villages. Gallicia is now nearly free. Up to the 31st of De cember, 1831, the total amount in Gallicia, including the city of Lemberg and the troops, was— Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. 260,044 162,9.73 97,770 So that only one patient remained.—ln the city of Vienna there was no new case in the last three weeks : now and then a case in the suburbs, where, on the 18th of January, there re mained two patients. Total since the commencement in eighteen weeks : Cases. City l,lOl Suburbs 3,000 Recoveries. 690 1,451 Deaths. 411 - ..., 1,547 CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REPO , WHITEIIALL.—(THIS DAY) , RT of CHOLERA CASES. 74, . " . Places. 'vti ,;,.„) u , g t c; .2.2 at zg -°`-• Jan. Sunderland Newcastle 3O 44 5 4 10 35 :8.38 254 Gateshead North Shields ana Tmernouth loath Shields and I Hepburn Colliery 3O 0 1 1 0 0 8 4 Newburn Elsewick and Ben well, &c 3O 7 2 0 5 4 I 41 8 Iletton, &c. 3O 36 6 1 8 33 333 70 Haddiegton and vi cinity, N.B. 29 10 5 8 0 7 72 as Tranent, N.B. 29 36 10 3 5 33 97 37 Preston Pans 29 15 5 0 0 20 34 6 North Berwick, N.B 23 3 1 0 0 4 7 3 Musselburgh, N.B 29 155 91 4 8 52 164 65 Edinburgh, N.B 29 3 0I 0 0 3 5 2 Total .. . ... ... I 1265 57 126 46 1250 13013 961 Total ... I Totals Prom places wi and from which no received ie li been ;rand 13247 N.B. No report has been received from Kirkintilloch. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. LANCASTER ASSIZES.—We understand that the assizes for this county will commence on Saturday, the 3d of March. The calendar is mere than usually heavy, containing nearly eighty prisoners, some for cringes of great enormity.—Liverpool The frigate La Vestale, Captain DUCA MP ER, arrived at Brest on the 25th January, from Brazil. This vessel brings to the amount of about 2,000,000 of francs n specie, and gold and silver bars, belonging to French merchants.—Messager des Chambres. The Prefect of the Seine, considering that the Place de Greve would not be a fit place of execution, since it was there that the blood of our citizens was so gloriously shed for the liberty and the laws, has just issued an ordon nance stating that, in future, capital punishments shall only be executed upon the spot which forms the extremity of the Faubourg St. Jacques.—Paris Paper. ENGLISH IDEAS OF AIORALITY.—BISHOP, whose cold and systematized atrocities checked, by a deeper excitern,nt, the excitement of Reform, and he num,,ed, with a more curdling fear, the floating appre hensions of the cholera rnorbus ; Brsnor, we are told very seriously by the journals, after undergoing a certain ceremony, " felt greatly relieved, and enjoyed a sound sleep." What was this mystical ceremony, that thus lulled into peace the conscience-stricken murderer?--merely the confessing that he had committed the murder ! A mighty atonement this for the action ! In truth this cant about the blessing of a confession does more harm than the superficial perceive; if a man is et be represented as pur chasing mental peace, after committing the most horrible of human crimes, by saying, the night before his execu tion, " I will tell your Reverence—it's all very true, I made the boy drunk with runt, and then kept his head under water till he was fit for selling, and I then sold him, Sir, for twelve guineas ; and now I feel mightily eased in my mind, and am going to h eve a pleasant nap ;" if this is to be the moral of Burking, and confessing to have Burked—why, then, all I say is, that you rob re ligion of those terrors which you assert to be checks upon crime ; and you virtually make murder a less offence is a convict than his not satisfying the curiosity of the news mongers, in quitting his own life without telling us how he got rid of another's. The fact is, that we pick up, as soon as we are able to remember what we hear, a few common-place maxims, and we call them morals. Whoever the most insists upon these we call a moralist-- that is to say, when Doctor JOHNSON declares in pomp. ous sentences that we ought not to tells fibs, nor be proud, nor despise the homeliness of v;rtue, nor be at tracted by the gaudiness of vice, we exclaim, " Ah, the fine moralist !—the admirable teacher !" But when a contemporary writer struck at once at the root of far wider evils than individual and private errors can ac complish—when he satirized military glory, and became the first who seriously invoked mankind to consider war as the darkest calamity that can visit the earth —we were dumb in our plaudits—we saw no morality in the maxim —we heard no music in the truth. We could understand the depth of that morality which said to Mr. Illactrts, " Be content with your station —envy not your betters ;" but the morality that, in the great spirit of Christianity, said to all Earth, " Live in peace," was I nterly beyond our comprehension,..-Neto Monthly Itfav, ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the MASTER of the ROLLS sat at the Rolls' Court, Chancery-lane, to-day for the purpose of swearing in solicitors, upwards of a hundred of which were admitted. His Honour does not sit again till the 9th instant, that day being the first seal. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY, Sittings at Nisi Prius before the Lord Chief Justice. NIGHTINGALE v. WALTON. Sir JAMES SCARLETT stated the case for the plaintiff, which was an action for an assault and false imprisonment. In November, 1829, the ffh ad been employed by the defendant as his traveller in the toy trade. On the plaintiff's return to London from Edinburgh, in the month above mentioned, he was sent for, and upon going to the defendant's premises, in Fish-street-hill, the defendant charged him with being deficient in his accounts, and demanded an immediate settlement, or se curity for the deficiency. The plaintiff declared that his accounts were correct, and stated that he would go to the Bell, in Holborn, for his books, in order to satisfy the defendant that his accounts were correct. The defendant refused to allow him to leave the house unless he first gave security for 1601. which he stated the plaintiff had retained. The plaintiff sent for his cousin, and they joined in giving two bills for the amount payable in four months, to meet any deficiency that might appear in his ac counts, and then the plaintiff left the house with his cousin. The bills became due and were paid. The detention of the plaintiff by the defendant, the giving the bills, &c., were proved by the plaintiff's cousin. Mr. POLLOCK, in addressing the Jury for the defendant, contended that no injury had been done by the temporary situa tion of the plaintiff, who had suffered so long a time to elapse as from Nov. 1E429, before he brought this action. He hoped that the Jury would see there was sufficient in this conduct of the plain,. tiffto justify the defendant in what he had done, but that if the Jury should be induced to give a verdict for the plaintiff, the smallest coin of the realm would be amply sufficient to repair any injury that the plaintiff could have sustained. The Jury found for the plaintiff—damages one farthing. THE KING v. SCHOFIELD AND OTHERS. This was an indictment at the instance of Mr. William Henry Carmichael Smith, charging the defendants Mrs. Eliza beth Anne Smith, his wife, Benjamin Schofield, and Henry Goddard, police officers, and - Kinnow, with forcibly and unlawfully taking possession of the prosecutor's house, No 2, York-crescent, Tottenham-court-road. Mr. ARCHBOLD appeared for the prosecution, and Messrs. PLATT, PHILLIPS, and COCKBURN for the defendants. The case occupied the Court a considerable time, but the facts of the case may be briefly stated. The prosecutor, whose name has been frequently before the public, as being either plaintiff or defendant in various Courts of Law, has, for some time past, been separated from his wife, one of the defendants. In Nov. 1&29, she took a house, No. 2, York-crescept, Totten ham-court-road, in the name of Carmichael, and stated herself to be a widow. Shortly after the prosecutor heard of her residence and informed the landlord that she was a married woman, upon which the landlord wished to get rid of her; to effect which Mr. Smith proceeded to the house and turned her and her servants out, leaving a man in possession. A warrant was obtained against Mr. Smith for the assault, and he was fined 20s. by the Magis trate. Mrs. Smith afterwards went with the two police officers, and she got possession of the house by forcing an entrance into the parlour window. This was the violent entry complained of. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the defendants. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY. THE KING v. ARTHUR AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that this was for the recovery of the penalty on a bond of 500/. from the defendant Arthur. The other defendants are his securities on the bond. The defendant Arthur was employed in the Custom-house at Southampton, as a searcher and landing waiter. It is the custom for those appointed to such situations to give securities to the amount of 500!. for the due performance of their duty. In Oct. IS' 9, the steam-boat !laird George the Fourth, arrived at Southampton from Havre de Grace, and it was the duty of Ar thur to examine the goods and packages that arrived by her. Among other things were eight cases, entered in the manifest as wine. Theso cases were sent to the Custom-house and were passed by Arthur as wine, but he had only entered four of them in a book in which they ought all to have been entered. The supervisor, on looking at the report made by the master of the steam-boat discovered the error, and challenged him with it, but got no satisfactory answer, in consequence of which he with another officer went to Messrs. Weeks and Fay's office, where, in the cellar, they found the eight cases, which they seized, and took back to the Custom-house--on searching them five of them were found to contain wine, and the other three were filled with French silks, ribons, &c. Arthur had fled to Paris, so the present action was to fix the bondsmen. He hoped to prove these facts satisfactory to the Jury,when he would rely upon their verdict being in favour of the Crown. Ho then proposed to read the evidence of Mr. Lefevre, which, by an order made by Mr. Baron Garrow, was taken by interro gatories before the King's Remembrancer. This was objected to by Mr. Follet unless the order was produced, which could not be found at the moment. The Attorney-General would proceed with other evidence in the meantime ; he then called Michael Lellar, a tide-surveyor at Southampton, who proved the finding of the goods as stated in the opening. Also, that on the morning that the goods were passed, he saw Mr. Fay walking before the Custom-house from seven o'clock till a quarter to eight, when Arthur came up and Fay said him, " Is this your seven o'clock," when they went into the Custom-house together. Arthur was never in the habit of coming to his duty before nine o'clock. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the original order under which the interrogatories were to be taken could net be found, but he believed he would be able to show that they were not taken under that order, but under a subsequent one, which he produced. After a very long discussion upon two objections taken by Mr. FOLLETT, The LORD CHIEF BARON held them to be fatal, and the interrogatories could not be read without the order was produced. Under these circumstances the Attorney-General withdrew the record. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) HARRIS v. JONES. This was an action on a covenant in not keeping in repair a house held on lease by the defendant. The case was totally void of interest and was likely to occupy the Court all day. SPAGNIOLETTI v. LAPORTE. This action stands on the cause-paper for to day, but it is ex pected it will be put off. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain at present this week are only moderate, but the quantity of Flour is good. Wheat of fine quality main tains Monday's terms, other samples still meet a very dull sale. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. Oats find buyers very slowly, but prices are not lower. Flour unaltered. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I 6 Fleur. English 2,611 qrs 7,387qr5. 8,114 qrs. ,9 Ilracks. Irish Foreign - brls. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 30 —Arrived the William the Great from St. Petersburgh. Off port, the Madras, from Demerara. STANDG ATE CREEK, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Werchse] Lange, from Dantzic. SHOREHAM, JAN. 31.—Arrived off port, the Victoria, from Memel The Standard, Captain Sutor, from Demerara, is supposed to be arrived off the Wight, letters having been received marked by her, dated Dec. 20. The Victoria, from Quebec and Barhaven, was off' Cork the 26th ult. dismasted, in tow of the Superb steamer. The Renown, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, was spoken with the 18th of December, in lat. 47. long. 70, and supplied with provisions. The Mary Ann, Peebles, from Sligo, arrived at Isle Ornsey the 25th ult. with damage, bound to Irvine. The Leda, Lyall, - from Liverpool, arrived at Belfast Lough, lost foreyard, bound to Rio Janeiro. The William, Still, from Coleraine, arrived at Holyhead leaky, &c., bound to Liverpool. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. New York Papers, two days later than the last, have been re ceived at the North and South American Coffee-house to the 10th January. Extract of a letter from Buenos Ayres, Nov. 30:—" Since my last scarcely any thing political has transpired; there is not the slightest prospect of a renewal of the late unhappy state of affairs in these provinces; but the country is exceedingly impoverished. A report is in circulation that the British Go vernment is about to take possession of St. Catherine's, as an indemnification for losses sustained by the British merchants. A flying report also prevails of a revolution at Monte Video. — The late mild weather and rains have completely cleared our har bour of the ice : upwards of 30 outward-bounds essels sailed on Saturday." A French Paper states that great discontent prevails in Fin land, and that the Russian Government are in possession of some important secret correspondence. The Polish corps of General Rybinski, to the number of 12,000 men, are proceeding to France; 900, mostly officers, have arrived at Strasburgh. THE FUNDS. As yet we have no arrivals of any foreign mails or ship letters, but an express from Brussels brings an account of the death of General Belliard, Ambassador from France to King Leopold. The public are disappointed that the motion of Lord Chandos did not take place last night in the House. Consols opened at the same price they left offyesterday, 82 with scarce a bargain doing. A clerk in the Bank hung himself this morning, but was cut down in time to save his life. He was in a desponding state. HALF-PAST ONE. No news of any description at present. Consols 82 I{ for money, and 82N %, for account. THREE O'CLOCK Consols, 8! I. LARGE ENTRY OF MERCHANDIZE.—On Saturday last there was entered at our Customhouse, in one entry, for one vessel, by a merchant of this town, 519 packages of printed coloured, and white cotton goods, of the value of 21,490/., being upwards of one million yards of cotton goods,—Liverpool MAGAZINE DAV. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. PART I, We have here a continuation of Professor Wil son's very eloquent criticisms on Homer ; the par ticular subject of the present is Achilles, to whose intellectual and moral qualities, as pourtrayed by the old Greek bard, the Professor has done more than justice. Mrs. Hemans contributes two or three graceful poetic communications, which we regret we have not space to extract. " French Memoirs, No. 2," is an entertaining notice of a late work published by a French Royalist lady, descriptive of the last days of Charles the Tenth. The extracts selected are full of interest. " The Aga of the Janizaries" is a cleverish tale, and the number concludes with one of the broadest and most diverting of those broad humorous extravaganzas, the Noctes Ambrosianre. PART 11. " The New Project of Education in Ireland" is, as might be expected, a virulent attack on all the measures of Government, as regard the sister country. The writer strives to make out a strong case, but it breaks down under him. " The Exe cutioner" is a tale of some power, but more extra vagance : the interest is wholly of a revolting cha racter. "The Dance of Death" is a tale of more merit : its interest is of a painful, mysterious kind, and rivets attention to the last. It professes to be a translation from the German. " Homer's Hymns: the Humours of Hermes," have found an able, and eloquent translator in Professor Wilson, to whom, we understand, these versions are attributed. The article " On the Creation of Peers," though mis taken, is earnest and impassioned in its argument. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Bulwer does not belie his promises; he told us that his Magazine would improve, and has strictly kept his word. His remarks—for we conclude they are his—in reply to an article in the last Quarterly, entitled " The Progress of Misgovernment," are acute, searching, and sarcastic. He pins his anta gonist to the wail, exhibits his weakness and his own strength. The " Reminiscences of Percy Bysshe Shelley, at Oxford," are rather curious than amusing ; we would furnish our rea•lers with an extract, but cannot find one sufficiently compressed for the pur pose. " The Life of Ugo Foscolo" is a well-written notice of Count 'Pecchio's late memoirs of that extraordinary character, whose end was the usual end of all inconsiderate geniuses. " The Poetical and Literary Character of the late J. P. Kemble" is curious, and will furnish half an hour's pleasant entertainment. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " A Project for the Diffusion of Useful Igno ' ranre," is a smart and pertinent satire on the spirit that pervades the Quarterly Review. " Ode to Sir C'. Wetherell" is quain►, but too close an imi tation of the manner and matter of Hood's " Odes and Addresses to Great People." The original Hood we can relish, but Hood at second-hand is, as Dogberry would say, " most tolerable and riot to be endured." The observations on the "Captives" of Plautus are in good taste : it is the fashion, we know, among scholars, to prefer Terence; but Plau tus had far more humour, varie►y, and freshness. He was not, perhaps, so chaste or tamely elegant, but in all that constitutes genius he was in comparably superior to Terence. His " Am phitryon" is a mater-piece of broad humour, and—we speak under correction, it being full four teen years since we read the comedy—contains one passage (about six lines we think) descriptive of the qualities that constitute a good wife, which, for the sentiment and the stately flow of the language, is alone worth all the plays that Terence ever com posed. " A Modest Defence of Literary Puffing" is ingenious; and the "Notes of the Month" are lively and pungent. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. There is much fun and extravagance in Fraser this month, mixed up with no slight modicum of the usual personalities. The " Philosophy of Burk ing" has no earthly merit but in conception ; and this it owes to a perusal of De Quincy's memorable Swift-like piece of irony, in Blackwood, "On Murder, considered as one of the Fine Arts." The Modern Pythagorean is in this instance a mere doll plagiarist. " The Great and Celebrated Hogg Dinner" is a very clever quiz ; the details of Mr. Cuff's anxiety for the safety of his silver spoons, when he saw the " entire literature of London let loose upon him," are of the true Peter-Pindaric school, a school, however, which has now as much passed away as if it had never existed. " The People of England" is a sad prosing affair, full of solemn humbug. " Lives of the Statesmen of France" is the most sterling article in the number. would do credit to any writer or magazine o .be day. SPORTING, AND NEW SPORTING MAGAZINES. Two rival works, of which we can say no more than that they both act up to the spirit of their pro fessions, which are, among other minor matters, to give the earliest intelligence of all that may occur during the month, in the way of racing, hunting, and so forth. UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. The most agreeable paper in the present number of this piquant work is, we are glad to perceive, to be continued. It is entitled " Sketches of the Burmese War," abounds in anecdote, and gives some singular details respecting Alomprah, who was the founder of the present Burmese Empire. UNION MAGAZINE. A clever miscellany, embellished with the most striking likeness of Colonel Jones we have ever met The portrait is life itself. GAZETTE OF HEALTH—LONDON MEDICAL GAZETTE. These two works are of course full of communi cations respecting the cholera; from which one fact appears quite evident, that little or nothing is as yet known upon the subject. The communications, however, are presented to the public from the best motives, and of course deserve respect. EAST INDIA MA GAZINE-A SIA TI C JOURNAL. Both these periodicals display tokens of research and ►ndustry on the part of the editor, which, how ever, will be best appreciated by those, who from cir cumstances and situation, take a lively interest in Oriental matters. GARDENERS MAGAZINE. Containing a vast variety of facts and opinions on all matters appertaining to horticulture. Mr. Loudon is the acknowledged editor. MAGAZINE OF FASHION.--WORLD OF FASHION. The forme r of these two Magazines contains a clever political caricature, having reference, as a matter of course, to the Reform Bill; both are lavishly embellished with engravings of dandies dressed out in every possible variety of costume, and looking extremely like barber's blocks (only less intelligent) at full length. LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE. Embellished with a highly-finished portrait of Lady Montague,engraved by Dean from a miniature by Ross, and not less than five coloured engravings of English and foreign costumes. The literary de partment is in every respect improved. LAW MAGAZINE. We have but this instant received this Magazine, which, when we have leisure, we may notice at fitting length. For the present this promise must suffice. FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. No. 26. Contains the fourth volume of Plutarch's Lives, as translated by the two Langhornes. DIVINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENG LAND, No. XXIV. The best republication of t he day. The present number contains the Discourses of that distinguished Divine, the Rev. G. Fawcett, a name once better known and appreciated than at present. SELECT VIEWS OF THE LAKES OF SC 0 TLAND. The present, which is the sixth part, contains views of three of the most celebrated Perthshire lakes, accompanied by explanatory observations. The engravings are tolerably well executed. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl and Countess of Sefton, and the Ladies Molyneux, in Arlington-street, from Stoke Farm, near Windsor; the Earl of Bradford, at Stevens's Hotel, Clifford-street, from Notting hamshire ; Captain Buller, at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's_ street, from a tour ; Smith Barry, Esq., at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Ireland ; and Mr. and Mrs. Little_ dale, in Grosvenor-street, from Brighton ; Major-General Sed. don, at Pain's Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, from Devonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, at ditto, from Oxford; Mrs. Cameron, at ditto, from Brighton; W. Fortesque, Esq., at ditto, from Brussels ; Major Russell and Son, at ditto, from Cheltenham ; W. Lumsden, Esq., at ditto, from Scotland ; Captain Moore, in Regent street, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Osgood Gee, at the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, from Essex ; Sir James Gambier, Bart., at ditto, from Kent; L Sheridan, Esq. at ditto, from Surrey. DEPARTURES. Colonel and Lady Harriet Ford, from Batt's Hotel, Dover. street, for Brighton; Page Reid, Esq., from ditto ; Joddrell, Esq., from ditto, for Portsmouth; Captain Ainslie, from ditto, for Ipswich; C. Hart, Esq., from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Cater, from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn.street, for Brighton; Thomas Simmons, Esq., from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for Oxford; Captain Macdonald, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Dublin ; J. Morgan, Esq., from ditto, for Oxford. CHOLERA MORBUS. KIRKINTILLOCH. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) The persons who have been afflicted with cholera in Kirk intilloch are generally in very poor circumstances ; but for any thing that is known, regular and teinperate in their habits.— According to the statement of one of the medical gentlemen in the town, many of these poor people during the winter lived on little else than potatoes—animal food being a luxury which their poverty precluded them front enjoying. —Chronicle. On Friday morning, about nine o'clock, a very stout man, the gardener of Major Berrie, who had been seized with cho lera the preceding evening at the same hour, died of the dis ease. This case forms the only exception, we believe, with regard to the poverty of the individuals who fell victims to the malady; and it is said by a correspondent of the Chronicle that this man predisposed himself for the contagion by taking a large dose of Glauber salts. We are glad to be able to communicate the following letter, which has been politely sent us by a medical gentleman who visited Kirkintilloch yesterday : " Kirkintilloch, Sunday, Half-past Four o'clock, p.m. " The cholera appears to have subsided in Kirkintilloch. There has occurred since yesterday only one case of the disease, and that mild. No doubt is entertained of the recovery of the patient, and all the others under treatment are either convales cent, or affected with so mild a form of the complaint as to give every reason to hope for their recovery. The disease lost its virulence on Thursday, and there have been no deaths among the cases that have occurred since. There have been in all 37 cases, and out of these twelve have died." Letter from Dr. Watt to the Lord Provost, dated Kirkintil loch, Jan. t):—" I have the pleasure of informing your Lord ship that two out of the three cases considered dangerous last night are now in a fair way of recovery. Your Lordship will observe that there is only one new case, and I think the disease seems to have exhausted its violence. I hope to-morrow's re. port will be still more favourable." We are requested, on the authority of a medical gentleman who has been at Kirkintilloch, to state that an emetic, consist ing of a table spoonful of mustard, and the same quantity of common salt, dissolved in a mutchkin of warm water, and taken in that state, has been found most effective in the first stage of cholera. Immediately on the emetic ceasing to operate, a warm sinapism, or poultice of mustard, ought to be applied over the stomach or bowels, and bottles or cans filled with warm water applied to the extremities. The patients may then rest with safety for an hour, though medical aid ought in all cases to be instantly applied for. We may add, that to use cold water, either internally or externally, will almost to a certainty cause the death of the patient. A medical correspondent suggests that the inhalation of the nitrous oxide, or intoxicating gas, may be worthy of a trial in cases of cholera. We understand that this gas, unlike other stimulants, is not followed by any exhaustion or collapse. We have received some communications regarding cleanliness, and the removal of nuisances, which we have transmitted to the Board of Health. EDINBURGH. (From the Caledonian Mercury of Monday.) The cholera has, it must be admitted, commenced its opera tions mildly in this city. Besides the two cases mentioned in our Paper of Saturday morning, only one more had occurred up to last night, making three in all, of which two have already died. The first is a man in the West-bow, who was a dealer in rags, bones, old iron, &c. and had been to Musselburgh a day or two before he was taken ill. He died on Saturday forenoon. The second was a woman in Skinner's-close, High-street, who also died on Saturday, but we have not heard positively whether she had been to Musselburgh or any other place where the dis ease was raging. The clothes, &c. of these two persons have been burnt, their families removed to Queensberry House by way of security, and the houses shut up. The second person attacked, a female residing in Anderson's close, West-bow, and who, as we mentioned on Saturday, was removed to the hospital on the Castle Hill, is still living, and hopes continue to be en tertained of her recovery. We understand that the Lord Pre sident and Mr. George Forbes, banker, were present in the hospital at the time this woman was being bled. The Board of Health has been most actively engaged during the last two days in making preparations and taking every pre caution for the security of the inhabitants• An order will be issued tomorrow for the shutting up of the theatre, and it is understood that before Sunday next an order will be published suspending evening service in the churches till further notice. Out of Edinburgh the disease continues and spreads. At Musselburgh it has taken hold of another district—Newhigging. There were 28 additional cases on Friday and Saturday, and IS deaths, making in all 155 cases and 64 deaths, in ten days. At Tranent on Saturday and yesterday, 24 cases, 5 deaths, and 7 recoveries, making in all Sl7 cases, and 37 deaths. At Had dington it has broken out afresh with considerable violence. Up to yesterday (Sunday) the cases there were 65, and deaths At Prestonpans, Dalkeith, and Leith, no fresh cases have occurred. At Kirkintilloch there had been ten more deaths, up to Friday night ; the number of cases to that time was 40. We have learned one fact, which will be interesting to the medical practitioners; and that is, that at Haddington a galvanic battery has been tried on several of the new cases, and found of great efficacy. We believethat in several of the treatises on the disease this has been suggested, but do not recollect any in which its effects have been experimentally described. Dr. Monson, in his little pamphlet says, " I have never seen electricity or galvanism fairly used. As powerful stimulants, they are agents that should be tried, and probably would be serviceable." We regret to state that according to the last accounts from Haddington, the disease had broken out in that town with renewed violence, and that it had not been confined to the dissipated classes; but had carried HT several respectable persona in the middle classes of society. —Edinburgh Evening Covrant. 'The extent of the mortality at Musselburgh, and the necessity of early interment, have made it impera tive to dispense with the ceremonies usual on such occa sions. A large hole is dug in the burying ground, suf ficiently capacious to hold two or three bodies abreast, and of the depth of 25 feet. A layer of earth is placed on the first tier, then a second tier of cof f ins, and so alternately till the grave is filled up, which in this way is made to hold 14 or 15 coffins. We understand that the grave digger, after baying been employed the greater part of a day in preparing this receptacle, came home, took ill, and died that night ; when instead of " some trusty brother" of the trade doing for him what he bad done for thou sands, he was interred in the grave dug by his own hands! Some instances of an utter want of natural feel ing have occurred at Musselburgh among the inferior orders. Various persons have left their sick relations to perish without assistance, and the charge of burying their remains to the Medical Board.--Scotentan. BELGIC FORTRESSES. (From the French Papers.) There is in existence a protocol, dated April 17, 1831, in substance pronouncing that five of the Belgian for tresses shall be demolished, and directing that the selec tion of these fortresses shall be made by the four Power, parties to the treaty of November 20, 1815, in concert with King Leopold. The part of this engagement which seemed to be most embarrassing is its vagueness. The military men of France have been sadly puzzled to deter mine which are the fortresses that would be razed with most advantage to our country. Something worse, how ever, than this perplexity—something far more menacing —was conceived in the loose language of the protocol. It is known that the treaty of the 20th of November gave to the Holy Alliance the right of inspecting those t4tresses whose guns were directed against us. The Con ference, by making no allusion to this subject, left us the right—indeed imposed upon us the necessity—of inferring that this claim of the Holy Alliance was still to be as serted. The French Cabinet demanded a decisive assur ance upon the point (that the claim should be abandoned), and this has been the subject of all the recent negociations. After several very animated discussions, the point was yielded, as we stated yesterday, in a manner rather fa vourable to France. This, however, is not all ; the ba lance of the sixty millions appropriated to the erection of these fortresses, which still remains in hand, is, by agree ment, to be applied to their demolition. This is the favourable side of the business; unfortu nately, however, we have now to present a high price paid for these concessions. The French Government ha■ most earnestly desired that the fortresses of Marienburgh and Pbilippeville should be amongst those preserved ; it has been determined that they should be razed. The places which the late protocol condemns to demolition are Ath, Menin, Mons, Pbilippeville and Alarienburgh. These places shall be demolished within two years, accord ing to the protocol, the work of destruction to commence within the next two months. Such, in a word, is the tenour of the last determination of the London Conference, which has not, we know not why, been as yet honoured with the dignity of a protocol. It is not to be denied that our condition has been nothing improved by it, though it certainly has put Belgium in a better state to serve as the valisel barrier of the Holy Alli ance against the power of France. (From Le Temps of Saturday.) PARIS, JAN. 27.—The Moniteur has merely announced that M. C. Perier has brought the final resolutions for the arrangements relative to the demolition of the Belgian fortresses, but says nothing of the conditions of the treaty, of the causes that have led to it, or of the clauses which may affect the national honour or interest. Since the Government is so reserved, we must make up for its silence. The following is what passed in the Con ference on the question of the fortresses We need not remind our readers that, by an addition to the treaty of the 20th of November, 1815, a subsidy of 60,000,000, taken from the military contribution imposed on France, was allotted to the King ot Holland, to enlarge, fortify, and maintain the line of fortifications on the northern frontiers of France. As these fortifications were part of the military and po litical system of Europe, to bridle and restrain France, the Powers reserved to themselves a kind of inspection and su perintendence. The Duke of Wellington, at that time Marshal of France, even received a salary on account of this insi'ection. The separation of Belgium and Holland having broken the barrier butiosed on France by the imperious treaty of 1815, the question of the d , molition of I.l , lgian fortresses was agitated ; an official assurance of it was given in the spe ec h from tt,e throne • since then the four great inter vening Powers have endeavoured to treat with King Leo , ! old to put him in the place of the King of the N r the ! , lands with respect to the guarding of the fortresses, and td this end what remained of the funds allotted to the main tenance of the fortifications was placed at his disposal. France. in its turn, pretended to treat separately with King Leopold respecting the fortresses, and would not, by any means, admit theintt od notion of the other great Powers. It is reported that, independent of Sir HENRY PARNELL'S refusing to vote for Ministers on the question of the Russian Dutch Loan, that he had differed with them on account of their r fusing to n duce the army and on several other points of policy.—Morning Paper. MILITARY ASYLUMS.—The following is an abatraet of a Parliamentary return of the expenses til the military asylums, since their first establishment 'rat 1801, up to the end of 1830 .—Chelsea, 673,1531. 9s. 114 d. ; Isle of Wight, 29,294/. 7s. 7d. ; South ampton, 91,727/. 9s. siil. ; making a total of 794,157/. 7s, There are at present in the Chelsea Asylum, 677 boys, 202 girls; making a total of 879. Since the foundation of the Asylum the numbers received there have been, boys , :5,036, girls 1,721 ; total 6,757. Apprenticed since that period, boys 1,469, girls 1,171 ; total 2,640. Volun teered to the army, 1,496. From the Southampton Asylum, 219 boys joined the army from 1817 to 1828. At the end of the same return is a statement of all the sums received, including the King's bounty, by the Hi bernian Society for the care of soldiers' children, from its establishment in 1764 to 1830 ; the amount is 3?3,879/. 17s. 2d. The number of boys who have volunteered to the army from that establishment is 904. The will of Mr. STEPHEN GIRARD, of Philadelphia, is given entire in the American Papers re ceived en Monday. The fortune appears to be greater than was anticipated. After a number of magnificent legacies to various useful institutions, and legacies and an nuities to a number of individuals, he leaves two millions of dollars of the residue for a college in Philadelphia, for the residence and accommodation of at least 360 scholars, and the requite teachers, and the supplying tl.e college with furniture and books, and incomes to the professors and instructors. Oae passage in the will has given great offence, it is said, to the Clergy of the different persua sions—" I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, mis sionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said college ; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visiter, within the premises appro priated to the purpose of the said college." GENERAL MINA.--Previous to the depar ture of Don PEDRO for Belle-Isle, he requested General SALOANItA to wait upon the brave and patriotic Chief, and offer him a command in the expedition that is now on the point of restoring a Constitution to tyrannised Portugal, and the legitimate QUEEN to her throne. The answer the valorona veteran made to SALDANHA is worthy of the man—" When I unsheath my sword it will be for the liberty of my own country : remember I am a Spaniard." The Government of Louts Putraere, which has been persecuting the Spanish refugees ever since the revolution o July, 1830, has prevaiki upon Don PEDRO not to all iv/ one Spaniard to accompany him in the expedition, and also induced him to dismiss General SALDANIIA whose name has such influence over the troops now at Terceira, that he is afraid, were he to go out, that the Conde de VILLA FLOE would have but little command over them. PARIS, JAN. 29.—The ball at the Opera last night, for the benefit of the poor of this city, was as brilliant as on former occasion.. Between 3,000 and 4,000 persons thronged the house. Louis PHILIP, the QUEEN, and Madame ADELAIDE, with the two eldest Princesses, and the Dukes of ORLEANS and NEMOURS, entered at ten o'clock. The coup d'wil at that motnent was magnificent ; the ladies in the boxes and side galleries of the stage rose, while shouts of " Vive le Roi," and t‘ Vive la Reine," resounded from all sides. To judge of the feelings entertained towards the KING in that assembly, which, from being composed of the better and even mid dling classes from all the districts of Paris is the best adapted for exhibiting the opinion of the public, one may with certainty say, that Louts PHILIP and his family are far from being unpopular. The KING alone, at ten o'clock, traversed the crowded house, and was greeted freely with shouts of applause. The QUEEN and the Princesses sat in the Royal box during the evening, but the Royal Dukes amused themselves in the dance. The Royal party retired at midnight, but the citizens continued in gaiety until a late hour this morning. The Ex-Eatraass and DONNA MARIA sat in a private box, and left the house before the Royal Family. Our Chinese Correspondent informs us (under date Aug. 4,) that the little remaining confidence felt by British subjects in the Hon. East India Company's managers was entirely destroyed by the removal of Mr. T, C. SMITH from a seat in the Committee, which orders reached Canton, from Leadenhall-street, by the Waterloo. The Fo-Yusr, now head magistrate in the province (the Viceroy being at Pekin), had been going on mu radically that hundreds of the smaller Mandarins were coming in chin churning, and knocking heads, entreating in their i p a h r r s a t s o e o olo d g eaf phraseology, saying, t obear_tai‘ ‘ i h y a —permit me to give up my office, and go home to my mother to be taken care of!" The Waterloo arrivcd the 30th July, at Macao; the Lady Melville the I st Aug. The Company's ships were said not to be allowed to come higher than the second bar. eyesr tremble are too old to e The Committee an d t h e so c,,nn s o e t — wr in aye Government are on terms of correspondence. A new Paper, the Canton Courier, in American hands, hie published one number. '1 and ►IN took ing_ y of istol