The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-02 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY. THE NE TV MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is much in this number that deservesl to b e remembered beyond the month. " The Splendid Village," in particular, and the " Cha racter of Canning " are, each, in its own line, admiral specimens of composition. The former is a poem by the author of" Corn Law Rhymes," and contains not a few passages that may vie with Byron in sarcasm and energy, and with Thompson in the truth of its scenic sketches. Spleen is the author's better genius. Indignatio facit versus. The very title of his poem is a bitter sneer, the " Splendid Village " being nei ther more nor less than a description of a once happy, homely English hamlet, which has been stripped of its original inhabitants, with their snugly-sheltered bits of cottages, to make room for great staring, awkward red mansions, in which vegetate and grow fat whole droves of that up start class of gentry whose rise is coeval (or nearly so) with the growth of last year's toad-stool. The poem is in fact a sequel to the " Deserted Village ;" but if it possess less grace, less polish, less tenderness than Goldsmith's delightful work, it is a thousand times sterner, more vigorous, more profound in sentiment, more comprehen sive in thought. Women will prefer the former, men the latter. What can be more energetic than the author's (who describes himself as an emigrant) details of his return to the Splendid Village. The first object he meets is his own brother:— "My brother dwelt within. 'Tis true, he took My offer'd hand, but froze me with a look So trouble-worn and lost, so hard yet dull, That I shrank from him, though my heart was full : 1 sought society, but stood alone, I came to meet a man, and found a stone! His wife, in tatters, watch'd the fireless grate ; Three boys sate near her, all in fierce debate, And all in rags—but one constructing snares, With which, at night, t• choke Lord Borough's hares. My sister Rose had parish pay,' they said, And Ann was sent abroad, and Jane was dead; And these misfortunes laid my sire beside The mother, who in better days had died.' Such welcome found the wanderer of the deep I I had no words—l sobb'd, but could not weep." There are few passages in Byron's satires more powerful, none of sadder, sterner truth than this sketch of an usher at one of our modern quack villag e seminaries. The two last lines remind us of the best and most epigrammatic parts of Pope's epistles : " His school is gone, but stilt we have a school, Kept by an ignoramus—not a fool ; For o'er his mansion, written large, we see Mister John Suckemwell's academy ; A boarding-school ! where gentlemen are taught To write fine copies, which the teacher wrote. Behold the usher !—I behold, and start ! hr in hisface I read a broken heart. Servant of servants, browbeat by a knave n'hy, for a coffin, labour like a slave ? Better break granite on the King's highway, Than earn, with Porson's powers, a pauper'. pay. Why die to live ? I know a wiser plan, An easier too--black shoes, and be a man." The subjoined sketches of the village lawyer and the curate may vie with any tiling in Crabbe, of whom they strongly remind us Broad Beech ! thyself a grove ! five hundred years Speak in thy voice, of bygone hopes and fears ; And mournfully, how mournfully! the breeze Sighs through thy boughs, and tells of cottages That, happy once, beneath thy shadow gaz'd On poor men's fields, which poor men's cattle gras'd ! Now, where three cotters and their children dwelt, The lawyer's pomp alone is seen and felt ; And the Park-entrance of his acres three tincrops the ground which fed a family. What then ? All see, ho is a man of Slate, With his three acres, and his park-like gate! Besides, in time, if times continue dark, His neighbour's woes may buy his gate a park! Oh, then, let trade wear ohains, that toil may find No harvests on the barren sea and wind ; Nor glean, at home, the fields of every zone, Nor make the valleys of all climes his own ; But with the music of his hopeless sigh charm the blind worm that feeds on poverty ! * • r 4 Two stone-throws from the Hall of Doctor Drive, And from the village workhouse four or five, Where the Swung Turkey, with his plumage rough, fVelcomes all loyal nun who drink enough, Theflying curate lodges—doom'd to say Three well-known sermons every Sabbath-day. His donkey, like a rat without a tail, Cost fifty shillings, and o'er hill and dale Bears its lean master, et a hunter's pace, Duly as comes his weekly steeple-chase." What a crowded series of pictures, all fresh and glowin g with life, is comprised in the fol lowing , i s i n description Every wor d i ts proper Place, every character a necessary adjunct to the scene, with the exception perhaps of the " mut tering bard," who might be dispensed with, as being too artificial, and marring the propriety and simplicity of the passage. " Path of the quiet fields I that oft of yore Call'd me at morn, on Shenstone's page to pore ; Oh, poor man's footpath ! where, " at evening's close," He stopp'd, to pluck the woodbine and the rose, Shaking the dewdrops from the wild-briar bowers, That stoop'd beneath their load of summer flowers, Then ey'd the west, still bright with fading flame, As whistling homeward by the wood he came ; Sweet, dewy, sunny, flowery footpath, thou Art gone for ever, like the poor man's cow No more the wandering Townsman's sabbath No snore the hedger, waiting on the stile For tardy ,lane; no more the muttering bard, Startling the heifer, near the lone farmyard; No more the pious youth, with book in hand, Spelling the words he fain would understand, Shall bless thy mazes, when the village bell Sounds o'er the river, sgften'd up the dell. But from the parlour of the loyal inn, The Great Unpaid, who cannot err or sin, Shall see, well pleas'd, the pomp of Lawyer Ridge, And poor Squire Grub's starv'd maids, and dandy bridge, Where yougling fishers, in the grassy lane, Purloin'd their tackle from the brood-Tare's mane, And truant urchins, by the river's brink, Caught the fledged throstle as it stoop'd to drink, Or with the ramping colt, all joyous, play'd, Or scar'd the owlet in the blue-belled shade." In the whole wide range of modern poetry we k n ow not where to find a bolder, or more im passioned passage than the following. Its truth and minuteness of observation, its condensed energy of expression, more especially that , striking li ne , ~O h, to-morrow of the Furies! thou art slow," may be equalled, they cannot be Surpassed. " When daisies blush, and windflowers wet with dew, When shady lanes with hyacinths are blue ; A When the elm blossoms o'er the brooding bird, And, wild and wide, the plover's wail is heard, Where melts the mist on mountains far away, Till morn is kindled into brightest day ; No more the shouting youngsters shall convene, To play at leapfrog on the village green, While lasses, ripening into love, admire, And youth's first raptures cheer the gazing sire. The Green is gone! and barren splendours gleam, Where hiss'd the gander at the passing leans, And the gay traveller from the city prais'd i The poor man's cow, and, weary, stoop'd and gaz'd. Where yon broad mansion's tax-built drawing room Displays its cornic'd-gold, dwelt Mary Broom, (Close by the marble hearth her garden smird.) The widow'd mother of an only child. 1 I saw h er to the house of marriage move, I And weeping o ' er t h e grave of hope and love, Now, where the woe-worn and the weary rest, The child is sleeping oil its mother's breast. Not long she mourn'd in duty's lonely shade, No praise expecting —and she ask'd no aid ; But toil'd and laded silently, and stood Alike unnoticed by the bad and good, Dropping meek tears into the sea of days ; Its Lik pensie a pale flower, that, a ll unseen displays ve beauty on a river's brink, While overhead the stars rush wild and wink, And shadows cast on earth at night's bright noon, ,dove with the clouds that chase the full.orb'd moon. Oh, happy ! with her own proud crust supplied, In her own bed a Britonness the died ; In her own shroud her modest state she keeps ; In her own coffin, gloriously, she sleeps! - Not thus the brother of her soul will die ; O'er him, poor pauper, none will heave a sigh ; No windflower, emblem of his youth, be laid, To blush for promise in its bloom decay'd ; Nor, emblem of his age, and hopeless pain, The dismal daisy of sad autumn's wane ; But workhouse idiots, and the limping slave, In four rough boards shall bear him to his grave. Where is the Common, once with blessings rich, The poor man's Common ? Like the poor man's flitch And well-fed ham, which erst his means allow'd, 'Tis gone, to bloat the idle and the proud! To raise high rents! and lower low profits I—Oh, To.morrow of the Furies ! thou art slow.•' There is a stern and solemn pathos in the author's final adieu to the Splendid Village, which none but a poet of the highest and most ori ginal powers could have developed. There is 11,) make-believe in it, no dallying with sentiment; the feeling is strong and direct, and evidently flows warmed and unchecked from the heart. " Again upon the deep I toss and swing! The bounding billow lifts me, like the wing Of the struck eagle—and away I dart, Bearing afar the arrow in my heart. For thou art with me, though I see no more Thee, stream-lov'd England! Thy impatient shore Hath sunk beneath me—miles, a thousand miles ; Yet, in my heart, thy verdant Eden smiles. Land where my llannah died, and hash no tomb Still, in my soul, thy dewy roses bloom. Ev'n in Niagara's roar, remembrance still Shall hear thy throstle, o'er the lucid rill, At lucid eve--thy bee, at stillest noon ; And when clouds chase the heart-awaking moon, The mocking-bird, where Erie's waters swell, Shall sing of fountain'd vales, and Philomel: To my sick soul bring over worlds of waves, Dew-glistening Albion's woods, and dripping caves, But with her linnet, redbreast, lark, and wren, Her blasted homes and much-enduring men !" Independently of these graphic passages, the Splendid Village teems with minor beauties of thought and expression, such, for instance, as " poor wanderers blue with want" —"the sweet May morning of my Hannah's face,"—which are perfect pictures in themselves, like the single epithets we so often meet with in Shaks peare. In fact, the author every where shows himself a poet of first-rate genius. There is no living writer now before the public endowed with one-hundredth part of his feeling, his creative power, his energy, or his sweeping, headlong sarcasm. At the present crisis, the writings of such a man, steeped as they are in passion and black with gall, are likely to make a deep impression on the middle and lower orders, for they are as intelligible anti transparent as Cob hetes prose, the thought being never overlaid by the language. They afford, besides, a pregnant sign of the times, which the Aristocracy will do well not to disregard. Ten such forcible Eng lish writers, taking plain sense as their guide, and truth as their motto, are really almost enough (we speak it advisedly) to shake the Aristocracy to its centre " Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford," is cha racteristic, but we fear will be deficient in inte rest to the general reader. "On the Spirit of true Criticism" contains one admirable passage, descriptive of the moral and intellectual qualities requisite to form the perfect critic. " The Character of G. Canning" is a sound, discriminating ana lysis of character, and the cursory speculations on what might have been this half-ultra, half_ liberal, see-sawing Statesman's fate, had he lived to the present day, are full of sagacity. Of the remaining articles, we have merely left ourselves space to say that they are of the usual average in point of excellence. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. An admirable number, defective only in the tone and bearing of its politics. Christopher North belabours the poor Liberals as earnestly as ever, though with a sort of reluctant acknow ledgement, that the chastisement is as useless as Xerxes' flagellation of the Hellespont. The " Prospects of Britain" is as sour and despond ing as an evident dyspessia on the part of the writer can make it. " British Finances" is practical and elaborate, but heavy enough to sink a seventy-four. "The Poet's Dying Hymn" is in Mrs. Hemans's best and most finished man ner. The " Wet Wooing" is a powerfully written story well worked up, and containing a spirit stirring description of a storm at sea. " American Poetry" is a masterly notice of the works of Mr. W. C. Bryant, the popular transatlantic Wordsworth. \Ve suspect it is by Professor Wilson, as also the review of Miss Kemble's tragedy, which has but one fault, that of being too exclusively eulogistic. We extract from this last an eloquent sketch of the Siddons. We trust that we have too much good sense to at tempt painting a picture of Sarah Siddons. In her youth, 'tis said, she was he iutiful, even lovely, and won men's hearts as Rosalind. But beauty is a fading ifiwer. It faded from her face, ere one wrinkle had touched that fixed paleness which srldiun was tinged with any colour, even in the whirlwind of passion. Light iv.nt an came across those finest features at the coming and going of each feeling or thought; but taint was the Chang- of line ever visible on th it glorious marble. It was the magnificent counter, ince of an animated statue— in the stillness of its dealiziqi beauty instinct with all the emotions of our mortal life. Idealiz-d beauty ! Did we not say that beau y had laded from her face? Yes—but it was overspead with a kindred expression, for which we withhold the name, only because it seenied more di vine, inspiring awe that overpowered while it mingled with delight, —more than regal,--ssy rather immortal. Such an image surly had never b fore trode, nor ever again will tread, the end anted fin ir. In all stat. hest chews of waking woe she dwindled he wateliest into in sig ifirance ; lor majesty male others wean ; in her sun like light all stars paled their in ff ctual fires " But none knew the troubled grindeur of guilt, till they saw her in Lady Mactmth, walking in her sleep, ind, as she wrung her hands, striving in pain to wash from t e u tl•e en grained mu' der. Not all ti e perfumes of A , ahia couln sweeten this littrle hand !' The whisper ciimii as from 'he hollow grave, amt more hideously Itaunt.4l than ever wis th e hollow grave. secured then ro be tie cell of her heart ! Sliakspe..re's self had learned something then from a siAt of Soldons.” The Art of Government Made Easy" is an ironical essay in mutation of Swift. It has all his assumed gravity, but not his dry, pungent sarcasm. Nevertheless it is a clever paper. The " Noctus" are of a higher order in point ut mind than usual. They have little humour, but much eloquent and imp visioned writing. ‘N e have been struck with the following cursory obser vations on Hope : " North—ln this view of human life, the nature of Hope tnay he said to he this—that ma. is d ependent for all issue-, partly 1111 liiinsell, and partly on uneounnauit e il evrnts; he has, therefore, in his own true and good ex ertion a ground of 'rust, and in the uncertainty of all ' , moan events a ground of fear; hence his always fbietutitinv, yet still rising hope—like the flow of the tide, where every wave that advances falls bark, and yet the waters still swell on the store. Young Gent ernan—Sometimes, sir, the soul seems to itself like the sea-sand, bleak, and desolate; but in a fe. , hours it vet flows with joy , just a s does that hay, when the tide has again reartcarted the shell-wreaths on the silvery shore, and on the merry music of the breaking bit lows the sunny sails of lorg-absent ships are seen comic:, . . homewards from the main. rth—Yes—just so, my young Poet. And as tho:t art a young Poet, though I have seen none of thy verses, what gayest thou of that Hope which is more airy an , ` illusive ; that visionary Hope which adorns the distant•;• of life, filling the mind with bright imagery of unattain able good, promising gratification to desires which cannot be re sliced ? Young Gentleman—l fear to speak—l love to listen. N.irth—And I, Hal, am on the verge—l know—l feel it—ot garrulous old age. Tickler—Which verge ? North—The mind, my son, cannot rest, for it was not made to rest, in realities. It lives on the future even more than on the present. It lives. by hope more than enjo mem. How then shall reason confine that spirit which is to live in the future, to the unknown realities even of the future? It cannot—we ron.t hope beyond the truth." MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The improvement in this magazine has not been confined (as is too often the case) to one, two, or three, numbers; but is progressive—de cided. With its change of politics has come also '' a change in the spirit of its dream" con siderably for the better. The old, musty, com monplaces, about the inimitable, the immaculate, Constitution, the glorious sixteen hundred and eighty-eight, and so forth, have been very wisely thrown abroad, to make room for a fresher and more valuable cargo. " The Church put in the True Light" is a well written piece of irony, and reminds us—a great compliment to the writer— of Swift's ironical '' Proposal for abolishing Christianity." We subjoin a passage by way of sample:— " Nothing, in short, can be plainer than that a radical reform of the church is necessary, if it be true, that its design is to benefit the community by the advancement of religion. But let us throw that idea boldly overboard, and stata the design of the establishment to be simply the temporal comfort and good estate of the clergy, and see how intelligible and harmonious the whole system at once becoo es ! Before the true theory. as by the touch of some wizard's wand, every difficulty vanishes; the crooked be comes straight ; deformity is turned into loveliness; what seemed at om.tlous .roves to he in the most exquisite Imo pm thm ; ecclesiastical practice with ecclesiastical prin. cip e to Ices sweet musk ; all is regular. consistent, na tural ; the splendour of ►he church is no more her shame; with one hand upon her coffers replenished with gull, and pointing with the other to her vast domains, she turns to any who assail her, and exclaims— " You vulgar cynic! how can Ibe wrong?" How Wm n.us. upon the gulden hypott esi., is the Right Reverend 8.-nch ; how comely the Deans, each in himself a • orporation ; how seemly the Archdeacons, Prehen dat its, and Canons ; and on ! how goodly a thing it is to traver,e, even with the mind's eye, the florid files of the Re. tors, and see in every round and rosy form the profit of that godliness which maketh fat ! Where now is the abomination of non-residence and the crying sin of plu rality ? where the scandal of fox-hunting ? what has be • come of the unseemiiness of bolding the commission of the peace, or the extortion of taking the pow man's tenth sheaf, ur tenth goose? Even the starveling curate, in this view of the establishment, is justly to be numbered amon,lst its beauties : he makes the fatness of the Rector more fat by contrast. The money theory makes every thing square." " Don Pedro and his Adherents" contains some severe strictures on the public and private characters of these would-be regenerators of Portugal. The writer is of opinion that there is not a pin to choose between Dort Pedro and Don Miguel : both being " black sheep," both equally despots at heart. " A Winter Evening with the Poets" is remarkable for some eloquent criticisms on the character of Milton's genius. The subject is a hacknied one, but it it surprising what freshness of observation the writer brings to bear upon it. Not a few of his remarks are worthy of Dr. Chinning. " The Prentice Boys of Derry" is a lively squib, part of which we gave in the 57171 of Saturday, and is embellished with a quizzical likeness of that paragon of Peers, the Marquis of Londonderry. " Dreary Wit and his Friends" is well described in its title dreary wit. It is long and dreary to a degree. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. This well-conducted and usefUl periodical dis plays great force in the present number. We flatter ourselves that we can discern symptoms of a more liberal spirit in what relates to our public institutions and establishments, and we hail the incipient improvement, for the only fault of the work has hitherto been an inclination to succumb too much to the powers that be. The first article is upon manning the navy, and the author, though not in the trammels of the old school, has not got rid of all the barbarous notions of the sect. When he assumes the necessity of impressment and of corporal punishment, we cannot but smile at his confidence, and we must beg him to reflect that the old Tory Administrations did no thing towards civilizing the naval service, until Sir Francis Burdett, and other liberal Members, denounced their conduct to the public indignation. In an article upon our cavalry in the Peninsula many serious errors in Lord Londonderry's history of the war are detected, and very properly exposed. The public are not to imagine that this periodical is useful to only military or naval men. It is a work of great historical and political inte rest, as its articles are written by eye-witnesses of important events, and by men who possess pro fessional tact in treating of our institutions and public transactions. METROPOLITAN. The best paper in the present number is " The Waggoner," a tale, if we mistake not, which has been contributed by the author of that clever series of tales " The Diary of a late Physician." Its leading incident, a murder and its discovery many lot►g years after its perpetra tion, is forcibly pourtrayed. " Forty Two" is a sprightly piece of poetry from the pen of Mr. Cornelius \\Tebbe. " Clavering's Autobio graphy" is full of characteristic anecdotes of, some of the most eminent men who figured during the last fifty years. The following is curious, " I remember that a per sin was there, who seemed to haunt the !ike a ghost in other parts of Europe; ant I ,nc,. met him even at Constanti , ,ople He was a very dark in ,n, who wemerally wore the most mel richol coup tedatiee I ever saw ; bur now and th , n it w lighted op by an extraordinary and most wioning Rutile. Hr had not ,t large acquaintance, hot had gained the notice of a few iespertable people. His quiet attention to ladies made hint •ather a f.vouii , e with them. He bore the name of Faust y t but I never consider d that to be his real name; I had some reason to suppose that his true name was Lew,rre or Warre. I am quite convinced that we , an Irishman by Mr h, though he strenuously tinned it. He •ppeared to me to have some frightful we.ght upon his spirits. He could not endure any one's s - early look ; and, as tie had the r , puta ion of a good shut and expert swords man, a frown on his part turned away any on.•'s observ ance. I noticed the penchant taken tor him by a lady of which, it tie encouraged, he did it with great cautum and re.rrve : it seemed to me that his ail . , ctions had been already deeply engaged. He was not in want of insiney ; anti he was wed acquainted with the characters of ill Goirts of Europe. He wore about his neck the miniature of a beautiful female, which he seldom suffered to he gem I suspected that Burke, with whom he wa intimate, knew who he was. He was a great linguist, and was supposed to have given Burke much information. A Neapolitan lady followed him to England ; and he is sup posed to have fallen on the part of the Neapolitan revolu tionary army in 1821, in an engagement with the Au. trians. A few months before that, I had encountered iu at Rome. He had mad , an acquaintance with the late Sir Mark Sykes, to whom he pointed out many bibliovraphi cal curiosities. He was very intimate with old Tortoni;,, the banker. The dow , ger Lady Ellenhorough made some efforts to be acquainted with him, but unsuccessfully." The " Simkin Papers" are cleverer than usual, and the character of Sir Edward Sugden is drawn by one well acquainted with the ment;tl and personal peculiarities of the original. FRASER' S MAGAZINE. " Biography" is a very heavy, rambling essay on every thing but what its title would import. We have read it with some attention ; but it has left a very dreamy, indistinct impression on our minds. " American Traditions" is a romance of Indian life, told by Mr. Galt in his most for cible manner. " German Poetry," is an ana lytical dissertation on the merits of Burger, the well-known author of that striking old ballad " Leonora," which Mr. Spencer has so well translated. The German poet is styled, we know not with what truth, the Wordsworth of Germany. Here and there the essay contains some just thinking, in proof of which we ex tract the following : " In correspondence wilt the broad distinctions thus instituted, we find, in general, that tine genius and genuine humour are well enough content with the old in nature and man—old time, old feelings, old thoughts, are with them for ever fresh and living; and, in short, as it is oh served by Coleridge, their mor.l accompaniment and actuating princinciple consists in the carrying on of the freshness and feelings of childhood into the powers of man hood.' Genius and humour are for ever children—unso phisticated children, for whom Nature ever blows her bubbles. Talent and wit, on the other hand, affect a m .re manly gait—they claim to have at rived at maturity, and profess a knowledge of the world as it is. Wha 'ever qualities are new and fleeting in the state and manners of society, they are ambitious of catching, living as they rise,' ant give up the eternal life within for the fugitive life without. Thus it is that novelty and originality stand in ooposition a .d contrast, instead of being one and the same. Thus Shakspeare is more original than Noe, and will for ever remain so, though the material of his divine works is as old the creation of God, and that Pope's is as new as the state of society in the reign of Queen Anne." " On the recent manifestations of Spiritual Gifts" is the conclusion of Mr. Irving's mon strous defence of these absurdities. It is verbose and trashy to a degree, without even a glimmer of argument, or an \ thing that the most exube rant charity can torture into sense. The literary portrait is of Mr. Israel D'lsraeli. It is clever ish, and possibly a good likeness. But of this we cannot speak with certainty. " Trollope and Paulding on America," is a severe attack on transatlantic society, in the uncompromising spirit of the earlier Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. " Epistles to the Literati, No. 3: John Galt," is smart and peppery, and styles Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby " the first numbers of a Waverly series." IMPERIAL MAGAZINE. Is this month embellished with an admirable engraving of Curran, from the well-know paint ing by Sir Thomas Lawrence. The memoirs accompanying it, are sketchy and contain no novelty. The MAGAZINE of NATURAL HISTORY. APRIL, No. 25. This Journal of natural history, for the present month, contains nine useful and entertain ing articles, besides its ordinary quantity of mis cellaneous matter. There is an amusing paper upon the omens and superstitions connected with natural history, which shows that in many cases what are deemed superstitious prejud►ces are really natural deductions from the habits and instincts of animals We must point out to our readers an article upon the comparative anatomy of the whale now exhibiting at Charing-cross, and two other articles upon the capture of insects and on an entomological tour through England, Wales, and Ireland. Comparative anatomists differ strangely in opinions, and we find one writer in this magazine giving to the whale a great organization and power of smelling, whils another anatomist denies the existence of the organ and faculty. Where anatomy is so large, surely a point of this sort is easily to be ascer tained. COMIC MAGAZINE. This is a new idea, and we hope the specu lation will not verify the truism, that all specula tions begun on April fool's-day only live long enough to cause the speculators to repent that they laughed too soon. Every thing smiles in promise, and we must say this of little magazine, that its numerous wood-cuts are its best recom mcndations. They are full of humour, in pal pable imitation of Hood's etchings in the Comic Annual. The " Lear (leer) of Private Life" is capital. It is the very perfection of pictorial punning. Of the explanatory verse and prose, we shall content ourselves with saying that both might have been better. But it is something to get twelve humorous wood-cuts for the small price of one shilling TUE SPORTING MAGAZINE For the present month is amusingly varied in its contents, and is embellished with two engra vings and a vignette, executed in a good style. We are happy to see several articles of a cha racter to inspire the sportsman with humane feelings and liberal sentiments. There is an article on the Northamptonshire Hounds, which -- must inspi re f ore i gners w i th a h i gh not i on of EngliAl humbug ; broken l e g's, teeth knocked out, and oth er suc h acc id ents b y fl oo d an d fi e ld, appear rathe r strange in an account of "a fa vorite sport." '' Had t not been out this day, I could not have conceived it possible that hounds could go such a pace : no horse can lice with them more than twenty minutes." We find that at Metton horses can show as many tantaqic tricks as their masters, and perhap s upon the same plea, their humours. " Any hor se thit can go at all and jump one or two of these fences, is worth 3001. The famous Polecat was bought first for 501. Some Melton man, durin g a e o n, o b serve d a f armer ' s l a d on a great ill-c on di t i one d mare jump two of their fences, and b oug h t h er di rect l y , an d sold her next se ason t or 3001. S he was a grea t loose looking thin g , an d only fit to come once a fortnight, but was then splendid. The famous Clinker, sold for six hundred guineas, was ano ther extraordinary horse. When in the hum.ur nothing could beat him. At other time- he would not jump over anything, but ruby headlong into every fence he came to." DIAMOND MAGAZINE. A very cheap, graceful, Lilliputian periodical, such as would have suited the Emperor ol Blefuscu. It is embellished with a striking like ness of William the Fourth ; and contains judicious notice of Miss Kembles Francis the First. We quote the following as a specimei; of the style and quality of its contents. MISANTHROPY CURED. " OLD MAN-You have commenced misanthrope a. an early age,—haw old are you? " YOUNG MAN-Five and twenty. " OLD MAN-Do you exp , .ct to reach a hundred ? " YOUNG MAN-Not exactly. " OLD MAN—Do you imagine that you will be able Reform mankind in seventy-five years? " YOUNG MAN-The supposition is too absurd. " OLD MAN-Nevertheless you must think so, or you would not rail with such bitterness at their present state. Nay, if you did anticipate a change within that period, rair conduct would hardly he reasonable, since you would have no time left to enjoy the amelioration which you hay• effected. YOUNG MAN—There is something in what you say. will re-consider of it." THE CRITIC. There is too much of the old school in this periodical. The editor, we fear, cultivates a peruque, and wears square-toed shoes and buckles. The very table of contents is drawn up in the fashion of old Phillips's Monthly Ma gazine. Bating this defect, the number pos sesses merit, and of no ordinary character. The " Betrothed " is a melancholy tale told with much tenderness and simplicity, and the " Translations from Anacreon,"are elegantly and faithfully rendered. " Sketches," however, and " Remarks on the First French Revolution," are, as honest Dogherry phrases it, " most toler able, and ❑ot to be endured." N\Thy not " Sketches and remarks on the first inva , ion of Rome by the Go:hs ?" the subject would be quite as novel a one. We regret that we have no space for extracts. GAR bENR' S MAGAZINE. Those who are attached to the study of hor ticulture will derive much sound practical iufor• mation from a treatise in this number on " The circulating system of Plants." The article, though elaborate, is penned in a very agreeable style. PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDIAN ARMY. (From the Asiatic Journal for April.) COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF. Bengal—His Exc. General the Right Hon. Earl of Dalhousie, G,C.8., &a. Madras—His Exc. Lieut. Gen. Sir R. W. O'Callaghan, K.O B. Bombay—His Exc. Lieut. Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, K.C.B. BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT. KING'S Moors. Regts. Stations. Regts. Stations 28th do Agra Ilth Lt. Drags. Merut 29th do Meerut 16th do Cawpore 30th do Almorah 3d Foot Fort William 31st do Barrackpore 13th do Agra 32d do Nusseerabad 16th do Chinsurah 3.9 d do Barrackpore 26th do Meerut 34th do Barrackpore 31st do Kurnaul 35th do Jumalpore 38th do Ghazeepore 36th do Mhow 44th do Cawnpore 37th do Kurnaul 44th do Berhampore 38th do Nfidnapore 39th do Agra 40th do A Ilyghur 41st do Pertaubgurh 42d do Neemuch 43d do Socrora 1 44th do Bareilla 45th do Neemuch ;46th do Muttra 17th do Cuttack do Allahabad do Kurnaul do Barrckpore do Neemuch do Meerut do Dacca COMPANY'S TROOPS. Ist Lt.Cav Nusseerabad 2d do Kurnaul 3d do Sultanpore 4th do Merut sth do Muttra Gth do Cawnpore 7th do Mhow Bth do Cawnpore 9th do Neemuch 10th do Kurnaul Europ. Regt Dinapore Ist Nat. Inf. Delhi 2d do Dinapore 3d do Nusseerabad 4th do Saugor sth do Nusseerabad Gth do Allahabad and Juanpore. 7th do Goruckpore Bth do Delhi 9th do Agra 10th do Cawnpore 11th do Chittagong 12th do Lucknow 12th do I3aceilly 14th do I oodhiana 15th do Shahjehanpore 16th do Saugor 17th do Futtyghur 18th do Jubbolpore 19th do Hansi 20th do Seetapore 21st do Cawnpore 22d do Lucknow 23d do Loodhiana 24th do Benares 25th do Barrackpore 26th do Nussecr.sbad 27th Nat. Inf. Gurrawarra and Hussingabad 's3d 54th 1 55th 1 56th 57th 58th do Benares do Benares do Saugor do Mhow do Sooltanpore (Oude.) do Allahabad do Cawnpore do Neemuch do Delhi do Mullye do Dinapore do Mhow do Arracan do Banda and Etawah do Mynpoorie do lSuttra 170th do Baitool 171st do Meerut 70c1 do Berhampore 73d de Banda 74th do Mirzapore Artillery Dum Dum, (lld. Qu. ) Engineers Fort William (Hd. Qr.) 63d 64th 65t h 66th 67th MADRAS ESTA KING'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. 13th Lt. Drags Bangalore 41st Foot Trichinopoly 45th do Moulmein 46th do Secunderabad 48th do Bellary 54th do Cunnamore 55th do FortSt George 57th do 62d do Bangalore Ist Lt. Ca,. ...Bellary 2d do Jaulnah 3d do Nagpore 4th do Trichinopoly sth do Secundarabad 6th do A rcot 7th do Bangalore Bth do Arcot Europ. Regt.....Nagpore and Masulipatam Ist Nat. Inf. Pa!amcottah 2d do Bellary 3d do Palaveram 4th do Vellore sth do Palaveram 6th do Palmacottah 7th do Nagpoor Bth do Vizianagrum 9th do Bangalore 10th do St Thomas's Mount 11th do Secunderabad 12th do Vizianagrum 13th do Cuddapah 14th do Mangalore 15th do Bangalore 16th do Jaulnah lith Nat. Inf Mangalore 18th do Dindigul BOMBAY EST KING'S TROOPS. 4th Lt. Drags Kirkee 2d Foot Poonah 6th do Poonah 20th do Bombay 40th do Belgaum COMPANY'S TROOPS. Ist l.t.Cay Sholapore 2d do Deesa 3d do Rajcote and Hursole I• Europ. Reg.t Deesa Ist Nat. Inf Poonah 2d do Sattara :Id do Belgaum 4th do Bombay sth do Dharwar 6th do Bombay 7th do Baroda Bth do Ahmednugger 9th Nat, Inf Sholaporc !BLLSHMENT. Regts. Stations. 19th do Tenasserim 20th do Cannanore 21st do Ellore 122 d do Nagpoor 1:23d do Palayeram 24th do Ilurryhur •.25th do Trichmopoly 26th do Quilon 27th do Palaveram 29th do Jaulnah 29th do Penang, &c 30th do Vellorc 31st do Jaulnah 37. d do Lichonopoly 33d do Bellary 34th do Nagpoor 35th do 36th do Bangalore 37th do Nagpoor 38th do Berhampore 30th do Trichinopoly 40th do Trichinopoly ,41st do Chicacole '42d do Masulipatam 43d do Secunderabad 44tH do Cannanore ,45th do Palaveram 46th do Penang,Signa pore, Sic. 47th do Saluincottah i 48th do Vellore 49th do Masulipatain 50th do Secunderabad 51st do Paulgutcherry s'2d do Secunderabad Artillery St. Thomas's Mount (I-Id. Qu.) Engineers Fort St. George (Hd. Qu.) tBLISHMENT. Regts. Stations. 10th do Malligaum 11th do Bhewndy 1 1th do Surat 13th do Dapoolee 14th do Kulladghee 15th do Rajcote 16th do Baroda 17th do Poonah 16th do Aaseerghur 19th do Ofalligaum 20th do liursole 21st do Deesa 02d do Ahmedabad 23d do Baroda 04th do Bhooj 05th do Hurst,le 26th do Kulladghee Artillery Matoonga(Hd. Qu.) Engineers Seroor (lid. Qu.) THEIR MAJESTIES. ,From the E.:pre,s of Satturdiky.; The King and Queen, we are happy to state, remain in the enjoyment of good health. The state of the Princess Louise nntinues essentially the same, although there occasionally occur some of those fluctuations which form one of the dis. tinguishing characteristics of the flattering, but too fatal, ease under which she is suffering. Last night her Highnets had a comparatively good night's rest, but to-day again any hopes that might have been thus inspired have, we are sorry to say, been by no means sustained ; and it is the opinion of the medical men, that on the whole no alteration for the better has taken place. To-day is the fifteenth anniversary of the Princess's natal day: of course, under the present painful cir cumstances, all the usual rejoicings and congtatulations are suspended, although we understand that the Queen, with a kind solicitude to communicate any little gratification to her afflicted young niece, presented herself to her bedside this morning with a present of co , tly books. We understand that her Majesty still entertains sanguine hopes of recovery. The b ri e N e . o r n eceied Tuesday to t last, ate a t s h a w t a i s i er e xsep Serene e:IH; Highness e l s e s t w te i r l s l n h o a t v Princess's mother, the Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, did not ar n rive present to come to this country. eh: since This afternoon the King drove out in a pony phaeton, ac companied by Lady Mayo. The following distinguished personages arrived at the Castle this afternoon to dine, and wi❑ stay till Monday :—Prince and Princess Lieven, Count Orloff, Earl Grey, Lord Palmerston, Lord and Lady Brownlow, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marchioness Wellesley, and Sir W. Fremantle. Lady Augusta Erskine and chiliren left the Castle this day for her Ladyship's seat at Isleworth, and Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence arrived on a visit to their Majesties. Sir Philip and Lady Sidney remain at the Castle. No day has yet been fixed for the dinner to the Knights of the Garter ; that to the Knights of the Bath takes place on the 12th instant, the anniversary of Lord Rodney•s victory, his Lordship having been a Knight of the Order. THURSDAY.—His Majesty, accompanied by Lady Sydney, took his airing in the Great Park. Her Majesty, for the fiat time since her return from London, rode out on horseback, at tended by Prince George of Cambridge, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Andrew Barnard, and the Rev. Mr. Wood, FRIDAY.—His Majesty took a drive in a pony phaeton. The works going on at the Castle at present are the interior of the Round Tower and Queen Elizabeth's Gallery. COURT CIRCULAR. The Princess Augusta attended divine service yesterday morning, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Her Royal High ness paid a visit in the afternoon to the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-house. • . Divine service was performed yesterday, before the Dodieis of Kent, and the Princess Victoria, and their RoAl Highnesses' household, by the Dean of Chester. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Viscounts Melbourne, Pal merston, and Goderich, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, Sir James Graham, Lord Holland, the Duke of Richmond, and Mr. Stanley. The Ministers remained in deliberation two hours and a half. Directly after the Council Earl Grey left town on a visit to their Majesties at the Palace at 'Windsor. Count Orloff, accompanied by Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, left the Clarendon, on Saturday, for the Palace at Windsor, on a visit to their Majesties. Mr. Van Buren, the American Minister, took leave of Vis count Palmerston on Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. A. Vail, Charo d'Affaires of the United States, was presented to Viscount Pahnerston, on his appointment. Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador, the Baron de Wessenburg, on a special mission from Austria, and the Prus. sian Minister, transacted business with Viscount Palmerston, on Saturday, at the Foreign office. The Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, has been confined to his residence in Somerset place for several days past by indisposition. Lord Durham came to town on Saturday morning from his seat at Sudbrooke, Surrey. His Lordship returned to Sud brooke in the evening. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday on a visit to their Majesties. Both Houses met on Siturdav to enable the Ministers to press forward the Sugar Duties Continuation Bill, as the existing Act expires on Wednesday next, yet on Saturday it still remained in the Commons. It was then carried to the Lords, and their Lordships have directed their standing orders to be suspended, to afford facilities for the passing of the Bill, so that today it will have passed through all its stages. That fact will be announced to the Commons to-night, and tomorrow it will receive the Royal assent, by Commission. Sharp and close work! . Some foolish persons, for reasons which are not apparent, have published a rumour that Lord Durham has resigned. We allude to the report for no other purpose than to assure our readers that there is not the slightest foundation for it. The absence of Lord Durham from some of the Cabinet meetings was probably the temptation which invited the false hood, and the reason of its being entertained by persons who ought to have known the authors of the fiction too well to place confidence in any thing they said. Lord Durham has been de tained at Sudbroke-park by indisposition, and was consequently unable to attend the Cabinet meetings.—Times. Lord Auckland has ju,t prepated a Bill, and presented it to the House of Lords, " to Consolidate and Amend the Laws against Offences relating to the Coin, The M3r9l:is of A;lgiesea, Lard the Earl of Mulgrave, and Lord Erskine, will be present in the House of Lords, during the discussion on the Reform Bill. It is said ihat Lord Getivile, it. aliswer i.o the circular addressed by the Secretary of the Charles-street Gang, has stated his inability to attend personally the debates upon the Reform Bill, but that he has intrusted the opposing clique with his proxy. Poor Lord Stowell, and the of Lauderdale, both invalids, are likewise pressed to be in the House, whilst the Bill is in the Committee. The E,rl DoNotJghmore, the ~h 1 and tried friend of Earl Grey, has, we understand, written to his Lord ship, offering, at the greatest personal risk and inconvenien,e, because of his extreme ill-health, to leave his seat at Knock lofty, and come to London, should his vote be deemed essentia I to the passing of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. PRINCE PAUL ESTERHAZY.— No bleman is expected to return to this country in about two months. The chief object of his journey was to arrange the financial affairs of a near relation, which had fallen into dis order ; but, on Ms arrival at Vienna, he was requested by the Emperor to lay before the Cabinet his views of the Belgian question, and of the general politics of Europe ; and it is to his urgent remonstrances that we are chiefly indebted for the rati fication of the Belgian treaty by the Emperor of Austria, at the advice of his Cabinet. Some very absurd statements have been made as to the domestic business on which Prince Esterhazy was required to return to his native country. It has been even said that the family was in a state of ruin. So far from this being the case, the net income of the relation alluded to now far exceeds 100,0001. por annum ; and, through the arrange ments proposed by Prince Paul, it will, probably, in the course of two or three years, be near double the amount of that suns. —Court Jouinal. As a proof that the most unpopula .ind tin-- pleasant duties may be performed in a manner to afford satis faction and to elicit respect, a dinner was given on Thursday last at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, by the parishioners of St. Mary-le-Strand, to Mr. Parish, on his resignation of the collectorship of the parish rates, an office which he had fitted more than fifteen years ; and a valuable piece of plate was pre sented to him on the occasion, bearing an inscription expres sive of the high sense they entertained of his services aria character. Coo. Orloff is expected to return to town to.day, from a visit to their Majesties at Windsor, whither his Excellency proceeded on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by Prience Eleven, having previously paid an official visit to Earl Grey, at the Treasury. The Noble Earl, Viscount Palmerston, Prince Talleyrand, and Baron Wessenburg, were amongst a select party invited to meet the Envoy, on Thursday, at Ash_ burnham, House. Count Woronzow also gave an elegant din ner to the Count and a distinguished party, on Friday, at his house in Mancheld.street. The Marquis of Wellesley, Viscount Sydney, Lord Hill, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Kemp, and M, Faick (the Netherlands Minister), were among the persons of distinction who inscribed their names in his Excellency's visiting-book, at the Clarendon, on Saturday. There is reasou to believe that the Count's stay in this country will be more prolonged than was at first anticipated, in consequence of the King of the Netherlands persiiting in his demand of modifl cations of the treaty ; and the refusal of Lord Palmerston and Prince Talleyrand to allow any modifications to be made in the present treaty, will render it necessary for Count Orloff to wait for fresh powers from his Court. The only son of the Doke of Hamilt, , n, who is jk:st of age, will, it is said, be immediately created a Poor. The Noble Duke and this highly promising youth arrived in town a few days ago from Hamilton Palace. The late Robert S tt, El., of Grosvenor- place, Bath, has bequeathed the following legicies, viz., 1,0001. to the British and Foreign Bible Society ; 3,0001. to the Wes. leyan Shetland Mission ; 1,000/. to the General Wesleyan Mis sions ; 1,0001. to the Itinerant ditto Preachers' Annuitant So ciety ; 300/. to the Naval and Military Bible Society ; 2001. to the Strangers' Friend Society in London ; 2001. to the Schools at Great Queen-street Chapel, ditto; 2001. to the General Sun day Schools, ditto; 2001. to the Baptist Missionary Society ; 2004 to the Strangers' Friend Society in Bath ; 1001. to the Tract Society at New King-street Chapel, ditto; 2001. to the Strangers' Friend Society in Bristol; 1001. to the 1 ract Society at King-street Chapel, ditto; 2001. to the London Misrioaary Society; 200/. to the Hibernian ditto; 2001. to the Moravian ditto. — Oxford Journal. Among the merchants connected with the Peninsula, or with the Mediterranean, the' e is an almost total suspensimi of business on account of the precautions adopted against the cholera. Spain is particular. y strict on this head. and has recently extended the prohibition to Liverpool as well as London, through the suspicion that goods might be forwarded thither for shipment, for the purpose of evading the operation of the quarantine laws. Many houst4 in extensive business have not sent out a single ship to that part of the world during the last six weeks.