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MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is an air of courtly elegance and deli cate fastidiousness about this Magazine, which always impresses us with a notion that its con tributors write with white kid gloves on. To be sure it advocates the popular cause, but then it is with a patronizing air, with an excess of sweet condescension. It surveys the people, not from a level of equality, but from the pro digious elevation of its own rank and intellect. It scorns to shake hands with the multitude, ex cept through the safe and distant medium of a pair of tongs. This is a fault, but as it has every appearance of being unintentional, we dismiss it with this bland rebuke. Certainly its writers are not without a good excuse for their refined fastidiousness, for many of them are gen tlemen of very superior intellectual acquirements, well educated, and of an enviable order of scho larship. " The Future Objects of the People" is a clever political paper, but rather too con descending and unmeasured in the style of its adulation. " The Home of Love" is a little poetic gem, polished to excess of brilliancy by the cunning and graceful skill of Mrs, Hemans. " The Spirit of the Greek Dramatists" is finely felt ; it is, however, too sparkling and redundant in its imagery. A critic (of so much discernment as the writer before us) should not talk prettily of lEschylus. His language should be severe, simple, full of stern thought. Surely the phrase " marble stillness of Greek poetry," however plausibly and gracefully it may sound, does not—cannot apply to the scenes where electra stands by the bed-side of the frenzied Orestes ; where Medea shrinks from, while she yet resolves on, the slaughter of her children ► Still less can it apply to that transcendent discription in So phocles, where CEd ipus hears the awful voice of the the Deity summoning him to his destiny. There is no passage in Shakspeare comparable to this— no, not within a hundred degrees of it (whatever even his warmest enthusiast may urge in favour of our myriad-minded dramatist); and " marble still ness" is the very last phrase we should dream of applying to it. Again, there is no " marble stillness" in Sappho's well known Ode ; none in Simonides' touching lament of Danae (per fect in its pure and gentle pathos) ; none in the fresh, homely, animated pastorals of Theocritus. The phrase is an awkward one, hut we suspect it oozed out inadvertently. In every other respect the essay is a very superior one. " Conversa tions with Lord Byron," realize the old adage, Mush cry and little wool." The portrait is'a manifest failure. It is a full-length of a tall, thin, middle-aged gentleman, with a face as sour as a crab apple. Lord Byron, about the time it must have been taken, was short, full in the face, and " more fat than bard beseems." The " Monthly Commentary" is pretty much the same as usual. " Married for Money," a lively readable tale. We have no space for extracts. SLACKW 0 OD' S MAGAZINE. Mr. Warren has here resumed his " Pas sages from the Diary of a late Physician." The present tales are two in number, the first and most effective of which is entitled the " Thun der-struck." The pervading defect of all these narrations is, that they are too exaggerated, and that their horrors are too elaborately worked up. There is little or no sound healthy feeling in them, but there is a prodigious deal of pains taking, and which lies too apparently on the surface. The author piles the horrible upon the horrible, Pelion upon Ossa, until discretion and good taste revolt at the ungainly accumula tion. The " Thunder-struck" is a case in point, in which the simple circumstance of a young girl being struck by a flash of lightning, and so affected by catalepsy, is deepened into one of the most fearfully-exaggerated tales we ever read. Yet it has not affected us, for the reason, that Mr. Warren has laid on his coating of black paint with a trowel. We subjoin one specimen only (but the most natural) of his mode of working up a point:— _ _ " Agnes ! Agnes ! For God's sake, speak !—Speak, or I shall come into your room !' No reply was made; and I thrust open the door. Heavens! Can I describe what I saw ! " Within less than a yard of me stood the most fearful lifzure my eyes have ever beheld. It was Agnes ! She was in the attitude of stepping to the door, with both arms extended, as if in a menacing mood. Her hair was partially disheveled. Her face seemed whiter than the white dress s'ie wore. Her lips were of a livid hue. Her eyes, full of awful expression—of supernaturd lustre, were fixed with a petrifying stare on me. Oh, language fails me—utterly ! Those eyes have never since been ab sent from me when a!one! I felt as though they were blighting the life within me. I could not breathe, much less stir. I strove to speak, but could not utter a sound. My lips seemed rigid as those I looked at. The horrors of nightmare were upon me. My eyes at length closed ; my head seemed turning round, and for a moment or two I lost all consciousness. I revived. There was the frightful thing still before me—nay, close to me ! Though I looked at her, I never once thought of Agnes P—. It was the tremendous appearance—the ineffable terror gleaming from her eyes, that thus overcame me. I pro test I cannot conceive any thing more dreadful ! Miss P—continued standing perfectly motionless; and while I was gazing at her in the manner I have been describing, a peal of thunder roused me to my ,e'f-possession. I stepped towards her, took hold of her hand, exclaiming ' Agnes—Agnes r —and carried her to the bed, where I laid her down. It required some little free to press down her arms ; and I drew the eyelids over her staring eyes mechanically. While in the act of doing so, a flash of lightning flickered luridly over her—but her eye neither quivered nor blinked. She seemed to have been suddenly deprived of all sense and motion ; in fact, nothing but her pulse—if pulse it should be called—and faint breathing, showed that she lived. My eye wandered over her whole figure, dreading to meet some scorching trace of light ning—but there was nothing of the kind. What hap pened to her? Was she frightened—to death ? I spoke to her; I called her by her n me, loudly ; I shook her, rather violently; I might have acted it all to a statue ! I rang the chamber-bell with almost frantic violence, and presently my wife and a female servant made their appear ance in the room; but I was far more embarrassed than assisted by their presence. ' Is she killed ?' murmured the former, as she staggered towards the bed, and then clung convulsively to me—' Has the lightning struck her?' " I was compelled to disent:age myself from her graT, and hurry ber into the adjoining room, whither I called a servant to attend to her ; and then returned to my hapless patient. But what was Ito do? Medical man as I was, I never had seen a patient in such circumstances, and felt as ignorant on the subject as agitated. It was not epilepsy—it was not apoplexy—a swoon—nor any known species of hysteria. The most remarkable feature of her c:-e, and what enabled me to ascertain the nature of her di.case, was this; that if I happened accidentally to alter the position of her limbs, they retained, for a short time, their new position. P . , for instance, I moved her arm— it remained for a while in the situation in which I had last placed it, and gradually tesumed its former one. If I raised her into an upright posture, she continued sitting a o without the support of pillows or other assistance, as ex-ctly as if she had heard me express a wish to that effect, and amnted to it but, the horrid vacancy of ber aspect! If I elevated one eyelid for a moment, to examine the state of the eye, it was some time in closing, unless I drew it over myself. All these circumstances,—which terrified the servant who stood shaking at my elbow, and muttering, She's possessed ! she's possessed !—Satan has her r —convinced me that the unfortunate young lady was seized with catairrsy ; that rare mysterious affec tion, so fearfully blending the conditions of life and death —presenting—so to speak--life in the aspect of death, and death in that of life! I felt no doubt that extreme terror, operating suddenly on a nervous system most highly excited, and a vivid, active fancy, had produced the effects I saw. Doubtless the first terrible outbreak of the thun *ler storm—especially the fierce splendour of that first flash of lightning which so alarmed myself—apparently corro borating and realizing all her awful apprehensions of the predicted event, overpowered her at once, and flung her into the fearful situation in which I found her—that of one ARRESTED in her terror-struck fight towards the door of her chamber. But again—the thought struck me— had she received any direct injury from the lightning? Had it blinded her? It might be so—for I could make no impression on the pupils of the eyes. Nothing could startle them into action. They seemed a little more dilated than usual, and fixed." The fragmentary history of " John Bull" is continued this month. It is not so easy or so characteristic as Arbuthnot's, but it has redeem ing passages of grave irony notwithstanding. " Noctes Ambrosianz" are too long, too dull, and too political. Captain Hall is no addition to the coterie at Ambrose's. METROPOLITAN. The present number, which is one of more than average merit, is headed by some lines ad dressed by Mr. T. Campbell to Sir Francis Burdett, on the subject of his late speech in the House of Commons on our Foreign Policy. The lines are smooth enough, but have no particular recommendation. " The Evidence on the Bank of England Chatter" is a paper wholly of a practical character. It is well timed, and exhibits infinite pains-taking. " Ultimus Romanorum" is a❑ ironical Lament for the re moval of Bowles's and Carver's Print-shop in St. Paul's churchyard. It is but so-so. " Clavering's Autobiography" is less anecdo tical than usual, which is bad ; and more sentimental, which is worse. " French Poli tics" is a well• digested, well-considered essay, evidently the production of a man accustomed to think and compare for himself, and whose every faculty is awake to what passes round him. The present position of Louis Philippe is most truly and happily described. We close our brief cur sory notice with the following lines by Moore : SONG OF THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF TITHE. Di" THE EDITOR OF CAPTAIN ROCK'S MEMOIRS. " The parting Genius is with sighing sent."—MaioN. It is o'er, it is o'er, my reign is o'er ; I hear a Voice, like that of yore, Which over the earth its wailings spread, Crying aloud, " Great Pan is dead!"— Such Voice I hear, from shore to shore, From Dunfanaghy to Baltimore, And it saith, in sad, parsonic tone, " Great Tithe,—and Small,—are dead and gone!" Even now, I behold your vanishing wings, Ye Tenths of all conceivable things Which Adam first, as Doctors deem, Saw, in a sort of night-mare dream,* After that feast of fruit abhorr'd,— First indigestion on record! — Ye decimate ducks, ye chosen chicks, Ye pigs which, even when Catholics, Or of Calvin's most select depraved, In the Church must have your bacon saved; — Ye fields, where Labour counts his sheaves, And, whatsoever himself believes, Must bow to th' Established Church belief, That the tenth is always a Protestant sheaf; — Ye calves, of which the Man of Heaven Takes Irish tithe, one calf in seven ; - 1" Ye tenths of rape, hemp, barley, flax, Eggs,: timber, milk, fish,—and bees' was ; All things, in short, since earth's creation, Doom'd, by the Church's dispensation, To suffer eternal decimation, — Leaving the whole lay world, since then, Reduced to nine parts out of ten ; Or,—as we calculate thefts and arsons, — Just ten per cent. the worse for Parsons ! Alas, and is all this wise device For the saving of souls thus gone in a trice ? The whole put down in the simplest way, By the souls resolving not to pay ! And even the Papists, thankless race, Who have had so much the easiest case, — To pay for our sermons doom'd, 'tis true, But not condemned to hear them too, — (Our holy business being, 'tis known, With the ears of their barley, not their own,) Even they object to let us pillage, By right divine, their tenth of tillage, And, horror of horrors, even decline To find us in sacramental wine! II It is o'er, it is o'er, my reign is o'er, Ah never shall rosy Rector more, Like the shepherds of Israel, idly eat, And make of his flock " a prey and meat." No more shall be his the pastoral sport Of suing his flock in the Bishop's Court, Through various steps, Citation, Libel, — Scriptures all, but not the Bible, — Working the law's whole apparatus To get a few pre-doom'd potatoes, And summoning all the powers of wig, To settle the fraction of a pig!— Till, parson and all committed deep In the case of Shepherd versus Sheep, The Law usurps the Gospel's place, And, on Sundays, meeting face to face, While Plaintiff fills the preacher's station, Defendants form the congregation. So lives he, Mammon's priest, not Heaven's, For Tenths thus all at sizes and sevens, Seeking what parsons love no less, Than tragic poets, a good distress. Instead of studying St. Augustin, Gregory Nyss, or old 3t. Justin, (Books fit only to hoard dust in,) His reverence stints his evening readings To learned Reports of Tithe Proceedings, Sipping, the while, that port so ruddy, Which forms his only ancient study ; Port so old, you'd swear its tartar, Was of the age of Justin Martyr, And, had the Saint sipp'd such, no doubt His martyrdom would have been—to gout. And is all then lost ?—alas, too true, — Ye Tenths beloved, adieu, adieu! My reign is o'er, my reign is o'er, — Like Old Thumb's ghost, " I can no more." • A reverend prebendary of Hereford, in an essay on the Revenues of the Church of England, has assigned the origin of Tithes to " some unrecorded revelation made to Adam." t " The tenth calf is due to the parson of common right ; and if there are seven, he shall have one."—Rees's CyclopaTlia, art. " Tithes." Chaucer's Plowman complains of the parish rectors, that " For the tithing of a duck, Or an apple, or an aye (egg,) They make him swear upon a boke, Thus they foulen Christ's fay." II Among the specimens laid before Parliament of the sort of Church rates levied upon Catholics in Ireland, was a charge of two pipes of port for sacramental wine. I Ezekiel xxxiv. B.—" Neither shall the shepherds feed them selves any more ; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not he meat for them."—v. 10. FRASER'S MAGAZINE. " Elizabeth Brownrigge" forms the conclud ing half of an amusing, though not particularly brilliant, squib on Mr. Bulwer's Eugene Arqm. Its greatest recommendation is, that there is no thing ill-natured about it. " Mundy's Sports and Pastimes in the East" is a smart, spirited, desultory notice of one of the most agreeable books of travels that have appeared during the last season. " The Mountain Dew Men" is a rough, homely sort of tale, which, from its ex cessive use of the northern Doric dialect, is, to our unpractised southern ears, nearly, if not quite, unintelligible. It is, however, not de void of incident, containing, inler Mira, two smugglers, a hobgoblin, and a snow-storm. " Condition of the Welch Peasantry " ends, as it begins, without an aim, and apparently without a motive, except that of filling a certain quan- N, tity of paper. The subject would have been interesting had it been well treated. " Lord Byron's Juvenile Poems" is an eloquent, feeling criticism, abounding, however, too much in metaphysical fantasies. " Nly Cotemporaries " is a delightful bit of legal gossip ; we take an extract descriptive of Mr. Justice Willes—a name long since forgotten : " The retirement of Lord Mansfield left Mr. Justice WiPea in possession of the place of senior puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench. He seemed to be held in very moderate estimation by the bench, the bar, and the public. There was a flippancy of manner and a levity of deportment about him, wholly at variance with the dig nity of his situation and the becoming gravity of the judi cial character. To the personal appearance connected with it he showed equal indifference, and he was distin guished by a slovenly neglect of the costume appropriated to his station as a judge. The ermine which covered his shoulders had long ceased to he white ; his scarlet robes hid assumed a dingy brick colour ; and his wig seemed to have gone a seven-years' May-day circuit with a chimney sweeper. These were the ornaments of a fat, unwieldy figure, endowed with a face of smirking fatuity. " Little attention seemed to be paid to his opinions by Lord Man-field or by the rest of the judges. He appeared to feel it; and to be anxious to indemnify himself against what he could not avoid seeing was slight; he felt it with wrath, and sought to show his resentment of it without judgment. I draw this conclusion from his ludicrous conduct when the case of Jones v. Smart was before the Court. It was a question as to the right of the son of an esquire to kill game, though the father had no qualifica. tion in respect of estate, and whether a derivative title uld be conferred without an original one. Mr. Justice Willes in that case differed from Lord Mansfield and the other judges. He delivered his opinion to that effect, in direct opposition to that which Lord Mansfield, to whom he sat next, had pronounced, and whose arguments he seemed to think be had successfully combated. When he had concluded, with an air of the most ludicrous triumph and self-satisfaction at the display which he had made, he turned quickly round on the old lord, and, in a manner tie most burlesque, stared full in his face. This was ac companied with a vulgar and significant nod of the head, which conveyed to the spectators his meaning as fully as if he had expressed himself in the identical words to which the refined taste of Mr. Hume has given a classical cur rency which till that time they did not possess, of " Take your change out of that !" They are certainly not of a phraseology of the best taste, but they are most signifi. cantly expressive. "From the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1786, Lord Mansfield had discontinued to take his seat on the bench. The dufes of the Chief Justice then devolved upon Mr. Justice Willes. He enjoyed the pre-eminence which the place bestowed on him but for a short period. He died in January 1787. The decisions of the Court during that period were not marked by any extent of legal learning, and were undistinguished by importance." THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This is upon the whole an amusing number, but here and there we have observed a straining after a sarcasm or a joke, to which, as is too of ten the case, truth has been sacrificed. We particularly allude to several of the articles under the head of " Notes of the Mouth" which are poor and trashy, compared with what we used to be treated with, under the same title in the London Magazine. The " Heights of Phalere," giving a sketch of a modern Greek campaign, and the " New Publications," are among the good articles. The satire of the latter is so beautiful, that we must let a few of the New Publications speak for themselves. 2. CONSOLATIONS OF A LAWYER, OR, BEAUTIES OF TIDD'S PRACTICE. BY SIR E. B. SUGDEN, M.P. " Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo." " Long a desideratum in our literature."—Law Mag. " Tidd is a master of the English tongue. His style has, perhaps, never been equalled except by the author of the work before us."—Legal Examiner. " We are no longer at a loss to discover the source of the p.culiar gracefulness of Sir Edward's Parliamentary style. He is (1, eply imbued with Tidd."—Standard. MA LTH US DEMOLISHED. By M. T. SADLER, Esq. M.P. Inscribed to the Duke of Newcastle. " The triumph of genius over dullness; of cool philo sopy over heated declamation."— Standard. " Original, masculine, unanswerable."—Age. " We are proud to be of the school of Mr. Sadler."— Morning Post. 8. A GRAMMAR OF THE UNKNOWN TONGUE. By SPENSER PERCIVAL. " An inestimable service to rational religion."—Fraser's Magazine. " We recommend it confidently to the christian world." —Evangelical Magazine. 9 THE FELICITY OF FASTING. By the same Author. Dedicated to the British Nation. " The production of one who hungers and thirsts after righteousness—a man after our own heart."—John " We admire it most for the pure spirit of piety that breathes throughout it."—Age. " Mr. Perceval is not of those who spend their pensions in eating and drinking. It is this that has brought sine cures into contempt."—Fraser's Magazine. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, AND NA VAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE. We are happy to perceive that the fact of having the monopoly of the market has not re laxed the exertions of the conductors of this Magazine. We find in the present number the usual variety of useful and agreeable matter. There is one article of particular interest at the present moment, in which the expediency of a naval expedition to the Scheldt is discussed in a military point of view. The writer is evidently a soldier,and a good friend to the King of Holland, circumstances which may have had their weight in biassing his judgment against such an attack. We must confess we cannot all at once yield up our prepossessions in favour of a mode of war fare in which the English navy has earned some of its brightest laurels, and may, perhaps, if we have time, take an opportunity shortly of saying something in answer to the arguments brought forward in the article to which we refer. The " Recollections of a Sea-life" are very amusingly told. We hope they are true, for otherwise the writer has to answer for extorting sundry laughs from us on false pretences. We make the fol lowing extract from the " Life and Adventures of the Black Joke," for the benefit of all who. share our admiration of British seamen's gal lantry : " The Black Joke, still commanded by Lieut. Turner, we find, on the 27th of August, ably manoeuvring to se 'aerate three well-armed vessels, which had weighed from Whydah on her approach, and had partially engaged her. I❑ the most gallant manner, Lieut. Turner rau his brig within speaking distance of a large schooner heavily armed, which appeared to be directing the movements of the other two vessels (a brig and schooner), and on hailing her, received ber broadside for an answer, which was instantly returned ; but the other vessels coming to the assistance of their consort, it required great coolness arui skill to extricate the Black Joke from so unequal a conflict ; which, however, was effected, and she stood off under easy sail, the fire ceasing ; the schooner with which she bad been engaged, followed e iutiou-ly. At half-past eleven at night, this schooner was again discovered on the wea ther-quarter of the Black Joke, but without her compa nions. Lieut. Turner immediately tocked, and crossing her bows, brought her to close action ; the schooner care folly avoiding the endeavours of the Black Joke to run on hoard. The action continued with great spirit for more than an hour, when the schooner suddenly bore up under all possible sail, in the hope to escape, which threw the Black Joke astern ; but recovering her position about four A. at. on the 28th, Lieut. Turner, after a general fire of round, grape, and musketry, succeeded in running his opponent on board, (both vessels then going at least seven knots) when, after a strugOe upon her decks, he possessed himself of the piratical schooner " Presidentj," mount ing six broadside guns, with one heavy pivot, and a crew of 95 men, thirty of whom were, with her Captain, killed or wounded ; the Black Joke having but one man killed_the pirate firing high to disable her in the masts or sails. " Lieut. Turner having also possessed himself of the hook of signals arranged between the pirate and his asso ciates, and seeing a brig at day-light upon the weather quarter, directed the signal " to close" to be hoisted, which being answered and as readily obeyed, he re-captured the Portuguese vessel called the Hosse, which had been cap tured and plundered by the Presidente . ; the latter vessel was lost near Sierra Leone, on her passage to that place ; but salvage was awarded for the Hosse." TAIT'S MAGAZINE. " Parliamentary Candidates" is a temperately, but forcibly argued essay, in which the propriety of insisting upon pledges is dwelt on at some length. It will bring conviction home to many minds. " Address to Germany," is better than the usual run of magazine war-songs. We have no very great opinion of the majority of our monthly Tyrtreuses ; but the present song is really penned in a fine vein of feeling. We sub join a portion : APPEAL TO GERMANY, ON THE EDICT ABOLISHING THE LIBERTIES OF ITS STATES, AND THE ADVANCE OF TILE AUSTRIAN TROOPS. JULY *27, 1832. 'Tis burst! the unfinished spell that laid The powers of earth and night ; And hurrying to the red crusade, The marshall'd hosts unite. 'Tis done! The scaffold and the chain, The dungeon and the brand, Are forged and fram'd for broad Almain— Arise ! thou perill'd land! Wake ! 'Tis the battle's dawn ! The hours With gory steps must mark, 'Midst shivered crowns and crumbling powers, The march of Freedom's ark. The guardians of a thousand homes Must blacken in the sun, And nations bleed in hecatombs, Ere its high place be won ! Brave land! Thy harvest-fields are fair The vintage.hills beneath ; Thy halls are bright, and gladness there Floats like the Summer's breath : And peace is sweet, and life is dear, And home a blessed spot, And war most grim, when landsmen are The foes—yet pause thou not ! Thou wilt not, high and holy place, Where Godlike minds abode, Behold a crushed and tongueless race Shrink from a tyrant's goad ! Thou can'st not bear, that, chained and tame, Thy gifted eons should creep, And reason's light, and wisdom's flame Be quenched—that kings may sleep ! Shall blind and bigot monarchs quell, The land where Luther sprung, Where Klopstock hymned, and Korner fell, And wizard Schiller sung; Where myriad-minded Goethe lies, His ashes barely cold? Heirs of their sacred names, arise ! And save your country's fold ! Come from the cloister and the field, The mart, the mine, the shore, — As erst your fathers rose—and wield Their tredtured arms once more! Think on the tombs beneath your aisles, The memories in your vales, The crosses on your mountain piles, The records in your tales! They tell how once, in manly pride, Your sires to battle rode, And smote the Kaisers that denied Their claims to worship God; Like cause is your's—Heaven's lore and light To win from robber kings ! Like be your triumph ! To the fight Go forth on eagle-wings ! The Review of Mr. Cooper's new novel, " The Heidenmauer," is the best prose article in the number. The critic is keenly alive to the no velist's faults and excellencies, and speaks in such eloquent terms as it deserves, of the unrivalled storm scene in the " Red Rover." "On the Character of Lord Eldon," is shrewd ; but the subject is hacknied. The " State and Prospects of Germany," displays much sound political knowledge. The spirit and tendency of its remarks are excellent. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICUL- T URE. EDINBURGH. This is decidedly one of the best of the agri cultural periodicals, and although we have thought it our duty in another column to op pose the principle of one of its articles in the number published this month, we are bound to say that there is much in it deserving of atten tion. To the general reader, the first article, Mr. Ferguson's Notes on America, will prove the most interesting in the number, whilst tha t on Barn Management will, perhaps, prove most attractive to the agriculturalist. THE BRITISH MAGAZINE. For those who are fond of the kind of lore so long monopolised by the Gentleman's Magazine, the British will prove acceptable. It is, how ever, somewhat of a more religious nature, fully justifying its second title or tides of " Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Infor mation, Parochial History, and Documents re specting the State of the Poor, Progress of Educa tion." It is like our ancient friend, the Gentle man's Magazine, excellent to lay by for consulta_ tion, but terrible to take up for amusement. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The number for September contains two ex cellent and spirited portraits of Sultan and Flying Kate, with a history of Sultan, his pedigree, and numerous performances. The article on the National Utility of Yacht Clubs is penned in a patriotic spirit, for there can be no doubt that the more aquatic sports are encouraged, the more scope will be afforded for increasing the number of good seamen. " Grouse and Black Game" contains some interesting information respecting sports in the north, but we trust that the havoc among Black Game is not so great as the writer apprehends. COURT MAGAZINE. A beautiful portrait of the reigning Empress Alexandra of Russia, finished with consummate care and delicacy, heads the present number, vis a-vis to an attempt at a likeness of the young Queen of the Belgians. This last is a miserable affair. The literary department is, as our readers well know, under the express superintendence of the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and this, we conceive, will b e a sufficient voucher for its merits. COTTAGE ENCYCLOPAEDIA. A work exclusively devoted to practical mat ters, and to be completed in another number. It is edited by Mr. Loudon, well known for his various scientific acquirements, and has for its a vowed object " to improve the dwellings of the great mass of the community in the temperate r egions of both hemispheres." Its embellish ments are very neatly finished. LADY'S MAGAZINE AND MUSEUM. A passable periodical enough, just keeping within the limits of common place, but never by any chance trespassing on the borders of ge nius or originality. It ought, however, to be successful, for foremost among its " distinguished writers" (as an advertisement of Patagonia❑ di mensions at the back of the book informs us) stands the name of " F. W. N. Bayley, Esq." We suppose this is the Gent. one of whose songs,—so the advertising columns of the news papers have assured us for months past—" lately created such a sensation at Almacks." All we can say of the present number is, that the lite rary is not worse than the pictorial department, and that both are so-so. P OL ONIA. This Magazine, which is devoted exclusively to the affairs of Poland, deserves the most ex tended circulation. If the popularity of a pe riodical depended on the justice of the cause it advocated, then Polonia would shoot far a-head of all its periodical brethren. It is an excellently conducted work, and it is a matter of sacred duty in the public to support it. It is the me dium through which the wrongs of Poland are most efficiently made known to Europe. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY REGISTER FOR BRITISH AND FOREIGN INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. Reader, didst thou ever hear of a critic who acknowledged he knew little or nothing of the book he was reviewing. If such has not been thy hap, fail not hereafter to report that The Sun has the candour to acknowledge its incompetency to review the Asiatic Journal as it deserves. We are aware that there are those amongst our newspaper contemporaries, who would discuss the two articles in this Magazine entitled on " the Chaldees and Babylonians' . and on " China," as hardily as Mr. Goulburn (late Chancellor of the Exchequer—thane Heaven) enters upon a financial argument, and would talk as gravely upon the queer-looking scratches and dashes, which we suppose pass for letters and words, as if they really had at one time heard of such things as Sanscrit, Chaldee, and Chinese. Far be it from us to aspire so high. All we can say is, that we like what we understand of the Asiatic Journal, and that among other useful informa tion we have gleaned from it the fact that a mail coach runs between Candi and the coast. How it must astonish the natives 1 HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. His Majesty, attended by Sir Andrew Barnard, arrived at St. James's Palace yesterday afternoon, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons, from the Palace at Windsor. His Majesty held a Levee soon after his arrival. A de tachment of Life Guards, with their band in State uni forms, occupied the large Court-yard of the Palace fronting Marlborough House. The band performed alternately with the band of the Foot Guards, stationed with the King's Guard in the Flag Court-yard, during the afternoon. The King, who appeared in an Admiral's uniform, held the Entree Levee, at which the Chevalier de Zei Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, had an audience of his Majesty, to which he was introduced by Viscount Patmerston, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ceremonies. His Excellency delivered a letter from his Sovereign. The Right Hon. Robert Grant, the Judge Advocate- General, had an audience of his Majesty, to lay before the King the proceedings of some Courts Martial, to receive his Majesty's commands. The King gave audiences to the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis Wellesley, and Viscount Palmerston. His Majesty received from the Field Officer in Waiting, and the Colonel of the Guards, a report of the effective state of the three regiments of Foot Guards. Lord Napier, and the Hon. Captain George Campbell, R.N., were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. At the Entree Levee were— The Russian Ambassador ; the Neapolitan, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Hanoverian, Belgian, Saxon, Brazilian, French, and Dutch Ministers; the Danish and United States Charges d'Affaires, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Postmaster. General, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Band of Gentleman Pensioners, the Judge-Advocate-General, the Master of the Ceremo nies; the Dean of Hereford, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, and Chaplain to their Majesties; Colonel Lygon (Silver Stick), Master Graves (Page of Honour). At the General Levee were-- The Duke of Dorset, Lord Henley, Lord Nugent. The Right Hon. R. Grant, the Hon. General Maitland. Sir C. Cockerel, Dr. Price. REv. MESSRS.—C. A. Richardson and J. Dunne. MEsstaufts—Francis Paigrave, George Murray._ ADAIIRALS—Husgey, C. 8., Plampin, Page, Sir C. Rowley. GENERALS—WiIIiam Douglas, Sir John Macleod. COLONELS—Teesdale, Marshall, Sir Charles Thornton, Winyard, Yinshawe, Ellicombe. MAJOR—Buckley. CAPTAINS—Hope, Hobhouse, George Smith, R.N., Duncan, R.N., A. Wathen, Aylmer, R.N. The following were presented to the King : _ Dr. Price, on his appointment of Physician Extraordinary to the King. Mr. Francis Pa!grave, on being appointed a Civil Com panion of the Royal Guelphic Order, by Lord Holland. Rev. C. A. Richardson, by Mr. Frost. Rear-Admiral Hussey, C. 8., on change of name from Moubray to Hussey, by Lord Napier. Hon. Gen. M iitland, by the Secretary at War. Mr. George Murray, son of the late Sir George Murray, R N., by the Duke of Richmond. Capt. Elope, 4th Dragoon Guards, upon his appointment, by the Adjutant-General. Colonel Teesdale, King's Dragoon Guards, on his return with the Regicatnt from Ireland, by the Duke of Rich- mond. Major-General Wm. Douglas, on being appointed a Mili tary Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guel phic Order, by Sir James Kempt. Captain Hobhouse, Coldstream Guards, on promotion, by the Secretary at War. Soon after the breaking up of the Court his Majesty left town on his return to the Palace at Windsor. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BLANDFORD RACES, AUG. 30. The Dorsetshire Gold Cup, value 100 cove. and 20 SON'S. in specie, two miles and a distance, was won by Mr. Houldsworth's Cecilia, 3 yrs. beating Little Red Rover, Omen, and Trump. A Plate of 501. for maiden horses, was won in three heats by Mr. Bigg's Pounce, 3 yrs. beating Wire, Bac chanal, and Nicodemus. The Launceston Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 sovs. added, were won in two heats by Mr. Farquharsou's f. Cadiz, 3 yrs. beating Scrub, 5 yrs. Whig, 4 yrs. and Laurence, 6 yrs. ASHFORD RACES, Aua. 30. The Town Plate of 501. was won in two beats by Mr. Roberts's Zarina, 4 yrs. beating Mr. Brown's Fawn, 4 yrs. Winner claimed for 150 sous. Ar. Va o rra n e bik Mr. Smith's Har riett, Camel and tw o The Ripton Plate of 50 /. was won in two beats by Mr. Beck's Ipsala, 5 yrs. be atin g Ringdove, Roulette, and Harriett. r i et T t, he i n Ilu n h t e e: tos s' , .Stak es were w beating others. ---0.-_ PONTEFRACT RACES, AUG. 30. Two year o►d Stakes of 20 sovs. each, seven subs. was won by Mr. Fox's b c. Larkspur, by Lottery, beatin Mr. Houldswor! h's Hawk, and Lord Sligo's Flame. Won by half a length. The Plate of 50/. was won in two heats by Rudolph 4 yrs. beating Thatcher, 6 yrs. A soldier in the Grays, who writes to Paisley ; states that on SOMERVILLE joining the ranks after the ter mination of the Court of Inquiry, he was greeted with three hearty cheers by the regiment when o❑ parade.— Glasgow Evening Post. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 180 The Marquis of PALMELLA, and the Untie ( Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Do n PEDRO, M. DE BARBOZA, have not yet 1 61/ town. They will, however, leave this day c' t to-morrow. We have received the Oporto Chronica, to the 21st, but it is quite barren of news of le' . terest. There are several decrees in it, showil, the activity of the Constitutional Government, a nd some spirited appeals to the Portuguese t ied/ but no m a t er i a l f ac t i s a dd e d to our accoun t the 19th. Our private letters are not quite 5° cheering as we could wish. It appears, bo ll ' ever, that only money is wanting to secure th e success of Don PEDRO-3 or 4 per cee t ' even on the Loan would enable his agents he r e to send out 4,000 men, and two or three larg o ships, and with such a reinforcement he wog s able to subdue the forces of the Usurper. P s to sailors, it is highly probable that SARTORI° will get a good number without th e trouble ( of recruiting for them, as SAMPAYO, the agent I Don MIGUEL in this country, is said to be el' gaging seamen for his master, and these must in vitably fall into the hands of the Constitutio o Admiral. Despatches have been this morning received fiat ° Oporto by the Marquis of' PALMELLA up t° the 22d ult., and a letter from Admiral SAR' O# RIDS. Despatches have also been received b ) ; the Conde de FUNCHAL, but they arlevenouti more recent date than the 18th ult. under , stand that the accounts received by the Mare, Of PALMELLA are by no means unfavourabl e ; to do more than act on the defensive unless r e, , i inforced. i t ft b oril e rroacil i ej m tssa p oA o fi. 4*- R s ell s iin i , l o : olß e lr aval ; and spirits, and in full confidence, b u t we b e ; lieve he considers it impracticable t o conte n i shouldicft je(3lmsr writes MIGUEL a e g e lllce t ° ll 3°C ° i p. In the Usurper again vetil:tius respect re oli t of the Iles:105:f is'o S se°:c 2: teth l i) t s; T actbri i eg: t te t ca t iotis u l:n s i will be able to give a better count of it than before. It is clue to the / 4 0 1 miral t o s t ate, t h at all the letters from officerso, our fleet off Portugal speak in the highest t er ve of his skill, and concur in stating, that to I f attacked the ships of Don MIGUEL io r t " t e he united st a t e wou ld h ave b een an act (34 : ve greatest imprudence, and which might 1 1 0 compromis e d, or a t l e ast m a t e ri a lly retatlded, rho prospects of the Constitutional cause. 0 rt Don PEDRo's agents are getting very 3 0 cular in choosing recruits ; they refuse a to number of young men ; in fact, they see ll ' a , care for none but old soldiers, and more °r o t . cially those who have served in regimen ts cavalry. A number of idle characters fr°l' various parts of the metropolis have been h , qui vim in of Bring their services at all DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. B5 % 3 Der Cent. Cons. 8 4% 'O4 3% per Cent. 9 2 3% Ditto Red 9274 :3 gew 3% per Cent.... 92% 2 % 1 3 per Cent Ann. 17'26 - 1 per Cent. 1820 lO2 4 Rank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 180. 0 l7 1-16 Oct. 10, 1839 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 - Jan. 5, 1870.-- ..... - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 69 Belgian Bonds 76 Ditto Account 76 Brazilian Bonds 50 1 ,4 Ditto Account 50%14%14 Buenos Ayres Bonds 2l Ditto Account Chilian Bonds l6 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds 10 3 4 Ditto Account New 5 per Cent. India Stock IDitto Bonds pn South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto ............ 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, £l,OOO l6 15 ptr , Ditto 500...... 16 15 pnl. IDitto Small ' Ditto C0mmercia1....... .. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account . Cons. for Oct. t o 84364 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE• Peruvian Bonds ...............10% Ditto Bonds, 1824 ...... Ditto Account i Danish Bonds '70% Ditto Account — Greek 80nd5...... ............ Ditto Bonds, "rn . , Ditto Account — Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, ti per cent Ditto Account "r ?S Neapolitan — Ditto Account - -: Portuguese 80nd5...491 '7-1 Si 0 Ditto Account 48 1 4 Regency Scrip 41,6 dig. Ditto Account Bonds 4%4 die. o Prussian Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 lOO4 Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account lO l3 New Loan Spanish Bonds, 1821 134 f Ditto Account 137 e, Ditto Bonds, 1823 ...... IS, Ditto Account. 1214 French Rentes, 5 p. c. —f. Exchange —f —percent.., —f. Exchange —f Dutch Scrip 44 % Ditto Account 44 French Scrip PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per SharC. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO 74, Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 172% 165 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 48 Ditto St. John Del Rey British Iron Mining Company £5O Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at Si. pm.) 48% English Mining Company 12% General Mining Association ll Real del Monte Mining C 0...., — United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at V. pm.) 40 Ditto New Set ip.. Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO Protector Insurance Comp. Australian C 0....... 7' 2114 24 18W, 2% Blf £1 5 6 7 Canada Company General Steam Navigation Co. l3 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 47 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, AUG. 9.9. Bank Stock - Consols, 3 net. cent Gov. Stock, 33 , 4 per cent. 90% National Ditto 244 Ditto, New 90% Patriotic Ditto I per Cent -IHibernian Rank ... Oov. Deb. 3 1 4 percent.... 85% 'Provincial Ditto Royal Canal Stock .... ..... 39 1 ,6 Royal Irish Mine. ....... Grand Canal Stock 21% Imperial Mine City Deb. Deb. 4 per cent - Mining Co. of Ireland ...... •"' Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c 92 Commercial Buildings COURSE OF EXCILI Amsterdam C.F. 12 63 Ditto, at sight .c, Rottc r dam 2 U 12 di Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg M.B. 14 Pi Altona l4 O Paris, 3 days' sight 25 85 Ditto 2 U. 26 10 Bordeaux 26 15 Berlin .NGE YE iTERDAY. 'Leghorn 476 Genoa .26 5 Venice 47 Malta 46 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 140 Lisbon Oporto 4754 Rio Janeiro Bahia 32 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l;i Cork 1 Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 155 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 11. 2 M. 10 13 Trieste do Madrid 35% Cadiz 3.514 BULLION, PER OZ. X. 6 . d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 Y New Doubloons 0 0 8 ° New Dollars Silverbars. standard 0 4 1, Gilboa 35% Barcelona .354 Seville 3 5 14 G.braltar 4714 rri r ed. Due. )Arrived. 0 America 0 0 Brazil Due. 2 Hamburg 0 1 Holland 1 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica. 0 o Cartliagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0 I Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Malta.... ............. 0 (1 France 0 0 Sweden 0 O Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. :horning... 14 minutes after 7. 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