The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-12 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (F;(iiii'26; on7;elliste.) The change in tl e Spat.is►b Ministry is confirmed. A courier from Madrid yesterday, after stopping at the Spa nish embassy in Paris, proceeded to London with the no mination of M. Zea Bermudez to be Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Count d'Alcudia is appointed Ambassador at London in his room. The Minister Cilomarde is ba nished from Madrid, and was compelled to depart imme diately in a carriage, which was sent to his hotel for the purpose, but it is not known in what province he is to reside. The other inisters, B dlasteros, Salazar, and Zatnbrano, remain at Madrid as Councillors of State. It is also said that a great many of the persons employed in the several offices of the Ministers have been discharged. Amongst them Castillo, one of the chief clerks in the ofi;•.e for Foreign Affairs, is named. (From Galignani's Messenger.) - - The Monitt.nr contains a report from the Minister of Justice to the King on the diminution of capital punish ments and peineg infinnantes. It states that the capital sentences in 1828 amounted to 114, and the executions to 75 ; in 1829 the sentences were 89, and the executions 68 ; in 1830 the sentences were 92, and the executions 38 ; and in 1831 the sentences 108, and the executions 28. A gradual decrease was also found in cases of crimi nals condemned to the pillory. In 1829, the number ex posed was 338, but in 1830 it was only 272, and was still further reduced in 1831. In consequence of this di minution, and of the law of the 28th of April, 1832, mo difying the penal code, and abolishing branding, the Minis ter recommends that the executioners, who now amount to 86, should he reduced to half that number, as their plac,s become vacant by death, and that their assistants, who amount to 146, should be reduced forthwith to 16 ; t hose discharged receiving a pension not exceeding 400 f. The Minister states, that the salaries of the assistants, which now amount to 117,600 f. may he reduced to 13,600 f. The present salaries of the chief executioners amount to 224,000 f. per annum, which can only he re duced gradu illy. Upon this report the Kiog has issued a royal ordinance, containing the following articles :—" 1, Until the present number of executioners be reduced to one-half, the Minister of Justice shall not appoint any r.ne in the place of such of them as may die. 2, In fu ture there la, tort one assistant executioner in the de gat trnents of Calvados, Corsica, Eure, Ille et Vilaine, - Manche, N , rd , Orne, Pas de Calais, Rhone, and Seine et Oi-e. There shall be two in the Seine Inferieur, and four in the department of the Seine. The assistant exe cutioners in the other departments are suppressed, nor shall any be hereafter appointed, except in such depart ments in which, according to Article 1, no executioners are to he hereafter repl iced. 3, The wages of the exe cutioners to be appointed after the publication of the pre sent ordinance shall be as follows :—For Paris, 8,0001. r,er annum ; for Lyons, 5,000 E ; for Bordeaux and Rouen, 4,000 f. ; in the otle-r towns wherein the popula tion exceeds 50,000 souls, 3.5001. ; in towns wherein the population is more than 20,000 souls, and less than 50,000, 2,400 f. ; and in towns wherein the population is 20,1)00 souls and under, 2,400 f. The assistant execu 6oriers shall be nominated by the Minister of Justice. Their wages are fixed at I,ooof. for those of Paris, and 8001. those of other towns." We learn that the Queen of the Belgians has expe rienced for several days past a slight indisposition, which is attributed by her physicians to pregnancy. —Journal do Con.merce. LETTER OF CHARLES THE TENTH TO THE DUKE OF FITZJAMES. The following Ittter is said to have been found among the papA.s of M. Berryer, and constitutes one of the charges brought against him : " April 17, me. " I received with great pleasure, my dear Duke, your letter of the lOth of December. If I have delayed an s.., e ring you, these are the two reasons. In the first place, I WA. waiting fin a favourable opportunity-and secondly, thinking you of much more utility where you are, I thought it right (however painful to me) to refuse a pro position which might either compromise you or weaken the means which you employ. [The ex-Peer had asked permission of Charles the Tenth to wait upon him at Holy rood.] Mike an arrangement with the bearer of this note to speik in my name to the man who labours with equal real and talent to finish his great and honourable life (M. de Chateaubriand). I have unfortunately now no power, but that of lamenting the loss of your friend ; I lament him from the bottom of my heart; he has fallen a victim to his courageoue fidelity (M. de Martinet!). You know the constancy of my character, therefore depend with faith on my old and constant friendship." (From the Constitutionnel.) One of our foreign curre , pondents, worthy of the fullest confidence, informs us that every thing tends to confirm the report of a new alliance which is negotiating between the Absolute Powers, for the purpose of support ing the Monarchical principle in Europe, and that M. Pozzo di Borgo in these negotiations is the leading actor. At Berlin he has completely succeeded, but the adhesion of the Cabinet of Vienna is not equally certain. For this reason they have got up a late journey of the King of Prussia to Toplitz, from whence he will proceed. to Prague, where an interview with the Emperor of Austria will take place. This interview, it is expected, will be successful, and will draw more closely the alliance of these Sovereigns, although the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin are not alto gether agreed on some vital questions of European po litics, and amongst others the question of Poland. It ap pears that Prince Metternich wishes to see Poland placed on the footing established by the Congress of Vienna, whilst Prussia, on the contrary, abandons Poland to the werey of the Russian Autocrat. Not only they st.te at Berlin that the mission of Lord Durham has completely failed in all that relates to Po land ; but they- even add, that when overtures were made to the Emperor Nicholas on this subject, by Lord Dur ham, he made use of very bitter and severe .expressions, in order to convey his feelings of indignation against the licentiousness of the Parliamentary tribune and.periadical Press, which had dared to criticise his conduct relative to Poland. FRENCH FUND% Pasts, Ocr. 10.-Five per Cents., 95f. 75c. 80c. 85c. 90e. 95c. 96f. 95f. 95c. 90c. 95f. 85c. 90c. 85c. ; Loan of 1832,96 f. 80c. ; Four per Cents., 80f. 50c ; Three per Cents., 67f. 60c. 65c. 75c. 90c. 93c. 85c. 9Cc. 85c. ; National Loan, 96f. 25c. ; Bank Actions, 1,070 f. ; Rente de Naples, 81 f. 10c. 25c. 30c. ; Roman Five per Cents., 81 81U; Rente d' Espagne, 12 ; Royal Spanish Loan, '79 78% ; Route Perpetuelle d'Espagne, b(11,4 % Ti 34 ; Belgian Loan, 78 ; Haytian Loan, 2 00 f. g xc hange on Lon don, one month, money, 25f. 80c.; three snonths,money, 25f. 651.-Cours Authentique. BRUSSELS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 9. (From the Morning Herald private Correspondent.) The new law appointments are likely to be the source of serious uneasiness to the Government, and have strengthened the Orange party beyond its most sanguine expectations. The Ministers, too late, are aware of their ill-judged selection, and it is impossible they can remain in office. The Catholics have now got the ascendancy, and Belgium will be governed by the bigoted Jesuit party. The Government, I believe, in the first instance, meant honestly; but the Catholics succeeded in their intrigues, and the greater part of the nominations were made out from a list furnished by that body. I know not whether they are in the pay of the King of Holland ; if they are, they have well earned their money ; if not, their aim is power ; and here again they have well played their parts; and at this moment unhappy Belgium is under the control of a Jesuitical despotic conclave. M. Gendehien will be more violent than ever in the Chambers; and finding that the independence, the commerce, and the liberty of the coun try is completely compromised, he will join the dissatisfied party, and work the downfall of the present Government. Robaulx is of the same opinion, but goes farther than his colleague. He declares that a restoration is preferable to the existing state of things ; and that he would sooner labour for a return of the Nassau family than submit to live under the dominion of the Catholics. There are several other acts of cunning hypocrisy, out I think I have said enough to convince you of the stability of the present Government, and the benefits this country has gained by changing the decided character of William, with the almost extinction of the Catholic party, for the present timid and vacillating Government, * with the as• tendency of the Jesuits. It is the Orange party who are the gainers by this chaotic state of affairs.—their leaders are actively at work, and they now feel more than ever certain of success. To show you the active exertions of the Catholics, it is only necessary to tell you that 1,100 new chapels have been ordained since the revolution of 1830, the whole of which had been suppressed in 1793. The army is in a dreadfully disorganized state, owing to the dissatisfaction felt by the soldiers to serve under the French. The object of France is obvious ; she wishes to make Belgium a French province; and she commences by placing the army under the control of her own ef fieere. It is now finally settled that General Goblet remains at the Foreign Office, and that be is to enter into fresh nego tiations with Holland. The General is called the great Pacificator, from his decided objection' to energetic mea sures. He declares that Belgium is not in a fit state either to attack or resist Holland, and that no dependence can be placed on the army ; that the best friends of Belgium in England advised him to diplomatise rather than fight, and, above ail, to place no confidence in France. There hat been a new opposition started up within the last few days. The Advocates have formed themselves into a body, and sent circulars into the country for the purpose of inducing all their brethren to join them in organising a systematic opposition to the present Govern ment. The patriots have also formed themselves into clubs, and several of them have joined the Orangists. It was noticed yesterday that Major Macord and Major Kepels were on the most friendly terms together, and M. Jottran! and Mr. Stevens were seen to shake bands in the public street. P.S.—I have just learned that a mob collected last evening on the Place de Martyr, and from thence proceed ed to the Hotels of the Alin;sters of Justice and the In terior. They gave three yells, sang the Brabanconne, and then retired quietly to their beds. This is the beginning of our winter amusements. Another informant has just told me that General Des prez (a Frenchman) had a charivari during the night, and that the Hotel of the Foreign Officer was• stripped of its hells and other outward ornaments, the mob calling out for the appearance of the Minister, General Goblet. A bas les Jesuits has been bawling about the streets the greater part of the night. Brussels, Tuesday Evening. The disturbances last night are to be repeated this even ing, and to commence with a serenade to M. Gendebien, after which a charivari is to be given to the Ministers, the French Commander, and the Catholic Priests. The Government agents declare that the military have received orders to disperse these illegal assemblages, and, in case of necessity, to fire on the mob ; that ball cartridges have been given to the soldiers, and that two piece' of cannon are kept in readiness with lighted matches. What a situa tion for poor unhappy Belgium ! And to whom are we indebted for this ft ightful state of affairs? Imbecile Mi nisters, Jesuits, and French Officers ! The Government, from its weakness, bad long since lost the confidence of the people ; but their last act in the judicial nomination, in truckling to the Catholics, has rendered them worse than traitors in the estimation of their fellow-citizens. The Government has not the power of appointing its own Military officers ; and snore than one example can be given where the wishes of the King were rendered of little avail against the imperious demands of Marshal Soult. It is said to-day, in the best informed circles, that the ordre du jour politique in Paris is the partition of Bel gium. That France is to take possession of Philipville, Nbtrienbourg, Duchy of Bouillon, part of Dinant, part of Neuchateau, and the whole of Hainault ; and that Hol land is to have the remainder. The French King is aware that his subjects have no great love for this coun try ; and that their only object is aggrandisetnent of ter ritory, 'and the wish to push their frontiers nearer the Rhine. This end would he obtained by the possession of the 13 cantons; the Chamber appeased, and Louis Philippe saved. A Rheni-h Paper states that the garrison of Coblentz has been reinforced with two regiments of the line, and that the foresters have received orders to cut down a con lidtrable quantity of oak trees for the defences of the for tress. Treves has also been strengthened with a regi ment of chasseurs, and a battalion was ordered to Sarre louis. BRISTOL, OCT. 11. MEETING OF THE TRADES. At a meeting of the Chairmen and other officers of the Trades' Societies of the city of Bristol, held on Wednes day, the 10th of October, at the St. John's Porter-house, Mr. Jolts Osmostn, Secretary of the Printers' Society, in the chair ; a report which appeared in Felix Farley's Brisfol Journal, of the 6th inst., beaded, " True Blue and die Trades," and containing a statement that the trades of Bristol had seen their error in supporting Re form, and were resolved in future to vote for the Blue candidate alone, having been laid before the meeting, it was unanimously resolved— " Ist. That the Chairmen and other Officers of the trades of Bristol, from the personal knowledge which they have of the bodies with whom they are connected, feel justified in declaring that the statement in Felix Farley's Journal, of Saturday last, relative to the trades of Bristol, is a direct falsehood, which calls for the most immediate and unequivocal denial that can be given from the trades themselves. " 2nd. That this meeting, therefore, feels it to be highly lesirable that the trades should be invited to come forward and declare their sentiments, in order that so foul a charge may he at once refuted ; and it pledges itself, individually and immediately, to promote meetings of the trades for that purpose. "3rd. That this meeting having been given to under stand that the most undue influence and corruption have been resorted to in order to compel some of the poor free men to sign their names to support the Blue interest, is ~f opinion that the trades and other electors should again make a grand and simultaneous eff,rt for the perfect esta blishment of their independence ; and this meeting re spectfully calls upon all to do their duty at the ensuing election, as the only means of securing that independence ;a future, by obtaining the vote by ballot !" Signed on behalf of the meeting, JOHN OSMOND, Chairman. RAILROAD from LONDON to GREENWICH. The time is now arrived when the vast powers of steam are beginning to be applied through locomotive engines to the propelling of land carriages, thus affording a most ex peditious and most delightful mode of transit between one place and another, and realizing, in no faint degree, the tales of the East, where they relate that those who desired to be at a distant place, without loss of time on the journey, had only to form the wish, and it was immediately grati fied. This rapidity of travelling will, in fact, diminish the distance of places from each other, and thus bring those into intimate communion between whom there formerly existed but little intercourse. A hundred miles seems now a most formidable dis tance to travel, and numbers who would like to visit a friend or transact business are compelled to forego the pleasure and advantage on account of the expense, waste of time, and fatigue of so long a journey ; but when this immense distance can be traversed in five or six hours, and at a much lower charge upon a railroad, it is obvious that great numbers who now remain at home will avail themselves of so expe litiou., cheap, and delightful a mode of conveyance. And here it may be remarked, in order to quiet the minds of the timid, that no danger can pos sibly happen to the passengers in carriages drawn by lo comotive steam engines, as the latter always run at such a distance in front of the former, that the explosion of the latter (a circumstance very unlikely to happen) would not at all endanger them, nor will they be annoyed by smoke or dust, or exposure to the weather. We are not left on the ocean of conjecture in regard to the utility of conveyances drawn by locomotive engines— for there is the Liverpool and Manchester railroad which establishes this point in a way the most satisfactory of all, viz. by the reduction of theory to practice : and with this example before us, of the practicability and success of these undertakings, we shall rejoice to behold the com pletion of a splendid railway now intended to be constructed between London and that most attractive and populous town, Greenwich ; which will commence at the foot of London-bridge, and terminate near Thornton Inn, Green wich. It will consist of a series of arches forming one continued bridge of a most light and elegant character; so that besides the utility of the work, it will deserve to be ranked amongst the greatest ornaments of the metro polis. The sum of 400,0001. will be expended on the un dertaking, principally in the employment of workmen, and thus afford great assistance to those persons who have been lately discharged from the Dock-yard at Deptford, and considerably decrease the present heavy charge made for poor-rates. The philanthropist will rejoice to find that the substitution of steam-power will prevent the nu merous acts of cruelty now exercised upon horses attached to omnibusses and other heavy modes of conveyance; and we are extremely gratified to find that this railroad will carry into effect the wish that has been so long expressed of restricting the navigation of the Thames by steam vessels above Deptford, and thus prevent numerous acci dents, and loss of lives. To make room for this magnificent construction, several confined and wretched clusters of lanes and alleys (dens- ly inhabited by the poorest and most distressed classes, ne cessarily generating the worst description of atmosphere,) will be removed, which all wilt acknowledge to be highly desirable, and necessary toahe salubrity of this part of the metropolis. Upon the railroad the journey, including stoppages, will not consume more than twelve minutes, and the fare will not amount to above half of what is at present paid. M. ZEA BERMUDEZ, • the Spanish A mhas s 'dor in London, whose return to Madrid we announced some days ago, was formerly a merchant, and afterwards Spanish Consul at St. Petersburgh, where his merits pro cured him promotion in the diplomatic career, and seem to have now advanced him to the highest honours, lie married a Spanish lady, but has no family by her. Commercial letters by the .Flanders mail, re ceived yesterday morning, state the Leipsic Michaelmas fair to have opened very splendidly. A great number of purchasers from Poland, Russia, Greece, and Armenia, had arrived; and amongst other things, the demand for furs was vary brisk. LITERATURE. THE POETIC NEGLIGEE. BY CALEB. LONDON, 1832. Poetry, like puns, should be either very good or very bad ; either so good as to electrify you with admiration, or so bad as to half kill you with laughter. It is the great boast of " Caleb," who pleads guilty to the volume before us, that his verse is of the latter order. There is nothing of mediocrity about it ; it possesses the rare merit of superlative absurdity. The volume, however, comes recommended by the charms of a most captivating exterior, rose-coloured paper with gilt edges, and topography, without drawback or blemish. Alas, that the outer Adam should so far exceed the inner,—that the one should be merely, as it were, a masque to conceal the de fects of the other ! " Caleb" will never make a poet; of this he may rest assured. He may, indeed, in process of time, by dint of hard study, and the frequent use of his ten fingers, come to grind verses with tolerable facility, but he will never turn up the rich ore of poetry, for he is totally deficient in what Wordsworth so aptly terms" the vision and the faculty divine." We like him best where he affects to be facetious his sentimental flights are irresistibly ludicrous, as if a tom-tit should attempt to sing like a nightingale. One of his most elaborate effusions, on which it is manifest he piques himself, is de scribed with suitable pomp of detail, as having been written " the morning after waltzing with Agnes." It opens in this sonorous style,— " But yesternight I lovely Agnes met At crowded ball, and by her side I sat; Conversed of trifles! 'till I dancing named (For which my Agnes is so justly famed,) When music breathing, we the conch forsook, And quick our places 'midst the waltzers took." " Caleb"—the name forcibly reminds us of our old acquaintance in the farce, " Caleb Quo tem,"—goes on to invoke, not the Muse, but " glowing language," while he paints all the charms of Agnes, in the exercise of which duty he says, " As through the labyrinth of this dance divine We glide, our limbs each other's close entwine, And like the tendril in its fond caress As mutual stay, my knee to hers I press." What, kiss and tell? Fie, fie, Caleb ? What will " Agnes" say when she finds that you have told a " discerning public " that you have pressed your knees to hers, and instituted a close inter course of limbs ? Do you think she will ever waltz with you again, man ? Never ! Having finished his first preliminary movement, Caleb and his Agnes plunge at once into the more subtle mysteries of the waltz, in the progress of which Agnes treads on Caleb's corns, or as he more poetically and pleonastically expresses it, " Thro' oft-told circles we enraptured wind, Yet true to skill, her foot on mine 'find." He then (the waltz concluded) bethinks him of his duty, " Whilst my fond duty is to swiftly bear Her, half recumbent, thro' the perfumed air." Of the " perfumed air" of a crowded draw ing room, with the thermometer at blood-heat, we say nothing, but the " half recumbent," had we the faculty of blushing left, would assuredly crimson our cheeks. Caleb, however, who is evidently a bit of a Don Juan, thinks nothing of it, for he assures us, a few lines afterwards, that he is " the aptest pupil in this school of love." Indeed, in his very next poem, which lie entitles the " Rejected," he tells us, " My love, like her that gave it birth, Has not its likeness upon earth ; I love not, 0, I cannot love As other beings do. Mine is the soul's idolatry As fierce as it is true." Touching confession ! And yet the man who writes thus sweetly and plaintively, who loves after a fashion of his own, in noble disdain of all the acknowledged laws of sentiment, who confesses that lie is a great original in the school of Cupid,—this man has been rejected ! But he has one consolation left, he tells us, which is the " grave ;" though notwithstanding his wounded sensibilities he can scarcely make up his mind to this last awkward alternative, for " o heaven, 'tis hard to die, To perish—for one's constancy." " Uncommon hard," as Ensign Northerton phrases it ; wherefore, if Caleb will take our advice, he will at once cut and run from the " fair she," who has so unceremoniously jilted him, and look out for some more charitable mis tress. But Caleb, we suspect, deserves his fate, for according to his own showing, be has been a sad dog with the women. Thus in a dark " Lusitanian grove" he tells us— " I sweetly slaked my raging thirst, With luscious draughts of love." At Cintra too— " From red and roscid lips I quaffed The kiss of deep delight." In Spain— " Her fondest ones I met, And felt the flash that lightens from Their eyes of molten jet." But Caleb's intrigues were not confined to Christendom, he actually invaded a Moslem seraglio: " And oh, while memory lives, I'll dream, At least, of one dark flower That bloom'd for me, and me alone, Within its Moorish bower." This " flower," it seems, was African ; a " Hottentot Venus" probably, whose dusky charins palling upon her seducer, lie quitted her for the more voluptuous dames of India. " I pilgrimed," quoth he— " Where the burning sun Of distant Indus shines, And told my beads of passion there At bright and living shrines." From India he started off on an amorous ex pedition to Italy : " In fair Italia's mellow clime, The clime of soft desire, Like to its own impassion'd mount, I burned with hidden fire." In short, says Caleb— " In every soft and sunny smile, Where beauty builds her nest, And fervent man delights to make His heaven, sweet woman's breast ; I've dwelt awhile and banquetted On lover's dainty fare." Were it not an acknowledged truism that poets succeed better in fiction than in truth, we should consider Caleb as a " lady•killer" far too dan gerous and sweeping in his passions to be safely let loose in a metropolis like this, which abounds such provocatives to an amorous appetite. But Caleb is not only a seducer, he is also a war , of the first water. Hear the funny dog's witticisms on the " Siamese Twins!" " Fraternal clingings in our land At best are but unstable, But ye, 'tis pleasing to behold, Are quite inseparable." The poem of (( Wimbledon" is wholly of a pathetic, retrospective character. Caleb, it appears, had not visited it since the days of his unbewhiskered juvenility, when his " Boyish fancy oft would paint Each girl sincere, each man a saint," consequently he is much struck with the al terations that have taken place, which he is of opinion are far from being improvements.—His lines on the death of the Queen of the Sandwich Islands are remarkable for their deep melancholy. It is impossible for any reader, endowed with an average proportion of pathos, to peruse the following stanza without weeping : " Land of Sandwiches attend To the tristful and the true, For I've grisly news to send Of Queen Tamehanialu. Alas ! she is gone dead, And the spear no longer wields, But now rests her regal head, In Saint Martin's-in-the-fields !" The closing touch about St. Martin's-in-the- Fields is irresistible. It combines sentiment with topography in the happiest style imaginable. Turn we now to Caleb's prose, which he pours forth, in the shape of notes, at the nether-end of his volume. This, we fearlessly contend, is equal in originality to his poetry. En voici. The author is rhapsodizing on his favourite subject of woman : " From the cradle to the grave, woman is the fond and en dearing comforter of man. Through the gentle gradations of mother, sweetheart, and wife, she ministers to his weal and enjoyment. Firstly, she is the parent rose that buds him into being, and hovers round his giddy boyhoood ; secondly, she is lapped in his youthful heart-strings in all the pride and bloom of puberty ; and, thirdly, she fills up the measure of his bliss by becoming the partner of his bosom, and dulcifying his riper years ; while, as the closing virtue of her adorable sex, she cheers and solaces him in the wintry downhill of life. If, then, such a lovely anti estimable creature be taught by any religion (or rather libel on religion) to consider celibacy as a holy state, or a pious abstinence, finding propitiousness at the porch of Heaven, I fearlessly maintain that her reason and na ture have been most hellishly perverted, and that if one pu nishment more terrible than another be reserved for the tor tures of the damned, that refinement of agony awaits the guilty souls of the foul and unnatural instructors. But the idea is in itself too monstrous and wicked to be patiently entertained, and shivering the parology to nought, with the divine command of "increase and multiply." We suppose it is in consequence of Caleb's virtuous horror of celibacy, that he sat out on that amorous crusade through the four quarters of the globe, of which we have before made the ho nourable mention it deserves. Let not, however, Caleb be too practical in his hatred to celibacy, and his obedience to the divine command of " increase and multiply," or haply the parish officers may be after him with an order of affi!i ation—an awkward catastrophe For a young man of a sentimental and romantic turn of mind. But we must here break off. To be serious, then, " the Poetic Negligee" is sad trash, full of pert flippancy, and mawkish attempts at senti ment. Its poetry is worse than anything we know of, except its prose. We will not be positive, but we are not without our suspicions, that its author is a tailor, for he makes repeated reference to " measu res," and other such phrases, symp tomatic of the craft. If so, we conjure him, as his best friend, to lay aside his pen, and stick to his shop-board. It is far easier to make a coat than a poem. Poeta nascitur, non fit ; which is, being interpreted,—Caleb will never manufacture a poem ft for public perusal. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA. No. XXXV. LONDON. 1832. This number forms a continuation of the History of Spain and Portugal, of which three volumes have already been published. The best and most animated portions are decidedly those which have reference to Spain under the dynasty of the Mahomedans. But this, perhaps, be cause the subject is so pre-eminently interesting. NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. The embellishments are the best portions of this work, not that we condemn the various sporting communications as bad, but that we consider the engravings as first-rate—of their class. The dim, glazed, closing eye of the " wounded mallard," and the convulsed position of its legs, are as true to life as any thing we have seen of late. " Grouse shooting in Norway and Sweden," is a pleasant sketchy bit of de. scription. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Joseph Lloyd, a young man, 19 years of age, was charged with attempting to defraud Messrs. Coutts and Co, by presenting a cheque dated upwards of nine years ago, for which they had no funds. One of the cash iers of the firm stated, that this morn ing the prisoner come into the bank, and presented a cheque, purporting to be drawn by a Mr. J. Haley, and dated in the year 1823. This excited his suspicion, and on looking over the hooks, he did not find that they had had a customer during the nine years who spelt his name in the same way. lie therefore called a policeman, and gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner, when asked what he hail to say, stated that he was a hair-dresser, at No. 28, Bell-street, Edg ware-road ; that a customer of his, whom he had known for four months, came into his shop this morning and showed him the cheque, stating that he had found it, that he did not like himself to go for the money, and he would feel greatly obliged to him (the prisoner) if he would do him that favour. To oblige a customer, he said he would, and away he came, accompanied by the person from whom he got the cheque. He stopped outside of the door while he went into the bank, and he supposed when he saw the policeman go in, he ran away. Sir F. Rox asked the name of that person. The prisoner could not tell ; he had never known his name, and merely saluted him when he came into his shop by. saying " Good morning, Sir." He knew nothing more of him then as a customer, who came to have his hair dressed. The prisoner said he only fold the truth, and it was rather awkward for him, as he was to be married on Sunday. Sir F. ROE doubted whether it would be the first Sun day. He must remand him. The prisoner begged that a young man who was in his shop at the time be got the cheque might be sent for, and he wauld confirm his statement. Tne policeman went for him, and on his return the pri soner was again to be brought up. FRANKFORT, OCT. 3.—Lord DURHAM arrived in this city on Monday, when he had a long in terview with Count MuNcia BELLINUHAUSEN, the Presi dent of the Diet, at whiclt, no d ou b t , t h e f uture po li cy of the Reformed Parliament was explained to this absolute chieftain. It is asserted as positive, th a t i n Consequence o f re p re sentations of this British Minister at Berlin, one of the violent Members at the head of one of the Committees has been changed for a moderate one, but this partial al. teration can effect no good, as ev ery di p l omat i c agent i s, and must be , subservient to the Austrian President and his fellow machinator, the Prussian Minister NAGLEX. The differences between the republics of New Grenada and the Ecuador were not adjusted at the date of the last intelligence from the latter State, but it was ex pected that a treaty would soon be signed by the Commis sioners appointed to negotiate an arrangement. The new Constitution of Colombia had been published in the Isth mus of p a „„ goa , where it is stated to have been received with great enthusiasm by the inhabitants. Much alarm prevailed at Bogota in consequence of reports of the break ing out of the cholera morbus, but, according to the latest number of the New Granada Gazette, no account of the disease having appeared in any part of the country had been received. ~~~ COURT CIRCULAR. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the LORD CHAN CELLOR, Earl GREY, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord DURHAM, Viscount MELBOURNE, ViSC , IIIH PALMERSTON, VISCOIIIIt GODERICH, Viscount ALTHORP, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Mr. STANLEY. Lord HOLLAND was prevented from attending the meet ing by indisposition. The Ministers remained in deliberation about three hours and a half. After the breaking up of the Cabinet Council, M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, visited Viscount PAL MERSTON at the Foreign-office. Lord DURHAM arrived in town yesterday from his mis sion to Russia; his Lordship had interviews with Earl GREY at the Treasury, and Viscount PALMERSTON at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Earl of MULORAVE, the Governor of Jamaica, were yesterday received at the Colonial-office. The Dutch Minister visited Earl GREY yesterday. Arrivals.—The LORD CHANCELLOR, from his seat in Westmoreland; the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, from Bowood, Wilts ; and the Right Hon. E. G. STANLEY, from Dublin. The Princess AUGUSTA has engaged stables at AlataExs', from the 10th of November until the begin ning of March.—Brighton Gazette. Lord FREDERICK and Lady AUGUSTA Fn ZCLARENCE are daily expected iu town, from Hanover, where his Lordship has been on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE. Lord FREDERICK took Hanover in his way from Berlin, where the splendid autumnal Prussian reviews have just taken place. During his Lord ship's sojourn at the Prussian capital he was introduced to many of the principal Sovereign Princes of Germany ; among whom were the reigning Landgrave of HESSE HOMBERO, the Hereditary Grand Duke of MECKLICHBURG SCHWERIN, the Duke of SAxir-Cosueo, and Princes FREDERICK, WILLIAM, and CHARLES of Prussia, &c. Lord DURHAM arrived at his residence in Cleveland-row, St. James's, at noon yesterday. His Lordship's arrival was somewhat unexpected, as orders had been only given to prepare his mansion, for the reception of the family, by Tuesday next. It was expected, that his Lordship would have passed a few days with King LEOPOLD, with whom his Lordship has been so long on terms of the closest intimacy. Rut of the domestic establishment of Prince TALLEYRAND arrived in town yesterday. His Excel lency is daily expected to arrive in town. The Duke and Duchess de GUICHE, family, and suite left the residence of Viscountess COMBERMERE, in Hereford-street, Park-lane, on Wednesday evening, to embark on board the steam-packet for Hamburg, on their route to join the ex-Royal family of France at Gratz. The Duke and Duchess, on their way to town, from Lord TANKERVILLE'S seat at Chillingham, stopped a few days at Leamington, in Warwickshire. Apartments were taken for the distinguished exile at GRILLON'S Hotel, in Caarles-street, Grosvenor-square, whither some of their suite arrived on the 2d instant; but Lady COMBERMERE having invited them to stay at her mansion in Hereford street during their brief sojourn in the metropolis, the Duke and Duchess did net go to any hotel. The Duchess de GUICHE is a lady of eminent personal charms, and sist r to Cou.►t ALFRED D'ORSAY, who is married to Lady HARRIET GARDINER, eldest daughter of the late Earl of BLESSINGTOIi. The Duke was formerly a Captain in the English service, and served in the 10th Hussars. Mr. CHAS. SCOTT, son of the late illustrious Sir WALTER Scow, is not, as has been stated, on some diplomatic mission, having attended the funeral solemni ties of his gifted parent of Abbotsford. Mr. SCOTT is a junior clerk in the Foreign Office, which appointment was obtained for him during the Foreign Secretaryship of the Earl of ABERDEEN, shortly after he quitted the University of Oxford. The clerks in the Foreign Office are generally young men of "station," in training for diplomatic em ployments in expectancy. The stone work on each side of the grand en trance from St. James's Park up the steps to Waterloo-place is now completed. The lodge, gales, and old brick wall, by the side of Carlton stables, are taken down, and workmen are employed in erecting a handsome wall in their places. The pillar, for the statue of the Duke of YORK, to be placed fronting Waterloo place, will be shortly finished. A meeting of the inhabitants of St. Martin's in-the-Fields was held, last night, at the British Coffee house, Cockspur-street, at which a vote of censure was passed on the Churchwardens and Overseers, (or making a rate of two shillings in the pound on the inhabitants, by order of the Select Vestry, there being a previous rate of one shilling in the pound, agreed upon by a vote of the open vestry. A company has been formed in Brussels under the name of the Societe Anonyme, for the purpose of working the canals with iron steam-boat.. It is coin posed of the principal merchants and bankers, and there seems little doubt of its success. The Belgians are very curious to see the first boat, which is now building at Manchester by Messrs.FAtanuaN and LILLIE. TLe KING has interested himself in the prosperity of the Association. —Morning Herald. Mr. PINNEY, the Mayor of Bristol at the time of the riots, and against whom proceedings have been instituted in consequence, terminated his official duties last week. The trial, which, as has been already stated, is fixed for the 26th inst., will be at bar, at which the Lord Chief Justice and three other Judges will preside, and the Jury will be from Berkshire. Subpoenas have been served by the Solicitor for the Treasury upon upwards of 50 in dividuals who gave testimony before the Committee of In quiry at Bristol. A very stormy meeting of the ley payers was held at Manchester a few days ago, when a proposition was made for reducing the salary of LAVENDER, the chief con stable of that town, from 5201. per annum, with house, taxes, coals, candles, &c. to 4001. The chief argument in favour of the motion was, that in these difficult times Si. per week was quite sufficient for a constable ; and it was also stated that Mr. THOMAS, the active superintendent of the Metropolitan police, had offerel to perform the du ties of the office for 300/. An amendment was moved to the effect that LAVENDER'S future salary should be 6001., without house or perquisites, but on a show of hands the original motion was carried. A poll, however, was demanded, which turned the scale in favour of LAVENDIR, the amendment for 6001. having been adopted by a con siderable majority. During the last harvest a reaper employed in a field at West Monkton by accident severed the head from a hen partridge that was then found to be closely sitting upon 19 eggs. These the owner of the field gathered into his pocket handkerchief, and having carried them home, a distance of a mile from the spot, he placed them under a brooding hen; the next day the whole of the 19 eggs were batched, and 17 of the number obtained their full feather. —Taunton Courier. AMERICAN RECIPE FOR RHEUMATISM. —Take, of garlic two cloves; of gum ammoniac one drachm blend them by bruising together, make them into two or three boluses with water, and swallow them one at night and one in the morning; drink, while taking this recipe, sassafras tea made very strong, so as to have the tea-pot filled with chips. This is generally found to banish the rheumatism, and cure contractions of the joints in a few times taking. It is very famous in America, and a large sum has been given for the recipe.—Doetor. MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL.—On Thurs day a General Court-martial assembled at Chatham, for the trial of Captain H., B. BURCHELL, of the 3d Buffs, on charges preferred by Assistant-Surgeon WHITMARSH, of his MAJESTY'S Dock -yard at Chatham, for conduct towards him unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Next day Captain BURCHELL entered on his defence, until the conclusion of which the Court object to the publication of its proceedings.—Rochester Paper. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER. —lnformation was yesterday given to the London police of a robbery committed on Saturday night, on the pre mises of Messrs. Jelin llowAnn and BROTHERS, Albion buildings, Tib-street, Manchester. Bills, notes and cash, to the amount of 623/. I Is. were stolen from the ware house. The robbery is supposed to have been effected by London thieve.. A reward of 501. has been offered for their apprehen•ion. Payment of the bills and notes has been stopped. GREAT FIRE IN HOLLAND.—On Saturday night, the 6th instant, the beautiful large church of St. Lieven Minster, at Zurickzee, with the pulpit and the magnificent organ, which was esteemed to be the best in the country after that of Haarlem, and, in short, every thing that the church contained, was destroyed by fire, so that only the bare walls remained. The fire began half an hour after midnight, and continued till a late hour on the following day. The inhabitants, and, above all, the sailors of the gun-boats stationed off the town, exerted themselves to save the houses, since to quench the tire in the church was impossible. Their efforts were crowned with success, for, though Oakes of fire fell on the bowies all around, and threatened half the town with desiruc , tion, not one house was burnt. This great disaster, by which the town of Zurickece is deprived of its greatest ornament, is ascribed to the same cause as the fire which destroyed the Lutheran church at Amsterdam some years ago—namely, the neelizence of the plumbers, who left a chaffing dish in one of the galleries. The last Turkey mail brings intelligence that the army of the Paella of Egypt was within a feu . , days' march of the Turkish capital, and no troops t o oppose their victorious career. A letter from Smyrna, dated September 5, states that they daily expected to learn of important events having occurred at Constantinople, to wards which city the Egyptians were rapidly advancing, and roust then have been within a few days' march, as they passed Koukia 20 days before, and had been joined by the people every where in their progress. The Go vernment at Constantinople was in a most critical state. The cholera had made its appearance at Constantinople ; the plague was on the decline. THE MAURITIUS.—AS we expected, the French opposition Journals have espoused the cause of the colonists at the Mauritius, and have made the late events in that quarter the ground-work of all sorts of reproaches against the English Government. The Messuger des Chambres says " In their situation the colonists have preferred—and every body must approve their determina tion—to incur the risks of a declaration of independence, pronounced with arms in their hands, to the chance of 'being massacred in their houses, or compelled to beg their bread in foreign lands. We repeat, that the interests of those Frenchmen who have commercial relations with the Isle of France, as well as the stipulations of the capi tulation of 1810, and the treaty of 1814, which gave the colony to England, make it the urgent duty of our Go.. vernment to remonstrate with the English Cabinet, and to demand justice in favour of our former compatriots." BANFF, OCT. 4.—Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, while the boats belonging to Whitehills were returning from the white fishing, the wind, which had been blowing rather bard during the previous night, in creased to a gale, when one o: ttie boats, with a crew of four men, upset, and three of them were unfortunately drowned. The bodies of the unfortunate men have not yet been found.—Edinburgh Observer. Friday morning the attention of several per sow on the Marine Parade was attracted by something which they perceived floating out at sea, and which greatly resembled the body of a man. Several spectators as , embled . ' on the beach at the bottom of Bedford-street, waking till it should be wa,hed ashore ; and on its nearer approach' their doubts were all cleared up, for on pulling it out of the water it proved to be a human body, but without arms, and covered only with a shirt and stockings, and lashed with ropes round the neck and chest to a plank. The body was in such a state of decomposition that the head came off as the people were dragging it beyond the reach of the' waves; it was, however, snatched from the sea and placed with the trunk in a shed on the Marine-will. An inquest was held the same evening, and a verdict of " Found drowned" reurnsd.—Brighton Guardian. DREADFUL A cc IDENT.—Yesterday, between one and two o'clock, a widow lady of great respectability, named HOUGHTON, residing in Frith-street, Soho, waif crossing Welbeck street, Cavendish-square, when she wag knocked down and run over by a horse and gig, which had started off from Princes-street, Oxfor,l-street, where it had been left standing without any one to mind it. Mrs. HOUGHTON was desperately injured, having one of her legs broken, and also the left side of her head severely bruised and lacerated. SUICIDE OF A SOLDlER.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Gun Tavern, Woolwich, on the body of JOHN FINDLEY, a private in the Royal Artillery stationed at Woolwich. On Tuesday morning he got UP as usual at four o'clock ; but be complained to a comrade that he had been bad all night. An hour or two after wards JOHN SCOTT, a servant to Colonel JONES, having occa‘iou to go into the cow-house of the barracks, found the deceased lying on the straw. He said to Scow, t , I have cut my throat," at the same time pointing to a dreadful wound. Medical assistance was procured, but the de ceased (lied in a short time, the windpipe having been cur , completely through. The deceased h o d b een i n t h e re gi• ment upwards of twenty years ; but he had lately given himself up to drinking, which is supposed to have turned his head.—Verdict, Temporary Insanity. SHOCKING ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.--* Yesterday morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a young gentleman, named JosEns Low, residing at No. I, Rolls buildings, threw himself out of a twopair of stairs back' window, and fell on the iron-railings below with such violence as to break two of the bars in pieces. He vsto taken up a most dreadful spectacle, having fallen upon his head and stomach in such a manner as to inflict the mee t, frightful injuries on those parts. He was immediate!, conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and though 10 , ; hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery, he Was r collected enough in the evening to recognize his friends , and to state that he was quite unconscious of the motive for the rash act. The young gentleman was a remarkably fine young man, and had only been a few days from the Isle of Wight, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. His connexions are very respectable, and he had just competed his 20th year.—On the same morning( about 4 o'clock, a female, named FLETCHER, residing l° Great New-street, who has for some time been labouring under partial insanity, attempted to drown herself a t Blackfriara-bridge. She was prevented, and taken home , when, watching the opportunity of her husband falling asleep, she got out of bed and jumped out of the windovi• The unfortunate woman was conveyed to the workhous e in a most dreadful condition, but it is not expected the injury will terminate fatally. DREADFUL SUICIDE.—On Tuesday morn' inz, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the inhabitants of St. Pe" ter's-place and St. Peter's-terrace, between Hammersmit h and Turnham-green, were greatly alarmed by the een i . ; mission of an act of suicide of a d es p erate ki n d . A verY well-known liquor-shop, No. 45, in the Strand, had bee ° kept for many years by a respectable licensed victualler', named WINFIELD. Mr. WINFIELD died about II moot" ago, and his widow afterwards disposed of the businesi-*" NIG JOSEPH FOWLER, who, during the latter years of Mr' WINFIELD'S life, had the sole management of the business, accompanied the widow in her retirement, and repo rt states that they were privately married about two moutr. ago. On Sunday evening last Mrs. W INFIELD Went '''' bed at an early hour, apparently in good health, and the next morning was found a c or p se . Wh et h er h er death was natural, or occasioned by a su i c id a l act, w ill pro bah , v be ascertained before th e C oroner ' s J ury. D ur i n g the whole of Monday and T ues d ay M r. FowLEa. was in .; dietres ing state of mind, an d i n an d out of t h e h ou se least 20 times a day, each time drinking spirits or Win e ' at the Cross Keys, a tavern dose by. On Wedneedal f morning he went into the Cross Keys, an d h a d a glass wine, and said to Mr. BRAY, the landlord, " This dreade ful business has destroyed me—l shall not live three hour: longer." About half an hour afterwards, as Mr. BO was passing the door of No. 3, St. Peter's-terrace, whey. the deceased lived, he heard th e r e po r t o f a pistol in thol bed i corps e, house, and ran immediately t o th e d oor . He was tidal t 60 ted h a t w ith ted, and went up t o M r . F OWLER ' S room , the dO r i b e which was fastened. He burst it open, a n d f oun d tthat h unfortunate s te deceased ma ha dn on in his hand. A surgeo n was sent for, when it apPet, act in aa large most mined manner. He had placed the muzzle of the Pj under the left breast, and the bullet from it pas ' through through the h eart , out at the b ack, and through the ue-he . hoard of th e b e d s t ea d, l o d g i ng a b out an i nc h d eep in '- wall! A Coro ner ' s i nquest w ill b e h o ld en b y M r . SO LING upon the bodies this day, at the Cross Keys. DANGEROUS STATE OF THE H O USE, I , t s HUNGERFORD MARKET.—Yesterday evening, betoiri, six a n d seven o'clock, the inhabitants of Hungerford O i s e p ket and vicinity were dreadfully alarmed by the sudu. de giving way of several houses situated on the wester" ar o t of the new building. The first intimation of the e ve on was the falling of tiles from the roof of the Clit r , public-house in front of Dirty. l a ne, which was soon a ft-of wards followed by the crashing of timber, and tuinbligthe bricks and other materials from the adjoining houses' t ot inhabitants of which came running out in the ut ril consternation. As soon as the alarm had in some deg, o , sub,ided, they proceeded with th e aid o f th e Police to:4 certain the real extent of the danger, when on exao o o s the back wall of the public-house above named, rt per found extensively cracked, and hanging over DirtY t o in such a manner as to threaten immediate d es tructi° l : t o passeigers ; a constable was immediately placed & f lier prevent persons from passing. Considerable aPP re a ble ions pr e v a il e d for the safety o f a num ber of va' u ho t horses in some stabling contiguous, and no time $O B O , O in removing them to a place of more security. I t o y discovered that several other buildings had also giveniliv .n such a manner as to render them unsafe. It w hilt remembered, that a few mouths back, the rear of the s t he and Shovel public Arouse, near this spot, fell down 1 1 night, in consequence of not being properly sho re, 9t whereby one man lost his life, and another was m o ot ; verely injured, and the recollection of this event .tich 11 " fresh in the memory of the inhabitants, has added 10, to the fears and apprehensions upon the present ocoast°