The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-02 00:00:00

FINE ARTS. ENGRAVINGS FROM TILE WORKS OF H. LIVERSE GE. The name of Liversege is one that deserves to be held in respectful remembrance by all lovers o f th e fi ne ar t s . He was a painter of high promise, but who was cut off prematurely, ere yet the bud had time to expand into the flower. Three engravings from some of his most ad mired pictures are just now lying before us. We have not had the good luck to see the orginals from which they were taken ; but the concep tion (which the engravings of course preserve) convinces us they must be of a high order of genius. The " Weekly Register" is most to our taste, for it is fullest of truth and character. A political cobbler, of a shrewd, sly, determined cast of countenance, is busy poring, with spec tacles on nose, over a number of Cobbett's Re gister. It is plain the perusal is a matter of steady, serious duty, which he would as soon think of neglecting as his daily meal. The atti tude of the man is capital, and the tokens of the craft, by which he is surrounded, in excellent keeping. " Captain Macheath" is spirited, but with too much the air of an Italian bravo about it. Gay's Macheath was, as Polly called him, " a fine gentleman,"and not a " sallow, sublime, sort of Werter-faced man." The " Inquiry" is good, but does not tell the story with sufficient point and distinctness. All three engravings are entitled to considerable praise. LITERATURE. CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY, N 0.76. Lo.vDo.y, 1832. Captain Brown's interesting details of the natural history of butterflies, moths, and sphinxes, are brought to a close in this number. We may say of it, what we said of its predecessor, that it is an instructive volume, and its author a man fond of minute, curious research, or he could scarcely have produced so elaborate a volume. The embellishments are numerous, and of the usual average in point of talent. OUR VILLA GE—FIFTH SERIES. LoNno.v, 1832. We have so often, and in terms of deserved praise, noticed this work—incomparably Miss Mitford's best, and that by which she will be longest remembered—that we shall here content ou►selves with saying, that the present volume, which brings it to a close, is cleverish and agreeable, though far inferior to the first and se cond series. There is more effort, and wire drawing, and writing, for the sake of filling up space, about it. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. We remember the time when the Westmin ster Review used, even by men not without thought, to be considered too heavy to be gone through. The Westminster Review, No. 34, is much the same as the Westminster Review of some six or ten years back, but a change has been wrought in men's minds which renders sub jects that were always important, interesting to all who have really the welfare of their country at heart. Men will now read the article of M'Culloch's edition of Adam Smith, who not very long since would have skipped it for that on Earle's Residence in New Zealand, and co gitate upon it, not as an abstract proposition, but as what it really is—a sketch of principles on which it will be shortly proposed to base our trade. Thank God that it is so, for all that is wanted to bring all not blinded by the most miserable, contracted notions of self interest, to an advocacy of the truth, is to know it. The review of M'Culloch's edition of Adam Smith is really a review, and is not made a simple peg whereon the reviewer may hang a dissertation of his own. It will, therefore, be eminently useful to the readers of M'Cullloch, as a clear exposition of the errors into which he has undoubtedly fallen, much to the damage of the good cause. The article on the " American Penal Law," and that on the " Tactics of a Reformed House of Commons,'' will, at the present time, prove highly interest ing. The latter, in particular, is worthy the at tention of all who have influence in the election of Members of Parliament. It points attention to a subject we have more than once touched upon, viz. the faulty arrangement of the busine-s of the House, and how impossible it is that, under the present system, the greatest exertions of the best reformers can meet with an adequate reward. The reviewer appears to sanction the proposition for dividing the House into ten committees, each to take a particular depart ment of public business ; all to sit at the same time. No doubt this would occasion a greater display of activity, but we doubt whether the work would be got through satisfactorily to the public. The author of the suggestion and the reviewer are mistaken if they imagine that the public could become acquainted with a quarter of what would be said or done in these committees, or that the Papers could ever have any representatives in them to watch their pro ceedings. A modification of this suggestion might be usefully adopted, but it must be accom panied by the only step by which the proceedings of Parliament can be secured, publicity, as well as proper consideration, we mean the prolonga tion of its term of sitting. Parliament sits from three to five months : it did that thirty, forty, and fifty years back, and it ha only.been enabled to get through its vastly accumulated business by sitting to a later hour at night, and passing most important measures at I or 2 o'clock in the morning. 'Why not at once resolve to sit for six months in the year? Our Courts ofindicature, as their business has increased upon them, have sat longer and longer, till, perhaps, they have only to as much of vacation as they ought have, but so has not acted our Legislature. The review of Sarran's Lafayette gives rise to some excel lent observations on the causes of the dis satisfaction of the French with Louie Philippe. We so entirely agree in theta that we shall,close our notice of this Number by maiciug an extract from them. " Under Charles X. it is tree there was not a fragment of coo idence in the Government ; but at the same time there was no dread of it, because everybody was persuaded -of its impotence to do mischief. Everybody bad the co7l victim, that if it bad recourse to any desperate etperi ments, It would be easily upset. A revolution was looked forward to without alarm, because in overturning the ex isting dynasty there seemed to be no necessity for changing the nature of the public institutions. All the mischief complained of, appeared to arise nut of the single fact of a family being found upon the throne that had been seated there by the act of foreign enemies. It was natural, there fore, to suppose, that if for the dynasty imposed by fo reign conquest there could be substituted a family which had not distinguished itself by animosity against the prin ciples of the revolution, and thus the Constitutio❑ could be rid of the defect that stared everybody in the face, there would he little more to wish. And though nobody thought of trusting for any part of the consequences to the good intentions either of the Prince that was to be or of hi. agents, people fancied they saw a certain sort of security from another quarter ;—they thought they were strong enough to hinder him from making a fool of himself. "Under the elder branch of the Bourbons, nobody ex pected the reigning family to display any particular energy against the Governments which had reseated it upon the throne. People knew that the feelings of patriotism and ❑ational rights had no extraordinary influence over them, and that the honour of the country was not the strongest mover of their actions. But it was fel:, on the other side, that there was a certain degree of strength in the ideas of legitimacy and pride of ancestry. If the reigning family was not to the French people a pledge of power, it to a certain extent was one of peace, and gave a feeling of security against the operations of foreign Governments. Nobody felt any apprehension of a coalition among Kings, to overturn the throne and partition France. Conse quently, in a commercial view, the efforts of industry were not suspended by the constant expectation of a general war. " The periodical press, it is true, had often been inter fered with ; but public opinion had always ended by get ting the better of the government. Under the adminis tration of Polignac, the imposition of a censorship was felt to be impracticable by the road of legislative measures; and nobody thought the government foolish enough to have recourse to any others. It is true that the chat ges against the press were not sent for decision before a jury; but the courts of law had taken such an independent turn as made the absence of a jury little felt. The security for justice was therefore practically not deficient. "The July Ordonn inces, it must be allowed, were meant to destroy this crate of things, and would have produced weighty mischief; but as the mischief has not been under gone, it can only be judged of by conjecture. And it is not intended to enter into a comparison between the evils which France escaped by the revolution of July and those she has incurred by its results ; but only to explain why under the reign of Louis Philippe the mass of the popu lation is in a state of more uneasiness, and suffers more from apprehension, than in the latter years of Charles X. And above all the object is to examine whether the actual discontents are substantial and fixed, or hold only of the changeable humour of the people, and as such may be ex pected pass away. " The result of the July revolution was not to obtain the liberty of the press, hut to defend it ; and consequently, on this head, it added nothing to what France possessed before. The principal use of a free press consists in in forming the executive power of the state of general feeling, and forcing it to march in the track of the public interest. When, therefore, a nation has the misfortune to be under a government which makes no account of public opinion, the press can do nothing but irritate the public mind. It is continually laying before it the extent of the mischief, and the hostile intentions of the government ; but it can not abstractedly afford the cure fur any of the evil. " Now the fact is that Louis Philippe and his govern ment make no more account of the remonstrances and com plaints of the public as exhibited through the channel of the press, than Charles X. and his Polignac administration did. The new king seems only to have acknowledged the tight of private individuals to utter their opinions on the measures of his government, on condition that on his side he shall govern as lie pleases. His claim is, that he has as good a right to be free in his actions, as the writers have to be free in their comments; and it never enters into his head, that the object of the liberty of the press mty be to limit and correct the liberty of power. The consequence is, that he has instituted a greater number of proceedings against the press in the course of eighteen months, than his good cousins Louis XVIII. and Charles X. in the space of sixteen years. There is no reason, therefore, to be surprised, if the success of the French in preserving the privilege of publishing their opinions on political affairs, has not satisfied them at all points and , upon all subjects. " The other securities that were obtained or preserved by the revolution of July, were in the same manner net of a nature to afford to France any great increase of present happiness. It is undoubtedly a good thing for a nation to possess the trial by jury, and be protected against un just sentences for political offences. But when the holders of power multiply groundless accusations to a certain point, the assurance of having them brought before a jury is not a reason for being content with their proceedings. The mischief done or attempted, is all laid to the charge of the government ; but nobody puts the impartiality of the juries to the credit of its account, and particularly whi n the government has done all that was in its power to turn them from the right. " The raising of the National Guard, which was called for as the means of diminishing the number of the regular army, and lightening taxation, has ended in increasing the public expense, and producing no relief in any quarter. That the people were armed, organized, and commanded by officers of their own choosing, was in Louis Philippe's eyes only a source of fear the more ; and instead of look ing to them as a suppoi t for measures to be taken, he looked to the regular army for the means of setting them at defiance. He distributed his regul a- regiments through. out the country, with exact reference to the battalions of National Guards they were to hold in check. Paris, for example, during its existence never saw so many troops drawn round it, as since it has had eighty thousand Na tional Guards, commanded by their own officers, within its walls. The only consequence, therefore, of individuals putting themselves to expense and sacrifice to maintain a free system, has been to increase the expenses peculiar to a despotic Government. " The communes have obtained the power of appoint ing the members of the Municipal or Borough Councils, and in almost every instance they have made good use of the privilege. But the Government has retained the ap pointment of the mayors, who are the executive officers; and?almost every where its choice has fallen on the indivi duals least popular with the public. The consequence is, ' that in many of the communes, and particularly in the great towns, the influence of the authorities that ale chosen by the people is paralyzed by the officers of the Crown, and that to avoid collision, the best members of the Municipal Councils come to the resolution to resign." BRITISH MAGAZINE. The first article in this number is also the best, we mean the dissertation on the " Pre sent State of the Scottish Episcopal Church," which coHtains much that is sound and temperate in argument, and is to be continued in future numbers, There is no portion of this i\laga zine which calls for particular notice. The en graving is but so-so. JIONTIILY MAGAZINE. A very clever and entertaining number, whose articles are all of a seasonable character and fit ting length. The politics are liberal, but not too much 80, —not more than the temper of the times demands. The Articles on the " Spanish Succession," and on the " Lives of the Polish Heroes" are both of a useful and readable charac ter. We must confess we like this Magazine, for it has liveliness, without an atom of pedantry or assumption. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.. The political portion of the present number is that which most deserves praise. " The Ministry and the People " is a very energetic specimen of style 4nd reasoning, in which the Whigs are appealed to iu .4 manly, straight , forwai.d spirit, such as they cannot fail to under stand and appreciate. The duties of Reformers are also—though tho subject is a hacknied one—ably ;.nvestigatecl aid insisted on. " Blanche Rosa," an the name imports, is a tale of sentiment ; we eanntlot say we have read it with any particular extacy, tor it ir 10 of ga zelles, buibuk, white roses of Sharon, and such like common-place ,seigimentalities. " Jean Jacques Rousseau , " is a sad R ro.,,ing affair, and his system of ethics wholly ()tit of date ) a 0 un worthy of being brought back again on the me mory. " The Burial at Sea " is a pleasing, fanciful poem. MONTHLY REVIEW. There is a want of fire and energy about this staid old periodical, the foremost of a school long since passed away, which is scarcely counter. balanced by the good sense and judgment that invariably distinguish its critical notices. If it had as much spirit as it has various and useful information, it would be one of the best periodi cals of the day. The number now before us is neither above nor below par. R O YAL LADY'S MA GAZINE• A periodical which, though it cannot com pete either in its literary or pictorial department with the " Court Magazine," is yet of very re spectable average merit. Its chief fault is, that its columns are too exclusively devoted to tales, which have a strong family resemblance to each other. POLONIA. As this work is devoted to the best interests of humanity, by furthering the cause of constitu tional freedom in Poland, we shall never speak of it without respect. But, indeed, its literary merits deserve this at our hands, without any other considerations. It is a clever, well di gested work, containing much good prose and poetry. THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE. Mr. SERLE'S new tragedy, the House of Colberg, was brought out here last night. The plot is as follows Colberg (Mr. MacaEanv), a, Pomeranian nobleman, has an only daughter, Agnes Colberg (Miss Piftwes), whom he sends to the Court of the Sovereign Prince of Eisbach (Mr. Coopita), in order that she may represent in proper splendour the dignity of her father's house. To deck her out, the father has been obliged to mortgage the family estate to a Jew, Woorthmann (Mr. MATHEWS). The Prince of Eisbach falls in love with Agnes Colberg during her stay at his Court, and though he had often before felt something bordering on the passion, this is the first time that it will carry him so far as to propose matrimony. In the mean time, Count Colberg has a Captain of his archers, Frederick Rosen (Mr. STANLEY), who in some feud had saved the life of his lord and master, and the gratitude of the daughter, as usual, degenerates into love. All this is learnt in the first act. In the second is found the Prince of Eisbach on a visit to Colberg's mansion, to demand his daughter as his bride. Colberg is flattered at the demand, and promises his daughter, more par ticularly for this reason, that her mother was beloved by the Prince of Eisbach's father, and that he had generously given her up to him the Count of Colberg. When Colberg has made the promise, he calls for his daughter and tells her of it. She declares that she is in love with the Captain of his archers, Frederick Rosen ; but still, rather than break through the ties of filial duty, she will consent to accept the hand of the Prince. In another scene she goes to take farewell of Frederick Rosen, to ask his forgiveness, and permission to fulfil the pro mise she has made to her father of espousing the Prince. Frederick forgives and permits; but during the tenderness of their eternal adieu, the Prince arrives, and hears enough to con vince him that the love of Agnes for him must be second hand. An explanation, and a very sensible and prudent one, takes place, after which the Prince engages that the loving couple shall be married ; and through his instrumentality they are married by his chaplain. He then waits upon Colberg, and after some equivoque, tells him of the sacrifice he has made to his own feelings in giving up the lady, and linking her with another. llere comes the tragedy of the piece. Colberg draws his sword, taunts, and challenges the Prince, who, seeing that no third person is witness of the insult, puts up with it, and treats Col berg as if he were a madman, and below the notice of a ra tional being. The Prince retires, whereupon Colberg throws down his sword, rails at his rashness, reflects a moment, and then seizes his sword again, with which he hurries off the stage. While he is absent he slays his daughter's lover Frede rick Rosen. The last act opens with a banquet scene in honour of the Prince of Eisbach, who is about to depart from the Cas tle of Colberg, A number of persons have been invited, but having learned that Rosen died by the hands of Colberg, not one of them appear at the entertainment. Colberg, of course, expresses his surprise, and while so doing is interrupted by the Prince, who comes not to accept of the banquet, but to take his farewell- While this ceremony is taking place, a servant arrives, who announces to Colberg that his daughter has dis appeared from the Castle. He imagines her dead at first, but his Steward comes and says she lives. She is introduced, and her appearance makes the father instantly exclaim, " She's not dead ; but, oh God ! 'tis madness." In reality the death of her lover has made her mad, knowing as she does that her fa ttier was the cause of it. In her frenzy, she says, " I see the deep wound; he lifts his gory finger and points it there," pointing at her father. She then falls upon the stage, recovers for an instant from her madness, and then expires in the pre sence of her father. The piece terminates here. . _ It will be seen from this analysis that the plot has few or no pretensions to originality, being merely the thou sandth illustration of the old truism, that " the course of true love never did run smooth." Still it interests from its simplicity, and because, except in one or twc trivial incidents, it does not drag its weary length along, as was the case with the Merchant of London. The character of Agnes Colberg opened in a very promising manner, but did not improve as it grew upon us. Miss PHILLIPS did her best for the part ; and in her closing scene, where madness darkens over her intellects, was impressive in an eminent degree. We never saw any thing finer, never saw any thing that produced a more electrical effect on an audience, than the scene between her and her father, where she approaches close up to him, and where, struck to the soul with the sudden conviction that she is hopelessly mad, he exclaims, after gazing intently on her countenance, "Oh God, 'tis madness." The whole of this scene was in the truest but most painful spirit of tragedy; the alter nations of hate—remorse—pride—hope—and final despair, as they chased one another, like clouds, over the brain of Col berg, were powerfully pourtrayed, without the slightest at tempt toexaggerate,and convince usth ItIir.SERLE is imbued with the real, earnest tragic spirit, though he has not yet been able to work out the tich ore as fully and successfully as could have been desired. MACREADY performed with his usual earnestness and feeling, and not a little of his usual caprice and mannerism. One trait of character, which proves Mr. SEALE to be a keen observant judge of nature, was wholly spoiled by Mr. MACREADY'S affecta tion. " Why do you fix your eye on that window so ; shut it and draw the curtains," says he to a servant, whose gaze is accidentally directed to that quarter of the room. Mr. MACREADY gave this passage in a tone of peevish captiousness, as if he were an invalid desirous of having the window shut, lest he should increase a sore throat or tooth-ache, whereas it is manifestly a sudden burst of intense feeling, springing from the recollection that it was out of that window that he had so lately rushed to murder his daughter's husband, and should have been delivered with corresponding emotion. The great defect of the character of Colliery is, that it has been written, not to produce a natural effect by na tural means, but to show off Mr. Macraxarry's own peculiarities. Hence it wants uniformity and keeping. The last half gives the lie direct to the first half. For instance, at the opening of the drama Colberg is represented as chivalrous, brave, and full of feeling and generosity ; at the close he degenerates into a mere creature of selfishness and low ambi tion. There was no eirthly reason, drawing one's inferences from the earlier portions of the character, why he should have murdered the preserver of his own life, and his daughter's chosen husband (especially as that hus band had been ennobled and made wealthy), simply be cause he was not a Sovereign Prince. But then Mr. MAcitEADv's starts, and affectations, and inconsistencies, would not have been sufficiently developed. This, we suspect, is the sole reason of the want of uniformity that pervades the character of Colberg. Mr. MACREADY is great—we might almost add unequaled—in portions of a character ; but he never yet produced a finished, consistent whole, like KE3IBLE'S Coriolanus, KEAN'S Othello, or Dow'roN's Cantu:fit. His genius has nothing grasping, nothing continuous about it ; it splits a cha racter into petty sections and fragments, but does not boldly grapple with it as a whole. He deals with tragedy as POPE dealt with poetry; that is to say, makes it a matter of point and epigram ; but what was consistent with propriety in a prolessed satirist, is sadly out of place in a first-rate tragedian. We remember, and shall ion.' remetnber,—for his voice is yet ringing in our ears, his look, his manner, are yet before our eyes,—.Mr. Mncarapy's first burst of agony at the discovery of his daughter'o madness ; but, as a whole, we shall soon forget his Colbery, .49 we have already for gotten every other character—with :he exception of Virginias, which is also full of the defects tg w hi c h s ve have just alluded—that he has yet attempted to play. Shalt wp do so with KEAN's Sir Giles or Othello ? Never. An why Because the one obeys the t i t cerring impulse!if nature, and giy e p h er f a i r pl a y ; while the other ip pot satisfied unlash he overlays iia4-r affectation--unless, in short, fie can make her subservient ti his own strange theories , It is but tit wry aF9bitiop an actor to desire to differ from all the rest of the world ; to be the head of a pedantic school of tragedy, half nature, half-affectation. But MA CREADY will mellow as he grows older, and enlarge his notions of humanity, which is all that is wanting to make him the first actor of his day. COOPER played the discarded suitor with much judgment, but be lacked the high tone of romance and sentiment of which the character is made up. STANLEY made a respectable lover, but he had many irrelevant te dious speeches to make to Agnes in the third act, which very nearly swamped both him and the tragedy. Alto. gether, the play was favourably received ; nor should we have ventured to speak so freely of it as we have done, were we not firmly convinced that Mr. SEALE has dramatic genius of the first order ; and that, therefore, a little honest plain speaking will do him fir more good than harm. He conceives a character, or rather a point of character, admirably ; but it is a hard thing that his intellect should be cramped by being ob liged to take measure of any one particular performer ; that he should be obliged to say, when the free spirit is at work within him, not, "Is this natural ? Is this the true ex pression of passion?'' but " Is this in MACREADY'S style? Does this square with Mit CREADY'S theories ?" We shall look eagerly forward to SEALE'S next attempt. CO VENT- GARDEN. This theatre opened for the season last night, under the management of LAPORTE. The interior has been entirely re-decorated (to use the expression of the hill), and a very splendid new chandelier has been suspended from the freshly-ornamented ceiling. The gilding is all new, but the devices remain nearly the same, and the ground on which they are placed appeared to us, by candle-light, a fawn colour. The Merchant of Venice introduced " a young gentleman," whose name, HEDWIGGER, was nut mentioned in the bills. His performance of Shylock, if lie really have never before acted, may be called clever, but it was clever rather as an imitation of KEAN, than as an original effort. His person is diminutive, and in his face, too, he somewhat resembles KEAN, or, at least, he contrived by dress to look like him. The applause he obtained was considerable, but the audience seemed, towards the close, to grow tired of a mere copy; for what might be very well endured for a single scene, became almost wearisome throughout a whole play, and accordingly we several times distinguished marks of disapprobation. From some touches we discovered here and there, we fancy that this new candidate may have some pathetic powers, but the part of Shylock is not fa vourable to the display of them. Mr. FORESTER, from the Strand Theatre, played Gratiano about as well as was necessary, and we mention him particularly as one of the first proofs since the late inquiry that Minor Theatres may afford actors, and may, in time, become a good school of acting. Miss SYDNEY, from Madame VESTRIS'S house, sustained the part of Nerissa rather prettily, but she never cm be very efficient in a theatre like Covent-Garden. Miss ELLEN TREE was the Portia, and gave us very great, if not complete satisfaction. After the play a new military spectacle was produced, founded on an incident which is said to have happened to the Duke of MARLBOROUGH in his first campaign. The plot of the piece is simple enough. It represents the esteem in which Churchill is held by the English and French commanders (the Duke of Mon mouth and Marshal Turenne), and the danger he incurs of losing the approbation of both by an attack, which, though victorious itself, threatens to defeat all their well concerted schemes, by exposing their plans, and putting the enemy on his guard. These difficulties are avoided in consequence of an interview between Turenne and Churchill, in which the former condescends to explain the extent of the mischief and the quick genius of Churchill dis covers a remedy. Into this simple plot, however, there are many amusing and some lachrymose scenes introduced. There is an underplot of love between St. Denis Odillon, a French orderly dragoon (LaroaTE), and Gertrude, a Flemish Bottler (Miss H. CAwsE) ; and in the develop ment of this there is a happy opportunity afforded for the Frenchman to play off one of those stratagems of war, which, according to all poetic and military rules, are per fectly allowable in an enemy. He holds a mill against a hundred Dutchmen, and obtains by his ingenuity honour able terms of capitulation. In this scene LAPORTE Was most admirably supported by the acting of Miss PooLx, who, as a little drummer-boy, formed with himself the only " garrison" on duty in the mill. Mr. FORESTER, who appeared as Gratiano in the play, took the character of Captain John Churchill i❑ the afterpiece, and looked it better than he played it. As a military spectacle, this afterpiece is likely to prove very attractive, although in the early part of it the allusions to the union between Eng land and France against Holland were carriel a little too far, and excited some slight marks of disapprobation. Mr. PLANCHE, to whom the authorship is attributed, can easily remedy this defect. LAPORTE gave out the afterpiece for re petition on Wednesday next, and the announcement was re ceived with loud and general applause. The house was very well attended front the beginning, and towards the close of the evening was quite filled. ADELPHL All the winter theatres on this side of the water are now opened, as if to console us for the departure of summer, made but too manifest by the showers and cold of the last few days. Indeed it is only in winter that we properly esti mate the numberless means and appliances for chasing care which a large city affords. It was with these congra tulatory reflections that we last night attended the opening of the Adelphi Theatre. A new piece welcomed the au dience, a large one,which did not however quite unanimously welcome it. It was entitled Rip Van TVinkle, or The Helmsman of the Spirit Crew, and has for foundation the American legend made known to us by WASHINGTON IRVING. We regret being compelled to say, that a most amusing and well told tale has been converted into rather a dull drama. The main feature of the legend has been pre served, and the additions made to it in the shape of Hudson's spectre ship, and transforming Rip Van IVinkle into its helmsman during his twenty years apparent sleep, are ingenious, and give room for a display of the powers of scenic illusion, for which the Adelphi has long been remarkable. This is nearly all we can say in favour of the piece, for the dialogue was upon the whole miserably bald and meaningless, and the puns, those last resort of witlings, of the most pointless description. If well pruned, however, particularly in that part burlesquing an American election, we have no doubt that the scenery, which is exceedingly beautiful, with the acting of YATES, REEVES, and BUCKSTONE, will carry it through. It would be unjust not to state, that YATES'S acting in that portion of the piece where, as Rip V an Wi n kl e, he returns after his twenty years' sleep, and demands his child, was deservedly applauded. Cupid and the Pet of the Petticoats, both already known to the play-going public, followed. As GRESSET is not much read in this country, it may not be superfluous to mention, that the source from whence the Pet of the Petticoats is drawn, is the Vert-vert of that poet. It has come to us through the medium of a French vaudeville, as may be seen in the " French nature," so to speak, which it occasionally displays. NEW STRAND. The Lobes of the Devils, a musical extravaganza, was produced here for the first time last night. It details the punishment of .Zaraph, a spirit, who for his errors on earth is condemned to the infernal regions, where the piece commences with Charon 1 imenting over the new improvements. Zaraph makes love to Proserpine, and carries her to earth, pursued by Pluto and Jupiter, the latter gentleman having himself descended on account of the Queen of Hades. On earth a variety of intrigues occur—Juno and Minerva endeavour to counteract Jupiter's designs, who, being himself discovered in an amour, forgives the errors of others. Proserpine is re stored to the sky, and Pluto returns alone to his dreary abode. This sketch gives little idea of the piece, in which Vulcan and Venus, Mars, Cupid, Mercury and the Furies, are severally introduced. The Love: • -- and spiritedl events of th, point and stoat acd Some ad, success of ill' acted delight Mercury ant tire character he sang a duel applauded. accustomed , nated his a act is truly perhaps, ra, theless ludic, forward alter piece for rep( the house. Ott Thu Clitlleigh, of the destru [teen co in mi tionally cttuse , Another night of Sao Pulborough, 17 loads of ' and matFhets yradt, :,es of die Devils is remarkable for some well Mauritius. stp to I t o T e The Ily-written di a l ogue , i n w hi c h a ll t h e l ea di ng le present d a y are touc h e d upon w i t h pecu li ar material facts 11 It has been terms martness. S e v era l very sp l en did new scenes, of dinirable m us i c , a l so a dd e d cons id era bl y to the he piece. M rs . W AYLETT sang, d anced, and de the slav es eply in ter e sted but 'tinily. Mrs. CHAPMAN and Miss CooxE, as a l ong per f ectly qt idPeaserpine, were v ery happy in ;heir respec- tants, o also, have t :ers. MANDlias' s C up id was uighly amusing : promulgation net with youn g O XIIERILY, w hi c h was much respects to be i Mr. WILLIAms as Charon, played with his the same sb truss • Skill. REDE (th e author of the piece) perso- Satanic Majesty; his appearance in the first On Monda' terrific, and his acting throughout, although, Church, St. Albs .ther more energetic than necessary, was never- ral WOOLLY, to cious and effective. He led Mrs. WAYLETT resident magistra :r the falling of the curtain, who gave out the (and, we are ho petition amidst loud cheers from every part of propriety) to be church was light, called) took place i iursday night last a fi re b ro k e out n thrown open, an< which destroyed 19 hous..s, before the ravages A scene of greate 7m:five element could be r:iii , ltied. A man has to say never wa, iitted to prison, on suspicion of having inten- show, for those n net] it. —Devonshire' Cliroidele. the service or in er incendiary fire took place on the bridegroom 45. iturday lost, at Cotmore Ilin, in the parish of A wontlerft is which consumed. 4 tic k , containing about in the vegetable barley. We are infornieJ , fiat a . tii.iier-box ren tly-imported swere found on the spot.— ..lii‘mi.isiire Tele- growing, will be is the spring in t GERMAN PAPERS. (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) VIENNA, SEPT. 18.—The cholera, which appeared with such virulence at Pesth on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of August, suddenly abated after a violent thunder storm, ac companied with torrents of rain, in the night of the 27th, since which there have been very few cases there. At Presburg and in other parts of Hungary, the disorder has nearly vanished, but it still continues to carry off many victims here. iIESSE CASSEL, SEPT. 20.—The elections for the next Assembly of the States, which is expected to open on Oct. 15, are going on very rapidly. Jordan, Werthmul ler, Konig, &c. are re-elected. It may, therefore, be pre dicted that in this Assembly the same fatal elements will again predominate which impeded, in the late assembly, the advancement of the real interests of the people, and carried the abuse of the freedom of discussion to a height which made an immediate dissolution necessary. It is probable, however, that the operations of the Assembly will be confined to the discussion on the regulations of the towns and communes, and the fixing of the budget, and the Confederation have no occasion to exercise the right of superintendence, as laid down in the resolutions of the 28th of June.—Frankfort Papers, Sept. 26. CORFU, SEPT. 3.—Professor Thiersch, who has arrived here from Greece, is commissioned by the National Assembly of Greece to bring the decree of the Assembly of the Bth of August, confirming the choice of Prince Otho, second son of the King of Bavaria, with the fol lowing addresses : " To his Majesty the King of Bavaria. . _ " Sire !—The great work of the High Alliance, an nounced by the treaty of the 6th of June, 1827, has been most happily crowned by the auspicious choice of Prince Otho, your Majesty's second son, to be King of Greece. Unbounded thanks and praise be given to the Almighty, who has directed every thing for the best! In this manner the wishes of the whole Greek nation are heard, which sees in this choice, on the one hand the happy end of its sacri fice, and on the other the commencement of its future un disturbed freedom and prosperity under the shield of the laws. The representatives of the Greek nation, united in full Assembly, as the faithful interpreters of its will, hasten to begin the exercise of their important functions with the unanimous sanction of the resolutions of the Great Powers, and to invite your much- wished-for son, who is adorned with all your Majesty's Royal virtues, to consolidate the newly-erected Greek throne. While they respectfully express to the august 1110- narchs, the benefactors and protectors of Greece, their gratitude for the resolutions taken in their favour, they at the same time consider it as their duty to lay at the foot of your Majesty's throne the tribute of their unanimous and heartfelt acknowledgments for the interest which your Majesty has been pleased to take in the fate of Greece, ever since the beginning of its holy enterprise; and most earnestly exhort you to be pleased to hasten the arrival of the King, whom the whole Greek nation so ardently de sires, or, at least for the present, of his representative. Yes, Sire, the whole nation expects, with outstretches! arms, the arrival of its Sovereign—it longs for him as the promoter of its prosperity—the pledge and defender of its rights—the harbinger of durable peace and unalterable concord ; and the representatives of the Greek nation, in thus expressing themselves, act only as the organs of its ardent wishes and universal desire. May their wishes be heard !—may the gloomy political horizon of Greece be brightened by the rising of this new star ! The reviving country of a Solon, a Plato, and a Pericles, rejoices in the conviction that a worthy guide of its destinies is granted to it. The Muses themselves descend from Helicon to proclaim, with loud joy, the appearance of the august So vereign. Signed, The Presidint, P. NOTARA. The Vice President, A. MA VROCARDATO. (Here follow the signatures of the Deputies.) The Secretaries—A. POLIZOIDES. D. KRIST[DIS. " TO HIS MAJESTY THE SOVEREIGN-GENERAL. " SIRE !-The united Greek nation has given its ap probation to the auspicious choice made by the August Allies of your Majesty as King of Greece, and many provinces have already manifested their joy and gratitude at this happy event. The representatives of the nation, acting in all things conformably to the general will, perform to-day, as faithful interpreters of its universal wish, one of their most important acts, by solemnly sanctioning the choice of your Majesty as King of Greece. The I:tinned Decree contains this sanction, which is confirmed by all the formalities required by the law. The Representatives have now only to express the ardent wish for the arrival of your Majesty, or of your representative, among them, being convinced that your arrival will, on the one hand, put an end to the great distresses under which the people suffer, in consequence of the preceding long struggle, and the provisional system of Government ; and, on the other hand, be the harbinger of a better order of things, and of the future prosperity of the nation, under the Egis of Constitutional laws." (Signed as before). —Allgenteine Zeitung, Sept. 26. MAURITIUS. There has been an arrival from Mauritius, antecedent to the date of that which took place on Saturday, but sta. ting all the circumstances, which were not then described, attending the first landing of Mr. Jeremie in that colony. It took place on the let of June, and the alarm and ex citement in Port Louis ensued immediately on the event becoming known. As a precaution against the conse quences which the irritation of the inhabitants seemed to threaten, Mr. Jeremie was taken on shore, accompanied by the bargee of the men of war, with an IS-pounder in each boat. The troops were drawn up to receive him, and he proceeded to the Government House, amidst the groans and hisses of all assembled. Previously to his landing the people assembled in crowds around Government House, in order to prevail on the Governor to interfere and pre vent his coming on shore. The following representation was made to Sir Charles Colville:— " The undersigned, at the desire of the whole city, de clared in the most pressing manner, submit to your Ex cellency the views of the entire population of Port Louis. " Since this morning the inhabitants, filled with the most lively alarm, have assembled on the quay. The knowledge of the pamphlet published in London by M. Jcremie, and letters received this day from the Cape of Good Hope, have made them fully aware how much his designs and principles are hostile to the colony. " Your Excellency knows that his arrival is expected by the slaves as a signal of liberty, and that the greatest ex cesses will he produced by his presence. " The ferment increases every moment. The free popu lation would, at any hazard, prevent the landing of the man whom they regard as the forerunner of the most frightful evils. The slave population call for him with the most lively ardour. " Blood will flow, without doubt, if your Excellency does not resolve to employ the only remedy which yet re mains, but which is still in your power,—that of prevent ing the landing of Mr. Jeremie at the Isle of France. " In the name of the town of Port Louis, in the name of the colony, in the name of humanity, the undersigned supplicate your Excellency to adopt this measure without delay. " H. ADAM, ~ LUCAS, &c. &c." On his arrival in town the next morning, the Gover nor's ears were assailed with shouts of " Down with Jeremie." "No Jeremie." After taking a short turn through the streets, Sir Charles Colville returned to Government house, and received the memorial on the following day. In the mean time proper steps were taken to protect Mr. Jeremie on landing, and it took place on the 3d of June, in the manner above described. The ex citement of the inhabitants continued up to the 14th of July, as has been already described, when it was put a stop to by the intimation that Mr. Jeremie had quitted 'is public are now in possession of all the - elative to this very extraordinary affair. led in some of the accounts an insurrection , t this is a mistake, as the negroes, though l in the issue, appear to have been all [descent. The planters and other inhabl ing gained their point, and prevented the the Order in Council, may be said in other placed in the same position, and retain ssion as before to the mother country. JAMES 1 a nA,: a ; s e t sE l, , si c s AA ;i Gomarried,daughternD o so a ? t Et Abbey tsq., i‘,ei. ia. 'trate of Hertfordshire. It was announced bound to remark, contrary to all regard to a public wedding, and accordingly the Ateil up, and the rites (if rites they may be lace at 8 o'clock at night. The church wa, ad crowded by the lowest of the population. ,ter confusion and indecency we will venture is exhibited. The ceremony was dumb nearest to " the happy pair" could not heal mark a response. The bride was 21, the .—.73ucks Herald] 'ul example of the power of habit kingdom 'nay be witnessed uow. Re plantc from South Ajserica, wheresoever found to flower in OCtober, because tb.s their native climate. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red.... shut 3 per Cent. Cons. ... 84% 4 ►/ 4 3% per Cent Ditto Red shut New 3% per Cent 92% 1? 3 per Cent. Ann. 17‘26 - per Cent. 1826 Et,enk Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 shut Oct. 10, 1559 shut Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds B9 Belgian Bonds 76 Ditto Account 76 57!, Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 49 lf‘ Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds ... l6 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds 11 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds ___ Ditto Bonds, !89.5. ai% Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 22Y,, Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent "6% Ditto Account Neapolitan mit LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1832. The Conference which was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office was adjourned until the evening, when another meeting took place, but we regret to state, without any deci sion having been come to, although the sitting lasted until past one o'clock this morning. Lord PALMERSTON and the French Ambassador, Nl de MAREIUL, were firm ; but there was not such a display of cordiality on the part of the Representatives of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, as to justify a hope that measures of a decisive character will be adopted against Holland in the name of the Conference. The Members of the Conference are to meet again this evening, and we shall be able to announce to-morrow whether the Holy Alliance Plenipotentiaries have sue• ceeded in procuring new delay, or whether Lord PALMERSTON and the French Ambassador have resolved on maintaining the character of their respective Courts, in spite of the menaces of the King of HOLLAND and the Powers by which he is backed in the Conference. At present every thing indicates that another meeting will pass off without a decision, and that the exquisite foolery of diplomatic courtesy At" be continued for some days longer. What is the reason that the Cabinets of France and Englan d do not come to a determination to make then? selves respected and feared by those of the H° l l Alliance ? Is it in the hope of avoiding wat that these repeated delays are granted, and th at so many attempts are made to conciliate Russian Prussia, and Austria? If so, the policy is mistaken one. There are some men who are t° be taught moderation and justice only by the conviction of the chastisement which must atter' their persisting in error. Such men are the Sovereigns of the Holy Alliance. Every e te r s yielded to them by Great Britain and France 1 , a step in advance by them ; and just i n prolO r tion as we abate in our just demands, do th e) ; raise their pretensions. The only guarantee i° , the duration of p eace i s t h e man if estat i o n of 0 readiness to go t o war , rat h er t h an su b m it t° compromise affecting our interests and our bon° , 116- 11: 1 We are requested to stat e th a t Sir Jo he MILLEY DoYLE, who is about to give his v 3 A Portug., a n b ev le er ai r d eri t u o ir t e h d e or Constitutional aspiredto t c h a e use co in m Chief of the army of Don PEDRO. We bel i ttle that Sir JOHN MILLEY DaYLE will, in Ili event of his going out to Portugal, cheer f li ,4 submit to the orders of the Count de VI I ' I I FLoR, for whom he entertains great respect ° c i; esteem, and that none of the jealousy 01 , 11 0 might be supposed to exist in the mind of 0; officer of older rank and experience than C °ll o , VILLA FLOR will influence our brave f ell° io countryman. Sir JOHN MILLEY DoY O IO , one of the oldest general officers in the Pt? guese service, but Count VILLA FLOR e fl J the confidence of the EMPEROR, and as h e mand.ero gladly avail himself of the suggestions 0 f t o JoIIN MILLEY DOYLE, the latter may ren 4e 4 effectual aid as if he were in the chief cool° 9 of the army. We hear that the force under JOHN DOYLE will be considerable. A Correspondent of the Times states "il i t there are Jour Lieutenant-Colonels borne og pt strength . of the 16th Lancers, which reg irile ei l is now serv i ng i n I n di a . If thi s b e s o, we ° I/ e t . , not wonder at the Army Estimates ; but s e , formed Parliament will correct these ab ij with an unsparing hand. If Ministers WeO s j4 patronize or promote the fprmatiop raltr °- r a throughout the kingdom, onp half' of the ar of might be dispensed with, and some millions 31 0 1,1 saved in the estimates, while employment w° De be afforded to thousands, and the iron trade e j considerably relieved from its present depresui,l condition. If unity be strength, what WD DAY AT ONF O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock ......... ......... - Ditto Bonds 9 10 pm. South Sea Stock 93U Old Annuities shut New Ditto ........ 3 per Cent. Anna 1751 -- Ex. Bills, .C. 1,000 lB 19 pm. 18 19 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial. pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account .... Cons. for Oct. I° THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds lO4 Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds ......... 474 Ditto Account 474 8 Regency Scrip 5 41 dis. 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