The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-28 00:00:00

- - --, - PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONF O'CLOCIt. tank Stock a 191 % 9%,; New 5 per Cent. — per Cent. Red. .........5414% k; India Stock 3 per Cent Cons 8 3 34% Ditto Bonds 3 pm. 3 S¢ per Cent South Sea Stock 93N Ditto Red. 92% 1 4 Old Annuities ?l evy 3% per Cent 9138% New Ditto a , Per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 *Per Cent. 'sal h ank Long Ann. to expire Ditt0...... ..”.500...12 11 13 pm. Jan. 5, 1880 l d ev, Ditto &lag ...,.,.,..12 11 13 pm. Oct 10, 1859.... ' ' ..:—. Ditto Commercial .... ... .. pm. Jan 5, 18,10 - Ditto Advertised ... 11 12 pm. . 1 4n. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account ....... ... Aprils, 1880 .-- India for Account. _Jan. 5, 1870 • Cons. for Aug. 29 :; 33 4 F 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds S9 Belgian Bonds 7r Ditto Account .6 Brazilian Bonds -4 „.. Ditto Account 48 Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds l6 Ditto Account '-olumbian Bonds 10N Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1824 ll% _ Ditto Account l2 Danish Bonds Ditto Account 69 1 , Greek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account M exican Bonds, 5 per cent 22 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent.... ..... Ditto Account 281.04 Neapolitan —,j THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds lO% Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds 47 8 Ditto Account...4oy.2 7% BV., Begone} , scrip 4 , A, dis. Ditto Account ... 4% dis. Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 100!6 Russian Bonds, 1822 lOl Ditto Account 100?; New Loan O3 Spanish Bonds, 1821 Ditto Account 1114 Ditto Bonds, 1823 l2x; 7 A Ditto Account 12% French Rentes, sp. c. 991' 50e. Exchange 2sf 80c. —8 per cent —l" —c. --- Exchange ..„ —f —c. Dutch Scrip — Ditto Account 43%A French Scrip .... ..... ... IV, pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Anglo Mex. Min,. Co. (iss. at 54 pm.) £lOO Ilolanos Mining Company £l5O Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Dtto St. John Del Rey British Iron Mining Company £5O Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) 4814 English Mining Company 12% General Mining Association ll Real del Monte Mining C o . 4.iy.....4, -. United Wk. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. um.) 40 Dittia New Set ip 2 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp. ..... Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company ......... .. ..... General Steam Navigation Co. ...... Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 Per Share 7 9.00 48 3 . 4 1 4 RN £1 5 6 7 47 714 2714 FOREIGN EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURGUG. 24.-13 13% ; two months, 13 12. BERLiN AUG.A , 21.--Three months, 7. 0%. PETERSBTJRGH, AUG. 14,-10 29-64. SToccaomkt, AUG. 17.—Ninety days, 13. 44. • BREMEN, AUG. 21.—Two months, 619. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE for SEPTEMBER (being No. XVII. from the com mencement), to be published on Friday next, will con tain a Portrait of Galata (winner of the last Oaks), en graved by Scott, from a Painting by A. Cooper, R.A., and " S etters, " engraved by R. Parr, from a drawing by Howitt. Among the numerous Original Articles of the Number will be found interesting Communications from different parts of the world ; including pedigree and per formances of Galati—A few lines from Nimrod—On Rise Shooting —Hints to Young Sportsmen—A Trip ,to Marg a t e w i th Jorrocks. By a " Yorkshireman' Grow* Shooting, with remarks on the different Moors— Aquatic Rights, By N. W. " Hampton Races." . By Simpkin;, aut h or o f t h e "Epping Hunt". — Fox-hunt ing in Germany —Russian Hunting on the Wolga—Shooting In Alba n i a , the Morea, and other parts of the Mediter ranean --A few Lines from the Man in the Moon, on Affair s b e l ow—To Map Fanciers, our intended splendid present to our Subscribers—" September." By " Syl vanua Swan qu ill," d escribing the Sports of the Month, Par tridge Shooting, Hawking, On the Habits of the P artridge"—Charact ers of Hunting Countries : The Earl of Lonsdale's and Lord Forester's Leicestershire Covers— Belvoir Castle —concluding with the description of a Day of Disasters, or a severe Run over Leicestershire on my Five Years Old Hunter—" Goodwood Races ;" the Sport and Humours of the Place—York Spring Meeting_ Racing i n G ermany — G rouse Shooting —Literary Obi tuary---Cricket Matches—Aquatics--Stud Sale—Bettings R acing Calendar, &c. Published by Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row, and to be had (by previous order) with Vols. 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Price One Shilling. fort at the Office of the Atlas Newspaper, Beau- Buildings, 13u ilrtinas, Strand. 4r6 :2* bO - nif , LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1832. If there be yet in this country a person so devoid of shame as to advocate the conduct of the Russian Government towards Poland, we merely refer him to the extracts from German Papers in this day's Sun. Our indignation at the unnatural—the desolating behaviour of Russia with respect to that chivalrous but now forlorn country, is only surpassed by our wonder at the short-sightedness of its policy. Can the Emperor NICHOLAS hope, in the present temper of European feeling, unless, indeed, he presumes on the dastardly Condu c t of England and France for the last two years, --can he hope that such treatment towards a whol e people can long be prosecuted with im punity ? If he really beguile himself with such illusion, the day of retribution,will only be ren dered the more terrible, for assuredly as there i s a Providence on high, the God of vengeance will visit the oppressor with a heavy hand. So f ar as our feelings are concerned, we have not l anguage to give utterance to our scorn at the pu sillanimity of the foreign policy of this coun tryl; and b u t f or our res p ec t f or L o rd °TIRANE personally, nothing would afford us greater satisfaction than to learn that the Emperor NicnoLAs had sent him off in a fit of rage to Siberia! We are afraid that nothing short of such treatment will ever rouse the Ministerial Spirit of this country to a proper sense of what is at once owing to the cause of humanity and national honour. The public disgust is at pre sent so strong at the of the E m perfidy an d b ru t a lity peror NictioLAs toward s th e p o o r Poles, that a war with Russia wou ld b e h a il e d w With acclamations !_ an d one day or other that ar will come. Th ie following are extracts from the Hamburg IZeporter and other Papers to the 25th ra..trcroax, Auc. 18.—It is affirmed that France and ItUstria are now negotiating with a view of concluding a "Mtnercial treaty like that between England and Frank fort. The advantage to the manufacturers of the south Of Germany would be very great, and afford a ray of hope t O that part of Germany. The Wurtemburg Government Journal of the 15th Publishes a notice of the finance department, facilitating the intercourse with the Electorate of lime. A letter from Weimar says...." By order of the Grand 'Juke, M . C . Thon is going shortly to Dresden, kt 'd then to Berlin, to continue the negociations fur ac '!`ling t o th e Prussian tariff. Th e negociations that " 4 ve be en commenced with several S outh German States 1 4 the eame purpose, are considerably advanced. O T ocatuoLm, AuG. 17 —Preparati ons are making at iNal to celebrate on the 6th November, with great so ")ttity, the 200th anniversary of the death of the Great Gustavus Adolphus, to whom it is well known the aca demy at Upsal is highly indebted. Very convenient diligences now ply betwen Stockholm and Gattenhurg. ST. PETERSBURG, AUG. I 6.-The committee appointed to review the ordinance relative to Bills of Exchange (of 1729), and all the laws that have ever been promulgated on the subject, hating taken the opinions of the merchants by means of local committees at St. Petershurgh, Riga, Moscow, and Odessa, has laid before the Council of the Empire the outlines of a new ordinance, which, with some additions, was confirmed by an ukase of the Emperor of the 6th of July. An ordinance relative to bankruptcies, drawn up by the same committee, was confirmed by a se cond ukase, of the same date; and by a third ukase, a new ordinance for making inventori,s, appraisements, and sales of ptoperty taken in execution. AuroitA; AUG. 21.—The resolutions of the German Diet of the 28th of June, the object of which is the maintenance of order and tranqu'llity in the states of the Confederation, have been now formally published by our Government, in letters patent, issued from the Chancery of Sleswielr, Holstein, and Lunenburg. AROLSEN, Atm. 12 —Our Prince George Frederick, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, has published the reso lutions of the Diet, directing his subjects to pay strict regard to them. HAMBURG, AUG. 24.—The last Russian steam-boat brought the melancholy news from Archangel of the death of Mr. Wm. Brandt, chief partner in the highly respected houses of W. Brandt and Son in Archangel, and W. Brandt and Co. in St. Petershurgh. He was only in the 55th year of his age, and died on the sth of August, after a short illness, on the very day that he had fixed for his departure to his native city (Hamburg), with the intention of enjoying some repose, after the many exertions of his very active life. He had already given the management of his business to his eldest son, many years his partner.-- Hamburg Papers, August 24. HAMBURG, AUG. 24.—The reduced prices of wheat have attracted a good many of our consumers into the market; but with the exception of those, we have scarcely any consumers. From the 12th to the 17th inst., 36 cargoes of corn passed through the Sound, of which 3 were bound to British and 17 to Dutch ports. Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white -- red 102 to 120 Magdeburgh - Hanks lO5 to 118 - Meeklenburgh _ . lO5 to 115 ___ Holstein, red 96 to 106 Extensive sales for Dutch account had the effect of de pressing the stock market to-day. Discount 21 per cent. End of August. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 67 Anglo-Russian Loan 97% Hamburg, 3 per cent. Russian Inscription, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto, 1831 Polish Bonds llO% Prussian Bonds 1831 103% Austrian Bank Shares 11:33 Ditto Metalliques New Austrian 4 per Cents.... ..... ............. —Hamburg Reporter. A correspondent has favoured us with a letter on the present' anomalous state of Ireland, which deserves attention from the temperate, argumen tative, and impartial spirit that pervades it. Th e . writer belongs neither to the extreme faction of Catholic nor Protestant ; he holds no opinions in common, whether with the rabid Ascen dancy man, or the equally rabid Repealer, but is clearly one of the juste milieu—in this instance a phrase of creditable import—and by holding himself studiously aloof from the extreme right or the extreme left, is enabled to come to the task of investigation in a cool and unbiassed tem per. The nature and tendency of his remarks may be summed up in this sentence. " As long as Government allows the Catholics to complain of the injustice of tithes and church-rates, and thus, by permitting agitation on those matters, suffers the Protestants to feel alarm lest their religion, rents, and every thing dear to them may ulti mately share the fate of those universally con demned exactions, the country must continue in its present state of agitation and disquietude." A book of very great value has been published by Mr. MUNDELL, already favourably known to the public by his statistical labours. The work he has at present put forth is entitled " A Comparative View of the Industrial Situation of Great Britain from the year 1775 to the present time, with an examination of the causes of her distress." It is evident that any work entering at large upon all the topics embraced by such a title is almost of necessity compelled to treat de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. The art of a writer treating upon such a subject consists in fe licitously seizing upon the main points, and placing them before the reader in a strong light. Mr. MUN DELL has succeeded in accomplishing this ob ject, and has been chiefly enabled so to do from being enthusiastically impressed with two or three favourite notions, of which he never loses sight. One consequence of this unity of pur pose, if we may so say, is, however, to induce men to draw from facts inferences they will hardly bear. Mr. MUNDELL, for instance, has persuaded himself that the chief cause of the dis tress we suffer is the diminution in the supply o f the precious metals from South America. Th e consequence is, that this fact is made by Mr. MUNDELL a chief agent in producing effects, which, if not altogether, are for the most part to be attributed to other causes. Of this, we think, we shall be able to adduce satisfactory proof hereafter. Mr. MUNDELL has divided his work into five parts, each respectively treating of the fol lowing subjects :--Increase of Shipping and Exports, Money restraints, Corn Law restraints, Poor Law restraints, and Revenue restraints. After Noticing the facts that our shipping and our exports of home produce and manufactures have during the peace increased beyond all ex ample, and that we and the rest of Europe, especially France, nevertheless feel distress, the writer says, " the causes of the distress which thus prevails must, therefore, be causes which operate most powerfully in France and Great Britain. The only causes of this description which I have been able to discover, are legisla tive and municipal restraints upon industry, ren.. dered progressively more severe by a continu ous rise in the exchangeable value of money. Such restraints become progressively lighter, while money continues to fall in exchangeable value, but their severity accumulates as it rises. Now money continued to fall in exchangeable value till the year 1810 ; it has continued to rise since that year." Having thus opened the subject, Mr. M. pro ceeds to show in what way he imagines i the re straints up on i n d ustry h ave b roug h t us into the condition we now find ourselves. We think we may say that we agree in nearly all the conclu sions to which he has come, although the pro cess by which we arrive at them is occasionally different. In our present position nothing is of more consequence than that the country should discuss the several matters embraced in this work. We need not say that we think discus sion will bring converts to that side of the ques tion which we advocate, but of this we are certain, that whether we be right, or whether we be wrong, discussion must in the long run elicit the truth, the discovery of which, and the acting upon it, whatever it may be, is, we are satisfied, all that is necessary to our prosperity. We pro pose, therefore, to take the different parts of Mr. MUNDELL'S work, to lay them before the public, to state where we differ from him, and wherefore, and the reasons which in duce us to come to the same conclusions. We are aware that there are many to whom discussion upon the state of slavery or the fate of Poland might be more interesting ; but as we cannot believe that the great mass of our coun .rymen are unwilling to discuss how it is that w4ll industry the most unceasing, the people are more distressed,—how it is that with energy and enterprise unabated, our merchants and manu facturers sink under burdens they heretofore bore with comparative ease,—how it is that our agri culturalists, with improved knowledge in their art, with Corn Laws of their own framing, are almost, without exception, reduced to a state of destitution,—as we cannot believe, we say, that all not dependent upon fixed incomes are un willing seriously to examine the causes of their distress, as well as to complain of the effect of those causes, we shall, without hesitation, take occasion, in the course of the week, to enter somewhat in detail upon the subjects we have now opened. We have received a file of the Western Aus tralian, a newspaper published at Swan River. Each number contains about as much intelli gence as is given in one column of The Sun. For this the proprietor charges ls. 6d., and even at this rate it appears by his complaints to be any thing but a paying concern. Certainly it is composed of miserable trash, but the colonists should consider that it is early times with them yet. The date of the earliest paper before us is Nov. 20, 1831, that of the latest Jan. 7, 1832. The harvest was said to be generally good, and pigs, &c. had wonderfully multiplied ; but still the colony not being able to supply its own wants, the non-arrival of ships with any quantity of pro visions had began to occasion a great rise in the price of flour, &c. Flour had risen in the course of the month from 6id. per lb. to ls. 4d., and other things in proportion, except sugar, of which there was an abundance. We give a list of the latest prices:— RETAIL PRICES. Flour (if any) Is. 4d. ; Rice, Id. ; Mauritius Sugar, 4d. ; Bengal sugar, 6d. ; American pork, Is. sd. ; Beef none ; Fresh pork, none ; Mutton ; Lamb, 2s. per lb. Eggs 3s. 6d. per dozen; Fowls 12s. per pair; Irish butter 2s. per lb. ; Fresh butter (when it can be bad) 55. per lb. ; Colonial potatoes; Cape potatoes; Rum 9s. to 12s. per imperial gallon ; Brandy, 13•. ; Gin, 12s. ; Taylor's brown shut, 51. ; Sydney or Cape ale, Is. per quart ; Hyson tea, 4s. per lb. Tallowcandles, Is. 6d.per lb. London pale ale, 18s. per dozen; London porter, Si. per hogshead. The arrival of the Cornwallis and Egyptian have not as yet created any appearance of plenty in the market. A large supply of butter has been landed, bat it maintains an unusual high rate. It is said that all the flour has been purchased by the Government ; if so we shall be in a bad way. We understand that the bakery is likely to stop work on Monday for want of material, and we fear we must look for further arrivals before the market will assume an aspect favourable for the settler. The accounts we continue to receive from the country confim the most sanguine expecta tions of an abundant harvest ; but nevertheless, such is the amount of our population, compared with the quantity of land in cultivation, that the speculators in corn continue their importa tions. It is true that they do not appear, by the returns we give in another part of our paper, to be above one-fourth of what they were this time last year, but still that is an enormous quan tity, and, being in a season of abundance, suffi ciently shows what we may expect to take place in a season of scarcity. The CHANCELLOR of the EICHEQUER will be some 100,0001. the better for it. We this day publish extracts from the docu ments in the case of SOMERVILLE, presented to Parliament by Sir J. CAM HOBHOUSE. These extracts, and we have read them at tentively, by no means improve the case as re spects Major WYNDHAM, but leave it just pre cisely where it was—as unsatisfactory as ever. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, Auc. 27.—Wind S.W. fresh—Arrived the Strathfieldssv, II irrison, from New South Wales and Bahia. Ars 7 ived.from the river and remains, the Oriental, Fidler, for Bombay. Sailed the Mary Ann, Hornblow, for Bombay. FAL:nous:lr, Atm. 26.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W. fresh gales and squally.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Industry, for Lisbo n . STANDGATE CREEK, AUG. 27.—Arrived the Circas sian, Douthwast, from London, with convicts for New South Wales has the cholera on board. Sailed, George and Mary, Roberts, for the Cape of Good Hope. MARGATE, Aug. 27.—Arrived off port, the Codring ton, Hill, from Antigua ; John, Blake, from St. Domingo. POOLE, Aug. 26.—Arrived the Olive Branch, Veal, and Sisters, Johns, from Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, Auc. 26..—Arrived off port—the Mar garet, Stevens, from Boston. PENZANCE, AUG. 26.—Arrived the Quebec, Davi9, from Alemei. BRISTOL, AUG. 27.—Arrived the Unanimity, Herbert, from Quebec. GREENOCK, Auc. ,9,s.—Arrived the Naiad, Hutchin son, Irom Riga. Hum., AUG. 26.—Arrived the Elliott, Taylor, from Archangel ; Mary, Taylor, and Wilton, Reimers, from St. Petersburgh ; Aimcvell, Anderson, from Riga ; and Wesley, Milkins, from Wyburg. DUNDEE, Auc. 25.—Arrived the Eagle, Morris, from St. Petersburg ; and Armistead, Berry, from Riga. ABERDEEN, AUG. 25.—Arrived the Abbotsford, Ni cholson, from Sicily. COURT CIRCULAR. A Conference of the Ministers of Russis, Austria, France, and Prussia, was held yesterday at the Foreign office. It was attended by the Russian Ambassador, and Count DE MASTOUCHEVIT Z , the Russian Minister on special mission ; the Baron DE WESSENBURG, the Austrian Minister on a special mission, and the Austrian Charge d'Affaires; the Prussian and French Ministers, and Vis count PALMERSTON. Mons. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Minister, was also occupied at the Foreign-office yester day afternoon during the time that the Conference was sitting. Lord NUGENT had an interview yesterday with Vis count GODERICH at the Colonial office. The Russian Ambassador and Princess LIEYEN enter tained the Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, the Prus sian Minister and Baroness Butow, and a select party, at dinner, on Sunday, at their residence at Richmond. The Minister from Buenos Ayres transacted business yesterday afternoon at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from Sir Hit,caovE TURNER, the G3vernor of Ber muda, dated up to the 28th ult. Despatches from Halifax were also received, dated the 9th inst. ARRIVAL.—.-LOld HOLLAND, at Holland House, Ken sington, on Sunday evening, from a visit to the Duke of BICDTORD, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. LITERATURE. FALLACIES OF HOPE. LONDON, 1832. There is much in the condensed vigour of this little poem which reminds us of Byron. It is penned in a vein of strong feeling, as if the writer threw his heart and soul into every line, but has this pervading defect, that it leaves a gloomy, melancholy impression on the mind.— It is the converse of " Th e Pleasures of Hope." The one poem dwells on the sunny, the other on the dark side of the picture. One is the inspi ration of confidence, the other wrung out by despondency. In point of stern, masculine energy, we feel, with some hesitation, however, inclined to give the preference to the present production. Its descriptions teem with life, and are the immediate reflections, not of books, but of the writer's own personal feelings. For every sentiment he has uttered, he has warrant in his own heart, and so far deserves the praise of originality. There is something very touching in these lines. They are stamped with melan choly, but we feel their truth : " But oftener still Hope's promises persuade To fruitless toilings for a phantom shade, And sad regret for all we might have been The evening deepens of the closing scene. Oh, better on life's sunny bank to lie And dream of joy while steals occasion by, Than thus to fret th' untasted hours away For Hope's still coming, never-present day." By way of working out his axiom that hope is a fallacy, or in plain, homely English, a hum bug, the writer sketches Napoleon's last expedi tion to Russia, from which such momentous consequences to Continental freedom were ex- . pected by all Europe, and of the result of which France was so blindly confident. The sub joined description which occurs at the commence ment of the episode, is as full of vigor and ani mation as one of Wilkie's earlier paintings. " The drum! the drum!—and up that torpid mass Starts into life on plain and mountain pass ; Still the sun shines not, in a corpselike shroud A thick fog winds them, from whose sullen cloud Come out the bugle's call, the hollow sound Of gun and tumbril rolling o'er the ground, The squadron's tramp, the march's numerous tread, Signs of the storm that gathers to a head. All is dim outline in that hazy gloom Of flag and bayonet and tossing plume, That sink and rise, and waver to and fro, - In masses crossing, joining, swift, and slow, While ever and anon with loosened rein From out the mist a rider skirts the plain. Sudden the fog rolls off, the flooding light Blazes on men and arms all trim and bright, For death's new feast ; but at this burst of day, Which shows each host its foe in near array, The general voice is hushed, in every breast The heart is throbbing and the breath comprest. He, too, their chief, the yet-unconquered one, A moment looks in silence on that sun ; And then—from sudden impulse, or in art Which looks like impulse and would play its part; Exclaims, with finger pointed to the sky,— Anticipation's triumph in his eye,— ' Behold the sun of Austerlitz:'—'tis strange! A breath—a look—can thought's complexion change; From rank to rank the word of omen flies, 'Till in the dawn all see Hope's rainbow rise ; For them the sun is bright—alas! how few Shall live to tell if false the sign or true." Nor can any thing be more impressive in its way than this graphic description of deserted Moscow, and the chilling effect its silence and solitude produced on the conquering vete rans who bivouacked within its walls. In the first couplet the author alludes to the solitude of nature : " Though lone, Me is not desolate—though deep Her silence oft, she does but gently sleep ;; But a dead waste of marble, where the hum And stir of men have ceased—for ever dumb— A solitude of walls, from which the spring Of life has dried, where loneness folds her wing, And none but winds disturb her :—oh, it seems The tomb of time, and saddens day-light's beams ! Speak not—the spirit of the echo here Will freeze you with his sullen voice of fear; Stir not—for desolation's stifling breath Hangs round these walls, and chokes like mouldering death. The very grandeur of their conquest chills Their souls with awe, and creeping horror thrills. - - There is a fine, pensive vein ofthought opened up in these lines, which remind us, though the imitation is a generous one, and free from all servility, of a similar apostrophe in the third canto of Childe Harold : " 0 Night! lone, still, inexplicable Night! Thine is a world unlike the world of light, Full of dark shapes and shadowy fears, that morn, Clear-eyed and passionless, would laugh to scorn— We know thee not but as the pilgrim knows The trackless waste in which no fountain flows ; Too deep thy darkness for the living hand To lift the veil from mysteries yet uuscann'd ; But when the soul shakes off this mortal coil, Say, shall thy darkness then the reason foil? Shall we not find thee then a peopled space With forms of life our fancy cannot trace ? E'en now, in every whisper of thy breeze, In the dim shadows flung from waving trees, We feel the presence and the voices hear Of those so far ! and yet so very near ! Far as beyond the grave's untried abyss, Near as the winds when winds the closest kiss, And ever silent as the morn returns— Yes, we still feel ye when the night-star burns, Or fancy that we feel; and who shall tell If truth with fancy or with reason dwell ?" Young's pointed, emphatic line, " All men think all men mortal but themselves," is the text on which the author has founded some elaborate but ably written reflections on death. We would readily quote them, but space and time forbid ; we hasten, therefore, to close our extracts with a very spirited sketch of winter, contrary to the author's prevailing mode in a spirit of lusty and social fellowship : " But winter comes—not that decrepid form Which nurslings paint who shiver in the storm ; Loud, reckless in his strength, he sweeps along O•er the bare fields with wild yet joyous song ; Impatient in his wrath, and rude of play, No soft-breathed flatterer like voluptuous May, He loves not those who from his roughness crouch And pamper sloth on luxury's silken couch; But meet him frankly, boldly on the hill, When the ice glitters and the wilds are shrill, Aye when they howl, and from the loaded trees Whirl the wreathed snow and drops that falling freeze, Then, though his brow be stern, his beard o'erhung With frosty icicles, and sharp his tongue, Roughly yet kind he welcomes with the grasp Of lusty hands that tingle as they clasp." Besides these extracts, whose beauty speaks for itself, there are many insulated thoughts and sentiments scattered here and there throughout the volume, which prove that nervous and mus cular versification is not the only point in which the writer excels. He is a man of reflection as well as a good versifier. We subjoin a few of these gems:— " Oh, how falsely rings The metal fashioned for the head of kings."— " How well sleeps murder when he spills not blood By stolen drops, but pours it in a flood." — They march--still onward—still—with every eve Hope cries " to-morrow,"—and they yet believe."— " But he was young, and, though a seld-told truth, The wisest, best philosopher is youth; It seeks and finds enjoyment, where old age Meets pain, and therefore deems itself a sage."— " But hark, the clock—in vain—unheard its chime, For busy pleasure has no ears for time."— " A twilight creed which day all bravely mocks, But go when darkness broods upon the rocks, Climb their lone tops, while in the distant glen The last lamp glimmers from the haunts of men, When crag and cliff uncertain to the eye Take forms of life and reason's gaze defy : Then go and feel upon the wizard height, What day denies, is awful truth by night"— " We are but what we must be ; 'tis in vain We strive to break the fine yet steel linked chain Of human accident ; and chance, whose name So oft st ea l s praise, should sometimes own the shame."— " Life has strange neighbourhood—regret may wail Where death lies pillowed by the lamp-light pale, While revel, parted by a street—a wall — Leads the light dance or banquet in the hall."— This poem, though it has fallen on evil times, will, if merit be sufficient to ensure success, moat assuredly prove no failure. It has ease and strength of versification ► considerable powers of fancy ; but is, we think, unfortunate in its subject. Few readers will take readily to a poem which tends to deprive them of that which alone reconciles thousands to life. For what is life without hope ? And who would continue day after day to endure the burden of existence, if he knew that the future would be but a melan choly repetition of the past and the present ? But though the writer, as respects this world, be all distrust and gloom, as respects the future, he is all hope and confidence. His despondency is not the result of irreligion, but of sad experience. Most conscientiously, therefore, do we take it on ourselves to recommend his poem, as one of a very superior character, and which sooner or later will not fail to find its level. BYRON'S W ORKS.—Voz.. IX. LoxvoN, 1832. This volume comprises the Guiaour, the Bride of Abydos, and the Corsair, together with numerous other little poems on different sub jects. It is, as usual, beautifully illustrated by the magic skill of the Findens. The expla natory notes are numerous and apposite, and we have many fine snatches of criticism from the pens of Jeffrey, Sir W. Scott, Sir Egerton Brydges, and Mr. George Ellis. There is, in addition, a fac-simile of Lord Byron's hand-writing and corrections of the splendid Alpine storm scene in the third canto of " Childe Harold." Taken as a whole, so far as it has yet proceeded, we have never seen an edition of any popular poet so carefully and elaborately finished as this of Lord Byron. It is an honour to the taste of the age that has called it forth and patronized it. FINE ARTS. FINDEN' S ILLUSTRATI ONS of BYR ON S WORKS, PART VI. LONDON. 1832. The present number, which is only just pub lished, consists of five illustrations, three of which are landscapes, and two portraits. A half-length of Lady Byron heads the num ber, the expression of whose countenance is cold and somewhat tame, though there is an air of firmness, of fixedness, we might almost say of obstinacy, about the mouth, which in some degree redeems the face from the charge of insipidity. We should fancy her Lady ship had a penchant for the abstract sciences, and but little sympathy for the freaks and way warduesses of a man of genius. " Malta" is an exquisite engraving, finished in a style and with a spirit worthy of Finden, and such as no other artist of the day can attain. The still water is transparent as crystal ; you look through it far down into its depths, where the shadows of the impending fortresses terminate ; it is finely con trasted with the more open sea, which has just caught the first breath of a lightly stirring breeze. " Lachin-y-gair," is in a totally different style ; it is wild and frowning—the very region of gran deur and sublimity. As an engraving it is far from being equal to Malta. In parts it appears harsh and coarse, but this only when it is closely looked into ; the effect, on a first and cursory glance, is striking. " Cadiz" is beautiful. The waves sparkle in the sun-light, like a vast sheet of chased silver. The clouds, too, like all the clouds of Finden— " the cloud-compeller," as we may term him without impropriety,—are as fleecy, transparent, and graceful in their forms and hues, as Nature herself on a fine, fresh summer day. They hang self-poised in air above the city, as lightly and shadowily as if a breath of wind would blow them away. " The Maid of Saragoza," is a bold, impressive portrait of a modern Spa nish Amazon, who, from the eagle glance of her eye, and the fierce, almost truculent, expression of her broad, raised brow, we should suppose to be far more at home, far more in her element, in the camp of Bellona, than in the bower of Venus. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. The betting yesterday was much brisker than we ex ct 41 from the attendance, which was not very numerous. Lord Exeter's lot was backed very freely at 25 to 1, and there is no longer any doubt that his Lordship will send Beiram and another (Byzantium it is thought) to Don caster. Perion was also backed to 4001. or 500/. at 20 to 1, but did not advance beyond that. Two or three other fluctuations will be collected from the subjoined quo tation : DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 13 to 2 aest Mr. Watts's Nicotris 8 to 1 agst Lord Kelburne's Retainer (taken freely) 9 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave 12 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Fang 12 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Julius 13 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Ludlow 13 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Trustee 14 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher 14 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Brother to Maria (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Perion 25 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Daxon 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram 40 to 1 agst Mr. Powlett's filly by Figaro 5 to I agst Fang and Margrave 8 to I agst Trustee and Perion 600 to 200 agst Nicotris and Retainer 600 to 200 agst Fang, Margrave, and Trustae 700 to 100 agst Trustee and Brother to Maria 50 0 to 200 agst Lord Exeter's three 2000 to 60 agst Byzantium and Spencer 1000 even between Brother to Maria and Perion At the close, the odds agst Lord Exeter's lot were only 15 to 1 ; • . . Even between Nientris and Retainer. Egham Races commence this day, and are expected to be honoured by the presence of their Majesties. Good sport is anticipated. PUBLIC HEALTH AT MARGATE. Since the insertion in The Sun, on the 24th inst. of an extract of a letter, written by Mr. Waring to a friend in town, detailing the flattering state of the public health at Margate, we have received various communications, in terms very similar to the following, addres'ed to us yester day by a gentleman residing in Newgate-street. We may add that, until we heard Mr. Waring's statement read, we certainly had no conception that this little favourite sea-side resort of our weary citizens was so comparatively exempt from that affliction, which at present either ex tends, or is fast approaching to an extension, over the whole of this country—nay, over the entire face of Europe. " Permit me, through your pages, to express my thanks for the information contained in an extract of a let ter published by you from Mr. Waring, a surgeon at Mar gate, relative to the public state of health there, which, I have no doubt, will be equally welcome to others circum stanced like myself, who, having heard exaggerated reports of the prevalence of the cholera at Margate, felt it to be my and e t n h e e s sd delicate c m a t y e s r t e a s t i e d e o n f ce their n e t a h l i t s h dhe have duty to deprive my family of their annual v i s it t o t h e sea side, which of t e city, e yearly rendered necessary ; although it now appears that, so far from there having been any just causes of alarm, the inhabitants of Margate have enjoyed a comparative immunity from the disease. " I am disposed to think that on this, as on other sub jects, alarm is increased in proportion to the attempts made at concealment; and in this I am borne out by the assertion of Mr. Waring, that many persons at Mai gate would not venture to London, which fear, in all probThi lity, would instantly be done away with, if it were mad public by the Board of Health, how few cases now occur in this metropolis. " Of course my unfounded apprehensions of visiting Margate as usual, no longer exist, whither my family have this day gone." MANSION-HOUSE-(THIS DAY.) S .VA LI OWING HALF A SOVEREIGN.— Walter Burkr, the man i harged with attempting to defraud Mr. Hall, ti e Ine 1-drqter of Rshop.gate-without, by a wallowing a goo i half sovereign, and putt:n?, a gilt siepence in iis ste td, was brought up again to-day. The l riotner still protested that be was innocent, saying that be could not swallow a pea, much leas half a 'overeisn. Mr. Alderman Witso Ft ordered the coe to be re m inded to a future day; in the meantime he would have an interview with the solicitor of the Mint, for the pur pie of ascertaining whether a prosecution against the prisoner for attempting to paw bad money could be maintained. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) UNNATURAL OFFENCE.- William Wilson, a mean dirty-looking fellow, was charged by a respectable young inan in the employ of a linen•draper in the city, with an attempt to commit an unnatural offence. It appeared from the statement of the complainant, that as he was passing along St. Paul's Church-yard East, the prisoner caught hold of him, and endeavoured to force him into an ad joining court. The prosecutor detailed the particulars, which are total:y unfit for publication. The prisoner, in his defence, said he was:drunk, and did not know what he was about. Mr. Alderman BitowN ordered 24 hours' notice of bail to be given to the complainant, who was bound over to pro secute. Richard Owen, a boy about 14 or 15 years of age, was charged by Mr. Bates, the music-seller of Ludgate bill, with an attempt to pass bad money. The prisoner purchased a violin string, and tendered a bad half-crown in payment. The prisoner was remanded to Thursday, in order to give the Solicitor to the Mint an opportunity to attend. MARLBOROUGH-STEET-(THIS DAY.) John Jones, a miserably clad young man, was charged with selling unstamped publications. George Collett, of No. 12, New Totbili-street, in the employment of the Commissioners of Stamps, stated, _that he saw the prisoner in Wardour-street, this morning, offering the Poor Man's Guardian for sa'e. Witness bought one for a penny, and then took him into custody. Mr. DYER asked the prisoner why be sold those pub lications ? He replied, that he had no other means of obtaining a livelihood. As the prisoner had not been in custody before, the Magistrate ordered him to be committed only for 7 days. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 0 ew Meadow Hay 2 15 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 5 ulover Hay 4 0 6 0 Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 18 I Wheat straw... 2 0 2 2 Straw 2s. per load lower .than last quoted; prices otherwise stationary. Supply short, and trade dull. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 0 to £3 5 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and nye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay (extra fine)....£6 0 ..Generally Oat Straw ...XI la to .£1 18 1 Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2 Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEIIALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report,.l977 New Cases, 518—Deaths,219— Recovered, 330—Remaining, 1946. Total Cases since the com mencement, 41,171—Deaths, 15,116. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TiVEL VE 0' CL 0 CK. Sydney papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, to the 27th March. The Government have come to a determination to break up the establishment at the Eagle Farm, Moreton Bay, on account of its unhealthy situation. The short sentenced men are to be forwarded to Port Rlacquerie to work on the roads ; those of long sentence are to remain. The Bush Rangers have again math: their appearance in the vicinity of Curryjong; the settlers in that quarter have ',offered severely from th , ir depredations. A number of veteran and invalid soldiers return to England in the S(rathfieldsay. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, ORDER OF THE DAY. 1. Council met pursuant to adjournment, his Excel lency the Governor in the Chair. 2. Council resolved itself into a Committee, and passed the following resolution : " That a sum not exeee ling 3,0001. be appropriated to defray the expenses of bringing out mechanics and la bourers from England, under the direction of the Com missioners for emigration sitting in London." VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—It ought to be moregenerally known than it seems to be, that by the last Order in Council, regarding the trade with America, all British ports in these seas are open to their commerce. By the French mail this morning we have received from Brussels the following answer of King Leopold to Vie deputation from Liege, who waited on him after his marriage " To the present period I have only made you pro mises, but I hope in a short time to inform you of some thing more positive. We mustatill have a little patience. Diplomatic business proceeds but slowly, although for this year past our affairs have made progress, and we have a right to demand all that was promised to us. " If they are wanting of good faith, it is not to us they can attach the blame, as we have always fulfilled our en gagements ; and we have made every sacrifice, and cannot make any more." It is reported that the Belgian Chambers arc to meet i❑ the course of next month. The accounts from Napoli, of July 28, state that every thing there is in a very gloomy state, and the Russian fac tion still prevails there. The Government has not a penny in their coffers. The accounts from Toulon are of a warlike complexion. It is said that all tha vessels in that port are to be got ready for sea. Orders have been so often given in that port, and counter-ordered, that not much credit must be given to the above preparations. Accounts received at Havre from Buenos Ayres, Miy 30, state that the President, in his speech to the Cham hers, announced that the Consul-General of France was authorised to make a preliminary treaty of commerce and friendship between the two nations. THE FUNDS. The Funds still continue, without the least animation, at the prices they left oat yesterday, 881 for the Account, and 84 for the next Account. The estafette from Paris is of little import, and so it will continue until the meet ing of the Chambers.. It is now supposed that the King of France has come to a determination to have the affairs of Belgium settled without any further delay. In respect to the affairs of Portugal, we have no further information than last re ceivell—fresh accounts are anxiously sought for. We have no particular news by the Dutch steamer, which arrived last night, except the Dutch Funds being rather lower. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. The Hdmburgh steamer has arrived with the .Repor ter of the 24th of August; it is entirely destitute of news. It states, that extensive sales were made for Dutch Account, which bad the effect of depressing the Funds there. VIENNA, AUGUST 17.—Metallics, SS ; Bank Shares, 1,146. A Boston Paper has been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, of the 31st of July, but does not contain any information. We now hear as certain that a ship mounting 6 guns has been purchased in France for Don Pedro ; also that his recruiting, both here and in France, is going on with the greatest energy. It is expected, that in a short time from 800 to 1 000 cavalry will proceed to Oporto, among which are a number of Poles. A letter from a very intelligent person at Oporto says that place is now almost impregnable. Don Pedro was the whole of the day on the 17th at the arsenal, examin ing the guns to be mounted on the batteries, after he had them proved. Consols are at present 831 a fur the Account. Portuguese Scrip 41 discount ; in other foreign securities little doing. Consols 831 for Account. THREE U' CL 0 CK. The country people of the surrounding pa rishes are busily employed enclosing 500 acres for tho monks of La Trappe, at New Mount Mellefay, county of Waterford. The plough has already turned up a vast tr of barren soil, which was never before disturbed by au i•u plernent of hnsbaJadry...-Limerick Chronicle. t