The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-02 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messager des Chambres, of Saturday.) PARIS, DEC. 30.—A letter from Toulon of the 23d of December says—" The Asirolabe corvette, which sailed from" Navarin on the 2d inst., has arrived in this port with despatches from the Mari-! time Prefect. It landed, at the lazaretto of INfars&'.ies, 130 soldiers of different regiments, The Garonne has also arrived from Algiers, which it left on the 1 lth, with 300 soldiers of different corps, wheat► it landed at Marseilles. It seems, accortkin: to letters from Alg'ers, that a plan is in contemplati , 'n to form, by means of the river , . near that city, a broad canal, which shall surround the plain of Meditja. The execution of such a work would secure this extent of ground from the irruption of the Bedouins, would afford means to irrigate that plain, and would facilitate the conveyance of its produce to the sea." General d'Uzer has arrived at Lyons, and has taken the command of the Department of the Rhone. PONT DE BEAUVOISIN, DEC, 25.—We have re ceived no news from Rome, or from the Roman States. We have only learnt that a traveller, who left Rome on the 18th, has declared that at the moment of his departure all was tranquil in thy capital of the Christian world, as well as at FaPiiza and Rimini. It is now certain that the accounts lA' an insurrec tion are pure fiction. A letter from Mane and the Loire of the 24th of December says—" The Attorney-General in the Royal Tribunal of Angers, having ordered the clos ing of an illicit establishment opened at Bluisson, in the house of M. R., the clergyman, the justice of peace of the district, accompanied by an cflicer and some gendarmes, went to that commune. The clergyman protests against all that has been done. All the young men who are of age did the same. M. R. protests also for the minors, adding, that if he was prevented from instructing them at his own house, he mould do it in the church. At the end, the gendarmes entered, and the young people quit ted the place without resistance. The seals were affixed to the doors. M. R. and his pupils refused to sign the proces verbal." This affair is now submitted to the tribunals. Measures, it is said, have been taken to proceed in the same manner against all persons who open insti tutions for education without having been autho rized to do so. (From the National of Friday.) A letter from Lisbon of Dec. 10, says—" Letters from Algarve announce that a boat coming from Gibraltar, being overtaken by bad weather, ran aground on the 50. - , instant, near Castromarino. It had on board ci(teen Spaniards, some of whom were armed ; th - e storm having passed over, they re-em barked two fi,hing boats which they hired for a sum of money, and fled from the coast before the authorities of Faro had time to arrive there." LYONS, DEC. 26.—We may hope that ail the offi cers and privates of the 66th will soon have orders of knighthood. Thirteen more crosses were given to that regiment to-day. The action against the Gazette de Lynn)lois will be tried on the 30th. FRENCIT FUNOS.—PARIS, DE:e. 30—Else per Cents. Dflf. tiOc. TO.. 75C. 800. 90e. 80c. 61)c. 50c. 45c. 96f, 50e, ; Four per Cents., 82f. ; Three per Cents., 68f. 45c. 3.5 c. 30c. 35c. 30c. tOc. 45c. .55c. 6.5 c. - 68 f. 30c. ; Bank Stock, 1,615 f. ; Rente de Naples, 77f. 75e. ; Rente d'Espagne, 10 1 7 4 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 73 7714 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 58L 1 4 5B ; Haytian Loan, ^4of. Exchange on ndon, one month, paper, '2sf. 35c ; money, 9.5 f. 3.5 c. ; three months, paper 25f. 20c.; money, 2.5 f. 20c.— Cours Authentique. FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELs, DEC. 29.—The number of Belgian troops ordered to Luxemburg is about 5,000 men : very rigorous orders have been gievn against the re bels who may be taken with arms in their hand. The following are extracts from the Journal de Luxemburg of the 24th : " We publish to-day the papers which the Com mittee of the Friends of Legal Order formed at Hol lerith has circulated in the country, to announce its installation and its object, which is to get rid of the revolutionary Government and to restore the legal authority of his Majesty the Grand Duke of Lux emburg. " The first operation of the Committee seems to have been to secure to the corps of the volunteers, the command of which it has given to M.Wauthier, a complete and regular organization. This corps is reinforced every moment, and has in its ranks citi zens who have left their employments, their busi ness, slid their property, to contribute to the in tended result. " We are positively assured that the Committee Hollerich has appointed M. Stappers to the or e of Inspector-General of the forests of the Grand Duchy, and has specially commissioned him to levy a bavalion of c-,asseurs." The-Journal of Luxemburg publishes also three proclamtvions, signed by the Committee of Friends of Lei:al Order :—" Baron de Piel, B iron Auguste (l Tornaco, Schames." The following is the second of their proclamations : " Notice to the inhabitants of Luxemburg.—We have this day made an appeal to nor to induce them to join us and the communes, which have already declared their adherence to the Govern ment of his Majesty the Grand Doke of Luxem burg. By the present notice we call particularly on those who are in a situation to serve in the corps which is destined to protect this return to legal order, and to insure the public tranquillity and the security of persons and property. " Luxemburgers ! your ancestors have left to you an inestimable legacy, that of unalterable fidelity to your legitimate Sovereign. You will save this noble inheritance by voluntarily replacing yourself under the government of the Monarch whom all Europe gave you in 1813. " To arms, then citizens : come and join us, for the support of the most just of taus-s. To arms, particularly you old soldiers, militiamen, and others capable of military service ; a franc a-day pny is promised you. " The Committee of the Friends of Legal Order, " Baron de PIEL. "Baron AUGUSTE de TORNACO. " SCHA3IES." Hollerith, Dec. 21, 1831. The following are extracts from private letters contained in the same Journal ARLoN, DEC. 25.—This morning a French Captain of Grenadiers arrived with a letter from the Governor of the fortress of Longwy, in which inforrnaiion was asked respecting the events that have been passing during the last week in the province of Luxemburg. From another letter of the 25th, containing the accounts I sent you the day before ye,terday, I regret to have to announce to you that the progress of the revolutionary insurrection is every moment becoming more important, and all communication iN already intercepted between Arlon and most of the German cantons; and that I have been just informed that the Committee has made several appointments, One of which is that of the receiver of stamp-duties at Mersch and at Beilemburg. M. Thorn, and all the persons belonging to the Government of the province, are still at Arlon. (FROM A TIIIRD LETTER.) In this letter, which is of great length, an account is given . of a sally made on th e 24th by part of th e n garson of Luxemburg, as far as to Mamer. The Commissioner of the di,trict who had resided in that village for eight months was ordered by the military authorities to quit it. The officers who com manded this detachment indulged in all sorts of insults. The report of the taking of Arlon is unfounded ; the corps of partisans is divided into two, to a c t at the same time towards Dickirch and towards Bel lemburg. The Dutch gensdarmes have seized the papers of M. Nlalle, inspector at Eich , of the receiver of the stamp duties at Walferdange, &c. We learn that M. de Tornaco arrived at Namur yesterday, by the diligence, escorted by two of the Marechatissee and two Civic Guards. Sir Robert Adair yesterday despatched an express to London. BEumsFLa, DEC. 29. —An Eves!' Cabinet rnes- conger set out yesterday afternoon for the Hague, I with despatches for Sir Robert Adair. General Vandermeeren has just passed _through Ghent on his way from Brussels to Paris and Londin. , The Memorial, kri , ,,fr gives extracts from several letters of the 26th and 27th, relative tO the affairs of Luxemburg. The bands, tfft.'y say, are intrenched within the precincts (`,.-ayon) of the fortress of Lux emburf, V. , lllch extends above three learues from the city, and comprehends in its circumference mom than 12 leagues of territory. On the 26th they were said to be concentrated in the vast building 'of the Studs at Walferdange, a league and a lirtif from Luxemburg. On tht same day, exertions were making to remote Arlon from a e..oup de main. That !cwt., was still without troops. But it seemed that at several parts of the German frontier, the Custom-house officers', united with the gendarmes and the eiviclr,ttaH, were prepared to resist. On the 23J, a detachment of 160 men advanced from Hesperange by the Grumeald to Mersch ; but, on the approach of the civic wards of Diekirch and Ettebruck, they ret•••eal:ed to Walferdange. On the st.itie day the Marechausse of E' tebruck captged, near Colmar, the youngest Tonaco, escorted him to Arlen. The Moniteur Bel c has the following postscript : —A letter from Arion, of the 27th, says, the band of Orangists, of the province of Luxemburg, expe rienced) on the 26th, a severe check at the bridge of Ettebruck, near Diekirch. Some patriot volunteers, reinforced by the Cus tom-house officers of Diekirch and Grevenmacher, and some gendarmes ) completely repulsed the bri - s gancls, many of whom were wounded, and eleven taken prisoners. The band retreated to Ntralfer dange, in the precincts of the fortress. There is every reason to believe that this insurrection is drawing to a eloe. The authors and chiefs seem to he discouraged. They depended too much on the means of corruption at their disposal; with a few exceptions, the Belgian functionaries have indig nantly rejected the scandalous and insulting proposals made to them. The band of insurgents has been received from the beginning with such aversion in the whole country, that it could see at the beginning that its triumph would not be long. Its speedy dispersion is looked fur. A postscript to the letter we have just quoted announces, that the General who commands in Luxemburg has received orders immediately to expel from the fortresses all those who have taken part in the insurrection, if they will not desist from exciting new troubles in the country. BRUSSELS, DEC. 30.—Reports from the Governor of Luxemburg and from Colonel Laseaille, com manding the Belgian troops in that province, an nounce the defeat of the insurgents, and an order from the German Diet to the Governor of the for tress not to harbour armed men who in their excur sions molest the peaceable inhabitants. The Journal of Luxemburg , of the 28th confirms these accounts. It says that the day after the retreat of the insur gents to Wailerdange, the corps of M. de Wauthier was suddenly obliged to dissolve itself : a notice to this effect has been given it at asperange. Orders issued by the Governor of the fortress require that no military body whatever shall remain in arms within the precinct of the fortress. It was in con formity with this rule that at a former time the Bel gian civic guards of the villages surrounding Lux emburg were disarmed, and that a battalion of the troops of the garrison advanced to Namur to pre vent the approach of the civic guards, whom the governor of Arlon sent thither from time to time.— In consequence of this measure, most of the men under the command of M. de \Vauthier have re-en. tered Luxemburg, after depositing their arms at the gate of the city. It is affirmed that Baron A. de Tornaco, with 25 or 30 men,proceeded towards atelbruck, and that his 'coop was defeated at the entrance of the town by the civic guard and gendarmes, five being killed and some made prisoners. Thus, in spite of the efforts of those who directed this movement, it has been obli g ed to give way to the orders which the military Governor of Luxem burg found it his duty to issue for the preservation and defence of the fortress. Baron A. de Tornaco returned to Luxemburg wounded in the hand ; he was forced to save him self by swimming across the Alzette. Baron C. de Tornaco has written to the Chamber of Repre,entatives, complaining of having been ille gally arrested. He was to arrive yesterday evening in the prison of the Petits Carmes, at Brussels. The Chambers have been chiefly engaged in the discussion of financial measures.—Brussels Papers, Dec. 31. WARSAW, DEC. 18.—The Provisional Govern ment announces in his Majesty's name, that Prince Paskewitsch having represented to the Emperor that the battalion of the 6th regiment of infantry of the Polish army, which had laid down its arms at Cra cow on the 17th of Sepember, had wholly submitted to the clemency of the Emperor, his Majesty has been pleased to grant to that battalion entire pardon and oblivion of every thing that has passed. The bridge over the Vistula, between Warsaw and Piaga, is repaired. The Warsaw Gazelle ob serves, that in Poland, Lithuania, and Gallicia, more Jews than Christians have died of the cholera. The weather is still mild, Reaumur's thermome ter fluctuating from three to s:x above Zero. ST. PETERSBCRGII, DEC. 17.—0 n Sunday last a solemn Te Deum was performed in the chapel of the Winter Palace, at which the Imperial family were present, to return thanks to God for the total cessation of the cholera at St. Peters. burgh. The city was illuminated in the evening. BERLIN, DEC. 24..—We have only tive cholera patients remaining.—Prussian State Gazette. VIENNA, DEC. 19.—The last three days, the 17th, 18th, and 19th, there have been twelve new cases of cholera, four deaths, and twenty-eight re coveries ; so that the Humber is now reduced to thirty-one—viz. two in the city, and twenty-nine in the suburbs. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. Dee. 17. Iq. Five per Cents. B6 1.16 Four per Cents. 76 1-3 75!, Bank Shares. 1167% —Austrian Observer, Dec. 2. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—His Majesty's ship Isis, 50, Capt. J. Poikinghorne (bearing the flag of Rear- Admiral Warren, C. 8.) sailed on Sunday in company with the Charybdis, gun brig, and Pluto, steam vessel, for the River Gambia, but anchored the same day at St. Helen's, whence they proceeded on the following morning for their destination. His Majesty's ship Wellesley, 7 , 1, Captain S. C. Rowley; Curacoa, 24, Capt. David Dunn ; and Tweed, 20, Com. A. Bertram ; arrived on Sunday from the Downs. The former brought to this port several volunteer seamen for the /Etna, surveying vessel, and sailed on Wednesday for Plymouth, to be paid off into Ordinary, having previously dis charged several men to his Majesty's ship Melville, 76, who had volunteered for her. The Curacoa and Tweed will sail the latter end of the week, the former for the East Indies, and the latter for the North American station. His Majesty's surveying vessel lEtna, Corn. Belcher, sailed on Wednesday, in company with the Raven cutter, Lieutenant Arlett, for Teneriffe, and thence to the coast of Africa. His Majesty's gun brig l'tcruit, Lieut. Hodges, arrived on Wednesday from the Baltic, and anchored At the Motherhank M quarantine, with dispatches from the British Ambassador at the Hague. She was released on Friday and came up to Spithead. His Majesty's ship Pelorus, 18, Commander It. Meredith (fitted for the Cape and African station) arrived on Wednesday from Sheerness as ith volun teer seamen for his Majesty's ship Melville, fitting this port. The Pelorus was paid advanc e of wages yesterday, and will proceed to her destination to morrow, via the river Gambia. Ilk Majesty's ship Revenge, 76, Captain D. Mackay, called off the port of Plymouth, on Sun day last, for the purpose of embarking on board Captain P. Richards to join his 'Majesty's. ship Asia, itt Lisbon, to which he lies beeii appointed, vice parker, who will return to this port as flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief in his Majesty's ship Victory. His Majesty's steam-vessel Confiance, Lieut. Bel son, proceeded on Wednesday with troops to south= ampton, on their route t - ,o I.ristol, and returned on the satte day-. His Majesty's schooner Viper, Lieut. °ratio ?fames, arrived on Frida; , from Ostend, having been lying at that port upwards of two mouths. 9:i3 Majesty's ship Melville, Caftan Jerry Hart (fitted for the (lig of Vice--AJlnirai Sir John Gore, K.C.B. appointed TL....ommarider-in-Chief in the East rn , ii . as) will go out of harbour to-morrow : ned proceed to her destination in abor.t ',seem: after,: arils. We observe his Majesty's ship Victory, 104 , , has at length taken up her old station off Stony Steps, 'Gosport, and hoisted the Commander-in-Chief's flag, white at the main. The Manlius, transport, Lieutenant Thompson, Agent, now at Spitheadi, tizi l .l proceed the moment the wind will permit, for Woolwich, with Naval ~~yj row s . . The American packet ship Sampson, having carried away her rudder, has been permitted to be taken into dock to be repaired. We understand her fittings up are exceedingly splendid, fully equal to any of our Royal yachts. At Spithead—Curacoa, Recruit, Tweed, Pelores, and Viper schooner. In Ilarhour—Victory, Britannia, Royal George, Melville, Madagascar, Childers, Confidence, and taloon tender. PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Captain P. Richards is appointed to his Majesty ship Asia, vice Parker, appointed to his Majesty's ship Victory as flig Captain to the Commander-in-Chief at this pore.—Lieutenant C. M. Wright is appointed to his Majesty's ship Harrier.—Mr. Alexander Baxter, Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory, doing duty at Haslar, is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's gun brig Charybdis.—Mr. J. Watson, Supernumerary Assis tant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory, doing duty at Haslar, is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's packet brig Cygnet —Mr. John Bowler is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Ma jesty's steamer Confiance.—The appointment of Mr. Abraham Courtney, as Surgeon of his Ma jesty's ship Curacoa has been cancelled, and Mr. John Drummond, who had been appointed to his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, t but which appoint ment has also been cancelled) has been re-appointed to the Curacoa.—Mr. Clement Pattison is ap pointed Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Childers, vice S;andbridge, placed on the retied list.—Mr. J. Va lence is appointed Supernumerary Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory. THE NAVY. I'ROMOTIONS in the LAST QUARTER. POST CAPTAINS. Thomas Wren Carter ; Sir Thomas Sabine Piisley, But. ; Samuel Puke, James Wallace Gabriel, John Hind marsh, William Broughton, Alexander Ellice. COMMANDERS. Jahn Geary, Joh , ' Fraser, William Kelly, (c), Algernon Henry Champagne Cipel, Horatio Thomas Austin, Wil liam Shepheard, Frederick Rogers, Henry West, William Rams ty, C )rnwallis Ricketts, Hon. George Grey, Henry John Codrington, William Langford Castle, John Hudson (b), John Taylor (the Junior Commander,) St. Leger A'dworth, Hon. Henry Anthony Murray, Hon. John O'Grady, Henry Wells Giffard, Josep'a Denman, Philip De Saumarez, Hon. George Robert Anson Clements, John Goodrich Dick, John Henry Windham, John ill'Clintock Clive, Balchen Folkes West, Robert Thornton Eyre, Ed ward Foley, Owen Stanley, Right Hon. Lord Clarence Edward Paget, Andrew Snape Hamond, George Williams, George John Hirtzel, Edward Stokes Pearce, James Banks West, Samuel Jones, Charles Henry Hamilton, An thony William Milward, John Fulford, Charles John Bosanquet, Thomas Frederick Birch, Hear!: Wedderburn Johnstone, John Hughes Lloyd, Hon. Dudley Worsley An derson Pelham, John Gore, Montague Thomas, Peelle Hart Dyke, William Coyde, Charles Edward Powys, James Johnstone M'Cleverty, Henry Charles Otter, James M'Kenzie Robertson, James Campbell (b), George Wen ham Lewis (the Junior Lieutenant.) PRIZES in the COURSE of PAYMENT. WAR OF 1793. Fairy, for Ep•rvier, Capt. 13, Nov. 1797 ; pay, Oct. 20, 1831.—Ditto, far Sn. del Pont, and St. Bona yenta, Capt. Jan. IS, 1799 ; pay ditto. WAR OF ISO 3. Athol!, for Santiago, Capt. Aug. 3, 1830 ; pay, ditto. —Ditto, for Neuva Isabelita, Capt. Oct. 17, 1830 ; pay, ditto.—Bream, for Wasp, Capt. June 10, 1813 ; pay, Dec. 1, 1831.—Eden, for Emprendedor, Capt. June 12, IS2B ; pay, Oct. 20, IS3l.—Ditto, for Henrietta, Capt, Aug. 11, 1828 ; pay, ditto.—Ditto, for Coquette, Capt. Nov. 13, 1828 ; pay, ditto.—Ditto, for Jules and Jeane Eugene, Capt. Jan. 6, 1829 ; pay, ditto. —Ditt, for Adeline, Cipt. Feb. 7, 1829 ; pay, ditto.—Ditto, for Mensagerie, Capt. 15. Feb. 1829 ; pay, ditto.—Ditto, for Hirondelle, Capt. Feb. 26, 1829; pay, ditto.—Ditto, for Mu,quito or Isabella, Capt. April 1-1, 1828; pay, Nov. I, 1831 ;—Ditto, for Voadoro, Capt. April 19, 1828 ; pay, ditto.—Spartiate, for seize of spirits, June 13, 1826; pay. The sum of 121. Bs., amount of seizure, paid over to the Treasurer of the Navy. INTEREST OF THE SHIPOWNERS• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. is almost useless to attempt to dispel the de lusions which the shipowners have so long practiced upon this country, but as they persist in stating that they have no protection, I cannot refrain from asking them the fol lowing question : Why does this country sacrifice Three Millions of Revenue annually, to compel the IMportaaon of Timber from Canada and Russia, when it can be obtained so much cheaper in Norway and Sweden? We actually p.ly Canada forty per cent. more for deals than a superior article costs in Russia, and we pty Russia ten per cent. more than wood of equal quality can be procured for in Norway and Sweden. This loss to the nation may be estimated at two millions more, making with the loss of revenue five millions sacrificed for the shipowner., and I defy them to disprove my statements. It is a notorious fact, to those who are any way con nected with the Canadian trade, that the ship in it are not worth more than the annual sacrifices of revenue made to emp'oy them, and that this much vaunted trade, so far from requiring more sailors than the Baltic trade (which a sup .rficial view of it would induce inexperienced persons to think it did) is carried on with a smaller number, in consequence of the ship; being of a larger class, and there fore navigated with fewer hands, in proportion to the car goes they bring. A large Canadian ship will load twice as much as a Baltic trader, with two or three additional seamen. Instead of injuring their characters by misrepresentation, let the shipowners join the public in pressing on Ministers the absolute necessity of reducing taxation, or removing part of it from the industrious to the idle part of the com munity, who can better bear it. If that almost unpro ductive tax, the duty on foreign oak timber were re pealed, the English carpenter could build ships as cheaply as the foreigner. Why our patriotic and disinterested shipowners will not apply for this very efficient remedy against foreign competition, is, that it might reduce the ♦alue of their old ships a trifle. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, A CONSTANT READER. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S state of health is far from satisfactory to his friends. The detni-official bulletins which daily reiterate assurances of his recovery, and would make him out to be even better than well, are not to be trusted ; the! are arranged and concocted by the professional Janus, who wrote what Mr. BROUGHAM de• nounced in the House of Commons as the " treacherous bulletins" that mystified the public when the late KING was dying. That silky gentleman, who was found so useful in the diseased Court of GEORGE the Fourth (our honest WILLIAM needs no such ministering, nor allows it), is still a medium of intrigue between certain parties whose proceedings are not unmarked ; and it serves a pur pose of the faction to have it supposed that the Duke of WELLINGTON is physically able, if need were, to resume that place in the King's Councils which he was unable to keep. The poor Duke, we dare say, has very different thoughts. What from bleeding, what from strong medi cines, he is exceedingly reduced in strength and emaciated in appearance—he is now wholly unable, however willing, to attend to the calls of factious politics.—Spectator. /MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKW 0 OD' S MA GAZINE. There are far too many and too violent poli tical articles in this ntitnber. Polities; in fact; engross it td the ekclusion of almost every other subject. We miss, also, Profes:3or Wilson's pen, though not a Copious commendation of hi s last Anti-Reform speech delivered at Edinburgh the best political article in the whole number is decidedly thAne entitled the " State of PUb lic Feeling ift Scotland." Which; though acri- Ti'icsniol:ii, as was to be expected, is full of pith and vigour. The writer asserts—what a face he must have !---that the Reform Bill is unpopular among all the respectable and influential classet in the north. Why, lh n, is the cry not silenced? If such were really the case, surely it could not exist a month together ! " The Traveller in Spite of Himself " is a well told, though ill-con structed, story ; and the " Bracelet" of the Ger man school of romance writing, possesses one pleasing descriptive passage, which we subjoin. On the whole, we consider the present Black wood passable,—nothing more. "At the upper extremity of the chamber the resplen dent moonbeam fell on the figure of a lady, white as snow, reclining on a couch, with her head supported by her arm. Never before had Carl beheld, even in dreams, a vision of such dazzling beauty. So perfectly symmetrical her features, so delicately moulded her figure, so gracefully negligent her attitude, and so motionless withal, that Carl, as he glided slowly towards her, his eyes and hands elevated with rapturous astonishment, began to suspect he was mocked by some surpassing specimen of the statuary's art. As he drew nearer, he perceived that the lady was asleep—at least her head dropped a little, and her eyes ,vere do-ed. Ile stood within a few paces of her. Ile had never before seen features so perfectly beautiful. Her brow wore the pure hue of alabaster ; her eyebrows were most delicately pencilled and shaded off; her nose, of soft Grecian outline, was exquisitely chisselled ; and her small dosed lips seemed like a bursting rose-bud. The !flied fingers of the little hand supporting her head, peeped out in rich contrast from among her black tresses ; while her right hand lay concealed beneath the folds of a long rich veil. What with gazing on the lovely recumbent, and the generous potency of the wine he had been drinking, Carl felt himself; as it were, under a new influence. Fear and doubt had passed away. He fell softly on his knees before the beautiful incognita. Her features moved not." MONTHLY MA GAZINE. This periodical has passed into new hands and without intending to disparage the tact of its original conductors, we cannot but confess that it is Much improved. In politics it takes the side of Reform, having long been notorious for the bitterness and uncompromising quality of its Ultra-Tory prejudices. This alteration alone, to say nothing of divers minor ones, will conduce much to its popularity. The historiette, entitled " Dr. Francia, the Dictator of Paraguay," really puts forth some novel information respecting the public and private character of one of the most remarkable despots of modern times. " Wy socki's Narrative of the Polish Insurrection," is pleasantly enough written, but makes its ap pearance too late. The " Memoir of Ugo Fos• cold" is painful, but deeply interesting. " Oyster Day, by a Native," is an agreeable conceit, agreeably wrought up. The remaining articles are numerous and well-selected. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This regenerated periodical, which has cast l off the " old man," and put on the new Adam, passes the boundary line of 1832 with a firm, confident step, as if weariness and ennui were things not even to be dreamed of. We hope it will realise its expectations, and, above all, its professions. All looks fair at present ; but the journey has been short hitherto ; the difficulties of the road have yet to be experienced and sur mounted. The introductory observations on the " New Year" are very gracefully and perti nently written. We subjoin an extract, which embodies an useful, interesting, and character istic anecdote, regarding the deserved influence of that upright and intelligent hebdomadal, the Spectator newspaper : " Now let us tell Our country readers, afraid of incen diadem and quaking at Captain Swing, an anecdote that ' occurred within our own knowledge. In one of the dis tressed and insurgent districts last year, there was a certain incorrigible hamlet of se lf-confessed machine-breakers and suspected rick-burners. In vain went the squire, in vain the parson, in vain the bailiff, (a popular fellow in his way too, with a bluff, pleasant manner,) among this formidable ne.t.of rustic conspirator., explaining, denouncing, and imploring, talking one moment of increased wages, and the next of a month at the tread-mill. Our sturdy insur gents laughed at the teachers, who they fancied wanted to delude, and who they knew wanted to pacify, them. A month at the tread-mill was no hardship, and that they conceived the extent of the penance to which they were liable. Things grew worse ;—barns were fired as well as and half a dozen soldiers were sent for in despair to try the last logic of the bayonet ; when happily a stray number of the Spectator newspaper found its way down to the Parson's sicarage. In this paper was a short state ment or address to the agricultural rioters, informing them of the nature of their crimes and the extent of their pu nishment; in a word, explaining what neither squire nor peasant knew b e fore, that that punishment was not at the most a short exercise in the treadmill—it was transporta tion—it was death. The parson was a clever and a shrewd roan. He sent for some score copies of this piper, and instantly caused them to be circulated among the rioters. The effect was magical : the whole tone of that admirable paper is ao liberal, that the most violent perceived that they were adCressed by a friend, and the law, in this number, was so clearly put forth, that the most sturdy were ap palled by the statement. Within a week from that time fei r i — s a t n if the peasaits were not wholly reconciled to the farmers —the macl ines at least were ag ; i in in work, and the busi ness of liglifing the swart face of ni g ht was left once more to the stars and Diana. Here what soldiers could not have done, was effected b y a news p a p er. And here is a fact th it says volume s for chea p periodicals. Had wot ks of an equal honesty and intelligence been early sold for a penny a-piece, throughout the villages of Kent and S uss ex , we should not perhaps have been called upon to celebrate t h e so l e m n holiday of t h e Christian world. with executions of vengeance , and warrants of death ; nor have crowded our gaols with men whom we first condemned to igno rance, a nd whom ignorance, and therefore ourselves, hur ried blindfo ld into crime. This is the first day of a new yhe gh and august commencement o f a new series he onward step in the g r e at march of human we h ore already taught to aim at brave pe d estin i e s tit e exalted triumphs. On this day, therefore, as the first o f all political objects, higher than any Parlia mentary Reform, and without which Parliamentary R e f or m exposes us rather to the caprices of pas sion than to the power of opinion,—we insist earnestly, seriously, resolvedly upon the early necessity of removing a ll taxes that press upon knowledge, and of laying the gratin• d • work of true national amendmen t in a national educatien. We call upon Lord Althorp to redeem his old pledges on the Stamp Act ;—we invoke Lord Brougham to mature those gre it schemes, of which pamphlets on hydrostatics arc a tantalizing forerunner—scarcely useful as a beginning —utterly abortive as an end. The school master is abroad, but at present we have seen more of his rod than his books." (c Th e Temper of the House of Lords" is a misnomer. It is, however, a readable, though desultory, essay. " English Notions of Mo rality" arc a dmirable. So severe, so cutting, y e t so perfectly just and dignified ! Whoever penned this brief, but pungent paper, has shown that he is a man possessed of great and varied powers of obgervation. " The /inti-Reformer" is a tale of the customary calibre. " Asmodeus at large," clever, though the conception is hacknied ; and the " Conversations with an Ambitious Student," remarkable fur some ingenious and rather fantastic speculatitms the merits of " Young's Night Thoughts." The portrait of Talleyrand is faithful as a likeness, and creditable as a work of art and the minor matters, the mechanical part of the Magazine, is executed in an improved spirit, with evident pains-taking, by a gentleman, who, because he possesses talent, does not think it beneath him to adopt the diligent habits of a man of business; . METROPOLITAN. This Magazine has reached us at so late an hour, that we have merely time to direct atten tion to the following pleasing stanzas by Camp bell : So all this gallant blood has gusli'd in vain And Poland, by the Northern Condor's beak And talons torn, lies prostrated again. 0, British patriots, that were wont to speak Once loudly on this theme, now hush'd or meek 0, heartless men of Europe—Goth and Gaul Cold, adder-deaf to Poland's dying shriek ; That saw the world's last land of heroes fall— The brand of burning shame is on you all—all—all But this is not the drama's closing act; Its tragic curtain must uprise anew. Nations, mute accessories to the fact, That Upas-tree of power, whose fostering dew Was Polish blood, has yet to cast o'er you The lengthening shadow of its head elate— A deadly shadow, darkening Nature's hue. To all that's hallow`d, righteous, pure, and great, No! wo ! when they are reach'd by Russia's withering hate. Russia, that on his throne of adamant, Consults what nation's breast shall next be gored : Ile on Polonia's Golgotha will plant His standard fresh ; and, horde succeeding horde, On patriot tomb-stones he will whet the sword, For more stupendous slaughters of the free. Then Europe's realms, when their best blood is pour'd, Shall miss thee, Poland, as they bend the knee, All—all in grief, but none in glory likening thee. Why smote ye not the Giant whilst he reel'd ? O fair occasion, gone for ever by : To have lock'd his lances in their northern field, Innocuous as the phantom chivalry That flames and hurtles from yon boreal sky ! Now wave thy pennon, Russia, o'er the land Once Poland; build thy bristling castles high; Dig dungeons deep; for Poland's wrested brand Is now a weapon new to widen thy command-- An awful width ! Norwegian woods shall build His fleets ; the Swede his vassal, and the Dane : The glebe of fifty kingdoms shall be till'd To feed his dazzling, desolating train, Camp'd, sunless, 'twixt the Black and Baltic main : Brute hosts, I own; but Sparta could not write, And Rome, half-barbarous, bound Achaia's chain : So Russia's spirit, midst Sclavonic night, Burns with a fire more dread than all your polish'd light. But Russia's limbs (so blinded statesmen say) Are crude, and too colossal to cohere. O lamentable weakness ! reckoning weak The stripling Titan, strengthening year by year. What implement lacks he for war's career, That grows on earth, or in its floods and mines, (Eighth sharer of the inhabitable sphere) Whom Persia bows to, China ill confines, And India's homage waits, when Albion's star declines ? But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering Has handmaid arts : ay, ay, the Russ will woo All sciences that speed Bellona's car, All murder's tactic arts, and win them too; But never holier Muses shall imbue His breast, that's made of nature's basest clay : The sabre, knout, and dungeon's vapour blue His laws and ethics : far from him away Are all the lovely Nine, that breathe but freedom's day. Say, ey'n his serfs, half-humanized, should learn Their human rights,—will Mars put out his flame In Russian bosoms ? no, he'll bid them burn A thousand years for nought but martial fame, Like !lonians: yet forgive me, Rouian name! Rome could impart what Russia never can ; Proud civic rights to salve submission's shame. Our strife is coming ; but in freedom's van The Polish eagle's fall is big with fate to man. Proud bird of old ! Mohammed's moon recoil'd Before thy swoop ; had we been timely bold, That swoop, still free, had stunn'd the Russ, and foil'd Earth's new oppressors, as it foil'd her old. Now thy majestic eyes are shut and cold ; And colder still Polonia's children find The sympathetic hands that we uphold. But, Poles, when we are gone, the word will mind, Ye bore the brunt of fate, and bled for humankind. So hallowedly have ye fulfilled your part, My pride repudiates even the sigh that blends With Poland's name—name written on my heart. My heroes, my grief-consecrated friends ! Your sorrow, in nobility, transcends Your conqueror's joy ; his cheek may blush ; but shame Can tinge not yours, though exile's tear descends; Nor would ye change your conscience, cause, and name, For his, with all his wealth, and all his felon fame. Thee, Niemciewitz, • whose song of stirring power The Czar forbids to sound in Polish lands; Thee, Czartoryski, in thy banish'd bower, The patricide, who in thy palace stands, May envy ; proudly may l'olonia's bands Throw down their swords at Europe's feet in scorn, Saying—" Russia, from the metal of these brands Shall forge the fetters of your sons unborn ; Our setting star is your misfortune's rising morn." • This venerable man, the most popular and influerf Polish poets, and President of the Academy at Warsaw, is now in L ondon : he is seventy.fo ur years old; but his noble spirit is rather mellowed than decayed by age. lie was the friend of Fox, Kosciusko, and Washington. Rich in anecdote like Frank lin, he has also a striking resemblance to him in countenance. MONTHLY RE VIE TV. There is an admirable exposure, in a review of Mr. Pilkington's work on the subject, of the humbug of the unknown tongues, in this num ber, to which we direct the attention of our readers. The reviewer's comments are entitled to the deepest respect. FRASER' S MA GAZIIVE. There is less rancorous personality than usual in the current number of this spirited magazine, which we consider in the light of a decided im provement. The articles, which are numerous, are, with but few exceptions, written with much tact and appropriateness. The best is the first one, " On the Political Conduct of the Clergy," and the worst is the last one, " On the Mani festation of Spiritual Gifts." This strange, mot ley production is the avowed offspring of the Rev. E. Irving's intellect, and truly it bears in every sentence undeniable tokens of its parentage. Its attempts at argument are futile in an emi nent degree. We have no space for extracts. UNITED SERVICE JO URNAL. A very stirring and effective number, full of anecdote and incident. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL Boasts the possession of one very able and elaborate dissertation on a subject requiring much research at the hands of him who undertakes it ; we mean the " Origin and Affinity of the Lan• guages of Asia and Europe," which would not have done discredit even to the late Sir William Jones. SPORTING MAGAZINE. A light, piquant affair, embellished with two engravings, one of the celebrated racer Smarag dine, and the other of the Jockey Club new rooms, at Newmarket. LA BELLE, ASSEMBLER. This fashionable, and we may add, splendid periodical has renewed its youth like )Eson. A new editor, it seems, has been appointed, and the literary department bears evident tokens of improvement. Miss Jewsbury is here, Mrs. S. C. Hall, and the indefatigable Miss Landon. In addition to these recommendations we have an exquisitely engraved portrait of Lady 111diol banks, which, for softness and delicacy of fillii up, and general richness of effect, is the best I have yet seen in any number of " La Belle." nu( nk Si et Ce er Ce per( An R ATHENzE UM. Jan . The last monthly part of this clever atM I popular hebdomadal has just this instant reachel,anpki us. It presents a very comely appearanct la _ and teem with intelligent notices of all th?tom works that have lately attracted public&rilaY ,Ai 7,yr k Bueno, LADY'S MAGAZINE. „,C1 War There are a variety of pleasing tales number, chiefly of the Penseroso CllaraCter sd e 4 calculated to gain a lady's attention. Molt tirral , T there is an engraving named the Italian b: a ^. the way, we suppose, of a lu re t o th e p u bli c which is o f t h e usua l average in point of meritrns k o nv_ WORLD OF FASHION-GENTLEMAN', MAGAZINE OF FASHION. These two works, the literary portions 0 1 . 4 1 which a re p rec i se l y what might be expected, art very beautifully embellished with a variety o engravings. One of them contains one of th' most humorous caricatures of Lord Brougham in the likeness of an old witch, enchanting all the House of Lords, we have lately met with. MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY As this has only just come to hand OW I) o'clock) we can merely say of it that, judgiq from its chapter of contents, it appears to con' tarn much that is useful, and more that is enter— taining to amateurs of Natural History. DEVONSHIRE AND CORNWALL LUSTRATED. The engravings in this number (the thirtieth) exhibit no falling off' in point of excellence, .1 while the literary explanations, though necessa rily brief, are agreeably written and to the point , hi! hip THENATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLER The portraits in this, the thirty-third, num. : ber, are Sir Thomas Plumer, late i'.l"-.ster of the :, Rolls ; Warren Hastings, immortal so long as di , the recollection of Burke and Sheridan endure; and the late Lord Melville. They are all clever in samples of engraving, and the slight biographic:3 ), attached, exhibit Mr. Jerdan in the light of an easy, agreeable writer. To show the apprehensions which are enter- - tamed nbout th e new B an k ruptcy Court, it is a fact that one list of the Commissioners have, in three weeks, in the months of November and December last, realised each man Lis eighty-fiv e pounds, and that the same list, nu Friday last, pocketed thirty-five pounds each. The new Court will have nothing to do. ALICE PAULET, BY THE AUTHOR OF SYDENIIIOI. " —This new novel, from the eloquent and s-itirical pen of one of our best modern writers, has, as might have been expected, excited great curiosity in the fashionable world. We question whether, with the excep• tion of the " Waverley Novels," any work has for years created so general a demand, or been read with greater pleasure ; indeed, it is written in a style of cool irony and elegant sarcasm, that has seldom been surpassed—while the vices and foibles of the more polite classes are pourtrayed in their true colours, by the pen of a severe critic cer tainly, but a decided master of his subject.-- Cheltenham Chronicle. Professor PORSON and the late Mr. JoHNI KEmBLE had the most extraordinary memories of any men in modern times. They were first introduced to each other by the writer of this paragraph. On that occas'olt at a humble dinner, they remained until four or five o'clock in the morning, reciting, from their inexhaustible stores of recollection, SILAYSPEARE, DRYDEN, and Porz. MATRINIONY.—A poor helpless fellow was carried to Oewestry Church in a sedan this week, and supported himself on crutches to the altar, while his fair • spouse went round about the nearest way, to escape the gaze of a great throng who had accompanied her partner to the place of union.—A poor girl in Meole parish was married last week to a parish apprentice in St. Chad's parish, Shrewsbury ! What are the consequences of such unions ? Pauperism—profligacy—misery. Nor are these the only evils. The murderer HOLLOWAY, executed last week, attributed the commencement of his vicious courses to his having been compelled by parish officers to marry pauper like hi mself. —Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE YOUNG DUKE.—The demand for this last work, by the author of " Vilian'Grey," continues un abated. The writer has recently returned from a tour in Italy and Greece, and has just prepared a new edition which will be published very shortly. The gambling scene in this work, in which the " Young Duke" is initi ated into the mysteries of play by the blacklegs of the West, forms one of the most brilliant scenes ever intro slimed into the pages of modern fiction. CHOLERA. —The Coventry Mercury of this week contains a letter front Newcastle. upon-Tyne, of Wednesday's date, addressed to Captain Jr.u.icox, of the recruiting staff in that city, by Mr. MELIN, surgeon of the 9th Lancers, who has been residing at Sunderiand and Newcastle for some weeks, for the purpose of studying the symptoms and treatment of the disease, from which the following is extracted : —" The disease is really one of the most formidable I ever saw. Every medical man I have conversed with here, many of great experience and high character, admit that they had no conception of its awful character until they had seen it. The disease may be briefly defined to be a total suspension of the functions of all the secreting orders_ the eyes secrete no tears —the kidneys no urine—the liver no bile—the bowels no fecal matter—and the stomach no gastric juice—the cold apparent perspiration is not secreted front the blood as in health, but resemble more the exudation that pre cedes decomposition after death—the skin on the hands and feet particularly is shrivelled—the blood ceases to flow through the external vessels--and carries on but a very languid circulation through the inteiior ones—the eyes suddenly sink in their orbits, with a blackened hue around them—the body assumes a darkish tint, someti.,-"es blue, becomes clammy and cold, and the tongue and btath also, During this rapid decay, I may almost say deal, of all mentalthea n mal faculties ft t Paris, mo s t a p propr i ate l y compare d t h e d i seas, to the nm t a i r o e n , p e r t f h e e n t andrain p r r e n m fe a s i a n n e r u: l t a o j u x i :11 of soul withont a body ; and, on another occasin, said, that the disorder began where most others terninated, in death. We copy from the Hackney Carriage Pocket Directory for 1832, a cheap and useful, as well Is season• able little work, just published, the following bref state ment of the advantages which will accrue to th t public from the new Hackney -coach Act :—" The chief benefit that the public will at once derive from the reforated law is in the reduction and simplification of the farts. The additional 61 charged on every two completed miles set all cal c ulation at defiance, when reckoning one tare for a course comprehending two or three separate known die- • tances. An ingenious person has demonstrated that he could go a certain distance cheaper by hiring tw o vehicles than continuing to employ one ! Nothing could be more absurd than such a mode of charging; the rate should have been less rather than more, for the coach lost no time in standing, as between different short fares: the advan tage was wholly in favour of the driver•. The charge, however, will be by the mile, as before—namely, Is. for the first, or any distance less than a mile, and 6d. for every half mile beyond ; but the additional 6,1. on every two miles completed is by the new law abolished; and the charge by the hour will be Is. for the first half 1-sour, and 6(1. for every fifteen minutes completed, or any fractional part of fifteen minutes, throughout the whole come ; there will, therefore, be a considerable saving to the public on all fares above two miles, or one hour, as shown in the comparative table (p. 10). All one horse carriage!, it has been already oh,erved, are only entitled to two-thirds of these rate. The option of going by the mile or the hour remains with the driver ; but it is very likely to be transferred to the hirer by consent when the licences a e unlimited. Fares a/a minute are certainly preferable tc those by the mile, as every one carries (or may carry) time-measurer in his pocket ! but the distance by the mil is so difficult to hit exactly, when the hirer has require to go an irregul,r curse, that dispute or extortion me•l frequently follows." 1, ike k, 11 i ~i ? c . ',,