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147NRS LNG- EDITION. CORN-LAWS. 1.1,0 THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD 1 , MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON. We, the underoigned, Merchants, Bankers, and others, of the \ CITY of LONDON, respectfully request your LORDSHIP will convene a PUBLIC MEETING, on an early day, for the purpose of Petitioning Parliament for an alteration in the present CORN-LAWS. ( Signed) M. Wood J. Hutchinson and Son Geo. Grote Fred. Huth and Co. W. Crawford H. and J. Johnston and Co. Jas Pattison ! \leen Kerr H. .J. Albrecht, and Co. ;G. G. de H. Larpent Will. Amory I Alfred Latham Anaemia de Arroyave Leaf, Coles, and Co. Hy. Bainbridge L. Loyd. Jas. C. C. Bell Robt. Mc Calmont Samuel Boddington Charles E. Mangles George Borradaile James Martin William Boycott 'Hy. Miller 1 Bradbury and Greatorex i Samuel Mills George Brettle and Co. I 'Rowland Mitchell R. Thornton Brown i T. A. Mitchell J. Carr !Moses Illontefiore J. Cattley !Moore, James, Tate, and Co. Wm. M. Christy J. and R. Morley J. Cockburn James Morris Isaac Cohen J. Morrison James Colvin - Nahlers, Company Cook, Son, Gladstones,and Cc. Oliver, Dear, & Co. Jamos Cook Echrard Oswin "William Cothay and Co. 'J. Horsley Palmer Gee. W. Cotton J. F. Parson & Co. William Crawehay John Pirie Haikes Currie , H. J. Prescott T. A. Curtis W. G. Prescott John Dillon ' William Price John Drewett J. Lewis Ricardo R. Durant , r.l. Ricardo Wm. Dunstan , Ralph Ricardo John Fasthope, jun. ' Samson Ricardo Evan Edwards A. W. Roberts Ellis andlirerington ,W. R. Robinson Evans, Foster, and Langton George! Rougemont Eiward Forster William Routh. Thos. Fowler !Scott, Bell, and Co. Francis Fox 'Samuel Sharpe Wm. S. Fry !John Smith John Furs* iJohn Abel Smith P. and N. Gandold and Co. IGeorge Stone, Jan. J. H. Gledstanes !Sturt and Sharp Isaac L. Goldsmid ;Fermin de Tastet and Co. Jon. Graham IJ. Thomson, 'f. Bonar, and Co. S. Gregson Thos. Tooke, Jun. R. W. Gren fell !Jose .h Travers and Sons Thomson llankey, Jun. W. Venables Archd. Hastie Jam! s Walkinshaw J. B. Heaf'h W. Wansey and Son Wra. Hi toticeck Thomas Ward Holcord kilt' Co. Henry Warre J. G. Hubbard .1. White John Humphrey W. A. Wilkinson " In consequence of a Requisition, numerously signed by Merchants, Bankers, and others of the City of London, re questing me to convene a Public Meeting for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for an alteration in the present Corn- Laws, I do hereby appoint Wednesday, the sth of February, at Two o'Clock precisely, for a Public Meeting for such purpose, 1 to be holden in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall, in the City of Low - lon. '" Dated this 24th of January, 1840. (S:Lned) " CHAPMAN MARSHALL, MAvoit." MAXWELL'S WELLINGTON. This day is published, No. V., commencing THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K.G., &c., By W. H. MAXWELL. Beautifully illustrated, with a full len;th portrait of his Gra-te, after Sir Thomas Lawrence—A View of Walmer Castle—The Stormir!.7, of Ciudad Rodlige— A Coloured Plan of the Pattie of Talavera, with numerous illustrative wood engravings. Volume 1., laud omely bound in chth, dcmy Svo., price 1/. Is. ' and in royal Svo., 1/. 11s. 6d. London: A. li. Daily and Co., No. 83, Corn-hill. NEW GEOGRAPHICAL DICTII)NARY. On Saturday, February 15, will be published, price 55., with a large Map, Part 1., of DICTIONARY, GEOGRAPHICAL, lA. STATISTICAL, and HISTORICAL, of the various COUNTRIES, PLACES, and principal NATURAL OB JECTS in the WOXILD. By J. P. M'CULLOCH, Esq. ** A Prospectus of the work may be had gratis of all Booksellers, and will be sent, free of postage, to all Gentlemen who may apply for it by letter. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Embellished with a Portrait of Mr. Theodore Look. Immaliateiy, in 3 vols., post Bvo., COUSIN GEOFFREY, THE OLD BACHELOR. A Novel, Edited by THEODORE HOOK, Esq. Author of " Jack Brag," " Maxwell," " Births, Deaths, and Marriages," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " SYDENII AM." In 3 vols., post Bvo., FITZ WIGGINS. ANOVEL. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. " Th's novel, in plan, is an English ' Gil Blas,' a class 0: fiction well adapted to pourtray persons anti society. The fill ing-up of the work is clover. The incidents various and suf . - fi,:iently diverting ' • while the narrative bears about it a great re2em b!ance of reality."—Spectator. Richard Bentley, New Buri;nt.m-street. PARLIAMENTARY SPEECHES—PAINTER'S EDITION. NO CONFIDENCE IN 'MINISTERS !" ~., 1: 5 ---IEECH of SIR ROBERT PEEL (verba -0 lira). 4d , or 30s. per hur.dred, for distribution. SPEECH o; LORD STANLEY (verbatim), 3d., or 20s. per butidred, for distribution. SPEECH of the BISHOP OF EXETER on SOCIAL ISM, 3d., or 20s. per hundred, for distribution. Orders by post must contain remittances. London : Printed and published by W. E. Painter, 342, Strand. THE PARLIAMENTARY POCKET COMPANION for 1840, (eighth year,) by C. R. DODD, Esq., Nov Ready, considerably augmented and im proved, containing for the first time a compendious explana tion of Parliamentary teems and proceedings, amongst which the fiallowitt are a few :—Adjournment—Amendment—Bills —Chikern Handreds—Committees—Conferences—Nlessages Open Questions,-Order in the Lords—Originating Bills— Previons Questinn—Royal Assent—Admission of Strangers— Supply—Ways and Means, &c. The Peerage and House of Commons as usual, with full personal, political, and local de tails, corrected to the present time. Royal 32.m0., 4s. 6d. bound and gilt. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS. THIS FEE. 3, Will he repeated the New Original Play, in Five Acts, written by Jamas Sheridan Knowics, called LOVE. Duke of Carinthia, Mr. Cooper; Sir Rupert of Lcreh, Mr. J. Vining; Huon. Mr. Anderson; the C:iuntess of Eppen stein, Miss Ellen Tree; Katherine, Madame Vestris. mime, entiiled HARLEQUIN AND THE MERRIE . DEVIL OF ED- MON 7 rOST ; OR, THE GREAT BED OF WARE. Vrtih entirely Now scenery. Machinery, Drev;a3, and De- e4ations. Har.equin. Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Merrie Devil, Mr. Gibson ; and Cu umbine, Miss Fairbrother. Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, :Is. tid. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, ; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to sornmenee at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places' for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter, at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets rosy bo had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews. bookseller 10, New Bond-street. Itc,>YAL SURREY THEATRE. In compliance with the innumerable requests for the Revival of the Original " Jack Sheppard, that popular and extra ordinary Drama will ba acted every Evening, with the Grand Comic Pantomime, which has been witnessed by upwards of 100,000 Persons, and allowed to be the best in London. THLS EVENING, FEB. 3, Will be acted Ainsw•orth's Drama, entitled JACK SHEPPARD. Embodying-all Cruikshanks inimitable' Tab!eaux Vivans. To conclude with the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, nailed THE QUEEN BEE, OR HARLEQUIN AND GOODY TWO SHOES. The splendid Scenery by Mr. rerunning—The magnific. , nt Diorama by Mr. P. Phillips. Columbine, Mis 3 Sharpe ; Harlequin, Clown, Pantaloon, and Sprite, by the Bolero Family. Messrs. Sams of St. James's-street ; Andrews, libers, slid Mitchell, Bond-street ; and Seguin of Regent-street, Book sellers, are, ylipointed to let Private and Public flexes during the run of the Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. If the Tory simpleton, who writes from the Commercial Room, Ram, Gloucester, is really what he pretends to be, a commer cial man, he ought to be discharged by his employers.' Would he have us give the Gazette in No. 14,738, when we had given it in the preceding Number, and could he not discover that the length of the debate must compel us to leave out something? Hicili-WATER AT LONDON MUDGE To-yrORROW. ...... minutos atter 2 I Evening 13 minutes atter 3 - , . Ors 41rAlt `; ; --4 AM+ LONDON: MOND4tY, FEBRUARY 3, 1840. The existence of the Socialists is by no means the °sky sign of wild and extravagant opinions now prevalent in society. Our table is literally covered with pamphlets, advocatin as to the current; ~as to education, as to Churc) extension. stranoe and extraordinary schemes. One principle is perceptible in them all—a fixed conviction tilat society is at present in a very bad condition, and that vast, im provements are not only practicable, but must be made, and that time teems with them. All agree in this, that we cannot go on as we are going, and that without considerable changes we shall be ex posed to imminent peril. In the midst of " this unexampled perplexity," a writer complains, whose production has just reached us (Mr. MINTER MORGAN), " that there is a total absence of those master spirits who, upon extraordinary emergencies, arise and conduct m ankind out of dillicultics and dancers into untried pa ths of improvement." He ascribes the want " to the extensive subdivision of labour which is corn- Tag STN, LONDON-, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1840. mon to mental as well as manual employment." But but some concession of no importance having been I that subdivision is indispensable to en able each in- made him, with a view to gain time, he thought dividual to comprehend any given subject, and the proper to revoke the notice of blockade on the 17th. more science is cultivated and extended the more We very much disapprove of these half measures imperatively individuals are confined in their on the part of the Representatives of our Govert:- studies to one particular subject, and the rent in the Chinese waters. Such a petty system more difficult, not to say impossible, does of vindicating the national honour iv alien to the it become for any individual to embrace in habits and unworthy of the greatness of England. his contemplation the complicated structure of Since the arrival of Superintendent ELLIOT ill society. Moreover, as individuals become more Canton, there has been nothing on our part but a strictly limited, by the division of labour and the series of the most ridiculous and dangerous increase of knowledge, to study only portions of it, blunders that ever were perpetrated. On the society itself grows, augments, aggrandizes, and 2d of September the High Commissioner becomes complex. On the one hand, therefore, LIN published two Decrees, the first commanding the imperative limitation of the mind to some the Chinese neither to traffic with the English nor small part, and, on the other, an extension of the , to allow them to land on any part of the coast to m ass, tend to explain th e rareness, not to say ' obtain supplies of food or water. The inhabitants non-existence, of that comprehensive genius are ordered to arm themselves and to kill such of which embraces the mighty whole. The the " red-bristled barbarians" as dare to disobey' facts cannot be denied ; the lesson they the Impel ial Edict. The next threatens with in inculcate is the very reverse of the practice of scant death all pilots who shall dare to conduct the numerous schemers we have referred to, English vessels tosrards Canton, or to any harbour each of whom has a conviction, strong in propor- on the Chinese coast. A great number of i tion to his profound ignorance of the m a j or p arts of fire jun k s have been g ot in readiness to 1 society, that his own nostrum will bring about that burn all British ships found in the Chinese waters. ' wonderful improvement which all equally pant for. In the Canton Free Press of the 14th September, Nor can we for one moment relieve from this we find an account of the burning of the Spanish censure those Statesmen and those Churchmen brig Bilbraina, anchored in the Typha in ballast, who conclude at once that an extension of their which the Chinese mistook for an English vessel. own peculiar arts or nostrums will restore the They first attempted to burn the vessel and her harmonious balance of parties, sects, and crew together, but not succeeding, they boarded her, classes in the State. More police and more compelled several of the hands to leap overboard, Church, on which they rely, may augra- where they perished, and led the Commander ashore vale, but will not cure our social evils. In with a chain round his neck. Having ransacked the the debate on Friday week Lord MELBOURNE vessel, they set her on fire, and she was to made a remark, from which may be elicited an im tally consumed. Having afterwards learned portant conclusion on this subject. He said he that the crew were Spaniards, they sent them to thought it " questionable whether the public would Macao ; but the account does not state ishat be bear much longer the misrepresentations and false- came of the unfortunate Commander. We trust hoods of the press—its not saying one word of that by this time the British ships of war, which truth, and its perversion of every fact and every sailed from Bombay have arrived at Hong-Kong, and reascning." We understood his Lordship to that the authority of Superintendent ELLIOT has imply that the public mind could not bear any con- been superseded in the waters of China. 'We cannot tinned application of falsehood, without becoming doubt but that our Government is resolved, now seriously diseased. Now, it is not for us to say the that hostilities have commenced, nobly to vindicate doctrines of the Church of England are false, but the national honour, and extend the fame of our we say that they are embraced by a very small por- power throughout the East. tion of the human race, and though offered with many advantages to other persons, such as the Dis senters, the Scotch, and the Irish, have not been re ceived mid adopted as truths. At the same time the truths of science or art, discovered in either England, Scotland, or Ireland, without any facti. tious recommendation of the State, have speedily diffused themselves over the land, and have become common property. The presumption, therefore, is that the doctrines of the Church of England are not welcome truths to mankind ; at the same time a large part of the national resources, say on the whole 5,000,0001. per year, are devoted to bribing men into professing and teaching those doctrines whether true or not. Now, the consequence of this is that those doctrines never are diligently, fear lessly, and impartially inquired into ; and it is highly probable that the whole of this sum is given to maintain the ascendancy of error which Lord MELBOURNE justly held to be so pernicious to society. Letters and papers from Madrid of the 25th ult., and from Mas de las Matas, ESPARTERO'S head-vartens, of the same date, base reached us. The accomiti ffom Madrid arc unimporc,n% save that the t.rrisai of the French financier, M. OuvnAim, in that capita:l l.as caused a great stir among the money' jobbers. Nor is the news from ESPARTERO'S head-quarters of much in terest. On the night of the 24th twenty-three Chris tino prisoners confined in Cantavi,ja were led out of their dungeon, for the purpose, as their conductors in formed them, of being exchanged fur some Carlist soldiers. When led about midway between Cantavieja and Mas de las Mats, a murderous fire was opened upon them by the Carlists, and eighteen of the unfortu nate wretches killed on the spot. The rest escaped by suddenly leaping down a precipice, one of them in the very act receiving a shot in the arm. The next morn ing the Christincs found the eighteen bodes in the road. And yet the murderers of these men find advocates in the British Parliament ! The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been received. Oa Friday the Court of Peers pro nounced sentence on the second batch of the prisoners of the 12th of May. They were in all thirty-one, of whom twenty-nine have been found guilty. The names of the two acquitted are MOULINES and IluAar ; M. BLANclut only was condemned to death, but his brother who is a Member of the Institute, and his wife waited on the KING on Friday night, and obtained from his MAJESTY an assurance that his life would be spared. The sentences pronounced by the Court upon the other prisoners are as follows :—QUIGNOT and ELIE to fifteen years' confinement, and to be under police surveillance for life ; BONNEFONDS, HENDRICK, DUBORDIEU, HER LULET, VALLIERE, arid GODARD, ten years' imprison ment, and police surveillance for life ; ESPINASSE and DUGROSPRE, seven years' confinement, and police sur veillence for life ; CHARLES, PIEFORT, FOCILLON, LOMBARD, SIMON, HUBERT, PETREMANN, EVANNO, DUPONG, DRUM, GERARD, BOUVRAUD, and BUISSON, five years' imprisonment, and police surveillance for life ; BEASSE, BORDON, and LEHERICV, five years' im prisonment, and five years'police surveillance ; QuAnnE and PATISSIER, three years' imprisonment, and five years' police surveillance. The news of the reduction by Parliament of the sum of 50,0001. proposed to be, granted to Prince ALBERT has created a great aenbatiun in Paris. It • was supposed that it would encourage the Chamber of Deputies to reduce the 'appanage proposed to be granted to the Du!to de NEMOURS. The Buonapartist conspiracy turns out to have been a mere concoction of M. CROUP CHANNELL, for the dishonourable purpose of obtaining money from Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. When we find Church extension, then, so strenu ously and earnestly recommended as a specific by those who have got Church doctrines to sell, and are as anxious to find markets for their wares as the cotton or woollen manufacturer, we must consider not merely what the more Church would do, but what the Church we already have has done. For ages it has enjoyed undisturbed—and almost unva ried by the failure of the seasons or the changes in trade, which have ground to the dust generation after generation of industrious agriculturist and manufacturers—a large portion of the national reve nue ; and what is the result ? What has the Church done for the people ? It has enriched the parsons ; it has amply provided for the sons and daughters, nephews and nieces of Bishops ; it has left the souls of the poor cramped with igno rance and tainted with moral debasement, while it has pinched and starved their bodies. The Church has obstructed the growth of knowledge. It has in later times promoted no useful art and encou raged no science. Let the country then inquire whether, if the 5,000,0001. now given to the Church be devoted to the maintenance of error, it be not adequate to account for many of the evils and many of the strange doctrines which overrun society. In our paper of this day, will be found the Re ' port of a meeting of the Common-road Steam- Conveyance Company ; which, although ostensibly convivial, appears to possess considerable interest, and to be of more than ordinary importance. It can scarcely be doubted, indeed it was fully proved before a Committee of the House of Commons in 1831, and distinctly affirmed by that Committee, in their Report to the House, that steam-carriages on common roads were practicable, and that they would afford the only means of saving the ex isting highways from ruin, and of upholding the internal traffic of the country against railway monopoly. Although it is insisted that the steam-carriage, which this Company has adopted, is the best ever yet constructed, we do not vouch for that fact, whilst we recommend, to the attention of all persons connected with the decaying interests of the public roads, the evidence which is adduced to prove that this particular car riage has succeeded. Mr. MACKINNON, who was Ciairman of the Committee of the House of Com mons, appointed in the course of last Session to in quire into the state of the Turnpike Trusts through out the kingdom, and especially upon those lines of road which had already suffered from the competi tion of railways, stated in that Committee that the evidence which had been there given respecting the efficiency of Colonel MACERONI'S steam carriage was " satisfactory and conclusive, and he was glad that evidence had been received, as it pointed to a means, whereby the various interests connected with the public roads of the country, could be pre served from the ruin with which they were threatened." M. THIERS has been appointed President of the Bank Committee. Against the present management of this establishment, the complaints are very numerous. It is computed that the limitation of its operations causes sixty millions of francs in its coffers to remain unemployed ; and among the. middle class of merchants complaints are made that it refuses to discount their bills, or otherwise to afford them the slightest assistance in their difficulties. The want of branch discount banks is mentioned as a serious inconvenience to pro vincial traders and manufacturers. Letters from Cracow state that most important events have taken place in Russia. No particulars have yet reoehed us. TO following projects,ol laws wore pi —genie(' to the Ciiuni'o,2r of a_vities on Sat arch.) , :-1. A hill demand ing a credit of 8 ; 100,0001., for the sob,ititution of per cussion socks for flints in the muskets of the infantry ; 2d, a project of kw for the reorganization of the Council of State ; and, 3dly, another authorizing the levy of 80000 recruits of the class of 1839. Tne remainder of the Sitting was occupied with the presentation of petitions of no general interest. B 0 UR E.--Pmas, SATURDAY, FEB. 1. I irst Highest ' Lowest Price Price. Price Price rench 5 per ('ents ll2 25 ... 112 50 ... 112 29 ... 1 2 20 4 per Cents lO4 . , (4 10t . 104 3 per Cents BO 95 . 31 5 80 95 ... 81 S Bank of trance 3147 50 ...0147 50 ...3147 LU —3147 50 Latlitte Bank I,ooof. Sh loio ...IWO ....lOW ...1.50 551001. Sli 51;5 ...5175 ...5171 ...5170 Belgian 5 per Cents 10214 ... 1021 ... 102% ... 1021 Bank 925 ... 925 ... 02? 50 ... 922 50 United States Bank Loan 01 41 4 ... 93% ... 1-184 ... 9.SM, Spaimh Active Passive 6 ••• 6% ... 6:6 —6% Neapolitan Ronian lo2li ... 103 ...102X, ... IC2 3 q RAH-WAN SHARES. Versailles. R. B 493 ... 493 ... 4)5 ... 493 L.B. 350 ... 353 25 ... 551 ... 553 25 Orleans . . 438 75 ... 458 75 ... 459 75 ... 458 73 Mu:ham:gen to Thann.. Strasburg to Bale ... 338 75 ... 345 ... 233 75 ... 342 50 We have long advocated the establishment of rail roads—we admire the wonders which they have ac complished; but we shall rejoice in the establishment of another mode of internal steam communication, by which our 35,000 miles of road, the finest in the world —cur magnificent inns, and now perishing towns, may be preserved from utter ruin. It should be borne in mind that the bankruptcy of innkeepers and post masters, the desertion of the country towns, and the beggary of those thousands of widows and or phans, whose whole property is invested in turn pike trusts, are not the only evils which the destruc tion of the public roads must immediately involve. The whole internal communication of the country is rapidly engrossed by a monopoly of unparalleled power and wealth, which is invested with privi leges such as never before were granted by any Government or Legislature to a private corporation. Canal companies are not allowed to be carriers on their own waters—a prohibition wisely enacted to preserve the freedom of internal traffic. But the Railway companies are fast acquiring a monopoly of the whole carrying trade in those districts through which they run. Besides, if the existing lines of common road be destroyed, the capital already sunk in them will not be the only loss. We must have somewhere, some kind of road of equivalent length, and belonging to the public. The creation of such road, in the direction into which the rail ways may turn the traffic, is indispensible. It is impossible that all internal communication can be carried on upon one level. The produce of the country, manufacturing and affricultural, is raised at different levels ; and the came amount of labour, animal or mechanical, that is now em ployed in its transit, must still be some shape or other to rai se i t , or earryemitpdlooywed in down, to the level of the railroad. ASP H A LTES AND 111 l'U NIENS: iarn (Maberly',) ... 433 ... 4:13 ... 435 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, Fr.n. 2.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—Arrived the Larkins, from India; King Alfred, Azores. CLynE, Jaw. 31.—Arrived the Clyde, Nicholson, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed the Monarch, Booth, for Bombay; Sarah and Maria, Morrison, Barbadoes ; Aqueda, M' Queen, Trinidad ; Paragon, Hardie, ditto; Mary, Crays, Berbice; Cedeth, Ilancon, St. Thomas; Argylshire, Scott, Savannah; Balclutha, Gregson, Trinidad; Gleaner, Gall, Charleston; British Heroine, Carmichael, New Orleans; Arra Malta, Bancerman, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Hebe, Duncan, Newfoundland. LEITH, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Forth, Baxter, frcm Cal cutta ; Camilla, Millman, Faro. LivEitrooL, FEB. 2.—Wind S.W., fresh breezes.—Arriled the Formosa, Adams, from Batavia • Jenny Jones, Mediter ranean. Off port, the Stephen Whitney, from New York— sailed 13th ult. Sailed the Thalia, Ardham, for Calcutta; Arica, Agar, Singapore; Mary Heartley, Webb, Calcutta; Airey, Nicholson, Rio Janeiro; Anne Windsor, Monte Video; Maria Smith, Henry Bliss, Smith, London, Patten, Wood stock, Simpson, and Byron, Pennington, St. Petersburg ; Trask, Token, Chalmers, Sampson, and Minerva, Matthews, New Orleans; Sheffield, Allen, and Independence, Worth man, New York ; Columbia, Margaret, Magester, Aber.. crombie, Hanibal, Nicholas Biddle, for Mobile. Entered, the Liverpool, Waldemar, and Commando, from Charleston ; America, Thistle, Ruby, and Mary Ann, Hatton ' Savarnah; Ocean Queen and Capricorn, Jamaica ; Diana and Palmyra, Demerara ; Ilannah and Patriot Queen, Sarah, Berbice ; Mersey, St, John's, New Brunswick ; Tomlinson, (steamer) of Mexico; Carline Bahia; Lady Kinnaird, Rio Janei r o ; Ingle wood, Huddersfield, and Hankinson, Africa ; Newbury, Alaris, Geneva; Lesboneuse do Seedoz, Oporto. The Great Western was taken out of dock, at Bristol, on Thursday morning, and passed into the outer or Cumberland Basin, which she is intended to quit on the sth for her moorings in the river, and to proceed thence on her first voyage, as advertised en the 20th February. We have heard that Mr. Bates, of the important firm of Baring, Bro thers, and Co., has determined to go to America in the Great Western in May, which is a mark of the great confidence of that firm in this noble vessel. VIENNA, JAN. 22.--Prince Paul Esterhazy will soon return to London to be present at the marriage of Queen Victoria. ODESSA, JAN. 12.--Admiral LazarotT hbs sud denly received orders to proceed to Constantinople. Reports have been spread that Ibrahim means to advance at the com mencement of better weather, and it is affirmed that Russian aid has become absolutely necessary in Asia Minor, in order to keep the Viceroy of Egypt in check. The Northern Star steam-boat is ordered to Constantinople to be at the disposal of the Russian Ambassador. If the North Star has not been de tained by the ice it must be now on its way to Constantinople. The Countess of Euston, and Lady Louisa Fitz roy , have arrived in town from Castle Ashby, Northamp tonshire, where her Ladyship and daughter have been staying several days with the Marquis of Northampton and Lady Marianne Compton. Baron Bourqucney, the French Charge d'Af faires, arrived at Manchester House, from Paris, with de spatches for Count Sebastiani. The Earl and Countess of Jersey, and Lady Sarah Villiers, have returned to Middleton Park, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of 13uckingharn. Lo r las d t, D fr to e i mn ally arrived eamingon Spa,at Nia where l vr L e s aay l D R: i t : l on Sa turday 11i y " .ow staying. The general and successful adoption of steam conveyance, according to the project of the Com pany referred to, wiil not only put a wholesome and much wanted check upon the monopoly of the Railway companies, but it will preserve to the public the roads which are public property, and fur which, if they should be shut up, as now threat ened, other public roads, at a cost equal to the capi tal already sunk in them, must be substituted. Advices direct from Canton to the 25th of Sep tember, reached London on Saturday. The rup ture between the British and Chinese Government was then wider than ever. Not only were the British Residents and ships at the island of Hong- Kong, denied all supplies of food and water by order of the Governor, but he had proceeded so far as to seta price oil the heads of Super i ntendent ELLIOT and Captain SMITH, Commander of the Volage. Captain SMITH, in his turn, declared Canton to be blockaded on the 11th of September, DR. TURNBULL'S WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. There is no saving more true than that a pro phet has no honour in his own country. We have repeatedly heard of great discoveries, and wonderful achievements in art or science, and the frequency of such apparent miracles has no doubt blunted the sense of curiosity. The more beautiful or excellent the discovery, is generally in proportion to its simplicity—and every one who recognises the fitness of the invention wonders that from its very simplicity he had not himself had the good fortune to make it. In fact the cbvious utility of any improvement is one great cause of its being undervalued, simply because other people had not been clever or lucky enough to be the authors of what all allow to be a happy achieve ment. On this principle we suppose it is that we, among other envious people in the world, disbe lieved the reports so current about Dr. TURNBULL'S extraordinary cure of deafness, and the resto ration of sight, when the infirmity of nature had threatened the unhappy patient with total blindness. Seeing, they say, is believing ; and after many sage doubts and hesitations we went to Russell-square in the true spirit of scepticism, and left it—converted. The very simplicity of Dr. TURNBULL'S operations, and the sudden success of his art, appear to detract from his ability ; but a moment's reflection fills the mind with astonishment, and tears of gratitude bespeak his praise. Nature often performs her greatest works by the simplest means. There appears no great magic in Dr. TURNBULL'S performance, because it is so very simple. But pause—and judge of the glorious result ! In a few minutes he makes the DEAF to hear and the dumb to speak. He opens those passages which Nature had hitlitrto sealed with the impress of eternal silence, and pours the light of day and of joy on•the benighted spirit of the unfui tunate ! If this be not miraculous in cur day, as it was in the olden time, we ask, what is? withdrew--and in about three minutes the mute 1 eloquence of the girl's e y es was b r i g htened and electrified by the charm of speech. Her very face was quickened into • expressive being; and when her mother returned and heard, for the first time, the accents of her wondering and delighted child, tears of coy and fearful doubt betokened the emotion that struggled in her bosom. Nature will always be true to herself, and the feeling which melted the mother's heart drew tears of sympathy from the spec tators. But we have said enough, perhaps too much. It was only our intention at first to have directed the reader's mind to the tributes of praise, accorded by our Contemporaries, to the merits of one who has deserved so well of his country as a public benefactor; but our enthusiasm has, so far, outrun our prudence. On leaving Dr. TURNBULL we were strongly reminded of the following beautiful lines of the poet : lie from thick films shall purge the visual ray, And on the sightless ey - c-ball pour the day ; 'Tis he the obstructed piths of sound shall clear, And bid new music charm the unfolding ear : The dumb- shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting, like the bounding roe. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. The Arrivals of Grain and Flour last week were] moderate, and there has been a small fresh supply of Wheat and Oats, but tolerably good of Barley, Beans and Peas. The best dry samples of Wheat were selected by the Millers at ls. per qr. advance on last Monday's terms, and the runs being all tender, sold slowly at their former value. Barley, except very fine, heavy in sale, and ls. per qr. cheaper. Beans and Boiling Peas as last stated. Grey Peas Is. dearer. Oats met a fair trade, at a trifling advance for Good Horse Corn. The Flour trade heavy, at last quotations. rlt ICES ON BOARD OF SIIP Wheat, Red (old) 72s -White (old) (ss:.. - Red 116:39) -- Fine 625. 6.is. Superfine CS.-;. . to (W 9, (14s ------ Fine ti6:s - . 7tl, -- Superfine 7 2 s 755. ----foreign free 60i 52,5. Rye - 4 E4 465. Barley 30s al, - Grinding 30s, Nis. -- Malting 98s. Malt 565, €ss. Fine tiew 6,15. 14s. Pease, Grey, New 365. L3s. -- Maple New 'Bs. 41s. ...-- White 18s. 40s. - Boilers 405.42 ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LO w heat. ft English Irish Foreign The number of people born deaf and dumb is about ten thousand annually. What a mass of helplessness and misery is thus thrown on secieq Every crow thinks its own offspring the fairest, and affection clings more intensely to the unfortunate than to those who are able to take care of themselves. This being the hue conservative principle in Nature, how much more is the world indebted to Dr. TURN BULL for having touched the heart by ministering to its weakness—by converting its deepest solicittrie into a source of joy and gratulation—by enabling . 1 the tongue of affection to lisp in thankfulness the tones of gratitude, which were formerly locked up in secret, and only revealed by the tear of emotion or the glance of ectacy • That man is the greatest benefactor of his species who does the greatest good. Heroes and warriors achieve a name by the destruction of their fellow men, but small is the meed of praise awarded to him who does good by stealth, and blushes at his own charity. Truth is said to lie at the bottom of a well, and the deeper that well is the difficulty greater to attain the end desired. How many men have failed in their search after truth, or what they' believed to be truth--the attainment of some long cherished idolatry—the more tantalising, because temptingly within the grasp, but without the reach of reality ! Beans, Small (new)....., 44s its ---- (old) Tick (t)ew) 36. 38 .---- (old) Harrow (new) 284.408 (old) 445.463. Brunk Oats, Feed ---- New 0 3,,.27s Poland -- New •)65.285. -- Potato° 29..325. ..----. 2Bs. 325, --- Scorn -- Irish 255.27r„ Flour Town Mier sack).— 588.62 t. Seconds 548.56 s - IsT.rth Country 50s 52,, Bran l2 .13 )NDON DURING LAST WEKN. r r ,i4l) qrs. t,256 qrs. 6,11 1 sacks 1" . :0 4,5.6 I 2,541 The greatest improvements beCome stale by fa miliarity with their obvious utility. The very cthe omm-places i n d l e o r n a - t p a l a enesf by -gone agpesre : s a e nntd that (.lay m w a e : t i e who wastes a life of toil and anxiety in the endeavour to make his fellow -men happier is only laughed at for his pains, because his aim was universal—it concerned no one in particular, and he had the sympathy only of those who had failed before him ! Such is human gratitude. It is said that the greatest discoveries have been the result of chance, and therefore is the merit abated. But who knows what days of labour and nights of watchfulness have been consumed in the ardent search after truth, or its equivalent—some thing never discovered before ? A man in search of truth, or some object dear to his soul, may travel far and long before he finds it ; he may evtii despair of his aim, when at the moment he lies down to rest, in the hopelessness of his pursuit, the very spot on which he slumbers may contain— SMITHFIELD. We have a good supply and a i.risk trade. Prices cannot be quoted higher than on last week. Beef, 3r. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to ss. ; Veal, ss. to Gs. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. Beasts, 3,710 ; Sheep, 20,410 ; Pigs, 406 ; Calves, 96. CRIMINAL COURi.-(THIS DAY.) " The darling toy so dearly sought"— and thus reward a life of anxiety by the spontaneous bounty of Providence ! It is thus, we apprehend, with Dr. TURNBULL. He has culled simples unto the very verge of desperation, and found no fruit ; but at the twelfth hour the sunshine dawned upon his soul, and he shook hands with Nature in the mystery of her doings. The dumb were en abled to speak, the deaf to hear, and the blind to see—what more could the heart of man wish for than the achievement of this great attribute of the D,vinity I And yet there appears no great merit in it. Its very simplicity detracts from its worth. The envy of the world will only accord merit to those who have it in their power to bestow favours. If a man hit on some great discovery or useful in vention—and he be poor, he is termed lucky—if tich, ingenious. Men cannot tolerate in others, that which they ought to have compassed them selves—and hence the malice and uncharitableness of the world. Self is at the bottom cf all our tno• tivcs—it is the mainspring of our actions, and takes its hue, for good or evil, as we are so minded. The fourth Session of the Central Criminal Court corn menced this day before the Sight lion. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and Mr. Alderman Lainson. The seats on the bench, usually appropriated to the Sheriffs, were occu pied by the Under Sheriffs. ThE; RECORDER briefly addressed the Grand Jury, when the trials commenced, but none of them possessed any public interest, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY .—The sales this day mount to 3,000 bags, at yesterday's prices. The New York packet ship of the 13th ult., is off Li verpool, ( Stephen Whitney, new ship.) We have received Cape of Good Hope papers to the Sth of December; they contain no news. We have received Rio Janeiro papers to the 24th No vember. Exchange on London reached to 32, fell to 31/ 78,1- 79 We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yester day'a date. But our purpose is not to moralize. We shall be brief. We have witnessed the extraordinary cures effected by Dr. TURNBULL, both in hearing and vision. If any doubt, we say—go--and believe. People from all quarters of the globe have re cently sought the soothing balm of Dr. TURN.. BULL'S cure, and came away rejoicing. Members of Parliament and Lords of the land have vi sited Russell-square in doubt, and retired in belief and wonderment. Nav, it is only a few days ago that a Member of Parliament, representing one of the Staffordshire boroughs, brought up what he termed a real deaf and dumb per son, possibly one of his constituents, and was almost horrified at hearing his dumb companion talk out, in obstreporous ejaculations, in three mi nutes after Dr. Tursinut.r. touched him with his magic art. All this we know may appear very idle to thos e w h o are cons t a ntly hearing of mi racles and cu res perpetrate d by quack doctors—but we protest our h onest conv i ct i on i t , what we have seen ; and, moreover, we stake our character on the truth of what we assert. In corrobor a ti on o f our own belief we have in serted in anoth er part o f Th e Sun, extracts from various papers and periodicals which were more for tunate than ourselves in having earlier opportu nities of witnessing the happy efforts of Dr. TURN BULL in relieving the deaf and restoring the light of day to those who wandered in darkness. It was but the other day that we witnessed what we under stand is but a matter of ordinary occurrence. An interesting young girl of 18 was brought by her mother, who stated that her daughter was born deaf and dumb, and had so continued to that pe riod. The m o th er h a d h ear d of Dr. TURNBULL'S celebrity ; and, b y t h e way , his fame is second only to his charity, f or h e d a il y dispenses relief to hun dreds of the poor gratuitously. We shall never forget the circu ms t ance . The young girl, who was exceedingly i n t eres ti nL Y, was brought into the room—her case described by the mother, who then Accounts from Berlin, of the 24th January, received from Cracow, state as positive that Russia is making extra ordinary armaments. The usual foreign mails have arrived, but they do not bring any Continental news of importance. A Lisbon mail has also arrived. Both the British and Foreign Markets a: e rather hew:) , this triornipg. The accounts brought by the Liston mail, of the 27th Jai.uary, state that the Committee for drawing up the re ply to the Queen's speech, pr seated two repons to the Chamber of Deputies. On Saturday, 25th ult., the first was the echo of the Royal Speech, the latter was more strongly worded in re spect to maintaining the dignity of the country on the question at issue with our .iovcroment, talking of exact ing full and complete satisfaction for the insults offered to their flag. Tho most important project in the Chamber was for making the arrangement with respect to the current debt. It was proposed togive Bonds without interest for all sums due here for pensions, &c., for the last three years, and to appropriate forty contos a month from the tobacco or other revenue to pay them up, the redemption being effected by way of lottery, the Government to commence payment in cash to its employers, &c., from March noxt ; this measure was very unpopular among the money dealers, and it was not thought likely to pass ; it was referred to the Financial Committee. THE FUNDS. Cola°ls, which left off on Saturday at 911 s for Money, opened at 9l to 1 for the Account, closed at 91,i- ; at present 913- sellers. The heaviness of the markets may be attributed to the intelligence received on Saturday from China. Although it was of an unfavourable nature, the opTrations in the tea t ade were on a small scale, the trade not being inclined to purchase, waiting the arrival of the overland express. Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; India Bonds, par 3 prem. ; Bank Stock, 179!; ; India Stock, 249 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Acive closed on Satur day at 261, opened the same this morning ;_ Portuguese left off at 344, opened at 343- ; Three per Cents., 231 ; Colombian left off at 271 28. at present the same ; Mexican closed at :291 30, same ; Brazilian, 761 771 ; Spanish Passive, 61- ; Deferred, 1241; Dutch Two-and-a. Half per Cents, 52l- ; Five per Cents., 1001 101. Pitlt.:Es , 4' NTUCKS TO Is DAY AT UNE O'CLOCIc tank Stock Red ........ ...... ... 179 India Stock 21914 3 per Cent. Ccn. 91 % 74% Ditto Bonds il per Cents. .... . Of iitA l %l it i ; South Sea Stock - 3!, per Cent ... -- ? Old Annuities - a ~ Ditto Red 9.)44;5, New Ditto - _ New 3 pet Cent _ 9 9Sii ' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 _-- New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuitics toexpi re Ditto 500... ..13 15 pm. Jan, 5, 13611. l4 2-16; Ditto Small l3 15 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l3';‘ ' Ditto Commercial dis. .:.n. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised ...... jarl. 5, 18450 — Bank Stock for Account ... 17i1Y, April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5. 13711 1 Coneos for Account... 91%V, k % P itICES OF' FOREIGN FU N OS; THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Zowls — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brasilia n Bonds 774 7 • Ditto New Bonds Ditto Iccotint Iluenos tyres Bonds Ditto 1:133 - ant ...... ]hillarz lora t Prussian Bonds D,tto t^^ct rt —l ItLysian Bends, 18'21 'olurntian ids — Ditto Account Diaz Columbian . 1 (13,104 1.;3t , J IC:T.)It ;aniiih Bonds Ditto Dcll.rred 12th 3{ G , eek Bonds , French, 5 per cent. f. c, D tto Bonds, 189.5 — --.. 4 per cent. Ditto Account — i . 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — s Exchange. —f. —, Ditto Account — Dutch, 2 1 4 per cent. 523; Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan —l Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY- AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Bristol: id Exeter Railway Company 4 r 15% Brighton Bailwav l9 211,1 21:4% North Midland Railway Company 93 86% ASSAM Company PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEBUARY I 3 par Cent. Consols ZOI !,, . Brand Canal De's. ti percent. 89!.. 0 ' 3% per Cent. Stock - Ditto Reduced - Ditto New, 1830 ......... 98 3 4 City of Dtiblln Steam Comp. - 3!4 par Cent. Debentures... ill 14 National Insurance Company -. Bank Stock IS% City Debentures, 4 per cent. - Grand Canal Stock - Ballast OtHee Debentures, 4 - Royal Canal Stock - },per cent. lIALF-PAST' ONE. The accounts received from Liverpool this morningslate that the wind on Saturday having shifted to the south east, nearly 100 vessels having been tsind-bound for some time, had sailed on that day. In consequence of the intelligence from China, the sale of raw silk is going elf at athanced prices. Up to the present hour we have not received either the letters or papers by the packet-ship from New York, which will bring three days' later intelligence from the above quarter; they are expected by the two o'clock train from Liverpool, which is rather doubtful. Consols ti,lce the early part of the morning have reached 91 : 3- for the Account, at present they are not quite so gocd; and for Maley may he quoted 918 for money; they v,ere done at 91.1, at present 91 1 1- ; Exchequer Bills no al teration, 13 15 prem. ; India Bonds lower, par ; Bank Stock 179 ; India Stock 149+. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active a shade lower, 26; Portuguese rather better. 348 i; Three per Cents. 238; Columbian 271; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 52k; Five per Cents. 1001 I. CORN Laws.—We are requested to state that Mr. C. G. Allhusen, of Newcastle, was not at the Anti- Corn-law Meeting of Delegates at Manchester, and that for various reasons he could not have attended it as a delegate. THE SAUCY JACK ; OR, THE PRIVATEER ANT) THE INDIAMAN, ow LIEUT. CUARLES PEAKE, R.N. —Though the Press.has of 'jaw years teemed with nautical romances and tales of the sea. the public taste for this species of writing, when really goOd, is undiminished. The work before us is evidently leaves from the life of a sailor; and the freshness of style and simplicity of narrative form an agreeable charge to the more wondrous fictitious accounts of " hair breadth 'scapes," awl all other kinds of perils; not that these volumes are deficient in exciting scenes, for there are accounts of battles, and s t orms , an d wrec ks, sufficient to satisly every moderate appetite. To the public we recommend a cruise in the Saucy Jack; and a ver y pleasant one it is sure to be.— Literary Gazette, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby with the Hon.' A. and [lon. bliss Willoughby, are still at Grimsthorpe, Lincoln shire, but purpose coming to town for the season at the close of the week. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. There is one article in the Number before us which we have made two attempts to get through, but with out success, for on both occasions we have stunk fast in the middle, like Banyan's Pilgrim in the Slough of Despond. The article we allude to is a notice of Grimn's Teutonic Grammar," which, however seduc tive it may he to etymologists —we were about to say entomologists, and really there is no great difference between then), for both take cognizance of small matters—is, to us, as dreary as a November fog.. Yet the Paper in question shows research, and is, in some respects, curious. " Theory of Greek Tragedy" is in e'enious, but the author's comparison of Euripides with Wordsworth, is—to quote the classical phraseology of Bilf Sykes—" coming it rather too strong." The finest portion of the essay is the account of the opening of the " Heracleidue," which, by the by, is by no means bent play, being less pathetic than his " Alcestis," less impassioned than his " Medea"— clumsily imitated by Seneca ; and containing no one scene at all comparable to that terrible one in " Orestes," where he is represented lying on his couch and haunted by the Furies. " Song of a Returned Exile" is by Mr. Simmons. We quote some of the stanzas, where strong feeling is blended with much eloquence of description : Sweet Corrin ! how softly the evening light goes, ' Fading far o'er thy summit from ruby to rose, As if loth to deprive the deep woodlands below Of the love and the glory they drink in its glow; Oh, home-looking ! how beloved dost thou rise Once more to my sight through the shadowy skies; Shielding still, in thy sheltering grandeur unfurl'd, The landscape to me that so long was the world. Fair evening—blest evening I one moment delay Till the tears of the pilgrim are dried in thy ray— Till he feels that through years of long absence not ore Of his friends—the lone rock and grey ruin—is gone. Not one ; —as I wind the sheer fastnesses through, The valley of boyhood is bright in my view ! Once again my glad spirit its -fetterless flight May wing through a sphere of unclouded delight, O'er one maze of broad orchard, green meadow, and slope— From whose tints I once pictured the pinions of hope ; Still the hamlet gleams white—Still the church yews are weeping, Where the sleep of the peaceful my fathers are sleeping ; The vane tells, as usual, its fib from the mill, But the wheel tumbles loudly and merrily still, And the tower of the Roches stands lsnely as ever, With its grim shadow rusting the gold of the river. 5. Thou long-vanish'd Angel 1 whose faithfulness threw 0 'er my gloomy existence one glor . fied hue I Dost thou still, as of yore, when the eveniag grows dim, And the blackbird by Douglass is hushing its hymn, Remember the bower by the Funcheon's blue side Where the whispers were soft as the kiss of the tide? Dust thou still think, wi t h pity an d p eace on thy brow, Of him who, toil-harass'd and time-shaken now, While the last light of day, like his hopes, has departed, On the turf thou bast hallow'd sinks down weary .hearted, And calls on thy name, and the night-breeze that sighs Through the boughs that once blest thee is all that replies? 6. But thy summit, far Corrin, is fading in grey, And the moonlight grows mellow on lonely Cloughlea ; And the laugh of the young, as they loiter about, Through the elm-shaded alleys rings joyously out : Happy'souls 1 they have yet the dark chalice to taste, And like others to wander life's desolate waste— To hold wassail with sin, or keep vigil with woe ; But the same fount of yearning wherever they go, Welling up in their heart-depths to turn at the last (As the stag when the barb in his bosom is fast) To their lair in the hills on their childhood that rose And find the sole blessing I seek for—REPOSE I " Wellington" is a spirited lyric from the pen of" Ar chums," whose poems, we see, have lately been collected and published by Moxon in one volume. " Song Sung at the Symposium" is a lively, rhymed squib in honour of Christopher North and his contributors. " Miss Martineau" is a critical notice in which praise —as is fit —predominates, of this lady's novel of " Deerbrook." The introductory observations on her" Tales Illustrative of Political Economy" are forcible and pertinent. " Letter from Hannibal Smith" is a whimsical, off-hand epistle to the Editor, wherein Mr. Smith, who dates from the sea-side, says I have a sm , dl cottage, nearly on the ledge of a sloping piece of ground, at the foot of which is the sea. Fish are at all times disport ing themselves within two hundred feet of my dining room, so that when by any accident they find them selves on my table, the change of circumstances must be so slight as to be comparatively unobserved." This is archly said. " Poetical Translations of Faust" is a capital article. • Ditto " Casuistry." The " Affghan. istan Expedition" is penned in too croaking a spirit. Tories, however, for whose express edification it is written, will sea much to zamire in it. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, Mr. Hook's new Novel of " Fathers anti Sons," is here continued ; the chapters contain scarcely any inci dent, hut are full of that smart, off-hand dialogue in which the author is usually so remarkably successful. The engraving illustrative of one of these racy dia logues, shows much humour. " Biographical Notices of the late John Home," arc brought to. a conclusion, which we are far from regretting, for, though not de void of characteristic anecdote, yet they contain many passages of exceeding twaddle. We have no great sympathy with those biographers who lay on their pane gyric "an inch thick." ".The Adventures of Khoda dad"—a portion of which only is before us—bid fair to form a very interesting Oriental story. The author is the Hon. Charles Saville. " Nimrod in France," fur nishes us with some clever, but superfiCial sketches of the French character, as it exhibits itself in the present day. " The Widowllarried," is a continuation of Mrs. Trollope's clever tale. There is in it a highly-coloured account of an interview between two confirmed gamblers, one of, whom is in a state of desperation, as regards his Exchequer, and the other in a most flourishing condi tion. The abject sycophancy of the former, and the dignified condescension of the latter, will excite a hearty laugh. Still the story is not equal to its prede• cessor, the " Widow Barnaby." It wants terseness, and variety of incident. For whole pages there is nothing but wire-drawn dialogue. In Mr. Carnes " Letters from Ireland," we meet with an affecting episode of a young enthusiastic Irish traveller who resolved to sail over the Dead Sea, and explore its coasts in all directions. Ac cordingly, just cordingly, he built a suitable boat at Jericho, but, as his labour was completed, and lie was about pro ceeding on his adventurous voyage, he fell a victim to the heat of the climate, and died at a small out-of-the way convent, his last thoughts and wishes reverting to his happy Irish home. This story is told with much unaffected pathos. The " Advantages of Travelling in Dyspepsie," are cleverly and forcibly pointed :out by Dr. Thompson, a sound authority on all medical topics, The " Life and Times of Peter Priggins," arc hit off, as usual, in alight, rambling, good-humoured manner. From the " Falls of the Cauvary"—a magnificent cata ract in India—we quote a description of a tiger-hunt, wherein some rash English sportsmen endeavour to catch the animal in a net, and destroy him with their spears : " He had approached within ten yards of the nets, when he suddenly stopped, having probably observed the impedi. merit, and stood in an attitude of indecision, lashing his tail from side to side, and uttering a low savage growl, Charles, in conformity with the directions he had received from Mansfield, immediately stepped from his concealment, and, bringing his spear down to the charging position, ad vanced steadily towards the frail barrier, which formed his only defence against the expected charge of his formidable antagonist. It %US a moment of fearful interest ; and the Doctor, who from his perch commanded a full view of the scene, felt the blood curdling in his veins. But Charles, although he felt a peculiar tingling of the •.nerves, and a slight palpitation of the heart, bore himself gallantly. " Nu sooner .did the tiger perceive his intended victim than his whole appearance was altered. His green eyes _glared savagely—his ears were laid flat back upon his neck-- the hair upon his back stood erect—and, crouching close to the ground, he crept swiftly towards the nets. flaying got sufficiently near, lie uttered a tremendous roar, and springing forward with a lashing bound, threw himself against the net with a force that threatened to carry every thing before it. But the tough cordage yielded to the shock without sustaining any injury—the upper rope be came disengaged —the net fell together in a heap—and the enraged monster was instantly enveloped in 41 complicated mass of netaork, from which, in spite of his frantic efforts, he found it imposs!ble to disengage himself. So curious was the onset of the tiger, and so apparently frail the de fence opposed to it, 'that Charles had not sufficient com mand of nerve to stand his ground ; he made an involun tary spring backward, stumbled, and fell. " The Doctor, seeing the desperate rush of the tiger, accompanied by a roar that mode his heart sink within him, and perceiving through a cloud of dust, that the net was, apparently, demolished, and his young friend down, immediately jumped to the conclusion that he must be in the tiger's jaws. His first impulse was to shout to Mans field fur help, which he did right lustily; his next to slide from his perch, with a reckless haste that considerably in jured the appearance of his nether garments; to snatch up his fusee, and hurry to the rescue, invoking maledic tions on the man who first invented the desperate amuse ment of spearing tigers on foot." BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. So far as we can at present form an opinion, "G uy Fawkes" bidi fair to be the best work of fiction that its author has yet attempted. Ls dialogues arc less stiff and constrained, and there is more ease and vigour of description than we meet with in " Rookwood," or " Crichton," where exageration supplies the place of energy, and nature is lost sight of in the constant effort to startle and surprise. The subject, too, is a likely one, and, judging by the present chapters, the character of Guy Fawkes's age—so far, at least, as is requisite for the purposes of romance—has been dili gently studied. Though not a man of genius, that is to say, destitute of the power of breathing absolute life into the Creations of his fancy, as Fielding, and Scott and Dicken s h ave d one, Ain worth possesses ta l en t o f no ordinary calibre ; he can construct with skill ; look carefully to details, especially when he ventures on de scription ; and if he will but refrain from laying on cha racter and incident more than th;.y will !;nr, we l:now CO novel-writer of tile day likely to produce a series of E v FA I N ir NG p 7i/0.4.w 4 . cleverer works. " Jack Sheppard' is brought to a clog this month ; and we are not sorry for it. We hope we have now done with thieves, and murderers, and vagabonds ; and that " Jack" is the last of his race to be apotheosised in three volumes. " Moral Economy of Large Towns" is an essay penned in a sound and enlightened spirit. Tire author is a just thinker, and his cursory remarks on the relief of the poor pierce below the surface. " Mr. Nibble" is a smart, brief sketch of a usurious bill broker. "A Rambling Cruise along the Coast of Balm" is a smooth piece of versification, bearing about the same relation to sterling poetry that Swift's " Ca denus and Vanes a" does. " The Lay of St. Odille" is clever—for what does Tom Ingoldsby write that is not so ?—but it is not in his freshest and liveliest manner. The constant recurrence of the same rhymes, while they show ingenuity, do so at the expense of that ease and airiness of manner which should always characterise humorous verse. " The Huntsman's Story" is told tersely and spiritedly. " Stanley Thorn" contains. among other diverting incidents, a piquant account of a love-sick young spinster's elopement with her sweet heart. " The Portfolio" is an amusing collection of anecdotes, from which we select the two following : MATH WS AND TIIE SILVER SPOON. Amongst Mathews's pranks of younger days. that is to say, when he first came from York to the Haymarket Theatre. he was invited with F— and some other per formers to dine with Mr. A—, now an eminent silver smith, but who at that period foiiowcd the business of a pawnbroker. It so happened that A-- was called oat of the parlour at the back of the shop during dinner. Mathews, with wonderful celerity altering his hair, coun tenance, hat, Sce., took a large g - ravy-spoon off the dinner table, ran instantly into the street, entered one of the little dark doors leading to the pawnbroker's counter, and ac tually pledged to the unconscious A--- his own gravy spoon. Math2ws contrived with equal rapidity to return and seat himself (having left the street-door open) before A-- re-appeared at the dinner-table. As a matter of course, this was made the subject of a wager. An eclaircissement took place before the party broke up, to the infinite astonishment of Rabelais never accom plished a neater practical joke than this. LUDICROUS MISTAKE OF MATHEWS During the height of the popularity of his celebrated entertainment " At Honste," Mathews, walking down the Strand, observed, or thought he observed, his old ac quaintance, Lee the actor, looking into the windows of a print shop. Mathews came behind Lee, and putting one hand on each side of his head, blindf&ded him, arid con cluded by rubbing his ears heartily, and beating his hat over his head. The person so treated struggled, and turned very indignantly, when, to the inexpressible horror of Mathews, he saw in an instant that it was not Mr. Lee, but an utter stranger, with whom he had taken this fa miliar liberty. " What do you mean, you scoundrel ?" said the old gentleman. Mathews attempted an apology and explanation, but nothing would satisfy the affront. A crowd gathered round ; most of the spectators knew Mathews by sight, and were laughing at the untoward event. 03 hearing the name of Mathews mentioned, the old gentleman became doubly incensed, and would not be convinced that he had not been grossly and wantonly in sulted. He commenced such a torrent of abuse, that Mathews was at last obliged to walk off, Any one ac quainted with the nervous temperament of Mathews, will imagine the ludicrous distress of the scene. FRASER'S MAGAZINE, This is an excellent number—barring its politics which, as usual, aro reckless and truculent, as if in spired by the spirit of desperation. " Mrs. Hemans, and the Picturesque School," assesses the poetical talents of this lady just at their fitting worth ; the theme, how ever, is hacknied ; but not so the sketch of the cha racter and progress of the English picturesque school of poetry, which exhibits true critical discrimination, and possesses in some degree, the merit of novelty. Characteristics in the Nineteenth Century" has too strong a political bias, and is besides penned in too envenomed a spirit to suit Nur taste. But your Tory out-and-outer will read it with avidity, and discover excellencies even in its worst defects. " The Star of the Fountain" is a pleasing tale. " Literary criti cism in England" trips along lightly and good-humouredly The article is somewhat desultory in its character, but contains much shrewd and just observation. We have wiled away an agreeable half hour in its perusal. " Catherine ; a Story," is concluded this month. The remarks, at the close, on " Oliver Twist" and " Jack Sheppard" are capital. "Of Rabelais," is the continu ation of an Essay that has already appeared on this tempting subjeet. We like the article much. It is learned, spirited, . and shows a hearty love of its theme. The observation that " Maitre Alcofaribas ap pears to us in many aspects, but all benign," is true to the letter. Rabelais had not a drop of gall in his com position. His humour has a keen edge, but it ss never moody or ill-natured. We can imagine him to have been a man universally beloved—the staunchest of friends, the most delightful of companions. The writer hints that he may possibly continue his essay on Rabelais. We hope he will ; and in enumerating his other merits, not forget the headings of his different chapters, which are full of quaint and original drollery. We conclude our brief notice with this amusing ex• tract : My first familiar acquaintance was made with him at the university, %hen I was a hard student. To allay the fever of my brain, after a long day's toil, I used to prepare myself for repose with a chapter or two of Rabelais. I was as well acquainted with his tongue as an introduction made in early childhood could render a foreigner; and I found him the safest sedative, as well as the pleasantest o; companions. He soon turned the current of my ideas : formulae that I had scared into my brain, by the day's study, lost the touch of pain. He stimulated me gently with his quaint drollery—care and ambition were forgot. ten—l was revelling with the Pantagruellists in Utopia— one hearty laugh followed fast upon another, until, by an easy and natural transition, I passed from Utopia to the land of dream. I have retained to this hour my fondness for Rabelais. His works are of that small class of books the pleasantest that ever were written. These, in my mind, are Rabelais's " Chronicles," Burton's " Anatomy of Melarcholy," Moliere's " Comedies," " Don Quixote," " Tristram Shandy," and Shakspeare'a two parts of " Henry the Fourth." The peculiarity of these works appears to me to be this : They may be taken up at all times and in all seasons, in all conditi ons an d moods o f mind. Open one of these volumes where you please, it will have a spell to detain you amon gs t i ts pages. Be you never so weary of spirit, instead of fatiguing you still more, it will soothe and elate you with its genial mirth, and surprise you into hearty laughter, that best medicine of the sore mind. The humour is so rich and varied, that it seems ever new. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Our Radical friend Tait leads off this month with an article entitled " Rights of the Christian People," which is well reasoned and forcibly expressed. The sentiments too, speaking generally of them, a re such as we can coincide in, though we dissent from the writer's notions of a State religion. Let the Establishment stand on its own footing' and not rely for support on its connexion with the State. The " Story of Ango" is from the practised pen of Mrs. Gore. The scene is laid at .Dieppe in Normandy, in that stirring period, the reign of Francis the First, after his disastrous defeat at Pavia. Like all Mrs. Gore's stories, it is wealthy in incident' and spirited in dialogue. " Continuation of Car tain Marryat's Diary in America" is a review, accompanied with numerous lively extracts, of one of most entertaining books of travels that the season has produced. We do not agree with the Reviewer that the gallant author's description of the great river Mississippi is " swelling and ambitious." On the con trary, we think it a very natural and graphic sketch-- tar superior to Miss Martinean's account of the same gigantic stream. " A Slow Coach," is a smart, readable, sketch of character, drawn, to all appearance, from die life. " Carlyle's Chartism" is another of' those spirited and intelligent critical notices for which this periodical has ever been remarkable. From Ebenezer Elliott Poem " On Burns," we quote these energetic stanzas Few were his da3s, his fortunes foul ; Bravely he struggled, though not long; And, with a poet's glowing soul, Drew near to God in song ; For Conscience to thy poet said, "13urnl I be a martyr!" " For the truth, I will!" he cried—and bow'd his head, And died, gray-hair'd in youth. With little men he might not stay, Rut basted from a world unkind. Oh, guess the worth he threw away, By what h e l e f t behind - And what a wreath our Burns had worn, Amid that world's immortal tears, Had his strong mind, like Milton's, borne The fruit of sixty years 1 But, shall it of our sires be told, That they their brother poor forsook ? No for they gave him more than gold; 'I'ZrEY READ THE BRAVE MAN'S BCOK. Scotland! thy sons—and not unearned This hour of pleasing tears returns—. Are met to mourn thy trampled, srturn'd, Poor, broken-hearted Burns. And oft again the kind. the brave, Who Sorrow's feast, like him, have shar'd, Will meet to honour in his grave Thy glorious rustic Bard. O spare his frailties !write them not On mute Misfortune's coffin lid E'cn Bacon err'd, and, greater, Scott, Not always greatly did." MONTHLY CHRONICLE. W e perfectly agree with the writer of an articl e beaded " Chartism," in thi s N um b er, in his assertion ``a solemn problem i s v i s ibl y i n course of solution , although no man can accurate l y state what it is, °r a ed t icate its issue. Th e so il o f England seems destine d to be the scene of the next great social struggle, a s th e soil of France was of th e l ast. " No person who regar d ° the signs of the times with the attention that their 1 3 °, 3 ' mount importance d eman d s, can fail to come to tirc same conclusion. Chartism is no superficial no ve : merit, arising from the pressure of temporary distress' it has little or nothing in common with the agitato r ; etcited by Hunt an d the mob leaders of old ;hn has its roots d eep i n the foundation of socie-Y; It is not a mere clam our f or cheap bread high wages ; but a stern, solemn demand for sow'