The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

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Aftsr whish, a Comediettc, front the French, entitles FAMILY JARS MENDED. Beehouse, Mr. Smith; Chapinot, Mr. Saville ; Madame itosiesine, Mn. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. Ti sunshade with the Nautioal Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Ben, Mr. Saville. TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. have reeeTved of letters, under various signatures, from a correspondent at Nottingham, who has at hat dammed' the lame of " Pluto." W. regret that we ea.nnot oblige this unwearied writer by inserting any of his ecrnsaunieations, se the one half of the manuscript is gene nay illegible, and the other half we cannot understand. WOK WATHR ♦T LONDON MUDGE TO-1107tiOW. Morning..." 3$ minutes after 3 I Eveniug 51 minutes alter 3. Ar goVf- :,c Olt arat. LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 6, Is4o. %he Lards did not meet yesterday. le the Commons a considerable number of petitions Ots,ll p-ssented. We see that many are presented in tallow of the Corn-laws ; wo should like to hear 50111 - Akin of the public meetings at which they aro got up, wad gif the number of persons who sign them. What ever okay be said of the petitions from Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, tee., the petitions in favour of the Coin-4ws are rsal hole mid corner petitions, for ao parsons but the signers know the places they cocoa frost. hew writ was moved for Helstote in the room of Lord Cantilnpe, who accepts the Chiltern Hundreds to oi4otest Lewes, where his family have some interest. We trust that the Lewes electors will not be bought by the. Tt,rius. The liouse was occupied principally with the affair of Ms. Sheriff Evans, which is so amusing and short that it ought to be read. We shall only say hero that lifter Dr. CHAMBERS had been called to the bar on the atotian of Lord IlAtioN, and examined as to the state of 511 r. EVANEI' health, the Noble Lord moved that the Sheriff be discharged. On this motion the House divided, and 84 vcted for it, and 125 against it. The worthy gentleman, thertiort-, is still kept in custody to receiv e the daily visits of condolence and congratula tion of nuovro is friends. r. BUOTHECTON withdrew his ;notion for an ad dre+s to the Crown, to c-mfer a mark of distinction on Captain CLEGG. beeallSe it was not consistent with form. We regr, t that it was not, for, in our opinion, b public testimonials of approbation do more to en taouraAw and promote virtue than all the punishments which can ha de isrd. The 'douse adjourned at Seven o'Clock. We rejoice to see that the few remarks we later undo on manning our Navy have caned forth an excellent letter, published in another part of The .hen, from Rear-tid,niral CA RDEN, whose testi mony, that of an eye-witness, and that of a severe m , ufr,rer from; the bravery of onr outraged and ex patriated seamen, ought to carry great weight with Ow country. Saveral communications on the same subject have he,n addressed to us, and we believe there are very few officers of long standing in the service who do not in time main entertain the same opinions as Admiral CA RDEN. It is satisfactory to us personally—thr ugh a pain ful corroboration for the country, of tie decay of itos r,al str e n g A i — :o h ave our assertion concerning the imperfect manner in which our ships were trAtuned towaeds the close of the war, confirmed by such an unexceptionable authority. To that great imperfection the honour and the character of the icountry, and the reputation and prospects of several 1 brave and go o d officers, w ere more t h an once sacri 1, h oe d. From the manner in which Admiral C A 11- DE N has signed his name, and avGw e d his misfor , ru n e, there can be no want of delicacy in observino. 4 that he had all his prospects blighted, by bein , aunt to sea in a half-manned ship. Nominally the .. Macedonian was a thirty-eight gun frigat e , so was the United States, but, in fact, te latter was con. '' aiderably the larger, and she had 478 me n , an d on l y 4 one bov, While the crew of the Macedonian con ‘isted only of 261 men, and thirty-six boys. In , t he American frigate there was not one landsman, in tie British frigate there were fifty-eight. With ' such odds in numbers, what wonder that the Mace ' donian was captured, and the honour of England I"sounded almost past the hope of cure. It is not just in the country to expose its officers to such certain disasters ; but there is reason to dread that ,another war will find our ships contending against *till more fearful odds, and oar naval supremacy will then p ass away f or ever. , There are two or t h ree c i rcumstance* ment i one d ' in Admiral C ARDEN ' S l etter which deserve not i ce. .I , He proves that the United States was chiefly scanned by British seamen. One of the crew of the Macedonian recognized his brother in the American frigate, and the bulk of her crew, exult ), ing i r c their prowess and their revenoe, proclaimed aloud o , at they wer e English, and . had achi eve d that which the Americans could not perform. The bravest and ffest of our seamen are most sensibly dive to the injL'ries inflicted on them by the Coun try', and they esc ave from her t o il s t h e Speediest. It Was not only, - ti fote that th e U n i te d States - , re , was more numerously manned than the Macedonia n , but ;her men were of a better description, and ani hatred of the country whi c h mated with a fierce re d ,oppressed them. It was our own native sea_ ; --,....--- AP.- _ ~.r p ri.rriii ,• .. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY. MARCH 5, IS o. men who tore the laurels from the brow of their country, and thus revenged themselves for the in flicted brutalities of impressment and ►merciless flogging. In England the complaint is, that seamen will not voluntarily enter the Navy. " I have known," says Admiral CARDEN, " an American frigate at New York hoist the flag for entry of seamen, and in twenty-four hours 800 British seamen crossed her deck, from whom the Captain picked 400 of a crew." In twenty-four hours, then, an American frigate can get a picked crew of 400 British seamen, and it takes here two months or three months—taking all who offer their ser vices, landsmen and seamen, tall and short, the halt and tire half-blind, ploughmen and weavers, men from the bogs and men from the hills—to complete the crew of one 74-gun ship. Such a contrast indicates, whenever another war shall spring up, a tearful and terrible struggle for our country. Those who have looked into this subject are well aware that the desertion of our seamen is no thing new. Before the American provinces became the independent United States our sea►:.en used to flee in crowds to Holland, on the breaking out of every war. Now they go to the United States, and will continue to go, because there they find constant employment, high wages, and reasonable treatment. The certainty that ti►ey will there receive an asylum, and be both honoured and protected, has aggravated ten-fold all the evils of impress ment, though that fact was neither noticed nor pro vided for by those, whether Whigs or Tories, who claim high honour and great rewards for providing for the public security. They are too much occu pied in providing for themselves to provide for the public welfare, and the nation must at present pay and pension an immense army of statesmen, and perform for itself all their effective duties. The public must interfere in this matter if it would not, in case of another war—and how soon it may arise no man can tell —see, in the downfall of our naval power, the utter annihilation, not only of our national greatness, but of our security and in dependence. Perhaps our readers will remember that last autumn, on the occasion of the various trials of STEPHENS, 31‘.130 uALL, and others, accused of using seditious language at various public meetings, we insisted, not once only, but several times, on the necessity of producing the best evidence which could be procured of the language used by those who were charged with sedition. We insisted on the injustice of condemning men on a half or a whole sentence carried off by a policeman, or by , some person not accustomed to report, when the present system of reporting gave to the prosecutors the power of proving every word that was used by any public speaker. At that time, however, the community was scared from its senses by the idle boasting of some fools, and the conscience born squalling of some rogues, and neither law nor justice was suffered to stand in the way of a verdict of guilty. Now the terror seems to have passed away, and Juries can find verdicts of acquittal, and Judges lay down the law somewhat more in accord ance with reason and justice. At Newcastle Mr. BRONTERRE O'BRIEN has been acquitted, and acquitted because the evidence even of a practised reporter was not held to be sufficient to convict him. We beg the attention of our readers to the following passage in Mr. Justice COLERIDGE'S charge, and must express our opinion that several convictions in the North of England would have been acquittals had that charge been delivered last summer instead of at present • In a conspiracy there must of course be more than one, and if they should be of opinion that the charge of conspi racy was made out, then the evidence of what was said by the one would apply as evidence to show the intention of the others in the common purpose. The only witness in the case was Mr. Henderson, the reporter; and it would be for them to consider whether he same before them un der circumstances which would render his testimony suffi cient to convict. He does not say—he is not able to say— " I took down all that passed;" nor even that, though he did not take down all that passed, he took down all that was important, and that what he has left out did not modify what he has taken down. But he said he merely went there with a view to get what was interesting for his paper ; he did not go there with a view to a judicial inquiry, but without any idea of it, or the necessity of giving the whole of what passed. If they thought they had a sufficient g round to come to the conclusion that the words proved were not modified by those which had been omitted, they would probably have little doubt that the intention alleged in the indictment was proved against the defendants. If, however, looking at all the circumstances, and what was elicited on cross-examination, they should not be satis fied that these doctrines were propounded absolutely unmo dified by accompanying expressions, they would in this case, as in all others, give the defendant the benefit of any doubt they entertained. There the Judge tells the Jury not to convict unless they were certain that no words were omitted which qualified the reported words that were as sumed to be evidence of the seditious conspiracy. In the trials at Ashton and other places, the imper fect recollection of a single witness, who did not pretend to have taken notes, and neve: ventured to assert that he recollected, or reported, every word that was uttered, were held to be sufficient to justify a conviction. Such is law—one thing in the summer another in the winter—one thinff in Cheshire or Lancashire, and another thing in Northumberland —one thing when the Judges are a little apprehen sive, another when they are restored to full confi• dence. Such anomalies might be of little import ance when the knowledge of reading and writing was confined to the clerical and legal professions, and when any form might serve to inflict punishment ; hut now, when every man reads the newspapers, and when the working classes read them the most attentively and assiduously, the anomalies which are continually brought to light in the laws themselves, and in the manner of carrying them into effect, is of the utmost consequence to a continuance of the law, and all which depends on it. When tire bulk of society ate educated--when the faculties are daily trained to distinguish good from evil, and right from wrong, they must spurn with disdain submission to a rule which is ano malous, contradictory, and sometimes grossly ab surd. If men are to be retained in obedience, the ' law must be made just and consistent. We copy from the Morning Heral:l the follow ing complaint of a landowner, in order to show our readers to what the Corn-laws necessatily lead, and hat will be the consequence of longer continuing to acquiesce in those iniquitous enactments : Sir,—Since I had the pleasure of addressing you, through the medium of your excelk,nt paper, on the 20th ult., upon tho subject of Sir Richard Jenkins's resolutions fur the admission of spirits from the East Indies at a duty of 9s. per gallon, it now being charged as a protecting duty with reference to foreign grain at 133, a Commit tee, consisting of fifteen gentlemen of the House of Com mons, has been appointed to consider and report upon this important question ; but to my surprise and astonishment not one county Member, not one gentleman's name imme diately connected with the landed interest, appears upon this Committee. Doss this arise from apathy on the part of that great and influential body, or neglect on the part of Mi n i sters ? I cannot help thinkiug that the practical effect of this vast question is not fully understood. I will, there fore, endeavour to p rove at what cost spirits can be dis tilled from rice in England, and the cost thereof if dia. tiilesi in the East Ind ies. First, then, rice used for dis tillation in England :- 1 ton of rice mac be p i urchased 13 0 gallons of proof spirit, at in London for' ...Xl3 0 0 ls. 4 d. per gall. 5.k.10 0 0 Which will produce But which sells for 9d. 150 gallons of proof per gall. more than s spirit, a t a cost forspirit distilled from wianufacture `, ... 12 6 grain in England ... 512 6 X , --- L) 12 6 £l5 12 6 Secondly, r i ce use d f or distillation in the East Indies 1 ton of Tice may be bought in 150 gallons of proo f s p irit can the Last Indies for £3 0 0 thus be podueed at a cost And w ill produce 150 of Is. 4d. per gal. £lO 0 0 gallons spirit, at a cost for manufactur e of 3 2 6 Frieght to England of spirit 30 per cent. over proof, at 6d. per gallon, when re duced to proof it would be at 4d. 9 1 0 0 Wharfage, ticc: 1 7 6 P ears that proof and four- From these statetl i ents o , t o herefore, it from 0 0 0 isnpiEritnzofietnhde or r n t e h st e q E u e a s li t ty le ca d n ies la7 aptroedeu:ea saeither and eight.. pence per gallon, whilst the price of proof 11114 distilled from grain in this country costs two shillings pence per gallon. A distiller has recently been stopped by the Elise from using rice upon the technical ground , that rice is not grain ; but do you think tha t the g reat bod y of distillers n?t this country will not take advantage of the proposed in ea . sure, if passed into a law ? Do ou think that they will be stopped from using rice from such a doubtful, technical definition, or if stopped here, that they will not pursue their business as distillers in the East Indies, if spirits are to be imported from thence at so low a duty ? As the distillers are now allowed to use foreign barley, the Government cannot, upon any prin ciple of equity, prohibit them from using rico in distillation, if they permit rice spirit to be imported from the East In dies. I well recollect that, in the year 1831, when a Commit tee of the House of Commons was appointed to consider the question of admitting molasses into the breweries and distilleries, that on that occasion the landed interest mani felted much energy and anxiety, and that our county Member, Mr. Tyrcli, laboured very zealously and very successfully in this Committee to defeat that measure. If, then, the bare permission to the brewers and distil. lers to tre molasses, which, es stated in the evidence before that Committee, could never represent a greater quantity of grain than 125,000 quarters, was deemed of such vast importance, how much greater interest ought this question to excite, 17hen the loss of consump— tion by the distillers of all the barley they now use is hazarded ? If the landed interest silently acquiesce in this measure, is there not reason to fear that the ques tion of the admission of molasses into the breweries and distilleries will again be mooted ? To what purpose, let me ask, are the West India planters to apply their refuse in the manufact ure o f sugar i f t h e E ng li s h M ar k et i s sup plied with spirits at a less price than they can make it for ? Can Parliament justly refuse to admit their refuse produce into the breweries and distilleries of England, having alp ready deprived them of a market for their rum ? Thus, you will perceive, by the admission of East India spirit at a low rate of duty, you will not only lose the consumption for all the barley which the distillers now use, but, by the admission of molasses into the breweries and distilleries (and it appears to me impassible, under the circumstances, that it can be refused), you will also lose the consumption of a great portion of the malt used in the breweries. March 3, 1840. A SUFFOLK LANDOWNER. First, it will been seen that our markets must be closed against the produce even of our own Colonies, to gratify the rapacity of the landlords. It will, in fact, be seen that it now is ; and whereas spirits and beer might be manufactured much cheaper than at present by allowing molasses to be used in dis tilleries and breweries, that is now prohibited. That shows also, that not only does the landlord's tax fall on the poor man's loaf, it also falls on his beer. It shows, too, that the farmer who supposes he is enriched by the Corn-laws, pays the tax which they levy on every glass of ale or gin that he drinks. What may be its amount we cannot calculate, but it reaches something considerable to ale and gin drinkers in the course of the year. But whatever it may be, that amount is to be continued, if the landowners can command it, by excluding the produce of our East India colonies, as the produce of our West India colonies is now partially excluded from home consumption. Next it shows, as we stated two days ago, that unless the landlords can exclude all foreign commodities, substitutes will be found for the pro duce of our ow* soil, and, consequently, the demand for it will be proportionably diminished, and the farmer injured by the lessened demand and con sumption caused by the Corn-tax. Of course it is nothing but the exorbitant price of barley and malt, which makes distillers and brewers think of using either rice cr molasses, in preference to barley and malt, for making spirits or beer ; and of course the Corn-tax begets or enhances the temptation to use the substitute. To tax a commodity has ever been found in jurious to the producers of it, and this holds good with the Corn-tax as well as the tax on malt. As the price of corn is enhanced by the tax, so, if people must continue to eat broad, the consump tion of it ii lessened in all kinds of manufacture. The great cheapening of cotton clothing during the last sixty years has much contributed to extend its use, and promote the prosperity of the cotton manu facturers. If a heavy tax had raised the price —as the tax on printed cottons raised it— the prosperity of the cotton manufacturers would have been impeded. In like manner the farmers have suffered by the landlords' tax on their pro duce. To encourage the use of the produce of our own soil, in distilleries, breweries, for food, and in our various manufactures, the plan is to make it cheap, as cheap as possible, and that the Corn-tax will not allow. The last consideration we shall at present advert to, as suggested by this letter is, where are we to stop if the Corn-laws are to be continued ? At pre sent, the high price of labour and other things make the cost of producing wheat this year much greater than in 1836, and consequently the remunerating price required by the farmers next year must be still higher than this, in proportion to the crop, or they will be injured and ruined. It is not only, therefore, that the monopoly of the landlords must be made conti nuall) more rigid as regards our Colonies, exclud ing now molasses, next rice, afterwards sago, and all other things that by any possibility can be substituted for the produce of our own soil, but it must, to answer the landlords' purpose, be made , more stringent from year to year. According to the 44 Suffolk Landowner," the Corn-laws will be of no use, unless they be extended over all possible eatables and drinkables, and the materials of which they can be made. They imply a continually extending system of exclusion, ancl a continual endeavour in the Legislature to enhance against the struggles of competing ingenuity, the selling price of the pro duce of the soil. It will be seen, by a report in another part of The Sun, that Mr. C. CHILDS of Bungay is now fairly launched in the Ecclesiastical Court. He declined, it appears, to urge any of the objec tions which he might have brought against the libel exhibited by the Churchwardens, in order that the facts of the case might the more readily he got at. From the character of the gentleman who presides over the Court, Mr.CHILDS expects that justice— as far as that term can be applied to the proceed ings of such a Court—will be done ; and from what we know, and have made known, of the pro ceedings of the parties who have been so bitter in their hostility to him and his family, we anticipate that some good will result from the disclosures which must be made during the .progress of the suit. The Paris Journals of Tuesday devote the greater portion of their editorial columns to examinations of the claims of the aew Cabinet to the confidence of the country. All the Liberal Papers describe the Cabinet as the best that could be expected to be formed under such circumstances, and unanimously agree that every thing is to be expected from Ow inexhaustible resources of the President of the Council. Our opinion is already before the public. Before adding another word we shall await the appearance of the usual Ministerial manifesto. U.l the 27th ult. a dreadful fire happened at Toulon, occasioned by the explosion of a shell ignited by acci dent. Besides the destruction of numerous buldings, several byes were lost. A letter from Geneva of the 18th ult., states that MEHEMET ALI has sent an agent there to engage the services of as many French and Swiss officers as may feel disposed to try their fortune in Egypt. The writer is of opinion that many of the officers who served under the banner of Do❑ CALLUS in Spain will embrace the proposal of the Vineroy. Letters from Senegal of the 18th of December, detail an account of an expedition undertaken by Captain CAILLE and M. HUARD, a naval apothecary, accompanied by some natives, to examine the country of Yolof, and to enter into commercial relations with the KING and the French colony of Senegal. The ex pedit'on was eminently successful, and as the country of Yolof abounds in gum-trees, spices, and various rich productions, a profitable trade is thus opened to French merchants. BO UR SE.--PAktg, TVESDAT, MARCH 3. irst Highest Lowest last Price Price. Price. Price ;Tench 5 per Cents ll3 80 ... 114 ... 113 84) 1 3 4 per Cents l4l ,44 , 20 ... In; ... 104 20 3 per Cents 8.2 35 82 75 ... Bs 6.5 ... 82 75 Bank of erance Lanitte Bank 1.04201. 11160 ...1040 —1461 _1 440 Belgian Bahl - 8312 50 ... 925 cra2 50 per Cents ...... lO4 ... 1( ... 101 104 3 per Cents 73 50 ... 13 55 ... 73 45 7.1 55 United States Bank Loan Spanfsh Active... ........... 3 11 30 ...429i4 Passive lli 444 7 % 4.4 7 % New 1./aerie:l Old Deferred Portuguese 3 per Cents Neapolitan Roman 10'1 . 1.4 103 % 103 113% RAILWAY SHARE:, St. Germain Versatile!, it. ii... ........ ... 5 , 5 L . B. 370 ... 372 50 ... 370 ... 372 50 Strasburg to Bale .. ...... DUTCH FUNDS.—AMITERDAU, MAR6II 3. Money. Bills. s:2} s i ;3 lA)ftttloi,:ldli)tattibitS, `2pl4,pceeruCt:ent 9 8 la 08% AlrlOrtSvudic,4}i per cent 0: 1 1i 41 3 4 Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 7 .0 704 Commercial Company, 4 , , per cent 1774 17144 Ditto (1'32 and 1533) 5 per cent. Ditto 1537, 5 per cent. Loan 1537, 5 per cont. !fli 06% Exchange on London, Two mon th.... ...»».....„„ ii syN months —Dutch Papers, March 4. (SELMAN frUND3—BaussEca, liaaen S. Actual De:et, 2!4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ...... ..... 1 0 lii Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 par Ceat...,,,„„ 93 --------- 3 per Cent. ...... ... 73)4 Loan of City, ism, 4 per Cent. 9l Society of Commerce, 4 k.iper Cent lO7 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 1) 4 34 National Society . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VinNsa, FEB. 24. Five per Cents. Motalliques •.... ......... ............. 104% Foar per Cents. Three par Cents. Bank Sharos _ _ _ —J.ellige;WeSne Zeitung. Feb 111 HAMBURG BOR4ENHALLE, FEB. a Bills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares 17 : 45 A ti.lo-Russian Loan ll9 1118• X Russian S per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lOl5 " Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. :;,.1 and 4th Seri, s Ditto in Cer t ifi cates Dutch Actual Debt, 2pe !i Cent 51 % 31 .... .......... .....•. Ditto 5 per Cent 9B Polish Bonds 145 141 New ticket - Angl,l.l inoish Lon, 3 per Cent. 7.4 i i 71% Norwegian Loan, It-34, 4 per Cent....... Scanish, New 3 per Cents. Madrid papers of the 25th tit. have been received, but the news they bring is in a great measure antici pated by the following telegraphic despatches copied from the Moniteur of Tuestlly "TU SUB-TEEFECT OF RAYoNNE TO THE MINISTER OF TIIR INTERIOR. " The reduction of Sogora is officially codirmed ; •274 prisoners, six cannon, munitions of war, and a great quari tity of provisions arc in the power of Espartoro. Ma drid was tranquil on the 27th. The state of siege v,'as not taken off." " Bayonne, March 2. " THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH MILITARY DIVISIoN TO THE MINISTER OF WAR, AND THE tRESIDENT OF THE 1111:4] GREAT WIZARD OF NORTH, AT THE NEW STRAND THEATRE. "People should not talk in the streets."—OLn lextar. " Have you seen the Wizard of the North, Charles?" said a young gentleman to his companion, as they were passing the New Strand Theatre on Monday afternoon, in company with a handsome young lady, who seemed more attentive to Charles than to her brother—" Not yet :" exclaimed the lady and Charles at the same mo ment, as if they had preconcerted a visit together. " Well, then, the sooner you go the better, for I never saw such witchcraft before." "Oh dear ! tell us all about it:' exclaimed the lady with a look of curiosity that set Charles two steps in advance, to have a fair share of the description, and a better view of her face. " Its all mage! that's clear—and to tell you all about it I must he a wizard myself—but it is a thing to be seen, not to be told," "Ishe a conjuror, then ?" said the lady. " Something more, I should think, or the very devil himself ; for his tricks—and he mod.istly only calls them tricks—are beyond all comprehension." " Charles !" whisperej the fair one, " we shall see him to-morrow—but what is it all about, John ?" " Every thing ; tricks delusions confusions burning of ladies' handkerchiefs, and finding the wedding-ring before it is lost." " Lost ?" interrupted the lady, with emotion ; but recollecting herself, she quickened her steps, and appeared to cast a sidelong glance at Charles as she bowed her head. " Why, I have seen conjurors before now," proceeded the narrator, " but this Wizard beats them all. In fact, his per formances partake more of the nature of reality than magic, for they seem so simple that ono is led to be lieve he could do the same himself. There again ! exclaimed an old gentleman, who sit below me, to his wife ; you see how he does it ?" No, Ido not,' replied the good lady, rubbing her eyes, at the same time, to be more certain, ' Well, then,' said he, putting on his spectacles, tell you all about it, for I've been a conjuror once myself ; the Wi zard is now'—' Ah! what is he doing with that guinea pig in the tin canister ?' exclaimed his wife. Hush, my dear, that's what I'm trying to find out'---and be fore he could find it out the guinea pig was converted into an Egyptian Astrologer ! The boxes were in amazement, as well they might—the pit was lost in wonder—and the gallery muttered it surely can't be real ?" Timothy, my dear, I'm not superstitious,' whispered the lady to the old gentleman,' but I would ra ther go home." Pooh, pooh ! Nonsense, my dear, he won't hurt you'—and the titter went round at the lady's expense. No sooner was one trick over than another followed in rapid succession, and with such graceful ease as if the Wizard had the whole art of di vination at his fingers' ends. Look there, 'Pa,' said al,l can perform that trick at school, and asto nish the boys—l watched how he did it ; but, see, it's all changed I' And so it was; the very genius of the black art appeared in all his glory." " Well, then, Charles, we must go and see him to-night, for I am burning to see him," said the young Lady—" I wonder if the Queen has been to see the Wizard ? It is really so surprising that I am sure she will go." By this time the party reached Temple-bar, and the rest of their conversation was cut short by the crowd of people passing and repassing through the narrow entrance. Well, thought we, if people can not pick up gold in the streets, they can some times hear something new—and so we deter mined, as the young lady had done, to go to the New Strand Theatre, and have a peep at this great Wizard ; and there he was, sure enough, the very im personation of all that's wonderful ! It would be need less to descend to particulars in describing the per formances of a Magician who can do everything—natu tura!, or super-natural--it is all the same to him, so potent is his wizard art ! Magic, mechanical, or chemical—electric, galvanic, or magnetic—all are fused in the crucible of his black art—so much so that a lady on the look-out for a handsome husband will feel the wedding-ring of the wizard actually tingle on her finger ! After this, who will hesitate to go and see the Wizard of the North ? There is superstition even in love, and we should like to take a leaf out of the Wizard's book. COUNCIL " Tranquillity was completely re.established at Madrid on the 26. h. General Balboa has entered there with his division. The political Chief and the military Go. vernor have been dismissed. Tee ayuntamiento (munici pality) has been invited to suspand its sittings during the stare of siege." The falsehood of the rumour set afloat by the Car lists and their partisans, that Sevora fell because CA.• laitxßA had resolved not to defend it, is sufficiently proved by the number of prisoners, of pieces of cannon, and the quantity of stores and provisions seized by ESPARTERO. Had the Carlists resolved not to defend the fort, they would not have been such fools as to await being made prisoners by ESPARTERO, and deli vering into his hands the guns and military stores of the fortress. A riot took place between the military and the citi zens of Madrid on the 24th, when one of the National Guards, not in uniform, was killed by a soldier of the !ine, and another citizen mortally wounded. Th e t roo p s of the line passed the night under arms, and every pre caution was taken for the public saFefy, as if Don CARLO 6 was at the gates of the capital. This i s b ut t h e deve lopment of a Ministerial plot to crush the Liberal party, and if it fail the re-action will be terrible. But they only are responsible for the consequences. BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Three young barristers, named Crookenden, Williams, and John son , were charged with committing an unpro voked assault upon :11r. William Kendal, landlord of the White Lion public-house, in Were. Street, Clare-market, under the follow ing circumstances:— It appeared from the evidence that about half-past eleven o'clock last night the first-named defendant entered the complainant's house, requiring to be served with gin, and being very much intoxicated, the complainant told him he was more in want of soda water to cool himself. Without any further remark he took him by the nose and gave him a severe pull, and upon his wife interfering he else laid hold of her by the nose, and committed a similar assault upon her. The complainant then insisted that he would leave his house, but instead of doing so he struck him re peatedly with a stick, by which he infl.cted severe wounds upon his head. On proceeding to the station-house the other defendants, who were sober, obstructed the officers in the execution of their duty in such a manner as to enable him to make his escape : but he was shortly after re-captured, as he fell head over heels in the streets, and his friends were taken into custody on their appearing at the station-house to render him their assistance. The defendants made a lengthened statement of the oc currence; the latter denying that they were the cause of their friend's making his escape, and the former declaring that the offence was committed entirely through the ef fects of intoxication. Mr. HALL ordered the principal aggressor to pay a fine of 51., or one months' imprisonment for the assault on the landlord, and a further fine of 40s. or 14 days' imprison ment for the assault on his wife. The other defendants were fined 31 each for obstructing officers in the execu tion of their duty, or to be sent to prison for three weeks. Thy defendants instantly paid the fines and were dis charged. Roberts, M. P., appeared to prefer a charge against a tailor, named John. lVyle, for having, at eleven o'clock this morning, relieved him of his pockethand kerchief in the Strand. The Hon. Member feeling a tug at his coat, put back his hand, and discovered that his pocket was empty, at the same time seeing the prisoner run away he called out to stqp him, and as be turned the corner of the street, John Bailey, a postman, laying hold of him, found the prosecutor's property concealed under his coat. The primer's late master said that he had not worked for him since Christmas last, but he has since associated with v e ry indifferent characters, and he left his work with out any apparent reason. The prisoner's father said that he never could keep him at home, for he seemed determined to lead an idle and disorderly life. Mr. HALL said that as there was no hope of reclaiming him, he should be fully committed for trial. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, T IrEL TS O'CLOCK. We have no Liverpool letter as yet. Our arrivals this morning are the French and Ostend mails. There are no ship letters. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. We extract the following :—" Accounts from Vienna to the 21st Feb. state that as to the reported treaty between England, Russia, and Austria, on the subject of the Eastern question, nothing official was known there respecting it, but it is the general opinion at Vienna that in a month the Eastern question will be definitively settled, as all the Powers are anxious to bring it to a conclusion. EXCHANGE Al AMSTERDAM, MARCH 2.•—The market for national funds, although that of London on Friday last was without variation, was of an unfavourable ten dency, and some sales took place. The Society of Com merce Actions were offered for sale ; they opened at 1736. but closed at Mi. In Ardoin's Spanish the operations were very animated, and their receding at Paris and Ant werp, together with the unfavourable news from Madrid, caused them to fall to 251. The Coupons were also lower. Accounts from Antwerp state that by the intelligence from Rotterdam it appears that the sea has been impeded by the ice. In the Scheldt the ice is beginning to get before the town. The vessels belonging to the Administra tion of Pilots, with those belonging to the Marine, are to enter the basin this day. 711 E FINN. Consols opened this morning at the !caring off prices of yesterday, 90/ a Money, and 90i sellers for the Ac count. Exchequer Bills l 3 prem. ; Bank Stock abut ; India Stock, 24$ 249. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues to be the chief speculation; parties are again realizink this o,orn ing, which is the cause of the above stock receding—left off 291 and at present 231 9 ; Portuguese, 33 ."4/ ; Three per Cents , 231 241 ; Colombian. 254 264 ; Mexican, 294 4 ; Brazilian, 771 74; Spanish Deferred, 14q ; Passive,,74- ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53j- ;;-; Five per Cents., 1004 1014. rttlOES Or' SHARES DA IAT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Clinginy l2's," _lO Hull and Selby riatlway Company 35 271.1 London and Eirmitigham Railflay Company CO 151 Mexican and South American 7 gyy lIALF-PAST ONE. Although we have no intelligence of importance, either to affect the British or Foreign Markets, both of them have rather a heavy appearance. Consols are nat so good as in the early part of the morning, owing to an expected com munication for the funding of Exchequer Bills from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but as yet it has not made its appearance ; it is rather difficult to ascertain the true state of the various transactions in the House, owing to some of the first-rate brokers doing business privately. Consels may be quoted at present 90-1- for the Account ; for Money they were done 94, at present 93k, no business done to any extent. illoney continues at five per cent. in the house. Exchequer Bills lower, 1 3 prem. ; India Bonds, 2 dis.. par; India Stock, 249. I❑ the Foreign Market Spanish has been the chief do ing, this morning, in which considerable fluctuations have taken place from 29+ down to 281 ; Protuguese, 34; Three per Cents., 231 ; Colembian nothing done; Mexi can, 29 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half pet CentF., 33i ; Five per Cents., 1001 ; Spanish Deferred, 131 14. CLOSING PRICES. BRl'fl.Sii FUNDS; Hank Stock ... ~... — India Stack opi 3pi:r Cent iled per 3 Cent Ccdi. tili per Cent. Red .. , Dl,i Ditto Sew Annuities New 314 per Cent 98 3 4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d lpm New 5 per Cent — . Ditto 50:V „... .. .. fpm Long An to exp:ry Jan. 1St;:: Ditto Small Bank Stock thr Opg Oct. 1839 Jan ltiO FO It El CI N FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent Ikleian, 5 per cent ..... llrazilian Bonds — rtutmos Ayr,, t; per omit — Chilimi,ti percent —. Colombian, ti per cent Ditto, 11424. .ll Danish, 3 per cent -- Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 Tier cent — Ditto,l; per cent., 1525 --. Puny m 11,1825,6 per cent -- Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto IPrussian, 5 per cent — , Russian Bonds, 5 per tent— — IDitto, 'Metallic 'Spanish, 5 per cen . 2O Ditto, Deterred French, 5 per cent. 1131.75 e. Exchangi , —l. —c French, 3 per cent Dutch,'?si per cent. 53% Ditto, 5 per cent. lOl ARTS. (15 27 (Treat We tern Railway ..-. Hull and Selby London and Brighton Iliilway - t•i l'il London and Birmingham Ra ilwa y London and Greenwich Railway North Midland lt:iilwav Ditto New Shares . - l6 South Eastern and Dover PAPER FOR STAMPED COVERS.—We have just learned that the contract has been given to Mr. John Dickenson. whose tender was lowest in price, and who under took to supply the paper earlier than any other manufacturer. CORY-LAWS —(From a Correspondent.) —A meeting was held last evening at the Archery Rooms, New road, to petition for the total abolition of th e Corn-laws, but as little or no publicity had been Sven to the notice of the meet ing, it was composed chiefly of persons who looked in out of curiosity. These, however, amount ed to 86, and on a resolu tion f o r repeal being proposed, it was met by a counter resolu tion—that the abolition of the Corn-laws would be of no use without the Extension of the Suffrage. A division took place, when the amendment was lost by a majority of two, there being 44 for the resolution, and 42 for the ,amendment. The victo rious party then gave three sheers for the abolition of the Corn-laws. INVERNESS ELECTION —THE NOMINATION. —The nomination of candidates for the representation of this district of burghs tool4plaee on Friday. The candidates were, on the Conservative interest, John Fraser, Esq. ; and on the part of the Liberals, James Morrison, Esq., merchant, of Lon don. Provost Cumming proposed, and Mr. Wilson second, d, the nomination of the Conservative. Colonel Ross then pro posed Mr. Morrison, chose nomination was seconded by :11r. George Mackay, an Invernes merchant. Subsequently the show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Morrison. Both candidates appeared on the hustings and addressed the electors. The Sheriff stated that the polling would commence on the following Tuesday. In a letter from Inverness it is stated that the Liberal party Lave no doubt of success ; but that all the power of Toryism, in all its :orms, local and me tropolitan, is fully employed night aid day to prevent voters from polling. ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS DARI:XSTON. Our readers may perhaps recollect that Mr. Hum page, Churchwarden of Darlaston, was lugged into the Ecclesiastical Court by the worthy and pious Rector of that parish, who, because the rate-payers refused a Church-rate, covered the communion-table with black cloth, refused for six months to administer the Sacra ment, stopped the Church clock, and prevented, or tried to prevent, the Church bells from being rung. To the last of these proceedings the Churchwarden demurred, and took upon himself the responsibility of causing the bell-ringers of Darlaston to amuse the parishioners with an occasional merry peal, by way of " practising." This grave cffence it was that provoked the " man of God" to pour out the vials of his wrath upon the peccant Churchwarden's head. How he came off will appear from the following statement, which we copy from the Staffordshire Examiner : HUMP AGE VICTORIOUS ! Mr. Humpage's soul-preserving case was heard, as appointed, on Wednesday, before Mr. Chancellor Law. The Surrogate read over the minutes of the proceed ings of the Court, the articles, and the depositions of Mr. Kyle's witness. Mr. HusreAGE and Mr. KYLE having been heard, The CHANCELLOR delivered judgment. From the 88th canon of the Church, he considered that the law looked to the churchwardens to suffer, or not to suffer, the hells to be rung, and that they must not allow them to be rung except on good cause ; but the wardens could not ring them if the minister refused his consent. Nevertheless, if the minister refused his sanction to cus tomary and decent ringing, he would render himself liable to be cited into this Court by any one who felt aggrieved by such refusal. Practising must certainly be considered decent and necessary ringing, for without it the bells could not be properly rune at times for which their " ordinary use is ordained." 'lia articles had not been proved by the evidence adduced on the part of the plaintiff, and he therefore absolved Ephraim Humpage, the defendant, from all pains and penalties. With re spect to the minister's freehold of the church, it was not like the freehold of a house. The minister was merely a trustee for the parish, and should preserve it for parish purposes. The churchwardens were officers tinder the bishop, and had an equal right over the freehold of the church with the minister. The decision seemed to give the greatest satisfaction to all the Court. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HUNGERFORD. Fair supplies, and a good demand ; prices steady. Beef 70. to Bid. Mutton 70. to 80. Veal Bd. to 9d. Pork 7,1-d. to tic'. per lb. Turbot 7s. to 21s. Cod 4s. to 12s. Soles 10d. to ss. per pair. Lobsters 2s. to ss. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and prices steady ; trade very brisk. Turbot ss. to 21s. ; 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 9d. to ss. per pair ; Lobsters. 2s. to ss. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ; ;Mackerel, 4d. to lOd. ; haddocks, Bd. to Is. 6d. ; and Whit ings, 4d. to 10d. HAY MARKETS. Supplies short, demand good, and prices higher. Hay, 61s. to SSs. ; Clover, 90s. to 120 s. ; Straw, 348. to 445. per load. TALLOW .MARKET. P. Y. C. very quiet at 51s. per cwt. COLONIAL MARKET. Very little done, either by public sale or private contract, and prices steady. 150 bags Manilla Sugar were put up, the sale heavy, and prices a little lower. The chief sales were of Drugs. TEA MARKET. Nothing done except for money, which is very heavy. Needy holders were the only parties selling ; the bulk of the trade did nothing whatever. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4. —Wind E. S. E., fresh breeze. —Arrived the Clutha, Scott, from Havannah. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Wind E. N.E., fresh breeze,— Sailed the Waterwitch, Huguet, for St. Michael. LIVERPOOL, :MARCH 4.-IVind E , fresh breeze.—Ar rived tne South America, Bayley, from New York ; and Marmora, Myers, New Orleans. Sailed the Colum bia, Blaney, for St. Vincent ; Elizabeth Wood, Barba does ; Idris, Leggatt, Portola ; and Universe, Berbice. Conic, MARCH 2.—Arrived the William Salthou - ,e. Staunton, from Porto Rico ; Ralph Wylant, McKenzie, Odessa; and Cottager, Smith, do. A Portuguese schoo ner, from Liverpool, was lost on the Bayonne Islands about the 6th ult., as reported by the George and Henry, arrived bere from Oporto. DUNGENESS, MARCH 2.—Off port the Ann, from Rio Janeiro SHEERNESS, MARCH 4.—A loaded brig is on the Noro Sand. YARMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Two head boards, painted black, on which is cut Mary Ann, with some other wreck, has been washed on shore near Garbestown.. ALDBOItOI , OII,. , MARCH 4. A large collier has just gone down off the harbour in eight fathoms water; crew saved. SountwoLo, Marten 4. —Several small pieces of wreck have been washed into the harbour to-day, marked 't W. Archbold, Newcastle." CHARLES KENIBLE.-Last week a vase was presented to Charles Kemble. The ceremony took place on the stage of Covent-garden Thea , re, in the presence of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort and a large body of the suloscribers. LIT RA T U RE. SPEECHES ON COPYRIGHT. Moron, Lonilon, 1840. Mr. Moxon has done wall to republish Sergeant Telfourd's Parliamentary speeches on the Law of Copy right, for, independently of the in:portanee attached by literety men to he subject, they are niedeis, in their ‘vay, of teat hest sort of eloquence which coos inees the understanding, white at the seine time it delights the fancy, and wins its sure VS' it yto the heart. On all to pics that interest his feelings, we consider the Learned Sec, eant one of the most sterling orators of the day. If he have not the breadth, vigour, and various histo rical lore of Macaulay, the ready smartness of Stanley, or the tact and plausibility of Peel, he has vet a classic purity of diction, an elevation of thought and sentiment. and a salient and abounding fancy, ever obedient to his summons, which we rarely meet with in the speeches of these dexterous debaters. But then, in order to he heard to advantage, it is absolutely indispensable that he have a their.e which deeply stirs his feelings. He can not speak from the mere cold dictates of the under standing ; hence he is usually si,ent on the ordinary business topics of the day, such as call forth the dry prolixity of a Jackson or a Warburton ; but give him a subject which he takes to heart—one calculated t o kindle the generous heal of the scholar, and the glowing imagination of the poet—and there is not a speaker in the House of Commons who shall produce a deeper impression on the more cultiva ted portion of this audience. Such a subjt ct the Learned Sergeant found in the Copyright qaestion, and the speeches before us are the result. They were heard with the greatest delight by a full House ; and even the Utilitarians who objected to their arguments, and who, it may be supposed, have always logic at command, seeing that they have nothing else, found it easier to vote against, than to answer them. It is too much the fashion of the present day, especially among common-place people, to consider a speech or an essay sound and argumentative, simply because it is of a duf, dry, practical character, like Alderman Thompson's ledger; and, on the other hand, to take for granted that it is superficial, merely beeathe it happens to be bestrewed with the rich lights of fancy and fueling. Now there cannot be a greater mistake titan this. Sidney Smith, one of the liveliest, most sparkling, and —when he pleases —most eloquent of essayists, is also one of the must severely argumentative ; and if there be one thing more than another which we admire in Mr. Talfourd's Copyright speeches, it is the perspicuous and consecutive character of the reasoning. True, that reasoning is graced, and enriched, and illustrated by poetic imagery of the purest order ; but surely it does not lose in intrinsic quality by such aids, any more than a diamond ceases to be a diamond because it is handsomely set in gold I By all lovers of impassioned yet perfectly unaffected eloquence, this ktle volume —whose publication is a proof that a relish for the generous and elevated in literature is not yet extinct among us—will be received as a welcome boon, second only to that which the author conferred on the public by his high-toned drama of lon. A DEFENCE OF ORTBODUXY, WITH AN APOLOGY FOR THE NEW TESTA MEN T. Br t MEMBER oP ring ANGLICAN CA. riromc CHURCH, Improperly called the Protestant Church of England. Effingham Wilson, London, 1840. This is one of the smartest and most complete pieces of irony that has for a long time fallen under our notice. The style is as nervous as the irony is bitter ; and we shrewdly suspect that the Rev. Sidney Smith, who, it is well known, has no affection for the Church, is the author. If he be not, he might be. without detracting any thing from the merit of the author of Peter Plytn ley's letters. We are less disposed, however, to com ment on the excellent production of the Rev. Gentle man, than to make our readers acquainted with its con tents by extracts. Here, therefore, is one passage, vin dicating the Church from the charge of not being meek and lowly. If you trace the history of our rise to our present pre• ferments during the last thirty years, see us first as domes tic tutors, watching every look of our patroness, wash ing her spaniel and feeding her parrot, collecting gossip for her amusement, accompanying her in her drives in the morning, and playing whist with her at night, hating whom she hates, admiring whom she admires•—you will pause before you deny us the merits of lowliness and meekness. Observe us next inducted to a living in some fen in Lincolnshire, which, from its solitude and insalu brity, is peculiarly adapted to the stout health and slender fortune of an unfriended or perhaps a " liberal" curate— consider the risks we run in our visits once a year to re ceive the tithes—t 6 g misery of a way-side inn, the chance of inferior wine, and you will not be surprised that the dis cernment of our then glorious Administrations rewarded so much self devotion with a prebend, or a preachership at Court. Not meek ? Not lowly ?—Spirits of Curs and Sumners, of Philpottses and Hodgsons, was ever blas phemy equal to this? I tell you, Sir, that more lowliness and meekness are condensed into one half year of the existence of an expectant divine, bending his back into an arch, and crouching till his very soul feels humbled and abashed, than would suffice for the whole life time of an ordinary man. And if, when this meekness and piety have raised them from a vicarage at Brighton, or a tutorship at Geneva, to weelth and influence, they display a proper appreciation of the goodness of Providence and their patron, by maintaining the dignity of their office, and ex acting the uttermost farthing of their dues, what have those most inapplicable quotations about meekness and r lowliness to do with their behaviour ? They are still meek and lowly on proper occasions—in presence of their superiors. But, a Bishop to be meek ? a Bishop to be lowly ? it would appear a manifest contradiction in terms, were it not for the very unopiscopal and unnatural beha viour of certain monsters recently elevated to the bench, who, as they never possessed the peculiar virtues I have claimed for my Right Reverend friends, continue the same humble and spiritless course of lowly-mindedness, meek ness, and charity, which they pursued when country rectors and even stipendiary curates. But if the Whigs and Radicals had pursued their theo logical studies a little farther—better for them if they had never commenced them at all—they would have seen that, with regard to those virtues of lowliness and meekness, there is a promise as well as an injunction. They follow in this the usual policy of unprincipled and dishonourable men, and see only one side of the question. They take especial notice of the command, but wilfully shut their eyes to the rewards attached to obedience to it. It is an acknowledged axiom in biblical interpretation that the fulfilment of a prophecy is the surest proof of which any disputed matter is capable ; and it is also uni. versally agreed that it is allowable to conclude, from the completion of a promise, that the conditions of the promise have been fulfilled. Bearing this in mind, look round, I beseech you, in this broad realm of England ; see our churches rising in every parish, our granaries filled with corn ; our glebes. our granges, our farms, spreading a ho lier beauty over the landscape, wherever you turn your eyes, and then go to your Bible and see who are the people to whom the earth is promised. " Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." Now, when we are already in possession of such a slice of it, there is no logi cian who would be hardy enough to deny that our meek ness must have been in proportion to the remuneration. It is not therefore us you attack, but the New Testament itself, on which indeed you lay more stress than we do. I beg to assure you, in full proof of the meekness which you deny us, that we consider an attack on that volume a very venial offence, compared to the ignorant enmity you dis play against ourselves. You accuse us in the same manner, of regarding the things of this world—of being partial to good eating and drinking, and, in short, of being like the calumniated Dives, in the parable—clothed in fine linen and faring sumptuously every day. The blow, as usual, falls not upon us, but on your own favourite book; for it' you will examine it attentively you will find that, although those luxuries are strictly forbidden to Dis , enters and other sinners, they are most distinctly promised to those who are truly orthodox, in the religious and political faith in which we have placed our trust. " Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you " Well, we have got them all, eating, drinking, and cloth ing, and I therefore defy you to doubt we are the sole pos sessors, not only of lawn sleeves and French cooks, but also of righteousness and religion. Here is another passage, denying that the age of miracle is past. Another accusation which is brought against the New Testament, though professedly against us in this. "If your bishops are indeed endowed with apostolical authority, where: is their apostolical power ? The age of miracles is past." To this I answer, the age of miracles is not past. What greater miracles can be imagined than are daily to be seen in our admirable Church ? A Prettyman or a Sparkea undergoing dinners and other Christian penances in the hospitable houses of Bath or Cheltenham, and at the same moment fulfilling his sacred duties, and replenishing his apostolical scrip as spiritual gu;cle of six or seven parishes in various parts of England; a Reverend Moles worth uniting in himself the qualities both of Balaam and his ass, and astonishing, like the one, by speaking at all —like the other, by cursing those whom lie was commis sioned to bless anti pray for ;—a Newmanite or Puse vice protesting against Protestantism, and abjuring the Re-for mation and yet eating the bread of our Protestant re formed Church, and only regretting that her loaves are not a little larger I Are these no miracles? Nay, is it not a miracle exceeding future belief, that these things have gone on for so long a time without exciting such a tempest of admiration as to endanger the Establish ment itself? Since it has survived this, we may well laug'u at those who deny that its tenacity of life is super human. We have quoted enough to stimulate the curiosity of our readers, and wo will not quote more, lest it be satiated. We recommend the pamphlet to general p,:rusal. TOURS IN THE HIMALAYA 310UNTAINS. 2 Vols. Madden, Loudon, 1840. Sir William Lloyd, a military gentleman, who fur nished the materials from which the first of these two volumes is made up, the substance of the second having been supplied to the Editor by the late Captain Gerard, states that he had long felt a desire to explore the snowy ranges of the Himalayas, and an opportunity having presented itself of gratifying his curiosity, ho started from Cawnpoor in the December of 1821, and made the best of his way to the old city of Dhoolpoor, where he was hospitably receised by the Rana, or Chief, who, informed him that generally throughout the district, " every female child was put to death immediately after its birth, and that the practice originated from the Eiti peror Jeliarngree taking by force to his bed the yc..ang women of this and other Rahnort tribes.' On quit ting this country of incantic:de,‘Our Author hurried on EVENING EDITION a city of whose magnifiettn: spe, l 44 in h;;: 1, turns, especialb id its fatij ALshae, which ho culls the 11104, :vlau. , o!ouni in the tvor;4l;"___ '• I had visited it lest 3 ear." 1-1, oin t ri r v es , •• durAag a ramble try and iis large aerial dome of white marble. its gr,c, ful n.biarrits, and stat , ly bo4i.. or the same costiy iiiateral. tt. g-rden tided a'' now ;lnd or. and ;iron Lie, 0 foontaies, atjes.ic gat d I and realizA wi t I si.,,Azio !.ave tuought an impossilAity But this evening I was more than ever charmed with it The moon's fullest radiance sb-ss• crud over the exqui,ite marble edifice, the trees were shadowy and dark, and cased noiselessly in the perfumed wind, the ranges of fountains seemed like the delicate plumes of egrets, and diffu,ed throughout a delicious cool ness; while the silence of ..fight was only broken at inter vals by the solemn recAations from the Koran of the :Moot lahs in the alcoves of the shrine." Arrived once thurishing capital of the :‘,l(,zul empire—Sir William Lloyd was struck, as every traveller ims been, by the extent and grandeur of its ruins, and forcibly observes ()fit •` If all the tre.isaire which has been lavished here were amass d, it would form a marnid of gold. If all the blood which has been shed here, could gush again from the earth, it would cover the house tops. If the bones of its unsepuchred throngs were heaped up, instead of a level plain, we should see a mountain. Delhi has been the stage of greatness. Men the actors, ambition the prompter, centuries the audience." 01 one of the Delhi Allnarchs, who was tsken pri soner by the Sikhs, we have this striking anecdote : " Whilst awaiting his execution at Delhi, he was told to put his child, who was ,it; ing on his lap, to death, which he calmly did, by cutting its throat ! He was then torn to pieces by red hot pincers, a death which nothing but the resolution of fanaticism could patiently inflict or suffer." On the twenty-first of April, the author reached the nearest. and lowest range of the Himalayas ; and on gaining an ascent of upwards of four thousand feet, felt a buoyancy of spirit, and a physical energy that he had never experienced before. This, of course, was occasioned by the extreme purity of the air ; but we are surprised that he should have felt. such intense " thrilling elasticity" —we quote his own words —at, com paratively speaking, so trifling an elevation above the level of the sea. Humbolt, we remember, describes the same sensations when climbing the Andes ; but then this was at a height of eleven thousand feet. While journeying through one of the many picturesque delis common to this country, the following ludicrous mishap occurred to one of the author's attendants, who had just been bathing in a small river that wound through the val ley " We were enjoying our breakfast, and were pouring out our thoughts upon the grandeur and loveliness of the Hi, malaya, when we were startled by a yell of despair, fol. lowed by horrible vociforations, and upon running out, we perceived one of our fatted Hindoo servants, rusking he knew not wiere, with both his hands glued far back below his hips, and his long white waist- cloth, his only dress, streaming in most • nwarrantable disarray between his legs. He bellowed again and again, till the whole dell rang. As he appeared insane, we had him entrapped, but he conti nued capering as if possessed by every demon in the n e ther sphere, nor would he move It's hands from where he bad fastened them. We could obtain no answer from him, and were at a loss to conceive the cause of his conduct, until one of his companions from the crowd which had collected on hearing these elaborate cries, told us that, after bathing, he had chosen a place among some bushes, to sit down upon, when, as if enchanted, he had suddenly sprung up, and began performing these extraordinary antics. He pointed to the spot which was close by, and we discovered that the hapless Hindoo had sate down on • clump of gigantic nettles !" This will remind the reader of at' equally ludicrous accident which occurred to the celebrated German pro fessor, Dr. Heavystern, who—says Scott, in the " An tiquary"—most unadvisedly and thoughtlessly squatted himself down on an arm-chair, on which were two sharp spurs, " whereby he grievously endamaged his sitting parts !" To resume : it appears that the Hy malayas consist of four or five distinct ranges of moun tains, each rising above the other, the loftiest towering to the enormous elevation of thirty thousand feet-- that is to say, about six thousand feet higher than the highest point of the Andes. " Within these bounds," we arc told, " the general appearance of the region is mournful and barren. There, surrounded by the mos* gigantic pinnacle of the universe, sublimity sits fettered to desolation." Among the nearer and lower ranges , however, the scenery is transcendently beautiful, 5 1 may be surmised from this description : o The summit of Wartco, which has an elevation of about Aix thousand feet, is covered with charming woods, sad I sward draperied with the most beautiful flowers. It were impossible to be fatigued by wandering here. On all sides grow the yellow buttercup, and one also of a lilac colour; the strawberry is flowering, and a crowd of wildinga be sides, rear their graceful forms, and nod in the ge ntle breeze. In the woods we saw several pheasants, and, for the first time for many years, heard the throstle discoursing most excellent music. Indeed this day we admired Na ture in all her loveliness and sublimity. Before us rose the lofty and infinite realm of eternal snow, the Himalayas. On its eastern bounds, Jumnootree, JAunlai, and another peak, stood like giants mantled in white ; to the west, s group of their equals were assembled, and the glistening plains on which they stood, were broken by black precipi tous rocks, and steep beds of spotless snow ; and interve ning, were rugged cliffs, wooded heights, cultivated ra• vines, temples and villages —a disjointed mountain realm." So pure and transparent is the atmosphere in this mountain regian, that a peak, twenty-four miles distant from where Sir William Lloyd stood, not only seemed to be within gun-shot, but every rock and fragment lying upon the snow, nay, every rent, was distinct ; and he thinks it far from unlikely that if a man oa horseback could possibly hare been upon that pe a k, he would have been perfectly visible ! After wandering for sJine weeks among the Himalayas, tid on some occa sion; gaining an elevation of upwards of twelve thou sand feet, our author returned to the plains, w here the narrative of his journey closes. The second volume contains Capt lin Gerard's accou n t of bis tour over the mountain district, who ascend e d to a far greater height than Sir William Lloyd, having not unfrequently gained an elevatioa, of 16,000 feet. He, too speaks in raptures of he scenery through which he passes ; but of the famnke sacred lake, the Manasarowara, which lies kid , without the great barrier of the Himalayas and which must be of vast extent, since t" circuit is said to be a four or five days' journey, he gives us scarcely any details whatever, which is a grievous omission, for this splendid sheet of water is scarcely known, even by name, in Europe. If ;re cept these defects, his narrative is such as cannot fail to ;ratify the reader, however high-raised his expecte• t.ions may bc. HALL'S VOYAGE TO THE LOO-cllOO ISLANDS. Moron, London, 1840. This is a republication of an entertaining narrative of a voyage of discovery to the islands in the Chinese meJ , which, if we remember rightly, first appeared in ono of the earlier Nurnberg of Constable's Nliscellany. Th e author is Captain Hall, and at the close of his narrative, he has given us a minute and lively account of a conver sation which he had with Bonaparte at St. Helena, on his wa) home to England, after a protracted absence of upwards of twenty months. CAPTAIN MARRYAT7"S POOR JACK. Poor Jack is neither better nor worse than the ge.n e " rality of C apta i n Marryates over-rated t a l es o f fiction but. maintains a quiet, even tenor. The illustration s, however, by Stantbld, are excellent, and among they' we may notice, As worthy of special praise, the s keet' of the old sailors reading the news of the Battle of O' Nile, who form a very natural and animated group° in the foreground of a picturesque landscape. ENCYCLOP2EDIA OF RURAL SPORTS' A carefully digested work, containing an immerl mass of useful informati on on a ll matters conne cted with the sports of the field. The cursory observatiotl on the improvements made of late years in the art of gun making, will ammo the uninformed reader, as orl also the condensed and entertaining account of falconry THE BIBLE CYCLOREDIA, No. 1. Parker, Strand, This work was announced in 1834, under the sanc tion of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledg ei hut was po s tp one d, ow i ng to some new arrangements ° the body, and is now brought out, though not under at ° sanction of the Society, upon precisely the same plan 8' at fret contemplated. Its great object is to illuitrato the Holy Script ures, b y explaining the customs, "11: gious ritls, la ws , & c. o f the Jews, and giving represen t* t ions of their ceremonies, buildings, medals, and delve r tic occupations. It is, in fact, a Bible Dictionary, i 11 01: trated with cuts. It'woulL 4 have been satisfactory, h° 11 ", ever, had the publisher stated the sources from which. had t a k en t h ese representations, for there is not a little 1A" congruity in th ose p u bli s h e d i n t h is N um b er. F o r it , stance, some of th e human figures are copied ex t be from those found on Egyptian monuments. ,j a sowing, reaping, and winnowing of corn—represente el o cuts—have evidently been taken from some EgYP t i l work, while the cut illustrating the ariicle d. A dd e r { represents to the life the Hindoo serpent-charmets. d , the present day. The commentary on Scripture ' "? ves will be found very useful in reading the Bible. Ittg',,o f the ii , eral translation, with the Hebrew word g oner: annexed, and includ es d eta il s o f t h e most ilnP°r dot. events in Scripture history. THE TRAGEDY 019 " MARY STUART. ThiSnted evening the new tragedy of M ary S tuart w i ll b e represehe at Drury-lane Theatre, and to-morrow night will conch l u%bo performance of the piece f or th e season. Mr. M a creadp i r re .., has, in the character of Ilutliven, add e d greatly to his b i g, e of putation, will set off, immediately after his last performa"" in that part in London, f or Bristol, where Mary preparation : and it is expected that a great effect will be i j iye duci - d by ihe representation. It is believed that thert and magnificent theatre of Drury lane will be filled in ever) 1 4 of on each of the nights, which are to close the engage m i c on - Mr. Macready, who has erowrA his labours by an a ct summate liberality to hi., lernther performers. o • 1- uLs.;,„iy, instant, a general asSe da t Jo n es. Stuart of _A.entemicians of the Ttuyal Academy of Arts %To' jon eg, their apartments in Trafalgar -square, when Georgewiiiiao 14 sq., It. A., wag duly elected Keeper, in the room of. n , 3lr• Hilton, R.A., decea s ed. On the same ev e Denholni Kennedy was elected Travelling Stud "