The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. (BY EXPRESS.) The Great Western, Captain Hosken, arrived 'at] Ring's-road, near Bristol, at twelve o'clock, last night, in thirteen days, six hours, from New fork, bringing papers to the evening of the 18th 0 August from New York, and other parts of the United States and the Canadas, to corresponding (lines. The Great IVestern brings replies to the letters sent out by the Acadia, which vessel made the voyag e out to Halifax in the wonderfully short sPaee of ten days, and reached Boston in in 13 days, including stoppages at Halifax. The .'resident arrived at New York on the 17th, and the Great IVestern brings advises from her also. It is gratifying to state that the American 'loney a nd Commercial Markets are considerably iin- P ro ved, U. S. Bank Shares being quoted at 6 7 . The advises taken out by the Great Western had a very favourable effect on the American markets, and all descriptions of Stock immediately rose. T here is very little said on the subject of the lorth-East Boundary Question ; we can find but "e paragraph in these papers. Governor Thomp son appears to be conducting the affairs of the Canadians in a manner to give satisfaction to all Parties, and to disarm the most prejudiced. His Excellency is pursuing his tours of examination and inspection throughout the provinces, and was ver)%vhere received with demonstrations of respect a nd esteem. The Americans are almost entirel absorbed in the elections, and agitating the ques t" of the occupation of the Presidential chair in Nard i next; to judge by the newspapers, it would : PPear t h at G enera l H arr i son was cer t a i n o f a tha t election ; but it must be borne in mind tile newspapers by no means represent the ° Pinions of the majority of the electors. The Great Western brings seventy passengers, a list of whom is subjoined, and her letters, it is ex- Pect ed, will be obtained in town this afternoon h ePort o f the Great Western, James Hosken Corn 14andcr, sailed from New York on the 18th of August, arrived at Bristol August 31. I , ll le steam ship President arrived at New York on the August, at 5 P.M. th The steam ship Acadia arrived at Boston, at 9 A M. on 17th August, after an excellent passage of 13 days, "clung at Halifax. Passe g. IS. Nashville and Orleans American ships, Z i lsed them otf Sandy Hock, running for New York. k b lk do Lyon, from tens York, for Havre, passed her 21. nt 20 miles outside Hook. 6 A M. Nantasket, from Liverpool, for New York, tp 'at• 42. 30. N., l ong . 63. W., out 26 days. r ra. Glasgow, English barque, in lat. 45. 40. ' l ong 53. 20. Exchanged signals. SHIPS PrICCEEDIN GS. Ang. .8. Light breeze ar.d fine ; at three P. M. left the l' l lirf wind : 545 pilot left, off the Hook South-westerly 19 . Light airs and fine, at times calm. Southerly, v arisble. 2 0. Same weather, at times calm. Westerly variable. 21 . Moderate and hazy; south-cast swell. Easterly. 22. Light breezes and cloudy ; south .east swell. Do. 23 . Light breezes and foggy; at times calm. Northerly and westerly. 24. Moderate breezes and hazy ; freshening breezes 4 " foggy ; sea rising. W. S. W. 25 . Fresh gales and thick hazy weather; south westerly 'ea; strong gales and heavy rain. S. W, by W., variable. k 6 . Moderated to light breezes, and cloudy, with a "eavy northerly swell. N. Easterly, variable. 2 7. Increasing breezes, and hzzy, with rain ; moderate s" l es and squally, with rain. S. Easterly, Southerly. 2 8. Strong breezes, and thick nazi weather ; S. S. W. ; le a moderating, and fine. S. Westerly, Westerly. 29. Moderate and fine, sea going down. N. Westerly. 3 0. Fresh brci ze and fine. N. N.E., N. E. 31 . Strong breeze, and dark brzy weather. At 10 30 ? • 11 came to at King Road. N.E., E.N.E. LIST OF FASSINGERs. R. Alexander, jun , Mess's. Darcy, Decurant, Winter- IMF, Clairmont, Mrs. Schonwan and child, Messrs. Hcgg- Than, Appleton and servant, S. W. Appleton. Leopold Roger, E. A. Mosses, N. S. Levi, Moulton, Mrs. Moul ton, child, and ser vant ; Hon. J. C. Cholniondeley, Messrs. Wall, Keens, H. Reeking), Mackay. J. 1. Owen, Lander, A. B. Klchiner, Col. Holeroft, Lady, and servant ; G Halliburton, D. H. Lambert, H. Vinert, H. aaindneourt, H. Schroder and servant, Mr. Bacon, T. Vanvint, T. bea n , Mrs. T. Dean, three childr, n, and sklvant. J. 1 t . ) .,7 1 n Mrs. J Dean and servant, C. Tow zo, E-q., Mr. b i :Zt, Mrs B a rclay, Mr. Owenston, Mrs. Rankin, A. M.,„ . 7 s ti. W. Dickson, I. T. Wymts, M Pinkerton, Krwskly, Crotch, Kevans. Pipon, Mansell, Lai r d , MiLburg, A. Leigdert, C. H. Bigdon, W , M l L„i tu sh, Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, Messrs. M•Carty, COMMERCIAL. p n (Corre s p on d ence o f th e Courier and .Enquirer.) C ons ILA DRLFIII4, AUG. 16—P.M. — Th e p rinci p al transac. St at broker's Board on Saturday were in Penns y lvania fat 4t-53 . Of 64 $25,000 of which so ld at 98k, Wednesday ;'`llitht drafts on New York, $23,000 at 103.4 ; 200 A iies U. S. Bank, 20 and 60 d a y s flat at 611 ; 190 i gi s- r Girard Bank, 39k cash and re g ular wa y ; and ' 9O Lehigh 6. 53 at 81 Ar n el , °Sin g prices ere, for LT. S. Bank. 68k a 69 ; North 419 . C 4 ,1 Bank, 380 a 400 ; Pennsylvania Bank, 400 a V ey ; Philadel hia, 100 a 1001 ; Gii ard, 39f a 391 by .sbur g ,3 4 - P a 10 ; Camden i and Amboy, 107 a 106, end w gLon RR 43k a 43- 4 -. pears h ave but little of interest stirring. Politics tip. ost the only subject of conversation—the Whigs age alai with their signal success thus far, and the alstration men are taxing their ingenuity to g ive eh se3 %IV and wherefore, although evidently much I,l,:egr f i ned, they still bellow lustily about final success. , r al business has commenced somewhat, and many the Market street houses arc now selling heavy bills for th e interior of Pennsylvannia and the West ; the cash sales ea , i i re sai d to be greater in amount by far than usual, and thus — 1 n the season. 'eNDAY IGHT.-There was no material change in —t oc k ssold a ester N da though rates were firm. Ohio Sixes at 9 y 7. In exchanges little was done, buyers st st fi tll , i Wa iling the arrival of the steamer President. Plenty of tng bills however are offering at 6:i to 7. Some trans ens took place in francs at 5,30 to 5,27 k. ' w ,, 2 ' 457 shares o f the Lycoming Valley Iron Company e sold by M essrs . Hoffmann, at auction, at twenty Per, cent., and 8 shares of the Staten Island Bank , by ai eckor and Van Dke at 29 to 30. 110 inesti c Exchanges on Mobile and New Orleans areirn Prnving Philadlphia and Baltimore is rather heavy. A ina ,, slight improvement was perceptible in the purchases We s"' of Flour f o r expc.rt. About 5,000 barrels Genesee - taken at $5 31 to $5 27k; Soutaern is held firmly at 85 50 to 51. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, Aro. 18. 1 50 Shares United States Bank s6O days 65 5 0 do, do. do. 150 do. N. Am. Trust Co. 13 0 do. do. do. 10 do. Delaware and Hudson Gloat this week 78k 16 do, do. do. 50 do. City Bank 1 1 1 1 50 do. National Bank 20 do. Leather Nlai,ufacturers' Bank .... cash 105 30 do. Mechanics' Banking Association 6 do. American Exchange Bank 10 do. Manhattan Gas Light Co 50 do. Merchants' Exchange Co. 20 do. Syracuse and Utica R. It. 2 5 do. B o ston and Providence R R. b. 60 day s , s , i So do. N e w Jersey R..ilroad 10 0 do. Harl e m R. R b. 3 days 39 20 d o , d o . d o . 22 35 do. Stoninwor, R. R 211 25 do. d o . d u 25 do. Utica & Schenectady R. R....b. 4 nios 125 . 2 5 do. C anton C o . ExcitasoE. —ails on London are dull at 7 per C(.bt. P l eoiurn. Sales at the Board to-day $5.000 IndianaFves at 71i. PHIL ADELPHIA—SALE OF STOCKS.—Auo 17. $2 600 D ra f t on N ew York at sight .. ••• ••• 103 .0110,000 do. do. do. I UIs AhTERs.—We published some weeks ago a repot - , ion Captain L ane, of the Chipola, arr i ve d at Ph i l a d e lphia from Cadiz, boarding a wreck at sea, on the 30. h June, llnd supposed by him to be a British vessel. The Balijax Acadian Recorder states that this vessel was the " brig Grey h oun d , Captain Tucker, of Halifax, which sailed nth of May o n a voyage t o th e West Indies, and has on not be en h eard of. John Losser shipped in her as cook, and was well known b Mr. J. Lindsay, Upper Water street, with w h om he bo y arded, and who obtained for him his berth. The Greyhound was also passed on the 1.4 Jun e by the Roger Stewart of Greenock, in !at 41. long. SO., waterlogged and abandoned. (From Halifax Palms of the 15th instant ) Arrived at Halifax, 6th instant, schooners Ab. Thorn, Johnson, New York ; 9th, Olivia Brickell, Humphrey, Petersburgh, Va. ; 11th schooner Sisters, Darby, Sable Island, with wrecked materials, and five of the crew of ship Myrtle, previously reported lost on S a ble Island ; 12:h, Clio, Brodie, Savannah; 13th, schooner Mary Ann, Hard ing, Wilmington. At Liverpool, N. S. 6th inst. Br. brig Ann ELzabeth, Cockerell, from Londonderrry, out 56 days, with about 60 passengers, put in for p rovisions and water, bound to St. Joh n ' s , N ew Brunswick. Brig Abigail, Kelly, of Argyle, from St. Vincent for St. Andrews, went ashore near Chebo , ue 4th inst. and bilged; crew and materials saved. Ship Cora, of and from St. John's, New Brunswick, bound to Milford, was spoken off New Harbour, water loggedhad struck en Sable Island Bar on the 7th inst., endeavouring to make a harbour—a schooner in company. American fishing schooner Cottager, of Boston, out about 17 weeks, put into Little Harbour or, the 4th inst., in distress, navies .7u r. tic banks—was also short of provisions. W HALEits.--Letters from Capt. Russel, of the Newark *Wing ship, John Wells, of Newark, N. J., report tho / < ship at. Cloudy Bay, New Zeal.anft, ott the 29th of April, with 2,000 h.t,e, , ls %lilt nine months out: Arr, at New Bedford, 16th, ship Hentor, Norton, Pacific Ocean, full 'cargo of nil. KeportF, Feb. 19, ship Win. Thorepaon, borene, New Bedford, 450 ; March 10, Almira, Tohry Nrlgrertown, 40 ; William and Eliza, Rogers, New Bedford, clean ; Congress, Pitman, Nant. 200 Mary, Fisher, Edgartown, 2 200 wh. t;00 sp. ; barque Equator, Fisher, New Bedhrel, 40; ships Desdemona, Phinney, do. 160; Ade. 13, Aurora, Nant. 1. i 00. Heard from in March, ships Augusts., Lawrence, New Bedford, 1 600; Logan, Briggs, do. 1,000; E.izabeth, Starbuck, Nant. 1,400; John, Coggeshall, Newport, 90 ; Margaret Wim penney, do. 1,700. Coral, Sherman, New BAlford, 800. The Coral reported ships Canton, Leary, New Bedford, 601' ; Clarke, Clark, do. 400 ; May 2, Enterprise, Downs, do. 1,200 ; the Enterprise reported ships Frances Henrietta, R,ynard, do. 150; Gen. Scott, Fosdick, Fair haven, 200 ; Eliza Adams, Holley, do. 1,300 ; Isaac Hovelan.l, Swan, New Bedford, 850; barque Equator, Fisher, do. 1150; May 12, ship William Wirt, Dagget, Fairhaven, 1.300 The William Wirt reported ships Sharon, Church. do , 1,800 ; Robert Edward, Howland, New Bedford, 2 050 ; Cortct, Gardner, do., 1.000 ; bar ue Fairhaven, clean ; in April ships Jos. Star buck, Wilber, Nant., 1,700 bound in to repair, having been run into by a bill fish and slightly damaged. TILE ELLSLER RIOT.—INFAMOUS OCTRAGE.—WC have seldom been called upon to record an outrage more dis graceful to the city than that which occurred here on Fri day night, on the occasion of the Fanny Ellsler serenade. The facts in the case were briefly as follows:—It was un derstood• that a number of her countrymen contemplated giving a brilliant musical entertainment to the accom plished dancer, who has won such well deserver' cele. brity in a most graceful and elegant art. There was nothing objection„.ble in any wise in the proposed um plimrnt. It is customary, and, instead of annuyin,., is calculated to give pleasure to all who are within the hearing of it. In the present instance, some five or six thousand people had collected in front of the American Hotel, the place of' Fanny Ellsler's residence, to enjoy the anticipated serenade. Between one and two o'clock on Saturday morning the serenaders, some sixty or more in number, appeared With their instruments and music stands, which they fixed in the middle of the street, and the signal was given for the music to comin• nee. At this moment a gang of rioters, woo ralited with the Loco Foco watchword of 0. K., rushed upon the serenade rs, dispersed them, destroyed many of their instruments, broke up and burned their stands, and all this witboat interruption from the surround ing multitude, and without interference from the police. The wretches who committed this outrage are said to be the same who attacked the Germans in the winter, when one of the assailants was fortunately killed. This is their revenge. At that time we expressed our regret that more of the vagabonds had not fa , len ; and if there is no police to prevent such scenes, and there are no laws to punish them, we cannot but regret that the perpetrators of the present outrage escaped with their lives and limbs. --. Yew York Courier and Inquirer. An unpleasant report has reached us that a few days ago, as the American steam-boat Chesapeake was return ing from Chippewa to Buffalo, some men of the coloured company, commanded by Captain Macdonald, stationed at Fort Erie, fired several rounds of musketry at her. We understand that the commandant of the garrison at Buffalo has con municated on the subject with his Excel lency Sir Gorge Arthur, ia which case there eau be no doubt of the matter undergoing investigation, and that the offenders will be visited with such punishment as upon conviction the nature and extent of the crime may call for th. Toronto Colonist. We learn that Col. Bankhead, commanding at this post has received a communication from the Lieut -Col of the 93d Highlanders, at the Falls, enclosing a copy of the opinion of the Court of Inquiry ordered on account of the firing upon the Cincinnati and Chesapeake by the coloured soldiers at Waterloo. From the testimony sub mitted to the Court, it appears that gross provocation was offered by those in each boat. The British officer ad mits that the firing, notwithstanding the provocation he mentions, was entirely unjustifiable, and says the most rigorous measures will be adopted to discover and severely punish the offenders. At the time the outrages were com mitted there was no officer in command at Waterloo. Effectual precautions against the repetition of like offences have been promptly taken. —Buffalo Commercial Adver- tiser. AN EXTRA PASSENGER.—The steamboat Cleopatra, as we leann from Capt. Dustan, on her passage from New York to this city, on Wednesday night last, encountered a must severe storm, accompanied with powerful rain, vivid lightning, and most terrific peals of thunder, which fairly shook the boat to its centre, alarming most of the passengers, and among the rest, one of the ladies, who prematurely made an addition to the number of passen gers. The boy and mother are both doing well. The boy was immediately christened Boanerges (son of Thun der). if not a romantic name, it must be appropriate. Ilartfoi d Courier. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.—Mr. Charles Wilson, of Riga, while threshing with a machine a few days since, was caught by his frock with the shaft, drawn into the ma chinery, and was most horribly mangled. His right arm has since been amputated, and notwithstanding his severe injuries, hopes of his recovery arc entertained, —Rochester Democrat. FIRM—The alarm at 9 o'clock last evening proceeded from the building No. 323, Broadway, occupii'l by Charles Reynolds as a billiard-room and porur house. The fire was extinguished with but little damage to the building. At a quarter cast one this morning fire was discovered in the lo.ier part of Latmottte HA, No. 579, Broadway, occupied by Messrs. \Vimlle and on as a furnishing store. the interior of the building was considerably injured, and the stock entirely deoroyed or much damaged. A PROFITABLE VOTAGE..—.The ship Hector arrived at New Bedtotd, from the Pacific, Sunday evening, with a cargo of twenty-seven hundred barrels of oil—having been out only twenty-six months! The cargo is worth about twenty thousand dollars. NEW YORK MARKETS. SATURA I', A u o. 15, 1840. Ashes—The accounts per Great Western were con sidered rather unfavourable ; no change, however, has been observed in our market. 300 barrels of Pots have been taken for export at $4 75, and 150 bbls. Pearls at $5 25. Coal-300 chaldrons of Liverpool have been sold at $8 a 8 50. and a quantity of Pietou at ,g 6 25, 4 months. Coffee—Several sales have been made this week for the adjacent markets. The stock on hand is small, and the market firm. 1 ,500 bags Cuba have been sold at 10 a 10: 1 1 cents. Cotton—The stock on hand is very light, scarcely 14 000 bales, which enables holders to maintain their former rates ; the demand for export continues light.— Sales have been made this week of 1,850 bales Upland and Florida ; 550 Mobile ; 260 New Orleans, and 150 Texas. We quote Upland, very ordinary to middling, at 7 a 8-k cents per lb. ; fair to good fair and good, 94 a 91, and 10c. Drugs and Dyes—We notice sales of 18 bales Hondu ras Sarsaparilla just received, supposed at 28 cents ; 2 cerons • liver grey Cochineal a $1 15 ; and 2 or 300 lbs. Bermuda Arrow Root a 40c., both cash; a few casks Ambro Maddera at 12 to 14c. ; 10 case- Lac Dye at 22c. ; 3 canisters Sicily Oil Bergamot a $2,624; 2,0001b5. Bourbon Cloves at 21c. ; a tew ca-es prime Egyptian Opium, comprising all of that description in market, at $2,50 ; and 300 bags Nitrate Soda at 3ie., all 6 mos. ; 25 cases Sicily Liquorice Paste and 5 canisters Oil Orange on terms not made public. Fish—Mackerel is scarce, which is unusual at this sea son ; Codfish arrives slowly, and is in demand at our quo. tations. Flour—Since our last there has been an animated de mand for Flour, owing to the arrival of additional orders from England, per the Great Western. It is estimated that shout 25 000 to 30,000 bbls have changed hands, principally for shipment, at $5.25 for common brands of Western and flat hooped Ohio; and $5.31 a $5.371 for fancy. Grain—We have again to advance our rates for Wheat —the export demand continues. A lot of 2,000 bushels Western has been sold at about 118 c., and a lot of 10,000 bus. supposed at 12*., both fur shipment to England — the sales are made by tire millers at Troy and on the river. flits continue at former rates. Hemp—Satee the arrival of the Great Western holders of HE nip have advanced their rates, and the following arc now the prices—Riga $240; clean St. Petersburgh $230; Outshot $225 ; bait clean $2OO, 6 mos. Hales-700 Chili hides ...err sold this week on terms not made public, (supposed to be 12c.) Molasses—A sale of 200 Olds of good Cuba was made early in the week, at prices within our range ; prime qua lities are in demand. Naval Stores—The news by the Great Western was considered rather unfavourable, and no sales have been made for export wortf.y of note. Oils—Upwards of 128.000 gallons of Whale Oil have been s,,ht for export at 29} cts. Linseed is in demand at impr,ving rate s-2,000 gallons English have been taken at 75 ets. 6 mos. Provisiutia—Beef is doing a little better, and sales have re..ehed cur highest quotations, which are given fur beef packed in the season for packing (cold weather) and that only. Pork has gone off rather more freely, 'he beat qualities reaching our highest quotations. Tie quantity of beef at market, of that packed in the fall, does riot exceed 1,500 bbls. of all kinds, and the pork at minket, particularly prime, has gone off more rapidly, and the stock i,i very small. Lard—Salea have reached 12 cents fur the best quality northern ; the stock on hand v.ry limited. Butter is dull at 12 to 18 cents. Large quantities are cow shipping for Europe. Spirits—Domestic Whiskey has improved since our last report, and considerable sales made at 25 cents. American Gin and Brandy met with ready sale at 33 cts. Sugars—Holders of Muacovadoes are firm at our quota tions ; the demand, however, is rather limited. 500 hlids. Porto Rico have been sold 6i- a 8 and 81. Tallow—City rendered, is taken readily at 8+ a B,k c's. per lb. There is nothing doing in foreign at present. Teas—Yesterday ~.ve noticed the sale of a quantity of Teas, imported in the ships Zenobia and Eben Preble. The sale was well attended and former prices were well supported. A large sale is announced for Thursday next. Therefore no sales of consequence can be expected to Wit( place in the interim. Tob7cco—The sales of Kentucky Tobacco for the week have been 2 to 300 hhds :air quality in various lots, at prices ranging from 8 to 9 c ,on the usual credit. For Foreign we have no sale worthy of record. Wines—There have been no sales made this week of sufficient consequence to cause us to alter our quotations. The demand is strictly limited to the wants of the trade. and the common descriptions only arc in request. Wool—The market is well supplied with fleece and pulled wool, but the demand continues very limited. Owing to the great depression of all kinds of woollen goods, the manufacturers feel indisposed to buy at present prices, an d are pnrsuaded that th e article Cannot advance, but will, in all probability, continue to decline. Freights.—We have no improvement to notice in freights. Cotton is taken to Liverpool at id. a Jd. ; na -1 vet mom, 2a. 6d. a 36. ; flour, 2s. Pd. a as. i grain, tid. ~~y TI-1E SUN, LONDON, TUESI)AY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1840. per bushel ; and butter,. 40s. per ton. To London the rates remain as before quoted. There is very little offer ing for Havre. Cotton is taken at I c. a le.; rice, Sit); aches, $8 a $lO ; quercitron bark, $10; and flour, Thcts. (Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirrr.) BATAVIA, Amo. 12, 1840. MAIL ROBBERY. This morning, between three and four o'clock, within a few minutes after arriving at. Le Roy, the Telegraph stage, carrying the U. S. mail, was robbed of the bag which contained letters lor New York from Buffalo and other places west. Upon driving up to the hotel, the driver, as usual, threw the mail bags on to the steps, and turned into the yard to change coaches. While there, some villain stole the bag, dragged it almt half a mile up the creek which runs through the village, and there rifled most of the letters of their contents. Among the letters found was one addressed to Messrs. Strachan and Scott, Wall-street, from Messrs. George Smith and Co., Chicago, dated August 6, 1840—(found). The letter states that they " likewise inclosed $2OO in U. S. Bank bills, to be passed to their credit"—(missing). Another letter from the same, " enclosing Barney Ed wards' draft on them, at sight, for „4581.75," and a cer tificate of deposit in the Pat. Bank, Washington, by Daniel Webster, for $23--(both found). The postmaster at this place, who has just returned from the spot, assisted the Le Roy postmaster in gather ing together the unopened letters and remnants and putting them in condition to be forwarded to New York by the mail of to-night. A noth , r letter from the cashier of the Branch of the State Bank of Illinois, dated Galena, July 29, 1840, in closing a draft for $465.90 (found), and a draft, No. 620, on the Merchant's Bank, Boston, for $1,320 (lost). A anther letter was found containing $4, from the P. M., Mayville, New York, to the Editors of the Journal of Commeice. The rubber took most of the large packages of letters, though one of the bundles from Chicago was found, the postage of which would probably amount to $3O. One or two sieall packages were likewise found, from Buffalo to Philadelphia, and other offices. The w hole transaction was astonishingly bold, and must have been performed in at least five or ten minutes. P. S.-1 am informed men are in pursuit of the rubber, and with some prospect of a capture. ( Report , d for the Courier and Enquirer.) SUt•PEC TED ATTEMPT AT ASSASSINATWN —About 10 o'clock on Saturday evening, a fellow, calling himself Hiram Simms, was discovered while sitting in the Bowery heatre, in the act of aiming a loaded pistol at the stage. Ile pistol was at the time cocked and capped, ready for discharge. Office rs Hatherwaite and Stephens, who chanced to discover the movement, rushed in and secured him from the commission of whatever violence he might have c ontemplated. He was taken into the box-office, and searched in the presence of Justice Matsell. Two brass-barrelled pistols were found on him, each heavily charged with powder and buckshot. In his pockets was found a quantity of gunpowder, four dollars in bank-notes, 16 sovereigns, and sonic small change in silver. On his being questioned, he made no disclosure of his intentions, but said that he knew no one on the stage but " Toni Hablin." His fire-arms were taken from him, and lie was conveyed to the watch.house, where he remained over night; and in the morning, no witnesses appearing against him excepting officer Hatherwaite, he was, for his disorderly conduct, fined four dollars and costs, and libe rated from custody. He was drunk at the time he made the demonstration. He was a seaman recently discharged from the U. S. navy at Boston. Fitoat FLORIDA.—By the steamer Isis, Capt. Pearson, arrived yesterday from St. John's, we received the *Jack sonville Advocate, of Tuesday last, whence we extract the following : —Savannah Georgian, Aug. 4. JACKSONVILLE, JULY 28.—0 n Tuesday, the 14th inst., two discharged soldiers left Fort Fanning for Newnans villa, and after remaining over night at Fort White, re cently abandoned, they left this latter place on Wednes day morning, on their journey. After having travelled about six miles eastward, near a place called Cow Creek, they were killed and scalped by Indians, where their bodies were found by the express rider from the Suwannee. STILL FURTHER.—Ott Thursday, 16th instant, two dra goons, bearing the express from Pilatka to Fort King, were killed when about nine miles from the latter post After they fell front their horses they ran about a hundred yards, when the Indians overtook them, and cut and mangled their bodies in a horrid manner, the head only of one being found, and parts of the body of the other. On Sunday, 19th instant, two men attached to the in fantry corps were passing between Fort Fannim , and Fort White, and were killed within about seven miles of the latter place. On Monday, two others belonging to the same corps, were killed about nineteen miles from Micanopy, being on their way to Fort Fanning. On the same morning (Monday) the express rider, after having left Micanopy about a mile, saw two Indians stand ing in the road, but managed to elude discovery until h e had passed them so far as to be beyond the reach of their rifles. They discharged, he supposes, about fifteen rifles at him after be had got beyond them. The report of the rifles and yell of the Indians, was heard at Miesnopy, and on repairing to the spot signs of from 80 to 100 Indians were Sound. The steamer General Clinch, Capt. Brooks, arrived this morning from Black Creek, brings the news that the ten horses taken from the Dragoons, near Fort Mellon (the particulars of which appeared in the Georgian of the 29 . h) had been recovered. One of the Dragoons was found di eacifully mangled, the other missing. Some of the latter's clothes were found fastened to a tree, but no signs of blocd ar cared.— Tslegraph. CHINA TRADE.—We have been favoured with a copy o' the following letter from Mr. Stevenson, our Minister to the Coui tof Great B.itain, in reference to the views of that Government on the subject of the China trade : London, June 26, 1840. Gentlemen,--I received last night from Lord Palmer ston, an answer to my note on the subject of the China trade, the substance of which I hasten to communicate kr your iaformation. As I had supposed, the order in Coun cil was intended to be confined to the subjects and pro perty of the Chinese. It appears that the Admiral com manding the c ipedition in the China seas, has been in structed to confine himself (unless extreme measures should become necessary) to the detention atone of Chinese ves sels and property, and is not to seize or detain vessels ar riving from Europe and America, although such vessels and their cargoes may be consigned to mercantile esta blishments within the Chinese dominions. His Lordship, however, has deemed it proper to apprise me, for the infor mation of those concerned, that one of the first acts of hos tility that may be resorted to by the Admiral, will probably be the establishment of a blockade of the Canton River, arid of some other points on the Chinese coasts. I am, &c. ( Signed) A. STEVENSON. DEATH TIY LIGIITNING.—Mr. George W. Dinsmorc,o West Boilston, aged 30 years, was killed by lightning on Thursday last. Ho and two other persons were in the woods getting timber for the railroad. A shower came on in the afternoon, and Mr. Dinsmore and his companions took shelter first under some small trees ; they afterwards went to a large and tall tree in the woods. immediately after, the lightning struck the tree, running down the side without scattering the wood much. The fluid passing from the tree struck Mr. Dinsmore on the head, passed down his side, melting the money in his pockets, and the watch he wore, in pieces, and killed him instantly. The men who were with Mr. Dinsmore were not injured. One of them saw him turn his head as if to speak ; at that mo ment the ligh ning struck him and he fell dead. Mr. Dinsmore was a farmer, and an industrious, respectable, and worthy man.— Worcester Spy. DEATH OF JUDGE CLARK.-11 is our painful duty to record the death of our esteemed fellow-citizen, Hon. ira C. Clark, of Prattsburgh, one of the Judges of the Steu ben County Court. Judge C. was eng aged in his hay field on Saturday, apparently in perfect health, and until the moment of his death gave no indications of illness. On being called by his family to tea, he finished the swarth he was mowing, and then left his work, and while opening the gate to enter the yard in front of his house, he fell and instantly expired. He was 46 years of age. His loss will be deeply felt by his family, by the neighbourhood in which he lived, and by the public.—Bath Constitutionalist. SANGUINARY AI FRAYS.—We understand that on Friday night there was a conflict between a number of whites and blacks at Madison, Indiana, in the course of which two men were shot and badly wounded. One of the negroes was subsequently taken to the river for the purpose of being thrown in and drowned, but the interference of some influential persons saved his life. On Saturday night many of the citizens were arming themselves and swearing to exterminate the negroes from the city.—Louisville Journal, Aug. 3. THE NEW POLICE COURTS ACT. Arrangements have been completed for the purpose of immediately carrying out the provisions of the above Act ot Parliament, and several new Courts will be speedily established. In about a fortnight the Petty Sessions of Greenwich will be done away with, and it is said that Mr. Jeremy is to be appointed the Stipendiary Magistrate for that district. Mr. Vine, the second Clerk at Bow-street Police Cour t, has received the up ' pointment of Chief Clerk ot the Greenwich Police Court, and he will proceed to enter npon the duty forthwith. As the Magistrate appointed to this Court will be precluded from holding his sittings at any inn or place of public entertainment, it is understood that in the first instance a portion of the residence of Mr. Mulelieu, the Superintendent of the district, will be set .part for that purpose ; but arrangements are in pro gress for the erection of an entirely new and com modious Court near the Police-station in the Black heath-road, and plans and estimates have already been submitted to the proper quarters, and it is understood that a building has been agreed upon of a most com modious description, and in which the convenience of the public who may have to attend as prosecutors or witnesses, has been specially consulted. It is expected that the Greenwich Police Court will be put in opera tion in about ten days or a fortnigi.t. ROBBERIES.—On Tuesday, from the house of Mr. Harrold, silversmith, Grenada-terrace. Commercial road, eight plain gold wedding rings. The robbery was erected by breaking a square of glass in the shop window. —On Tuesday afternoon, from the house of Mr. Aiken, 6, Rosetta-place, Coburg-road,NValvi . orth, an old-fashione d silver tea-pot, rou nd shape, with a hole in the side, two old-fashioned tea-spoons, not marked, and an old-fashio n ed tea•spoon, marked K.—On Tuesday morning, from the house of Mr. Thompson, surgeon, Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane, a scarificator, maker's name Williken, two brown silk umbrellas, a single-breasted great-coat, a gold. mounted cane, a pair of glass salt-cellars, anew beaver hat, an old beaver hat, and a black dress coat.—From th e person of Mr. Vcnn, pork butcher, Leadenhar-market, on Monday night, a gold union pie, with a ciamcnd act in a I bird's claw and ruby. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACK 11 7 0 OD' S MAGAZINE. " Royal Academy Exhibition !" Surely this is a very ill-timed article. Had it appeared four months since, it had been welcome ; but now, the Exhibition is closed ; the pictures are all taken away ; the town is deserted ; and people have tither wholly forgotten, or ceased to feel the slightest in terest In, the subject. If we except this defect, no objection can be urged to the criticism, which is impartial, and betrays an intimate acquaintance with the ruling principles of art. " Hints for the Hus tings" is furiously Tory. The writer is a bold so phist, but not an expert one ; and with an effron tery that passes the ordinary bounds of impudence, he coolly advises the poor to " view pauperism as an irremediable infliction of Heaven!" If they complain of their lot, then he sets them down as Jacobins, and condemns them accordingly. Ac cording to him—for this is the conclusion to which his reasoning leads—they are to make up their mind to starvation, as a duty they owe to society, for " it is vain to think of any absolute remedy for a curse radicated in the nature of man !" Hear this, ye starving Spitalflelds weavers, and be re signed':Ne, e re rcan to be better ee ameliorated cheap ‘v, if )h'oreuardc,ocno(tiiilltdivoen n the great landholders preserve their lucrative corn monopoly ? Ye must suffer, that t h e y may enjoy. This is cogent logic, but we fear its excellence will only be fully appreciated by the Tories. "De \Valstein, the Enthusiast," is a graphic, vigorous narrative, but what does the writer mean by asserting that '' Joseph the Second of Germany was the workman of the French revo lution He had about as much to do with it, as he had with the assassination of Caesar in the Senate-house. " A Visit to the Lions," is an at tempt at the facetious in rhyme ; but it is remark able only for the diligent - omission of any thing like wit or humour. The " Late James Smith" is a very pleasant, friendly memoir of this smart author, and is introduced by some pertinent remarks on conversation. A passage or two may perhaps be acceptable to our readers:— " Conversation Sharpe," as he was called, was amus ing and clever. But he repeated himself. Novelty is essential, and his was soon exhausted. The third time of meeting him was fatal to his charms. Rogers, the poet of Memory, has abundance of anec dote : but it lies chiefly among the dead and gone. The mention of Sheridan aets upon him with the effect of a match put to a firework. The composition goes off in a long succession of explosions, all of the bluest kind, until every ear is tired, and then the fee dartifice, in every sense, drops dead to the ground, and every one flies from the rocket case. Yet he has mixed a good deal in society ; not the best, however ; for it has been chiefly with the set gathered round the table of Holland House, where people are assembled for the declared purpose of talk, a process which makes every thing as formal as a j parade in St. James's Park, as sets men minuet-dancing in odes, epodes, and " the last new tragedy," and of course reduces all conversation to the dregs of an article in the Edinburgh. Review. What mu,t be, for instance, the dying state of a conversation where the noble host has called on every body round the table to pull pencil and paper from his pocket, and write down on the spot the names of the ten most amusing books that he had ever read ! And all those grown children have done the deed accordingly. A game at forfeits would have been rational, and a game at blind man's buff profitable, to those sexagenarian diversions. Jekyll was a good converser, for he had wit ; though, as no man is perfect, his wit was often pun, and there are some specimens of it on record which are not to be mentioned to " ears polite." But the bar had made him too professional. He talked too much of old judges and their senilities ; and though always diverting, grew more barristerial, until he grew little more than a relic of himself, and disappeared into his nightgown and slip per:, and was no more for this world. Canning was lively ; but he had not a fund of talk for all days. He had high spirits, but was uncertain ; and there were times when, like Hamlet,he seemed to think the earth "flat, stale, and unprofitable," and the sky a collection of pestilent vapours. The fluctuations of his public career might have, in some degree, accounted for this ; for admirable as his House of Commons talents were, he never felt himself recognised as one of the na tural possessors of power. Speaking of Burke, the writer says that " he has left few conversational remembrances distin guished for either happiness or pungency, for easy elegance, or pointed splendour." On the contrary, he has left many such " remembrances" on record, all of which are duly enshrined in Croker's admir able edition of Botwell's Life of Johnson. We cordially agree with the estimate formed of James Smith. He was a clever, witty, kindly-natured man ; and singularly fortunate in his literary career, for he lived nearly thirty years on the fame derived from writing half a duodecimo. On the strength of his share of the " Rejected Addresses," he was feasted and lionized from 1812 till within a few months of his death in 1839 ! But he deserved the attentions he met with, for he was ever ready with his joke ; was a capital listener, and always laughed in the right place ; never prosed, or took a man by the button-hole ; and, what was still more creditable to him, never told the same story twice. This cannot be said of all wits, for we have heard of one—by the bye, he still lives—who once, under the influence of champaigne, cracked the same joke six times in the course of one evening This was not a nuisance ;it was worse—a positive calamity. "‘ of O a n p S e t y r s e i s a t i l i n d e production croteiiet of a ty one, w s c h lol o i t a e r l , but ls us that " Socrates and his apprentices, Plato and Xenophon, were all three humbugs." If this be the case, how conies it that, three thousand years after their death, their influence is still acknow ledged and felt ? As respects Socrates, there may possibly he some justice in the writer's unsure, for he is known to have been a sly, unscrupulous old fox ; but Plato has ever been, and will ever be, considered one of the shining lights of the world. Again, we are assured that " Herodotus was the Froissart of Antiquity." This is not the case. He lacked the fire, and energy, and enthusiasm of the old chronicler of chivalry ; and was nothing more than an entertaining gossip, who told a story with singular ease and grace ; and had quite a child's relish for, and faith in, the marvellous and impos sible. We never think of his history, but we are instantly reminded of the " Arabian Nights' Enter tainments." Inn the present chapters of " Teo Thousand a Year," there is a diverting account of a dinner party to which Titmouse was invited, by a formal Whig Earl. The incident, however, is too much caricatured, and spun out to such a length, that, whimsical as are the details„ we are not bet t i o s g a e td delightful g e otief articlet " of A t V b it ides criptiveS kind. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The Editor here resumes his new story of " Fa thers and Sons," the descriptive portions of which are more carefully executed than is his wont. In particular, we have an a ccount of a white-bait din ner at Greenwich, the detail s of whi ch abound in humour, but the spirit that pervades it is still that of the silver-fork school, where mock gentility is substituted for the sterling ore. Greenwich, it seems, is now to be considered as vulgar as Graves end. Mr. Hook has said so, and who shall gain say his ipse dixit ? With g ener ous forbearance, however, he withho lds the name of t he inn, where the personages of his st or y dined, for w hich the landlord will, no doubt, be abundantl y g ratef ul ! " Foreign Sporting" ter es ti ithe t heme, but sport smen w i ll be h i g h ly i is by Nimrod. W e ta k e l i ttle in amused with the p articulars of the day's hunting at Chantilly, and of the late Duke of Bourbon's Stud. The " Life and Adventure s of Charle s Chesterfield," is liy no means one o f M rs. Tiol lope's happiest productions. There is no want of caustic humour, but it is too often coarse and un feminine in essence. The sketch of the " Lite rary Coterie," is r ather a caricatur e , than a descrip tion drawn from life. Mrs. Gore' s ~ Lady Pa troness " has all that truth of effect and brilliancy of colouring peculiar to this lady's writings, who is far less of a mere s uperficial observer than she is g enerally suppos ed to be. Her great merit is , lat, though professedly a satirist of the follies of the great vulgar, and the small she throws quite as much of the heart as of the head into her pun gent strictures. We subjoin the commencemema of her character of the " Lady Patroness ;".___ A Lady Patroness is a woman pref erre d a b ove h e r sex, in deference to those influenc es of rank, fortune, or fashion, which en title her to fleece the opulent for the benefit of the indigent ; a chartered mendicant at second hand ; a privileged beggar in the service of the less privileged poor. High station and a low mind are indispensable to the success of such a vocation ; a vo• cation more rarely embraced for conscience sake, than at the instiotion of some active philanthropist, who plays upon the w eakness . of the g reat l a d y, and engages her services in behalf of more deservin g persons. Ho assures her that the " importance of her Ladyship's name—the influence of the high estimation in which her Ladyship is held by the public—the attraction of her Ladyship's beauty, wit, or accomplishments," cannot fail to draw purchasers to her bazaar, or subscribers to her ' list ; whereupon the idle woman of fashion renounces her devotion to the sacro santo far niente, and becomes transformed into a woman of business—an inditer ot begging letters, not liable to the prosecutions of the Mend!city Society—a canvasser, reversing all or dinary forms of corruption. That species of moral courage which the profane call impudence, is a first-rate requisite in the Lady Patroness. She must be as fearless in attack, as steady in defence. She must NOT " bear her faculties meekly ;" but brandish her coronet like a weapon of offence, in order to accomplish her purposes. A moderately important personage ven turing to beset your privacy with petitions for Poles, or tickets for benefit concerts, would de dismissed as a bore, or insulted as a nuisance. But a begging mar chioness !—a gaberlunzie woman having all the glory of the Herald's College emblazoned on the panels of her carriage !—No resisting such an appeal !—No deny ing a petitioner whose tall footmen, with their cocked hats and gold-headed canes, seeta prepared to knock you down in case of resistance. The world is still de ceived by ornament ; and so fine a lady has only to !ook fierce and persevere, to extract the sovereigns from your purse, and keep the strings of her own Gordianly knotted. " A Talk about Talking" is an ingenious rambling essay, not unlike some of the smart prose articles of the late M. Praed, who, we believe, was a frequent and efficient contributor to this Magazine. " Lines on seeing Miss G— in a fancy costume at Al tnacks," trundle on as smoothly as a steam-engine on a railroad ; the verse is polished like ivory ; and as for the thought—but there is none, so upon the principle of ex nihilo nil fit, we can say nothing about it. " Rhymes for the Times," are by the practised humourist of the " Comic Annual." There are several smart hits in them, but they wear too much an appearance of effort. " A Quarrel with some Old Acquaintances " is a series of reasonings on sundry well-known aphorisms, after the fashion of the late Charles Lamb. Several of these rea sonings are highly ingenious. " Journal of a Tour by the Marquis of Londonderry," is sprightly and good-natured. The Noble author is better with the traveller's pan in his hand, than when standing forth on the floor of the House of Lords. " The Nun " is a passable sample of periodical poesy. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, There is a highly-wrought incident in the pre sent chapters of " Guy Fawkes," where the heroine Viviana is about to be entrapped into a marriage with Catesby, but is rescued from her predicament by the timely discovery that he is already married, having—in the hurry of business, no doubt—left a Mrs. Catesby behind him in Spain, when he set out for England ; but nevertheless the chapters read heavily ; and for this reason, that they are not instinct with vitality. There is tact enough in them, but they are destitute of feeling, especially of the livelier kind. They seem as if they were written to order, and from no act of volition. There is less cast-iron stiffness, hoever, in the dialogue ; and so far, Mr. Ainsworth is improved as a novelist. In the " Portfolio of Peter Pop - kin," we meet with some piquant anecdotes, and not a few regular Joe Millers. The story of John Kemble forgetting his marriage-day, has been told in turn of almost every great scholar and lawyer from the days of Doctor Busby down to those of Sergeant Hill. We feel disposed, therefore, to question its authenticity, though, on second thoughts, Bannister, if we remember rightly, has recorded something of the sort in his Memoirs. " Invention" is full of broad fun ; but we are com pelled to guess at portions of the dialogue, the dia lect is such unadulterated Erse. The " Black Mousquetaire" is one of Tom Ingoldsby's droll legends. We subjoin a taste of its humour, just to act as a sort of whet to the reader's appetite:— Now it happen'd just then That Field-Marshal Turenne, Was a good deal in want of " some active young men," To fill up the gaps Which, through sundry mishaps, Had been made in his ranks by a certain " Great Conde," A General unrivall'd—at least in his own day— Whose valour was such That he did not care much If be fought with the French,—or the Spaniards,—cr Dutch,— ' A fact which has stamped him rather a " cool hand," Being nearly related to Louis le Grand. It had been all the same bad that King been his brother ; He fought sometimes with one, and sometimes with another; For war, so exciting, He took such delight in, He did not care whom he fought, so he was fighting ; And, as I've just said, had amused himself then By tickling the tail of Field-Marshal Turenne ; Since when, the Field-Marshal's most pressing concern Was to tickle some other Chief's tail in his turn. What a fine thing a battle is !—not one of those Which you see at " the Surrey" or Mr. Ducrow's, Where a dozen of scene-shifters, drawn up in rows, A dozen more scene-shifters boldly oppose, Taking great care their blows Do not injure their foes, And alike, save in colour and cut of their clothes, Which are varied, to give more effect to " Tableaux," — But a real good fight, like Pultowa, or Lutzen, ( Which Gustavus the Great ended all his disputes in) Or that which Suwarrow engaged without boots in, Or Dettingen, Fontenoy, Blenheim, or Minden, Or the one Mr. Campbell describes, Hohenlinden, Where - •• I tursurrwair taw: — The ground all over snow, And dark as mid-winter the swift Iser's flow.— Till its colour was alter'd by General Moreau; While the big-drum was beard in the dead of the night, Which rattled the Bard out of bed in a fright, And he rar. up the steeple to look at the fight. In " A Sailor's Trip up the Rhine" there is a sprightly, sketchy narrative of Prince Louis Napo leon's late attempt at insurrection at Boulogne. So utterly absurd was this attempt, that even now we can scarcely persuade ourselves but that it was in tended as a sort of smart, practical joke. Conceive a man starting from London with a few dozen followers, and about as many bottles of champagne, for the purpose of overturning the established dynasty of France—a dynasty, by the bye, which was itself established by a popular insurrection I Was ever absurdity equal to this ? 'rite heroic battles in Tom Thumb are nothing to it. And then the denouement, with Louis Philippe hurrying off, in the midst of storm and tempest, to Boulogne, in order to calm the convulsed spirits of his subjects in that agitated quarter of France ! The whole affair was a farce of the richest quality—;-to say nothing of that diverting episode of the robbery of the Englishman's horse by one of the Imperial followers. " Cohn Clink " is continued this month. It is an amusing story, told through Out with calm energy. The chapters in the present Number are among the best. The " Transylva nian Anatomie " is a strange, hobgoblin sort of iarrative from the prolific pen of Peake. " Stan ey reads much as usual. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Our sturdy Radical friend Tait, who, when oc. casion demands, can make as good use of his q uarter -staff as Rabelais' Friar John of the Fun nells, here steps forth into the lists of controversy against Owen and the Socialists ; observing, in refe rence to the doctrines of these levelling fanatics, that " he has not faith enough in tlic conceit of an individual to venture on an experiment that runs sheer counter to the nature of men, as it has been developed during the six thousand years that this marvellous world of human society has ex istr.d." The doctrines of Socialism are indeed di rectly at variance with all that human reason, founded on, and modified by, the experience of ages, has suggested as conducive to the welfare of mankind ; for they confound the distinctions between vice and virtue, by maintaining that " man has not been created to be a responsible being ;" in other words, that "he is the creature of circumstances over which he has no control." Following out this hypothesis to its legitimate result, we must per force arrive at the conclusion that a good action de serves no praise, and a bad one no blame. Howard is not to be reverenced because he sacrificed time, health, and fortune on the altar of a world-em bracing philanthropy ; nor is Courvoisier to be exe crated because he crept up stairs with a carving knife, and murdered his sleeping master ; for both were the " creatures of circumstances over which they had no control." Pleasant doc trine this, and peculiarly fitted to soothe the an guished sensibilities of the denizens of Botany Bay and Norfolk Island. Unhappy victims to the prejudices of a purblind world ! They are neither thieves, murderers, nor forgers, but merely " crea tures of circumstances over which they had no con trol !" In order to show the full absurdity of this doctrine, let us bring it home to the Socialist, by practically exemplifying it in his own person. Let us suppose him assaulted and robbed by some town or country conveyancer, and while denouncing ven geance on the unceremonious rascal, comforted by him - after the following fashion My dear Sir, douT loOk so ferocious, but take things coolly, for not.l4hut circumstances are to be blameu for this untoward affair. It was circumstances that put the bludgeon into my hand—circuttstances that broke i ~~ _ it across your back—circumstances that conjured all the loose cash out of your breeches-pockets. I d d all I could to prevent the catastrophe ; but there was no help for it ; I was the creature of a power over which I had no control !" Now, would our Social philosopher, think you, smarting under a sense of his wrongs, acknowledge this as sound doctrine—accept it as a valid justifi cation of the rogue's conduct ? We doubt it much ; yet if he desire to maintain his consistency, he has no other alternative. But it is idle to enlarge on this theme ; for the Owenites are daily decreasing, both in numbers and influence ; and in a short time will be as completely forgotten as that crack-brained German, Anacharsis Clootz, who fifty years ago preached pretty nearly the same doctrine to the bewildered sans culottes of Paris. " Violet Hamilton " is a story that reads off lightly and trippingly. A willing spirit has been at work on it, and this imparts to it a freshness and vivacity not often met with in Magazine tales. " Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham" are as dry as a ship-biscuit. "'Travels in the East" is an entertaining review of a book lately published, and contains several piquant tit-bits, in the way of extract. In the " Feast of the Poets" we find a few dainty scraps of verse, and many that are quite stale and tasteless. We quote one of the best, entitled " Night :" Holy Night! in silence From thy starry throne Swaying, thee I worship, Silent and alone. Holy Night ! how calmly Sails the mellow moon Through the deep blue welkin, Fairer than the noon. Mellow moon ! how gently Through the voiceless night, O'er the sleeping waters, Trips thy silver light. Holy Night ! bow lovely Shoot, with sudden birth, Hosts of shimmering arrows From the lambent North. Holy Night ! thou reignest Solemn, still, serene ; Hushed, the tribes of mortals Bow before their queen. Now the battling voices Of the babbling throng Cease ; and thou m:ly'st listen, As it treads along, To the steps of Godhead Beating march of Time ; Slowly, surely, wisely, Beautiful, sublime ; Beating thought and feeling, Beating vital power In renewed creation's Pulse, from hour to hour. Holy Night ! devoutly While I worship thee, Babbling Folly's echo Dies away from me. FRASER'S MAGAZINE, We are not surprised at the increasing circulation of this Magazine, for—setting its politics aside—it always contains one or more articles of considerable literary merit. The first, and we may add the best, in the present Number, is devoted to the question of the " Present State and Prospects of the Jews," and is penned with uncommon spirit and eloquence. The writer observes that " there can be little doubt that a new era has arrived in the his tory of the Jews." This hypothesis is a just one. The so-long persecuted, scattered, and discouraged Israelites are at length waking up from the torpor of ages ; they are rally int:,t' in all quarters ; zealous missionaries have of late made their appearance among them ; and Jerusalem is once again, what it was in the days when they hung up their harps on the willows, the central point to which all their hopes, thoughts, and resus citated sympathies are daily and hourly directed. It affords matter for the most deep and solemn reflec tion to think that the day is not far distant, when the Jews will be reinstated in that august city which centuries since, all the armies of Christendom united were unable to wrest from the Infidels. " Life on the Leinster" is a lively sketch of an Irish law cir cuit. The " Condemned Cells" is the com mencement of a series of Papers which, judging from the present specimen, bids fair to attract public attention in no ordinary degree. We like the healthy, unexaggerated spirit in which the account of the " Ordinary" is written. " There is yet wanting a picture," says the writer, " of crime and its consequences, true to nature and to conscience ; we therefore feel that this, and the i papers which are to succeed it, will render service to society. They are the productions of a pen that describes facts as they were found. They present pure pictures of guilt and its accompaniments. They have no artificial colouring. Their whole interest lies in their reality." Thus recommended, we hazard little in asserting our belief that they will he popalar. We shall watch their progress with interest. The " Revocation of the Edict of Nantes" is clever and scholar-like, but we must enter our protest against the frequent sneers against Gibbon, and _more particularly against the term " over-rated," as applied to his immortal History. Such a work cannot be over-rated, embodying, as it does, the most profound and various learning, set off with all the graces of a style that, despite its occasional turgidness, it were to be wished were more general among historians. Who works up an episode like Gibbon, or introduces it with such consummate skill? Whose frequent reflections on passing events are so sagacious—whose characters are so nicely discriminated—whose battle scenes so full of tempered enthusiasm ? His account of the last sack of Constantinople absolutely stirs the heart like the sound of a trumpet. We have al ways considered Gibbon as the first of his class ; and that class is of the highest in literature. The review of the " Confessions of Harry Lorrequer is entertaining reading, but its praise borders on the extravagant. The brief, passing allusion to Hazlitt that he was "an old muddle-headed proser," is anything but just. Perverse he fre quently was in his criticisms, shallow, dogmatic. and often more taken up with himself than his sub ject ; but " proser" he certainly was not. You might object to the egotistical and splenetic tone of many of his essays, but you never fell asleep over them. He was too earnest and energetic an author ever to set you nodding. " North American Boundary" is a sound, dispassionately reasoned article, abounding in useful facts, and drawing in ferences from those facts which it is scarcely pos sible to overturn. We have read it with much pleasure, not unmingled with instruction. The writer must try his hand again at these subjects. He has a ready pen and a shrewd understanding. " Close of the Session" is a stupid Tory diatribe, without one word of truth from beginning to end. We select from a " Newspaper Editor's Remi niscences" a curious anecdote or two respecting old Joe Munden : Most persons have heard of the umbrella. Munden had an old umbrella, which he bad probably purchased second-hand, for a shilling, or, at the utmost, eighteen pence. Meeting a friend who was about to leave the country, and for whom he professed an attachment, he said he should like, before they parted for ever, to make an exchange of presents, as a remembrance of their friendship. His friend willingly adopted the idea, and said he woul d call upon him. " There is no time like the present, said Munden, who saw a new silk umbrella in the gentleman's hand. " Suppose we exchange umbrellas." The gentleman , who was either more gene rous or less observant than Munden, instantly acceded to the proposition, and carried off the old cotton rain protector as the gilt of " Joe Munden ;" whilst the with the new silk. clever Anotheractor anecdotewalked o f triumphantly Munden's foresight is less gene chris- tened, o r fo a r lly l hkenaorwdn,italftrhoomugthheeqlaudayllyi;erisfelnfowtho mowrea,satuhtehevnictitei: was m s e t d h p e a w r y r e of a hen the Covent Garden oniy . i childofthis lady, w performer, was Munden wa s one of the godfathers. A large W party had assembled ; and as it was in the old-fashioned times, w h en people were made to p a y handsomely for their dinners and soirees, by presents to the servants of the houses at which they were invited, the nurse looked Munden told the lady that he wished to give forward to a rich harvest. Towards the close of the to the nurse, but that he had left his purse and asked the lady to lend him half-a-crown. something nseeheneoi;t:khgnbie::u;:it immediately very id My dear," says Munden, " this will not do at all ; it looks nothing to put into the hands of the nurse. Give it to me, if you can, in change." She took beck the half-crown, and gave him two shillings and a sixpence. This," said he, " will do very well." On the follow ing day, the lady asked the nurse how she had succeeded. " \ray well indeed, ma'am," replied the nurse ; "I got more than eleven pounds." " And to think of Mr. Munden's giving ycu half-a-crown," said the lady ; " really, wonders will never cease." " Lord, ma'am ! ' said the nurse, " Mr. Munden did not give uric half-a crown ; he only gave me a shilling, and that I did not expect." Joe's diplomacy put eighteenpenee into his peeket ; for it is needless to say, that he never thought of repaying the sum which he had borrowed. EVENING ED1T107,,.. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. " Letters from the Continent," though dated from Paris, a quarter in which one wculd imagine it impossible to gather anything like :.rovelty, will amuse by the liveliness of their manner, and the sa gacity of the opinions they enforce. The writer has not traversed the French capital with his eyes shut or his ears closed, but has made gook.] use of his senses, and exhibited just that sort o! busy, restless inquisitiveness, without which a traveller is no better than Sterne's Mundungus, who vent from Dan to Beersheba, and found all barren. Speaking of Louis Philippe, the writer tells us that he is by no means popular among the middle classes, as a strong impression is abroad among them that he has not only played false to the men who placed the crown on his head, but has also broken a great many promises, if not expressed, yet certainly implied. Nevertheless, we are assured, these classes will rally to a man round his throne, should he require their support, for " the republic is at this moment their bug-bear, and there is no sacrifice they are not prepared to make, no arbi trary measures on the part of Government they are not prepared to support, rather than see the republican party in possession of power." If this be so, then the King of the Barricades is as firmly seated a monarch as any in Europe ; indeed, far more so than the Emperor Nicholas, who with all his apparent power, is but a helpless instrument in the hands of a reckless and bigotted aristocracy. " Introduction to the study of the Old English Dramatists" is not devoid of a certain cleverness, but its tone is too arrogant, and there is a constant attempt to exhibit acuteness and profundity of re mark. NVith a little less pedantry and super ciliousness of manner, it would have been a very acceptable essay. " Lord Povverscourt on the state of Ireland," is an article that should have appeared early in the last Session. Just now, it will find few readers. " Sketches of Spanish Generals" gives a brief biographical sketch of Maroto. "To the Queen" is a poem from the pen of Leigh Hunt, who congratulates her Majesty on her recent escape from assassination. Here are the opening passages of the poem : Recovering with one breath, one joy, one prayer, From sudden horror, such as lifts :he hair, Three kingdoms bless thee, lady, and thy lit: ; Bless thee as queen ; bless thee as child and IFife ; Bless thee as their ow❑ kin. Thy consort, too, Him as thyself ; for both in one they view ; Yet thee the most, as theirs. Fathers and mothers, As daughter, bless thee ; as a sister, brothers ; Bridegrooms as bride,—oh ! with what thoughts the last ! With what embraces, tretrbiing for the past! Shuddering to think bow madness might have torn The dearest burden which on earth is borne. Every least class, and every time of life, Thrill'd for the gentle prince and the young wife, — Themselves not childless now. The driest cheek Of daily sorrow felt its eyes grow weak ; The poor (Oh, Madam ! yO2/ can think of those) For her forgot the scorners of their woes ; And Madness self, with twice hewilder'd eye, Star'd at the light fantastic prodigy, That with no cheek made pale, nor s pirit stung, ' Lay lurking to destroy two hearts as young. Great God ! to picture what a pass was there! How but that moment, to the gladsome air Issuing for health and pleasure from her door, Home at her back, and homage all before, 'Faking possession, with her happy eyes, Of all the world with all its sympathies,— The husband at her side,—he, too, a heart Loving and just, that takes the poor man's part, Full of all impulses of good and true, — To picture them, I say, thus borne, those two, The few months' wife, and mild and manly spouse, Bending to those who bend ; with pleasant brows, Through avenues of hearts, and paths of green ; And suddenly, when not a cloud was seen In heaven above, or human face below, • Thus to be dash'd at with a deadly blow ! To have harsh bullets horribly displace Their summer air, and see a murderous floe, And feel their gentle foreheads, in despite Of their brave hearts, bow'd downward in affright, Dark, as though noon had stumbled into night I Not long. The bravest well may start to see, For the first time, the face of Enmity And enrnest Death. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The Anthony Poplar of the early Numbers of the Dublin University Magazine sits, or rather gracefully reclines, at full-length before us. The open book, and the gaze in which the cor poreal eye takes no note of objects though seem ingly fixed on them, tell us that the mind is busy— that glorious visions of the past are floating be fore it. Anthony, then, is the Rev. Charles Stuart Stanford, who, we are told, has exchanged the editing of a Tory Magazine for the duties of a village pastor in the neighbourhood of Dublin. Verily we like his appearance well, and believing his Christianity to be stronger than his Toryism, have little doubt that he will leave nothing undone to adorn any station which lie may hold in the Church. Instead of forming the eleventh p ortrait in the Irish Gallery, he ought to have stood the first in a periodical of which he was the founder. Of the present Number generally we cannot speak in very high terms. " aarles O'Malley" is lively, gossipping, and delightful as ever. but the staple of the Number is dull and uninviting. Miss M. A. Browne has contributed a hatch of beautiful verses, but their effect is sadly marred by their juxta position with the " Shunamite," Part 111. of " Fighting Fitzgerald," and a long elaborate dis quisition on the " Voluntary System." The " Rival Tourists" begins well, and throws into a popular and inviting form a dark period in the domestic history of Ireland. The review of Mil man's " History of Christianity" is conceived in a narrow and sectarian spirit. THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. Dolman, The terseness and pithiness and enthusiasm which constitute the charm of sectarian periodicals to readers caring little for theological hair-splitting, are nowhere to be met with in the pages of the Ca tholic Magazine. On the contrary, its articles arc as placid in tone, and as decorously cold and life less, as if its Editor was clothed in the purple of the archiepiscopal see of Canterbury. We would prefer a little more warmth and animation. We have no sympathy for efforts in any cause in which we can discern no traces of latent energy and inextinguish able zeal. The Catholic Magazine is a sugar and-water affair, which neither slakes thirst nor animates the spirits. The present Number contains six articics, but none of them call for any particular observation. SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS AND LORD CHARLES FITZROY. A Morning Contemporary has published copies of let ters between Major Clarke, the friend of Captain . Percy Lord orCdh John Russell. Do ugla Fitzroy,s o b by his theS h i irs subjectil Lordship,a Howard of fD aoul reflectingegtiletter addressed o o n n the h a e n c dt o oS n duct of Sir Howard. Captain Douglas denies everything asserted by Lord Charles Fitzroy, regarding Sir Howard Douglas having got up a story about a conspiracy, to answer his own ends ; " and upon the other points (continued Capt. Douglas) treated of in your letter, I shall only say that your Lordship is strangely misinformed ; and that alto gether your Lordship is under very erroneous impressions as to the character of Sir Howard Douglas's administra tion—impressions which have been imbibed by your Lord ship's lending an ear (too willingly, I fear, I may add, from the tone of your letter to the Secretary of State), to those whom, had your Lordship known them better, you would have attended to less." • The correspondence is brought to a close by Major Clarke expressing himself satisfied with Lord Charles Fitzroy's replies, conceiving that they " amount to a full and honourable disclaimer of personality to Sir Howard Douglas." The Major says : Captain Douglas will, lam sure, be content to know that your Lordship's language implied no stain on the spotless honour of his father ; and I beg to repeat me conviction that, at some future day, your Lordship wilt find equal reason to withdraw your censures on the public conduct of the Lord High Commissioner." THE WINE CROP IN FRANCE. —The vine yards present this year the most rich and promising ap pearance ; so much so, indeed, that, as is usual on suck occasions, every description of wine cask has within a few days doubled its price. This being the case the thieves, ever on the watch for an opportunity of ex ercising their nefarious practices, have begun to turn their attention to this species of plunder. Two fellows were detected in a robbery of the kind, and on their dwelling being searched by the police a large quantity of casks were discovered, which had been stolen from different owners, arm winch they were only waiting for a good market to dispose of.--• French paper. SINGULAR ESCAPE. —The Belfast, Captain ma les, picked up on the 3d of May, Eve en hadher obuetewnard Finley, arrived at Liverpool on the 30th nit , om Ja • ai beencth the eo thirteen s age, in lat. 16.34, von. 66.20 W. a small boat with : negro boy in it, almost famished. bner lown o off which tile be t' b il e a lo i n n o a e t d . in and Maragalantc. tidyearyns: h o t e n o c b g o e o a t f t : t , h e l e i bo av i i a: g a r y d s Fs had drifted 284 mil^s in a westerly direction ; and was much exhausted when picked without food. The bo ' up, laving been seven daft , y la now doing well. 1. tto, 18!' 3 a' et ; ;,for ptoa• n ° • P i fit i° ° .pch a pt l o