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NAIifARKET THEATRE.
This Erenlng. TUESDAV„ July IC will be performed
THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE.
Lord Welty. Mr. W. rams; Sir Jnhn Mele,tle, Mr. Vining: Ster-
lks. Mr. Wil.lanni Lovewell, lit. Raymond; Brush, Air. Harley:
Manton, Mr. W. Wetwt ; Truman, blr. W. Johnson Servant, lir.
Votes. lirs. Heidelberg, Mrs. Glover; Miss Sterling, Mn. Gibbs:
Essay, Miss It. Glover.
After wbleh, INTRIGUE..
Top, M. Harley Ellen, Madam* Vestrill.
Tn conclude with MIDAS.
dPO:l‘.. Madame Vestris ; Mains. Mr. Ligon.

ENGLISH OPERA 110 USE.
Thla Evening, TUESDAY, July 2.1. will be perforated
BROKEN PROMISES;
gr. Tilt coLovEL. Title CAPTA!N„ AND TUE CORPORAL.
The Pamir.] Characters by Meese.. Bartley. Itroaelister, Thorne.
Illigaele. W. Bennett. and Power: Mesdames Noel. atnpliens. Guy,
WNW. Jerreld, and Weippert.
To conclu 'a with
PREF. AND EASY.
flar John Freeman. Mr. Wrench. lira. Charlotte Calmly, Was
filyvard; Eugenia. Kim Cart.

VIDER THE ESPECIAL PATROMADE 07 Mllit MAJESTY.
BOVA I, GARDENS,
Tate PROPRIETORS of VAUXHALL. hiennsequente of Intimations
laity have received from many of the highest classes of the Mohliity
aft& Gentry. who purpose re-visiting Vauxhall previous to `.envlng
gown, most respetfuny state their Intention of givMs TWO MORE
arI,F.N bin OALAI during the PRZ:SEN T WEEK, viz. To.
MORROW EVENING (Wednwelayl. and FRIDAY. for whleh prepara-
tions are maklrg on a moot novel and extensive wale. The Concert and
Its entertalnmhits generally will be expresslyarranOted for the sera.
Won with peenliar elaims 03 public attention: a new Railet Danre. of
normal Interest. produced; the gardens wit: be Illuminrted In the
Illirbedt degree of orwamental taste and elegance; and the Fire-works,
fir brilliancy and variety of design. corpse any yet intnalneed. even at
Vauxhall, It being the determlnatlrn of the Prom istors to render the
who., every way worthy the august and distinguished Patronage
Obey bare op flatteringly received.
Doors open at Seven.— admiszlon Si. 8.1.

The Mutsu( PA=S' commenceu 'mime:nog yesterday morning
at n quarter before xi: o'clock.
LONDON. TUESDAY. Jays 23, 1223.

The Paris Parrs of Saturday are filled with long dis-
sertations on the financial plans of the French Ministry,
and on the restoration of the Sorbonne to its ancient
pc wer. The Finite of Sunday is quite in raptures on ac-
count of the latter measure, which it says f' was long
called for by the interests of religion." It ptocceds—" A
body illustrious in France fur its age and its services, which
first had the honour of combating Protestantism at its com-
coenc:ment, intl which in the last century endeavoured to
raise abarrier against the progress of unbelief—a body which
has given to France holy Bishops, zealous Pastors, and able
Doctors, is at length going to rise from its ruins."
The following is extracted front tha Non-official ,part of
the Moniteur of Saturday :

NADAID, JULY II:

His Majesty has set out to-day for his residence at La
Grasi.ja. The whole Royal Family accompanies his Majesty.
Messrs. Zes and Calomarde are in the suite. It was ,h )oght for n
short time that the formes was going to quit the Ali iistry, the
King not having transacted business with him on the day, when,
according to the order of the public business, M. Zea should have
gone to the shines. Nevertheless, people persist in thinking his
removal very probable; the Royalists found their hopes on this
suhieet on the journey of M. Calomarde.
It is affirmed that the military purifications are going to be Rho.
!lobed, and that they will be reduced to mere classifications. Those:
who made themselves the most remarkable during the Constitu-
wonal Government will, it is said, be deprived of their commissions ;
as far others, the government will choose among thorn those whom
it shall think fit to employ. Thus an end would be put to the dis-
tinction of officers with unlimited conger. officers incladed in the
capitulations, &e. All these officers would form one class, and
would receive half-pay.
FACNCII FUNDS.—PARIS, JULY 23-- Fire per Cents. 103 f!
; 3 per Cents. 76f. 30c.; Bank Stock, 21931.; Rentea de Naples,
1 artificate Falconnet, 8111. Illk. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 17i ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 54i. Exchange on London. one month, 2:if.; three
go. 241. &Sc.—Cows Aullentique.

know the fact or take measures for its preservation. The
periodical press in Colombia has been incessant in its cla-
mour* for investigation into the disorders of this depart-
went, 'and at last the neccessary reforms have been com-
menced by the Government.

The only article of political importance in tl:ese papers
is the message of General B a to the Constituent Con-
gress of Peru, on the opening of its Session. The tone
of this document reaects great credit on its author. lie
%peals of his own service: with modesty, and ascribes the
'iberation of Peru entirely to the victory of Ayacucho.
He advises the Peruvian Congreis to proicribe for ever the
"dreadful authority" of a Dictator—" an authority that was
the sepulchre of Rome." In conclusion lie announces,frthat as
soon as he has reduced Callao, lie will return to Colombia,
and give to his countrymen an account of his mission to Peru.
He anticipates that Great Britain will be the fit stto recog-
nise the inilependenc:: of that State, and that France will'
not be slow in following our example. The only Diplo-
inatic .Agentyaccredited to the Peruvian Government was
from the Republic of Colombia, though offers of assist- I
ance bad been received from Mexico, Guatitnala, and
Buenos Ayres.
The following are extracts of private letters, received
yesterday :
BOGOTA, MAT 9.
Colonel Narvaes is to be despatched to England to carry the
Treaty concluded with Great Britaiu to the Colombian Minister in
Lyndon,' Mr. aurtailo.

There is no political iote:ligenee here of any interest.

DIRT

,
CI ry. MONDAY EVENING.

On the Corn-Exchange to-day very little boldness was transacted.
The prices of grain are high, but the holders. we understand,
cannot effect sales, even though they are willing to make a sacri-
fice in order to realise their property. such is the strange state to
which the trete of the greatest article of consumption is reduced.
His Majesty's Ministers have shown much anxiety to put an end
to the evils of the Corn-trade ; as it is at present constituted, it is
as injurious to the growers of grain in the United Kingdom, as it
is to the consumers. One cargo of wheat has arrived from Canada.
and it has been entered for home consumption under the provisions
a the Act for Altering the Duty on Wheat being the produce
of British America. This Act, with great difficulty his Majesty's
Ministers were enabled to pass through the two Houses of Parlia-
ment. The quality of this Wheat is not fine. It is, however,
equal to the growth of Lincolnshire lied Wheat. It is worth,
about G 3.. to 655. per quarter, and after the payment of the freight
of 10s. or 12e. per quarter, and of the import duty of frt. a
quarter, no great sum will be left to pa, for its production. Still.
however, his Majesty's Government conferred an important boon
on British America, and also on the United Kinglom, by carrying
this Bill through the Legislature. The population of the Ca.
nada% amount to one million, and they are seat consumers of
British manufactures. By encouraging the consumption of their
produce, England takes the best eJurse to eucourage an increased
consumption of our manufactures in British America. This in-
creased demand must employ artisans who otherwise would be ex-
isting in idleness pn poors-rates, and by giving them pro.
productive labour, an addition is made to the annual income
of the Empire. During this season probably 70 000 animate
of Wheat will be entered for home consumption from British
America; but afterwards several years of prosperity must intervene
before the Canadas ship .10,000 quarters annually for the consump-
tion of the inhabitants of the United Kingdoms. Supposing, how.
ever, that England should consume to the extent of only one
hundred thousand pounds sterling annually of Canadian agricul-
tural labour, this sum must be repaid by the labour of British
manufacturers: It would be vain to enter into the calculation of
profit which must arise from the annual circulation of even cne hun-
dred thousand pounds, throughout its probable tenfold ramifications ;
for it is enough to know that capital properly applied has the same
effect on human industry which a bucket of water has on a pump,
for without excitement nothing can be produced front either. There
is no subject of internal polity so important at present to the people
of England as the state of the Corn trade. Liberal laws, such as
the new regulations respecting the distillery trade, must increase:the
consumption of grain in Great Britain ; and it becomes a question
how that grain can be supplied otherwise than by importing it from
foreign nations, without sacrificing the interests of the great body
of the people to that of agriculture ; and by so doing injuring se.
verely the interests of agriculture itself. This is a subject of vast
importance; and with all due deference to the mighty interest
which it embraces, the BIWA Preis will occasionally call the at-
tention of its readers to this department of commerce. without the
entire freedom of which it is Vain to boist of the freedom of trade
generally, or to calculate on the adenntnges which may ensue from
a perfect and liberal intercourse with foreign rations.
This was one of those days which most absurdly are set apart
for the encouregement of idleness. It is called a Holiday, The
Bank of England was closed, and so also were the English and
Foreign Stork Exchanges. The Cu:pm-house has, got the better
of these absurdities. The Stork brokers and Jobbers occupied
the Royal Exchange, but being unsettled by the change of their
quartets, very little business was done. - The Consols were /teed,
at 91k. In Foreign Funds few transactions were reported. In
Shares, little busines was transacted. The Herten Shares have
declined about percent. Reck-salt, on the contrary, has again
advanced to 04.

WINDSOR, JULY 24.

We have great satisfaction in announcing the important
intelligence of the raising of the siege of Alissolonglii. The
Ottoman forces were compelled to abandon all their artil-
lery and warlike stores of every description. They also
suffered a severe loss in men. This news was received yes-
terday in an official quarter, and we hope by the next ar-
ri►al to lay before the public a detailed statement of the
circumstances by which this gratifying event has been
producza. The news from the Morea is equally satisfac-
tory. The first movement made by COLOCOTRONI has
placed In flaunt PACIIA in a situation of great peril. The
date of Greece, at the present moment, requires the corn-
minding talents of a General whose only object is the
expulsion of the enemies of his country from her fields.'
It will be time enough to found schools and promulgate a
legal code for the government of the citizens, after their
freedom has been effectually secured by the establishment
of their independence. In General COLOCCITRONI Greece
bas an officer equal to the exigency of the moment. He
has the faculty of governing the minds of his countrymen,
and this faculty must, by uniting them, lead to a successful
issue of their struggle for life and liberty.

The Prince Regent Jamaica packet arrived yesterday.
The letters she brings are to the Bth of June. The only
news interesting to the public that they contain, is that the
late rains have a good deal interfered with the progress of
the present crops ; but they have tewde4l considerably to
improve those of the next year. Our readers will recollect
that similar communications have before reached us npon
this subject.

10

The papers are to the 9th ult. They contain not a single
paragraph that we can extract. On the 7th, the anni-
versary of the great earthquake which destroyed Port
Royal in 1691, divine service was performed according to
custom.

The Mexican frigate tire Surat Castle, of 66 guns, com-
manded by Captain Sxrru, has passed down Channel for
Vera Crux. She will be joined in a certain latitude by a
ship of larger force from Sweden, and by two forty-six-gun
frigates. The first object of this squadron is, to cut off the

communication between Cuba and St. Juan d'Ulloo, and
by so doing, to compel it to surrender for want of provi.
sions. Its ulttrior object is, however, we understand, of
still greater importance.

F,4SBIONJBLE INTILLIGIVCZ.

The 31arquis of Cliol.ncmdeley entertained a distinguished party
at dii.ner ye,sterday. at Isis house in Piccadilly.
'ltte fluke of !trods left town yesterday for his scat, liornby
Ca le. e. _ _ .

Maredooess rf Londonderry, has left town for Colonel
IV nod, seat, Little on, near Staines.
C‘ointess On Orey arrived yaiterday at her house in St. James's-1
agnate, front Tunitri,!gt• Wells.
Mr. and Lady Caroline Capel arrived yestesday at the Duke of.
St. Alban's, in St. James't.squtre. from Belvidere, Kent.
Colonel and Lady Eh: Merl Steele left town yesterday for Kim-
bolton Castle, Hunt ingdonahire.
The Earl of Bcsborough left town yesterday fur his seat, Roe-
haniliton.
Lord flefast la town yesterday for the Isle of Wight.
The Co t:mesa of Dartmouth has left tuwu for her seat at Black-
" heath.
C. It. Tynte, Esq. left town yesterday for Haswell House,
BriAgewater.
Monsieur Pintardo has arrived at the Pulteney Hotel, Albe-
niar;e-street, front Mezeo.
Mr. nod the Hon. Mrs. Carleton arrlvrd yesterday at ti,e St.
Cieorge's Hotel, Alhernarle-street. from Lord Bolton's seat, in
Hants. Capt. Montgiimary has left ditto for Paris.
Arrivals at Thomas'. Hotel, Berkeley-square :—Countess Ayles-
bury sail Lady Sophia Aylesbury, from Siaffordshire; the Earl
of Newburgh and the Ladies Eyre, from Brighton ; the Earl of
Kilmorey from Warsley Park, Cambridgeshire: Lord Moon
Sandford from Cheltenham;" Lord and Lady Somers and Latlyt
Mary Cacks„ from Ramsgate.
Mr. and Mts. Balls have arrived at Long's Hotel, Bond-street,
•roto Spain. Depatturfy from ditto:—Mr. and Mrs. Brooke and
family, for Paris; W. Hilmore. Esq. for Brighton.
Arrivals at Fladong's Hotel. Oxford-street :---Lord Massy, from
Ireland ; Captain and Mrs. Turner, from the East Indies; Aliso
Quartley. from a tour; Briscoe, Esq. from a tour; Baron
Strick ran Linemen, from the Continent Tennison, Esq.
fro3l a taut; Bridges, ‘laq.; Hon. Mr. Maude
llama. Coq. ; Breton, Esq. Departures from ditto ,—Rev.
Quartley, on a tour; Tholwall, Esq. for Wales ; John
Dean, Esq. and Mrs. Doan, for Kaatkk House, Watford : A. ll.'
Bradshaw, Esq. for Kent & Coktr, Esq. on a tour ; Captain
Burt, for Atiticmr ; Colonel Wollaston, for Hinckley; C. Ogilvy,
gig. for Sunbury ; Cololial Nelthorpe, on • tour.

This afternoon their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess or Cambridge and suite, accompanied by the
Princess Augusta, took an airing in two coaches and four
from the residence of the Princess Augusta to St. Leonard's
Hill, and honoured the Earl and Countess of Ilarcourt
with a visit, where the Noble Earl and Countess had made
considerable preparation for the reception of their Royal
visiters. Seats, &c. were prepared in the delightful plea-
sure grounds, under a tree which was planted by the hand
of the ever-to-he-regretted Princess Charlotte, during the
time her Royal Highness resided at NVindsor, while on a
visit to the Earl and Countess, who have always been
highly favoured with frequent visits from the late King
and Queen, and all the branches of the Royal Family.
The Royal party partook of tea and other refreshments on
this memorable spot, and afterwards returned to Frogmore.

JULY 25.

This being the anniversary of the birth-clay dte
Duchess of Cambridge, the morning was ushered in with
the ringing of bclls, and °thur demonstrations of rejoicing
I took place. This morning the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tenticd by the Mike of %Wellington, rode on horseback
from Frogmore to Eton College, to hear the young gen-
rlentea of that College deliver orations, &e. where
1 numerous assemblage of the. nobility and persons of
distinction attended on the occasion ; many of them, after
the orations hail concluded, went to Windsor to view the
extensive improvements and alterations, which are pro-
ceeding with the greatest rapidity, at the Royal Castle,
there being about five hundred men employed in the,
works. Arnott,7, the nobility were the Earl and Countess
'if Jersey, who afterwards left Windsor for their seat at
Osterley Park, near Brentford, where the Earl and
Countess are to give a grand entertainment to-morrow,
41 which some of the Royal Family are expected to be'
pres;mt.

The Duke of Clarence arrived at Heilbron on the 10th
lest., travelling under the title of Earl of Munster, and
set out the following morning for Deinaeli, where her Ma-
jeety the Queen Dowager of Wirtcmburgh, his Royal
Highness's sister, now resides.
We arc happy to say Mr. Secretary Canning is so much
recovered from his late severe indisposition since his arrival
at Combe Wood, that he has taken several gentle:rides on
horseback.
It has been stated that Lord Hastings has been solicited
to proceed again to India.
FUNER•I. OP TUT DUET OT ST. Arai•N's.—l'ester-
day morning the remains of this Nobleman were removed
from St. James's-square, to the family vault at Redburne,
in Lincolnshire. It was conducted very privately.
Mr. Lambton is to be Foreman of the Grand Jury at
our ensuing assizes, which commence on Monday week.—
Due ham Chronicle.
It is more than rumoured that Lady Byron is engaged
to be married to the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, of Harrow.
Sympathy, as well as gratitude, is often the origin of love.
—Sunday Times.
We understand that Mr. Holmes, M.P. gained a
80,000/. prize in the lottery just concluded.
liinmitee it en THEATRE.—Mr. Kean male his appear-
ance at our Theatre on Monday, his first appearance
since his judicial debut, in his favourite character of
Richard 111. A few minutes before the curtain drew up
there were not above two persons in the lower boxes,
though the number at the time of his entrée had increased
to about thirty, and afterwards to a hundred, among whom
--- - -- e were twelve females. The gallery benches were by no
The Boyne has arrived off Falmouth from Bence'. Her means numerously filled, and Kean's friends in the pit
letters are of an old date from that Presidency. The Boyne about half filled it. On his appearance on the stage a loud
is only three days later from Madras, and about a week burst of applause proceeded from most of the audience,
from the Cape, than the last arrival. She brings no news and the few hisses were stifled in the uproar. One lady
from either of these Dependencies.
The Red Rose sloop of par is under orders for Mexico. in the centre of the pit appeared quite carried away by her
Courrier Francais states that
excess of feeling, for, standing up with something in her
She is supposed to carry out the treaty ratified by isEngland. hand resembling a towel, she waved it in a most entbusias-
' Thss M. ti now at ic and, t Mr. Kean no doubt gratifinanner. When
Brussels, exerting himself to the utmost, to raise a loan for the applause had a little subsided, and she them hisses became
the King of Spain. His attempts have, hitherto, been un- more audible, this heroine looked round with a most ter-
successful, but he is waiting for proposal.; from Madrid, . rifyin, aspect, threatening every one that expressed disap-
whish he expects, will enable him to m
probation'l ake terms with the
with annihilation. It must be confessed, how-
Dutch capitalists.
The last number of the Journal de Cali:: contains some I ever, that the hisses were few in number, as those persons
I who, from feelings of morality, or dislike to the peculiari-
singular admissions for a paper printed under the itnme- tics of Kean's acting, did not wish to patronise him, had
tliate eye of the Spanish Government. It is stated that the generally pursued the wise plan of keeping at home, and
garrison of Cochabamba, in Peru, declared itself inde- I
the play proceeded in a very orderly way. On Tuesday,
pendent, and that in en affray between the Patriots stell
e'Ropalist garrison of Callao the latter had 150 killed, ,The
19 wounded, and lost many prisonets, whilst the former 1 extreme ;
Ice only 26 killed and 23 wounded.
The Austrian Observer of the II th inst. contains a long I
article on " the continued efforts of certain French Jour-
nalists to represent in a false light the visit of the Emperor
to his Italian provinces, and to connect it with imaginary!
political plans which had not a shadow of reality."
on to deny that any political Congress was held, intended
to be held, or ever announced.
.111
the Theatre was miserably attended to see Kean as Sheeteek.
house on Wednesday night was wretched' in the
and who would have imagined that the thinnest
1 house during the season would have been that on which
Me Kean performed Othello ! He was evidently highly
Jour-, indignant, and though the few he had mustered on the
occasion gave him several rounds of applause, hi only
deigned to notice them by one single slight inclination Lf
It g°(11 his head. lie stood erect, with his hack partly turned
towards the audience, who tried in vain to soothe his
It is mentioned in the Jamaica Papers received yester- wounded spirit. On Thursday the Theatre was rather
better attended, yet only very moderately, when Kean day, that, that, according to the latest advice's received at Pa- bibited Sir Giks Overreach, a rordinaire. Last night the
name, Miss Rowcroft, the daughter of the late British faeltionables assembled in very small numbers to patronise
Consul at Lima, had arrived there, on het way to Ja. Kean in Lear, and the performances during the week have
maica, for the purpose of returning to England.
A great reduction has taken place in the price of Ame- been worse attended than any week the present season.—
Biro:isle/eon Journal.
rican timber. A cargo,' or' rather part of two cargoes, of
American pine, was disposed of by public sale at Leith on George Coleman being once. asked if he were acquainted i
with Theodor . ~.
Thursday, sixpence to ninepence a foot below what it could
(eye) are old associates.
e Hook, replied, "Oh yes; Hook and I
be bought for a few weeks ago, and this notwithstanding ,
an unprecedented consumption of that article in this city Ftxe Aart—The Splendid Collection of' Paintings by
and elsewhere. The reduction can therefore be only as- the ancient Masters is now on view at Mr. Cauty's large
cribed to very extensive importation. The Leith Wet Auction Room in Pall-mall, previously to public sale, een-
....-___
Docks are at present nearly covered with floating timber, sisting of select pieces from almost every painter of emi-
Yesterday we received Begot* Papers to the 19th of and there is a number of vessels in the Roads, timber- nence in the Italian, Spanish, and Flemish Schools. But
May inclusive. Their contents are entirely of local in. loaded, besides what are yet expected.—Caledonian Mer- though there are some noble specimens from the hand of
tares[. It will be remembered that some just complaints care- Raphael, Titian, Albano, Salvatoi Rosa, Guercino, Claude,
were made respecting the tardiness of the Post-office in
have noticed in the last page the great heat of thetßubene, Tiutoretto, and Giorgone, the Spanish Masters,
we
weather on Monday. In London, at three o'cleck, the' though but a few in number, have decidedly the advan-
transmitting communications from one part of Colomb:a to thermometer stood at 86. The weather appears to have tage in point of excellence. Of all the paintings in the
another. The delay was so great that the inhabitants have been as warm and fine in America as in this country. !room, the Enthusiastic Musician, by Velasquez, for ox-
' •
of Camelia usually learned what passed in the capital from The New rorl.: Gazette
.of the 2ith ult says :—The un- , pression, skilful foreshortening, Correa drawing, energy of
usual degree of heat ter the last fortnight has been a sub- style, natural and higlaly effective colouring, is undoubt-
"St. Thomas's, and frequently they had the first intelii- 1
jeet of general remark, not only in New York, but also in ' etily the best. The next are several fine Murillos, espe- ,
genre from Guayaquil through the United States. The evil
Philadelphia and Baltimore. The warmest day, however, ! cially the Ascension of the rirgin,
was not slight or indifferent. It endangered the union of this season, was en Tuesday last, when the thesinometer in ,to infuse into his principal figure beenlonallitTaatiLomnecr which
id
of,
the provinces, of which the new state of Colombia consists. this city. stood
.at abouth 90 at noon. In Philadelphia on , seen not to It; of thii.stolirfee,ftbsiungt to
lA,
where he
.has cwontiarilveidal
Royal Robe, by Sahli'.
It was hardly possible under rich circumstances to identify thattinterlie,yolnt ZessPalitni eaSaoy" iterfinteglerar 97} .at liti'''):lll;eliAevteStiliii; etoxrialtionscea.is abionVilistingitithed performance, aril a Biros()
the feelings of the people of Quito and those of Caraecaa. is an unparalleled state of the weather for the season. At or the Holy Family, by Titian, claims the utmost eilae
A resident in one city, if he Ina property in the other, , Washington, on Monday afternoon, the thermometer was ti,)ll. Several excellent landscapes by Claude, Asaco ir
lyand
su
might have had it destroyed half a >ear before he could at 9i."—Glasgow Journal. W aterloo, finely diversify the exhibition.

laisH .Ni) SCOTCII.—It seems that by an invariable!
law of their nature, Irishmen consider idleness as the true.
criterion and badge of a gentleman ; and as every native
of that country is a gentleman, whether he happens to
lave wlicrewithal to cover the rearward of his gentility or
I not, comparatively few of the natives or the Creel) Isle!
j mingle with the merchants of the city. Such of them as
have got little or no education, and that comprehends by
far the greater number, are gentleman day-labourers ; and
the rest are gentlemen per sc. If they could come to the
enjoyment of mercantile wealth by a romp de main, they
would like it well enough ; but they cannot settle down
upon three-footed stools, and bend over desks and ledgers
ilurieg the time necessary for their noviciate.
This, however, is ,fast the thing for a Scotsman. His
desire of getting to the top of the tree is to the full as
strong ; and though his hopes be not so ardent and Extra-
vagant, they ore more constant, and so make up in time
. for what they are deficient in momentary intensity. The!
Irishman skips and leaps like a squirrel ; and when, as
very often happens, he loses his hold, down he souses in i
the mud on the other side, soiled, it' not crippled ; and he
has to recover himself in a variety of idle gambols, before I
he can attempt another leap—which has every chance of
being as unsuccessful as the former. The wary Scot, on
I the other hand, illogical out his tree with great care; sees
! that it is vigorous, so that it may last; strong, that it may
I bear him ; and firmly rooted, so that the storms of ace-;
dent may not blow it down. He takes care too that the'
lowest branches shall be completely within his reach, and
' that there is a succession of tough and convenient ones for'
making his ascent quite secure. He begins at the very !
bottom, examines every twig before he will trust himself
to it, and never moves one foot till he be certain that the I
other he firm. Others, who are more ardent anti less
cautious, scramble past him, and are apt to jeer at. the
wily slowness of his progress; but he never minds them—l
he climbs away, patient and persevering ; and when they !
are tumbling down, and he still climbing up, it is his turn
to laugh, anti he does it, and that heartily.
This admirable adaptation of the Scotsman for advance-
ing in mercantile pursuits, his extreme docility to his su-
periors, the comparatively little upon which lie can make
himself appear respectable, and his constant endeavours to
set his sails to every wind, have not only thronged the
counting-houses of London with Scots clerks, but added
Scots partners to most of the firms. But still, notwith-
standing the numbers and the influence of those pi rsonages,
they have not attempted to stamp a genuinely Scots cha-
racter even upon that portion of metropolitan society of
which they form so large a fraction. The very qualities
which render them the best servants of their emplo7trs,
at one stage of their progress, and the most efficient asso-
ciates at another, dispose them also to ape the manners and
imbibe the tastes of those about them. Besides, they find
that none of those matters upon which the very highest
' value was set in their own country, is of the least conse-
quence in that to which they are cone. Their small
feudal connexions—the boasted relationship to some un-
shaven proprietor of two or three barren mountains—the
legendary accounts of two or three marvellous men, of
whom nobody out of Scotland ever heard—the puritanical
sobriety in which they were educated, and the parsimony
in which they were so industriously trained—have Ito
counterpart, and find no sympathy among the speculative
and luxurious people that they now meet. Thus they gra-
dually lose that character which they brought with them;
anti though they never acquire time real and decided cha-
racteristics of John Bull, they put on as much of the ap-
pearance of them as makes them pass, if not for English-
men, at least as something very different from entire anti
unexported Scotsmen : and hence, whatever of Scotch, of
Irish, or of foreign is discoverable, in London, is to be'
considered not as a primary, but as a secondary quality, of!
London manners; and though the wards be many and'
I intricate, the only key by which there is even a chance of,
opening them, is the character of John Bull.--Babylon the
Great.

'FITZ HALT. Of KAnNAK.—The Hall of Karnak is
the most extraordinary of all the monuments in Egypt.
The ceilings are supported by a hundred and thirty-four
columns, of gigantic proportions, and are the most enor-
mous ever employed in the interior of a building ; they
require at least six men to embrace their circle, and are
sixty-five feet high. The hieroglyphics are of propor-
tionate grandeur, as well as the sculptured procession and
offerings to the gods. The walls of this vast hall verify an
important fact, of the Egyptians using tenons or beams of
wood to secure the blocks of stone more firmly. This re-
markable fact has been hitherto noticed only in the oldest
Cyclopian monuments.—(See Sir W. Gell's Argolis, and
the account of the Cyclopian towns in Italy.)
The dimensions of this wonderful hall are 151 feet long
by 308 feet wide. The gate which leads to it is 20 feet
wide and 63 feet high from the ground to the ceiling ; the
cornice and architrave are 31 feet ; so that altogether it is
94 feet high ; an elevation truly prodigious for a gate, and
surpassing all in Thebes. As a scale whereby to appre-
ciate its immense elevation, it may be observed, that the
great doorway of the south-western entrance of Fonthill
Abbey, which is at this time so extolled for its height and
grandeur, is 35 feet, scarcely more than half of the actual
elevation of this gate ; omitting the 31 feet of the cornice
and architrave altogether, it exceeds by 7 feet the whole
elevation of the Louvre. Let us•conceive these enormous
valves, whether of wood or bronze, opining on their vast
hinges to the imposing spectacle which this ferest of co-
lumns, this hall of giants, must pr,s,lit to the senses.—

—Ran: cm, an EgyptiLn Trite, vol. i. Notes, p. 306.

THE BOX OF HELICES.
By James Edint.lioN.
Oh, raise not up that casket lid,
Nu riches there to tempt the, shine;
No pilfered treasure there lies hid,
Nor glittering gem from Ormian mine:
Yet, dearer than the diamond's blaze,
To me those seeming trifles are ;
Memorials of departed days,
And wrecks qf forms, though faded, fair.
Hemembrancers— yet do not these
Alone diffuse this shmiowy gloom—
The evening walk, the favourite trees,
The empty seat, the vacant room :
These tell me, wheresoe'er I go,
There was a time—though now 'tis pest_
That once—it was not always so—
But that was far too bright to last ,!
Yea—sightless to another's view,
To me, there lurks in many a place,
Beneath aheaven of cloudless blue,
A shade the sun cm never chase:
And though afar should light, and day,
And every form I love, depart;
..
From memory I can never stray,
Nor lull the thoughts that burn my heart.
Yet might I close my aching eye,
And some short hours of respite steal,
Though dreams of joy might waft them by,
1 would not—it is sweet to feel :
'Tie sweet to catch the seraph tone
Of love, ere yet the dream be fied ;
But sweeter, far, to sit alone,
And meditate upon the dead.

WIT UNINTENDEn.—A wry affecting sermon being one
day preached in a country church, every one wept, ex-
cepting one man, who being asked why he did not weep
with the rest, " Oh !" said he, " I belong to another
parish !"
It occurs now and then, and we are glad that the in-
stances arc " few and far between," that some very other-
wise liberal persons are adverse to the education of the
poorer
classes ; and their reasons are founded on the sup-
position that it would unlit them for manual labour. We
have never had the least fear for such a result, as we have
ever found the most ignorant the worst servants. We our-
selves happen to know two singular cases of gentlemen
who are actually breaking stones on the road ; and yet
these persons were brought up to, and were for many years
living on, 7,000/. and 1.500 L per annum !! If such per-
sons can work, why ehould not those who are bred to it
from infancy ?—titin,loy Times.
A more early delivery of general past letters throughout
London is a great desideratum. It has been suggested that
the several postmen should be carried to the points of their
different deliveries, instead of being compelled, as they
now are, to lose their time in walking; and that for this
purpose, half a dozen or more one or two-horse cars should
be provided, which, taking the principal lines of the me-
tropolis, should drop each postman with his bag as near as
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