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London, England, 1830-03-31 00:00:00

eleven, at the Crown Inn, Northwich—M. Marden, Man-
chester, upholsterer, April 26, at nine, at the York Hotel,
Manchester—J. Whitehead, Denshaw, Saddleworth, York-
shire, merchant, April Si 4, at ten, at the Star Inn, Man-
ehester—J. R. Lyon, Cambridge, grocer, April 30, at
eleven, at the Bull Inn, Cambridge—G. Burdy, West
Derby, Liverpool, glass•manufacturer, April 21, at
twelve, at the office of Mr. Leather, Liverpool—J. Wool,
Manchester, oil merchant, April 21, at nine, at the Star
Inn, Manchester—C. Harris, Alcester, Warwickshire.
saddler, April 23, at ten, at the White Hart Commercial
Inn, Evesham, Worcestershire.

CERrIFICATES.-APRIL 20.

J. Everitt, Doncaster, Yorkshire, painter—H. Robson,
George-street, Southwark, hat-rnanufactuter—M. Elgie,
Worcester. scrivener—H. Rodd, Regent's Quadrant, Pic-
cadilly, dealer in curiosities—T. Burton, Hillingdon,
Middlesex, brick-maker—M. H. Smith, Little Chester-
street, Grosvenor-place, stone-mason—T. Wallington and
Co., Cateaton-street, wholesale woollen-drapers—H. J.
Wilkinson, Leicester, printer—G. Wilkinson, Worn, Shrop-
shire, schoolmaster—B. Davis, Leominster, Hereford, flax -
dresser—J. Bowman, Goltho, Lincolnshire, farmer—T.
Packwood, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, innkeeper—W.
Riley, Quadrant, Regent-street, painter—J. Barton, Man-
chester, brush-manufacturer—R. Baden, Burford, Oxford-
shire, innkeeper.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Herbert and G. Carey, Nottingham, lace manufac-
turers—W. and H. R. Gibson, Birmingham, iron dealers
—S. Snape and J. Perowne, Ousden, Suffolk, school-
mistresses—W. Bright and W. H. How, Bromley, Kent,
earriers--T. Penny and J. Vale, Ship-yard, Strand,
eheesemongers—N. and J. Bushby, Bedford-street, Com-
mercial-road, tailors—J. A. Goodge and A. G. Harpur,
Spur-street, Leicester-square, bootinakers--J. and W.
Rayner, Horbury, Yorkshire, cloth merchants—R. Tur-
ner and J. Letts, jun., Tovil Mill, rent, paper makers—.
T. Bridgett and Co., Derby, silk dealers—W. Latham,
sen. and Co., Charlotte-terrace, Lambeth, tea dealers—
A. Mann and G. Tebbe, Thames Band-place, Westmin•
colourmen—W. T. Riff and W. Clark, Newington,
Surrey, surgeons--M. Lara and G. Hinds, Ramsgate,
brokers—R. Brown and J. APKensie, Lower Tooting,
sold merchants--E. Bolton and F. Iles, Leamington
Priors, Warwickshire, silkmen—C. Roberts and T.
Smith, Salford, Lancashire, engravers to calico printers--
D. and A. Stuart, Finch-lane, tailors—T. Knight and W.
T. Gooding, Jewin-street, wholesale perfumers—F. Neil
and C. Walker, Great Marlborough-street, tailors--M.
A. Burrows and E. Harman, Gloucester, milliners-_W.
Ingleeant and Co., Sileby, Leicestershire, lace manufac-
turers—R. Thomas and Co., Walhampton, Devonshire,
miners.

LI I ERATURE.

WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXIV.

" Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,"
which forms the opening article in the present
number, though cleverly and smartly written,
is full of strong and bitter acrimony. Mr.
Moore is manifestly no favourite with the author,
who seems to exult in every opportunity of de-
preciating his powers of thought and composi-
tion. Moreover, he attacks the style in which
Mr. Moore has penned his biography. This
is being " critical overmuch," for the impression
left on our mind by a perusal of Lord Byron's
Memoirs is, that the style was easy and familiar,
free alike from colloquial vulgarisms on the one
hand, and redundant imagery on the other. "An-
cient Bohemian Ballads" is, we presume, from the
pen of that versatile linguist and able translator,
Dr. Bowring. If so, the article is worthy of
him, as well from the spirited manner in
which the translations are given, as from the
terse and pertinent comments that accompany
them. "An Inquiry into the Place and Quality
of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Hon.
Privy Chamber," is an ironical notice of a very
dull, and certes, a very foolish work ; one that
rivals in these respects Mr. Dillon's memorable
Journal of the Lord Mayor's voyage to Oxford,
to which it is not inaptly compared. The only de-
fect we find in the article is, that the style and
quality of its irony are too elaborate and heavy.
" Crawford's Embassy to the Court of Ava," is
a somewhat late account of a book that appeared
many months since. It is, however, a sensible
and amusing article. " Colman's Random
.11e4rds" is a truly pungent and stinging analysis
of a production which, with some merit, has much
that is faulty and absurd. " Law of Arrest" is
an article that may be read with pleasure and in-
struction ; it is replete with ingenious practical
iqOrmation. ‘, Satan :,a Poem, by Robert
Montgomery, Esq., of Lincoln College, Ox-
ford," is a severe criticism, and a pithy one, on
the resent poem of that name. The remaining
articles, especially the one on Mr. Godwin's
recently published tale of " Cloudesley," are all
deserving of perusal. Altogether the number
is a very superior one. We subjoin a criticism
on Mr. Godwin's powers as a novelist :

" ' Clowlesley,' by the Author of Caleb Williams,' is
a combination of syllables well adapted to excite expecta-
tion. The reputation of Mr. Godwin's first able performance
has thrown a light upon its successors, which, though it
has relieved them from utter darkness, has not done much
more. Caleb Williams was a chapter out of the human
heart. The author's experience of the world, and his
watching of his own emotions, were felicitously combined
in a lively and striking frame-work. He wrote down what
he had seen and thought. His subsequent works have each
been, in different styles, imitations of the first born. He
deemed, because he had once been successful in exhibiting
the interior workings of the human mechanism, that he
was master of it, and could take it to pieces and set it up
again. But he has shewn us that he understood his in-
strument as the itinerant player on the barrel-organ under-
stands his s be can set it to a certain limited number of
tones. Mr. Godwin's organ, by nature, by accident, and
by education, which is but a series of accidents, was set to
to the tune of Caleb Williams ; and St. Leon, Fleetwood,
Mandeville, and Cloudesley, are but very imperfect and
often discordant variations of the same air. The staple
of each is the writhing' of a being under some complica-
tion of concealed feelings. Remorse chiefly : Remorse
might be written as the title over the whole series of his
writings. His long continued and protracted productions
may he considered as a sort of practical or mechanical
illustration of the ' worm that never dies.'

" Mr. Godwin has a fruitful, but not•a vigorous ima-
gination ; he is copious, nay inexhaustible, but his offspring
are feeble and sickly ; he does not tear a passion to tatters,
bat he wears it to a shadow. He works his way through
a long history of crime and suffering, like a mole in the
dark and under-ground, and with a sleekiness of style and
an assumed unconsciousness of purpose that bears out the
comparison. The smooth, measured, and oily style of this
author, which we have described by the term sleekiness,
is a curious characteristic in works which dwell upon feel-
ings of the most restless and agitated kind. The thoughts
burn, while the words are of honey. This is a touch of
the art that adds considerably to the effect of tke author's
composition•, and in none of the former novels is this
distinction more marked than in Cloudesley : circumstances
and feelings of the most energetic force are detailed with
the calm of history. It might be, that a thousand years
had passed over the heart of the autobiographer, while me-
mory had left every minute trait of the events he relates as
fresh and bright as the green of a spring churchyard. It
is possible that this calm beauty of style which we have
always remarked in this writer, may have been lately
heightened by his habits of historical composition, to say
nothing of the stealthy progress of age, which polishes
a man'. style as it does his brow."

DIRECTIONS TO CHURCHWARDENS.
LONDON, 1830.

The laws and duties relative to the office of
Churchwardens are most clearly and usefully
defined in the present improved edition of a well
known and much esteemed treatise. We re-
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to legal practitioners, and all those immediately
or remotsly connected with parochial affairs.