The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

BYRON'S GENIUS.

That Byron, in his boyhood, was possessed of
lively sensibilities, is sufficiently clear ; that he
enjoyed the advantage of indulging his humour
and temper without restraint, is not disputable ;
and that his natural temperament made him sen-
sible in no ordinary degree to the beauties of
nature, is also abundantly manifest in all his pro-
ductions ; but it is surprising that this admire+
tion of the beauties of nature is but an ingre-
dient in Byron's poetry, and not its most re.
markable characteristic. Deep feelings of ais,
satisfaction and disappointment are far snore ob-
vious ; they constitute) indeed, the very spirit of
his works, and a spirit of such qualities is the
least of all likely to have arisen from the con.;
templation of magnificent nature, or to have beets
inspired by studying her storms or Serenity
for dissatisfaction and disappointment are the
offspring of moral experience, and have no
natural association with the forms of exter-
nal things. The habit of associating morose
sentiments with any particular kind of scenery,
only shows that the sources of the sullenness
arose in similar visible circumstances. It is from
these premises I would infer, that the seeds of
Byron's misanthropic tendencies were implanted
during the " silent rages" of his childhood' end
that the effect of mountain scenery, which con.;
tinned so strong upon him after he left Scotland,
producing the sentiments with which he has im-
bued his heroes in the wild circumstances in
which he places them, was mere reminiscence:.
and association. For although the sullen tone
of his mind was not fully brought out until he
wrote " Childs Harold," it is yet evident from his
" flours of Idleness," that he was tuned to thi t
key before he went abroad. The dark colouring
of his mind was plainly imbibed in a mountali
nous region, from sombre heaths, anti in the
midst of rudeness and grandeur. He had no
taste for more cheerful images, and there are
neither rural objects nor villagery in the sco,'
he describes, but only loneness and the solenia
nity of mountains.— Gales Lift of Byron.

FRASCATI'B.—AI tours to Paris will tIOWs
more than ever, become the rage among the English, the,
young and inexperienced of both sexes should be guerdtri
from the many snares to which they will be exposed in
the French metropolis. The vice of play assume; there its
most dangerous, because most seductive, aspect; and the
ruin of many families has originated in the Parisian
Saloons. The author of FRASC,ATI'S hes felt this truth
bitterly; and his book, which contains the most remark-
able disclosures ever made in a work of fiction, cannot fail
to benefit permanently such of our countrymen as may
sojourn in Paris, where the work has caused a powerful
sensation not unmixed with malignant feeling on the part
of those designing characters of both sexes, who see in its
pages the ruin of their vile occupation.
GRAND WDITR FAST.. or TUX JEWS reit
TUE YEAR 5691.—Monday being one of the strictest days
in the Hebrew persuasion, it was observed with great
solemnity. During the whole day the Jews neither eta
nor drank, but continued at the Synagogues. As soon as
the stars appeared the Hymn of Death was repeated three
times over by the congregation, at the end of which a
trumpet was sounded, authorising them to break the fast.
On Friday next the Grand Tabernacle Feast commencer,
which will terminate on the following Friday. During
the eight days the most sumptuous entertainments will
be given.

EACH IN HIS HENRY the
Fourth was travelling through a small town, several
Deputies came to meet him, in order to welcome him.
When one of them had began his speech he was interrupted
by an ass, which stood twenty paces off, and began to
bray. " Gentlemen," said the km:, "Jet each speak in
his turn, if you please—otherwise I cannot understand you."
IRISH PUGNACITY.---At the trial of a
butcher of Downham, in Lancashire, on Saturday List, for
stealing a cow, there WAS some difficulty in identifying
the skin : but the owner swore boldly to it, from some
hurts that were in it. " Ile was sure it was his cow, fur
she was an Irish cow, and had been jiyhtina the day
before she ►was stolen."

On Monday afternoon last, about five o'clock,
her Royal Highness the Duchess IM BEERS arrived at the
Royal Hotel in this town, from Liverpool, accompanied
by the Countess or Doom's, and the Count Eis Mrs-
N►nn. Having letters of introduction to BENJAMIN
IlzywAan, Req., they visited several manufaetories,
companied by that gentleman, on Tuesday marning—pari-
ticularly the patent reed manufactory of Mears. &tsar,
and Co., the card manufactory of Mr. J. C. Dm,
in Dale-street, the warehouse of Mr. Eimoso %MUT,
awl finally, the shop of Mr. kiferrittirmu, where
they inspected various patterns and specimens of English
silks, and made some purchases. About half-past one
o'clock, they set off from the Royal Hotel to Km!diatom!
Hall, Derbyshire, the seat of Lord Scaasnm.s. Her
Royal Highness travelled under the assumed title of the
Marquise or ROSNY, until her exalted rank was discovered.
The ?arty, we understand, left Chatsworth on Eriday
morning ►ast, and passed through Busting, Macclesfield,
Knutafurd, aic., to Liverpool, where they arrived the same
evening, and remained till Monday. They succeeded in
preserving a strict incognito until after their departure
from Liverpool.-•-Manchester Courier.

On Thursday morning last, as the North
Devon coach was passing by the pour-bouts at 'I
Falcon, in the vicinity Of Taunton, near which are soma
cottages, the attention of the passengers was arrested by a
crowd of persons collected round the door of one of then',
in which a man of the name of SKARIA resided. l'he
coachman pulled up, and the passengers descended to as-
certain the cause. Orr entering the cottage they saw ono
of the children weltering in its blood, with ice threat dread-
fully cut. The horrible deed bad been committed by the
tither himself, and it is said be expressed his intention of
murdering all his family, and concluding the dreedful litisi-
nese by his own destruction, if he hall not been detected.
The scene that was presented was dreadful. Three
eminent surgeons started for the spot immediately the in-
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have only room to point attention to the
events whieh ltave taken place at Hesse Cassel, as
detteribed in the German Papers. Ilk Flig6,seete
Who still retains his title of Elector or Germany,
though there is no German Emperor to be elected,
has been brought, like his ci-deeani brother Elector,
the King of Saxony, and his neighbour the Duke of
13runswiek, to attend a little to the wishes of his
people. The example of these civic risings is likely
to become contagious. It may take the round of
Germany and pass into Italy, notwithstanding the
rigour of the Austrian quarantine against the pesti-
lenee of political change.—Times.
It is plain that neither my Lord of Exeter, nor
that ultra-Solomon who rejoices in the name of
Newcastle,---it is, we say, quite- apparent that
neither of cheae accomplished men takes much
trouble about modern literature, even that least eh-
ionise and most convertible of all reading, the poli-
tical Occurrences of the day. From their own acts,
indeed, it is, that we infer the contraction of their
studies. The Noble Lords may have forgotten,
which would not be criminal,—or they may never
have heard, which would not be at all surprising,—
that snit a thing as a great revolution had taken
place in France about 40 years ago. It is an event
which belongs to ancient history, and therefore
we do acknowledge that it might be considered
by the Duke of Newcastle a fit subject for pe-
dants to write themes upon, or for philoso•
abstracted from the living world, to revolve;
but for a Duke—and a modern man of business,
and a capitalist its constitution•property, who buys
and sells, both wholesale awl retail, as well whole
boroughs as those fractional parts of them called
" electors"—for such a personage'to spend his time
in poring over the annals of a defunct generation,
would be exceedingly preposterous and unprofitable
—preposterous in the eyes of others, and bootless to
the Noble Duke himself. There has, nevertheless,
been a second revolution in the country, to which
We have been referring, and that the Duke of New-
castle and Lord Exeter, or either of them, should
not have heard or dreamed of it, appears to us not
ittle remarkable. The revolution was accomplished
jest five days after it had been richly provoked. Is
was effected by the people of France, without the
aid of any aristocracy, and in a spirit, and followed
up by measures, which resider it infinitely probable
that there will be no aristocracy in France for per-
Imps half a century to come. Now if the Noble
Duke will withdraw himself so far from affairs of
higher moment, as to ask some one of his gossips
touching this last-mentioned French revolution and
its causes, the gossip will be likely to answer that it
was a revolution provoked and I r nsgltt about by mere
abuse of power. If any one had had the honesty to
remonstrate with Charles X., and to tell him of
the gross iniquity, the outrageous oppression, the
revolting folly as regarded himself, and the heartless
cruelty in relation to others, of the ordinances of
July 25, and then to ask him what could induce his
Majesty so to break faith with Isis subject-, and so
to endanger his throne and its sums-btu in his fa-
mily, we
.apprehstul that Charles, from the extreme
weakness and other deplorable qualities of his head
and heart, would have answered in these words—
" flare not I a right to do what I please with my
own prvcrly?!" It is quite certain that Charles
X. looked upon his people es a species of property
which he might torment or trample on as he thought
fit, and also on the prerogatives granted him by the
Constitution as another species of property, which
he might make his instrument of castigation upon
the people, as it liked him. Now let us ask the
Lords Newcastle and Exeter—do they understand
this matter ? Do they see what it was that brought
about this mighty French revolution of July, 1830 ?
Wee it not the perversion of " property" to ends
destructive of those for which it had beets given ?
And yet these foolish noblemen—kings, as they no
doubt fancy therneelves, each in his little realm—
these foolish lords, with the newspapers of the last
two months before their eyes, are just copying

'wi►h more than Chinese exactness, the scheme

which drove Charles from his throne, and in-
stigating the parties aggrieved by their barba-
rity, to inflict on them the fate of that now me-
morable despot, or of his congenial adviser. These
two borough-anointed Peers, when they expel
honest men from their habitations for exercising n
conathutional right in u manner aproved by the
constitution ; and actually turn the electors into the
highways, for daring to choose as Members of Par-
liament, those whom they. judge most capable of
fully discharging their thittei;—these two Peers, we
ray, have perpetrated a coup &clot against the
people of England, which they, the people,a quick-
sighted and resolute people, may be apt to repay in
' coin not hitherto current among members of the
Aristocracy. A better case for Pailiamentary re-
form could never be imagined by the most sanguine
mind than this which the newspapers of the last
few days have announced to us,—viz., the serving
of notices to quit by the respective agents of the
Duke of Newcastle and of Lord Exeter, on such
tenants of their several estates as had at the left
election voted against the creatures set up for can-
didates at Newark and Stamford by the said.ttoble-
men, and this avowedly as a punishment for such
disposition of the votes of the parties so persecuted.
The Duke of Neweastiew famous answer 16 it re-
proaeh upon the subject we have already noticed--
" Might he not do what he pleased with his own
property ?" " No, my Lord Duke," we rejoin
you must use your property, and not abuse
You may eject a tenant fur a.breach of any cove-
nant expressed in the lease which hinds him; htit
not for doing what his lease does not forbid." It
is a case,' we trust,' in whieh-the letter of the law
will ere eng be explained by the spirit of the con-
sti tut ion.— Timm

Something, bearing very much the character of

" the puff preliminary," is going the round of the
_Press,; stating that Sir Robert Peel is " wanted" as
representative for Liverpool, but that the reasons
which induced. Mr. Canning to resign the seat (viz,
the incompatibility of official duties and those ema-
nating from so large n body of electors) are likely
to operate against the Right lion. Baronet being
inducedto comply with the request. From all that
we eon gather from persoos best acquainted with
Liverpool, We very much doubt whether such is the
wish of any great proportion of its constituency,
The people of Liverpool, who know as well as nq
people in the world " a hawk from a handsaw," are,
of course, not insensible to the advantages of lavi„ff
" friend at Court,'" in the person of one of' the
King's Ministers, for their representative ; yet it
fines not follow thnt What • may be very convenient
for,the people of Liverpool may not he quite other.
wise for the country at large. And the truth we
believe in this,case to be so; and that, though Mr.
Canning fortunately had at hand a plausible reason
for abandoning therepresentation of Liverpool when
he became a Minister, we have no doubt but that
his true reason was the incompatibility of local in
totems where it is a man's duty to look to general.
0055. In fact, it is most deairable that is Minister
of any Country, but more especially the Minister of
a great commercial country, should be unshackled
with local claims and partial interests. .No man;
has been,a Minister without having found how diffis
cult it is to possess this exemption, even without
embarrassments of his: own seeking; and that,
thereforejo silt! to them willingly and knowingly
is indiscreet and footkl, the highestdgltghOwOht.!legii#E iintot4letort tii,tettettieri ings, reasons
e st east to be this
iireuv.449 for Liverpoo,
any that may apply to the ttight to
personal qualification for ..the oniee, At the s3sttnu
rimbe, e there. can we :should no ditystulty
.upon the subject; but that the taw) of-LiverP oot
:whoa& rare good fortune it hew to _ been haute --tort);
at once as Infellectindly as commercially prosperousi
can have no difficulty in selecting from among ita

own Impulation a person possessing at once the
local knowledge, and the talent, character, • anti
weight, which its representation naturally calls for,
and ought to possess.--Morning Herald.
It is admitted, We believe, on all hands, that the
slate of educatian in England is worse than in
almost any country of Europe, though great diversity
of.opittion may prevail as to the cause of so singular
a phenomenon in civilization, as a nation distin-
guished for proficiency in the arts of production,
and int Efferent to what elevates man us a moral
being. We have been led to this subject by the
late speech of Mr. Brougham, at Leeds, on the sub.
pet of education, and several allusions its various
quarters to the superior education of the middle
classes of France compared with our own. At the
Bristol meeting, in honour of the Parisians, Mat-
hew Bridges, Esq., observed—
" The late events in France have sounded the trumpet
of alarm as the note of approaching changes. They will
be heard of, and admired. and wondered at amongst all
civilized nations from shore to shore—from the rising up
of the sun to the going down of the same—from the rivers
to the ends of the earth. The remarkable means, more-
over, which have been the instruments in the hands of
Providence fur effecting the late changes, ought not to be
forgotten. I respectfully maintain that the most effective
of these secondary causes has been the wide diffusion of
knowledge among the middling classes of society in France
It is surely unnece,sary to trouble you, Sir, with proofs
anti illustrations on this point; and 1 will then cotne fairly
to the conclusion that what has answered so well on the
Continent would also succeed in this favoured island.—
F.:titivation in England, or at least the higher brandies of
it, seems hitherto. to have been mainly offered to the two
extremes of society—the man of o;ailence and the artisan;
the Peer and the Peasant. But why should not the vast
interval of these be equally cultivated and cherished ? •The
middle classes, with all their worth, and acuteness, end re-
spectaltility, and collective wealth and numltesa, have still,
think, one grand desideratum ; and that desideratum is
the great advantage of cheap and easy access to the supe-
tMr departments of science and learning. Let the benefits,
thee, of such instruction, bent tits which have lately been
so apparent abroad, he enjoyed at honw, anti he diffused
throughout every great town and city in the kingdom."
The Scotsman, of Saturday last, in noticing the
opening of the Edinburgh school of Arts, has the
following observations:--
" The charge is so small that there are few apprentices,
anti no journeymen or clerks, who may not find means, by
eur'ailing what they spend upon indulgences either useless
or hurtful, to avail themselves of its benefits. At present
there are three elasses—for Chemistry, for Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy, and for Ethics and Political Eco-
nomy. A young lad who attends these classes, anti devotes
himself with ordinary zeal to the subjects discussed, is in
point of . fact better educated, better informed, and in the
eye of reason a snore respectable man than the nobleman's
son, who, having mated ten years upon the dassitaa
leaves the school and comes into the world without one
useful idea in his head. It is gratifying, indeed, to our
national pride, to reflect on the different success of this
Seminary anti of the London University. No sooner
was the School of Arts established titan the working
claws of this city showed the utmost eagerness to
embrace the advantages it presented, and the amount
of valuable instruction which it has dispensed, is seen
already in the improved habits and increased intelligence
of our artizaus. What has beset the fate of the London
University, winch should have done for the middle classes
of the metropolis what the School of Arts has done for
the mechanics of Edinburgh ? It has literally met with
no support at all ; for the attendance given at the medical
classes fur professional purposes, is only what the Profes-
sors would have obtained as private lecturers. The chat-
tering Cockneys, when they have manes in their purses,
anti wine on their tables, find all their wants satisfied, anal
are content to he as ignorant as Hottentots. Their exces-
sive self-conceit prevents them from seeing their deficien-
cies; they either consider learniug., as sures/Nous, since
they find they can make money without it, or they look
ilium it WI a thing of mere show, a sort of fashionable ad.
joiset of gentientanship; and hence the absolute uselessness
of Greek and Latin is in their eyes a vast recommeudation.
Thirty pounds per annum is thought a very deur price to
pay for a knowledge of the wontlets of modern science,
while three bunched pounds are cheerfully given Mr the
autiquated classical lumber of Oxford ! Sods is John Bull
in the nineteenth century!"
The middle classes cf London are somewhat like
' the Ilead of Louvain University, described by Gold.
smith. Greek had never beets taught under any of
his predecessors, and he did not, therefore, see the
use of Greek. The sort of edtteation given to the
Arktocraey naturally determines the education given
to all who look up to the Aristocracy. If the
seats of learning at wh'eh the Aristocracy are edu-

dated arc not calculated to form valuable members
of society, we can hardly expect to find the other
schools established on a better principle. The dais
of teachers will naturally acquire, not what they
themst IVOR might hold in the highest esteem, but
what they can turn to the most profitable account;
and' persons anxious that their children should one

day appear to advantage in society, will endeavour
to procure for them the instruction which is given
to those who ore at the' head of society. It may
safely be said of the higher ranks of this country, that
they leaVe the University utterly destitute. of any one
branch of Knowledge of the slightest use to them in

after life. An acquaintance with two dent! languagei,
admitting that in the acquisition of them some know-
ledge is obtained of ()reek mid Roman society,
must be a very poor preparation for an active life.—
Yet a smattering of Greek and Latin is, in nineteen
cases out of twenty, all that a gentleman curries
with him into the House of Commons. The edu-
cation of a gentleman in England commences after
he has quitted the University ; unfortunately the
of life seldom allows hitt.) to acquire .what
clemniat serious application. In the account of the
trial of De Potter, to which we yesterday alluded,
we find that distinguished individual, in a letter to
his friend Tielmuns, refining to become a Member
of the States-General, from a consciousness of his
not possessing the requisite knowitAge

.fell too-great an Anxiety," he say's, to fulfil my
ditties, to let any one impose upon me those which I ant
incapable of performing. -My friend,- the education that
has been. givers to 1143618 ; 1 was taught Lain,
Griek, and Roman History, and Mythology. The edu-
cation I gave myself consisted of our studies in Greek,
Ecclesiastical History, end Canon Law, all which is use,
less with reference to what we are speaking of. Of Pa.
litical Economy, Law, Administration, Finance, Corn.
meree, not a word do I know. I hope, my dear Tielmans,
that these six lines are enough for any reasonable man,
under the circumstances, to save me from the reproach
of indifference in all public affrirs, and the general good.
It is not my fitult, if I ant wholly unable to pay my entire
debt to my country ; it shall make part of the inheritance
of Agathon (his son), who will pay it along with his own.",
Compered with the great mass of British Legit],
!atoll, De Potter would have at least this superiority
—that be is sensible of his deficiency; but they
have yet to learn that a Legislator needs any other
qualification than a pecuniary one. A reform in the
representation, with many other important cense-
()notices, will necessarily improve the qualification of
Members of Parliament. At present they are the
judges of the trolilie.itions they ought to possess,
end it is net surprising that they should be very
&Agent judges. When there is a real competition,
the candidate will be subjected to a severe test;
and the improvement of the rich will act bene-
ficially the middle classes, now so much behind
the moue classes in Prenee. We are inclined to
believe, from all the inquiries we have made into the
subject, that the education of English gentlemen
about the period of the civil war was much better.
than it is in the present day. Frivolity' seems to
have been constantly gaining on us during the last
Century. Symptoms of imprOvernent are, however,
Idiscernible, we think, in the young men of the
presetdday ; and the middle classes of the metropo-'
lis, spoken so contemptuously of by our northern con-
temporary, will follow,the fashion.—Morn.Chrons

Yesterday, et one o'clock, the Right Hon.
the Lours Maxon, attended by a numerous wrive of the
Aldermen and Connell, proceede I in state to Guildhall, for
the purpose of swearing in the Sheriff* elect, Cuarmaw
lifanstram, and W. PoLtann, Ewa. The state cha-
riots and liveries of the new Sheriffs vied with tech other in
splendour and magnificence. The Hon. Gentlemen were
most respectfully welcomed by a numerous emerald ige of
spectators, and &dun. presenting themselves to the ball,
afwr tiling sworn in, were warmly greeted with the
plaudits of the company—an honour which they acknovr-
lettpd by repeated bows.