The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-14 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

This is settling day in the Foreign market. It is expected
that the Account will go off well, as the differences to adjust
are not to a great extent. Spanish Active, which closed yes.
terday at 22i I, are at present 22k a ; Passive 5} ; Deferred
83- 1 ; Portuguese 461 1 ; Three per Cents., 29 ; Dutch
2f per Cents., 521 53.
Consols, which closed at 90 1 for the Account, opened at
90 ,Y; Money, same ; Exchequer, Bills 38 40.; India Bonds 37
39 ; Bank Stock 204 205.
No arrivals as yet from America.
HALF-PAST ONE.

We have received Rio Janeiro Papers to the 10th February.
They bring the Exchange upon London, 33} ' • Stock, 86.
We have perused the following letter from Manchester, re-
ceived this morning :—" Manchester stands well, and we have
numerous reports here. Persons are much pushed for money ;
but all will be safe ultimately. It is the prevailing opinion that
the Bank and Government ought to let the Liverpool people
sell their cotton and produce, which would make room for
smaller and respectable traders to carry on business with pru-
dence. Some of the applicants in London are said to be large
speculators."
We do not hear any thing further said respecting the Liver-
pool Deputies and the Bank Directors. The prevailing opi-
nion is, that the latter have declined giving their assistance.
Indeed, we cannot see how they could do it, as it would not fit
the Bank to become pawnbrokers, and lend money on Cotton
and produce.
We hear of an improvement this morning in the Sugar
Market, from ls. to ls. 6d. per cwt.
Accounts from Madras, state that the Goomsoor force broke
ground from Nowgaum, and ascended the Ghauts in three
columns. The question of peace or war with the Koords,
was not terminated by the last accounts.
We just learn from Liverpool, of the 13th instant, that
the packets of the Bth and 16th March, from New York,
have arrived below that port.
Consols may be quoted 901 for Money ; for the Account,
904. Exchequer Bills, 38 40 Prem. ; India Bonds, 37 39 ;
Bank Stock, 2042 ; India, 25g.
The Foreign Account is going off well. Spanish Active,
222 ; Portuguese, 462; Three per Cents, 30 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-half per Cents, 521.
THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols for the Account, 902. ftt

The following, which we take from the Swan River
Guardian, a weekly paper started in that colony, is unique :
•' Notice—l hereby give notice that I will not be answerable
for any debts contracted by my wife, Hannah Syred, after this
date. Daniel Syred." " Notice—l hereby intimate to the
public that my husband, Daniel Syred, need not have been at
the expense or trouble of inserting the notice which appeared
in last week's Guardian, as it is well known that no person
in Perth will give him credit. Instead of paying my debts,
I have often paid his. N.B. I will not be answerable in
future for any debts contracted by Daniel Syred. Hannah
Syred."
The father of the present Dr. Somerville, of Chelsea
College, is related to have preached an excellent Assize
sermon on one of the Scotch circuits when be was upwards of
92, and at the Judge's dinner, afterwards, to have been the
gayest of the company.
Mr. Arkwright has accepted the invitation to stand
for North Derbyshire, and there is every prospect of a contest,
as Mr. Gisborne stands pledged not to leave the Reformers of
North Derbyshire without a candidate in the event of a Tory
being in the field. This opposition should induce the Liberal
electors to render the most prompt and efficient aid to Mr.
Gisborne, whose state of health, we are afraid, will not admit
of a laborious canvass, that he may be spared all unnecessary
trouble and fatigue.—Derby Reporter.
Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, praying for
the abolition of Church Rates, have been most numerously
signed by our Dissenting brethren, and petitions from the in-
habitants of the town generally, against the iniquitous tax, will
be in the course of signature this week.—WhitehavenHerald.

LITERATURE.

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

No. IX.
Macron., London, 1837.

In the " Notions of the Clergy on Church Re-
form"—, a complicated theme well and carefully dis-
cussed—the Reviewer draws a just, though by no
means flattering, portrait of the Bishop of Exeter.
" No one can deny," he observes, " that Dr. Philpotts
has the vigour, the audacity, and just the kind of
ability, that qualify a man to be the thoroughgoing
pamphleteer of a party ; it is only a subject of grievous
lamentation and reproach that such qualities should
enable a man to reach a very high and trusted station
in the National Church. Throughout a busy life the
activity of his mind seems never to have found an ob-
ject in the studies which form the proper business, or
in those which are reckoned the decorous employments
of, a clergyman. The truths of religion have never
been spread by his zeal ; the difficulties of theology
have in no instance been solved by his learned labours ;
no science has been enlarged by his acuteness ; and
literature owes nothing to him, and has in turn exer-
cised no influence over him. Politics have been his
sole care ; politics have been, in fact, his real business
—the vulgar politics of the day, and of a party. From
these troubled and muddy waters he has fished out
every successive preferment. His first preferment in
Durham was the reward of his pamphleteering against
the Edinburgh Review ;' his Deanery was got by his
writings against Catholic Emancipation ; his Bishopric
is said to have been earned by a prudent silence on
that subject, when the chiefs of his party found it
necessary to change their policy ; and it is supposed
that, since that period, he has been toiling in the field
of political strife, opposing reform, traducing political
adversaries, and giving utterance to the monstrous ca-
lumnies which the more decorous of the party think
it wiser to countenance than to pronounce—in order
that the next Tory Ministry may find it necessary to
reward his political services by raising him to a richer
diocese, or even to the highest station in the English
Church." The Reviewer then goes on to analyse the
Bishop's late Charge to the Clergy of the West, which
he finds to be utterly wanting in that moderation and
charitableness of tone which should characterize such
a production. " England under Seven Administra-
tions" is a notice of Mr. Fonblanque's political writ-
ings in the Examiner, which have lately been repub-
lished in three volumes. The article speaks in high
terms of the majority of these essays, which, in their
way, are quite as effective as the best of Junius' Letters.
In the notice of Mr. Taylor's " Statesman," the
Reviewer makes some just remarks on the notion that
ambition is necessary to develope the maximum of
mental powers, observing that " those statesmen in
modern history, who have done the greatest honor to
the character, such as Turbot, Washington, and Jef-
ferson, have been, for the most part, men but mode-
rately animated by ambitious feelings." This article
is throughout remarkably well-reasoned, and is superior
in this respect to the work on which it expatiates.
" British Musicians" is a light, pleasant paper, in
which-Mr. Arnold is somewhat severely handled for his
late management of the English Opera House. The
" Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Mon-
tagu" is from the pen of Leigh Hunt. The introduc-
tory portion is written with a grace and vivacity that
reminds us of some of the choicest essays in the " In-
dicator." " Bulwer's Tragedies" is a review of the,
as yet, unpublished play of " Cromwell," and contains
one striking extract—the reflections of the Protector on
the famous pamphlet entitled " Killing no Murder."
We subjoin a passage, which is just in thought, and
nervous in expression :

" 'Tis ably writ,
And these few leaves will stir a.storm of passion
In the deep ocean of the popular heart.
We men of deeds are idiots to despise
The men of books : for books are still the spells
Of the earth's sorcery, and can shape an army
Out of the empty air. Words father actions,
And are the fruitful yet mysterious soil
Whence things bud forth, grow ripe, and burst to harvest—
And when they rot away, 'tis words receive
The germs they leave us, and so re-produce
Life out of death—the everlasting cycle!
The past but lives in words 1 A thousand ages
Were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts,
And kept the pale, unbodied shades to warn us
From fleshless lips. So what will Cromwell be
To times unborn, but some dim abstract thought
That would not be if books were not."

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF EDWARD
LASCELLES, Gent.
In 2 Vols. Curry and Co, Dublin, 1837.

These volumes are a reprint of a series of articles
which appeared successively, under their present title,
in the columns of the " Dublin University Magazine."
As we noticed them in the order of their appearance
we may dismiss them with a sentence or two, expres-
sive of the pleasure which we derive from seeing them
assume the form in which they are now presented to
us. The nautical sketches are excellent—by far the
best we have read except Cooper's. The author evi-
dently wants experience as a writer ; but he has a fine
imagination, and if he he a young man, much may be
expected from him. Denis O'Grady's duel with the
Frenchman is told in capital style ; as indeed are all
the humorous anecdotes—and they are not a few—
scattered over these volumes. They are embellished
with four illustrations by Cruikshank.

THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW.
No. XXXVII.
Black and Armstrong.

The Review of Professor Heeren's Essay on the
"Historical Developement of the Rise and Progress of
the Continental Connexions of Great Britain," is a
very clever vindication of the foreign non-intervention
system of the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath.
The writer contemns the idea of seeking to maintain
a balance of European power ; contends that the proper
business of England is to extend her commercial rela=
tions without regard to the political intrigues of Con-
tinental States ; and maintains that, with a good fleet
and a sufficient land force to punish the first acts of
aggression, we may become the most potent nation
in the world without firing a shot. He shows by a
chain of historical references, commencing with the ac-
cession of Henry VIII., and terminating with the
treaty of Vienna—extracted from the Professor's work
—that her Continental relations have always proved
scources of weakness, and of expense to England ; and
that she has never been guided by any fixed principles,
either in forming, annuling, or changing them. In
this there is as much truth as good sense ; but our
limits will not allow ua to enter more minutely into the
question. Elizabeth and William 111. were the only
British Sovereigns that had any conception of a sys-
tem in their foreign policy, and yet the example of
both is unsuited to the times in which we live. The
wars of Elizabeth were the wars of religion—the most
baneful of all strifes ; while those of William entailed
pecuniary losses upon England without any correspond-
ing advantage. William's policy was as un-English
as his ideas and his sympathies. " The Memoirs of
the Countess Maria, Aurora of Konigsmark," sister of
the unfortunate Count whose mysterious murder by
George 1., in the apartments of the Princess of Zell,
has been the theme of European comment, has fur-
nished materials for a very interesting article. Accord-
ing to the account of this very strange affair, furnished
by Konigsmark's sister, the Count was attacked sitting
on the bedside of the Princess by two gentlemen in
masks. He drew his sword, defended himself reso-
lutely, and disarmed the foremost, who, falling upon
his knees, begged his life. The vanquished gentleman
was the Elector, and while Konigsmark was addressing
him his attendant stabbed him in the back. He was

then carried to a dungeon, confessed, beheaded, and
secretly buried in one corner of it. Till the last he
protested his innocence. We have no doubt but that
these Memoirs will soon make their appearance in
an English dress. The remarks on Wagenfeld's forged
translation of " Sanchoniatho's Early History of the
Phoenicians" are exceedingly just. Such unprincipled
adventurers ought to be hunted like wild beasts out of
literary society. As for the works of Sanchoniatho we
believe they are irrecoverably lost, with the exception
of the few fragments which remain of the Greek trans-
lations of Philo Biblius, the celebrated grammarian,
who was contemporary with Vespasian, Titus, and
their three immediate successors. Sanchoniatho, be-
sides his history of the Phoenicians, wrote a history of
Egypt, from the Memoirs of Hierombulus, a priest,
and two books on the Cosmogony and Theogony of
Phoenicia. Of these works—and the:opinions of Por-
phyry, Eusebius, Theodoret, and Suidas concerning
them—the Reviewer, says not a word. If Sancho-
niatho, as is the generally received opinion, was a
native of Tyre, and contemporary with David, King
of Israel, we have more reason to regret the loss of his
Egytian history than any of his works.
We pass over the other articles to • point
attention to a clever paper on the " Influ-
ence of Construction upon Style in Architec-
ture," which has particularly attracted our no-
tice. The intention of erecting a senatorial edifice
befitting the dignity of the British Parliament and
people, and the exhibition of the numerous plans al-
ready submitted to the public, have given rise to much
discussion, and excited a lively interest among all per-
sons of cultivated taste. To all such we recommend a
careful perusal of the article before us. It contains
some very severe strictures on the character of the late
Sir John Soane, both as an architect, and a member
of society, which, upon inquiry, we find are not ex-
aggerated. We copy a brief extract, which we give as
a summary of the writer's estimate of Sir John's cha-
racter, as an architect and a man. Behold him as an
architect :

" Hitherto," says he " not one systematic innovator who
has set up as the founder of a new style has been at all suc-
cessful, or rather, his failure has been so decided, that his
example has carried with it more of warning than of autho-
rity, and proved more disheartening than encouraging. Both
Ledoux and Soane failed most egregiously, the wild philoso-
phical theory of the one producing only bombastic chimeras
—mis-shapen, unlicked, roughly chalked out monstrosities ;
the feebler invention of the other rising no higher than puny
conceits, hammered out of two or three pet fancies, and re-
peate d till they became sickly, nauseating mannerism. Like
the Frenchman, our English architect and professor got out
of the high road only to bewilder himself, and stumble about
gropingly, without chart or clue whereby to direct himself on-
wards in a progressive course. Sir John's own distinct style
was made up of little arches without impost mouldings, sunk
lines in lieu of mouldings, and petty dabs of ornament scat-
tered about, as if intended to render the general blankness
and vacancy the more disagreeably striking : or an infinitude
of petty details was spread over entire surfaces, so as to render
the whole indistinct and confused; yet, even in such cases,
there was also something left in jarring contrast with the rest
—some incongruous manifestation of penuriousness in the
midst of riotous prodigality. The primitive elements of his
style, and the taste upon which it was founded, may be traced
with tolerable distinctness from his incipient efforts in his
collection of " Designs for Casinos and Garden Buildings"—
a volume, always curious, and now become rather scarce,
owing to the author's having afterwards bought up every copy
he could meet with—to that chef-d'oeuvre of it when in its
acme, his own residence in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, destined
henceforth to pass under the title of the Soanean Museum.
Neither ought we entirely to overlook that specimen of his
powers in design, the exterior of the National Debt Redemp-
tion Office, a work so execrably uncouth in every respect,
that it would be discreditable to the merest village bricklayer.
Besides its other offensive incongruities and poverty stricken
conceits, that building, like many others of the professor's, ex-
hibits a most offensive mixture of brick and stone in glaringly
raw opposition to each other; the piers of the no less flimsy
than cumbersome screen being of stone, while the arches
themselves are of rough brick, without the slightest dressing
or finishing of any kind : in fact, the whole looks as if it had
been suddenly abandoned in its progress, before being com-
pleted, by the architect."

The picture is not a pleasing one. His aspect as a
private individual is less so :

" We do'not speak rashly and unadvisedly when we say that,
however much public opinion may be dazzled by certain acts of
munificence, the motives for which might be traced to not the
most laudable source, it will be difficult even for those most
eager to vindicate Sir John Soane's memory to exculpate him
from the charge of having been the reverse of amiable in his
private character. That he was a singular compound of sordid
meanness and ostentatious prodigality, those who knew him
will hardly pretend to deny. That he was a man of egregious
vanity and overweening self-conceit is perfectly notorious;
though the full extent of that vanity may not be so generally
known--a vanity that led him to relish the most fulsome, out-
rageous and barefaced flattery from sycophants, parasites, and
legacy-hunters, whom, all the while, he despised, if not actu-
ally detested, being aware that they looked upon him as their
dupe. In his disposition he was ungenerous, unfeeling, obdu-
rate, tyrannical ; in his capricious resentments, implacable eves
to oppression and persecution. His enmities, ence avowed,
were most deadly ; and, besides various acts of direct malevo-
lence, he could stoop to the most paltry and shuffling duplicity
in matters which, although not always important in themselves,
plainly marked the natural disposition of the man."

Taken altogether, the present Number of the Fo-
reign Quarterly" is wanting in interest. The Articles,
for the most part, are deficient in that vigour of con-
ception, and force and terseness of expression which
constitute the life and soul of criticism. They are, in
fact, such reviews as a clever man might be supposed
to write with no more knowledge of contemporary his-
tory than he could glean from a perusal of the works
which suggested them. Here and there they evince
traces of deep research, and occasionally the reflections
thrown out indicate a thinking habit ; but in general
the Reviewer is content to float along on the surfaee
of the current, unobservant or regardless of the rich
mines enclosed in its banks. A QUarterly Journalist
should aim at something more than the mere passing
amusement of his readers.

A Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, on Wednesday last, when it was resolved unanimously
that the thanks of the Court be given to Sir James Rivett
Carnac, Bart., the Chairman, and to John Loch, Esq., the
Deputy Chairman, for their great application and attention to
the affairs of the East India Company during the past year.
It was also unanimously resolved that Sir James Rivett Carole
be requested to communicate the foregoing resolution to Mr.
Loch, accompanied by an expression of the Courts' regret
that the effects of the late occurrence should have dopriveti
them of the gratification of seeing him on the occasion, and 0f
their earnest wishes for his speedy and complete recovery.

Much interest was created at Steyney, on Monday,
by a report that a curate had eloped with a vicar's daughter•
The parties, wishing, it would almost seem, to be overtaken it;
their flight, made their elopement on foot, and were pounced
upon, at Bramber, by the messenger who pursued them in a
post-chaise. The lady was brought back to her paternal roof;
but what became of the gay Lothario we have not heard...".
Brighton Guardian.

T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, C,ornbillt
London, informs the Public, that he offers SILVER WATCHES'
on the celebrat&l PATENT LEVER CONSTRUCTION, (t,l
most accurate on which a watch can be made) for SIX GUINEA
EACH, with all the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escaPed
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Watches purchased in exchange.

BIRTHS. or
On the 11th inst., in Chapel-street, Bedford-row, the law
Charles Williams Allen, Esq., of a son.
On the 11th inst., at Kensington, the lady of William Al`Nart
Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIED. Aboltt
On the 11th inst., at St. Matthew's, Brixton, Cha•nes Shit-- 0.
jun., Esq., of Stamford-hill, to Eliza, youngest d-aughter a Th°
Tilson, Esq., of Brixton-hill.
On the 12th inst., at St. Paul's Church, ISall's-pond, of nieo
Webb Venn, of Highbury-park, to Jane, eldest daughter of Ja--
Wilson, Esq., of Tyndale-place, Islinfqon
•

DIED. rat'
On the 4th of December, at Canton, aged 15, Duncan s• 'on of
bell, midshipman of the ,4 Viscount Melbourne," and eldest s
D. Campbell, Esq., of Upper Gloucester-place, Dorset-squat?' his
On the 10th inst., in Regent-square, Mr. G. A. Hardens,
In
44th year. Marie*
On the 10th inst., at Lawn-place, Shepherd's-bush, Mr.
I:mon Grcaves, of Prospect-place, Wandsworth-road. , shore
On the I lth inst., in Shoreditch, Robert Hill, Esq., 0'
ditch, and Walthamstow, aged 68.
On the 10th inst., in Wellclose-square, Sarah, the last sur,^iitizit
daughter of Mr. Job Stone of Wotton, Bucks, aged 23. 89.
On the 11th inst., at Bromley, Middlesex. Mrs. Man., age" f
On the 12th inst., Eleanor Maria, the youngest daugltter o
O'Brien, Esq., Surgeon RN., of Myddleton-square, aged four I
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and six months.

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