The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-01 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1937.

" Tell me," says the Spanish proverb, " with whorl
you live, and I will tell you, who you are." If the
electors of Westminster have any doubt of the sweep-
ing change which the politics of Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT have undergone, let them apply this test, and
they will find that though professing the same princi-
ples—the Radical principles which he maintained when
he set the law at defiance and endangered the peace of
the metropolis—he is now a Tory of the first class.
Ever since Lord MELBOURNE came into office he has
been on the turn. His frequent attendance at Coup,
that Court which summoned Sir ROBERT PEEL to form
a Tory Government, his total neglect of the liberal
constituency which returned him, and his evident wish
to support the Tories by withholding his vote, which
he had not the manliness to give in accordance with
his wishes, can leave no doubt in any rational mind
what political opinions he has adopted. If any doubt
remains after these demonstrations, the shout of the
Tory press on his last exhibition, at least proves that,
the Tories have no doubt. He is now enlisted on the
side of the Tories, and let all the electors of West-
minster who wish to see the House of Lords predo-
minant, the remaining abuses in the State and Church
unredressed, and the unfortunate people of Irelawl
driven to rebellion by insult added to injustice, coin:
forward and support BURDETT. One fact is worth a
thousand professions. His bostiF.tv to Mr. O'Cox-
NELL and the Irish representatives, the best support-
ers of the Government, has for the last two year,.
ken of the !nest rabid description, and can he coin-
Fared only to that violent antipathy which persons ii.
a state of hurley hear troxatds those whom, in a 'state
t.f health, they rega•.-ded as their best friends. Hi,
address to OA electors ofWestminster bears all the mark
of a person labouring under a delusion. With the excep-
iou of his last letter to O'Cos NELL, there never was a
production so full of 4icoherent matter written by a per-
son in his senses " The lion's hide" (why not the
a! us of kids ?) the hands of Esau—the voice of
Jacob—the Ilriti•sh Cofne-houie, Covent Garden,
netzled and stung by pismires, and the fashione.hle pa-
tristic slang oi complying with the wants and wishes;
of the people," are all jumbled together in this extra-
ordinary effusion. It is lamentable to see such a fallity
off' in the conduct of one who made it his pride and
boast to advocee the wants and wishes of the peopl2
in opposition to the selfish interests of the boro4l-
- Aristocracy. The electors of Westminster,
however, arc not to be deceived by such incoherent
professirms ; and while they look with pity and soirow
on his fall, will still show that their opinions are not
changed, and that they still adhere to those eternal
principles of liberty for which they so often returned
811 FRANCIS BURDETT to Parliament.

It is lamentable to observe the ind,ffercnee with
-which even the most liberal and enlightened Memberi
of the Legi,lature can_ discus* the sufferings of the
fi;n chin, no,:r ox Ireland. Human life is made the
subject of cold arithmetical calculation ; and as the
economists have discovered that the sad remains of a
defunct fellow-subject are less valuable than the car-
cass of an ox, a horse, or any other domestic animal,
the policy of preventing the starvation of the indigent
poor, under all circumstances, is not only gnestioncd
but repudiated. Were the Irish landlords taxed with
treating their horses and dogs as they do their tenantry,
good Heavens ! what an outcry would be raised from
one extremity of Great Britain to the other. Were:
it -reported to his MAJESTY that instead of men,
women and children, there were in Ireland two miliion
three hundred thousand horses, which for seven
months in every year were left without pasturage or
food of any kind, and that of this number upwards of
two-thirds depended wholly for subsistence on what
they could pick up in the public highways, what an
outcry would be raised in Parliament against the cruelty
of the Irish aristocracy But reverse the picture, and
the censors of injustice to dumb animals are as mute as
mice. Proclaim to the world the appaling fact that
upwards of two millions of human beings are for seven
months in the year compelled to endure all the horrors
of absolute starvation—that two-thirds of them arc
without a foot of land in a country where millions of
productive acres are lying waste, reserved for pastu-
rage for deer, horses, and the lordly pleasures of the
chace—and the statement is heard with a shrug of the
shoulders, and is responded to by a scowl from the
privileged aristocrat, and a calculation of the expenses
and dangers of a change by the champion of some
new-fangled system of political economy. It is im-
possible to attend for an instant to the progress of our
domestic legislation, and to glance at the social state

of this country without imbibing feelings and arriving
at convictions of the most painful description. In
the eyes of the rich and the powerful no object is
so unimportant as the misery of the indigent poor.
The laws of nature are reversed among us. - There
arc few Noblemen in the country half so careful of
their tenantry as of their dogs and horses—the great
bulk of them are a hundred times more solicitous abotit
the progress of education in the stable and the kennel
than of instruction in the parish school—and were any
person to take the liberty of telling a woman of fashion
that the care of an orphan would reflect more credit
on her than solicitude about a lap-dog, we doubt not
he would be scouted as an uncivilised barbarian, and
driven for life without the pale of society.
411Asec pbspyakons have been suggested to us by the
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Are,,b-at,e-arrttOTipiitipn for the second reading of the
letsliPeartaW --1,1) in the House of Commons on
y ridgy nlghi; in. tte:4,ourse of which several speeches
delivei!er.kas.ll-4/ arkable for their correct represen-
Ysntbik le state of Ireland, as for thei
e to the necessity of an immediate

change in the social condition of that unhappy coun-
try. Will it be believed that the Honourable and
Learned Member for Kilkenny, than whom no Mem-
ber of the Legislature is better acquainted. with the
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extent of Irish wretchedness, could address the House

on the subject of a Bill intended to remove it in a
speech which, according to himself, was neither for
nor against the measure then before it ? Will it be
imagined, that, after recounting the actual suffer-
ings of ...his fellow countzymen—after quoting the
Report of the Commissior,ers to show that for seven
months in the year, upwaxds of two millions of human

beings were reduced tct all the horrors of actual star-
vation in a land caimble, if only tolerably cultivated,

of maintaining in abundance four times its present
population—the Hon. and Learned Gentleman pro-
posed. as remedies the impractical schemes of a Repeal
of the Union, Emigration to the Canadas, and an

Absentee Tax ? Mr. O'CONNELL knows that, how

ever desirable in his opinion, there is not the remotest
chance of a Repeal of the Union being obtained
during the lifetime of the present generation ; and as
for a Tax on Absentees, we are very confident that it
will never be imposed by a British Parliament. Of
the Emigration scheme we do not think more favour-
ably, though we are aware that the Legislature might
be easily brought to support such a proposition.
Wherefore should the poor Irishman he driven from
his native country to seek for that of which good
laws would secure him an abundance at home ?
Why banish him to the inhospitable wilds of
America, when the wastes of Ireland offer a rich
remuneration for his labour ? Mr. O'CoNNELL
dislikes experiments, and objects to the proposed
Poor-law Bill that it is an experiment. On the same
principle he might have objected to every law that ever
was promulgated, had he lived at the period when each
was first judged necessary for the protection of human
liberty. , All laws were first viewed by mankind in the
light of experiments ; and the past history of experi-
mental legislation proves that dangers need hardly ever
be anticipated from laws for the protection of the
honest but intelligent portion of mankind. But mark
the inconsistency of the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man's conduct. He opposes the Poor-law as a dan-
gerous experiment, and he proposes in the same
breath to repeal the Union between this country and
Ireland ! Is there a politician in the empire who
would for an instant balance the possible results of an
unsuccessful repeal of the Union against the conse-
quences of a failure in the working of a Poor-law ?
Most assuredly not—not even Mr O'CONNELL him-
self.

The Hon. and Learned Gentleman likewise ex-
pressed his fears that the tendency of the Poor-law Bill
would be to increase Irish wretchedness. Such fears an-
ticipate a moral impossibility. Taking his own speech as
a criterion of Irish distress—and it is a correct one—we
believe we may defy any Government to overwhelm a
nation with greater calamities not actually produced by
fire and sword. We arc even doubtful whether it
would not accord more fully with the principles of
political humanity to put so many miserable fellow-
creatures to instant death, than thus to suffer them to
linger for years amid the slow tortures of periodicalfa-
mine, cold, and nakedness, and all the maladies brought
on by the want of the first necessaries of life. In saying
this much, we would not be understood as charging
Mr. O'CoNNELL with culpable indifference to the
miseries of his fellow-countrymen. We only blame
him for confining himself to the stTgestion of what
he must know to be impracticable remedies for an evil
of such magnitude, and so frightful in its hourly re-.
sult,. The famishing poor—of whom thousands
perish annually of diseases brought on by want of
sustenance—cry cut incessantly " food ! food !" and
the Honourable and Learned Member for Kul •
kenny consoles them with an assurance that their
wants will he relieved when England repeals the
Legislativ‘: Union ! This sounds very like moc'eery,
and would be so understood if comin;.: from the inoinh
of any public man less devoted to the promotion of
what he conceived to be for the best interests of his
native country than the Honourable and Learned
Member for Kilkenny.
To the speeches of the several Members who spoke
in favour of du) Bill reference is almost unnecessary.
That of time Honourable Member for Dundalk was
unquestionably the best, becange it repudiated in
terms of merited censure the cold-blooded policy of
compulsory emigration. As it is agreed on all hands
that the season for abstract discussions on the policy
or impolicy of Poor-laws is gone by, and that the only
thing that remains to be done is to make choice Lf
such a system as may best promote the general wel-
fare, we cannot acquit the Irish Members of greet
blame in not 'preferring to the provisions of the present
Bill the recommendations embodied in the Third Re-
port of his MAJESTY'S Commissioners, drawn up
by the Right lion, the Chief Remembrancer for
Ireland. A Bill framed upon that Report could hardly
fail to effect more good for Ireland in one year than the
present Bill, however ably carried out, can possibly ac-
complish in ten. In the former the genius, the feel-
ings, and' the social habits of the people would have
been enlisted on the side of the law ; whereas, in the
present, no regard is had to feelings which have be-
come a religion, and to habits which associations must
render inveterate. Nevertheless, the present Bill, bad
as it is, will prove an inestimable boon to the poor of
Ireland. It will rouse the Aristocracy of that coun-
try from the selfish lethargy in which they have so long
and so ingloriously indulged. It will stir up the people,
and by the creation of a strong public opinion—an en-
gine for the removal of oppression which does not now
exist in the interior of Ireland—prepare the way for
the many Reforms of which it may be regarded as the
necessary precursor. Moreover, the very shock which
it will give to a myriad of stagnant abuses will, in the
end, prove beneficial to the social and political system
of the Sister Kingdom.

The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have all
been received. On Thursday the Chamber of Depu-
ties voted the dowry for the Queen of the BELGIANS
by an overwhelming majority—there being 239 votes
for the dotation, and only 140 against it. The Oppo-
sition journals loudly exclaim against the prodigality
of the Deputies in disposing of the property of their
constituents.

The Phare of Bayonne of the 25th ult. details the
great preparations made by the Carlists to cross the
Ebro. The expedition is to consist of 15,000 men,
including 1,000 horse. It is to be commanded by the
Infante Don SEBASTIAN, who, after effecting a junc-
tion with CABRERA, is to march upali Madrid. On
the other hand, General IRRIBARREN at the head of
10,000 infantry, 800 cavalry, and a numerous train of
artillery, is stationed at Lodosa to guard all the pas-
sages of the river, and General NOGUERAS at the
head of a division on the borders of Valencia has or-
ders to watch the movements of CABRERA, and by no
means to suffer him to join the army of the Infante.
Letters from Bayonne, of the 25th ult., mention
the arrival of the Deputy LUJA N in that city from
San Sebastian, on his way to the head-quarters of
IRRIB A RREN. When he left San Sebastian, a reinforce-
ment of 2,000 fine troops had arrived from Passages,
and 4,000 more were hourly expected. The weather
was then unfavourable, but General EVANS only
awaited the landing of the rest of the reinforcement,
before again taking the field against the Carlists. Both
officers and men were in high spirits, and eager to wipe
out the disgrace of their retreat from Hernani.
It is rumoured that the Spanish Government has

THE FUNDS.

made arrangements for retaining such of the British
Legion as CaLt he induced to continue in the service of
her Catholic MAJESTY, after the expiration of the
present term .of their service, on the 10th of June next.
The following arc extracts from the Papers :
We have a letter from St. Jeart de Luz, of April 24, which
says—" The accounts which wd received to-day from Tolosa
are of the 23d ; they do not. give us any important intelligence.
They had news from the Royal head-quarters of the 22d.
" It seems certain that Irribarren and Espartero have re-
ceived orders to take trp a position on the Ebro, which those
Generals are prepar.ng to carry into effect."—Gazette de
France, April 29.

PARIS, APRIL 2:D.-General Oraa has addressed three ener-
getic proclernV:tons-to the Army of the Centre • to the in-
habitants of t'ne kingdoms of Aragon, Murcia, and Valencia ;
and to the..NationalGuards of those provinces.
A let:er from Saragossa says, that the columns of infantry
and envalry, armed by the provincial deputation, had left that
to commence its operations. Don Joaquim Ortiz de Ve-
lasco, member of the provincial deputation of that city, has
been appointed, provisionally, political chief of the province.
In Barcelona, journals of the 2] st ult. publish the official
bulletin of the Governor of Vich, on the action which lately
took place at St. Quirse, and precisely at La Cogulera, be-
tween the provincial battalion of Guadix, and a Carlist force
much superior in number. The Queen's troops suffered a
check, but it was not so serious as it has been represented.
A letter from Perpignan says that the Carlist Chief, Zorilla,
has been killed by one of his own people.
TheMoniteur Ottoman says :-" Some journals have spoken
of a pretended attempt to assassinate the Sultan, of the nature
of those which at intervals threaten to stain France with blood.
They say that the authors of the attempt were ancient Janis-
saries, who, notwithstanding their natural repugnance to all
modern inventions, are said not to have scrupled to have re-
course to the air-gun. We are happy to be able to contradict
this statement.-Journal du Commerce.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, APRIL 28.
Five per Cents., lOrf. 65c. 75c. Sec.
Feur per Cents., 93f. flOc.
Three per Cents. 78f. 85c. 75c. 60c.
Rente cite Naples' 981. 75c. She.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 235,‘%.
Spanish Passives, 5.%%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 100%.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 29%
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 251. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 22;(,c.; money. 25f. 20c.
-Gears iluthentivie.
FRENCH FUNDS -PAnts, APRIL 29.
Five per Cents., 1061'. &)c. 85c. 70c. 75c.
Four per Cent., 96f. 30c.
three per Cents., 78f. 70c 63c.
Rank Actions, 2,405 f. 2,400 f.
hente de Naples, 98f. 7Cc. 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Spanish Actives, 2.1%%%%f4,
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 29304.
EXCDANGP ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25c. 42%c.; money, 25f. 40c
Three months, paler, 251.22%c. ; money, 25f. 20c
-fours Autherzlieue.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 80e.
Three per Cents. 78f. 75c,
Bank Actions, 2,4' Of.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 90e.
Roman Five per Cents., 102%.
Brussels Bank, 1,390 f.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 47.
Portuguese Three per Cents., 29%.
Spanish Actives, 2:N.
Spanish Passives 5%.
New Differes, 8.
Miguelites, 11%.

Madrid Journals to the 23d uk. announce the res-
toration of tranquillity in Saragossa, Valencia, and
throughout Andalusia. In the capital all was tranquil;
and the Cortes bad proceeded to the 28th article of
the Constitution, the discussion on which had not com-
menced up to the date of these arrivals. In the Pro-
vinces the Captains-General were bestirring themselves
against the dangers of another Carlist inundation from
the mountains of Biscay. Money was scarce, but
MENDIZABAL continued to make the most praise-
worthy efforts to maintain public credit. Among all
classes in the capital an opinion prevailed that the
prospects of the QUEEN were brightening ; and that
in spite of the intrigues of the Camarillo and the
ultra-Republicans, the Constitutionalists would succeed
in saving the country without periling its safety by
another revolution.

Brussels and German Papers have been received
this morning. The Archduke Palatine of HuNGARY
is so far recovered that no more bulleti►►a of his health
will be published. This is the only news in the Ger-
man Papers, with the exception of accounts of the
dreadful state of the weather. From Belgium we have
no intelligence of any interest.

nr,,,GIAN iUNDS—ISRussr.Ls, APRIL 20
A.,:tual Deht, •.,,,:, par Cent.
lin9,,child' Loao, 5 per Cent. lOO
Loan or Thirty Millions .... 91
Loan of City, 1532, ; per Cent hi)
Society of Coininvree, 4 ~..; per Cent l.lO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Ce:it l3 )
—Brussels Papers, April3o.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViaNsa, Araft.2l.
rive per Cents. Metalliques
lour per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares
—..lllgenzeinc Zacturz, April -2 .

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CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Montreal papers -one day later than the last arrivals have
been received, from which we make the subjoined extract :
" COMMERCIAL—We understand that a large amount of
specie was brought in on Saturday from New York from the
Bank, which, we hope, will enable them to afford increased fa-
cilities to their customers until the season for active business
shall have arrived."

Canton papers have boon received to the 4th of Jan. We
extract the following :
Ills MAJESTY'S SUPERINTENDENT.—WC are not aware that
anything definite is known as to the probability of Captain
Elliot and his staff arriving in Canton. We have heard from
Chinese authority, that if he wishes to come up to trade he
will be permitted to come; but that if he has any other object
he must wait the arrival of orders from Pekin. It is reported
by many native; th,t lieu Nactre has again sent in a report to
the Emperor, requesting. the abolition of the prohibitions
against opium. It i, authenticated that the teamen have said
that tho teas of the second spring gathering are superior to
the first, because at the first there were too havy rains, which
caused the taste of the teas to be thin and poor.'
" COMMERCIAL REMARNs.—British Manufacture
reports from Nankin state the markets to be overstocked with
most description of woollens and piece goods, which naturally
check the demand here, and sales arc not readily made at same
price.
" COTTON.—The demand has been generally dull during the
week of the Bombay staple. Not much of good quality now
remains, and prices are without alteration. Madras cotton
still further depressed.
" OPIUM.—We cannot notice any favourable alteration. The
Government interference still obstkucting the trade, while the
dealer and brokers deem it prudent to remain in their places
of coneealrner:S. _

" Exchange steady on London at 4s. 11d. per dollar;
Freights to England, 5/. a 5/. ss. per ton."

This being the Ist day of May, it is kept as a holiday at the
Stock Exchange, the Bank, and Foreign Market, consequently,
some jobbers and brokers have assembled on 'Change, and at
the various coffee-houses, but as yet we do not hear of any bar-
gains done of consequence.
The accounts from Liverpool are of a favourable nature ;
confidence begins to revive there, with a good deal doing in
the cotton trade.

Some business is doing in Consols at 90H- for the Ac-
count; in Spanish Active, 211
The payment of the Spanish dividends on the Coupons be-
ing pat off to June next has greatly disappointed the holders of
that stock.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols may be nominally quoted at 901 for the Account,
and in the Foreign Securities the only transactions are in
Spanish Active Bonds, at 21a
We do not hear that any thing has been doing in the New
American paper.
The public sales of tea, commenced this morning, are going
off very heavy.

CARLOW ELECTION.—When the application of
the law happens to be in favour of the Liberal side in an Irish
election, Liberal Members walk across the House and deter.
mine what they have just voted to be law shall not be applied.
If any person doubt this assertion let him turn to the proceed-
ings that took place on Tuesday on the, Carlow Election
Ballot.
PRINCESS VICTORIA.—In compliance with a very
numerously signed requisition, representing all classes of our
fellow-citizens, the Mayor of Bath has consented to convene
and preside at a public meeting, to be held at the Guildhall on
Thursday next, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the propriety of erecting in this city a permanent testimonial
of respect to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, on
her attaining her legal majority, on the 24th of May.—Bath
Chronicle.
THE FAMILY OP EsTEuriAzY.—The Prince
being absent in England, I did not think it proper, although
I now know I might have done so without its being consi-
dered a presumption, to intrude upon the members of the fa-
mily then at Eisentadt. A servant showed us, with honest
pride in regarding its splendour, round the Palace and over
the grounds • and although neither our names nor our country
were made known, refreshments were laid out for us, of which
we merely stopped to partake of an ice and glass of wine
each, as we had ordered dinner at the hotel of the adjoining
little town. I have since been rebuked by an amiable member
of the family, for not making ourselves known ; hospitality
being at all times the characteristic of the EsterhazYs. and of
the joyous halls of their celebrated house.—Austria and the
Austrians.
It seems that the expelled student O'Beirne is active
in his mission. A few days ago he was at Shrewsbury, where
he brought forward charges of the most revolting description
against the Roman Catholic religion.

LIII SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY' 1837

MAGAZINE DAY.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

" The Spanish Contest" is an ingenious diatribe on
the wrong side of the question. Why does the author
insist that the Spanish butcheries commenced with the

Constitutional party, when it is well known that the
Carlists set the example ? Why, too, does he slur over
the Durango decrees, which even the Standard has
given up to unmitigated abhorrence? This is not
stating the question fairly—a fault of which the author
would never have been guilty, could his cause have
been sustained by argument. The " World we Live
In" is terse and pointed, as usual, but too much
tainted with politics. It is easier to abuse O'Connell
than to show that he is in the wrong, as respects his
present course of conduct towards Ireland. " Trans-
lations from the Greek Anthology," are from the pen
of Mr. Hay. They are rendered with ease and grace.
" Medical Attendance, and other Parochials," con-
tains some sound observations. We have been struck
with this trait of rustic character :
" I knew one instance of a man who prayed very fervently
to live a little longer. He had been a labouring man—and
for a labouring man, pretty well to do.' He had never had
sickness; was strong, stout, and hale ; of perhaps seventy-two
or three years of age. He then had a paralytic attack, and
sent for me. He continued in a doubtful state some time. At
every visit I paid him, he earnestly prayed, and hoped to be
allowed once more to sit in the sun before his cottage-door,
and then he would be so thankful, and so good How seldom
are these self-formed resolutions of much avail He was able
to sit and sun himself at his cottage-door, and often did I sit
there with him, and remind him how he had prayed for that as
a blessing, and that it had been granted. But by degrees I
found him pass from silence to sullenness. I was evidently
not a welcome visitor. He was enabled to do more than sun
himself at his door—he was able to walk about his little gar-
den. At length I observed that, as I entered his cottage, he
would make his escape at another door. On one occasion his
wife, nearly his own age, shut the door by which he would
have escaped, purposely, so that he had no help for it, but to
seat himself sullenly in his chimney-corner, and endure my
presence. I saw him, as he thought unobserved, clench his
aged fist at his wife, and put on an expression of imbecile ma-
lignity. This a little roused the old woman, who told him he
was a bad man, and had bad friends—that he had better listen
to the parson. This put me on the inquiry ; but first I ques-
tioned him as to what could be the cause of his change—did he
not believe as he formerly did ? He did not know that he did ;
all he knew was, that some people believed very differently,
and he did not see what great harm he had ever done, and he
was not afraid to die. Upon inquiry, I then found that a
workman had come out from the neighbouring town, and hav-
ing work to do at a gentleman's house about a mile off, had
taken lodgings within a few doors of this poor cottager. The
old woman said he called himself a Sinian ;' and I verily be-
lieve she thought it meant an encourager of sin; and a' reads
a book here,' said she, that nobody can't understand ; but
that there's no wicked place for ever and ever; and a pack o'
things that ha' turned his senses topsyturvy ; and I knows i
can't be good, for he ain't no longer kind like to me.' "
The " Secrets of History" is an interesting, wet

written account of the Spanish conspiracy against
Venice. The subject has been often discussed, but
will bear repetition. " Griselden, the Clerk's Tale,"
is a modernized version of one of Chaucer's best tales.
The versification is smooth and spirited, and in places
reminds us of some of Leigh Hunt's translations.
" Cinderella, a Dramatic Article," is a delightful pa-
per, one of the best we have lately seen in Blackwood.
It is a translation of one of Crabbe's German plays.
The " Songs of Beranger," by Alfred Domett, are in-
geniously rendered. " Despatches of the Duke of
Wellington " will be read with avidity by all who take
an interest (and who do not ?) in the Peninsular
campaigns of our first living hero.