The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-13 00:00:00

. 148 detained.

114
11 above 20 ton!,

299
miscititANEcus.
Upper Station
Middle Station 172 Sailing ditto ditto
Lower Station ..
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940 Ditto of iron ditto 2
Miscellaneous
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Total 1006

CHARLES ROWLAND.

Harbour-Master's Office, Gree

The thunder and lightning were very awful at
\Vhittlesey in the afternoon of Tuesday last : the electric
fluid struck and shattered the wings of a gate and the posts
upon the farm of Henry Haynes, Esq., and scattered the
pieces to a distance of about forty yards from the foundation.
The earth, also, was wonderfully torn up by the rapid demo-
lition of the gate-posts.—Hull Observer.
NEW WORK ON THE HOLY LAND.—WC are re-
quested to state that Mr. Robinson's " Travels in Palestine
and Syria," in 2 vols. post Bvo, with new maps and plans of
every remarkable locality in those countries, many for the first
time accurately laid down, is published this day, by Mr. Col-
burn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may be obtained of
all booksellers. Agents : —For Scotland, Messrs. Bell and
Bradfute, Edinburgh; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin.
There is now an establishment in full activity at
Gorey which promises to be a useful acquisition to the oyster
fishery. A large quantity of oysters are now being prepared
for exporting to the East Indies ; for this purpose they are
shelled, and after undergoing a certain process, they are placed
in small tin cannisters of about a pint, which are then herrue-
tically closed; it is said the will keep fresh for two or three
years. —Jersey Argus.
ENGLISH CICERONES.—WC were much amused
with a remark of a good woman, who opened some of the doors
above. There were sundry directions to visitors to St. Paul's
to pay certain stipulated prices, only for seeing the different
parts of the edifice. All the English cicerones have a formal
sing-song manner of going through their descriptions, that is
often the greatest source of amusement one finds, but which
nothing but downright mimicry can make intelligible to those
who have not heard it. The woman in question, without al-
tering the key of her ordinary mode of speaking, concluded
her history by saying, " By the rules of the church, I am en-
titled to only twopence for showing you this, and
.we ar
twopencee
strictly prohibited from asking any more ; but gentlefolas com
monly give me a shilling."—Cooper's England.
The accounts of the salmon fishings on the Clyde
and the west coast are of a very unfavourable description ;
they have proved a serious loss to the fishermen —Edinburgh
Courant

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1837.

THE KING'S HEALTH.

WINDSOR CASTLE,

TUESDAY, JUNE 13.
His MAJESTY has had a good night, and continues

in all respects in the same state as yesterday.
(Signed) W.M. FRED. CHAMBERS,
DAVID DAVIES.

We regret to learn that her MAJESTY is in a very
weak state of health, arising from her constant and

anxious attendance upon the KING:

In the House of Lords yesterday, the Pillory Punish-
ment Abolition Bill was brougl%t up from the Commons,
and read a first time. A Select Committee was appointed
to inquire into the laws which regulate the carriage of pas-
sengers for hire on the Thames. Petitions for the aboli-
tion of Church-rates were presented. The other business
which came before the House was not of a very important
character.

In the House of Commons, after the presentation of peti-
tions, Lord JOHN RussELL brought up the Report of the
Committee on the English Municipal Amendment Bill.
In answer to a question from Mr. WALLACE respecting
the" Budget," the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER stated
that he was most anxious for an opportunity of bringing it
forward ; and that as soon as the course of the Legislative
business of the House would admit, he should make his
financial statement.

Lord JOIIN RUSSELL, in reply b Mr. WILES, said that
he should not be able, in this Session, to introduce any
measure for the Reform of the Corporations of London
and Southwark.
A " Conference" was held with the Lords on the sub-
ject of their alterations in the English Corporations Amend-
ment Act, sent up some time since by the Commons, whose
" reasons," and the Bill were last night left with their
Lordships.
The remainder of the evening was occupied with a dis-
cussion on the Church-rate question. We have made some
remarks on this subject in a separate article. It will be
seen that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion for a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the mode of granting and renewing
Church leases was carried by a very large majority :
Mr. HARVEY'S motion declaring that whatever might be
the result of the proposed inquiry, the payment of Church-
rates, after a time to be fixed, ought wholly to cease, being
negatived by a majority of 4:31. A division subsequently
took place on a proposition made by Mr. GOULBURN, the
result of which was a majority of 26 in favour of the Mi-
nisters' original resolution. Thus there were three divi-
sions last night on the Church-rate question, and all of
them were favourable to Ministers. The first division gave
them a majority of 431 ; the second of 83 ; and the last
of 26.

The motion of Lord J. RUSSELL fora Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the mode of leasing Church pro-
perty, with the view of introducing an improved system,
was last night carried by a majority of EIGIITY-TIIREE.
This, it will be admitted, is a pretty decisive ex-
pression of the opinion of the House of Com-
mons. Those who are so fond of taunting Minis-
ters with the smallness of their majorities on
some public questions will, we suspect, find it neither
an easy nor a pleasing task to account for the re-
sult of last night's debate. Had the Tories been wise—
perhaps we should rather say had they acted with
their usual dexterity—they would not have opposed the
projected inquiry. For not 'only were they destitute
—as the event proved—of anything in the shape of
an argument on which to rest their opposition ; but
they were hound by a regard to consistency, by the
whole tenour and texture of five nights' unspa-
ring eloquence, to support the motion of the
Noble Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment. Had they done this they would at all events
have succeeded so far as to have kept out of view the
great strength of the Government and the feeling of
the country on this important question—which, in a
factious point of view, is a matter of no small conse-
quence to them—while, by the course which they have
pursued, they have clearly established the facts, that
there is a division in their own camp, and that they
dread the disclosures which must result from a search-
ing investigation into the management of ecclesiastical
property.

The great merit of the debate was its shortness—a
quality which to us is the greatest of all recommenda-
tions. In this case, indeed, we cannot in conscience
say that much gratitude is due to Hon. Members for
the forbearance which they displayed. The real truth of
the matter being that the gentlemen on the Opposition
side of the House had literally nothing to say. Never,
during the whole period that it has been our lot to com-
ment on Parliamentary proceedings, have we seen so
lame, so poor, so wretched an exhibition as that which
the Tory speakers made last night. Did they answer,
or even attempt to answer, a single one of the many
arguments on which Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in his
masterly and statesman-like speech, rested his motion ?
No ; those arguments were felt to be unanswerable,
and no Tory orator ventured to grapple with them.
The Times once asked the question, " What are PEEL
and GOULB URN but journeymen red-tapists ?" We
may safely say, that humble as is the station sha-
dowed forth in the foregoing question, it is far
above that which, were they measured by their per-
formances of last night, they would be entitled to
assume. What is the gist of Mr. GOULBURN'S

We are gald to see that on the motion of the Earl
of DEVON a Committee was appointed last evening
to consider and report the state of the law relative to
the carrying of passengers for hire on the river Thames.
The Watermen's Company, it appears, claims the
right of carriage of all passengers by water from
Windsor to Gravesend ; but, fortunately for the pub-
lic, they have not been able to make good their claim
to such an extent. They, however, succeeded the
other day, at least before a Magistrate, in asserting their
monopoly of the carriage of passengers for hire between
Westminster and London bridges ; but what'has been
the result ? Precisely that which might be expected
to arise from any act made for the benefit of the few
to the prejudice of the many ; the law has been evaded :
the proprietors of the steam-boats that now ply between
the two bridges of course cannot demand a fare ; but they
may receive a gratuity, and we understand the amount
received in that way exceeds what they formerly re-
ceived by taking fares. The existing laws were passed
at a time when it might be for the convenience of the
public to encourage the Watermen's Company ; but
that time has long gone by, and we confidently trust
the result of the Committee will be to abolish the
monopoly, and allow the citizens to travel by water, in
any way they please, without being subjected to over-
charges, and to the rudeness of the Thames watermen.

To what useful end the Select Committee on the
Poor Law Amendment Act was appointed is more
than the people of England and Wales will be able to
learn, from the mass of undigested rubbish called evi-
dence which it is weekly in the habit of inflicting upon
the notice of Parliament and the country. Its ap-
pointment took place the 27th of February last, and
already have we been favoured with fifteen of its re-
ports, together with minutes of the evidence taken be-
fore it. This is a specimen of the steam velocity with
which legislative Committees are propelled in a wrong
direction. Were the labours of this Committee of the
remotest advantage, or did they promise to be of the
most trifling service to any individual in the BrLish
Empire—save the KING's printer, the paid witnesses,
and the consumers of Pailiamentary waste paper—
months, perhaps years, would elapse before we should
learn a syllable about them. But as the inquiries pro-
secuted by the Members composing the Select Com-
mittee on the Poor Law Amendment Act imply legis-
lative doubts of the excellence of that measure, and
the honesty of the Commissioners, and are therefore
calculated to provoke on the part of the least intelli-
gent among the poorest class resistance to the law,
report succeeds report in interminable succession.
The industry of Parliament is never so strikingly
manifested as in the prosecution of useless investiga-
tions. The reason, though not obvious, may be easily
discovered. To escape the badgering of political en-
thusiasts Ministers are too apt to consent to the ap-
pointment of Committees of Inquiry—having resolved
beforehand to pay no regard whatever to their re-
ports—and as such Committees take their cue from
the mind that suggested their functions, and perhaps
previously prepared the evidence to be given on such
occasions, there is nothing extraordinary in the celerity
and facility with which they communicate their im-
pressions to the House. But the political immorality
of such a practice cannot be ton strongly repudiated.
The time of the House of Commons ought not to be
frittered away, and the public money wasted in jobs, to
evade the expression of Ministerial convictions. The
Select Committee on the Poor Law Amendment Act
was a tub thrown out to that least dangerous of poli-
tical monsters, the Hon. Member for, Berkshire. In
appointing it the Government neither had, nor ought
to have had, any intention of attending to its sugges-
tions, if opposed to the principle of the Poor Law as at
present administered. Ministers were well aware that
nineteen-twentieths of the people of England were in
favour of the law as it now stands ; that among the in-
telligent of all classes, and of every shade of opinion,
forty-nine out of every fifty were prepared to bear tes-
timony to its beneficial effect upon the morals of the
poor, in every district in which the instructions of th
Commissioners were not set at naught, and the minds
of the paupers poisoned by " Master WALTERS'.
among the Magistracy. The appointment of a Com-
mittee of Inquiry was not only premature but unne-
cessary. Its only effect could be to stimulate indivi-
duals ever ready to make a cat's paw of the people, to
attack the Government, by fomenting a factious oppo-
sition to its domestic policy ; and this ultimate danger
it is manifest Ministers hazarded, to escape the daily
annoyances of the anti-Poor Law Amendment clique
in the House of Commons. Now it would have been
much safer, as well as much more straight-forward, to
have manfully resisted any attempt to unsettle the
public mind on a question of such vital importance•to
this country as the subject of this Committee's inqui-
ries. We do not anticipate such a result from the in-
vestigation now pursued, because the people pay no
regard whatever to it; but for this advantage we cannot
hold ourselves indebted to the prudence and the ho-
nesty of his MAJESTY'S Ministers.

By the Iberia steam-packet, which arrived at Fal-
mouth on Sunday from the Tagus, whence she sailed
on the evening of the Gth inst., we have received
Lisbon Papers of that date inclusive. Their contents
are important. The QUEEN had succeeded in effect-
ing a change of Ministers—or rather in prevailing
upon a new set of men to charge themselves with the
executive functions of the Government. We quote the
important intelligence from the Portuguese journals :

_
An official supplement to the Diario do Governo, of the
2d of June, contains 12 decrees of the Queen, making various
Ministerial changes and nominations :-
1, The Viscount de Sade Bandeira is, at his own request,

relieved from the offices of President of the Council and Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs, which he filled much to her Ma-
jesty's satisfaction.
2. Antonio Deas de Oliveira is appointed Minister of the
Interior.
3. Antonio Deas de Oliveira is also charged ad interim with
the department of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice.
4. Brigadier General the Viscount de Bobeda is appointed
Minister of War. _ .

5. V The Viscount de Bobeda is charged ad interim with the
department of Marine and Colonies.
6. Counsellor Manoel de Castro Pircira de Miguila is ap-
pointed Minister for Foreign Affairs.
7. Senor Joao de Oliveira is appointed Minister of Finance.
8. The Viscount de Sade Bandeira is relieved from the
functions of Minister of War, which he filled ad interim.
9. The Viscount is also relieved from the functions of
Minister of Marine and Colonies, which he held ad interim.
10. Counsellor Manoel da Silva Passos is relieved from the
office of Minister of the Interior, retaining the honours of a
Secretary of State.
11 and 12. Senor Passos is also relieved from the functions
of Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Justice, and those of
Minister of Finance, which he held ad interim, much to her
' Majesty's satisfaction.
All these are dated June 1.

JUNE 3.—Antonio Deas de Oliveira, Minister of the Inte-
rior, is appointed President of the Council.—Diario do Go-
verno, June 3.
LISBON, JUNE 3.—By to-day's post despatches have been
received from the Commanders of the 3d, 4th, sth, 7th, and
Bth military divisions, by which it appears that nothing has
occurred to disturb the public tranquillity in the districts of
the said military division, though some dispersed Guerillas still
appear on the mountains of Algarve.
LISBON, JI'NE 6.—ln the sitting of the Cortes yesterday a
project of law was presented of the following tenor :
" The General Extraordinary Constituent Cortes of the
Portuguese nation decree as follows :
" The law of 4th March this year, by which extraordinary
powers were given to the Government in the Serra of Al-
garve, and in the districts of Faro, Biga, and Evora, is pro-
lon:cd three months, dating from the day on which the term
fixed by the said law shall expire.
" Art. 2. All laws to the contrary arc declared ineffective."
After a considerable debate the project of law was ap-
proved. To-day (the 6th) the question is to be discussed,
whether the Ministers of State arc to be considered as De-
puties.-0 Nacional, June 6.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have been
received ; but their contents—with the exception of the
annexed extracts—are unimportant. A letter from
Urdaz, of the 7th inst., states, that on the afternoon of
the sth, the Carlist expedition remained blockaded by
ORAA, in Barbastro I It is further worthy of no-
tice, that in all the correspondence from the Spa-
nish frontier the passage of the Cinca by the
Carlists is not once alluded to—not even deemed
practicable. In a letter from Bayonne, of the 7th,
it is positively asserted that Don CARLOS twice at-
tempted to cross the Cinca, and that on both occasions
his troops were repulsed by ORAA. The last time
was on the 3d, when the Carlists were driven into
Barbastro, after sustaining a loss of from two to three
thousand in killed and prisoners. The loss on the
side of the Christinos fell short of one thousand.
Further details will reach us in a day or two at the
farthest.

The Journal de Paris is filled with a report of the
inauguration of the National Museum of Versailles,
on Saturday, at which the KING and Royal Family
presided. This museum is dedicated to illustrious
French characters, in whatever grade distinguished
above their contemporaries, and promises to reflect
glory upon the reign of the citizen KING.

The Courier Francais gives the following letter from the
camp at Tafna, dated June 3.
" I write in baste by the vessel which takes the officer who
is sent to carry to Paris the treaty concluded between Gen.
Bugeaud and Abdel Kader. The idea of requiring a tribute
has been given up, because this being done Abdel Kader will
have no interest in breaking the treaty, and we may reckon on
several years tranquillity. Tlemecen is given up, because it was
a heavy burden, and it is considered that the loss of Tlemecen
is fully made up by Coleat and Blida, which Abdel Kader
generously leaves us. The title of Sultan is given to this Arab,
because the more powerful he is the more tranquil we shall be
in the places to which the occupation will probably be !nuked.
The crops look most beautiful, and there will be plenty of
corn to sell, which will put the Arabs in a good humour.
" It is in contemplation to reinforce the garrison of Guelma
by two or three battalions, and to finish the works which will
protect the troops and the tribes that have submitted ; but we
shall not go to Constantina till next spring, on the supposition
that Achmet Bey should not consent to treat like Abdel
Kader, in spite of the proposals which General Damrcmont
causes to be made to him.

" I do not think that Gen. Bugeaud, who said that he
would not conclude with Abdel Kadcr except on good terms,
would have been very epger to make this peace, but the direct
and pressing orders which he has received have obliged him
to conclude. Assuredly he hoped for something else when he
landed."

MADRID, JUNE 3.—lt seems certain that the applications of
Lord Palmerston to the Ministry become every day more
earnest to obtain at length the ratification of the projected
commercial treaty drawn up by the English agent. It is be-
lieved that if M. iklendizahal consented to present this treaty
to the Cortes the majority would vote, in spite of the opposi-
tion, in favour of stipulations calculated to excite the dis-
content of France and Catalonia.—Le Commerce, June 11.
—From Le Patriot.

The Oxford Chronicle states that there are 13,000
artisans out of employ at Birmingham, who parade the streets
in bodies of 5,000; that they are peaceable and orderly in
their conduct, but that considerable alarm and a feeling of
gloom pervade the town.
Green pea 3, which used to be abundant on the 4th
of June, are still a rare commodity even in Covent-garden
market.

On Wednesday last Anne Cottrill, an elderly woman,
iiifc of a man employed in the coal mines at Adlington, put a
pc riod to her existence by cutting her throat. She had been
in a desponding way fur some time, and had lately attempted
to hang herself.
Lord Brougham, on Monday night, in a speech
which decides the question of the undiminished powers of his
mind, trought before the House of Lord§ the present inef-
fective system pursued by both branches of the Legislature
with respect to public business. He showed that their Lord-
ships had sat for more than four months, and yet had passed
only one public Bill.—Bristol Paper.
The Edinburgh Water Company were completely
defeated at a recent public meeting.
On Tuesday Colonel Parry presented a petition from
Carnarvonshire, praying that me,na may be afforded the na-
tives of the principality in North Wales of learnine. the Eng-
lish language; or that the Judges on the circuit be Welsh-
men. The petitioners said, that unless this was done there
was a partial denial of justice in Wales. We hope the inha-
bitants of Wales generally will petition Parliament, and press
upon their representatives the necessity of a system of educa-
tion in Wales.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. . _

Mr. Thomas Needham, a respectable farmer of
Moulton, left his home early on Friday morning, and proceeded
to a pond about seven feet deep, where, after tying his head
to his legs with a cord, having first taken off his coat, waist.
coat, and hat, he rolled into the water and was drowned.—
/la/fax Guardian.
Lord John Scott, and a party, have sailed in the
Lufra yacht, on a cruise in the channel.

At the meeting of the Conservative Club, at Bridg-
water, on Wednesday last, it was determined to defend Mr.
Broadwood's scat at the expense of several members of the
club, although Mr. B. has declined to do so himself.—Dorset
County Chronicle.

We are glad to observe that the subject of the Tri-
angulation of Scotland has been taken up by several public
bodies, who have memorialized the Lords of the Treasury on
the subject.—Scots Times.
The rumoured marriage of the eldest son of an Irish
Marquis to the eldeSt daughter of an English Viscount, has
been suspended by family interference. The lady is said to
inherit considerable property from her maternal grandfather.
We perceive by the trade list that a vessel arrived
on Friday from Har-nburg, with a quantity of hay. The im-
portation of hay from the continent is certainly novel.—Liver-
pool Advertiser.
Nelson, when young, was piqued at not being no-
ticed in a paragraph in one of the newspapers, which described
an action in which he assisted. " But never mind (said he) I
will one day have a Gazette of my own."
A young man named Milner, whilst engaged in
painting the front of Mrs. Abbot's house in Union-street, 11a-
lifax, fell from the third story to the ground. During the
fall he turned a somerset, and alighted on his feet, doing him-
self no other injury than would arise from a good shaking._
Halifax Guardian.
The potato crops in the neighbourhood of this
and throughout Cumberland are in the most healthy and thriv-
ing condition. The cause of the failure of these crops for the
last two years has been now discovered to have been the
mildness of the winters, which left the grubs to increase to
such an extent that the produce of whole fields was consumed
by them ; the severity of this winter has destroyed these vora-
cious insects.—Cumberland Pacquct.
In an admonition addressed by the present Em-
peror of China to the officers of his Government is this re-
markable passage :—" He who sincerely serves his country,
leaves the fragrance of a good name to a hundred ages; he
who does not, leaves a name that stinks for tens of thousands
of years.'
_

A Parisian correspondent assures us that Lord
Lyndhurst is about to lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Gold-
amid, the daughter of a gentleman of Hebrew extraction long
resident in the French capital. Mr. Goldsmid is favourably
known as the author of a very clever work on French sta-
tistics, and was, if we mistake not, at one time, in some way or
the other connected with the English Embassy, although he
did not form one of the corps diplomatipe.....Observer.

LITERATURE.

EUREKA. 3 Vols. Longman, London, 1837.

The conception of this romance is a highly ingeni-
ous one, and the execution, if we except a few trifling
inconsistencies, is not unworthy of it. The author
shows considerable play of fancy—we will not call it
imagination—and a power of keeping up the attention
of his readers by an incessant flow of well-contrived
incident, which is not often to be met with in the
pages of our modern novelists. The story of Eureka
is something to the following effect :—Oriel Porphyry,
the son and heir of the richest merchant in the New
World, is ordered by his father to set out from America
for the purpose of improving his intellect by foreign
travel ; and more particularly of visiting the classic
shores of England, whose glory has wholly departed from
it, the period of the story being thrown forward one or
two thousand years, when America has become all
that Great Britain once was, and the lion and the
jackal! are holding revel among the ruins of the once
amagnificent London. Young Porphyry accordingly
sets out on his travels ; and after visiting Africa, which,

like the great States of the New World, is in a most
advanced state of civilization, arrives at the mouth of
the Thames, whose shores on either side are one
uniform scene of desolation, and finally reaches
London, where an enormous mass of ruins is all that
meets his eye, and the roar of the lion the only sound
that reaches his ear. In this desolate spot the
American traveller, accompanied by three or four en 7
terprising friends, among whom is Professor Forty-
folios, a philosopher and an antiqpary of Philadelphia,
pitches his tent for some days, occupying himself
with exploring the ruins, and endeavouring to ascer-
tain the exact site of those more renowned public
edifices which no longer exist but in the pages
of English history. This journey of discovery gives
the author an opportunity, which he turns to ex-
cellent account, of ridiculing the pedantic and vi-
sionary theories of mere antiquarians ; and ac-
cordingly he makes Professor Forty folios indulge in an
abundance of absurd speculations on the customs and
habits of the inhabitants of ancient London ; the
nature of her public institutions, and the position of
her most celebrated temples, theatres, &c. ; just as the
majority of our travellers now do, on the subject of
Thebes, Babylon, Ctesiphon, or Nineveh. This por-
tion of Eureka is exceedingly well written, serving not
only to " adorn a tale," but also—which is a far
worthier object—to " point a moral." Nor must we
omit to notice the Learned Professor's elaborate and
blundering dissertation on Ireland—the origin of her
appellation and the cause of her decline—which is a
successful specimen of quiet, easy satire. Having
finished their travels, young Porphyry and his friends
return home to America, where the former hastens to
slip his neck into the matrimonial noose, and as a
matter of course, " lives very happily ever after."
And so ends " Eureka," which is so entitled from the
name of the heroine, who, in the disguise of a page,
accompanies Porphyry in all his travels, and does not
reveal herself, till he has again set foot in his father's
house.

We think this romance, which is the work of a man
of reflection, as well as of lively fancy, every way cal-
culated to become popular. Its descriptions are stir-
ring and vigorous ; its incidents well conceived, and
ingeniously dove-tailed one into the other, flowing on
in an easy and natural sequence ; its characters
broadly marked, and in perfect keeping with the truth
of nature ; and its style, though for the most part

sententious, developing occasionally eloquence of a
high order. As a specimen of the author's manner,
we quote his description of a night at sea, and of a

huge-ship hanging on the horizon and burning down
to the water's edge. Here and there it is a little too
inflated, perhaps, but on the whole it is highly credit-
able to the writer's descriptive faculties :

" The night was dark as the grave. There was no moon,
and no stars. One immense cloud hung over the broad surface
of the ocean, like a mighty pall, and the constant gasts of
wind that hurried with their melancholy voices through the
sails of the ship, might be supposed to he the lament of nature
at the funeral of the world. The waters swept up to the vessel
like waves of boiling pitch. The air was burthened with an
impenetrable gloom. An intense blackness enveloped the
whole untrackable length of way over which the ship had
passed. Looking back from the vessel all was like the pros-
pect of the dead. Looking upward, it seemed as if the eyes
of Heaven had been put out, and that a deep and awful blind-
ness had blasted the vision of the universe. Save at a consi-
derable distance ahead, all was a chaos of darkness—a visible
nothingness—an infinite void ; but when the eye looked in that
direction, flames appeared to shoot out of the pitchy sea, licking
the darkness, and writhing, darting, twisting through the smoke
like serpents in the agonies of death. As the light became
stronger, part of the hull and rigging of a ship could be dis-
cerned, and hurrying to and fro, minute forms, readily disco-
vered to be human figures, became visible. Now a shower of
blazing sparks rushed as from a volcano, up, up, high into the
gloomy cloud, piercing its black depths with their lurid beams,
and immediately the flames seemed dulled; a moment, after.
they burst out again, with a fiercer fury, and with a doubled
volume ; fragments of burning timber were hurled into the
air with a giant's strength ; flames red, blue, and yellow, and
vapours of every conceivable colour from white to black, rose
and fell, arid mingled and separated, like an army of many
nations fighting for mastery ; and now that the whole extent of
the vessel was evidently one mass of resistless fire, its fierce
rays were reflected over the vast surface of the surrounding
ocean, making visible dark figures, that looked like despairing
men struggling in the drowning waves, and scorching rafters
hissing and smoking around them. Presently, when the glare
Of light was at the strongest, and the ship was seen blazing to
the water's edge, a sudden movement was observed, the fire
sunk into the wave beneath it,—a tall column of thick grey
smoke rose in its place, and in a moment all was again swal-
lowed up in deep, utter, and boundless darkness."

BERTRAND.
Fraser, London, 1837.

Horace, centuries ago, advised a young poetaster to
keep his play nine years beside him, before he ven-
tured on giving it to the world ; if the author of
" Bertrand" had kept his play twice nine years beside
him, and then, on the expiration of that period, com-
mitted it to the flames, he would have done himself
much service, and the world no harm. " Bertrand"
is indeed a very—very indifferent tragedy—so indif-
ferent that neither additions nor curtailments can pos-
sibly make it better nor worse. Exaggerated senti-
ments—inflated diction—fractured metaphors ;—all
these defects abound in it usque ad nauseam. Cut
down and turned into a farce, for which little altera-
tion would be requisite, with Liston or Jack Reeve to
perform the principal character, " Bertrand" might per-
chance be successful ; but in its present state, it is—as
Dogberry would say—" most tolerable, and not to be
endured." What, for instance, is to be made of this
dialogue, which is one only of a dozen of similar cha-
racter ?

Bertrand.
Most horrible I This dream will madden her !
Good God, defend it ! May reason ne'er desert
A fabric of such exquisite architecture 1
She recovers 1 Marian, my dearest love I
For heaven, I pray thee, chase these fancies hence ;
Strip from your dream this mask of its reality.
Am I not here? Am I not safe with you?
A dream The offspring, may be, of a supper
Munched too near bed-time ! Marian, dear girl,
Beam pleasure out ! A dream !—Ha! ha!

Mariana.
Oh, Bertrand !
Ido beseech thee talk not thus. I see
Distinct, a poniard lurking in the air.
Ah, smile not 1 A woman's sense alway
Can see much further off than can a man's ;
But when by love, that instinct is incensed,
Twill point a chasm behind a pile of years !"

This passage is throughout—to adopt the writer's
own phraseology—" intensed" by nonsense, to a de-
gree that renders the task of analysis perfectly super-
fluous. We therefore forbear from further comment.

REMARKS ON MILITARY LAW, 6-e.
Boone, London, 1837.
This is the avowed production of a veteran officer,
Major-General Napier, and contains many sound re-
flections on the suNect of military discipline. The
dedication to the " Fiftieth Regiment" is penned in a
truly graceful and feeling style.

HOUSE OF LORDS --(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham,
Lord Wyn'ord, and Lord Denman, sat in the House of Lords,
to hear appeals.

EVANS V. HELLIER.

The further arguments in this case were concluded, and
ludgment postponed.

GAWLEY V. BARER.

This case was adjourned sine die, in consequence of the ab-
sence of the Attorney-General and Sir_ Wm. Follett, I,lho were
engaged in arguing a case before the twelve Judges.
Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure.