The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-29 00:00:00

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

SAMUEL JOSEPH, Great George-street, Westminster,
sculptor.
WILLIAM HEMMING, Claines, Worcestershire, draper.
THOMAS WOODRUFFE, Ramsey, Essex, cattle-dealer.

BANKRUPTS.

JOHN BURN, Newport Market, Soho, china dealer, to sur-
render Nov. 4, IS, and Dec. 9, at two, at the Court of Commis-
sioners. Taylor, King-street, Cheapside.
GEORGE FREDERICK BAKER, Batheaston, Somerset-
shire, silk-manufacturer, Nov. IS, 16, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at
the Elephant and Castle Inn, Bath. Egan and Waterman,
Essex-street, Strand; Manic, ath.
THOMAS SHEPH A RD, Upper Marylebone-strect, wine-
merchant, Nov. 4, at one, 11, at three, and Dec. 9, at one, at
the Court of Commissioners. Miller, New Inn.
BENJAMIN HOWELL and WILLIAM BENNETT
BAKER., Judd-street, Brunswick-square, ironmongers, Nov. 1,
at twelve, 11, and Dee. 9, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.
Crouch, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
WILLIA M A DDOCK, Portsea, coal-merchant, Nov. 4,
at one, 15, and Dec. 9, at two, at the Court of Commissioners.
Conry, Gray's-inn-place, Gray's-inn-square.
JAMES AUGUSTUS L.l MB, Battersea, victualler, Nov.
4, at twelve, 11, at ten, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Long, Staple-inn, Holborn.
MOSES MOSES, Newport, Monmouth, coal-merchant, Nov,
16, 17, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at the Beaufort Ams Inn, Mon-
' mouth. Cole, Fundy:Ws-inn, London ; Griffith;, Monmouth.
WILLIAM VICKERY, Brereton, Chester, innkeeper, Nov.
5,7, and Dec. 9, at one. Vaudrey, Congleton ; Cornthwaite,
Dean's.court, Doctors' Commons.
THOMAS RUNDLE BRIGHT, Devonport, Devonshire,
ironmonger, Nov. 8,9, and Dec. 9, at eleven, at Elliott's. Hotel,
Devonport. Makinson and Sanders, Elm-court, Temple ; Leach,
Little, and Woollcombe, Devonport.
THOMAS ALLINSON, Manchester, commission agent, Nov.
10, at nine, 11, and Dec. 9, at two, at the Albion Hotel, Man-
chester. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, Lon-
don ; Owen, Manchester.
JOHN GRAHAM, Liverpool, linen-draper, Nov. 16, 17, and
Dec. 9, at two, at the Wellington Arms Hotel, Liverpool.
Blackstock and Bunce, Temple, London ; Pinkardton, Liverpool.
LEONARD YEO PROVO, Newton Abbott. Devonshire,
ironmonger, Nov. 14, 15, and Dec_ 9, at eleven, at Elliott's Royal
Hotel, Devonport. Sole, Aldermanbury, London ; 'fink, De-
vonport.
DIVIDENDS.

B. Linthorne, Widbrook, and J. H. Jolliffe, Quebec, Nov. IS,
at one, at the Court of Commissioners—W. 'l'ranter, Royal Hill,
Greenwich, stone-mason, Nov. IS, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners—J. I ieldsend and F Cook, Oxford-street, linen-
drapers, Nov. 18, at one, at the Court of Commissioners--T.
Walkden, Islington, earthenware-dealer, Nov. 18, at twelve, at
the Court of Commissioners—T. Tullett, Birmingham, hatter,
Nov. IS, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—R. Ferguson,
Great Prescot-street, Goodman's-fields, carpenter, Nov. 18, at
eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. G. Hodgson, Piazza-
coffee-house, Covent-garden, wine-merchant, Nov. 18, at twelve,
at the Court of Commissioners—J. Alewyn, Fenchurch-street,
merchant, Nov. 1
8, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners
—B. Breeds, Hastings,Sussex, merchant, Nov. 29, at ten, at the
Court of Commissioners—H. Gerhardi and 'l'. C. M. Genslin,
Savage-gardens, merchants, Nov. 22, at twelve, at the Court of
Commissioners—W. Turnbull,Upper Grafton-street, music-seller,
Nov. at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners--P. Tessier,
Ringmore, Devonshire, merchant, Nov. 22, at twelve, at the
Court of Commissioners—F. Fincham, Billiter-street, City,
merchant, Dec. 2, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—
H. Waddington, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, merchant, Nov. 4,
at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners--W. Banton, North-
wick, Cheshire, grocer, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Clarendon-
buildings, Liverpool—C. Hough, Monmouth, printer, Nov. 29,
at ten, at the Head Inn, Gloucester—T. Gee, Liverpool,
corclwainer, Nov. 28, at twelve, at the Office of Messrs. Houghton
and Broadhurst, Liverpool—M. Brown, Gateshead, Durham,
publican, Dec. I, at eleven, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, New-
castle-upon-Tyne.
CERTIFICATES.—Nov. 18.
C. and 'F. Monk, Frome Selwood, Somersetshirc, linen-drapers
—E. Cowling, Poultry. haberdasher—'l'. Murrell, Evesham,
Worcestershire, grocer—J. Davis, Birmingham, linen-draper—
W. and F. Manning, and J. L. Anderdon, New Bank-buildings,
West India-merchants.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
G. and E. Owles, Great Yarmouth, grocers—J. Brodribb and
0. Webb, Bristol, tailors—J. Yates, Lima, and C. G. Tattersall,
Liverpool, general traders—H. Davenport and G. V. Darby,
Kingston-upon-Hull, grocers—T. Lewis, E. Maybury, and H.
Harris, Greystone Field Ironworks, Dudley, Worcestershire,
ironmasters—J. Forbes and D. Russell, London, dealers—F. J.
Humbert and F. C. Humbert, Hyde Park Hotel, Oxford-street,
hotel-keepers—M. Williams and J. Ravenscroft, Manchester,
ovine-merchants—P. Edwards and J. Simmons, Waterloo-road,
builders—T. Ferguson and W. Barton, George-yard, Lombard.
street, public notaries—J. C. Abbott and J. S. Rutter, Chartham,
Kent, milliners—T. Edwards, J., and E. Eytcn, Nant-y-Moch
Pottery, Holywell, Flintshire, earthenware-manufacturers—R.
and Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, linen-drapers—R. L. S.
and C. T. Sturtevant, Church-street, Bethnal-green, soap-manu.
facturers—J. Thomson, J. Chippendall, and W. Thomson,
Manchester, calico-printers (so far as regards W. Thomson.)

THE NEW NOVEL BY MR. COOPER.-
This day was published, in 3 vols. post Svo. " The Bravo,
a Venetian Story." By the Author of " The Spy," " The
Pilot," " The Water Witch," &c.—" Mr. Cooryn, has
here taken new ground, and with all the vigour and variety
of novelty. The interest is most dramatically excited and
sustained, and the scenes invested with that vivid reality
which constitutes the great charm of Mr. Coorea's nar-
ratives."—Literary Gazette.

Yesterday morning, a little before six o'clock,
two elegantly dresse.l women presented themselves at the
toll-gate on the Strand side of Waterloo-bridge, and
whilsi cno of them was in the act of paying the toll, the
other ran down the stairs, pursued by her companion,
who turned out to he her sister, the toll collector, and a
policeman named GAEL',; but before they could come up
with her, the unfortunate woman had plunged into the
Thames, and the tide, which was running up very strong,
soon carried her off, and she sunk to rise no more. It
appears that the ill-fated creature, whose name was
MARGARET LOUISE LEMAIR, lived at No. 7, James-
street, New Cut, and from her personal attractions she
became the favourite of the sex of her unfortunate caste,
and was a nightly frequenter of the saloons of the two
theatres. At mid-day the body of the hapless creature was
picked up by READ, a waterman, lying between the baroff DUPREE'S coal-wharf, at the Savoy, It was conveyed
rs
ashore, to await the coroner's inquest. The deceased was
.12 years of age, and was the daughter of a respectable
trademan in Norwich.

PRICE OF CANDLES.
Candles. per dos. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. Moulds, per dozen 6d.
The price of Store Candles' in the retail shops, is as follows :
COUN'fRY CORN MARKEI'S DURING THE WEEK.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter.
Basingstoke -- ! 56 75 30 q't, 30 40 46
A shburn I 62
13,th
72 I 34 12 177---
347 —4O —4B
Bridgewater
Bristol 52 62 36 42 18 24 34 42
Chesterfield
26 32 46 52
Derby 61 64 43 44. 26 43 46
Devizes ...
Doncaster 57 68 26 45 20 30 42 47
Dorchester--....—... 50 68 32 42 24 29 42 47
60 '7O 31 40
40 66 .26 44 20 28 36 46
Hungerford ---. 60 74 33 40 24 34 38 46
75 44 29 4B
Newbury 43 75 29 41 22 34 40 48
Ramsey 60 66 34 38 26 31 5B
Shaftesbury 6l 37 24 46
Shepton Mallet .... 55 64 28 43 22 28 36 42
Sherborne 60 66 36 42 20 23 38 44
faunton 58 72 35 20 3B
Yeovil 56 64 34 40 20 26 34 a;
Per Bushel. a. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. a. d. a. d. a. cl. s. d.
S40'41)111-I mew. 90 98 56 03 50 08 oct 0v

Mr. Towivaar came forward amidst muck appl.use.
Where, he now begged leave to ask, was the pro, f to be
foond of that re-action of which the opponents to Reform
had so much boasted ?—(Chr ers.) Was there any proba-
bility that the people of Cambridge would suffer their con-
duct to be (pond and referred to as that of the people
of Dorsetabire had been, in proof of the existence .1 such
a re-action in the popular feeling?—(Cheers.) lie had
resided all his life amongst them, he knew thein well, and
he knew that they had nothing in common with the people
of Dorsetshire beyond that of being both agricultural
counties. The people of Cambridge would not imitate the
conduct of the people of Dorset,hire.—(S-veral voices in
the crowd, " They are fools.") Their tntelli. a ce, their
public spirit, and their independence, would prevent them
from being gulled and deluded like the inhabitants of Dor-
setshire. Their eyes would not he so b:iniled, and they
rcoulel not he such fools as to suppose that the rotten be-
rough system was the salvation and the maintenance of
the country.—(Loud cheers.) They were as good judges
of the real interests of agriculture as the freeholders of
Dometshire ; and he was quite certain that no one would
be able to persuade them that reformation was revolution,
and that the roan of the landed int, rest would be the re-
sult of the pissing of the Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) The
triumphant majority by which they had that day placed
him (Mr. Townley) at the head of the poll, was a pretty
strong proof that such a delusion as that had no chance of
going down with the intelligent freeholders of Cambridge-
shire. Looking at that majority, and knowing the public
spirit and the independence that existed in that county, be
did not entertain the slightest doubt that their efforts would
be speedily and triumphantly crowned with complete suc-
cess.—(Applause.) Let them not, however, relax in their
exertiona ; but let them persevere, as they had that day
done, in fighting the good fight of Reform, and the (lay
must soon be their own.—(Cheers.)
Captain Yorign had not had the advantage, owing to
the position in which he stood, of hearing what had fallen
from his honourable opponent, and he should be conse-
quently obliged to wait until to-morrow, to answer any
thing that he might have said. lie would, however, allude
to a speech delivered from that place by a Rev. Gentleman
(the Rev. Dr. Lamb). That Rev. Gentleman, who was
besides the Master of one of their Colleges, had come for-
ward in the garb of divinity, and had spoken to the degra-
dation of his own order.—(Cries of " No, no," and
" He told the truth.") The Rev. Dr. Lamb in the course
of his speech had said that it was shameful to see twenty-
one Bishops handed against the rights of the people.—
(Cries of " So it is.") He (Captain Yorke) would not
now argue the question whether or not the Bishops had
acted against the rights of the people, hut he would say,
that when a Rev. Gentleman came forward in the habit
of his order, and held the language held by the Rev.
Dr. Lamb, that he should he suffered to exist in the
Church of England was a frightful degradation to the
establishment to which be belonged.—(Much disappro-
bation.) Was such a man a fit instructor for the
youth of England ? Was it from such a man that
they ought to learn the truths of the Gospel ?—(Cries
of " Yes, yes ; for he tells the truth.") He would
not take the trouble of answering what he could hardly
call the arguments addressed to them by that Rev. Gen-
tleman, but ho would altogether deny the statement which
he had made, that it was Reform that had turned nut the
Duke of Wellington's Administration. He would say
distinctly that it was no such thing. That Administra-
tion went out upon it division with regard to a reduction
in the Civil List. The Ministers who succeeded the Duke
of Wellington and his friends in (Ace, instead of reducing,
had considerably increased the expenditure of the country.
' Since they bad come into of'fice they had added 1,300,000/.
to that expenditure. His Hon. Opponent had not as yet
dis.inctly stated to them his opinion with respect to the
Reform Bill. He should like to know wit, ther his lion.
Opponent would support that Bill? He would take leave
to ask him how much of that Bill he would support ?
He (Captain Yorke) imagined that he was quite as great
a Reformer as his Hon. Opponent. He should like to
have a definite answer from his Hon. Opponent on that
subject, and he would promise him that he (Captain
Yorke) would be ready to give him a definite answer with
regard to that or any other topic on which he might put
a question to him. In conclusion, he had to return his
thanks to his friends for the cordial and efficient support
which they had given to him.—(Cheers from the Yorkists. )
Mr. ADEANI came forward on this occasion to give his
vote for his old friend Mr. Townley; but he was not in-
duced to do so on the ground of friendship,—he voted far
him because he approved of his political principles, and
because he looked upon him to be such a man as the in.
dependent freeholders of Cambridge might confide in.—
/Cheers.) Why did he consider Mr. Townley a fit and
proper person to represent them in Parliament? Because
he was an honest and public-spirited country gentleman,
of independent principles, who resided amongst them,
and who fulfilled all the important duties that devolved
upon him. Mr. Townley had property too to qual:fy
him for such a situation, and he voted for him on tllat
account also ; because, if they sent a man to play. at a
game, it was right that he should have a good stake to
prevent him from gambling with their properties. Mr.
Townley's property was in land ; and if they sent lion
to Pailiament, and he should neglect the landed interest,
he would be a traitor to his own.—( Lori epplause.)
He did not think that Captain Yorke, professing the prin-
' ciples that lie did, was a fit person to represent them in
tve cotuteity.
wParliament ; and he was furthermore opposed to Captain
Yorke, because he was anxious for the independence of his
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joiningsav a together
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threatening the independence of their c"unr)'•—(Cri of
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" It won't do.") He was f little
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attempt would meet with a signal di feac.—(ch„,.)
The Rev. G. A. Baownx said, that. et toe conclusioli of
yesterday's procetdinea a vote of thanks to their tate excel-
lent representative, Lord F. Osborne, hail been proposed by
hits, (Mr. Drown.) aad etcoadt4 by 111,3 friend Mr. Gina.

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ping Re thought that it had been carried by acclamation :
but having been obliged by fatigue to leave the hustings
before the question was put, he was surprised to learn after-
wards that it was not carried, the question of adjournment
having been put in its stead. He wished to know from
th,:High Sheriff how the matter really stood.
The HIGH SHERIFF said, that the vote of thanks to
Lord F. Osborne had been put yesterday evening and car-
ried by acclamation.
The Rev. G. A. BROWNS expree-sell himself perfectly .
oatisiSed with that explanation, and called for " one cheer 1
more" for the Noble Lord, which was accordingly given by
the assembled multitude.
Mr. PRAED made an effort to address the freeholders,
but the groans, hisses, and disapprobation with which
the Hon. Gentleman was received, soon convinced him 1
that the multitude were ID no disposition to listen to his
eloquence, and he accordingly desisted from the attempt.
The Court then (nearly six o'clock) was adjourned till
nine o'clock to-morrow morning.

At the close of the proceedings at the nomination yester-
day, and when the High Sheriff had directed the polling
to commence, the Rev. Dr. Lamb, Master of Corpus
Christi, addressed the meeting from the side of the Sheriff's
booth, but not expecting any further speaking, we had left
the place before he began. We are now enabled to give a
short account of his address, for which we are indebted to
the Cambridge Independent, a paper which is making
very able and useful exertions in the cause of Reform in
this county :

Dr. LAMB said it was all a humbug for those who for
years past had peomi themselves to be the enemies of the
people to pretend now to be their friends and the friends
of the agriculturists. They knew well enough that it
was a humbug when they advanced it. or why should they
propose a sailor to them as their representative ? He
might be a good judge of ploughing the sea, but what did
he know of ploughing the land?—(Cheer,.) Twelve
months ago they had a Tory Administration; but having
opposed the people it was compelled to give up, and Earl
Grey came in, and did what no Government attempted to
do before—he did without the boroughmongers. And
how did he do without them? He celled in the
people in their stead. It was represented that one of
the twelve labours of Hercules was the cleansing of the
Augean stable, which had been soiled by the dung of
30,000 horses for 30 years—(he knew the farmers would
understand this illustration). Well, how did Hercules
perform this? Why, by turning a river through the
stable; and in the same manner Earl Grey would cleanse
the House of Commons, by turning the tide of popular
opinion into it.—(Cheers.) When they beard of this, the
men who did not hesitate to beard his Majesty, and in-
sult his Administration, trembled, for they knew it was
all np with them. Let the people look at the last elec-
tion, when they had sent into the House of Commons the
greatest number of honest men that had been returned in
any one Parliament since the revolution. The conse-
quence was, they carried Reform through that House by
an immense majority. In the House of Lords the measure
met with a fate, which, however they might regret, none
of them were surprised at. It had been thrown out by
the votes of 199 hereditary Peers, and, it was with sorrow
and shame he said it, by the votes also of 21 Bishops.--
(Cheers.) Yes, it was, he would repeat, with sorrow and
shame, that be found 21 Bishops handed together, to de-
prive the people of their just and legitimate rights.--(Re-
mewed cheers.) Still the Bill was not lost; it was but
suspended for a while ; for the people were determined
they would not lose it.—(Applause.) The people
could look with confidence to such men as Earl
Grey and Lord Althorp ; and in that county
they would not imitate the example set in Dorset
shire. The conduct of certain Noble Lords, with regard
to the display of popular feeling, was most extraordinary.
If the Press mentioned that such had taken place, up got
some sapient Lord and said—" My Lords, we will not give
way to intimidation."—(Laughter.) But suppose the
country to be every where quiet, and up would get the same
sapient Lord and say--." lam sure, my Lords the people
don't wish to have the Reform Bill. I can assure you,
my Lords, as a proof they don't want it, that they have
not bnrnt a single Bishop in effigy in my neighbourhood."
—(Great laughter.) The argument raised was, that if
they were quiet, they did not want it ; and if they were
riotous, they ought not to have it. Now theirs was a
good cause, and needed no rioting. They had now a good
opportunity of showing the spirit of the county, by re-
turning Mr. Townley—and not merely returning him, but
returning him by an immense majority.

POLISH ARMY.

" ORDER OF THE DAY.

" Head-quarters, Oct. 1.

" The decisive moment is arrived. The enemy has
proposed to ns humiliating condition!, contrary to the na-
tional dignity. It only remains for us to save our honour
by rejecting them,--to pass the frontier into the States of
his Majesty the King of Prussia, and there to seek an
asylum. In our present situation, a prolonged struggle
would only draw down great calamities on Poland. We
aball lay down the arms which we took up in the sacred
cause of the independence and the integrity of our native
land, protesting against the violations and the abuses of
which we are the ♦ictims, until Europe, under whose
protection we place ourselves, does pronounce definitively
on our and our country's fate. If, then, our prayers are
not heard,—if justice is refused us,—if the Monarchs re-
lect
us, the Almighty will be our avenger, and the stone
which closes the sepulchre of Poland will entomb the in-
dependence of the nations who arc indifferent to our mis
fortunes. Our blood, shed in numerous battles, the perse-
verance and the patriotism of which we have given
examples, will be the subject of admiration and imitation
for history and posterity.
" Soldiers!—Let us gn where duty calls. We will sa-
crifice every thing except our ghsry, of which no force can
ever deprive us; and we will await death with tran-
quillity, and with that pure conscience which follows the
conviction of having deserved well of our country.
" RYBINSKI,
"Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army."

Mr. GRATTAN'S new production "Jacque-
line of Holland" has become a greater favourite than any
of his former works. It is allowed to contain portraitures
and scenes that may be ranked among the brightest passages
of historical romance-writing. Of this nature are the
graphically represented characters of Pilule, Duke of
Burgundy, HuarrrisEY, Duke of Gloucester, Protector
of England ; BEDFORD the English Regent in France ;
and JACQUELINE hers( lf, the heroine of her age, as well as
of Mr. GRATTAN'S pages—and the novel and picturesque
descriptions of early Batavian manners and sports, the
striking interview between JACQUELINE and her mother at
the Castle of Amersfort, the dark scents in the rude isle
of Urk, amidst the dreary waters of the Zuyder Zee, the
battle of Browershaven, the murder of the infamous
WILLIAM LE BzGuE, and the wild picture of one of those
marine inundations so calamitous to Holland.

CANTERBURY.—Our hop trade on Saturday
was brisker than we have before observed at this season.
We were glad to see a large buyer of last year again busy,
and regret, for the rake of our poorer but industrious
planters, that he did not commence sooner. We have heard
that this gentleman bought on Saturday from 500 to 600
bags, at prices varying from 955. to 130s.—Kent Herald.
WORCESTER, OCT. 10.-00 Saturday 998
pockets of hops were weighed: prices 90s. to 105 s. ;
prime, 112 s. to 115 s. At Hereford fair, on Thursday,
the finest hops sold at Si. 10e. to 61. ; inferior 84s. to 90*
About 700 pockets were sold.— Worcester Journal.

JAMES RETFORD, a private in the 2d bat-
talion of the Scotch Fusileer Guards, and servant to
Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. E. StorFoan, of 25, Con-
naught-square, has absconded from his service. It appears
that he was intrusted with a cheque for 381., which he
got cashed at the banker's, and received four 5/. bank
motes and IS sovereigns. He has not since been heard of.

Last night an inquisition was taken before
Mr. limas, at the King's Head, Knightsbridge, on view
of the body of Tito,tAs NorrING, aged 27, a private in
the Horse Guards (Blue), who committed suicide the pre-
ceding night, by blowing out his brains with a horse pistol.
It appeared that the deceased had lost his wife about a
month ago, to whom he was devotedly attached, and to
whom he was married bat a short time previous : since
then be became much depressed in his spirits, neglected
his duties,:and gave himself up to drinking. On Thund
night, about ten o'clock, he entered the room of a com-
rade named WHITER, at the Hyde-park-barracks, and com-
plained " that some person had written to his father a nice
story about him, who had written to his wife's sister, and
they were going to play the very devil with him. " He
shortly afterwards left WHITER. to go to hie own room, but
returned in a few minutes and knocked at the door.
WHITER opened it, and the deceased exclaimed " Good
bye," he drew a pistol from behind him, placed the muzzle
to his mouth, and fired before WHITER. caught hold of it.
The ball passed through the head, scattering his brains,
and he instantly fell dead on the ground. Proofs of de-
rangement were adduced, but it was not thought that he
required watching. The Jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary Insanity,"

LITERATURE.

FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW,
No. XVl.—(Just Publiskcd.)—Lo.\-nox, 1831.
This is a number of more than average ex-
cellence: articles have been selected with
consummate tat and judgment, and are most
happily adapted to the taste and temper of the
times. " German Criminal Trials" are stimu-
lating in the highest degree, and on the minds
of nervous and easily•excited readers will ope-
rate with the force of a spell: They are full-
fraught with horrors, recording some of the most
mysterious and inexplicable crimes, attended,
too, with circumstances of the wildest romance,
to be met with in the annals of any nation. Even
the " Monk," " Melmoth," and the " Myste-
ries of Udolpho," must " pale their ineffectual
fires" before these records of superhuman atro-
city. The reviewer, by way, we suppose, of a
whet, has extracted some of the most aggravated.
From a volume, however, in which fiendish
enormities are as plentiful as turkeys at Christ-
mas, or pluralists in the Protestant Church,
it is difficult to make a selection, the more
particularly, as tastes differ widely on the matter ;
the fancy of some readers inclining them to
gloat over the harrowing details of a seduction,
while others give the preference to a murder.
At any rate, the article is curious as giving an
insight into the perversities of human nature,
and proving to what extent the degradation of
the head and heart may be carried, when once
the helm of reason is let go, and the mind al-
lowed to drift unpiloted along the sea of pas-
sion. " Temperature of' the Interior of the
Earth" puts forth many ingenious theories on
a subject which few, we suspect, will take the
trouble to investigate. But the scientific will
read it with pleasure ; while Ignoramuses,
among whom we rank ourselves, will fall fast
asleep over it. " Chateaubriand's Historical Dis-
courses" possesses novelty—a first-rate recom-
mendation. The reviewer, in noticing it,
takes occasion to divide historians into
two classes : first, of those who philoso-
phize, and look to matter ; secondly, of those
who merely narrate, and regard manner. The
latter of these classes may be the most entertain-
ing, the most picturesque, the most acceptable
to general readers, but the former only is worth
serious consideration. It is one thing to write
history with an eye to effect, and another to do
so with a view to make it subservient to a moral
end. Of what use are the records of the past,
except to instruct the future ? Why burden
our recollections with the Republican and i'lo-
narchical Governments of Greece and Rome,
if the knowledge can serve no more efficient pur-
pose than simply to divert the fancy ? The
merely picturesque historian is little better than
a mere novelist. The great art is to blend the
two qualities of philosophy and description to-
gether; to make the one set off and illustrate
the other. Gibbon among the moderns, and

Sallust apd Tacitus among the ancients, are the
only historians who have done this; Livy pos-
sessed the descriptive, but he lacked the philo-
sophic faculty, and catered to the fancy, to the
detriment of the reason.

" German Literature of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Century" is replete with elaborate
research, which is however curious, rather than
instructive. " Mr. Canning's Foreign Policy"
is ably but sophistically argued. The re-
viewer's evident aim is to show that no real
difference of opinion, on the subject of our con-
tinental relations, ever existed between this ac-
complished Statesman and Lord Castlereagh ;
that the one merely put in force the plans of the
other, and followed them up unchangingly to
the last moment of his existence. The asser-
tion is a bold one, and though ingeniously
maintained will not stand the test of scrutiny.
Lord Castlereagh, it is well known, was a mere
tool in the hands of the Holy Alliance ; through
whose means England lost by diplomacy all she
had gained by arms. Nay, more ; from hav-
ing been a first-rate, she sunk by degrees into a
second-rate Power, and was daily sinking lower
in the estimation of Europe, up to the time when
Mr. Canning took the helm of foreign affairs.
Her condition was then changed as if by magic. A
more liberal policy found its way into the Cabinet ;
the fetters which bound us to the Holy Alliance
were, one by one, struck off; and we rose in the
good opinion of our continental neighbours
with almost as much rapidity as we had
sunk. So far from adopting Lord Castlereagh's
principles, it was the express object of Mr.
Canning's policy to undo much, indeed the
greater part, of what his Lordship had done.
Besides, let it not be forgotten that the one was
foremost in the field to acknowledge the inde-
pendence of the South American Governments,
which, had the other continued in power,
would, doubtless, up to this hour, have been
left unrecognized. Mr. Canning, though for
years kept in a false position, by the pride and
jealousy of the ultras, was always a liberal at
heart ; Lord Castlereagh directly the reverse.

The very habits and prejudices of the two States-

men prove that there could have been little, or no
community of feeling between them. Lord Castle-

reagh was haughty—passionless—dead to all hu-

man sympathies; Mr. Canning, generous—
affable—and full fraught with sensibility. The
one was utterly disdainful of public opinion ; the
other acutely, too acutely, alive to it. To sum
up all in a word, the one was a bigoted aristocrat ;
the other an enlightened man of the people.
In discussing the nature of Mr. Canning's con-
nection with the Whigs, the reviewer steps very
unnecessarily out of his way for the purpose of
abusing, and sneering at the latter's motives.
He asserts that they sacrificed both principle and

consistency by this alliance; though he cannot but
be aware of the fact, that Mr. Canning's policy
had, year after year, been gradually approximating
to that of " his Majesty's Opposition" ; that he
adopted many of their plans, lent his sanction

to many of their principles ; that if any party
were inconsistent, it was Mr. Canning, not the
Whigs, who falsified no pledge, abandoned no

principle, adopted no new lights, but sensibly,
and we will even add, chivalrously, forgot all old

resentments in a patriotic desire to support that
Minister who was most competent to benefit his
country. The Whigs did not turn round to
Mr. Canning ; if any thing, Mr. Canning turned
round to them, and honourable, most honour-
able was the alliance to both parties, especially
to the Whigs, by whose prompt and seasonable
interference the first deadly blow was struck at the
hydra of Ultra-Toryism. With the exception
of the defects to which we have just alluded, the
article on Canning's foreign policy is admirable.
It is well-expressed, well-considered, well di-