The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-02 00:00:00

TAIT'S MAGAZINE.

The " National Crisis" is a very spirited article,
put forth just at the right season. The writer
justly enough praises Ministers for their recent
bold and liberal conduct, observing " they have
rnovLd in the right direction, under the now
fairly unfurled banner of Free Trade, and in the
strength of a good cause. They have offered the
country a fair opportunity of getting rid of some
of the most galling and pernicious imposts that
ever indirectly crippled the energies, and directly
robbed a people." And of this fair opportu-
nity, the People—unless we misinterpret the_
signs of the times which are daily deve-
loping themselves with more significance—
will be prompt to take advantage, notwithstand-
ing all the opposition which the combined forces
of prejudice and intolerance may make to their
exertions. The writer shrewdly adds, " six
weeks since it would.' have been safe to predict
that the Tories would gain very considerably by
a dissolution. Now, the event is doubtful;
parties are breaking up ; there is for the
moment a kind of political chaos. But
amid all this confusion the fate of the
Bread-tax is sealed, and it is immaterial at whose
hands it receives- its death-stroke." " Texas " is
an entertaining notice of Mr. Kennedy's late
work on . this subject. The Reviewer warmly
praises the work, but protests against fts indirect
defence of slave-holding, which is certainly not
to be justified under any circumstances. "Shak-
spearian Rambles" is a spirited series of descrip,
live sketches of some of the localities alluded to
in the great dramatist's plays. " Quackleborough
Election ; a Mystery," is the cleverest imi-
tation we have yet seen of Mr. Car-
lyle's Anglo-German style. The article is
one of those good-natured quizzes, to which even
the most fastidious cannot object. Mr. Carlyle
himself, we suspect, will be not a little diverted
by it. " Violet Hamilton" continues to be car-
ried on with vigour and ability. From a most
intelligent article, entitled " Slavery in the
United States," we select a description of a slave-
auction in the capital of Virginia, which will give
our readers someinsight into the horrors of.this
atrocious system, which inflicts a deep and last-
ing disgrace, as O'Connell has justly observed,
on the national character of the Americans :

Monday next, at 9 A.N., at public sale, the slaves whose
names follow, all negroes of the first quality—namely,
Betsy, a negrO-woman, twenty-three years of age, with
her child Ca:sar, three -years old ; an excellent cook;
washer, and ironer ; warranted healthy.. Julia,: a mi-
latto girl, aged thirteen, robust and active, a good field-
labourer ; with the exception of a slight defect in the
left eye, she is without fault ..... . . " Let
us proceed, gentleman," cried the seller of human flesh,
in a stentorian voice ; " let us proceed—a woman for sale !"
"An excellent woman ; not a fault ! and a little boy
in the bargain. How much for the mother and child-
-250 dollars ; very well, Sir, 250 to begin. Some one has
bid 250. Truly, gentlemen, they sell cattle for a larger_
; 250 ? Look at these-eyes, examine these limbs—
shall I say il)9 Thanks, gentlemen, some one has bid
260. It seems id lie that I heard 275 ;—go on, gentle-
men ; I have never 50,.1.4 such a bargain. How 280 for
the best cook, the best washer, and the best dressmaker
in Virginia ? Must I sell for the miserable price of
280 ? 300 ; two gentlemen have b,.?id 300. Very well,
gentlemen I tun happy to tale nto warm a
little. Some one bid-310-310, going
—340, going. -Upon my honour, gentlemen, it is iL2;leed.
—; —340
r3u.... -335.
a sacrifice to lose so gaud is -cook $ a great bargain foL
340 dollars. Reflect upon it a little, and do not forget
there is a little boy in the bargain.",
Here our auctioneer was interrupted in his haratiga4
by one of his customers, a man whose appearance had
inspired me, from the first moment, with a feeling of
horror, and who, with the indifference and sang froid of
an assassin, niade to him the following observation :
" As for the negro child, it is good for nothing ; it is
not worth a day's nourishment ; and if I have the mother,
I will give away the child very quick ; the first bidder
will be able to have it at a cheap bargain."
I glanced at the unfortunate mother, anxious to see
what-effect this barbarous proposal would have upon
her. She (lid not speak, but a profound sadness was im-
pressed on her countenance. The little innocent which
she held in her arms, fixed his large eyes on her, as if
saying, ". Mamma, why do you weep ?" Then he turned:
towards the witnesses of this heart-rending scene, With
an impression that .seemed. to ask, what they had done
to hicrnotlier 49 make her weep so bitterly.-:
will this moment ever escape my memory ;- it -MIS 'cep-
firmed, me-for all ray life m the horror that. I, already
felt at this infamous traffic. The auction continued; acid
finally
.the crier, striking a heavy blow with a hamifier;'
pronounced the_ award to :.dr. for 360 dollars.
The victim descended from the table, and was led away
by the purchaser.- The other slaves, were sold in the.
*le manner 'lts .poor Betsy. Julia was sold at 326

EVENING E

dollars, and Augustus at 105. They both-felt.
slave-trade same individual who bad purchased the former lot.
Such is tin imperfect view of the Anierican intecomi
unutterable.
--r
system fraught with outrages', pollutiolt,s,
ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA JIAGAZDyf
Small indeed must be the abuses in the Wet
tion of the Afiiiirs of the East India CooPri
which escape the lynx- eyed vigilance of the 3e
ductors of this periodical. Not a month; -i3-53.1;
in which they do not raise the " hue ainrer,,
against the " sink" in Leadenhall-street, Whet'
monopoly sits enthroned bolstered up witl);Piles
of old parchments front which.the seglin.
fast dropping. " Formerly," observes" one r,
in a very clever article, entitled
at
sled Company," " the dividend was the 'treat
bait for the plunder of India; but Parthunein
was speedily compelled to put a stop to the C°ll3;
PanY's power over its own dividend when it etTa.'
to be drawn out of the public Treasury of
Now, the patronage of India is that Jai ja
chiefly vitiates and corrupts the Coin:PanY,,
both its Courts, for it is the Ixtit which
wicked and corrupt men to become D irectt.l
without either knowing or caring ab:nit
tllirtY
and it is the golden chain which binds tbc
tyrants together in supporting each otherl,
their seats for life, however inimical they
be to each other upon every other matter.
dread of the operation of the libel law Prl'''cinit
us from co::tinuing the quotation. tic
ollows is rather spicy. " Travels on the 0450,/,'
Persia" shows how very little we yet really 101.1.
of the interior of Central Asia. The India ill&
lig•
t..nce copious, and very carefully arrange

tff cliS.

FARMER'S MAG VAT.
A periodical exclusively devoted to • agrieg at,
ral themes, which it usually discusses in a neat,
ter-of-fact style, well calculated to recolarwot,
it to the favour of practical men. The
Number contains two plates, but neither are
markable for the quality of the engraving'

. -
BRITISH MAGAZKIE. of
We have here a carefuli3 constructed loarisi,
the diocese of Durham, one of the ricbest
we believe, most extensive in the kingdonl7.oLr.,
gether with some curious and interestioi,g s`ted
respondence respecting Taliessiu,
celc,,ir too
Welsh poet and prophet, of whom the %eis•
ditions of the principality relates° many 11181."

THE SPORTSMAN
plate, rcpt
Contains this month an excellent
renting the famous rowing match on the.ThP•ll'A.
ween Oxford and Cambridge,
place .last April, and in Which the Cautabs;lelt,
victoriou.:; and a sketch of Carthagen illove%rs:
whose waters are in great request With
of the angle. This last plate is' but passablY.fol
graved. Among the literary contatts, vciaof
an entertaining Irish story, under the be
" A Tale of the RappaTees."

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF Ati.l"-
TURE, eider!'
We recommend tO our agricultural '
latest
cc sketches in Normandy," which give the
iitto
and best account of one of the finest pro do or
in France. They are in general the rel-_146
personal observation, or founded on reportg_“'l6
by the Association of Normandy, which vi.3-'1064;
stituted for the purpose of obtaining the 4 thc
authentic information on the productious vrooev,
country, the breeding of cattle, fislierieq'„ileli
plantations,•&c. in statistical details our -1-.'crie-
neighbonrs excel, but in ag-ricultural ituP'
meats, and in breeding Cattle they are sadly-lor'
ficient. A perusal of this description of
inandy, which takes the lead of all the rfr or
these reports; Will soon convince the red uefor
the fact. The article "On the Utiliev
portance of Science' to Agriculture 1)7 fol.
Towers, may be read with advantage. -irorit
lowing remarks on the Corn-laws in such ai_.‘eof
will rather surprise such men as the J--)9`.
fl
Buckinhain and Lord Western :
A perfectly impartial speculator, loving and tiara of
everything connected with the glorious produetie.nt
nature, and educated to no other profession than 07100
pure chemistry, k tee in.the workings of the Ccri'ofit-
nothing but strife, discordance of opinion, and of
and )Ir.
ing jealouay. discover no beneficial equabillt:ive,
prices, no ..t-rnuneratory profits,—but great, deeepLero
and • ruinous t:uetuations. Hence I would reduce IP., ;
to a mere by-we rd,— a thing below debate or argtaalin
not by the partial free-trade alluded to by.Mr.ll3l'
in the third parkg,raph of p. 461, but by exaltieghieh
science of ..Agricult.tro to a power of prolificity, rir
should,.as before ob, :erved, render all foreign inte
recce or supply an of it of mere possible contingeal'
THE STATISTICAL- ,4CCLAND.OUNT OF Sty
-IN umber Thirty-one col: tains part of the coil
of Inverness and three ps'lrishes in Ayrsilit:
The description of the lattei:, which in •g•enen
are fertile and well sheltered, _forms a wooderi,,'"'
contrast with that of the paristies in the Non
which probably are the most barren and bleak
in Scotland. The inhabitants in general are ee
tremely poor, but little skilled in agriculture'
and often exposed to severe famine. _Among tr„
Western Isles this is particularly the case.
cll'
many-of these the common buildings or do is' 1,
ings of the peasantry are of the most niiseray..,
desgription; .the wall is formed of loose ~
dressed stone • without mortar, the centre belmf
filled up with earth, roofed with turf ancl.stti'"
and bound together by heather rope. Thereff:i
neither windows nor chimneys, and in one
ir
these miserable huts the family live, with tl:?:1),
cows and horses in the other. In one .Pair' is
inquiries were made, when the cholera rage;the
the neighbourhood, as to the condition e' 00e,
people, and it was found that there were,.o
hundred and forty families who had no c7s,
of night or day, clothes. Notwithstanding these
paintid details, however, the accounts d. •i
wild districts possess considerable interest. 151e'
From the Statistical Account of Kiln-lair/ deo
of Skye, we extract the following graphite
scription 1.00.
Mies FLORA MACDONALD.—The story of the, e toe,
conduct of Miss Flora Macdonald in conducting
fortunate Charles, in the disguise of a maid-servan wel/,.'
the Long Island to Monkstadt, in this parish, is 5n
known that any of it here is unnecessary; s.bieft,•
Many were the trials and severe the hardsxPs ant te.,-.;
fell to the let of the gallan;-. Miss Flora, sub6let, rt
this adventure. She was soon seized and brou,t,
nsolanneyr toothLeorsn,dcoonn,
fiwnheteireinshtehe• wir.;,os;vNevrit.h Ililnigshnqji
adnlnfeitett
dauntless part which she had acted, and her ca,se
so much interest. that she-was visited by the gre:'
noble of the land. Amongst the rest; she had the .4
of a Visit from Prince Frederick of great-g•
father- of her present Majesty Queen victoria.
generous prince was so much struck whit the si%-le. ,
and dignity of -the fair prisoner's character;4olo
interested himself to procure her liberation. Clio h°
had obtained her freedoM, she found refuge
of Lady Primrose, of Dunnipace, where she 11'4' „
and loaded with honours by distinguished per'vl
all ranks and shades of politics. Returning
island, she was married in the month of
1750, to Allan, son of Mr. Alexander Macdoo,
Kingsburgh, who resided at the time of his
Flodigarry, in this parish. Upon the death a ri-100-tii
band's father, his son, Allan, succeeded him, ant' usielky
then Mrs. Allan Macdonald, became lady of the niscoatit.i
to her ,
of Kingsburgh. She afterwards went to North 91!?,
with her husband, ww.re he took part in the ciritfter.::
which then disturbed the peace of that country.deesj,s,,
undergoing many hardships in that quarter, ther.-h
it prudent to return to Skye. Jul.' vessel in wale
r;
sailed from. America was me,:- by a French pris,,;2teco,aet
in action took place. in which 'Flora aPre'deu: *a*
where, with her wonted magnanillitY: she •
seamen with ceurage, and assurt-d then!
Although her arin was broken in the -entireol4:s!
714 v,
her native spirit of Leroisrn was not itt
damped. She never more left Skye,')lshe had se%eii,eix,4
dreg, five soils and'itydditigliters,'bdides sonic."'
in infancy ; all her pus, were: officiskvlie
themselves in the SeitzViee!of their king and count" w• ••
;(.'
daughters, on the other hand, became etfire.erti:ydr_„l: •
_Ann was the lady of Maj,..n. _Alexander .31a.
died at Stein, in this island, about six yea °;iteit.OFT`.
second daughter, Fr....nees,,was married to -1-11,06-i.ool_,,L'l
Donald Macdonald, of Cgiderach. Of thi
family, none 'are moor alive. The celebrated i'-;he
to au advanced period of life ..and retained to 6,f
that vivacity of character, rind that antiableuess iii f?
sition, by which she w,isalW4ys distinguished.
sth of March, 1790fe, lit°
than two years before the dePath of her husband thl.4
able
he tombs en 1•
e~'x 1
.I(pbrilery:itemrnscislgastl,eohsi ntbalisti.eilard‘,vigb‘t:aol'hlerl,uirlinttletlirnlit,:aleiliitielit.syet3q.e3:lrueirto:iterrecrd:oe.l:7ipilnli6filyie6cc;itslveheetiloied.c.a:ueleb,andureliestowi:yaissri,e)if
111TW11:1
A DICTIONARY OF 'SCIENCE, A--
TUBE, AND ART.ha
The Fifth Part of this excellent wars.. • les,'
aroc
peared, and among other interesticg the
contains one on Geology, which enters 17,41-reit
subject at length, and displays great ceris
every
ith
and knowledge of this useful science.
refresluneg
terspersed with little wood-cuts, SOlllo od.
,locue,_
are well executed, such as the granite%',ldt.a'
nearLiskeard, called ;he Chcrsewring, the sl.
cluster of rocks at Ifillsivickness, and 17! 'III'
Cave. The writer at the same time g1..`,;
vo
account of the causes of earthquakes a„1'11.4 ''
canoes, together with historical descriPP. • o!'
the most remarkable on record. rhea rt'leo .10
" Gravity,"
" Heraldry," contain a great deal :of int9lder
to t
Compressed within :a small, cornp4.•l-11100.501r.;
" 31-easureutent - of . geight_sto,
word "Guillotine," we find an-accoWit 11,14 -
• cnve 'lOl
Ignace Guillotine. w °MaM.5s . ..#
1. e •
generally known. He was a physician a,
a Deputy to the National ASSenibly, a :,;1,119,
of great humanity.
recininnended
the.. init?rioTtetten beosit*- sag
.141 k:

Whic h had been long known in Italy under the
Satre of "Mannaja," in Scotland under the name
•of-th tt b•f Maiden and -which had been used in
in Ergland within thr! jurisdiction of Halifax.
He 1'0_14,5 not the inventor, nor did he perish by
this kistrument, as ;many have supposed. He
Was imprisoned durirg the Reign of Terror, but
release,..l at the Re volution of July, 1794, and
died in 1814, after founding the association
termed the Acader .iy of Medicine.

-DUBLIN U2IIIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
• -The present -" Portrait Gallery"—which is an
excellent featur( in this periodical—comprises a
half length pan mit, accompanied by a biographi-
'Cal memoir, of the Rev. Dr. Miller, the well-
Itinwn author ft,f the " Philosophy of History."
Among the cot. :tributors, we find as usual Charles
whr ,se military reminiscences, abound-
ing, as they do in startling and whimsical inci-
dent, are infin ii;ely more entertaining than any
thing in Cileig's over-rated. " Subaltern."
" A few MT sAls on the Crisis " is clever, so far as
were maul goes, but we strenuously protest
against tl'.e opinions broached in it, and
more es'pe eially do we deny the truth of the
Writer's hr my remark, that the " financial
difli-
ties of En. gland assumed their shapes, ifthey did
11°t ite in, the Reform Bill." Never was
there a more untenable proposition than 'this.

SnALLWOOD'S• MAGAZINE.
It is a .azardous thing for any living poet to
;attempt a.coutinuation of Christabel, yet here
we find it attempte-1 by a lady, named Stuart,
who lias at :quitted herself more successfully than
we could have anticipated. Her versification
P"sessesznuch of the flexibility and melody of
Coleridge,_ 'out the poem is deficient in that wild
and startlinr ; imagery which firm so conspicuous
feature of the original Christabel. We have,
towever, s, !en far worse imitations. In the Oa-
oorate esSa- Ton " Philosophy in- s relation with
Christian l ntellectualism," a more than average
_amount of historical reading is exhibited to but
little purp, )Sep for it is chiefly the lighter order
o literattn.t that
eriodic al,s. The patronized by the readers of
u" Dentist of Fra'Afort" keeps
U with
ninished spirit. On the whole, the
umber'
s 7A. good one.

Th.ls 7-Lt POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL.
sei iagazine, which is devoted to art,
"cc) and general literature—a comprehensive
resting contains, in its present Number, an inte-
teiii ang account of the present state of the poly-
schools in Germany and France, in both
Se cm,
'. countries these use.fu ,institutions are, it
making rapid headway.

„ tITERA T
SANATIVE INFLUENCE of CLIMATE :
7.i !h an Account of Me best Places of Resort. for Inca-
in England, the South of Europe By Sir
A 31E3 CLARK, Bart., M.D. hysi'cian in Or-
. Et to 'ary to the Queen and to the Prince Albert. Third
-ca talon, post Bvo. pp. 377. London, J. Murray,
etx :him non animum mutant, qui trans mare currant :”
a„Bc ' mug Horace eighteen hundred years ago,
~
tlt
we opine he was right. If it be demurred
wat an opinion of the kind, coming from a man
61'1() thought a journey from "tome to Brundu-
b Inn an event in existence, has no fair claim to
ore, ceived as authority, we must, on the
th hand, remind one and all objectors, that
The aperience of our own countrymen—of us,
dae frost locomotive nation on earth, in these:
of steam and railway—bears witness to the
cieT nal truth of the satirist's
.notion, and pro-
-21 that for once the argamentunt particu-
r,
4u
irn universals -has not failed. Who has not
is ni dear, but moross, friends make . the
ofgri old tour" without having gainel one particle
ti le mental serenity they set out in quest of ?
.ider wives who, having seen their domestic
f„r't tentors start for the Continent with the
erld hope that habitual acerbity might in
a"tul'e, or occasionally, at least, be softened into
et dtST, find the quarrels de meaaye only more
.tae 4 Ind bitter than ever after the traveller's re-
t But enough—the reader's experience will
0111 bless supply him with multitudes of similar
sinus trations.
P 1 .ovidentially the physique and the morale do
hoth sere go hand in hand : if it appears fated
"at WC shall not improve our tempers,- or ac-
quire. a little more of the ri 7rpenv, by a journey
after the To x. 2.1.,-)v, of foreign lands, it is a con-
L'lplati ton to know that the physical suffer-
'`lthgs to which our frames are heirs, may be
altogether removed or effectually alleviated:
TV e thank the able author of the volume before
"8
for having so completely divested-his pliraseo-
` i°g3, . if all technicality, that even _ we can ap-
Preci. ite the facts and follow the reasoning upon
'whie h the great truth of the sanative influence
°I el imate is established. It is, indeed, delight-
-141 t 0. find—and to find upon such authority-
-141. When the poor invalid has well nigh ex-
se-Vea pharmacopoeias -and his own stamina,
foal to a -certain climate, adapted to the-na-
dor tf his ailments, may afford speedy restores
hut , the health he had long ceased to know
s a
Th e Memory of the past.
ksow Present edition of Sir James Clark's well-
With, n 'Volume bears evidence of the- diligence
since additional information has been sought
of ti, the appearance of the last. The characters
majority of climates described are illus-
stati:, by fresh materials, and, in some instances,
of tia" Cal documents given to satisfy the doubts
tior,"4 most unbelieving. We read with satisfac-
has 'b" tat the general result of these new inquiries
itiew e en Perfectly confirmatory of the doctrines
Ale; tted in former editions.
its gut a_t°Bt every page- of the work testifies that,
con-v-,..50r writes upon conviction; - and that this
and llotion is the offspring of actual experience
in Qls•olonged investigation. And our confidence
ineu c: James Clark's assurances of the beneficial
os
."ce of change of climate upon the progress
and I*tain maladies—those of the digestive organs
etre lungs are the most fully referred to—is
adeell Zthened by his candid admission of the in-
loaT Ailey of such change to stay the onward
'eh of many other diseases. He very judi-
luily insists upon the precautions which must
el, **served hi the employment of this as of
e,erY other remedial agent. On this subject his
ser rations seem so important that we must
,11 -room for some of them
• 41 the body of the work I shall have many opportu-
nece,.._,'"f Pointing out how the various circumstances con-
slr;..,u....with change of climate operate in the renovation
I,49astitutions broken down by the long continuance of
tiu, diseases. Here, as in every other department of
„1164 a ling art, we must be guided by experience, and
rera 'I rest. satisfied with the amount of power which the
a. edY concedes to us. The charlatan may boast of
-.444 BP4ltqfie for many or for all diseases ; the
aa science knows that there exists scarcely
;I'4. 5.i0 ot
me
remedy for any disease which can warrant such
rit, °art, and that it is only by acting on, and through, the
it, au Toils and complicated functions of the living body,
ar4rious ways and by various means, and by carefully
(4,
.Jlting. our agents to the circumstances of each indivi-
tkei ease, that we can check or remove the disorders of
animal system, more especially those which have long
ilsted- Let it not then be imagined that a change of
s;Arnate, however powerful as a remedy, can be con-
ierecl
as at allpeculiar in its mode of action,
ator as
on the paprt either of the physician or pient,
e neglect of those precautions which are requisite
`-) ensure the proper action of other remedies. Had rnot
(isnsidersd climate a remedial agent of great value, and.
:eserving the utmost attention of medical men, the pre-
eut work would not have been undertaken ; but I
~31)°,111(1. feel that I was at once compromising- the dignity
,1 honour of my profession, and acting in direct opposi-
"h to the dictates 4i eper. knee, if I admitted for a
111,„L`)111 e-ht that it one possessing specific powers, or
,La"ell May be hidescriminatelY employed, Without re-
ri to the generaiand fundamental principles of medical
-ellee-"--lutroduction, p.
Among the conditions of which Sir James
."llark particularly treats, as capable of being
benefited by judicious:change of climate, is deli-
Zell in childhood and youth. This is perhaps the
t—,,°st important of all subjects, _because it refers
the-Period
affected
by external agency ofevery kind, whether
for good or for evil, and hence that at which re-
tnedial 'influence may be ernolnyed with the
strongest hopes of sticeess. • In this section we re-
.et?gnize the same spirit of cleSe observation, and
,ue same evidences of practical skill in the physical
irnagement of infancy, which have rendered
he author's work on consumption so truly valu-
able a
guide. Every mother should be in pos-
r-ssion of the facts established in the present wo-
e, relative to the effects of judicious change
Of climate at this period of life.
Sir James's work is divided into two parts. In
_ql,.e. first of these are described disorders
?./- 'the di restive organs, pulmonary consump-
'len, diseases of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi,
athrtis, gout, chronic rheumatism, delicacy in
childhood and youth, climacteric diseases,
and disordered health from various causes—all
of these, especially in their therapeutical con-
ilrr 2ection with the main subject of the volume.
the second, part, the writer, having made
some valuable remarksupon ventilation, and given
general directions for invalids makin7 a change
of- climate, proceeds to his analysis and
a most philosophic one it is of all
the iMportant climates which are cal-
efilated to improve the condition of suf-
ferers under- various diseases. England, Ire-
land, and Scotland are passed in review, then
1„,°110w the southern parts of France, Italy,
West
the Canaries, the-. Azores, and the
West Indies, even the climates of the
SOtithern hemisphere are not forgotten, and a
°using' Seetidn on mineral 4aters, both natural
and:factitious; Seems to leave nothing to desire.
It is superfluous to express an opinion as to

the merit of a work of which a third edition has
been called for, and which is, we are asured,
considered by the medical profession the Stand-
ard treatise upon the subject to which it is de-
voted. This much we may, nevertheless, be per-
mitted to say, that we are acquainted with no
volume, the circulation of which is so likely to
benefit that, unfortunately, too numerous class,
despairing sufferers front chronic disease.

MOORE'S POETICAL. WORKS. Vol. VIII.
Longman, London,-1841.
One of the most ambitious, but least success-
ful, of Moore's poems-Lthe " Loves of the
Angels"—is. contained in this volume, which
contains also several miscellaneous pieces,• to
gether with the greater portion of those ad-
mirable political jeu d'esprits which the author
contributed some years ago to the columns of
the Time. Of their kind nothing can surpass
the grace, ease, and point of these rhymed baga-
telles. Though slowly and carefully written—
for Moore has more than once told us that he is
a slow and painstaking writer—they wear all the
appearance of having been dashed off in a heat,
under the impulse of the most buoyant animal
Spirits. From time to time we meet with many
political squibs in the Daily Journals and other
periodical publications, but we have, as yet, met
with none that will bear an instant's comparison
with Moore's, who in this light, rapier play of
mingled wit and fancy, has lone been, and is long
likely to be, without a rival. The volume is em-
bellished with two engravings, one of which re-
presents a solitary young lady singing, withoat
shoes or stockings, on the sea-shore, while in the
distance appears a chernb, floating in mid-air,
with two huge wings growing out of his shoulder-
blades. The cherub is evidently liStening with
fixed attention to the lady's song, with which he
seems as much delighted as are the gallery-gods
of the Victoria Theatre, when Miss Vincent is en-
tertaining them with the classical ditty, " Nix,
my dolly pals, fake away." In his preface to the
volume, Mr. Moore indulges us with some plea-
sant gossip respecting his residence in Paris in
the year 1820, whither he was compelled for a
season to betake himself, in consequence—to
quote his own words—" of difficulties of a pecu-
niary nature, and to a large amount, in
which I had been involved by the conduct
of a person who acted as my deputy in.
the small office I held at Bermuda." Many
friends - came forward with offers of assist-
ance on this occasion, but Moore boldly and
manfully resolved to extricate himself from his
difficulties by his own industry, and declined
every offer made him. He thus speaks of him-
self and his prospects at this period of his career :
To write for the means of daily subsistence, and even
in most instances "to forestall the slow harvest of the
brain," was for me, unluckily, no novel task. But I had
now, in addition to these home calls upon the Muse, a
new, painful, and, in its first aspect, overwhelming exi-
gence to provide for ; and, certainly, Paris, swarming
throughout as it was, at that period, with rich, gay, and
dissipated English, was, to a person of my social habits
and multifarious acquaintance, the very worst possible
place that could have been resorted to for even the sem-
blance of a quiet or studious home. The only tranquil, and,
therefore, to me, most precious portions of that period
were the two summers passed by my family and myself
with our kind Spanish friends, the V l's, at
their beautiful place, La Butte Coaslin, on the road up
to Bellevue. There, in a cottage belonging to M.
V 1, and but a few steps from his house, we
contrived to conjure up an apparition of Sloperton ;* and
I was able for some time to work with a feeling of com-
fort. and home. I used frequently to pass the morning
in rambling alone through the noble park of St. Cloud,
with no apparatus for the work of authorship but my
memorandum-book and pencils, forming sentences to run
smooth, and moulding verses into shape. In the even-
ings I generally joined with Madame V lin
Italian duets, or, with more pleasure, sate as listener,
while she sung to the Spanish guitar those sweet songs
of her own country to which few voices could do such
justice.
One of the pleasant circumstances connected with our
summer visits to La Butte was the near neighbourhood
of our friend, Mr. Kenny, the lively dramatic writer,
who was lodged picturesquely in the remains of the Pa-
lace of the King's aunts, at Bellevue.. I remember, on
my first telling Kenny the particulars of my Bermuda
mishap, his saying, after a pause of real feeling, " Well,
it's lucky you're a poet ; a philosopher could never have
borne it." Washington Irving was also, for a short
time, our visitor ; and still recollects, I trust, his reading
to me some parts of his then forthcoming work, "Brace-
bridge Hall,' as we sate together on the grass walk that
leads to the Rocher, at La Butte.
Among the writings, then but in embryo, to which I
looked forward for, the means of my enfranchisement,
one of the most important, as well as the most likely to
be productive, was my intended " Life of Sheridan."
But I soon found that, at such a distance from all those
living authorities from whom alone I could gain any in-
teresting information.respecting the private life of one
who left behind him so little epistolary correspondence,
it would be wholly impossible to proceed satisfactorily
with this task. Accordingly I wrote to Mr. Murray and
Mr. Wilke, who were at that time the intended pub-
lishers of he work, to apprise them of this temporary
obstacle to its progress.
_Being thus baffled in the very first of the few re-
sources I had looked to, I next thought of a romance in
verse, in -the form of letters, or epistles ; and with this
view sketched out a story, on an Egyptian subject, dif-
fering not much from that which, some years after,
formed the groundwork:of the " Epicurean." After la-
bouring, however, for some months, at this experiment,
amidst interruption, dissipation, and distraction, which
might put all the nine muses to flight, I gave up the at-
tempt in despair-7-fully convinced of the truth and
warning conveyed in some early verses of my own, ad-
dressed- to the invisible girl :
" Oh hint to the bard, 'tis retirement alone

Can hallow his harp or ennoble its tone :
Like you, with a veil of seclusion between,
His song to the world let him utter unseen," &e.
• It was, indeed, to the secluded life I led during the
years 1813-1816, in a lone cottage among the fields, in
Derbyshire, that I owed the inspiration, whatever may
have been its value, of some of the best and most po-
pular portions of " Lalla Rookb." It was amidst the
snows of two or three Derbyshire winters that I found.
myself enabled, by that concentration of thought which
retirement alone gives, to call up around me some of the
sunniest of those eastern scenes which have since been
welcomed in India itself, as almost native to its clime.
Abortive, however, as had now been all my efforts to
woo the shy spirit of Poesy, amidst such unquiet scenes,
the course of reading Ifound time to pursue, on the sub-
ject of Egypt, was of no small service in storing my
mind with the various knowledge respecting that country,
which some years later I turned to account, in writing,
the story of the " Fpicurean." The kind facilities, in-
deed, towards this object, which some of the. most dis-
tinguished-French scholars and artists afforded me, are,
still remembered by me with thankfulness. Besides. my
old acquaintanc, Denon, whose drawings of Egypt, then
of some value, I frequently consulted, I found M. Fourier
and M. Langles no lesS-pronipt in placing books at my
disposal. With Humboldt, also, who was at that time
in Paris,• I had more than once some conversation on the.
subject of Egypt, and . remembered his expressing him-
self in no very laudatory, terms respecting the labours of
the French savans in that country.
I had now been foiled and frustrated in two of those
literary projects on which I had counted most sanguinely
in the calculation of my resources ; and, though I had
found sufficient time to furnish my. musical publisher
with the eighth number of the " Irish Melodies," and
also a number of the " National Airs,"- these works
alone, I knew, would yield but an insuficient supply,
compared with the demands so closely and threateningly
hanging over me. In this difficulty I called to mind a
subject—the Eastern allegory of the Loves of the Angels
which I had some years before, begun a prose
story, but in which, as a theme for poetry, I had now
been anticipated by Lord Byron, in one of the most sub-
lime of his poetical miracles, " Heaven and Earth."
Knowing how soon I should be lost in the shadow into
which so gigantic a precursor would cast me, I had en-
deavoured, by a speed of composition which must have
astonished my habitually slow pen, to get the start of my
Noble Friend in the time of publication, and thus give
Myself the sole chance I could perhaps expect, under
such unequal rivalry, of attracting to my work the at-
tention of the public. In this humble speculation, how-
ever, I failed ; for both works, if I recollect right, made
their appearance at the same time.
" A little cot, with trees arow,
And, like its master, very Iow."—POPE.

Iu the year 1822 Mr. Moore was freed from
his difficulties, when he instantly returned to
England, and, on receiving his publisher's ac-
count, had the gratification of finding a thou-
sand pounds placed to his credit from the sale of
the " Loves of the Angels," and five hundred
pounds from the "Tables of the Holy Alliance."

THE MARRYING MAN. 3 Vols.
The " Marrying Man" is by the author of
" Cousin Geoffrey"—a tale which we remember
to have read with pleasure. The present is not
equal to its predecessor; nevertheless it is worth
perusal, if only for the easy, unconstrained vi-
vacity with which some of the leading incidents
are related. The author does not pretend to
depth or novelty of character, but she skims the
surface of society gracefully, and wins upon the
good opinions of her readers by the perfect un-
affectedness of her manner. The tale is dedi-
cated to Theodore Hook.

THE ANTIQUARY.
Cadell, Loy.don, 1841.
A republication, in an octavo as well as a duo-
decimo form, of one of the best and earliest of
the Waverley novels. The editions contain the
author's prefaces, and all the notes, which he
affixed to the celebrated edition of 1831. This is
the first time that the "Antiquary" has ever
been so cheaply or so elegantly printed.

BIOGRAPHIES OF EMINENT PEBSONe.
Cadell, London, 1841.
We have here the fourth Part of the first vo-
lume of Sir Walter Scott's prose works, contain-
ing, among numerous other memoirs, biographi-
cal sketches of John Leyden, Charlotte Smith,
Lord Byron, and the Duke of York. That of
Lord Byron, which originally appeared in the

Edinburgh WcrLly Jou mai, exhibits a warmtl
of feeling unusual 'with Sir Walter Scott, whose
biographies, generally speaking, are by no means
-remarkable for this quality. His criticism on
Leyden, whose poem entitled " Scenes of In-
fancy" was once highly popular though now for-
gotten, is much too eulogistic for our taste, but,
indeed Scott did not 'often show to advantage as
a critic. The part got up with singular elegance.

TALES OF-A GRANDFATHER, Part IL Vol 3•
Cadell, London, 1841.
_

These popular historical tales are now issuing
in a cheap monthly form, and will no doubt, be
read with avidity by hundreds, who have now,
for the first time an opportunity of becoming ac-
quainted with them. We have seldom seen a
handsomer or more convenient edition than the
one before us, which is every way deserving of
public patronage.

MEETING AT LEICESTER.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
We have had a vast Meeting here to-day (Tuesday) in the
Market-place, in support of the Government plan, zs a step
to the total abolition of all taxes on the necessaries of life.
Extraordinary pains had been taken by the Chartists, (who,
to their disgrace, and the injury of their professed principles,
were closely combined with the Tories) to defeat the meeting ;
and the 'f or y faction, who rarely show their faces on these oc-
casions, assembled in considerable numbers. The Chartists.
too, had imported Messrs. Collins and Taylor, and the Tories
had persons in pay to disturb as much as possible the
order of the proceedings. But all was in vain. The
resolutions were carried by overwhelming majorities ;
though the Chartist amendment was cunningly contrived,
expressing only distrust and detestation of the Whigs,
which many might vote for, who would not support the bread-
tax. The same amendment was moved to every resolution,
but with the same result. The meeting lasted four hours and
a half; the Mayor was in the chair, and Messrs. Easthope
and Ellis, M. Ps. for the borough, addressed the multitude.
The combined factions had hoped to produce an effect on the
election, and their rage knows no bounds.