The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN% LONDON. THURSDAY EVI4INING, NOVEMBER 2, 1818.

Australian
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50
Bolonos Scrip ...... .... .....
British Iron
Brazilian Imperial ...... 241/2 —
Brazilian Cocaes& Cuiba 30

Do. St. John Del Rey 15
Cobra Copper . 40
General Mining
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures — —
Do. Red Ditto ... .....
Santiago de Cuba lO -
United Mexican 2B

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nor. 2.—Wind W.S.W., light breeze and
fine clear weather. _

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 31.—Wind E.S.E.—Nov. 1, Arrd.
Ferozepore, Grant, Bombay ; Josephine, Black, To-
basco, with loss of mizen mast in a hurricane off the
Bahamas, 26th ult.; Victoria, Le Grisly, Laguna; Kate
Hunter, Parsons, New York ; De Witt, Fans, ditto;
Boadicea, Lovett, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sir
Charles Napier, Robertson, Miratr;ehi ; Superb, Mit-
chell, Bay Chaleur ; Queen, Newlands, Quebec. 31st
ult. Sid. Chanticleer, Putt, Newfoundland. Nov. 1,
Countess of Minto, Allen, Mauritius ; Margaret Hardy,
Martin, Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ; Thorne'
Miller, Shadrock, Brazils ; Governor, Tarty, Jamaica ;
Harriett, Statt, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Missis-
sippi, Brian, Baltimore ; New York, New York ; Iron
Queen, Philadelphia.
DEAL, Nov. I.—Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd.
Caldew, Tindall, Demerara ; Sovereign, Holland, St.
John's, New Brunswick, and sailed for Hull. Arrd.
from the River, Index, May, St. Kitts. Sid. London,
Cape of Good Hope ; Albers, Rio Janiero ; West•
minster, New York. Put back, Parrock Hall, for St.
Kitts.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. I.—Wind N.E. to N.—Sid. Pio
Nono, Meyden, Valparaiso.
CowEs, Nov. I.—Wind N.—Arrd, Science, Howland,
St. Mary, United States.
BRISTOL, Nov. I.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Countess of
Durham, Quebec. Sld. Pomona, Watkins, Trinidad.
Orr PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Davenport,
Quebec for Hull.

GLOUCESTER, Nov. I.—Arrd. Nicaragua, Quebec.
CORE, OCT. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Averon, Cro-
tens, New York; Pageant, Darkins, New York.
BELFAST, OCT. 31.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. 29th, Sir
Colin Campbell, Campbell, Quebec; 30611, Jenne Adele,
Luco, Paimbceut.
FALMOUTH, Nov. I.—The Norma, late Rikkers, from
Laguna, was towed in here to-day, with loss of boat;
bulwarks, stanchion; yards, sails, &c., has experienced
a hurricane on the 24th of September, in lat. 46 N., lon.
31 W., during which the master and four men were
washed overboard.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
NEWOATE .&ND LESZLD E
Our market was heavy to-day, for each kind of
meat, and prices were with difficulty supported. Beef,
from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s
to 4s; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Sibs, by the
carcase.

MEAT

ITS.

SODTMALL, NOV. I.—Our market was heavy for
each kind of stock, and prices ruled quite 2d per 81bs
lower than on this day se'nuight. Beet', from 3s 2d to
4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s; and
Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 4d per Blbs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, Nov. I.—A full supply of stock. Prices
rather lower than last market day. Beef, from 3s 2d
to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s;
and Pork, 3s 10d to 45 4d per albs; Suckling Calves,
17s to 235; and quarter old store Pigs, 15s to 21s each.
LEWES, OCT. 31.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s ; Mut-
ton, 3s 6d to £s; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s; and Pork, 4s 4d
to 4s id per Sibs. Supply tolerably good and trade dull.
UAY MAZKETS.
SMETIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 15s; Clover,
ditto, 3/ to 51.; and straw, 11 2s to 1/ 10s per load.
Supply but moderate and trade tolerably firm.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 3/ 16s ;
Clover ditto, 31 12s to 41 17s; sad Straw, 11 4s to
11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a steady de-
mand.
WIITECPIAPEL.-11eadow Hay, 21 83 to 3/ 15s ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 12s to 5/.; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 11 lOs
per load. A slow trade at the above quotations.

COAL MARKE'I
Middle's W. Hartley 16s 3d
llasting's llartley l6s 3d
Jonassohns Hartley
Ord's Redheugh
Tanfield Moor
West Wylam
Wall's End, &C.
Gosforth .
Northumberland
Eden Main l9s Od
Lambton Primrose
Belmont l9s Od
Braddyll's Hetton l9s 9d

%--YZSTERDAY.

Bell
lietton .
Haswell 2os 3d
Lambton
Russell's Hatton
Stewart's
Caradoc
Heugh Hall
Th orn ley
Adelaide
(Tees
Skips at market, 43.

CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended Nov. 2, 1844, mado up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial quarter.
WHEAT. EARLEY] OATS. 1 I
RIM BTANS. I T/AS.
PRICE .. I lie Le! 32s 7d 20s 4d 28s 9d *7s 3d 40s Id

Monday 27th November.
- • . 18th December.
Ist January. 1849.
29th Jantmry.
26-h February.
9th April.
... 7th May.
11th June.
2d July.
- ••• ... 20th August.
- ••• ... 17th September.
... 22d October.
The Court then adjourned to Monday, November 27

MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN.
BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

" N(Aes notes! forsooth, and noting."
SIIAMPERE.

No. I.
CHERLTBINI
Was accustomed to compose frequently when surrounded
by friends. If his ideas did not flow quite so freely as
he could wish, he would borrow a pack of cards from
any one who chanced to possess it, and draw caricatures
of faces and heads within the pips which were redolent
of all kinds of humorous devices, for he was quite as
facile with his pencil as his pen, though history has
now emblazoned his name as enrolled among the
" honoured few" in that art in which he so pre-
eminently shone. He would then indulge in sometimes
quiet and subdued smiles, at others in boisterous and
;perry peals of laughter, which rarely failed to bestow
on his mind the imagination necessary to accomplish the
lesign on which he was engaged. Imagination was
indeed all that was needful to this great musician, for
he was one of the greatest theorists and contrapuntists
the cause of music ever boasted.
DOMENICO SCARLATTI.
It is well known that Thomas Roseingrave first in-
troduced to a British public the works of the great
pianofore writer Scarlatti. Roseingrave was very ec-
..ientric, and was the organist of St. George's, Hanover-
square. his father was Daniel Roseingrave, the organist
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. His description of
he emotion he experienced on first hearing Domenico
Scarlatti perform on the harpsichord is as curious and
interesting as his mode of relating it was amusing.
Making a short stay at Venice on his way to Rome, he
received an invitation as a stranger and a cognoscento, to
a concert at the palazzo of a noble. In due time ho was
invited to sit down at the harpsichord and oblige the
company with an extemporaneous performance as
specimen della virtu of his musical abilities. " Feeling,
as he afterwards said, " rather in better courage and
finger than usual, I exerted myself, and imagined by the
applause I received, that my performance had made
some impression on the company." The guests were
then treated to a cantata which was sung by a pupil of
Gasparini, and after that a solemn and grave-looking
young man, drt ssed "in robes of midnight hue," with a
sable wig to match, and who had stood silently in ono
corner of the room, very quietly and attentive, when
Roseingrave played, was invited to sit down to the harp-
sichord. When the stranger began to play
Roseingrave
used to narrate in a manner so comic as scarcely to be
described,—" I thought at least ten hundred devils had
been at the instrument, for I had never heard such pas-
sages of execution or such novel effects before. His per-
formance so far surpassed mine, and every degree of
perfection at which I had thought it possible I should
ever arrive, that if I had been within reach of any in-
strument with which I could have committed the deed,
I verily believe I should have cut off my fingers." To
his inquiry as to the name of this miraculous performer,
(for his time, let it be understood, however,) he received
the reply," Domenico Scarlatti." Ile was the son of the
celebrated Scarlatti; and Roseingrave was wont to asse-
verate that he did not after this display touch his instru-
ment for a month.
JARNOWICS _
_ _

Being on one occasion in the bureau of Bailleux,-the
music seller, or as the foolish Parisians lay, "Editeur de
Alusique," accidentally broke a pane of gass. The keen,
avaricious eyes of Bailleux twinkled in a moment, pro-
ducing a corresponding twitch on both sides of his
mouth. " Those who break windows must pay for
them !" exclaimed he. " Right !" replied Jarnowick,
" right ! What is the damage?" "Thirty sous 1"
" Well then ! there's a three-franc piece." " I have no
change, Monsieur ! "Oh never mind," rejoined the
imperturbable Jarnowick, at the same time dashing his
erne through a second square, " there now, we are quits."
MUSIC OF NATURE.
•

Among the Javanese there exists a tradition which
relates, that their first idea of music arose from the cir-
cumstance of one of their ancestors having heard the air
make a melodial sound as it passed through the hollow
of a bamboo, tube which happened to be hanging acciden-
tally from a tree. It induced him to imitate it. Thus,
perhaps, may be derived the fable that music descended
from heaven. They have a very curious species of
celian instrument formed of bamboo, very common to
some of the Australasian isles, which emits as well some
very fine tones as elicits some most discordant notes.
H NDEL'S RIVAL.

Sarah Duchess of Marlborough (vide her Private Cor-
respondence, published in 1838) made in her private jour-
nal the following entry: " 1737—1 am i❑ pursuit of get-
ting the finest piece of music that ever was heard ; it is a
thing that will play eight tunes. Handel and all the
great musicians say it is beyond anything they can do,
and this may be performed by the most ignorant person.
And when you are weary of those eight tunes, you may
have them changed for any other you like. This I think
much better than going to an Italian opera or to an
assembly. This performance has been lately put into a
lottery, and all the Royal Family chose to have a great
many tickets rather than to buy it, the price being, I
think, ONE THOUSAND POUNDS, infinitely less than some
bishoprics have been sold for (!:), and a gentleman won it
who, I am in hopes, will sell it, and if he will I will buy
it, for I cannot live to have another made, and I will
carry it into the country with me." In honest faith the
grinder of this delectable instrument,." which plays eight
tuneo," might have been in time no unformidablo rival of
the " modern Briareus," as Pope called him—Handel!—
if the hydra headed monster Fashion had followed in
the same wake as Sarah Dnehess of, Marlborough.
HAYDN

A short time subsequent to his return to Vienna mot
Prince Lobkowitz, then as well recogp,zed as a great
protector of music and patron of its votaries, as a theo•
rc-ticiau and practical virtuoso of no mean order. by
have you never written au instrumental quintets?" he in-
quired of Haydn. To this tho great-souled German re •
plied that he had never for one instant dreamed of such
a thing till he had heard Mozart's celebrated quintetts,
and that he found those so sublime and perfect that he
could not presume to put himself, as it were, in competi-
tion with so illustrious a composer. "Well, then," re-
turned the Prince, "do not think of that; write me one,
and you shall have no cause of which to complain!"
Urged in this manner, Haydn set strenuously to work,
and in a short time laid his manuscript before the Prince.
Running his eye over the first page, he beheld a score of
five lines, but of which the fourth was vacant of notes.
Ha took no notico of this at first, imagining that Haydn,
in common with some other composers, had commenced
the quintett in four parts, intending to add the fifth at
some other time; but no! on inspectin2; the whole manu-
script he found the same line empty throughout. Turn-
ing to the smiling composer he exclaimed," How is this,
my dear Haydn? You appear to have forgotten the
fifth part." "Oh no! your Highness,.
was the reply of
Haydn, " I have Mt it for you to fill up; you will do it
better than I can." As cunning and courtierlike a reply
as ever emanated from the soldiarlike flattery of a
Richelieu or the more delicate and subtle brain of a
Machiavelli.

In the hull Packet of last
Week, there is a report
of a case tried at the County Courts, Hull, on the 2I at
of October, in which Thomas Dixon, cook and seaman,
sought to recover 91. 35., from Mr.
William Brown, being
wages due to him had hea
plaintiff allowedn
to go the voyage
idn
in the Stentor. The
puttingdetailed all the circum
stances connected with the back of the ship into
Grimsby Roads, and swore most distinctly that he offered
to the master to proceed with
would have her properly repaireda
the
shndsui pr , y
eyed provided h
,seet h aet
it might be proved that she
condi-
tion. Other seamen were calredes iin a seaworthy a
brief absence, the jury came i n corroboration. After
n
calculation of what was due tottho court, having made a
giving in the verdict they asked plaintiff, but before
re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff, w the Judge if they
hether or not it would
affect the sea-worthiness of the vessel ? On being told
that it would, the foreman said they would return a ver-
diet for the defendant, but, at the same time recommended
him to make some allowance to the
plaintiffhe had been employed on board the vessel.
for the timethis
jury composed o• Irish, and of the proscribed creed?
IRISH FISHERIES.—BENEFITS OV CURING STA-
TIONS.—We have heard from one of the curing stations,
Killybegs, where they have a considerable quantity of
dried fish cured in the most superior style—that the
prospects are most cheering. In ono week of the early
part of last month 300 barrels of fish were cured; and
during the last week 30,000 fish were caught and cured
at this one station. What a proof this is of what may
be done by perseverance. These fish-curing stations are
admirable model schools for the neighbouring fishermen.
The Parliamentary reports now before us show how pro-
fitably these curing establishments have been conducted.
(here really is no more legitimate—no more safe field
for speculation in Ireland; and we are truly gratified to
learn that the efforts of the Board of Works, as fishery
commissioners, have induced enterprising individuals to
enter into this most profitable trade.—The Advocate (a
new Dublin paper).
PROVIDENTIAL ESCATE.—On Wednesday morning
the guards upon the nine o'clock train observed, on run-
ning up the platform to tho North-Western station at
Euston-square, a man walking up the line, and imme-
diately put on the breaks with great force, so as mate-
rially to reduce the speed of the train. The first carriage,
however, struck the man violently across. the loins, and
hurled him sixteen feet from the spot. lie fell between
the rails, and the train passed over him; but, beyond
some severe bruises, he was unhurt. The man, whose
name is Hebert, says he was quite aware of his dreadful
position the moment he fell; and that he knew if he
escaped death by the carriages that he should be safe,
unless the train were propelled by an engine in the rear;
and in this horrible uncertainty he lay crouched up,
awaiting his fate, till aroused to a knowledge of his safety
by the astonished bystanders.
SUICIDE FROM THE DAHLIA, RIYER I,TRAM-DOLT.
—Mr. Bedford held an inquest yesterday, at the West-
minster Hospital, on the body of Jane Brett, aged 64, of
No. 14, Red Lion-street. The deceased, it appeared,
had for some time been out of her mind, and having
attempted to hang herself a short time ago, her family
closely watched her. On Monday last, as she appeared
quite calm and collected, she was allowed to go out alone.
She went directly to London bridge, got on board the
Dahlia steamer, and on reaching Westminster-bridge
leaped into the water. A hitcher was extended to her,
and, though she twice thrust it away, she was caught
and taken ashore, after she had been in the water about
two minutes. She was then alive and sensible, but she
died ten minutes after her admission to the hospital.
Verdict, <<Temporary insanity.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.— On Tuesday, the 31st
ult., were married at Petworth Church, by the Rev.
Thomas Jockett, rector, Richard Southweli Bourke,
Esq., eldest son of Robert Bourke, Esq., of Hayes, in
the county of Meath, to Blanche, third daughter of
Colonel Wyndham, of Petworth, Sussex. At the close
of the ceremony the bridal party returned to Petworth
House, where a sumptuous dejeuner was prepared; soon
after the bride and bridegroom departed for Sandhurst,
the seat of the .[lon. Francis Scott.

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKTVOOD.
Decidedly the most felicitous contribution in the
November number of Blackwood is the article entitled
" What is Spain About ? " The writer is no sui erfi
cial observer of the progress of events in the Perlin
sula. His scrutiny penetrates through the murky
atmosphere which has latterly enveloped Madrid, and
which is principally attributable to the misrepresen-
tations of the Herald() and the other mendacious pub-
lications in the pay of Narvaez and Christina. That
our estimate of the importance of the Carlist move-
ment in the northern provinces, is coincident with
that of Blackwood, we need scarcely declare after the
appearance (now some eight or ten days since) of the
leading article, in which we tracked the rise and
progress of the great cause under the ban-
ners of the indefatigable and heroic Ca-
brera. Maga takes precisely the same view
of the chances in favour of Montemolin, and certainly
the patriotic dream of Escosura seems to be very
rapidly approaching its realisation. By the amalga-
mation of the Carlists of the vielle and of the lende
main (for there are both), with the vast party of the
Progressistas, the miserable creatures who uphold
the ricketty power of Valencia and Rianzares must
inevitably and speedily be outnumbered. Especially
is this the case, now that the most distinguished and
enlightened Progressistas Escosura and Olozaga,
and we might even say Espartero among the fore-
most—have recognised the accuracy of the opinion
expressed more than a year back by a Spanish gentle-
man of intellect and patriotism—" Las voluntades de
todos 8C acordarian facilmente silos qua los dirigen
supieran der un egemplo de nuzgnanimidad, sin aban-
donar lo que es deber y prudencia guardar." That
prototype of patriotic plasticity has been afforded, and
the result must very soon be conspicuous in the
events which are now on the eve of transpiring in
Catalonia and the adjacent provinces. Our
old friend Dunshunner revels in an absurd
caricature of " Germany and its Parliament." The
deductions of the writer are something miraculous
after his acknowledgment that the infinitessimai divi-
sion and sub-division of Germania into thirty-eight
independent sovereignties is subversive of all
nationality, and incompatible with the maintenance
of a prolonged tranquillity. The political article in the
number is an earnest demand for " Conservative
Union," preceded by an eulogistic allusion to the late
leader of the Opposition, the gallant but headstrong
Bentinck. The excessive empressement with which
Ebony entreats Sir Robert Peel to abandon the idea
of ever again leading those country gentlemen of
England who are still infatuated with Protection, is
to us marvellouslydroll, and will prove, we doubt not,
equally funny to the illustrious Baronet himself. It
is as wild an entreaty as though some little cantan-
kerous urchin were to implore the moon not to come
down and gambol with it in the nursery. Never
fear, say we, Sir Robert has no ambition ever
again to bestride the Rozinante of obsoleteism. In
the course of an entertaining paper on " The Naval
War of the French Revolution we meet with a
very ingenious calculation of the forces at Waterloo
—the Allied Forces being described as merely 40,000
strong, of raw recruits of all nations and languages,
and tactics and uniforms, while Napoleon's army is
said to have consisted of 80,000 veterans ! Will the
truth never be admitted ? Shall the perverse spirit
of the notorious charlatan, Colonel Mitchell, infect
even the honest heart of Blackwood? Why history
defies a disproof of the fact that Napoleon's
army (composed of conscripts hurriedly collected
together by the Pere Violette during the Hundred
Days) was outnumbered from the dawn of the 18th
of June, 11115, and that on the evening of that day,
when the Prussians arrived on the field of battle, the
allies were very nearly two to one when contrasted
with their antagonists! Let the truth be spoken at
all hazards. Fiat justitia ruat ca'lum. It has be-
come the prescriptive right, as it were, of those Eng-
lishmen who are vain-gloriously disposed to belaud
the Duke of Wellington until the ignorant would
imagine him to be at last a demi-god in the science of
war. History will say whether the General who was
fighting for five years in the Spanish Peninsula against
a few of the superfluous or supernumerary legions of
France, and who afterwards (by the help of a vast
preponderance of numbers and of the convenient
treachery of Grouchy and Fouche) gained a single
battle in Belgium, is to be even named in the same
breath with the great warrior who conquered nations
in Asia, in Africa, and in Europe; who at different
times vanquished Egypt, and Italy, and Holland, and
Germany, and Spain, and Portugal, and Prussia, and
Austria, and Russia; whose banners floated in
triumph over all the great capitals of the Continent,
over Milan, and Rome, and Naples, and Berlin, and
Vienna, and Madrid, and Lisbon, and Moscow; who
from a sub-lieutenant of artillery became an Emperor
and a King, and who gave laws to the millions of
Europe through a code which invests him with the
glory of a Lycurgus or a Justinian. History will
speak—in a voice of thunder. After the final portion
of "Life in the Far West," there is a graceful
memento of one of the most youthful and promising
contributors to Blackwood, we mean the late "George
G,,,Fh,eereonedrEtgaeierrgysihck
,otbneynlzton
tthtu ." " Satires and Caricatures of
Eighteenth
Mr.cC oernvtircui
gr memorials
saa wp loeraoksfn
tnahlt
already
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gncni
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by ourselves. There are two poetical contributions
in the current number; one by W. E. A., called the
" Danube and the Euxine," full of vigour and
melody ; the other " 9. Call," which evidently testifies
that the lady who penned the verses has no " call"
whatever herself to the art of poesy. Besides the
articles already enumerated, there is a notice of the
Castlereagh Papers, and a slashing review of the
feuillitenists in a chapter headed a " Parcel from
Paris." So much for the variety and excellence of
Blackwood in November.

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
The very first page of Bentley this month presents
to our view a most effective drollery by Leech, " Dr.
Dodge in the Apple-room." The school eclogue, of
which this is an illustration, is a dry quaint bit of
humour. George Hodder dishes up a Tete de ems,
au saven. Abraham Elder furnishes an account of a
marvellous wild beast tamer; and Alfred Crowquill
gives a humorous fairy tale, of which the genius of
Crochet is the heroine. These are the lighter ar-
ticles. As a transition from the gay to the grave, we
have Albert Smith's "Recollection of a Cheap Tour."
The corps of Bentley is rich in tourists. Mr. War-
ren continues the narrative of his "Adventures on the
Banks: of the Amazon ;" and the author of " Way-
side Pictures," continues his delightful reminiscences
of Normandy and France. Avranches and Mont
St. Michel are the subjects on which he treats
in this number. His picture of the gloomy
old fortress Mont St. Michel is admirable,
and the legends which he relates of the old Mount
are full of interest, and are excellently well told.
His picture of Avranches, with its hilly streets,
muddy lanes, and picturesque neighbourhood, is a
perfect daguerreotype. The following observations on
the character of the English residents at Avranches
are well worthy the study of all who desire to settle
in remote Continental or Channel islands, or even out-
of-the-way English watering places, " to live cheap."
The seeker of " cheap living presents every where
the same characteristics :
" It is a strange thing that we cannot agree amongst
ourselves in settlements which we select for our own
con .'e sience, and where it is so essential to our comfort
to promote cordiality and good-fellowship. But an
Englishman carries with him, wherever he goes, two ,
obstinate antipathies : first, a disrelish, or contempt, for '
everything that is not English ; second, a freezing sus-
picion and distrust of everything that is. He moves in a
repellant atmosphere, shuts himself up in a crust of
prejudices, and has a way of disdaining the people,
whose resources he has come to eat up, and at the same
time of shunning his own countrymen, which is irre-
concilable with common sense. He dislikes the French
because they are French, and avoids the English because
they are English. Such is literally the logic of his
national aversions. In places like Avranchcs, which
are selected on the common ground of cheapness, this
latter antipathy shows itself in its most unworthy
asps 3t. An Englishman will have it believed that every-
body has come there for economy, except himself; and
his conduct implies a sort of superiority over them
which must be unintelligible to people like the French,
who never suffer such considerations to interfere with
their sympathies, or interrupt the flow of social inter-
course. The prevailing occupation of a community that
thus sits in judgment on itself is scandal of the meanest
kind. Each individual seems to think the depreciation
))f other people's character indispensable to the elevation
of his own. He shines by the force of contrast. He
makes out his case, not upon its own merits, but by
damaging the case of the gentleman over the way.
Next-door neighbours supply the whole business of life.
They cannot dress, dine, walk without being exposed to
an incessent inqule colonyisition. in
n abt
o factions
i tuel defamationthathave. graduallyve their
co ha
splits up the
distinct circles holding no intercourse with the rest, and
waging against each other that bitterest of all species of
warfare, which, not content with open manifestations of
derision and hostility, penetrates to the secrets of house-
holds, end strikes its shafts into the core of domestic life:,
We have vet enother I raveller to whom to pay our
homage—Mrs. Ward, who in the " Emigrant Party"
breaks, comparatively speaking, new ground, and
introduces vs to the Boers and Hottentots, and Kafirs
of the wilds of Southern Africa. Mrs. Ward is a
most agreeable traveller, and we trust that this will
not be the last Treck of which she will give
es a narrative. This number is likewise
rich in biography. Besides an account of
the latter years of the Emperor Charles V.,
we have an interesting biography of Maria Edge-
worth, and another of poor Captain Marry at, the
latter illustrated by a life-like portrait. We have
also an elaborate review of the Fairfax manuscripts,
which may likewise, perhaps, be classed under the
head of biography. Maxwell continues his painful
yet powerful " Queen's Bench Sketches," and he cer-
tainly goes far to prove the truth of the dictum of
Lord Eldon—" The law of arrest for debt is a per-
mission to commit greater oppression and inhumanity
than-
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Mr. Dudley Costello, with all the zest of a
bachellor, tell.; of the "Adventures of a Wedding
Tour," and Mr. John Oxenford, throwing aside for
once the wizard garment of a translator, recounts
the fortunes of the Princess Adelaide, and
depicts the marvels of Sir Strado's " Castle of
Schildheiss." The names of the writer, familiarised
by a thousand pleasant memories, will of themselves
be ample guarantee for amusement. A Dr. Robert-
son Noel tries to be very funny a la Barham in
travestying the "Legend of the most holy St. Dun-
stan, Archbishop of Canterbury." Let him hence-
forth be aware of this, that he has not even a
rag of the selvidge of the cloak of Ingoldsby.
Cyrus Redding resumes his " Reminiscences of
Campbell," and is as agreeably gossipping as
ever. In addition to the foregoing, we have
a sonnet by Captain Med win ; and further con-
tributions from Long, Rowcroft, Napier, and Jolly
Green.