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London, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1838.

The French Papers of Wednesday have been
received, but they "contain no later news from
Madrid than the 24th ult. They, however, fur-
nish copious details of the late military move-
ments which terminated so favourably for the
cause of the QUEEN. The insurgents were
daily becoming more dispirited, and were
seeking safety, by returning to their homes,
or proceeding to France. Sorre Carlist bands
still held together in the North of Valencia,
but the city itself was quite loyal and quiet!
Generals SA ARSFIELD, CASTAGNON, and EL
PASTOR were combining their operations so as
totally to put down the rebels. In Bilboa a
reaction has taken place in favour of the QUEEN,
1,500 young men of that city having volun-
teered their services in support of the Go-
vernment.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Pints, Dec. 4.
Five per Cents., 103 f. 10c. 20c.
Three per Cents., 75f. 86c. 76f.110c.
Bank Actions ~79.5 f.
Rente de Naples, 92f. 20c.
Roman 1 ive per Cents., 89%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 1756.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 57%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 83%.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 64%;
Belgian Loan, MIL Five per Cent., 96%.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. :30c. ; money, —f. —c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 20c.
—Cuurs Authentique.

At the Josephian Society dinner, which took
place on Wednesday last at Dublin, and at which
Mr. O'CONNELL attended, and delivered, as
usual, a " thundering" philippic against the
Union, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman took
occasion to observe that the editor of the
Alorning Chronicle had threatened to assassinate
him. This is the second obnoxious individual
it seems, that that blood• thirsty Redacteur has
threatened "to dispose of." He has already
thrown COBBETT into fits, and has now terrified
O'CONNELL into convulsions. Was the like
ever heard of ?

Our readers will see with pleasure, both by
remarks, dated the frontiers of Prussia, which
assume to be very profound as to the feeling of
England with respect to foreign interference.
It seems that a French messenger was returning in
great haste from St. Petersburgh with a supposed
answer to some remonstrances by the French
Government on the subject of the recent treaty
between Russia and the Porte, and the writer
of the article in question affects to know that the
answer is the same as that returned by the Porte.
The conduct of France, in presuming to ask
the question, is deemed inconsiderate by the
Prussian scribe.

VIENNA, Nov. 25.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 93
15 32; 4 per Cent. 82A Bank Stock 1,1921 —Allge-
meine Zeitung, Nov. 30.

We have frequently expressed our regret at
the Testrictions imposed upon the commercial
interauise blween France and this country by
the customs' laws ()Idle two countries, and have
called upon thd two Governments to establish a
system more in harmony with the friendly rela-
tions which subsist between them in other
respects. Whether our efforts have contributed

towards establishing a better understanding is not
for us to say, but it is evident from the state-
ments in the Paris Papers, and from what has
reached us through a private channel, that six
months will not pass over without a total revision
of the customs' laws in France, and a further
revision of them in this country. Whilst the
old Aristocracy of the two nations have been
endeavouring to embarrass and distress the middle
classes in revenge for the loss of their own un-
fair privileges, the higher order of commercialists
have been steadily and zealously labouring to
improve the condition of all classes of society
who are dependent on industry for support,
without regard to national prejudices, whether
sanctioned by long duration, or upheld by the
authorities. Rapidly as we have travelled in the
road of amelioration, it is still but just to say
that if the French have not travelled quite so
rapidly, it was not because the educated portion
of the French nation had a lesser conviction of
the importance of abolishing the absurd restric-
tions of their predecessors than ourselves. It

has been usual with Englishmen of late years,
when speaking of the comparatively slow move-
ments of the French, to say, that they do not
travel by steam ; but if we mistake not, there will
soon he a sharp rivalry between the two nations
in every affair respecting which industry
and enterprize will admit of honourable com-
petition. Few persons except the bigotted
admirers of the rust and filth of old sys-
tems, will regret to see two nations who,
when under the direction of ambitious or weak
rulers, never entered the field of competition
except in deadly strife, struggling to outvie
each other in the pursuits of industry and the
cultivation of science. Just as our own national
honour and interests have been promoted by
internal rivalry in all the arts of production and
the general purposes of trade, will the honour
and interests of Great Britain and France be
promoted by the struggle for commercial and
manufacturing superiority between themselves.
Their rivalry, too, will be unattended even with
the little ill feeling which we sometimes find be-
tween town and town, for if on one point the
preference be yielded to England, on another it
may be given to France, and thus they will become
convinced of their respective means of produc-
tion and perfection, and, having established a
proper reciprocity, each country will be able to
command a market in every part of the world.
Thank God, none now but old aristocrats, or
uneducated men of the lowest grade, retain any
of the prejudices which have so long prevented
the existence of a reciprocity of this sort, and the
day is at hand when it will be established on a
basis which nothing can shake.
The French Ministry, sensible of the im.
portance of placing the commercial relations of
the two countries on a better footing, have in-
vited the leading merchants and manufacturers
in different parts of France, to communicate freely
the objects which they desire and the views which
they entertain, preparatory to the commencement
of the next Sessio❑ of the Chambers; and there
are at this moment in Paris several of the most
able and enlightened men from the different
departments, for the sole purpose of expressing
to the Minister of Commerce their concurrence
in the plans which he proposes for the abolition
of prohibitory laws, and of restrictions which
produce a similar effect. They hope, by their
presence and influence, to strengthen the Minis-
try against that party in the Chamber which,
from mistaken or corrupt views, will support an
opposition based upon prejudice, and to con-
firm it in the right course where, but for such
sanction, it would be likely to waver, and so
lose the opportunity which now offers to over-
throw all the remaining obstacles to a permanent
commercial and political alliance with Great
Britain, which the united strength of all the
other powers of Europe could not shake.

Under the usual head will be found articles
from morning papers, relating to the conduct of
certain corporations which, with less discretion
than such experienced hands ought to possess,
have been making themselves rather notorious.
To-day we have only space to refer our readers
to the observations of our Contemporaries.

Our readers will see with pleasure, both by
the report of the proceedings of the Common
Council yesterday, and the advertisement in our
front page, that the Court have voted Captain
Ross the freedom of the City, in a box of Bri-
tish oak worth 50 guineas, and his nephew their
thanks. This must be as gratifying to the two
gallant seamen concerned, as it is honourable to
the Corporation.

At the meeting which took place in the City
last week, for the purpose of forming an Anti-
Corn Law Society, to consist of thirty members
only, Mr. HAwEs, M.P. for Lambeth in the
chair, a pamphlet on the Corn Laws was read,
which excited some amusement. A copy of it
has since reached our hands, and we are not
surprised at its affording amusement to men
excited upon the subject. It is in the form of
a petition to Parliament against any change in
the Corn Laws, advancing the arguments in
favour of a change, and then pretending to do
away with them by giving the Tory answers
to those arguments. There are few posi-
tions advanced in it with which we do not
concur, but it hardly follows the course which
the circumstances of the time require. The
author of the pamphlet in question addresses
himself more to those already convinced that
the corn laws are unjust than to those who
think them beneficial. We fear that as long
as a man thinks a particular step advantageous
to him, he will not very readily listen to argu-
ment showing its injustice. Now the object,
we conceive, that should engage the chief atten-
tion of those who desire to see a free trade in
food, is to show farmers and landowners that
not only does not the corn laws do them good,
but that they are actually injurious to them. Earl
EtTzwILLIAAt, enlightened as he is, would, we
imagine, have been slow to perceive the in-
justice of the law he once advocated, had he not

been first made to feel its injury. For eighteen
years have farmers and landowners had their
beloved restrictions, and every year has wit-
nessed their increasing distress. Had the corn
laws been suffered to remain in 1815 in the
state they had been for years, that is, with a
virtually free trade, and the same dis-
tress had overtaken them, they might have
had a shadow, and but a shadow, of
reason for saying that it was occasioned by the
want of protection. But they have had pro-
tection in every form, and are now more dis-
tressed than ever. This is the time, therefore,
to urge upon them the futility of the course
they are pursuing ; this is the time to make
them at least listen to the arguments in favour
of a more liberal and honest course. But al-
though we should desire to see a larger propor-
tion of the publications which are daily issuing
from the press on the subject of the corn laws
apply themselves to that view of the question,
any discussion of it must be useful. The fol-
lowing extract will give our readers some idea
of the style of the pamphlet before us :
" 14. That (i. e. according to the said rnalignants) a
notion had for a long time obtained currency and general
assent, and was acted upon by Government as an infallible
axiom, that the importation from abroad of commodities
was an evil, and that the specific advantage of foreign
commerce consisted in exporting commodities from this

country.
" Which axiom we trust your Lordships, in your
wisdom, will always hold fast."
• • • •
" 17. That (i. e. according to said malignant.) such
doctrine, however, reduces itself to the assertion, that it
is a good thing to get rid of many things, and to receive
few in return.

" Which assertion, however, your Lordships, in your
wisdom, have always upheld.

" 18. That the object -of getting rid of commodities,
might be more easily obtained by the practice of burning
than by exporting the same.
" Which course, as your Lordships are well aware,
that wise and good nation, the Dutch, have fre-
quently practised, and which, in times of super-
abundant crops, might be beneficially adopted to
remedy the evils of overproduction, not guarded
against by your Lordships' corn law.
" 19. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the
contrary principle is founded in truth and reason.
" Which would he quite contrary to your Lordships'
hereditary wisdom, and must therefore be false.

" 20. That, in fact (i. e. according to said malignants),
exports are the payment for imports, and are the disad-
vantages attending on national commerce, as much, as in
individual purchases, the payment constitutes the disad-
vantage, to which we submit, because we cannot obtain
the commodities which we want without such payment.
" Which comparison not having been sanctioned by
your Lordships, must be rejected. .

" 21. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the
national object and benrfit of foreign trade consists entirely
in the importing and supplying ourselves with such foreign
commodities as are in demand and wanted.

" Which is a new doctrine, contrary to what your
Lordships have ever countenanced.

" 22. That (1. e. according to said malignants) if all
the commodities of the world could be imported, without
exporting a single thing in return,—that would be the
most profitable state of foreign commerce. .

:' Whereas your Lordships have clearly sanctioned the
more rational principle, that we should get rich, if
we could export every thing we have, and import
nothing whatsoever. _ _ .

" 23. That-(i. e. according to said malignants) a false
notion prevailed in former times about the injury arising
from the exporting of the precious metal ; but that these
are, in fact, only a commodity, with which, as with any
other commodity, neither an individual, nor a whole
nation, would part, unless they could get something in re-
turn, which they value more.
" Which monstrous and innovating doctrine, we are
sorry to find, is now pretty generally assented to,
notwithstanding your Lordships' legislative autho-
rity to the contrary."

These extracts may be said to relate to free
trade generally. The following relate more
immediately to the subject matter before us :

" 24. That it may e. according to said innovators)
be assumed as an axiom, that those commodities, which
are most readily saleable, are most wanted by the people at
large, and may be considered as more useful to them than
the money or other commodities which they are willing
to give for the same.

" Whereas your Lordships, on account of your
Lordships' hereditary wisdom and virtue, ought to
be considered the best judges of the people's wants.
" 25. That (i. e. according to said malignants) the
prohibiting the importation of food proves your Lordships'
apprehension that there would be a ready sale for the
same, which means, in fact, that you know that it is
wanted.

" Which is a way of reasoning not to be sanctioned
by your Lordships.
_ _ _

"26. That (i. e. according to said malignants) if there
was not a peat want of foreign corn, it would not be
readily saleable ; in which case none would be imported,
even had we no Corn Laws, and that therefore the very
existence of the Corn Laws is a proof of their injustice
and absurdity.
" Which, we trust, your Lordships will declare to be
an untenable piece of sophistry."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

LITERATURE.

SONGS OF THE LOIRE AND OTHER
POEMS. LONDON, 1834.

The songs contained in the present volume
were--so the author assures us in his preface—
" sang with delight on the banks of the bright
and beautiful Loire," and he therefore hopes
that they will meet with the " indulgent suffer-
ance of a generous and enlightened French and
English public." We hope so too, more espe-
cially as the poet's chaunting was less a matter
of choice, than of necessity. He sang, not so
much to keep " the golden harmonies of creation"
in countenance—though this had some weight
with him—as because, had he remained " silent
and songless;" he might have been considered
" soulless," and it was necessary to his charac-
ter for sensibility that, like a sparrow on the
house-tops, or a pelican in the wilderness, he
should chirp and quaver away the foul imputa-
tion. Now though we by no means see the
cogency of this reasoning (for surely gentlemen
who wander along the banks of the Loire, are
not bound also to sing to it !) yet as the
author has evidently chaunted from a sense of
what was due to his character as a man of feel-
ing, he deserves all the praise which such a stern
consciousness of duty is calculated to inspire.
We repeat, therefore, our hope that his volume
may prove successful, though we cannot flatter
him on this score. lie sings, not like a night-
ingale, but a tom-tit, and though his ditties
may " delight" the Loire, we fear they will make
no impression on the Thames. The bulk of his
poems are made up of trite allusions to " Flora,"
" Zephyr," the " star of Eva," " Bacchus,"
" Venus," and such like common-places, which
are now repudiated even by a fourth-form boy at
Eton. He is also sadly addicted to the amo-
rous ; writes about love as if it were a sugar-
plum ; and tells strange tales about the covies
of shepherdesses that he put up on the banks of
the Loire. Among his chief favourites is a
certain " Maid of Anjou," whom he implores
to listen to his " evening lay"—but without ef-
fect, we fear, for he writes in wretched spirits, as
the following specimen, with which we must
close our hasty notice, will testify :

Maid of Anjou ! stay, 0 stay !
Let me tell thee all my grief :
Listen to my evening lay,
Though it be both sad and brief.

I from proud Albana's isle,
Speed with hope, and full of love;
Let me gaze upnn thy smile,
That I may no longer rove.
Wilt thou grant me my behest,
Wilt thou be to me as wine?
And beside me take thy rest,
When we bow to will Divine?

THE COMIC ANNUAL-LONDON, 1834.

At the close of a preface, full, as usual, of
quaint conceits and "right merrie jests," Mr.
Hood says, " With this introduction I commend
my fifth volume to its buyers and sellers, and
throw up my literary heels, exclaiming with the
Peri,

" Joy, joy for ever--my task is done—
The gate is passed, and Heaven is won."

This conceit he illustrates by a sketch of an

animal flinging up his heels in the face of a
grinning clown ; but, with a singular absence of
selkomplacency, makes the lively quadruped—
whose face is hid behind a hedge—look uncom-
monly like an ass ! Luckily, Mr. Hood can
afford to crack this joke upon himself, for the

author of " Eugene Aram' can never be mis-
taken for one of the long-eared fraternity. His
present Annual, if not better, is at least as good
as the best of its predecessors. The cuts alone
are sufficient to sustain its character. " A Legal
Conveyance" is a side-splitting caricature of the

very broadest nature. Four Ex-Chancelllors are•

seated in an omnibus, with a fifth chancellor as
the coachman, and the Devil as the conductor.

Of course the passengers' destination is evident,
and, to do them justice, they all seem resigned
to their fate, and quite at home. As for Satan,
he is a model of conductors, looking so cour-
teous, so obliging, and so attentive to his busi-
ness, that he can scarcely fail to pick up half the
pedestrians on the road. " Throwing the
Lasso" is another sly smile at the law. We see
a Chancellor galloping with the " lasso" in his
hand, after a poor scaramouch of a client, who
is scampering away with all his might, while, to
console him as he runs, a full-length gallows,
with a man swinging underneath it, stands by
the road-side, right before his eyes. " A Legal
Tender" represents Jack Ketch making a
very courteous offer of a rope, under a beam,

to a criminal who seems in no hurry to avail
himself of the polite boon. Jack's face is the
beau-ideal of scampishness. " Babes in the
Wood" are two wooden dolls with grown-up
faces, who look very perplexed and disconsolate.
" A Round of Beef" shows us a Falstaff of an
ox, turning his nether-end very composedly to-
wards some agriculturists at a cattle show, IA ho
are struck with manifest symptoms of admiration
at such a miracle of obesity. One farmer looks
at him, as much as to say, " what fine steaks he'll
►nake!" " Cut and Come again," is something
better than a mere caricature. The figure of the
drunken sailor who, with a mouth full of hic-
cup, an eye of irresistible gravity, a wave of the
hand, minaceous of oratory, and an attitude in
which a resolution to maintain the perpendicular
struggles hard with the necessity of adopting the
horizontal, is beseeching a tawdrily bedizened
barmaid to supply him with more grog, is as
true to nature as anything in Hogarth's G in-
Lane. " A Lost Child, its own Crier," reminds
us of the " Cherubim and Seraphim," who, we
are told in Scripture, " continually do cry." The
clamorous brat seems as if it would never leave off,
and the astonished little cur by its side is clearly
of the same opinion, for he is yelping and
running away, as if the tympanum of his ear
was broken. " A Monster of Iniquity," is a
fine, practical satire on some of our over-
righteous officers of justice. A little child, who
can scarcely have cut his last tooth, is standing
at the bar of the Old Bailey between two great
hulks of constables, both of whom appear far
gone in horror of the babe's enormities, and are
just about to give in evidence which they think
will make the jury's hair stand on end. " Lawk !

how the Blacks are falling," portrays the astonish-
ment and perplexity of a fat, slip-shod old washer-
woman, at a heavy shower of" Niggers" who are
pouring down right on her unprotected head.
Her face is a rich development of the bewildered.
But perhaps the best illustration is " Hunger-
ford Market." Two hungry ragamuffins, a man
and a boy, are gazing with pensive interest on
some fat sucking pigs which are lying exposed
on a counter. The face of the man is the very
poetry of starvation. He is transparent to a
degree that might excite the envy of a ghost—
would lick his lips, had he any thing to lick off
them ; and develop his faculties of appropriation,
were not a vigilant, lean, restless Cassius of a
watch-dog standing in the way. The younger
scamp is a perfect study for an amateur of the
picturesque. His lax, yellow cheeks drop in-
wards, like an unstrung drum ; his shambling
shanks are mere matters of grizzle : his dress is
such as would astound even St. Giles's, and put
all Monmouth-street to the blush. He looks,
in fact, as if starvation had been both his mother
and wet nurse ; rocked his cradle, and watched
his daily growth. Mr. Hood must have an un-
commonly subtle and delicate apprehension of the
hungry. The literary portion of the " Comic An-
nual" is quite as good as the pictorial. We have
rich, full-bodied jokes—dainty conceits—spark-
ling puns—strange twistings and dislocations
of language, worthy the genius of a Mazurier.
The anecdote of the truant boy at Norwood,
" which fell with its face in a fuz," is the lie
plus ultra of the touching. But the best sketch
is decidedly the imitation of Rabelais, which, in.
its jolly extravagance, and quaint fulness of
epithet, is a tale that might have been told by
Pannurge to Pantagruel, after he had escaped
from the kitchen spit of the Turks, who had all
but " done him to a turn" for dinner. This
imitation is quite as good as anything in the
Rejected Addresses. We subjoin a specimen of
Mr. Hood's plaintive style of ballad :

" Oh ! what is that comes gliding in,
And quite in middling haste?
It is the picture of my Jones,
And painted to the waist.
" It is not painted to the life,
For where's the trousers blue ?
Oh Jones, my dear !—Oh dear ! my Jones,
What is become of you ?"
" Oh ! Sally dear, it is too true,—
The half that you remark
Is come to say my other half
Is bit off by a shark !
" Oh ! Sally, sharks do things by halves,
Yet most completely do
A bite in one place seems enough,
But I've been bit in two.
" You know I once was all your own,
But now a shark must share !
But let that pass—for now to you
I'm neither here nor there.
" Alas ! death has a strange divorce
Effected in the sea,
It has divided toe from you,
And even me from me !
" Don't fear my ghost will walk o'nights
To haunt, as people say ;
My ghost can't walk, for, oh ! my legs
Are many leagues away !
" Lord ! think when I am swimming round,
And looking where the boat is,
A shark just snips away a half,
Without " a quarter's notice."
" One half is here, the other half
Is near Colombia placed ;
Oh ! Sally, I have got the whole
Atlantic for my waist.
" I3nt now, adieu—a long adieu!
I've solved death's awful riddle,
And would say more, but I am doomed
To break off in the middle