The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, (UR.

PRIM CESS'S THEATRE.
An adaptation of Flotow's opera Lame en polite,
which was produced some short time since at the
Academie at Paris, was brought out at this theatre
last evening, under the title of Leoline. Not only
had we a new opera, but we had two first appear-
ances, Miss Rafter making her first appearance on
these boards in the character of Leoline, the heroine,
and Mr. Charles Braham, the son and pupil of
England's greatest singer, making his first appear-
ance in a dramatic character as Count Adelmar, the
hero of the opera. Miss Rafter has long enjoyed a
high provincial reputation, and that reputation
will be greatly enhanced by her metropolitan
success. Last night was, we opine, the
first of a series of successes destined to
be achieved by this young lady. Her appearance is
youthful, and her features and figure are very attrac-
tive. Her voice is a soprano of great extent, and of
considerable power and of great flexibility ; her
cadences are exceedingly soft, and are admirably
sustained. It is impossible to listen to her without
being convinced that she has received a musical edu-
cation, and is perfect mistress of her art. Her open-
ing air, " Me, a poor child of the village," was ex-
quisitely given, and at once secured her a position
with the audience. It was enthusiastically encored.
Mr. Charles Braham, it will be recollected, sung
at concerts with his father some few seasons ago.
Since then he has been devoting himself assi-
duously to the study of his profession, and he
has reaped the reward of assiduity, application, and
study. He has completely got rid of all those crudi-
ties which formerly marred some of his happiest
efforts, and is now a finished and highly accomplished
dramatic singer. His beautiful tenor voice has also
had time to develop itself; full, sweet, and resonant,
its rich tones come gushing on the ear in one full
tide of melody. On his first appearance he was
somewhat nervous, but he soon became reassured by
the enthusiastic plaudits of his auditors. In the
romance in the first act, " This ring now take, then,"
he was encored, and, reassured by the encore, he re-
peated it in even better style than he had given it at
first. His great triumph was in the beautiful ballad
" My Boyhood's Home," a graceful composition ren-
dered still more graceful by the exquisite manner in
which it was rendered by Mr. Charles Braham. It
was honoured with a double encore, and was called
for by many of the audience a third time. At the
conclusion Mr. C. Braham and Miss Rafter were
both called for, and were received with enthusiastic
applause. The music of the opera is like all Flotow's
music, striking and effective, without great preten-
sions to originality, but always pleasing, and offering
to the artiBteB engaged an opportunity of displaying
their taste by filling up the sketches with which he
has furnished them. The original libretto is by M.
de St. Georges, and turns upon a romantic
legend prevalent in Styria (and which forms
the burden of one of the songs) that once
a year—namely on the day of St. Irene, the
souls of departed lovers have power to return to
earth, and to appear before their respective surviving
lovers, provided the latter have remained true to their
memory. In the first act, Leoline, a peasant girl
(Miss Rafter), is wooed by Count Aldemar (Mr.
Charles Braham), and returns his love ; but the latter
being summoned to join his regiment, going to the
wars, the lovers are obliged to part, and the Count
gives Leoline a ring, pledging himself to eternal
fidelity to her, both in life and after death. Leoline is
also in secret beloved by her foster-brother and guar-
dian Frantz (Mr. Weiss), who is not aware of the
passion engendered in his ward's breast by his aris-
tocratic rival. A tragical incident closes the first act.
Leoline hearing martial music in the distance, accom-
panying her lover's regiment on its way to the frontier,
rushes to an old wooden bridge on an eminence,
where she can take a last glimpse of all that is so dear
to her. The crazy old bridge breaks down with her
weight, and she falls down the abyss and is killed.
The scene falls upon a picture in which the grief of
Frantz and the sympathy of the villagers is displayed.
The second act opens after a lapse of two years.
Frantz has lost his reason, his thoughts always dwel-
ling upon the memory of poor Leoline, who he fancies
is every day about to return to his humble cottage.
Count Adelmar returns from the war, betrothed to
Matilda, the rich Countess of the domain (Mrs. Weiss).
True he expresses some few passing words of regret at
the sad fate of his former mistress, but why should
he suffer such reflections to mar the happiness of the
living lover on the very day intended for their mar-
riage. The spirit of Leoline now moves across his
path, but he does not see her, because he is not faith-
ful to her memory. The Countess enters the scene,
and Adelmar is about exchanging rings with her,
when the spirit of Leoline again appears, snatches the
ring presented by the Countess, and replaces for it, in
the hand of Adelmar, the very ring he had given her
himself two years ago. On exhibiting the jewel,
Adelmar is bewildered, an agitated scene takes place
between himself, Frantz, and the spirit of Leoline ;
and the end of the drama is, that Frantz dies, and is
spirited away to happiness in heaven by Leoline,
as Adelmar and the Countess are entering the
church for the performance of the marriage ceremony.
Mr. Weiss as Frantz was excellent. He gave a
drinking song in the first act with infinite spirit, and
was deservedly rewarded with an encore. It is by far
the best thing that this gentleman has yet done. The
piece was admirably put on the stage, the
choruses were excellently rendered, and the music was
most efficiently given by the orchestra, under the
able direction of Mr. Loder. The opera was an-
nounced for repetition every evening amidst the
unanimous applause of a crowded house.

FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MISS ANNETTE MEARS.—
This very talented young lady, whose exertions as Prima
Donna at the Royal Grecian Saloon have contributed in
no small degree to maintain the popularity of that
establishment, has announced her farewell benefit and
last appearance at the Royal Grecian Saloon for Thurs-
day. There can be no doubt but that her friends will
rally round her, and give her a bumper at parting.
and Mrs. Charles Kean are at Liverpool,
playing to crowded houses; from thence they proceed
to Birmingham, where they are to perform during the
next and following week, after which their engagement
at the Haymarket Theatre commences.

- THE SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON THE NAVY
ESTIMATES.—The report of the Select Committee ap-
pointed to revise the navy, army, and ordnance esti-
mates, and from the evidence appended to which we
have already given copious extracts, has been published
during the past week. Although referring exclusively
to the navy, the report extends to 114 pages, the mi-
nutes of evidence occupy 690 pages, and 422 pages are
devoted to the appendices; so that this " black and blue
book of the navy," as it is thus described, contains no less
than 1,226 folios of type, a considerable portion of which
is tabular matter. The following is a list of the wit
nesses:—The Earl of Auckland, First L. ird of the Ad-
miralty; Mr. Ward, M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty;
the Hon. Captain Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., Lord John Hay,
C. 8., M.P., Capt. Milne, Lords of the Admiralty; Rear-
Admiral Sir F. Beaufort, K.C.8., Hydrogapher to the
Admiralty; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.N., Surveyor
of the Navy ; Captain Ellice, R.N., Comptroller 01
Steam Machinery ; Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., M.P.,
ex-Lord of the Admiralty; Right Hon. S. Herbert,
M.P., formerly Secretary to the Admiralty, and latterly
Secretary-at-War; Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, 8.N.,
Storekeeper of the Ordnance; Lieutenant Colonel Ir-
vine, C. 8., Director of Engineering and Architectural
Works of the Admiralty; Captains W. IL Hall and
Charlewood, RN.; the Hon. R. Dundas, Storekeeper
General; Mr. A. Crease, Principal Manager at Lloyd's;
Mr. H. Chatfield, Assistant Master Shipwright at Wool-
wich Dockyard; Mr. T. Lloyd, Chief Engineer at So-
men:et 11-use; Messrs. Atherton and Murray, Chief
Engineers at Woolwich and Portsmouth Dockyard; Mr.
Laws, Storekeeper of Pembroke Dockyard; Captain
Burgmann, RE., Director of Works at Devonport; Mr.
Pretious, Timber Converter at Pembroke; Messrs. J.
and W. Edye, Assistants to the Surveyor of the Navy,
and Master Shipwright of Devonport Dockyard; Lieut.
Brown, R.E., Registrar of Seamen; Messrs. Robertson,
A. Gordon, Scott. Russell, J. Nash, J. Field, J. James,
J. Whiffen, and S. Fullagar. The list of the papers
Riven given in the appendix occupy eight closely-printed
pages.

The Venerable Earl of Mayo, now in his 831 year,
who was seriously indisposed some months back, is now
in the enjoyment of good health. The Noble Earl lately
gave a harvest home dinner to his numerous tenantry,
on the Palmerston House estate, county of Kildare.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond were among
the numerous visitors present on the interesting occasion.
Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor are about to
embark for Madeira, where they intend to pass the
winter months.

The nuptials of Mr. Richard S. Bourke, M.P. for
Kildare, and Miss Blanche Wyndham, second daughter
of Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham, have been unavoidably
postponed for a fortnight.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married yesterday,
by special license, at the Clarendon Hotel, by the Rev.
John Jackson, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, Mr.
George H. Cavendish, of the Ist Life Guards, youngest
son of Major-General the Hon. Henry F. C. Cavendish,
to Miss Rumbold, only daughter of the late Sir William
Rumbold, and niece of the Baron and Baroness de Del-
mar. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple
left town in a post-chariot and four for Chiswick House,
to spend the honeymoon. Great preparations bad been
making for the marriage to take place at Chatsworth,
his Grace the Duke of Devonshire's princely residence
in Derbyshire, but owing to the lamented demise of his
Grace's brother in-law, the Earl of Carlisle, the cere-
mony was performed in the moat private manner, the
nearest relatives only being present on the occasion.
LIYERFOOL, TUESDAY, 8.30 A.M.--The British
and North American Mail steamer Acadia, from
the United States, was off Holyhead at hall-past six
this morning.
THE OBSERVATORY ON THE Tor or ST. PAUL'S
CATHEDRAL. -- Yesterday morning the Sappers and
Miners having completed the outline survey of the me-
tropolis, commenci d demolishing the observatory or
" crow's nest," which has excited so much attention, on
the summit of St. Paul's Cathedral. The operation was
observed at different points by great numbers of persons,
and the almost heedless way the men walked about the
unprotected platform was calculated to create feelings
of apprehension for their safety.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BETHNAL-GREEN. -- Yes-
terday morning, shortly after two o'clock, a fire broke
out in the residence of Mr. George Rutledge, Bethnal-
green, and, notwithstanding the prompt arrival of the
engines, and a plentiful supply of water, the building
was gutted, and the whole of the furniture consumed.
The inmates escaped with great difficulty. Mr. Rut-
ledge is insured.

- THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE LONDON AND
NoRTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tho remains of Mr.
Shuard were removed on Suuday morning from the
Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, to Crewe, near to which
place they have been interred.
A considerable quantity of corn, chiefly oats, is still
in the fields to the north west of this town, and a great
portion of it, it is feared, will be damaged to such an
extent as to be of comparatively little value. The
weather continues wet, cold, and ungenial.—Newcastle
Journal.

ATTEMPT TO HANG A CHlLD.—Hunslet has nearly
been the scene of a second tragedy this week. On Sa-
turday night last Joseph Phillips, who resides in Tay-
lor's-place, Hunslet Carr, and is by trade a potter, re-
turned to his home rather the worse for liquor, and im-
mediately went up stairs to bed. His wife had not re-
tired to rest, but his child, an only one, was fast asleep.
He took the child out of bed, tied a handkerchief round
it r neck, and suspended it to the railing of the bedstead.
His wife, hearing an unusual noise up-stairs, proceeded
thither, when, to her astonishment, she found her infant
nearly in the agonies of death, and her husband quietly
looking on. She instantly took the child down, and
alarmed her neighbour, but whilst she was doing this,
the father, who is said to have a penchant that way,
thought ho would try hanging himself; and " tucked "
himself up, but he took special care to rest his feet on
the bed, and in this position he was found. The fellow
is in custody.—Leeds Intelligencer.
DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. -- On
Monday last, old Robert Shore, formerly of the Brown
House, Rochdale, died in his 90th year. He had been
confined to his bed about nine months, but was not in
want of any medical assistance. He has walked to the
races at Kersal Moor 78 years successively, and scarcely
ever neglected going four days in the week.—Manchester
Courier.
WAR AMONG Boys.---On Tuesday a boy named
Edward M Gregor was brought before the Rev. R. M.
Frelden, and J. S. Jackson, Esq., on a charge of assault-
ing Mason, a constable of Tranmere. The constable
stated that a number of boys crossed the Mersey from
Liverpool, to fight the Tranmere boys, and on Sunday
afternoon about two hundred assembled in battle array
in a field behind the Queen's Arms. He interfered, and
apprehended four, but was pelted with stones, and was
obliged to let them go. With the assistance of some
young men he succeeded in apprehending the prisoner.
The magistrates ordered him to be bound over to keep
the peaces—Liverpool Nail.

EATU I 1 TAE LATE FLOOD.—An inquest was
held at Aston-le-Walls, on Saturday, before It. Weston,
Esq., coroner, on the body of Jonathan Sabin, a labourer,
about fifty-eight years of age, in the employ of Mr. Budd,
of that place. It appeared that he left the Crown Inn,
Chipping Warden, on Saturday evening, the 30th ult.,
somewhat the worse for liquor, and was not seen again
until the following Friday night, when his body was
found by Mr. Budd, in the bed of a stream running from
the Byfieid reservoir, about sixty yards from the road
leading from Aston to Boddington. A. Cartwright
Esq., of Edgecott House; Mr. Budd, and Mr. W. Wilson:
of Chipping Warden, had been indefatigable in their
search and inquiries after the poor man up to the very
hour when he was found .—Northompton Herald.

•
COINCIDENCES.—It is very singular that so many
of our Princes have died on the Saturday. It would
almost seem as though the Revolution had set the ex-
ample, the throne having been declared vacant On Satur-
day, Feb. 16, 1688. William 111. died on Saturday,
March 8, 1702 ; Queen Anne died on Saturday, August
1, 1714; George I. at two o'clock on Sunday morning,
June 11, 1727 (what in common parlance is called Satur-
day night); George 11. died on Saturday, October 25,
1760; George died on Saturday, Jan. 19, 1820 ;
George IV. on Saturday, June 6, 1830.
OPENING OF A PAUPER TRAINING SCHOOL AT
LEEDS.—Yesterday the newly-erected edifice which has
been built by the guardians of the poor of Leeds as a
moral and industrial training school for the pauper chil-
dren of the township, was opened by a religious service
in the chapel of the institution. The school is calculated
to accommodate 400, say 160 boys, 160 girls, and 80 in-
fants. It stands at the east aide of the town, 0L a plotof
land six acres in extent, purchased at a cost of 1,8201.

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXVIII.
THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CLXVI.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. No. XCVIII.
Our favourites among the periodical publications—
the Quarterlies—are again before us, strong in an
erudition without pedantry and a smartness without
frivolity. Contrasted with the other serial and mis-
cellaneous effusions of the press, they assume a pecu-
liar degree of importance; and this because the ma-
jority of their contemporaries come rather too de-
cidedly under the category of what is called fugitive
literature. Generally speaking, the Quarterlies are
characterised by elegance of composition and solidity
of knowledge. That article, in any one of the three
leading Quarterlies, must be singularly unworthy of j
admission which does not in some measure fascinate
the reader during the perusal, and mellow his under-
standing with novel and wholesome information.
Such, at least, is the impression which has been pro-
duced in the public mind from the day when Francis
Jeffrey inaugurated this species of periodical in the
literary city of Edinburgh. Under the editorship of
his successor, the Edinburgh continues to sustain its
reputation ; and in the current number we find this
fact exemplified, not only by the superficial variety,
hut by the intrinsic ability, likewise, of the different
contributions. The political papers are three—one
on the " State of Europe," being an epitome of the
snore surprising events which have transpired in
Christendom since the revolution of February; an-
other on the momentous topic of "Revolution and
Reform"—the tremendous alternative of modern Go-
vernments, and which we shall take an early oppor-
tunity of referring to in 'our leading columns ; and
another on the profound and almost problematical
science of " Political Economy," suggested by the
new work of Mr. John Stuart Mill. The gossip-
ping articles are two—one on " Hervey's Memoirs
of the Reign of George III•," in which John, Lord
Hervey, the friend of Walpole and of Lady Mary
Wortley Montague, the Sporus of Pope, and the Lord
Fanny of Pulteney, is at last, in 1848, declared, by
an Edinburgh Reviewer, to be "one of the most acute
observers and best (prose) writers of his age :" the
other on " Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Os-
gory," in which there is a noble argument in favour of
the press—contrasting the positions awarded by
France and England to the respective journalists.
Quoting M. Jules Janin's remark about M. Thiers—
" The day when that man named himself President of
the Council, the French press gained its battle of
Austerlitz!"—the reviewer asks "When will the
English press gain its Waterloo ?" In the criticism
on Lord Hervey's posthumous work, the reviewer
gives a deplorable sketch of the age of the first
Georges. Speaking of that base, and in many respects
infamous epoch, he says—
" We can only remind our readers of what we said at
a gross
first, that the age was and a vicious age. The
readers of Tom Jones' and Joseph Andrews' need not
he told what were the manners of the squirearchy and
the farmers of that day. The readers of Miss Bellenden's
and Miss Howe's letters need not be told how elegant and
high-born dames occasionally talked and wrote. The
Court, in short, was not a whit grosser than one half of
English society; or all German society, of the same
epoch; and whatever vice it had, must be allowed to
have lacked the allurements which grace, refinement,
and Kit threw over the contemporary Court of the Re-
gent of Orleans. At all events, there was one vice fro m
which that age was free—the vice. of hypocrisy. All
was open and avowed. George 11. lived openly with
Lady Suffolk and Countess Walmoden. Sir R. Walpole
lived openly with Miss Skerritt; and was Rot one jot the
less intimate, for all that, with Bishops Gibson and
Hoadley. An Archbishop of Canterbury was the envoy
notoriously selected by the unreluctant cuckold Mr.
Howard, to disengage his wife from the service of the
Queen and the caresses of the King. An Archbishop
of York had lived openly with a succession of mistresses;
and one of his 'natural sons sat on the Episcopal Bench.
Walpole and Pulteney, intriguers against the honour of
other husbands, were careless of their own. Lady Bath
was as gallant as she was beautiful. Lady Walpole was
no less an intriguante. It is now thought tolerably
certain that the father of Horace Walpole was Lord
Hervey's elder brother, Carr."
Two other contributions to the Edinburgh we have
not yet mentioned; one of a horticultural character,
being a criticism upon "Fortune's China" in regard
to that traveller's revelations of the mysteries of Chi
nese gardening; and another on " Ethnology, or the
Science of Races." The latter article we have re-
served till the last, because to our thinking it is in
every respect the most remarkable. The writer has
evidently imbued his mind with the philosophic truths
which have been industriously compacted together by
James Cowles Prichard in his " Natural History of
Man," and first diffused by him through the five
volumes of his "Researches into the Physical History
of Mankind." There is this satisfaction which remains
ever present to the mind while reading the long and
laborious, but by no means tedious or ponderous,
paper on "Ethnology" (spreading over fifty-seven
pages), namely, that the reviewer has something more
than a superficial acquaintance with the new science,
that he is no mere smatterer, but that he has delved
deeply into the stubborn ground which contains so
many and such priceless treasures. The article is
one mass of facts—facts well selected and scrupu-
lously digested. It traces Ethnology to its foun-
tain-head, and then follows it down deliberately
through all its devious meanderings until its arrival I
at the present epoch of its history. After all, we are
compelled to coincide in the opinion that Ethnology
is still in its infancy, and that in spite of the labours
of so many profound thinkers—anatomists, philolo-
gists, physiologists, psychologists, historians, gram
marians, etymologists, and physical geographers—
its votaries must at present rest contented to see it
ranked in the lowest grade among the sciences. The
singular analogy which is traceable between the kin- I
dred studies of geology and ethnology is thus alluded
to :—" They are both histories of the past, and de-
pend. for their successful cultivation on the uncon-
scious co-operation of many minds, often ignorant of
each other's labours." In testimony of the correct-
ness of this assertion the names of the principal origi-
nators of Ethnology are enumerated. Camper, the
famous anatomist, for example, first began to place ,1
the matter upon a scientific basis by propounding the
theorem of the " facial angle." Blumenbach followed
in his footsteps by accumulating a vast number of
details; and his plan of arrangement was soon after-
wards adopted by the renowned Cuvier. The plan
had reference to the peculiar conformation of the
human skull, and was partitioned in the following
10 e
divisions :—] . The Caupeasian ; 2. The Mongolian •
3. The Ethiopean • 4. The American; and 5. The
Malayan. It hasi ultimately, however, been
determined by Prichard that there are, in
reality, only three leading types of cranial
conformation ; namely,a Ist. The oval or elliptical ,
The
2d. The am; and ad. The
prognathous. P being the most symmetrical and corre-
sponding with Blumenbach's term of the Caucasian ;
the pyramidal being that conformation which arises
from the great lateral prominence of the cheek bones
and zygomatic arches as is seen in the skulls of the
Esquimaux, a form corresponding with Blumenbach's
idea of the Mongolian ; and the prognathous, so called
in indication of the forward protuberance of the jaws,
as is visible among the negroes of the Guinea coast,
and also among the Australian and Polynesian races.
Retzius, acting upon a principle quite the antithesis
of the foregoing, originated a classification much more
elaborate. Facts indicative of the variable nature of
the cranial conformation have, nevertheless, been col-
lected by Mr. (now Sir) Charles Lyell, proving that
this peculiarity, therefore, cannot be adopted as an
infalliable criterion. In regard to the criterion of
languages, Chevalier Bunsen
en conceives that the Hot-
tentot dialect is a degraded Kafir, as the Bushman
tongue is a
degraded Hottentot, which Humboldt
appears to have determined, from "the remarkable
conformity,in the fundamental characters of their
Malayan, Polynesian, and Aus-
languages, that the
tralian races have a common origin. Thus showing
that the criterion of " languages " is also anything
but infallible. The Professorsttht Weber, of Bonn,
have likewise demonstrated that
ofa thethe "real facts
regarding the configuration ipelvis are
those relating to
.the
precisely analogous
cranium ;"
j.demonstrating
conformation of the
that those who have argued_ that a valid distinction
between two races can be drawnfrom the peculiari-
ties of the pelvis have argued erroneously. whatever
time
may have been said at one by M. di Abbadie, at
another by Professor Newman, and at another by Mr.
Hodgson, in respect of
the distinction traceable
through the differences of complexion, it is certain, as
the reviewer very forcibly observes, , that it is im-
possible to regard the hue of the skin as a sufficient
test of the Caucasian race (or_
of other races) ; since
whatever we may assume to be its typical complexion,
that type is subject to every. kind and. degree of modi-
fication. And this notwithstanding
and ing that we have
the plain differences, in the abstract, of the fair and
ruddy Caucasian, the jet black Negro, the swarthy
Malay, the olive Mongolian, and the copper-coloured
American Indian. For example, we find the
Cinghalese, according
to Dr. Davy, varying from
light brown to black ; we
find the d
arciuesans with
black, brown, auburn,
red, and flaxen hair ;and so on
in instances almost innumerable. Among the causes
of this diversity of complexion_. are mentioned, by M.
D'Orbigny, and by Sir R. Schomburgh, the
differences of climate, the solar heat in some coun-
tries, and the humidity of others. After enume•
remarkable facts, the reviewer
rating the foregoing
comparisons instituted by
Dr. Prichard—the_
considers the physiological
physical characters—and the
philological investigations
_of several philosophers.
Among the last mentioned are Adelungs, Vater,
Klaproth, Fred. Schlegel, Bopp, Jacob Grimm,
Humboldt, Bunsen, Latham, but, above all, theim-
mortal Leibnitz. These philological investigations--
termed by the Germans Sprac_henkun de, and by our-
selves Glottology—have afforded additional proof that
the various nations have not a number of' different
origins. Beyond this, and beyond the circumstance
that the anatomical investigations have led to a similar
conclusion, it is an extraordinary and beautiful coin-

The building and play yards, with the laundry drying-
ground, cover nearly two acres, and the cost of the
erection will be under 14,0001. The edifice is efficiently
warmed and ventilated, and neatly but plainly furnished.
TESTIMONIAL FOR MEDICAL SERVICES.—The
London and North-Western Railway Company have
presented, through Captain finish, at the suggestion of
J. P. Westhead, Esq., M.P., to their medical officer in
the Manchester district, a set of rich cut glass castors
in a splendid silver frame, as a testimonial of his ser-
vices at the late accident at Crewe.
THE VACANT COLONELCIES --The Colonelcies of
the 80th Foot and the 3d West India Regiments, vacant
by the deaths of Sir Maurice O'Connell and Sir Charles
Maxwell, have not yet been filled up. Major- General
Sir Guy Campbell, commander of the Athlone district,
is mentioned as the probable successor to one of them.
ELECTION OF OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE
CITY OF LONDON.—This election is exciting very great
interest in the City. Out of nineteen canditates two
have been selected, by a great majority of votes—Mr.
Childs, an officer of the Corporation, and a gentleman
with the highest scientific attainments ; and Mr. Simon,
a gentleman of talent, and a member of the committee
of the Health of Towns Association. The selection
rests with the Aldermen and Common Council, and is
looked forward to with great anxiety.
DONKEY DRIVERS' ANNUAL DINNER.--MOSt
visitors to Malvern have been of late under some obliga-
tions to the donkey drivers, of whose numbers rather
an imposing idea is conveyed by the fact that last Thurs-
day no less than fifty of the fraternity and sisterhood
sat down to dinner at the Unicorn Hotel, Great Mal-
vern, to celebrate the annual festival held by them
towards the wane of the season. The chair was filled
most admirably by a respectable son of Vulcan, who
enjoys the profits of re-ironing and repairing the hoof-
gear of the cattle, and Mrs. Sarah Baker ably performed
the duties of the table. The first toast was more cha-
racteristic than loyal, viz., " Success to the mule and
donkey trade." Song by Mrs. Baker, "If I had a
donkey what vould'nt go." Next followed, " The town
and trade of Jerusalem," a toast which being rather
enigmatic, furnished the chairman with an opportunity
of explaining the connexion between the meeting and
Jerusalem ponies, which he interlarded by remarks on
asses in general. The festivities ended at the rational
hour of ten.
THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—The Buckingham
and Chandos estates, in the county of Westmeath, will
be brought to the hammer on the 24th instant, in Dublin.
They comprise 6,700 acres, producing a rental of about
3,3701. per annum. The remaining portion of the Vil-
hers estate, in the Queen's County, comprising 238 acres,
will also be disposed of.
Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., of Grondon Hall,
near Atheratone, has given permission to his tenants to
kill the game on their respective farms.
MOUNT St. BERNARD HOSPICE, BCC.--HIS Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge has consented to
patronise the ball to be given next month in aid of this
institution.
EXTINCTION OF THE OLD FREEMEN.—This once
ruling body is now almost extinct. By this year's list,
published by the town clerk of Plymouth, only 54 re-
main, after striking out four who have died since the
last registration. In 1831, the last contested election for
the borough under the old regime, there were 173 free-
men polled—there were residents and non-residents; the
latter coming from different parts of the kingdom ;
while the wealthy, trading, and other classes of inhabi-
tants paying the national and local taxes in the town,
were doomed to sit supine and look on at some eight or
ten persons ruling the old corporate body. Now, by
the present year's publication of the lists, a very
differ( nt picture is presented. The electoral lists for
the two parishes give about 2,400 electors to vote for
Members of Parliament for the borough ; but the old
freemen are reduced through deaths since 1831, and the
non-residence of others within seven miles of the
borough, according to the clause of the Reform Act, to
an insignificant number.
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR ROBERT
MOWER AY, K.H.—This distinguished officer died on the
10th instant, at his seat in Fifeshire, in the 74th year of
his age. The deceased, though latterly living in a very
private manner, was some years since a public officer of
considerable eminence. He was the eldest son of Robert
Mowbray, Esq., of Cockairne, and was the lineal de-
scendant of William Mowbray, of Fifeshire, who lived in
1511. Sir William was a magistrate and deputy lieu-
tenant for the county of Fite, in which he possessed
some considerable influence. At an early age he en-
tered the army, and served for ten years in India. He
was subsequently in the Mediterranean for eight years.
witnessing during both periods the occurrence of some
important events. In 1779, he was appointed aide-de-
camp to the Earl of Guilford, when Governor of Ceylon.
He was afterwards on the staff of General Sir Josiah
Champagnee, a relative of the Marquis of Anglesey. In
August, 1796, he marched with the troops under Sir
James Craig from Cape Town to Saldanah Bay. He
was next present at the surrender of the Dutch fleet to
Admiral Lucas. He subsequently acted as Deputy
Adjutant General under Major-General Hay Macdonald,
during the campain in Ceylon in 1803; and while a
Captain in the 80th Foot in 1801 he served in Egypt
with the British force seat against the French.
ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
—As the ten o'clock up-train from Exeter, on Saturday
morning last, was proceeding on its destination, about a
mile beyond the Bridgewater station, the passengers
felt a slight jerk of the carriages, and directly after-
wards the driver of the engine gave a signal whistle,
whereupon the train stopped, and some of the officials
and a portion of the male passengers ran back to ascer-
tain the cause, when they discovered that a man, with
two horses and a waggon (supposed to belong to a
farmer named Flower or Fowler), had, most incau-
tiously, attempted to cross the line in the very face of
the train. Both horses were cut to pieces and killed in-
stantaneously, and, such was the force of the shock, that
the horses, together with the shafts of the waggon, ware
knocked a distance of thirty or forty yards from the body
of the waggon. The man, who had hold of the front
horse at the time, most providentially escaped injury,
but his garments were much torn, and he was too much
frightened then to give any explanation. The horses
were stated to be valuable, and one of them was in foal.
No blame whatever attaches to the driver of the engine.
The line at this spot is on a perfect level with the adjoin-
ing lands, and the approach of the train could be ob-
served upwards of a mile distant. The train was de-
tained about a quarter of an hour by the occurrence.
The accident happened at about a quarter to twelve, at
which period the train was nearly halt an hour beyond its
proper time.

cidence, as the Edinburgh itself remarks, that " when
glottological evidence is the weakest anatomical
evidence is the strongest, and vice versa." From
these strange and most surprising facts, it is abso-
lutely impossible for any sensible man to arrive at
any other conclusion than that proclaimed by the
reviewer that, notwithstanding the diversities of ap
pearance in the human race, mankind have sprung
from a sing'e stock—thus corresponding entirely with
the account furnished in Revelation. As to the
impossibility of the diversities we have alluded to
having occurred within the comparatively brief
interval of six thousand years, it is admirably ob-
served (page 485) that " there is no more reason to
suppose that the book of Genesis was intended to give
us an exact chronology than that it was designed
to teach us geology or astronomy." Powerful,
however, as the anatomical, physiological, and
psychological arguments are, the strongest
proof of all, in our estimation, is that afforded by the
glottological inquiries of the learned and industrious
Chevalier Bunsen. We dismiss this enthralling and
erudite article with the strongest expression of our
admiration. Although we have already commented
upon the criticism upon " Hervey's Memoirs of the
Reign of George 11.,' we cannot refrain from alluding
to the famous satire in which Pope would infallibly
" have crucified Hervey's name to all posterity—but
for the recent appearance of these and other contem-
porary memoirs. For the amusement of our readers
we turn to that old favourite book of Pope which we
have thumbed so often; we open it at that satire
which is " the bitterest in the language ;" an I we
quote from it some of its most vitriolic fragments :
" Let Sporus tremble. Whatl that thing of silk,
Sporus that mere white curd of asses milk?
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel,
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings;
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys:
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Whether in florid impotence he speaks,
And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks;
Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad,
Half froth half venom spits himself abroad,
In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies,
Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Amphibious thing! that, acting either part,
The trifling head, or the corrupted heart;
Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board,
Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord!"
It is well that the posthumous memoirs of Lord Hervey
have not only preserved him from this satiric pillory,but
have entitled him, moreover, to the respectful remem-
brance of posterity. In the forthcoming history of Eng-
land, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, we anticipate a
just estimate of Hervey from the pen of our Eng-
lish Thucydides. Ten articles compose the current
number of the Quarterly, articles principally of a
politico•geographie character, as for example, those
on " Ireland,' on " Whiteside's Italy," on the
"Germanic States," on "Physical Geography," and
on "Borneo and Celebus." Beyond these, we must
mention a delightful criticism on " Dyce's Edition of
Beaumont and Fletcher"—those twin stars, " the
Dioscuri of our Zodiac." Speaking of them as con-
trasted with Shakspere, the reviewer says, " they are
to the Prince of Poets as a young sister, buxom, gay,
and debonnair, to a noble brother : their great con-
temporary (meaning Ben Jonson) is a robust, well-
made, but rather hard and dry cousin : he is of t'se
stronger gender, but they are nearer akin" (that is
to say, nearer akin to their common contemporary,
"Immortal 'Willy"). This is beautifully and justly
spoken. Beyond the papers already enumerated,
there is a clever article on the " Education of Mili-
tary Officers"—a subject of profound importance to
the well-being of our army, and one which is happily
beginning to excite some attention. The review of
M. Louis Reybsud's new political romance, called
"Jerome Paturot a la Recherche de la meilleure des
Republiques," is amusing, but somewhat empty
and profitless in its results. The paper on " Female
Penitentiaries" is penned in a noble spirit of philan-
thropy : as the writer observes, it is time to get rid
of our prudery and pseudo-delicacy, and to take
boldly into consideration not only the reclamation of
the juvenile offenders, but the reclamation, also, of
that still more numerous and still more deplorable
class of unfortunates who systematise the abomina-
tions of sin in our great cities, and are a wretchedness
to themselves and to the general community; for as
Duchatelet forcibly remarks, "dies soot a elles-memes
un sujet d'horreur.' Last of all, because first of all
in the beauty of its composition, we would call at-
tention to the admirable chapter on the glorious art
and science (for it is both) of " Music." The article
betrays the hand of a master, and its eloquence the
fervour of a poetic taste and a brilliant imagination.
The subjoined passage will be perused with gusto by
all those who, like ourselves, rejoice with a sense of
indescribable testacy in that noblest and sublimest of
all the fine arts—Music :
" Voltaire is commonly stated to have been a hater
and despiser of the art of sweet sounds; but there is
perhaps as much evidence against the assertion, as for
it, in his works. Gr4try says of him that he would sit
with a discontented face whilst music was going on—
which, considering what French music was in his time,
might argue not a worse ear than his neighbours', but a
better. But granting 'Voltaire had no musical sympa-
thies in him, and it goes against our consciences tfi
thinkihe had, his friend and fellow-thinker, Frederick
of Prussia, had them in a great degree; and a man as
unlike both as this world could offer, the late Dr. Chal-
mers, had none at all—except of course, that he liked a
Scotch air, us all Scotchmen, by some merciful provision
of nature, appear to do. Then it may seem natural to
our preconceived ideas that such a mind as Horace Wal-
polo s should have no capacity for musical pleasure; but
by what possible analogy was it that Charles Lamb's
should have just as little? How came it to pass that
Rousseau, the worthless ancestor of all Radicals, was an
enthusiastic and profound mus Lian—while Dr. Johnson,
the type of old Toryism, did not know one tune from
another; or that Luther pronounced music to be one of
the best gifts of Heaven, and encouraged the study of it
by precept and example, white Calvin and Knox perse-
cuted it as a snare of the Evil One, and conscientiously
condemned it to perpetual degradation in their ehurches?
All we can say is, that the nrijority pay her homage—.
that it is one of her heavenly attributes :o link those na-
tures together whom nothing elselcan unite. Men of the
most opposite characters and lives that history can pro-
duce fraternize in music. If Alfrad loved her, so did
Nero; if Ceeur de Lion was a sweet musician, so was
Charles IX.; if George 111. delighted in all music, espe-
cially in that of a sacred character, so did Henry VIII.;
if the hero of our own times, the motto of whose life has
been duty, is musical both by nature and inheritance,
his antagonist Napoleon at least hummed opera tunes.
Oliver Cromwell bade a musician ask of him what fa-
vour ho pleased. John Wesley remonstrated against
leaving all the good tunes to the Devil. Every private
family could quote some domestic torment and some do-
mestic treasure, alike in nothing else but in the love for
music. There is no forming any system of judgment.
There is no looking round in a concert room and saying
in one's heart, these people are all of one way of think-
ing—they are all intelligent, or all humane, or all poeti-
cal. There is no broad mark: young and old, high and
low—passionate and meek—wise and foolish—babies,
idiots, insane people—all, more or less, like music. At
most there are some who are indifferent, or fancy them-
selves so, as much from want of opportunity as of taste
—some who don't care for bad music, and never hear
good—if so hard a lot can be imagined—but there is
only one class of men who condemn it, and those are
fanatics; and there is only one order of beings, word-
ing to Luther, who hate it, and those are devils..
In answer to those unfortunate persons who are in-
capable of appreciating the joys derivable from the
sense of hearing, and who inquire with such a pig-
headed pertinacity, What it is that music can do?
Whether the result is proportioned to her means
Whether she enlightens our views or enlarges our
understandings ? Whether she makes us more
prudent, more intelligent, more practical, or more
moral ?—the reviewer says, " No, but she can make
us more romantic, and that is what we want now-a-
days more than anything else." So far we go with
him heartily; but the reviewer does not, in this, do
his noble theme justice. Music can effect more than
the mere evoking of romance in our natures, im-
measurably, indescribably, infinitely more ! Music
not only makes us romantic, it ameliorates the sorrows
of this rough world of briars and dust, it laps "in
soft Lydian measures" the anguish of the heart and
of the memory; it enunciates thoughts beyond the
utterance of language ; it conveys emotions too subtle
and profound for expression by the tongue ; it is the
voice of the soul, as verbal sounds are the voice of
the body ; it can, under the touch of a Timotheus,
"lift a mortal to the skies, or draw an angel down."
We, who have listened to the grand Gregorian Mass
of Bach until the tones of the organ and the choris-
ters have in truth seemed " to rise up from the vast
profound of the past like solemn heralds of a dawning
world of sound ;" we, who have hearkened to the
dainty quartet.ts of Haydn and the ravishing melo-
dies of Mozart until every pulse has tingled
with an unutterable sense of happiness ; we,
who have heard the sweet wailing of the "
La-
crymosa," till our eyes have swum with the pathos
of the "qua re-sur-get, and our hearts have melted
"as we have been told how ' the Children of Israel
sighed !—sighed !—sighed!--by reason of their bond
age ;' " we ,who have thrilled at that most superb,
because most sublime, chorus in the Messiah, till (at
the roaring of "those stupendous words" "I.llllion at
derful! Counsellor ! The Prince of Peace
the " thunder- clap of those more than magical notes"—
" That all flesh—shall see—it, toge titer ! '') we have
literally yearned for " wings that we might rise spon-
taneous with the sounds ; we, moreover, who have
listened to the Tempest in Beethoven's Pastoral Si in-
phony—that tempest which, as the reviewer beauti-
fully expresses it, " is like Thomson's 'Seasons' set to
1111181 C," that tempest which, according to M.
Oulibiehef, is " the grandest and most fearful of all
storms that ever thundered in the basses, whistled in
the flutes, bellowed and blustered in the trumpets,
and lightened and bailed in the violins," till we have
almost wept with pleasure at " the sweet enchant-
ment of those modulations, when the thunder

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Taking these eight very miscellaneous works as
the theme of his disquisition, the reviewer writes
upon them a crushing, mashing criticism—a criticism
such as might drive a weak-minded, vain, and reli-
gionless man to suicide. We do not think, however,
but that the vanity of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury will be proof against fifty or fifty thousand
assailants equally powerful. And, supposing the
Noble Lord had any such inclination, we doubt not
but that he would afford an additional testimony of
the truth of Sidney Smith's celebrated assertion, by
composing another biography, another history, an-
other tragedy, and other essays, the Westminster
reviewer to the contrary, nevertheless, notwithstand-
ing. In that case, however, we would be very care-
ful, indeed, before we undertook to read the bio-
grapher, historian, dramatist, or pamphleteer, if the
opinions of the reviewer are to be regarded as
decisive. One thing we must assert at once, namely,
that the opinions in the Westminster are not mere
idle opinions—they are opinions enforced by many
deplorable quotations from the mixed metaphors of
Mr. Joseph Skillet down to the "noodle and doodle"
dialogue between Carlos and ()sari°. Yet enough of
this biting and sarcastic criticism. It is, as we have
already observed, one of a most painful character—
too painful, is fact, for us to have any pleasure in
retailing. The next contribution—on " Indian Epic
Poetry"—is an elegant curiosity; followed by clever
articles on "Causes of Poverty" and " Iron Manufac- I
tures of South Wales." The chapter on " Entomo•
logy" is delightful, crowded, as it is, with anecdotes
of the insect kingdom. It reminds us of some charm-
ing articles published a year or so back in the
Westminster, called " Revelations of the Microscope,"
and " Revelations of the Telescope." The little
circumstance mentioned in a footnote to the effect
that the Greek word Tux 7) signifies both soul and
butterfly, may have been dimly remembered by the
verse-maker, and may have faintly suggested the
idea to him, when he describes the soul, in death, as—
" Leaving its chrysalis of clay
To bask its gorgeous, painted wings
In everlasting day!"

After a review of the " Schleswig and Holstein
Question," there is an earnest and labouriously
written article by Poulett Scrope, on "Irish
Clearances, and Improvement of Waste Lands." We
ssy, written by Poulett Scrope, though the authorship
is only indicated by that gentleman's initials,
G. P. S. It is impossible, however, to do otherwise
than recognise the intelligent and active mind of
the Hon. Member for Stroud in almost every para-
graph of this admirable disquisition. From the
luminous pages upon " The French Republic," re-
counting most of the extraordinary occurrences which
have taken place in Paris since the Revolution of
February, we quote the following emphatic and
nobly merited eulogium

"The National Assembly met on the 24th in conster-
nation. The members of the Provisional Commission,—
Lamartine and Arago, especially, were doing all that
men could do to restore order, in co-operation a ith
General Cavaignac, whom they had invested with the
military command of all the forces in Paris, including
the trcops of the line, the Garde Mobile, and the
National Guards, but so many of the Assembly believed
that the insurrection had the countenance of Ledru
Rollin, and, to all, the importance of unity, energy, and
decision on the part of Government was so obvious, that
a vote was passed by an overwhelmning majority, placing
in the hands of General Cavaignac the entire executive
powers of the state, and declaring Paris in a state of
siege. To this vote the members of the Provisional
Commission promptly responded by a formal resigna-
tion of their trust; and thus summarily ended the three
months of power,' which have made for a poet-philoso-
pher a name in history; and a name which, after all that
can be alleged against Lamartine for errors of judgment
in a most difficult position, will, for moral courage,
moderation, generous impulse, and rectitude of purpose,
ever be received by posterity with respect."
It is a conviction of this elevation of the mind,
this purity in the conscience, and this patriotism in
the unselfish ambition of M. de Lamartine, which has
now rendered him the cynosure not only of neigh-
bouring eyes but of. the eyes of all Christendom.
The absence of all personal ambition in General
Cavaignac, his anxiety to relieve himself from the
unaccustomed labours of administration and to return
to his military post in Algeria, together with his
opposition to the election of President by universal
suffrage, exclude his powerful name from the candi-
datesbip. The mad speech delivered in the Chalet
has destroyed all the hopes of Ledru Rollin. The
miserable failure of Louis Bonaparte as an orator in
the tribune, during a recent sitting, has scattered
all his chances to the winds of heaven. Alphonse de
Lamartine is now without a competitor—worthy of
the title. If the French people are not blind, or mad,
or both, they will unanimously name Lamartine the
first President of the Republic which he founded, and
especially when it is remembered that, in so doing,
they will be rewarding with the exercise of universal
suffrage the poet. orator whose eloquence has secured
to them that great and glorious prerogative. Reviews
of Foreign Literature, Correspondence, and a number
of miscellaneous notices complete the Westminster
and Foreign Quarterly for October. Our opinion of
the Quarterlies generally is decidedly favourable,
from the variety and excellence of their different
criticisms.

./3AY Up YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS.--The following
notice appears in the Manx Liberal :—However re
Inctant we may be in exposing the weakness of our sub-
scribers and advertising friends, yet justice to ourselves
Prompts us to have recourse to the blue cover; all, there-
fore, whose subscriptions are not paid up within a fort-
night must be prepared to receive there copy of the
Liberal disguised in the livery of a blue wrapper. Do
the people imagine that we steal our materials?—for in
order to give them credit for three or four years we
must do so." Copied into the Shropshire Conservative
with the following introduction:--" The Patrons of
Newspapers—We find amongst the ' Notices to Cor-
respondents' in the Manx Liberal, the following pithy
announcement. The idea is a good one, and we think
we shall adopt the same system. People appear to con-
sider there is no expense attached to a newspaper, and
that we pay no stamp duty, advertisement duty, wages,
paper, rent, &c. Let those who are in our books con-
sider the justness of the Manx Liberal's remarks."
EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.--The Reform Re-
gistration Society gives the following summary of the
registration:—The number on the register of 1847-48,
6,291; the number expunged incidentally, and through
objections by overseers, 456; also, through objections
made by agents, 17; deduct the total number expunged,
473, the residue of the electors of 1847-48, 5,818. Add
reclaims allowed, 174; ditto new claims allowed, 342;
the number of electors for 1848-49, 6,334; increase on
the year, 43. Of the 473 electors expunged, 174 will bo
on the new register; 135 are deceased, and 194 are dis-
franchised, mostly through change of abode.

is heard retreating in the distance, and timid sounds ! THE CORN TRADE.
of inquiry rise up from leaf and flower, ands The weather having been very fine up to Friday,
'tis„ beauty all, and grateful song around,"—we
birds answer, and steps emerge, and in a moment 1 so favourable an opportunity for getting in the grain
can sympathize without the most shadow ,w . not previously secured has not been neglected by
y reserve-e farmers, and we are inclined to think that little now
tion in the enthusiasm of the Quarterly reviewer for remains abroad
the noblest, the holiest, the divinest of the fine arts-- , even in mountainous districts. Potatote most backward and
lifting has also pro-
nobler than sculpture, holier than painting, diviner hat
rapidly, and we are happy to state
than poetry I In the brief compass of a single paper i that the accounts from Scotland as to the
the reviewer gives a complete history of the art of produce and quality continue satisfactory.
music from the first idea of the monody, or single ac- The disease has certainly been much less ge-
companied song, started originally in 1590, by -Yin- neral in the northern than in the southern parts
cenzo Galileo, the father of the immortaloastronomer, of the kingdom, and there is reason to expect that the
throughout the following list of composers, down to metropolitan market will continue to be well sup-
-1
the ages of Beethoven and Meyerbeer : plied with this useful root from quarters where
"Monteverde, Carissimi, and stradelia, in Italy, the disorder has not prevailed so extensively as in
opened fresh veins of treasure in dramatic art; Alessan- this neighbourhood. The trade in grain has remained
dro, Scarlatti, and Lotti improved on their steps; Gas- in much the same position as previously ; all parties
have acted with a great deal of caution, and there has
pirini and the patrician Marcello added softer graces to
church composition; Frescobaldi exalted the organ; Co- not been the slightest disposition to enter into specu-
relli endowed the violin; Lulli, Rarneau, and Gtitry, lative investments; the arrivals from abroad whiel: have
with their ballet-like melodies, successively seized upon
on the whole been liberal, have therefore proved mere
the national characteristics of French taste; Domenico
Scarlatti and Sebastian Bach, with their stern gymnastic than importers have found it easy to place; and at
exercises, strengthened every joint and muscle of musical most of the ports on the coast, as well as in London,
invention. The German Hasse was adopted by the stocks of foreign wheat have, within the last few
Italians —the German Gluck was adored by the rani.- weeks, accumulated. The deliveries from the farmers,
sians—in England Purcell entered through the door without being large, have not fallen short of what is
which the Restoration had opened, and Handel's mighty usually brought forward at the corresponding period
tread took up where his lighter step left off—while, for of the year, and there have certainly, up to the pre-
the whole musical world at large, the coming of Haydn
announced that of Mozart, as the song of the redstart I sent time, been no signs of scarcity.
The preparation of the land for autumn sowing. has
shows that the nightingale is near"
Altogether the paper is the jewel of this number of been pretty !:generally commenced, but this has not
prevented thrashing; indeed, our farmers ar.:Fesa ":: the Quarterly. Decidedly the most conspicuous con- to the Westminster Review for October is :to
have come to the conclusion that they are not likely
profit much by holding, the cessation of the
the one which occupies the first position—the consi-
deration of Lord John Russell's character as a literary I present corn-laws, and the substitution of only a.
statesman. Without any exception, it is the most ! nominal duty after the expiration of January next,
1 being viewed with considerable mistrust. Mean-
painful article we have ever perused—painful as the
exposure of a shallowness which seems absolutely
s the deficiency in the yield of wheat, or the extent of
ultimately risen to the office of Prime Minister of I
the loss of the potato crop in consequence of the disease,
England. Those who era unacquainted with the have been over-rated; and the downward movement
literary productions of the ruling Premier—and their
in prices must, therefore, be attributed wholly to the
name we suspect is " million"--will be surprised to , liberal character of the supplies already received from
find that Lord John has written drama, history, bio-
1 abroad, and the expectation of still larger receipts
graphy, essays, quarks, octavos, duodecimos, and 1 when all restrictions on importation shall have been
pamphlets, amounting altogether to twelve volumes. removed. As a curiosity we will give the titles of these Hitherto, the arrivals from America have not been
pro-
ductions :—important ; but by the latest advices from the ether
side of the Atlantic, it appears that shipments on
I. Essays and Sketches of Life and Character, rather a liberal scale were being made for Great Bri-
by a Gentleman, who has left his Lodg- tain, particularly of Indian corn ; and it is not im-
Pp.
ings
248. 1820 de guerre,—Joseph Skillet probable that (hiring the time the Baltic is closed by
IL The Life of Lord William Russell. 1820
,ice, supplies may reach us from the United States,
•
111. Essays on the History of the English Go-
the Mediterranean, &c.
vernment and Constitution, from the Reign At Liverpool some quantity of American produce
of Henry VII. to the present time. Bvo has lately come to hand, which has had the effect of
1821
IV. Don Carlos ;or Persecution, a Tragedy, in 2d. to 3d. per 701b5., flour Is. per sack and barrel, and
Five Acts. 1822 ...
V. Memoirs of Europe, from the Peace of , that day week. Subsequently, rather more firmness
Utrecht. 4to. 1824
VI. The Establishment of the Turks in Europe. Friday than on the previous market day. The ac-
Pp. 128. 12mo. 1828.
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millers could be induced to buy, and this was also the
case at Wakefield on Friday.
From Bristol and Birmingham the reports are of
a similar character ; and even in the agricultural
districts, where the effect of the foreign importations
is not so directly felt, prices have tended downwards.
The quality and condition of the new wheat con-
tinue to be much complained of; and there can be no
doubt that a very large quantity of old foreign will
be required for mixing.
The reports from Scotland are (as we have already
intimated) of a favourable nature, and the dull ac-
counts from the south appear to have produced a
corresponding depression at the leading markets there.
At Edinburgh, on Wednesday, most kinds of spring
corn, as well as wheat, were decidedly lower; and at
Glasgow the turn was also in favour of the buyer.
In Ireland the produce of wheat and potatoes is
unquestionably short, but the oat crop is described as
good in quality and large in quantity. The trade
seems to have been as dull there as on this side of the
Channel, and quotations have receded for most
articles.
The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have
been fair, having consisted of 6,205 qrs. The quan-
tity exhibited at Mark-lane by land carriage samples
from the neighbouring counties has meanwhile been
very small ; but unimportant as have been the supplies
of home-grown wheat, they have proved more than
sufficient to satisfy the demand. The extreme reluc-
tance with which millers have purchased may, however,
be in some measure attributed to the wretchedly bad
quality of and ill condition in which the samples have
come to hand. The transactions have throughout the
week been on a very restricted scale ; indeed, so little
business has been done, as scarcely to warrant alteration
in quotations ; but that factors would have accepted
somewhat lower rates on Ftiday than in the begin-
ning of the week, if sales could thereby have been
facilitated, cannot be questioned.
The arrivals of wheat from abroad have been
larger than expected. Up to Wednesday the re-
ceipts were comparatively small, and holders
were consequently on that occasion firm ;
the supplies having, however, subsequently
increased, upwards of 45,000 quarters having
been reported up to this (Saturday) even;ng,
importers became rather more anxious to effect sales,
and on Friday the tendency of prices was decidedly
downwards. The local demand was of the same retail
character as for some time past, and there was less
country inquiry than before. Fair qualities of Baltic
red were obtainable at 505. to 523., and good at 533.
to 555., but for superior Rostock upwards of 60s. per
quarter continued to be asked.
The general weekly average price for the kingdom,
published on Thursday (62s 5d ), is fully as high as
could have been expected ; but the London average
of Friday shows a considerable fall; it is therefore
rather doubtful whether the duty will rise on the 18th,
or remain at 4s. till the 25th instant, but on the latter
day an advance is sure to take place.
The sale of flour has been particularly slow, and
most of the metropolitan bakers complain of the
smallness of the consumption of bread, which is
rather surprising, considering the present price of
potatoes. Quotations of town-made flour have re-
mained nominally unaltered, and no material change
has occurred in prices of other sorts. The imports
from France have been liberal, and our millers feel
the ill effects of this competition with the foreign
manufacturer. Paris whites have brought 435. to
455. per sack, duty paid ; but the common runs of
French flour may be quoted 88s. to 40s. per sack.
Barley of home growth has not come. forward
freely, nor have the receipts from abroad been parti-
cularly large ; this grain has nevertheless been very
difficult of disposal, and only choice malting samples
have been taken off freely, at former terms, the sale
of the ordinary sorts having been exceedingly difficult
and in some cases rather less money was accepted for
the latter descriptions on Friday.
The dull state of the barley trade has had more or
less influence on business in malt; but sellers have
not submitted to any decline.
The arrivals of Oats coastwise and from Ireland
have been very small ; but towards the close of the
week a good many vessels laden with this grain, prin-
cipally from the near continental ports, came to hand.
On Wednesday the dealers appeared rather more dis-
posed to buy, and the trade, on the whole, exhibited
symptoms of improvement ; but the subsequent ar-
rival of foreign Oats (87,000 quarters having been
received) acted as a check, and on Friday business
was as dull as at any former period. The actual
change in prices has been very slight, and not of suffi-
cient consequence to render alterations in quotations
necessary.
Beans have met with hardly any attention, and
previous rates have barely been maintained. Egyp-
tians and French have become very unsaleable, and
in the absence of sales prices have remained nomi-
nally as before. A .
Peas have been more pressingly offered, and fair
qualities of white foreign might easily have been
bought at 38s. to 40s. per qr., duty paid, on Friday.
Indian corn has been neglected, but there have
been very few offers of floating cargoes, and cer-
tainly no pressure on the market. We doubt,
therefore, whether the article could have been bought
cheaper. _ _

The only alteration in the duties on Thursday was
a rise of Gd. per quarter on oats, previous to which
all at this port was cleared in for home consumption.
—Marh-lans .Esprem.

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DARING ROBBERY.—STATPORDSHIE,E. --- A very
singular and daring robbery was effected on the night
of Saturday, at the house of Mr. Joseph Harvey, inn-
keeper, of Oakamoor, near Cheadle. A number of
" navvies " employed on the Churnet Valley branch of
the North Staffordshire Railway assembled at Mr.
Harvey's house on the night mentioned, and
having drunk rather freely, they commenced a distur-
bance, and were obliged to be displaced by the plice.
During these proceedings k is supposed that one of
the party gained admission unperceived into a bedroom,
where, inside a chest, was deposited 1001. in crownpieces
in a bag. The bus was broken open, and the thief, in
jumping through the window, let the bag drop, when a
number of the silver coins rolled out. The inmates
hearing the noise, ran out to discover the cause, and
found upon the ground 211. 10s. in crown pieces. Infor-
mation was immediately given to the police, end bills
offering a reward circulated; and on Monday night two
men were apprehended by Air. Field and Mr Brinsley,
constables, of Ashbourne, at the Tiger Inn, in that tow&
and about 701. in crown pieces and other coin was fouria.
in a bag and upon their persons. The two men, who
gave their names as James Clayton and William Letts,
were committed on Tuesday to take their trial at the
ensuing sessions at Stafford.
PAILIIRE.—The failure of an extensive and very
respectable house in the power loom manufacturing
trade was announced in Glasgow on Thursday. This
has added to the gloom already existing, both in the
yarn and goods markets.—North British Daily Mao