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LITERATURt.
0,44 E T'S LITERARY LIFE. 3 Vols. Blackwood.
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Edinburgh : 1834.
r.Gait's career is a verification of the old pro-
tiverb " a rolling stone gathers no moss." This dis-
n ,
guished gentleman, on whom fortune has alter-
nately frowned an
o d smiled, now giving him an
like
koraging pat
the back, and now kicking him about
afoot--ball, has, it seems, in the course of a bust-
g Ile, replete with incident, amounting in some in-
stances to the romantic, been merchant—traveller—
el:lgrant --biographer—historian —novelist—critic—
aocitYist•--politician—in fact, " every thing by turns,
ri nothing long." Few men have encountered such
4c h-eri.sniutuadiets—os f.ew borne up against them so manfully.
ri
been no willow to bend to the hur-
e'
ery. but rathtr a sturdy oak to brave its utmost
L ,
of though bold and enterprising in his turn
„,_"''.4l4, confident in his resources, and ever ready to
make them available, he appears throughout his career
ettfwe draw this inference from his own account of him-
wanting in a certain fixedness and
17°-0.---eet°lltihnZ been
of purpose, without which there can be
lasting success. The stream of his energy has been
shaeurted and hurried away into a thousand trickling,
csw rivulets, instead of rolling steadily along
&lid lute broad, deep, irresistible channel. We
a th him, for instance, at the outset of his career,
ere•eaiere - •
ham at Greenock, but just when he is becoming
tably known among his peers, he takes a not un-
e..ural dislike to trade, washes his hands of it, and
aate.rs
himself as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. This
vogteall:‘,:fttila to meet his views, and accordingly he de-
'",tuaelf, in a restless, desultory spirit, to litera-
alith. 'lit no sooner has he attained eminence as an
by ti°ir',_than, a third time, he sickens (and no wonder,
huh; e °Ye t) of the pursuit, so quits the field, and
Ivles °Jr resolved to try his fortunes in the New
of Can Can we wonder, then, that now at the close
matters °areer, he finds himself, as respects pecuniary
Bet? el.; in no better condition than he was at the out-
one „ Had Mr. Galt devoted but half the energies to
-11
11°Jeet, that he has frittered away on a hundred, he
Nit t by this time have been a prosperous and happy
The world rarely allows an individual to excel
~vlnore than
one vocation. It has a sort of instinc-
e (I,lstrust or abhorrence of any thing like versatility.
It.tiospencatveedhoefard of a lawyer losing caste because he was
ftiesai becttusebeing a poet : and a poet being cried
he happened to be of the medical pro-
titl °ll. It is Mr. Galt's own fault, then, that his
Linilsitiow setting in storm and darkness. He has
oaqtsbeif built up the wall against which he has run his
-ead. A versatile temperament has been his ruin.
preo
an fv,erY chapter of his autobiography supplies us
with
8 of this assertion, though, strange to tell, Mr.
tng
aullot or will not, see it. The one predominat-
ide •
that a' implied if not expressed, in his volumes, is
tong t,
has been the victim of ill-luck. Hence a
spleen and captiousness pervades them that we
feel he tempted to deprecate, did we not know, and
tpo fu
etilioria'rtiht; circumstances under which they have been
Pee le.(l' The author is himself fully aware of this
while one-half of his Memoir is devoted
eomplainings, the other half is taken up
Nev p°lOgisin for them on the score of ill-health.
tnuerTheless, despite these drawbacks, the work is full of
is the tnent, arresting attention even at the threshold; for
to hie very first page Mr. Galt gives an anecdote relative
city, fOWn son, who must have been a miracle of preco-
uld, Cr' When only " between two and three years
of an e cftposed a poem which had all the essentials
Sato- jePlsie vii. beginning, a middle, and an end I"
Th:d"nsc'n's elegy on the duck was nothing to this.
7,etailB- of Mr. Galt's boyhood are, like all such
to ails, vtevoiA•-•
II of interest ; but it may be worth while
had the n' that the perusal of Schiller's " Robbers"
faneie: 87ttne effect on him, that it has on all youthful
thi; It formed an epoch in his life. With some-
kit'? of the Same interest, he perused Mrs. Radcliffe's
sea;.llces, Which, though they formed the favourite
g of mai ancestors, are now we believe, by al-
io
en universatconsent, given up. And with justice, for,
netion, nothing deserves to live that does not take
Nature. as its gfound-work. In the seventh Chapter,
I.are surprised to learn that Mr. Galt professes
.a
he lei in witches. Whether he believes also in their
11:"Isticks, 'We cannot undertake to say, though, as
Le tie is nothing without the other, we conclude that
%I,,teztends his credulity to both. Dr. Johnson, ac-
Peter Pindar, held the same creed :
'` Pear Doctor Johnson said there might be witches,
Nought proved the non-existence of the b-----s.
iqd e regret to find Mr. Galt, in his eighth Chapter,
at hging in a sneer at Robertson—and more especially
" Charles the Fifth." He must have read this
a„ ', We apprehend, with a determination to be dis-
It'itTinted, or he could not fail to have been struck
tut the masterly introductory review of the state of
the °l)e' from the origin of the feudal system down to
laothe.°rutilencement of the sixteenth century, in which
tindoling is omitted, nothing is out of place, nothing is
soa- )r insisted on. In his summary sketches, Robert-
of tahtl(ls at-the head of all our historians. We know
passed hi
.in Hume or Gibbon—though both sur-
41is , tut in other respects—that can compare with
of 'fteeful,
the' 1- luminous outline of the rise and progress
-1-41theran Reformation. Sure are we, that the
c'r Wolsey" cuts a sorry figure beside it.
tilletion. Galt's dramas are evidently among his pet pro-
reae s• Re seems to think they- were cruelly treated,
nt
Daterl t 3 the world's neglect with all the fondness of
en- who " loves not wisely, but too well." We
these -;llfess we hold with the world's estimate of
ae
-'s.des, and draw our conclusions from the
itailsaa given in the volumes before us. There is a
;14.-Ilitt,:ti'd quaintness about them that is anything
qajtal or Shakspearian. " Clytemnestra," says
Ni 4
ed 4' `` is the best ; when I read it to Park, he
413' justification for writing poetry." So it
P4l/44. e' hut it was certainly no justification for
Pi"; thug
it. As one of the severest critics on. these
"ens with LI% Croker is of course in very indifferent
TalaVera our author, who thus smartly retorts on his
4,
e'itic4iw,?nder havel.7ozittedt;,,,,:tits:;,,dfeoairvollur attracted so much of Mr. Croker's
charity, that he bears
mustt suppose,
imitate
the example, that ' the
(11edtllaset•erleth Whom lase looveth.' He must be a bold man
hen forget ip the Way he has done with my poe4ry-; did ever
itato ~.hylb is Own' I mean how he put the London Gazette
eneo,e; and called it The Battle of Talavera,' publishing
we h age the it
digy
f dulls always looked on " Talavera" as a pro-
;lt half „ "ess and inaptitude, and once saw it priced
134151 Y --er"vu on a bookseller's stall, which was pro-
413°v- 4.°t more than two shillings and three-pence
its re_, v
3bed it ut
Mlle. However, as Mr. Croker pub-
pres
tihte'erve_s raeth%v sly " to encourage the Duke," he
ceti
sured f
.tot° be praised for his patriotism than to
cliff orhis prosiness.
his sketch of the Seven Years' War in
Gait v Winch he composed when at Gibraltar, Mr.
thatthe Nur,
rasters'elnt very needlessly we think, to impugn
of P
be Would
the first Earl of Chatham. He says
SieTlll. s and
.1141 have been a poor statesman, amid the
most thattirhuletice of the French revolution," for-
01)niet:t6s.ftt:tvilliellt the very elements in which he showed to
rtlagoest, were those of storm and tempest. At
ticallayedt,e
destinies
periods it has ever known,
chant'ea Wa_ll,...les.ttnies of Europe. He was empha-
ay
nothrienTgri.ostsaugpaeirniztr
we 8 We.: ulanister, and never so great
"gar when the
hi.m. Of his ro,ance "
minds, seeing the dirty poli-

• • - arro-
tical tools they have to work with, are apt L.
gent ; but surely Pitt evinced anything but " short-
' sightcdness" when he drew forth the whole dormant
energies of the commonalty, and pitted them against
the combined powers of the Sovereign and the Aristo-
cracy. Before his time pattonege swayed everything,
The people could scarcely stir hand or foot. Let who
would go out or who would come in, to office, their
wishes were never consulted—they had no voice in the
matter. But Pitt taught them the secret of their
power, He WaB the f'i'rst to conciliate and im-
press on them the advantages of energy and combina-
tion—an invaluable political doctrine, of which they
have never since lost sights
In his twenty-first chapter, Mr. Galt enters into
some curious speculations respecting the stale question
" Who was Junius ?" Of course he thinks he was a
Scotchman (a Mr. Lauchlin Maclean, secretary to
Earl Shelburne), and equally, as a matter of course,
every countryman whom he acquainted with his rea-
sons for so thinking, was very ready to be convinced
by them. One of these reasons is curious I have
given proof," says Mr. Galt, " that Maclean was a
man of talent, by his plan for the commercial inter-
course among the West India Islands." Now a man
may show first-rate ability as a commercial speculator,
yet be a glorious blockhead as an author. Tradqsand
literature do not often—though we know instances to
the contrary—move verT, amicably hand in hand to-
gether. They are apt to go to loggerheads, and hold
each other in contempt. Mr. Galt's inference, then,
that Maclean was Junius, because he was a clever
merchant, is about as inconsequential as Fluellyn's
parallel between Macedon and Monmouth. The truth
is, Junius is still just as much a shadow as ever, The
only plausible approach to identity has been made by
Mr. Coventry in the person of Lord G. Sackville.
The thirty-fifth chapter contains some agreeable
anecdotes respecting Lord Byron, one or two of which
we subjoin :
" It happened, on the last time I saw his Lordship, he was
in one of those petulent moods, and to King Solomon himself,
the must indulgent of men, he would not have hesitated to
make himself ridiculous ; in short, he would have all the
joke on his own side ; and I frankly confess, that I am
not myself in conversation always overflowing with the
milk of human kindness. In the course of the visit he
gave me some hard hits, which provoked retaliation, and
with that peculiar sulkiness, in which he sometimes in-
dulged, seeing me waxing tepid, he in consequence changed
the conversation, abruptly asking me what was the news.
Nothing very particular,' was the reply ; but there has been
a rumour, for the last two or three days, that your Lordship is
endeavouring to contribute to the Harleian Miscellany.' This
was more than he could stand,—he reddened and became se-
riously offended ; soon after which I took my leave, glad to
have given him a rap on the knuckles. The critic may believe
me or not, but I had no ill will to him, only I saw that he
made me feel that there are noblemen, be their own talents
what they may, who are little enough to presume on the mere
rank derived from the merits of their ancestors.

" When the story of his difference with Lady Byron be-
came known, I happened to meet his valet in Piccadilly, and
inquired for his Lordship. Fletcher, after answering my
question, suggested to me to call, and perhaps I might have
done so, but it so happened that I did not. I had, however,
good reason to believe afterwards that he regarded me in some
sort as a friend ; and I am bound to say, that there was pro-
bably as little conciliation on my part as on his, for although
there was a great deal of surface ripple, the pool was deep,
and, I conscientiously believe, abounded in wholesome fish.
By the by, I ought to mention, that his Address for the Ca-
ledonian Asylum, published by Mr. Moore, was written at my
request. Being acquainted with Mr. Douglas Kinnaird, I
requested him to apply to Byron, which he did ; but on look-
ing at the poem he told me that it would not do, and he ad-
vised his Lordship to withhold it. At that time, Byron's re-
putation, only rising, could not afford the drawback of such a
humdrum performance ; and I wonder how Moore could have
published what Byron himself condemned. I have no respect
for picking out and bringing into light the grubs and worms
that are best concealed in the folds of the winding-sheet.
" I should also mention, that I continue to think that the
novel of the Three Brothers was a juvenile work written by
Lord Byron. Since the publication of my Autobiography, I
have observed in it numberless allusions of thought and expres-
sion which are quite Byronic,—youthful, however.
" At first I thought it highly improbable that so young a
lad should have written such an extensive work ; but I am no
longer of that opinion, for my youngest son, under the age
that Lord Byron must have been at the time the Three Bro-
thers was written, writes as well, I think better, than the ge-
neral complexion of that work ; and therefore, instead of think-
ing the novel to which Byron owes so much, the production
of one Pickersgill, I believe it was really written by his Lord-
ship. But though firm in this opinion, lam not now in a con-
dition to renew the controversy on the subject. It is, how-
ever, a curious point in the history of English literature, and
worthy of being elucidated.
" Before I finish what I have to say respecting Byron, I
should mention a characteristic anecdote which has often
tickled me. He delighted in mystifications, especially when
he thought any one could be taken in. Accordingly, in one
of his playful fits, he told me very gravely that his mother
had been a pupil of Miss Hannah More's, but left her. Why ?'
said I. ' Because it was reported that Hannah had a child by
Wilberforce.' "

Mr. Galt winds up his autobiography by an estimate
of himself as an author, which, though modestly and
gracefully hit off, is by no means remarkable for
acuteness. While he dismisses his novels in two in-
different lines, he dwells with a strange feeling of com-
placency on his tragedies. Now, we can assure him,
that as a dramatist, he is already as much forgotten as
if he had never existed. It is by his works of fiction,
and by these alone, that he must be content to live. In
a certain, dry quaint humour—in a power of embody-
ing the eccentricities of character, and placing them
so vividly before the reader that he recognizes at
once their truth—Mr. Galt is unequalled among
modern novelists. He has none of the pic-
turesqueness or bonhoinmie of Scott, but he
is far more literal and sturdy in his adherence
to nature. His Sir Andrew "Wylie—his Annals of the
Parish—and more particularly his Ayrshire Legatees—
are master-pieces in this respect. But, decidedly,
Galt's finest—though not, perhaps, his truest cha-
racter, inasmuch as it verges on caricature—is his
Leddy Grippy, which for breadth of comic effect, we
will not hesitate to place beside Tabitha Bramble, or
Winifred Jenkins. The prose and verse sketches
contained in the volumes before us are not in Mr.
Galt's best manner ; but when we bear in mind the
circumstances under which they were written, we feel
that we cannot do otherwise than speak of them re-
spectfully.

HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Voz. VIII.
Lo.vDo.v, 1834. A. J. VALPY.

The present volume contains the whole reign of
Charles the Second, which Hume worked up with
more than usual diligence, but certainly not with any-
thing like the felicity which he showed throughout his
details of the reign of the first Charles, in whose fa-
vour the historian was desirous, at all hazards, to
make an impression on the minds of his readers. The
embellishments to the volume are three in number ;
one pourtrays the swarthy, iron visage of the " Merry
Monarch ;" the second his landing at Dover, from an
animating painting in West's best manner ; and the
third the great fire of London, as seen through an
arch of Blackfriar's Bridge. There is something very
striking in the way Loutherburg has handled this last
subject. The Abbey in the back-ground, brought out
by the glare of the blazing ruins, much enhances the
effect.

LORD JOHN HA I.—lt is not true, as stated in
some of the papers, that Lord John Hay lost his left arm in
consequence of being struck by a block. When his Lordship
first entered the navy, and before he was twelve years of age,
he was appointed to a frigate much employed in " cutting out."
Upon one occasion he was anxious to be of the party, and
made love to the coxswain to take him upon the perilous expe-
dition. Being a sprightly youngster, the coxswain agreed to
stow him away in the bows of tho pinnace, before it
was lowered. The boat was manned,--commanded
by the First Lieutenant, and pulled towards the enemy,
and the very first shot from the vessel they were cutting
coxswain,a faintwhoc cry of
to'
out went right through the bows of the pinnace, and took off
astonished Lord
every Hay's
oanrem
b.Oh," which
explain to
the Lieutenant the circumstance ; and as soon as the party got
on board the frigate, the stump of the arm was taken out ofthe
utTthheere'as
socket.

PRE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTIIIVII3IIR 12, 1834

are to be supplied from the green and hot houses of the neigh-
bouring Whig proprietors ; and 100 feet in length, and as
many in breadth, of the least muddy part of the Dock are to
be floored over for the Ladies, and dancing is to commence at
o'clock. W._,‘.sne h
tahvee nothe heard all the
authority
ty thatnmtehs of the
e principal stewards,
con-
but we learn Lochee, and Broughty
stables in Longforgan, • -.nneity, —Dundee
Ferryhave been invited to act in that
Courier.

Best potatoes are now selling in Glasgow at 411;d. ;
inferior and Irish ditto, 4d. per imperial peck.

The Nandi, lately lost off the Arklow coast, had a
cargo on board valued at 50,0001., of which not more than 2001.
worth has been saved.

A PUMPKIN. There is in the Blue Anchor,
Stepney, a pumpkin four feet six inches circumference, thirteen
inches diameter—weight 421bs.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM UAILwAY.—A
fourth call of ten pounds per share has been made by the di-
rectors of the London and Birmingham Railway, to be paid
on or before the Ist of October.—Lemington Press.
One of the steam-carriages on the railroad between
Lyons and St. Etienne broke in consequence of the interrup-
tions caused in the road by the rains. Several travellers were
more or less hurt.—Courrier de Lyons.

A traveller to the source of the Pindur River, in
the Himalaya, states that he reached the elevation of 14,500
feet, when the snow, which fell heavily, and was knee deep,
forced.him to return.—Calcutta Journal.

EXTRA ORDINA RY TURNIP. A correspondent
states that Andrew Skelton, of Stanghow, near Guisborough,
has this summer reaped a Swede turnip, which produced him
four pounds of excellent seed, besides the waste. York Paper.
- - - - -

We learn from Turin that on the 26th ult. an awful
storm burst over the country between Novi and Genoa, which
rendered the road impassable for several leagues. The autho-
rities, in consequence, have re-opened the road by Bochetta,
which had been closed.

A meeting was held in Calcutta, on the sth of
April, to consider a suitable manner of commemorating the
public services, &c. of the late Rajah Rammohun Roy. The
Rajah's family have performed his funeral obsequies there, ac:
cording to the Ilindoo ritual.

Cursetiee Rustomjee, a Parsee builder in Bombay,
ha§lit up his house with gas-lights ; the whole apparatus has
been fitted up by him without European assistance ; the Go-
vernor visited his premises, and presented him with a hand
some piece of shawls.
FLAXSEED.—We learn that Flaxseed has been
successfully saved in several parts of the neighbouring coun-
ties. A very favourable specimen of a quantity saved by Mr.
Dunn, of Woodburn, near,Carrickfergus, may be seen at this
office. and should encourage farmers in future to take the
trouble of saving their flaxseed.—Belfast Chronicle.
- - -

We rejoice to say, there has been a great deal of
unnecessary anxiety created on the subject of the potatoe crop.
Partial failures there have been no doubt, in the early crop ;
this we may call the fancy crop; its abundance or scarceness is
of very little importance. The crop will be a most abundant
one, perhaps never more productive in the memory of man.—
Dublin Evening Post.

SUGAR FROM LIM A.—We perceive, amongst the
arrivals, a cargo of sugar from Lima. This is, we believe,
the first importation of that commodity, from that quarter ;
and, if it can be grown to any extent must prove of very great
importance to the commercial world, as a return for the vast
quantity of British manufactures which are exported to that
region of the world.—Liverpool Standard.

In consequence of the ordinance of June 3, reducing
the import duties on cotton thread from the Ist inst., the
_
tratlf of Calais has become greatly increased, and is likely so
to continue Between the Ist and the 6th inst., 3,000 packets
of different sorts it-.
lye been sent into the interior, and the cus-
tom-house has receive
duties upon about 7,000 kilogrammes
net weight.
CiiußCtr it A T E S.—lt was proi;2sed to a vestry of
the parish of Petersfield (Hants), on Thursday 2ast, to levy a
church-rate of 4d. in the pound. An amendment was, how-
ever, moved by Mr. Thomas Minchin, seconded by Mr. Tigg,
to the effect, " that no rate be granted, but that the expenses
incurred by the churchwardens be defrayed by voluntary con-
tributions." The amendment was carried unanimously, and
the meeting was adjourned for three months.

A servant out of place, named John Hardy, lodging
at the north part of Brighton, on Wednesday morning last
cut his throat with a razor. He dangerously wounded him-
self, and a female in an adjoining room, hearing his groans,
raised an alarm, and he was removed to the County Hospital,
where he expired on Friday night. An inquest was held on
Monday, which returned a verdict of " Destroyed himself
while labouring under temporary derangement."—Brighton
Guardian.

A singular incident took place on Wednesday last.
Mr. Myers, the fishmonger, of St. Peter's-alley, had a linnet,
whose cage was hung up in the open shop. It was singing on
Wednesday, when suddenly a fine sparrow-hawk darted down,
seized the cage, and flew with it into the church-yard, where,
finding itself greatly embarrassed in the wirework, it lost its
strength and was soon caught. The poor bird was no doubt
starving, for he ate most ravenously. The linnet was found
dead in the cage.
GREAT DINNER TO MESSRS. ATTWOOD AND
SCHOFIELD.—We understand the tickets to this immense din-
ner, which is to take place on Monday, have been going off
very rapidly within the last few days, and that there is every
reason to suppose it will equal in extent the celebrated dinner
given in October, 1830, in commemoration of the French Re
volution. The committee are making efficient arrangements
to avoid the inconveniences which, from a variety of causes,
were felt on the occasion alluded to, and which must ensure
the comfort of the guests.—Leamington Press.

A few days ago a poor old woman of Sapcote, up-
wards of 80 years of age, went into the fields to glean. Not
returning, her friends became alarmed, and proceeded to search
for her, and at length found her about 8 o'clock in the evening.
She was lying on the ground, very much bruised and ex-
hausted, and had just strength enough to tell them that she
had been knocked down and hurt by a ram, which was in the
same field, and which had at other times shown its vicious pro-
pensities. The old woman was taken home, but never spoke
afterwards, and died in a few hours.—Boston Herald.
TRANCE FROM CHOLERA.—The Munich Gazette
gives an account of a young man, named Helstenius, who, to
all appearance, was dead in consequence of cholera, yet was
brought again to life by mere accident. He was already cold
and livid ; but, on close examination, a slight motion was per-
ceived at the region of the heart. Cold water was sprinkled
on the pit of the stomach and on the face, which was followed
by the emission of sounds from the seemingly defunct man.
Steam was now applied to the breast with the happiest result ;
he soon revived, and on the following day was considered to be
in a fair way of recovery.
At Okeham, in Rutlandshire, there is a very re-
markable custom kept up to the present day. Every Peer of
the realm, the first time he comes through the town, is com-
pelled by law to give a horseshoe to nail on the Castle gate,
and if he refuses the bailiff of the manor has power to stop his
coach, and take the shoe from one of the horses. 1.7:.'s is
called the " Order of the Horseshoe," and it is common fo:
the donor to give a large one with his own name stamped upon
it, and often gilt. There is one over the seat of the Judge in
the Assize Hall which is of very curious workmanship.
THE ARMY.—It is rumoured that the following
moves may take place on the embarkation of the 47th for
is arrive
ex to tis that uose :
Gibraltar, which event is expected in a few days. The Jupiter
"rompecte Mullind gar to thisin gahrripsonort for ;
14th fromrp Athlone
ttTor MP oh
2-us 7hitlii ingar 81st from Birr to Athlone; 46th, or. their
arrival
e from England, probably to Birr ; 82d from Glasgow,
to replace 74th at Belfast, who have received a sudden order
to embark for Barbadoes ; sth and 56th depots are exchanging
quarters. Detachments from the sth and 60th will embark
with the 47th for Gibraltar, the vessel having accommodation
for 800 men.—Dublin United Service Journal.
DIAMONDS AT ALGIERS.—Three diamonds were
lately purchased at Algiers from a native, which were found
in the golden sands of the Sumel, in the province of Constan-
tine. One of the diamonds was obtained by M. Dufrenez, and
the other two by M. Brogniart, for the Museum and for the
collection of M. Dree. Hitherto diamonds have not been
known to exist in Africa. It was remarkable that here, as in
the Brazils and Siberia, they are found in washing for gold.
At present the opinion is that diamonds, like amber, may be
formed, and are of very modern growth. It is not seldom that
diamonds contain in the middle soft hollows, precisely of
the same character as those of amber.—German Paper.
The following anecdote is related in M. Michaud's
Travels in the East :—" Near to Jerusalem, in the small vil-
lage of Ramla, there is now a young Parisian girl, whom the
following singular circumstances have placed there :—llaving
received a good education, and being of agreeable manners,
the wife of a Consul was induced to take her with her as a
companion. The lady dying soon after her arrival, the Consul
wished to send the poor girl back to France, through all the
dangers of the desert. In this state of things, an Arab fell in
love with her and offered to marry her. She accepted him,
stipulating that she should be allowed to live d la Francaise,
use a fork, and wear stays, and that she should preserve at
Ramla all the rights and privileges of a Parisian female. This
treaty of alliance lasted some time. But the Arab had a mo-
ther, who was jealous of the right of wearing stays and using a
fork : war was declared forthwith, and the pretty Parisian girl
now leads a most miserable life."—Constitutionne/.

The opposition to church-rates is becoming very
general. From time to time we have had to notice several
majorities against them, within the circulation of this journal.
A fortnight ago, a rate was opposed by an overwhelming ma-
jority in Melksham, and this week also at Frome. In Man-
chester, as will be seen, a determined opposition is made. No
one who has observed the state of things can look upon this
with surprise. Some regard it as an opposition to the Church,
but it is not. The opposition to the Church has preceded it
in the increase of the dissenting community. The question of
rates is not a religious question, but one of political economy,
as to whether or not dissenters shall pay taxes to support the
places of worship they do not attend. Is it justice of the mem-
bers of the Church to require them to do so ? Have the mi-
nisters of the Church no confidence in their own congrega-
tions? Do they do them justice in thinking the Church can-
not be supported by those who atteild it ? They have the
richest and most numerous portion of .
the community. Are
they not also the most faithffil?—Bath

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 12, 1834.
nt of Life Guards--Cornet and Su
be -Lieutenant P.
Ist Reg.,— -`•-•iant, by rch,aset,e vbicee Hamond, who re-
B. Tumor to Lieu,
tires ; C. Du Pre Alexander, Cornet and Sub-
. 1..)
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tin-nor, Sept.
Cap.t.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieu..
J. J. W. Angerstein to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, t).;.
purchase, vice Disbrowe, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut. Hon. W.
Leicester to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Auger-
stein ; Second Lieut. Lord G. Loftus, from the 60th Foot, to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Leicester, Sept. 12.
sth Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. A. D. M'Bean,
from the Hospital Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice J. Ferguson
who retires upon half-pay, Sept. 12.
9th Foot—Lieut.-J. Spring, from the 12th Foot, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Collier, who exchanges, Sept. 12.
12th Foot,-Licut. G. Collier, from the 9th Foot, to be Lieute-
nant, vice Spring, who exchanges, Sept. 12.
19th Foot—J. T. Bowdoin, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Freeman, promoted, Sept. 12.
46th Foot—Ensign R. Ponsonby, from half-pay 82d Foot, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice M‘Gregor, deceased, Sept. 12.
57th Foot--Lieut. J. Gray to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gre-
gory, who retires ; Ensign S. Mockler to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Gray ; H. P. Faunt, Gent„ to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Mockler, Sept. 12.
60th Foot—E. Brown, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Lord G. Loftus, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier
Foot Guards, Sept. 12.
61st Foot—Lieutenant F. Barlow to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Gaynor, who retires; Ensign J. A. Shaw to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Barlow ; F. Stephens, Gent. to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Shaw, Sept. 12.
STAFF.

Lieut.-Col. J. J. Snodgrass, on Half-pay Unattached, to be
Deputy Quartermaster-General to the Troops serving in Nova
Scotia and its dependencies, vice Broke, who resigns, Sept. 12.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOHN CHANDLER and SAMUEL KING, of Saint Paul's
Church-yard, woollen-drapers.

BANKRUPTS.

FREDERICK CRANWELL WESTLEY, bookseller, Strand,
Middlesex, to surrender Sept. 18, and Oct. 24, at. twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Lumley., Quality-court, Chancery-lane ;
Turquand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee.
WILLIAM MATSON, wine-merchant, Liverpool, Sept. 24,
and Oct. 24, at elevee, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Curry,
Liverpool ; Blackstock, Bunce, and Vincent, King's ite.nch-walk,
Temple, London.
JOHN NICHOLLS, apothecary, Wells, Somersetshire,
19, at ten, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptey.-
Cook, New Inn ; Graham, official assignee, Copthall-buildings,
London.

CHARLES WALKER, saddler, Titchbornc-street, Golden-
square, Sept. 25, at one, and Oct. 24, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Randall, Castle-street, Holborn ; Clark, official
assignee, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard-street.
-
EDMUND PETER POWELL, tailor, Southampton, Sept.
18, and Oct. 24, at twelve, at the George Inn, Southampton.
Blanchard, Southampton ; Cleoburey, Montague-street, Russell-
square.
SAMUEL WINTERBOTTOM, clothier, Fernlee, Yorkshire,
Sept. 23, at ten, and Oct. 24, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms,
Manchester. Spinks, Temple; Redfern. Oldham.
WILLIAM HOPKINS, miller, Frome Selwood, Somershire,
Sept. 27, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at the George Inn, Frome
Selwood. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's-inn-square, London ;
Miller, Frome Selwood, Somerset.
THOMAS BARRETT, grocer, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Sept.
25, and Oct. 24, at eleven, at Mr. Jackson's Office, Stamford.
Fladgate, Young, and Jackson, Essex-street, London ; Jackson,
Stamford.